![]() They did much better in 2011, losing the season opener but then winning three of the first five and closing the season by winning two of three. In 2007, the Giants lost their first two games and lost two of their last three games. ![]() Unlike the Cowboys’ Romo, who does well during the regular season but is not a closer (he sustained a broken collarbone against the Eagles on Sunday), Manning has never played well from wire to wire. I happen to think that Manning has one more Super Bowl run in him. In other words, until Big Blue’s backs are firmly plastered against the wall - until the Giants are embedded in the corner - there is nothing to worry about. “The only times it’s really a must-win is when you’re in the playoffs,” he said, “and you got to win to get in the playoffs.” No one will seriously argue that Eli Manning is better than either of those quarterbacks, but he has more rings than his brother, and in two Super Bowl matchups against Brady - well, you know how those turned out.Īfter Sunday’s game, Manning provided an interesting insight into his thoughts on panic buttons when someone asked whether the loss made Thursday’s game against Washington a must-win. quarterbacks who were starting in 2004 and are still starting: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Dallas has had nine starting quarterbacks in that time Washington has had 10 Philadelphia has had 11. East during the Manning’s tenure as a starter, which began in 2004. It’s the longest active streak among all N.F.L. ![]() ![]() history, after Brett Favre and Eli’s brother Peyton. He has started 167 consecutive regular-season games - the third-longest streak by a quarterback in N.F.L. They paid him because he shows up for work in one piece.Īt a position that is notoriously fragile, where quarterbacks are chewed up with such frequency that a team is considered foolish for not carrying two starting-caliber quarterbacks, the Giants - and their fans - have been fortunate beyond anything they could have hoped for when they made a draft-day trade for Manning. Manning is the first Giants quarterback to throw for more than 3,000 yards in 10 consecutive seasons, the first to have three 4,000-yard seasons (2009 through 2011) and the first to throw at least 20 touchdown passes eight years in a row (2005 through 2012), according to the website.īut that’s not why the Giants dropped millions of dollars on his head. I’m frustrated, like you are.”īut statistically, Manning is the best: the career leader in pass attempts, completions, passing yards, touchdown passes and interceptions, according to the Giants’ website. There are times when it’s tremendous then there are other times when it’s not. “He’ll get better,” Coach Tom Coughlin said Sunday. Since signing the contract, he has been a game changer in all the wrong ways. Then he goes out and blows back-to-back games.
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