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Welcome back. This is the Big Blue Banter. Welcome back.

This is the big blue banter.

New York Giants football podcast.

I'm Dan Schneier.

Joined as always my co-s, Nick Falado.

It's mailbag time.

And we're looking at our Google Doc.

And there's nine pages of questions.

So that's awesome.

Thank you all for heating the call on Twitter. It's a really only place we advertise this. A lot of questions this week. Some are evergreen. Some are not. We consider pushing some back, but we're just going to let it rip. We're going to keep these to a tight hour. So there'll be multiple of these. If you're interested in these mailbag type shows, you'll have a bunch of content to listen to. and I think some of it will be applicable next week as well as we, you know, have this 14 day period in my mind before the next meaningful giant game. I know that's highly debated with some fans, but that's how I'm viewing this thing. No offense to week 18 with nothing to play for. But having said that, if your question isn't answered in this first one, it's probably going to be answered in the second one. If it's not answering the second one, it'll be answered in the third one. So maybe that's our little, like, a ploy to get you to listen to all these. No, just kidding. If you do want to just hear your own question, reach out to me and I could let you know which episode it's on because we're organizing it by the doc. But without further ado, Nick, you want to jump into this thing or do you have anything you want to say? Now, let's get right into it, Dan. We'll start with Jonathan Schmidt's question. It's a two-part question. First, is the Giants drafting three wide receivers in this year's draft a crazy thought? The free agent class is pretty weak and at the moment, we probably only have Wondell

coming back mid year, Isaiah Hodgins and maybe Sterling Shepard coming back.

If we draft three wide receivers, we give ourselves the opportunity to firmly, and then

it goes to two, part two, I guess, lock up the position for a while at a very cost effective price, which is important given the vast number of holes we have elsewhere. That doesn't preclude getting a true number one later on, though I do think the money will be better spent elsewhere this all season. It is only one question. That's just how the tweet ended up organizing it. Yeah. It's an interesting question, Jonathan. It's an interesting experiment. I also think if you're going this route, you're hoping to find a number one. If you're taking a wide receiver like in the first round and the second round and maybe like in the third or fourth or fifth, you're hoping to get a wide receiver one out of this. I don't think every pick the Giants make is going to be like a Wondell Robinson type pick. that's not to knock the guy, but I don't really truly see wide receiver one in his future. And that's fine. They didn't really want, they wanted something else when they drafted him. And they needed something else. And I think he'll be back to. So as far as the question goes, it is interesting because if you did hit on two of the three, let's say, you would have them under team control for a while. The issue with that is we're seeing more and more, especially at the wide receiver position, you don't really get to, if the guy breaks out, you don't really get to enjoy the rookie contract anymore at that position. D.K. Metcalf is a good example. Last season, off season, he basically said, I'm not going to play for the Seahawks if you don't't resign me to a mega deal right now. I don't need to play here. Like I'll just walk when my deal's up in a year or two. And that's happening with a lot of wide receivers. So I don't think the cost effective thing plays out as, as maybe we would think it does on paper. And I think there's too much risk personally. I don't mind cluster drafting, but I think there's too much risk personally to use like two of their first three picks, let's say, on a wide receiver because I just feel like there's a massive, massive amount of holes from a depth standpoint on the defensive side of the ball and from a starting standpoint at multiple positions on a defense side of the ball. I actually am hoping for a defensive heavy draft overall. That doesn't mean I won't take a wide receiver if there's one there that I like or two there that I like or an offensive lineman that I like or a tight end that I like or maybe even a running back that I like. But I am typically if I had to guess right now, I mean, if I had to maybe like, you know, prognosticate right now, I would say

defensive heavy is where I would hope this draft goes. I just look at both sides of the ball

and I think there's way less depth on the defensive side of the ball. I also think the Giants do a

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