NY Giants fans still love Eli Manning. Less than a week after the team fired head coach Ben McAdoo, Manning was back starting under center and was showered with cheers in his first series back.
Eli gets a nice applause as he takes the field 🙌 pic.twitter.com/4jxi7Utupc
— uSTADIUM (@uSTADIUM) December 10, 2017
.@MLStadium gives Eli Manning a standing ovation as he takes his first snap as starter of the New York @Giants (second stint). pic.twitter.com/gLMUlNGSXG
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) December 10, 2017
Manning is happy to be active and playing again after the embarrassing ordeal a few weeks ago
Via NOLA.COM
It’s important to play,” Manning said during his weekly meeting with reporters. “That’s what I love to do. I love to play quarterback. I love playing quarterback for the New York Giants. That’s what I work on. Last week something different was asked of me. I tried to do to the best of my abilities helping Geno and being the backup. But if I knew, I’d want the opportunity to be the starting quarterback again.”
Spagnuolo’s decision to go back to Manning seemed automatic once McAdoo was ousted. Just in case it wasn’t, Manning made certain to let Spagnuolo know that he wanted the job.
“I just wanted him to know that I do want to play,” Manning said. “I want to be the starting quarterback. I want to be out there. I just wanted to make sure he knew that. He said that he was going to think about it and talk with the coaches, but his gut said that I would be the starting quarterback. So I’m happy that he went with that decision and he has the faith in me that we can go win this football game with me as the quarterback.”
Happy for Eli, hopefully the team sticks with him next year too.