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

Join, as always my coach, Nick Vallado. We're back. We're talking Giants football here.

Been a slow, slow last, you know, 72, whatever, added another 24. My math gets grimy at that point, 96 hours or so on the Giants front.

We got the news last week.

The Giants were retaining Brian Daibel and Joe Shane.

And the expectation at least given based on John Maris comments, or maybe they would

move forward with a different defensive coordinator.

We'll talk about that decision in a moment today.

We're going to talk about the Giants decision to, at least according to all reports,

one namely from Mike Garifolo, who when he makes a report, Nick, I just write it down.

It's almost as good as gold that the Giants will be retaining defensive coordinator,

Shamone.

We'll talk about that, but first we want to get to this explosive article from Jordan Ronan of ESPN that was later

corroborated by Dan Duggan actually when Duggan quote tweeted at Nick and basically said like

this is the vibe that I'm getting and this is what I've heard as well specifically on the Nick

McLeod stuff but also on some of the other things that were exposed in that article so we'll talk

about that and what that means moving forward,

as well as the decision to retain Jane Bowen

or the likely decision to retain Jane Bowen.

Before that, Nick, what did you think about any,

give me any quick, quick, key takeaways

from watching the first weekend of playoff football

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