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

Join as always my coach, Nick Falado, and we're coming to you here to break down the all-22

offensive film of the Giants. Week 9 loss to the Washington commanders. I come out of this one

pleasantly surprised after watching the tape, Nick,

and I'll say this after the first half I was concerned. I thought maybe we were going back

to the Garrett judge ways of unwatchable tape that you and I somehow slogged through, by the way.

Back to that, like doing phone reviews on an offense that just isn't even attempting to throw

the ball is as painful as it gets for an analyst.

In my mind, at least, I am a pro quarterback, pro passing kind of guy.

I like to watch a passing game.

I respect the run game.

I like a run game, but like a passing game.

But, you know, I was happy to see it because in the second half, the Giants threw the ball and they threw the ball well and they found opportunities and there are plays where they use the run game to set up the past.

And I think we want to start here with the key takeaway that we've seen discussed on Giants Twitter that both you and I feel pretty strongly about on the other side after watching the tape.

And that is that we don't blame Brian Daible or the play calling or Daniel Jones for

the zero passing yards at halftime. We don't blame anyone, really. We assess it to football,

to X's and O's. Because when you watch the tape and you see what Washington did to try and stop

the Giants in the first half before they made some adjustments in the

second half. They were inviting the run more than any team has ever invited the run. And sometimes

when a defense invites the run by playing too high safeties or by not only playing too high

safeties, but having a safety shaded all the way over the top of Malik neighbors to the point

where it's like taking him out of the run play, essentially, you can see teams not have success running the ball, but the Giants did have

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