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Speaker 1: You love. What's your reaction to the firing today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think, uh, coach Herman and I we

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Speaker 1: had we had a great relationship. I think he's a

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Speaker 1: great coach. I think he's a wonderful man. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, disappointed. I think you're always you always feel

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Speaker 1: responsible when when when a coach gets gets fired and

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Speaker 1: you've you know, it's obviously because as players, we didn't

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Speaker 1: we didn't do our part, we didn't play well enough,

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Speaker 1: we didn't win enough games. And um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel for him and and all the coaches because I

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Speaker 1: think they worked hard and we did a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of hard work and a lot of good things.

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Speaker 1: This obviously didn't win enough games to um, you know,

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Speaker 1: for them to stay on and move forward. So disappointed.

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Speaker 1: Could you talk about your emotions today, Eli, coming into

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Speaker 1: this locker room after what could have been your final

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Speaker 1: game as a Giant. Yeah, obviously, Um, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: uh tough to you know kind of know, uh you

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Speaker 1: know how you're gonna feel on this day, and and uh,

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Speaker 1: I think it takes a little time for it to

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Speaker 1: kind of truly sink in. Uh, um just be um,

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Speaker 1: you know, but it's obviously, uh, you know, have so

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Speaker 1: many fine memories. And I think that's the thing. The

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Speaker 1: great thing about football is that you uh you know,

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Speaker 1: you can reflect on on the good things, and you

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Speaker 1: can choose what to remember and what to forget. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna choose to remember the winds and

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Speaker 1: the and the the fellowship here with my teammates and

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Speaker 1: coaches from you know, from this past season and from

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Speaker 1: the sixteen seasons prior, so you know, too many great,

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Speaker 1: great memories and and laughs and wins and and celebrations

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Speaker 1: to uh um to worry about kind of the tough

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Speaker 1: times I had it decising officially long and no, you know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm I'm gonna think about it, and I'm gonna,

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Speaker 1: um you know, just uh you know, just just dwell

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Speaker 1: on it and uh talk to my family and and

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Speaker 1: just uh you know, figure out what what's uh what's

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Speaker 1: best for me and and us and and what I

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Speaker 1: want to do going for him kind of I don't want.

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't know, I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't have a I don't have no no plans. I

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Speaker 1: think just um you know, uh just sit on it

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Speaker 1: and and hopefully, UM, you know, kind of have that

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Speaker 1: answer on on what I'm you know, what I want

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Speaker 1: to do, um and and what my next steps are.

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Speaker 1: And so I think, uh, you know, I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't want to linger around. I want to try to

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Speaker 1: make it as soon as i've as soon as possible.

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Speaker 1: So I'll think upon it a bunch over these next

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Speaker 1: these next days and weeks and and try to U

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Speaker 1: figure out what I want to do. Do you think

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Speaker 1: you have sometiment? Because that one of the options. It's

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Speaker 1: what retirement or continue playing? Uh? Yeah, everything everything is

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Speaker 1: an option, So I think yeah, I mean that's the

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Speaker 1: that's the first concision, whether whether to I want to

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Speaker 1: continue to to play or not? And then go from there.

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Speaker 1: Do you think you've got some quality football left in you? Eli,

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Speaker 1: Well that's that's what I'll decide and uh and and

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Speaker 1: try to just figure figure that out. And um yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think I can. Um, I can still play. Uh,

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Speaker 1: but you know, just figure figure figure everything out. You've

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Speaker 1: always said you can't see me something another uniform. But

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Speaker 1: if the team said we see as a compete starting job,

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Speaker 1: he said, after gets there, well you know that's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's uh you know that that'll come into the consideration.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, I think it's just a you know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta take all those you know. That's

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Speaker 1: what I'll be thinking about these next couple of days.

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Speaker 1: Watch your message to Daniel Jones. You know, I thought

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Speaker 1: Daniel uh did a lot of really good things this year.

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Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard coming in as a rookie and

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Speaker 1: play and and uh, I think he had some some

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Speaker 1: unbelievable games. Obviously had some tough games. But I think

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Speaker 1: it will all be good, you know, in the future.

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Speaker 1: It's good for him here after my rookie year it

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Speaker 1: was terrible, and it was very good in the next year.

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Speaker 1: You know, we go eleven and five and when the

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Speaker 1: when the division um and so you know, I think

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Speaker 1: it's just it will be so much more you know,

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Speaker 1: comfortable going into next season. I know, you know, um uh,

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Speaker 1: you know there'll be a new coach and and maybe

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Speaker 1: learning new things, but it'll it'll be you know, just

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Speaker 1: have that presence, have that experience, and and uh he'll

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Speaker 1: be better for we'll say three more. You know, I

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Speaker 1: know you didn't enjoy being you didn't enjoy being a backup,

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Speaker 1: but if the Giants wanted you to come back in

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Speaker 1: that role, and you can say, um, I doubt it.

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Speaker 1: I doubt it. So you know, uh, backing up, it's

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Speaker 1: not not real fun. After sixteen seasons. What are you

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Speaker 1: most proud of? You know? I, uh, you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: it's easy to say the championships, and I think those

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Speaker 1: are those are special memories. But I think just the work,

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Speaker 1: the work you know, every day, came in, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: committed to to get better and to find ways to

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Speaker 1: win games, and to improve myself, to improve my teammates.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm proud of of just the friendships and

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Speaker 1: the and and you know, being a good teammate to

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Speaker 1: you know, I feel like all the guys that came

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Speaker 1: in here and trying to help out anybody who needed

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Speaker 1: help and to you know work, you know work, and

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Speaker 1: I think the commitment was was there, and uh sometimes

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Speaker 1: you got the results, sometimes you didn't. But I think

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Speaker 1: always gave myself and this team and this organization everything

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Speaker 1: I had. I don't think so. Um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: felt like I was kind of a coach this year

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Speaker 1: and I didn't enjoy it that much. Um And so

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Speaker 1: you know it's uh, you know, uh I guess, I

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Speaker 1: guess you know. That's I kind of take it back.

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Speaker 1: I am coaching my third grade basketball uh team, my daughter.

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Speaker 1: I'm this, I'm the assistant, but uh I take it.

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Speaker 1: I take it pretty serious and I'm enjoying that so well,

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Speaker 1: I'll consider some some coaching jobs