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Speaker 1: Welcome to Giants Playoff preview live on the Fans. Jions

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Speaker 1: takes the snap back. He's under pressure, lush to his

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Speaker 1: by Hodgens slave fake Jones worlds left cross left wide

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Speaker 1: open for the touchdowns. Bellinger and the New York Giants

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Speaker 1: are on the Philadelphia to take on the Eagle, the

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Speaker 1: home of New York Giants football. At least w f

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Speaker 1: a name. You do you want to win those games,

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Speaker 1: and I know we got an opportunity this week. Just

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Speaker 1: lean coming up to you know, in a sudden down

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Speaker 1: tears Bob Papa and Shawn O'Hara live at Hudson holl

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Speaker 1: New Jersey City. Oh yeah, we're walking into Jersey City

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Speaker 1: and Giants Divisional Preview live presented by Citizens and not

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Speaker 1: far from my old department on Eighth Street in Hamilton's Park.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be back in the area and we

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Speaker 1: are all fired up, man, Giants. Let's hear it, everybody.

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Speaker 1: We got a great show lined up for you. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be joined by Zavan McKinney via the telephone. DJ

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Speaker 1: Envy is gonna join us huge Giants fan as well

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Speaker 1: as Andrew Thomas here on the program, and Sean, it

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Speaker 1: is with great pleasure that we welcome in one of

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Speaker 1: your former teammates and a two times Super Bowl champion.

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Speaker 1: Please a round of applause for the one, the only,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Jacobs. Let's serve what's going on? Sean, talk about

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Speaker 1: this vibe right now, because it's pretty It's pretty impressive

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Speaker 1: how this fan base has been unlocked while there's two thousand,

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Speaker 1: twenty two Giants team. Yeah, it's pretty exciting. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the electricity in MetLife Stadium for that Colts win, the

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Speaker 1: win an end game, Uh, it was. It was certainly

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Speaker 1: something to see, especially given what we saw last year.

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Speaker 1: So it's been an unbelievable turnaround. I'm so excited for

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Speaker 1: the fans. I'm so excited for this team and the players.

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Speaker 1: Um Ran and I experienced this. You know, It's funny,

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Speaker 1: like you play games, you win, you lose during the

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Speaker 1: regular season, and when you get to the playoffs, when

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Speaker 1: now you feel how behind you and you feel the

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Speaker 1: support from the city. You see Giants stuff everywhere, and

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Speaker 1: I tell you, you you know, it's Jersey City, whether you're

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Speaker 1: this Tristate area. The blue is out in full effect.

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Speaker 1: You see it everywhere, you feel it. And it's a

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Speaker 1: great time to be a Giants fan. Um and Brandon,

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Speaker 1: I know you remember, you know, back when we were players,

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Speaker 1: it was so great when you're winning, when you're in

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Speaker 1: a lot as a player to have that support. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what, Sean, I mean, you know, playing with

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Speaker 1: you and being on the teams that we were a

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Speaker 1: part of, and and having a chance to do what

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Speaker 1: You know, so many ups and downs, so many ups

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Speaker 1: I mean, winning in this place, you know, in front

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Speaker 1: and it's awesome. I mean they're you know, they're they're

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, everybody's just been waiting and waiting

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Speaker 1: and waiting. And and Sean, I know you've been around it.

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Speaker 1: And and Brandon, I know when you're around the team

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Speaker 1: and the times that you get to come. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Brian Dabile has changed the whole feel for everything with

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable. But you hit the nail on the head.

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Speaker 1: Look this time last year, the only pe where we

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Speaker 1: the same Obviously the two games that we lost to them. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know that mentality didn't change. Uh, you know those

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Speaker 1: games we wanted to win. We just didn't win them obviously. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, being able to play them a third time,

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Speaker 1: it's it's helpful just because of um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: we've seen uh, you know what they do. But also

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Speaker 1: you know it works the same word for them, So, um,

433
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Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be it's gonna be different. But

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Speaker 1: we also know obviously it's the playoffs, so um, you

435
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Speaker 1: know the game it's gonna be. Um, you know it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be a tough game. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a challenging game. Um. But I think even for uh,

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Speaker 1: you know Jen, and I think, um, you know, he

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Speaker 1: knows what's at steak. We all know what's at stake.

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Speaker 1: So we know we're gonna we're gonna get his best shot,

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Speaker 1: and we know we're gonna get you know, their team's

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Speaker 1: best shots. So um, you know for us, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we go into it with that same you know, that

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Speaker 1: same dog mentality. Um, the same mentality. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to win obviously, you know when you lose,

446
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Speaker 1: and and you know in the playoffs, it's over. So

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Speaker 1: we know what's at stake. We know we gotta do. Um,

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Speaker 1: so we're just gonna go out there and and and

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Speaker 1: you know, actually, Keepe that come Saturday X, we checked

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Speaker 1: the box with Jayla. Now, so let's move outside the

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Speaker 1: numbers a little bit. I know we're gonna be focused

452
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Speaker 1: on Obviously last week you guys had justin Jefferson and

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Speaker 1: Theelan and Hawkinson. This week, some more studs, right, you

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Speaker 1: got um A J. Brown on the outside, Damante Smith inside. Um,

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Speaker 1: I thought you guys did a Dallas Goddard ye outstanding

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Speaker 1: tight end. And then however they used the backs in

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Speaker 1: the passing game. Yeah, we know that they like to

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Speaker 1: spread the ball around, but I just kind of want

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Speaker 1: to focus on let's focus on the number one to

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Speaker 1: see what right now? A J. Brown. Obviously he's an

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Speaker 1: explosive receiver. Um. You know, his yards after the catch

462
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Speaker 1: are just as dangerous as his deep threat ability. You

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Speaker 1: guys did a great job against Justin Jefferson. You take

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Speaker 1: away the opening drive last week, he had three catches

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Speaker 1: for sixteen yards. I want you to talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the return of the Dory Jackson and what

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Speaker 1: that has meant and how that can help you guys

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Speaker 1: this week against the Eagles. Uh, you know, I hate

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Speaker 1: the return obviously has been great for our defense, for

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Speaker 1: our team. Um, he's a leader on our teams, a

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Speaker 1: leader on my defense. UM, and you know he's he's

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Speaker 1: our top corner. So whenever we we face a you know,

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Speaker 1: a top receiver, obviously, we love to have him. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, shadowing whoever that receiver is so uh, just

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Speaker 1: of of having them back is you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: helps us a lot, um makes us just feel a

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Speaker 1: lot more comfortable. Um. You know, he can do a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things. He can cover a lot of

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Speaker 1: different guys, big guys, small guys. Um, so just having

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Speaker 1: them back is is great. Um. And even you know

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Speaker 1: with the whole defense kind of this is kind of

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Speaker 1: the first time, um, you know, even last game, first

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Speaker 1: time that everybody's been healthy and been out there all

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Speaker 1: at the same time. So um, you know, but he

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Speaker 1: obviously asks uh tremendous uh, you know, factors to to

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Speaker 1: what we do defensively and how we want to play.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know he's had a he's had a

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Speaker 1: great cheese and and um, just happy to you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, finally have them back and you know, out

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Speaker 1: there playing fashion for Dave McKinney. Here on Giants Divisional

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Speaker 1: Preview Live presented by Citizens, the official bank of the

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Speaker 1: New York Giants, Bob Popel, along with the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champion Shawn O'Hara and two time Super Bowl champion Brandon Jacobs.

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Speaker 1: Uh Xavier, I mean, you know last week, you know,

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Speaker 1: you had the deep middle coverage on the past play

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Speaker 1: to Justin Jefferson. What does it say, you know, considering

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're coming back from injury, of the

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Speaker 1: fact that Wick Martindale and his coaching staff had the

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Speaker 1: trust in you late in the game because Hackinson in

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Speaker 1: the first meeting on Christmas Eve when you weren't playing,

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Speaker 1: made a whole bunch of plays, and he made some

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Speaker 1: plays in the game the other day, but when the

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Speaker 1: game was on the line, they said, X man X

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Speaker 1: marks the spot, go deal with Hawkinson, and you did,

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Speaker 1: getting that fourth down stop. Just talk about the trust

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Speaker 1: that the coaching staff has in you, and and and

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Speaker 1: and taking on that leadership role. Yeah, for sure. UM,

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Speaker 1: I think you know it started uh, you know way

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Speaker 1: back when they first got here, of just uh you know,

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Speaker 1: me building that trust with them, UM, just showing them, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know I can I can be everywhere on the field.

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Speaker 1: I can uh play wherever they need me to play

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Speaker 1: and do whatever they need to do. UM. But you

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Speaker 1: know those type of matchups I'm built for. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've I've always wanted to um, you know, and even

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Speaker 1: this is something that you know I told them before

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Speaker 1: the season even started. Whenever we play, you know, anybody

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Speaker 1: that has um, you know, the top the top tight

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Speaker 1: end in the league. You know, that's that's that's the

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Speaker 1: matchup that I want. UM. So you know that that

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Speaker 1: wasn't the first time that that's happened. We played Boston,

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Speaker 1: which played Mark Andrews and when the game was on

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Speaker 1: the line, UM, you know that's who who I was on.

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Speaker 1: And uh, these are the matchups that I want. UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, continue to go forward. So uh they know that,

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Speaker 1: and you know we've had talks about this so UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, for me, I'm just I like to compete. Man.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm a competitive guy. I always want

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Speaker 1: to you know, the whoever the best best tight and

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Speaker 1: whoever it is, whoevery that best guy. That's that's what

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Speaker 1: That's what I want. UM. So but we we built

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Speaker 1: this trust um ever since they you know, came into

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Speaker 1: the building. UM, and they've shown you know that that

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Speaker 1: you know, we can we could trust each other. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're really you know, transparent with each other.

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Speaker 1: We always have um conversations about you know, just different

537
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Speaker 1: things and just getting to know each other a lot better.

