Getting ready for his second training camp with the Giants, this time as Eli Manning’s backup, Davis Webb sits down with Post columnist Steve Serby for a Q&A session:

Q: Did you call a meeting with Dave Gettleman and Pat Shurmur after they were hired?

A: I didn’t call a meeting (smile). I went up there to congratulate ’em, first of all. And then we just kinda talked, and I was, “I believe in myself as a quarterback, and I believe I can play in this level.” I didn’t say I was gonna be this, that or the other. “I think I can do it. And I’m gonna prove it to you.”

Q: In your mind, are you the quarterback of the future here?

A: No. I’m one of the quarterbacks of the New York Giants. I mean, if you told me I would be one of the quarterbacks of the New York Giants when I was 6 years old in kindergarten, I think I’d take that. I want to be great, I have dreams, I have aspirations, I have goals that are private. But the one thing on my mind is to get better each and every day when you’re opportunity comes, because it’s gonna come, be ready.

Q: What do you think of playing in big, bad New York?

A: Well I haven’t played (smile), but I’ve been able to see — all these sports, too — I got to see how Eli (Manning) handled the whole scenarios and situations a year ago with Coach (Ben) McAdoo getting let go to Eli’s benching, I got to see all of that firsthand. You kinda get to see the worst of the worst from a fly-on-the-wall type guy. I stole that experience. I wasn’t in it. But I was there.

Q: What did you learn from that experience?

A: You gotta keep grinding. What Eli does. Every single day, you’re never too high or too low, you’re just the same each and every day, and you’re only focused on the next day. … Even the Yankees. The first game (Giancarlo) Stanton played (at Yankee Stadium), everybody booed him, he went like 0-for-5, or 0-for-4. Now he’s (playing great again). I’ve seen different scenarios in sports where you gotta persevere. I think Aaron Boone had a good quote the other day, that if you keep persevering, this town will embrace you. I screen-shot it. I liked it a lot.

Q: Describe Eli’s mindset now.

A: He’s so motivated. You can tell from January when we started out together, he was on a mission. I’ve never seen him look this good. He’s gotten more efficient moving around in the pocket, and escaping, throwing on the run. I’m excited to watch him perform this fall.

Q: Do you think it’s partly because he has people who believe in him again?

A: I think we’re all disappointed and very hungry and driven from going 3-13. We’re all driven to bring the New York Giants back to where they need to be. This is a winning franchise, the best in football, we have The Duke (named after Wellington Mara) on the footballs. We’re a very influential franchise in the world, and we want our fans to enjoy success along with us.

Q: Your leadership style?

A: I try to come across as a guy that wants just to enjoy success with teammates. I want them to score touchdowns. I want to be the first one to congratulate them. I want everybody to enjoy success, because that’s what football’s about. It’s a team game.

Q: What is your definition of leadership?

A: Making people around you better.

Q: How disappointing was it not playing at the end of last season?

A: I ran three meetings a week. … I learned so much, and I have no thoughts of why I didn’t play last year or anything just because I got better.

Q: Did you feel for Eli that day when he stood on the sidelines in Oakland?

A: I felt for him all week. It’s just not easy when you have a great teammate like that, the best I’ve ever had, have so much struggle that week. But I was excited for Geno (Smith), I thought he performed really well. He was a great teammate to me and Geno that whole week, and I learned a lot of lessons that week.

Q: Do you still keep a list of doubters in your locker?

A: No, but they’re on my mind daily. I have quotes on my bathroom mirror. I pick out quotes every year, about three or four every year since I was in seventh grade. I picked out quotes with kinda how I want to live the year, and I pick a word of how I’m gonna live my year. My word this year is “maximize.” I want to maximize every opportunity, every scenario to be the best I can be at football.

Q: What was your word last year?

A: It was just commit to the controllable. So it wasn’t really a word. But I liked the thought.

Q: Why did you pick “maximize” for 2018?

A: Because I knew I was gonna have a better opportunity to receive more reps in practice. And this is my second year in the NFL, so things would stick more, so I wanted to maximize every meeting, every workout to be the best football player I could be for the New York Giants. Whether I’m playing or not, I just want to be the best I can be for this team.

