lookin back, how did Eli not catch more **** for the 04 draft?

[2Quik4UHoes]

- 1) he plays for New York
- 2 ) he's a cac

- 3 ) he's a manning

- 4 ) G-Men or the san diego super chokers?

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

It wasn't swept under the rug. If anything, it added more pressure on him to succeed in NY. He just lived up to the hype, so it's a done deal

 

[AVXL]

Y'all got it wrong. Eli DID wanna play for SD. Eli said he flew out to SD, but they wouldn't meet with him. AJ Smith & Marty Schottenheimer (SD HC at the time), didn't want to draft him so Eli & the Mannings shouldn't get blamed for what happened. Chargers fukked up AGAIN

 

[luckyse7enz]

I initially didn't like him because of that. Struck me as kind of diva-ish, but I've come around over time. It probably speaks to how people feel about the other QB's in that draft.

If Philip Rivers had taken some of those stacked teams and won Super Bowls instead of Eli then maybe people would be a bit more critical about that.

Not to mention, Rivers isn't exactly as easy to embrace as Eli.

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Philip Rivers Trash Talks Jay Cutler - YouTube!

...not that Cutler was any more likable, but hey...

Another QB in that draft that had his sins ignored by winning Super Bowls?

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Like everyone's been saying...he ended up living up to his hype and making the decision worthwhile. Winning erases your sins in football.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

look@his last name
re-evaluate statement

 

[PortCityProphet]

http://www.the-coli.com/coliseum/4687-would-you-ever-pull-elway-eli-draft.html#.UHznfxgl0y4

 

[Ku$h Parker]

thats why he said he didnt wanna go there right?

I think Pops & Peyton got in his ear a bit on how SD operates(word to Brees)but he was on going to SD

And damn them not getting Eli,tthey couldve had Dr Peyton MD,but got:

 

[Lakerman0834]

hes a cac

 

[GzUp]

Didn't d sanders do the same?

 

[Majestic Pape]

Magic did the same thing though, and is a hypocrite for talking shyt about Lebron

Elaborate. The Lakers had the first pick and drafted Magic if I'm not mistaken.


And Steve Francis pulled the same move Eli did (though about five years earlier) and got shytted on heavily for it.

 

[Hammer]

he caught a lot of shyt, you must be young as fukk

 

[Heelmatic]

Peyton and Eli didn't wanna be in the same conference so they set this shyt up. Seems obvious to me.

 

[Big Boss]

Elaborate. The Lakers had the first pick and drafted Magic if I'm not mistaken.


And Steve Francis pulled the same move Eli did (though about five years earlier) and got shytted on heavily for it.

magic said he wouldn't leave mich st if the lakers didn't get the first pick because he wanted to play with kareem

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

magic said he wouldn't leave mich st if the lakers didn't get the first pick because he wanted to play with kareem

Rly, you got a link to this?

 

[Big Boss]

Rly, you got a link to this?

From Mike Downey of the L.A. Times, circa ‘91:

Magic Johnson would have returned to Michigan State rather than play for the Chicago Bulls.

“I’d have stayed in school,” he said here Tuesday, standing alone outside Gate 3 1/2 of Chicago Stadium, the house that could have been his. “A coin toss changed the course of my whole life.”

Chicago called heads in a 1979 coin flip with Los Angeles for the No. 1 pick in the NBA college draft. It came up tails.

Johnson signed with the Lakers after his sophomore year of college and proceeded to win five championships. The Bulls picked second, took UCLA’s David Greenwood and have won no championships.

“I wouldn’t have played here,” Johnson said on the eve of Game 2 of the NBA finals between his team and the team that could have been his. “The only reason I came out was to play with Kareem and the Lakers.



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