Was not totally sold on Davis Webb but it's been a slow process to replace Eli. Building a franchise after Eli will take a few years of high picks.
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The Giants will draft a QB this year. At 1-5 record we would asking for Webb by now.
Davis Webb through seniority was close to receiving game playing time during the season. There will be no QB controversy and there is no chance or possibility of seeing a different QB this season even if Eli continues to lose or overthrow targets when their open.
Management felt Webb was not the franchise QB of the future made a decision to give this entire season to Eli clearly , Make or Break. They decided to stock pile draft picks for a 2 year plan.
Oh wait......
Once again not saying Webb’s a world beater but surely you guys here would have to admit if he was on this roster after the early clusterfucx of a season they’d be clamoring for him to be put in.its definitely not out of the realm of possibilities.
Thats not to say Webb would have actually fared any better or that he would have been the future, but he was obviously a popular player among the fan base during training camp and preseason and he had been hyped up all offseason by the media. The fans (and maybe even some teammates) would certainly be calling for him to start right now and it wouldve made things even uglier than they already are. He does something Manning wont do. He throws it deep. Probably too much. But thats what fans want to see.
No way to know for sure but I wouldnt put it past this organization at all to do something like that.
The cut was either to avoid QB controversy if Eli struggled, purge the last remaining guy from the Eli benching incident for Mara's benefit, or to purge as many Reese guys as possible to put DG's stamp on the roster.
As far as Webb only being on a PS - how many teams are going to open a 53-man roster spot for a QB who's never played a down in the league?
Sure if they thought Webb was the second coming of Aaron Rodgers they would have kept him but in retrospect the bar for him to make the team was not be the 2nd or 3rd best QB on the roster but rather be a future franchise QB. He couldn't clear that so he was gone.
how can you actually evaluate how he would be doing now if he was on the team
in Webb's one preseason start
Giants were able to have a vertical passing game and actually scored 30 points
and the fact is if Webb WAS on the team now
there would be a large loud vocal part of fanbase and media to let Webb play and see what he could do ?
It has nothing to do with Webbs ability.
Fwiw, Webb was much more suck in the game against the Browns than he was good against the Lions.
You just can't have that on an NFL team these days.
I doubt it was over QB controversy, I really think it was because he blabbed about the details of the McAdoo/Eli benching situation during the preseason.
That's going a bit overboard.
But what was Tanney in comparison? Why bother keeping him?
For the record, I expected little from this season, and didn't want to keep 3 QBs at all. The reasoning behind Tanney was to step in for a game or two if Eli went down, but what made anyone think Tanney would be capable of anything out there?
Where is Webb anyway? if he was any good wouldnt he be somewhere?
The Giants will draft a QB after this season.
They may need one more high draft to obtain that draft status.
If Eli cant make them competitive this year, we will go to draft high and get more highly regarded players. I very with Barkley and Odell who was chosen high. That's the strategy!
This is ridiculous.
Everyone needs to remember that we are talking about Eli Manning, a hero to us all. This is a painful thing to watch. I think he needs to play out the string, he's earned it and whole else is going to start, Tanney?
It's pretty much Occam's Razor and no need to put tinfoil on your head.