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On today’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike discuss Eli Manning being one of the 25 semifinalists for the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame and the controversy/ongoing debate whether or not he deserves to be inducted.
Jason Smith: This is going to be about Eli Manning because he is the most polarizing Hall of Fame candidate that we've seen in maybe the last 15 or 20 years in the NFL because there's the,”Eli Manning where, yes, absolutely the guy is a Hall of Famer,” or the, “No, come on, the guy was a .500 quarterback throughout his entire career, he's not a Hall of Famer." This is one of those conversations where I see both sides of it, and what do you think is not going to matter because Eli Manning's getting into the Hall of Fame it.He won two Super Bowls and one of the things he always did, he doesn't get enough credit for, was he would always get the Giants into the right formation to give a play a possibility of success where when he would get to the line of scrimmage and the adjustments he would make that would take a play and give it a better chance to succeed."
Mike Harmon: “This was the day I was waiting for, right, the next one, and and then we'll do it again once he he's actually announced that he's going in, because it's that crossroads between, you know, stats and everything else. Eli Manning won both of his and you guys bowed down and kissed the ground when Peyton Manning walks on when he was carried to his second. So let's let's talk about that. Let's talk about two Super Bowls that changed the face of everything in the last 20 years of the National Football League. Those are two of the most important.”