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Blue Lianter. New York Giants Football Podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. Join his always my co. I'm Nick Pallado. We've got a little bit of time here. Nick's got to go soon. He's got to pick his parents up in the airport. So we don't want to do that horrible son that leaves his parents waiting at the airport.

I know a little bit about Nick's father. He would, I just have a feeling he's the type of dad that would be super pissed off if you left him waiting for like a minute there. So we won't do that. We're going to talk a little bit though about the trade deadline today. the Giants making no moves at the trade deadline and a little bit of what Joe Shane said as presser.

So I want to start, Nick, by just going over some of what was available. And we can know that by just looking at the other trades that were made, right? Specifically at wide receiver here, we saw Chase Claypool be traded for a second round pick from the Bears, though it is the Raven second round pick. So it's not as bad. Obviously, the Ravens will have a little better. No, I think I thought it was the Bears second round. It ended up being the Bears. I thought it was originally the Ravens. Okay. So that's even worse. So we got a big premium pick for Jay's Claypool. The, there were the only other receiver trade, which was an interesting one, was the Calvin Ridley from the Falcons to the Jaguars. And they're going to get a 2023 fifth round pick and then a conditional 2024 pick. But the cool thing about that for Jags is they play this thing right. They can use 2023 as a rental year for Ridley. If they don't resign him in 2024, they're going to get a comp pick back as long as he performs well with Lawrence, which I think he will. Or they sign him and they just give up a second round pick, but they'll be happy because they get the Stefan Diggs, bona fide wide receiver one type of play. So out of all the moves that were made for receivers, the only one that I would have considered would be the Ridley deal. But I do overall think I'm happy the Giants did not make that trade either because ridley is an older prospect. And if they resigned him, it would be, you know, close to his age 30 season for that 2024 season. Worth the second round pick, but a little bit older. Otherwise, you can't really blame the Giants for not making trades when there weren't really players to trade for. You can name all these guys, Jerry Judy, but who knows if they were actually on the block or not? It's all speculation, and none of those players were actually

traded except for Claypool and Calvin Ridley. And Ridley was the only, I'm sorry, Claypool was the only

one who actually helped him for this year. And I sure as hell wouldn't trade my second round pick for

Chase Claypool. I don't know about you. No, I would not do that either. I'm happy with what Joe Shane did.

I know a lot of people aren't, or at least there seems to be a lot of people who aren't, but

watch his presser. And you just look at the way this man carries himself and the way he answers

the questions. He is so well thought out. There is a real process here. He has a value for

every target that he is going to pursue. And if teams don't want, it takes two to tango, if teams don't want to meet that value, then he's just going to pass it up, which I love. He's not going to overreact. The Giants are six and two. Maybe they didn't expect to be six and two in the preseason, but they're not going to overreact and just go out and

trade more than what they value a player for. And who wouldn't love that trait and characteristic in a general manager? Yeah, I would. And I love what he said. You know, he broke it down pretty clearly. He was like, guys got to look at the economics of this thing. He's like, right? Listen, A lot of teams are still in contention, first of all.

That's point one.

Point two, a lot of players are injured across the NFL. So a lot of teams have a lot of attrition. Three, there aren't that many actual players to pick from from this player pool. It's not like a draft. It's not like a free agency. It's a very limited pool. So he's like, all it takes is one team to outbid you and you're done. And you get past the

point of what you think is fair value for these players. So he's like, all it takes is one team to outbid you and you're done. And you get

past the point of what you think is fair value for these players. So that tells me they were in on some of these players that were traded or that were almost traded and didn't get traded. And he said it wasn't just receivers. He talked about all the positions. And he even mentioned like, look, we want upgrade our receivers we don't want games like the jaggs where there's a lot of drops but he's like

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