Eli Manning is 35 years old. At some point he’s going to go into one of these slumps that have dogged him throughout his career and not come out of it. It will be, once looked back on, the beginning of the end. The start of the final slide. Time, as they say, is undefeated, which is more than we can say about the Giants these past three weeks.
But the receiver who knows Manning the best in the Giants locker room is convinced that is not what we have seen these last few weeks.
“Not true,” said Victor Cruz on Wednesday to speculation that the quarterback is starting to decline for good.