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

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Speaker 1: dot Com on the Giants Mobile. Let him in there,

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Speaker 1: let's go part of the Giants Podcast Network. Paulatino with

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Speaker 1: you on the Giant Huddle with Giant Super Bowl champion

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Speaker 1: Victor Cruz following the twenty to twenty MetLife Stadium tie

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Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders. You can always catch this podcast

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Speaker 1: favorite platforms. Victor, I'm gonna ask you right off the bat,

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Speaker 1: have you ever been involved in a tie and what

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Speaker 1: does a tie feel like? If you have. I've never

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Speaker 1: been part of a tie, not at any level of football, basket,

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Speaker 1: wedding sport I've ever played. We've always had a winner

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Speaker 1: and a loser. So even me as a spectator not

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Speaker 1: obviously not playing in this one, it still feels weird.

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Speaker 1: It still feels uneasy, and you can tell the players

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Speaker 1: even at the end of the game, we're kind of

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Speaker 1: just like do ego shake hands? Like, how does this work?

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Speaker 1: Is there another quarter? I'm sure the guys are like,

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Speaker 1: let's play another quarter and figure this thing out. But um,

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Speaker 1: but it ended in the time. I know the Giants are,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of kicking themselves a little bit as

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Speaker 1: they know they left a few players out there, a

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Speaker 1: few opportunities to you put themselves in a better position

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Speaker 1: to win the football game. But it is what it is,

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Speaker 1: a tie, and it's uh and it was a tough one,

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Speaker 1: all right. So let me ask you to put yourself

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Speaker 1: in the position of this club. They stop the bleeding

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Speaker 1: of a two game losing streak. They are still one

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Speaker 1: loss ahead of Seattle and Washington in the race for

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Speaker 1: wild card spots. So even though it may not taste

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Speaker 1: so good right now, mathematically speaking, you can make a

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Speaker 1: case that they're actually better off than they were this morning.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, everything is still in front of us. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's the best part. That's where you want

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Speaker 1: to be as a football team, is having all your

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Speaker 1: goals still in front of you, still attainable. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's up to you to make those things happen. It's

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Speaker 1: football games. Got a couple of division games coming up

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Speaker 1: for us to put our best foot forward and get

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Speaker 1: some wins in the division, which will help us overall. Um,

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Speaker 1: But it's it'll just be interesting to see where where

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Speaker 1: those division games are always important. Let me ask you

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Speaker 1: one question about Washington because they're gonna have a buy

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Speaker 1: next week while the Giants play a very rugged game

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Speaker 1: but that's the way it is. It's reality. Um. What

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Speaker 1: if you're the Giants going to Washington in two weeks. Well,

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Speaker 1: a couple of things was the precision by Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 1: other than that, he played a really clean game, really

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Speaker 1: were able to get some key stops when they needed to.

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Speaker 1: this front seven was really coming after the quarterback, and

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Speaker 1: and as a fan of this team overall. Now, c

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Speaker 1: Quon Barkley ran for sixty something yards and nearly twenty carries,

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Speaker 1: So you've got you just seeing Daniel Jones starting to

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Speaker 1: the eight play, nine the yard touchdown drive by Washington

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Speaker 1: But but yeah, I'm sure it's one he wish he

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Speaker 1: like he's making those timely plays, right, like those plays

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Speaker 1: really looking comfortable and providing that spark um that this

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Speaker 1: what have you seen from the rookie linebacker? McFadden wound

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Speaker 1: like I think he's instinctual. I think you see him

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Speaker 1: It's become a big part of this defense. Right now,

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Speaker 1: and you know all about that tight end Daniel Bellinger

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