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Speaker 1: Let's Go, part of the Giants Podcast Network. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Front Office edition of the Giants Huddle podcast, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by City College of New York Doing Remarkable Things.

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Speaker 1: Learn more at CCNY dot Qney dot edu. We're joined

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Speaker 1: by Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kaffkan. Mike, busy offseason for

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Speaker 1: you as you settle into year number two with the

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Speaker 1: New York Football Giants. Just talk about this year compared

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Speaker 1: to last year and how much smoother things have gone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. I think anytime you kind of integrate a

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Speaker 2: new staff, a new offense and you're working through those things,

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Speaker 2: just working through the problems and working through the solutions

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Speaker 2: and get on the same page. From a communications standpoint,

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Speaker 2: that's always that's always the challenge. So I think going

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Speaker 2: into year two, things are a lot more smooth. We're

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Speaker 2: able to jump in and out of meetings a lot

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Speaker 2: quicker and kind of get to the point and we

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Speaker 2: know where the bones are buried on certain things already

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Speaker 2: and can anticipate what what's what's coming ahead.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Darren Waller, big acquisition. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: went healthy. The guy's tremendous, right. I mean you've been

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Speaker 1: around some really good tight ends in your day as well,

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Speaker 1: but tight end it's you know, a lot of Giants

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Speaker 1: fans think of Mark Bivarro. It's a little bit different

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Speaker 1: what he brings to the table. Talk about the matchup

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Speaker 1: problems that he can cause for a defense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's a tremendous athlete. He makes you defend

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Speaker 2: really all the depth of the field and width of

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Speaker 2: the field. He's he can get over the second level

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Speaker 2: and work second level defenders. He can get into the

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Speaker 2: third level because he has tremendous athletic ability and speed.

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Speaker 2: He has a he's a really good blocker too, so

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Speaker 2: you can get him in the mix in the run game.

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Speaker 2: So he had an element you know, that gives you,

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Speaker 2: that gives the offense a little bit of an age

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Speaker 2: to move him around and you know, just move him

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Speaker 2: around and mix and match him with different matchups.

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Speaker 1: Right, and you can almost he's almost like a big

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Speaker 1: receiver in certain settings. And with Bellinger having the kind

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Speaker 1: of rookie season he it gives you a lot of versatility.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, and Belly has done a great job. He

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Speaker 2: had a great, great last year and he's continuing to

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Speaker 2: work and we're in working through the OTA phases, you know,

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Speaker 2: Phase one, phase two, and then getting into phase three.

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Speaker 2: Belly has done a great job of improving those certain

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Speaker 1: Speed obviously was a premium to this offseason. You guys

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Speaker 1: added a lot of it. How important is it for

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Speaker 1: that for you to be versatile offensively and not be

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Speaker 1: so typecast with one style.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think anytime you have flexibility in your scheme

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Speaker 2: gives you an advantage, being able to move pieces around,

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Speaker 2: put guys in the backfield out of the backfield, spread

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Speaker 2: the field tight, and condense it. So it just it

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Speaker 2: just adds more whether it's gaps in the run game,

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Speaker 2: adds more space in the field for defenders to defend.

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Speaker 2: You know, that just gives you multiplicity in the offense.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jalen Hyatt, who you guys took in

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Speaker 1: the third round. Obviously, fantastic player. What were some of

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Speaker 1: the things that you liked about him as he was

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Speaker 1: coming out and you know when the Giants finally took him.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, he's he's a tremendous kid of meeting with him,

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Speaker 2: got an opportunity to have him on a thirty visit

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Speaker 2: and really get to understand how he sees the game.

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Speaker 2: He's a smart football player, he's a tough kid. He

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Speaker 2: can from a skill set standpoint, he can run routes,

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Speaker 2: he has you know, vertical speed, he has catch and run.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of aspects about his game that

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Speaker 2: it's about, you know, finding a role within the offense

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Speaker 1: Obviously, every place starts with the snap of the football,

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Speaker 1: and you guys drafted John Michael Schmidt's in the second

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Speaker 1: round out of the University of Minnesota. From an offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator standpoint communication, picking up everything, What are some of

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, they're one of the first things we do is

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Speaker 2: go through all the calls, like where where does the

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Speaker 2: So you know, going through the basics, you know, footworkund

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Speaker 1: And having Daniel Jones second year in your system, I

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and DJ's done a great job hailing all of it.

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Speaker 2: We're continuing to throw more stuff and build on what

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Speaker 2: Daniel's doing a great job hailing it.

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Speaker 1: You know, last year you guys were able to find

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Speaker 1: with ways to get guys open. Is that the fun

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Speaker 1: part of the job each week is looking at and

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Speaker 1: opposing the defense and saying, Okay, here's what we think

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, that's the fun part of coaching is kind

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you have added weapons. It creates more diversion,

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, You just have you have more opportunities to show

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Speaker 1: Running the football is obviously also very important, and last

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Speaker 1: really paid dividends for you throughout the course of the season.

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Speaker 1: That commitment to the run game. Just talk a little

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the commitment to the run game, the

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Speaker 2: what you're attacking. You're attacking the defense. So you know,

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Speaker 2: if they're going to pack the box and you want

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Speaker 2: There's a running back, tight end receivers, the quarterback and

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Speaker 1: Do you see that as a trend because I noticed

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Speaker 1: there were more teams that were running for about one

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Speaker 1: five of those teams definitely were in the win column

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Speaker 1: as team. As the league has gone to a passing

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Speaker 1: run it on them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you kind of see you're seeing a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a transition, just because the college game

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Speaker 2: and they're adjusting right, so they're just in their different

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Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's that cat and mouse game of

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Speaker 2: That's you're looking forward to manage and then create those

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Speaker 1: Is one of the things to make sure that you

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Speaker 1: you know in the NFL, during the course of the season,

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Speaker 1: make sure that that doesn't get lost in the weeds.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's that's a part of that's a part of

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Speaker 2: and being able to run the ball, get downhill, create

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Speaker 2: double teams, and again it's all about utilizing your player's strength.

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Speaker 2: So if our all line is doing one thing really good,

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Speaker 2: And then if there's a weakness part of it, then

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Speaker 2: we try to hide that weakness with the shifts, the motions,

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Speaker 1: You know, as you come off last season going into

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Speaker 1: this season, you study everything. Was there one area or

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Speaker 1: share with the audience that you said, hey, here's an

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Speaker 1: area where we just need to get better at this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we need to start faster. I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, for us as an offense that that's probably

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Speaker 2: one thing that we're emphasizing is just fast start. I

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Speaker 2: think we did as a team last year, but as

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Speaker 2: off to a better start there. And you know, that

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Speaker 2: was a big time study for us as a group,

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Speaker 2: as a staff, as a as a when we went

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Speaker 2: and talked with the players throughout the phases here, that's

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Speaker 2: been a huge emphasis.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff, coach, We appreciate a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, Thank you, Mike.

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