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Welcome back to the show, hour two of our two hour radio program leading you into Don, Han, and Rosenberg.

And now we turn to our good friend Chris Sims from NBC. He does college. He does pros. He has his own podcast. He's a man about town. And he joins us now on the show. Chris, how you doing, man? I'm good. I'm good, Big Michael. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing great. Were you stunned that A, the Giants played as well as they did in Denver, and then stunned also that they let that lead get away. Yeah, I mean, I think both. Yes, you can have both there. I was stunned. I mean, you know, the silver lining is it was dominant, really, for the better part of three quarters, right? And I didn't expect that. The other silver lining is, yeah, we had moments of the defense looking good and dominant at all that.

And then, of course, the quarterback. I mean, the quarterback has proven to be an elite playmaker. I mean, when you have 15 completions and it's almost 300 yards passing, that tells you when he completes a pass. It's a big play. It changes field position. So, yes, I did not expect all that. and then of course, yeah, the blowing of the lead and all that.

That was the... field position. So yes, I did not expect all that. And then, of course, yeah, the blowing of the lead and all

that. That was the first time and a long time on a Sunday night. I was really feeling down in the

dumps about the New York Giants. So fans felt that way. You felt that way. Obviously, the team had

to be devastated. So how do they bounce back from that? Is that really a test of Brian Dable, how he keeps his troops together? Or is it an individual thing where players have to just erase that from their mind? Eagles are next. It's all of it. It's all. You need voices in the locker room. You need the players individually to look at themselves in the mirror a little bit and be like, okay, we got to put that away, you know, wipe the slate clean here. It's on Brian Dayball to also have the right messages there about moving forward. I worry about it. I just tell you that that much right now. I think that last week's loss is the kind of loss where like one loss one loss is affected, and now we got two losses because of that first loss. That was crushing. I mean, again, if they win that football game, it's like, oh, okay, you know, we're not a playoff team, but we're in the thick of things. I mean, we've been real competitive and crazy. So to blow that lead the way they did, and, you know, I think fault goes on everybody. I hear a little too much blame on the Giants' defense. I get that too. But, man, I think it's just as egregious of what the Giants did on offense. Run the ball on first, run the ball on second against the craziest defense in football. And then, hey, everybody, we're throwing with Jackson Dar here. Oh, we threw an interception. I'm shocked by that, a rookie quarterback of that. And then do this very same thing, the next drive, that deserves just as much blame as the defense, if not more. To run the ball on first and second down when there's 10 and 11 guys within four yards of the line of scrimmage this day and age of the NFL, that's when you've got to break out one of your Q play action passes or a bootleg and get a cheap first down because they're selling out to stop the run. To me, that was disappointing too, Michael. So there are a lot of coaches that excel in the last two minutes and they know how to win games. And we've had two games this year, the cowboy game and then the Bronco game and also

a game in New Orleans that they should have won.

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