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Speaker 1: podcast network. Welcome to the Giants Huddle Podcast. My name

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Speaker 1: is Madeleine Burke. Joined this week by Super Bowl champion

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Speaker 1: Amani Tumor for this rapid reaction to the Giants Titans

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Speaker 1: game and first to reminder, The Giants Huddle Podcast can

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Speaker 1: Slash Podcasts, and on all popular podcast platforms. Now joined

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Speaker 1: by a Monti Tumor. As the Giants start out the

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Speaker 1: season with a win head down to Tennessee twenty over

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Speaker 1: the Titans, first time the Giants have started out one

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Speaker 1: and oh since any it is been a while since

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Speaker 1: we've gotten this vitamin W and we have bullocks wide

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Speaker 1: just good to see that. Um, you know, it's this

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Speaker 1: early in the season, we've already have one on the board.

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Speaker 1: I just remember were so many seasons over the last

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Speaker 1: seven weeks before the Giants have their first win, and

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Speaker 1: it just energizes the fan base energizes me is a

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Speaker 1: is a broadcaster and as a fan, just that you know,

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Speaker 1: we might have a good team this year. We might.

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Speaker 1: There's some signs of life, and that's what most people

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Speaker 1: in New York want. We want a team that we

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Speaker 1: can root for, we can get behind. And watching the

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Speaker 1: way this game played out, a team that's not scared

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Speaker 1: of the situation, a coach that's not scared to coach

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Speaker 1: aggressively both on offense and defense. It's just a good

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Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. Now how long will it last,

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Speaker 1: that's another question. But we've had so much pain in

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Speaker 1: Let it wash over our bodies and minds and enjoy.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we need to clip that and put

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Speaker 1: it on the column map because it's kind of beautiful.

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Speaker 1: The money I tried to do my my late night.

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Speaker 1: Let it wash over, wash over, the joy, wash over you.

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Speaker 1: But I mean it is great. You know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of optimism. A new GM, a new coaching staff

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Speaker 1: But to come out with a win, and also to

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Speaker 1: see a vintage se Quon Berkeley in the process, a

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Speaker 1: could have been more um but seeing him this is,

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Speaker 1: you know, just his third career game of a hundred

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Speaker 1: fift year and more rushing yards. Seeing Sae Kwon that

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Speaker 1: encouraged that active that involved Giants. Fans have missed that absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And when you watch se Quon, you watch his first step,

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Speaker 1: And that's a sake one that we haven't seen for

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Speaker 1: off season the last couple of years. When I turn

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Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd coming back from that achilles injury that he

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Speaker 1: He's a guy that you know, made some sacrifice to

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Speaker 1: we got that grit, not just from the players, but

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Speaker 1: started the Giants were down thirteen to nothing, at the

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Speaker 1: I've been putting them under pressure. I've been doing this,

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Speaker 1: But because there's been so much struggle in this organization,

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Speaker 1: these players. Absolutely, And when you get putting those positions,

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