Bonus Podcast: Giants Bench Eli Manning (Football 11/29)
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On a special edition of the Pick Six podcast, Nick Kostos, Pete Prisco and Jason La Canfora analyze the Giants decision to bench Eli Manning and start Geno Smith. The guys break down the shocking move from all angles in this bonus pod.
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| 0:00.0 | Bonus edition of the Pick Six podcast. It's a very sad day for yours truly a lifelong New York Giants fan as the clown Ben Macadones, Jerry Reese, who's hopefully on his way out in about a month or so. |
| 0:13.2 | And John Merrick, tone deaf owner of the New York Giants, |
| 0:16.7 | decide to bench quarterback Eli Manning after 210 consecutive starts callously |
| 0:21.9 | and with no respect for number 10 in favor not of Davis |
| 0:25.9 | Webb but Gino Smith coming up on Sunday in Oakland against the Raiders because of course it's |
| 0:32.0 | Eli Manning's fault that the giants are |
| 0:34.2 | two and nine this season not the clueless coach or the clueless general manager |
| 0:37.7 | I'm joined alongside Pete Frisco and Jason Lockin fora. |
| 0:40.5 | Guys I'm gonna rant on this on this as we move along this podcast here. |
| 0:45.6 | We're going to do about 10-15 minutes or so. |
| 0:48.0 | I can't remember in my fandom life, and I will admit that a lot of this is fandom for me here because I grew up a big giants fan being this infuriated about a decision and |
| 0:58.6 | Remembering a decision this tone-deaf made by an organization that's bandied about as being one of the most |
| 1:04.5 | classy organizations in all of sports in the New York football giants. |
| 1:08.3 | I think this is just a total and utter disgrace. |
| 1:12.0 | I think it's terrible. I think it's terrible. |
| 1:13.0 | I think it, look, I get when you're a crappy football team you want to evaluate your backup quarterback, |
| 1:19.0 | but haven't they evaluated Geno Smith already before they made the decision to sign them. It's just a bad decision. |
| 1:25.1 | It makes no sense to me. |
| 1:26.3 | And here's what really angers me on this. |
| 1:29.4 | You know who went to bat to get Ben McAdieu hired? Eli Manning, that job was going to mind. that |
| 1:33.3 | at Ben McAdu hired. E. L. Manning, that job was going to Mike Smith and at the 11th hour and from what I heard from people in the |
| 1:38.8 | Giants that there was actually a maybe even some PR releases scheduled to go out and at the 11th hour |
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