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Originally Posted by Chiefnj2
Eli didn't have the benefit of holding a clipboard one year while learning the speed of the pro game. Croyle should be ahead of him on the learning curve.
If everyone wants to hold Croyle to the Eli standard then fine, he should play in all 16 games this year and finish with 3,700+ yards, 24 TD's, 17 INTs and a 6.8 yard average.
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And Manning lead an 11-5 team to a wild card loss, 23-0, with 113 yards passing and 3 INTs. I wonder how that would go over here... Tiki Barber ran for
1800 yards that year, too, and Eli was throwing to Plaxico Burress, Jeremy Shockey, and Amani Toomer.
The year before, Eli had the same weapons, Barber ran for 1500 yards, yet his stats are comparable to Croyle, who had fewer weapons and whose leading rusher during his starts had 407 yards. Eli had a better team around him, yet didn't produce any more than Croyle... maybe that's the benefit of holding a clipboard for a year, eh?