According to Adam Schefter, the New York Giants are one of three teams interested in acquiring Arizona quarterback Matt Leinart. Leinart, 27, has had a horrible professional career since being drafted out of USC in 2006. Cardinals coach Ken Wishenhunt has repeatedly shown no faith in his young quarterback and has handed over the starting job to former Browns quarterback Derek Anderson.
That Anderson, who was dispatched from Cleveland in favor of Jake Delhomme, has outperformed Leinart should be enough to convince most teams to stay away.
But the Giants lost their backup quarterback, Jim Sorgi, for the year with a shoulder injury and appear reluctant to allow second-year QB Rhett Bhomar to be the undisputed second-stringer.
Leinart's NFL career is doomed no matter where he's traded, but one would have to assume he'd rather be moved to the Bills or Raiders, where the quarterback situations are much less stable, than the Giants.
Whether he'd be an upgrade over Bhomar or not is irrelevant. If Eli Manning goes down for any length of time, the Giants' season is over. Then again, the same goes for any NFL team if it were to lose it's starting quarterback.
Leinart has shown far more interest in partying and hanging out with celebrities than becoming a good NFL player, so he's not exactly the type of guy the Giants typically go after. But he has been in the league for a few years now, and coach Tom Coughlin has made it clear that he'd like a veteran backup. Leinart isn't the most reassuring choice, but at the likely cost of a late round draft pick, it would hardly be something to get upset about.
The only thing that is unclear is who this is worse for, Arizona or Leinart? Arizona went from being in the Super Bowl two years ago, and making the Divisional round of the playoffs last year, to losing Kurt Warner and a host of others and now being a long shot to even approach .500. And Leinart couldn't even hold onto the starting job that was handed to him on a silver platter with Warner's departure, and allowed Anderson to take his position. The outlook isn't very good for either party.
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