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Speaker 1: Hello again everybody, and welcome to Big Blue Kickoff Live

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Speaker 1: here on Giants dot Com. The number, as always is

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Speaker 1: two oh one four five one three. I am Russ

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Speaker 1: Salzburg along with my buddy here two times Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champion David Deal. Gotta remind everybody that Big Blue Kickoff

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Speaker 1: prizes throughout the season. My friend, I don't know where

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Speaker 1: I was discussing with what Paul yesterday. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where you were at the end of the game. But

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Speaker 1: I never do that last week last Sunday. I always

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Speaker 1: stay to the very end, win or lose. You know,

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Speaker 1: whether Giants are up or down to six left, they're

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Speaker 1: take a walk downstairs. As I'm leave my seat, I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can go downstairs. It was if they're time out,

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Speaker 1: it's um the they got the ball on their own,

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Speaker 1: uh two yard line? I said, okay, Giants are in

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Speaker 1: good shape, right. I go down and Bears got the

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Speaker 1: ball in around two yard line. I go down. As

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Speaker 1: I'm walking to I see you on the TV. Wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, what just happened? The Bears are now like

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Speaker 1: with inside the twenty knocking at the door, it's still

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Speaker 1: a ten point thing. They get the touchdown, then they

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Speaker 1: get the inside kick. No, we're going back upstairs. But

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Speaker 1: as I said, all's well, that ends well. While while

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Speaker 1: it could have been, could have, would have, should have,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a bad loss. It was a good win.

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Speaker 1: It was and they have what to be happy about.

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Speaker 1: Minds of one thing not to be happy about is

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Speaker 1: the land and Collins injury. They haven't it hasn't been verified.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm a betting guy, I bet that he's

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Speaker 1: done for the season. Yeah. Better that. Yeah. And you

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Speaker 1: know the thing that is so exciting about looking back

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Speaker 1: at this game, you know, you look at how they

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Speaker 1: won this game, especially in the second half. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: all three phases. It wasn't just the offense, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: just a defense, special teams contributing, Rojas kicking unbelievable this season.

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Speaker 1: And and that's the type of excitement and joy that

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Speaker 1: brings out the rewards of how much work that they've

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Speaker 1: put in and how much crap they've taken over the

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Speaker 1: last how many weeks so post by you could see

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Speaker 1: that this team has really come together as a football team.

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Speaker 1: We know what they're capable of when they put it

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Speaker 1: all together in our sound in all three phases. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's just see week after week how much that they

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Speaker 1: can continue to do that and move forward as a

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Speaker 1: football team. And isn't it funny how in a week

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Speaker 1: how everything changes. We're sitting here after the Fiddler game

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Speaker 1: talking and how difficult it was, and everybody talking, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe they should just scrap the season, worry about

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Speaker 1: the draft pick for all those people thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: How happy were you Sunday after the Giants beat the Bears?

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Speaker 1: How much better did it make your victory Monday? After

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Speaker 1: this win? You? You will change is everything? You always

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Speaker 1: say that, and and it's really a good kind men

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Speaker 1: after people's coming because I listen you and I agree

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Speaker 1: on this. I've never I don't buy into tanking losing

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Speaker 1: know from dealing with these guys. When I say, these

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Speaker 1: guys professionals and in all sports, if you're worth your

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Speaker 1: salt of any kind as a professional, you want to

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Speaker 1: compete all the time. Nobody wants, uh, Trust me, the

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Speaker 1: Giants want to win. All these players, they want to

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Speaker 1: go out for the rest of the season what regardless

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Speaker 1: what happens, they want to win those games. So I

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Speaker 1: agree with you, but you always say that how good

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Speaker 1: literally watching film and then this entire season, especially this

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Speaker 1: Giants game, you see so many similarities of theirn San

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Speaker 1: it's come together rather quickly, post by considering when Jamal

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Speaker 1: offensive line, especially this offensive line, is when you run

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Speaker 1: So for this offensive line, they've taken onus and pride

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Speaker 1: that to be his answer, and you could see him answering.

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Speaker 1: I was watching him. He was so genuine about saying it.

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Speaker 1: He almost given me a promo from my pregame show.

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Speaker 1: This week he brings up se Kwon Barkley again. I

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Speaker 1: he would give you those kind of answers. One point was, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, bigger icon than Derrick Cheetah. Jeter is terrific

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Speaker 1: because he's a number two pick overall. And it's not.

