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Speaker 1: Welcome to the All in n Y g Potcast Finish Finish,

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Speaker 1: a special, limited run eight episode series celebrating the tenth

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Speaker 1: anniversary of the Franchises Sports super Bowl Championship Gates over

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Speaker 1: time of what super Bowl Forty's end It by PNC

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Speaker 1: York Gianny. Wait, Well, not a Giant's Huddle podcast special. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's been ten years, um since super Bowl forty six,

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Speaker 1: and we are here to celebrate this, this this magical

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Speaker 1: season here on the All End Podcast Captain's edition. And

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Speaker 1: I think everyone knows the guy that sitting to my left,

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Speaker 1: Mr Eli Elite Manning himself, um, and we just want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, reminisce about you know, what a special year

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Speaker 1: that was in the teammates and and and the stories

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Speaker 1: that a lot of maybe some things that people didn't

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Speaker 1: hear about, don't know about. So let's just get into it. Eli,

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Speaker 1: there was this one moment in the kind of for

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Speaker 1: me personally set the season off and set the tone

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Speaker 1: for our season and uh, you know our good Michael

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Speaker 1: Kay asked you a question on his show. Is Eli

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Speaker 1: Manning an elite quarterback? Are you a top five top

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Speaker 1: ten quarterbacks. Yeah, I think I am. Are you in

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Speaker 1: the Tom Brady class? Yeah? Man, I consider myself in

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Speaker 1: that class. And I love the way you answer it

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Speaker 1: because the typical Eli Manning answer to a question like

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Speaker 1: that was to talk about the team, talk about you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, all the things that you've always talked about

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Speaker 1: from you know, taking this the spotlight off of you.

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Speaker 1: But you didn't do that this time. No. I think, um,

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Speaker 1: I think just because it was such a direct question.

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Speaker 1: It was like, do you consider yourself of an elite quarterback?

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Speaker 1: A top five quarterback in the NFL? And I think,

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Speaker 1: like I think any athlete you always do, you think like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I can win every game, I can make every throw

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Speaker 1: I can you know, I have won a championship already,

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Speaker 1: and we can win. I know we can win championships,

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Speaker 1: and so, you know, it just felt good about how

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Speaker 1: I could play and that I was, you know, felt

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Speaker 1: like I was kind of coming into the prime of

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Speaker 1: my my football career. But I think it was just

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Speaker 1: such a direct question that I just said, hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it became such a big thing because it was so

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Speaker 1: different from what the typical Eli answer would have been

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Speaker 1: But I agree with you though, because it was such

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Speaker 1: a direct question, and I think that statement and iviously

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Speaker 1: set the tone for what you wanted to accomplish this year,

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Speaker 1: because you know, you had to go out and prove it.

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Speaker 1: You gotta gotta perform, right, You gotta kind of you

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Speaker 1: gotta back you gotta back up your words. And that's

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Speaker 1: kind of the part of football. If you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a guy and you're gonna talk and you're gonna say something,

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Speaker 1: you got to back it up. And whether you say

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Speaker 1: it to the team, when you say it to the media,

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Speaker 1: you know, the words words only means so much. It's

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Speaker 1: you know what what your actions are That that really

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Speaker 1: kind of carry the weight amongst the teammates, amongst the media, fans.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the most important thing. And so you know,

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Speaker 1: we we've missed the playoffs two years, you know in

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Speaker 1: a row. You know, we played decent football or right

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Speaker 1: there at the mix. But if you always kind of

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Speaker 1: get to that make you break season where you got

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Speaker 1: you gotta prove that you are an elite quarterback and

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Speaker 1: you got to prove that you are a championship contender

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Speaker 1: team and it's that's all offense, that's defense, that's everybody

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Speaker 1: kind of coming back together and doing it. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it. It is a definitely, uh, you know, what

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Absolutely, And I think you know that's that's

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Speaker 1: a great thing about football is like you never know

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Speaker 1: once you've done it once, you like, you know, we

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Speaker 1: can do it again. You know, we still had a

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Speaker 1: more of the offensive side than you're But like Victor Cruz,

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Speaker 1: of whatevery. You know. The highlight of our early season

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Speaker 1: they have obviously a stout talented football team. Was the Dreams,

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Speaker 1: So now it's hey, it's like, you know, jobs like Victor,

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Speaker 1: Sunday night game. For obvious reasons, this is a big game.

