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

Join as always my co-s, Nick Falado. Today, we're here to break down what we observed and what we saw from the Giants film, the All-22 tape, of their loss to the New Orleans Saints in week 14.

Just like last week, it'll be a combined show.

We'll talk offense.

We'll talk defense.

We'll talk key takeaways, things to go over.

I'll start off here, though, Nick, from my takeaway, watching this game on tape.

I am, okay, let's frame it this way.

If you're looking for something that Brian Davel can bring to John Mara or anybody who's making these football decisions, be like, here's a tape-based example on why I should still be the coach of this team.

I think this is actually a good tape to bring to them.

I was surprised to see so many

open receivers and so many solutions that Daible found. And just how horrible Drew Locke saw the

field, man. This was worse than DeVito, anything I saw from DeVito at any point, worse from

Daniel Jones. If this was the tape, if this was Jones, like if we transported Jones to

hear, this would be like a game where people would be killing him all over Twitter, like

circulating all this film. And like, we would be like killing him because we had expectations

for him. He's a $40 million quarterback, obviously. Drew Locke is a $5 million backup. And it's like,

yeah, maybe that time he spent with Seattle eventually like got used to the system and like figured something out and felt good within it, Nick, like, he is nowhere near where he needs to be in this system. And he was just late for late on so many throws, late to see things on pre-snap reads that I just don't understand, like, why he's going to one side of the field when he should be going to the other side of the field um no trust in neighbors to win his routes and neighbors wins every damn route it feels like I mean there are so few times he doesn't win neighbors and so many times he had won his route with so much space and the ball just doesn't get there I have in my notes Wondale winning a lot of routes that the ball didn't get there and either locked and see it early enough or didn't see it at all. Bellinger, man, Bellinger just open, winning all of the time, all like not getting the ball. Like sometimes he got it, but not as often as he was open, more times than not he was open and didn't get the ball or it was laid and it got batted. I mean, this was just one of the worst, like, I think quarterback, I think this was the worst quarterback performance I saw this year. Just considering how open these receivers were and how many solutions they found. Yet he was still able to make some impressive plays in the second half. And look, yeah, I agree with everything you just said. This is not a surprise if you've watched Drew Locke since training camp. He's not patient. He bails all the time. He does not see what receiver is going to be opened. If he's reading the middle hook linebackers, usually right when you hit that back foot in quick game, you see a linebacker step inside. You know if it's a spacing concept which which the Giants do like to run, you know that outside guy's going to be open. And it just does not process for Drew Locke. It's like everything is coming too fast at this guy. And I know this sounds paradoxical, but I'll say this. The 0 and 8 start thing, I think that was wildly overblown, though. Even though Drew Locke was terrible in this game and

everything you said to open the show, I 100% agree with. I still believe Drew Locke in that 0 and 8

narrative, which was a fact, was also kind of bullshit too, because Tyrone and Tracy Jr. dropped

the first pass of the game. Darius Slayton, that was a catchable throw. It wasn't the best

throw, but that was a catchable pass up the sidelines it would have been an explosive play by drew lock dari slaten did not get that foot in bounds i think malik neighbors would have gotten his foot and bounds and then there was another drop by wondale robinson i think on the second drive so yes he started oh and he had a completion that was called back because josh zudu was in an formation. So it is kind of odd, though. I agree with you. Drew Locke, possibly worse than Tommy DeVito. Still, you could see that arm talent, though, that wasn't so different. So different. So that's why I still think Drew Locke should start, but you just can't trust what's in between the ears. It's just not clicking for Locke in this offense with Brian Daibel.

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