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Speaker 1: He's just totally grounded. And and then I asked him,

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Speaker 1: next to him, to where he can play to his

428
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: strengths down in the block the box, be more of

429
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 1: a a blitzer and where he can play more of

430
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: a joker wild card in James Betcher's system. Anything else, Alex, No,

431
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: that's it. I appreciate you taking the time. Guys. All right, Alex,

432
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 1: thank you call again, buddy. Let's now go from down South,

433
00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: come up nor a bit to Straussburg, PA and check

434
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: in with Peter, Peter, your own with Russ and David, Hey,

435
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 1: Ross and Dave. How you doing, man? That's a quick question.

436
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: That's a quick question on London Collins. If he's out,

437
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: is who going to take his place? Well, you're probably

438
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: gonna see I would think Thomas, Thomas and Chandler okay,

439
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,200
Speaker 1: And also man that that game Sunday was one of

440
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 1: the most founding game ever for RUSS as a team,

441
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 1: and those guys have showed the ability, the strength and

442
00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,199
Speaker 1: how they could come back on any team and they

443
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: could beat any team. Well, you know what, Peter, you're

444
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: you're you're echoing the comments of the head coach Pat Sherman,

445
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 1: because right after the game, Pat Sherman walked into the

446
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: press conference and you know, he said, I'm gonna leave

447
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: out some of the salty language. But he says, no, no, no,

448
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: Basically that's what he said. And I'm paraphrasing a bit,

449
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,200
Speaker 1: but you know, I'll leave out some of the language.

450
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: But he said, I told my players I love, you know,

451
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: their toughness, I love their resiliency. That's what I love

452
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: about my guys. And he was very forceful when he

453
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: said that. What else, Land Peter, excuse me, I honestly

454
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 1: the direction that this team has game I honestly see

455
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 1: us in this playoff at some point, it's just I

456
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: can feel it. Well listen, I'm not gonna tell you

457
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: not to feel it, but you gotta feel it deep

458
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:47,720
Speaker 1: down because they're still up against it big time. I mean, Matt, realistically, mathematically,

459
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: they're still in it. Realistically. You know, they little need

460
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 1: they need a little bit of help from the man above.

461
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 1: But uh, the point is they want to compete, and

462
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: that's what professional athletes do. Absolute And I'm gonna just

463
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,640
Speaker 1: mak uh I know you guys, Uh, brunch on time.

464
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: Just a shout out to uh, my other giant fan

465
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 1: in Jersey, Joseph Costanzo, Desa Garcia, Adriana Garcia, Giovanni Garcia.

466
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, guys, appreciate all right, Peter, thank

467
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: you a little shout out. Yeah, it sounds like the

468
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: four Horseman of Notre Dame or something he's introducing there.

469
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: Let's go down to virgin I A and check in

470
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: with J D j D. You're on with Russ and David.

471
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 1: Hey afternoons, you man, how y'all doing to day? How

472
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: are you doing? Hey? You know it all as well.

473
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 1: And it's the interesting is the game was played Sunday afternoon.

474
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, people still feel like they're still trying to recover.

475
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: And it's the funny think about it. I have to

476
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: agree with him because I'm still trying to recover going

477
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: back to work. Yo, how are you doing? Yo? Saw

478
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: that game? Good game? Hey, good game. It's funny when

479
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: you're a fan of a team and then your co

480
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 1: workers know you for being a fan of that team,

481
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: and then they start to come at you and be like, oh, yo,

482
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: that was a big win. Oh that was a good win.

483
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there like, I'm still trying to get

484
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: my mind right because I had to literally leave my

485
00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: family downstairs, come upstairs, sit on my bed and really

486
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: collect my thoughts, just try to do some controlled breathing.

487
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: I'm not laughing out. Yeah, I'm laughing no, trust me,

488
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: because a lot of my love other fairs that I

489
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: know they're down here in the DC metro area are

490
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: saying the same things. We literally had to collect ourselves

491
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: decompressed from this game. But all in all, the fine thing,

492
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: the interesting thing about it is the intensity they show fight.

493
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,479
Speaker 1: That's that's really all I wanted to see, because if

494
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: you look at the schedule, we haven't really been losing

495
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: by a lot of points. It's usually been one score

496
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: besides two games, so they have to fight there. It's

497
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: just always those plays here down waiting for urgency to

498
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: step up. You know that we're gonna do here. Hey,

499
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: we need to we need to make some plays here,

500
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: you know. And all in all, I'm not gonna say

501
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm pleased, but I'm getting there because you see what

502
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: we can do. The line is blocking absolutely a whole

503
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: lot better. Um, I didn't know if you had gained

504
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: some tips, Mr, Deal, you know what I'm saying. I

505
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: know if you and Sean Harrick came into some meeting

506
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: bust them heads like, no, this is how you block

507
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: you you know? But I digress. Um. All in all,

508
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: I just want to see the team continue to play,

509
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I want to see them

510
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: continue to put forth the effort. I do want to

511
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: see save kone Barkley do his thing. I want to

512
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: the Odell do and say. I want to see the defense.

