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Inside the week the Giants benched Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith

ON THE MORNING of Dec. 3, 2017, Geno Smith took the field as the starting quarterback for the New York Giants. He was greeted by Giants fans who had made the 3,000-mile trip to the Oakland Coliseum.

"That's my quarterback! That's my quarterback!" they screamed. Except they weren't talking about Smith.

Giants fans, dressed in their No. 10 Eli Manning jerseys, had "Fire McAdoo" signs. They wanted head coach Ben McAdoo out. The final straw was McAdoo's decision to have Smith, notorious in New York thanks to his tumultuous tenure with the Jets, start on that sunny, late fall afternoon in place of Manning.