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Speaker 2: your Week one rapid Reaction. Madelenburg here with the Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl champion Sean O'Hara Shawn. The Giants went down to

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Speaker 2: the DMV, taking on the Commander's final score twenty one

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Speaker 2: to six in favor of Washington. Giants taking the loss

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Speaker 2: and we've won. A big storyline in this one, though,

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Speaker 2: of course, was the offensive struggles.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the offense did not have any rhythm really, and

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Speaker 3: it kind of felt like they were uphill all game long.

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Speaker 3: I thought they really struggled to run the football early on. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: you know when you start out early on in the

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Speaker 3: game and you can't punch it in the one yard line.

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Speaker 3: There's a little bit of a defeat in that. And look,

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Speaker 3: they went for they were aggressive early on, went forward

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Speaker 3: on fourth down and two or three whatever it was,

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Speaker 3: fourth and goal, and they got bailed out by the penalty.

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Speaker 3: And when that happened, you thought, all right, they're definitely

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Speaker 3: going to get a touchdown out of.

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Speaker 2: This, right and you get a fresh set of downs

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Speaker 2: at the one yard line. You get a penalty there

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Speaker 2: and you're still unable to punch it in. That's a

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Speaker 3: Three bad plays and to have them right there on

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Speaker 3: the one yard line. You know they settle for a

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Speaker 3: field goal, and look, six points in a game. You're

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Speaker 3: not gonna win any NFL games, Like you're not going

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Speaker 3: to win a baseball game with six runs sometimes, so

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Speaker 3: you've got to have points. And that's been the narrative

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Speaker 3: I feel like we've talked about every time that we

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Speaker 3: come on here after loss, it's we need more points,

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Speaker 3: need more points. So I think that is frustrating and

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Speaker 3: disappointing if you're a Giants fan and you're watching that

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Speaker 3: game or saying, man, it feels like the same thing

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Speaker 3: that I saw over again. It's like Groundhog Day. I

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Speaker 3: will say it's tricky.

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Speaker 2: Though, because you look at talking about need more points.

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Speaker 2: We're just coming off a preseason in which the Giants

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Speaker 2: were three and now they put up one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seven points in those three games, and then week one

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Speaker 2: of the regular season they're settling for field goals. They

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Speaker 2: put up six. And yes, regular season and preseason are

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Speaker 2: different ballgames a little bit. But you know, one of

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Speaker 2: the things that really worked for this Giants team, it

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Speaker 2: felt like, was screen passes. We didn't really see the

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Speaker 2: screen game much in this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a lot of screens. But I think that's

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Speaker 3: why everybody is so disappointed, is because you saw those

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Speaker 3: points and I don't care if it's preseason or regular season.

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Speaker 3: There was execution there. Yeah, it was execution in the blocking.

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Speaker 3: There was execution in you know, the route combos and

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Speaker 3: the passes. So the lack of execution from that is

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Speaker 3: why I think everybody's frustrated with the lack of points

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Speaker 3: and that production aspect of it. But the blocking is

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Speaker 3: something that needs to get better. And I think you

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Speaker 3: know there was times where you would run the ball

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Speaker 3: on first down, or you know, you have a bad

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Speaker 3: play on first down, and now it's second and long,

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Speaker 3: third and long, and this offense is not built to

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Speaker 3: was that was frustrating. And you know, when you look

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Speaker 3: at the missed opportunities, you know, not just in the

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Speaker 3: first half. You know, there were there were times where

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Speaker 3: you know, you felt like, all right, the offense started

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Speaker 3: then something happens and they just never overcame that. So

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Speaker 3: I think that's that's kind of tough. The run game

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Speaker 3: I thought Tyrone Tracy, after what he did last year

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Speaker 3: him a lot more. And you know, for Russell Wilson

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Speaker 3: and one and fifteen yards of that was on a

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Speaker 3: big scramble that that's not why you brought Russell Wilson here.

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Speaker 3: You didn't bring him here to run the football. You

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Speaker 3: didn't bring him here to be your leading rusher. So, uh, look,

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Speaker 3: camp Scataboo, he showed that he's a tough guy. To

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Speaker 2: First of all, his first play of the game was

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Speaker 2: throwing a filthy sick block that helped Malik Yeah, that reception,

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Speaker 2: and then the very next game he runs and trucks

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Speaker 2: through three defenders like a bowling ball. Physicality and toughness underscore. Right,

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Speaker 2: Their angry runs are going to be featuring this man

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Speaker 2: quite a bit this season, I'd imagine on NFL Network.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's he's going to have a T shirt.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's going to have a weekly T shirt

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Speaker 3: because he's got that ability. And he was one of

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Speaker 3: that was a big part of it. I thought Wandell

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Speaker 3: did a really nice job. There was a there was

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Speaker 3: a third down that he knew exactly where the sticks

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Speaker 3: are as soon as he caught the ball, got vertical,

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Speaker 3: got up, got the first down. He's continuing where he

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Speaker 3: picked up where he left off last year as being

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Speaker 3: really their third down target, and I think he led

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Speaker 3: kind of back on track with that Neighbors. Look, he

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Speaker 3: made some spectacular catches. I thought there was most of

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Speaker 3: the day too. Yeah, and I think he's gonna have

