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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants hut. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: That's not Giants do. Get out my Giants bubble, give

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Speaker 1: me some jokes. Part of the Giants podcast network, Let's Roll.

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Speaker 2: The Giants came down to Houston to visit the Texans

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Speaker 2: for their second preseason game. Giants falling twenty eight to

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Speaker 2: ten was the final score. Madelin, Burke and Poldatino here

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Speaker 2: to wrap this one up and dots. You know, the

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Speaker 2: first thing Brian Dabel said when he got to the

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Speaker 2: podium was it's hard to win a game when you

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Speaker 2: turned the ball over five times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The two earli interceptions by Daniel Jones were obviously top

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Speaker 3: the one pick six by Peatree, especially deep in your

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Speaker 3: own end zone six yard return for the pick six.

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Speaker 1: Never want to start a game like that at all.

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Speaker 3: But the key was that Daniel did come back, bounce back.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about him more a bit in just a

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Speaker 3: little while. But then later on as they got deeper

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Speaker 3: into the depth chart, guys had trouble holding onto the

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Speaker 3: ball and that's not going to help them when the

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Speaker 3: coaches are starting to make decisions.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 2: Obviously his first game action since tearing that ACL last season.

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Speaker 4: In Week eight.

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Speaker 2: You know obviously he mentioned too it took a little

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Speaker 2: bit to get into them. He had some throws that

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Speaker 2: he wanted back. Brian Daviles said he was going to

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Speaker 2: press him. Wanted the quarterback to throw the ball down

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Speaker 2: the field. Even though he had those early turnovers, he

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Speaker 2: kind of righted the ship.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the key for Jones was that he

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Speaker 3: had a variety of plays to run. They didn't want

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Speaker 3: him to just hand the ball off and play it

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Speaker 3: really safe. They didn't want him to just go with

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Speaker 3: quick throws that would not try to test his timing

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Speaker 3: or his chemistry with his receivers. They wanted to give

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Speaker 3: him a diverse part of the playbook so that he

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Speaker 3: had an opportunity to experience everything and would have to process.

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Speaker 3: There were a number of times as you were watching,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure from the sideline where he did look off

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Speaker 3: his first receiver and went to his second or his

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Speaker 3: third guy. And I think that's very important because he's

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Speaker 3: been operating under eleven and elevens for most of the

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Speaker 3: training camp. As Dable tried to give him some sense

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Speaker 3: of what a game would be. They didn't want him

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Speaker 3: running seven on sevens Dable says, seven on seven doesn't

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Speaker 3: mean anything, So I think that was helpful, but there's

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Speaker 3: nothing like live game action. And I thought that Daniel

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Speaker 3: got better as the game went on, and that was

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Speaker 3: very important.

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Speaker 2: And you mentioned the receivers, getting the receivers involved. One

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Speaker 2: of the receivers that a lot of people were excited

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Speaker 2: to see. He was a rookie wide receiver, Molik Neighbors.

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Speaker 2: He got a little bit of action in the first

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Speaker 2: preseason game. He had an ankle injury, but he was

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Speaker 2: good to go. Brian Ables says, hey, they're good to play.

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Speaker 2: They're going to play, and Neighbors got some time. He

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Speaker 2: had a couple drops early on, but then he had

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Speaker 2: some major catches as well.

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Speaker 3: You know last week against Detroit he had twelve snaps

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Speaker 3: and didn't get a ball thrown to him.

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Speaker 1: Here right out of the box, he has a chance

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Speaker 3: He told us afterwards he was upset that he did

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Speaker 3: not make what would have been a spectacular one handed catch.

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Speaker 1: There were two guys in the vicinity.

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Speaker 3: One guy was in close coverards the other guy came

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Speaker 3: a little bit later, and Neighbors couldn't come down with

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Speaker 1: So now he gets six targets.

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Speaker 3: In the game because they did get back to him

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Speaker 3: later on.

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Speaker 1: Had four catches.

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Speaker 3: The one spectacular catch was down the right sideline, down

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Speaker 3: the Texas Texans sideline where he had to make a reaching,

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Speaker 3: spinning grab and then still hold on to the ball

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Speaker 3: as he was knocked out of bounds. That's the kind

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Speaker 3: of play that he wants to be known for. That

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Speaker 3: can really do an awful lot to spark this offense.

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Speaker 5: You're ready for a change. Pay Day comes early with citizens,

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Speaker 5: so go to that retreat. Knew you moves to the country.

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Speaker 5: Now you're raising goats and launching a lifestyle brand. Are

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Speaker 5: you ready for all that life breaks?

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Speaker 2: His athleticism was on full display. And you mentioned that

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Speaker 2: first drop that he had too. It's like he went

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Speaker 2: up for it with one hand because all warm ups

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Speaker 2: he'd been getting those one handed grabs with ease.

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Speaker 4: But you know what the Rockies said.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, I'm remembering the drops and I

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Speaker 2: don't want to live.

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Speaker 4: I don't want those to happen again. But not just

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Speaker 4: the passing game.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, the Giants offense was heavily focused on the passing game,

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Speaker 2: but the running game got going today. To Devin Singletary,

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Speaker 2: a guy who had a career high year in rushing

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Speaker 2: last year almost nine hundred yards on the ground another

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty plus in the air last year

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Speaker 2: when he played for the Houston Texans, toting the rock

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Speaker 2: a little bit running for the Giants. What did you

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Speaker 2: notice about the run game that was working.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think what I liked.