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Speaker 1: And uh, it's just you know, been improving every step

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Speaker 1: of the way. This whole season. So I'm grateful to

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Speaker 1: have them, you know, as my coaches and um, definitely

541
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Speaker 1: thankful that you know that that you know they have

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Speaker 1: that trust in me to uh, you know, give me

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Speaker 1: that responsibility. Zavie. Look, it's his brain and Jacob, Man,

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Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, I don't really have

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Speaker 1: a question for you, man, just as a fan of

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Speaker 1: the Giants, um as a form of player at the

547
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Speaker 1: New York Giants. Man, I want to tell you how

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Speaker 1: much I appreciate you being back, and you know how

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00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 1: much you mean to the franchise and you know football

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Speaker 1: team now on where we are, man, So I just

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Speaker 1: want to say, man, they're good. Luck with everything, and

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Speaker 1: make sure you guys go out there and leave it

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Speaker 1: all in the football field. Man. And let's get to

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Speaker 1: this NFC Championship game, and let's I'll take this thing

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Speaker 1: all the way before we before we let you go. Look,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you haven't already mapped out, right, Like the

557
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest things right now for NFL players

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Speaker 1: is the game day wardrobe. All right, then whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to call the outfit, what are you got in

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00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: store for us? Or we have to we have to

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Speaker 1: wait till Saturday to see the photos of you were

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Speaker 1: strolling into the link. Yeah. Might it might have to

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Speaker 1: wait till it's been It's a short week for us. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I haven't been too much focused on what I'm wearing Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I've been pretty locked them in this game plan. Um

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Speaker 1: so um, you know it's gonna be something that uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, last and mintite thing for me. But uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I always always seem to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: So I get it figured out and you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: see it. You know come Saturday. You know you'll you'll

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Speaker 1: You're always on point. And I know you've got the uh,

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Speaker 1: you've got the hair hair going to you got the

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Speaker 1: Jaklin hide on on both sides going. So I will

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Speaker 1: say this one recommendation. You're going bird hunting dressed appropriately.

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Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, I got you number

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. Um, you know what this this young man

577
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Speaker 1: is so much fun to watch. You know how My

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Speaker 1: little guy Max, who I've had around the facility a

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Speaker 1: bunch of times. Brandon remembers when I had my other

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Speaker 1: kids around the facility when they're a little You know

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Speaker 1: what Max got from Santa this year? What do you

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Speaker 1: twenty nine Jersey throwing up the X got the X

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Speaker 1: Man Xavier. We appreciate a couple of minutes. Best of

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Speaker 1: luck on Saturday. And you know what I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: to you, we'd love to have you on the show

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Speaker 1: again next week. What do you say for sure? I

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Speaker 1: will I would love to be on the show again.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, all you guys gotta do is win.

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Speaker 1: Davan McKinny join us here on the program along with

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Speaker 1: Shawn O'Hara and Brandon Jacobs. I got three rings by

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Speaker 1: my side. You're listening to the Giants Divisional Preview live

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Speaker 1: presented by Citizens, the official bank of the New York

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Speaker 1: Football Giants. When we come back a huge Giants fan. Plus,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take your questions from here in the audience.

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Speaker 1: We may even open up the phone calls a little bit. Plus,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas is gonna join us at eight pm. So

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Speaker 1: we've got a full show lined up for you. But

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Speaker 1: the official bank all the New York Football Giants. All Right,

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Speaker 1: so I see a shocky jersey. I see Daniel Jones jersey.

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Speaker 1: You can't go to any Giants event without seeing an

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Speaker 1: Eli jersey of Phil Simms jersey, Lawrence Taylor jersey, Carl Banks,

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Speaker 1: will see Brandon Jacob jerseys at Giants games. Obviously a

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Speaker 1: lot of sake. One Barkley O'Dell Beckham junior jersey's sean.

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Speaker 1: How many events have you gone to where you got

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Speaker 1: a Shawn O'Hara number sixty in the crowd? Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: you can probably count on one hand. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you're not counting family reunions, yes, uh, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're not related. God, Look, old line jerseys are hard

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Speaker 1: to find, Like every you go into a store, they're

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Speaker 1: sold out everywhere. You can't find him in in Dix,

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Speaker 1: you can't find him in in in the NFL shop

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Speaker 1: stores like a, yeah, it's sixty's always sold out. The

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Speaker 1: old line jerseys are hard to come by. They're always

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Speaker 1: a hot item, and you know they don't have as

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Speaker 1: many of them. But um, the other conundrum that you've

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Speaker 1: got with my last name is the apostrophe. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I can't tell you when people have said, like

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Speaker 1: I tried to order your jersey online and the Apostophe

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Speaker 1: computers freak out they won't let you do it. So uh,

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Speaker 1: it's always great to see uh, people representing the old

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Speaker 1: lineman and um, he got he got the apostophy. It's

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Speaker 1: official that Apostophe is a gift in a curse. And

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Speaker 1: I hope you signed it for Oh, of course I

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Speaker 1: signed it. Signed it. What do you think of the

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Speaker 1: hour away slogan that the Giants are using, because it's

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00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: kind of cool. It pays homage to what you guys did.

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Speaker 1: It pays homage to what the giants of the eighties

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Speaker 1: and early nineties did, and it pays homage to the

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Speaker 1: giant teams of the fifties and early sixties because when

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Speaker 1: you look at the teams, there's a certain d NA

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Speaker 1: of Giants football, and it's being able to punch somebody

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Speaker 1: in the mouth with the run game, old line defense,

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00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: and you know, people forget like Phil Ends became the

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Speaker 1: first Giant quarterback to throw for four thousand yards in

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. They were a passing team that year.

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Speaker 1: And then of course the great y a Tittle in

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Speaker 1: the early sixties. I mean he had a record that

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Speaker 1: it took until nineteen eighty four for Dan Marino the

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Speaker 1: break most touchdown passes in the season he did in

648
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Speaker 1: less games. So this this new slogan kind of pays

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Speaker 1: tribute to the path that you guys like, well, you

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Speaker 1: know what I think, you know, the always slogan, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think every team needs to live and dive

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Speaker 1: on one um ours was all in. I think that

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Speaker 1: was in two thousand eleven, two thousand and twelve. I'm

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Speaker 1: not even sure we had a slogan in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven. It's on the ring, you know, So, I

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Speaker 1: mean it helps people woot harder, you know, it sales merchandise,

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00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, like these shirts everybody got on and and

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Speaker 1: people stick to it, and it means something. And I'm

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Speaker 1: just looking forward to it. Man. I feel a lot

660
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Speaker 1: of you know, great things in the air about this

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Speaker 1: playoff where that's coming up here, I'm just looking forward

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Speaker 1: to it. I think every great team has a creed, right,

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Speaker 1: like almost a code, and ours was Road Warriors. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned the all end um. You know, coach Kaufent was

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Speaker 1: big on the T shirts, right talker's cheap play the game.

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Speaker 1: I feel like every week we had a different one

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Speaker 1: uh in our locker. But the R way, I feel

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Speaker 1: like it's such a great two ward definition of this

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Speaker 1: team because you talked about it, Bob, this is a

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Speaker 1: different They're winning the games differently. It's not like you

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Speaker 1: see the rest of the NFL, where you know, guys

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Speaker 1: are throwing is Tom Brady through sixty six passes in

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Speaker 1: this in this game, you know, my home is thrown

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Speaker 1: for four hundred yards and we don't bat an eye.

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Speaker 1: This is not that team, Like, that's not how they're built.

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Speaker 1: And you know you talked about the record books. Our

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Speaker 1: way to me talks about the great defense that they're

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Speaker 1: playing and how offensively they're they're gonna go on twenty

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Speaker 1: play drives. A twenty play drive against Minnesota. All five

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Speaker 1: of their scorers scoring drives were seventy five yards or more.

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Speaker 1: That's their way that's how they're doing it. We're not

682
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Speaker 1: gonna beat ourselves. And when the Giants play our way,

683
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: when one of the tough teams, toughest teams in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: I think the other aspect of that is Daniel Jones

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Speaker 1: is doing it his way. Daniel Jones just set a

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Speaker 1: franchise record for rushing yards by a quarterback in the season.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. You mentioned why a tittle Charlie Connordley.

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Speaker 1: I think he broke his record. Daniel Jones had more

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Speaker 1: rushing yards this year than any quarterback and franchise history.

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Speaker 1: That's our way, that's the way you do things. And

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Speaker 1: they're putting their own stamp on that. Brian Daviles put

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Speaker 1: their own stamp on it. Of course, the players gotta

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Speaker 1: buy into all that, which I think they have, and

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Speaker 1: he's doing it at a high level. Daniel Jones is

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Speaker 1: you know, um, I know you guys are familiar with

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Speaker 1: on Twitter that Twitter handle Big Blue VCR. It's a

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Speaker 1: guy that I don't know where he has all those videos.

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Speaker 1: He has the most obscure Giants from like nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: four and it's the guy's birthday and he's got video.

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Speaker 1: Hey Bob can you real quick, just for the millennials,

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Speaker 1: can you explain what the VCR is. Yeah, it's the

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Speaker 1: thing that you used to record tapes on and then

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Speaker 1: have to play him back. But you know, he's got

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Speaker 1: like so many cool things. And you know, watching this week,

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Speaker 1: he's been doing a lot of Divisional Playoff round stuff.

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Speaker 1: And you know what Daniel Jones is doing is on

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Speaker 1: a much higher level is what Jeff Hostetler did in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety where you watch Big Blue VCR and those tweets,

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Speaker 1: he's putting out the amount of plays that Hostetler made

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Speaker 1: with his legs. You know, there's a big fourth down

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Speaker 1: play against the Bears in the Divisional playoff round in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety and it was Hostetler flushed out. It's fourth

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Speaker 1: and six and next thing, you know, he's avoiding refrigerator

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Speaker 1: Perry and a couple other guys and running for first downs.

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Speaker 1: And Daniel Jones is taking that to a new level,

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Speaker 1: like as far because it's part of what they're doing offensively.

