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Evan & Tiki

Giants Draft Debate Explodes After Free Agency Moves

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Evan and Tiki take calls from Giants fans reacting to the first wave of NFL free agency and shift the conversation to the NFL Draft. Should the Giants stay at No. 5, trade back, or target a different position entirely? The debate heats up over team needs, draft value, and why some fans still have PTSD from past top-five picks. The discussion also touches on potential wide receiver options, whether the Giants should prioritize offense or defense in the draft, and which teams could shake up the top of the board. Plus, the guys react to the Jets losing kicker Nick Folk, why special teams can quietly decide games, and pivot to the Knicks after another frustrating loss as concerns about their inconsistency start to grow.

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0:00.0

So here's Sean coming back to work.

0:02.5

I'm busting his balls about Jeremiah Love.

0:04.6

And all this man wants is a vacation.

0:21.5

Well, I just want to sit here and talk some sports and have a nice time today. This is it. I need a break. I can't guarantee you that. Sorry about that. I'll give you my reaction to AVT going to the Patriots in a few minutes. We'll get our fan focus and talk some nicks before this hour is over. but let's get to some of your calls 888808-108-101-1-9,

0:24.7

the total-free number. Let us kick it off with Chris and Merrick. Hey, Chris?

0:27.6

What's up, guys? What's going on? All's well.

0:27.9

Yo.

0:34.3

So, first day of free agency, I'm kind of happy with the Giants did, for the most part.

0:38.3

I would have loved to have brought back called Darrell Flott at that price, particularly.

0:43.5

I didn't see it as an egregious ask, but obviously it fell through.

1:28.3

A little concerning regarding the Jeremiah Love prediction, because I had them trading back to either eight or nine, the Saints or Chiefs, and both the Saints and Chiefs both signed Premier running backs in E.T.N. and Walker. Right. I'm not really sure where the trade back there, if Love is the target would be, giving look at the rest of the kind of layer of the graph. Because it probably, because I'll tell you, Chris, and it's what Tiki said, because the target, hypothetically, would have to be someone who's not a running back. Right. I mean, it would have to be maybe an edge pass rusher that someone loves or I doubt a quarterback because I doubt anyone's trading up for Ty Simpson at five. But that's why when you say and others say, because Jet fans do it too, hey, I'd like to trade back.

1:44.6

I totally get it in theory. Like, I'm not disagreeing that that wouldn't be good for your team, but you need a partner. Right. And sometimes you wonder, like, who's trading up to five with the Giants? We're trading up to the Jets at two. What are they targeting where they're going to give you a big return? Yeah. And the challenge is with this draft in particular,

1:46.4

and we've talked about this a little bit,

1:47.3

really a lot,

2:01.1

that it's not a deep draft in potential all pros slash Hall of Famers. But there are a couple of really good prospects at the top. One of them happens to be a safety. Right. We keep talking about in Caleb Downs, but safeties don't get drafted that high. They don't, yeah. So if you really want that safety, are you going to five to get them?

2:03.8

No, and I do want to be fair now to Sean about this

2:06.7

because you alluded to it, and I want this all written down like

2:09.9

lawyer work. Where in a tradeback in the first round

2:14.8

and the giant selecting Jeremiah Love does our disagreement go away?

2:19.9

Because clearly I'm getting the impression from you, there is a point in the first round where you'd be okay with Jeremiah Love.

2:26.8

It just wouldn't be five. I want full clarification on that.

2:30.0

Yeah, I mean, so the clarification would be I also have to see what we get in a trade back.

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