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Welcome back. This is the Big Blue Banter New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Joining as always my co-host, Nick Falado. Today we're going to continue our positional breakdown series looking at the Giants depth chart prior to training camp which will begin now in just

under two weeks we're going to see them report probably not our first practice for probably another

on a 17 20 days I would think somewhere in that range for the first practice that we'll be able to

report on analyze and move forward with but for now we have to break down the depth chart. And so let's do that. And today we're going to look at the off-ball linebackers. On the last podcast, we broke down the edge group. We've done the defensive line. And now we're doing the off-ball linebackers, a position Nick and I have really wanted the Giants to invest in over each of the last two draft

classes hasn't really worked out in that way.

I think overall, the NFL in general, Giants included, probably viewed this position having

less importance than, I'm not saying we do as to why me and Nick wanted them to invest.

We just think it could be cool to have an excellent inside linebacker to put next to Blake Martinez. It just sounds fun to have a Michael Parsons out there, to have a Jimin Davis out there, to have Akeem Davis Gather, even, if you're looking at a day three guy who we wanted, who was in the last draft class before this one because the way this defense is set up

schematically those guys could really do a lot of damage based on the interior guys they have in

front of them and so we're going to talk about what they do have today but before we do that

nick how has your week been going since we last spoke it's been going well man it's been going

well like i always say just waiting for the New York Giants training camp, man,

because it's going to be full steam ahead, dude.

Anyway, we have fantasy season coming up, Dan. You know you're going to be excited about that. We're going to be in a fantasy league together, a dynasty league we're starting. It's going to be really exciting. Yeah, me and Nick are going to be competing against each other for the first time in fantasy sports.

Now, Nick considers himself an excellent fantasy player. I believe in, but I have yet to see it. I never said that. Well, you do consider it. You don't have to say it, Nick. I know that you consider it. You don't have to say it. Okay, just because you're not saying it out loud doesn't mean you think. Just be, you don't have to be humble here.

There's no reason to be humble here. You can be yourself, Nick, and you're an excellent player. You put a lot of time into it. You put a lot of thought into it. One thing Nick has never been able to embrace, though, when it comes to fantasy, and I know this just from having countless conversations with him about this last offseason. He's never been able to embrace the variance that is involved in fantasy football.

He can understand it.

He can accept it live. countless conversations with him about this last off-season. He's never been able to embrace the variance that is involved in fantasy football.

He can understand it.

He can accept it, logically speaking, but then he'll just complain about it and act as if he

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