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Speaker 1: But the theme of the last season to me that

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Speaker 1: lose at home, right, we obviously know how tough that

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Speaker 1: team is, and we talked about, you know, unsung heroes

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Speaker 1: and more confident. You know, in that fourth quarter, we're

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's those type of games that help

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Speaker 1: get an easy touchdown, has another great catch in the

429
00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,399
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. A little play action. But

430
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, but obviously the really the plays of the

431
00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,200
Speaker 1: game or the fourth and once you know the head

432
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,960
Speaker 1: was it two or three? I guess two. There's two

433
00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,240
Speaker 1: fourth and ones, you know in their kind of territory

434
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Speaker 1: where they're going and y'all get stops. You're gonna go

435
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,200
Speaker 1: for it here on fourth and one. Lion's gonna keep it.

436
00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:07,880
Speaker 1: He's got stopped. Didn't get there second time today, it's

437
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:10,240
Speaker 1: stop that fourth and it's just by the thick one

438
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,959
Speaker 1: defense and like from your advantage. But I know how

439
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,560
Speaker 1: it feels from a defensive perspective of getting those fourth

440
00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,360
Speaker 1: and one stops. But what do you think that does

441
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,959
Speaker 1: to an offense? Right? You know, if you're if you're

442
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,520
Speaker 1: on the other side of you to Matt Ryan and

443
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,359
Speaker 1: then you you can't find a way to get that

444
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 1: one yard? What does that do to the offense? Moral? Yeah,

445
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,480
Speaker 1: it just it hurts some morale. I think also, like

446
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 1: when you have a good drive and you go, you know,

447
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,360
Speaker 1: you go fifty yards, you got a fourth and one.

448
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,360
Speaker 1: You have a good drive, you get no points. It's

449
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,639
Speaker 1: just it's just demoralizing and you don't get that one yard.

450
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,240
Speaker 1: It's a motivation for the defense. And then when we

451
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 1: can get the ball at offense right after that and

452
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,960
Speaker 1: go down the score, I mean that's a game changer.

453
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,719
Speaker 1: That's a ten point game swing or fourteen points swing

454
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,760
Speaker 1: right there. And for it to happen twice, you know,

455
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,720
Speaker 1: those are game changing plays. And like you said, the

456
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 1: formula right, get a lead and pass rush. As pass rushing,

457
00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,240
Speaker 1: you're probably the best pure past rushure I ever played

458
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,880
Speaker 1: with and played and seen is o c and him

459
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,720
Speaker 1: getting the kind of the slam dunk sack where he

460
00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 1: literally sacks Matt Ryan in between the old lineman to

461
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,639
Speaker 1: kind of you know, cap it for us Ryan back

462
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 1: sack and he closes it out. The New York Giants

463
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Speaker 1: are onto the divisional round and a trip to Green

464
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 1: Bay against the Packers. Yeah, obviously we win that game.

465
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Speaker 1: Now we have to go face another familiar foul, another

466
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,239
Speaker 1: team that we had kind of lets slip through our

467
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: graphs in the regular season. We're out in Lambo and

468
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 1: we've we've got some history there. It's not it's not

469
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,800
Speaker 1: negative twenty six or wherever it was, but it's still cold.

470
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 1: And this team is, you know, number one c for

471
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,120
Speaker 1: a reason. They have probably the best offense that year,

472
00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 1: they have the best record that year that playing at home,

473
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: they're fifteen and one. We come into that stadium and

474
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,360
Speaker 1: it's almost deja vu, like it's thirty two teas this week.

475
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Speaker 1: Guess guess what they want me through? You know, what's

476
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: what's your highlights? What's your memory of that game? Yeah,

477
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,639
Speaker 1: I mean I remember early on and maybe the first series.

478
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 1: You know, hit hit a keen knicks on a little

479
00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: in breaking route. He's back to throw. He has time,

480
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,439
Speaker 1: fastball over the middle, pought inside pocket territory. He catches it.

481
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: You know, safety tries to hit him and doesn't wrap up.

482
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 1: He does a little spin move and he goes, you know,

483
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,640
Speaker 1: he goes another forty yards for a touchdown. Next runs

484
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: out of the tackle. He's still thirty five thirty fifteen,

485
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 1: ten five touchdown giants. So like right off the get

486
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: go man, we're scoring. And we played him early in

487
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: the season and it was high scoring the game that game.

488
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: Also it was right, so we knew we could score

489
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: against and we knew we could move the ball and score.

