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Welcome back. This is the Big Blue Banter. Welcome back.

This is the Big Blue Banter, New York Giants football podcast.

I'm Dan Schneier.

Join, as always, my co-ist Nick Colbado.

Today, we're going to break down the Giants defense on the all-pudity film.

So let's dive right into that bad boy right now.

Let's start with the first drive for the Giants here where they actually did a

really good job getting off the field, almost had an interception on this drive, floated just

slightly out of bounds. But in the end, it was a five play 23-yard drive for the Vikings that

ended in a punt. It starts in a 12 personnel look from the Vikings where they run a little play action from under center and find Adam Thielen for six yards. Yeah, Dan, this was Thielen's only catch in the game, I think. He only had, I think, a couple other targets. And I was a little surprised, but I also appreciate the fact that Link Martindale's changing up his defense. Giants did not run a lot of cover one in this game. And you're going

up against a receiver like Justin Jefferson. You're going to see a lot more cover six, a lot more

just double covering types of situations. And I felt like in this game, the New York Giants have done

that. Like straying away from cover one isn't necessarily associated with what Wing Martindale

does. And I think he only ran cover one, like less than 10% of the plays in this game.

And this is also a good look at sometimes, you know, the Giants have run this play with the boot, right? And you could kind of see like, oh, it looks like a receiver's open. Hawkinson, but, you know, Cousins ends up checking it down to Thielen. And it's a lot, probably a lot, you know, we don't see a lot of teams run this against the Giants, obviously running on their offense.

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