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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Giants Huddle. Get Him hud, Get Him

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Speaker 1: in a Huddle, Get Him in a Huddle, New York

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Speaker 1: Giants Podcast. I am John Schmolk and welcome to another

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Speaker 1: episode of The Giants Huddle Podcast. Today's guest Giants star

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Speaker 1: running back and team captain Sa Kwon Barkley. But first,

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Speaker 1: joined by Giants running back Sae Kwon Barkley. Se Kwan,

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Speaker 1: you're coming off the practice field today when the last

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Speaker 1: one's off. Just talk about kind of what the energy

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Speaker 1: level has been in the attitude from your team at

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Speaker 1: practice preparing for week one, which is kind of a

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Speaker 1: culmination of the work you guys have done for the

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Speaker 1: past six seven months. Um, yeah, I mean I think

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Speaker 1: we had a great practice week you know we're fishing. Um,

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Speaker 1: we were executing and on both sides all three phases

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Speaker 1: of the game with offense defense. It's about your scene.

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Speaker 1: But um, we're just trying to keep the main thing

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Speaker 1: the main thing. And I just focused on football and

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Speaker 1: focus on what we have and focus on the mindset

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Speaker 1: of team. Um. I believe that's what we kind of

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Speaker 1: turned turned two towards the second half of the season

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Speaker 1: last year, and we weren't even fully committed to it,

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Speaker 1: I believe, and we had a way by the year.

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Speaker 1: So we've just been focusing on as a team, team

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Speaker 1: mindset and getting better and puting each other every single day.

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Speaker 1: And um, you know, we had six or seven months

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Speaker 1: going gainst each other in a little preseason. Unfortunately I

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Speaker 1: didn't get any any preseason games. But um, now we

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Speaker 1: get to go out there and live action. We're actually counting. Um,

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Speaker 1: go out there and trap on the show. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: not playing in the preseason games. What's your fuel for

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Speaker 1: What the impact for you is gonna be having those

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Speaker 1: two edited veterans on the right side of the offensive

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Speaker 1: line with Mike Remmers and Kevin Zeisler, and having John

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Speaker 1: hell appeal there for the whole year only playing two

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Speaker 1: games last year, are you seeing a visual difference when

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Speaker 1: you're running the football and practice. Yeah, you definitely are.

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Speaker 1: And not not just obviously, um, you know, with with

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Speaker 1: those um, with with Rems and and as I added

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Speaker 1: those guys and having po back, but we got death

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Speaker 1: there too, um with Pulls and with Gayty and you

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Speaker 1: know the list goes on. Um, but uh, definitely with

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Speaker 1: those two, especially on the right side from last year.

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Speaker 1: You know that they're their vets. Um, they're the pros.

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Speaker 1: They've they've been doing it for a very long time

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Speaker 1: and they have a really good i q um when

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Speaker 1: it comes to football, and um, you know they just

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Speaker 1: con see the thing, got a really good feel of

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Speaker 1: working with each other and getting off double teams and

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Speaker 1: getting to the second level with blocks, and for me

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Speaker 1: it makes my job a lot easier. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: as the reps would keep going as a season continue

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Speaker 1: get going. Um, you know, even if we have an

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Speaker 1: unbelievable Russian game against Dallas, that's not gonna be our peak.

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Speaker 1: I feel like as a season keeps going, in every

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Speaker 1: single game every single week, we're just gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: get better and better. And um, you know their key

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Speaker 1: parts to our team, UM, and to be honest, when

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Speaker 1: we really break it down to football probably the biggest

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Speaker 1: part to every team. UM. So we know that we

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Speaker 1: get the job done during this year. Compared to where

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Speaker 1: you see things once you get the ball in your

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Speaker 1: hands from the quarterback and running the football and even

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Speaker 1: you're running style to to use a more of a

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Speaker 1: generic term, how much different is it now today than

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Speaker 1: when it was at this point last year when you

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Speaker 1: so much more, just understanding the schemes under scamming. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, my my allaman's rules and responsibilities and who

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Speaker 1: And you know, just you understood it last year, but

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Speaker 1: now I'm able to see it and UM, as I

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Speaker 1: continue to go out of my career, I feel I'm

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Speaker 1: and so on and so on. Um, I feel like

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Speaker 1: that I'm way way better than what I was last year,

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Speaker 1: especially coming to the beginning of season. UM. And we

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Speaker 1: really got things rolling in the second half of the

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Speaker 1: season when we had like five straight hundred yard games

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Speaker 1: in a in a running game. And I feel like that, know,

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Speaker 1: I got a lot better from there too. But also

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Speaker 1: with the help my teammates and especially with the with

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Speaker 1: the key additions officers the line and um with Hornandez

