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Career-year has Giants’ Manning among elite QBs

The Columbian
Published: November 9, 2011, 4:00pm

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Halfway through the season, there is no longer a debate on whether Eli Manning ranks among the NFL’s elite quarterbacks.

A career year and five fourth-quarter wins have put Manning in the same category as Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady, and helped the New York Giants (6-2) take a two-game lead in the NFC East.

So why the breakthrough this year? Why is everything falling into place for the 30-year-old, who never seemed to get credit despite leading the Giants to a Super Bowl title in February 2008?

Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride says if you take away Manning’s 25 interceptions last year his statistics are about the same.

Talk to his receivers, and they see a confident hand at the controls, the same guy who sits them down Fridays for Eli’s briefing.

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