Q: But that also applied to you last year too, right?

A: Yeah, but now, like let’s say it’s a Saturday afternoon, instead of watching TV like a lot of dudes, I’d rather watch an hour of film and maximize my opportunity there and steal something.

Q: In that regard, which is bigger — Saquon’s (Barkley) legs, or your football obsession?

A: Ooh (smile). That’s a good question. I’m gonna say even.

Q: Early impressions of Saquon, and what he can do for this offense.

A: Eager to learn, he’s eager to get better, he’s asking a ton of right questions. It’s fun to have a guy like that who has so much ability that continues to want to get better so young, especially his first year. If he continues doing that, sky’s the limit. But what he can do for this offense, he’s got good enough hands to play receiver. Obviously he can run like a running back — I know he can’t throw a football (smile).

Q: How do you know that?

A: Well I’ve seen him throw a baseball, sometimes that goes hand in hand. Or softball. At Landon (Collins’ charity) softball deal.

Q: He also threw out a first pitch at Yankee Stadium.

A: I saw that one, too.

Q: Not good?

A: It was all right. It was a C.

Q: Have you thrown out a first pitch yet?

A: I gotta throw some touchdowns before that happens (laugh).

Q: Can he be a Le’Veon Bell or David Johnson type?

A: I don’t know. I think it’s unfair to put that kinda stuff on Saquon just because he hasn’t played yet. … I’ve never been around a better athlete before.

Q: Eli said recently that he wants to prove the decision-makers right for not drafting a quarterback with the second pick. Do you feel the same way?

A: I’ve kinda moved on quickly. I’m just glad we added the best player in the draft, and have a run game that can be very very dangerous with him, Wayne Gallman and Jonathan Stewart — that’s a three-headed monster. I’m not really worried about proving people right or wrong.

Q: Your on-field mentality?

A: I’m very driven, and I play with a lot of passion. So sometimes I’m a little too amped up because I love playing football and I’m very passionate about this game and playing for my teammates. And I’m also very driven to be perfect. I know that’s impossible to do, but that’s what I drive to do, that’s my motivation, is to prove a lot of people wrong and a lot of people right every single throw.

Q: But you just said…

A: I don’t care about the draft. I care about my little life — like coaches that told me I wasn’t good enough, or high-ranking people that said I’m a couple of years away, or I probably will be drafted later or stuff like that. If you tell me to my face, that’s when it drives me. If I read something or if I hear something, I’m like whatever. But if you actually tell me, that’s gonna get me going. In seventh grade the coach point blank told me, “You should play hockey because you’re not gonna be a high school quarterback.”

Q: What was your reaction at the time?

A: “Watch this.” Then my high school coach who was my second dad told me, “You can play baseball, you can have as many options as you can have,” you know, kinda saying, “I think you’re gonna be a baseball player.” And I said, “I’m gonna tell you right now, I’m gonna be a football player in college and if it doesn’t work I’m gonna coach college football. So if you have anything else to say. I think we’re done here (laugh).”

Q: Odell Beckham Jr.?

A: I think he got voted the No. 1 stylish player in the NFL.

Q: How motivated is he?

A: I think he showed everybody he wants to be here and he wants to have a great year. He had a great rehab and our trainers did a great job getting him healthy, and he’s excited and poised to have his best year in the NFL.

Q: Nate Solder?

A: Best person I’ve ever known. We’re really pumped to have him.

Q: Will Hernandez?

A: He is a feisty competitor. Fierce.

Q: Eli Apple?

A: He’s one of the first ones up here every morning, and he loves practicing and competing.

Q: He had a rocky time last year.

A: We all did.

Q: Olivier Vernon?

A: He’s by the quarterback every single snap. I think he had the best spring of any New York Giant.

Q: Alec Ogletree?

A: Leader. He knows everybody on the team’s name — offense, defense, special teams.

Q: Coach Shurmur?

