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Speaker 1: So again, twenty four and a half year old left

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Speaker 1: So the static about that as well. So with that,

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Speaker 2: Separate them later from the.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question. There's a personal side, of course.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we got a team to build camaraderie,

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Speaker 3: A couple of days ago, you guys initiated the contact

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Speaker 1: Are no again, like you don't spend nine and a

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Speaker 1: Again, I'm just glad he's here. I'm glad. There's nothing

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Speaker 8: Hey, Brian, but you know, there's the aspect of of

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Sake one and I have a really good relationship.

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Speaker 7: We've communicated a lot. And he's here, he's ready to go.

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Speaker 1: With personal Yeah, listen, he's here, he's ready to go again.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been in the league a long time and

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Speaker 7: We got a long way to go, and you know,

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Speaker 7: we're just gonna take it day by day and try

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Speaker 4: Ryan, you don't pay the players. You play the players.

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Speaker 4: You don't pay the players, but you you're you're responsible

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Speaker 2: You believe were in running backs, I'm believe in all players.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would kind of echo what Dave said. Again,

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Speaker 1: thirty some days before our first game, Joe, what makes.

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Speaker 4: You confident the team is better than it was when

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Speaker 1: Again, we haven't practiced yet and we haven't been in pads,

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Speaker 4: I guess for both of you guys, have have the

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Speaker 2: It was day one.

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Speaker 8: Have the expectations changed and if.

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Speaker 7: We have some new players that again, until you get

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Speaker 7: You know, his job is to make good decision and

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Speaker 7: On uh, continual improvement, just like everybody else does. That's

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Speaker 4: Get everybody on a couple list that you're concerned about,

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Speaker 7: I think they're all at at at different spots. You know,

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Speaker 6: I think you spent something like three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 3: What's yourssage to the fan base in terms of the

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Speaker 5: What was your what was your message in your first

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Speaker 7: Today was really go out there, compete. There's going to

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Speaker 2: A long way to go. Let's just take it day

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Speaker 5: Took over when you took over eighteen months ago, whatever

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think a lot of those guys earned it,

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Speaker 7: Guys, I've had a lot of conversations with Saquon, none

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Speaker 2: Uh So we have a plan really for every player, Jordan.

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Speaker 7: You know, they'll they'll get their amount of reps that

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Speaker 2: There's no limitations, you know.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like he felt the planned last year was

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Speaker 4: When do you guys find the time.

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Speaker 7: I've been coaching, you know, back in ninety seven, so

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Speaker 7: each year is a little bit different. I think you

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Speaker 7: take each individual and talk to them about whatever you

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Speaker 7: need to talk to them about, along with collectively making

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Speaker 7: sure that you're, you know, helping them be the best

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Speaker 7: version of themselves. I tell the coaches and the staff

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Speaker 7: off all the time, We're here for one reason, and

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Speaker 7: that's the players. It's a players game, and our job

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Speaker 7: is to help our players be as good as they

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Speaker 7: can be, both on and off the field. I think

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Speaker 7: that's important to our organization. It's a standard for us,

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Speaker 7: and that's something that we will always do.

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Speaker 8: Want to clarify about on the last padnth, is there anything.

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Speaker 6: That you want to make sure that the Giants side

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Speaker 6: is out there in terms of any associations.

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Speaker 1: Now, we and his representatives and the New York Giants

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Speaker 1: we lived it, so we're good. And like I said before,

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Speaker 1: we care about what we think inside these four walls

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Speaker 1: in that building over there. And Saquon went through it,

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Speaker 1: and we went through it, and we know where the

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Speaker 1: truth lies. And you know, both parties tried and I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm at peace with that