{"id":894655,"date":"2026-05-18T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/894655\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:21:24","slug":"eli-manning-details-reasons-for-not-wanting-to-play-for-san-diego-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/894655\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Manning details reasons for not wanting to play for San Diego Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI just didn\u2019t feel like they were the most committed team to winning at the time,\u201d Manning said. \u201cMarty Schottenheimer was the head coach, who was awesome. Had great respect for him. But they came to work me out in New Orleans, went to dinner and there was just friction between the head coach, general manager [A.J. Smith], the owners [Spanos family]. They are all yelling \u2014 kind of like fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe are at a Marriott restaurant. Schottenheimer\u2019s mad like, \u2018We\u2019re in New Orleans and we\u2019re eating at a Marriott?\u2019 He\u2019s like pissed. They are kind of bickering,\u201d Eli recalled. \u201cIt just didn\u2019t seem there was a lot of agreement on things and they were committed to building a great winning franchise at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI just didn\u2019t feel like they were the most committed team to winning at the time,\u201d Manning said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1917,56,1207,2321,2469,6],"class_list":["post-894655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-giants-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116596027136163222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}