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Blue Wire.

Welcome back.

This is the Big Blue Banter, New York Giants Football Podcast.

I'm Dan Schneier.

Join, as always, my goal, Nick Palado.

Today, we're here to do another little bit of bi-week contents,

and we're going to take a look at the midseason awards for the New York football

Giants, the midseason superlatives, things that stood out to us, things that we wanted to dive

into at the midseason point where the Giants are six and two coming off the biweek,

headed into a game against the Texans that might be a little trickier than we originally thought just because they kind of gave the Eagles a tough game. And now Xavier McKinney's going to be out. So that's kind of annoying. But we'll see. I still have a lot of confidence in that game. And then the Lions as well, we beat the Packers just recently and showed a little bit of fight. I feel like Nick, every single time the Lions win a game over these last couple Dan Campbell seasons, we get like these insane locker room videos like everyone emotional, everyone hugging. It's just like, it's like you get like one or two wins a year and they're just like they, and I just almost feel bad for them. Maybe hopefully that franchise will turn around. I know some Lions fans. I just wanted to say I feel a little bad for them. But we got those two games coming up. Giants in my mind are in must-win situations. I think if they lose the Texans or the Lions, it's not only going to be surprising and devastating, but it's going to be really detrimental to their chances of making the playoffs. Now, we'll see if that turns out to be true or not. They do have some easy games coming up even later in the season.

The Colts now looking like an easy game, but I don't think it's going to help. Let's say that much. So before we dive into any of that later on this week and later on in the coming weeks, let's talk about some mid-season, five-week fun, some superlatives. I want to start with the one that is always kind of fun to talk about the biggest surprise of the season for you nick who is the

biggest surprise of this season for you, Nick, who is the biggest surprise of this season?

And it could be a player, a development, a coach, anything like that.

I think there are a lot of ways we can take this.

Now, I think the coaching would be the biggest surprise because we figured there would be a coaching upgrade.

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