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As long as Eli Manning is healthy, Giants have chance

Bob Glauber

Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and

Eli Manning is off to one of the best starts of his 12-season career. He's thrown 10 touchdown passes and two interceptions, and he's coming off a spectacular come-from-behind win over the 49ers.

It's no coincidence, as his conversation back in January with offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo will attest. Manning improved over the course of the Giants' disappointing 2014 season, and McAdoo promised the trajectory would continue.

"McAdoo showed me some numbers of Brett Favre from his first to his second year in this offense,'' Manning said Thursday.