Antrel Rolle Used To Think Eli Manning Was Soft, Specifically Because Of Manningface - DeadSpin

What have you learned about Eli Manning that you maybe didn't know before joining the Giants?:

"Something that I realized being a teammate as opposed to being an opponent of Eli Manning, I never knew how mentally tough he is. … This guy, man, he has that look on his face sometimes and it makes some people question him. That's just a look. He's extremely confident. He's that dude. He's the one that I consider that dude."

NY Jets use photo of NY Giants quarterback Eli Manning being hit by Calvin Pace as playbook cover for motivation

Forget the bluster. The Jets will be out for blood on Christmas Eve.

When Jets outside linebacker Calvin Pace arrived at the team’s facility for meetings Tuesday morning, defensive coordinator Mike Pettine gave him a green binder with a photograph of Giants quarterback Eli Manning emblazoned across the cover. The picture captured Manning in mid-hit. His helmet was askew, his arms out wide. Blood would soon gush from a three-inch gash on his forehead.

Pace smiled at the unmistakable image of the crushing blow he laid on Manning in August 2010.

“It was cool to see it again,” Pace said. “Seems like it was so long ago.”

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He [Eli Manning] is an efficient but off-off-off-Broadway Joe. He has the look of a guy who moves briskly through airport security and reads the entire in-flight magazine.
On the Giants, he’s known as a prankster. But as a recent story by the Journal’s Aditi Kinkhabwala showed, Eli’s pranks are straight out of the Jonas Brothers tour bus. He puts gum on the football. He soaks a teammate’s towel in water. He reprogrammed receiver Hakeem Nicks’s cellphone to Japanese.
He did everything but call Fairway and ask them if they had Prince Albert in a can.
Read —>  Jason Gay: It’s Time to Embrace Off-Broadway Joe - WSJ.com

He [Eli Manning] is an efficient but off-off-off-Broadway Joe. He has the look of a guy who moves briskly through airport security and reads the entire in-flight magazine.

On the Giants, he’s known as a prankster. But as a recent story by the Journal’s Aditi Kinkhabwala showed, Eli’s pranks are straight out of the Jonas Brothers tour bus. He puts gum on the football. He soaks a teammate’s towel in water. He reprogrammed receiver Hakeem Nicks’s cellphone to Japanese.

He did everything but call Fairway and ask them if they had Prince Albert in a can.

Read —>  Jason Gay: It’s Time to Embrace Off-Broadway Joe - WSJ.com

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Peter King ranks the 5-2 first-place Giants as only the 15th-best NFL team.

Six of New York’s remaining nine games are against teams King ranks ahead of them (Packers, Niners, Patriots, Eagles, Jets and Saints), so the G-Men have a chance to prove a lot of people wrong.

Can they stay healthy, though? And how healthy do they have to be with Eli Manning playing as well as he has?

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Peter King ranks the 5-2 first-place Giants as only the 15th-best NFL team.

Six of New York’s remaining nine games are against teams King ranks ahead of them (Packers, Niners, Patriots, Eagles, Jets and Saints), so the G-Men have a chance to prove a lot of people wrong.

Can they stay healthy, though? And how healthy do they have to be with Eli Manning playing as well as he has?