“Flacco hasn’t gotten any better since the Ravens made him the highest-paid quarterback in the league back in 2013. He’s still got a bazooka for an arm and is more mobile than he’s given credit for, but that’s where the positives end. His sloppy footwork has led to declining accuracy. Even at 31, he doesn’t do much work before the snap, and he’s still not great at making adjustments after the snap either.
Flacco is talented. If you put the right team and coaches around him, he’ll look good. He’s not going to elevate those around him, though, and that’s what the Ravens are paying him to do.”
That.....real....QB Eli Manning
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on October 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM, updated October 12, 2016 at 10:36 AM
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EAST RUTHERFORD -- We interrupt this regularly scheduled hand-wringing over the
Giants and their quarterback with this important announcement: Eli Manning is average.
Oh, he is probably the best average quarterback in NFL history, and while that doesn't exactly sound like something to engrave on a Hall of Fame bust, it's true. He has those
two Super Bowl MVPs and enough statistical success that he'll get his spot in Canton someday.
Do Giants or Jets have better chance at saving season?
But he is preparing to make his 200th career start on Sunday. We have certainly watched a big enough body of work that we know what he is, so can we finally stop expecting him to morph into something he's not?
He's not Tom Brady. He's not Aaron Rodgers. He's not a quarterback who is going perform at a high level every week, so while his uneven start to the 2016 season is a lot of things -- frustrating, disappointing, disheartening, etc. -- it is hardly surprising.