Romo might have more physical talent but life on the line I want Eli with the ball over Romo.

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I bet a third of your dislikes come from the “Romo might have more physical talent”. I disagree w/ that if we’re talking football. Yes, maybe basketball, golf, baseball…

Romo may have the stats, but Manning is one of the most clutch quarterbacks ever. I can attest to that (2007 and 2011.)

That being said, Amani Toomer is correct that Tony Romo is the better QB. The Cowboys are one of the most dysfunctional teams in the NFL…they constantly find ways to blow games, in all types of ways.
Contrast that to the Giants, who have one of the most physical and performing defense in the league. They also have always had a tremendous running game and offenisve line. The NFL is the biggest team-game, and you cannot discount what a team does for you.
Would Eli Manning be in any of those clutch situations, if his defense wouldn’t keep the game close?

At the end of the day, there’s no question that Eli Manning is the man in the 4th, and Romo, at least at the surface, seems to blow games when under pressure.
To win a Superbowl, you would need a very good, all around team, no matter who your QB is. And if my team had a great running game, and one of the best defenses in the league, I’m taking Eli Manning b/c he has the confidence to deliver the goods.

Yes, American Football is the ultimate team game. But how many times, even when the Giants won the SB (both times), have the prognosticators, analysts, and of course, lest we forget, dia hard Cowboys fans, claimed that their team, on paper and on the field, were a far superior team than both those Giants team, even before a game was played, when the games were being played, and when the season ended? Please someone answer that question.

Like it or not, Romo would not have won if he was under center in those SB winning Giants team.

Let me remind you all haters again, you can’t claim that Eli and the Giants got lucky and won two SB and then also say that they had a kinda, sorta better team than the Cowboys and that is why they won it all. Pick one Eli hating comment and stick with it.

Look, you can throw all the statistics you want, but both you and I know, fact of the matter is, you can’t talk about Romo without mentioning his numbers and stats and them being better than Eli, and not also say anything about his one playoff win and lack of SB ring. But talk about Eli, and maybe his pedestrian numbers, but you can’t forget about his playoff and championship wins.

When it comes down to it, when the game is on the line, I would chose Eli over Romo, anyday, anytime. Eli has proven his clutch, Romo has been nothing but cluts!!!

Romo does not have heart. If Romo was the Back for the Giants when they played the 18-0 Pats and Steve Smith tips the ball to Asante that would have been the beginning of the end as Romo would have been trying to force passes in. Romo would have went done when Bruschi and Adalius Thomas had his Jersey and pulling him. Romo would have tried to throw it to Nicks and Cruz Even though Belichik had his Safeties watching them and leaving Manningham on 1-1 situations. U heard T.O. say Romo will force the ball to “his boy Witten” even though T.O. was wide open down the field. I’m sorry but 31-10 Versus below 500 teams just dnt measure up to SB MVP’s

No heart? Yeah, the same guy that played with a fractured rib and punctured lung and wore a kevlar vest and still played better than Eli this year.

No heart? The guy that was going back into the game against “your Giants” with a broken collar bone in 2010.

No heart? The guy that played agains the “Giants in the last game of the season with a black and blue balloon like swollen throwing hand and still manages a 106 passer rating. Yeah, no heart…..

That doesn’t change the fact that he’s a mediocre QB.

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Go buy the Giants Superbowl DVD, watch it, then come back here and tell me how mediocre those throws were.

Do you watch football?

There is no question about it – Eli shows up when he absolutely must. Tony beats the teams he should, and rarely shows up in the big moment.

You can google whatever stats you want.
Percentages don’t account for bigtime downs, when your back is against the wall.

Yeah what it says is that passer rating is not a good measure of who is the better QB because would anyone out there take Romo over any of those three? Romo isn’t even close to any of those three and he isn’t close to Eli either. When it counts Eli steps up and makes the plays. Romo . . . not so much.

Eli has had a run game and a defense where the cowboys have not.

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You mean the run game ranked dead last in just about every category last season? THAT run game? Oh and lets not forget that 29th ranked defensive powerhouse. As for who throws how many INT’s, let me know when Romo puts the ball in the air as much as Eli does in a game. Eli threw the ball 67 more times than Romo, and has 6 more INT’s.

The Giants are no longer a smashmouth, clock-killing offense, and they haven’t been for quite some time. More throws are going to increase the probability of more INT’s.

Believe me, no one in their right mind is taking Romo over Manning other than Dallas “fans”(and I use the term loosely) and the Fantasy Football clowns who live and die by stats.

1) Romo’s career passer rating of 96.9 is the second-highest in the history of the NFL. Passer rating is far from a perfect measure of quarterback performance

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Kinda renders your whole diatribe useless, doesn’t it? Your whole argument is based on the most flawed rating system in sports that no one takes the least bit seriously. Thanks for playing

Besides, at least Marino PLAYED in a Super Bowl… True, it’s not JUST about having a ring, but when you only have one playoff win and you’re halfway through your career then your career has not been a success.

I think Romo’s a good quarterback for the most part, but in the end it’s about accomplishment.

The fools who believe “if Romo had the Giants defense” and if “Rivers was on the Giants” should actually have watched a Giants game the past few years. Eli is what makes this team, end of story.