[quote name='Heavyd814life']The hate the Pats get is understandable so there is no point even dwelling on that, but let's be serious about Eli and Peyton here. Peyton is, imo, the greatest regular season QB in NFL History. Eli will never be the greatest anything, but even i'll admit he is more clutch than Peyton whose nerves always got the better of him. Give Peyton Eli's front 7 and he'd have at least 3 rings by now. As a Colts fan, i'm sure you'd admit that with the exception of the couple of years when Bob Sanders was healthy, the Colts have never had a defensive that Peyton could lean on. And if it wasn't a rubbish defense he had to deal with, it was a nonexistent running game. He has always had to do everything himself and the fact that he had to press so hard is the reason he was never able to reproduce his regular season numbers in the playoffs. Eli has always had pieces around him. I mean, he isn't even the best QB to come out of his own draft class - both Big Ben and Rivers are better than he is - go look at the numbers, the game winning drives, etc and come tell me Eli is better than Big Ben or Rivers, let alone Peyton. Dan Marino's playoff record was something like 7-10 and even with his 7-3 record and one Superbowl ring, Eli doesn't even belong in the same sentence as Dan Marino.[/QUOTE]
Oh I could easily say that Eli is leagues above Big Ben, and if Philip Rivers continues to go down this slippery slope that he's going down then Eli is also better than him. Sure Big Ben has more superbowl rings but he also has a great Defense historically, better Special teams, and a great run team to rely on and set up play action for those big drives. With all those factors it's pretty easy to see how he could put those running drives together given that he has all those weapons around him. To me Eli can make the best out of any situation when he has to, not to mention I think he's one of the best road quarterbacks. Is he consistent? Not at all but when Eli needs to make plays he makes them. I'd take Eli over big ben any day of the week.