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Speaker 3: to be somebody that steps up because Neighbors is taking

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Speaker 3: that that. You know, he's got the safety over the

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Speaker 3: the game. They're saying, we don't think you can beat

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Speaker 3: us with somebody else, So until we prove them wrong,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna see that same type of coverage. Look, I

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Speaker 3: thought Washington had a really good defensive game plan. They

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Speaker 3: had a really good passing defense last year. They picked

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Speaker 3: up right where they left off. And Marshall Lattimore, look,

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Speaker 3: he's he's one of those lockdown corners. So that was

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Speaker 3: a really good matchup. Basically, whoever he was on was

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Speaker 3: now you kind of need your third option. But this

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Speaker 3: is Week one, you know, I think there's a lot

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Speaker 3: look at this game metal and say, wow, Washington really

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Speaker 3: beat themselves in a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 1: Get in here, if you're lined up here, they got

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Speaker 1: to go over the middle with at the score great,

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Speaker 1: how do we make that happen?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, Bud Citizens, does it makes sense of

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Speaker 3: your money with citizens Official Bank of Eli manning well?

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Speaker 2: And to your point too, Washington left the door open

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Speaker 2: quite a bit for the Giants. They had twelve penalties

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Speaker 2: for eighty nine yards. You know, Washington, you know, backing

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Speaker 2: it up that much gives the Giants a lot of opportunity.

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Speaker 2: The Giants also found themselves in some short yards positions,

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Speaker 2: in some red zone situations that they were not able

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Speaker 2: fourteen to six with twelve minutes left in the game.

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Speaker 2: That's a winnable game. And then you know, you heard

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Speaker 2: things just kind of fell apart. That last drive. Washington

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Speaker 2: one to six, and then that was kind of curtain

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Speaker 2: call for that that moment right there. But we got

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Speaker 2: to give a little bit of credit to this Giants

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Speaker 2: defense as well, because a lot of excitement coming into

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Speaker 2: the sea about the pass rush. We saw Brian Burns

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought they did a good job of finishing

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Speaker 3: the sacks. You know, there's too many times where even

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Speaker 3: last year, you know, the first game down in Washington

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Speaker 3: in Week two, we sacked him five times, and then

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Speaker 3: they really didn't sack them at all, and there were

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Speaker 3: I thought Brian Burns did a great job of keeping

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Speaker 3: had a big game two sacks. He also created a

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Speaker 3: holding penalty against their rookie right tackle Josh Connery, so

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Speaker 3: he was look he came to play and I thought

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Speaker 3: he was a huge factor on defense. I thought Keavon

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Speaker 3: Thibodau did a really good job against the run. He

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Speaker 3: had a half sack. He and Aduel Carter shared that.

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Speaker 3: But I thought Kaveon Thibodau he looked very authoritative whenever

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Speaker 3: of times created some pressure. Abdul Carter, I mean he

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Speaker 3: So they definitely continue with that theme of moving him around.

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Speaker 2: He even made play on special teams, getting a hand

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Speaker 3: Yeah, There's not many defensive ends that have that kind

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Speaker 3: created a holding penalty as well. So look, I thought

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Speaker 3: the pass rush, look it showed up and they were

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Speaker 3: ready to play. They didn't. There was too many times though,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's something that you know, you go

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Speaker 3: into a game plan and you say, look, we need

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Speaker 3: a spy rusher. We need somebody that's going to keep

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Speaker 3: him from hurting us on third and ten or second

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Speaker 3: to fifteen getting a big twelve yard run, Like, you

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Speaker 3: can't let that keep happening. So I think that was

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Speaker 3: something that was frustrating. And then when the Giants did

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Speaker 3: pressure with that front four, and Jane Daniels really made

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Speaker 3: them pay with that because he had a lot of

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Speaker 3: deep crossing routes along the middlefield to both Terry McLaurin,

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Speaker 3: you know, really to Deebo Samuel. He was one of

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Speaker 3: the guys that kept hurting in the middlefield and the

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Speaker 3: zach Ertz as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean Jade Daniels is a very elusive quarterback.

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Speaker 2: So to be able to get to him take him

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Speaker 2: down three times in the game, it is something not

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Speaker 2: to scoff at. Right, there's the year and it's.

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Speaker 3: Not like, you know, Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: Was running around and this is and this is a

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Speaker 2: last season. So this is, you know, not your commanders

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Speaker 3: If you want to know how to manage two minutes

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Speaker 3: Hey, I can also talk long care. I'd like to

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Speaker 2: But they have another division matchup next week. Because Week

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Speaker 2: Thursday Night Football. Very different opponent here, Dak Prescott a

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Speaker 2: What is your initial takeaway or your initial theme of

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Speaker 3: I think for the Giants. They have to start fast.

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Speaker 3: The fact that it was fourteen to six. You know,

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Speaker 3: So this is a this is a two headed monster. Offensively,

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Speaker 2: Right and especially, Yes, the Cowboys are without Michael Parsons,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got to do that. I mean, look, you

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Speaker 3: They're going to have to be a big factor. You know,

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Speaker 2: Establish the run early. And as you mentioned, Mike McFadden,

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Speaker 2: We'll see what his status is going into Week two

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