Eli Manning Must Deliver More Than One-Liners to Get the Giants Past the Packers

January 5, 2017   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

It's time to talk about how poorly Eli Manning has played this year and what the Giants need to do about it if they want to beat the Packers and advance in the playoffs. 
Before we begin, let's acknowledge that criticizing Manning is a literary subgenre with a history almost as long and rich as the Elizabethan sonnet. Some Manning arguments, pro and con, are more than a decade old.
Over five years of "elite" debates have resulted in a hung jury. Everyone knows he's not Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady or his own brother. Everyone also knows he's not Brock Osweiler.
It also goes without saying that the Giants have a pair of awful pass protectors at the tackle positions and that their running game sometimes appears to consist solely of shotgun inside zones for three yards. Neither of these things helps a quarterback.
Finally, we don't need to dwell on the Timberlands-on-the-poop-deck wide receiver party-boat photo from Sunday, nor Manning's news conference zingers in res...

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