Originally posted by alliswell
I think the Giants could have won the Falcon game with Warner and they would have lost to the Eagles no matter what. SO they could have been 6-5. I didnt see the Redskins game. I just saw a few highlights. Could Warner have made a difference? We\'ll never know.
You\'re right about the Eagles game. The Skins game...let\'s see. In order to win that game, Warner would have had to have thrown 4 touchdowns...two less than he had thrown all year. Not gonna happen. As for the Falcons game, Eli I thouht did damn well for the defense he was playing and the way his WR\'s played. I saw no less than 8 dropped balls that game, and that\'s no exageration at all. Maybe Warner wins, maybe not, but let\'s say he does, and the Giants are sitting at 6-6 right now. You said yourself 9-7 is what they\'d have to get to, meaning finishing 3-1. They would have to win 3 out of 4 against Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and Cincinnati. Do you honestly think, Warner or not, that they could do that?
When you are running a football franchise, you have to look at thing realistically. Eli being in right now benefits the team in the long term much more than Warner being in. That\'s just the way it is. If you think this decision was because of money or draft status, you don\'t know a lot of things about A) Tom Coughlin, and
The Giants organization. You clearly are not getting the full picture.
And once again, you didn\'t watch the games. Numbers only tell you so much. I will tell you that if you watched the games, there were no fewer than two loses that you can point to and say that Warner blew the games.
I am a Giants fan, and I had nothing against Kurt coming in. I want Eli playing, and I support this decision fully. You\'re a Kurt Warner fan, not a Giants fan, so of course you don\'t support this decision. Only one of us is unbiased here.
And as for why Eli should be starting, take a look at Carson Palmer, who started the season pretty poorly, after taking over for a very capable vet who almost led them to the playoffs last year, and has matured so much. His game against Baltimore yesterday speaks more to why Eli should be starting than anything else I could say.
