Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Join as always my co-s Nick Falado. Today we are here to preview the Giants week five game

against the Saints. An opportunity, Nick, to get this franchise back on track, to get this season back

on track, to give Jackson Dart his second win in only his second start. A lot is on the line this week

and the Giants Open as favorites in this game. They have moved to underdogs in this game, I think

probably due to the Malik neighbor's injury. It's the only reason I could totally, I couldn't

understand why else that line moved from the open to where it is now. But going into this weekend,

on a scale of 1 to 10, give me what your confidence meter is that the Giants will win this football game. Let's start there. Okay. So confidence meter, scale of 1 to 10, 5 being a victory, I would say I'm like 4.9, man. I'm at like 4.9 to 5.1. I don't think this is. Wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on. Did you say five being a victory or you mean 10 being a victory? No, I mean five being a victory. So then how could you be five point one. I'm so confused on this. So five point one would be like I could see them winning but only slightly. Whereas four point nine I could also see them losing. Oh, I see how you're doing this. You're doing a five is a win and that's the middle.

Okay.

Yeah,

the five is the win and that's the middle where I was like one.

They're getting our ass.

I thought you meant the five was a ceiling.

I was like,

how do we get above the ceiling?

No,

no,

no.

You said a scale one to ten,

right?

Yes, because I look at the Saints. This is a team that has battled in every game other than the Seahawks game where they just got trounced. They narrowly escaped with victory against the 49ers. Last week against Buffalo, it looks like a beat down. It really wasn't. And that was in Buffalo. And then week two, it was a very similar outcome as well. It really was only that week three game against Seattle that just completely screwed up Spencer Rattler and the Saints offense. And it's not like Spencer Rattler and the Saints offense is this powerhouse or anything, Dan. But I look at, first I'll get into the comments to Spencer Rattler, which I find very interesting. And I think it's one of those like subtle, well, not even subtle. I don't even know if he meant to, meant to cause this type of controversy, but he basically said everything that we've said on this podcast, which was Shane Bowen and the Giants are not creative from a coverage standpoint. Basically, that kind of doesn't do anything, but he's saying that because he's also played Mike McDonald, you know what I mean? Right. He played that. He saw what that defense did to him.

And the Giants defense more than likely won't do that. It's going to be more so the Giants players, as we've said, defeating the Saints offensive players, which I think can realistically happen. That's why I think they could win this game. But it's a hostile environment. This is a better football team than people realize. and the Giants aren't as good of a football team as some people may believe

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