513
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 1: I want to see the defense finish a game that

514
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,680
Speaker 1: we have points on the board that if if it's

515
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: a ten point lead, if it's a seven point lead.

516
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 1: I just want to be able to sit down and

517
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, game set match hashtag and y G

518
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: wins and then I can go on about my hey

519
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: and not have to you know, leave my family, like

520
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: you know what I needed about an hour? You you

521
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,360
Speaker 1: so you sound like j D, like my family during

522
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: the oh seven and eleven Super Bowl runs there, like

523
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,160
Speaker 1: can we just not win a game at the last

524
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: minute in the fourth quarter and let us like enjoy

525
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: the process and enjoy the victory instead of all of

526
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: us going crazy and running all over until that last

527
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: second takes off of the clock. You know, that's that,

528
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,720
Speaker 1: d D. That's what the NFL is. And you know

529
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,640
Speaker 1: it's not it's not just your Giants, even though when

530
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: it's just happening to you you don't care about anything else.

531
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: That that is the NFL today. And yeah, that that

532
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: is the Giants. You know, when you look at the

533
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: Giant season and you look back, you know, I think

534
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: David alluded to it. Atlanta, Carolina, Philly those games. Yeah,

535
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if you look at the scoach

536
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: Sherman had said it quite a few times that if

537
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: if you put one touchdown, like remember all their red

538
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 1: zone fail years, if you put one touchdown in in

539
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: each game, you know, ifs and butts, If every everything

540
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: was Candy's and you know it would all be Christmas.

541
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: But what listen, they lose the first game in the

542
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: season to the Jacks, a second game which you know

543
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: was not a good game against the Cowboys. Uh seven, Hey,

544
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: they go ahead, they go down to Houston, be Euston.

545
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: Houston hasn't lost. That was used and start laws and

546
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: oh they haven't lost since. Okay, the Saints game thirty

547
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: three eighteen. Let me tell you something. It looked like

548
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: they had a chance of steal in that game. Then

549
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: thirty three thirty one. Come on, you know the stinker

550
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: was the first Eagles game that was That was the stinker,

551
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, but really Falcu Skins. You know they won

552
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: three to the last four games. Yeah. And one last

553
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: thing I want to say, well, all those fans that

554
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: on the Giants to lose, y'all need to check your

555
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: fandom the line up front, because I would never be

556
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: a fan of a team that I'm like, oh, please

557
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: lose all they want again. Now that's gonna mess up

558
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: our draft pick. And I can absolutely concur with the

559
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: previous comment that you may miss the deal when you

560
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: said that it's not about the draft pick. It's about

561
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: the quality of the pick. Um. It's cool that, yeah

562
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: you want to try to that basically getting the quality

563
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: of the pick. And I'm just like you cow many

564
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: times have we picked high and then came to find

565
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: out three four years later he's not with the team. Yeah,

566
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So that's cool to say,

567
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: yeah we got to this number pick or that number

568
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: pickle you know. But so the only thing I want

569
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: to tell people to just just take a step back,

570
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: enjoy the game, enjoy watching your team be represented, and

571
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,959
Speaker 1: cheer them on roof for him. And the last thing

572
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: I want to say for all those people that are

573
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: that's like, hey, Eli is done. Elie is not done.

574
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: He's far from it from my perspective. This is just

575
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: my perspective because bottom line, up front, when you actually

576
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,239
Speaker 1: have a line that can give you a little bit

577
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: of time that you can actually make a decision, not

578
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: just hike and then all of a sudden, you've got

579
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: the deep of the tackle in your chest. So let

580
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: him play football, let him do what you do. We've

581
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: been up with Eli for fifteen going on sixteen years.

582
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm ready right, I'm just right, all the way to

583
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. So look at the numbers. Sounds good,

584
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: j D. Thanks very much for the call, buddy, call again,

585
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: continue being the best. Good call, Good calling, D. Here's

586
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: another good call coming up. Our friend from Columbia, Maryland,

587
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: Len uh Lanning, you're on with Russ and Dave. I'm

588
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: sure you are nice and relaxed watching that football game

589
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: last Sunday, Hunting. Now, that was a lot of fun

590
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: and a very entertaining game. And for us like you,

591
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: I left my seat a little early, you know, like one.

592
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: I think it was one nine left in the game

593
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: by the time I got to the plazas were driving.

