It doesn’t sound like a compliment to call a quarterback a “complementary” player. But when Kurt Warner used that term to describe Eli Manning at an NFL Network event on Thursday, he insisted that he meant in the best possible way.
“It’s not meant as an insult,” the Hall of Fame quarterback and NFL Network analyst said. “When they’ve been good with Eli, it hasn’t been because they throw the ball 40 times on Eli’s arm. That’s what I mean by him being a complementary piece. It isn’t a bad thing. It’s just, there are other guys who are built around throwing the ball 45-50 times and that’s where they thrive.