Welcome back. It's the big blue banter. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. Join, as always my co-ist, Nick Vallado. Today, we're here to jump right into this thing with a mailbag. We love mailbag. Mailbag is actually, Nick and I've talked about us a bunch, but like it might be our favorite thing to do the mailbag. We get to hear your questions. We get to answer them. There's always some unbelievably, like, thoughtful questions involved in the mailback. Never enough of the fun ones that I want. I want, like, fun stuff asking us about pop culture, food, entertainment, but, like, nobody cares about that stuff but me. So I totally understand it. But before we get to that, we want to wrap up and clean up some news. It's Thursday when we are recording this. the Giants are playing their second preseason game on Saturday. As a reminder, both Nick and I have things going on this weekend. I will be watching the game as well, Nick, but we will not be recording after the game. We'll be waiting to get the tape back on the game like we did last week, and we will do a film review of the game. So that's the plan for this weekend's content. Now, the news that we have to clean up. We'll start with the first one. It's the Tyrone Tracy scare Nick. This one is funny for me because I was at an event on Tuesday in the city for CBS. It's an NFL today, CBS NFL Today like Summit. They do it every year. And so just to do a quick,

like humble brag, I got to meet some cool people. I've met these guys before, but I finally got to meet JJ Watt, and I got to talk to him about Wisconsin because JJ was there when I was there, and we discussed the TCU Rose Bowl game and just how, and I brought a question to him, and he, it felt like I was talking his language.

At first I came up to him and he's a little skeptical.

Like there's a lot of people coming up to JJ Watt.

And by the way way these dudes are massive man like j j watt looks like an like an alien almost to a normal human being when he's just walking around at a bar and that's where we were and like matt ryan like all these dudes are like massive human beings like even though they're like skinny skinny now, like Matt Ryan, he's tall. He's like six foot five. You don't see people like that every day. So anyway, I talked to JJ, skeptical at first. And then I was like, I'm speaking his language. I'm because like it makes sense. Like we played TCU dude. And like it took us to the fourth quarter to run power gap behind John Clay. And like then we just went right down the field,, scored a touchdown. And on the two point conversion, ran a passing play that got batted down at the line of scrimmage. Run the damn ball. You're Wisconsin. What were they doing? And JJ told me that was the first time he's ever cried during a game. He was so sad to lose that game. And so we went out to the Rose Bowl, me and my friends to watch the Wisconsin,

one of the biggest losses, I think, of my lifetime as a Badgers fan. So anyway, it was fun. But the point being, I was at this event and on my phone, breaking news, am I supposed to be checking my phone, Nick, Tyrone Tracy, carted off, aircast. And I'm like, are you freaking kidding me? because I'm so excited about this kid.

I really believe he could be potentially the most? Because I'm so excited about this kid.

I really believe he could be potentially the most effective running back on the Giants this

year. Not to say different, but Tracy could add something different in my opinion, especially

if they use him in the past game like he's capable of. And then obviously it turns out to

be just like a low ankle sprain. So just a wild swing of emotions for me. It was the huge swing

of emotions roller coaster. And then all Giants fans are celebrating like, oh, thank God, it's only an

ankle sprain. And I think Monti tweeted somebody who was like, oh, thankfully it's only an ankle

splen. Like, could you imagine seeing that, but not seeing what we expected beforehand, like not seeing the fact that we all thought

this guy was going to lose out on his entire rookie season. So hopefully he'll be back healthy and

ready to go. But it's safe to say, Dan, you were a full 3.9 inches when you were talking to JJ

Watt. And then you just went down when you saw that time. Yes, exactly. It was a total swing of

emotions for me. And yeah, man, so that was great to hear like I guess like, exactly. It was a total swing of emotions for me. And, um, yeah, man, so that was

great to hear like I guess, like, right? Like, it's still not great. Like, we don't want Tyrone

Dracey missing any time, but considering what it could have been, that was great to hear.

And I think your analysis on him is spot on. He could have like such an impactful and important

role on this offense being this chess piece that Brian

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