594
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: So I stood there and watched on the huge tel screens.

595
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: Now the bad with about five thousand other people. Now,

596
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: the bad thing about doing that is you can't tell

597
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: how much time is left, and everybody's yelling at each other,

598
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: how much time? How much time? But so I saw

599
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: the end of it from the plaza the game, and

600
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: that was a fun way to fun way to finish

601
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: in an easy drive home. Why didn't you stay until

602
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: the end? Well it was and let me get a

603
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: little head start on the crowd here. So I walked,

604
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: got down to escal Lator. By the time I got

605
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: down to escal later, the Bears were driving. So you're

606
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: you're a die hard fan land. You come in here,

607
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,479
Speaker 1: you give us grief, and you don't even stay till

608
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: the end of the game. I usually, I usually do,

609
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: but it had been been a little wet and uh

610
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: but hey, hey, a lot of fun. Well, I didn't

611
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: go to the car. I stayed on the plaza from outside.

612
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: As players, you don't think that that was something that

613
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: when we'd have a big win, we'd be like, let's abody,

614
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: just gotta be traffic. There's gonna be traffic anyway. Let

615
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: me tell you. Let's tell you a quick story. November

616
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. I left my seat. I left my

617
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 1: seat next to my father to get an early start

618
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: on the ride home back to Washington, d C. Against

619
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I get to the Escalator and I said

620
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: to myself, how many times do you see the Giants win?

621
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: Go back and watch him win this game? And that

622
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: was the fumble game. Serve me, serve me right for

623
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: trying to serve me right for trying to leave. Hey, listen, um, Toughness,

624
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: for resiliency, you know all the things that Sherman talked

625
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,080
Speaker 1: about in the post game. Um, you know, put a

626
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 1: picture of a line next to that man. I mean,

627
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: this is one tough dude. That was. You know, after

628
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: his first half, which wasn't the best, I think he'd

629
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: be the first to admit it, he came back strong.

630
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: That was a terrific second half. He made every throw

631
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: he had to make, all the key throws, all the

632
00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: big throws. And then remember something. I mean he he

633
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: just about had I walk off touchdown passed to um

634
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd. It was right there, just missed it by

635
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, just a little bit, but he

636
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: had to Listen. That was a professional senior leadership second

637
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: half from from the Quiet Leader. And um, you know,

638
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: I've been saying this since since the show started. I

639
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: go back a long way with this show, almost from

640
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: the you know, the first broadcast. Um, when when Eli's playing,

641
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: we got a shot. I don't care who we're playing,

642
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: where we're playing. You put the ball in this guy's hands.

643
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: We got a shot at winning that game. We're gonna

644
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, we're gonna miss that guy someday, My goodness,

645
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss him. Listen. Four games to go a

646
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 1: quarter of the season. There's still a little work to do,

647
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: and we're making We're starting to see a little bit

648
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: of progres us. Guys. These to me, these last four

649
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: games are big, and I'm not talking about playoffs or anything.

650
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: There's just big for kind of setting a tone, putting

651
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,800
Speaker 1: things in place, finalizing this culture change, and winning some games,

652
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: especially in David. I know you know that. I think

653
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: you will agree with me on this one because Parcellas

654
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,800
Speaker 1: used to say it all the time. There's nothing like

655
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: walking out of those three stadiums, those NFC East stadiums

656
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: with a win. Oh, nothing like it, you know. And

657
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: so we got a chance, you know, we gotta we

658
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: got to get a division win. Let's let's get this

659
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: game this weekend. Let's get that Dallas game. I want

660
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: to win these divisions. I'm not I'm I'm giving up

661
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: on the other games. I'm not saying you can have

662
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: those games. Let those teams win. I want to win

663
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: those games too. Well, I'm like O'Dell, but let those

664
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: two games are. I want to win those division games.

665
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. I mean, okay, it's

666
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: not a home game here, but I'm listen, that's in

667
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: your backyard at X Field. Are you go into the game? Rust,

668
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: Let me give you a statistic. I've been down here

669
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:14,320
Speaker 1: since nineteen I've seen fifty one Giant Redskins games here

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00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: in Washington, the best every year. And I've got to

671
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: the point where I can't find anybody to go with me.

672
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: Even even even Nancy, my wife, has said, no, I

673
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: don't want to go to that stadium. But you know

674
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna tell you. You know, if I get

675
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: within if I get within two, that team I'm going.

676
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something going back to what you

677
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: said about Coach Parcel's talking about walking away from those

678
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: three stadiums. Winning a football game one of the things

679
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: that sometimes, sure enough at Washington, it would just break.

