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

Joined as always my co-ist Nick Vallado.

They were here to do a little bit of touching, a little sprinkling, as some might say, of snow on the ground outside.

And we're going to touch on some early steps and early thoughts and ideas on how Brian

Dable and Joe Shane, who were both brought back by New York Football Giants, can take the opening

steps and the foundation of turning this football team around.

So just looking around how things have gone with their teams and what they can do this

offseason to kind of turn this thing around.

For me, Nick, it kind of starts with following a blueprint similar to the Eagles. And that blueprint would be, in my mind, at least, finding a way to deprioritize matching talent

with need as your process, which I think has kind of taken over

the Giants, both in free agency and specifically in the draft. And being more of a team that

is looking to draft the best player available, but also looking to put an onus on building the

trenches. And I mean a real strong onus on this. You discussed it in a podcast we

recorded before this, Nick. And what you discussed is just the amount of first round picks

the Eagles have used on offensive defense line. But if you expand that to the second,

third rounds, I'm sure you'd see just countless examples of them building the trenches

through the draft. Eight of 13, eight of 13 since 2021 crazy numbers yeah and and i mean look that's a big big time number for the

that's first three rounds that's day one and two where all the talent really is and that's what

i would that would be my first step if i was then putting prioritization prioritization on the

offensive and defensive line as the focal point of this

rebuild, and we'll call it that, and then deprioritizing the whole matching skill with,

sorry, talent, matching in the draft, need with talent.

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