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Speaker 1: It's fun to watch. Uh, we've got DJ Envy's gonna

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Speaker 1: join us for just a bit. Uh. Andrew Thomas joine

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Speaker 1: us at the top of the art so we got

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Speaker 1: our man. There's nobody that gets a crowd going like

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Speaker 1: the one, the only, the incomparable Super Bowl forty two champions,

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Speaker 1: Brandon London as with us, Brandon, Yeah, by London? Who

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Speaker 1: do you got Brandon? All Right? What's your name man?

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Speaker 1: What question do you have? My name is Aaden. Hello.

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Speaker 1: I'm uh from Westfield, New Jersey and Westfield Westfield. Yeah. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So obviously UH Giants had a very dominant performance offensive way,

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Speaker 1: but the Vikings had one the worst defensive worst defenses

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Speaker 1: in the league. This here statistically, Uh, what do you

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Speaker 1: think changes uh for the Giants? Here? What's Mike Kafka

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Speaker 1: and Brian's day both telling the UH Giants offense this week?

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Speaker 1: What's gonna change for the pay buck and the mindset

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Speaker 1: going in playing against a better defense? Thank you? Thank you? Westfield.

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Speaker 1: The watch him right, that's a great show. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think he's more saying, Uh, the East way to beat

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Speaker 1: just you know, to keep beating the football game is

736
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Speaker 1: to have a bunch of penalties and to turn the

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Speaker 1: football over. I think if the Giants going to the

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Speaker 1: into Lincoln Financials and minimize the penalties that do not

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Speaker 1: turn the football over, I think that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: think got to maximize our opportunity to win the game.

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Speaker 1: Um at the end of the day is eleven professionals

742
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Speaker 1: versus eleven professionals. Everybody's the saying it's those little things

743
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Speaker 1: in the football game that that makes the difference, penalties

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Speaker 1: and turnovers. And we can be penalty free and don't

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Speaker 1: turn the football over, we will be going to the

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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game. Yeah, I had a great question. I

747
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Speaker 1: think for the Giants, it's all about starting fast. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you go back in the week fourth teen

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Speaker 1: game against the Eagles, we got sacked twice on our

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Speaker 1: opening possession, found ourselves down twenty one nothing at the

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Speaker 1: bat of an eye, and that just everything your game playing,

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00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: everything goes out the window. That this this team is

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00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: not built to win games that way. You look at

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Speaker 1: on the contrary, Minnesota scored on the opening drive, scored

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Speaker 1: a touchdown on the second driving game. The Giants hadn't

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00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: scored an opening drive touchdown in nine games. So start fan,

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00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: you gotta do that on the road. Obviously, you want

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Speaker 1: to take the crowd out of it, kind of get

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00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: them sitting on their hands a little bit. But that's

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Speaker 1: the recipe. Yeah, and let's not sugarcoat this. They're the

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Speaker 1: number one seed for a reason. They got eight Pro bowlers,

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Speaker 1: the Giants offensive line and the Giants defensive front. Between

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Speaker 1: the linebackers, the edge rushers, the inside backers have to

764
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Speaker 1: play their best game of the season this week. If

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Speaker 1: if they can win on both sides of the ball

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Speaker 1: on the line, or at least create a bunch of

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Speaker 1: stalemates over the course of the game, they got a

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Speaker 1: great chance to win. But whether it's ninety or two

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Speaker 1: thousand twenty or two thousand twenty two, one thing has

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Speaker 1: not changed in this sport. Schemes come, schemes go, But

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Speaker 1: whoever wins at the point of attack is the team

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Speaker 1: that's gonna wine. It hasn't changed in a hundred years

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Speaker 1: of NFL full ball. If you don't win at the line,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna win the game. It's that say. You

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Speaker 1: could scheme up everything in the world. You can have

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Speaker 1: the greatest players, you can have all the shows up,

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Speaker 1: but if you're getting your butt kicked, and Philadelphia can

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Speaker 1: get a run game going with Miles Sanders and Boston

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Speaker 1: Scott and Gainwell, and they stay on schedule and they're

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Speaker 1: in second and threes and the Giants are playing on

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Speaker 1: second and twelves and third and nine. The Giants will

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00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 1: get smoked. It's that simple. So they gotta win at

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Speaker 1: the point of attack. I'm not saying they can't, but

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Speaker 1: to me, it boils down to something that hasn't changed

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Speaker 1: since the NFL started In all right, the fans are

786
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Speaker 1: lining up to talk football with you guys. What's your name,

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00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: where you're from and what question do you have for

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Speaker 1: the panel? Sewan, Jersey City. Hey, guys, I actually wanted

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Speaker 1: to go to Blue Whale House. Uh it was too far.

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Speaker 1: It's funny that you said you lived in Hambleton's Park,

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Speaker 1: Uh bobs where I live now. Um, and so I'm

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Speaker 1: not wearing my giant uh jersey two. Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you guys are gonna be here until

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Speaker 1: I saw on Instagram, so I asked my boss if

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Speaker 1: I could leave early, and he let me let me come. Um,

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Speaker 1: I was before I asked my question. I was also

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Speaker 1: born on February third seven, so I turned one. Thank

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Speaker 1: you you boys for giving me the best twenty first

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Speaker 1: birthday that a guy could ever ask for. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: then got one for four years later when I ask

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00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: your questions, we gotta get to a right Sorry, guys,

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Speaker 1: sorry guys. All right, So, if there's gonna be one

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Speaker 1: position group that's gonna get us there, who's it gonna be.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be the offensive line, defensive line. Whoever, what

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Speaker 1: do you guys think about that? It's definitely gonna be

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. Uh, I'm I love my office alignement.

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Speaker 1: I always let my office alignement. Me playing running back,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do the things I've done in the game

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Speaker 1: without you know, a great group. You know, a great

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Speaker 1: group of guys in front of me. If your officers

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Speaker 1: line is playing good football, there's nine times out of ten,

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Speaker 1: you will win the football game. And that's just it.

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Speaker 1: Every play is drawn up to score a touchdown on offense.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have the guys front with grit,

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Speaker 1: just nastiness and just tough SLBs, then you can forget

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00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: about everything. And that's the type of guys that I

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Speaker 1: had up front. So I always, I always put everything

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Speaker 1: on the offensive line. I got a son that plays

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Speaker 1: on the officive line. Uh. Like like for me, is

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Speaker 1: the officers line, and that's it. Yeah. The giants old line.

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Speaker 1: They were in the hard hats. This week's specifically Evan Neil.

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Speaker 1: He's got a tough matchup with Son Reddick. He's got

823
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Speaker 1: sixteen sacks, leads the league in five force fumbles. With

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Speaker 1: that wull be a big challenge. But this Giants te line,

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00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: they've got a challenge as well. The Eagles have the

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Speaker 1: best pass blocking old line in the league right now,

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Speaker 1: so they gotta find a way to get pressure. Give

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Speaker 1: me a big sexy DEXI though, yeah, I mean the

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Speaker 1: Giants of the Eagles had seventy sacks this season. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the NFL record is seventy two, set by the eighty

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Speaker 1: four Bears. So you gotta be able to control their

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Speaker 1: front and you have to be able to run and

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Speaker 1: stay on schedule, because if you could be in second

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Speaker 1: and four, then the whole playbook everything opens up. You

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Speaker 1: can run anything you want because you've got two downs

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Speaker 1: to get four yards. Speaking of the offensive line, when

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Speaker 1: we come back on the program, we're gonna be joined

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Speaker 1: by arguably one of the best left tackles in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. Second Team All Pro voted for the

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Speaker 1: first time, Andrew Thomas will join us. We are live

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Speaker 1: at Hudson Hall of Jersey City. It's Giants Divisional Preview

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Citizens, the Official Bank of the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants. Andrew Thomas joins us at the top of

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Speaker 1: the hour here on w f a N in New York,

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Speaker 1: It's Gilliants Playoff Preview Live on the Fan. Rollis Love

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Speaker 1: gets a block from thomasse to the five Jones Races

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Speaker 1: you said for the Giants and Eagles. Its Giants Divisional

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Speaker 1: New York Football Giants. As we kick off our number two,

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Speaker 1: Pop Papa along with Super Bowl champions Shawn O'Hara and

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00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: Brandon Jacobs getting you set for the Giants and the

856
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Had a fun chat with Davian McKinney in

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Speaker 1: our number one, We're gonna be joined by Andrew Thomas

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Speaker 1: and just a little bit, hopefully we'll get d j

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Speaker 1: Envy all square it up and we've got Andrew Thomas

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Speaker 1: joining us on the line right now, the second team

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Speaker 1: All Pro in the National Football League and getting the

862
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Speaker 1: job done. Andrew, Bob Papa, we got Shawn O'Hara, we

863
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: got Brandon Jacobs. Thanks for a couple of minutes this morning.

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing well? Yeah, and I said

865
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: this morning because I'm so used to my serious XM

866
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: show with Coach Weis, I said, this morning, it's the seeding.

867
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Hey, uh, Andrew, Just talk about sort of

868
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: the way you guys have been able to keep the

869
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: lid on this. Like we're in Jersey City right now.

870
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 1: This place is packed Giants fans everywhere. We did a

871
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: show last week. Giants fans are going nuts. Everybody's talking

872
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: about the Giants around town and and just being in

873
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: the facility, you guys seem very buttoned up. Just talk

874
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: a little bit about how you're able to keep the

875
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: lid on it and stay focused on what you gotta do.

876
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would say that starts um a coach

877
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: table um and then the front office doing just the

878
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: mentality we have around the building. Obviously we know what's

879
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 1: at stake, but um, the only way to to accomplish

880
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: our goals is to stay focus on the tasket hand

881
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 1: and that's what we've been trying to do. Andrew, you've

882
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: definitely been focused and and not just focused, but you're

883
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: bringing your a game right. Your first playoff game in Minnesota, uh,

884
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: you had arguably one of your best games of the season,

885
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,799
Speaker 1: if not your career, not one pressure on I think

886
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: forty six past plays. Uh. So it's great to see

887
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: you're playing at at a high level. And I just

888
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: want you to talk about what has changed for this

889
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,439
Speaker 1: offensive line. You guys have completely morphed into a unit

890
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: that is physical, finishing blocks. You guys are protecting DJ

891
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: and look you this time last year, things were totally different.