680
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: Some of the times you'd win in those prime time

681
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: games over the Redskins. You'd go in the shower, there

682
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: was no hot water, telling you the sex the old

683
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: uh I'm talking about I didn't playing r f K.

684
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: I've played FedEx, and I'm talking about FedEx, and there

685
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: has been times that the the hot water was broken. Yeah,

686
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: you're taking a cold shower, but you don't care after

687
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: beating them. No, Yeah, that's that's right. It go take

688
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: your hotower and you know what, you can do it

689
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: all right, listen listen. Mr Snyder probably turned it off

690
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: for you guys exactly well listen, hey, one on one

691
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: other point, Um, you know, I hope that I hope

692
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: the you know, hope this defense can kind of moderate

693
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, kind of get some footing, you know,

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00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: with with trending southward. Um, you know, losing Collins here.

695
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's for the season or whatever,

696
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: but losing Collins, even if it's for just one game. Um,

697
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: I'm a big senior leadership guy. I think there's a

698
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: leadership quality there with Collins and you've got to have

699
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: that on the field. I mean, you know what, And

700
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: so I'd like to see this defense to moderate a

701
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: little bit. I hope we're not well, I hope we're

702
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: not continuing to trend south, but these last four are important. Hey.

703
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: One of those the thing Beckham Beckham, that would that

704
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: would that was really some play that that pass play

705
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: was really that was something. It was brilliant how he

706
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: stepped up to make the linebackers and everybody step up

707
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: like he was going to run it to open it

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00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: up again. David David trut flat footage. I mean he

709
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: was I was. I thought I was watching Willie Mays

710
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: and a Polo Grounds at center field. That's how al alright, Land,

711
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: thanks always, buddy. Okay, let's go Giants. Let's go one more,

712
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: one more things that mean it was you got twenty

713
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: one more? Hey, listen, that is a great fan, Land.

714
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean he drives every you know, every home game

715
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: from Columbia. Pretty don good and you're breaking his just

716
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: I got to give it over a little bit. Let's

717
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: go down to Charleston. Check in with Anthony. You know, Anthony,

718
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: you're on with Russ and David. Hey, guys, how are

719
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: you doing at We're good man. After the wound, time

720
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: played well, came through a little bit of adversity, ann

721
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: to see that we finished one out. Anthony, do me

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Speaker 1: a favor. If you're on speaker speak on a regular phone,

723
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: it's it sounds like you're echoing. I'm sorry. Can you

724
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: hear me much better? Much better? Buddy? Thank you. So

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00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: I just had a quick point on the Redskins game,

726
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: and then I just wanted to wax a little narrative

727
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: about you know, where the Giants are and what it

728
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: took for them to get to where they are now.

729
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: But I mean, what a winnable game this weekend. Sanchez

730
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: just came off the street. I mean, I think he

731
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: knew maybe ten plays last week right offensive line and shambles.

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00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: I think our defense has a real good opportunity this

733
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 1: weekend in general. And I'm not sure who needs to

734
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: step up. You know, Collin's obviously being hurt is difficult,

735
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: but um, is there a guy that you seed that

736
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: needs to step up based on what you're seeing with

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00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 1: the Redskins and our defense? Well, obviously, I mean he

738
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: goes without a question, uh, you know, and and head coaches,

739
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, Pat Sheremon always says, I think all head

740
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: coaches say that next man up. I mean landing going landing.

741
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: Collins going down is a substantial, very substantial loss. You're

742
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to see Sean Chandler and Michael Thomas step

743
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: up big time. And the thing that you realize that no,

744
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: going into a football game like this when Mark Sanchez

745
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: is your quarterback, what should be your number one goal

746
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: and objective on the defensive side of the ball. Stop

747
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson and Chris Thompson. You know that they're going

748
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: to force feed them the football and not try to

749
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: force the hands for Mark Sanchez to try winning this

750
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: football game himself. And Thompson is real talented. He's quickly shifty,

751
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: you know, That's why they were hoping for the one

752
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: to punch with guy and him. But obviously with the

753
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: guy's injury that they went to Peterson. Yeah, and so

754
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: I mean I was not injury prone, but he's got

755
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: you know, he's got the talent. I hope we can

756
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: cover him. We had a little trouble with you know,

757
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: Tarik last week, but um, you know, hopefully that that

758
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: can be the focus you know, moving forward. Well, a

759
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: lot of people have trouble with Tarek. I mean that

760
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: that that young man's a hell of a player, Yes

761
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: he is. And so you know, just wanted to you know,

762
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: for fans that don't know, and because you know, honestly,

763
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: if you read ESPN dot com and I think I'm

764
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: done at this point, Um, there's usually there's usually a

765
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: paragraph at the end that will say and you know,

766
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: they still need to give while let all look and

767
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: it's it's getting to the point where it's like are

768
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: you even paying attention? Because obviously there's the narrative out there.