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Speaker 1: and a po and soldier coming back. UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's definitely gonna help help my game

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Speaker 1: out a lot more. When we've talked you before, you

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Speaker 1: talk about your attention to detail, almost of the fact

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Speaker 1: you overthink thinks. Sometimes you say that you said you

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Speaker 1: wanted to work on a lot of the little things

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Speaker 1: this offseason in terms of improving. Right, do you think

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Speaker 1: you've met a lot of those goals in terms of

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Speaker 1: getting better at some of those little things that you've

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Speaker 1: worked on over the spring In the summer. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: really do you know. I felt like that, you know,

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Speaker 1: and the right approach to it. Um, and I felt

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Speaker 1: like it helps me, you know, a lot when I

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Speaker 1: obviously haven't played and I guess you could say a

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Speaker 1: lot of situation, but um, when you have a very

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Speaker 1: good team, which I do believe that we have. UM,

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Speaker 1: every day in camp is pretty much a live situation,

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Speaker 1: even though you're not bringing to the ground. If you're

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Speaker 1: doing it the right way, it's like game speed. So UM,

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've been doing that. And UM, I

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Speaker 1: my game. So UM, now, just guys, God will and

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Speaker 1: and hopefully help my team and win as many games

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Speaker 1: as we can. I should apologize. How to introduce you

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Speaker 1: heard about it and what are the responsibilities in your

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Speaker 1: mind to be Yeah, I mean when you when you're

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Speaker 1: on a team with you know, so many great captains

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Speaker 1: that we obviously UM with the rest of our other captains,

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Speaker 1: and so many great leaders even though they don't have

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Speaker 1: be named that, it means a lot. It means everything

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Speaker 1: because it comes from respect to your teammates and UM.

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Speaker 1: I've I've said multiple times the opinions that really matters,

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Speaker 1: the ones that you really care about, UM, and the

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Speaker 1: ones that you really love, and when it comes to football,

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Speaker 1: your teammates and the people in the locker room, because

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Speaker 1: those of the guys that you gotta go out there

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Speaker 1: and groundwood on Sundays and UM, the responsibilities for me

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Speaker 1: doesn't change. You know. I'm very blessed and happy and

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Speaker 1: fortunate enough to be able to put the sea on

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Speaker 1: my chest. But whether if I had to see it

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Speaker 1: see on my chest. I'm not gonna act outside myself.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna still be too sicks. I'm gonna be the

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Speaker 1: guy that the reason why I got to see on

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Speaker 1: with me is continued coming every single day, work be

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Speaker 1: the best player and the best person I can be,

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Speaker 1: and continue to grow a single day. You were really

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Speaker 1: active in the pasting game last year, tons of catchers.

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Speaker 1: But do you think while you're still gonna be active,

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Speaker 1: how they use you in the passing game might change

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Speaker 1: this year. There was a lot of dump offs on

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Speaker 1: thurn and lungs last year, things like that. How should

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Speaker 1: we expect your role in the passing game to change

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Speaker 1: this year? If at all? Um? You know I yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course, Yeah, I can run route Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: that for like that I can do? Um pretty well.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and say I'm like a

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Speaker 1: think that UM. Obviously, like you said, we all given

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Speaker 1: checkdown routes. But at the end of the day, that's

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Speaker 1: making a fift in yard game or what I've been

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Speaker 1: able to show making a fifty yard game. UM, I'm

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Speaker 1: more than willing to do that too. How would you

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Speaker 1: week one? Is this a ground and pound? Is it

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Speaker 1: a big play offense? Is it spreading out offense? Just

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Speaker 1: from a very lamous perspective, how would you describe it?

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Speaker 1: One words? Simple? Balance? You know, I think we have

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Speaker 1: a great, great team and a great offense. And you know,

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Speaker 1: even though that we may not have the biggest names

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Speaker 1: what outside people would say, stars studied. I guess I

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Speaker 1: don't know, you know, whatever, however they want to uh

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Speaker 1: really good feeling um with that that definition would change

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Speaker 1: a lot of talented guys, um who who who do

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Speaker 1: the right thing? And um, it's gonna make the play

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Speaker 1: when play need to be made. And I feel like

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to run the ball. And I

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Speaker 1: think it starts to run the ball. I mean if

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Speaker 1: you look at anywhere anywhere, Uh, if you go back

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Speaker 1: to the playoff teams, uh or who wants the Patriots

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. Uh, they have a great quarterback

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Speaker 1: and a great office, the coordinating a great team over there.

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Speaker 1: But Sony Michelle basically rushed for a hundred yards every

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Speaker 1: So run the ball first, mentality is what you have

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Speaker 1: to have and be able to run the ball, and

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