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Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the final preseason game. Will set

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Speaker 1: the table for that, we'll talk about some of the

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Speaker 1: position battles still up for grabs, and of course we'll

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Speaker 1: get to your phone call. So on yesterday show, Paul

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Speaker 1: John and I talked an awful lot about obviously the

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Speaker 1: Oldell Beckham pressor and Odell Beckham's contract. We could touch

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Speaker 1: on that briefly because you didn't have an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: reflect on that since the announcement was made. But I

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Speaker 1: found that his press conference yesterday was an opportunity for

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Speaker 1: him to really reflect on his career, look back from

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Speaker 1: And he sounded like an individual and I understand it's

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Speaker 1: easy to say, and it's all about show me time

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Speaker 1: on the field that yes, the contract is one goal

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Speaker 1: that he had set for himself, but it's not the

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Speaker 1: very article of what he had said for himself. He's

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Speaker 1: still envisions a lot more that he has to accomplish. Well.

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Speaker 1: I think when he answered the question about where he

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Speaker 1: sees his legacy, um it was made very clear that

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Speaker 1: he wants to be remembered as a giant's great and

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Speaker 1: to do that he believes he's got to get some trophies.

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Speaker 1: And if that's what you're alluding to, then I totally

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Speaker 1: agree with you a thousand percent, because he made it

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Speaker 1: very clear that regardless of the funds that he has

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Speaker 1: recently come into contact with, it's a good way to

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Speaker 1: put it. His his drive and desire to excel and

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Speaker 1: to win will not change one bit. So um, I

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Speaker 1: I I understand where you're coming from, and I see it.

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Speaker 1: I have felled all along during the course of the

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Speaker 1: summer while watching him, And of course he then was

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Speaker 1: able to prove, especially with that week in Detroit when

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Speaker 1: he went against competition Darius Slay in particular, that he

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Speaker 1: is still old Beckham Odell Beckham Jr. John Mara basically

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Speaker 1: the Lions and proved that competition was no match for him,

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Speaker 1: as has always been the case, that was the last

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Speaker 1: box that needed to be checked to really make the

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Speaker 1: his desire to win, his intensity on the field on

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Speaker 1: one of those guys who I really believe would ball

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Speaker 1: So Um, good for him, good for the Giants. And

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Speaker 1: my only remark to close off my part of this

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Speaker 1: opening is that if you look at the Giants right now,

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Speaker 1: and we believe that Eli Manning, who has two years

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Speaker 1: left on his deal eighteen and nineteen. Whether or not

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Speaker 1: there's a twenty who knows, the Giants right now have

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Speaker 1: set themselves up. Think about this. They've got the star

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Speaker 1: So they've got all the key elements I was just

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Speaker 1: Throw in the rookie superstar running back, throw in the

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Speaker 1: Because you also know that Beckham's five year extension plus

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Speaker 1: Eli Apple hopefully Dave Gettleman has done a marvelous job

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Speaker 1: They've given this team one more chance to win in

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Speaker 1: the short term, but he has also given them a

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Speaker 1: transition is complete from franchise quarterback Eli Manning to the

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Speaker 1: even on April two thousand nineteen draft. Okay, because I

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Speaker 1: option for first round pick. So that's what the Giants

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Speaker 1: They will need to do some tinkering. Obviously, they will

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Speaker 1: need to supplement, add depth, add fringe guys like any

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Speaker 1: me like there will be some cost certainty with core

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Speaker 1: point out connected to contracts, I was going through just

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Speaker 1: the Giants draft and the wide receivers, specifically Paul. What

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Speaker 1: that a Giant's wide receiver who was drafted got a

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Speaker 1: He he doesn't apply, he did not not apply, and

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Speaker 1: he did get a second contract, but he was undrafted. Well,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go back. Two thousand fourteen is when Odell

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Speaker 1: And then Sonora's Moss two thousand six did not get

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to count well you're not. Tyree technically

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Speaker 1: Tim Carter two thousand two, No, he didn't, okay. Darryl

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Speaker 1: last time a Giant's drafted wide receiver got a second contract.

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Speaker 1: That's why Odell Beckham's deal is extremely notable for multiple reasons,

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Speaker 1: Two one, five one three is the telephone number. I

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Speaker 1: George Young taught me many years ago, the foundation of

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Speaker 1: a playoff team starts with four key positions. The quarterback,

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Speaker 1: welcome a board, Joe, Hey, great to talk, gives and

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Speaker 1: I talked on the previous shows, I didn't know where

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Speaker 1: paying they sold her about thirty five million guaranteed. Uh

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Speaker 1: does it? Does it make it essential that this year

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Speaker 1: the Giants performed because do they have any money left

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Speaker 1: to sign outside players? Um? And there are some weaknesses

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Speaker 1: on the Giants, But I was just concerned with that

433
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Speaker 1: is and I know Pauling in a earlier conversation you

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Speaker 1: talked about a topologist and land. You alluded to the

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Speaker 1: fact that the cap space is going up. But still

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Speaker 1: that's a lot of money to be paying out. So

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Speaker 1: will there be money avail both you think for other players? Well,

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Speaker 1: see the reason why I'm a little skeptical of starting

439
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Speaker 1: to think about what's going to happen at two thousand

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Speaker 1: and two one Scott is because contracts tend to be

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Speaker 1: tweaked from one year two another. So you know when

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Speaker 1: you look at Oldell Beckham's contract, Yes, I understand it's

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Speaker 1: laid out the year extension in addition to two thousand eighteen.

