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Speaker 1: him the Giants podcast Network. Welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Giants Huddle. I'm Paul Detino. You can catch our

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Speaker 1: the Giants YouTube channel. Today we are joined by a

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Speaker 1: very special guest from our Lads Draft Services. David Seybertson

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Speaker 1: has been with them for about a decade now and

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Speaker 1: he has done so much work in terms of the

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Speaker 1: college draft prospects that, of course the NFL drafts each

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Speaker 1: and every spring. Now, this year, the Giants made a

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Speaker 1: huge splash, and David, we've got to start right away

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Speaker 1: talking about these two number one picks in terms of

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Speaker 1: the Giants had a couple of week points on the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. I think the new regime tried to fix

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Speaker 1: signings that they put together and that they had limited

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Speaker 1: resources this year, and the resources that they did have

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Speaker 1: putting them in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's the way to start this in the NFL. As

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Speaker 1: point of attack. And that was that was their route

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Speaker 1: path in the draft. Now, let's talk about Thibodeau for

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Speaker 1: just a second. Because his rare get off speed, his

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Speaker 1: for those who don't understand how critical that is to

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have that outside get off, if

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Speaker 1: But if you don't have that get off, there's no

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Speaker 1: do it. Now, Timodeau has played a little bit on

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Speaker 1: more information. Uh, and I's say a lot one L Robinson,

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