Giants QB Eli Manning Considers Himself In Same Class As Patriots QB Tom Brady

Giants quarterback Eli Manning was all confidence when discussing where he ranks among his NFL peers. Manning told ESPN in a radio interview that he thinks he's in the same class as Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. "I consider myself in that class and Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year and he started off winning championships and I think he's a better quarterback now than what he was, in all honesty, when he was winning those championships," Manning said. "I think he's ... gotten better every year and that's what I'm trying to do. I kind of hope these next seven years of my quarterback days are my best." Manning -- who beat Brady's Patriots, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII -- threw for 4,002 yards and 31 touchdowns last season, but also posted a career-high 25 interceptions. "I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that," Manning said. "That's going to be fixed and it should be a good year."

Source: NFL.com

 

Gotta have confidence as a quarterback......

He can at least say he beat Tom Brady in the Super Bowl.

 

honestly i do too...if matt cassel can get 11 wins there and it looks like the backups arent missing a beat without him, i just gotta give most of the credit to belichick, he runs a QB friendly system up there, one that eli would probably just plug right into

 

I have to laugh at this. Eli got the help of a lucky catch to win that SB. I know it's part of the game, and he's a decent qb. I just dont see him ranking where Brady is.

 

My initial response would of sided with Chipper but K Train made a valid point about the system. I don't think Brady would be nearly as successful if it wasn't for the system he's been in.

 

I don't either. He throws too many picks.

 

Matt Cassel isn't doing too bad in Kansas City folks. I think the coaches KNOW what they're doing and make QB's great in New England. I agree with cK completely minus agreeing with Chipper. In the NFL you have tiers of QB as we all know. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are at the top of that and then everyone else is so far below them. I'd agree that Eli is turning into one of the top QB's in the league and I love the confidence but honestly, the Steve Smith catch was the LUCKIEST catch in the Super Bowl and the only reason they beat Tom Brady an the Pats. Win a few more Super Bowls, throw A LOT fewer picks and become a vocal leader. Not to mention marry a HOT piece of butt and we'll chat. :)

 

OMG. Eli sucks, put him in the same class as Jay Cutler.... i swear the archie and eli manning are a bunch of pre-madonna buttholes,

 

lol. Brady is going down as one of the best QB's ever. Eli isn't close to his clbutt.

 

yeah maybe, but theres a reason for that.

ive never thought of brady as being in the peyton class of QB...brady is great but hes on a team that makes him great and puts him in a offense to dominate in. Indy lives and dies by peyton, NE im not so sure.

I think you could probably plug eli in there and have the same success, its the most QB friendly scheme ive ever seen....i mean yeah you need to be talented and brady deserves credit for that and he deserves to be paid like the best because hes established himself among the best...you cant put any average guy there and get that kind of production, but i do think you could put a lesser player in an get similar production. Eli is a franchise QB like him or not, im not crazy about the guy but i think hes a good QB and certainly is better than brady when belichick got a hold of brady and turned him into what he is.

just saying, im not sure brady would have been anything other than some guy from michigan if he didnt go to NE, but a guy like peyton im pretty confident in saying hed be the ebst no matter where he went.

all very speculation, we will never know at this point but it doesnt hurt to play the scenerio out

 

Eli Manning is closer to Tavaris Jackson than he is to Peyton or Tom Brady.

Sorry Kid.

 

lets not get carried away lol

 

Eli isn't an elite QB in any system. He's a good one, but far from elite. You put him on the Pats the last 10 years and sure maybe they win games, but they don't win the Super Bowls.

 

lol ok sure, whatever you say....theres no convincing a tom brady fan boy that maybe he wouldnt be everything he is if it wasnt for the patriots.

put brady on the giants the last ten years, im sure they win some games....but probably not 3 superbowls either

 

They win more than they did with Eli.

 

homerism <3 ^

I mean, this is amusing by Eli one way or another. Sometimes, it's just best to shut your freaking mouth, regardless of the truthfulness of your statement. Brady is a better QB regardless but outside of Patriots system, I don't think he'd be MUCH better than Eli. And Brady I think is better as a result of the Patriots' system. That's not to say he couldn't do well outside of it NOW, but that system gave him the tools to learn HOW to be a great QB imo.

 

Tarvaris Jackson doesn't have the following on his resume:

1.) Super Bowl champion

2.) Super Bowl MVP

3.) Engineered two fourth-quarter comeback drives in a Super Bowl

4.) Pro Bowl appearance

5.) Back-to-back 4,000 yard seasons


Try again.

 

guess you dont realize how terrible brady was when he was drafted...hes come miles since then overall but its not like he slipped through the cracks, he sucked and looked like a skinny little backup QB at best, just like idk...matt cassel, brian hoyer

just seems like a hard trend to me...picking up these projects and making them products of the system. but hey thats not a bad thing, why heck with something that works so well? they got 3 SBs with brady, a 2nd round pick for cassel, and im sure they will look to move either hoyer or mallet if they continue to look amazing and pick up where brady left off for any reason

 

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Look, reality is Eli Manning is nowhere even close to being on Tom Brady's level.

I'll give Eli his Super Bowl run. He had a great postseason that year.

But if he was anywhere near Tom Brady's level, he and that talented defense of his would have two or three more rings on their fingers.

I look forward to Giants games. I look forward to Eli putting that ball in the air (now that Plax is gone). Because I know my team is coming down with the ball at least a couple times in the game.

No one wants to play against Tom Brady.

This goes down as one of the dumbest damn things I've heard in a long time.