Eli Manning on Daniel Jones's Giants Tenure
Retired New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, appearing on the latest Locked On Giants podcast, reflects on the highs and lows of Daniel Jones's time as Giants quarterback.
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00:00 you look at Daniel's time here, what has gone right for him and where has it gone wrong,
00:06 do you think?
00:07 I think Daniel's done a good job every year of understanding the adjustments he needs
00:12 to make in his game to get better.
00:13 He had the turnover situations early on, the fumbles, and he's fixed those.
00:18 And last year, put it all together.
00:20 It's been difficult every year, almost, you know, as a new offensive coordinator, it's
00:25 a new system, it's new players coming in and out.
00:27 And so that's not easy for a young quarterback to keep making those adjustments.
00:32 And I think now, you know, hey, we're going to have this staff, we're going to have this
00:36 team for a while.
00:37 Unfortunately, this year, Daniel, you know, had to deal with the injuries.
00:41 And that's just a part of football.
00:43 And unfortunate part of it, he had the neck or the stingers going on for a while and then,
00:50 you know, dealing with the knee injury and going on IR and having to have surgery.
00:55 So it's, you know, it's been a tough, it's been a tough run this year, everything going
00:59 on either he was injured, or a lot of guys around him were injured.
01:04 During this season, it just made it tough to compete.
01:06 They lost a couple of these close games against the Bills and the Jets.
01:10 And so it's just been one of those years where not much has gone right, or last year, a lot
01:16 was going right.
01:17 And but they were winning those tight games, they're winning those games in the fourth
01:20 quarter, when they might have been down going into the fourth quarter, and they're just
01:24 not doing that this year, some games that got away from too early.
01:29 And so but I think Daniel's got the talent, he's got the leadership skills, he's got the
01:35 drive, he wants to do things.
01:36 So I expect him to rehab, work hard and come back, you know, ready for ready for next year.