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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giants Huddle. Get him in a hudd,

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Speaker 1: Get him in a huddle, Get him in a huddle.

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Speaker 1: New York Giants Podcast. Okay, what's going on, Big Blue Nation?

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Speaker 1: Brandy London here. I want to welcome you all to

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Speaker 1: episode four of The Giants Huddle podcast and listen. We

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Speaker 1: giants and president Giants, and we just so happened to

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Speaker 1: be joined by second year running back, say Kwon Barkley

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Speaker 1: that that sounds weird, second year running back? Right, definitely crazy.

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Speaker 1: How you know how much time flies? I literally talking

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Speaker 1: to my teammates. My daughter turns one in a couple

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Speaker 1: of days, and that just made My daughter was born

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Speaker 1: two days before I got drafted, So um, time fly.

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Speaker 1: The first year went by crazy and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: definitely on a lot and looked improve in the next year.

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Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you a question before we

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Speaker 1: get into you know, some of the football stuff. Well,

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Speaker 1: what's harder running away from NFL linebackers are changing diapers

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Speaker 1: and being a dad? Um, definitely running away from NFL linebackers. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean I got a great family. Um,

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Speaker 1: My girlfriend does a great job of you know, even

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Speaker 1: though when I'm at football, she does a great job

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Speaker 1: out to her for that. Um. So she makes my

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Speaker 1: tent time easier. Off the field, there's there's been a

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Speaker 1: dad help you be a better football player as well,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of being grateful, being appreciative of things

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Speaker 1: of life. Yeah, not just a football player, That's what

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Speaker 1: I gonna say, just life and just as a human.

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Speaker 1: You know, you just appreciate everything more. Um. You grow

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Speaker 1: up so much more. Um, you got mature at a

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Speaker 1: quicker rate. Um. And then your your decisions you make.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're not just thinking for one, you think

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Speaker 1: for two. Um and uh so you know when you

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Speaker 1: make your mistakes, you gotta be honest about your mistakes

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Speaker 1: and the successful things you gotta do. You gotta be

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Speaker 1: honest too, because you're you're your kid role model. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I want to do a great job of

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Speaker 1: being a role mother for my daughter or my future kids. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'm about ten eleven, twelve years older than you, and

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Speaker 1: I'm getting dead advice one day one day, man, So

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Speaker 1: let's let's start talking about football. Obviously, it's the first

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Speaker 1: day back in school. You know, every kind of got

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Speaker 1: that feeling, um kind of what were you doing this

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Speaker 1: You know, one big advice that I got from a

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Speaker 1: lot of vets, not only on our team but around

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Speaker 1: the league was take a little bit time to yourself,

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Speaker 1: because for me, it's really my first time, um, and

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Speaker 1: I mean I went to Toronto one time, but I

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Speaker 1: But it got to go like Costa Rica in Ursa

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Speaker 1: And you always want to take it to another level

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Speaker 1: when you talk to guys like Eli who's been doing

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Speaker 1: Now what now what Keith? Continue to get better, to

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Speaker 1: their advice. I mean, it's it's crazy how you said

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Speaker 1: And we've seen this before. You have the success your

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Speaker 1: Now that all season, those New York lights, they kind

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Speaker 1: And in the Pro Bowl you went out there, had

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Speaker 1: I didn't get to pick Mike Evans. Mike Evans got

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Speaker 1: Big Blue