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

Join, as always my ghost, Nick Falado. Today we're here to recap our thoughts, our takeaways,

what we took the most out of from general manager Joe Shane's midseason presser at the by week.

You know, this happens a lot, I think, for GMs, with the Giants, especially.

We saw it with Dave a few times, Joe in the past midseason, or they'll get, I think I said midweek. I meant midseason, they'll give you a presser. They'll give you a little piece. You know, Joe doesn't say much, I don't think. And I tweeted this after it, Nick. my first takeaway was let's not forget what happened on on Hard Knocks when we saw Joe sit down with somebody from Giants PR and he's like basically going over the questions that might be and will be asked to him at the pre-draft presser and giving him the right answers for them. Or, you know, at least going over what could be said in ways around it. So I did feel like it was a bit robotic.

I did feel like it was a bit planned. I didn't think he really broke character at all,

but he did at one point come close to breaking character when Doug impressed him on the

quarterback question and said, wait a second, because he said, would you do anything differently

this offseason at quarterback? He said no, or no, he said,

you know, such as Russell Wilson when you brought him in. And he kind of paused and then said

no. So it was a little bit of a character break and then he was back on track with the whole

boilerplate stuff. So I want to make sure we don't take it fully at face value. And we don't think

this is exactly what Joe Shane thinks about this team, about this roster,

about this quarterback position, quite frankly. But I want to talk about what he said, because

there are a lot of things that are interesting here. And I think the first thing is this idea

that he's preaching, despite the season being two and eight, that the Giants aren't very far away.

And his reasoning for it nick and we can get into our reasons for if we agree or disagree with him i think that's what people

want to hear but his reasoning is that the giants have been in six one score games and i believe

they're one and five in those one score games now i thought bob Skinner of talking Giants had a really good stat pull right after this

presser where he said, this is how meaningless that stat by Joe Shane is.

In 2020, the Giants were six and ten and lost five one score games.

We know that 2020 team had no hope whatsoever.

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