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Speaker 1: But you know, who's to say that they don't maybe

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Speaker 1: make it changed a change to it if they need

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Speaker 1: to free up some more money elsewhere two or three

447
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Speaker 1: years down the road. So you know, it's hard to

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Speaker 1: sit here today and say the Giants are not in

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Speaker 1: a good position because of all these guys that have

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Speaker 1: multi year contracts. You also got the cb A expiring

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Speaker 1: in just another couple and the nobody knows how that's

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Speaker 1: going to alter everything. And quite frankly, if you did

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Speaker 1: listen to the monologue, I'm gonna be honest with you, Scott,

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Speaker 1: the way I laid it out, it looks as though

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Speaker 1: the Giants are gonna have the better part of six

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Speaker 1: or seven solid core players on both sides of the

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Speaker 1: ball for at least another two years, if not longer,

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Speaker 1: and so they don't have to sign any high price

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Speaker 1: free agents to be a competitive team. In my mind,

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Speaker 1: if they draft well again in April of two thousand nineteen,

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Speaker 1: imagine adding let's just say two more stud offensive linemen

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Speaker 1: in April of two thousand nineteen, maybe it maybe add

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Speaker 1: another the corner. We know that Sam Beale is already

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Speaker 1: going to be part of that draft because he was

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Speaker 1: taken this year. I mean, think about this for a second.

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Speaker 1: The Giants, they've got a lot of really good guys

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Speaker 1: who are gonna be around for at least two more

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Speaker 1: seasons in their starting lineup. Yeah, and I think that's

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Speaker 1: great to want. The question I had is, and I

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Speaker 1: think John addressed it in an earlier conversation, is looking

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Speaker 1: for backup tackles and probably in the waiver wire. And

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Speaker 1: I was wondering, because of the money is being paid

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Speaker 1: out all that, will there be money available if somebody

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Speaker 1: comes to fruition via the waiver wire where we can

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Speaker 1: actually sign backup tackle or so forth. You don't need

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Speaker 1: to worry about that, because anybody who comes available as

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Speaker 1: an offensive tackle in another week or so is going

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Speaker 1: to be a fringe player. No One who is really

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Speaker 1: worth any type of substantial contract is gonna find themselves

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Speaker 1: cut on April one. Now, the guy may be good

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Speaker 1: enough and functional enough for you to upgrade your roster

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Speaker 1: at the third tackle spot, but he's not going to

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Speaker 1: be a guy who's going to command a whole lot

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Speaker 1: more than the veteran minimum. Yeah, you know, be a

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Speaker 1: little bit, maybe a little tiny Sonny bonus, but not

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Speaker 1: for the kind of money you're talking about. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna have to break over the piggy bank for any

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Speaker 1: player that you may add before the final three. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: My My final question has to do whether there were

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Speaker 1: five players listed I listened to. I guess it was

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Speaker 1: Joe before. In regards to Hunter Sharp and Calif Raymond. UH.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Sharp has shown in the preseen the proclivity to

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Speaker 1: be dropping passes. I wasn't worried about his punt returning,

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Speaker 1: but his dropping passes, and Calif Raymond seems solid on

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Speaker 1: punt returns and what I've seen in practice is impressive.

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Speaker 1: So I'll take this question off the air between Hunter

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Speaker 1: Sharp and UH Cliff Raymond and then two other players

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Speaker 1: when I talked about on Monday, Kerry Win and Romeo Aquara.

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Speaker 1: If all things, if apples are the apple, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: who are the two players that either of you UH

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Speaker 1: would take on your team? And I'll take the question

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Speaker 1: off the guys. Thanks, I appreciate the phone call. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for Wayne. Well. First, I think he's going

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Speaker 1: on in a erroneous premise because last week Cutter Shop

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00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: dropped to throw down passes that would have been first

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Speaker 1: down conversions, but the prior week against Detroit muffed a

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Speaker 1: return and then a return. So he has had trouble

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Speaker 1: holding onto the ball, both in the offense and on

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Speaker 1: special teams. So that's a statement you gotta kind of

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Speaker 1: get fixed from the get go before you make any

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Speaker 1: other evaluation. Cahlif Raymond had five fumbles last year during

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Speaker 1: the regular season, and how many times did he touch

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Speaker 1: the ball? He had Let's see, he had one reception

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Speaker 1: and he had where's the where's this return yardage? Oh?

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Speaker 1: My goodness, why don't they have us here? Here we go?

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Speaker 1: So he had five punt returns and three kickoff returns,

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Speaker 1: so that's eight nine. He had nine touches last year

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Speaker 1: and five fumbles. Oh boy, so the fumbles came. You're

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Speaker 1: saying on offense. I'm sorry, let me correct myself because

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Speaker 1: he played with two teams last year. Remember, so he

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Speaker 1: had a total of eighteen punt returns, fourteen kickoff returns.

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Speaker 1: That's thirty two touches on special teams and on u

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Speaker 1: offense he caught one pass. Okay, so that is a

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Speaker 1: total of three touches between offense and special teams. He

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Speaker 1: had five fumbles. Does that make you comfortable. Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're also going to be based on what happened this preseason.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't necessarily had that much of an issue that

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Speaker 1: I've seen in terms of he's held this summer, But

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be in the back of your head because

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Speaker 1: those were real games. This is practice well, and they

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Speaker 1: both have connections to take toll Bird, who's the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver's coach, because they were both in Denver at one point.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a tough one. If you were to

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Speaker 1: ask me, you know, who I would personally go with.

