Welcome back. It's the Big Blue Banter podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Join as always my co-ist, Nick Falado. And I didn't say the Big Blue Banter, New York Giants football podcast this time because I don't know.

I just felt like changing it up a little bit and seeing what people thought about that.

I saw some comments recently. People don't like the New York Giants football part of it.

But you know what?

It's part of our DNA here at the Big Blue Banders. So we're going to keep doing it most of the time. Today, it gave you a little reprieve. But today we wanted to do a draft profile combination thing today. So we're going to, instead of doing one player for this draft profile, It's a three-player draft profile that also looks more 30,000-foot view into one.

Is this? instead of doing one player for this draft profile, it's a three-player draft profile that also

looks more 30,000 foot view into one, is this position the giant should invest in early at 25

with these three guys at the big three at the position. And two, what do the giants look for at this

position? What can help them unlock more of their offense based on some of the film we saw with

the player

who played the position for the Giants last year, John Feliciano. So without further ado, obviously we're talking centers today. We're going to talk about the big three centers in this draft class, John Michael Schmitz, at a Minnesota, another big 10 guy, Joe Tipman out of Wisconsin. Of course, I'm going to be excited about him. He's a badger. You all know how I feel about that team.

And then another big 10 guy, Luke Whippler, out of Ohio State. Of course, I'm going to be excited about him. He's a badger. You all know how I feel about that team.

And then another big 10 guy, Luke Whippler at the Ohio State.

These are the big three centers right now heading into this draft, at least at this time. And so we're going to talk about a bunch about who they are, how they could fit the giant system. what kind of plays, what kind of, you know, different run and past plays the Giants could utilize if they drafted any of these players.

And then where we would want to take them if when, if and when we want to take them. So, Nick, where do you want to start here with these three players? Where's the best starting point? I think we should start with John Michael Schmitz out of Minnesota. He is my highest graded of these three. I still have to watch some of the

backend centers because I'm not necessarily advocating the Giants must take a center at pick

25. We'll talk about that. I'm sure a little bit later. But if they were to go in that direction,

John Michael Schmitz is the center that I would like. But there is a little bit of a projection

with John Michael Schmitz just because we didn't see him run a ton of power gap, right?

He's a lot of zone at Minnesota, a lot of base, a lot of climb up to the second level, some duo, right?

Inside zone, stuff like that. Outside zone, reach blocks, scoop blocks, things along those lines.

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