After two seasons of watching Ereck Flowers flounder at left tackle, the New York Giants had a potential solution to their offensive line needs staring them in the face — free-agent Andrew Whitworth — and turned down the opportunity.
Whitworth, the best lineman on the free agent market, “wanted to be a Giants.”
“I actually had reached out and wanted to be a Giant just because I knew Eli Manning really well,” Whitworth told The Post. “But they kinda said no because they thought they were gonna continue with Ereck Flowers at left tackle, and that obviously didn’t end up working the next year.