Balls. If you answered with "the ability to throw a spiral", then you'd also be correct. However, the most important attribute that Eli lacks is balls. Peyton has balls. Tom Brady has balls. By balls, I mean the ability to control the huddle and control your selfish wide receivers. I remember reading reports on how Jeremy Shockey would change the play in the huddle, or try to, when Eli was first drafted. This is completely unacceptable for a quarterback. Do you think Joe Flacco puts up with whining from his receivers? Hell no, that guy is a serial killer (seriously look into his eyes and tell me he isn't).
I think that the ability to control the offense with grit and personality is an underrated aspect when evaluating a potential quarterback. It takes more than a laser arm, good looks, and intelligence to be a quarterback in the NFL. You have to be a manager. There are tons of quarterbacks who had all the "tools" necessary to succeed in the NFL but outright failed to do so. Ryan Leaf, Drew Henson, Derek Anderson, JP Losman, Alkili Smith, the list goes on forever. What these guys didn't have was the temperment to put up with asshole position players and the gumption to put them in their place.
Look at Peyton in the huddle. He's yelling at everyone. You think he gives a flying fuck what Reggie Wayne thinks of him outside of the playing field? Hell no. Tom Brady put Randy Moss, yes Randy "I ran over a female cop" Moss, into a subordinate role. You think winning culture has something to do with that? Then how come the Cowboys can't control T.O.? Because Romo is a pussy. Just like Eli Manning. He literally cannot get Plaxico Burress to care about football the way that Peyton and Brady can get their offenses to realize the football season is greater than any one individual.
Its a trait of a great athlete that is overlooked. Tim Duncan yells at everyone on the court to stay in position. Michael Jordan used to call teammates at practice "faggots" if they didn't play up to his standard of manliness. It is the definition of leadership. Quarterbacks need to be the asshole sometimes and Eli Manning has to learn that. Roethlisberger controls Santonio and Nate Washington. Dickface Rivers knows how to handle DUI Jackson. Drew Brees can handle Reggie Bush, Jeremy Shockey, and the rest of that crew. Eli can't. That's why he'll never acheive greatness in the NFL. That's why he's probably the most overrated quarterback of our time. That's why I simply can't understand how they won the Superbowl last year.
I think that the ability to control the offense with grit and personality is an underrated aspect when evaluating a potential quarterback. It takes more than a laser arm, good looks, and intelligence to be a quarterback in the NFL. You have to be a manager. There are tons of quarterbacks who had all the "tools" necessary to succeed in the NFL but outright failed to do so. Ryan Leaf, Drew Henson, Derek Anderson, JP Losman, Alkili Smith, the list goes on forever. What these guys didn't have was the temperment to put up with asshole position players and the gumption to put them in their place.
Look at Peyton in the huddle. He's yelling at everyone. You think he gives a flying fuck what Reggie Wayne thinks of him outside of the playing field? Hell no. Tom Brady put Randy Moss, yes Randy "I ran over a female cop" Moss, into a subordinate role. You think winning culture has something to do with that? Then how come the Cowboys can't control T.O.? Because Romo is a pussy. Just like Eli Manning. He literally cannot get Plaxico Burress to care about football the way that Peyton and Brady can get their offenses to realize the football season is greater than any one individual.
Its a trait of a great athlete that is overlooked. Tim Duncan yells at everyone on the court to stay in position. Michael Jordan used to call teammates at practice "faggots" if they didn't play up to his standard of manliness. It is the definition of leadership. Quarterbacks need to be the asshole sometimes and Eli Manning has to learn that. Roethlisberger controls Santonio and Nate Washington. Dickface Rivers knows how to handle DUI Jackson. Drew Brees can handle Reggie Bush, Jeremy Shockey, and the rest of that crew. Eli can't. That's why he'll never acheive greatness in the NFL. That's why he's probably the most overrated quarterback of our time. That's why I simply can't understand how they won the Superbowl last year.
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Thank you! It cannot be said enough. I'd call him a woman, but that would be insulting to those who gave birth to us.
I've been waiting all day for someone to find a way to blame his play yesterday on Shockey, cause God knows it ain't whittle ewi's fault!
Oh, and they won the Super Bowl in SPITE of him, not because of him. Justin Tuck or Plax should have been MVP. But, the press had to vote for the clean-cut white bitch.
He does have a pretty hot wife though...
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