Once Dave Gettleman was brought aboard, everything changed. Ben McAdoo was out and a sense of an old-school nature of New York Giants football was in. This meant treating Eli Manning like the franchise quarterback he's been for nearly a decade-and-a-half.
Gettleman has already been on record as stating the Giants will be sticking with Manning moving forward. We still don't know if they'll select a young arm with the number two pick int he 2018 NFL Draft, as the options will be plentiful, but we do know Eli will be in New York, and this has the two-time champion eager to impress, according to Jordan Raanan of ESPN.
“Excited,” Manning said. “Excited to get back to work and knowing that they have faith in me that I can go out there and win games and play at a high level. I want to go prove them right. I want to go out there and work my tail off to get to playing at a high level.”
Not only is the younger Manning “excited,” he's already started watching much of Pat Shurmur's offense, according to Dan Duggan of NJ.com.
“I just watched (the Vikings') offense in a couple of games from last year,” Manning said at an appearance for Courtyard by Marriott on Friday morning. “I just tried to have the plays kind of written on the screen so I can start learning some of the terminology and put it all together, just calling plays and seeing some of the schemes that they're running.”
Despite Shurmur coming from west coast roots, this offense is much different than McAdoo's quick-timing short passing game. Shurmur leans on the play action and ground game a ton while attempting to tailor the offense to the quarterback. This means the Giants offense getting back to more of a play-action down-the-field passing attack at times (Eli's strengths).
In 2017, Eli Manning threw for 3,468 yards and 19 touchdowns with 13 interceptions while working behind a porous O-line during the Giants 3-13 season.
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