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Speaker 1: Platino with Super Bowl champions Satury Sean o'harard for the

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Speaker 1: Giants instant reaction after the six lost to Dallas at

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Speaker 1: met Live Stadium. The Cowboys have owned the Giants now, Sean.

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Speaker 1: They've won nine of the last ten meetings in the series.

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Speaker 1: And I guess when you looked at the Giants underhanded

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Speaker 1: and shorthanded going into the game, you knew it was

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Speaker 1: gonna be a very tall mountain for them to climb. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's it's definitely been lopsided from

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Speaker 1: that standpoint. But to your point, you know, given everything

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Speaker 1: that happened with the Giants this week, all of the

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Speaker 1: COVID positive cases, you know, players, are they gonna play?

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Speaker 1: Are they're not gonna play? They had to cancel practice.

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Speaker 1: It's it was walkthroughs, it was zooms. You would have thought,

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Speaker 1: you know what, it's a perfect recipe for the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: to score forty points given all of their offensive talent

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Speaker 1: and all of their offensive weapons. But look the Giants defense.

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Speaker 1: You know, they played really well at times, they played spirited,

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Speaker 1: and again it was the offense and their inability to

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Speaker 1: score points, settling for field goals time and time again,

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Speaker 1: turnovers in the red zone, the lack of of offensive

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Speaker 1: production from a point standpoint really just came down to

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Speaker 1: haunt them again and Paul again. It feels like the

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Speaker 1: second quarter has been the giants worst nightmare all season long,

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Speaker 1: whether it's given up points right before the half or

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Speaker 1: today Sae Kwon Barkley with the fumble. It's just the

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Speaker 1: third fumble of his entire career, which is pretty remarkable

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Speaker 1: when you think about how many times he touched with football.

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Speaker 1: It was a great play by dear Marcus Lawrence, but

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Speaker 1: you could tell that was such a big momentum swing.

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Speaker 1: The Giants were gaining some rhythm, gaining some confidence right there.

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Speaker 1: They you know, they had they only had three points

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Speaker 1: at the time, and they could have possibly got some

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Speaker 1: points right there. Instead give them all back to the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys and they never fully recovered from that. Well, you

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Speaker 1: talked about the last two minutes and a half, Giants

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Speaker 1: now being outscored sixty five to nothing in such a situation,

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Speaker 1: and Blankly's fumble was sandwich between two Dallas field goals

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Speaker 1: where the Giants defense did a very good job of

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Speaker 1: bending but not breaking, because they actually kept this team

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Speaker 1: in the game. Yeah, it felt a lot like the

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Speaker 1: Eagles game. You know that the defense was playing well,

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Speaker 1: you hold them to field goals. Um, you know that's big.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they they did a nice job. I think

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Speaker 1: they got some pressure on Dak Prescott and they tried

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Speaker 1: to take advantage of the fact that the Cowboys didn't

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Speaker 1: have Tyrn Smith um as E's Oelari and Quincy Rochet

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Speaker 1: had had a nice play defensively there. So you know

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Speaker 1: there were some spurts, um. But when the fourth down conversions,

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Speaker 1: you know, those things offensively that that hurts you. That

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Speaker 1: the first interception you don't put on Mike Glennon. He

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Speaker 1: got hit when he was throwing the football. But when

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Speaker 1: you go back and look at that play, Paul he

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Speaker 1: held on the ball for four seconds, and you know, look,

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Speaker 1: you just have to as as a veteran quarterback, you

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Speaker 1: have to have that awareness. You have to have that

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Speaker 1: clock in your head that you know what it's time,

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Speaker 1: I have to get the ball. The ball has gotta

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Speaker 1: come out at some point. There needs to be more

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Speaker 1: urgency with that. But again it was the offense, you know,

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Speaker 1: not getting it on fourth and inches. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you go forward on fourth and inches on your

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Speaker 1: you might you really put your defense in a tough

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Speaker 1: spot on a short field. Now, up to that point,

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Speaker 1: when Dallas got its second touchdown midway through the third

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Speaker 1: quarter that made it twenty one to six. To that point,

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Speaker 1: Dallas's average start field position was their own forty yard

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Speaker 1: line and the Giants was their own eighteen. That's in

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Speaker 1: part because of to that point three Giants turnovers and

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Speaker 1: one failed fourth down. When the field is tilted that heavily,

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Speaker 1: it's almost impossible for a team to overcome. It certainly

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Speaker 1: makes it an uphill battle. And you call that hidden yardage, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of like flipping the field. You

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Speaker 1: can special teams, you can do that, um and when

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Speaker 1: you look at it from that standpoint, it's so much harder.

