Eli Manning’s Hall of Fame Debate: Iconic Moments Weighed
Evaluating Eli Manning for Hall of Fame: Analyze his Super Bowl wins, MVPs, and regular season records. Is Eli Manning a Hall of Fame quarterback on not?
Video Transcript
How about what Howard Balzer just said about Eli Manning?
Do you believe Eli Manning's a Hall of Fame quarterback?
Yeah.
So Dan, I think that he has one of the toughest cases to evaluate because you look at those two Super Bowl runs with the Giants and, you know, knocking off the undefeated Patriots, that is an iconic moment in NFL history.
So you think on that alone, you could say he could hang his hat on that resume and say, "Hey, I knocked off the undefeated Patriots with this team, and then we beat them again five years later.
So we have the two Super Bowls and two Super Bowl MVPs."
But as both of you guys hinted at, his regular season record and the end of his career was rather underwhelming.
So, you know, you're gonna get a lot of voters and people who look at it and say, "Well, he got hot twice at the right time.
Those teams got hot at the right time.
Without those Super Bowls, what is his resume for the Hall of Fame?"
It's just-- It falls below some of the other quarterbacks.
So I think he's probably gonna have a long wait, but I would imagine at some point, those two Super Bowls will probably carry him over the finish line.
And really the first one is the most important because those undefeated Patriots were not supposed to be beaten in that game.
Eli Manning and the underdog Giants got it done.
So I think eventually people are gonna look at that historic moment and say, "We have to have Eli Manning in because of this.
We have to have some of those defenders in because of this."
but I do think it's gonna be tough for him to get in with just some of the guys coming down the line like Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady.
It's gonna make the path a little bit difficult for Eli.
