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

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Speaker 1: Let's Giants, Get my Giantsubble, give me some jobs. Part

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Speaker 2: Let's Roll.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Giants Little podcast, brought to you by Citizens,

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Speaker 3: the official bank of the New York Football Giants. John

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Speaker 3: schmelk Our weekly spot with Showon O'Hara. It's usually Tuesdays,

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Speaker 3: but it's Wednesday because the Giants played on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL schedule. When you don't play on

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Speaker 2: Sunday at exactly, just.

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Speaker 1: Check your phone to figure out what day it is

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Speaker 1: and just look at the calendar. You've got everything lit

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Speaker 1: up right there. But last week we talked about I

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Speaker 1: made the NBA jam. Yes, like reference, like you make

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Speaker 1: two shots in a row. He's heating up. The Giants

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Speaker 1: are on fire right now, like the rim is literally smoking,

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Speaker 1: and the net is gone, is disintegrated.

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Speaker 2: And the guy that can do no wrong?

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Speaker 3: What does it feel like living in Tommy DeVito's world

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Speaker 3: showing O'Hara's a Jersey guy.

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Speaker 1: Let me just tell you so. Driving to the stadium,

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Speaker 1: I'm listening to your pregame with Jonathan Casillas, like I

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Speaker 1: always do listen to my boys take care of it.

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Speaker 1: You got to go to commercial and guess who comes

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Speaker 1: on as the radio commercial is Tommy DeVito Senior. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is tom DeVito Senior, Tommy DeVito's dad.

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Speaker 2: He was in here recording that. I recorded it with him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, I've been a plumber for twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: I only install peerless boilers. It was like a whole

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Speaker 1: read for peerless boilers and how they're the best peerless boys,

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Speaker 1: and he can do it faster than anybody and better

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Speaker 1: than anybody. And of course the call sign call off,

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Speaker 1: his sign off was and and if you don't call

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Speaker 1: Tommy Davido Plumbing to install your peerless boiler, forget about it.

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Speaker 1: Anybody else. It's a fugezy. I mean it was I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to gain on, like this is the complete takeover.

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Speaker 1: And of course the game happened and it was even better.

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Speaker 3: And the funny thing is that I think from just

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Speaker 3: watching him in the stands and you know, the stogy

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Speaker 3: at the at the tailgate before the game, he was

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Speaker 3: a very low key, pretty soft spoken guy, like it's

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Speaker 3: not and I think Tommy's the same way.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I think people see these guys as like.

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Speaker 3: These loud of noxious Jersey Italis, Yeah, which is kind

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Speaker 3: of what the old, you know, bad Jersey Shore characterure is.

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Speaker 2: That's not what these guys are.

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Speaker 1: Like. This is not snooking.

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Speaker 2: No, they're actually a very low key group, believe it

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Speaker 3: But you know what, if I'm sitting there, I'm not

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Speaker 3: a all out there guy. But if my kids out

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Speaker 3: there playing for the Giants on a Sunday, guess what

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Speaker 3: I'm going nuts too. Oh yeah, I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 3: it's just it's such It's a great essential New York story.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point you're making because it's they are

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Speaker 1: like the dad, like I mentioned, he's a plumber, he's

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Speaker 1: a blue car guy. This guy's been working his butt off,

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Speaker 1: and Tommy has seen that his mom is wearing a

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Speaker 1: Tommy Cutlet Cutlets sweatshirt customized like any mom and dad

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Speaker 1: would do. They're just soaking it all up and enjoying

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Speaker 1: celebrating their son. You know, there's some kissing involved too,

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Speaker 1: you know with the agent Sean Stiletto. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: whole thing is it's just really cool. And I think

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Speaker 1: for Giants fans, like they've embraced the Tommy DeVito and

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Speaker 1: is one of our own Jersey boy New York Giants,

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Speaker 1: Hollywood couldn't make a script better than this. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's playing great. He's been phenomenal, He's gotten

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Speaker 1: better every single week. The fact that he's playing is

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Speaker 1: the best part of the story. Is how well he's playing,

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Speaker 1: how he's willing back to back games, like takes the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I thought the difference in this game, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: what Tommy Divido did so well in this game. The

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Speaker 3: design running was great, but the Packers were getting pressure

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Speaker 3: And I think while teams the past couple weeks had

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Speaker 3: the Packers are playing their typical deeper zone, and he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he did a great job, because you can't always

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Speaker 1: he got the ball out too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Coming into this game against the Greenia Packers, he'd been

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Speaker 1: sacked an unbelievable mount of time. It was twenty times

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Speaker 1: There was none of that, not one sack in the game.

