COHEN'S CORNER SPORTS

On this edition of the Open Mike Program, hosts Michael Cohen and Karen Vankat talk about the Giants insidious decision to bench Eli Manning, putting the blame for the 2017 season on the Super Bowl MVPs shoulders. We take the Giants to task. Listen here!!

Eli Manning's career with the Giants is over. It just isn't official yet. The Giants decided to bench Manning for their Week 13 game at Oakland and start former Jets flame out Geno Smith instead, because embattled head coach Ben McAdoo believes that Geno Smith gives his team the best chance to win. At 2-9. I don't know what is more disturbing? The fact that Eli Manning got screwed over by the very franchise that he helped carry to two Super Bowl titles? The fact that McAdoo and GM Jerry Reese continues to show their utter incompetence? Or the fact that it sounds like John Mara and Steve Tisch signed off on Manning's benching? Eli Manning deserved a better fate than what he got on Tuesday from the Giants, a franchise that should be indebted to him for all the work he has done over the past 14 years. No player in the history of the franchise has gone through more, and has done more than Manning has. He overcame a locker room that looked down on him when he was a rooki...

PANTHERS 35 - JETS 27 In what has become a disturbing pattern this season, the New York Jets once again proved they are the best team in the NFL when it comes to finding ways to lose in excruciating fashion. Mistakes, penalties, more mistakes and misfortune spelled doom for Gang Green on Sunday in a game that looked ripe for a tremendous upset, the Jets found a way to let the Carolina Panthers slip from their grasp in a disheartening 35-27 loss. At 4-7 the Jets playoff hopes are all but dead. While the expectations were not for this team to get to the playoffs this season, it doesn't change the fact that this season has spiraled into utter disappointment. The bottom line is the Jets blew another fourth quarter lead, and when they had an opportunity to stage a comeback, the flushed that down the toilet on more dumb penalties. All of this falls on the shoulders of head coach Todd Bowles, who once again demonstrated he can't get his team ready to play a full 60 minute foo...

REDSKINS 20 - GIANTS 10  Don't pass the gravy to someone in a Giants jersey this Thanksgiving, they might just drop it. The 2017 Giants have been a lot of awful things this year, but one thing is for sure this offense is just awful. Big Blue managed only seven first downs and a measly 170 yards of offense in a 20-10 meltdown in the Nations Capital on Thanksgiving night, giving their fans indigestion as the Giants record fell to 2-9. More importantly they wasted a tremendous effort from the defense that gave this woebegone football team a shot to avoid total humiliation.  A lot of Giants fans have been quick to blame Eli Manning for this debacle of a season, even rooting for the Giants to lose out so they can get their hands on one of the over-hyped California quarterbacks coming out of next year's draft. But here are some cold hard facts on this chilly November night. This is not Eli's fault. And Thursday night's 20-10 loss wasn't his fault at all.  ...

The New York Giants will keep Ben McAdoo around as head coach of the football team.  The Giants are 1-8 and starring at a likely top-5 pick in next spring's NFL draft. The Giants could also be looking at the worst season in franchise history. As poorly as the Giants have played this season, it is not enough for  the Giants to fire McAdoo now. Plus, this is a franchise that has never liked the idea of firing coaches in-season. They let Ray Handley, Dan Reeves and Jim Fassel all twist in the wind during their final seasons in New York. It will happen again here with McAdoo. The only way the Giants part ways with him is if this team gets totally embarrassed before the end of the month. Here is the statement below. Ben McAdoo is our head coach and has our support," the statement reads. "We are in the midst of an extremely disappointing season. Our performance this year, particularly the past two weeks, is inexcusable and frustrating. While we appreciate that our fa...

