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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giants Huddle, instant analysis of the Giants

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Speaker 1: to three victory over the Carolina Panthers at Metlive Stadium.

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Speaker 1: We are joined by Super Bowl champion punter Jeff Eagles.

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Speaker 1: You can always catch all of our podcasts on the

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Speaker 1: Giants Podcast networking all of your podcast sites. Jeff, a

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Speaker 1: much needed victory for the Giants after the one in

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Speaker 1: five start. You could see the celebration on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: These players were really jacked up. It was like a

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Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. Well, it always is when you win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they played well they had. This is

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Speaker 1: a team that I think they knew they had a

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Speaker 1: chance to compete with and win. So, you know, from

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Speaker 1: the next players standpoint, the winds really helped the morale

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Speaker 1: of the team. The confidence. Hey listen, they they came

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Speaker 1: out here, they did what they had to do. I

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Speaker 1: thought the defense really really stepped up today and and

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Speaker 1: much needed win. Well let's talk about the defense first.

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Speaker 1: All all, there was plenty on off and to talk

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Speaker 1: about as well, but the defense held Carolina to a

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three total yards, They had six sacks, uh,

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Speaker 1: and held them to only three points. Uh. Jeff, this

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Speaker 1: is the kind of defensive effort I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of us expected early on this season, and the Giants

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Speaker 1: defense had not been clicking. Well. Listen, this is this

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Speaker 1: is polar opposites of the week before. You know, in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, the Rams they take their starting quarterback

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Speaker 1: out for a good reason because he just basically torched

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Speaker 1: the defense. The Panthers took their quarterback out in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter because basically he wasn't getting it done. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that just goes to show you that's a win

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Speaker 1: for the defense right away. Uh, this defense came out.

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Speaker 1: What I was proud about this Giants defense today was

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Speaker 1: for them to come back after what they did last week.

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Speaker 1: That just proves to me that there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys that care in that locker room one and five

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Speaker 1: coming into this game. That's leadership. I talked about that

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Speaker 1: all the time at each position, there has to be

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Speaker 1: guys that will take the take charge of that leadership

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Speaker 1: in the locker room. They did that. Patrick Graham really

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Speaker 1: got together with this coaches and came up with an

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Speaker 1: outstanding game plan. We knew that this offense for the

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Speaker 1: Panthers wasn't that great. It was more of a defensive team,

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Speaker 1: and they showed it well. I think it's really important

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Speaker 1: we bring up the word execution because we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about how right with miss tackles and guys busting coverages

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Speaker 1: and not getting home, and then today the execution was

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Speaker 1: at a very high level. They gave up an opening

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Speaker 1: drive third team plays forty six yards as the Panthers

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Speaker 1: started this game with the ball and took a three

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Speaker 1: to nothing lead. By the way, that's only six points total. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Giants had given up in the first quarter. This season,

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Speaker 1: they've been very fast starters. But here's the key. After

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Speaker 1: that possession, going into halftime, the Giants forced three punts,

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Speaker 1: had an interception, and had a safety unintentional grounding. They

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Speaker 1: um yeah, and that's just that's being an opportunistic. Listen,

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Speaker 1: this defense has now taken the ball away seven games

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Speaker 1: in a row. They've had a takeaway. Um, that's an

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Speaker 1: opportunistic defense. What you do with it on the other

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Speaker 1: a difference. You look at last, we can just go

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Speaker 1: down each game. There's times when the offense just doesn't

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Speaker 1: take and play that complimentary. But this defense, they really

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Speaker 1: did a nice job surrounding the football. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: preparation Okay, I'm not saying that they don't prepare. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you're one in five and you're in search for

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Speaker 1: saying that they don't prepare, but this is what it

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Speaker 1: takes to win football games. And I think the execution

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Speaker 1: and there, and they're paying attention to detail and it

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Speaker 1: and it it proved. The Giants shot a five to

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald just blowing it up there to center field

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Speaker 1: that do or don't believe in momentum, that is a

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Speaker 1: big momentum change. And by the way, yeah, they broke

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Speaker 1: momentum into your locker room and you come out swinging

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Speaker 1: in the second half. All right, let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: third quarter where the Giants really took control of this game.

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Speaker 1: They go on at eleven play seventy five yard drive

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Speaker 1: Dante Pettis for a five yard touchdown catch. There was

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Speaker 1: a review thinking that his ship may have hit the ground.

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Speaker 1: They said, no, the coal stands and it's a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: But I want to talk about that drive. The Giants

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Speaker 1: it actually started with a minus four on the second

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Speaker 1: He is probably the best player on that field. Um

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Speaker 1: coming off the concussion last week. Was there any residuals?

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Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, so you know, when you're in

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Speaker 1: ways to make plays. And they did it. Then in

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Speaker 1: Let's not make any mistake about it. It was five

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Speaker 1: But but the mixture of plays and then especially the

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Speaker 1: then you talk about the plays that you did. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: just kind of we had the wildcat with Tony when

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Speaker 1: field goal, touchdown. That's the kind of efficiency the Giants

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Speaker 1: offense has really not been able to put forth all year. Long. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And and by the way, we haven't we haven't talked

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Speaker 1: you know, eighteen to three, but you know you don't

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Speaker 1: score there that although the Panthers weren't doing much offensively,

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Speaker 1: but you never want to keep it close. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, you know, as you move forward to being

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Speaker 1: becoming a better football team, you learn to put teams

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Speaker 1: No matter what it was, a twenty five yards scamper

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Speaker 1: executed to play. They had had on a hat, they

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Speaker 1: the offensive line did enough to give Daniel Jones time.

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Speaker 1: you know you saw Jabrill Peppers very active inside today.

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Speaker 1: So this back end of the defense played well. Overall.

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Speaker 1: Spaggs is a guy that's you know, his defense is

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Speaker 1: Giants knock off the Carolina Panthers to three. Here at

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