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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants huts. Giants, give

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Speaker 1: me some part of the Giants podcast network.

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Speaker 2: Let's roll another Giants Total podcast, brought to you by Citizens,

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Speaker 2: the official bank of the New York Football Giants. I

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Speaker 2: am John Schmelk. Take a look at the Giants wide

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Speaker 2: receiver position, a very crowded room. Young players with a

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Speaker 2: lot of talent and a lot of promise. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: to a bunch of them on this episode of the

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Speaker 2: Giants Huddle Podcast. All right, and now we're joined by

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Speaker 2: Giants wide receiver Wanda Rominson. Wandell, how are you, man,

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Speaker 2: I'm doing well.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Now.

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Speaker 2: You're heading into your third year, but in some ways,

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Speaker 2: does it almost feel a little bit like your second

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Speaker 2: year because you had your little like injury interlude in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I say, definitely, it doesn't feel like it's your

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Speaker 5: So I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: But you do have three years worth of mental work, right,

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Speaker 2: And I think that's kind of and I think that's

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Speaker 2: an important thing, especially in this system, which is notoriously

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Speaker 2: having that knowledge and comfort level, how does that manifest

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Speaker 4: Really just not out there thinking, just kind of going

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Speaker 4: and why we're doing everything. So definitely, just all the

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Speaker 2: When you went back and watched the tape out of curiosity,

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Speaker 4: And those kind of went hand in hand as my

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Speaker 2: So, Naz, it's not your straight ahead speed, right. So

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Speaker 3: Faster a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 4: Not necessarily like you said, not necessarily just playing like

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Speaker 2: So at what week, at what point last year did

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Speaker 2: This is like the mental and the physical all come together,

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Speaker 2: So you know you're one of the young weapons in

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Speaker 2: This doesn't seem like these two separate things can be

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Speaker 2: What are your goals for this year?

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day, Like I've always my

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Speaker 2: What has it been with Drew Locke and Tom You

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Speaker 2: With can't wait to see it? Man, goodness, thank you?

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Speaker 2: All right, and now we're joined by giants rookie wide

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Speaker 2: receiver six overall pick my Malik neighbors Malik? How are you?

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Speaker 3: Man? I'm doing good? Are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing great? It's nice to meet you. We haven't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could add on to that also, it is

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Speaker 2: Why is it difficult? What makes it difficult to kind

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Speaker 1: You know, when you're the vocal point of an offense,

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Speaker 1: You know, when you start to figure out an offense,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to you know, the level of competition

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, What do you think

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, all decks and burns out there,

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Speaker 2: One gotta be chasing though. Was Deonte Banks and I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bank's my dog. You know, I love that guy.

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Speaker 1: But like you say, you know, me and him got

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Speaker 2: Oh dude, we can't wait to see you. Guys have

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Speaker 2: We appreciate him lea well for board, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good. It's been a good off season

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Speaker 2: All right, So what was your plan this offseason? What

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I wanted to make sure that my body was

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 2: Now we know how complicated this offense can be, especially

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to kind of get thinned so

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Speaker 2: How does that work?

440
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Speaker 8: I Mean there's a lot of talk, I would say

441
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Speaker 8: before a game and before practice just of making sure

442
00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,040
Speaker 8: that we're communicating we're on the same page of Hey,

443
00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,280
Speaker 8: if we get this coverage or this look, do this.

444
00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,360
Speaker 8: So you know, we go into the game anticipating and

445
00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,480
Speaker 8: then that chemistry kind of goes into the game.

446
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Speaker 2: So so you don't have to make that call on

447
00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,080
Speaker 2: the spot. These you already works on it.

448
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Speaker 8: So sometimes the quarterback will you know, he'll definitely make

449
00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,920
Speaker 8: some adjustments or calls on the spot, but for the

450
00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,080
Speaker 8: most part, you know, stuff's done throughout the week. The

451
00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,080
Speaker 8: adjustments are there, and the chemistry's there. So when the

452
00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:49,080
Speaker 8: game time comes and we both kind of know what

453
00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:49,960
Speaker 8: we're gonna do already.

454
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Speaker 2: What do you think about the wide receiver room?

455
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Speaker 8: It's loaded in this h You know, we got a

456
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Speaker 8: lot of personality in there. I think we got a

457
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Speaker 8: lot of different people who could do different stuff, who

458
00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,920
Speaker 8: can bring different values to our wide receiver room.