490
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: And you know, it's really just can we outscore Aaron

491
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 1: Rodgers and that offense, because they're they're a rolling I mean,

492
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, Nelson and Jennings and and they had you know,

493
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,399
Speaker 1: they were had, they had players. You know, So we

494
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 1: got off to a good start, get that, and then

495
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,159
Speaker 1: defensively always causing turnovers left and right and the aregon

496
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, sacks and then obviously, you know, right before halftime,

497
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,439
Speaker 1: there's just a few seconds left and we row up

498
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: Hell Mary and a Keem Nicks goes and catch it

499
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: before half to extend our lead, keeps one down the

500
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: middle of the field into the end zone and Knicks

501
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,199
Speaker 1: makes the catch for the touchdown. He went up with

502
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: the big hands and caught it on the hill. Mary

503
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,479
Speaker 1: the final player of the half. And so we i mean,

504
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 1: we go in the halftime and we're rolling and we're jumping,

505
00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: we're celebrating, we're feeling good, and again we kind of

506
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: have created what we knew we had. We needed a lead,

507
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 1: like a lead, and you don't feel super safe with

508
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 1: them because they're very explosive offense. But again the second half,

509
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: more fumbles, more turnovers. Brandon starts running the ball hard

510
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: and has a big run towards the end of the

511
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,160
Speaker 1: game to just to expand the lead and really really

512
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,959
Speaker 1: knock it out and off Jacobs cuts back to the right.

513
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,439
Speaker 1: Jacobs turns the corner at the ten, He's to the

514
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: five to the line, touchdown Giants, and that fourteen yard

515
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: run is set the Giants to San Francisco and the

516
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. I think it helped us the fact

517
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: that we really were playing kind of playoff football since

518
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: Week fourteen of the season. You know that that that game,

519
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: our thirteenth game in Dallas, where we say, hey, we

520
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: basically gotta win out to make the playoffs. And I

521
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: think everybody just kind of had that all in mentality, saying, hey,

522
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: how's the time. You know, if you're not giving it all,

523
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: now is the time we got Wait, whatever you think

524
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: you're doing, if you think you're giving it all, you

525
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 1: gotta turn it up even more. There's gotta be more.

526
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,400
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to do more, give more effort,

527
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, dedicate more to this season if we're gonna

528
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: make it specially, I think guys did saw the outcome

529
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: and just kept kept that going all of a sudden,

530
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, we we kind of went

531
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 1: in playing our best football, and we continue to do

532
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: it those first two weeks. Yeah, I definitely think the

533
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 1: Green Bay games, I don't think the score really reflects

534
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 1: how dumbitable we best game. I think that was our

535
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: best game. San Francisco, here we come and like the

536
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: revenge tour, kind of keeps watching going. Right. Yeah, I

537
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: had some personal battles with a come old line in

538
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,200
Speaker 1: San Francisco. I really really wanted to go back out there.

539
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 1: I really really wanted to play these guys again. And

540
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: I just remember we felt like we matched up very

541
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: well with them, you know, But like for you, I

542
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily know it was a better option than you

543
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,399
Speaker 1: good on defense. They were really good on it. And

544
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 1: if you think about the PA, you got Bowman, you

545
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: got you got the Smiths, you had Brooks on the

546
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: other side their secondary, you had you know, two hard

547
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:27,360
Speaker 1: hitting safety. You had Collins Rogers who had played all

548
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: Pro season in the slot. And that was the matchup

549
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 1: that I was most atrigued by it because obviously Victor

550
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: Cruz had came on the scene and he was the guy.

551
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: He was our Pro Bowl wide receiver. He was going

552
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: to be the deciding factor of how we kind of

553
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 1: dealt with that that offense because knowing that they were

554
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 1: gonna get after you up front, knowing that you probably

555
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't have, you know, a lot of time to make decisions.

556
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: The fact that he was able to get you an

557
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: option open quickly, like you said, you know, Victor rush

558
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: Carlos Rodgers in the slot and Victor right off the

559
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: first third down but hit him, you know, over the

560
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: middle of about fifteen yards, and you know when he

561
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: ran a bunch of option routes a little quick little

562
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,960
Speaker 1: you know, underneath routes where we kept hitting them. Again,

563
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: it's about all we had time to throw. A lot

564
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,919
Speaker 1: of those Manning and Trews are just playing flank filthan

565
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 1: right now, they're playing absolutely pitch again, pitching. You gotta

566
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: have to find a way to get help it. I know,

567
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: he's the propol corners and Truis is just having his

568
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: way with him right now. Crews had a hundred and

569
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: twelve yards on seven catches already we wanted to run

570
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,439
Speaker 1: the ball and we just couldn't. Like every time we

571
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: run the ball, we lost two yards. So I think finally,

572
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 1: you know, Kevin Gobrid's like, when we're not running it anymore,

573
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: we're just we're gonna throw it and we'll figure it out.