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Speaker 1: If I had the choice between both, I would probably

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Speaker 1: lean towards Hunter Sharp regardless of some of his issues.

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Speaker 1: I still think his upside is there and and I

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Speaker 1: still think that he provides a little bit more versatility

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Speaker 1: than Calif Raymond and also has a little bit more size.

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Speaker 1: So when you take all that into consideration, if you're

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Speaker 1: asking me my personal opinion, who I would lean towards keeping,

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Speaker 1: I would keep Hunter Sharp. As far as Romeo quar

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Speaker 1: Vers kerry Win. Kerry Win has been phenomenal this preseason.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, the guy has done everything

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Speaker 1: that the Giants have asked him to do. Every single

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Speaker 1: preseason game, Paul kerry Win has made a play, whether

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Speaker 1: beyond special teams or on defense. I would say that

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Speaker 1: he's been the most impressive player this preseason, more so

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Speaker 1: than anybody else on this roster. For what he has

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Speaker 1: put down on film. It's very hard to see the

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Speaker 1: Giants let go of Kerry Wins. So to me, I

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Speaker 1: would lean towards Kerry Winn and Hunter Sharp if you

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Speaker 1: ask me, both of those scenarios at Utah State. In

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Speaker 1: two seasons of play, that's all he played, Hunter Sharp,

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Speaker 1: he had one hundred and six one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: one total touches from scrimmage or in special teams and

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Speaker 1: did not fumble once. That's why I said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what happened last season is, you know, not something that

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Speaker 1: necessarily jumps off the page. But he has not had

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Speaker 1: an issue this summer in terms of holding on. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's a major concern He's he's had he's

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Speaker 1: had trouble with the ball the last two weeks, but

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have fumblelis at least coming from college in

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Speaker 1: his background. That's what I'm saying. So I'm probably inclined

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Speaker 1: to agree with you between those two players. But it

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Speaker 1: would not shock me if the Giants decided to pick

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Speaker 1: up a return guy in a week and a half.

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Speaker 1: And it will also be interesting to see whether or not,

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Speaker 1: you know, some other players get opportunities in this final

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Speaker 1: game too. I mean, we've really seen mostly Hunter Sharp

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Speaker 1: and Calif Raymond. I was wondering whether out they were

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Speaker 1: going to test the waters with a few other guys

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Speaker 1: Paul here down the stress, just to experiment to see it,

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Speaker 1: maybe somebody else surprised it. You would have thought, see

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Speaker 1: one guy who's a really good special teams player and

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Speaker 1: he's known more for his coverage. I would actually be

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Speaker 1: interested as see Russell Shepard get an opportunity to return

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Speaker 1: just to see what he could do. This would be

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Speaker 1: another one. Yeah, if you want to go to the

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Speaker 1: corner route anyway, like those two guys in particular, who

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Speaker 1: are also baddly for positions, I think would make a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense. All right, let's adad back to the lines.

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Speaker 1: Tony's in DC. Tony, what's happening there? You go? Thanks

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Speaker 1: for making it, Tony? What do you offer us? Got

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Speaker 1: the statement and two questions, and I think they're fun questions.

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Speaker 1: Once you guys may have already thought of maybe maybe.

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Speaker 1: So first, you know, as a fan of the team,

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00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: and this is you know, every all the other fans

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00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: out there. It only helps to root for the success

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00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: of players on your bluster. I mean, there's nothing wrong

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00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: with being hopeful that web and or allot Letter could

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00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: can't play this now. There is a whole lot between

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Speaker 1: now and then that can happen. No one knows what's

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00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: going to happen, but both of them working out only

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00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: helps us as a franchise. Same thing with Flower as

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Speaker 1: an apple and everyone, no doubt. Absolutely, that's my quick statement.

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Speaker 1: So here are my two questions, and I want to

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Speaker 1: hear your pins. I want to see what you thought

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Speaker 1: of the three units you know, offense, defense, and special teams.

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Speaker 1: Which of the three should be the best unit for

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Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Well, I would always lean towards it.

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Speaker 1: If your defense is your best unit, I think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna position yourself to be successful because you're gonna take

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Speaker 1: pressure off of the offense and you're gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to make stops. So I would always prioritize defense regardless

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Speaker 1: of the season. I would only say that to be realistic.

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Speaker 1: I think the Giants offense has a better chance of

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Speaker 1: finishing in the top five in the NFL this year,

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Speaker 1: And I would agree with you, defense or special teams

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Speaker 1: do well. I think on paper, if you were to

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Speaker 1: play the paper game, I think the offense has the

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Speaker 1: highest ceiling in terms of the ability to produce. But

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Speaker 1: I think if you go back to the wording of

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Speaker 1: Tony and he says which should be your best unit,

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Speaker 1: you'd like it should be your best well, but I

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Speaker 1: would say forget the Giants organization. I'd say any team, Paul,

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00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: your defense should be your best unit, because if you

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Speaker 1: can make stops, then you know you can hang your

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Speaker 1: hat on that, then you can get off the field.

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Speaker 1: What's the other question, Tony? Do we lose? Tony? All Right?

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Speaker 1: He's gone, Tony laugh to wait for another program to

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Speaker 1: get in the second question. Reminder Big Blue Kickoff Line

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Speaker 1: they should a Big Blue Kickoff Live. We're looking ahead

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Speaker 1: to the final preseason game, also recapping some news and

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00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: notes regarding the team. We talked about Odell Beckham's contract.