459
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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm super excited for this year.

460
00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:05,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys really have a basketball team in there, right.

461
00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,360
Speaker 2: You guys got some bigger guys like you Allan Robinson Miles. Boy,

462
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Speaker 2: can you guys are bigger guys.

463
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Speaker 3: Right.

464
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Speaker 2: You got your straight up speed guys like Jalen and

465
00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,199
Speaker 2: you got your small guy like Wandell and Maleik can

466
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Speaker 2: kind of do a little bit of everything. How does

467
00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,520
Speaker 2: having a bunch of different types of body types in

468
00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,800
Speaker 2: there kind of help a wide receiver room be more complete?

469
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Speaker 8: I think you know, as you're saying, there's just so

470
00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,320
Speaker 8: many different threats to you know, what we can do.

471
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Speaker 3: You know, you got the little fast guys.

472
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Speaker 8: You can do all the short area stuff, but they

473
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Speaker 8: can also stress the field.

474
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Speaker 3: You got your fast guys.

475
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Speaker 8: You can stress the field, but you know they've been

476
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Speaker 8: taking leaves on you know what we could do in

477
00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:37,520
Speaker 8: a media game than the big guys, like you said,

478
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Speaker 8: for red zone, third down, contested cats or whatever it

479
00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,640
Speaker 8: may be, to you know, make those places.

480
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Speaker 2: Isaiah, we can't wait to see man.

481
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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, appreciate it. Thank you.

482
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Speaker 2: Now we're joined by the crafty vent in the wide

483
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Speaker 2: receiver room, Darius Layne. Darius, how worry man? So, how

484
00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:53,960
Speaker 2: has it been in the wide receiver room this offseason?

485
00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,359
Speaker 2: Trying to work with all these guys and getting them

486
00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,080
Speaker 2: up to speed with a new quarterback and Drew Locke

487
00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:59,520
Speaker 2: and kind of getting everybody on the same pitch.

488
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Speaker 9: H It's been, you know, interesting. Obviously, you know we

489
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Speaker 9: have new faces in the room. But you know, we

490
00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,880
Speaker 9: also have a fair amount of guys that are back

491
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Speaker 9: from last year, so you know, just kind of trying

492
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Speaker 9: to integrate the new guys into kind of the culture

493
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Speaker 9: we want to have here and the way we want

494
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Speaker 9: to play here and get everybody on the same page.

495
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Speaker 2: When you have younger guys like Wondo Robinson and Darius

496
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Speaker 2: Slayne everyone. And you've told me this too in the past,

497
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Speaker 2: how tough this offense is to learn as those guys,

498
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Speaker 2: you know, one though, had the injuries, so I kind

499
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Speaker 2: of set him back a year. Jan went heading into

500
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Speaker 2: a second year. One though, heading into his second year

501
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Speaker 2: where he's actually really playing a lot, Right, How big

502
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Speaker 2: of a step can those guys take given their greater

503
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Speaker 2: comfort level in the offense.

504
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I think it definitely helps a lot

505
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Speaker 9: when you're not trying to learn and play, you know,

506
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,280
Speaker 9: when you can just go out there and play and

507
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,720
Speaker 9: let your ability shine. I mean, I think that's that's

508
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Speaker 9: when you really start to make strides. And I definitely

509
00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,600
Speaker 9: expect both of those guys to make a big jump

510
00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:49,920
Speaker 9: this year.

511
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we had Alan Robinson here and we were

512
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Speaker 2: kind of talking a little bit about how the wide

513
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Speaker 2: receiver room is really like a basketball team now, right,

514
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Speaker 2: And I feel like you guys have a really good

515
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Speaker 2: combination of different guys with different still scats. Right, and

516
00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,359
Speaker 2: Jalen have that over the top speed you can win.

517
00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,800
Speaker 2: D Wandell is a really shifty guy. You have the

518
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,280
Speaker 2: bigger group with you know, Hodgens and Al Robinson and

519
00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,080
Speaker 2: Miles Boyken. You know Molie Neighbors. He's rookie's learning. He

520
00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 2: can do a little bit of everything. How does having

521
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Speaker 2: so many different skill sets in that room kind of

522
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,120
Speaker 2: help you guys be a more effective unit?