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Speaker 1: So kudos to the OLAMA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did a really nice job.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we talked about the matchup with Tyree

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Speaker 3: Phillips and Rashaan Garry had to get to this game

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Speaker 3: because run Shawn Gary no joe top ten pass rusher

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Speaker 3: from that, Phillips gave up the whole game and that

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Speaker 3: did Phillips get some help sometimes with chips and stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's fine, don't care. Rashan Gary was quiet.

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Speaker 1: He's been a game wrecker and you really didn't call it.

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Speaker 1: You didn't hear his name called at all, and that

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Speaker 3: And it's funny that almost goes back. And this felt

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Speaker 3: like and I'll circle back to the Vito and Robinson,

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Speaker 3: but this felt like a twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Two Giants win, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you run with the quarterback, you win situationally,

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Speaker 3: you're better in the red zone then the other team.

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Speaker 3: You win the turnover battle. You make big plays when

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Speaker 3: And they tried to close the game with the run again, right,

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Speaker 3: And this is what they did constantly at the end

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Speaker 3: of games last year. Now, unfortunately Saquon fumbles the football

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Speaker 3: and it's gonna be a real tough spot. For them,

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Speaker 3: and they might be down two scores, but this felt

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you watch the game, like, at no point

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Speaker 1: Like it felt like they were in control the entire time.

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Speaker 1: And it's pretty wild, like this is the NFL. Right,

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Speaker 1: So eight days before that game, the Packers beat the

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Speaker 1: the Giants were basically manhandling them.

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Speaker 3: And ten days before that, by the way, they won

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's remarkable. And then get during that game,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, the offense is playing really well.

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Speaker 1: The defense is playing lights out. I mean, the sticky

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Speaker 1: and you never felt like this game was going to

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Speaker 1: get away from us. To your point, totally different this

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of belief. I don't I feel

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Speaker 1: like the team believes in the office. The defense trust

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Speaker 1: win it. So complimentary football is what they call it.

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Speaker 1: I don't like using that cliche, but both teams are

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Speaker 3: Is that because you got tired of Tom Coughlin saying

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Speaker 1: I just hear I hear it, and it's just like,

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Speaker 1: what does that even mean? Complimentary? That sounds so gentleminely like, oh, compliment,

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Speaker 1: we want to compliment each other. No, this is football.

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Speaker 1: You want to smash somebody in the face. Compliments. Keep

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Speaker 3: Back to de Vito, you mentioned it. I think they

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Speaker 3: did a good job of getting the ball out quickly.

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Speaker 3: So many of his passes were within ten yards of

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Speaker 3: a line of scrimmage. Only I think five passes. I

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Speaker 3: don't have enough from me. I looked it up yesterday

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Speaker 2: Four of them.

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Speaker 3: So when they did ask him to throw the ball

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Speaker 3: one pass of twenty more yards and I'll talk to

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Speaker 3: you about that in a second. But when they did

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Speaker 3: throw it down the field that he was successful. And

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Speaker 3: Wanda Robinson was a big part of that. And you

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Speaker 3: know they like running that slot player on all.

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Speaker 2: Those deep over routes across the field. Right.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what that Brian Davil offensive system is.

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Speaker 3: And it's not just the Giants. A lot of teams

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Speaker 3: And Kafka told me that's what they did change on us,

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Speaker 3: And that's what he did, he said, And Tommy we

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Speaker 2: They don't put in there, they take it right out.

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Speaker 3: Like I've been around coaches were like, no, no, this play works,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the gunny way from a heartbreak ridge, you

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Speaker 1: Like that's a great play. Can I show you the highlights?

