Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to the Giant Insider podcast. My name's Jerry Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer, the Heart of Giants Nation. Nobody beats the Biz. Chris Bisignano. And our special guest, Super Bowl champion, tight end. We welcome him back to the Giant Insider podcast. Howard Cross. Welcome, my friend.

Hey, guys. How are you doing? Good, man. Howard, doing good, buddy, and so is the Giants Nation, man. Let's face it, Howard. I mean, back in August, if I would have saw you at camp and told you, Howard, I think we'll be 7 to 4. Going into December, you probably said, Chris, listen, you know, put put a hat on the heats frying your head a little bit too

much but here we are howard seven and four you know what buddy i got to ask you you know tell us some of

the reasons why this team is playing meaningful december games well you know they've done a good job

of winning games uh tight games down the

stretch. They've had like, you know, three or four games that, they were still more like

one or two score games. It wasn't like they were getting blown out in any of the games so far,

which is a good thing. The thing that helps them most of all is that they figured out how to

use the players they have and get the most out all is that they figured out how to use the players

they have and get the most out of them because they don't have one kid that's a deep,

threat, and he didn't show up to the last like three games. And that's Slayton. Outside of that,

everybody else's possession receiver, and some of the people you don't even know,

know their names half the time when they're stepping on the field uh running the ball seems to be you know it's several different ways

they're trying to pull it off uh some of daniel jones running some with saquin running and and when

belliger went out of the game unfortunately uh a few weeks back the running game has been the same

as soon as he comes back it's going to pick back up. Howard? Howard? Just a little follow up. Howard, how much do you attribute to this coaching staff, man, for being seven or four? Tell him, you know, when you see Dable and Kafka and Wink, you know, how much do you say, hey, these guys are such a big reason why these guys are seven to four?

It's amazing. I mean, it's undeniable. That's what the whole thing is. It's like someone asked me one time and give me the best illustrations. It's kind of like watching Peeway football where, you know, you have all these dads and everyone coaching. You'll have some dads to play daddy ball that you have some dads that are crazy want to win every game and then you'll have some dads

that teach the kids how to play and those dads are the other dads and the teams that usually wind

up winning all the games because the dads that are not crazy and everything they're like really

focused in and everybody's buying in and they're able to communicate with everybody on the field.

And no matter who shows up, little Billy showed up a week late and he's already in the game playing.

So it's really funny to put it that way.

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