Better career Warner vs Eli

[Billy86]

Warner, without doubt. Eli had a nice purple patch in the middle of his career but if never came close to Warner's peak(s), and he did have two excellent playoff runs though I think Warner also had the overall better playoff career performances.

As good as Eli was in those two runs, it was the NYG defense that won those trophies more than anything else by not giving up over 20 points in any of those 8 playoff games, with an average of 15.125 points scored against him.

Meanwhile for Warner's three postseason runs that got to the SB, his defenses gave up over 20 points in 5-of-10 games and actually averaged over 20 points (20.9) against per game.

Eli was a good QB and had a perfect mentality for the boiler room of pressure and expectation that a NY audience tends to bring with it so I am by no means ragging on him here, but some of the talk bouncing around his all time standings in the early/mid 2010s was frankly a little ridiculous.

[Steelersfan43]

I like Eli Manning's career more than most but Warner's career was a true Cinderella story....Not only what he did with the Rams, but also when he led one of the worst franchises in professional sports at that time to an improbable Super Bowl appearance when everyone thought Warner's career was over, it was crazy.

[FrantikRam]

Only 11 players have won MVP and Super Bowl MVP in the same year.

Kurt is one of those, and after him there was a 23 year gap until Mahomes did it a few years ago.

On top of that, he led the Rams to three straight seasons of 500+ points - a feat still unmatched, which is insane given we are now at 17 game seasons and the rules have been heavily geared toward the offense since then.

Then you have the sheer magic and improbability of that 1999 season, which led to a movie being made.

In the two Super Bowls Kurt lost, he led a game tying drive in one and what would have been a game winning drive in the other. Both times his defense gave it away.

 

On the surface one might say that second ring is better but....all things considered, this is Kurt by a country mile. He even mentored Eli his rookie year, which makes this really funny

[DirtyDez]

Should be pointed out that Kurt retired around the time that rule changes made it easier for WR’s to get open.  In 2014 Peyton Manning broke single season passing records at 37 years old but was a better QB in the mid-late 2000’s.