this contract to make him the highest paid player, simply based on position and the expected increase in the salary cap. The Giants were better off extending the contract, rather than waiting for it to expire, obviously. It will be interesting to see how much the next big-name QB gets in comparison.

Now go out and earn it!

rjr5021 this is the greatest news i have heard in a long time, meaning I agree with your assessment.

the NY Giants are lucky to pay what they paid. Super Bowl MVP Quarterbacks don’t just grow on trees.

It’s just the price you pay for the position. The next QB is gonna get more and the QB after him will get even more. I think Eli deserves it anyway. Super Bowl winner and he’s clutch as hell. I just hope he can put the team on his back and have another pro bowl season with all these young recievers. He’s pretty good at spreading the ball around.

And I’ll preface this by saying I have a lot of respect for the Giants’ FO… But this is an awful contract. This is the kind of money you give to a Top-5 NFL QB, which Eli certainly is not.

Matt Stafford got 6 million dollars more in guaranteed money than Eli

But how in Gods name would they know what a Super Bowl winning quarterback is worth?

Honestly. I’m fine with it. I think people forget how how hard it is to have a superbowl winning QB. Seriously, how many are out there? I mean the guy has taken the Giants to 4 playoff appearances in his 5 years. Has everyone even forgotten the Dave Brown, Danny Kannel, Kent Graham, Collins, and the brief Warner era.

While he needed a contract extension, he is not worth $15.3 million per season. However, he is an above-average quarterback whom doesn’t get injured, which is vital to a team’s success. If he can manage the offense well enough to get them to the playoffs, which he has done every year since 2005, I say he is worthy of his contract extension.

They can whine all they want about the $$$. Eli has a ring, and McNabb doesn’t. End of discussion.

don’t know if Eli is worth this much, however I do think that is worth to have stability at that position, after we’ve been through in the 90’s with the Kannells, the Dave Browns, Kent Grahams.
I think we know what we are getting, is not like we are signing Mark Sanchez to a multi million contract without knowing how is going to work out. With Eli we know there are going be terrible games, bad throws, interceptions but that he will win when it matters. To add this, we have a QB who’s been taking us four consecutive times (or five) to the playoffs. I think at the beggining he will have a hard time because he will be critized for everything, he will settle down and start playing good football again

We’ll never win a thing with this guy. We should have gone with a QB who has played their whole career without great receivers, since we have such garbage on our roster. I think on that list at the top I saw
Tom Brady
Peyton Manning
Drew Brees
Matt Cassell
Jay Cutler
Donovan McNabb
Carson Palmer
Philip Rivers
Ben Roethlisberger
Tony Romo
Matt Ryan
Kurt Warner
I mean none of those guys could claim that they played with good or great receivers, so why couldn’t we trade for one of them, so we could finally see what it looks like? And I think it is beyond ridiculous that in a year when the cap went up significantly and when there is a possibility of 2010 being an uncapped year that we should spend so much money on a throw away position like QB. I mean we could have taken that cap space and signed some of the great free agents out there, like Charlie Batch, Craig Nall, or J.P. Losman! THAT would have been more prudent use of the team’s cash.

I’d take Mcnabb over Eli Manning any day.

Not as much as I thought it was gonna be, but that’s about right for a QB.

Other fans don’t like it or think its too much? Beat the Giants, go head.

I’m going to break it down like this….

Eagles trolls can spew all the stats and say Eli is overpaid all they want but we are still basking in the afterglow of a recent Super Bowl win and have a good shot of getting back to the big game with him as the QB. The main stat is McNabb has multiple seasons of choking and incidentally is also 1st in the league in vomiting on the field during the big game. The last time the Eagles won a Championship, the Vienam War just started, Muhammad Ali was still called Cassius Clay and the AFL wasn’ t even part of the league yet. That is a long time to be a fan of a loser team so I can understand the bitterness. Until the Eagles and their Chunky Soup-slingin QB can bring it home there really NOTHING their fans can hang their hats on.

count it, ONE year, to put it all together into a very successful rookie year. eli has had that his entire career. if he was anywhere near as good as Matty Ice is he’d have shown a flash of greatness in his rookie year.

the highest paid player, Peppers and Palmer are ahead of him, http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4378407

i know this is yahoo… but come on. almost everyone agrees that this is a tad ridiculous

Enough with this. Eagles fans think one way — which we knew they would. Giants fans are happy with Eli, regardless of what he gets paid. ENOUGH of this useless back and forth already. Remember what this site is about, and let’s STOP DEBATING THE TROLLS!!

I just joined this so I’m to get some hate after I say this….

But from what I’m reading is that Eli did this and Eli did that…..remember though that he did all of that with a legit #1 receiver. What did he do last season AFTER Plax was out? He did absolutely nothing. You have a great defense, but once the teams start to stop your running game and you have to rely on Eli. Man, don’t want to be a Giants fan!! And just think how bad it will be when Jacobs gets hurt, he does every season for a few games……Eli will be again running scared with that look of “Oops, I think I pooped myself again.”

If your defense can carry you, you will have another decent season, but I don’t think they will because they will get tired being on the field for so long every game.

I’ve said absolutely nothing about the “Eagles supremacy”. The only thing I’ve mentioned is that we have other stand out players that have played pretty consistantly through the years (Samuel, Bunkley, Brown, Patterson, Cole, Mikell, etc). Yes, anyone can have an off season or get hurt, I agree. But you have the huge question mark with Eli without Plax. The times he’s been without Plax he’s shown his true colors by not playing well. So that is your big question, you now have a season where you are relying on a lot of players that either haven’t shown much, you’re current set of WR’s….or relying on a lot of rookies to step in and be very good, Barden, etc.

I’m not saying it can’t happen but it seems like you are all thinking it will be easier then it really is. I for one would be more optimistic if I’ve could trust in Eli carrying the team on his own, which in the past he hasn’t been able to do without that true #1 receiver.

Clutch with Plax…..anyone is. I don’t think any of you know how much of a nightmare he was to defend and now that he is gone your offense will be much easier to defend. Unless someone has a huge season, which could happen but banking on a rookie WR to come out and dominate like Plax did is aiming pretty high in my opinion.

I can understand why Eagles fans troll on this board. They are frustrated at the lack of sucess their club has. That’s their last refuge because they can’t hang around in their own board and argue the succes of their own quaterback. I mean no league championships in what 40 years when every in the division has at least 3. The simple fact is undeniable: they haven’t experienced winning in the most competitive division in the League. Dallas and Washington have a winning history and at the end of each season that’s at least something their fans can hang their hat on. Eagles fans really have nothing and will continue to felate the rest of the NFC East until they do win.

But we own your house. I believe we ran (or at least Westy did) with a win in your house in the regular season and the playoffs. Yup Eli is clutch isn’t he.

I’m very happy that Eli got this contract. Not because he deserves it which he isn’t-top paid player, best player in the nfl? I don’t think so! Looks like a country bumpkin belongs in a boces class. But I am very glad they are giving Eli more money because thats money they could be paying athletes to improve their team. Give Eli all your money.

~Go Birds