Eli Manning's contract is up and he is not rushing to sign an extension. The Giants are not stressing and not rushing either. They can slap the franchise tag on him and resign him so it is not a big deal.
The attempts by the New York Post to gin up a controversy will not work here.
You see the Giants and the Yankees work pretty much the same way. They can pretty much sign anybody they want. But they don't always want to resign people so they let them walk. Even if they were decent players who still have a little left. What those players need to do is understand that they are not bigger than the team. It really means something to be a life long Giant or Yankees. The Giant players get great off the field opportunities. Frank Gifford, Kyle Rote and Pat Summeral became big time broadcasters. In a later generation Phil Simms, Tiki Barber, Michael Strahan, Harry Carson and Carl Banks are all doing very well. Brad Benson has become one of the biggest car dealers on the East Coast with commercials every other minute on WFAN. Strahan even got a talk show with Kelly Ripa.
Eli is like Jeter. The same thing happened with Jeter's last contract. The press was in a tizzy but both sides knew they were going to make a deal.
Eli just needs to do it one more time. He is already a Hall of Famer but a third ring will really shut up the idiots who prefer losers like Aaron Rodgers. I think it will happen in his last year. Wait and see!
