Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. My name is Gary Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer and the heart of Giants Nation. Chris Bissignano. Chris, there is a lot of good feeling, a lot of positivity around this team. We talk about it. And and man nothing exemplifies that more than what

fan fest being sold out thought it was a you know zeppelin concert from the 70s sold out in

what like 10 minutes right yeah i mean can can the goodwill be any higher right now but yeah no

it can't um look we i think everybody thought they're going to have open practices like six or seven or eight of them. That didn't work out. Then they opened up this one for the fan fest. They called it. They're going to have all kinds of, besides the practice, all kinds of festivities. But, Jerry, like you said, man, it went from $ went from 20,000 I think and all of a sudden

they had to kick it up to 50,000 and then they had to stop the request well within a day

jerry right it was pretty fast the same day yeah it was the same day so I mean that goes to show

you enthusiasm around this team man yeah from the fan base and you know somebody put on

Twitter it was some kind of some kind of

poll or something about enthusiasm towards your teams as you're heading into 2021 and the giants

were right up there I forget who put that out but yeah the giants are the giants were right

up there um and that goes to show you man it was 50 was 50,000 seats gone, right? In a matter of hours, whatever it was. And Jerry, you talk to fans, right? We go back and forth on Twitter with people. You talk to people on, you know, privately, Jerry, I'm sure, right? That you meet or your friends. Yep. And I don't think there's one person I've run into either, Jerry, either it could be around my neighborhood, it could be on the golf course, it could be anywhere, right, Jerry? It could be in a store. Yeah. And you're talking giant football. I don't think I've run into one person to say, you know what? I'm not really excited about this season. I don't like this guy. I don't like this. I can't find anybody, Jerry. Everybody seems to be like so looking forward to this season. It's a lot different than the last few years, too. And Judge has a year under his belt, and you can just feel it. Like, the fan base, I would say, is 99.9% that judges the guy. And the big question is all the time,

it's, well, what about the O line? But that's it. Like, normally it's, I don't know about this,

this guy or that guy. I mean, what amazes me is Daniel Jones seems to be an afterthought at this

point. He's not even brought up first. It's, it's, yeah, I'm really concerned about the O line.

Any concerns about Jones?

No, I mean, I would say nine to ten giant fans have no concern with Daniel Jones.

And it's, it's the, you know, the players that were brought in last year, how well the defense played.

And I think Joe Judge, that really has everyone excited year, how well the defense played, and I think Joe Judge,

that really has everyone excited. I mean, the defense should be loaded and better than last year.

And they just, you know, you brought it up earlier when we were talking, the interview with Joe

Judge and Pete Schroger and Sean McVeigh, like, you listen to Joe Judge. How can you not be excited for this season, dude? Yeah, I think you hit it right in the head, dude. You hit it right in the head. So let's break down some of the reasons why the enthusiasm is so high. Yeah. Right, Jerry? So to me, and I think you just led me right into it. You hit it right in ahead. I think the fan base is so in on Joe Judge. I think they feel rightfully so right now at this point that, hey, we're in the right hands, you know, this guy is going to lead us to where we want to go. You know, if we had a half-fast coach, I think people like, all right, you know,

we might be, you know, he had 500. Yeah, I feel pretty decent. But I think so many people,

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