We hold these truths to be self-evident:
Eli Manning was not brought back to be a $23.2 million backup quarterback.
You don’t draft a quarterback with the sixth pick to sit him.
“Eli ‘s our starter, and we’re getting Daniel ready to play,” Pat Shurmur said again on Friday.
Daniel Jones must be the finisher.
Because it would be negligent of the Giants not to get him on the field for invaluable playing time experience this season so he can hit the ground running with Saquon Barkley in 2020.
So here now are the Giants, forced to confront an inevitable collision between the irresistible force and the immovable object undoubtedly sooner than even they envisioned.