Blue Wire. Welcome back. It's the Big Blue Banser. New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier. I joined as always my coast, Nick Palado. It's draft season. Draft profiles are on the way. You've probably heard a few. We've already dropped. More coming. But one thing we want to start to do as well is look at some 30,000-foot view stuff.

And so today, as you can see from the title of this episode, we are breaking down what our

opinion is on the Giants five biggest needs heading into the 2022 draft. Now let me make things

clear before we get started on the criteria. This is not going to be a list of on paper the obvious biggest needs. This is also not going to be a list of on paper what we want. We don't, Nick and I are not the analysts to come to that say, our needs are this and this and this. That means round one, you take this position, round two, you take that position, round three, you take that position. Only idiots draft like that. Only the worst teams in NFL history, the teams that fire their GMs and cycle through GMs are the teams that are drafting on need. The draft is not about filling your needs. The draft is about finding your foundational core players. You don't need to worry about needs in the draft. If anything, free agency is for filling needs. And you really shouldn't even go crazy there. Don't do any big contracts, but middling contracts to fill needs. The draft is all about finding your core foundational players. And you can really never have too many players at any one position, is the real honesty about it. Maybe quarterback's the only one. If you have obviously, like one of the elite guys, you don't need to keep going there. But really, you can never have too many of one position

except for something like quarterback or center is a good example that too, right? Nick, if you have

an elite center and he's young, there's no real reason to draft the center because it's a one-d

position. But every other position besides center and besides quarterback, you really never have

too many of.

And they can come on the field from multiple on the field at the same time.

There's injuries.

So what we're going to do here is focus on positional value while ranking our five

biggest needs, right?

Because obviously you can look on paper and say center is the biggest need because we only have Ben Bredison there right now, but center is a onesie position. So it's not going to be the number one need for Nick or I because we don't believe in onesie positions being pushed up the board because we are a positional value focused podcast. We are, and good, by the way, Joe Shane has made multiple mentions throughout his tenure that he is positional value focus as well.

So that's going to factor in as well.

But here's what we're going to do. We're going to break down our five biggest needs, each of us, one by one. I'll have Nick go, then I'll go. And then we're just going to talk about each position. So it's not going to be an order of that. we're just going to go through all the positions that we ranked.

And if we have different ones, we'll each talk about that position as well.

So, Nick, you can go and go from an order of 5 to 1. So your fifth biggest need, you know, actually that can be confusing. I take it back. Go your biggest need first because it's less confusing and all the way down to five and then I'll do mine and we'll see what we compare. Dan, I feel like you did a good job laying out the foundation of this because if you look at this Giants roster, they have needs everywhere. All right. So I think it's going to come down to how the Giants value said player. But for the sake of this podcast, we did make a list of five, but there are positions that aren't on

this list that I'm like, dude, this is a freaking need. I do not want to admit this. I'm going to get trashed for this. But right now, sitting in this chair, this is the five that I came up with. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a different list. But here's the five. I'll start with number one. I still think it's cornerback. I do. I like Cordell Flot. I think O'Rier is a... Wait, wait for now to get into the breakdown. We'll go position by position. For now, just rank them, and then we'll do it that way. Okay. So number one is cornerback. You want me to go through my top five right now?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh,

we'll go position my position after that.

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