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Speaker 2: That's exactly fine. You want peanut butter and.

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Speaker 1: you're not wrong.

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Speaker 2: That's why it's so funny.

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Speaker 3: And I would have give all that Robinson credit to

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Speaker 2: If you don't on that.

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Speaker 1: Fleet fla he had great adjustment.

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Speaker 3: No business throwing that pass linebacker underneath safety over the top.

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Speaker 3: If he leads him properly, that's it. It's just like

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Speaker 3: for it. I don't know what was going through his

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Speaker 3: But really, one of the few times this year we've

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Speaker 3: that was kind of above the x's and o's, and

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Speaker 2: Huge play in the end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we might be giving him a little too much

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Speaker 2: And he was feeling it at that point. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: A quarterback, like you do, throw it up there, let

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Speaker 2: Air and then defensively, Sean, you brought it up before him.

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Speaker 3: Defensively, we talked heading into the game about how you

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Speaker 2: During the year because They were frankly not a very

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Speaker 2: good team the first.

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Speaker 1: Four to five six games and struggling.

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Speaker 3: The defense was struggling. It just wasn't working for them.

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Speaker 3: But the last three games, four games, they look great.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: The Giants defense made this Packer offense look like the

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Speaker 3: of this year. Jordan Love was all over the plays

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Speaker 1: Yeah they did. And you know what, like they got

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Speaker 2: I gave it your chicken nuggets, and you still can't

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Speaker 1: Would happen you dropped the plate, dropped, they dropped the floor.

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Speaker 1: Now you gotta eat with your hands. Yeah, frustration definitely

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Speaker 1: Think maybe that that that throw where Romeo Dobbs caught,

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Speaker 1: I'll take. I'll take recovery speed any day. Now. Next level, Dante,

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Speaker 3: And he had struggle again his head around at points

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Speaker 1: I think defensively, the one thing that just kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that, really quickly, Sean before you

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Speaker 1: You know what, I just I want to say thank

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Speaker 3: It was a nice battle between the Giants and Packer

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Speaker 3: fans in that bun was fun.

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Speaker 1: Packers fans are the nicest fans in the world, so

438
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Speaker 1: like that. That's you know, it's it's always nice to

439
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Speaker 1: have a house guest that like cleans up after this.

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Speaker 3: I still remember leaving the title game in two thousand

441
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Speaker 3: and seven, They're like, all right, guys, good luck in

442
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Speaker 3: the super Bowl.

443
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Speaker 2: This is fun. I'm like, what's wrong with you?

444
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Speaker 1: Does like if you're in Philly you're getting pelted with

445
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Speaker 1: snowballs And.

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Speaker 2: I'm not joking. Fans said, actually, oh, guys, that was

447
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Speaker 2: a great game. Good luck in the super Bowl.

448
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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, basic, but yeah, that was that was

449
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Speaker 1: That was a great atmosphere it was really cool. Obviously

450
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Speaker 1: a great ending and a great win, but you know,

451
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Speaker 1: look there's only two more home games, and that atmosphere

452
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Speaker 1: is what it should be on a Monday night game

453
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Speaker 1: at Medlife. It was really cool. So that was really fun.

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Speaker 1: And again I mentioned briefly, shout out to the Giants

455
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Speaker 1: offens in line and they got game balls after the

456
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Speaker 1: game sack. We've been talking a lot about Tommy DeVito.

457
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Speaker 1: He's everywhere right now. He's done every interview I think

458
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Speaker 1: you could possibly do in a twenty four hour window.

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Speaker 3: See, I've seen his agent on TV more than yeah,

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Speaker 3: Sean has been.

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Speaker 1: You know, like they're both trending right now, some for good,

462
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Speaker 1: some for bad. But the offensive line two hundred yards

463
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Speaker 1: rushing did a great job against Rayshawn Garry, as we mentioned,

464
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Speaker 1: you know, he's what Bobby Johnson will call a werewolf

465
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Speaker 1: and no sacks. So uh, that's big, that's that's huge progress.

