Tiki Barber, Wiley Manning alabanzas

 you read that right - in an interview with ESPN on Sunday morning NewYork.com 's Ian O'Connor of New York on ESPN 1050.

Said the barber, who questioned Manning's leadership skills and time his former colleague has greatly improved in this section no longer shaken by adversity.

"This is what I want when I'm looking for an elite quarterback: a person who, regardless of the circumstances - whether you're playing well, if you're playing terrible - and paid a total success," said Barber.

"That's what I learned from Eli in the last five or six years - since the early days when I saw that it was all rattle - however, no matter what happens, always in the game of football and do something to help to victory ..

"That's my definition of an elite quarterback, Eli and the reason is that in a conversation now."

Manning put the Giants on his back this season, leading them to the playoffs for the first time since 2008. He broke his record of excellence of their own, to launch the 4933 meters, while the new NFL record with 15 touchdown passes in the fourth quarter and in the league with changes in the fourth quarter of six.

Manning did not look or act like a leader, the stereotypes, but it does not matter, according to Barber.

"We want a leader in the development of a specific model should be, and does not work that way," said Barber.

"I put Eli image to the qualities of leadership that, and his colleagues to accept it, and that's what matters. In 2007 [when the Giants won the Super Bowl, no matter how did they behave, or how he acted, what matters is what you do on Sunday afternoon, and did so great in this range. "

After his retirement in 2006, Barber questioned Manning's ability as a leader, said that despite his speeches] were "almost comical."

Manning, who responded to the famous:. "I'm not losing sleep about what Tiki people might say that I think could have questioned his leadership last year called the coach and the presence of his articles about retirement in the mid-season, and [how ] because he lost in the heart [to play]. As a quarterback you're reading this corridor has the heart to play the game, but for week 10, and I can see a bit sometimes. "