Just Giants Podcast

Third year player Sam Beal opts out just after news that prosecution will continue against DeAndre Baker. Former Giant and Panther CB Ross Cockrell will reportedly sign a contract to fill the void in the Giants secondary. Meanwhile, the college football season teeters on the edge of a 2020 death. Will a CFB season be possible? Spring football? All this and more!

Training Camp is officially open with players reporting! Markus Golden arrives and prepares to sign his deal, Nate Solder opts out of the 2020 season, and Leonard Williams is a little sore. The Giants have shrunk their roster from 90 to 81 players. How will they reformulate the offensive line without Solder?

Training Camp is officially open with players reporting! Markus Golden arrives and prepares to sign his deal, Nate Solder opts out of the 2020 season, and Leonard Williams is a little sore. The Giants have shrunk their roster from 90 to 81 players. How will they reformulate the offensive line without Solder?

Training Camp begins! A flurry of news takes the weekend as Aldrick Rosas is waived, Chandler Catanzaro signed, DeAndre Baker placed on the exempt list, and rookie draft picks are signed. Baseball gets off to a fast start and hits an even faster roadblock. Joe Judge's Giants go into camp with a 90 man roster split into 2 groups and we conclude our 2020 Season Predictions!

As the Giants confirm that there will not be any 2020 season tickets and as of now, no fans at any Giants games, we contemplate whether or not it might be in the best interest of the Giants to have no season at all or not before heading into weeks 14 and 15 of our Season Preview.

A new era begins as Washington officially retires their team name and logo while old debates resurface regarding Leonard Williams and DeAndre Baker. And is Saquon Barkley the best running back in the NFL right now?

Grump and The Cranky Fan discuss the massive contract offered to Patrick Mahomes and how it affects divisional rival Cowboys with their negotiations with Dak Prescott. Also some thoughts on Joe Judge appointing a "leadership counsel" of players and the continuation of the season preview coming out of the week 11 bye week.

Cranky Fan and the Grump continue the Giants season preview with two more divisional games against the Redskins and Eagles. How do the Giants and Redskins team rebuilds compare? Are the Giants still competitive going into their bye week and Thanksgiving weekend?

The Football Grump and Cranky Fan are back to weigh in on the decision made by the New York Giants to extend the payment for season tickets and allow ticket holders to opt out of their tickets without detriment to their PSL before diving into two back to back prime time match ups between the Eagles on Thursday night and the Buccaneers on Monday night in the ongoing way-too-early season predictions.

Giants Kicker Aldrick Rosas arrested? Ezekiel Elliot positive for COVID-19? All this and predicitions about weeks 5-6 of the Giants 2020 regualr season.

The NFL released their protocol for players to return to facilities. Grump and The Cranky Fan review the specifics before continuing their way-too-early schedule preview and take a far away look at weeks 3-4 against the 49ers and Rams.

The Football Grump and The Cranky Fan start their annual summertime season predictions. See how this too-early look at a Week 1 Monday night matchup against Pittsburgh and a Week 2 trip to Chicago shapes up from their perspectives.

New York Giants 2019 First Round Draft Pick Deandre Baker turned himself in to Florida Police Saturday on 4 counts of armed robbery and 4 counts of aggrevated assault. His lawyer's is confident that all the charges will be dropped or dismissed. What are Baker's chances of playing this year? Will he face league punishment? What does this mean for the Giant's secondary? Who's to blame?

The 2020 Schedule was released for the NY Giants and the Football Grump and the Cranky Fan are here to breakdown the interesting twists and turns. Two Monday Night games at Metlife, a stretch of 6 games with 5 division matchups, a week 15 host to Cleveland. It's all covered in this episode.

With a new coaching staff, the first round of Free Agency and the Draft all finally complete and in place, the Grump and the Cranky Fan take a look at the strengths and weaknesses of the 2020 New York Giants. How have the improved and where are the question marks? How does the fifth year option of Peppers and Engram affect the team?

It's been a long offseason and it's been a long draft season, but the 2020 NFL Draft is officially over and the Giants have come away with 10 brand new players. The Football Grump and The Cranky Fan give their overall feelings of the draft, the Giants draft class and the individual picks.

It's finally draft week and while NFL GMs clumsily fumble around with routers, take pictures of monitors, go through practice drafts and have lengthy discussions with their ISPs, Grump and The Cranky Fan take a finally look at the Giants number 4 overall pick in the draft and lay out who they would pick, what they think will happen and more.

The Football Grump and The Cranky Fan spent Easter Sunday taking a drive down memory lane as Fox replayed Super Bowl XVII. This episode is a look back at the game, the broadcast, the season, and all of their places in GIants history and our histories.

Dave Gettleman couldn't possible draft a defensive linemen in this draft too right? Well....the Football Grump and Cranky Fan go over the guys that they could target...even in the first round! Is it possible? Probably not...but not it's not impossible.

April 6th, 2020 was the first day of the league year that coaches could speak with their players and hand out their play books...except for the first time in years, they actually couldn't. We go over this, the President's conference with heads of sports associations, and the NFL memo advising teams to prepare for the first ever fully virtual NFL Draft.