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

Join, as always my co-host, McFillado. Today we got a special show for you. It is

the one, the only. Mark Schofield joining us for the third straight year. This has been

in back-to-back years, our most downloaded podcast, our most listening to podcasts, and it doesn't

surprise me. Mark Schofield, in my mind, is one of the best, if not the best quarterback, all

22 film evaluators, and that's what this podcast has been all about. That's what this podcast is all about breaking down the film. And more importantly, it's about the number one topic surrounding the Giants, Daniel Jones. If you don't believe it, then you haven't been following the NFL. You need a good quarterback to win in this league in my mind. And in a lot of other people's minds, can Jones be that quarterback? Well, there's a lot riding on him this year. So we want to get to the bottom of it with Mark. We want to talk about what he's seen on film, what he's seen from Jason Garrett on film, because that offense is coming back. And we know that, what these new weapons can do for Jones? Will the offensive line progress with Jones? Can Jones help that? There's a lot of questions to be answered, and ultimately, we have high

expectations on the Giants as fans, and obviously Nick and I going into this season, but it does ride a lot on Jones. So let's start this thing right off by first. Well, first, Mark, tell us how you've been, man. I've been good guys, Dan. Nick, it's great to be back with you guys again for, I guess, like you said, the third year in a row.

It's been a nice little summer.

It's summer has actually sort of wanded out. Dan, Nick, it's great to be back with you guys again for, I guess, like you said, the third year in a row.

It's been a nice little summer. It's summer has actually sort of winded down a bit. We are now into August. We get actual NFL football. We're recording this Monday afternoon. We get the Hall of Fame game Thursday. So we got training camps underway. Pads are getting put on. and we're starting to actually talk about positional battles

and things like that rather than you know will ever and rogers come back or not so we're actually

getting true football things to talk about which is always fun but it's great to be back with you guys

you know i did spend my weekend watching some more daniel jones yet again to get ready for the show

so i'm excited i'm pumped and i'm ready to go that's great to hear

mark and you know what I think we'll start with the positives all right so we both dan and I saw

aspects of quarterback play that Jones kind of improved on in 2020 specifically how we manipulated

in middle of the field closed safeties to find backside one-on-one matchups and we feel golden

tape did a solid job with that, but he's no

longer here. Did you see that same thing from Jones? And what else do you think Jones improved on

in that lackluster season that was 2020? Absolutely. And I think, you know, an example of that was a

throw he made on a backside in-breaking route against the Rams. I forget exactly the, you know,

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