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What is yinz thoughts on Eli's benching?

Pretty obvious the giants are tanking the teams that tank should lose lose their pick or at least be knocked out of the top ten picks.
 
Question is “if” this is Ben’s last year and he retires. Would you sign Eli for a 1-3 stop gap for Dobbs/draft pick to develop while still continuing to be at least hopefully somewhat competitive?


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My Niece's husband is an insane giants fan. He has a crazy basement man cave of stuff. Strahan tweeted it and it took on a life of its own. He got a VIP all access trip to Cowboys Giants. Ouch. Tough year for that. Hes always busting balls about the Steelers. Im trying not to gloat because its bad karma. But tough.
 
I see no problem with benching him for a rookie, but for Geno smith? That baffles me.

Did hear this. (I trust the source) Not implying or reading into it, but I do find it an interesting fact.

If Geno smith starts at QB for the Gmen on Sunday, he will be the first African American QB to start for the Giants. The Giants are the lone team to have not started an African American QB.


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Ghost of Frenchy Fuqua said:
Smith is merely a bridge to Davis Webb.

They're interested in Webb, not Smith, as a possible heir apparent to Manning.

As soon as Smith struggles - likely sooner rather than later - then they go to Webb.
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Which doesn't make any sense either. If you are benching Eli to see what you have, you start Webb immediately. You don't throw Geno Smith out there, and claim whatever they are claiming. Just start Webb and be done with it. Especially after that BS offer they made to Eli to start the game but sit the second half...You just told the world that you're tanking, not interested in winning any of the games. Horrible horrible managment of the situation.

SteelChip said:
Maybe I'm a conspiracy nut Insaniti but this kinda makes sense to me.

In the article it says...



A 2-9 Gints team pulls their ineffective franchise QB midseason to test the validity of their backups just screams of a huge rebuilding project. I can see them cutting Manning to save as much cash as possible, boost their draft potential by not worrying about those silly W's and putting young Davis Webb under the lamp for a look see before they commit to their draft priority's.

Another comment that stands out...



So I'm not alone in this conspiracy theory. It's not just a coach going rogue but a team mgmt decision.

Hey it's not like I haven't been wrong before but sometimes there are tell tale signs that jus can't be ignored....jus sayin'

...and I'm not sayin' it was a smart decision either.


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Again, I get that they may want to see what they have behind him, but they know what they have in Geno, absolutely nothing. Just start Webb.
 
watched an interview with Eli, dude was fighting back tears, I personally think its bullshit what he is going thru. he did win you two SB's and put up with your New York bullshit.
 
My understanding is they want to wait to give Webb his first start at a home game. Pretty sure they will trade Eli in the off season or just release him. Sad, he deserves better than to be treated like this. It's not like they have a Steve Young or Aaron Rodgers waiting in the wings.
 
They gave him the option and he declined. He realizes it's best for the team and hell, maybe even himself. The Giants get to see what they have and give the rookie some game experience while also guaranteeing that they'll be tanking for a top 5 pick. Eli gets to take the rest of the season off, mentor the young guys, and save his body that has literally started the 2nd most consecutive games to Favre. Everyone getting riled up over an exaggerated "ELI BENCHED--MAYHEM!!!" headline.
 
Zack_of_Steel said:
They gave him the option and he declined. He realizes it's best for the team and hell, maybe even himself. The Giants get to see what they have and give the rookie some game experience while also guaranteeing that they'll be tanking for a top 5 pick. Eli gets to take the rest of the season off, mentor the young guys, and save his body that has literally started the 2nd most consecutive games to Favre. Everyone getting riled up over an exaggerated "ELI BENCHED--MAYHEM!!!" headline.
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Not at all. It is lame what they offered Eli and he knew it was ridiculous to treat a regular season game like a preseason game. I get what management is doing, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.
 
By the money, the Giants have to move Eli by the 3rd day of the league year start (early March). If not, they owe him a $5M roster bonus.

If he's cut, they are on the hook for $12.4M in dead money. They'd save $9.8M in 18 and all $23M in 19.

If they are able to designate him as a post June 1st cut, they split the dead money into 2 years counting $6.2M in 18 & 19.

So the numbers work to get rid of Eli next year in March. I expect a move. Probably they will try and trade first, then if they can't find a partner, he will be cut by day 3 of the 18 season, so they aren't on the hook for his $5M roster bonus.
 
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