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Speaker 3: And they didn't get a whole lot of yards, so

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Speaker 3: the stats won't really show that much. But when they

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Speaker 3: had their league guys in there, you know, you get

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Speaker 3: down to the one yard line after a forty four

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Speaker 3: yard bomb to Darius Slayton, and the Giants decide, you

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Speaker 3: know what, We're just gonna run it right out of him.

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Speaker 1: We're going straight.

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Speaker 3: Ahead, We're going to give it to motor Singletary, and

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Speaker 3: he's going to go wide up the gut and take

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Speaker 1: Not only did he do it, he was barely touched.

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Speaker 3: And that that's what you want to see because in

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Speaker 3: close quarters, when everybody's playing goal line, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: to think that he was able to waltz in untouched

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Speaker 3: for that touchdown, that was a very good sign.

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Speaker 2: It was a good sign also from what we saw

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Speaker 2: from the offensive line, which is really in these first

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Speaker 2: two preseason games looking like a unit.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's put it this way. The pass protection.

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Speaker 3: They gave up the one lad sack on the force fumble,

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Speaker 3: the strip sack late in the game in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 3: so they really didn't get up a lot of pressures

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Speaker 3: during the course of the game, although early in the

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Speaker 1: I know they would love to get that cleaned up.

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Speaker 3: In fact, on the Peatrie pick six, there was a

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Speaker 1: You know, you'd like to clean that up. But I

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Speaker 1: do think that for the most part, the past protection

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Speaker 3: Lot of these guys were playing game snaps for the

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Speaker 3: first time this August, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: And we talked a lot about the offense inside of

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Speaker 2: the ball, but hey, defensive players get paid too, and

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Speaker 2: we got to give them some love to the defensive players.

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Speaker 2: Defensive starters getting some significant play today obviously, the Texans

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Speaker 2: scored first, but that was on a defensive play of Theirs,

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Speaker 2: an interception pick six. What did you see from the

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Speaker 2: Giants defense that gave you optimism?

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Speaker 3: Well, you saw a fourth down inside the Giants ten

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Speaker 1: You know CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud had led the Texans on a very long drive

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Speaker 3: know that's not too swift. You know, these Giants defensive

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Speaker 3: starters are looking a little rusty.

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Speaker 1: They're giving up a little too much ground here. And

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Speaker 1: then what happens.

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Speaker 3: I believe Stroud hit his first five passes on that drive,

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Speaker 3: and then once they got down into the deep red zone,

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Speaker 3: he had three incompletions in a row. Plus there was

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Speaker 3: a running play that was steimy, and so the Giants

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Speaker 3: took the ball over on downs on a fourth down

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Speaker 3: inside their own ten and talking to Bobby Okurike after

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Speaker 3: the game like that was a big deal to them.

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Speaker 1: That meant something.

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Speaker 4: You love turf, You're good at it.

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Speaker 5: So you start a turf fizz business grows, your savings grow,

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Speaker 5: become the most celebrated name in turf.

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Speaker 4: Are you ready for all that life brings? The Giants?

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Speaker 2: You want to get out of preseason unscathed. But there

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Speaker 2: were quite a few injuries for this Giants team today.

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Speaker 2: Which one stands out to you the most, if any?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael McFadden.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's one of the starting inside linebackers, goes

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Speaker 3: down with a hip injury. Did see him after the

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Speaker 3: you know, I think they're hopeful that it's not that

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Speaker 3: big a deal.

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Speaker 1: A number of other depth chart guys.

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Speaker 3: Got nicked up, but you know, yes, there was a

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Speaker 3: higher number than you would like, but it didn't look

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Speaker 3: like again, I don't know, it didn't look like there

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Speaker 2: We'll keep an eye on that as preseason continues, and

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Speaker 2: of course, next week the Giants are turning the page.

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Speaker 4: To the most convenient road game.

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Speaker 2: They'll be playing the Jets at MetLife Stadium, but not

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Speaker 4: Obviously likely won't see.

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Speaker 2: Starters in that third and final preseason game because of

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Speaker 4: How valuable is that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's huge because look, I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to get into Brian dables head you're not going to

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Speaker 3: do that either, But he's got a gauge in his mind,

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Speaker 3: how much do I want to play my starters in

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Speaker 3: the joint practice with the Jets, figuring that Sala is

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Speaker 3: probably going to do that, you know, for Gangreen and

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Speaker 3: Sala may decide that he's going to rest all his

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Speaker 3: same in terms of his starters. I think he and

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Speaker 3: Robert Sala have to get together sometime this week and

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Speaker 3: not only talk about what they're going to do in

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Speaker 1: I think that would make a difference.

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Speaker 3: Now, you heard Daniel Jones as well in the locker

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Speaker 3: room with me, and you know, yeah, Daniel wants to

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Speaker 3: get a few more reps before they played in Minnesota

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Speaker 3: Vikings in a few weeks. Does that mean those reps

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Speaker 3: come Wednesday or do they come next Saturday.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know either, and I think we don't like

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Speaker 1: to know.

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Speaker 2: We'd all like to know. But first, Paul, you and

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Speaker 2: I have a busty catch. As we take a plane

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Speaker 2: out of Houston back to New Jersey for Paul Ta Tino.

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Speaker 2: I'm Madeline Burke with your rapid reaction, Giants leaving Houston

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Speaker 2: with a twenty eight to ten loss in the second

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Speaker 2: preseason game