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Speaker 1: Welcome to Papa's Perspective.

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Speaker 2: In addition of the Giants Huddle Podcast, It's brought to

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Speaker 2: you by Bob's Discount Furniture, and we're joined by Eli Manning,

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Speaker 2: two time Super Bowl champion. The Giants opening up the

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Speaker 2: regular season in prime time against the Dallas Cowboys. Eli,

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Speaker 2: you've seen this movie before. Although it's rare that it's

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Speaker 2: a home game for the Giants. But when you say

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Speaker 2: Dallas and season opener, what's some of the things that

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Speaker 2: come to your mind.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just I feel like that's that's just like

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Speaker 3: the norm. That's just opening week Dallas. Put them together.

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Speaker 3: I guess it's strolling good numbers, Bob and and everybody's

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Speaker 3: uh tuning in. I think it's exciting Sunday night, UH

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Speaker 3: football to open the season at home. It should be

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Speaker 3: in great environment. And obviously we've we've we've done it before,

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Speaker 3: you know, I remember, you know, a couple of years

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Speaker 3: opened up Dallas' you know, in their new stadium years ago,

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Speaker 3: and and and played them the first week, and so excited.

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Speaker 3: Should be a great, you know, great atmosphere at home.

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Speaker 3: Get the season started, and you know, no no better

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Speaker 3: team to start with. Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Did it give you guys a little extra juice.

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Speaker 2: Knowing that basically when the schedule came out, you knew,

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Speaker 2: all right, we're probably going to be in Dallas on

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night every year. Obviously it meant that the league

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Speaker 2: thought that you guys were good. They were good, and

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Speaker 2: the rivalry sort of got ramped up a little bit more,

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Speaker 2: even more than it was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, I think definitely. So I think you

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Speaker 3: take it as as kind of an honor that that, hey,

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Speaker 3: Sunday Night, you know, you're playing in the opening week

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Speaker 3: to start the season. Everybody is excited for that, and

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Speaker 3: so I think it's a good thing. That means you're

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Speaker 3: playing good football, that means both the teams are pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I think the NFC East just draws a great crowd

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Speaker 3: of people. It's, you know, just such a storied division,

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Speaker 3: been around a long time, Fans all over the all

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Speaker 3: over the country tuning in, and so, you know, I think,

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Speaker 3: but it's also a big game. You're starting the you know,

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Speaker 3: you don't have much time to kind of ease into

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Speaker 3: the season. You're starting the first game of the year

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Speaker 3: in the division. So we always say those divisional games count.

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Speaker 3: They kind of count double and and and so you know,

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Speaker 3: at least it's at home now, you know, going on

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Speaker 3: the road the opening week can be a lot. So

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Speaker 3: being at home, your home crowd, that can definitely make

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to travel to that sort of thought

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Speaker 2: process with you. I mean, everyone gets so wrapped up

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Speaker 2: in the season opener and primetime. But as you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: it's a division game, they count double, especially the home ones,

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Speaker 2: and you know, no one's going to care at near

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Speaker 2: the end of the season when they start looking at

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Speaker 2: the standings. Well that was in week one, and there

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Speaker 2: was a lot of hooplot. I mean, the games in

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Speaker 2: week one are just as important as the games in

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Speaker 2: week seventeen.

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Speaker 3: No doubt. And that's a great thing about about the

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Speaker 3: NFL football is that every game is important, every single one.

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Speaker 3: There's no hey, you know, we can we can take

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Speaker 3: take a break. It's not baseball. You have one hundred

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Speaker 3: and eighty two games. You know, every game, the difference

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Speaker 3: of one game can be the difference and making the

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Speaker 3: playoffs and not making the playoffs. So as I said, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you can't just kind of ease in and and uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, you get a buffer game to start. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's all it's all going to be. You know,

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Speaker 3: good teams. You got to play solid football if you

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Speaker 3: expect to win the game. And you know that's that's

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Speaker 3: why these preseason games are important. That's why you know,

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Speaker 3: training camp and getting off a fast start, keeping your

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Speaker 3: guys healthy during that process where everybody's getting reps, everybody's

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Speaker 3: out in the field, are so important because you want

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Speaker 3: to come in you know, everybody on the same page

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Speaker 3: being sharp, so you can you can get that first

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Speaker 3: with it.

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Speaker 2: Being in Dallas and you having played so many primetime

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Speaker 2: at home. You know, you think about twenty eleven and

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Speaker 2: that incredible comeback that kept your playoff hopes alive. You

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Speaker 2: don't win that game, you don't get to the final

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Speaker 2: game of the season hosting Dallas to play them in primetime.

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Speaker 1: But did the did was it? The fact that it

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Speaker 1: was the Cowboys create just a little more juice with

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think it definitely definitely makes a difference.

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Speaker 3: And you know when you play the Cowboys as in

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Speaker 3: the division, the fact that we did it so many

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Speaker 3: years before, you know, and played them that opening game,

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Speaker 3: had such big games against them, you know, we opened

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Speaker 3: up their stadium and got to win. You know, twenty eleven,

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Speaker 3: you talked about winning, you know, winning there late in

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Speaker 3: to win, played them at home, last game, winner mix

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Speaker 3: the playoffs, We win that game. We beat them in

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Speaker 3: the playoffs in seven. So you know, you know, there

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Speaker 3: was a lot of kind of drama and a great

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Speaker 3: know that. I think it's also interesting that first game

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Speaker 3: in the division. You know the team so well, you

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Speaker 3: played them two times you know last year. You know,

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Speaker 3: I feel like in the in the preseason, you're always

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Speaker 3: looking kind of like, all right, have they made any

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Speaker 3: defense at all? What new schemes might they be doing?