523
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Speaker 9: I think it presents a lot of problems. You know,

524
00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,919
Speaker 9: it's tough cover. You know, it's hard. It's hard to

525
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,399
Speaker 9: guard all of us at once, you know, because like

526
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Speaker 9: you said, we got a lot of a lot of speed,

527
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,600
Speaker 9: we got size, we got you know, shiftiness, And I

528
00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 9: think you know, when you have all of those abilities

529
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Speaker 9: at your disposal, it just allows you to attack the

530
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Speaker 9: defense in a variety of ways.

531
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Speaker 2: Yeah, in the same way, I feel like you guys

532
00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,600
Speaker 2: are also interchangeable. Right, You can I mean, Jalen Hyatt

533
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,359
Speaker 2: played in the slot in college. You can slide in there.

534
00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,359
Speaker 2: Wandell can put the slot, Malie can do either one.

535
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Speaker 2: You can move wherever they need you to move. What

536
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Speaker 2: is the different skills, but also being interchangeable helpy as.

537
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Speaker 9: Well helps tremendously, you know, and that comes with again

538
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,119
Speaker 9: learning the playbook and being able to play multiple spots seamlessly.

539
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Speaker 3: You know.

540
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Speaker 9: It's kind of another thing that allows you to do

541
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Speaker 9: more of once you're comfortable with it. And yeah, I mean,

542
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Speaker 9: I think, like you just said, we have a lot

543
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 9: of guys that can do a lot of things, and

544
00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 9: at this point it just cann be a matter of

545
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 9: putting the pieces to the puzzle together.

546
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Speaker 2: And I think you made a great point. Unlocking that though,

547
00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,440
Speaker 2: is knowing the playbooks that you can move to different spots.

548
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,480
Speaker 9: Rightly, because sometimes you can sometimes you know, you can

549
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:20,160
Speaker 9: work yourself into a stagnant role, so to speak, if

550
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 9: you don't have the capacity to be able to remember

551
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Speaker 9: multiple positions.

552
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Last year, this is not even the receivers. This

553
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 2: is just the offense in general. So much was going on,

554
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,639
Speaker 2: whether it was the moving pieces on the offensive line,

555
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 2: moving pieces at quarterback. You know, Wandell came back a

556
00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 2: little bit later. Jalen's a rookie. How much do you

557
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Speaker 2: think just the overall situation with all the injuries and

558
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,840
Speaker 2: everything happening around them kind of limited what you guys

559
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,879
Speaker 2: were able to do and even call and open up

560
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,720
Speaker 2: the offense just as a group on that side of

561
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Speaker 2: the ball.

562
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Speaker 9: Last year, Yeah, I mean, to put it pretty bluntly,

563
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Speaker 9: I mean, we were we were handicapped so to speak,

564
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 9: on offense last year. Just kind of the whole year,

565
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Speaker 9: you know, just kind of the nature of the way

566
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Speaker 9: it win a with injuries and then be with kind of,

567
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 9: like you said, different people being in and out of

568
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Speaker 9: the lineup. You know, we didn't really have a lot

569
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Speaker 9: of continuity until later in the year and when we

570
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Speaker 9: kind of started to figure out, you know, a solid

571
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Speaker 9: rotation and everybody was healthy, and even at that then

572
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Speaker 9: the kind of the quarterback situation, those injuries started to

573
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Speaker 9: pile up. So it was just a lot of constant

574
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Speaker 9: movement all year. And it's hard. It's hard to get

575
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Speaker 9: team offensive chemistry and get everybody on the same page,

576
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Speaker 9: and you constantly have different people in different spots. So

577
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Speaker 9: you know, at the end of the day, you still

578
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 9: got to go out there and find a way to

579
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Speaker 9: get it done. But I mean, it definitely, it definitely

580
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Speaker 9: was not ideal.

581
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't imagine as a wide receiver room. Does

582
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Speaker 2: it help that you have four or five guys that

583
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:50,800
Speaker 2: you can move in and out so you don't have

584
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Speaker 2: to be out there for I'm sure you'd like to

585
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 2: play one hundred percent of the snaps, but does it

586
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Speaker 2: help you from a body physical perspective when you know,

587
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Speaker 2: maybe you don't have to play seventy percent of the

588
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Speaker 2: snaps and then the fourth are you a little bit

589
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Speaker 2: frustrat Does that help you? Guys?

