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Speaker 1: The Giants are on a short week as they host

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday Night Football in week six.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Crossfire, presented by Prime Point. I'm Madeline Burke,

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Speaker 1: joint as always by Howard Cross and Carl Banks. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Crossfire. Guys. The Giants are hosting the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champion Philadelphia Eagles Thursday. Is there more motivation hosting Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl champs? Well, it's motivation because they're the Division champs

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Speaker 1: two and you need to win, and you need to

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Speaker 1: win in the division. The super Bowl piece of it

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Speaker 1: is probably just a little extra motivation. Yeah, the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl thing does motivatable. Think about this. Last year the

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Speaker 1: Giants lost to the Eagles with like a sixty plus

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Speaker 1: yard field goal kind of started John's on the downhills fire.

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Speaker 1: They don't just want to beat them, cll the divisions.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to beat them called the division champs.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to be the super Bowl champs. That

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Speaker 1: sixty one yard field goal might be inspiration enough. I

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Speaker 1: think so too. That is a big motivation. Stick it

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Speaker 1: back to them earlier this week, though Eli Manning did

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Speaker 1: say he has not yet referred to them as a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Eagles. He's just calling them the Eagles

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Speaker 1: for now. But Howard, you mentioned that long field goal.

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Speaker 1: The Giants are coming off a loss in Carolina on

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Speaker 1: another long field goal, but a short week turn it around.

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Speaker 1: Does a short week benefit the Giants offense or defense more?

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Speaker 1: I think it's benefits the offense more. And the reason

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Speaker 1: why it's because you can run your standard offense and

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Speaker 1: just pick up blitzes and know what's happening. You don't

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Speaker 1: have to be surprised and shocked. You played Philadelphia twice

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Speaker 1: a year every year, and now it's your chience to

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Speaker 1: just be run someplace. I think it benefits the team

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Speaker 1: with the healthiest roster because on a short week, it's

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Speaker 1: hard for guys to get healthy. And if you had

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Speaker 1: a guy who had a big injury the weekend before,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a disadvantage, and you've got a game

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Speaker 1: plan around that. So the team that's healthy, is with

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Speaker 1: their key players, will have somewhat of an advantage. Banks

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Speaker 1: you mentioned health. The Eagles are without Jgi out for

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Speaker 1: the season. Darren Scrolls banged up a little bit of

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Speaker 1: injury to the running game. But when you look at

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Speaker 1: the Eagles passing game. Does the Giants defense need to

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Speaker 1: focus on the front seven containing Carson Wentz or perhaps

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Speaker 1: the DBS locking down those receivers. Well, I think it

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Speaker 1: all starts up front. I mean, Carson Wentz is a

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Speaker 1: magician when he has time to move around back there.

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Speaker 1: They've got to somehow figure out without the Giants don't

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Speaker 1: have a big pass rush, but they got to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to put pressure on wins because without him, uh,

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Speaker 1: without a good pressure package, it's gonna be tough to

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Speaker 1: stop him. You know, the dvs will have a hard

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Speaker 1: job because Winch moves around the pocket, he breaks and

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Speaker 1: makes plays way outside the pocket. Those are the plays

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Speaker 1: to give dps a hard time four and five seconds

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Speaker 1: before of covering the guy. That's tough. But if you

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Speaker 1: can get to him, and I don't think he's running

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Speaker 1: all that well, if you can get to him, like

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Speaker 1: Carl said, up front, you can make a big difference

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Speaker 1: in this game. They've got big, big, big offensive blindness.

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Speaker 1: Big Giants Eagles Thursday Night Football at ment Life Stadium