892
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: It was more of a liability. What has changed? And

893
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: I want you to just kind of talk a little

894
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: bit about Bobby Johnson and what he's brought to that group. Yeah,

895
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: Coach Johnson has done done a great job of implement

896
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: implement the new offense, the new system out of the

897
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: way he wants us to play. UM. We have some

898
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 1: vetteran guys, John Gliciano and Glad Whiskey, They've done a

899
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: great job of, you know, being leaders for us. UM.

900
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: I think myself, you know, improving um every game and

901
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: trying to be as much of a leader as I can.

902
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: It's it's helping. And then we just have a tightening group.

903
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: We all we enjoy each other's company. We work hard,

904
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: we work well together, and I think it shows on

905
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Speaker 1: the til All right, Andrew, this is Brandon Jacobs here. Man. Um,

906
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, I'm super excited about you know, all the

907
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: things that that you guys have accomplished this year. If uh,

908
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: you guys got a challenge, you know, one hell of

909
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: a challenge this weekend. Uh and linking financial in the

910
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: Eagles nasty defensive line. I think they lead the league

911
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: in sacks. I think they're like two sacks off the

912
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: league record. Uh. So what do you guys, you know,

913
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, talk a little bit about what you guys

914
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: gotta do to keep him out the backfield. Yeah, there's

915
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: no secrets this week. Um, there's no crazy blitz packages

916
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: and nothing like that. It's really just um, monoi mono.

917
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: You just gotta win your one on one matchup this week.

918
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: That starts with, um, the technique, a good set, good hands,

919
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: and then the mentality. You have to be physical, you

920
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: have to fight, you know, through the fourth quarter. Through

921
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: the whistle, and that's the only way to beat those guys.

922
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: Barkley is having a big year and look at really

923
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: starting Week one down in Tennessee, you guys, you know

924
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,239
Speaker 1: a little bit up you had he ro hunter yards

925
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: rushing just kind of take us inside the hall on one.

926
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Speaker 1: This year, obviously he looks different, he's running different, he's healthy,

927
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: but what kind of mindset is he bringing into the

928
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: huddle this year? That's that you notice is different. Yeah,

929
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,320
Speaker 1: you could tell um he had a chip on the

930
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: shoulder coming into this year. I'm a lot of people

931
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 1: doubt it, you know, whether or not he would be

932
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,880
Speaker 1: the same guy he was before the injury. So he

933
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: just you know, he's been working in his tail off

934
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: and doing a great job for us. Whether if that's

935
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: you know, in the beginning of the season where he's

936
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Speaker 1: getting a lot of carries making plays for us, or

937
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: you know to this this last recent game, I think

938
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: he had like fourteen touches. But every time he touches

939
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, it's a chance that it can

940
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: be um and explosive play and that's good for our offense.

941
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Speaker 1: Talk with Andrew Thomas to the New York Giants Andrew, Um,

942
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: you know, look, you've played in Philadelphia before. I know

943
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: you didn't play in the last game, the last game

944
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Um, but you've been down there.

945
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: You know how hostile it is. But I mean it

946
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: can't get any louder than it was on Christmas Eve

947
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, nor could it get any louder than it

948
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,479
Speaker 1: was this path last week in Minnesota. And you guys

949
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,719
Speaker 1: have handled a lot of that pre snap stuff in

950
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: a hostile environment pretty well. Um. What has been the

951
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: keys to you guys not making the unforced mental errors

952
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,879
Speaker 1: in those spots to keep you guys on schedule offensively? Yeah,

953
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: it starts with the offensive staff catholic in the plays

954
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: unto DJ as fast as possible, and then DJ doing

955
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: a great job of communicating. We do a good job

956
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: up front, you know, just making sure we understand the

957
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: snap count. Um. You know, our ore might point all

958
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: those different things just to make sure that we're ready

959
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: for each snap. That makes a huge difference in the game. Andrew,

960
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: you've become a leader on this team. You're you're not

961
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: just playing an elite level, but you're you're commanding respect

962
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: and not just from your teammates, but from the piers.

963
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: Obviously with your All Pro, second team All Pro selection,

964
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: the recognition that you've gotten. But I think that see

965
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: you in your chest has to mean a lot to you.

966
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: What does it meant for you to be a captain?

967
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: And I'm curious in addition to that, this are way

968
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: slogan you guys have adopted. What does that mean to you? Yeah,

969
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: it means a lot to me. Um. Obviously a younger

970
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: game team, but when your teammates UM think of you

971
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: that highly, it definitely means a lot. And I, UM,

972
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: I honored that a lot and try to, you know,

973
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,959
Speaker 1: approach every day with that mindset is to be a leader,

974
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: more of a soft spoken guy. But you know, when

975
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 1: I see the opportunity, I speak up and then obviously

976
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: just try to speak with my play, just the way

977
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 1: I attacked the game. All right, Andrews is Brandon Jacob

978
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: here again? Man? You know, I you know, I've definitely

979
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 1: been watching the Giants all season long, and I've definitely

980
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: watched both prior Giants Eagles game are the ones towards

981
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: the end of the season and then the one early

982
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: on as well. Um, they you know, they came into

983
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: MetLife and and got a pretty a pretty good win,

984
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: should I say, Um, coming into it, you know, I've

985
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: been in this place once before, you know, having to

986
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: play a team you know, three times, and the third

987
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: time has been the charm them. So uh, playing the

988
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: Eagles twice this year already and and and taking losses

989
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: to you know, to then what what different things you

990
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: know are you guys planning on bring to the table

991
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: to make sure that third loss doesn't take place? Yeah,

992
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,439
Speaker 1: the first thing I would say is just um, start

993
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: pass um. And the first time we played them, um,

994
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 1: you know, they got up on us twenty one points,

995
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: and after that we settled down and started playing better.

996
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: But um, they've done a good job against teams um,

997
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: scoring early, getting turnovers, and then obviously they got you know,

998
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of pass rushers. So when they get

999
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 1: get up, it's tough for our offense to be able

1000
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:36,879
Speaker 1: to move the ball, pass the ball. So the first

1001
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: thing is early down to say, stand out of third

1002
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: and law um, and then they turn over the ball

1003
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: and that that should give us a good opportunity to win. Yeah. Yeah, Andrew,

1004
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: as a former old lineman, third and nine is not

1005
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: where we want to play the game. But I want

1006
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: you to kind of brag on yourself a little bit

1007
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: here and just take me through. I'm gonna give you

1008
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: two scenarios here, all right, third and nine and you

1009
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 1: can lock down and amp down Sweat or Brandon Graham

1010
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: or Hassan Reddick wherever it is. What what? What? What

1011
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: makes you happier locking somebody down on third nine? Or

1012
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: it's a toss thirty nine crack and you pull out

1013
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: and you get to knock somebody down and rag all something.

1014
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: I saw you do that to the Forest Buckner. I

1015
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: think it was against the Colts out in space, and

1016
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: then you did it again last week in Minnesota. When

1017
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: you're pulling out on the perimeter, I would define say

1018
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: the run that's the best going uh past. They say

1019
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: pass is not passitive and that you have to be physical,

1020
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: but it's different being there to actually go a tack

1021
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: nobody in the run game and get a knocked down.

1022
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: Talking with Andrew Thomas, Andrew Um, you know when you

1023
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: came into the league's first round draft pick, you know

1024
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: baptism by fire, and you know you had to play

1025
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: through an injury during your rookie season and you were

1026
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: learning on the job in a very tough spot. Today.

1027
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: You have Evan Neil, first round draft pick. He's playing

1028
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: through an injury baptism by fire. Um, you're going through

1029
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,080
Speaker 1: it all for the first time, because college in the

1030
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: NFL are two different things. Have you spent a lot

1031
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: of time mentoring him, encouraging him? Uh, you know, just

1032
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: talking with him, just based on your experiences relatively recent Yeah,

1033
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: I mean I've been in the same spotted him, so Uh,

1034
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: whether he's coming to me or if I see something,

1035
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: I just trying to give him a little nuggets. Uh.

1036
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes it's about football. Sometimes it's just about

1037
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: life and this understanding the pressure of what comes with

1038
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: being that had to pick and playing this position in

1039
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: the league. But I think he's doing a good job. Obviously,

1040
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: you know, rookies are gonna have struggles, but he's he's

1041
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: kept a positive mindset and he has all the all

1042
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: the tools to be great once the click is gonna

1043
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: be good for him. Andrew, Um, you've played in Philadelphia

1044
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Um, is there something funny that

1045
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 1: you can repeat on the air that one of those

1046
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 1: Eagles leather lungs has yelled at you as you were

1047
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: coming on or off the field for pregame warm ups

1048
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: are during the game. I don't think I competed on

1049
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: the air. I think he's given us the sign language

1050
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: right now right. I've definitely heard some bad stuff, man,

1051
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: but you don't. I don't know if you guys talk back,

1052
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 1: but when I played, I definitely talked back. I definitely

1053
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: said something bad. I definitely got I remember one time

1054
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: walking up the field and when Up said something to me,

1055
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: and I just yelled out the worst thing I probably

1056
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: could have said. And Mr Merrit was standing right there

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Speaker 1: looking right at me. But it was awesome though. That

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00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 1: would that would be gate for us. Definitely say something back. Yeah,

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00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: that's true. That's true. That's the story in itself. Andrew

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Speaker 1: appreciate a couple of minutes. Congratulations on a fantastic season.

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00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 1: I know you don't want it to end, and uh,

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00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 1: you and your guys up front, we'll have a big

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00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: hand as to whether this thing continues next week, but

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00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: we appreciate a couple of minutes. I know it's a

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00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: busy week for you, especially with the game being on

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00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: Saturday night, but on behalf of all Giants fans here

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00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 1: in Jersey and throughout the metropolitan area. Thanks for joining us,

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00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: appreciate you for heaven. Thanks and go get them birds man.