590
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Speaker 9: Oh, one hundred percent definitely helps tremendously. And like I said,

591
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Speaker 9: we had we had times where we just didn't quite

592
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 9: have the depth and game so it led to, you know,

593
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Speaker 9: having to play a little bit more, which you know,

594
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Speaker 9: for me, like I'd love to play, so I almost

595
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:16,479
Speaker 9: want to play, I know, yeah, I almost never want

596
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 9: to come out the game anyways. But I mean, when

597
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Speaker 9: you when you look at it and you're smart about it,

598
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 9: you know, you can't really give your best effort for

599
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 9: seventy eighty plays on a Sunday, you know, but fifty

600
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Speaker 9: sixty you know you can give you know, pretty much

601
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Speaker 9: one hundred percent almost every play. So it definitely helps

602
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 9: having the depth field to, you know, not have to

603
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Speaker 9: play one hundred percent of snaps or whatever about.

604
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Speaker 2: There's good stuff that appreciate the time. Dude, sure, thank

605
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Speaker 2: you very much. Problem Now we're joined by Giants wide

606
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Speaker 2: receiver Allen Robinson. Allen, how are you, man?

607
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Speaker 5: I'm doing great, doing great.

608
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Speaker 2: So you're a vet. You've been around the block a

609
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Speaker 2: few times in this league, so I'm going to ask you.

610
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Speaker 2: I think I've a great perspective. Everyone tells me how

611
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Speaker 2: tough this offense is to learn. Is this offense as

612
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Speaker 2: tough to learn as everyone tells me it is? Oh?

613
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, it is.

614
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Speaker 6: But I think as a as a receiver, you know,

615
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Speaker 6: that's what you want, you know, because you know that conceptually,

616
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Speaker 6: you know, everything is already within the offense. You know,

617
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Speaker 6: to be able to go out there and uh and

618
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Speaker 6: and execute against defenses and beat defenses. So the complexity

619
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Speaker 6: gives you for sure, for sure, and as a receiver,

620
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Speaker 6: that's what you want, you know. Sometimes when you get

621
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Speaker 6: into the lessons more game, you know, again sometimes it

622
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 6: can be a little bit more simple for a defense,

623
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Speaker 6: but when you have the ability to get to many

624
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 6: different formations, conceptual concepts and different things like that, you know,

625
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 6: it puts a lot of pressure on the defense.

626
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Speaker 2: Interesting, how have you tried to I know you're learning

627
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 2: this for the first time too, but you're a vet.

628
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Speaker 2: So however, you try to maybe help some of the

629
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Speaker 2: younger guys on like the leak neighbors, who's trying to

630
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 2: absorb everything that comes along with being an NFL rookie.

631
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Speaker 6: Yeah, just just going out there and being confident and

632
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,280
Speaker 6: allowing himself to be himself, you know. I think that's

633
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,720
Speaker 6: the main thing, you know. I think that when you're

634
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Speaker 6: a young guy, you know, you're trying to grow and

635
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 6: learn so much at the same time, you know, you

636
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 6: want to keep the main thing the main thing. Go

637
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 6: out there and be yourself, you know, and and use

638
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,719
Speaker 6: practice as those times we're again, I mean, we practiced

639
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 6: for a reason, you know. So you know, don't don't

640
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 6: beat yourself up too much showing any you know, mistakes

641
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 6: or anything like that. You know, we can go into

642
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 6: film and correct those, but just always go out there,

643
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 6: you know, and just try to be yourself and play

644
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 6: and play fast.

645
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Speaker 2: You've been a Pro Bowl wide receiver, You've been around

646
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Speaker 2: Pro Bowl wide receivers. How good can the league Neighbors be.

647
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Speaker 6: I think it'd be really good, you know. Again, I

648
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 6: mean he has all the talent in the world, you know.

649
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Speaker 6: I think that that's that's something that obviously pops out

650
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 6: on his college tape, you know. So step into the league,

651
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Speaker 6: you know, and I think that he's been he's having

652
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Speaker 6: a very smooth transition, you know. I think he's he's

653
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Speaker 6: willing to learn, you know. You see his eagerness to

654
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Speaker 6: learn and in the film room, in the in the

655
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Speaker 6: meetings and stuff like that. So I think the guy's

656
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Speaker 6: a living for him.

