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Speaker 1: How did it feel to be back at practice and

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Speaker 1: how do you generally feel?

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Speaker 2: It felt good to be back out there. It's been

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Speaker 2: a long time, so it's always good to be back

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Speaker 2: out there with the guys.

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Speaker 3: What are the last I guess nine months been like

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Speaker 3: for you?

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Speaker 2: Just you know, rehappened, trying to get back healthy, stand

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Speaker 2: in shape, keep my mom mentally into the game, and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, doing everything that I can to get back

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Speaker 2: out there if.

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Speaker 3: My timeline is correct.

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked to you since before they changed the

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Speaker 1: diagnosis of your injury. Do you have any ill will

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Speaker 1: towards the Giants that they did They didn't know what

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Speaker 1: your original injury was.

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Speaker 2: I have no ill will whatsoever. The Giants training staff

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Speaker 2: has done everything that they can to, you know, help

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Speaker 2: me get back healthy. Just can't help or misdiagnosis. I mean,

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Speaker 2: things like that happen. It's nobody's fault.

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Speaker 1: Or your reaction when you found that out because it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a spring yet to go get surgery.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just another thing that I won't have to overcome. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's another thing about I was gonna have to overcome.

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Speaker 3: How much have these months and months test deal I

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Speaker 3: mean quite a lot.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was the first time I ever been injured,

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Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying to that extent, first time

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Speaker 2: getting surgery. But at the end of the day, I'm

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Speaker 2: built for it, and I feel like I've came back stronger.

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Speaker 2: So if anything, I feel like it helped me.

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Speaker 4: How much were you doing out there today?

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Speaker 2: I just started out doing individual drills kind of you know,

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Speaker 2: knocking the dust, stop taking the cobwebs off, and get

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Speaker 2: back into it.

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Speaker 1: They've obviously moved Jermaine to right tackle. How do you

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Speaker 1: look at that and the job? In fact, the job

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Speaker 1: isn't waiting there.

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Speaker 3: For you anymore.

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Speaker 2: Whatever role that the team has for me, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to embrace it. So whether that's starting or not starting,

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Speaker 2: I'm here to contribute to the team and I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: do everything in my power to do so.

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Speaker 1: You're a high level contributor though, and uh be you know,

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Speaker 1: high level athlete, high level competitor, high draft pick. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you feel like you deserve to be starting, though.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not old anything, and I can't feel

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Speaker 2: like I deserve anything. I mean, all I want is

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Speaker 4: Are you playing ketchup? Do you feel you're catching up

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Speaker 4: since everybody's got a three weeks star.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I that's not something that I think about

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Speaker 2: because that's not something that I can control. I can

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Speaker 2: just control like how I address every day.

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Speaker 4: Evan was part of it in the in the rehab

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Speaker 4: process that you'd feel good one day, but then the

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Speaker 4: next day you feel right, and you kind of kind

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Speaker 4: of rolled that roll close.

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Speaker 3: To a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of tricky, especially with it, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, some days I go out and there feel

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Speaker 2: So but I feel like I've been feeling as of lately,

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Speaker 3: So that's where I'm not what.

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Speaker 2: Happened in the spring, cause it looked like you were

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Speaker 2: progressing and then they shut you down.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, in the spring, it was

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Speaker 2: wasn't feel feeling well in days than it was feeling good,

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Speaker 2: so they just kind of decided to just back up

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Speaker 4: Even what was the diagnosis?

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Speaker 5: What what did you.

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Speaker 3: Have to come back from? I had to come back

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Speaker 3: from ankle surgery? Jane very sick?

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Speaker 1: Are you?

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Speaker 4: Are you surprised it took this long? Because generally an

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Speaker 4: ankle surgery, those of us who don't play football, think

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Speaker 3: Everybody's different.

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Speaker 2: I'm a large man and I put a lot of

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Speaker 2: everybody's body's different. I mean, nothing's natural about the surgery,

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Speaker 2: a different response. So if that's not a cookie cutter

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Speaker 2: be back on when he's not gonna be back I

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Speaker 3: Way Assoria, But what's this process just been like to

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Speaker 3: deal with?

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Speaker 4: Emotionally and not.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's another thing I'm gonna have to overcome.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously that's not something that you know, I

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Speaker 2: you know. But what I can control is how I

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Speaker 2: to r refine my skills, and do everything that I

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Speaker 5: I mean, can you work but during an off season,

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Speaker 5: pressure of playing this market? The ups and downs? Is

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Speaker 2: Or I mean in this business and it's lot of working,

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Speaker 2: But I mean that's not something that you know, I

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Speaker 2: to me, you know, the pressure really doesn't exist.

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Speaker 5: When you got shut down or you were told you

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Speaker 5: the emotions at that point, because I'm sure you were

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Speaker 5: looking to try to get back on the field to

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I said it, I mean it definitely

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Speaker 4: Surgery something to reattach something, or to clean up loose

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Speaker 2: I'm not a doctor, so I can't really describe it

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Speaker 5: So Andrew's career took off when his ankle got right.

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Speaker 5: He had the two surgeries and then it took off.

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Speaker 5: Have you talked to him about that and do you

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Speaker 2: I mean, not so much about his career taking on

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Speaker 2: or anything like that after the surgery, but I do

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Speaker 2: some of the you know hurdles or the obstacles that

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Speaker 3: Say.

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Speaker 1: Bad timing is bad timing. But it's halfway through your

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Speaker 1: rookie contract. So do you how do you look at

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Speaker 1: how would you describe your first two years? And do

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Speaker 1: you look at this as a pivotal point in your career?

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Speaker 2: I mean, yes, it's a big year from I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna sit here and uh act like it's not.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you know, the

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Speaker 2: past two years, Uh, you know, they weren't perfect by

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Speaker 2: I mean, they definitely weren't you know what. You know,

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Speaker 2: I wanted him to be, but a lot of things

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Speaker 2: that happened were just out of my control. So and

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Speaker 2: just like the future, you know, it's out of my control.

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Speaker 2: I can only control the present, you know, and how

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Speaker 5: When late in the season he said, Evan needs to

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Speaker 5: play better, so that belongly.

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Speaker 3: What was your reaction when you.

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Speaker 2: Heard him say that that's his opinion? I mean he

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Speaker 2: that's his job to evaluate the players. And you know,

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Speaker 2: if he thinks I he need I need to play better,

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Speaker 2: really doesn't matter whether they come out of Joe's mouth

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Speaker 3: So I need to play better. Yeah, I need to

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Speaker 3: play better? You should?

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Speaker 4: You would you anything? If they should play guard? Did

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Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, whatever role that I'm aster doing,

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Speaker 2: the team to embrace it, you know, to the best

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Speaker 2: of my abilities.