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Speaker 2: Brian balde Are from an NFL network. Baldy is good

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Speaker 2: to see you, man. How's your off season been.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's been good, Giants, It's been good. It

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Speaker 3: always goes by too fast, you know. I mean here

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Speaker 3: we are right at the finish of this offseason. So

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Speaker 3: but it's okay, though I've had a good you know,

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Speaker 3: this thing just flows, you know, I mean, whether it's

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Speaker 3: you know, the combine and then the Pro days and

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Speaker 3: the draft and schedule and it's just like you just

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Speaker 3: got this thing like kind of greased where you just

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's it's the middle of June.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it comes fast, and now all of us kind

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Speaker 2: of get our six weeks to step aside. We're recording

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Speaker 2: this after the Giants final mini camp practice, Baldi came

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Speaker 2: checked it out. Unfortunately for you, not a ton and

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Speaker 2: in terms of team and full speed stuff today, but

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Speaker 2: give the fans a quick impression of what you saw.

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Speaker 3: Well, the first thing I saw before they started their

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Speaker 3: stretch today, John, I don't know if you saw it

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Speaker 3: or not. They had this one period where it's just

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Speaker 3: like this big play period and I saw Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 3: They hit Jalen Hyatt like fifty yards down the field

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Speaker 3: and then they ended up throwing a touchdown past the

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Speaker 3: next play and then they kind of broke So, you know,

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Speaker 3: just good seeing Daniel Jones throwing the ball. I think

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Speaker 3: for any Giant fan, the fact that he doesn't have

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Speaker 3: a brace on his knee, just got a sleeve, you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it looks like the rehabilitation is on schedule.

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Speaker 3: And then just looking at the new guys, Miliek obviously

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Speaker 3: That's the first thing that caught my eye was just

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Speaker 3: his movement, changed direction, catches the ball with his hands,

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Speaker 3: looking at Tyler Nubman back there at safety, Drew Phillips

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Speaker 3: looking at Jermaine luminar at left guard, running at right guard.

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Speaker 3: Just looking at the new faces here right now.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, well you brought the offense first. Why

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Speaker 2: don't we touch that first real quick? Daniel Jones, you

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Speaker 2: had a good year two years ago. Last year, much

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Speaker 2: like the rest of the offense, was a bit of

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Speaker 2: a this because the pieces around him just everything fell

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Speaker 2: apart at once, right.

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Speaker 3: Well, it fell apart in the opening game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, first, the opening game, first series.

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Speaker 3: First, I mean, kiel and there's Andrew you know, like

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Speaker 3: then John Michael got hurt, and Saquan got hurt, and Dan,

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Speaker 3: like you know, it fell apart. It was hard, kind

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Speaker 3: of a tough evaluation, to be honest.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's the question I was gonna ask you,

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Speaker 2: because I watched the tape every game Monday. You watched

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Speaker 2: the tape of all these games, And honestly, I have

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Speaker 2: trouble taking anything substantial out of Daniel Jones's tape last

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Speaker 2: last year is just so messy.

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Speaker 3: It was ugly, It was really ugly. There were games

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Speaker 3: a question of how quickly can they put this group together?

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Speaker 2: And look, we got to see what Evan Neil is

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Speaker 2: much baldy of a difference can the new offensive line

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Speaker 2: to help suppleman Andrew Thomas, You to your mentioned as

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, first of all, you want you're only

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Speaker 3: knows exactly where they're going. Can be stout against you know,

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Speaker 3: could keep that pocket just flat up front? Quarterbacks, can

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Speaker 1: Pressure because you can step up.

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Speaker 3: You could, you could step up, but you need to

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Speaker 1: You need depth.

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Speaker 3: You need that depth. So you got to you got

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Speaker 3: And so when I was talked about keeping that pocket flat,

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Speaker 4: You're ready for a change. Payday comes early with citizens,

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Speaker 4: So go to that retreat. Knew you moves to the country.

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Speaker 4: Now you're raising goats and launching a lifestyle brand. Are

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Speaker 4: you ready for all that life breaks?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? What do you think of John Michael Schmidt?

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Speaker 2: I know you evaluate him as a player coming out

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Speaker 1: But what did you think of him overall as a

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Speaker 3: His coming out of a minute? So, look, there was

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Speaker 3: you know, Joe Tipman, there was a couple guys last

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Speaker 3: which it is obviously, But I think you know what

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Speaker 3: So I thought it was tough because of all the

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Speaker 3: So I think what you're looking for is consistency and

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Speaker 3: the a gap pressure, none of that stuff is affecting you.

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Speaker 3: They want to mug that gap, they want to come,

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Speaker 3: and so I think, you know, John Michael, I think

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Speaker 2: And to your point, the Giants struggled a lot with

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Speaker 3: They know withink, yeah, I mean they come in different ways.

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Speaker 2: They could, and the Giants offensive line struggled picking them

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Speaker 2: up in game situations too. How much can an addition

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Speaker 2: of a guy like Caren Brisillo resetting what your pass

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Speaker 2: tweaking some overall technique, how much can that make a

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Speaker 3: Walt Comer is a good coach. I talked to him

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Speaker 3: before practice today. He's been around. He knows how to teach,

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Speaker 3: that's one, and then the big thing for karm is, Okay,

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Speaker 3: you know you're in a dog fight. It's Sunday afternoon's

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Speaker 3: third quarter. You've got to fix things. You can't get

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Speaker 3: make the adjustments that you have to make game day.

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Speaker 3: That's when it's one thing to build the line, to

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Speaker 3: teach the techniques and all that to make you a

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Speaker 3: better individual player. It's another thing game day. You gotta

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Speaker 3: fix things when things aren't going well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, final one on the offensive line, Evan Neil.

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Speaker 2: He's had his struggles though the first couple of years.

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Speaker 2: Joe Shane said this offseason, Baldy he needs to play better.

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Speaker 2: The Giants name to play better. He's battled knee injury

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Speaker 2: his first year, he did an ankle injury last year.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't done a lot this offseason, which you know,

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Speaker 2: I talked to him last week.

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Speaker 1: You know reps. He says, I've lost a lot of reps.

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Speaker 2: And I wish I had him from you watching him

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Speaker 2: from a fundamental standpoint, what are some of the things

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Speaker 2: fundamentally that he has to do better to be a

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Speaker 3: Well, you'd like to see him. You'd like to see

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Speaker 3: him have quicker feet. And if you don't, if you

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Speaker 3: can't quit, can your footwork like you'd like to be.

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Speaker 3: You'd like to see your sets consistent, consistent sets, and

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Speaker 3: so sometimes you have to adjust your set to the elite.

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Speaker 3: Like the right tackles in this league right now go

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Speaker 2: Absolutely offense, real quickly, Baldy. Before we move over to

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Speaker 2: of all, folks, Giants have their big event at MSG

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Speaker 2: the evening of June twentieth.

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Speaker 1: It's Our Night with Champions.

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Speaker 2: A bunch of former Giants are going to be there

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Speaker 2: the first time in a while, Baldy, I think this

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Speaker 1: And I don't know when the last time.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, just looking at how it lined up today,

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Speaker 3: I'm looking for Jailing to take a step up. This

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Speaker 3: But you know you want to be able to run them.

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Speaker 2: slash pay for college Baldy, I feel like Bobby Ocakes

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot more zone, there's gonna be

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think Bobby can play in

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Speaker 2: Secondary Shane Bowen like we spoke about a lot more zone,

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Speaker 1: You got to execute it now, absolutely, and we'll see

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Speaker 2: This was fun, man, and this will not be, by

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Speaker 2: talk you next time the Johns Tottle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Everybody