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Post-Game Transcript: QB Eli Manning

Eric from BBI : Admin : 12/28/2014 6:41 pm
QB Eli Manning

Postgame vs. Philadelphia, December 28, 2014



Q: What happened when you threw your interception?

A: It was just underthrown. Rueben read the coverage right. They were jumping the outside route. He converted it to a go. I just couldn’t get enough on the throw. I saw it clean. They were in a quarters coverage. There should have been a window out there to hit the throw to Rueben. I couldn’t step into the throw. The ball floated up a little bit. I left it a little inside and let the safety make a play on it. It wasn’t a bad read. It was just kind of a poor throw based on the circumstances.



Q: Have you seen enough the last six weeks to really believe that the team is headed in the right direction?

A: I think from the offensive standpoint, I feel like we definitely made strides and we’re playing pretty good football here at the end of the year. I thought we moved the ball really well tonight. We were getting completions, hitting some big plays tonight. I think we definitely got a lot better and we’re playing at a high level, scoring points. We can always play better. We can always do some things better, but I feel like we’re definitely going in the right direction and with another year under this and coming into the spring with a better understanding with what’s going on, we’ll be that much stronger.



Q: I assume you don’t want to have any coaching changes.

A: I would hope not, but that is not my decision. Whatever happens, hopefully we’ll come back and figure it out, but I think we have a great coaching staff. They’ve done a great job this year and as players, we’ve got to do our part better.



Q: What was the problem in the red zone today?

A: We’ve been pretty good in the red zone this year. I think we’re in the top 10 in scoring. We’ve been getting touchdowns down there. Today, we had a good play call early on. I had Odell on a corner route… kind of what we expected. We had the right play and everything. I haven’t seen the film. I probably could have thrown a better ball, but I had a shot to convert that one. We had another one down there and we get a penalty. We had a 15-yard penalty on the two-yard line, so that’s always going to make it very difficult to score in those scenarios. I can’t remember what happened on the other one. We had a touchdown to Rueben called back on a big play and the other penalty that I just talked about. That’s two penalties right there really taking away a lot of points. That hurt us.



Q: Have you seen something different in Rueben Randle the last three games?

A: He’s played well. He played well today. He’s made a lot of tough catches for us. He went up and got the ball. He was winning his matchups. No. That’s what he can do. When you get him involved early in the game, it seems to help him out a little bit more and it gets him going. We got him involved early and he made some big plays for us.



Q: Has anyone in team management asked you if you want to continue in this system?

A: No. Everything so far this season has just been you’re getting ready for the next game. We’ve been focused on Philadelphia and the upcoming games. Nothing else has been discussed besides getting ready for that upcoming game.



Q: When did you become comfortable with the new offense this season?

A: There were times when things were clicking and we were playing well - the Atlanta game, the Washington game early on. And then we just went through a little stretch where we weren’t playing bad football; we weren’t quite up to where we needed to be. We had a lot of close games. We had a little stretch where we lost three or four close games in a row and so we just didn’t find a way to win in the fourth quarter and make the plays that we needed, kind of like today. We needed to make more plays. We had opportunities, but in the important times. we didn’t execute as well as we needed to.



Q: If they asked you now if you want to continue in this offensive system, what would you say?

A: I’m going to support my coaches. I think Coach Coughlin is an excellent coach and he deserves to be the coach and we’ve got to play better for him.



Q: How much does it mean to you to stay in the same offense?

A: I felt good in the offense. We did some good things. We scored points. We’re good in the red zone. We threw more touchdowns. We threw fewer interceptions. We threw for a lot of yards. There was a higher completion percentage. I felt very good in the offense and I hope that I can stay in it and we’ll go from there.

Congratulations Mr. Manning  
Emil : 12/28/2014 6:47 pm : link
On a great turn around season. Looking forward to seeing Manning to Beckhan/ Randle/ Cruz/ Donnell next year.

The Giants have to address the interior OL. Give Eli time and this group of WRs will put up Green Bay type numbers.

Consider this: "I couldn’t step into the throw. The ball floated up a little bit. I left it a little inside and let the safety make a play on it. It wasn’t a bad read. It was just kind of a poor throw based on the circumstances"

Polite way of saying the protection broke down, but the pick was all on Eli. Too bad, they were about to take the momentum.
I guess Eli was saying  
old man : 12/28/2014 7:04 pm : link
he couldn't fully step up into the throw but with what he could he should have made a better throw.
I did not see game but that comment's Eli-ese, as I best translate the complete meaning.
here's the one line that stuck out to me:  
TexasGmenFan : 12/28/2014 7:57 pm : link
Quote:
A: I think from the offensive standpoint, I feel like we definitely made strides and we’re playing pretty good football here at the end of the year.


i.e., hey defense...get your shit together.
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