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Speaker 1: We welcome Greg Newsome, the second to the New York

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Speaker 1: Football Giants. And I think the first question that everybody

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Speaker 1: wants to know is not just about why you came

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Speaker 1: to the Giants, but John Harball, I got a feeling

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Speaker 1: was a big part of that. You know so much

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Speaker 1: about him from when you played in Cleveland, he was

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Speaker 1: with Baltimore. So what's a John Harball player and why

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Speaker 1: do you want to be part of his posse?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I feel like a John Harball player is a tough player,

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Speaker 3: somebody that's willing to do whatever it takes for the team.

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Speaker 3: And why I want to be a part of it

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Speaker 3: is because I feel like we're built with the same cloth.

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Speaker 3: He's a guy that you know is gonna work hard.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to win football games, and that's what I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to do as well.

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Speaker 2: When you talk to.

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Speaker 1: Him before you signed the paperwork here, did you talk

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Speaker 1: about that pick six back in twenty twenty three when

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Speaker 1: you had Cleveland come back and beat Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just talked yesterday. I literally talked to him

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Speaker 2: yesterday about it.

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Speaker 3: We were joking around and he was just super excited

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Speaker 3: that now you know we can do we can do

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Speaker 3: those things together.

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Speaker 1: I got some Ravens former Ravens, I should say, now

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Speaker 1: gonna be Giants teammates with you.

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Speaker 2: What do you think that chemistry is gonna be?

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Speaker 3: Like, I was gonna be amazing. I was joking around

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Speaker 3: with them too. I was like, well, at least now

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Speaker 3: I don't got a beat child out there on the field.

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Speaker 3: At least now it's just that practice. So now we

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Speaker 3: just had it was a good time. Like we're all

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Speaker 3: super excited because obviously we know each other's games very well,

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Speaker 3: and now we're super excited to finally be teammates.

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Speaker 1: People tell me that you're very demonstrative, emotional, animated. You

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Speaker 1: like to bring a lot of Pepin's zip to your

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Speaker 1: side of the ball, even if it's a teammate that

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Speaker 1: makes a big play. Why is that important to you?

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Speaker 3: I feel like you demoralized teams like that when you celebrate.

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Speaker 3: Teams don't like to see that. And it's also showing

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Speaker 3: that you're one unit. You know, you can never be

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Speaker 3: bigger than a team. So me going out there showing

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Speaker 3: even more happy than when I make plays. It's just

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Speaker 3: gonna show you know how much of a team guy am.

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Speaker 1: You've been very versatile in your career. Played man, played zone,

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Speaker 1: played inside, played outside. What about your skill set allows

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Speaker 1: you to do all of those things? What is your

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Speaker 1: favorite and how do you think you'll fit in with

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Speaker 1: the Giants? Knowing that Wilson's the DC Hardball's the head coach,

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Speaker 1: and you know some of the personnel they have here.

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Speaker 2: First, I think just how I grew up.

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Speaker 3: I played played safety all the way until college, then

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Speaker 3: went to corner, So I did a lot of different

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Speaker 3: things growing up into my career. You know my preference.

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Speaker 3: I like playing man and man press coverage on the outside.

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Speaker 3: Like I feel like, especially with the guys that we

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Speaker 3: have up front, if you can stop guys at the

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage and you can win outside, you'll have

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Speaker 3: a lot of success. So I think my skill set

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Speaker 3: would definitely fit in here. Just talking to Harbaugh and

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Speaker 3: talking to some of the coaches, I think what I

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Speaker 1: Now I dug a little bit. I found out you

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Speaker 1: had some D one basketball scholarship offers, right, So what

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Speaker 1: would you have played and you going to the basketball

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Speaker 1: and do you think your basketball skills help you as

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Speaker 1: a dB.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a point guard, you know, I was

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Speaker 3: first team All Conference, you know, a little bit so,

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Speaker 3: but I think I think it definitely helps just being

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Speaker 3: able to mirror guys with a with a ball, just

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Speaker 3: doing certain different body positions, learning how to jump, learning

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Speaker 3: I definitely think playing basketball and things like that definitely

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Speaker 1: Now, I also heard that you like to make yourself

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Speaker 1: mad about something before games. Tell me about that mental

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Speaker 1: philosophy that gets you souped up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just something that I always, like always did,

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Speaker 3: Like you'll you'll probably see me I'm crying sometimes before games.

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Speaker 3: There's always just something in my head that I just

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Speaker 3: try to have anger towards, you know, somebody on the

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Speaker 3: when they didn't. It's just like a mental thing that

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Speaker 3: I always try to do to to just have the

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Speaker 1: Is it always the same thing or is it something

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Speaker 1: different every time?

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Speaker 2: Not something different every time? Yeah, it just depends, all right.

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Speaker 1: Now. I also heard that when you got to Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: One of the things you did, you said to the

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Speaker 1: special teams coach, Hey, I want to go out there

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Speaker 1: and cover a punt. And you had never done special

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Speaker 1: teams in your life, and a guy in your context

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Speaker 1: of a career usually wouldn't say something like that.

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Speaker 2: What made you do it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for once, it was just man like getting there.

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Speaker 3: I just wanted to show the guys like, I'm willing

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Speaker 3: Like it's one thing for people to say that, but like,

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Speaker 3: I truly believe that whatever I can do to help this.

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Speaker 2: Team win, that's what I want to do.

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Speaker 3: So that moment was literally you know, I was subbing

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Speaker 3: in and out and I was like, hey, trying to

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Speaker 3: give one of my other corners a break, So so

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Speaker 3: let me go out there and run run out there

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Speaker 3: for you and help the team win in a different way.

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Speaker 2: So that was my mindset going into that.

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Speaker 1: And that will endear yourself to your teammates for sure.

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Speaker 1: For sure, you've had little adversity in your career. Line

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Speaker 1: up juggling at the end of your career in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: then the trade to Jacksonville, So what about adversity will

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Speaker 1: allow you to become even better moving forward, because they

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Speaker 1: always say what doesn't kill you is gonna make you stronger.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to be comfortable in it. That's my

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Speaker 3: biggest thing. Like, adverse times are always gonna happen and

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Speaker 3: everyone's life, not just on the football field. You gotta

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Speaker 3: find a way to be able to cope with it.

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Speaker 3: You got to find a way to keep pushing because

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Speaker 3: there's always light at the end of the tunnel. So

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Speaker 3: like that, and I truly believe that, you know, if

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Speaker 3: you stop working and you give up, then you'll never

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Speaker 3: know what can happen. So I'm a person that no

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Speaker 3: matter what I've been through in my career and my life, like,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna always keep pushing forward because I know God

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Speaker 3: as a plan for me.

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Speaker 1: And when you push forward. I know your pop played

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Speaker 1: in the league with Green Bay had a super Bowl ring. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: is that something that drives you even further to try

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Speaker 1: to get one of your own?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: For sure, getting the Super Bowl is definitely what I

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Speaker 3: want to get, Like, especially with a city like this

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Speaker 3: in New York, Like that'll be unbelievable. I know this

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Speaker 3: city will go insane for it. So I'm super excited.

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Speaker 1: Trust me, they will go insane. Great to see you all,

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Speaker 1: the best of luck this season and we look forward

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Speaker 1: to watching you play.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you,