Blue Wire. Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. joins those my co-s, Nick Falado. And boy, I got a sigh of a relief right now, Nick. And it looks like you almost looks like you came out of a USC fight, which I guess we can talk about as well. You got a big cut on your nose.

I don't know what that's from. Maybe you got into a fight with a Cardinals fan at halftime or something like that. Somebody said you weren't looking at, you weren't Italian enough, fake Italiano. But look, man, I am, I don't know where I was going with that. But look, dude, I'm breathing a sigh of relief. Like, was this a perfect game for the Giants?

Hell no.

Obviously, we wanted them to blow out the Cardinals. but look dude i'm breathing a sigh or relief like was this a perfect game for the giants hell no

obviously we wanted them to blow out the cardinals but as i said on twitter after the game nick

the team the giants are now is not what we want them to be the expectations and hope that we

had for this giant's football team they're not there right now if they had to play right now in the

playoffs nick i would have zero faith or hope that they would make any kind of playoff run. But it's

week two of the regular season. And what matters really in reality in the playoffs every single

year, year after year is how your team looks in week 17 or, you know, January, late January,

February, that's when it matters. Whatever the team looks like then is what's going to matter. But to only even have that opportunity, Nick, to get there, you need to win these kinds of games. Because if you lose and go 0 and two against the Cardinals with San Fran on a short week, it's over. The season's literally over. You can call it like you want, but unless you upset the 49ers season is over now, they have a little bit of breathing room, I think, a little more breathing room. They avoid the O and three. So just an incredibly exciting way to save this season is how I'd like to call it, Nick. What are your thoughts? Tell me about the fight you got into with the Cardinals fan. And let me know what the perspective was like just being at the game. And I'm going to tweet out the link while you do that. Perspective from being at the game. First off, I didn't get into a fight at the game. I just scratched my nose trying to crack. I always crack my nose because I just have the ability to do so. And sometimes I slip and scratch it like a dumbass. So that's what happened there. But dude, it was a ton of giant fans that were at that game. Behind the giant sidelines was just

all blue. And I think you heard that. What percentage would you say? I would say maybe about 40.

Maybe something like that 40, which is insane to think about. And then giant fans were louder than the

Cardinal fans. And you can see it in the second half. I mean, how many false start penalties? I think they

took two false start penalties, the Cardinals at the end of the game when they were attempting to drive

down the field and kick a game winning field goal. Giants fans were getting hyped. They were getting

loud.

And I also just want to say Daniel Jones in the first half, look, the protection was,

I would say, I guess, a little bit better. You would imagine that it was in week one,

but it was still not perfect. But Daniel Jones struggled in the first half. He was missing some

throws, was not great. Came out in the second half, put the team on his back and had darts. The throw outside the numbers to Jalen Hyatt was beautiful. Thrown on a line off of play action. The one to Darius Slayton to the inside shoulder when it was, I think it was Marco Wilson was in tight man-to-hand coverage. Very good coverage from Marco Wilson on Darius Slate. He was right in his hit pocket. Great route, great rep by Darius Slaten and a beautiful ball from Daniel Jones to allow Darius Slaten to be the only one to catch that football. So Daniel Jones, man, when all the chips were pushed forward, Dan, gambling reference, I think. He really rose to the occasion and put the team on his back.

Yeah, you're right.

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