Eli Manning will get the start this week against the 49ers, but the Giants aren’t making any guarantees beyond Monday night. When asked during a Tuesday morning press conference, head coach Pat Shurmur declined to commit to Manning as the starter for the rest of the year. 
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Giants fans revolted last season when the club briefly gave Manning the hook in favor of backup Geno Smith. Their reserve options aren’t much better this time around, but it seems that public sentiment has shifted in the midst of another lost season. If Manning is yanked, fourth-round rookie Kyle Lauletta or journeyman Alex Tanney could get an opportunity to audition.
Of course, Lauletta threw a wrench into any potential succession plans late last month when he was arrested for disobeying the directions of police officers and nearly struck cops with his car. The Giants say they will not suspend Lauletta for the incident, though the rookie will face “internal consequences.”
Manning, a two-time Super Bowl champion, has done little to inspire confidence this season. His 68.3% completion rate is impressive upon first glance, but he has struggled with the deep ball and has thrown six interceptions against just eight touchdowns.
Weren’t Giants fans upset about the ironman streak last year, not the fact that Eli was playing bad and they were losing the season?
I think they had good reason to be upset though. Why ruin the streak to play Geno Smith? Very low chance he’ll ever be anything more in the NFL then a career backup floating from team to team at this point if that. He really was never going to be the heir to Eli. Little sense in ruining the Ironman streak to turn to Geno. Considering they already ruined the streak there’s not much reason to care now. In my opinion Lauletta has more potential and upside right now then Geno did last year.
And they were also upset that he lost his streak for Geno. If it would have been for Davis Webb it would’ve been a different story, because the fans would’ve understood that the team wants to see what they have with him. Same goes for Lauletta. Fans will understand if the team wants to see if there’s anything there before the offseason.
It’s not like benching Eli is gonna do anything, their season is over. After all he’s done for the franchise he deserves to finish the season as the starter
So what your really saying is that appreciation for what Manning has done can best be shown by subjecting him to even more humiliation. A better plan would be to promise to build him a statue if he will announce his retirement. Once they get his contract off the books they will have more cap space to rebuild effectively.
Oh please please leave him in until we play the Ginas….lol
E-A-G-L-E-S!!
their o line is trash but they could do a little more with the TEs to help block
Dave Gettleman did a horrendous job with free agency.
Pat Schurmer is goofy.
The line stinks.
Hey I got an idea. Let’s make Eli the scapegoat cause we all stink.
Probably time for Eli to start wrapping it up but this game in New York is pathetic.