The giants of New York can not hide Eli Manning

Here's a fun thing to think about: commits an offense with the quality of the talented players that the Giants of New York possess already looked so bad? This is a team that aligns one of the best receivers of football, a rookie who treats defenders as villains in a Kung Fu movie, and a big tight end that is perfect for a modern NFL attack. And yet, this team scores just 19.5 points per game and was swept by 34 to 13 last night. The problem here is Eli Manning.

The extent to which Manning retains the rest of the Giants' offensive has thinned from week to week. Last night, his weaknesses were highlighted. He pitched for 281 yards but a lot of these came to the checks that left Saquon Barkley to do all the work. He was unable to complete any passes that traveled more than a few meters on the groundand when his bad offensive line gave him time to launch, he could not make it happen:

The performance was so bad that head coach Pat Shurmur could not hide his exasperation on the sidelines. After Manning checked a pass on the screen during a party, Fox's cameras surprised Shurmur by raising their hands in the air and saying, "Throw the ball!"

All this happened just hours after ESPN published a report detailing how Manning had lost the confidence of his teammates, who saw him as a quarter easily smothered by the Zone 2 and Cover 2 defenses. Nothing What Manning did last night did not do much to counter this hypothesis.

Meanwhile, Barkley was playing as an action hero. He ran the ball 13 times for 130 yards, added nine receptions for 99 yards and made a series of highlights in which he crossed and bypassed the entire Eagles defense, much more like Barry Sanders.

When you have a half-player like this and a receiver like Beckham, scoring 13 points in a match is not really acceptable.

After the match, Shurmur insisted "Not worried about Eli,"And scored defeat to the entire team. It's good that Shurmur does not want to let his quarter back, but he does not need to do it so that everyone understands that Manning is the problem. No one should be surprised that the season is going like this either. Manning has jerked around last season, but he is 37 and the signs of his decline have been piling up for some time. The fact that he did not deserve to be on the sidelines of Geno Smith last year does not mean it was a good idea to start this season with him as a starting quarterback.

None of this is really just for Manning, either. For the polarization he had throughout his career with the Giants, he still won two Super Bowls and gave them more than ten years of stability. A player like this deserves a cushy starting season, but unfortunately, the NFL is not similar to the NBA, where a beloved but declining former like Dirk Nowitzki can be buried a little deeper in the rotation so to avoid actively harming team. There is nowhere to hide on a football pitch let alone when playing the quarterback job. If this is Eli Manning's farewell season, all that awaits her is more frustration and disappointment. All that awaits the Giants is another season in which the talents of Manning's younger and better teammates are wasted.