Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Joined as always my ghost, Nicolato. It's fun tonight because we get to break down the Giants defense on the All-22 film.

A dominant freaking effort, man. I don't care what the final score says. Oh, seven points. That wasn't seven points.

Giants fumbled a punt inside their own 15-yard line, and Washington scored a touchdown on that. That ain't points. They had a goal line stand in the end of the game, essentially, a goal or a goal to go stand at the end of the game, turnover on downs, interception of Deonti Banks, sane number of sacks. as Nick said to me in our pre-pod conversation on text, it felt like

there was a million three-in-outs.

It felt like, it was just three-and-out.

After three-and-out, we kept looking at the time on the clock when watching got the ballback,

just ridiculous slew of three-and-outs and third-down stops by this giant's defense,

completely overwhelmed Washington at the point of attack on the offensive line, just completely overwhelmed them. Some weird decisions, in my opinion, by the Washington coaching staff. I think they're clearly worse with Eric B. enemy versus Scott Turner, clearly worse. One of those things, no one thinks. They think, oh, it's Eric B. enemy. You should have had a head coach. I'd be so good, Scott Turner.

Who's that?

The film hasn't said that story for a long damn time. Scott Turner was wildly underrated as a coordinator. And B. Enemy, I didn't see much because Andy Reid ran that offense. I'm seeing some now, Nick. And I felt like they didn't run counter enough. They didn't run enough of those pinball concepts that killed the Giants.

They didn't stick to the run game enough.

They left Nick Gates one-on-one against Dexter Lawrence, which was stupid. They double-team Lawrence at a, uh, underwhelming rate compared to what the rest of the league did against Xer Lawrence this game, which was stupid. So Wink Martindale was in his bag on this one, Nick. He dominated Bianamy in this one, and the Giants defense as well dominated this Washington offense.

A lot of the reason. in his bag on this one, Nick. He dominated Bienemy in this one, and the Giants defense as well

dominated this Washington offense. A lot of the reason why Eric B. Enemy came off looking bad,

though, was the defense's ability and Wink Martindale's ability to dictate to the offense,

just based off matchup Sam Howe's limitations. I mean, Sam Howell was sacked the most times

heading into this game. The Giants doubled what they had in sacks throughout the entire season. They had six sacks in this game. They only had five entering this matchup. And dude, Wink Martindale is like a salivating dog, entering a matchup against a quarterback like Sam Hal who is prone to take sacks. And I agree Eric B.imi could have done some things differently. But look, when you crowd the line of scrimmage, you force one-on-one matchups. And that's what Wink Martindale does. Crowds a line of scrimmage. He forces one-on-one matchups. And Nick Gates is that damn unfortunate soul who has to block big number 97 all by himself way too often but i'll say this too man to your point about just washington and just

curious play fortunate soul who has to block big number 97 all by himself way too often.

But I'll say this too, man, to your point about just Washington and just curious play

calls, there were times where they left Sam Hal on five man protection.

It's like this kid didn't even have a shot because he had his back foot.

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