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It's the Big Blue Banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. Joined is always my co-necernick Philado and my first question for you today. Nick is, do you understand the question, my friend? Do you understand the question? I mean, it's a low-hanging fruit for sure, but the first question you were going to ask me, I was going to prompt it by saying, I understand your question, Dan. And you just threw it out there. And I was like, yes, well, let's see if I understand the question. What is the question, Dan? Because it didn't seem like Joe Shane wanted to answer many of the questions that were levied at him. So his retort was, I understand your question. Basically, like, I understand you guys all think I should

lose my job. But I'm going to try to like just get out of here alive without losing it like

Joe Judge did a few years back. And he and for the most part, he didn't have that type of breakdown.

He definitely seemed nervous. He definitely seemed rushed in his speaking. And to me, the question I

have for you is, did you get the same impression I did? Because I tweeted about this after the

presser. My impression was he did not sound like a guy who feels very confident that he's going to be

back as GM. Yeah, I got that same exact impression. And I wasn't a, I wasn't a hundred percent

sure if it was that or if it was

possibly him just being very nervous because he knew it was going to be contentious and he didn't

want to step on any toes and didn't want to say the wrong thing but at the end of the day I do

not think it's certain that he's going to be back whatsoever and this gets us to probably the

broader point of this podcast,

Dan, is John Merr's decision going to be based on these final freaking four games?

Well, that's the scary part that I want to take. That's ridiculous, bro. Yeah. Well, so this is the

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