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View original postWTF? You mean the guy whose receivers all suck when they leave the Giants?? The guy who never had an All-Pro receiver until Victor Cruz showed up three years after Manning won his first Super Bowl MVP? The most famous play of his career featured every other player on his team fucking up except him. His line, during a critical Super Bowl drive, let the whole Patriots pass rush swarm him, but he got away on his own, and with all his "good" receivers covered, managed to get the pass to a 4th string spaz who almost dropped it, and was lucky he held on. Toni Romo lined up Sunday behind three all-pro linemen. Eli Manning was the most-sacked QB in the post-season the last time he won a Super Bowl. Toni Romo had the NFL's leading rusher on his team this season. Eli's best rusher had less than half Murray's yards. Tony Romo had some of the finest receivers in the NFL on his team from his first game, including a future Hall of Fame tight end. Witten and Terrell Owens were great before they ever played alongside Romo. Manning had to take over a team with notoriously selfish, self-aggrandizing or immature players like Jeremy Shockey, Tiki Barbar and Plexico Burress, who were distractions even at the best of times. The year Eli won his first Super Bowl, the Cowboys sent a dozen players to the Pro Bowl, compared to a single defensive player from the Giants. That year, Eli had to keep going on the frozen tundra, thanks to multiple missed field goals by his kicker. Romo's went to the Pro Bowl. Eli had to make bricks without straw, throwing to the likes of David Tyree and Kevin Boss, while Romo was throwing to Terrell Owens and Jason Witten, behind a trio of All-Pro lineman. Eli beat Romo throwing against a secondary with three more All-Pro DBs, while Romo was throwing against a secondary so over the hill the Giants would spend their next two draft picks on it. Which one threw a pick in their playoff game again? So sorry that Owens and Witten cannot get open enough against the likes of RW McQuarters for Toni to actually accomplish something. The next time he went to a Super Bowl, Eli's vaunted defense put him in so many holes he had to lead a record number of fourth quarter comebacks that season. Meanwhile, Romo's amazing athleticism caused him to take a glancing blow from a single defender and lurch backwards into the end zone and fall down for a safety that would prove crucial in the end. But when he finally gets to face an even WORSE Giants secondary in the season opener a couple of years ago, people on this site were acting like the touchdowns he threw against literal fourth string cornerbacks made him the second coming.

View original postAll Tony Romo has to do to silence our main argument is win a Super Bowl. Which Eli has done twice, as the undisputed leader of a remarkably offensively untalented team. All the years the Romo fans whined about Eli's defense, Dallas was sending Ratliff and Ware to the Pro Bowl year in and year out, while the Giants occasionally sent a single DE. Or do you want to concede that Dallas players are the beneficiaries of extraordinary amounts of hype, and not nearly as talented as the pundits like to rave?