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

Join as always my co-ist Nick Vallado. And is there any explanation for what the hell

happened on those second and long plays by the Giants defense against the Washington commanders

that in a lot of ways the side of the game? I don't know, but I'm going to run them as we

discuss exactly what happened to the New York Giants defense. I don't know, but I'm going to run them as we discuss exactly what

happened to the New York Giants defense. It just seemed like Cliff Kingsbury punched Shane

Bowen in the mouth. And this is like the third time that he was able to do that just that first

is just all jaden. Yeah, Jane Daniels is so difficult to defend. And I don't want to,

I don't want to devalue that whatsoever, because obviously he's such a talented player.

But the way that Washington uses Jane Daniels as a threat to enhance their rushing attack, it just toyed with the New York Giants, basically this entire game.

We'll get into the rushing attack and all of that. But you could see all of these, if you're watching on YouTube, these second and longs that end up being third and longs that are still completed because it was like Washington would confirm, okay, this is going to be man coverage. We're going to hit that deep horizontal cross. There's going to be a quick hitter on this play. And there were certain times where the New York Giants played it well, they bottled it up and they forced puns.

But overall, it's just, it's such a difficult task.

And it just didn't seem like the Giants had many answers whatsoever.

Yeah.

And it was just saw in the first rep of this one.

Jane and Daniels just went through the first read, went to the second read, and then bought time and found Debo Samuel. And you'll see that on a few of these plays. He's really quick to go through his progression, San Daniels, and he has an insanely lightning quick release. And then when he releases the ball, he has pinpoint placement and velocity on the past. He is everything you want as a quarterback. Yeah, here, here's the play that you're referencing. And this is a second and 16 with quarter to 10, 24 left. And it's not even like going through, I mean, he is going through his progressions, but what ends up creating the opening is Jane Daniels using his legs and getting outside. And that removes Brian Burns and gets Brian Burns to wide out and gain width in his depth to cut off the angle for Jane Daniels. Then Devo Samuel is just like, all right, bet I'm just going to get where Brian Burns was and I'll be wide open. And that's exactly what happens. And it's just how many times on tape, Dan, did the Washington commanders just have so much space in the intermediate parts of the field in the middle of the field, right? A place where the New York Giants offense doesn't target, there's just so much space for the Washington commanders to exploit. And then the second downplay, this is the one that has me most frustrated with Bowen. This is like the classic Bowen frustration play for me. It's second and 19. And look at just the spacing that we allow here. First of all, I don't even understand why that underneath defender is that worried about the

underneath, who is that a chip and release from the tight end?

He doesn't need a widen that much in my mind.

He can cut that area off while also maintaining integrity to the middle of the field and not

allowing this throwing lane.

But there's just so many plays like this, I feel like on second and long from Bowen, where he just drops to these crazy depths and there just opens up this hole for these timing-based quarterbacks and these rhythm throwers like Daniels to take advantage of when instead we could maybe be blitzing or doing something interesting to try to stop a second and 19. But you just give up the 14, 15 yards here and you just allow this possibility on a third and short. Yeah, Terry McLaurin is so savvy as a route runner too. Like it might not look like much, but the way he widens here and then just breaks this route off. Sure. And he's very smooth. And Darius Muisal is just getting way too attached to Zach Ertz.

I'm not worrying about this because you have Tyler Nubin,

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