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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants. Hutteles on Giants

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Speaker 1: to the newest edition of the Giant Huddle podcast. John

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Speaker 1: Schmolke with you. We are a week two of training camp,

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Speaker 1: and today's guest to talk about what we've seen so

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Speaker 1: far at practice is a friend of the program, Ed Valentine,

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Speaker 1: who was, of course the author of the eSPI Nation

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Speaker 1: blog for the Giants, Big Blue View. He is a

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Speaker 1: while you're here to begin with to be quite honest

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Speaker 1: with you, But now we're joined by our guest. He

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Speaker 1: has at Valentine again from the espion Nation Giants blog

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Speaker 1: Big Blue View ed. We've seen your practice the last

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Speaker 1: week and half. I thought be a good day to

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Speaker 1: have you on here. Hope all is well and tell

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Speaker 1: the folks where they can find everything you're doing. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's at Big Blue View of course. On Twitter, It's

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Speaker 1: Big Blue View dot com is the website. You can

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Speaker 1: also find us on Instagram, you can find us on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: so you know, hopefully you check out all the different platforms.

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Speaker 1: And John, I really appreciate you having me on today.

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Speaker 1: You know, nothing happened out there today. Yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: We actually had this set up before practice. I did

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Speaker 1: purposely want to do it after the first padded practice

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Speaker 1: because we've been out there for a weekend. But look,

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Speaker 1: we all have to write about practice and what's happening

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Speaker 1: and watch and we're into it. But really it's not

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Speaker 1: real football. But we had real football on Tuesday here

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Speaker 1: at the Quest Agnostics Training Center and it was eventful.

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Speaker 1: So before we hit practice today, let's set the stage.

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Speaker 1: What were you looking for walking into practice today? What's

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Speaker 1: been your major takeaway through the first week, and then

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Speaker 1: we can hit today's specifically. Well, obviously you wanted to

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Speaker 1: see offensive line play, but you wanted to see some

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Speaker 1: you wanted to see some sharpness for from the offense, which,

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Speaker 1: as you said, it hasn't been real football. But the

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Speaker 1: takeaway from the first few days, you know, it has

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Speaker 1: been that the offense has been a little bit sluggish,

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Speaker 1: a little bit behind the defense. You wanted to see

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Speaker 1: some you know, some some steps forward from the offense today. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, those are the big things I wanted to see, really,

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Speaker 1: just cohesion on that offensive line and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and the start of the start of some real football,

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Speaker 1: some real competition from from receivers and cornerbacks. So hard

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Speaker 1: to judge when they're in shorts and T shirts. So

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Speaker 1: so it was it was good to see some some

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Speaker 1: fully padded action today. Yeah, and and and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to some of the physical contact that occurred over there

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Speaker 1: the course of practice. But let's start with your point,

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Speaker 1: because I think if you're looking for the offense to

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Speaker 1: think that's exactly what happened. I thought this was the

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Speaker 1: sharpest the offense has been. I don't think it's a

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Speaker 1: surprise that it comes into practice where they weren't doing

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Speaker 1: quite as much red zone work and they actually let

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Speaker 1: which makes things a lot easier on the passing game.

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Speaker 1: But I thought we saw more separation from wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: nice job. To be quite honest with you, Oh, I

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Speaker 1: would agree. And it's interesting because I know Friday was

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Speaker 1: and that, you know, concern about the offense. And and

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Speaker 1: one of the things that that I think we've been

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Speaker 1: learning as we talked to Joe Judge is that he's

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Speaker 1: doing everything in increments. And I think part of the

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Speaker 1: And you're right, I think just the structure of practice

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Speaker 1: the first week gave a natural advantage to the defense.

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Speaker 1: So I agree, I think the structure of the practice

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Speaker 1: We haven't had that yet. They waited until they put

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Speaker 1: really really encouraging day for for everyone that that had

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Speaker 1: terrible again. Joe Judge has said over and over that

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Speaker 1: there will be days when the offense dominates. There will

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Speaker 1: be days when the defense dominates. You can't ride the

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Speaker 1: continue to build, you know, which is an easy perspective

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Speaker 1: for him. I mean, fans obviously live and die with

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Speaker 1: It was good to see progress today. It was it

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Speaker 1: But yeah, he was. He was very very strong. And

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Speaker 1: offense stuff first. As you mentioned, that was something to

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Speaker 1: lead here. Here's the thing about the first full contact practice,

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Speaker 1: and this happens a lot ed. It's the first time

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Speaker 1: it also did last year, where they set it up

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Speaker 1: you could already see tempers weren't flaring, but guys were loud,

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Speaker 1: and you know, John that that silence extended to the media.

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Speaker 1: You know, usually there's some conversations going on. There was

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Speaker 1: ever since day one of when he was hired. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's all about discipline, he's all about team. He's all

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Speaker 1: the message got through. And look, he wants the guys

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