#Danwagon Watch: Pat Shurmur Declined To Name Eli Manning As The Starter For Next Week's Game Vs. The Bucs

Give me all the “And Here We Go” Joker gifs you can find, because this is the first hint of smoke that there is a fire behind closed doors and the Giants may be ready to move on from Eli. I Eye Emoji’d that tweet so hard mentally, my fucking eyeballs almost rolled out of my head.

Now as a rational Giants fan, I understand that this is all probably just posturing to send a message to the locker room and the fans that nobody on this team, including the starting quarterback with 2 Super Bowl MVPs on his resume, has their starting position secured other than the like 7 or so that have actual shown glimpses of talent so far this season, no matter what type of mini New York media shit storm it would cause. And if it’s more than that, I think it’s a pretty good way to go about replacing the best quarterback in franchise history that delivered two titles with unbelievable postseason runs. Because hinting that the guy you selected with the 6th pick of the draft that everyone know is the QB of the future may become the starter for next week’s game before naming him that is a lot smoother of a transition than telling the media you are going to end your franchise quarterback’s consecutive games streak so you can see what Geno Smith looks like as a starter before you even tell said franchise quarterback. God that entire fiasco set this franchise back years. But even the biggest Eli fan in the world (looking at you, Archie) has to admit that the guy taking snaps for Big Blue on Sundays looks NOTHING like this guy agility wise, accuracy wise, and not needing 10 seconds to wind up his arm wise.

However as an irrational Giants fan, I’d like to think that Pat Shurmur is trying to light a fire under Eli’s ass because he knows a threatened Eli is a dangerous Eli that may win a Lombardi Trophy. But then Rational Me reminds Irrational Me that he has been saying stupid shit like this for almost half a decade to spinzone all the dogshit football we’ve seen and then punches Irrational Me in the dick for being such an idiot since the 2011 championship season was EIGHT years ago. Big Cat wasn’t even at Barstool back in 2011.

It’s time to move on and hope whatever needs to happen to allow the front office to put in the kid that looked awesome in the preseason for both Eli’s sake and Daniel Jones’ sake. Oh yeah and the Giants franchise as a whole’s sake because they need to know if Pat Shurmur’s career 15-36 record is just the product of being in charge of teams with bad quarterback situations or the product of being a terrible coach. Since the bye week is so late, I really hope the change happens next week against the Redskins since it’s home and I don’t know how many times I can watch the offense stall on third down before I lose my fucking mind. The Cardinals game in Week 7 also makes sense for the switch, but I don’t want Eli’s last game as a starter to be a skullfucking by the Patriots in Foxboro on a Thursday night in Week 6.

On a positive note, at least Eli will be passing the torch to someone that clearly has his DNA running through his veins.

So get a shirt because once Daniel Jones wins the job that is rightfully his, the #Danwagon is leaving the station forever.

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