Blue Wire.

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

Joined is always my ghost, Nick Bellato.

Tonight we're lucky because we're joined by special guest Russell Brown, who's here to break down some more draft with us.

You guys might remember him from earlier during the combine when we had him on. We had him on last year as well. This dude knows ball. So we're just excited to hear his

NFL draft thoughts. So Russ, thanks for joining us. Let the people know where they can find

your work right away. Yeah, you can find it at Russ NFL draft on Twitter. You can find

written stuff at the Lions Wire or at FantasyPros.com. A lot of draft

stuff is at Fantasy Pros. A lot of Lions-centric stuff is Lions Wire. But always appreciate

you guys bringing me on. Had a lot of fun when we did it, you know, last month and really looking

forward to this month. So thanks for having me. Yeah, congrats again on Fantasy Pros. That was awesome to see. Yeah, no, thanks, man. It's been a, it's been a ride, but we're just chipping away one step at a time. So, you know, just if anybody out there's feeling like a little underwhelmed or whatever, just keep chipping and keep your head down and keep grinding. Good advice. It's good advice.

It's great advice.

Russ, I think we should start maybe a little bit of 30,000 foot view here.

Just the draft holistically, I feel like the narrative around the draft,

and from everything that I've seen, it does kind of check out.

There's not a lot of blue chip talent here with this draft.

Like you got Will Anderson, you got, you guess you could throw CJ Stroud in there,

Bryce Young, obviously Jalen Carter with all the off the field issue, but there's not a lot of blue chip type of guys. And I just kind of wanted to ask you this. I know it doesn't pertain to the Giants, but the Lions are sitting there picking in top 10. So Russ is a big Lions fan. So with the top 10 pick in a draft that doesn't necessarily have that blue chip type of talent,

what direction do you want the lions to go? is a big Lions fan. So with the top 10 pick in a draft that doesn't necessarily have that blue chip type of

talent, what direction do you want the Lions to go and why?

Man, it's such a bad, it's a great question, but I'm probably the worst person to answer it

because for the first time in my life and I'm not being arrogant or anything,

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