Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hey, this is Eli Manning. I'm calling in
Speaker 1: for the radio tip Gold Cowboys. Yes, we have a
Speaker 1: special guest on the line. We have Eli Manning here, Eli,
Speaker 1: good morning, Hey, how are you doing? Now? You know
Speaker 1: it's DJ Envy and Charlemagne the God and Angela Ride. Now.
Speaker 1: You know you know me, we've done podcasts. You know
Speaker 1: I'm a Giants fan. And then you know my co
Speaker 1: host and you know he's a Cowgirl fan. Don't don't
Speaker 1: don't miss gender my team, Gold Cowboys. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: So what I what I wanted to discuss with you
Speaker 1: is is some some quick football. Of course, the Giants
Speaker 1: are playing this Saturday. What do you think the Giants
Speaker 1: need to do to win this game on Saturday? You know,
Speaker 1: I think they just need to play the way they've
Speaker 1: been playing the last few weeks, and that's, uh, protecting
Speaker 1: the football, running the ball, well, Daniel's been playing great
Speaker 1: control passing game, and uh, you know, just step up
Speaker 1: in the crimical moment to the game. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's The defense got a big stop
Speaker 1: last week and in a two minute drill. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think for the Giants, they want to get it
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, keep it a close game, and
Speaker 1: find a way to win it in the fourth quarter. Now,
Speaker 1: as you were setting yourself up for the playoffs, every
Speaker 1: time that you get one playoff games and even the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, what did you do to focus this week out?
Speaker 1: Because I mean, it's it's pressed, it's I'm sure everybody's
Speaker 1: calling asking for tickets. So what do you do to
Speaker 1: make sure that you're locked in? I think you just
Speaker 1: you know, football players or creatures have happened, and for
Speaker 1: the last nineteen weeks, basically they've been doing the same
Speaker 1: thing every single week, and you don't change this week,
Speaker 1: just get the playoff game. You don't say, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work harder this week, or you know, you should
Speaker 1: have been working the same every week, and so the
Speaker 1: focus might be a little bit more there just knowing that,
Speaker 1: you know, the consequences are worse if you if you
Speaker 1: don't win this game. But I think it's still a
Speaker 1: matter of going out there being loose. If you, you know,
Speaker 1: go out to dinner on Friday night with your friends,
Speaker 1: then go to dinner on Friday night your friends, do
Speaker 1: the same things you've been doing, your same routine, Because
Speaker 1: that's gonna keep you comfortable and keep you loose and
Speaker 1: keep you um just you know, getting you prepared to
Speaker 1: play your best on Saturday. This week's interested. So you
Speaker 1: don't game playing from from game to game, like you
Speaker 1: don't game playing for different teams differently like the game plan,
Speaker 1: but the game do you do that every week? I
Speaker 1: just think like your routine and so hey, if you
Speaker 1: if you go in the day after the game and
Speaker 1: get a massage and watch your film and just keeping
Speaker 1: that same routine. And so they'll obviously be you'll watch
Speaker 1: extra film and you know, and sometimes it's a little
Speaker 1: different with the team you've already played twice, so you
Speaker 1: know the personnel, you know a lot of their scheme.
Speaker 1: You'll go back and watch, um, you know they played
Speaker 1: in the last game and the regular season. Obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of the Giants starters didn't play in Davis Webb
Speaker 1: is that quarterback. But you can still watch that game,
Speaker 1: watch their scheme and try to find different, you know,
Speaker 1: new plays that you could do to attack what they
Speaker 1: what they did you watch the first game you played, Hey,
Speaker 1: what what went well, what worked, what didn't go what
Speaker 1: didn't work, and and take from those things and just
Speaker 1: try to get a great game plan so you can
Speaker 1: go out there and play fast and and just avoid
Speaker 1: the bad plays. You know, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: to Eli, man, how many middle fingers are you expecting
Speaker 1: this week to receive in Philadelphia? Philadelphia's gotta be yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the over under is, um the
Speaker 1: trouble Birds. I'm I'm trying to figure out what that is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like a thousand, five hundred,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't know. It would be interesting.
Speaker 1: You once said you'd never go to Philly again because
Speaker 1: how they treated you. I know, I know I thought
Speaker 1: I never would, and so, uh, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing my eleven year old daughter with me. I
Speaker 1: gotta you know, she's gonna learn a little new vocabulary,
Speaker 1: I feel. And I just think, hey, I've already told her,
Speaker 1: like whatever you hear or seeing Philadelphia stays in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: You don't bring that hole. You don't bring that to school.
