Height: 6-5   Weight: 230
Born: May 11, 1983 – Santa Ana, CA
College: USC
Draft: 006 – 1st round (10th pick) by the Arizona Cardinals

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Power Rankings: Giants are champs, but every team has big questions

Publish Date: February 7, 2012

With Eli Manning in his prime, can the Giants repeat? How do the Pats and Packers fix their defenses? Where does Peyton wind up? Pete Prisco says, thankfully, all the questions heading into this offseason are football-related.

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Brady’s Teflon suit wears thin after latest blown opportunity

Publish Date: February 6, 2012

Tom Brady has long been immune from criticism. Not from Pete Prisco, who says the quarterback’s three rings and amazing regular-season numbers can no longer hide a run of mediocre postseason performances since 2005.

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Eli and fourth-quarter comebacks go as well together as Eli and ‘elite’

Publish Date: February 6, 2012

There’s no debate: Eli is elite. Manning uses yet another fourth-quarter comeback to outduel Tom Brady and defeat the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI. If he didn’t have the distinction as one of the game’s best quarterbacks, Pete Prisco says he certainly does now.

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Rating the teams: Comparing the Giants and Patriots, then and now

Publish Date: February 4, 2012

Four years ago, the Patriots were on the verge of history, the Giants scrappy underdogs. Comparing 2007 with 2011, Pete Prisco finds New York has gotten better while the Pats have regressed. What will it mean Sunday?

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With Giants in Super Bowl, GM Reese has his answer for the critics

Publish Date: February 3, 2012

Jerry Reese doesn’t want to crow, so let Pete Prisco do it for him. The Giants GM didn’t make splashy moves after the lockout, preferring to fill holes and use in-house talent. It appears that worked.

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Coughlin in the Hall of Fame? A win over the Patriots might seal the deal

Publish Date: February 3, 2012

No coach finds himself in front of a firing squad more than the Giants’ Tom Coughlin. But Pete Prisco believes another Super Bowl title over the Patriots will put him in an unexpected, but deserved spot — the Hall of Fame.

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