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Speaker 1: over the years. I mean, obviously they've had a great

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Speaker 1: defensive line to come through here for years now, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, hopefully I'm going to be a part of

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Speaker 1: that tradition, uh for a long longer time now. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've been able to talk with Justin Tuck

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Speaker 1: and and stuff, and guys like Michael Strahan and those guys,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we we've obviously had a great defense

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Speaker 1: UH and giants for a long time now, so we'll

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Speaker 1: contained the build on that