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

Join, as always my coach, Nick Vallado. We're back. We're talking Giants football here.

Been a slow, slow last, you know, 72, whatever, added another 24. My math gets grimy at that point, 96 hours or so on the Giants front.

We got the news last week.

The Giants were retaining Brian Daibel and Joe Shane, and the expectation at least given

based on John Maris comments, or maybe they would move forward with a different defensive

coordinator.

We'll talk about that decision in a moment today.

We're going to talk about the Giants decision to, at least according to all reports, one namely from Mike Garifolo, who when he makes a report, Nick, I just write it down. It's almost as good as gold that the Giants will be retaining defensive coordinator, Shane Bowen. We'll talk about that, but first we want to get to this explosive article from Jordan Ronan of ESPN that was later corroborated by Dan Duggan, actually, when Dougan quote tweeted at Nick and basically said like, this is the vibe that I'm getting and this is what I've heard as well.

Specifically on the Nick McLeod stuff, but also on some of the other things that were exposed in that article.

So we'll talk about that and what that means moving forward,

as well as the decision to retain Jane Bowen

or the likely decision to retain Jane Bowen.

Before that, Nick, what did you think about any,

give me any quick, quick, key takeaways

from watching the first weekend of playoff football

and maybe how they could apply to the Giants?

Okay, Jane Daniels, talk about turning a franchise around. Jane Daniels is a guy that

Giant fans will probably learn to resent, but it's so fun watching him play football.

He is uber talented. I low-key love what the Washington commanders have done.

Dan Quinn came in here, and I was, I was a fan of Dan Quinn. Like,

look, he's not this flashy X's and O's guy, but I think he's just a competent football mind to understand how to lead men. And sometimes that's all you need to be a successful head coach. And he came in there and they're a playoff winning team. They went on the road and they defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneer. So I'm, um, you know, I hate that it, this is a divisional rival, obviously.

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