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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants. Let's go, Let's go,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giants Huddled Podcast, brought to you by Citizens,

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Speaker 1: the official bank of the New York Football Giants. It's

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Speaker 1: a Week eighteen Giants Rapid reaction. As the Giants finished

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Speaker 1: the season with a twenty seven to ten win over

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Speaker 1: the visiting Philadelphia Eagles. Madelenburg here with Howard Cross and

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Speaker 1: Howard as we recap this one. First of all, talking

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Speaker 1: about the game that was. Giants looked so strong. They

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Speaker 1: were up. They had twenty four points in the first

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I thought what was going to happen? Happened.

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Speaker 3: I thought that they were going to come out. They

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Speaker 3: exposed the Eagles last time. Eagles are no longer the

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Speaker 3: abilities in the block, so to speak. They've lost both

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Speaker 3: coordinators over the last season. Through You know, when you

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Speaker 3: have great success, you there's a lot of players that

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Speaker 3: lost a lot of their defensive guys. A lot of

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Speaker 3: veterans have going home to other teams who make a

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Speaker 3: lot of money. So you have a lot of rookies

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Speaker 3: in their playing and some of their key guys weren't

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Speaker 3: shorthand especially the secondary, they're shorter handed in their pass

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Speaker 3: rusher like they're getting to the quarterback a lot less,

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Speaker 3: like more than a third lesson they were last year.

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Speaker 3: So all those, all those factors kind of pointing to like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: if the Giants kind of come out and step on

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Speaker 3: them a little bit, they might, you know, kind of

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Speaker 3: you know, give it up. And I think giving it

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Speaker 3: up is kind of a little rough. But knowing that

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Speaker 3: can't really improve your position, you're not getting to buy

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Speaker 3: if you win, they started to start to look at

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Speaker 3: it more and so okay, maybe we should just like

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Speaker 3: take what we get here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and the way that the Giants played, though

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Speaker 1: the winning the turnover battle Florida one was important, but

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Speaker 1: also the offense. The way the offense looked in that

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Speaker 1: first half, three street possessions ending in a touchdown for

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Speaker 1: this Giants team, The way they were able to move

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Speaker 1: There's got to be some optimism for what that says

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Speaker 1: about the future of a lot of these pieces, a

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Speaker 1: lot of these players on this team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does.

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Speaker 3: It's a great deal about the future about you Kefka's offense,

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Speaker 3: the way it was able to work as you I

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Speaker 3: don't remember. The offensive line had changed again that you know,

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Speaker 3: Schmid's didn't play, Neil wasn't playing. Phillips, who had been

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Speaker 3: tackle wasn't playing. And now you guy guys switching and

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Speaker 3: moving around and adjusting, and they were still able to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, they were able to do that. They were

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Speaker 1: able to get things going Sick when Barkley had two

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns on the day, Darius Slayton and a nineteen

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Speaker 1: quarter of the Giants were at twenty four to nothing.

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Speaker 2: At the half.

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Speaker 1: Eagles came in the third quarter. Late in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: Jake Elliott connects on a thirty six yard field goal

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Speaker 1: sixteen yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter give them

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Speaker 1: ten points on the day, but overall, the Giants were

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Speaker 1: And having a win like that over a division opponent,

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Speaker 1: you know, Tyron Taylor talked about this his postgame media availability, saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's something that's a point of emphasis as

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Speaker 1: a point of growth for this team. Especially last year

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Speaker 1: they won one game in the division. They won one

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Speaker 1: three games in the division. And when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: closing the talent gap, your division is where you want

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think you have to keep everything in perspective.

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Speaker 3: You close the talent gap, and I think that's obvious

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Speaker 3: because the Eagles just weren't the same team they were

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Speaker 3: haven't gained any strides. They don't really have a set,

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Speaker 2: So they're struggling.

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Speaker 3: So Jaffs were able to feast on them for the

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Speaker 3: still need another pass rusher, what adri Jackson potential, potential,

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Speaker 3: whatever it could be. We don't know what the team

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Speaker 3: makeup is gonna be next year, So that'll be the

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Speaker 3: difference in the talent gap is the makeup of the

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Speaker 3: team coming up this following year.

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Speaker 4: a turf bus business grows, your savings grow, become the

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Speaker 1: Right? And you mentioned Dallas, Dallas one in Washington thirty

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Speaker 1: eight to ten, securing the number one spot of the

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Speaker 1: NFC East. They won the division. The Eagles will be

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Speaker 1: a five seed in the post season.

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 1: But back to you know what this game looked like

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Speaker 1: this is a guy who likes to dial up a blitz.

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Speaker 1: He dials up a blitz in the preseason. He was

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Speaker 1: look at how this team as a group performed, you know,

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Speaker 1: Winks defense did absolutely that too, And he said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get that it's week eighteen, but you know what

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Speaker 1: we're going to put the pressure on. We're sending seven

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the Eagles do something like I said,

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Speaker 2: And that's what we did.

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Speaker 3: Wing's like, if you're just gonna sit there, perfect, we

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Speaker 3: got there over and over and you know, especially with

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Speaker 3: it was basically the outside guys like Thibodeau Ojulara getting pressure.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes Ward got pressure up the middle as a d lineman,

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Speaker 3: They get him off the spot, they get him nervous.

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Speaker 3: You know the good thing about Jalen is that Jaalen

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Speaker 3: and he doesn't just go down when you get in there.

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Speaker 3: But you know, they got him out of there. After

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Speaker 3: he got the second sack, He's like, Okay, he's getting

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Speaker 3: hit way too much. We need him for the following

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jalen Hurts did go to the blue medical tent

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Speaker 1: great day. Two picks in less than two minutes out

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Speaker 1: been a great part of this Giants defense too, who's

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Speaker 1: great position once again. Tyrod Taylor throwing for two hundred

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Speaker 1: all Shep needed to move into the number five spot

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Speaker 3: You know, it's kind of cool, like, and I was

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Speaker 3: thinking about this before the game. Chep's getting out here

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Speaker 3: to play. He has an opportunity to themselves on the

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Speaker 3: If he gets the game's he gonna get any passes?

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Speaker 3: And they made it a point to get the ball

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Speaker 3: Reminded me of myself. I'm laughing, like my last game

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Speaker 4: You're ready for a change. Pay day comes early with citizens,

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Speaker 3: The wood could have shut us, you know, even with

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Speaker 2: Like the year before.

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Speaker 1: I could see Howard's smiling. You can't see it if

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