769
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: But when you think about where this Giant's team is

770
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: and some of the draft picks we've decided to choose,

771
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we are way over balanced on the skill position.

772
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: We have a first shrounder, a first rounder, a second rounder,

773
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: now another first rounder. But obviously he's generational. He reminds

774
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: me of picking Calvin Johnson even after you know, the

775
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,959
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions picked two wide receivers in the previous right draft,

776
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: because you just see that he was the guy and

777
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: we did we did miss uh, you know, legit running game.

778
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: And so now you look at you know, the offensive

779
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: line where it is, um I think there might be

780
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: some opportunities. I see the Max Unger situation and Jimmy Graham.

781
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: Is there an opportunity to leverage some of those pieces

782
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: in the future. I hope we can get creative with

783
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: that because I've seen us draft Ramsey's Bardons, sin Ola

784
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: Smass and Randall, Travis Beckham, all these guys second in

785
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: third round picks over the years. But that was that

786
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 1: Dave Gottleman drafting those players, right, So what are we

787
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: going to go back into all that stuff that it's

788
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: a whole different person selecting and making these picks. And

789
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: I don't I don't disagree that he's brought in real

790
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: character guys. Obviously, being able to flip a roster in

791
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: one year is incredibly difficult. I just want to say

792
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 1: it for the purposes of Eli Manning's legacy. The reality

793
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: is the guy has always been a play action passer.

794
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: He's always had the touch. They said he's thrown some

795
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: of the most most catchable balls in the NFL. Was

796
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: one of his greatest qualities coming out of college last year.

797
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: His receivers led the league and drops. People don't talk

798
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: about that. He's had actually issues with the receivers and

799
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: drops throughout his career. And when you throw the narrative

800
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: out that, oh, well, we have great skill players, why

801
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: can't this guy do it? And you can just look

802
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: at the way that this guy plays football and how

803
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: it needs to be constructed for him. You're going to

804
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: give him a great year next year if, if you know,

805
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: you continue to build down what you have. I just

806
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: I hope that he's able to finish. Um take that mindset,

807
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: because I think you can see when when he's on,

808
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: it's amazing. When he's off, it's like he's his you know,

809
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: Peyton's little brothers Space Cadet. Those are the only times

810
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: I see picks when it's like what were you doing?

811
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 1: There might be, you know, one of those every two

812
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: or three games, but those are the ones people look

813
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: at and but look that Twitter. The first half of

814
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: the Bears game, it was literally like, all right, he's done.

815
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: Se I told you he's terrible, and then everybody shut up.

816
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 1: In the second half, no one said a thing. Well

817
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: and Anthony, I don't mean to interrupt, but Anthony, just

818
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,359
Speaker 1: do yourself a favorite if you're gonna that's what's wrong.

819
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: You see people think that. You know, I always talk

820
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 1: about the media like being unfair to Eli, but you

821
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: know what, it's not just the media, it's also the

822
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: social media. I mean, people jump on and off the bandwagon.

823
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: It's absurd played football if they didn't even played ja

824
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: football any idea what they're talking about. They don't have

825
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: any idea about what different quarterback skill sets are. Philip

826
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: Rivers barely has a better win percentage, you know, And honestly,

827
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: I like to use the through breeze example because their

828
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: offensive line was terrible, they had amazing skill positions. Their

829
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: GM had to trade something away because he was getting killed,

830
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: and they were going six and ten, seven and nine

831
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 1: over and over again, and they're like, what's the problem.

832
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: Maybe we need to look at the future. And Drew

833
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: Brees is a little easier to say, oh, he's got

834
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: more time. But Eli is the kind of person who

835
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: you know, he's not going to sit there and say

836
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: I'm the greatest quarterback of all time, and so he

837
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: kind of just lets it happen to him. And it

838
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: takes only you know, it takes only the j V

839
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: superheroes to to continue that narrative. And so for all

840
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: the folks that have no ideab off football, he just

841
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 1: looks like this average quarterback towards the end of his tail,

842
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,760
Speaker 1: and then you're watching him complete Keith or downs over

843
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: and over again when he has time. So I know

844
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of Eli haters around there, you

845
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,439
Speaker 1: know that call in the show, But I would say

846
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: for for those of who that are out there, just

847
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: take a second and watch some film appreciate it. I'm

848
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: gonna give him some some sta sticks to back that up.

