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 Bizignan or Chris, before we begin this episode, I want to thank our sponsor, Fitzpatrick's Crestavern, located at 9600 Pacific Avenue in Diamond Beach, which is just between Wildwood Crest and Cape May. They have 18 widescreen TVs, a huge selection of beers on tap, a number of appetizers, including the Mardi Gras shrimp, which is my favorite, and a number of delicious menu items as well, or dinner items as well, I should say, bake grouper, Linguine and Mussels, brooder fried flounder. So if you find yourself vacationing in the South Jersey Shore, head over to Fitzpatrick Crest Tavern and tell the owner Sam Fitzpatrick that the giant insider sent me like Joey Z did for us. It's Fitzpatrick's Crest Tavern, 9600 Pacific Avenue and Diamond Beach, the best shuck in town. First off, before we get going, Chris, I just want to thank everybody who joined the watch party last night. Sixty-six people at one point. It was insane. Thanks, guys. You made

it as tolerable as possible watching that. Now, Chris, both of us had them losing. I had 34-17,

I guess from a point differential standpoint, I was pretty close, right?

It was 30 to 12 final.

But I thought that that 3417 would be the result of like a less second kind of touchdown that got them closer.

The strange thing about this game for me, Chris, and tell me if I'm wrong, It felt like a game for about three quarters. And look,

guys, the 49ers are immensely more talented. We have a number of problems, right? From a talent

standpoint, from a, look, from a tackling standpoint, we'll get into it. But it felt like a game

for three quarters. We were in it. I think Jones did all he could. But in the end, you know, the end result

was not surprising. This is one of the best teams in the league, definitely the NFC, but the league as

well. And you just saw how far the Giants have to go to still get to that level of competition,

in my opinion, Chris. Yeah, you know what?

This isn't a matter of right and wrong.

But I'm going to differ.

Like you felt it was a game.

I got to be honest.

Even when it was 17, 12, I didn't think it was, I didn't think I still was looking at

this game like when I'm winning this game.

Yeah, that's the feeling I had.

And they made it when they made it 20 to 12 and all that, I understand the scoreboard said they win a game. And it's right. You know, you make a play, you could take the lead, whatever it might be. But that whole second here, even when they cut it, I was looking at it like, okay, it's nice. It's 17, 12. Now it's 20 to 12-9s, but then I would make this game.

You know, that's the, look, Jerry, this is just my opinion. This isn't right. I guess I should say that the score was way closer than I thought it was going to be. Everybody, look, Jerry, you're right. It was a game. It was 17, 12, and a second half. It was a game.

You just,

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