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Speaker 1: That's uh Andrew Thomas joining us. Big Blue Kickoff Live

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Speaker 1: get to a break because we want to take questions

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Speaker 1: from our audience. Here you're listening to Giants Divisional Playoff

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Speaker 1: of the New York Giants were at Hudson Holland, Jersey City.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you can join us. You know, I

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00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: remember when I was a little kid, um way back,

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00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: I mean way back our youth football. The Giants sometimes

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00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:46,280
Speaker 1: would hold Saturday practice in Jersey City, and I remember

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00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,879
Speaker 1: we went on a Saturday. They invited like all these

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00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:53,320
Speaker 1: youth football programs from Burton County and I remember Wellington

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00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: Mara kind of addressed everybody and we got a chance

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00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: to watch the Giants practice in Jersey City like they

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00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,839
Speaker 1: walked through on a Saturday morning before a home game.

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Speaker 1: So this is like nineteen seventy three, seventy four whatever,

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00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: like larger than life like, because you know, the Giant

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00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 1: games back then, we're blacked out Polo ground sum I'm

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00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: all right, last yeah, thanks, last year of Yankee Stadium

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Speaker 1: seventy three then they you know, they went to the

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00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: Yell Bowl and Shay before Giants Stadium open. But you

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00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: know the games were blacked out. Home games were black

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00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: that you had to listen on the radio unless the

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00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: game was sold out, so like to be able to

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00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: come to Jersey City and watch this Saturday morning walk

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00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: through and see these guys was like unbelievable. And it's

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00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: so great that we have fans here tonight we got

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00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: a Shan o'harard Jersey. I can't get over that, Bob.

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Speaker 1: Can I just say? How ironicald that you say? For

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00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: for the Giants radio play by play guy? This say

1114
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: you had to listen to the Giants games on radio?

1115
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: And this kind of sounded weird, like, yeah, well that's

1116
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: kind of how are people are choosing to listen to

1117
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: you now? Right? But that's how I kind of fell

1118
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: in love with the media because the like the Knicks,

1119
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: there was no cable, so you had to listen to

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00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: a Nick Arranger game or a Giant game on the radio.

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00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: It was allowed. Remember me and my dad, Rack and

1122
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: Lees having the radio outside plugged in. Yeah, Raak and

1123
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: Lees and listening to the Giant games on the radio.

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00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: All right, Bob, you talked about Max was so pumped

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00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: up to get the Xavier McKinney Jersey, Right, Who were

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00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: you most excited to see that day when you went

1127
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: out of practice? Like, who were you who's autographs are

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00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 1: you begging for? I wasn't big in the autographs, but

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Speaker 1: I love Brad van pell War number ten. He was

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00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 1: one of the great linebackers played at Michigan State. He

1131
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: was phenomenal, dominant player, All Pro Pro bowler who kind

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00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: of made it up to the LT era but didn't

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00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: stick around long enough to get a taste of like

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Speaker 1: playoffs success. So he was he was the guy that

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00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: I was most into any way back then. And did

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00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: you get this? Yea, yeah, we saw him, you know,

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00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: we watched some practice, but like it wasn't it wasn't

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00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: as big a deal to get autographs like back because

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00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: that's before the collectors thing kind of came into play.

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00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: So you just went and I was like, I saw

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00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: the guy. I got it. And then they came and

1142
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: some of the players came and talked to us about

1143
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: playing football and good sportsmanship and all that corny stuff

1144
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: that you get from the seventies. Um. But seeing Brad

1145
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: Van Pelt, seeing Bob Tucker, uh Ron Johnson, the running

1146
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: back who was a great player for the Giants at

1147
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: that point in time. John Mendenhall number sixty four was

1148
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: the nose guard like and then Harry Carson was like

1149
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 1: a young player. Um, that was fun. That was that

1150
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 1: was That was a really cool moment. But it's cool

1151
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: to see all these fans and now people get a

1152
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: chance to interact with players on a more regular basis.

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00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: And uh, I know, Brandon London, you got some fans

1154
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: that want to ask some questions, but I got I

1155
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: want to ask about the note cable. But let's get

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00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: uh to giants questions? Though? What's your name? My man?

1157
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: Where you're from? And go ahead, uh, keep it quick

1158
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: and ask your questions to the panel. Hey, my name's

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00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: Matt from Jersey City. Uh. One calendar year ago, we

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Speaker 1: ran a QB sneak from her own end zone to

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00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: clear her little room to punt. So I think we

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Speaker 1: could say it's a pretty unexpected, unexpected playoff run. What

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00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 1: are the what are the vibes and feelings around a

1164
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: team during an unexpected expected playoff run? And when did

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00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: you When was the turning point where he actually felt

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00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: like this could be for real? Well, I would never

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00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: say as a as a player that has took the

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00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: grass to compete, I would never ever in my life

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Speaker 1: still unexpected, because this is what we line up for. July.

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00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: This is what we work for, uh, you know, from

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00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: then to this point now, so unexpected it would be.

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00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: It'll be a stretch for me to say that, but

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00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: I predicted the Giants Winsworld Games this year. Didn't quite happen,

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Speaker 1: but I definitely predicted them to wins World aims to

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01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: beat to be honest with you, to be in this

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Speaker 1: spot now. The Eagles have done some things that I

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01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 1: didn't expect them to do as well, but I did

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Speaker 1: expect the Giants to be in the very place. They

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01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 1: got a new head coach, a new GM they got

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01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the running back that had something to prove.

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01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: They had two first round draft picked at right tack

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Speaker 1: one left tackle who also have something to to you know,

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01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: to prove. So this is you know, unexpected for myself. Yeah,

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01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: this time last year, I think we all hit rock

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01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: bottom right with that quarterback sneaking and I think it

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01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: was on third down, right back back. Never see anything

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Speaker 1: like that before. I mean, I think the belief and

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Speaker 1: and the the change started Week one, that win in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: and nobody expected the Giants may except for maybe Brandon,

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Speaker 1: to go into Nashville and win that game and the

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Speaker 1: way that they wanted. So immediately, I think we all

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01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: were like, Okay, this is a different squad, it's a

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Speaker 1: different coach, different team. We saw sick one healthy again.

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Speaker 1: But look when they started out seven and two, I

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Speaker 1: mean that was when everybody started talking about, man, this

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Speaker 1: team can make the playoffs. Wo make the run. I

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Speaker 1: the belief outside of the building happens much later than

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Speaker 1: the belief inside the building. And clearly these players believed

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Speaker 1: in themselves, the coaches believed in them, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's just been a slow build. Um, you know, for everybody,

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Speaker 1: and you know, look for for for this team, it's

1202
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 1: when you start playing up against the best and you

1203
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:21,920
Speaker 1: start seeing, all right, who are the best teams in

1204
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: the NFL, and you get a chance to go up

1205
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: against them, that's their brominter. You can see all right, hey,

1206
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: look we're just as good as them. We can hang

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Speaker 1: with them when we play good ball, when we were sloppy,

1208
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: when we don't take care of the football, when you know,

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01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: when we pe down our leg like, look, we look

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Speaker 1: just like some of these other teams that just that

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Speaker 1: that people to put forty burgers up on Um, this team,

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01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: I'm so impressed with how great of a job that

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01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: they do of get in the game into the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And then no matter what the situation is, we need

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Speaker 1: a feel go, we need to touchdown and a two

1216
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Speaker 1: point version, um, whatever we need, they find a way

1217
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Speaker 1: to get it done. Yeah, I mean, I'll share that

1218
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Speaker 1: story that you know before the Giants played the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. Here, Carl Banks and I are

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Speaker 1: always on the field before the game because we have

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01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: to do it on the field segment and then it

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01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: ends and we kind of hang in and soak in

1223
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere a little bit. And we've obviously developed a

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Speaker 1: relationship throughout training camp with Coach Table and we do

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Speaker 1: the TV show with him, which you could watch on

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Speaker 1: MSG throughout the course of the weekend Coach Table Show

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Speaker 1: presented by Stopping Shop. Um and he walked over to

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Speaker 1: Carl Banks and I and he said, you know what

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01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: I told the team, Well, coach he said, I told him, Look,

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Speaker 1: we ain't gonna win any beauty contests. We all know

1231
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Speaker 1: that we do not have a beauty contest team. We

1232
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys from all different places, but

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Speaker 1: we believe in what we're doing. He says in our goal,

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01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 1: and I told him, let's take the Cowboys into the

1235
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 1: deep end of the pool and see if they can swim.

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Speaker 1: And that's been their recipe. And now they they at

1237
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to the deep end of the pool in

1238
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 1: that game, and then they didn't make a couple of

1239
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:07,080
Speaker 1: plays and they lost. But that's been their d n

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Speaker 1: A in every one of these games, with the exception

1241
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: of the first Philadelphia game and then the Lions game

1242
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: got out of hand a little bit, but basically for

1243
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: fifteen games, that's the way they've played it, and they've developed.

1244
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: There's a reason why they've won all these one score games.

1245
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's you win one or two by luck.

1246
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: You don't win nine by luck. You win because these

1247
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:32,160
Speaker 1: guys and they know better than me. There's a belief

1248
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Speaker 1: that exists internally that nobody else sees on the outside,

1249
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 1: because it's not a single NFL player, even the guys

1250
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: on the Houston Texans or the Bears or whatever. When

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01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 1: those guys go out to play every week, they believe

1252
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Speaker 1: that they can win. Their professional football players think of

1253
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: the funnel. Like if you played the first time you

1254
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 1: played tackle football and you were in third or fourth

1255
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: grade and then you were good enough to keep playing

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01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: and playing, and then you were good enough to make

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01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 1: it to high school. So think of your age group

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01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 1: and the millions of people that put on pads for

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Speaker 1: the first time. Now you're good enough to play freshman

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01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 1: high school ball. Maybe you make the JV team, you

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01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 1: get weeded out, and then you make varsity. And then

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Speaker 1: of that group of millions of kids that play high

1263
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: school football, some are fortunate enough to go play in college,

1264
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Speaker 1: whether scholarship or walk on, and then the draft comes.