49ERS 31 - GIANTS 21  Put a fork in em. Ben McAdoo's tenure as Giants head coach might be over tonight. In fact, by the time we all wake up Monday morning McAdoo might be cleaning out his office at the Giants Timex Center. Losing is one thing. Losing to a winless 49ers team with C.J. Beathard at quarterback is quiet another. The Giants once again looked like a team that didn't care. Down 17-13 in the third quarter they played like a team that quit on their coach when he needed them to play at their very best. All of sudden the Giants forgot how to tackle as Beathard did as pleased for most of the day. Later in the third, he sliced and diced the Giants on an 11-play, 61-yard drive that culminated in an 11-yard touchdown run by Beathard himself to give the Niners a 24-13 lead. Now it was starting to feel like the game was escaping from the Giants. A three-and-out was quickly followed by another Niners score, this one on a 33-yard rush by Matt Berida, who went untouched ...

BUCCANEERS 15 - JETS 10 Embarrassing is about the only word that can best describe the Jets 15-10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. Inexcusable is another one. It is ironic that in a season where there were next to no expectations for the Jets this season, the one week where the Jets actually were expected to win and put themselves firmly in the playoff picture they spit the bit, playing every bit like the team everyone thought would be 1-15 this season. The Jets played scared and careless on Sunday in Tampa Bay. They made a Buccaneers defense that is ranked 28th in the entire NFL shut them down over 60 minutes of football sans a Robbie Anderson 38-yard touchdown in garbage time. While the score was 15-10, it wasn't even that close. It was really 15-3, and had the Buccaneers been piloted by Jamies Winston instead of ex-Jet flameout Ryan Fitzpatrick, it would have been more like 35-3. The Jets stunk. The Jets offensive line couldn't create any holes for a gro...

RAMS 51 - GIANTS 17  The Giants played like a team that didn't care. If that isn't an indictment of head coach Ben McAdoo, I don't know what is. The Giants were totally outplayed, outclassed and out-everything as the Rams blew away the Giants 51-17, in one of the most lopsided losses in Giants history. Think of it this way, it was the worst loss by the Giants at home since 1964 when they got blown out by the Cleveland Browns 52-21 at Yankee Stadium. The lasts time Big Blue gave up 50 points in a game, you'd have to go back to 1999 when the Giants got blown away by Brad Johnson and the Washington Redskins 50-21. That is how epically and historically bad Sunday's effort was. Perhaps the biggest microcosm of the day came with the Rams facing a third and 33 from their own 48 yard-line. Rams quarterback Jared Goff dumped off a pass to Robert Woods in the flat on a simple bubble screen, and the wide out did the rest breezing by defenders like a hot knife through b...

JETS 34 - BILLS 21 Behind a strong running game and suffocating defense, the Jets finally figured out how to close a game on Thursday against their division foes, the Buffalo Bills by the tune of 34-21. In all honesty though it really was never that close. Gang Green had a lead as large as 34-7 mid-way through the fourth quarter before Buffalo scored a couple of garbage time touchdowns to make the final score look good. Still the Jets sit at 4-5, well beyond anyone's expectations for this season, and with the way this team battles and competes every week it is hard not to think that the 2017 Jets could end up 8-8, or dare I say, 9-7. What a miracle that would be considering the talent on this team is not at an elite level. Quarterback Josh McCown was solid again for the Jets. While his numbers didn't jump off the page, he threw for only 140 yards, he was deadly accurate, completing 70 percent of his passes, and, he continues to show why he is the perfect leader for this...

ASTROS 5 - DODGERS 1 HOU Wins World Series 4-3 Well, Sports Illustrated got it right three years ago. The 2017 Houston Astros are indeed Wold Champions. The incredible Astros squad that captured the imagination of the country with their gritty style of play during the early stages of this Fall Classic, earned their place  in history with a dominant 5-1 win over the Dodgers in Game 7. A series with so many highs and lows, and plenty of offense in between, it was fitting that Game 7 went back to the games roots, pitching. It was the clever managing of Astros skipper A.J. Hinch, combined with a solid effort out of the Astros pen that delivered the first ever baseball world title to the city of Houston, a city that just eleven weeks ago was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Coming into Game 7, the Astros had a team ERA over 4.5 in the postseason. While Justin Verlander had been brilliant all month, the same couldn't be said for the rest of the Astros pitching staff, particularly...