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Speaker 1: Where would you say you are in the recovery process,

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Speaker 1: like ahead of schedule, on schedule.

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Speaker 2: On schedule, you know, I got about another week until

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Speaker 2: I start moving around and you know, up in my

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Speaker 2: gonna tell, but take it easy. So got plenty of

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Speaker 1: Have they given you an idea when you can get

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Speaker 1: back to like his training camp the goal?

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Speaker 2: Or have they? Yeah, training camps obviously the goal. You know,

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Speaker 2: by OTAs, but if not, you know, there's no there's

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Speaker 2: no rush to it. So training camps for sure. Goal.

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Speaker 1: What has this been period been like for you? Since

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Speaker 2: It's been good. You know, I'm I've kind of found

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Speaker 2: different ways to you know, show myself and be who

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Speaker 2: I am. And you know that the opportunities that have

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Speaker 2: come from that I have been awesome, you know, and

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Speaker 2: you obviously the main thing is football, So I'll get

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Speaker 2: back to that when I when I'm ready to go,

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Speaker 2: it's it's football from there on out.

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Speaker 3: What does look like right now? You know?

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Speaker 2: Getting my Dorsey flection back in the foot obviously is

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Speaker 2: the main thing just from being stuck in a boot

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked to you since that actually happened. How

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Speaker 1: if you can take us back to that moment, like

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Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't It wasn't too bad, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean I seen it. I seen it, and then

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Speaker 2: it wasn't too bad. But as you as you guys

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Speaker 1: So in hord was it to watch the team struggles

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Speaker 2: It sucks, you know, because you can't be out there

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Speaker 2: the guys in the building or have a positive mindset.

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Speaker 2: It's it's hard to be in that situation, but you know,

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Speaker 2: I try to take it as best as I could

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Speaker 2: get you about the risk of you know, are you

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Speaker 2: getting back to one hundred percent is possible? That's not

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Speaker 2: even a question like I'm gonna be back. It's I've

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Speaker 2: played seven games in the NFL and I got hurt.

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Speaker 2: Like there's a long road ahead and that is not

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Speaker 3: When we've talked to Jackson, he's been very optimistic about

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'll keep our conversations out of it.

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Speaker 2: But you know, this this place is special. You know

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Speaker 2: they're doing a good job drafting. I'm excited for this

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm juiced to see what you know, this franchise

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Speaker 3: Did you learn anything about Jackson just you know, watching

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Speaker 1: It's important for the Giants and the next coach from

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Speaker 2: I mean, no matter who's the coach is like, the

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Speaker 2: That's something that we have to do as a team

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Speaker 2: So I'm you know, I'm obviously gonna stay in contact

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Speaker 2: to full potential. Rookie year, like you became kind of

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Speaker 2: A dual talk to the team about just how the

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Speaker 1: Camp.

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Speaker 3: Do you think this team is supposed to turning it around?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not even a question, it's for sure close.

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Speaker 2: I think next year is gonna be a big difference

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Speaker 2: You know, I think this offseason is gonna be huge,

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