Welcome back. It's the Big Blue Banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier,

joined as always by Nick, my whole co-host, Nick Falado. And today, the nightmare is finally

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There's nothing else that's impactful that's happened in Giantsland.

Is there, Dan?

Well, we're doing a quick podcast, emergency pod on the Giants decision to release Daniel Jones,

John Marr, Giants president,

released a statement today that said, look, we, Daniel Jones came to me this morning and he

asked for his release. So we granted him his release. This doesn't benefit the Giants in any way

to release Daniel Jones. It could ultimately hurt the Giants by giving another team an advantage,

which I'll talk about in a little bit. Brian Daible today said he was surprised by this. He thought that I guess I'm surprised why he's surprised, Nick, but he's disabled was surprised. He thought Daniel Jones would just take the scout team and just run with it. But I'm not surprised by it. Daniel Jones is a competitor and he wants an opportunity to sign with another team where he's not just going to be a scout team safety QB4.

The scout team thing is overblown. I think. Yeah. Like it's not like like, hey, Daniel Jones, you're on scout team now. Get over there. You fricking loser. Like the media is trying to make it to be. I think it was like in an install period where they just needed somebody to stand there. It's not like he's like taking drops and trying to like knock passes away necessarily on scout team or trying to be competitive in that nature.

He's just occupying a space because he's not the first team quarterback. That's at least my read on the situation, but it's great for like media to grab it and shit on a team that's already kick him while they're down. And maybe they deserve to be kicked, but I think this one's overbler. And I think, I think, though, this played a major factor in the Giants decision ultimately to grant them his release. Now, I think the Giants are a stand-up organization, despite what a lot of people might say. And they would have granted his release no matter what. But anyone who was on Giants Twitter or, you know, reading articles or anything yesterday knew that this was becoming a major

distraction for the team immediately within the first 24 hours, right? You had a, what was it?

33 articles from Pat Leonard on the same topic yesterday. Between yet in the last 24 hours,

I think I'd seen four, legitimately five articles by Pat Leonard saying the same thing, culminating

with him saying, the giants are pushing out the door like a legend. It's almost like you're talking about him like a legend. Like the stand up guy, they're pushing out the door. Like you knew at that point when it started to get media frenzy like that, they had to do something. It couldn't just, they're trying to run a football team here, Nick. They're trying to win games down the stretch. And having a distraction like that where the media is going to write about him every week, they're going to ask DeVito about DJ every week, they're going to ask Locke about DJ every week. They're going to ask neighbors about DJ every week. Every single player is going to have to answer these questions about a player who is benched and who is not going to play again for the rest of the season is essentially cut by all means without actually being cut. So it doesn't surprise me that the Giants viewed this for them as mutually beneficial as well so they can get rid of this. And within a week or two, I think we're going to finally be at the end of having to even reference Daniel Jones, at least these media members, I don't know how they're going to cover it the rest of the season. I assume they're going to be done with it, Pat Leonard and the likes. They're going to have to,

you know, focus on something else. I'm sure for Leonard, he'll, you know, go into, oh, dables, a disaster, the locker room's a disaster, changes disaster. Because, you know, that's how he does his business and that's fine that's his way of life uh not trying to disparage him i'm

sorry nick i know you don't love this stuff but i do what i do and it is what it is that's how i feel

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