Love Eli Manning or hate him — and there are plenty of folks on both sides of that coin — there’s no doubt right now that Todd Bowles wishes he had a quarterback like him.
Instead, he gets either an old journeyman like Josh McCown, who didn’t even play in the preseason loss to Detroit on Saturday night, or Christian Hackenberg or Bryce Petty, the two unfortunates who did.
As hard as it is to put any worth in preseason games, the fact is that the world saw why a season’s outlook becomes perilously bad without experience behind the center.