Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Join as always my coach, Nick Falado, and we're coming to you here to break down the all-22

offensive film of the Giants. Week 9 loss to the Washington commanders. I come out of this one

pleasantly surprised after watching the tape,

Nick, and I'll say this after the first half I was concerned. I thought maybe we were going back to the Garrett judge ways of unwatchable tape that you and I somehow slogged through,

by the way. Back to that, like doing screen reviews on an offense that just isn't even

attempting to throw the ball is as painful as it gets for an

analyst, in my mind at least, I am a pro quarterback, pro passing kind of guy. I like to watch a

passing game. I respect a run game. I like a run game, but I like a passing game. But, you know,

I was happy to see it because in the second half, the Giants threw the ball and they threw the ball

well and they found opportunities and there are plays where they use the run game to set up the past.

And I think we want to start here with the key takeaway that we've seen discussed on Giants' Twitter

that both you and I feel pretty strongly about on the other side after watching the tape.

And that is that we don't blame Brian Daibel or the play calling or Daniel Jones

for the zero passing yards at halftime. We don't blame anyone, really. We assess it to football,

to X's and O's. Because when you watch the tape and you see what Washington did to try and stop

the Giants in the first half before they made some adjustments in the

second half, they were inviting the run more than any team has ever invited the run.

And sometimes when a defense invites the run by playing too high safeties or by not only

playing too high safeties, but having a safety shaded all the way over the top of Malik neighbors

to the point where it's like taking him out of the run play, essentially, You can see teams not have success running the ball, but the Giants did have success running the ball into these looks because they blocked up front and they were on point with the timing of their run game. So it's hard for me to sit here in blame Dave or blame Jones when what they were doing was working and when what they were doing was what was

invited to them. It's why you see the chiefs run the ball a lot because they're inviting the run. And so I thought the Giants did a good job in the first half. We'll talk about the second half too, but that was probably my two main takeaways. One, I don't blame them and two. My God, I haven't seen a defensive coordinator pay this much attention to Malik neighbors in a game this entire season.

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