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The Eli Manning trade - news articles

So if you've been reading, you know I think that the Giants could have handled the draft better but that I'm excitied Eli Manning will be throwing touchdown passes to Shockey and Toomer within a couple of years. What do others think?

Mike Lupics dismisses critics:

The Giants gave up a lot to get him. Accorsi once gave up a lot to get Bernie Kosar in a supplemental draft. Manning is better. The people who run him down do it to be cute, or different. And as for Giant fan who don't like this deal, remember something: Giants fans didn't decide that they love Phil Simms until he won them a Super Bowl.

Perian Conerly is happy.

Don Banks has the Giants listed under "losers" while Smith is a winner who "picked the Giants pocket."

Nick Canepa wants to play poker with Accorsi and says the Chargers "fleeced" the Giants.

Pete Prisco says (as I do) that the Giants gave up "way too much."

Jason Cole is equally unimpressed (you have to register for this one and it's probably not worth it), and isn't much kinder to other NFC East teams (with the possible exception of Dallas) as he talks (very briefly) about their drafts.

Finally, Leonard Shapiro says that this is so good for the NFL that there may be a conspiracy. Everyone denies it, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few rules were broken.