Win Or Go Home: For the NFC East Title! (Cowboys vs. Giants 2011, Week 17) 

Vs the 49ers, two fumbled punt returns turned into 10 points including the game winning FG when Eli only crossed midfield 2 other times all game. Rodgers had one of his worst games of the year. So did Brady and Eli still needed lucky plays in the SB to pull out a last second win. If even an average Rodgers or Brady shows up, neither one of those games are winnable by the Giants. The same goes for 2007 against the Cowboys, Packer, and Patriots. In all those games, each QB had one of his worst games of the year and Eli still barely won. In fact, in the 2007 regular season, those same teams scored an average of 35 points against the Giants and then in the playoffs, not one of them scores more than 20 and that was because of Eli? Please explain.

In my opinion Eli should have won the MVP in 2011 the best performance by a quarterback ever in a single season from beginning to end. The greatest season a quarterback ever had.

@@tomknapp6194 keep crying

@@kevinburke6055 Keep crying because Eli isn't that good? I'm not crying about anything. Just educating people on how a few headlines does not define his 16 year below average career.

@@frankguidera6828 Was he really that good? I know that in 2011, he did have the most playoff yards in history. But, let's think about this logically. He played 4 games. Most of the truly great QBs have a first round bye and will play a maximum of 3 games. So, it would be fair to take the average yards from QBs who played 3 or 4 games. Guess what happens then? Eli falls to 14th. That's a far cry from #1. In fact, 3 QBs were win about 100 yards of his record in only 3 games. But, if there is anything that defines Eli's career is that he just isn't that good and his totals are only because he throws a lot. Even below average results will eventually pile up. To illustrate that point, let's take the best yards/attempt in the post season and Eli falls to 19th. Seriously, people. He wasn't that good. Just about every one of his best "accomplishments" comes with a huge asterisk (like above) and if you look at the facts, it really isn't that impressive. His iron man streak is his only impressive stat. Eli should never be in the HoF.

Instablaster.

I love the Giants and even I hated nbc adding that

Totally killed the moment you want the crowd atmosphere in a huge game; it was obviously meant to be an outright going to commercial and they messed up

@@ks3899 a cut to a commercial right after a touchdown…. Great idea

@@stephbetter3806 no- I meant they were supposed to use that going to a commercial after the PAT or something when they usually have a little Outro to the break

If he’d stayed healthy he and young OBJ would’ve been lethal

Well said

Man he was my first football fan

Right up there with "White Shoes" Johnson's leg wobble for best end zone celebration.

I remember watching Cruz during a 2010 preseason game. He torched the Jets for like 6 catches 140+ yards and 3 TDs. I saw that and was like “man this guy is good enough to play on Sundays.” Well early in the season, he had gotten injured for the year and kinda became an afterthought until the 2011 season started. Then he really hit it off. Not many people remember that preseason game against the Jets. That game had Rex Ryan amazed at Cruz’s ability.

Giants good

Yeah lol

@Charles Hunt Because the third best team in that division was better than the division winner this year

Giants won the Super Bowl but the division in 2011 was most certainly not that good.

@Charles Hunt this was back around a time when we regularly had two teams in the division make the playoffs, and the giants or the Cowboys had 10+ win seasons every other year Kinda. Long story short, there weren’t 6-10 division winners😂

yeah the Packers probably would’ve repeated as champs or the Patriots or 49ers may have also won without the Giants in the playoffs

Oh and how refreshing it was to see Eli crush the packers and Brady to win another ring 😂 Packers fans thought they were winning the Super Bowl….they as bad as Dallas Cowboys fans every post season and always choke 😂 😭

@@philiptucker7590 😄😄😄

@@diablo55 Let's not forget to add New Orleans to that possibility. After all, they did have the #1 Offense that year.

ahh the good ole days. Giants were winning & JPP had 10 fingers!

Giants good

@@things2593 I mean offensively they weren’t as great , their defense was good enough to even make a surprise super bowl run

@@brucelau2023 Giants hopefully going to get better soon, Daniel Jones is at least better than Haskins lmfao

Nfc east been a laughing stock all of 1 season n everyone acts like its been q regular thing

@@ApolloTheLeader Giants and Washington might carry the NFC East going forward tbh

Indeed he doesn't

Literally the best receiving performance in a playoff run aside from Fitz in ‘08

Agreed

During that time he got his credit along with cruz many analyst and fans belived they were both top 10 receivers at the time

Weren't for the injuries he would have been a star. I felt he had potential to surpass Cruz career wise.

Giants good

Honestly that whole season was crazy, every game came down to the last play honestly the best team season I’ve ever seen every game was so dramatic and amazing

@@kenbaxter7515 Eli Manning is above average QB, people who say otherwise are overreacting

Yeah that season was even crazier than just the Super Bowl run. The Giants beat the Patriots in the regular season, Eli Manning got into a shootout with Aaron Rodgers and the then-undefeated Packers and only lost by 3 points (final score 35-38), and Eli Manning that year set a record for 4th quarter touchdowns in a season, plus the majority of his wins that season were 4th quarter comebacks. (I'm not sure which, but I know Matthew Stafford broke one of his records in 2016, but still) Also Eli broke Phil Simms record for consecutive completions in a Super Bowl. Crazy

You could wrong one just as easy.

I believe it was 6 actually, I think we had to beat the Jets too

The Patriots weren't undefeated in 2011... They were 13-3

@@anthonyhutchins2300 read it again...

@@anthonyhutchins2300 open your eyes

They went from 6-2 to 7-7 smh

So funny...so true

the ryan brothers supposed to learn their stuff from their old man.

