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Speaker 2: We go here, we go on the Giants Let's Go part.

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Speaker 3: Of the Giants Podcast Network. Welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 3: the Giants Little Podcast. I am John Schmelk. We continue

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Speaker 3: to talk to Giants players here. We had these conversations

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Speaker 3: after the Giants mini camp concluded and we talked about

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Speaker 3: their off season and preview twenty twenty three just a

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Speaker 3: little bit. We're going position by position today. We're going

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Speaker 3: to talk to the Giants offensive tackles. We have Andrew Thomas,

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Speaker 3: Matt Parrott, Marcus McKeithen, who's a swing guy, guard and tackle.

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Speaker 3: And then we have second year player Evan Neil, who

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Speaker 3: really is one of the most critical players in the

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Speaker 3: Giants roster this year. But we're gonna lead off with

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Speaker 3: someone who might have had a betterer than any New

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Speaker 3: Now we're joined by a Giant starting left tackle, Andrew Thomas. Andrew,

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Speaker 3: how are you man? So you're a you're a Polish

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Speaker 3: savvy vet. Now you've been this league for a while.

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Speaker 3: You've made a lot of progress pro Bowl. You know,

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Speaker 3: all the you know, all pro votes, all the accolades, right,

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Speaker 3: So just tell me about how you're approaching the off

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Speaker 3: season has changed as you've been the league longer and

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Speaker 3: continue to kind of improve on your way to where

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Speaker 3: you are now as a player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, for me, this is the first year

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Speaker 2: So looking forward to that.

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Speaker 3: I know you don't like talking about injuries, but I

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Speaker 3: feel like where you're off I can ask you about

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Speaker 3: it now. How much did that ankle really kind of

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Speaker 3: held you back those first couple of years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's part of the game. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people play hurt, play injury. It's just something you just

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Speaker 3: So you said you've really attacked this offseason trying to

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Speaker 3: work on your craft. What was your big focus in

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Speaker 3: terms of the things that you're Even though you've played

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Speaker 3: where you're still trying to improve yourself and get better.

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Speaker 1: I would say in the weight room, I would say

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Speaker 1: upper body strength has been a big focus for me,

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Speaker 1: and then a lot of like mobility prehab stuff for

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Speaker 1: they're on the field just trying to be more consistent

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Speaker 1: with my punches, my hand placement, and then consistency with

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Speaker 3: Is it a nice change where you actually have the

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Speaker 3: same offensive line coach for a second consecutive year now?

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 1: It is great to be in the same system, you know,

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Speaker 1: back to back years. So I'm looking forward to us

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Speaker 3: How does it help you having Bobby for a second

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Speaker 2: It's great. I mean we're not learning each other.

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Speaker 1: We already understand, you know, what makes make each other tick,

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Speaker 1: more questions like really understanding you know, the full process

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Speaker 3: What has it been like having a bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have some talented guys, and you know, when

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Speaker 2: So ruin for all those guys.

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Speaker 1: Obviously only one can play, but you know, I'm looking

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Speaker 3: How do you see this offensive line coming together as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we want to be cohesive.

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Speaker 1: We want to be the bell cows of the offense,

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Speaker 3: Finally, have you almost figured out your routine now on

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Speaker 3: now you've got to feel for yourself, your body the

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Speaker 3: hate to use the expression figure things out, be as

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Speaker 3: you're always learning, right, But we're now all right, I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely have my routine, but like you said,

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Speaker 1: you're always trying to learn, get a little nuggets from

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Speaker 1: to always, you know, get better.

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Speaker 3: Andrew, good stuff. I appreciate the time. All right. Now

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Speaker 3: we're joined by John. It's offensive tackle Matt Parrot. Matt,

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Speaker 3: how what man?

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Speaker 2: I'm good man. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: No, thanks for being with me. Quick question for you.

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Speaker 3: I guess we'll start here. You know you've kind of

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Speaker 3: had the battle lot of injuries early in your career. Man,

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Speaker 3: how has that been for you mentally trying to stick

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Speaker 2: Honestly, it is a blessing.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: It's allowed me to take time and I really, like,

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Speaker 4: on so we prevent those lapses in the future and

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Speaker 4: really just work on my mental side of everything. And

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Speaker 4: right now, I feel great full go you're good man.

