After a rocky 2013 season and ankle surgery, some began to wonder if New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning was on the decline. New York Giants owner John Mara aid he didn’t think that was the case, in fact Mara said that the Giants new offense might re-energizing Manning.
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“I just think that he’s had too much success here, he’s still physically in great shape, mentally, I think he’s as excited as he ever has been,” Mara said, via the New York Post. “I think the new offense has re-energized him, and I’m very confident he’s going to have a good year for us. And we’ve added some pieces for him that I think will help him also.”
Mara added in response to a follow-up question: “Watching him this spring, watching him move around and throw and how quickly he came back from the ankle surgery … there’s just a certain look in his eye I think that has all of us feeling enthusiastic about him for the season. He’s a confident guy anyway — he doesn’t necessarily show that, but there was just something about the way he practiced this spring. … We’ll see what happens once the games start.”
It is interesting that Mara chose the word “re-energized, Manning used the same word to describe himself when discussing the new offense under a new coordinator just a week ago.
“It’s re-energized me,” Manning said, via the New York Daily News. “I’m trying to speed up the process of getting comfortable in the new system. I don’t have 10 years. I have a few months.”