Hey, Giant fans. Welcome to the Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer in the heart of Giants Nation. Nobody beats the biz. Chris Bizzignano. Chris, I don't know about you, but I love this time of year. The holiday season, the weather's getting nicer. It's getting warmer.

Well, you know, for a week, yeah. I'm sure you've thought about at least hitting the links again. I don't know if you have or not, but. No, no, next week, though, yeah. Oh, there you go. Okay. But lots of, lots of good things going on right now. But, Chris, I got to be honest with you, I am wishing every day away right now to get to Sunday. I cannot wait for this game. I think there's a palpable enthusiasm among the

Giants fan base. This is the biggest game we've had in years. And I just cannot wait,

dude, to wake up Sunday morning knowing that if the Giants win,

they can get into the playoffs for the first time since 2016.

And, you know, it continues.

The rebuild year that was supposed to be a rebuild gets a continue for us.

And we go into January with playoffs on the horizon.

Yeah.

And look, if everything works out Sunday, it's still a very good chance.

They could see Minnesota again, too.

You know, but I was interested.

I was in a locker room yesterday, and I was curious to get the temperature.

I'll gauge the temperature with the plays a little bit.

Everybody's evening keel, just like the regular season. You know, I didn't sense no anxiousness, you know, it's just, you know, Dable's doing a hell of a job just saying, you know, this is just another game, let's go on and all. That's what he tells the media all the time. And from what I understand, that that's been a message from all the coaches you know guys it's the cults matter of fact dable even said yesterday um

you know when away from the press he was on his side talking a few of us and he was like

why aren't you asking about the colts more who cares about the playoffs you know he's like we're

worried about is the colts here you know why why are more questions about the cults you. Who cares about the playoffs? He's like, we're worried about as the Colts here.

You know, why are more questions about the Colts, you know? Right. And all that. So, that's the focus. Now, we'll see if a guy like Daniel, you'll know right away if he's a little uptight, I shouldn't say uptight, a little anxious, a little nervous, you know, a little tight. if he comes out and throws

it like he has a couple

balls of sail on him, maybe he falls over the head of a few guys. And that's usually a sign of all right, guys are a little tight. He has to calm down a little bit, you know. So, I mean, we'll be curious to see what, you know, how Daniel responds in the first quarter, of which is basically like a playoff game. You know, you win, you're in. I mean, it's like a playoff time atmosphere, you know? Yeah. And it's a big test for Daniel. Look, he responded against Washington, which was like a playoff game. You didn't see any sign of him being nervous, anxious, tight, nothing like that, you know. So I expect to sing Daniel Sunday against the

Colts. I don't expect him to come out, overthrow a few guys because he's a little tight in the

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