The Giants did not embrace Eli Manning only to shove him to the side just because a shiny, new quarterback shares a room at the office with the franchise icon.
The Giants did not agree to pay out the full amount of Manning’s contract — $17 million — and keep him on the books eating up $23.2 million in salary cap space to make him a backup to Daniel Jones as the season gets underway.
Nothing has changed from the organizational stance coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Dave Gettleman have espoused — In Eli We Trust — even though Shurmur on Tuesday was either feeling frisky or purposely obtuse with his refusal to say there is no open quarterback competition this summer.