Phil Simms is joining old pal Boomer & Gregg Giannotti every week this NFL season, and in his appearance prior to Week 1, it wasn’t even about the 2024 NFL landscape.
No, instead, Phil was ranked behind Eli Manning on the list of Top 100 Giants over 100 seasons, which flummoxed some.
“We had talked to Phil about whether he was a Top 10 or Top 5 guy, and he came in at 11,” Gio said.
“You got to remember that the Giants, over 100 years, have a number of Pro Football Hall of Famers, so naturally, they’re going to be put in front of the guys that are not in the Hall of Fame,” was all Boomer offered.
The guys read off the Top 10, with LT No. 1, Harry Carson (the one player from the Simms era) seventh just ahead of Eli, who was three ahead of Simms, and that caused Jerry to quip this: “I’m gonna say something that people will yell at me, but I thought Simms was better than Eli on a game-to-game, week-to-week basis. I’m not saying that like one is nine and one is 35, but…”
Hard for Jerry to say as a Cowboys fan and host, surely, and you have to account Eli’s Super Bowl total and success against Phil’s as a determining factor, even if Simms likely still leads the Giants to the chip they won in 1990 if he doesn’t get hurt.
“Eli had two of the greatest runs I’ve ever seen a quarterback have,” Jerry said.
“The one where they beat the Patriots undefeated, that was unbelievable,” Boomer said. “All three games on the road and then have to go and beat an undefeated Patriots team? To me, the greatest single playoff run in professional football. That was a legacy five weeks essentially.”
So we know how the guys feel…how about you, Phil?
“I shouldn’t be – he won two Super Bowls and was MVP in both,” Simms said, “and there was no guarantee I was going to win three playoff games if I was healthy (in 1990). So it’s all good.”