I'll be starting " __ or __ " every couple of days, and I'm hoping all of you football fans will come in and give these threads some activity. Anyways, the Cowboys and the Giants, most see these two teams atop of the NFC East at the end of the year. Many experts have picked these two teams as the top teams in the NFC. Which leads to the question, if you could choose between Tony Romo or Eli Manning to build your franchise, who would it be, and why? Romo has generally been seen as the better quarterback, but he hasn't found any success in the postseason, unlike Eli Manning, who had his coming out party last year in the playoffs, and helped the Giants win the ultimate prize, the Superbowl. But, was Eli's Superbowl win a product of his production, or was it due to the Giant's great defense? Is Tony Romo really a better quarterback than Eli, or is it just perception stirred out by the media? Discuss...
Tony Romo. I hate giving praise to anyone from the Cowboys, but its pretty obvious that he's the better QB. He's a much more accurate passer, gets rid of the ball quicker, and can make plays with his feet. In his first full year as a starter, he had a season that Eli has yet to come near to matching over 4 seasons. Granted, he looks like has regressed just a tad this season, but he's still a more talented QB than Eli. Playoff success reflects more on the team than the individual.
Tony Romo. Because of this video [video=youtube;qFgBvWpymYs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFgBvWpymYs[/video]
Give me Eli. Romo's had unbelievable talent around him the past two seasons, and he folded in the first playoff game each year. Eli already has a ring, and the Giants' offense has been excellent out of the gate this season. They're going to finish first, with less talent than Dallas. Eli.
If you're going to pick Eli, you can't use that statement. Eli has not played better than Romo in the regular season this year, and NYG has quite a bit of talent on defense.
If I'm building a franchise, give me Romo. Much better QB statistically, so far he isn't the better leader, though.
Well I didn't make a poll for a reason. I don't want people coming in here randomly and voting for whoever is their favorite player. I think this way, if someone wants to participate in this thread and make a pick, they'll have to shell out reasons for it and it'll create some discussion (hopefully). For an example, I don't want to create a topic like, who's better, Darren Sproles or Adrian Peterson, and have homer fans like you voting for Sproles Anyways though, we'll see. If this thing doesn't work out the way I planned, I might add a poll next time.
I would take Eli. It dont really matter what you do for 16 games it matters what you do during the playoffs. Dan Marino is the perfect example. Great great QB but he couldnt win the big one.
I was not aware that Dan Marino didn't have any good games in the playoffs. I suppose playoff games are always won by one person as well... I guess that makes you a fan of Emmitt Smith over Barry Sanders too?
Romo in a heartbeat. He's a much more complete QB. He's more accurate, can make plays with his feet, and always manages to come up with a big play out of nowhere. I realize he hasn't won in the playoffs....but last I knew, football was a team sport, not an individual sport.
Half your argument could be applied to Eli. In fact, I would argue Eli is better at coming up with the big play. He did, after all, lead his team to the Super Bowl and avoided a miraculous pressure attempt to comment. I don't think it is Romo by far. Eli is quickly becoming an elite QB in this league.
That was actually something I was debating recently. Who would you consider the more clutch QB? I don't think its as close as people on either side would think. Romo's had the "unclutch" label ever since that botched snap, despite that not being a related to the QB position at all. Its a label that's masked a tonne of amazingly clutch performances over the past two years. Some people believe that Eli's "flukey" playoff heroics have masked inconsistent and unclutch play for the most part of his career. But most of them don't realize that early in his career, Eli made a name for himself by regularly overcoming terribly inconsistent play to lead his team to late-game comebacks.
Romo had a great chance to remove his unclutch label last year with 2 minutes left against the Giants and failed miserably.