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Speaker 1: You want to weigh in various things. We have some

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Speaker 1: open lines. Chris is in Syracuse. Chris, what's happenings? Chris?

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us? I don't know. Tyree

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Speaker 1: looked like a receiver in Super Bowl for me to listen, Chris,

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Speaker 1: I greet with you. Good luck trying to convince the

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Speaker 1: guy to the left and Syracuse. Paul No, but I

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Speaker 1: got it. Just remember this. I'm a Fordham guy, so Syracuse. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Now that was about the only time so at Lass.

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Speaker 1: That was interesting. Good work on that. I always like

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Speaker 1: to look at the archives when it could help, So

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Speaker 1: I thought that was an interesting nugget. Okay, Paulie, I

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Speaker 1: got them two and two coming out of September. We've

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Speaker 1: been you've been throwing that around for a little while.

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Speaker 1: I got them two and two. I got them beating

642
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: the Jaguars with you. I think that's black and pie

643
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: right on those uniforms. I'm not buying them to keep going.

644
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: And I have them beaten Dallas and then I think so,

645
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: I think they go too and oh and then they

646
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: dropped the next two. That's that's my prediction. Very plausible,

647
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: very plausible. Yeah, because I think Watson and Drew Brees

648
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: are gonna are going to give the defense a little

649
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: bit more issues than obviously what I think bortals are.

650
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: Prescott's gonna go keep keep been mind, Chris, listen, I'm

651
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: not saying that it's a stretch there, but all four

652
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 1: of those quarterbacks are mobile. Now, you want to say

653
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: that Watson and bruising more, Watson and Breeds are more dangerous,

654
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: I'll give you that, But bortles in Prescott can extend place.

655
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: They also do danger with their legs. So I think

656
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: the defense gonna be tested in all four games. Well,

657
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: I agree with you there, but I also think that

658
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: both Jacksonville and Dallas rely on the run, and so

659
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: far what we've seen is that I think the Giants

660
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to shut the run down. Yeah,

661
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: and they don't have the weaponry those those two teams

662
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 1: don't have the weaponry on the outside. And right now,

663
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: with Dallas having three offensive linemen who are having health issues,

664
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: that doesn't bode well for them in week two. No, no,

665
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,359
Speaker 1: hopefully the guy there, well, hopefully they all get healthy soon.

666
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 1: But that Gian Bray thing is kind of scary. So

667
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 1: um so. Yeah, and just one of the quick questions

668
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: that I'll hop off, what's going on with our special

669
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: teams coordinators? He back? Or is Quinn's still filling in?

670
00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: Quinn is the assistant to Thomas mcgege who was hired

671
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: as the special teams coordinator. Uh. Tom Quinn had a

672
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: year remaining on his contract, and since he was still

673
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: in the area, and obviously he knew Thomas from years

674
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 1: ago when they were both on the staff and Thomas

675
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Speaker 1: was an assistant. Uh. Pat Shermer's like, hey, you know what,

676
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: he's here. Uh, he didn't get picked up by anybody.

677
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: He's still around. You've worked with him before. We we

678
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: we know he's got experience, he knows these players. Why not,

679
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: and so that's why he's back as an assistant. So. Uh,

680
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: Thomas mcginckey has also had some health issues and that's

681
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: another reason why. You know, it kind of helps to

682
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: have another guy here, right right, I thought, wasn't he's

683
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: filling in like he was the only guy for a

684
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: couple of weeks? Or Am I wrong on that? Well,

685
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: it was mostly in the downtime in the off season

686
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: when they had health issues that they needed to attend

687
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: to Thomas. So therefore, Quinn came back in to sort

688
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,359
Speaker 1: of assist in preparation and you know, make sure that

689
00:36:55,360 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: the schemes were being implemented correctly. Nothing wrong with that said,

690
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: Yeah you got Chris, Thanks so much for weighing in.

691
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: Let's head back to the phone lines. We got Marco

692
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. Marco, what's happening? Hey, what's up? Guys? How

693
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: are you good? Um? I got an O B J

694
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: point and then just a couple of roster battles that

695
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking at. Um. I'm pumped up about the contract.

696
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: I'm happy it got done, and I'm happy with the

697
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: way the off season has gone for Odell and the team. Uh. Perfect,

698
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:29,720
Speaker 1: perfect way to get a good player like that sign Um.

699
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: One thing that I don't know if it was said

700
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: in his when he met with the media or Lance

701
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: you and John something you said yesterday. But I keep

702
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: hearing about how and I and I think he will.

703
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: I think he has. Certainly he looks like he's made

704
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,720
Speaker 1: some type of some various amounts of changes right, whatever

705
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: they are, And he looks like he's growing up a

706
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: little bit. For me, I will say that the true

707
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: sign of him being a leader is you're only going

708
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: to be able to tell that during the season when

709
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: he's getting poked and prodded and teams are coming after him.

