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

I'm Dan Schneier. Join, as always, when I co-host Nick Falado. Today, with training camp still a few days away.

And even then, it's going to take a little while to get into those padded practice. We want to do something fun before training camp still a few days away, and even then, it's going to take a little while

to get into those pad to practice.

We want to do something fun before training camp gets rolling and before we get into all the nitty

and gritty.

And so today what we're going to do on the Big Blue Bander podcast is a little thought experiment,

a little hypothetical.

So the hypothetical is this.

If the NFL had followed in the NHL's footstep with the Seattle Crackin.

Crackin.

Crackin.

You could either say it that way, Nick, or you could do the old Yiddish way, the Krakken.

I'll leave that to you.

Since they're coming in, imagine there was an NFL expansion team.

So in this scenario, this hypothetical we're having for fun.

Shout out, by the way, to Jimbo, Jimmy from Cresco, my boy, friend for now, a few years now, good guy.

Avid listener of the podcast, he sent me a Instagram about this a little while ago, and we thought it was great content. So what we're going to do is this. If there was an expansion team right now, and the Giants had to protect, seven players on offense, NHL rules, eight players on defense, here's the other rules, all rookies. So everyone selected in 2021 draft is safe. We do not

have to include those players. Also, it is, in this hypothetical, these players are on their current

contract. So with all the picks we make, keep in mind that we will be making it with the current

contracts. One final caveat before we move forward. Nick and I have very similar list, so this is

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