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Speaker 1: Welcome into a week seven Giants Hangout, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Cres John. My name is Madeline Burke, joined by

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Speaker 1: Russ Salzburg and Matt Siitek. Guys, Giants, coming off a

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Speaker 1: tough one on Sunday night football, fall into the Bengals

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Speaker 1: seventeen to seven. They were already without Malik Neighbors, they

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Speaker 1: were already without Devin Single, Terry keve On Thibodeaux, who

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Speaker 1: just had risk surgery, was out, and then of course,

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Speaker 1: left tackle Andrew Thomas goes down with a foot injury.

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Speaker 1: Uncertain how long that that injury is going to take

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Speaker 1: him out of the game. But you look at this

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Speaker 1: moving forward. This is the Giants offensive line that's played

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Speaker 1: every snap together this season now taking a big hit.

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Speaker 2: Russ, Well, listen, you're talking about, you know, arguably when

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Speaker 2: they talk about the best player on the team, a

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Speaker 2: lot of times they talk about Andrew Thomas. But you know,

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Speaker 2: it's got to be next man up. If that's the case,

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming it would be Josh Zudu. But you know,

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Speaker 2: we'll find out more. I'm sure the Giants will, you know,

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Speaker 2: tell us more later. But listen, offense has to improve,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean it's not a secret that they

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Speaker 2: First of all, you need to score touchdowns, especially when

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Speaker 2: you're at home. You need to get the job done.

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Speaker 2: But the other thing that con as I was sitting

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Speaker 2: in the in the press box watching the game yesterday,

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Speaker 2: you know, Sunday night, it was bothering me that we

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Speaker 2: have talent. The Giants have talent at the receiving situation.

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Speaker 2: But the one thing that bothers me, this is the

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Speaker 2: National Football League. It is not high school, it is

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Speaker 2: not college. We know, no, Daniel might not have had

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Speaker 2: a perfect game. We would all agree with that. However,

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Speaker 2: you got to help your quarterback out. We have too

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Speaker 2: many drop passes across the board. And you know, again

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Speaker 2: it's the NFL. If you can touch a ball, go

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Speaker 2: make the play. And we just missed too many chances

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Speaker 2: to make a play. And that doesn't help out your situation,

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Speaker 2: for your quarterback and your offense. I think that's a

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Speaker 2: major thing that needs to improve on, and sometimes it's

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Speaker 2: not spoken about enough. We've got talent there, whether it's Slayton,

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Speaker 2: whether it's Wan Dell, whether it's Hyatt. And we know, Malik,

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Speaker 2: I gotta say this, we didn't miss miss Malik in Seattle,

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Speaker 2: but we sure as heck missed them last weekend. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Malik is one of those guys that can make those

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Speaker 2: kind of plays. So that's what we need to see

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Speaker 2: across the board.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and just you know, first in terms of Thomas,

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Speaker 3: I mean Russ mentioned it. It's got to be the

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Speaker 3: next man up. And Madeline you talked about or you

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Speaker 3: mentioned some of the other guys that have missed time

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Speaker 3: over these last two weeks, between Malik, Neighbors, Devin Singletary,

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Speaker 3: Kevon Thibodeaux.

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Speaker 4: Well, over the last two games, we saw.

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Speaker 3: Azeezo Julari step in for Kaveon Thibodeau have his best

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Speaker 3: game in years on Sunday Night against the Bengals. We've

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Speaker 3: seen Tyrone Tracy step up for Devin Singletary and in

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Speaker 3: Seattle had a breakout game, and even against the Bengals thrived,

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Speaker 3: you know, match Terrus for the team lead as in

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Speaker 3: receptions and receiving yards and with the league Neighbors. Two

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Speaker 3: weeks ago against the Seahawks, Darius Slayton went off for.

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Speaker 4: His best game in years.

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Speaker 3: So we've seen guys on this team step up for

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Speaker 3: the injured starter and thrive, and that's what the Giants

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Speaker 3: are gonna need, you know, for however long Andrew Thomas

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Speaker 3: is out and we as as Russ mentioned, we don't

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Speaker 3: know if it's gonna be josh Josh a Zudu necessarily

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Speaker 3: stepping in a left tackle, you know, Jermaine Alumin or

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Speaker 3: maybe moving from right to left tackle and then Evan

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Speaker 3: Neil coming and we don't know yet. But whoever it

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Speaker 3: is that takes over in that open spot on the

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Speaker 3: offense line needs to step up and you know, perform

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Speaker 3: like we've seen some of these other reserve players step

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Speaker 3: over the.