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Speaker 1: And it just shows when the offensive line is playing well,

467
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Speaker 1: like the offense is functional and things look different.

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Speaker 2: And the run game not traditionally too.

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Speaker 3: And this is I'm happy you brought that up because

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Speaker 3: I want to tip my cap to to Mike Kafkin

471
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Speaker 3: and Brian Davi, but for putting.

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Speaker 2: To the other a really good game.

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Speaker 1: And Bobby Johnson. We got to give Bobby Johnson.

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Speaker 2: He's Tammy Johnson too.

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Speaker 3: Giants at one hundred and forty four rushing yards through

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Speaker 3: three quarters. Sean at that point, Sequon Barkley a thirteen

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Speaker 3: carries for twenty five yards. Yeah, which means non running backs.

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Speaker 3: I think Brada might had ten yards in there too,

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Speaker 3: but non running backs had over one hundred yards rushing

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Speaker 3: through three quarters. I mean, that's an amazing job. Whether again,

481
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Speaker 3: some of it's Tommy scramble on, but you had the

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Speaker 3: design runs and I think what we saw at halftime

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Speaker 3: and caseee us and I talked about this at the

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Speaker 3: half on the halftime show on the radio. You saw

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Speaker 3: every time, and look, this is what all these teams

486
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Speaker 3: are doing. When Saquon Barkley gets the ball, you see

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Speaker 3: eleven guys on defense.

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Speaker 2: Flying out, swarming. They're not gonna let them do anything.

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Speaker 2: So what do they do? All Right, Well, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: run some read option. If they're gonna run out, want

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Speaker 2: at Saquon Barkley, Let's do some misdirection. Yeah, we're gonna

492
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Speaker 2: run a flee flick. We're gonna bring it back.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do a wildcat and guess what, Saquon's gonna

494
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Speaker 3: almost fumble it, but hand it off to one that

495
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Speaker 3: Robinson and he's gonna run for thirty yards. So I

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Speaker 3: thought the coaching staff at the half and Brian Dale

497
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Speaker 3: gave Bobby Johnson to my calf credit for this in

498
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Speaker 3: his postgame presser, making an adjustment to use Saquon as

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Speaker 3: a decoy to open up other things in the run game,

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Speaker 3: which just all was really well done.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point, and they definitely have taken heat

502
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Speaker 1: this year, so you have to give him credit when

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Speaker 1: they do stuff. The other thing I'll add on there

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Speaker 1: is how about Mark Lewinsky lining up sixty four is

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Speaker 1: l And that wasn't just on one time one play,

506
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Speaker 1: wasn't one short yards and it wasn't sixty four dolls

507
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Speaker 1: when he's lining with tight ends. It was a full back.

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Speaker 1: He was in motion and on that touchdown run for

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Speaker 1: Saquon and he like knocked over. It was like bowling pins,

510
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Speaker 1: like he racked up the four to seven split, like

511
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Speaker 1: he knocked over. It was like a five car pile

512
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Speaker 1: up and Saquan just kind of waltzed around and he

513
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Speaker 1: did his little finger roll into the end zone. But

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Speaker 1: Mark Lewinsky, great job blocking on the move. I see

515
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Speaker 1: a big fellow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he had some nice moments. Giants fans love a winner.

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522
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Speaker 3: real quick show before you say goodbye. First of all,

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Speaker 3: what does he like to play in the Superdome?

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Speaker 1: I hated it. I feel like I feel like we

525
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Speaker 1: got right out of the building.

526
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Speaker 2: Time ran down there.

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Speaker 1: Oh it was brutal. And you know, of course that

528
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Speaker 1: was Drew Brees and Sean Payton, And that's funny. I

529
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Speaker 1: just saw Eline the cafeteria and we were talking about

530
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Speaker 1: like we had some long flights home from that, because

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Speaker 1: you look up in the second quarter, it's like, how

532
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Speaker 1: are we down seventeen and nothing already?

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Speaker 2: Were you still playing the game where it was like

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Speaker 2: fifty three forty eight or that?

