The decision late last season to evaluate quarterbacks on the roster not named Eli Manning was the death knell for Ben McAdoo’s brief head coaching tenure with the Giants. McAdoo says he is “at peace with how I handled the decision’’ and stressed the benching of Manning was for the good of the franchise.
“If there’s one thing I want fans of the Giants to know, it’s that I made this call to try to make the Giants stronger for the future,” McAdoo said in Peter King’s NBCSports.com column that debuted Monday. “It probably got me fired, but I believe I did the right thing for the right reasons.