Blue Liar.

Welcome back.

It's the Big Blue Banter, New York Giants Football Podcast.

I'm Dan Schneier.

Joined, as always my co-ist, Nick Falado.

They were here to do a little bit of an early recap on the 2022 draft class.

Look, I'll be the first to tell you, you can't really evaluate a draft class until three years down the line.

But what you can do is evaluate what you've seen already after one year and project to what you might see three years down the line.

In addition to that, we both thought it was important to address this class because it is the class, right?

Joe Shane's not going to have another class during his tenure where he gets five and seven. It's just it might, he might, but it's highly unlikely he's going to have a class where he has five and seven. It's highly unlikely he's going to have a class with multiple third round picks. His draft capital was insane in this draft and his first draft. And because his draft capital was so high, it has to be a hit. Like this class has to year one marred by injuries. We'll talk about some of the players who did play. But as we move forward with this year, two, year three, year four with this class, it has to be the hit. This has to be the lifeblood of the franchise because it was their biggest capital draft. And so we're going to talk about some of the players that were selected by the Giants, some of the players selected around the Giants and things of that nature in this podcast. But before we do any of that, Nick, how are you doing today and anything you wanted to add? Dan, this draft class, first off, I'm doing excellent. Thank you so much, as always. But this draft class was interesting, right? Let's try to reflect back on right after the draft when the Giants, day one,

Evan Neal, Kvon, Tibbado, we know that this draft is going to be judged ultimately on the

development of Evan Neal and how Kavon Tibbado progresses throughout his career. But after that,

it was a little bit

lackluster in terms of just, I feel like how people perceived it. It was a lot of draft picks that

a little bit of unknown guys, guys who were deemed reaches. I don't know if ultimately that will be

proven throughout time. I think there are a lot of high upside players a la Joshua Zudu

and a Cordell Flott, as we'll

discuss throughout this podcast.

But I did find it interesting that Joe Shane, according to the draft boards of draft nicks like

Mel Kiper, definitely deviated from public consensus and went with the guys that he wanted.

And that's exactly what I freaking want in my general manager is not to go with public freaking consensus, but go with the guys that he wanted. And that's exactly what I freaking want in my general manager, is not to go with public freaking consensus, but go with the guys that you best think will fit this roster and best fits your long-term view. Yeah, it was interesting from that standpoint. He drafted a lot of the players that the Giants have spent a lot of time with, that they met with, that they got a good feel for

who they were.

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