710
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: And that's only been my issue with O'Dell is like,

711
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: I know the team loves them. I think he is

712
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: a leader, but it always comes within the white lines

713
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: of the distractions and like players that are getting under

714
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: his skin, and how his head gets taken out of

715
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,319
Speaker 1: the game. And I and I and I hope if

716
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: he views himself as a leader, I think that is

717
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: certainly the next step. Um well with with respect to that,

718
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: Marco and I always hear, you know, people saying distraction

719
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: taking himself out of the game. If you look at

720
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham's tenure with the Giants, the only game that

721
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: you could tell me where there is hardcore evidence that

722
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: it reflected badly on the team hurt them in terms

723
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: of penalties was the Carolina game in two thousand fifteen,

724
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: the whole Josh Norman situation. There is no other game

725
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: that you can really sell me on that despite whatever

726
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: you may have seen on the sidelines, despite the fact

727
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: that he's an emotional guy, it badly reflected on the

728
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: team where it hurt them in field position and and

729
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: it hurt them offensively. The Carolina game is the only

730
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: game that I can recall that that's Lance, that's fair,

731
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: that's fair, I would say, just and respectfully, I would

732
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 1: say there's a lot of gray area that's gone on

733
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: with him. Uh, Minnesota jumps out to me when he

734
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: and Xavier Rhodes were getting into it. Okay, that was

735
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: one And by the way, the Vikings blew the Giants

736
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: out that day, So is it really relevant. It is relevant, Paul,

737
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,439
Speaker 1: because he's a leader on the team and this There

738
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: will be times during the year where we will be

739
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: faced with adversity. There will be times where Eli will

740
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: throw U and I hope it doesn't happen. He'll throw

741
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 1: an interception on the last drive of the game and

742
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: the cameras will go to Odell, they will ask him

743
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: after the game how he feels about it. There's no yeah, yeah,

744
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. I just thought

745
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 1: that you were trying to make the point to Lance

746
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,959
Speaker 1: about you know, how many of these things actually hurt

747
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: the team on the field, and Lance is right that

748
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: one issue in Carolina is the only one you can

749
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: point to where it actually he did burn them on

750
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: the field. The the other the other times. I mean,

751
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: the Giants were not really involved in any games where

752
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: his penalty cost them a victory to this point, and

753
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: you hope it doesn't happen. Yeah, Well last year he

754
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 1: got a penalty against the Eagles with the touchdown celebration. Yeah,

755
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: but I don't think that cost him the game. But

756
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: that cost him something on the field though, that like that,

757
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 1: that was that. I understand the ownership wants him to

758
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: clean the stuff up, and he claims that he has.

759
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: He's twenty five. John Marras says, at this age, we

760
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: believe that he is more mature and he understands what

761
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 1: has happened. Odell himself said yesterday, if you listen to

762
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: his presser, he said, I'm not proud of everything that

763
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: I've done, but what i will tell you is I've

764
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: learned from him and and and I'm moving forward. You know,

765
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: he intends to be proud of his career. And I

766
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: actually I'm going back to that game log Giants and

767
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: Eagles because I have I track every single penalty from

768
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: every single game every season. They had ten penalties the

769
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: Giants in that game. Beckham had two of them. He

770
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 1: had an offensive pass interference and then to Marco's point,

771
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: he had the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the end zone.

772
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: So that was two of his three penalties. Small sample size.

773
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 1: Didn't play a lot of games last He's played four games,

774
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: But if you go back to the previous seasons. Unfortunately

775
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: I don't have my logs with me, but the narrative

776
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: that Beckham's energy and emotions poorly reflects on the team

777
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: is not documented. Where he's getting constant penalties that are

778
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: hurting field position. That's what's always irritated me about that narrative,

779
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: completely blown out of proportion simply because of some of

780
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: the emotions that he showcased on the sideline. But you know,

781
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: I mean, him having a conversation with the football net

782
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,640
Speaker 1: didn't hurt the giants at the hall from an XS

783
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: and O standpoint, and that he took a lot of heat.

784
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: He took it in a month's an immense amount of heat.

785
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,720
Speaker 1: But I'm all about what hurts your team in field position.

786
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,959
Speaker 1: If you get a penalty in acusse of fifteen yards,

787
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: then you could tell me that behavior is poorly reflecting

788
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: on the team. That I think is a fair point.

789
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: How you act on the sideline celebrating the end zone,

790
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 1: and you know, guys slap at each other five or whatever.

791
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean. The Vikings got a touchdown celebration. They played

792
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: duck duck goose in the end zone. I know you

793
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: hated it. I loved it, Paul, No, Marco, I'll let

794
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 1: you continue. The Viking's played duck duck goose because they

795
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: loosen the rules last year to allow teams to celebrate,

796
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: so guys are entitled to showcase emotion in the end zone.

797
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: The league is allowing that. I don't see how that's

798
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: a crime. I want, I definitely want to come back

799
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: at you with this lance, but I don't want to

800
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: make it all about that, because I'm happy. I have

801
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: more than happy to hear you out say whatever you

802
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: gotta say. I have no problem, no, no, My My

803
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: point is, and you guys you know this because you

804
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: spend time with the players. Yes, you are correct, directly

805
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: impacting very very little sample size. However, when the things

806
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: with the net and anything else that's going on post

807
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: green Bay, before Green Bay, you could say that directly

808
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: did not impact anything that went on field. Absolutely true. However,

809
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: asked the team do they like being asked about that

810
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: all the time, and I would say the sign of

811
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: a leader does not do that. They cannot put that

812
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:17,439
Speaker 1: kind of attention or put their microscope. You and I

813
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: understand the opinion that you're presenting, but I'm going to

814
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: tell you this, if, if, if the writers would show

815
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: a little more common sense, Okay, I could care less.

816
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: I could care less. Well, they're not going to because

817
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: their clickbait mongers, so they're not going to show common sense.

818
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: But what what do you mean common sense and common sense?

819
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: I don't care. If Odell Beckham does a waltz with

820
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: the kicking net behind the bench, it is of total

821
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: irrelevance to me, means absolutely zero. If Eli Manning dances

822
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: with the net, He's more than welcome to do it.

