You Wanted Eli to Play on That Last Drive? Ridiculous!

Eli Manning threw for 312 yards with 4 td's and only 1 int last night. By all accounts he had a great game, the only downside of which was that he got hurt. However some people were upset by the fact that he didn't try to make a "Jack Youngblood playing on a broken leg" type effort and play in the 4th with his bruised shoulder. They feel he could have shut up those who felt he wasn't a leader and instead passed up the opportunity. Some of these people include Skip Bayless (a world renowned idiot) and one of the Stewart brothers from 2 live Stews (as bad if not worse than Bayless). Now if it were just these two who held this belief it wouldn't be a problem, but I'm sure there are others out there who feel the same and I think that is ridiculous.

Lets recap the situation:

Eli appeared to have injured his shoulder on a failed 2 point conversion with 7:20 to go in the game. The Giants were down 10 at that point with plenty of time to go. The Giants manage to get the ball back and Eli with his bruised shoulder comes out and leads the Giants for a score to cut the lead to three with 4 minutes to go. If the Giants made a stop Eli could have came back on and been the hero, but they didn't. They allowed a 51 yard touchdown to put the Cowboys back up 10 with 3 minutes to go. The game was certainly not over, the Giants could have scored in a minute or minute and a half and still had 2 or 1 1/2 minutes left. However, playing against a prevent type d they were not going to be making long receptions so scoring quick would have been tough. Additionally they would then have had to do an onside kick, and lets be honest how often do onside kicks work when the other team knows its coming? not often if my memory serves me right.

So you wanted to see Eli tough it out and play on the chance that the Giants could MAYBE score and score quickly and then still have to recover an onside kick? Then i guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I would think the fans and the team would rather Eli sit it out and be healthy for next week since they have no shot of winning with an out of shape linebacker, i mean Jared Lorenzen at quarterback.