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

Join as always my coach, Nick Falado. Today we're here to recap the Giants all 22 film on the offensive side of the ball against the Steelers in their week.

Eight lost to the Steelers, dropping the Giants to two, two and six.

As we always do, and I really appreciate the

commenter who said something last week about how what really stands out about our show to him

is that unlike some of these other film cut up shows, it's not just play after play after play.

It's us breaking down concepts and then talking about things and then going to the film as

evidence of things that we just broke down.

So that's something we'll continue to do. I really appreciate that. One thing we ask of you is please hit the like button if you're watching right now. We need your help. We need your help to support the show. These videos, the algorithm with YouTube, it all relies on your likes, your comments, and subscribing to the page. We're going to drive right now, Nick and I to get to 10,000 subscribers as soon as possible. We're about a thousand and a half off from that number. We would like to hit 10K. You can help us do that. We keep seeing, you know, some people saying, oh, I just found your show a week ago or two weeks ago. Thank you for finding the show and thank you for supporting the show. And also let us know how you found it. We want to know if that's just through like the algorithm with YouTube, a natural kind of organic thing from people liking the show. So please hit the like button right now. It's going to take you a couple seconds. It helps us a lot. Nick, how are you doing today after watching the tape this morning? I love watching the New York Giants tape. No, but honestly, it wasn't as bad as I think. It wasn't that bad. Daniel Jones actually had some nice throws in the second half. He's still doing Daniel Jones things and he didn't take advantage of situations that presented themselves that

could have earned the New York Giants to win. But how about yourself, man? What's you up to?

Definitely a better feeling than I had watching the Cincinnati tape and Eagles tape. Those

were just throw them out tape, hard to watch, nothing fun about them, no good throws all game.

This game had good throws from Daniel Jones. Weirdly enough, Nick, and it's maybe something we can talk about at some point. But it just seems to me like when it's all on the line, like that last drive of the game, we see some of his best work that Theo Johnson throw, the neighbors throw along the sideline. I don't know what it is. Some people have suggested to me it's that like during the beginning of the game, he's thinking a lot. And then at the end of the game, you take the thinking off his plate and you can just play free. I just don't understand why you wouldn't play free the whole game at this point in your career. There's no real reason not to do mistakes. Don't worry about them so much. But it is so odd to me. I think the main takeaway I had from watching the film was that the Giants did a much better job in this game of establishing a balance between the run and the past. And it's what allowed them to stay in the game. It's what allowed them to have a chance to come back in the game. And quite frankly, it's what generated most of their offense, the balance in this game. They hit some big plays.

A lot of those big plays might not be possible if they didn't hit the plays in the run game. In the past game, I'm saying. And then they hit the plays in the run game. And Tyrone Tracy, this is the second time we've seen him, Nick. We'll talk about him in a little bit. This is the second time we've seen him in a lot of ways put the offense on his back. sure there were some big plays in the past game as well,

but Tracy was really the engine of this offense in this game. Both halves were started with two

consecutive runs, whether it be zone read to start and then duo or duo to start and then zone

read. So the Giants were diversifying their rushing attack through similar type of looks.

They were running shotgun duo. It looked like it could be his own read. And that changes the reeds for the linebackers and gave the New York Giants an advantage up front. It's one of the reasons why there was some space for the New York Giants. And I want to say this too, man, the Giants opened some holes for Tyrone Tracy Jr. Tyrone Tracey Jr., he maximized those holes, but I felt like

John Michael Schmitz, John Runyon a little bit. I was a little bit disappointed with his performance,

but the interior offensive line, they were able to create some space. And that was enhanced by the

play calling from the New York Giants, the doubling up of rushing, the changing of the rushing

scheme. And then in the second half, they changed it up again.

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