823
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: In fact, I'll give him a CD if he wants

824
00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 1: to get some music to accompany it. It matters zero zero.

825
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: The reason it matters is because there are immediate people

826
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: out there who want to make it matter, who make

827
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: clickbait out of it, who make it their business to

828
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: ask ridiculous questions about stuff that does not matter, and

829
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: they cause the distractions. Yeah, we've we've I've I've called in,

830
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: We've talked about this before stuffing with Twitter. How has

831
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: changed everything? I agree with you guys there and put

832
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: everybody to the microscope and to your point, and just

833
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: expanding on what Paul Justice said, it's very convenient, Marco,

834
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: when a team loses a football game to point to

835
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: things that are unrelated to the XS and o's as

836
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: to why they lost the football game. For example, if

837
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: they went on the boat trip on that Monday and

838
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: people still refer to that, and then Odell Beckham had

839
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: a case of the drop seas, you're gonna tell me

840
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: that he forgot how to catch the football because he

841
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: enjoyed himself on his off day why they lost the game.

842
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: You can't accept the laws, so therefore we got to

843
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 1: turn to other things to explain why they lost the game.

844
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: When you and I both know, Marco, if you go

845
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: back to that Packers wild card playoff game, Aaron Rodgers

846
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 1: took advantage of DRC being taken out of the game

847
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: in the second half. They had issues in terms of

848
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: not being able to run the football and other things

849
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: such as that long touchdown that they gave up before

850
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: the end of the first half. Ball that had nothing

851
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: to do with Odell Beckham. Yet how does something that

852
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 1: happened on the Monday on and off day where plenty

853
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: of other players did things with their families that nobody

854
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: talked about, it took photos of, and nobody goes questioning

855
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 1: whether or not them having time with their families took

856
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: away from their preparation. You seek the game, Well, exactly,

857
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. More often than not, it's

858
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: to build. If more fans would not pay attention to

859
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: that stuff and not click on the clickbait, maybe it

860
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: would start to go away. Yeah. Well, I agree with

861
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: you there, and I'll be honest with you. I've started

862
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: to change my ways too. There's certain writers I just

863
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: won't click on what they write anymore because hey, that's

864
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: my way of taking a stance. I don't know what

865
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: other people do, but you gotta go there. But um,

866
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: let me, let me let me change this for a second. Um,

867
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: A couple of guys the roster that I've been thinking

868
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: about Lance, I agree with you. I think I would

869
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: go with Hunters sharp as well. I got even in

870
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: the off season. I thought he was going to be

871
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: some type of a secret weapon. A little bit of

872
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: a letdown with some of the mental things that have

873
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: gone on with the drops and um, he fumbled a

874
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: staff and even like those big third down place he

875
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: I was watching the game last week and I'm thinking

876
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: to myself, I'm like, this guy reminds me a little

877
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: bit of Preston Parker and I and I and I

878
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: don't want to go there. I just want we need

879
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: that role to be solidified. And I'm like, and I'm

880
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,959
Speaker 1: thinking he could, he could take it. He could take

881
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: that role, and he's doing a lot to drop it,

882
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? No fun attended. Actually, the

883
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: other um, the other guys that I'm interested to um

884
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: are two two things and I'll jump off tight ends.

885
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: This d Groom injury and if if there's anything going

886
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: on with Ellison really complicates things. UM, I came on late,

887
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you guys addressed this, but

888
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: if they have to take more tight ends, like and

889
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: I'm thinking Tops three with Adams Ellison and Ingram and

890
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: Ingram even though I like some of the other guys,

891
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 1: I just don't think the roster will allow it like

892
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: to to really go forward at that position. However, if

893
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: there are injuries, that's gonna do to change that and

894
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: every Moss is a guy that I just don't I mean,

895
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: even if he didn't, I don't know where he is

896
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: on the depth chart. I don't know what he's exactly shown.

897
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to give up on a guy like that.

898
00:47:30,239 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Yeah, he treats me. He's got

899
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: big ups. I agree with that. He's got like find

900
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: no way to get him on anyway you can. But

901
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,959
Speaker 1: it's really Hardfaul, I know it is position. I also

902
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: think it's possible he could maybe be put on the

903
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: practice squad, clear waivers and the potential out. I hope

904
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 1: he is there because I don't think he should leave

905
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: the building. I think there's definitely something there. And then

906
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: quickly about Ellison. He's in concussion protocol, but he's been

907
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,720
Speaker 1: out on the field in the on light, uh, jogging

908
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: on the side and watching the team practice with the trainers.

909
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: Usually when a guy is earlier concussion protocol, they don't

910
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: even have him outside in the light because light causes

911
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: dizziness and headaches. So the fact that he's out there,

912
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: that's a very good sign like he is already progressing

913
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: well coming out of it. And Ellison got poked in

914
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: the eye and had a Migraine. During the course of

915
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,319
Speaker 1: the Jets game, he has been out there practicing, so

916
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: I don't consider that to be an issue right now.