574
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, perfect, I mean, and I'm just

575
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: getting drilled and were kind of we kind of threw

576
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 1: it well, and then all of a sudden, it's like

577
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: a sack. You know. They just caused so many negative plays,

578
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 1: it's hard to get into a rhythm. But like from

579
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: my vantage point, no one ever had anything to say

580
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: about Eli's toughness. Obviously the streak and how long you

581
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: played and like taking hits and you never even when

582
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: you're hurt. We just felt like you was gonna show

583
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: up and be there on Sunday. There was some times

584
00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: in that game, man, I just didn't I didn't know

585
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: how you got up And be honest with you, you know,

586
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: when the cops set the scene and there's a body

587
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: on the floor, they do a white outline of the body.

588
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: I felt like they were like imprints of your body

589
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: in the ground all over the field. From some of

590
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: the hits, that you tucked, but just pulling grassy hair

591
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 1: from that game. But like from our vantage point on

592
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: the sideline, you don't understand how much that just rolled

593
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: us up because we knew you was out there giving

594
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: one percent, getting beat up and still getting up and

595
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: making the throws as you made on the defense side

596
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: of the ball. It's like, listen, man, if if this

597
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: this preppy quarterback, and get up and do all this

598
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 1: stuff we got to do, you know, ten times better

599
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,120
Speaker 1: than that. There was never to be a doubt whether

600
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: I was getting up or not. Like I just always

601
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: trying to get up as fast as possible. You're you're

602
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: playing a NFC championship game, and you know there's no

603
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: there's no laying down. You get up and you know

604
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: whatever you go afterwards, you get the sideline, you see

605
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: the trainer, but you're not doing it at the time.

606
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: And as a defensive linement, right, that's one thing I

607
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: always looked at when I got a sack. But when

608
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: one of my teams got a sack against the quarterback,

609
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: how quickly did you get up? It's like a shark

610
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: when you see you feel bloods in the water, you

611
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: just let's go. Let's get him. Yea, your engine just

612
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: starts riving at that point. But when you see a

613
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: guy you feel like you have a really hard hit

614
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: on him and you expecting him to stay down, and

615
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: then by the time you look back up and then

616
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,239
Speaker 1: he's already clapping in the huddle. That almost kind of

617
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,959
Speaker 1: makes you feel like, did I get him as good

618
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: as I got him? Moore? You know what? Like, yeah,

619
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: it frustrates you, and I think, you know, that's that's

620
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: the part of the game that a lot of people

621
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: don't understand. There's just that mental psyche. So at this

622
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: point in the game, we're just back and forth. It's

623
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 1: like the defenses are really have established themselves as the

624
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: dominators of this game. Our defense is really really stifling

625
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: their offense, and it's just punt CD, right, punt CD.

626
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: We had to turnover and I hit Mario manning him.

627
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, So we had like a third down.

628
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: We kind of drew up a play. We're trying to

629
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: work Victor and he said, you know, hey, give me

630
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: Mario post on this in case they kind of double

631
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: Ballad and Victor Cruz, which they did, and they kind

632
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: of doubled the team on the right. So you know,

633
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: Mario was kind of the only guy that's one on

634
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: one and hit him on the post. Us and so

635
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: you know, perfect called by gil Bride and man and

636
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: him makes a great kind of tough cat for the safety. Man.

