In recent days and weeks, there’s been a raging debate about New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his chances at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Gregg Rosenthal of NFL Network was the first to chime in, saying that while Manning is currently on the bubble, he should be considered a “best bet” to eventually reach Canton.

But ESPN’s Bill Barnwell quickly offered his rebuttal, saying Manning absolutely does not belong anywhere near the Hall and that he wouldn’t vote for him.

“On numbers alone, Eli shouldn’t be there,” Barnwell wrote earlier this month. “He has made four Pro Bowls, and while he has put together a very nice second peak after the arrival of Ben McAdoo, nobody who watches Manning on a week-to-week basis thinks that he looks like a Hall of Famer by any stretch of the imagination.

“The list of guys who have won Super Bowl MVP two or more times includes Terry Bradshaw, Tom Brady, Joe Montana and Bart Starr. They’re all in (or will be in) the Hall of Fame. I’d also argue that Eli doesn’t belong on a tier with those passers because of what they all did in the other hundreds of games they each played over the course of their respective careers. I wouldn’t vote for him, but some will.”

For whatever reason, Barnwell went at Eli like an awfully bitter man with something yellow in his cheerios, but that’s a topic for another day.

Now an actual Hall of Famer has chimed in and he feels Manning has a very legitimate and warranted chance at enshrinement in Canton.

“The fact that he’s won two Super Bowls, he definitely has a shot. I don’t vote, [but] he definitely has a shot of getting in there,” Dan Marino, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2005, told the Metro. “As time goes on, the longer he plays, the better the opportunity he has.”

For all the knocks on Eli’s numbers, he’ll finish his NFL career in the Top 10 (and in some cases, Top 5) of every major statistical passing category. He’ll also own nearly every single franchise record.

Needless to say, Marino, with experience in hand, seems far more realistic and spot on than Barnwell. And Lord knows his opinion certainly carries more weight.