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Speaker 1: We're here with Giants President John Mara at the NFL

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Speaker 1: Annual Meeting. John Um, so many, so much attention is

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Speaker 1: on the departures from the Giants. We've had a lot

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Speaker 1: of arrivals at the Giants, Golden Tate, Marcus Golden, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Julius Peppers. Um. Could you talk about the players that

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Speaker 1: have come in, Kevin Zeisler, the players that have come

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Speaker 1: in and what they're gonna do for the roster. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're hoping that they're going to make the roster better.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's why you make these moves in the

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Speaker 1: first place. And in addition to that, we've got some

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Speaker 1: draft capital that will be able to use to help

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Speaker 1: build the roster further. And you know, I hate to

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Speaker 1: see some of those guys go. They were good players

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Speaker 1: for us and and good people. But ultimately, you have

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Speaker 1: to make decisions you think are in the best long

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Speaker 1: term interest in your franchise. And you know, we were

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Speaker 1: eight and twenty four the last two years, so we

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Speaker 1: need to do something. And it's gonna be not a

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Speaker 1: quick fix, as I've said before, but I think we're

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Speaker 1: on the right track and we just have to keep

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Speaker 1: moving in that direction. Um, could you talk about you know,

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Speaker 1: the process, that it is a long process, and that

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Speaker 1: do you feel like you've made incremental steps towards where

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Speaker 1: you want to I think we've made incremental steps, and

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Speaker 1: we have to continue doing that. We have twelve picks

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Speaker 1: in this draft gives us an opportunity to continue to

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Speaker 1: build a roster. But you know, we have some holes

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Speaker 1: to fill. Let's be honest. We were eating twenty four

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Speaker 1: the last two years, so, uh, there's obviously a huge

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Speaker 1: room for improvement. I think we started that process by

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Speaker 1: acquiring the guys that we did and by building up

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Speaker 1: our draft capital going into this draft, which we think

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Speaker 1: is a deep draft. So I think, well, we should

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Speaker 1: have a much better team coming into this season. You've

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Speaker 1: always been an advocate of building the team through the draft.

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Speaker 1: To have twelve choices in a draft that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people say is a deep draft, how exciting is

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Speaker 1: that for you? And you think you can turn that

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Speaker 1: into some more capital. It's an exciting prospect having that

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Speaker 1: many picks, but now we have to make the right decisions. UM.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of confidence in in Dave Gellman

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Speaker 1: and our group of scouts, UM, and I think it

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Speaker 1: gives us a unique opportunity to try to build the

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Speaker 1: roster the right way by adding a good group of

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Speaker 1: young players. We have some good veterans UH in the

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Speaker 1: building as it is, but now adding some good young

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Speaker 1: players I think gives us a chance to really build

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Speaker 1: the roster going forward. You know, you made it clear

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Speaker 1: that Eli Manning is coming back at quarterback because of

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Speaker 1: his ability. He can still play, he can still win.

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Speaker 1: As you make all these changes, you bring in a

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Speaker 1: lot of young players. Is it important to have a

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Speaker 1: veteran presence like Eli at the top of that. I

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Speaker 1: think it's very important whenever you're building a team to

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Speaker 1: have the right combination of veterans UH and younger players.

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Speaker 1: Veterans who know how to play the game the right way,

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Speaker 1: who prepare the right way, and who conduct themselves the

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Speaker 1: right way. Eli obviously is a prime example of that.

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Speaker 1: So I think whenever you have to build a roster,

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Speaker 1: you want to have that type of veteran leadership in

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Speaker 1: the building. We're fortunate to have that in Eli and

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Speaker 1: and other players as well, guys like Nate Soldier UH.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's important to have those types of guys.

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Speaker 1: One last thing I imagine you've received a lot of

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Speaker 1: correspondence with the moves that have made in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. The first game is not for almost

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Speaker 1: six months. Do you preach patients? You know, both within

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Speaker 1: the group and outside. You have to ask people to

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Speaker 1: trust the process. And I understand, given what we've done

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: don't trust the process. And I get that, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to build the roster the right way, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, nobody wants to live through another eight and

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Speaker 1: twenty four stretch like we have the last two years.

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Speaker 1: I think we're off to a good start in terms

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Speaker 1: of getting the right people in the building and and

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Speaker 1: adding all that draft capital. So, uh, if we make

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Speaker 1: the right decisions going forward, and I'm confident that we will,

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Speaker 1: I think people are fans will see a much better

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Speaker 1: product on the field in two thousand nineteen,