637
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: He backed the throw. He chips one to the left

638
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Touchdown Giants. Mario Manningham Bobby said

639
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: he was gonna come up big at some point in

640
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: this game. They can't double both Crews and Hakim Knicks

641
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 1: and the Giants are back in front with eight thirty

642
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: four to go. The biggest player of we haven't talked

643
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: about who was the biggest factor in this game. Welford

644
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: is kicking the ball down and giving us that field position,

645
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: and Williams makes a unbelievable play. We get the fumble

646
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: boots one returnable for Williams from his own twenty lost

647
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: the ball and the Giants say they haven't they do

648
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: knocked up by Jakwan Williams. Devin Thomas recovered it. That

649
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: was typical of like old school Giant versus forty Niners

650
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,640
Speaker 1: football right field position game. Give in the fourth quarter,

651
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: someone makes a play, you know, kick a field going

652
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: to win it. Yeah, then we get times to put

653
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: us put back in the super Bowl. Lawrence Times from

654
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: thirty one yards to put the Giants to the Super

655
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: Bowl against the Patriots. Kicking on its way, It's got

656
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 1: the distance and it is good at Lawrence Times has

657
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: done it again. He's kicked the Giants to the second

658
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in four years, and again a familiar foulk.

659
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: We're going into this game. The narratives around what's happening

660
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: here is like forty two was us fluke Eli throws

661
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: the lucky pass to Tyree over the you know nine

662
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: times out of ten that's either incomplete or intercepted or

663
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: you he sacked. You know, everyone's talking about this is

664
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's you know, revenge game. So from my perspective

665
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: that week, more than I had ever done leading up

666
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: into a game was me just being observant of how

667
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: my teammates responded to negativity, responded to good things that

668
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: they're having going on in their life. Because I knew

669
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: it was gonna be called upon us as captains of

670
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: this team, because we're gonna you're gonna face some moments

671
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: in this game that obviously you're not prepared for. And

672
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: like one thing that I always get asked about that

673
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: speech before the game, how mad of y'all wanted to day,

674
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: I gotta read, Chris, you ain't got one. You don't

675
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: know what to feel like. Rock, you ain't got one.

676
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: You don't know what to feel like. Remember, you ain't

677
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: got one. You don't know what to feel like. Both.

678
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: You ain't got one. You don't know what it feels like.

679
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now is the best feeling in

680
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: the world. And if it's on me today, you're gonna

681
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: have whatever it is. You know, you don't have a ring, Chris,

682
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: you don't have a rain balls. And for me, I

683
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: never went into these games or then. I hated giving

684
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: these speeches. I really did. I was not the Michael

685
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: straighthand of the team. He loved that. I hated it,

686
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,239
Speaker 1: but I realized that certain players needed it. For me,

687
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: it was like giving me a you know, field of

688
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: football and helmet and I'm ready to go. But from

689
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: my perspective being observant of my teammates, some of them

690
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: loved him, so that's what got me up to doing it.

691
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: But in that moment, I also knew how Linville would

692
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: respond with me calling him out, saying his name, how

693
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: Chris Canty will respond. But I also knew that, like

694
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: I needed them to help us win the game. But

695
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: if it was on to me, because if I was

696
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 1: not going to be able to walk off this field,

697
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: that's how much I was going to give this team

698
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: to win this game. So if it's on me, you

699
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: will have one to day. That's why that kind of originates,

700
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 1: and getting the opportunity to kind of be the guy

701
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: who sets the tone with the luckiest safety of my life.

702
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: Brady on a play fake, he will throw he has time,

703
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna throw a deep ball down the middle of

704
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: the field. Nobody's there is shot around safety. Justin Tuck

705
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: terrorized Tom Brady and Super Bowl forty two get to

706
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: hit on Brady on the first snap of the game tonight,

707
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: deepen in their fields on ground and you got the safety?

708
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: Is that is it right? Geezus? It's supposed to sex.

709
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: So what a sack is just a safety? Just so

710
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: I ended up only having two sacks in the game

711
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: where I should have had three. That you had a safety,

712
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: But that's not a sack. It's not a sack. But

713
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: that's neither here nor there. You're not better, but not

714
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: at all it doesn't sound like, you know, I'm tired

715
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: for the most sex and of the boat history. If

716
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: I would have had that one out and had the

717
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: most it's kind of yeah, I don't lose any sleep.

718
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: And we started the game off to nothing, right, right,

719
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: and then from there, you guys get the ball, you

720
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: go down. You hit Victor Cruz on what looked like

721
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: a slant, like a quick slant back in the end

722
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: his own nine nothing. Just like our season, we're kind

723
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: of off to the races, right. We started season off

724
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: six and two. We started this game off, you know,

725
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: nine zero, and we're feeling good about ourselves, and you know,

726
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: just like our season, something went wrong, right. I think

727
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: they run off seventeen straight points against us. We find

728
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: ourselves down seventeen nine. We had been there, right, We've

729
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: kind of seen this narrative throughout our entire year. But

730
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: in that moment, what are you what are you going

731
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: in the huddle? Right? Because we gotta go down to school.

