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“I would do Eli Manning a solid. I would trade him to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jacksonville has a team and they’re making a run,” Hasselbeck said on “Sunday NFL Countdown.” “It ends eventually for everyone. Eli Manning will always be a Giant. There will be a statue outside the stadium for him. I think it has to end sometime, so why not go out now a high note?” |
And I don't think Eli makes sense for the Jaguars. Their team is built to compete for the next few years. Why would you trade for a declining, one-year fix at QB? If they don't believe Bortles can get them there, they should be looking for younger, longer-term fixes.
I used to think that way until Gretzky was traded....
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He has the chops to play well on the road in the playoffs and that’s what JAX needs to get over the hump.
they Beat Pit in Pit last year
And Bortles wasn’t the reason they lost to NE...
Lauletta. He's mobile, young, and smart. Time to see what we've got under live fire. I don't care if he's from 1-AA Richmond and that he has no experience. Let Shurmur and his coaches figure out a package/game plan to try and optimize he skill set. That's what they are paid to do.
And what the big deal? Right now the odds are overwhelmingly suggesting this year is finito. So let's use the rest of the season to (a) evaluate what we have in Lauletta and (b) "improve" our chances of getting a higher draft slot.
would they trade or take on that cost for a non sure thing that requires a lot of good things to happen around him as well--- to be successful at this stage.
seems unlikely
would love it to happen - give us all a team to root for the 2nd half and get to see the giants do a real committed rebuild
+1. Bortles did quite a bit of running for his life yesterday. Maybe that Jags OL isn't as good as we once thought.
I would love for it to happen if it meant Eli would do well. The last thing I'd want to see happen is for Eli to leave and for him to flounder elsewhere.
Personally, I think he's done, and his presence here does us no good. But I'd rather he go out with at least plausible deniability ('if only the Giants weren't terrible, maybe Eli would be doing well') than for him to go elsewhere and be just as bad.
Waste of time to think that he is tradable. No team is trading for him.
the only thing I can think of is to just keep Eli around to help develop the new QB we draft.
I think Mara would jump at it. Gets rid of a big problem and he gets kudos for doing right by Eli.
He might get some flak for being two faced. But everyone lies today and just waits for the news cycle to move on
But that's not something that would happen in any reality. So Eli won't end up in Jacksonville.
Tom looks at some of the young rookie QBs in the league and that is what he wants for the Jags.
Why would we do that when we have Lauletta? He can at the very least make the throws Eli has been making.
And I don't think Eli makes sense for the Jaguars. Their team is built to compete for the next few years. Why would you trade for a declining, one-year fix at QB? If they don't believe Bortles can get them there, they should be looking for younger, longer-term fixes.
Or likely into another contract maybe