Welcome back. It's the big blue banter New York Giants Football Podcast. I'm Dan Schneier,

joined as always my host, Nick Fulato. Today is day two after another debacle for the Giants.

And we have had the time now to go in and watch the tape and figure out what the Giants were doing,

what they tried to do, Nick, and what they were able to accomplish. We're going to get into the plays a little quicker than we did last time here. And we could start that off right away. I know Nick almost threw one up. But I do like to go before we do that. I threw a lot up last night, I'm not going to have been throwing up all day. I do want to talk quickly, though, about, and I'll give you mine after. I'm going to throw it to you first, Nick. Your just takeaways from watching the film, and I like asking, how did the film differ from maybe what you saw on the broadcast? We're going to go through a couple plays, and I want to address specifically because we talked about them on the live stream. I just have different opinions now that I've seen the All-22, but I'll reserve

that for a little bit later on on the podcast. Look, this is the third week in a row. The Giants

are significantly struggling, handling these four technique, wide nine stunts and twists with

five-man protection. The Giants are a team that they can't run five-man protection right now.

And if you look at the primary reason why, and this is a novel, we've already addressed

it, but I think we need to readdress it, is the offensive line and the rotating musical chairs

that the Giants have up there, not having a true center, which I think is leading to a lot

of miscommunications up front in the protection.

Having Jalen Mayfield play what, 46 snaps.

This guy was a practice squad call up.

And he's playing 46 snaps next to a bunch of young and struggling and developing

players with a quarterback whose confidence could be hurt at this point because he is just

getting hit time and time. And again, I think we must contextualize how this offensive line, it's not habitable for a quarterback to be back there when it's an obvious passing situation. The Giants have to have six, seven men protections. And when you do that, you limit your receiving options. And that's kind of been the story of the Giants right now. Because these teams are pinning their ears back. They know where to align and the Giants are not passing off these twists specifically at a rate that's going to be conducive to success for the Giants. It's just it's a terrible situation up front. That's one of my primary takeaways. There's a bunch more. I'll get into it, but what you have.

So I want to start by saying, I feel like it's a cascading, you know, cascading string of events. The Giants can't block up early in the game, right? So they fall behind for whatever reason,

either the defense or the offense. And then they're in this mode first Dallas, for San Francisco,

first even Arizona, which they were able

to get through to some extent and then these last two games where they're playing so far from

behind that they're in these full pass modes out of the shotgun and defenders don't have to

play the run so they are running to twists with no regard because nothing matters you can just run

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