Eli Manning is ditching his longstanding weekly interviews on WFAN this season, the station announced on Friday. While the team told its flagship station that Manning will not be appearing in the weekly segment earlier this month, host Mike Francesa – on whose show Manning typically appears – framed it as a result of the team’s selection of Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick on Thursday night.
“You think Eli Manning is happy that they drafted a quarterback sixth who now is in play?” Francesa said early in his Friday show. “Want me to prove it to you?