The Brcye Trade is Finally Complete. Who Won the Trade? Panthers vs Bears

[MHS831]

If Bryce becomes a better QB than Williams, the Panthers won.  If they both play well or Bryce plays worse, the Bears won it.  On paper, we lost the trade, obviously.

[Manna]

I’d say we won because we finally have a media darling at the QB position. It’s nice to be on the other side of things. 
but really, I don’t care what the bears do. We just need to win. 

[LinvilleGorge]

It may take a decade to figure out. Early on it sure looked like the Chargers won that Eli trade. Rivers looked at least as good as Eli and they got numerous other high quality pieces. But when it was all done, 2 rings to none says the Giants clearly won.

[tukafan21]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It may take a decade to figure out. Early on it sure looked like the Chargers won that Eli trade. Rivers looked at least as good as Eli and they got numerous other high quality pieces. But when it was all done, 2 rings to none says the Giants clearly won.

Eli had the better career because of the SB’s of course, but the trade itself I think was a draw, they both got HOF QB’s out of it, and so much more goes into winning a SB than only the QB.

[LinvilleGorge]

13 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Eli had the better career because of the SB’s of course, but the trade itself I think was a draw, they both got HOF QB’s out of it, and so much more goes into winning a SB than only the QB.

True. But at the end of the day you make the big swings at the top of the draft for a QB for one thing - rings. That's it. The Giants got 'em. The Chargers really didn't make much post season noise at all going 5-7 in the playoffs with Rivers.

[tukafan21]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

True. But at the end of the day you make the big swings at the top of the draft for a QB for one thing - rings. That's it. The Giants got 'em. The Chargers really didn't make much post season noise at all going 5-7 in the playoffs with Rivers.

And Eli was 0-4 in his career in the playoffs outside of the two SB seasons.  It’s not like Eli was dragging inferior teams to succes, he needed a fully built out team to win those SB’s.

If you remove the two SB’s, Rivers was the better QB between them.  I’m not taking away from how Eli played in those runs, but I’m not going to say those SB’s couldn’t have happened with Rivers either.

Which is why Eli had the better career, but the trade itself was a draw.

[LinvilleGorge]

15 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

And Eli was 0-4 in his career in the playoffs outside of the two SB seasons.  It’s not like Eli was dragging inferior teams to succes, he needed a fully built out team to win those SB’s.

If you remove the two SB’s, Rivers was the better QB between them.  I’m not taking away from how Eli played in those runs, but I’m not going to say those SB’s couldn’t have happened with Rivers either.

Which is why Eli had the better career, but the trade itself was a draw.

Eli's play in those two SBs runs was off the charts though. Two rings > none.