Welcome back. It's the Big Blue Panther New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Join as always my co-host Nick Bellato. And we've got a busy day of New York Giants football news.

And a busy next few days. It's exciting, man. It's time for football. Like the regular season is almost here.

Last night, I realized that's the last Monday without Monday for football. Like the regular season is almost here.

Last night, I realized that's the last Monday without Monday night football in a long,

long time.

And I'm so excited for that.

We have exciting stuff coming today.

We are going to break down some of the early Giants roster cuts and our reactions to that. We are also going to talk about a couple interesting nuggets from Ryan Dunleavy.

Shout out Ryan Dunleavy on potential Giants trades that didn't happen. And then the big one for me, Nick,

possibility that Andrew Thomas might not be ready for week one and what that might mean for the

Giants. We'll go over that. Stay tuned with us, though, over the next week or so before the season opener, as we will be doing a few things. Bold predictions for the Giants this year. I want to do a Giants Awards predictions show that I think will be fun for us, and I'll come up with some good superlatives that I think we'll both have fun with. That's the one I'm most looking forward to. Record prediction, which we promised like months ago and still haven't done. And then hopefully preview for that first Washington Commander's game. But let's start here,

Nick, with the early cuts. I want to hear your thoughts on surprise cuts or anything that really

stood out to you. So the biggest surprise, I think, would probably be Elijah Chapman because

there was utility on both sides of the football

and also special teams. So really all three phases. Now, when it comes to this, this doesn't

not mean the New York Giants are done with defensive tackle slash fullback Elijah Chapman. It's

just they don't believe another team will likely burn a waiver priority on him because he is

subject to waivers. Remember, the veterans with more than four seasons in the NFL, they are not going to is subject to waivers. Remember, the veterans with more

than four seasons in the NFL, they are not going to be subject to waivers. They will just be

free agents. The Giants hold that third waiver priority and that can be used on players who do not

have four years under their belt of experience. So those vested veterans, they are just going to be

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