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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Giants Huddle, a New York Giants podcast.

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Speaker 1: John shelf could Welcome to the newest edition of the

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Speaker 1: Giant Settle podcast. Today Michael Eisen will interview new Giants

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Speaker 1: running back Dean Lewis. But before we get to their conversation,

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Speaker 1: can find our other podcasts offerings as well. Now let's

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Speaker 1: get to Michael Eisen's conversation with Dean Lewis. How are you,

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Speaker 1: Michael Eison? How are you? How are you doing? I'm

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Speaker 1: doing well? Thank you, welcome. Um. So are you excited

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Speaker 1: to be a Giant? Just sir, very excited, can't can't

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Speaker 1: wait to get to work? Um what what? What were

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Speaker 1: some of the big factors and you deciding to come

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Speaker 1: here as opposed to elsewhere? Um, you know, just you know,

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Speaker 1: just um growing up all the Giants fan and UM

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Speaker 1: there's always been a dream to play from my hometown team.

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Speaker 1: So you know, when I got the opportunity that I

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Speaker 1: couldn't pass it up. And you know, having familiarity with

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Speaker 1: a coach Joe Judge, and you know that was another factor,

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Speaker 1: you know, just that time when the England that's done

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Speaker 1: with him and I knew that, I know that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be for the past. And did days that uh huh um,

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Speaker 1: yeah you did. You you were with Joe for three

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Speaker 1: years correct, yea three years in the way end. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he I know he had you do a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff, but I think you return to keep kickoffs

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Speaker 1: for touchdowns under him. What do you remember about working

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Speaker 1: under Joe? Um? And I remembers, you know, just you know,

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Speaker 1: every time we did a kick return, every every special

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Speaker 1: teams human you know, we were we are so instinct

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Speaker 1: with the game plan. You know, we you knew exactly

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Speaker 1: what the other team was gonna do. You know, like

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Speaker 1: even when as you're turning to kicks, you know, we

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Speaker 1: get based off their linement, so you know, the whole

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Speaker 1: keep the time unit. You know, we knew whether pick

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Speaker 1: on the same page. And he made hervey work. H Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you you concur with a lot of

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Speaker 1: people's work with. Joe's very organized, very disciplined coach. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's a he's very um attention to detail

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Speaker 1: origan and man, he does a great job. Um, he

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Speaker 1: works really hard. He takes a little he takes pride

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Speaker 1: and what he does and you know, and but he

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Speaker 1: also you know, he's also pretty funny too. Yet he

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Speaker 1: pulls a couple of jokes in there too, to know,

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Speaker 1: to keep it light. But you know, at the same time,

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Speaker 1: he's always he's always he's always been you know that

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Speaker 1: he he's expected the best out of hu. Um. So

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Speaker 1: I've heard, uh, I mean, I know you're from Albany

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Speaker 1: and I heard you were. Uh used to hang out

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Speaker 1: We trained up there, yeah, you know, growing up. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just good to you all. Probably about ten minutes

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Speaker 1: me who had football teams to get to watching those

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Speaker 1: Al say, Tea Bud was my Tea Bards probably my

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Speaker 1: either running back and I was running back and you know, um,

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Speaker 1: Key in Albany? No, I've never met him. I never

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Speaker 1: read him don't e run the Beast? I've met I

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Speaker 1: So that was who's when you will John mentioned you

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Speaker 1: once you got Brandon's autograph? Yeah, yeah, I was able

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't I want none but su as

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Speaker 1: We had we always help each other. You know, we

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Speaker 1: just those those three factors you know, made it easy

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Speaker 1: type of runner he is. He was. He was typ

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Speaker 1: you were you concerned? Were you about getting a chance

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Speaker 1: you know, just you know, just just always keeping a

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Speaker 1: never I never, but I couldn't play. You know, I

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Speaker 1: and keep doing what I've been doing. It's been working great. Hi,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Dean's been talking to you. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: thank you. That's Dean Lewis. We thank him and Michael

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