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Speaker 1: Let's walk on board right now, Logan Ryan of the Giants,

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Speaker 1: He joins us. Now, hey, Logan, we appreciate the time

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Speaker 1: this afternoon. How you doing. I'm doing great, man, appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys having me congratulations on the new three year

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Speaker 1: contract on Christmas Day. Thank you, Thank you. Very very

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Speaker 1: hard to earn. But a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: good people in my in my corner and great organization,

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to continue the partnership. Okay, well give

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Speaker 1: us some details here, so like who called you? How

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Speaker 1: long had this been in the works, like in terms

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Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, I mean I've been um. I got

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Speaker 1: I feel like it worked for both sides. Obviously a

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Speaker 1: Is recruit, recruit, player to play with. I played with

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to building building a Giants organization in

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Speaker 1: your exactly. Um, is there anything the Giants organization had

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Speaker 1: It was that call in August of hey, you're ready

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Speaker 1: And uh, it was I told him, Man, I played

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Speaker 1: Logan Sunday, you got a challenge in in Dallas. We'll

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Speaker 1: which is tough. It's physical, but there's a physical game

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Speaker 1: to go to Disney instead. Oh nice, love Disney. It's fantastic. Well, Logan,

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Speaker 1: congrats on the new deal, well deserved. Good luck Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. Go get it, and uh, happy New

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Speaker 1: Year to you and your family. All right, appreciate it.

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