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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giant Hubtle Podcast. This episode is brought

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants. Today, we are going to talk

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Speaker 1: to one of the newest members of the team, tight

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Speaker 1: End Ricky Seals Jones. Just as a reminder, you can

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our interview with Ricky Seals Jones.

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Speaker 1: We are joined by tight End Ricky Seals Jones, the

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Speaker 1: newest member of the New York Giants. Ricky, obviously, as

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Speaker 1: a free agent, you have options, you have choices. What

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Speaker 1: was the checklist that you went through in your head

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Speaker 1: when you knew that the Giants were interested in bringing

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Speaker 1: you here? Just opportunity, you know, to come in and

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Speaker 1: uh compete for the one spot and uh I like

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Speaker 1: what the coaches said got going on, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just come in and try to shake up, shake

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Speaker 1: up the division and and go from there. Interesting in

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Speaker 1: that you played with Washington last year division Wible played

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Speaker 1: against the Giants. But now the Giants have a new

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Speaker 1: coaching staff, Brian Dable Mike after the offensive coordinator. But

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Speaker 1: that's a guy you know from Kansas City. So if

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Speaker 1: you can tell me about your relationship with Mike and

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Speaker 1: how much did that help guide you here? It helped

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Speaker 1: a lot. You know, Um, we're in Casey together, spent

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Speaker 1: a season together and I learned a lot from him,

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Speaker 1: just you know, having small conversation on the practice field.

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Speaker 1: So it was good. And you know, when you have

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Speaker 1: that relationship and kind of makes your decision a little

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Speaker 1: bit easier. And so yeah, you know, I sat down

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Speaker 1: and thought about it, and I felt like it was

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Speaker 1: a great fit for me. That was a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago when you were with the Chiefs. What do

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Speaker 1: you suppose that that you you saw in that he

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Speaker 1: might take here to sprinkle in with the Giants. That

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Speaker 1: will also be helpful to you since you already know

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Speaker 1: some of those things speak creativity, Uh, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: just have to pick his brains. He's he's gifted and

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Speaker 1: what he does, and so I'm excited to be a

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Speaker 1: part of that and see cet creativity that you know

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Speaker 1: he comes up with. You mentioned opportunity a short time ago.

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Speaker 1: The giants are thin in the tight end room. I

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Speaker 1: got a hunch that right away. You saw that and said, well,

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Speaker 1: look the sky's the limit here. I'm expecting that you

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Speaker 1: would think you'll be the starter. Yeah. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm coming in and trying to take the

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Speaker 1: one spot and compete for it. So you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: yeah that that's my goal is to just come in

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Speaker 1: and take it day by day and guard and compete.

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Speaker 1: When you came into the NFL at six ft five

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Speaker 1: or wide receiver, initially, I the little research and found

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Speaker 1: out that Eric Dickerson, the legend there is a relation

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Speaker 1: to you, is a cousin. I do believe, and I

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Speaker 1: heard that it was he who suggested that you'll be

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Speaker 1: a tight end in the NFL because you will be

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Speaker 1: a matchup nightmare. Could you take me back to this conversation.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was like a phone call and I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to hear it. I was stubborn at the time,

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Speaker 1: but I'm glad I did and it's it's working out

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Speaker 1: for me. But yeah, it was. It was a conversation

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Speaker 1: that you know, kind of had to swallow my product. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm I've been doing receiver in my life. I've been

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Speaker 1: balling out in college, like and you know, that conversation

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Speaker 1: was tough, but it was it was it was one

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Speaker 1: that it was a good one to have, and he

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Speaker 1: helped me in a in a way that you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a good way. So I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: be I'm glad for him to put me in that position.

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Speaker 1: So his influence continues to to reach you. I'm sure, yes,

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Speaker 1: I called him daily. We have conversation football side of football.

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Speaker 1: We have a Yeah, we we speak a lot so

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Speaker 1: from Texas, A and M through the NFL, Arizona first.

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Speaker 1: But now with your fifth organization, how would you describe

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Speaker 1: your adaption to being a tight end from the days

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Speaker 1: of being a wide receiver. What's come easier for you,

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Speaker 1: what's come harder for you? What do you still want

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Speaker 1: to prove? I think overall being a complete tight end,

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Speaker 1: I've I've gotten better in a in each year and

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Speaker 1: just continue to be a tight end. And focus on

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Speaker 1: you know, the little things of run, block and pass catching.

