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Thursday 30 November 2017

New York Giants quarterback
Eli Manning (10) rushes during
the first half of an NFL football
game against the Kansas City
Chiefs Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, LOTTA
in East Rutherford, N.J.
Associated Press
Eli Manning

benching low

point of a year
the Giants LOVE

went south

By TOM CANAVAN
AP Sports Writer
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
— The benching of Eli Man-
ning for the first time in 13
seasons is probably the low
point of a season in which
the New York Giants did al-
most nothing right.
Let’s start with the decision
by coach Ben McAdoo
and management to sit
Manning with five games
left in the regular season.
Sure, the Giants are 2-9,
out of the playoff picture
and they need to find out
something about backup
quarterbacks Geno Smith
and rookie Davis Webb.
Benching the 36-year-old
Manning wasn’t the right
thing to do, and it wasn’t Cavs beat Heat for
handled properly. If any-
one doubts that all they
would have had to do was
see the tears welling in the 9th-straight win
two-time Super Bowl MVP’s
eyes and the heartbreak
his quivering chin displayed
when asked how much this Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love dunks
hurt. The Giants offered the ball against the Miami Heat in the
Manning the opportunity first half of an NBA basketball game,
to start and keep his streak Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, in Cleveland.
of 210 consecutive starts Associated Press
alive, but the 14-year vet-
eran didn’t want to be part Page 19
of a sham.
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