Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I can acknowledge he was better than Dilfer, Johnson, Hostetler, Williams, and Foles but it's kind of gross that he's going to likely go into the HOF one day as he is not deserving. Thoroughly mediocre in an era where plenty of non-HOF Qb's put up great numbers and Jim Plunkett couldn't get in winning two Super Bowls in near identical fashion because he wasn't elite so I don't know how Eli should.
|
just took a look at his numbers and wow, they are much worse than I expected. A QB who has a career completion percentage of 60 percent and a QB rating of 84 should absolutely not be in the HoF discussion. But you just know that the 2 SB MVPs, the longevity and him being a class act will get him there ... that's all that'll count in 5 years time.
Pretty funny to compare the QBs of the 2004 class.
Eli: 117-117 | 60.3 % | 57,023 yds | 366 TD - 244 INT | 84.1 rtg | 4x Pro Bowl | 2x Super Bowl Champion | 2x Super Bowl MVP
Rivers: 123-101 | 64.7 % | 59,271 yds | 397 TD - 198 INT | 95.1 rtg | 8x Pro Bowl
Ben: 144-71-1 | 64.3 % | 56,545 yds | 363 TD - 191 INT | 94.0 rtg | 6x Pro Bowl | 2x Super Bowl Champion
Eli has the worst record, the worst completion percentage by a mile, the fewest yards/game, the worst TD/INT ratio and the worst QB rating by a mile. Rivers has probably had the most consistent career out of all of them and I wouldn't be shocked if he was the only one of them to not make the HoF. Because really, in 5 or 6 years people will probably just say "he's never won anything".