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Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I look at ever year, I feel

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Speaker 1: just keep stacking those days and and putting in the

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Speaker 1: work and you know, hopefully hopefully pays off. Is it

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Speaker 1: too early to tell whether or not you'll be more

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Speaker 1: of a flex tight end. We're more of an inline guy.

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Speaker 1: You're more of an h back kind of guy. I

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Speaker 1: know you just got here, So it's premature, way too

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Speaker 1: early out, you know. As now he's just we're just

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Speaker 1: meeting everybody and and and make me feel welcome. So

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll get to that, and when we do it,

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Speaker 1: it'll be exciting. Twice in your career you've caught at

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Speaker 1: least thirty passes, so clearly have shown the ability to

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Speaker 1: back right corner of the end zone, you went up

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Speaker 1: and got it at six five. I gotta hunch you

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Speaker 1: like to go up and get it. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: if quarterbacks want to throw it up there, I'll go

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Speaker 1: get it. So you know, hopefully we have to have

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Speaker 1: a lot more of those you know here and and

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Speaker 1: a lot more celebrations. Is that the kind of thing

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Speaker 1: that you would rather run? Because everybody has their favorite routes?

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Speaker 1: Is it the corner stuff? Is at the fade stuff? What?

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Speaker 1: What is your preference when you're part of the passing game?

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Speaker 1: What the quarterback wants? Honestly, you know you got tod

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Speaker 1: can get the ball. More So, I'm more of a

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Speaker 1: what you're thinking here? What do you what do you see? So?

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Speaker 1: And go from there? From what you know about this

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Speaker 1: NFC East because you were a part of it last

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Speaker 1: What is your impression about NFC East football? And how

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Speaker 1: do you think you fit in? That's a grind. It's

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Speaker 1: a grind, uh And I love it. I think last

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Speaker 1: you gotta come with it. Um. You can't take any

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Speaker 1: team and its division lightly, no matter what the record is,

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Speaker 1: because you can get beat. So I love it. I

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Speaker 1: love that. How you have to you know prepare like

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Speaker 1: it's a super Bowl every week in this division. And

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm excited to get get things going again.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's kind of interesting. It's almost symmetrical.

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Speaker 1: The Giants are in the new beginning and they're trying

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Speaker 1: to prove things as they climb the stairs. It almost

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Speaker 1: seems like it's kind of that way for you at

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Speaker 1: the midpoint you of your career. Yeah exactly, Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you hit it hammer on uh, hammer on the head

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Speaker 1: is just proven. So new organization, new coaching staff, we're

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Speaker 1: create that new that new way for the Giants, and

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Speaker 1: and it's a perfect opportunity for me as well. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you about your quarterback, Daniel Jones. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much you've watched of him again,

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Speaker 1: even though you were in the division last year. What

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Speaker 1: can you do to make things get together chemistry wise

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Speaker 1: as quickly as possible with your qb Um? Really just

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Speaker 1: being in safety net is how how I see as

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Speaker 1: tight ends. You know, if far as down the field throws,

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Speaker 1: if if it's not there, you know, he knows that

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Speaker 1: you're in your spot. And so when we start up

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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's one of the biggest things for me,

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Speaker 1: is just to let him know that, hey, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be where you need me to be. So just

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Speaker 1: in case some stuff goes wrong or pocket collapses or whatever,

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Speaker 1: scrambling drill, he knows that he has his his security

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Speaker 1: blanket in his in his pocket. So that's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest things for me. I bring that because obviously

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Speaker 1: Kelsey was a favorite and a security blanket with my

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Speaker 1: homes in Kansas City. And I wonder how much of

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Speaker 1: that you kind of envisioned in your own mind, right,

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Speaker 1: A lot I took, you know, watching Kelsey when I

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Speaker 1: was in Casey. You know, you just see a lot

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Speaker 1: of things he does and the way he communicates with

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Speaker 1: his with his QB. So you know, you try to

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Speaker 1: take that in and use that when you go to

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Speaker 1: a new team or you know, the quarterback that you

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Speaker 1: have are playing with. So I feel like I did

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Speaker 1: that a little bit last year with Taylor. You know,

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Speaker 1: me and him got on the same page and I

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Speaker 1: had some stuff going. So you know, I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to bring that here. Rickey Stills Jones, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for your time. Best of luck with the giants appreciated