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Speaker 4: I feel amazing right now. It's it's truly a blessing

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Speaker 3: Is is it exciting where you can go into the

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Speaker 3: season now and you're not worrying about any of other

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Speaker 4: That is a great like peace of mind aspect of everything.

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Speaker 4: You knowing that I could just go and finally play

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Speaker 4: with my brothers, It's amazing.

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Speaker 3: And there's an open battle for that swing tackle spot,

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Speaker 3: right So what what do you want to show the

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Speaker 3: you can earn that spot.

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Speaker 4: I don't approve that I was better than I was before, honestly,

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Speaker 4: you know that's just wound mentality to prove it to

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Speaker 4: missed times and just need to shake this little little

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: How beneficial for a young guy like you to have

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Speaker 3: a second straight year with Bobby Johnson so you know

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Speaker 3: exactly how he wants you to play, teach you the

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Speaker 3: same technique year and year out, when you can kind

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Speaker 3: of maybe finally take that jump.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I know for sure, it's amazing, like having

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Speaker 4: that continuity, especially in the offensive line. Like coach og

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Speaker 4: he's a great, great student of the game and whenever

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Speaker 4: bit here and there. So having that second year coming

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Speaker 3: So what are your major goals in for twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 4: Major goals Amy, honestly, just to come back, you know, uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's a new offensive line room, so definitely

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Speaker 4: perform at a very high level because I truly believed

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Speaker 4: that as well. And honestly, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: And then personally technique wise, like what were you really

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Speaker 3: now that you were healthy, you're not about rehabbing, right,

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Technique wise, that's that's like Coach o g Like, you know,

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Speaker 4: he has a specific way of doing specific things, and

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Speaker 4: me personally, your goal is just making sure that I'm

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Speaker 2: Just making sure that I get.

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Speaker 4: Everything he wants relative to look and how everything is,

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Speaker 4: like making sure that I can do the relative right

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Speaker 3: Matt Ken, we can see you on the field this year, man,

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Dude, appreciation You got you a little tongue tied.

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Speaker 3: I do that. And now we're joined by Giants offensive

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Speaker 3: lineman Marcus McKeith and Marcus How wire you man?

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Speaker 5: Man, I'm doing pretty good and just trying to get healthy.

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Speaker 5: Is that's like the main thing of my all season

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Speaker 3: So how close are you?

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Speaker 5: I'm saying pretty close. It's getting over that final hump

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Speaker 3: So you feel like when camp opens, obviously there are

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Speaker 5: That's kind of my timeline right there, trying to count.

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Speaker 3: How tough was last year dealing with that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I've been entered it like a little bit

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Speaker 5: but it's really just make sure I'm staying involved.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to meetings and just still part of the team.

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Speaker 3: You know, we had a chance with Darien here. He

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Speaker 3: dealt with kind of the same thing. Had the injury, right,

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Speaker 3: how much were you able to lean on your teammates?

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Speaker 3: And unfortunately there were a lot of guys that were

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Speaker 5: Right, that was the main thing that I wasn't a

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Speaker 5: loan that we had like three or four guys. I

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Speaker 5: like how you dealing with this, how you dealing with that?

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Speaker 2: And we just we had a lot of those conversations.

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Speaker 3: Have you been able to work on your craft as

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Speaker 3: much as you would have liked this offseason because you

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Speaker 3: were doing a lot of the rehabit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was able to do some of it, but most

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Speaker 5: of it was towards my craft. It was more towards

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Speaker 5: but that was mainly we were able to.

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Speaker 3: Get those mental reps in at least last year though

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Speaker 3: you were hurt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was able to get the mental reps in.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's a physical saying.

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Speaker 3: It's not saying.

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Speaker 2: It's a physical job. So missing that physical element.

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Speaker 3: How much were able to lean on Josh? Obviously you

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Speaker 5: We're just still mastering the playbook. You can always get

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Speaker 5: He just really break it down for you, tease it

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Speaker 3: Good stuff, Marcus. I appreciated.

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Speaker 3: How are you man?

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Speaker 6: I'm doing good man, happy to be here. How you doing?

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Speaker 2: Really is everything?

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Speaker 6: The best that I can be man to help anchor

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Speaker 3: Having great stuff, we can't wait to see it on

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Speaker 3: next time. Everybody,