I had a chance to spend a minute with Eli Manning at the Phoenix Rising Award Dinner which was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City tonight.

The audio is a bit tough to hear, so I transcribed our interview below:

Anthony De Rosa: Are you concerned at all about the wide receiver situation, and are you worried that Plaxico may not be coming back?

Eli Manning: Well, we’ll see what happens with Plaxico. We might get some information tomorrow. I think it will work itself out. We have the draft, and we’ll see what happens with the Plaxico situation and hope for the best and take it from there.

Anthony De Rosa: Are you doing anything different in the offseason or are you pretty much business as usual?

Eli Manning: Every year you try and work on some different thing and have different goals so right now i’m just trying to get back into shape and training with the team and work on becoming a better team for next year.

Anthony De Rosa: What do you think is the one thing you need to do to get over the hump of what you guys fell into last year and get back to becoming a Super Bowl team?

Eli Manning: Well, you keep working. You gotta get through the playoffs and hopefully play your best football at the end of the season, learn how to finish, stay strong through the whole season. We had a good team, we got a lot of guys who are coming back, its just a matter of keeping them working hard and hopefully we’ll have another good run.