732
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: We gotta get some points on the kind of board.

733
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: What's happening in your huddle, what's happening on the offense?

734
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: I take it, you know, kind of when you get down,

735
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: you kind of get back to that fourth quarter. It's

736
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 1: a two minute drive. You know, you need you need

737
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: some points, like we gotta get back on the roll,

738
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: but you gotta get them momentum back. Let's let's go,

739
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: let's go. And so again, you know, y'all get another stop,

740
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: get us the ball back. Chase Blackburn interception interception was

741
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,759
Speaker 1: you know down the field from Gronk. You know it's

742
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: just grond first, Chase Blackburn here, you gonna take Chase Blackburnt, right,

743
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm taking Yeah, I'm taking good old Chase. I would

744
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: say that Chase Blackburn play is kind of like that

745
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: resurge and where we just went that way, right, And

746
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: obviously when you go down to score, we're down. I

747
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: think it's seventeen fifteen, right, we get another stop, you

748
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: get the ball this time, it's like we only need

749
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 1: a field goal. Right. I'm sitting on the sideline and

750
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm telling the d line, listen, just stay

751
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: in it, because we're gonna have to go back. Right.

752
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: There wasn't a doubt in my mind we was going

753
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 1: to go down there and find a way to score.

754
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, like, yo, we're gonna hit an outpass here.

755
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: Maybe you know, play action pass over the middle of

756
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: the ballot, you know something just you was having none

757
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: of that. It was like your first play. Yeah, so

758
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: it wasn't like what people like to say, Oh there

759
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: was a flute throw. No, this is something you worked on.

760
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: This is something that you obviously put the time in

761
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: to put the ball exactly where it needs to be.

762
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: Manning out of the shotguns sat and he's back to

763
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: throw climbs the pocket deep ball down the left sideline

764
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be caught. Was he in bounced? Yes?

765
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: What a catch. It's not quite David Tyree, but that

766
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: is pretty close. And I tell people all the time, yes,

767
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: Mario made a great kids, but he had no choice,

768
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: like that ball hit his hands because you put the

769
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: ball in such a great place. Now, I give Mario

770
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: a lot of credit being able to type up that

771
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: sideline and get two feet in right there. That's phenomenal.

772
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: But that was probably the best throw I've ever seen. Right,

773
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I was looking to my right and

774
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: then you know, kind of doubling a team and Victor

775
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: and had them blanketed, and so it's really kind of

776
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna look to Mario. He was running his

777
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: full speed. Patrick Chung kind of had cheated him. I

778
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: think with my eyes looking right and saw you know

779
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: a little window and let her fly. But you know,

780
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: great again, great catch by him, Like yeah, you know,

781
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: like that's like the hardest catch. It's like over your shoulder.

782
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: You gotta keep two feet in and you're about to

783
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: get hit. So that I was like, such a huge

784
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: play in a two minute drive and you get a

785
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: chunk play right off the get go, Like we're backed

786
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: up in our own ten yard line and now we're

787
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: across the fifty and like now we were kind of

788
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: in the advantage. Now the defense is like their boom,

789
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:15,720
Speaker 1: you know yeah, because we right yeah, right out plant

790
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: to a team and then they get aggressive. They're coming

791
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: out bled zero a few times now, trying to back

792
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: us up, get us out of field goal range. And

793
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: we checked the screens and whatever they're doing, we had

794
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: to answer. And we get close and they're gonna let

795
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: us score, right, They're gonna they let us score. We

796
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: have a handoff. I still don't think he didn't know

797
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: what to do. I think he meant the score. He

798
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: do with the stories like maybe I shouldn't we never

799
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: told him not to and like you do it again,

800
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you gotta score. Like but but obviously

801
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: we probably did give Patriots the ball back with a

802
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: little bit more time than we we wanted to. But

803
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: this is what I people don't understand about most, I

804
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: would say, mostly competitors. You want that moment like you've

805
00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: already had it, right, Actually you're actually kind of list right,

806
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: the ELI gets the fourth quarter the Roorics and like

807
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: he ends the game either it's going to touchdown and

808
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: kicking the field go to win and then the defense

809
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: doesn't get to go out and kind of now I

810
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of the group. I wanted

811
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 1: my group and ended and I had the opportunity sacked

