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Speaker 1: How hard did the coaches coach you on mistakes or

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Speaker 1: players that needed to get better? And you know, what

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Speaker 1: was the process like reviewing it with this new staff,

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Speaker 1: reviewing your first game and kind of going over the

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Speaker 1: good and the bad. Yeah, you know, I think, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, certain very certainly very clear, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: to us as players when uh, you know, mistakes that

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Speaker 1: that together, and and you know, I thought the communication

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Speaker 1: was it was clear and and um, you know going

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Speaker 1: the same page and and understood you know, the urgency

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Speaker 1: uh and the importance of each of those corrections. So um,

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Speaker 1: you know they were there were certainly good things from

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Speaker 1: the game that that we also discussed and and um,

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Speaker 1: you know obviously want to want to grow with and

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Speaker 1: and build on. Um. But yeah, as far as corrections

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Speaker 1: and and uh fig some mistakes, the communication was clear

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Speaker 1: and and UM, you know, I think the you know,

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Speaker 1: I know the guys understand the urgency is twitch you know,

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Speaker 1: it needs to be corrected. One quick follow up, when

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Speaker 1: you guys get to the line of scrimmage and you

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Speaker 1: have a play call if a protection needs to be shifted?

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Speaker 1: Is that your job? Do you have the freedom to

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Speaker 1: do that? Is that on Nikki? It's the center? Is

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Speaker 1: that on the coaches? Uh? You know what is your

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Speaker 1: process like at the line? Yeah? That's uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly my responsibility. You know, I think through all the protections,

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Speaker 1: my responsibility to make sure we're in the right protection

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Speaker 1: and it's identified the right way. Daniel is as I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you're aware tomorrow is the one year anniversary of

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Speaker 1: you being named starting quarterback of the Giants. Um, I'm

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Speaker 1: just kidding. I'm sure you're not aware of it. Um.

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Speaker 1: What have you learned in in the in the last

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Speaker 1: days about being a franchise quarterback and a starting quarterback? Um?

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Speaker 1: You know, certainly a lot, you know, I think, Um,

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Speaker 1: playing football scheme and and understanding the game and and

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Speaker 1: um you know a lot and how to prepare and

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Speaker 1: think a lot of stuff in between so I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, ultimately the importance of of learning, the importance

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Speaker 1: of improving every day, of of not repeating mistakes and

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Speaker 1: continuing to to build and and um, you know, constantly

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Speaker 1: I think it's extremely important at this level. How about

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Speaker 1: in terms of the the outside expectations and the scrutiny

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Speaker 1: that the position is under that anything there uh you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I understand the uh, the expectation of responsibility

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Speaker 1: I take that very seriously, take that responsibility seriously. And

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Speaker 1: UM you know something my uh you know, I think

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Speaker 1: saying the other day and again today that he wants

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Speaker 1: you to stay aggressive and that he's more concerned with

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Speaker 1: you maintaining your aggressiveness than worrying about turnovers? Are you

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Speaker 1: that's that's the job, and that's um, you know, the expectations.

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Speaker 1: I need to get rid of the ball quicker here.

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Speaker 1: your own film. I think that's um, you know each

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Speaker 1: I think you gotta use um, you know, a variety

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Speaker 1: And then I want to ask about a specific play

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Speaker 1: kuon on fourth down was a third down scramble where

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Speaker 1: wariness of not fumbling it. If that's you know if

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Speaker 1: But you know, in those situations, protecting the ball is

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Speaker 1: on that and also what makes that Darius Slayton special

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Speaker 1: so far, hey, Daniel. UM following up on the Darius question,

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Speaker 1: uh said not set up? But is he um a

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Speaker 1: And you know it's it's uh, you know, our job

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