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

I joined as always my coach, Nick Vallado. And I'm excited today for a multiple of things. One, we're joined by Phoenix, Nick's dog. Two, I got my favorite giant shirt on. Get compliments for this thing every day that I wear it. It's fucking, it's effing sweet.

It's a nice shirt, Dan. It was also very expensive. One of those, like, good, feel, material ones. I wear it. It's fucking, it's effing sweet. It's a nice shirt, Dan. It was also very expensive.

It was also very expensive. One of those, like, good field material ones. I want more, and I will buy more. I'm going to buy a red one, but we're talking about like a $50 t-shirt. So it's a little bit absurd. I'm not spending $50 or something, but it's kind of worth it because I love this thing. three, I'm excited because Nick was at training camp against.

We get live thoughts from someone with their boots on the ground.

And then four, the offense finally looked pretty. this thing. Three, I'm excited because Nick was at training camp against. We get live thoughts from

someone with their boots on the ground. And then four, the offense finally looked pretty damn good. Trend continues, man. We're taking deep shots this year. The Brian Dable offense likes to air it out. And finally, today we connected on some deep shots, one to Hyatt and one to neighbors. We're going to talk about all of that and more. But before we do that, Nick, let's just get your overall

thoughts from a really hot day, uh, Hyatt and went to neighbors. We're going to talk about all of that and more. But before we do

that, Nick, let's just get your overall thoughts from a really hot day covering the Giants at training

camp. Yeah, my first thought was it was incredibly hot, Dan, today. And you could tell that everybody

was feeling it. I felt like Brian Daibel was being very judicious with certain periods.

After certain team periods, he would have the guys take their helmets off and kind of go through slow walkthroughs. It was in

shells today. Tomorrow, it's going to be a padded practice. So it's going to be exciting. But there were

a lot of reporters sweating out there. And practice was also, I don't want to say cut short,

but it didn't go all the way to noon. Typically it does. It was cut short by about 20 minutes if you want to phrase it that way. And then the media, we talked to some of the, we talked Greg Van Rote and Bobby O'Caricay. Another important note, we typically do that inside. So you can hear what the players are saying. Today we did not because it seemed like the New York

Giants were working out another offensive lineman because Carmen Brissillo and one of the

guys from the front office and another coach went into the field house where the media

usually goes to work out presumably an offensive lineman. We'll probably hear about that in the

coming days. Well, that's interesting. The Giants are working out another offensive lineman. Wow, I don't know where that puts them at from a John Michael Schmitt's health standpoint or an Evan Neal. Brian Daibald did say before practice that John Michael Schmit is close to returning. Still no real update on Evan Neal, though. I think I saw on your Twitter or somebody else's Twitter that Evan Neal was running on the side, doing like little quick sprints. That wasn't my Twitter. I didn't see much of Evan Neal. I've seen him out of practice through previous practices. John Michael Schmitz, I'm not overly worried about. Greg Van Routen with the Giants just signed. He ended up taking the first, first team snaps and then Austin Schlottening kind of

slid in there and assumed that duty because Greg Van Roten, he's slowly getting brought into

the fold now that he just signed here earlier this week. But it does seem like Greg Van Rohn,

he has a chance to earn that backup center role. It's real, again, man, we spent a lot of time talking

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