Hey, Giant fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me as always is the beat writer, the Heart of Giants Nation, Big Trust, Woo, Woo! Chris, we've been doing this podcast all offseason, but I feel like kind of like we're back now, right? Like, the games are almost upon us, that the game, the first game is tonight, Giants play Monday night. It just feels like we're coming now right like the games are almost upon us that the game the first game is tonight

giants play monday night it just feels like we're we're coming back a bit bud yeah yeah um it's here

i mean well what can you say it's gonna be a little different no fans but um jerry like we said

last week there was no way i thought we would get to this point yeah and we didn't right it's a credit to the players. It's a credit to the league. It's a credit to Goodell. It's a credit to everybody who put the protocols in place. Look, I'm the first one to call Roger Goodell a tomato. First one. You know? Right. But I'm also the first one to give him credit when credit is due.

Yeah. And him and his lieutenants and doctors and all the teams, medical staff.

And I see Ronnie Barnes.

You know, I was at camp every day.

I saw Ronnie Barnes every day checking this, checking that, you know, and all that.

And it's a credit to the league.

And it's especially credit to the players to

really take care of themselves. And here we are, man. I mean, tonight the chiefs are on, you know,

we kick it off tonight. The Giants go Monday night. There's a full slate, obviously Sunday afternoon.

And the league is ready to go, man. So went from, you know, when back in June, when they said, oh, we're going to have a season,

I'd laugh my butt off, you know?

Yeah.

Now it's like, well, I'm not, boy, did I eat?

You know what?

Here we are, you know?

Yeah, I thought the same thing.

I thought, I thought actually the league would start later.

I thought it would be October, maybe even November start. I guess some of the

advantage was they got to see other sports do it and see how they, you know, reacted to it. And

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