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Speaker 1: It is with great pleasure that we welcome the new

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Speaker 1: head coach of the New York Football Giants, John Harbaugh.

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Speaker 2: Coach.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, how do you feel right now?

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Speaker 2: Thanks Sean. I feel great. I feel great.

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Speaker 3: Get an opportunity to be a part of this iconic

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Speaker 3: quite honestly, as you know, I've been watching on tape

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Speaker 3: for a few days now.

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited about it.

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Speaker 1: It's been an action packed two weeks for you. Take

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Speaker 1: us through kind of the emotional roller coaster that you've

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Speaker 1: gone through over the last fourteen days, and what has

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Speaker 1: that process been like for you.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know we were going to get on the

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Speaker 3: couch here. Man, This is like a big that's a.

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Speaker 2: Big, deep question. You know, areciated.

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Speaker 3: It's been great, but it's been different. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: not exactly what you can prepare for. So there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of great moments, a lot of great memories, a

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Speaker 3: lot of great people that are kind of in the

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Speaker 3: behind us now that will carry with us forever. Those

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Speaker 3: things will never change. I mean, I love the people

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Speaker 3: that were in Baltimore, that we were part of that

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Speaker 3: journey together. And now the last ten days have been

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Speaker 3: of our journey together. Man, And I'm fired up about it.

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Speaker 3: And I really like I really like what I see here.

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Speaker 3: I really like the people here. I love the mayors,

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Speaker 3: players that I've had an opportunity to be around the

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Speaker 3: last couple of days. Even on the phone, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm grabbing guys on the phone and talking to them,

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Speaker 3: and they're they're ready to go, man, They're ready to

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Speaker 3: go to work, and they're ready.

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Speaker 2: To go, go, get after it. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: The Giants established in nineteen twenty five, an iconic franchise.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned kind of you know, some of some of

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Speaker 1: the knowledge of that. What does it mean to you

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Speaker 2: It means everything.

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Speaker 3: It's it is football, you know, it's it's the National

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Speaker 3: Football League and the well, there were five teams in

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Speaker 3: So then this is the one that survived, you know,

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Speaker 3: and this is the one that's still standing.

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Speaker 2: And to me.

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Speaker 3: It's when you grow up as a coach's kid. You're

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Speaker 3: country too. It's football is big. It's big everywhere, but

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Speaker 3: it's big in Ohio and pro football and the Hall

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Speaker 3: of Fame is there. To see that logo, uh, to

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Speaker 3: know what that stands for and what that means. The

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Speaker 3: players who play here, like yourself, it's it's hard to explain,

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Speaker 3: but you feel it in your heart.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned conversations with the Maras, the tissues with with ownership.

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Speaker 1: There was a big lunch, there was a big supper.

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Speaker 1: At what point did you know this was the right fit.

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Speaker 2: I probably knew it was the.

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Speaker 3: Right fit as soon as I talked to my dad,

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Speaker 3: like day one and U and he was talking about

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Speaker 3: he got into some tape, he watched some tape and

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Speaker 3: and then he was pretty sure that this would be

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Speaker 3: getting to know how we're going to work together, you know,

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Speaker 3: lot of passion for what they're doing. So just kind

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Speaker 3: of talking through all that stuff was what we really

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned your dad Jack, obviously your brother Jim

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Speaker 1: him and what kind of perspective.

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Speaker 2: Did he have? I did.

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Speaker 3: His perspective basically was all right, let's get this done.

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Speaker 2: You know, he thought it was a great move.

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Speaker 3: He knows the league, you know, he knows the players,

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Speaker 2: Would be a great place.

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Speaker 2: He was, he was.

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Speaker 3: He did mention that, he mentioned that he said, not

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Speaker 2: That's all he said.

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Speaker 3: You know, I think about it. Maybe he did have

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Speaker 3: an ulterior motive a little bit. Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 1: He wants another bite at the So I think we're

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Speaker 1: all ready for another Harball Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd get a hard bowl harbbo let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds good. You also, you got to talk

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Speaker 1: to some of the people outside of the building as well.

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Speaker 1: You talked to Tom Goughlan talked to Eli Manning. What

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Speaker 2: Right well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a chance to talk to both those guys and

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Speaker 2: I didn't hear one thing about.

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Speaker 3: You know, these are the challenges that you face, and

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Speaker 3: Aaron Tom was a ringler, he was a dad.

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Speaker 2: Smiling in heaven right now.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, he's a big you know, you know general. He

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Speaker 3: But but Tom was good because he knows the league

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Speaker 2: Really helped me a lot. Is he going to get

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Speaker 2: you to turn the clocks back now? For me?

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Speaker 3: Eastern stand of time? Man, it's like it's on your

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Speaker 2: You know you can't. I don't think you can change

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Speaker 3: Your phone doesn't run five minutes early, right, there is

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Eighteen years down in Baltimore, seventeen of those eighteen seasons,

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Speaker 2: Or more games. How do you do that?

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Speaker 3: We have a lot of great people and a lot

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Speaker 3: But to persevere and the unwillingness to ever give up,

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Speaker 3: be rough, tough, be smart, you gotta be disciplined. You

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Speaker 3: got to play extremely hard. You gotta play shockingly hard.

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Speaker 3: That's how it's done a way that when you leave

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Speaker 2: You know, that's what it takes.

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Speaker 3: So I think our guys understood that over the years

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Speaker 3: you mold this new team now into that identity, Well,

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Speaker 3: I felt in our conversations over the course of those days,

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Speaker 2: And I think we got the right kind of guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got some players, a good young core of players.

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Speaker 1: And you've had a chance to talk to Jackson Dart.

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Speaker 1: What do you like about some of the players on

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Speaker 2: Jackson's a great example of it.

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Speaker 3: He's a young guy, but he's the right kind of guy,

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Speaker 3: you know, and he's he's all ball, he's all football

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Speaker 3: he's willing to work to be great.

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Speaker 2: And I feel like that's throughout this football team. You know,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna find out.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna go to work and see and

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Speaker 3: that's the kind of guys we're looking for. Giants fans

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Speaker 3: are passionate about this team and they're hungry for some wins.

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Speaker 3: I want you to look in that camera and give

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Speaker 2: Well, to the.

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Speaker 3: Giants fans out there, we are ready to go to work.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be willing to work. We're gonna be unwilling

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Speaker 3: to give up at any point in time. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: be relentless chasers of excellence. We're gonna be rough, tough, discipline,

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Speaker 2: Coach, Thanks so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: Really looking forward to seeing you out there rocking that

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Speaker 1: baseball hat now that you taught everybody how to properly

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Speaker 1: that's your hat.

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Speaker 2: Thanks youan great to be with you, man,