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My initial reaction: They could have done without him.
Stick with Kerry Collins, take left tackle Robert Gallery with the No. 4 pick in the 2004 NFL Draft, do not give up two first-round picks and one third-round pick and move forward as a franchise without Archie’s son and Peyton’s younger brother.
They were not called Hot Takes back then. Then, now, forever, it was a Bad Take, a view easily shot down and dismissed over the course of a stunningly serene 16-year run that ends Friday, when Eli Manning enters the Giants’ field house and announces his retirement.