New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning hasn't exactly played stellar this season. During these tough times, the veteran signal-caller has turned to fiery motivational speeches to help offset that iffy play.
“Eli is the heartbeat of our team,” running back Orleans Darkwa. “In pregame he gave a fiery speech that got everybody riled up. To have a guy like that who has been through so much, who has those two Super Bowl rings, we follow his footsteps in everything. To have him come up there, it shows the weight that he carries on this team.
“He’s definitely up for it, and everybody tries to follow in his footsteps because he’s been there, he’s done that, as far as reaching the Promised Land.”
Eli Manning has been there, but it has been a few years since he's played at a high-level.
“He talks to us a lot,” Darkwa said. “The difference [Sunday] was just you could sense the fire in his voice. But at the end of the day, Eli is going to be Eli. He shouldn’t change the way he commands a room, he shouldn’t change the way he talks to us. That’s just how he is. That’s how he leads us.”
One has to wonder what took the New York leader so long to start speaking up. With the Giants only having a couple of wins on the season, with the dumpster fire having started over a month ago, this seems like it is too little too late for New York.
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