I was browsing through some of the forum archives and came across this thread. Amazing to think BBI’ers were debating Eli Manning and Marc Bulger at this time. Or could you imagine if Manning was traded for Carson Palmer prior to the 2007 season?
Patience really did pay off.
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I was not posting then so I am not one of the guilty
Seeing names like JP Losman and Matt Leinart in this thread as potential Eli trade compensation is amazing lol.
SanFranGiantsFan : 8/20/2007 8:15 pm : link
Brady, Hasselback, Brees, and McNabb (assuming he's healthy).
Eli is going to be a very good quarterback. Does he have moments that make you scratch your head? Yes. But he's got the talent, pedigree, desire, and intelligence to be great.
Not a bad take from moi, if I may pat myself on the back. Haha.
SanFranGiantsFan : 8/20/2007 8:15 pm : link
Brady, Hasselback, Brees, and McNabb (assuming he's healthy).
Eli is going to be a very good quarterback. Does he have moments that make you scratch your head? Yes. But he's got the talent, pedigree, desire, and intelligence to be great.
Not a bad take from moi, if I may pat myself on the back. Haha.
Yes that was a good take. Although trading Manning for Palmer, Hasselback or McNabb would have been a disaster.
ELi's biggest problems early were 1) they gave him no chance to get comfortable likw PIT did with Ben. Instead of relying on the running game more they had him running the whole playbook. 2) Cancers like Shockey weren't removed soon enough.
Dumb ones are def more vocal
maybe for McNabb and Bulger. Definitely no now.
too soon for Big Ben, Rivers, Romo - I think all of those are about a push, although obviously nobody matches Eli's SB heroics.
If you could go back, the only obvious one that no one mentioned - Rodgers. Obviously he was still a backup.
Apply it to today, and somebody we think is great will fall off quickly (see Russel Wilson, 2022) and somebody no one is thinking of will be a star.
Really?
44 people posted on that thread and 34 of them haven't posted a while (and most of those 34 are LONG gone.)
Here is a list of those 10 people who remain active on BBI:
rnargi
Big Blue '56
Paulie Walnuts
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy
cosmicj
Dan in the Springs
BigBlueCane
santacruzom
djm
SanFranGiantsFan
Which of those 10 posters are the SAME idiots THEN who are idiots NOW?
(My guess is that it's none of the above and you just wanted to have an excuse to call the DJ "haters" idiots.)
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Are idiots now.
Really?
44 people posted on that thread and 34 of them haven't posted a while (and most of those 34 are LONG gone.)
Here is a list of those 10 people who remain active on BBI:
rnargi
Big Blue '56
Paulie Walnuts
Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy
cosmicj
Dan in the Springs
BigBlueCane
santacruzom
djm
SanFranGiantsFan
Which of those 10 posters are the SAME idiots THEN who are idiots NOW?
(My guess is that it's none of the above and you just wanted to have an excuse to call the DJ "haters" idiots.)
In 2007, I was still probably posting about how uncool Meg Griffin is
Bulger was coming off what turned out to be, by far, the best season of his career in 2006. 4300 yards, 24 TDs to just 8 INTs.
Sounds more like KWALL, he was all about elite athleticism (which Bulger didn't have) and stat production (which he did have). Terps was always about whether that guy's team won or not, and Bulger's W/L record as starter wasn't great.
I am surprised I didn't go ape shit once Jay Cutler's name was mentioned as I LOVED to hate how overrated he was back then. At least I called out the Romo takes. Interestingly his career hasn't really taken off other than that first 6 or so games from 2006. He would go on to have a very good career, just couldn't close in January.
Cutler was trash even before this truth became widely accepted.
A great thrower of the football. That cheap shot by von Oelhoffen in the 2005 playoffs and playing for Mike Brown stunted his career for a few years.
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Had he stayed healthy, I think he would have had a helluva career.
A great thrower of the football. That cheap shot by von Oelhoffen in the 2005 playoffs and playing for Mike Brown stunted his career for a few years.
Didn't it do more than stunt his career?
I mean at the time, he was probably the 3rd best QB in the league as I remember.
His career really went south after that. Wouldn't play for Cincy then to the Raiders? After that he regained some form in AZ but never like before the injury.
At least that's what I remember.
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Had he stayed healthy, I think he would have had a helluva career.
A great thrower of the football. That cheap shot by von Oelhoffen in the 2005 playoffs and playing for Mike Brown stunted his career for a few years.
Didn't it do more than stunt his career?
I mean at the time, he was probably the 3rd best QB in the league as I remember.
His career really went south after that. Wouldn't play for Cincy then to the Raiders? After that he regained some form in AZ but never like before the injury.
At least that's what I remember.
that's how I remember it too. he was really on the rise before that injury ruined him
Absolutely. Jesse should have been starting for the Giants.