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Giants GM Jerry Reese calls Eli Manning 'skittish' as critics pile on
BY RALPH VACCHIANO
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Everybody is a critic when it comes to Eli Manning. He's taken hits from fans, media, opponents and Tiki Barber. Even GM Jerry Reese piled on Tuesday when he was quoted as saying Manning looked "skittish" on Sunday.
At times the criticism is unfair. Often it's excessive.
But really, what did he expect?
"I wonder if Archie (Manning) was thinking 'My son, with his personality, can handle New York,'" said former Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason, an analyst for CBS and a talk-show host on WFAN. "I don't know what he was thinking about. Maybe he should be in Jacksonville. Maybe he should be in Atlanta or New Orleans. New York is going to chew him up right now - and it has chewed him up for the last four years."
Manning, 26, has become a human piñata in the four years since he engineered his draft-day trade from San Diego to New York. The attacks predictably got worse in the wake of his four-interception nightmare in a 41-17 loss to the Vikings Sunday. He's taken shots from everywhere since then regarding both his performance on the field and in the interview room.
He even took one from Reese Tuesday, when the GM was quoted as saying Manning "has gotten skittish, for whatever reason" - not exactly high praise for a quarterback known for his calmness and poise. Asked to clarify those remarks yesterday, Reese declined in an e-mail interview with the Daily News. "Why would I say anything else about this," he wrote, "when some people have already put their own negative spin on it?"
Of course, putting a positive spin on the word "skittish" wouldn't have been easy, especially since some people felt Reese was right.
"Yeah, I saw that a little bit," said former offensive lineman Brian Baldinger, an analyst for Fox and the NFL Network. "You never see him just stay in there and, literally, as he's throwing it, somebody just wallops him. He always will back out and fade away from the throw. That's on tape and that's one reason the Vikings were blitzing."
{mod edit - read the rest here - kd}
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...m_jerry_reese_calls_eli_manning_.html?ref=rss
BY RALPH VACCHIANO
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Everybody is a critic when it comes to Eli Manning. He's taken hits from fans, media, opponents and Tiki Barber. Even GM Jerry Reese piled on Tuesday when he was quoted as saying Manning looked "skittish" on Sunday.
At times the criticism is unfair. Often it's excessive.
But really, what did he expect?
"I wonder if Archie (Manning) was thinking 'My son, with his personality, can handle New York,'" said former Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason, an analyst for CBS and a talk-show host on WFAN. "I don't know what he was thinking about. Maybe he should be in Jacksonville. Maybe he should be in Atlanta or New Orleans. New York is going to chew him up right now - and it has chewed him up for the last four years."
Manning, 26, has become a human piñata in the four years since he engineered his draft-day trade from San Diego to New York. The attacks predictably got worse in the wake of his four-interception nightmare in a 41-17 loss to the Vikings Sunday. He's taken shots from everywhere since then regarding both his performance on the field and in the interview room.
He even took one from Reese Tuesday, when the GM was quoted as saying Manning "has gotten skittish, for whatever reason" - not exactly high praise for a quarterback known for his calmness and poise. Asked to clarify those remarks yesterday, Reese declined in an e-mail interview with the Daily News. "Why would I say anything else about this," he wrote, "when some people have already put their own negative spin on it?"
Of course, putting a positive spin on the word "skittish" wouldn't have been easy, especially since some people felt Reese was right.
"Yeah, I saw that a little bit," said former offensive lineman Brian Baldinger, an analyst for Fox and the NFL Network. "You never see him just stay in there and, literally, as he's throwing it, somebody just wallops him. He always will back out and fade away from the throw. That's on tape and that's one reason the Vikings were blitzing."
{mod edit - read the rest here - kd}
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...m_jerry_reese_calls_eli_manning_.html?ref=rss
...2 weeks ago he was going to be great and now his GM's dogging him..really is the "Not For Long" league