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Speaker 4: Last two weeks.

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Speaker 3: And you know, if it is whoever it is at

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Speaker 3: left tackle or right tackle, I think one thing that

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Speaker 3: the Giants can do just to sort of help that

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Speaker 3: a route, have running backs sort of chip the edge

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Speaker 3: rushers from the Philadelphia Eagles before going out. There are

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Speaker 3: things that they can do to sort of You're not

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Speaker 3: gonna just necessarily replace Andrew Thomas.

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Speaker 2: No, you're not going to replace Andrew Thomas. Add in

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Speaker 2: itself is a problem in itself. You're not replacing him.

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Speaker 4: You can't replace him.

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Speaker 3: He's one of the best tackles in the entire NFL,

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Speaker 3: and you just whoever comes in is not going to

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Speaker 3: play quite up to the level, the all pro level

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Speaker 3: that we've seen Andrew Thomas play at. But that doesn't

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Speaker 3: necessarily mean that the offense is gonna, you know, just

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Speaker 3: crumble without him. There are ways that they can patch

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Speaker 3: things together and still get by and still be able

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Speaker 3: to run this offense productively even if Thomas is out

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Speaker 3: for however long he might be out.

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Speaker 1: For right and we've seen kind of the benefit of

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Speaker 1: having an offensive line in which all five players have

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Speaker 1: been playing together consistently for six games and the comfort

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Speaker 1: that comes with that for the quarterback position, like you said,

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Speaker 1: gott to be next man up, and we saw that

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Speaker 1: on defense, Keevon Thibodeau goes out, has a risk surgery,

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Speaker 1: a Zizo Jalari has to step in. It's given the

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Speaker 1: opportunity rises to the occasion. Has six pressures and two

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Speaker 1: sacks according to PFF. His six pressures were tied for

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Speaker 1: third amongst edge defenders in Week six. Two sacks tied

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Speaker 1: for second Giants defense has been good. The Giants defense

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Speaker 1: did enough to win the game on Sunday night. They

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Speaker 1: put pressure on Joe Burrow, they got to the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They have been a solid unit. And if this Giants

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Speaker 1: defense can continue that going into Week seven against you know,

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Speaker 1: a quarterback like Jalen Hurts who has been known to

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Speaker 1: turn over the ball. I mean this season alone, he's

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Speaker 1: thrown four interceptions, five fumbles in five games. You know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the way that the defense is playing

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Speaker 1: and the opportunity here to capitalize on that. This defense

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Speaker 1: really helped this Giants offense kind of get an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: I mean, realistically, the Giants offense has to score, but

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Speaker 1: the way the defense has been playing has been significant.

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Speaker 2: No listen, Dave said it right after the game. You

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Speaker 2: hold them down. I mean basically, they had one touchdown

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Speaker 1: And that one touchdown was a Joe Burrow ridiculous run.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought that up because as much as

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Speaker 2: and kudos to the to the defense, the way it's played,

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Speaker 2: and you mentioned Aziz Jalari, that might have been his

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Speaker 2: best game as a Giant, that's how good he was,

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Speaker 2: and especially coming in to stand in for Kavon, but Madaline,

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Speaker 2: you brought that up. So as great as the defense was,

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Speaker 2: two plays, I'm going to talk about two plays. One

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Speaker 2: was the Joe Burrow a play third and eighteen. Third

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Speaker 2: just running by himself. That was one play. You can't

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Speaker 2: have that happen. And listen, we've seen the Giants have

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Speaker 2: bad starts. That was a bad start. We saw him

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Speaker 2: with a bad start against Seattle, and we saw him

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Speaker 2: with the bad start against the Cleveland Rowns. Fortunately, the

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Speaker 2: Giants won those two games. So that was third and eighteen.

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Speaker 2: And then let's fast forward to the end of the game.

