That stuck out to me as particularly wrong headed yet also emblematic of many views expresses here on BBI in the last 24 hours:
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14079113 BestFeature said:
| But Eli quit on this team plain and simple. |
I couldn't disagree more with the statement. But I think those who do agree with it constitute a vocal minority on the board.
I think B hit the nail on the head last night immediately after the game even with just the title of his thread: The Offensive Line. That is the source of all the ruin this team is facing right now. I don't think the season is over yet, but it depends solely on that group of guys coming together, which in the face of the Halapio injury seems more and more unlikely.
I'm glad to hear the OL is a strong class coming up in the next draft, because I think we'll need to take at least two of them in the first few rounds.
That said, this narrative of blaming Eli just seems to miss the real problem with the team, which is that we're built from the outside in and not vice versa. Gettlemen seems to be changing that perspective in the front office, but that alone is not going to overcome our deficiencies over the course of one night or over one offseason. It's not the end of the world for Giants football. We're just a work in progress.
And ironically, as the game is wrapping up, there was a shot of Eli and Collinsworth says, "There's a guy who hasn't given up. He's still out there fighting".
But it goes back to the bizarre phenomenon that on a Giants site, so many have outward disgust for Eli.
Best Feature just being one of many morons.
Dude is out there getting his behind whipped and he's still trying to win the game.
It's best to just avoid the emotional comments, and that is 95% of the game threads which is why I never open them.
Exactly. This causes Eli to rush and lose some accuracy and maybe even miss an open receiver that he didn't have time enough to scan for.
He is a really dimwitted poster.
But isn't that what has been drilled in him for years now since 2013. Live to fight another day. take the sack. avoid the turnover at all cost. stop trying to do too much. we cant have it both ways. he is either a gunslinger or not.
I want to swap out any and all comments I made today and replace them with this. Maybe add a few more fucks and shits and we’re good.
Sorry, but this is B.S. Plain and simple.
Many of us have been football fans and Giants fans for quite some time.
Just because posters are making comments that Eli hasn't played well for a while, is not playing well now, that he may be done, that the Giants should have taken a QB to replace this now 37 yr old QB when they had the chance, etc. does not mean we are "rooting against the guy".
I (and others like me) are rooting every bit as hard for Eli and the Giants as all the BBIers who think that any criticism of Eli means that you are an "Eli hater" or a "Jets troll".
Many here simply refuse to see what type of player Eli is in 2018 and want to blame everything on the OL.
Also, when will people learn not to re-post comments made on game threads? Sure there's some stupid shit said every game, but most of those are "heat of the game" posts that don't need to be highlighted.
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There's a segment of BBI posters who actively appear to be rooting against the guy. A vocal minority, but it's there.
Sorry, but this is B.S. Plain and simple.
Many of us have been football fans and Giants fans for quite some time.
Just because posters are making comments that Eli hasn't played well for a while, is not playing well now, that he may be done, that the Giants should have taken a QB to replace this now 37 yr old QB when they had the chance, etc. does not mean we are "rooting against the guy".
I (and others like me) are rooting every bit as hard for Eli and the Giants as all the BBIers who think that any criticism of Eli means that you are an "Eli hater" or a "Jets troll".
Many here simply refuse to see what type of player Eli is in 2018 and want to blame everything on the OL.
Also, when will people learn not to re-post comments made on game threads? Sure there's some stupid shit said every game, but most of those are "heat of the game" posts that don't need to be highlighted.
+1 - you can count on one hand the dimwits who think he's scared or has quit. And then there's everyone else, including those that think he might be done but can still respect all he's done for the franchise as well as the fact that he's still trying really damn hard to win.
As for Eli, I love the guy, but I don't see how any pocket passer can thrive on this team as currently constituted.
Eli has never quit on this team. It's such an absurd notion that it's not even worth pondering for even a few seconds.