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Speaker 1: So every single person now that's in the NFL has

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Speaker 1: bucked odds like none of us in the regular workforce

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Speaker 1: can even imagine. They all believe that they can win

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Speaker 1: like these guys did it. He was an undrafted free agent.

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Speaker 1: He was not a first round draft pick. What round

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Speaker 1: you going fourth round? Like? They made it through the funnel.

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Speaker 1: So just think about every Sunday when they kick off

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Every guy made it through that funnel

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Speaker 1: from their age group, the millions of people that first

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Speaker 1: put on the pads. So they all have a belief

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Speaker 1: that sometimes on the outside we don't perceive, we don't understand,

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Speaker 1: We just don't understand it. And that's why you get upsets,

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Speaker 1: and that's why you get teams that come out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere and you get teams that finished last year before

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Speaker 1: they go on and win a division. Good question, you

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Speaker 1: got another one for us. Yeah, what's your name? Where

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Speaker 1: you're from? And what question do you have for the panel? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Megan from Staten Island. Just to piggyback off of that,

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Speaker 1: you know, that Green Bay game in London really just

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Speaker 1: kind of changed the tone for my family at least

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Speaker 1: in terms of where the season was going. But um,

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Speaker 1: this is actually on by half of my uncle in

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Speaker 1: Staten Island, Brandon. He just wanted to ask, are you

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Speaker 1: drawing any similarities between your run as a team between

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Speaker 1: the Giants team this year? You know, just similarities in

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Speaker 1: you know, culture and you know, just personality. Anything that

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Speaker 1: you're noticing is they're going into Saturday? Absolutely absolutely? Um

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Speaker 1: at the seating number one? Uh? Number two? Is it again?

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Speaker 1: Is a team that beat the Giants us early in

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Speaker 1: the season. Uh. And we got a chance to play

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Speaker 1: them in a divisional round, just like we did in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven with Dallas. They beat us twice

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Speaker 1: during the season and we had a chance to come

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Speaker 1: back and play them and uh as you would call

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Speaker 1: the Texas Stadium and and became a victorious Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: I do think our teams were totally different. You know,

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Speaker 1: we had a different makeup, We had a different head coach,

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Speaker 1: and our and our bread and butter, you know, it

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Speaker 1: was a little bit different than what their bread and

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Speaker 1: butter was is. So I definitely see some similar arteries

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Speaker 1: that you know, they're at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: no matter what's similar to one year to another, they

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Speaker 1: gotta line it up and they gotta protect the trenches,

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Speaker 1: and they gotta play tough, physical football. They gotta bring

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Speaker 1: their hard hat and lunch pill and they gotta get

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Speaker 1: it rocking. Yeah. I think there's a lot of similarities. Um.

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Speaker 1: And as you kind of unpack all of the things

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Speaker 1: that kind of remind you of that two thousand seven seeds,

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Speaker 1: I just kind of want to go back, like, all right,

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Speaker 1: so you mentioned number six seeds, right, so this team

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Speaker 1: has to go on the road just like we didn't

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Speaker 1: know seven. You mentioned the London game, all right, and

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Speaker 1: tooth on the seven we played in the very first

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Speaker 1: London game. That was the first International Series game ever played.

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Speaker 1: We played in that this team did it as well.

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Speaker 1: We got a big win against Miami. Obviously, the Packers

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Speaker 1: game was a huge win. I think that trip and

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Speaker 1: in itself kind of gave us a little foreshooting as

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Speaker 1: what's what it's like to play in the Super Bowl, right,

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Speaker 1: two teams playing in a neutral site. You go out

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Speaker 1: there a couple of days early, You've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of these tracks, there's a lot of things going on,

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01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: you got a really hyper focus. So that kind of

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Speaker 1: set the table for us. I also think the other

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Speaker 1: similarity is Daniel Jones in his fourth year. Eli was

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Speaker 1: going into his fourth year. Guess what they were saying

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Speaker 1: about Eli when we started out owing two in two

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Speaker 1: thousand seven. They said Eli was a bust. The New

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Speaker 1: York Post had I'll never forget at the back page

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Speaker 1: right after owing to Tom must go Eli as a bust.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to run eliyout, just like they wanted to

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Speaker 1: run Daniel Jones out, all right, And it wasn't until

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Speaker 1: year four that everybody really kind of fell in love

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Speaker 1: with Eli. So there's some parallels there with Daniel Jones. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think when you look at the road to the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, like we beat we just beat Minnesota, all right.

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Speaker 1: It was the to redection for them. We lost them

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01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: earlier on this this year Philly, same thing. We did

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Speaker 1: the same thing to Dallas, the same thing to Green

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Speaker 1: Bay and then the same thing to Patriots in Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I think the last thing that I'll say is, anybody

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Speaker 1: know what the super Bowl this year? It's in Arizona

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Speaker 1: where we wanted two th seven, So let's hope it's

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Speaker 1: got the same ending. Good question, Good question. Um. You

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Speaker 1: know one of the things too, like you look at

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Speaker 1: all these like crazy numbers stats whatever, so um. In

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era, there have been twenty one games

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Speaker 1: played in the postseason between a team that has a

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Speaker 1: point differential of plus one d and twenty five or

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Speaker 1: greater against the team that has a negative point differential.

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Speaker 1: The Giants are minus six, so the team had plus

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Speaker 1: one twi or better. The Eagles are plus one thirty

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Speaker 1: three have a record of eighteen and three. So like,

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Speaker 1: if you score a lot of points and you're playing

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Speaker 1: against a team that's a negative and point differential, you

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01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: know the odds are you're gonna win, but you know what,

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Speaker 1: you know what the teams are that the three teams

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Speaker 1: that had a negative point differential that beat a team

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs with plus one or greater his eleven Giants,

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Speaker 1: they beat Green Bay, where the point differential was that great.

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Speaker 1: You beat San Francisco, they were plus one five. You

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Speaker 1: guys were negative, and you beat the Patriots in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl room. So there's only one team with that

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Speaker 1: point differential that's ever won a playoff game, and the

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Speaker 1: Giants are the only team to do it, and they

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Speaker 1: did it three times, all part of Super Bowl forty

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Speaker 1: six run. So it's every anything is on the table,

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Speaker 1: anything is possible. If the old line player plays a

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Speaker 1: kick ass game, if you've got an officer line that

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Speaker 1: plays good football, man, I mean, I would always say,

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Speaker 1: regardless of your record, you got a chance to win

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Speaker 1: a football game if you've got a good if you

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Speaker 1: got five, if you got five six guys with a

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Speaker 1: guy that didn't come off the bench with a solid

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Speaker 1: tighten like we've had and Shocky and Kevin barrs Barra,

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Speaker 1: Pasco Balor. I mean, we've had great guys, great guys

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Speaker 1: blocking the front, and that's where I can create it,

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Speaker 1: like you know, like all of our success to and

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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get to the break, but Shawn

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Speaker 1: even last week, Minnesota goes down, Giants to firm. Minnesota

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Speaker 1: goes down, zip zip zip zip zip touchdown seven nothing,

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Speaker 1: decibel levels one five in that USA Bank Stadium. Giants

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Speaker 1: come back seventy five yards of their own zip zip

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Speaker 1: zip zip zip se kwon touchdown. They get the ball

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Speaker 1: back three and out. Giants go down and score. They

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Speaker 1: get the ball back three and out. Giants go on

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Speaker 1: to twenty play ten minutes and fifty two second drive.

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Speaker 1: That's how you take the Philadelphia crowd out of the game,

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Speaker 1: or the Minnesota crowd out of the game, game or

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Speaker 1: whoever's crowd of the game when you're kicking there. But

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Speaker 1: that place was pretty quiet there for a lot of

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Speaker 1: that first half because the old line did it work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's twofold kind of silence. Is the crowd

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Speaker 1: a little bit, they're a little bit stunned, but also

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Speaker 1: gives your defense an edge. Now it's like, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: offense is rolling, all right, let's pain or ears back

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Speaker 1: and let's be aggressive. Um that that big those big

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Speaker 1: drives that you just mentioned kind of brings it back

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Speaker 1: to Super Bowl forty two. We started off the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: It was the longest drive in the history of the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls to start the game in a ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: Vince Wilfork was stealing the air out of my lungs.

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Speaker 1: He was so gas and so. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: big part of how you win football games. That's what

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Speaker 1: they call our away Draft season is the Giants year

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Speaker 1: let me hear around of a pleasure. How nice is

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Speaker 1: it to not be picking in the top ten? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that when we do our draft

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Speaker 1: o on MSG and the Giants U Media mobile platforms,

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Speaker 1: here on the Fan and enjoying h chatting with the fans.

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Speaker 1: You know, um, we talked a little bit about our away,

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Speaker 1: you know, the our Way T shirts and the slogan

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Speaker 1: and kind of sums up the history of the Giants.

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Speaker 1: I was in the cafeteria for the regular season finale

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, a great think tank team was kind of

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Speaker 1: gathered Don Spurling and Christine blue Yot, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: trying to come up with along with the team, Matt Swenson,

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Speaker 1: Michael Beckton, who is like the man you know during

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Speaker 1: COVID he was embedded with the team, you know, because

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Speaker 1: of the protocols and the guy basically lived with the

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Speaker 1: team for like two years because there because of the

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Speaker 1: vaccine and and COVID and everything, everything was separated. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't have contact with Beckton had to like basically give

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Speaker 1: up his life to be embedded with the team and

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Speaker 1: shoot all that video and be around him. And when

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Speaker 1: the coaches would do their pressers, he's the guy that

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Speaker 1: would Mike come up along with the other guys and

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Speaker 1: there was only a select few that were allowed in.

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Speaker 1: He had that tier one status. And uh, I you know,

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Speaker 1: our way I think was as the as our team

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Speaker 1: came up with the concept backed in our way. I

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Speaker 1: think that's that's mikey bees. That was his idea he

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Speaker 1: brought to the table. So round up applause from Michael Becker.