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Speaker 2: And believe me, it's hard to knock the defense because they

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Speaker 2: played so well. But at the end of the game,

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Speaker 2: when it's ten to seven, and I believe it was

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Speaker 2: two minutes and twelve seconds left in the game, since

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Speaker 2: he has the ball third and twelve on their own

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Speaker 2: thirty four and they complete a twenty nine yard catch

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Speaker 2: that ice the game. They didn't have to score that touchdown.

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Speaker 2: That ice the game. When you have that you can't

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Speaker 2: allow those big plays to break you back. We don't

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Speaker 2: come up with enough of those big plays, both on

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Speaker 2: offense and defense. That's what the Giants need to do,

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Speaker 2: make those big plays when they must be made.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I just want to know one thing.

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Speaker 3: On that third down play that Russ just you just mentioned,

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Speaker 3: I will say that there was a very questionable no

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Speaker 3: call on Brian Burns where he was looked like he

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Speaker 3: was sure getting held by the offensive lineman.

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Speaker 4: As Joe Burrow started breaking after time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and if that plag then.

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Speaker 3: Then things could look a lot different. But I do

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Speaker 3: get your point, like it is a good point. But

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Speaker 3: and you mentioned some of I guess the Again, the

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Speaker 3: defense played great, So I don't want to say, you know,

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Speaker 3: the negatives but the bad plays that occurred on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 4: I just want to focus a little bit on the

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Speaker 4: good that the.

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Speaker 3: Defense did against the Bengals, because they definitely deserve a

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Speaker 3: ton of credit for keeping the Giants in that game

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Speaker 3: for as long as they did so. Going into Sunday

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Speaker 3: Night Football, the Bengals in their last the previous three

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Speaker 3: twenty three first downs. Those are three games going into

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Speaker 3: the Sunday Night Football. The Giants held them to seventeen points,

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Speaker 3: three hundred and four total yards of offense, and only

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Speaker 3: thirteen first downs, all of which were their lowest marks

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Speaker 3: since their Week one loss to the New England Patriots,

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Speaker 3: a game that the Bengals have talked about is sort

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Speaker 3: of like their throwaway game. Joe Burrow came into Sunday

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Speaker 3: Night Football with four consecutive games with multiple touchdown passes,

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Speaker 3: averaging over three hundred passing yards and a one to

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Speaker 3: seventeen passer rating. While the Giants held them Burrow to

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Speaker 4: And the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: Too that that that opening drive, that first touchdown and

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Speaker 1: Joe ran it was a one play of busted coverage

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Speaker 1: type of a situation. So it's not like these you know,

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Speaker 1: they were eaten in a way. It was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: here's a moment of bust coverage and then a late game,

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Speaker 1: garbage time touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Right. Well, yeah, no, listen that I nobody's disputing how

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Speaker 2: great they played. But we could talk about the statistics

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Speaker 2: till we're blue in the face. The bottom line is,

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Speaker 2: as Matt Matdelan just said, one at the beginning, one

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Speaker 2: at the end, and those two plays stick out because

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Speaker 2: those were the plays that ended up when you do

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Speaker 2: the math, that's what's what buried you.

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Speaker 1: But those plays, the Giants defense did a really great job,

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Speaker 1: and overall it was a really great performance, but for

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Speaker 1: those two play, overall, the.

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Speaker 3: Defense played at a level where the Giants should have

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Speaker 3: won that game as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I get you, but you know what, as you say,

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Speaker 2: would should have, could have doesn't get it done. Overall,

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Speaker 2: the Giants could have, would have, should have won that game,

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Speaker 2: but they didn't. And all I'm saying is right, we

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Speaker 2: have to make sure if the other team is making

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Speaker 2: those big plays, the New York Football Giants have to

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Speaker 2: make those big plays to prevent what happened last Sunday

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Speaker 2: from happening again. That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: That's fair, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: There's no argument here. It's just the defense only plays

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and we're going to continue to monitor the injuries

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Speaker 1: and whatnot as the storylines continue to unfold. But that's

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Speaker 1: a wrap for our Week seven Giants Hanging Out brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Crestron for Rus Salzburg and Matt sitek

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Speaker 1: On Madeline Burke. Thanks so much for hanging out with us.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.