812
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: Tom it's fourth and eighteen. I think something. It's like

813
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: games over right, No they convert at that point. I

814
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: got nervous that we got I got really nervous, right,

815
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: so it's like, all right, they convert twenty yard or

816
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: come back, and like I'm like, yeah, lean, now he

817
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: has a shot to like get the ball. The ends

818
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: one and you never know what happens on here. Obviously

819
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: we had a big one against Green Bay when it

820
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: working out favor, right, But JPP gets a lot of

821
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: pressure on Tom. He doesn't allow Tom to kind of

822
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: Tom being Tom. He still gets the ball there and

823
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: that ball is in the air and I never get it. Man,

824
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the ball. It's in the air. It

825
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: seems like forever, like it had to be in the

826
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: air for three minutes. The ball comes down. Kenny Phillips

827
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: and and and Dan the bat it down and you

828
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: just never know, right because you don't bat it like away.

829
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: You bat it down and there's other bodies there because

830
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: Gronk with the ball almost feeling Gronk's hands and like

831
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: it was close, like Gronk was close to catching that

832
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: incomplete and the ball games over and the Giants have

833
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: one Super Bowl finish, is what Tom Conflin said. And

834
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: the Giants have finished off the Patriots in the Super

835
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: Bowl for the second time in four years. We oh world, Sam.

836
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,280
Speaker 1: Everyone asked me, what is the first thing you remember?

837
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: And I was like, the first thing I remember actually

838
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: is almost tackled me. Yeah, that when you win, you

839
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: just gotta hug somebody you look for, you hug. And

840
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: it was just like we I have this, this this

841
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: great picture in my house of me and you embracing

842
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: my hands and errand you're talking me, and just that

843
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: jubilation of knowing that all of the work that you've

844
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: put in, all of the sacrifices that Japan not only you,

845
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: but us as a team, us as the staff, everyone

846
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: that made up the Giants organization. That kind just flashes

847
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: in my brain right there, as far as all the

848
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: work that's put in, and you've accomplished what you set

849
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: out to accomplish, and obviously having an opportunity to do

850
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: it twice. The question that everyone asked me, and I'm

851
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: sure you get it a lot, is which one was better?

852
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: And I don't know the answer. It depends on how

853
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: I'm feeling one day, I'm saying this was. One day,

854
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying that one. But like the one reason, I

855
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 1: would say forty six was probably a little better for

856
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: me personally because forty two wasn't necessarily my team, right,

857
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: I was, I was in a lot of ways along

858
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: for the ride. Right, it was you know, straight, it

859
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: was you, it was tumor, it was you know, a

860
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: p you know, I was a young buck that you

861
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: know obviously a big part in it, But you know

862
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: that was that was more of their team. Now forty six,

863
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: everybody on the team looked at us. Everyone. For me,

864
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: I say that that's probably why forty six is probably

865
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: my favorite. Now I agree, I think obviously, you know,

866
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: I said, they're like, they're like your kids. You don't

867
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: really have favorites, you know, But yeah, there's definitely some

868
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: special things about forty six. Just the fact that the

869
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 1: amount fourth quarter comebacks we had so like for me,

870
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: that's something I take pride in, and like the amount

871
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,919
Speaker 1: of touchdowns in the fourth quarter. You know, you felt

872
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: like you had a bigger impact on the team in

873
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: forty six then in forty two. It's just for for me,

874
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,080
Speaker 1: and it's the way we were able to battle through

875
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: the tough moments and to rise to the occasion and

876
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: so many opportunities to win in three games in a

877
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: row at the end of the season just to get

878
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: us into the playoffs. So it's just such a fun,

879
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: a fun ride there and unt obviously cap it off

880
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: with the victory, and it's you know, just the feeling

881
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: you have for your family, for your friends, for your

882
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: ownership and fans, and for each player. I mean, that's

883
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: I think that was a big part for me. Is

884
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: kind of like, yeah, I wanted to win for Victor Cruz.

885
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: I want to win for Ant Trail. I want to

886
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: win JPP. Like the guys who hadn't won a Super Bowl.

887
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: You want to win for those guys when you when

888
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: you have win yourself and to give those guys that

889
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: feeling for the first time of being a champion is

890
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: pretty special. Yeah, in this in this league, right, you

891
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: obviously want to have a big contract. You obviously want

892
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: to make Pro Bowls. You you want to have touchdowns

893
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: and sacks and all this stuff. But if if you

894
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: don't have one of those, it's not a complete feeling.