917
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: Before we get to the next phone call, I also

918
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: want to expand on not trying to beat this Odell

919
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: Beckham topic like a dead horse, but our producer David

920
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: Dominic doing some nifty research for us to just further

921
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 1: prove when Odell Beckham's picked up a penalty, how it's

922
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: impacted the team. So if you go back to that

923
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: Eagles game that Marco brought up Paul where the end

924
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: zone celebration, he was penalized on sportsmanlike conduct. Okay, the

925
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: Eagles actually fumbled on the very next drive, Giants recovered,

926
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: Odell scored a second touchdown, and then the next Eagles

927
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: drive they punted, and then the Giant scored on the

928
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: Shepherd said of the seven yard touchdown to give them

929
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: the lead. But let's do some further analysis. So after

930
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 1: the Odell penalty, Aldrick Rosas kicked off from the twenty

931
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: yard line. It was a seventy four yard kick which

932
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: was returned to the twenty nine yard line. If you

933
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: remove the penalty and Rosas just kicks off normally would

934
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 1: have been a touch back to the twenty five. You're

935
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: talking about a difference of four yards, a very minute

936
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 1: impact on the team. So you know that's important to

937
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: look at when you make the point of oh my god,

938
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: what was he doing, what was he thinking? And so forth.

939
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: Anybody can express the opinion that they don't like it

940
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: or that it's not a good look. I would never

941
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: argue that the optics. The optics are more than welcome

942
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,240
Speaker 1: to have that opinion, but to state it as a fact,

943
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: as a factual detriment, well, you've just laid out the

944
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: evidence and it doesn't hold up. Great stuff out of

945
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: our producer, David Dominic. The other thing that I also

946
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: wanted to clarify when we were talking about the special teams.

947
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: Tom Quinn is a full time assistant coach this season.

948
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: He is going to be on the staff for the

949
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: entire year. Just to clarify that he wasn't like a

950
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: rental coach filling in for a few days. Jerry, want

951
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: to get the right intel out here on the program.

952
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: All right, Now that that's clear, let's head back to

953
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: the phone lines as we move along with the dialogue.

954
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: Len Is in Columbia Maryland Len, what's happening? How are

955
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:20,280
Speaker 1: you doing? Thinks good? Good Um. To steal a line

956
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: from my recent television head. When I heard the rumor

957
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: about O'Dell's signing a couple of days ago, forty eight

958
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,240
Speaker 1: hours ago, I broke out into my little happy dance.

959
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: Can you take a video of that, lend, so we

960
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: could post it on social media. I could probably do

961
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: it again and have my wife. We would love that.

962
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: We would absolutely recommend that. If that's feasible, well, I

963
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: can say, is my goodness? The guys, the guy's worth

964
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: four wins a year by himself. I mean, do you

965
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 1: know how lucky we are to have Odell Beckham on

966
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: this roster? I mean, dance guys, I mean, this is yeah.

967
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: If we don't like the antics, you know, pulling you

968
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: in leland and turn your back until the relief pitcher

969
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: goes through his antics and it's over, and then you

970
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: go out and congratulate him. But man, oh man, I'm

971
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: happy it's hected. This guy's on our roster. But listen,

972
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: let me tell you where I'm coming from with that.

973
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: I drank some kool aid in nineteen fifty two and

974
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: I still got a little hangover, so the Giant's uniform on,

975
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: you're my guy. But in Beckham's case, hey, it's gonna

976
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: work out. Hey, listen, approach to you know, I got

977
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: to get to what I told the guy I was

978
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: going to talk about, Sorry about that. They're always nice,

979
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: They're always nice to say, what do you want to

980
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 1: talk about? And I try to address everything that I

981
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: that I say, so approached the Thursday Nights game. What

982
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: do you is this? And I'm going to exaggerate a

983
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 1: little bit, but are we going to see two teams

984
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: forty five guys who don't playing, forty five guys who

985
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: do play? I mean, what do we what do we

986
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: think about Thursday? I mean, does HELI get a series?

987
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: What do you what are you hearing? What do you think?

988
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: My my guests? Because coach Shermer would not reveal potential

989
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: snap counts for the game, you know, he has always

990
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: consistently said, I'm going to play the veterans who I

991
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: think need to get prepared to get ready for Jacksonville,

992
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: and those who are preparing at practice and don't need

993
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: the extra reps will not get it. So, um, my

994
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 1: opinion is I would want to see the starting offensive

995
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: line for a quarter. I think they have played a

996
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: total of five combined quarters through the first three preseason games,

997
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: and I think they need more time, and because I

998
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 1: don't think they're playing at their peak yet. And they

999
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: played with Davis Webb against Detroit, so it's very possible

1000
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: that they could get in. But David's Webb could be

1001
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: the quarter. I would think from from my perspective, there's

1002
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: no reason to play if you want to just go

1003
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: by what coach Schremer said that there are some guys

1004
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: who may not need the extra preparation. You don't think

1005
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,759
Speaker 1: Eli does. You don't think Beckham does, You don't think

1006
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 1: Shepherd does. You probably don't think Ingram does. I mean

1007
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: to me, you go with the starting offensive line. You

1008
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: probably want to start Curtis Riley at safety because he

1009
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 1: could use more work back there. But other than that,

1010
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 1: how many other starters do you really want to play

1011
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: in this game? Where there you go, there you go,

1012
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: there you go. My my opinion on this is, uh,

1013
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: I can't I can't wait till it's over. I mean,

1014
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: I can't wait till ten o'clock Thursday night. Get this

1015
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: thing over with. Let's let's get our fifty tree and

1016
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: let's go Giants get on the field. As Paul says,

1017
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: let's beat the Jaguars. Um the fullback slot. I know

1018
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: coach likes fullback slot. I'm still not convinced we got

1019
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: the right fullback. I don't know if he's you think

1020
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: he's really gonna go with with Shane at the fullbacks line,

1021
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,240
Speaker 1: or you think there's somebody else on the waiver wire.

