Exclusive | There can be life after the Giants Sterling Shepard can attest to it

Yep, he heard it.“Obviously,’ Sterling Shepard said. “It’s been everywhere.’’Shepard is in contact fairly regularly with Daniel Jones but not this week, with Shepard’s new team, the Buccaneers, preparing to face his old team, the Giants. Shepard now works in Tampa but he spent the first eight NFL seasons with the Giants and he was disheartened to hear that his former quarterback got benched and basically put out to pasture.“I feel for him, man, because I know how hard the dude works, I’ve seen it first-hand and how great of a dude he is,’’ Shepard told The Post. “And he can play ball, man, he’s a good ballplayer. It’s just unfortunate this is the way this business goes sometimes. It’s good to you sometimes but sometimes it goes the other way and you got to navigate through that.’’Jones on Friday asked for his release and the Giants honored that request, officially ending ties with him.Eli Manning threw him the ball for Shepard’s first three years with the Giants and Jones was the passer for Shepard’s next five NFL seasons wearing Giants’ blue. Shepard made the playoffs as a rookie in 2016 and the next time the Giants made it into the postseason, 2022, he lasted through only three games before a torn ACL ended his season. He started only four games the next two seasons before his time with the Giants ran out.There was so much losing for Shepard with the Giants and it continues on without him, as the Giants take a 2-8 record into Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium. This experience with the Buccaneers gives Shepard — respected and well-liked during his stay with the Giants — a chance to see how another organization operates.“I feel like [the Giants] are a couple of pieces away from being a really good team,’’ Shepard said. “I think they have a lot of solid pieces there. When it comes to the culture and everything like that, I’ve gotten a chance to see the way things are done on a different hand but I thin...