Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. Joined as always my co-s, Nick Falado. And today we're lucky. We got a special guest on. It's Warren Sharp. You obviously know him from all of his football analysis. I'm sure you have already followed him on Twitter. But if not, he's one of the best follows on Twitter. And that's at Sharp Football.

That's S-H-A-R-P football. But today we're here to talk about something better than that. We're here to talk about the Sharp 2025 football preview, an insanely comprehensive football guide. I'm looking through this. We're reading through it now. Nick and I were just stunned at all the detail in this. If you love the kind of analysis that we do on the show, which is football-based analytics, you're going to love this book. Now, it's not as much film, but it is all based on film analytics, all the stuff that we talk about on the show. And we're going to get into a lot of that today, because there's a lot to talk about when it comes to the giant, just reading through some of the efficiency metrics in this book. So for those who are interested in the book after listening to what Warren has to say today, you can actually get the book as a special if you're a listener to this podcast for $1, the PDF book using the code Giants. And that's at sharp, that's the sharp 2025 football preview. Nick will put the link in the notes.

It's an unbelievable value, unbelievable buy. You're going to learn a lot, a lot of what we'll talk about today, but a lot more than what we're going to talk about today. So without further ado, Warren, how are you doing today, my friend? I'm doing great. Happy to join you guys. Certainly a lot to talk about with the Giants this upcoming season, the direction of this franchise, etc.

But I'm just thrilled that, you know, we got pretty... lot to talk about with the Giants this upcoming season, the direction of this franchise, etc.

But I'm just thrilled that, you know, we got preseason games here coming up at the end of this

month.

We've got players reporting to camp in five days from today.

So it's just a real hotbed of NFL news and kind of the trend of the direction of this offseason is really going to

pick up pace here soon. And I'm happy to be done with this is what the book looks like.

586 pages, 32 different team chapters. And now that I'm done with it, I can join guys like

yourselves and chat about different teams. So this is the most fun part of my offseason is being done with the book, being able to talk to people about the teams. So I'm looking forward to it. And every square inch of every page in that book is jammed up with great data. I'm not even getting. I'm looking at it right now. So it's good stuff. Excellent job. Hopefully enjoy if you drink a beer or something, you deserved it after all of this for real.

Also, I'd be remiss if I did not acknowledge that you have an awesome mustache as well. We have two guys with great mustaches. So I had to put that out there in the football world. Now, let's talk a little bit about football, Warren. And I wanted to start with the strength of schedule for 2025

before we talk about 2024, just because a lot of people on Giants Twitter, we're rightfully

talking about it. The New York Giants seem to have the hardest schedule in the entire

national football league. And you also articulate that in your work as well. So I just wanted to

ask you, why exactly is this schedule so hard?

Like how are you basing that?

And I guess how do you think the Giants are going to fare with this terrible

schedule that they have in 2025?

Well, it's brutal.

Normally you would think that a team that was within one game, you know, week 17,

if they lose that game, they have the number one overall

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