849
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: I mean, the big thing, mobile quarterback. We need a

850
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback. It's gotta be a mobile quarterback right now,

851
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 1: going into week fourteen, quarterback sacked the most, Number one,

852
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: Deak Prescott. He's a mobile guy, isn't he? Eli Manning

853
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 1: number two? Forty one? Who's tied for number two, Deshaun

854
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: Watson with forty one? Mobile guy, Marcus Mariota thirty eight,

855
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: Mobile Guy, Derek Carr thirty eight, Mobile Guy, Russell Wilson

856
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: Ultra mobile seven, Matthew Stafford, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers. It

857
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're mobile or not. If you have

858
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: a pass, rush it in your face and you can't

859
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: get rid of the football. Listen to narrative on Eli

860
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,479
Speaker 1: this year and again, you know you fans have brought

861
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 1: it up. It's been so unfair. Give you an example.

862
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: I'm reading the paper in the Daily News. It had

863
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: a Monday something to the effect that the Giants one

864
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:09,800
Speaker 1: despite Eli Manning, Despite Eli Manning, Were you guys not

865
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: watching the second half? Was there any talk about the

866
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: past in overtime? To um Sterling Shepherd, how about the

867
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: past odell with he was about to get blasted in

868
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: his face and he was able to throw it across. Yeah,

869
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it really is ridiculous. But he

870
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: brought up a point, Anthony, It's not just it's not

871
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: just the media, it's social media as well. These these

872
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: topics end up taking a life of its own, and

873
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: then what what's the expression, perception becomes reality. It really

874
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 1: is unfair. It's it's to the point of silliness. I've

875
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: been in this town covering sports for thirty years, okay,

876
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: and I've seen a lot of crazy things. This business

877
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: is the most unfair thing I have ever seen. Unfair.

878
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: I mean they talk about I mean this business like

879
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 1: you would think. This guy has been a stumble bump

880
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: for fifteen seasons. Not only is he delivered to Super Bowls,

881
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: he's been the most solid citizen you could ask for

882
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: in every way, shape and form. And he's there every

883
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: single game. Yeah, people fits what people are gonna miss,

884
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:30,959
Speaker 1: and they take that for granted. Every game, every game,

885
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: every game. Miss miss one last year, okay, the tenth

886
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: game of the season, excuse me, they were two and nine.

887
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: So with the twelfth game, Yeah, all right, let's go

888
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: down to North Carolina. Check in with Phil. Phil, you're

889
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:48,439
Speaker 1: on with Russ and Dave. Yes, uh hi, I don't

890
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: think I got a chance to speak on air with

891
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: David in the and I just wanted to say, thanks

892
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: David for your service. You want one of my favorite giants.

893
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: So it's kind of lunch bucket like the old eighties,

894
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: uh line, and uh so I appreciate, appreciate your time

895
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: and uh and I just wanted to get that off

896
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: my check. Uh sure, of course. Um and you know,

897
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: and I think Dave kind of fits a perfect philosophy

898
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: of he I have to thank Ernie for drafting him.

899
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: And uh and you know, my my beef always with

900
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: the prior administration is that we tended to draft a

901
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: lot for positional needs. And the one person I'm going

902
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,840
Speaker 1: to bring up in terms of tight end, ever Ingram,

903
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: not only was Evan a positional need, but a almost

904
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: a positional and situational need. He was drafted for a situation,

905
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: not even for a position, because he's not a complete

906
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: tight end. And so I was not in favor of

907
00:49:54,640 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: that of that pick. And uh and I'd rather, you know,

908
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: spend it on the Capitol on big guys. So and

909
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: uh so, anyway, I'm gonna listen to what you have

910
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: to say and and uh we'll go from there, all right,

911
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:14,399
Speaker 1: Thank you, fail appreciate it. I mean, obviously, the one

912
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: thing that you would hope is that he was healthier

913
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: this season where he did his football games and didn't

914
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: have the drops that he had. But one of the

915
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,240
Speaker 1: things that you understand is the way that this offense

916
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: continues to evolve and continue to move forward, you know,

917
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: with Ellison and Simonson and now having a big threat

918
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: and a big body like that to develop more into

919
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 1: this offense. It's only going to help, especially once you

920
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: get down into the red zone. Yeah, I mean, the

921
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: injuries plus the drops, it hasn't been a banner sophomore

922
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: season for Evan Ingram. But as culture always says, nobody

923
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 1: works harder at catching the ball and practicing at getting

924
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: better than Evan Ingram. You know, he says it all

925
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: the time, but it's hard to keep up when you