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Speaker 1: Tom Coffin used to always have these stats that, look,

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Speaker 1: if you start the drive at the eighteen yard line,

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Speaker 1: you know you've got an eighty two percent chance of

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Speaker 1: If you're on the A t R line, you've got

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Speaker 1: like an eighteen percent chance. If you're on the if

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Speaker 1: it definitely sways things, um in your favor. I think,

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Speaker 1: are things that they're working on during the week, and

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Speaker 1: there are things that they're trying to improve on, and

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Speaker 1: it's just not translating on game day. And that's one

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Speaker 1: of the most frustrating things I know for the players

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Speaker 1: and for the coaches when you turn on the film

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Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's like, look, guys, we talked

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Speaker 1: and it's it's not translating. The execution is not there. Um.

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Speaker 1: You can fire coaches all you want, but the players

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Speaker 1: names are on the back of their jersey ball. They're

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Speaker 1: cashing checks on Wednesdays. That's your job. You have to

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Speaker 1: improve on that, and they've got to find a way

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Speaker 1: to figure it out. When you see this offense move

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Speaker 1: of red zone efficiency with touchdowns on the season, last

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Speaker 1: working right when they get to that part of the field. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Giants don't have players that can win in one

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Speaker 1: on one matchups. When you come down to the red zone,

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Speaker 1: it's less about scheme and more about matchups. And that's

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Speaker 1: really where the Giants have struggled. Where's the matchup? Where

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Speaker 1: where is the hey, we we definitely have a mismatch

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Speaker 1: don't have a guy that can create consistent separation. They

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Speaker 1: can throw fade routes to him, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: ten times we throw him ten times, he's come down

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Speaker 1: So it gets tougher. I think from a player's standpoint,

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Speaker 1: about something that actually did work a bit better today,

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Speaker 1: the commitment to the running game as a team. Twenty

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Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley finished with fifteen for fifty and Booker eight

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Speaker 1: It did look like Barkley despite that Fumble was looking

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Speaker 1: Quan should have had twenty four carries. And then DeVante

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Speaker 1: Booker should have had you know, fifteen to twenty the

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Speaker 1: I think DeVante Booker has been a nice uh compliment

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Speaker 1: to See Juan. He's been very decisive, he gets very vertical,

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Speaker 1: and he really has been running with a lot of

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Speaker 1: in the wildcat position with both Davante and and and

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Speaker 1: So you know what go back to that. You know

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Speaker 1: there's no point in leaving any gadget plays unused, Like

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Speaker 1: what are you saving them for? UM? So released the hounds,

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Speaker 1: don't leave anything left in the chamber. UM let it

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Speaker 1: all loose. I think for Sai Kuan, he looks frustrated

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Speaker 1: think the hardest thing for offensive lineman to do, Paul

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Speaker 1: stunting lineman, slanting lineman movement. When it's linebackers that's something

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Speaker 1: that continues to plague this Giant's offensive line. And there

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Speaker 1: are too many times where se Juan is getting the

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Speaker 1: a few players today who may have made some fans

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Speaker 1: Jalen Smith just got here and he winds up seeing

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Speaker 1: snaps against this former Cowboys teammates, and he made a

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Speaker 1: man possessed and rightfully. So you're playing your former team,

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Speaker 1: playing with passion, playing with fire, and that's contagious. So

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Speaker 1: you saw some of that. You know, Look, Logan Ryan

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Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz, the tight end. But Dak Prescott had all

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Speaker 1: So that's tough take. Crowder continues to play well. Um,

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Speaker 1: And and you know you could see that he's making

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Speaker 1: plays all over the field. Obviously Lorenzo Carter or the

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Speaker 1: the big sack force fumble. Um, those were big plays

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Speaker 1: and those are plays they can get the crowd going. Look,

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Speaker 1: For a lot of the last week or so, a

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Speaker 1: lot of fans and media been asking about Jake from Well,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you know it, he gets in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: was six of twelve I think, for eighty two yards

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