Timing is everything in contract negotiations.
There’s a time to ask, a time to haggle, and a time to close the deal.
The Giants, apparently, haven’t decided that now is the time to put the seal on what should turn out to be a lucrative extension for Eli Manning. But don’t put all the blame on them. The quarterback and his agent may simply be victims of bad timing.
Whether reports of demands to make the Giants’ leader the highest-paid player in the league are accurate or not, reports Manning went to great lengths to deny before Wednesday’s practice, one fact looms over the entire issue.