926
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: don't practice. Let me let me say something else, because

927
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: I think some times people forget you know, everybody loves

928
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: this legacy of the Giants and the winning and you know,

929
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 1: you in the display window and looking at those uh

930
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: for um Super Bowl trophies, we we know and it

931
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: cost him his job and rightfully so do you want

932
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 1: to say that, but Jerry rees had something to do

933
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: with two super Bowl championships. Okay, and we drafted some

934
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: some people that helped win championships. You know, let's not

935
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: forget that. Sometimes we keep going back and back and oh,

936
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: he did, it's done, it's over with. But there were

937
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: some good times there as well, and people just tend

938
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: to forget that. Yeah, well it's it's it's tough to

939
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: remember those times because of your feast out because when

940
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: they're not sitting in a situation where you're hopefully sitting

941
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 1: at this game could make the difference between us and

942
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. That's what makes you think about these things.

943
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: But there's nothing you can do to change, no, and

944
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: if you have to be happy with the direction, completely

945
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 1: satisfied with the way that things are moving forward, with

946
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: the players that they're bringing in, the quality players that

947
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: they're bringing in, and it's only going to continue to

948
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: get better as this season progresses. In This offseason is

949
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: gonna be huge. That's gonna be really to me, This

950
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: offseason is almost not almost. This offseason to me, is

951
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: going to be more interesting than last off season. Now,

952
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 1: somebody might be saying, well, us, how can you say that,

953
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: because you knew what you would draft in. Yeah, but

954
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: you knew you had the high pick. But now you know,

955
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: we know Dave Gettelman, we know Pat Sherman, we know

956
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: this group, you know the identity of who the players are,

957
00:52:51,200 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: and we know what they've been through thus far. Now

958
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,800
Speaker 1: that's going to be the thing that to me gets

959
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: fans excited. I'm I want to anticipate or start thinking

960
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: about what they're gonna pick, and who they're gonna pick

961
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 1: and where they're going to pick. You know, right now,

962
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: after twelve games, that's up in the air. I mean

963
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: everybody was thinking a couple of weeks ago, of five

964
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: weeks ago to buy everyone's thinking, oh, we're gonna be

965
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: like top two or three or whatever, you know. I mean,

966
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: who knows that they could be picking ten, eleven wherever

967
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: the hell you know, you don't know. So it's kind

968
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: of anxious to see and and look, we can talk

969
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 1: about this this quarterback situation. You've got a guy like

970
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, who Dave just brought up his durability. That's

971
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 1: one thing that's always taken for, always overlooked, always taking

972
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: granted you have a superstar. I'm and I'm not. I

973
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: don't use that term loosely. You have a bona fide superstar,

974
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,280
Speaker 1: one of the best players in the league at wide receiver,

975
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:58,839
Speaker 1: you have you want to call him a bona fide

976
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: super star now or a budding future bona fide superstar

977
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: in se Kwan Barkley, you got the likes of Sterling Shepherd, Okay.

978
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean you want a guy who's who can put

979
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: the ball in their hands? Okay, And if you're asking me,

980
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: Eli Manning is the guy who can put the ball,

981
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: and we'll be putting the ball in their hands. I

982
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: just it's just too easy. It's too easy to disregard

983
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 1: somebody that good. And you've heard me say it here

984
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: several times. And boy was parcels right. We used to

985
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,800
Speaker 1: tell us about we went through this crap with Phil

986
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: phil Us Phil Sims. Our souls used to say, all

987
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: you guys, he used to be sitting at the end

988
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: of the old table at the old Giant Stateum in

989
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: a media room, smoking his small burrows at the time

990
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: at the ending coch Yeah, you guys, the one day

991
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: you could say, you know that number eleven, Yeah he

992
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:54,200
Speaker 1: was pretty good at number eleven. He was pretty good. Boy,

993
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: You could be right yeah, you could be saying that

994
00:54:56,480 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: about number ten. No questions that Eli and he might

995
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: have been easy easy Eli. He might have been like

996
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: you know, had the uh exterior of like Opie from Mayberry,

997
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: but his interior was like of uh a heavyweight prize fighter.

998
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 1: That's what Eli Manning was all about, folks. And my

999
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:23,839
Speaker 1: advice to those of you who uh um, I've been

1000
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: waiting for the demise of Eli Manning, my suggestion is,

1001
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: sorry to disappoint you, but you're gonna keep waiting for

1002
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: a while because I don't see that happening anyway. That

1003
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: is a rap on. Today, I want to thank all

1004
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:39,200
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1007
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1008
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1009
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,239
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1010
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,399
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1011
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