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Speaker 1: No, that was that was after I retire. But Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was like the I mean back and forth. That

537
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Speaker 1: was a shootout. But it's crazy when we played down

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Speaker 1: there a number one, Like, the lighting down there is

539
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Speaker 1: totally different, so I feel like receivers have a hard

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Speaker 1: time and and punt returners, like you go out there,

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Speaker 1: you gotta really the lights are just different.

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Speaker 2: It's have they changed that though what?

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Speaker 1: I don't know because I remember the lighting was kind

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Speaker 1: of different. But it's so loud down there, and the

545
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Speaker 1: fans when they're into it, man, that place is electric.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the hardest plays to play on the road.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like we never really played very well.

548
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Speaker 1: We were always behind early and then you know it

549
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Speaker 1: third and longs and you're in the silent count. So

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Speaker 1: starting fast is huge down there. But New Orleans is

551
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Speaker 1: a cool place to be. It's a cool place to play,

552
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Speaker 1: and you know, you don't get to go out on

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Speaker 1: Berber Street and walk around and check out the French

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Speaker 1: Quarters while you're playing.

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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you what your go to

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Speaker 2: place was in the French Quarter.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've gone there a couple of different times, you know,

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Speaker 1: one for a bachelor party and we got a chance

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Speaker 1: to hang out there. But my first year working as

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Speaker 1: the NFL NET organist, the super Bowl was in New

561
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Speaker 1: Orleans and I got to go down there. I tell

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Speaker 1: you what. I tried shrimper and grits at every damn

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Speaker 1: restaurant every night. It was phenomenal. Are good if I

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Speaker 1: put on Yeah, I put on a lot. That was

565
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Speaker 1: back when I was eating carbs. But there was a couple.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of different really nice places. There's one

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Speaker 1: place that everybody warns you about. It's called the absinthe House.

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Speaker 1: It's where they serve absinthe, which some people call mind

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Speaker 1: the racers.

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Speaker 2: Or you know, like it's that is dangerous.

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Speaker 1: So be careful out there.

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Speaker 2: Be careful.

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Speaker 1: The hurricanes are very strong down there. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking about the weather. I'm talking about the drink. So

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Speaker 1: be careful out there.

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Speaker 2: There's like I've had a couple of those.

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Speaker 1: There's like a hand grenade one they call to like,

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Speaker 1: there's all kinds of weird name drinks. Stay away from those.

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Speaker 1: Stick to like just the beer.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. The game itself. I think that was worth the time.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. The fans have been really loud.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that's not great for Derek Carr since a lot

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Speaker 3: of that has been them trying to boot him off

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Speaker 3: of the field.

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Speaker 1: They're booing him. When Taysom Hill comes on the field,

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Speaker 1: they're cheering, tastes him and they're saying, we want Jamis.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there Ak Carr, you know, and usually the same.

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Speaker 3: Fans are not like usually they're you know, more of

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Speaker 3: the Homer crowd where you're not gonna like kind of

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Speaker 3: go after your own group. But boy, they are not

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Speaker 3: happy with the offenses playing down there.

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Speaker 1: Although the Carolina win definitely helped. That was like a

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Speaker 1: get right game. Jimmy Graham has resurfaced and you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of people didn't even know he was still

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Speaker 1: in the league, but he's got a touchdown in back

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Speaker 1: to back games. I believe Chris o'lovey has been kind

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Speaker 1: of their big target. He's he's phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: We still looks really good too, but it looks fresh.

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Speaker 1: He looks good. They have Jamal Williams is kind of

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Speaker 1: their one two punch. Their offensive line is pretty stout,

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Speaker 1: so they are very physical upfront, but defensively, that's really

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Speaker 1: kind of where the Saints hang their hat on. Their

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Speaker 1: defense has been phenomenal to Mario Davis is one of

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Speaker 1: the best linebackers in the league and nobody really talks

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Speaker 1: about him much. He does it all. He never comes

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Speaker 1: off the field. He's a watch for him on third down,

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Speaker 1: like he's number fifty six, he's a linebacker, but he

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Speaker 1: is rushing the passer now on third down. They've got

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Speaker 1: him doing a lot of different stunts.

