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Make sure to read the full terms and disclaimer, plus complete the survey for a chance to win. Bluewirepods.com slash survey. The link is also in the show notes of this episode. Welcome back. It's the Big Blue Banter. New York Giants Football Podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. Join as always my host, Nick Falado. and today we're joined by a special guest, a reoccurring guest. It's Sean Syed of Syed schemes on Twitter. Stats and Schemes podcast now. It's the ringers, or I'm sorry, it's the Ringers Philly special podcast. Wow, all sorts of things now, Sean. You're writing for Sumer sports, doing all sorts of things these days. I remember you from when you broke down the Vikings Giants game from a couple years ago for us and made some unbelievable calls, including breaking down what that Vikings run game was going to look like against the Giants and pretty much pinpoint calling it. And that's what's great about watching so much film like you do, breaking it down and giving us the X-in-node breakdown.

You can find little things like that or big things like that that end up coming true. That's what we're going to do today. The season is almost here, boys. We've got tonight, we're recording this on Thursday. We've got Chiefs Ravens tonight. I'm extremely excited about that. Are you pumped for the season, Sean? I am so excited. I love football just so, so much.

But really, I'm excited to be talking to you guys.

Because, you know, I get to go back to the motherland and visit that northern New Jersey area a few times a year. But talking to people from there, you know, I miss it a lot. So I'm glad that we can go back and forth today. And here we are, Sean. We're going to talk about it. And I know that

you're not a Minnesota Vikings fan. And I remember you made that clear last time we had you on the

podcast. But the Minnesota Vikings right now, they're in a weird state. They lost JJ McCarthy.

I feel like every time I see a Vikings fan on Twitter, they are incredibly negative. Now,

how are they feeling? Are they snake bitten? What are the expectations? What do you have on that, Sean? Yeah, I mean, the Vikings have been snake bitten for a long time. And now does that stand back to losing the 2001 NFC championship game against the Giants? It may be just floating in the air in Minnesota. But the Vikings have had Kirk Cousins, who had times when he was playing at a really high level, and then also situations like against the Giants where he just wasn't good enough. So Cousins obviously doesn't get that long-term contract again with the Vikings. And Hope is just always high. And the Giants fans know this when you have that draft pick instead of just actual players. But you get J.J. McC JJ McCarthy in the preseason. And, you know, he, he plays well in that game, comes out of it

with an unfortunate season ending injury. So the expectations in a division where you have the

lions, you have the Packers, and even the emerging bears, unfortunately, I think that the fan base,

the vibes are are a little bit down bad.

I think the vibes are actually pretty similar for the Giants and Vikings fan bases right now,

but hopefully the Giants can turn things around and change those vibes.

And maybe it starts this week because I think this is a pivotal game for both these franchises for 2024.

I don't know that either these teams can afford to lose this game, to be quite frank,

given the schedule for both.

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