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Speaker 3: And you're kind of looking for anything, and there's always

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Speaker 3: going to be a new wrinkle. There's always gonna be Hey,

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Speaker 3: they never play you know, a certain coverage on on

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Speaker 3: the first third down. They do that all preseason they

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Speaker 3: played man every third down anything, and now you know,

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Speaker 3: the first five third downs of the game they're playing

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Speaker 3: some sort of zone. So you got to be kind

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Speaker 3: have new they've been high under their sleeve, and that's

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Speaker 3: just part of playing that first game against the team.

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Speaker 3: You know, really, well, what.

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Speaker 2: Was coach Coughlin's messaging for these primetime games, because I'm

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Speaker 2: guessing as you got older, you kind of figured it out.

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Speaker 2: You got a lot more time to kill on Sunday

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Speaker 2: NFL players or creatures of habit, you like your routine

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Speaker 2: or even if it's a Monday night game, to sort

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Speaker 2: of stay within your routine. Then you got younger guys

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Speaker 2: You're playing in primetime and they can't believe this and

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Speaker 2: the lights and all that other stuff. What was the

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Speaker 2: message of coach Coughlin to kind of keep it simple?

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Speaker 2: And as you grew as a player and got deeper

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Speaker 2: into your career, how did you manage that expectation level

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Speaker 2: as opposed to getting the job done.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think coach Coughlin's message is always

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Speaker 3: just trust your training, and you know, don't all of

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Speaker 3: I gotta I gotta do something to make a splash, right,

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Speaker 3: I gotta kind of you know, go go outside of

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Speaker 3: be that guy. It's it's trust your training, do what

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Speaker 3: do all the things you've been doing all preseason and

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Speaker 3: in training camp, and just do your job. And that's

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Speaker 3: that's how you make those big plays. It's not trying to, oh, hey,

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Speaker 3: this new deal. No, no, no, just hey, do what you've

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Speaker 3: been doing. That'll give us opportunities to get hey, get

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Speaker 3: first downs, move the ball, be consistent and avoid those

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Speaker 3: the number one thing that's Sunday night game. It is different, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know because all season, all preseason. You know. The

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Speaker 3: And so with that first game being at night, it's

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Speaker 3: pretty similar to what you've been doing, especially for those

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Speaker 3: think it's sometimes it'd be a little different when all

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Speaker 3: you play all these night games and preseason in your

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Speaker 3: that transition should be a little smoother because of how

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Speaker 2: As we saw last season, met life became a home

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Speaker 2: field advantage for the Giants. The fans were unbelievable. Uh.

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Speaker 2: They sort of rallied around the team, they rallied around

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Speaker 2: played in these primetime games, especially at home. You like,

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Speaker 2: how important is it to start games a little bit

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Speaker 2: to the twenty eleven regular season finale. You know, Victor

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Speaker 2: You know, kind of break the seal early, right? Is

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Speaker 3: You know? I think it's I mean, I think it

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Speaker 3: is important. I don't think it's the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: I think you always say, hey, let's start fast. You know,

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Speaker 3: that's always a game plan, but if it doesn't happen,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't mean like we're in trouble now. So you

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Speaker 3: got to kind of be careful of how you how

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Speaker 3: you you know, think about that situation. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 3: at a home game, open season, the fans are going

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Speaker 3: to be jacked up to start, you know, to start

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Speaker 3: kickoff and everything. You want to keep them involved, You

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Speaker 3: want to keep them fired up. They want to stand

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Speaker 3: you want to keep it. You don't want all of

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Speaker 3: the goal. If you can just keep the fans involved,

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Speaker 3: some third down stops and some you know, the defense,

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Speaker 3: our defense gets some three and outs. Those those are

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Speaker 3: great things, but you can't try to force them. You

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Speaker 3: just you know, kind of goes back to what Coffin said, Uh,

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Speaker 3: do your job, trust your training, and all that will

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Speaker 2: Finally, home field advantage again, I referred to it about

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Speaker 2: what we saw last year and sort of a change

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Speaker 2: in the Giants fans mentality wrapping their brain around this

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Speaker 2: try hard team. I think about the only playoff game

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Speaker 2: tremendous help for you guys, no.

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Speaker 3: Doubt, no doubt. And I think you know, especially for

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Speaker 3: when you want, you know, you want them being loud.

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Speaker 3: You want to make it hard for the opposing offense

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Speaker 3: to play in the huddle. Those things they make a difference.

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Speaker 3: It can it can make the difference with you know,

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Speaker 3: those things, uh are are huge. And I think you know,

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Speaker 3: for the offense, it's just you know, you want you

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Speaker 3: kind of want them being quiet. Hey you're at work,

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Speaker 3: you want them being quiet, But you want the touchdowns

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Speaker 3: they get to celebrate for a couple of minutes, high fives,

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Speaker 3: and you know when you when you score, when you

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Speaker 3: get a lead, when things are going well offensively. Again,

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Speaker 3: those guys, those fans are so you know, so ramped

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Speaker 3: up that that carries on into that defensive side. The

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Speaker 3: defensive size is motivated, say hey, let's keep the fans

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Speaker 3: standing up, Let's keep them loud, Let's get a you know,

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Speaker 3: let's do our job here and get the get the

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Speaker 2: Eli, we appreciate a couple of minutes kind of reminiscing

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Speaker 2: about Sunday night football primetime games and the Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for a few minutes.

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Speaker 3: All right, Bob, that was a lot of fun.

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