Giants ready to take wraps off Manning's elbow

There will be no babying Eli Manning's right elbow when he returns to practice tomorrow. He has been cautious with it for two weeks. He can't afford to be cautious anymore. That was the word late last week from Tom Coughlin, who said he has no plans to slowly work his franchise quarterback back into his offense. There are only four practices left before the Giants open the season against the Arizona Cardinals Sunday. Manning will get all the work his sprained elbow can take.

"We'll have a count in the back of our head about how many throws per day, but I don't see it as any build up," Coughlin said. "I mean, we've got to go. We have to get ready." Manning, who spent Saturday with his brother, Peyton, in Baton Rouge, La., delivering supplies and visiting shelters to help the Red Cross' hurricane relief effort, will have to get ready quickly, considering he's done nothing but throw on the sidelines since he was injured Aug. 20. He threw 60 passes for the team doctor in Foxboro Thursday night a few hours before the Giants wrapped up their preseason by beating the Patriots, 27-3. Continue