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Welcome back. It's the big blue banter New York Giants football

podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. Join is always my co-s Nicolato. I know you're probably all thinking about

the future of this team, Joe Shane's presser, some of the bigger stuff, but we are going to do some

film review today because that's what we do here. It'll be a little bit abbreviated.

We're going to get in some plays, hopefully teach you a little bit about the game.

We'll watch a little bit of Jackson Dart on tape and where the Giants are at. I mean, we know at this point there's not too much to focus on when it comes to the defensive side of the ball. Charlie Bowlin will not be back as defensive coordinator. So this defense, while different, won't be what we see next year. But there are still players and we need to evaluate on both sides of the ball, Nick.

So let's start right into it and jump right into the tape.

Yeah, Dan, so before we actually get into the tape, I charted the first down runs just because that was a big topic. And there were a lot of first down runs. But I did want to say, man, whenever the Giants tried to pass, first down, it didn't really go that well,

especially early on. There was an early sack. It was an almost interception when the Giants did try

to throw on first down as well. And a lot of those were off the play action. But it's not like,

like this whole Mike Kafka run the football on first down, even with those mistakes, it's still

pretty irritating because it was not all that successful. I think I had three first down runs that went over three yards or something like that, or maybe it was four yards. So it did not go all that well. And those were just actual runs because there were also RPO's. And then two of those, I think, were throws. One of them was a run. One of them was the bubble that wasn't great with Wondell Robinson and didn't really do all that much. It just felt like the Patriots were on top of everything the Giants were trying to do, which was a problem. Then I think the level of physicality that the Patriots were playing with definitely wore down the Giants' offense as well. That was my initial takeaway as well from watching the tape. I think it was a combo of one,

Frable's defense had a good job of matching and a good job of understanding the chess match,

two,

the physicality,

but also three,

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