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Speaker 1: now we welcome in the newest member of the New

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Speaker 1: York Football Giants, Roy Robertson. Harris Roy, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Man? Are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Man? Welcome to boor congratulations?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? All right?

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Speaker 1: So why'd you decide to come to the Giants?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 3: It's a great opportunity, man, me playing inside next to

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Speaker 3: Decks man, you know, Burns and k Von, I think

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Speaker 3: it's a good front. So just being able to add

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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about it. You talked about playing next

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Speaker 1: to Dexter. You've played all along that defensive line. I

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Speaker 1: looked at some of your you know, prior appearances in

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Speaker 1: you're a three technique guy? Where do you like to play?

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Speaker 3: I'm for sure a three tech man. I played all

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Speaker 3: across the board. I play in, I played tackle, I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, You've been on different teams in different systems. Just

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Speaker 3: What are you most two gap? I've been one gap.

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Speaker 3: I've done it all, man, So excited to play in

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Speaker 3: this system. Man, it's gonna be exciting. Got some good, good,

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Speaker 1: Now, most defensive line man answer is the same way,

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Speaker 1: because two gapping is not exactly the most glorious thing

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Speaker 1: to do. I imagine you like getting upfield and penetrating right.

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Speaker 2: Well, for sure?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, absolutely Man, getting up here and just

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Speaker 3: disrupting plays, getting getting playing vertical is a lot more fun.

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Speaker 1: If you describe your game for Giant fans, how would

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Speaker 3: Playing vertical and violent? Man, Just trying to disrupt plays,

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Speaker 1: Is that what the Giants kind of talk to you

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Speaker 2: Sure, for sure.

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Speaker 3: Man, just being disruptive obviously, with our guys up front,

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Speaker 3: we just want to be disruptive, make as many play

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Speaker 1: Now, you were in the AFC South, so you were

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Speaker 2: Man, Them guys just get after it. Man.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, they played vertical. You know Jeffery Simmons,

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Speaker 1: For a guy like you, what can it do for

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Speaker 1: You were an undrafted free agent when you went to

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Speaker 2: Man? Special team teams? Man, I came in.

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Speaker 3: I played pretty much everything on special teams, punk, return, punt,

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Speaker 3: and you know, extending my time, you know, got better

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Speaker 1: And then you got to Jacksonville. Yeah, I got the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville pretty much a starter there the whole time, right, sir?

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir?

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Speaker 1: What did you learn and how did you improve when

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Speaker 1: you started getting more and more? I think you played

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Speaker 3: Man, I was surrounded by a lot of good guys, man,

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Speaker 3: But it was definitely the guys that I had around

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Speaker 3: and we just all got better together. Up front, how

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Speaker 1: If you're lined up here, you got to go over

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Speaker 1: what's your impression of what NFC East football is like?

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Speaker 3: Oh, Man, NFC East is as it's a hard it's

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Speaker 3: a hard league, man. These it's every single team in

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Speaker 1: Giants have a long history and tradition of defensive line play.

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Speaker 1: You go back to their Super Bowls against the Patriots. God,

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun, man, just just seeing the history.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen it growing up. Straight hand is

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Speaker 3: be part of something great. Why straight hand Man, Just

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Speaker 3: the way he talks about pass rush. You know, you

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to give away your tricks. What

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Speaker 2: Rusher, I'm a big speed to power guy. Man.

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Speaker 3: I feel like every pass rush starts with power and

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Speaker 1: You got use your long arms for that too, right

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Speaker 1: for sure, absolutely no doubt.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: We talked about on the field, what attracted you to

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Speaker 1: New York as a city and a place to kind

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Speaker 2: That I can hit up.

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Speaker 2: I'm a big sushi guy.

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Speaker 1: now we welcome in one of the newest members of

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Speaker 1: what's going on man?

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Speaker 2: Nothing much, Man, just got here, ready to get to work.

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Speaker 1: Welcome aboard. Why'd you pick the Giants?

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Speaker 4: Pick the Giants? Honestly, from the jump and free agency,

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Speaker 1: Your core special team? Are you plan all the groups,

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Speaker 4: The most fun for me would probably be kickoff. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I want to store a kickoff. That what makes a

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Speaker 4: I think with the Ravens, I mainly learned that hard

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Speaker 4: I've really lived by that, embraced that, and it served

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Speaker 1: Is that why you decided to go back? Because you

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it was kind of where I started as an

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Speaker 2: It was kind of home for me.

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Speaker 4: I decided to go back and just kind of get

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Speaker 1: Obviously, he's an undrafted guy. You had to earn every snap,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to undersell it as twenty and eighteen

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Speaker 1: What is it about your mindset and how did you

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it was just eat or go home. If I

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Speaker 4: to be at home on the count, honestly, So that

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Speaker 4: I did all the small things, made relationships, try to

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Speaker 4: me well. And I'm going all year eight thankfully. And yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: You came from another great program in North Dakota State

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Speaker 4: Honestly, with North Dakota State, I think it's really the culture.

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Speaker 4: take that to the teams. As you mentioned, some guys

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Speaker 1: You've had some opportunity to play them inside linebacker as well.

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Speaker 1: What do you bring to the field on how you

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Speaker 1: describe your game at inside linebacker For Giant fans and

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Speaker 4: You play inside linebacker, I'd say I'm pretty fast, I

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Speaker 4: get to the ball, I find the ball, instinctive, good tackler,

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Speaker 4: good coverage player. So yeah, that's how to describe myself.

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Speaker 1: Anything in New York that you're really excited to do

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Speaker 4: I want to check out some restaurants, honestly, and uh

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Speaker 4: see how those.

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Speaker 1: Are good stuff. Chris, welcomeb war Band. Chris, one of

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Speaker 1: the newest members of the Giants.

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Speaker 2: Thank you