00:00Look, I don't care how you win, a win's a win, you move on to the next game.
00:03Give Philly credit.
00:04They've got a 19-game lead in the NFC East.
00:07I think the magic number is like four right now.
00:10I think it's five.
00:11So any combination of Eagles wins and Washington-Dallas-New York losses
00:17that add up to five, they're going to clinch the division at Thanksgiving.
00:21No joke.
00:21Yeah, no, literally.
00:22That's not a table.
00:24Black Friday, yeah.
00:24But the Giants did something that we all saw coming
00:26after they, again, had a fourth-quarter collapse against the Chicago Bears.
00:30This time, John Maurer didn't wait to the end of the season
00:33and said, peace out, you're gone.
00:35Brian Dable's been fired.
00:36One playoff win in the four years he was there.
00:38But what I found amazing, and I mentioned this on my walking talk yesterday,
00:42is the fact that they not only kept Joe Shane, the embattled general manager,
00:47who has done a terrible job, in my opinion, as general manager,
00:50but they've empowered him.
00:52They've given him autonomy now.
00:54Now, sadly, John Maurer, who does run the franchise, is dealing with cancer.
00:59And obviously, that takes away a good deal of your focus from football.
01:03You're trying to survive.
01:04And I totally respect that.
01:06If he were healthy and not dealing with this cancer scare,
01:10my gut is that Joe Shane would have been fired as well.
01:13So you give him grace in that regard because he's got some personal stuff going on,
01:17which legitimately is life and death.
01:19So I want to be respectful of that.
01:20But when you look at the two guys, right, Joe Shane picks the players.
01:26Brian Dable coaches the players.
01:28There was one particular player, though, where that didn't happen that way.
01:32And that player is now the savior of the franchise, Jackson Dart.
01:37We have all seen the video of Brian Dable begging the Giants and Joe Shane to draft Jackson Dart.
01:45And Joe Shane's dismissive of it.
01:46And Joe Shane says, you know, if you get a third-round pick right, no one's going to care about it or remember it.
01:52But if you're a man of your conviction, you sound like you are, and you want him,
01:57I want to be clear to everybody in this room, it's his pick.
02:01Right?
02:02We all saw the video.
02:03I'm paraphrasing it a bit there.
02:05Joe Shane picked Jackson Dart but told everybody, it's not my pick.
02:12It's Dable's pick.
02:13Well, guess what?
02:15In the four years that these guys have been here, the one pick that we can agree they got right was the Jackson Dart pick.
02:24I know you're going to say, Malik Neighbors, I agree with you.
02:26He's hurt.
02:27We don't know what he's going to come back and be like because his game's predicated on speed, and he tore his ACL, right?
02:33I assume he'll be fine.
02:34I think so.
02:35But we just don't know.
02:36Now, so the one pick that we know worked, the future of the franchise, you know, the heir apparent to Phil Simms' fortune is Jackson Dart.
02:44And we know that was not Joe Shane's pick.
02:47We know that Joe Shane is also the guy that quite famously on Hard Knocks said, I'm not paying a quarterback $20 million to hand the ball off to a $12 million running back.
02:58Hey, Saquon, we're going to give you your outright release and let you go wherever you want and get nothing in return.
03:06And what does Saquon do?
03:08He goes 90 miles down the turnpike, signs with Philadelphia, has 2,000-yard season, wins the Super Bowl, and gets an extension.
03:17Got it because he was that great.
03:19He had to reward him.
03:19So Joe Shane screwed the pooch on Saquon Barkley, got nothing in return.
03:25Joe Shane did not want the now savior of the franchise.
03:29That was a Brian Dable hire.
03:31Joe Shane wasted picks on Kayvon Thibodeau and then Hyatt, who's an average wide receiver at best, and Evan Neal, who's a disgrace at the offensive line, and a donut for the New York Giants.
03:44And I could go on and on and on and on and on.
03:48I give him credit for the Brian Burns deal.
03:50I give him credit for that.
03:52He's been very good.
03:52He's a great defensive player.
03:54Excellent player.
03:54So that's the one little mark in the pro column.
03:57But all the other stuff is negative.
04:00And what I learned, and I learned the valuable lesson years ago that came back yesterday when I saw that the Giants had fired Brian Dable, which, frankly, we all saw coming.
04:10And there's no defense to Brian Dable that he should have kept this job.
04:13He didn't earn it.
04:14No.
04:14He didn't deserve it.
04:15He's going to get paid millions of dollars now by the New York Giants for the rest of his contract.
04:19There's no argument to be made that the Giants didn't do the right thing.
04:23They need a new head coach.
04:24We'll get to that in a second.
04:26The part of this thing, though, that bothers me to my core, and I want to be clear, I like Joe Shane.
04:31I've met him.
04:32I've talked to him.
04:33He's a decent human being.
04:34He's a lousy general manager, and you have to differentiate between the two when I say this.
04:41He shivved Brian Dable in the back.
04:45You might remember last week when we had the pretty girl from Long Island on who had the breaking news that they were going to fire Brian Dable.
04:51Oh, yeah, Nikki Jist.
04:52Nikki Jist, yeah.
04:53Nikki said on the show, and I give her credit for this, when I said, who gets fired, she goes, split ticket.
04:57Her word's not mine.
04:58I give her credit for it.
04:59And she said, I think Dable's gone, he is, and I think Shane survived.
05:05Yep.
05:05Split ticket.
05:07Well, the only way that happens is if the guys are working against each other behind closed doors and behind each other's backs.
05:14It's a tale as old as time, right?
05:16It's about self-preservation.
05:18Well, Joe Shane won the battle of self-preservation in part because the owner is sick, my belief, and in part because he poisoned the well.
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