Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I am the senior editor of the

Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer, the heart of Giants Nation, Chris Pisignano.

Chris, as you know, the pleasure of interviewing Phil McConkey, actually last week recorded it.

So that's going to be, we're going to add that to this podcast.

Should be a good one.

But a lot of Giants news, buddy.

First off, Nate Solder is opting out of this year, and I think you put it best when he said,

not a surprise.

Yeah, obviously that was the one guy, everybody was keeping an eye on.

And look, you know, everything he's going through with his family personally.

And then, of course, with his son.

Yeah.

There's no surprise.

So it's probably a smart move.

No question about it.

So he, it's funny.

Like, he came in, like, everybody reported Tuesday, you know?

Yeah.

Jerry, and I reached out to somebody with the Giants and asked, hey, that sold a report, you know?

Right. Right.

And the person got back to me and said, well, we don't have anybody not reporting.

So I guess so, nothing I know of.

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