895
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: Then talking to a lot of greats that didn't have

896
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,760
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do that, you got Hall of famers

897
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: who never got the opportunity be at the top of

898
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: that mountain to get there, to understand what it took

899
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: to get there, it's indescribable. It's it's a it's a moment,

900
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: you know. And like after the game was over, I

901
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: went to the sideline. I said, on this golf cart

902
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: with a flatbed, I'm just sitting there and I'm watching

903
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: the perspective from a three sixty view And what it

904
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: gave me opportunity to do is just enjoyed the moment.

905
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: Soak it in from the perspective of I got to see,

906
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, people hugging their families, I got to see

907
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, guys crying. I got to see guys, you know,

908
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: just jumping for joy and that confitty you know atmosphere.

909
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: It put things in perspective for me of why you

910
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: play this game and why it's so important to us,

911
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: knowing from ownership down from the fan base that supported

912
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: us all year, just how that has changed people's lives.

913
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I'm sure you get it,

914
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: but I get fan mail, what people talking about. You know,

915
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: me and my son's relationship came better because we were

916
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: united over this run. There was a nation, a giant

917
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: nation of fans and people who supported us that for

918
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: the next however long, even probably up until this day,

919
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: they went to work bragging and and it just made

920
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: their lives better. And that's pretty damn special. And they

921
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: can't take it away from us. Oh no, they definitely

922
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: can't take it away from us. So I think the

923
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: last thing I want to talk about, you know, obviously

924
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: we wanted now you got the trip home and the parade,

925
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: but the canon heroes that celebration, you know, seeing millions

926
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: of fans, you know, Eli for President, Science, your jersey everywhere,

927
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: you know, all of that. That never gets old that

928
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: the Canyon of Heroes is such a cool experience. And

929
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: you know, I've seen I've seen lots of parades growing

930
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: up in New Orleans and Marty gral but never with

931
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: that many people. Three million people and confetti and people

932
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: hanging out of windows and and you know, all over

933
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: the place. And so it's just is such a great

934
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: way to celebrate with your teammates, one last time with

935
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: the fans, you know, say thank you to the fans,

936
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: get to bring your wife along, the people who supported

937
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: you along the way. So I think those are some

938
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: of the coolest moments. What are your memories from that day? Yeah,

939
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: I think, you know, growing up in Kelton, Alabama, I

940
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: never imagined anything like this, right, you know, like you said,

941
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: three million plus people change your name, changing go giants,

942
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: you know, celebrating this moment with you. It's unfallible for

943
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 1: me personally. Right then it gets to the stadium and

944
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: it just so happens that you know, it's my son's birthday.

945
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: I need y'all do me one favor. Today is my

946
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: son's second birthday. A couple of days ago, I won

947
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: my second ring. So on two, I want you to

948
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: just say happy birthday Jason. One two. Having the crowds

949
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: wish Jake's a happy birthday and seeing happy birthday to him,

950
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, it almost brought tears in my eyes because

951
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: you know, that's something that I know, he he was

952
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: two years old. He still remembers that. He still, you know,

953
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: obviously sees the video and the pictures of the confetti

954
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: hitting him while I'm caring on stage, and you know,

955
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: that probably was my most favorite moment. Can you talk

956
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: about right? You feel like everybody in that stadium is

957
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: your family at that moment, right if not? You know,

958
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: still to this day, it just felt like it was

959
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: a family atmosphere and get an opportunity to play for

960
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: the Giants, obviously, which is a family atmosphere type of organization.

961
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: That's definitely gonna be something that you never forget. It's

962
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: so special that luckily we get an opportunity to celebrate this,

963
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, this teen year anniversary. But I look forward

964
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: to the fifteen. I look forward to the leventh because

965
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: you know, we were such a a close knitted group

966
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 1: that a lot of us still are very much so

967
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: in touch with each other and intact with each other

968
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: and understanding, you know, what's going on in people's lives

969
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: and how the families are doing. You know, we were

970
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: every team we played on its pretty much close. When

971
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: you win a Super Bowl, that's that's another special bond.

972
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: And and that's what I'll definitely remember about that day,

973
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 1: and and and you know the ten years since we'll talk,

974
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun reminiscent on the Super Bowl.

975
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: And that's going to conclude. Are all in New York

976
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: Giants Podcast. There's a lot of fun and uh, it's

977
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: a great day. M