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Speaker 1: Job might be yeah, I thought it was gonna be

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Speaker 1: f yeah, And that was what uh Gabel said. They

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Speaker 1: wanted to keep it PG brand. You got another question

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Speaker 1: for us? So the shan O'Hara jersey, Yes, sir, we

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Speaker 1: I love the jersey. My man, Uh so your name

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Speaker 1: where you're from? Where did you get to Jersey? And

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Speaker 1: then get into your question real fast, real fast. My

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Speaker 1: name is Jack. I'm from Belmar, New Jersey. I got

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Speaker 1: this j is he on a third party website because

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Speaker 1: the NFL will not do apopscraphees? And you got the

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Speaker 1: Zoo Bats going to right. That is old school, that's

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Speaker 1: nineties Giants super Bowl. Absolutely So my question for you

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Speaker 1: guys is when the Giants beat the Eagles, who would

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Speaker 1: you rather see them play in the NFC Championship Game?

1475
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: The forty Niners or the Cowboys San Francisco forty Niners.

1476
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. I mean I would love for

1477
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: him to see the San Francisco forty Niners at that

1478
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 1: point in the playoffs. Uh. Just being a guy who

1479
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:35,439
Speaker 1: know the game, who loves the support. I think the

1480
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:38,439
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys are really strong out for the team. They

1481
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: you know, both offense and defensive. You know, you don't

1482
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: know who you're gonna get in Dak Prescott, but I

1483
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:46,840
Speaker 1: think they're really good football team and maybe one of

1484
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best football team playing in

1485
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: the National Football League right now. So I would definitely

1486
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: rather the New York Giants beat Philadelphia and travel over

1487
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: to Levi State him and play the San Francisco forty Nanners. Yeah,

1488
01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,760
Speaker 1: that's a tough question. I love the optimism and you know, look,

1489
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:05,200
Speaker 1: I think for Giants fans, the chance after beating the

1490
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 1: Eagles to get to go down to Jerry's World and

1491
01:16:09,280 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 1: to have a chance to knock them out in the

1492
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: NFC change of game, I think that's like, that's a

1493
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: win to the second degree right there. It's it's it's

1494
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 1: almost like a double win. The Fortnight's defense right now,

1495
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean, their their lights out and they're they're phenomenal.

1496
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: I mean Nick Bosa is uh he's a one man

1497
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: wrecking crew. So it's it's certainly would be tough sledding

1498
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 1: against that defense. Look, the Cowboys with Micah Parsons and

1499
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, you know, they've got some guys that get

1500
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,600
Speaker 1: after quarterback to you. But um, you know, look, I

1501
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: think in that situation, give me somebody that we know

1502
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: really well. Uh, you know, Kyle Shanahan his offense. One

1503
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: of the tough things about going up against that offense

1504
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:50,879
Speaker 1: is he does probably more pre snap shifts and motions

1505
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 1: than any team in the NFL. And even even though

1506
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: it's Brock Purty that basically their third quarterback this season. Um,

1507
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 1: you know they've got some weapons, you know, Christian mccaff re, Deepo,

1508
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 1: Samuel Uh. There's a lot of wrinkles that would be

1509
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 1: it would be hard to game playing against, and we're

1510
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 1: seeing that transpire before eyes. But I think they gets

1511
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,400
Speaker 1: going down to Dallas a familiar environment. You know the team,

1512
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: you know the players, you know the scheme. Um, I

1513
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,760
Speaker 1: think that that would be a good fit. Good question.

1514
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: Let's get there first, right. I mean, if you want

1515
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:21,799
Speaker 1: to go Karma, if you want to go past Karma,

1516
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 1: I think you would say San Francisco because you know,

1517
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: in oh seven, after beating a division champ, you guys

1518
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:32,639
Speaker 1: went and beat the number one seed in the divisional round,

1519
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: which was Dallas, and then when you went to Green Bay,

1520
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: they were the number two seed, which is what San

1521
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: Francisco is. And then if you want to draw the

1522
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 1: correlation to two thousand and eleven, you know you won

1523
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game branded in San Francisco. So but

1524
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 1: that's not that here. It's gonna be hard either way.

1525
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: But let's have that problem. Let's do it next week.

1526
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 1: Let's talk about that's the problem we want to have,

1527
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 1: because I was figuring out how to win the NFC

1528
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 1: Championship Game white color problem. First things first, Philadelphia, Brandon,

1529
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 1: and I hate the Cowboys. By the way, who do

1530
01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 1: you hate? What do you hate more? The Cowboys or Rex? Ryan?

1531
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:16,599
Speaker 1: I got I hate the Cowboys, you know. So when

1532
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: you score a Texas State and fired that football, I

1533
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:22,760
Speaker 1: thought you're gonna break the appropriate life. I found that.

1534
01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: I found that football about three days ago in my

1535
01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: basement and I looked at it because we were moving

1536
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: and I looked at it, and I'm like, this this football.

1537
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 1: Like then I see these little circles on it. I

1538
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:35,920
Speaker 1: told my wife would say, this is the ball through

1539
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,320
Speaker 1: against the plate clock in Dallas, just like really, I'm like, yeah,

1540
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 1: this is it. So it's pretty cool to find the ball.

1541
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:47,200
Speaker 1: Gotta get that in the case, right, Yeah. Uh. It's

1542
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,760
Speaker 1: like a trip down memory lay what's your what's your name?

1543
01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:51,120
Speaker 1: My man? Where are you from? And what question you

1544
01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 1: have for the guys. My name is Anthony from Jersey City. Brandon,

1545
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: A lot of the times you set the tone by

1546
01:18:56,479 --> 01:19:00,160
Speaker 1: running over a linebacker, a safety Al Harris at Lambeo. UM,

1547
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:02,679
Speaker 1: who do you think has to be the tone setter

1548
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: or who do you think it's going to be the

1549
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: tone setter in this game on Saturday. I don't think

1550
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: it'll be a one person tone setter in this In

1551
01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:12,680
Speaker 1: this game, I think if we get the football first, Um,

1552
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 1: I think we go down you know, like Sean discussed earlier,

1553
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: ten minute drive is keeping Eagles offense off the field,

1554
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: and just punish him even if we take three, because

1555
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: that's you know, it's still you know, you just demoralize it.

1556
01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 1: Just going down the field eighty yard eighty five yard

1557
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 1: drive or whatever it is, and you know, and ended

1558
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 1: up getting points at the end of the day. I

1559
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: think that's even more of a tone setter than somebody

1560
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: being run over, our stiff armed or something like that.

1561
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 1: So I'm talking about going down the field, taking nine

1562
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:44,559
Speaker 1: ten minutes off the clock and you know, and come

1563
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:46,519
Speaker 1: up with the points. I'm glad you brought up that

1564
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 1: tone center because I'll never forget the sound when Brandon

1565
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 1: Jacobs ran over to Charles Woodson on that first play. Agree. Now,

1566
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:57,599
Speaker 1: I think the decal on Charles Woodson's helmet like popped off.

1567
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 1: And I don't think he knew he played that game.

1568
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:01,920
Speaker 1: He think he stood up and he thought he was

1569
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:04,880
Speaker 1: Batman like from the Stickers commercial. Um. So yeah, I

1570
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:06,680
Speaker 1: think if there was gonna be a tone center at

1571
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: Si Kwan. And I think we've seen him running like

1572
01:20:09,439 --> 01:20:12,200
Speaker 1: the sick one. We saw his his rookie year. He's

1573
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:14,680
Speaker 1: running over guys. Um, he's running with power, so I

1574
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: could see him do it. But just remember that, like

1575
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:20,520
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has had some big time runs against Philadelphia.

1576
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: Obviously there was the big run you know a couple

1577
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:24,880
Speaker 1: of years ago where he uh, you know, kind of

1578
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 1: stumbled a little bit. I think he's looking for some redemption.

1579
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 1: So he could actually be the guy that makes that

1580
01:20:29,960 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: emphatic run. And we actually saw you mentioned stiff him.

1581
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 1: We saw Daniel Jones with a little stiff arm Patrick. Yeah,

1582
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: So the whole tone said thing became with us when

1583
01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:45,080
Speaker 1: uh we you know, when we played Green Bay. You know,

1584
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, like sometimes i'm hitting I think about it,

1585
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I set the tone for our team

1586
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,879
Speaker 1: and then it just it just a little fire under everyone,

1587
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: you know. But I think a better fire would have

1588
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:57,879
Speaker 1: been lit if I wuld just give him a hesitant

1589
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: step inside. As he was coming in with all his momentum.

1590
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: He was running and I think it was thirty six

1591
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 1: slam or something like that. He came in and he

1592
01:21:07,240 --> 01:21:09,240
Speaker 1: was going to get the safety. He was coming off

1593
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: the butt of the wide receiver full speed. So I

1594
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:13,280
Speaker 1: think all I have to do is give him a

1595
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: hesitant step in. He was coming flying in, all out

1596
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: of control, which is why you never got you know,

1597
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: getting run over like that. But he was the last

1598
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 1: line of containment. So if I could give him a

1599
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:24,640
Speaker 1: step to the inside and went outside, I could have

1600
01:21:24,800 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: ran out of field for thirty forty yards and that

1601
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 1: could have been a tone at the two. But I

1602
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 1: ran through him. B J. When did you ever joke anybody?

1603
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,800
Speaker 1: You always ran him over. I'm gonna run straight over you.

1604
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:37,000
Speaker 1: But that one was easy to read. He could make

1605
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: a mess, you don't have to brand. It would break

1606
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:40,599
Speaker 1: through the whole and he would run at the safety.

1607
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: Were like you can run up the sidelines. Don't get

1608
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: a run away from He's like, no, I'm running that

1609
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: guy over all right, next question, Brandon Lauren Landry also

1610
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:56,400
Speaker 1: felt it from me, man, were you from another question?