A: Easy communicator. We played golf (recently). We all had a little tournament I guess, for Toyota, they asked about four or five Giants to go, and he was there, he was easy to talk to — a family guy who’s a player’s coach, he wants to know what works and what doesn’t work and your opinions. At the same time, though, he’s very fierce and he’s very serious about his business, and wants to be a part of a dang good team.

Q: Among your many binders, you have an Eli binder.

A: What he watches first on a Tuesday on a game week … what he watches last on a Saturday night. Stuff like that. Or he’ll have a quote about a defensive coordinator that he used to face.

Q: So it’ll be something he says in a meeting and you’ll write it down?

A: He could say he likes PB & J sandwiches on Tuesday, I’m not writing that down. I’m gonna write down something pretty dang good.

Q: You can pick the brain of one quarterback in history.

A: Brett Favre. I’ve heard a lot of good stories about him, Coach McAdoo was up with him for a little bit … I want to know how he went into preparing each and every week because he was kinda known as a gunslinger (smile), just kinda throwing it around, and I want to know if there’s any more history behind that.

Q: You can test your skills against any cornerback in history.

A: Who’s my receiver (laugh)? That’s what you gotta ask.

Q: Jerry Rice.

A: Anybody. If the receiver’s Odell, Jerry Rice, it’s gonna be a play in our favor just because of those guys.

Q: What would be the right girl for you?

A: She’s gotta make some sacrifices.

Q: There has to be more than that.

A: You gotta understand, this is No. 1. You don’t need to waste anybody’s time. I enjoy football.

Q: You’re married to football?

A: And that ain’t changing (smile). I’m coaching too, and that ain’t changing either.

Q: Athletes in other sports you admire?

A: My favorite athlete of all time is Mike Modano. I loved Pudge Rodriguez with the Rangers. I loved Alfonso Soriano … Derek Jeter … Derian Hatcher … Marty Turco … Dirk Nowitzki … nowadays Tyler Seguin … Didi (Gregorious), he’s my favorite Yankee.

Q: Why Didi?

A: I just think he’s the best baseball player on the team. Everything he does is so smooth — the way he takes ground balls, the way he throws, the way he hits, the way he hustles, I watch all that stuff. I go to a Yankees game about once a week now. … Taylor Hall’s really fun to watch with the Devils.

Q: Why was Colt McCoy your guy growing up?

A: He wasn’t the biggest, he wasn’t the tallest, he wasn’t really heavily recruited, but he competes his butt off. I got to meet him at the Redskins game a year ago and he knew who I was, which I thought was the coolest thing in the world.

Q: You played hurt at Texas Tech?

A: I played five games with a torn labrum, and then four games with a fractured left ankle. I wore a boot most of the week … I’m a hockey guy. If you can walk, you can play. My senior year against Oregon State at Cal I dislocated my throwing thumb. I said, “Let’s run the ball.”

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Tom Petty, Mickey Mantle, and Caesar. I wrote a 27-page paper on him in college, so I want to know how he is in real life (laugh).

Q: Favorite movie?

A: Miracle.

Q: Favorite actor?

A: Ben Affleck.

Q: Favorite actress?

A: Margot Robbie. I’d come home at 8 o’clock for her (laugh).

Q: Favorite singer/entertainer?

A: I have a playlist for every day of the week. Whenever we watch film in the quarterback room, it’s my music.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: River Palm, Edgewater, New Jersey, Sushi. I’ll go there once a week with the grand slam ice cream with key lime pie on the side.

Q: What would you say to Giants fans who moan that the team passed on Sam Darnold, Josh Allen and Josh Rosen?

A: We got Eli Manning. He can play as long as he wants. He’s the best quarterback on this team, by far, and he’s gonna continue to be that.

Q: Why wouldn’t you say we got Eli Manning and Davis Webb?

A: We got Eli Manning. I haven’t done anything. I haven’t done crap. I haven’t thrown a touchdown — I haven’t thrown an interception either though (smile). But I haven’t played. So, we have Eli.

Q: Message to Giants fans about this year’s team?

A: You can expect a driven, disciplined, passionate football team. We’re gonna bring back some Giants pride.