Speaker 1: You don't even tell mom about it, like you know,
Speaker 1: you just kind of like listen, you'll hear some things
Speaker 1: and just you know, you got to forget about it
Speaker 1: once once we leave. And I got to ask you
Speaker 1: some predictions before you get off the phone. Jaguars, Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Who you think got that one? Well, I think everybody's
Speaker 1: probably gonna take the Chiefs, just because it's you know,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and their record and what they've been able
Speaker 1: to do. Um. You know, the Jaguars, it's like one
Speaker 1: of those teams you don't want to let them linger
Speaker 1: too long. You saw what they did last week. You
Speaker 1: saw what they diverse the Cowboys later the year. If
Speaker 1: you if you kind of keep them around, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they got this ability to make these comebacks
Speaker 1: and stay in the games. So I think the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously they want to go out and score
Speaker 1: every time, and you want to get a big lead.
Speaker 1: But I think it's important to try to jump and
Speaker 1: get a lead on these guys because they have that
Speaker 1: ability just to to rally towards the end. Bengals, Bills,
Speaker 1: who do you got? You know? This this is a
Speaker 1: fun one. Um. I think this is you know, might
Speaker 1: be the best game of the weekend, just because both
Speaker 1: these teams are so good, both quarterbacks are playing at
Speaker 1: such a high level. Um, It's it's tough, you know.
Speaker 1: The Bills I kind of for my AFC team. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the year, I said the Bills are the team
Speaker 1: to beat, and I still I still feel that way.
Speaker 1: I think they just, uh, they find ways to win.
Speaker 1: Um joc Allen can look, you know, unbelievable at times
Speaker 1: and unstoppable. Every once in a while he goes to
Speaker 1: a few series where he gets a little reckless, but
Speaker 1: he's still he's able to dial it back again. So
Speaker 1: I still like the Bills, Cowboys and forty nine is
Speaker 1: who do you have? Don't be disrespectful, Eli not disrespectful
Speaker 1: both teams. I mean, obviously, dak Da played outstanding last
Speaker 1: week and that was that was fun. That was fun
Speaker 1: to see and see him. I was happy for him
Speaker 1: to win that playoff game and to play so well.
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure was on him. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a different type of pressure on him
Speaker 1: this this week because it's the it's the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers defense is on the beat, be the ones giving
Speaker 1: pressure on him. It's not an internal pressure, not a
Speaker 1: mental pressure. It's a physical pass rush pressure that's gonna
Speaker 1: be on them. I just think the forty nine defense
Speaker 1: is it's too good and in their offense. You know,
Speaker 1: they's got TV playmakers and guys are are playing, are
Speaker 1: playing hungry, and it's scary right now. I think they're
Speaker 1: they're they're playing the best football maybe any team in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. And of course, so are you
Speaker 1: saying that they're gonna beat us? Yes, that's the same
Speaker 1: saying the Cowboys are gonna lose this weekend. I'm saying, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah. I just want you to kind of
Speaker 1: read the language and just see if you could comprehend
Speaker 1: what I was saying and kind of if you can
Speaker 1: get your conclusion yourself. You've been wrong before. And lastly,
Speaker 1: of course, the Giants. What do you think the school
Speaker 1: is gonna be on that game this weekend? Um, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be. I think it's a tight game,
Speaker 1: and I think it's it's gonna be twenty four. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Eli, hold on, I got one more question.
Speaker 1: You know, I enjoyed a Manning Cast TV program. Eli.
Speaker 1: I really do with you and your brother Peyton. And
Speaker 1: this is just a random foot ball question because you are,
Speaker 1: you know, quarterback. I think you should be a first
Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer. So you understand this legend. I
Speaker 1: just want to know what is it about football that's
Speaker 1: keeping Tom Brady around? Its football really that fun to play,
Speaker 1: to be around as long as he's been around forty
Speaker 1: six next year, you know, I think it's just one
Speaker 1: of those things. You've been doing it so long, it's
Speaker 1: just become part of your routine. And you I think
Speaker 1: that could be a hard thing to say, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna stop doing these workouts and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop just preparing right now for this upcoming season. And
Speaker 1: I mean it's just become your life and it can
Speaker 1: be scary to give that up. It's like, well, what
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? What am I gonna do to
Speaker 1: fulfill that competitiveness that I have? And you know, it's
Speaker 1: not just games, it's practice, it's the preparation, it's the
Speaker 1: all season just you know, always working towards something. And
Speaker 1: I think you've got to have a game plan to
Speaker 1: to you know, attack that and to fulfill that. And
Speaker 1: so until he you know, kind of knows what that is,
Speaker 1: I think you want to give up what he knows
Speaker 1: makes them happy. All right, Well, basically you just said
Speaker 1: Tom Brady don't have a life. I'll try to football. Well,
Speaker 1: then you have a two times Super Bowl champion, Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you for joining us, and let's go big blue.
Speaker 1: Let's go Chune, let's go Big Blue. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, brother,