1022
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: I know he likes the fullback spot. I understand that,

1023
00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: but I just can't find mean, do you do you

1024
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: remember any play he made? I mean, you look at

1025
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:08,000
Speaker 1: last on the ground. It's gonna be simple. If there's

1026
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: a fullback who they believe is more qualified on the

1027
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: list come September one, I'm sure that guy will come

1028
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: in here. I don't know that there are many pure

1029
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: fullbacks out there in NFL camps right now because a

1030
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: lot of times have done away with them. So what's

1031
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: the odds that someone's gonna cut somebody who is of use?

1032
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: And I think the other point, did you mentioned, you know,

1033
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: has he done anything? I don't really remember a whole

1034
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities with them targeting him in the passing

1035
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: game throughout the preseason, Lendon fairness, But I will tell

1036
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: you this, any fullback that is on this team, the

1037
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: priority for them to be able to catch the football

1038
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: and execute is a huge factors in whether or not

1039
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: they make the team because coach Shermer wants that flexibility

1040
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: to be able to throw it to him. So that

1041
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: is a big deal. Now you you guys are watching

1042
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: it more closely than I am. I mean, that's that's

1043
00:54:55,719 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 1: a fact. Um. But I mean I can't even to remember,

1044
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 1: um a block that stands out in my mind. I mean,

1045
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: what is a well you also play specialty changing you know,

1046
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: a plate changing block. And I guess I'm thinking, you know,

1047
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: maybe we go with with four running backs now fullback.

1048
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: I doubt yeah that that. I think that. I think

1049
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: it's strategy. I think I think there's value and keep

1050
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: you more than likely to want a Henry Hanoski type

1051
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: back there than you are and Hedgecock because even though

1052
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: Hedgecock may have been a bit of a stronger blocker

1053
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: than Hanoski, Hinoski was able to catch the ball out

1054
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 1: of the backfield. And that's the kind of guy Shermer wants.

1055
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,359
Speaker 1: Can can I can we spend a minute? Yeah? We

1056
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: we we want to try to fit in another caller

1057
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: here Land before we wrap up, so we'll save your

1058
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: next point for your next phone call. To appreciate you

1059
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: weighing in. Let's hit up Jeff in Huntington. Jeff, what's happening? Hey, Hi, guys.

1060
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,720
Speaker 1: Maybe to end the show, I'd like to talk about

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Speaker 1: the guy who really makes UH the Giants work, and

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Speaker 1: that's Eli. Um. I think Ernie a core see from

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Speaker 1: day one for sticking to it and making sure that

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Speaker 1: he was the guy back in all four UH. And

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Speaker 1: you know, you know how how hard it is and

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Speaker 1: difficult to do sometimes to read Eli because he's a

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Speaker 1: straight hour. He he won't give you the highs or

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Speaker 1: the lows. But Uh, this this last game, this third

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Speaker 1: game of the of the preseason versus the third game

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Speaker 1: of last preseason, I thought I was reading into Eli

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Speaker 1: in the way that he was stating what he felt

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Speaker 1: about the team's offense last year. He would stop a

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Speaker 1: play right at the beginning if he felt that the

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Speaker 1: UH blocking schemes or the routes being run were incorrect.

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Speaker 1: You just throw that ball into the ground, stop that play.

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Speaker 1: And he did that so many times during last preseason,

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Speaker 1: probably during the season two and and and sort of

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Speaker 1: I and I compare that to this last, uh, this

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Speaker 1: third game this preseason, where I never I thought he

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Speaker 1: was a very happy guy in that rolling pocket because

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Speaker 1: I never saw the time that yet he had and

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Speaker 1: being able to launch a pass and having the seconds

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Speaker 1: to do that. This time around, I just thought that

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Speaker 1: he looked really happy in the pocket this time versus

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Speaker 1: last year. I'm wondering what you think about that. The

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Speaker 1: role the rolling pocket is something that Shermer wants to

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Speaker 1: institute this year. He thinks that Manning has enough mobility

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Speaker 1: back there to do it and as a result, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you will see it. And I appreciate the phone call, Jeff. I.

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Speaker 1: I also think in this preseason, I mean there's been opportunities,

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Speaker 1: specifically in the last game where the past protection was

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Speaker 1: on point, Paul. I mean, he looked very comfortable because

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Speaker 1: he had time to survey the field and you know,

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Speaker 1: hit his receivers down the field as well. So sun

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Speaker 1: blocking has been more suspect than the pass blocking correct.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think there's value if you want

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Speaker 1: to put the first team offensive line and out to

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Speaker 1: see what they could do and getting that run game

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Speaker 1: going that makes sense, but I think the past protection

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Speaker 1: overall is much further ahead in working out the kinks

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Speaker 1: than the run blocking, so that will be something to monitor.

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Speaker 1: In tomorrow's game, we will have another edition, a Big

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Speaker 1: throughout the season. That will be tomorrow at two pm Eastern.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Eagles and I will continue to set the stage

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Speaker 1: for the final preseason game as the Giants get ready

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Speaker 1: to wrap up the two thousand and eight preseason against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, and then we can start focusing on Week

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Speaker 1: one of the games that actually count. We appreciate everybody

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Speaker 1: for tuning in much MSG tonight six o'clock Giants Training

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Speaker 1: Camp Live. See then, folks, All right for Paul to

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Speaker 1: Tino on Lance Medal. We'll speak tomorrow. HO have a

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Speaker 1: going