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Speaker 1: on Giants dot Com. Here we go, Here we go

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Speaker 1: on the Giants mob. Let him in there, let's go

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Speaker 1: part of the Giants podcast network. And now we're joined

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Speaker 1: by our guest. He is Brian balding Er. He covers

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Speaker 1: the NFL, of course, for NFL Network, the King of

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Speaker 1: the Baldy Breakdown. Baldy, were about halfway through this, sucker.

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Speaker 1: How's the NFL season been treating you? I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: once the train gets going, John slowed it down. So

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Speaker 1: the big thing is for anybody, I don't care what

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Speaker 1: your your position or Brian Dable like you, you you

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Speaker 1: gotta like establish your routine. And once you get in

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Speaker 1: your routine, I mean we live in seven day life cycles,

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Speaker 1: so you know, you just you finished the seventh day

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Speaker 1: and then you get up and you start it all

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Speaker 1: over again. That's kind of how we do it. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been it's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: It's been a great year. It's a lot of parody,

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Speaker 1: a lot of surprises. Uh, certainly the Giants for one

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Speaker 1: of them. So it's it's great for the league right now,

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Speaker 1: it's great for me. Well, we know how we're doing it. Baldy,

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Speaker 1: how are the Giants doing it? You mentioned a lot

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Speaker 1: of surprises that Johns are one of them. At six

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Speaker 1: NFC East, how do you break that down? How how

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Speaker 1: have the Giants gotten here in the final expectations. I

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Speaker 1: think you got to go back to Week one against Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, You go down Quan scores

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Speaker 1: Like I just feel like that. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: shaped the whole season, but that's a good football team

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Speaker 1: that the Giants beat that they will all recognize it now. Um,

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Speaker 1: they might not have been where they are now back then,

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Speaker 1: but they beat a good team that you know, Baltimore

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Speaker 1: end of the game to win that game. So you're

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Speaker 1: finding ways to win games. And then you're doing enough

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Speaker 1: that game, and you will find a way to win it.

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Speaker 1: In London, I mean, that's what it is. It's they're

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Speaker 1: they're maximizing the talent that they have. You know, obviously

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Speaker 1: But they're they're working around all that stuff and around

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Speaker 1: the injuries that they've had, and they're not turning the

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Speaker 1: you're not giving teams easy. Scores are easy, you know,

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Speaker 1: short fields and so and then they're just they're just

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Speaker 1: a world coach team. They don't beat themselves. Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: you no question about it. I'm with you, And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it starts with the run game, right, And

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure this is necessarily how Brian Dabo, Mike

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Speaker 1: Halkin would play if they would, you know, create their

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Speaker 1: team in a lab. But this is their path to

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Speaker 1: victory that they've come up with, right, So your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the job they've done, utilizing the talent at their

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Speaker 1: of the year, what Brian has done and what Wink

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Speaker 1: and you know what you know Calfki has done. Because

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Speaker 1: really what coaching should be is Okay, what do we

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Speaker 1: Quan and Daniel Jones have been two really good runners.

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Speaker 1: They've been durable, they've been excellent. They've done it in combination,

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Speaker 1: You know, It's funny I mentioned se Quon and look,

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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta play together. And that's kind of

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Speaker 1: what you're you're alluding to here, John, is like they're

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Speaker 1: You know, you see guys that actually understand and know

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Speaker 1: they've They've run the ball really really well the last month.

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Speaker 1: to John. I see it across the league. It makes

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Speaker 1: you know, Baldi, you talked about team staying competitive, right.

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Speaker 1: the Giants have won their games. There's six and one

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Speaker 1: run a lot with Damian Pierce. What are the challenges

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Speaker 1: for the Giants defense against that Texans offense this week? Well,

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Speaker 1: it starts with Pierce, you know, I mean he's he's

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Speaker 1: a really good back. He was coming out of Florida.

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Speaker 1: Didn't get used a lot, you know, not a lot

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Speaker 1: of tread off the tires. They'd like to say, Um,

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Speaker 1: he's libally Billy. What what was Florida doing not using

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Speaker 1: that guy? I've watch him in the pros. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe what I'm saying I saw the same thing in Florida, though.

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Speaker 1: He get eight touches in a game and he'd run

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Speaker 1: for seventy seven yards and a touchdown. And you're like,

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Speaker 1: he runs through contact, Like you know, you just said

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Speaker 1: to put a few players up there. We're just watch

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Speaker 1: him against the Eagles last Thursday night. Um, he is

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Speaker 1: got tremendous contact balanced, he runs violently, and he's got

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Speaker 1: good vision. You know, some guys that run violently, they

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Speaker 1: do that because they can't see and they just run,

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Speaker 1: you know, they just run into people. This guy's got

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Speaker 1: a good vis it and great cutting ability. The offensive

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Speaker 1: line will Kenyan Green at left guard and Larry Tunsil

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Speaker 1: made's a good left side. Um, they've got good players.

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Speaker 1: They've drafted their offensive line like all those kids are drafted. Um,

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Speaker 1: starting on three starting on defense, you know, Jalen Petrie

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Speaker 1: If you look at through defense outside of the rookies,

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Speaker 1: They're very competitive. And if you give David's Mills times

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Speaker 1: like he's he's an accurate quarterback. So it starts with

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Speaker 1: stop in Damian Pierced though, because he's he is, he's

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Speaker 1: like he him and Kenneth Walkers. They're gonna see the

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Speaker 1: two best rookie running backs back to back weeks here,

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Speaker 1: uh in the league, and they're both candidates for offensive

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Speaker 1: Bookie of the Year and then defensive it looks like

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Speaker 1: the past Russ came up came a live last week

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Speaker 1: against a pretty darn good Eagles offensive line. Huh yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean Jerry's who's beat Jordan a lot Ter twice

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Speaker 1: right off the edge, you know, just speed off the edge. Now,

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes has been this league eleven twelve years. He's

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Speaker 1: an experienced player. Um, I'm sure Andrew Thomas has watched that.

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Speaker 1: Uh knows, you know, how low he can get and

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Speaker 1: how he can turn a corner. Still, so uh, they'll

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Speaker 1: be you know, there's there's challenges right there, and they've

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Speaker 1: had ten days to get ready, so they've had their

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Speaker 1: little mini bye and they know that they're competitive. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that they're turning the corner yet, but they're

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Speaker 1: gonna give it everything they've got, and so it's a

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Speaker 1: good anytime a team can run the ball, it's a

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Speaker 1: challenge because the more they run it, the more and

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Speaker 1: the better they get at it, the more confident they get. Baldy,

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Speaker 1: this was fun. Man. Always a pleasure of looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing MetLife on Sunday, Say travels, my friends. I'm

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Speaker 1: very excited for John. Thanks for having me, but I'll

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Speaker 1: see you Sunday. But