What's going on New York Giants fans! How's it feel to have avoided the Super Bowl hangover that debilitated both my beloved Steelers in 2006 and many others over the years? The fun debate is taking place in the previous thread, but I wanted to neverthless have this here for posterity's sake. Be sure to check out Big Blue View for all the solid Giants coverage you may want leading up to Sunday's game. So how do the careers of Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger compare? Here are their regular season numbers.Giants fans seem to be tending to other matters this morning, so I'm going to post this here to see what Steelers fans think of my assessment that Ben might have struggled had he been subjected to the pressures of New York. Manning and Roethlisberger, however, won two each.Īs history looks back at the 2004 NFL Draft class, we’ll look more at how Manning compared to Roethlisberger because of their championships than tying Manning to the player he was traded for, Rivers. He retired without a championship on his resume. He put up good numbers in the regular season but never got to the top of the mountain. Rivers had a lovely career in San Diego and Indianapolis. He was 13-0 as a starter his first season in the NFL and appeared destined for greatness. Roethlisberger, not Manning or Rivers, won the Offensive Rookie of the Year award in 2004. The Steelers grabbed the kid from Ohio and, thanks to an injury against the Ravens, inserted him into the lineup early in his rookie season. But there were questions about how dominating in a mid-major conference against “lesser” competition would translate to the NFL. His body was enormous, his arm was strong and he won games. What about Big Ben?īen Roethlisberger, an enormous quarterback coming out of a mid-major Miami of Ohio, slid all the way to No. They will be tied together forever because of the trade that took place, but Eli’s legacy has two rings that are lacking from Rivers’ really good career in San Diego. New York selected Philip Rivers from North Carolina State.Īnd then the two teams swapped quarterbacks. The Giants owned the fourth pick and also needed a quarterback. So… the Chargers selected Eli Manning first overall. No way, no how.īut the Chargers owned the top pick, and Eli was the top prospect. Of course the biggest draft story in 2004 was the Manning family pulling an Elway, telling the Chargers that Eli wouldn’t play for them.
And boy did the big three in that class live up to the hype. We have all wondered what could have been since his tragic death.īut the most of the talk then - and now - centers on the quarterbacks. And Sean Taylor was selected fifth overall by Washington. Larry Fitzgerald, the third overall pick by Arizona, is certainly in the conversation for greatest receiver ever not-named Jerry Rice. Looking back, the 2004 NFL Draft gave us some of the true all-time greats.
And Pittsburgh getting into the playoffs this year was miraculous. “Big Ben” was never on a Steelers team that finished a season with a losing record. The 2004 NFL Draft featured three great quarterbacks.Īs we watched the Kansas City Chiefs roll the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday evening, it was impossible to avoid the talk about this being the end of Ben Roethlisberger’s remarkable career.
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