Eli has always been extremely under appreciated

@@rich4446 💯

When the giants was a decent organization and actually put a good team around him. Some of his numbers in his latter years were actually good, just the team around him was horrible

@@rich4446 factssss 😪😪💯💯

@@zeeski7454 all good kid , 4 Super Bowls 4 championships (8 total) , we the best team in the east now && Brady know wassup w us

Top notch? Do you think that Marc Bulger, Jay Cutler, Rich Gannon, Ryan Tannehill, Daunte Culpepper, Andy Dalton, Sam Bradford or Case Keenum were good QBs? Seriously, this is a list of mediocrity at best. But, when it comes to completion percentage, yards/attempt, TD %, and passer rating, Eli is better than......... None of them. Not a single one. These are the stats that define a QBs career and Eli was lower than average (at best) QBs. Eli had some high profile wins (SBs he was carried by the defense) and no one really paid attention the many more times when he blew the game. Seriously, He was not that.

@@tomknapp6194 eli also played more games than all those people

@@danielrooney2987 Eli played more games than them, but he wasn't better than them.

He ran to the announcers booth. Being Cowboys QB has it's benefits.

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The difference between he and dak... Romo bad defense. Bad o line. Romo actually played well this game. 29/37. 290 yds. 2 Tds. Int. Passer rating of 106. Can't ask for more in a game with everything riding on it

Yep. Guys like Bear Pascoe and Hynoski for me lol

Dez is now with us

Yessir Warner, Fitz, and Anquan Boldin

@@jay.b.26 You guys are playing great with him

@@andrewlarson7 Yessir.

Too bad Jerry Jones screwed them over.

Back when Eli was still gunslinger on a team that could block for 2 seconds with some explosive WRs, Giants organization cut his balls off with shit teams after this season and they stopped their option route offense after a few years because dip shits kept running the wrong routes leading to Eli's insane INT numbers the next few years, then they replaced the offense that won 2 super bowls with a piece of shit west coast offense that never scored points in big games.

@@NYG5 f odeller

@@onegiantblock4341 Odell helped Eli you banana...

@@NYG5 Nothing inherently wrong with the WCO. Shanny & Reid both run variations that are outstanding, but the issue was with management not hitting on draft picks and making dubious personnel decisions...

@@jonsnow5513 bro shut up if you watched the games he would be better off without odell. Look at Baker. He was better *WITHOUT* Odell.

Eli was literally a below average QB. His passer rating though his 16 years was lower than the NFL average 9 times. And 5 of those other 7 times, it was a mere 3.8 or less higher than the league average, or still just average. In only two years he was somewhat significantly higher than the NFL average. He wasn't that good.

@@tomknapp6194 😂😂😂

@@tomknapp6194 Hall of Famer

@@BackwardsHat Based upon what? If you come back with, "He had those 2 passes from 2 drives in 2 of his 246 games!" like every other Eli fan does, you have already lost. Eli was carried to 2 SB MVPs by the defense. His record vs playoff teams that scored 20 or less: 8-0. His record vs playoff teams that scored 21+: 0-4 and three of those were blowouts. He had to rely on 5 pro bowl QBs to have one of their worst games of the year for him to have have narrow last second wins. That is not the mark of a great or even good QB. Eli is literally the beneficiary of headlines to make him sound great. But, when the stats are actually examined, it is all a smokescreen and he wasn't that good. And if you do think that he is still great, how do you explain the fact that his passer rating was below average for over half his career?

@@tomknapp6194 Hall of Famer

He was always scrambling for his life, poor man should have at least one ring.

Leonard davis was a monster and hotel adams

@@erocs9747 I think you mean False start Adams

@@anthonymarquez4617 we were a Dez Bryant catch away from it in 2014

Nah the giants defensive line used to be really good

We will G men all the way

not just that but win their division!!!

First time in history having a losing team make and a double digit losses HAPPY NEW YEAR

@@eliraplee4914 The NFC East has been eliminated from wild card contention. If you don't win the east you are out.

@@jamaripino810 i know that’s what i’m saying we can only win the division like a 6-10 team could win the division

Manuel Ortiz I'm an Eagles fan but I'd rather have Team or Giants in the playoffs

Bro... dak Prescott have 13 pass td in 5 games this season and Daniel jones 9 pass td in 12 games.

Yeah, the defense and special teams really carried the Giants! There was that QB guy, but in 2007 and 2011, the Giants would have been eliminated many times with the guys that don't play as the same time as their QB.

This just disturbed me to read

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At his best he was wes weon steroids lol

That’s another great one! We posted that one too!

Good luck Giants and cowboys for NFC championship

He had to learn how to do that given the horrible O Lines Jerry gave him

Giants gonna take that L

@@mattcox3373 you have to admit though it would be funny if the Giants beat the Cowboys, the Eagles beat Washington, and the Giants get into the playoffs with a 6-10 record. 😂 Hey, you never know, they did give the Bucs a run for their money early in the season and even beat the Seahawks. Remember losing teams are 2-0 in the Wild Card Round (2010 Seahawks and 2014 Panthers). Lol

@@derpmcgerp8062 lol it would and with our division I really wouldn’t be surprised. I sure hope not though because I work with 2 annoying af giants fans💀

Your right

2011?? Offensively Yes. Heck Yeah. 2007 Defense was better, Waaaay Better.

Doug free was overpaid for looking this rough...

I agree but both of those losses was the worse loss for the Cowboys in 2011 NFL season and it brings bad memories for me