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New York Giants football podcast.

I'm Dan Schneier.

It's always my co-ist, Nick Colato.

Coming down a little bit after last night's loss, we were angry.

I was angry.

I listened back this morning, Nick.

I had a crazy rant on there, but, you know, in the moment, in the heat of it,

motions, you know, played a factor there for all of us, I believe. I said this online today, Nick, I was doom scrolling last night to like, I looked at my phone as like 4.13 a.m. when I finally stopped and then I couldn't sleep for like two hours. I saw the sun come up this morning. It was horrible.

I'm on two or three hours sleep today.

Just a disaster all around.

This team has put us in, you know, but we move forward. We have time today to look at the tape, and that's what we did. We watched you all 22 film. There were some positives, which will go over. Obviously, there were a lot of negatives, which will go over. But first, I want to talk about something that you brought up to me off pod, Nick, that I thought was a great point that I haven't seen discussed a lot on Giants Twitter today or by any analysts or beat reporters. And it was the impact of the loss of Daniel Bellinger. And obviously, those know now, Daniel Bellinger and John Michael Schmitz got injured on the push-tush-push play, the fourth and one sneak that the Giants didn't convert, double injury.

As you can see from the rest of the game, both before and after Bellinger left the field, the Giants weren't able to run 12 personnel the way they wanted to with Bellinger not on the field.

You mentioned at best, Cager had what, five snaps. Lawrence Cager is not Daniel Bellinger not on the field. You mentioned it best.

Cager had what five snaps?

Lawrence Cager is not Daniel Bellinger. Lawrence Cager can't block like Daniel Bellinger. Lawrence Cager doesn't know the offense like Daniel Bellinger. Lawrence Cager has not been taking first team reps with Daniel Jones like Daniel Bellinger. The chemistry is not there either with Daniel Jones, just in the passing game alone. and it impacted what they could do in the sense that you saw a lot of shotgun,

you saw a lot of 11 personnel,

you saw a lot of shotgun. You saw a lot of 11 personnel. You saw a, you know, in some ways going away because they did run the ball out of shotgun. You saw them go away from running from under center, in my opinion, after Bellinger's absence. So I want to leave, want to start there, Nick. What do you make of that impact? And how can the

Giants really adjust? Because we kind of get the feeling now that this team isn't as

effective out of 11 personnel as they are out of 12 with Bellinger and Waller on the field.

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