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Speaker 2: Five and a half sacks, second most sacks on the team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you know, like Cam Jordan is always

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Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a battle So if it's Tyree

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Speaker 1: Phillips or if it's Evan Neil at right tackle, that

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Speaker 1: could be a big challenge. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And right now they're holding opposing quarterbacks, I believe to

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Speaker 3: the lowest quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Rating in there.

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Speaker 3: Like it's man like, don't they don't mess around down there.

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Speaker 3: This isn't soft zone with it's gonna be all.

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Speaker 2: These easy throws.

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Speaker 3: Oh just go a little five yard speed out. We'll

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Speaker 3: get five yards on first down, easy go. That is

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Speaker 3: not what this is gonna be. Like, Tommy Devido is

626
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Speaker 3: going to have to put the ball to some tight

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Speaker 3: windows and giant wide receivers have to win against some

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Speaker 3: pretty good cover quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got some good corners. They're very sticky defensively,

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Speaker 1: what I always look at to is the front. They

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Speaker 1: run a lot of what we call five down defense,

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Speaker 1: which is centers covered, both guards covered, both tackles covered,

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Speaker 1: so basically five guys. That is a run stopping defense.

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Speaker 1: They get into it on third down and that's two

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Speaker 1: and it's really just trying to create one on one

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Speaker 1: matchups and what that What happens is one on one

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Speaker 1: matches with the offensive line, which puts a linebacker one

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Speaker 1: on one with a running back. So your running backs

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Speaker 1: better be able to pass protect because they are going

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Speaker 1: to be challenged against the Mario Davis and the rest

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Speaker 1: of the Saints defense.

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Speaker 2: And that goes back to the Ma Davis absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Final question, Sean, if I would have told you when

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Speaker 3: we sat down here after that game against the Jets

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Speaker 3: that we'd be sitting here on December thirteenth, that the

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Speaker 3: Giants would be one game out of the seventh NFC

647
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Speaker 3: wild card spot, Yeah, would you have like hit me

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Speaker 3: with the mic? Would you have pushed me off of

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Speaker 3: the chair, would you have thrown Pearson at me?

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Speaker 2: Maybe? I think there's a lot of different options.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, would have told you you're still drunk, go home. I

652
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Speaker 1: think it's it's wild how the NFL is right now,

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Speaker 1: and like you know, it's just like it's like the

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Speaker 1: Daytona five hundred. Everybody's just kind of like, you know,

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Speaker 1: stuck in a pack right now. They're waiting for somebody

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Speaker 1: to kind of break free.

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Speaker 2: But those first four teams in the conference, that and

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Speaker 2: everything else is.

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Speaker 1: Just what's wild. Is like the Jets game. We won

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Speaker 1: that game like we had it won and then we

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Speaker 1: just gave we get wrapped nine hand it to him

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Speaker 1: in the monsoon. That game alone, now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: like writing the mix, and then the Buffalo Bills game

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Speaker 1: up there in Buffalo should have won that game. Those

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Speaker 1: two games right there, this is a completely different vibe.

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Speaker 1: Like we would be sitting in the driver's seat for

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Speaker 1: the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I know, And it's amazing.

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Speaker 3: Then the end Giants did catch a breaking into eng

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Speaker 3: when they missed what was like a thirty eight yard

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Speaker 3: field goal to tie that game weight, So we were

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Speaker 3: this is why one hundred, But this is why close

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Speaker 3: games go either way. Right, You play a lot of

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Speaker 3: close games, So we're gonna go your way, So we're

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Speaker 3: not gonna go your way, and that's kind of the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's just the way it goes. Sean, This

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Speaker 2: is funment and you can check out Sean A.

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Speaker 3: Harryhill have more New Orleans recommendations for you on his

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Speaker 3: twitter feed and Instagram all that check that out week

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Speaker 3: Absolutely for show to Haram Josh Folk, thanks for joining

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Speaker 3: us on the Johnsontle Podcast, brought to you by Citizens,

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Speaker 3: the official Bank of the Giants.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next time. Everybody,