ESPN.com This is not a knock on Eli Manning. He has his ring, which means in the overall evaluation of which quarterback has had the better career — Manning or Tony Romo — Manning wins hands down.
Hardware matters.
But looking at the players right now, Romo gets the edge as the one who is having the better season.
Eli Manning vs. Tony Romo was the ESPN “Hot Button Topic of The Day” today, and I didn’t even have to read it before I knew what the article was going to say. Blah Blah Blah Eli Manning has a ring, but when push comes to shove he just isn’t as good as Tony Romo…save it hon.
Let me fast forward to your back peddling later in the article…
And Romo has adjusted to not having his best receiver, Miles Austin, who has missed six games this season, including the past four, with a left hamstring injury he suffered in training camp. Romo has thrown seven of his 22 touchdown passes this season to journeyman Laurent Robinson, Austin’s replacement.
Unlike Manning, Romo has the benefit of playing on a balanced offense behind a respectable line that, for the most part, has kept him upright. Unlike Manning, Romo doesn’t have to throw for 400 yards in order for the Cowboys to win. He has rookie running back DeMarco Murray, who is closing in on 1,000 rushing yards and averaged 22.3 carries a game in November.
Now for those of you who don’t realize this, I think Hakeem Nicks only plays every other week, I think Mario Manningham died sometime two weeks ago, Jake Ballard caught about 5 passes in college going into this season, and every week there’s been a new configuration at offensive line for the Giants…leaving us with Victor Cruz, a few years removed from being an undrafted free agent from UMASS!
Cruz has been amazing, but for once let’s spin it the way it has always been talked about with Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and now Tony Romo…maybe Eli Manning is making the players around him better. Is that too aggressive to say? I mean most other quarterbacks get the credit when players with no expectations step up and have good years.
Fact is, Tony Romo is a great quarterback, probably the best in the NFl when it comes to moving around in the pocket. I also still think he has the quickets release in the league. However, the Cowboys can win without him. Not playoff wise, but they can win games on their schedule with Jon Kitna.
When it comes to the Giants, they would have one win (rams) this season without Eli Manning at quarterback…fact. Aside from the Rams game, every week the Giants have turned a 4-7 point deficit over to Eli with about 2 minutes in the game, and every single time he has brought them into the redzone, 6 scores, and 5 actual wins (if you can follow what I’m saying).
So the notion that you’d rather take Tony over Eli right now is just another yuppy throwing some stats out there because they decided to check their fantasy team before the game started instead of actually using their head. Kind of like when you see Tom Brady completing like 70% of his passes, sure that would be impressive if he threw over 10 yards more than five times a game.
The Giants may wind up blowing another good start to the season, but if it wasn’t for Eli Manning the season would have been over before the bye week.
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