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Big Blue Banter: A New York Giants Football Podcast

Giants Fail to Adjust at Half, Eli Manning's Return Falls Short

Big Blue Banter: A New York Giants Football Podcast

Blue Wire

Sports News, Football, Sports, News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dan Schneier and Nick Falato provide key takeaways and tackle all of the story-lines from the Giants' Week 14 loss to the Eagles on Monday Night Football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome back.

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This is the Big Blue Banter New York Giants podcast.

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I'm Dan Schneier.

0:51.6

And I'm joined, as always, by my co-s, Nicolado.

2:01.2

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you look at this season as a fan, we're coming to after another Giants' loss. It seems fathomable that they've lost another game. This losing streak continues to grow. This was a meltdown loss, to be honest, no matter how you look at it, even though you can say the Giants are outmatch coming in, Eagles are not a good football team, and the Giants lost the game. They should have probably won. They didn't adjust at halftime, versus an Eagles team that did adjust. The opposite happened, you know, really throughout the, at the end of the game, you kind of saw the Giants run defense wear down, a front wear down that was really good all game, but also some really good play calling by the Eagles to move guys into motion and to get them, you know, to get them in run plays that were advantageous based on how they used pre-snap motion, which we saw in the overtime on back-to-back plays. So I want to start there, Nick. I want to figure out in your opinion, just from watching the broadcast, and I know this will be a better question for you once we dive into the All-22. But what happened in those final few drives for the Giants' defense, and how did they break down? And I'm including the overtime drive. It just seemed like the up-tempo initially really, I don't want to say took the Giants off guard,

2:05.4

but the Giants struggled to defend that uptempo and then that quick screen game that they were utilizing against this Giants front. And it had me sitting there in my chair,

2:11.0

on my couch, on my fat ass, going, why is James Betcher not adjusting to this right away?

2:17.2

Because I don't remember exactly what drive, at least the timing of it, but the drive with Eagles really started to hit their stride. I don't believe Boston Scott ended up scoring on that specific drive I'm alluding to. They just kept hitting quick screens to Scott, quick screens. And the Giants were not guarding it near the line of scrimmage. They weren't really accounting for it.

2:34.9

And it was one of those things where I look at it. I'm like, this team does not have any weapons right now outside of Zach. You know, you still have Dallas Goddard. Why are they not protecting against his big screen? They seem like maybe they were playing too far back. Couldn't really tell from that broadcast angle. But what really happened there? Why was the Giants allowing the Eagles to do

2:52.4

everything that, like really the only thing the Eagles could do to beat the Giants? The Giants seem to

2:57.4

allow them to do that. And I just want to know why Betcher wasn't adjusting to that. I would love to

3:02.3

see what was happening on the back end of the defense. I think that's a great point, Nick,

3:05.9

because you look at a game like this and you kind

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