1611
01:21:57,320 --> 01:21:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm back from Jersey City here Sadly, I was kind

1612
01:21:59,880 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: of falling up on those two things. But for Mr

1613
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:05,320
Speaker 1: Jacobs here that run over of the run later, he's

1614
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: my favorite of your career. I was gonna ask you

1615
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 1: comparatively to the Packers one. Do you have a personal

1616
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: favorite along with Sera? I mean too many pancakes to mention.

1617
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: Can't really talk about it. I know you do your

1618
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 1: top ten on TV, but you never put yourself in it.

1619
01:22:18,479 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: You need to. And Papa, thank you so much for

1620
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:22,640
Speaker 1: coming to Jersey City to hang out with us. A

1621
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:28,920
Speaker 1: pleasure to be here. Um my best runover, I gotta say, uh,

1622
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: because he was a bigger, bigger guy, I gotta go

1623
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:34,720
Speaker 1: and and most people might be like, really just that.

1624
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:37,760
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Brian Erlier because he was six

1625
01:22:37,840 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: ft three, two hundred and sixty pounds like myself six

1626
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:43,360
Speaker 1: You know what it's all around there he was pursuing

1627
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: to the ball and had no idea I was about

1628
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: to put my foot in the ground and turn up

1629
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 1: there and ran through him. I think that's my favorite one.

1630
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Yeah, too too many to remember for me.

1631
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: You got one who who is the one? Who is

1632
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:59,000
Speaker 1: one that you love going against? All right? So I

1633
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 1: would live where you got. I mean, look, I I

1634
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,479
Speaker 1: lost some brain cells going against Trotter. Jeremy Trotter lined

1635
01:23:04,560 --> 01:23:06,799
Speaker 1: up for the Eagles. There was one game in particular

1636
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: that I think we were all really jazzed up to play,

1637
01:23:08,760 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: and that was the Baltimore Ravens in two thousand and eight. Um,

1638
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: you know, we were kicking button taking names that year,

1639
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget leading up to that game, I

1640
01:23:16,479 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: think we had rushed for two many yards either in

1641
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 1: back to back games or consecutively going up to that,

1642
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 1: and you know they were asking Baltimore's defense, you know,

1643
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,320
Speaker 1: how are you gonna stop this giant's rushing attack? And

1644
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:29,479
Speaker 1: they're like, you know, they're not gonna run for a

1645
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: hunrey yards on us. This man took the opening handoff

1646
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: I think fifty seven yards was it? So right out

1647
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 1: of the gate we were like, oh, we're running on you.

1648
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: And that game was one of my favorite games because

1649
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 1: we talked so much, you know what, so much smack

1650
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: and we were talking to Ray Lewis we I mean

1651
01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: we were running it down their throats and I think

1652
01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 1: it was there was a run down in the end zone.

1653
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was you or if it

1654
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: was a MOD. We scored a touch on them and

1655
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:56,680
Speaker 1: I drove Rady was into the end zone and like

1656
01:23:56,760 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: we both kind of went to the ground and I

1657
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: got up and I I said a couple of choice

1658
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: words to him, and I walked back to the sil

1659
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 1: and I was like, that was pretty freaking cool. I

1660
01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:08,560
Speaker 1: just I just trash talked to Hall of Famer and

1661
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: one of the best livebackers ever played the game. Uh.

1662
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 1: We walked out of that game feeling like we were

1663
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:16,000
Speaker 1: debot from Friday when we Uh we we owned the

1664
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:19,240
Speaker 1: neighborhood that day. Absolutely. And that's why you gotta be

1665
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:24,719
Speaker 1: careful about stats, right, because the Ravens had not given

1666
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:29,840
Speaker 1: up a hundred yard rusher in twenty eight games, and

1667
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:35,479
Speaker 1: technically the streak remained a matter of fact, the streak

1668
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,960
Speaker 1: remained because a MOD had like nineties six and he

1669
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:44,400
Speaker 1: got hurt. Brandon you had like ninety two and Derek

1670
01:24:44,479 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 1: Ward had like eight. So no one broke a hundred individually.

1671
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:51,639
Speaker 1: So their streak continued, and that was something like you'd

1672
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: watch the games and the Ravens having allowed a hundred Russia,

1673
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: Well what about the two thirty eight the Giants threw

1674
01:24:57,320 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: up on him the week before, Like that doesn't count.

1675
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: So you gotta that That's always something you gotta be

1676
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: careful about stats. Yeah, and and coach Conflince, coach gilbrid

1677
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 1: like all of those guys, like, given the fact that

1678
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:11,720
Speaker 1: they didn't allow one hundred yard rusher, I was eight

1679
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: yards away and they will not let me get it.

1680
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: They will not let me get it. So I'm like,

1681
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: it is what it is. We got to win. They

1682
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Speaker 1: came in here thinking that it was gonna, you know,

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01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 1: walk all over us at the end of the day

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01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:28,400
Speaker 1: that day, like they thought us being good in our

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01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: record it was you know, it was a mirage, but

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01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:34,600
Speaker 1: obviously it wasn't. And and they felt every bit of it.

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Speaker 1: And we actually I've asked me, I really thought they

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01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 1: were soft that, you know, to soft that game? Yeah,

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01:25:40,320 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 1: the Carolina game too. I mean you ran it down

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01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 1: their throats. And that one next question he's got on

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01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: right here the Super Bowl Ford that you had. What's

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01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: your name? Where you from? And what questions do you

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01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 1: have for the guys? Hey, guys, how's it going. I'm

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01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: Matt and I live around the corner. Um, I wanted

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01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 1: to know what you guys thought, Uh that wink in

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01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,799
Speaker 1: the defense's game plan should be to stop a dynamic

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01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,080
Speaker 1: player like Jalen Hurts as well as the run game.

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Speaker 1: M I don't know if the Giants don't. I don't

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01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: think I've seen them do this multiple times like this year,

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01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 1: but I think a great way to slow them down

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01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:14,280
Speaker 1: to come out in the three down front because they're

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01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:17,360
Speaker 1: gonna be they're gonna be past heavy and Jay and

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01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:19,559
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts as we know it is gonna run around

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01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 1: and move the pocket. Um, I think we need to,

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01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: you know, go with some kind of two zone and

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01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:27,960
Speaker 1: and get a double team up on Brown and I think,

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01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:30,679
Speaker 1: you know, and try to you know, and I guess

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01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 1: it's just just trying to find a way to stop

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01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 1: and run, you know, just a little bit that they do. Um,

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01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 1: I said, you know, a three down front and send

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01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 1: pressure from you know, you know, there's ways. Yeah, I

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01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: think every defense a coordinator when you're playing the Eagles,

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01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: it's all right, we've got to contain the run. Game

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01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 1: contain Jalen Hurts. You know, from a game playing standpoint,

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01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: you know Wrink Martondale, It's been no secret he the

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01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 1: Giants have blitzed more than any defense in the league.

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01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:57,240
Speaker 1: I feel like they scaled it back a little bit

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01:26:57,280 --> 01:26:59,439
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, and part of it was probably dirty Jackson

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01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: coming back, he traveled pretty much with Justin Jefferson, like

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01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:06,960
Speaker 1: get covered him of their passing plays. I expect a

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01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: similar kind of game plan. Um. The challenge with this though,

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01:27:10,439 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: as a DVa's coordinator is on third down, you've got

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01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:15,639
Speaker 1: to have a spy. You gotta have a spy rusher.

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01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:19,840
Speaker 1: So you know, I'll be curious to see what one

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01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 1: of the things Wink has done a lot this year

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01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:23,680
Speaker 1: when he has a mobile quarterback is you take the

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01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:25,600
Speaker 1: linebackers off the field and put an extra safety in

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01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 1: extra corner, so you end up with six dbs out

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01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:30,360
Speaker 1: there because you just want more speed out there. One

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01:27:30,400 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: of those guys will be designated to spy Jalen hurt

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01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:35,360
Speaker 1: so that he doesn't, you know, step up in the

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Speaker 1: pocket and all of a sudden he's running all over

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01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:39,160
Speaker 1: the place. Um, that's gonna be something that I think

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01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a plan for Yeah. I think the

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01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: other thing, too, right is, um, you know you don't

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01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 1: want to let Miles Sanders get going, so try to

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01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:50,920
Speaker 1: contain them. Run and Hurt is gonna make some plays

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01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,599
Speaker 1: with his legs, whether it's a broken player design play,

1739
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 1: but I think early in the game the Giants have

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01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: to be physical with him, and they gotta get a

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01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: lot of people to the all and they got to

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01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: make him feel every run because nobody knows how healthy

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01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 1: or not healthy he really is. He hasn't played a

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01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,559
Speaker 1: lot of football since he got hurt in the first

1745
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 1: quarter of that Bears game the week after they beat

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01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 1: the Giants at MetLife Stadium. When you have a guy

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01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:19,760
Speaker 1: that's got some ring rust on him or whatever, you

1748
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 1: got a pound him, you got a pounder, and pound him,

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01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,760
Speaker 1: and pound him and pound him and see how he

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01:28:25,880 --> 01:28:28,560
Speaker 1: reacts to it. I think that's a key component in

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01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:32,599
Speaker 1: all this. I think you're saying make Jalen hurts hurts, Well,

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01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:36,719
Speaker 1: you don't want to hurt anybody wants them. He said

1753
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:39,280
Speaker 1: that this is a gladiated game. Bob, we all know

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Speaker 1: what it is. We took the field. Number number two

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01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:47,719
Speaker 1: is not as good as number one. So you believe

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01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: the Giants who win? Yes, I think the Giants win.

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01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go off and say the New York Football

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01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:56,559
Speaker 1: Giants will beat the Philadelphia and he goes tw eight.

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01:28:58,040 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 1: Song you think they're wrong? Yeah, looking for it to it.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching them do it their way.

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Speaker 1: There you go. So for Shawn O'Hara, Brandon Jacobs, we

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01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: want to thank Zavian McKinney and Andrew Thomas for joining

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01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,600
Speaker 1: us our entire crew. Thank you Giants fans here in

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01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:16,760
Speaker 1: Jersey City, representing Hudson County in the House you ever

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01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:20,680
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01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:23,400
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