Maybe he’s just sucking up to his new quarterback. Or maybe he genuinely believes it.
Either way, new Ravens defensive lineman Chris Canty would take quarterback Joe Flacco over Eli Manning.
“He won a Super Bowl and he’s one of the best deep-ball passers in the NFL,” Canty said during an in-studio Friday visit to Pro Football Talk on NBCSN. “Take a look at the tape.”
While Canty credits Eli for being “good in clutch situations when you’ve got to have that fourth-quarter drive,” Canty believes more in Flacco.
“He throws a beautiful deep ball, he throws it only where the receivers can get their hands on it,” Canty said. “You’re talking about in the vertical passing game and they’ve got some vertical pass threats. They got Torry Smith. They’ve got [Dennis] Pitta. They’ve got [Ed] Dickson. They’ve got some good weapons for him to use down the field.”
It also was fitting that, with Canty choosing a current teammate over a former teammate as the better quarterback, Canty also picked another former teammate as his favorite quarterback to sack. “I’m on Tony Romo more than the Dallas media,” Canty said.
For more of Canty’s foray into the national media, check out his full chat with Erik Kuselias below.