657
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Speaker 2: Final you personally, you know, when you were making Pro Bowls,

658
00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 2: you were that big X perimeter wide receiver. Now i've

659
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 2: seen you. They use you kind of as a big

660
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 2: slot a little bit. Where do you see your skill

661
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 2: set fitting into this offense?

662
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, for me, fortunately enough, you know, I've

663
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 6: been able to play outside and play inside, you know,

664
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 6: over the course of my career. So just again being

665
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 6: a guy who can who can do a little bit

666
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 6: of everything, you know, and learning all the positions, you know,

667
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 6: I think that's where you bring value at you know,

668
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 6: especially as a veteran. So again, for me, it's just

669
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,199
Speaker 6: being able to stay in the playbook and continue to

670
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 6: make place.

671
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 2: With the scene training camp before time. Man, thank you

672
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 2: appreciate it.

673
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 7: You love turf, You're good at it. So you start

674
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 7: a turf business, grows, your savings, grow, become the most

675
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 7: celebrated name in TERFs? Are you ready for all that

676
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 7: life brings?

677
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,360
Speaker 2: And now we're joined by a Giants second year wide

678
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 2: receiver Bryce Ford waiting? Bryce? What's going on? Man? How

679
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 2: are you?

680
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 3: I'm good? How are you?

681
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 2: I'm doing great?

682
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 3: Man?

683
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 2: So, how is this really kind of first off season

684
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 2: where you're not a rookie trying to figure things out?

685
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: Been for it? I don't. E've been rehabbing, so it's

686
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,560
Speaker 2: not quite totally normal. But how has it been for you?

687
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,360
Speaker 3: It's been good.

688
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 10: I've been sticking around here at the facility rehabbing with

689
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 10: DJ and some of the other guys, and it's been good.

690
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 10: I've just been putting one foot in front of the other,

691
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 10: just trying to get back right.

692
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:46,959
Speaker 2: How much have you guys been trying to help each

693
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 2: other along this process? I know you're what like three

694
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 2: or four months kind of ahead of.

695
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 10: Him in that US, like two months and yeah, So

696
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 10: he asked me a lot of questions about what I'm

697
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 10: going through what I'm feeling, and it's it's just it's

698
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 10: right that.

699
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 3: A quarterback is here rehab with the receiver.

700
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 10: So, I mean, we have a lot of a lot

701
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 10: of chemistry through this offseason and just helping each other out.

702
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 3: Now.

703
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 2: I can only see what I can see from you

704
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 2: on the practice field every day, but you look pretty

705
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 2: damn good man. Are you pretty happy with how that's gone?

706
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:13,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really happy.

707
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 10: I wanted to just get out here in OTA's and

708
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 10: kind of just get my confidence back and build it

709
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 10: up after missing a whole year. So I feel like

710
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 10: I'm on track to you know, be where I want

711
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 10: to be, and I think everything's going good.

712
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 2: We able to work on your craft at all this offseason,

713
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 2: given the fact you're also working had the knee.

714
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's other things that, like other deficiencies that I

715
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 10: had in my game that I wanted to work at.

716
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 10: So having nine months fully to just sit down and

717
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,959
Speaker 10: kind of reconstruct myself, I was able to, you know,

718
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 10: work on some of those things and get better at

719
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 10: it and improve my confidence and learn the playbook. So

720
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,040
Speaker 10: I feel really good about where I'm at right now.

721
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 2: I want to hook on two parts of that what

722
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 2: were some of the specific technique things from a physical

723
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 2: perspective playing wide receiver that you were really trying to

724
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: get better at.

725
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 10: I was just really trying to get better releases and

726
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 10: like sharper route running. I didn't run a whole bunch

727
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 10: of different routes in college. So this playbooks kind of

728
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 10: forced me to run routes that I haven't really ran

729
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 10: in the past.

730
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,919
Speaker 3: But I feel good about it.

731
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 2: And yeah, and this would be a common theme in

732
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 2: this wide receiver group. But I remember when Briandy but

733
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,880
Speaker 2: first got here, right strowing Shepherd on media day, same

734
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: day today, and I said, so, what is it like?

735
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 3: Learning?

736
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 2: As he goes Schmelk, let me tell you this offense

737
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 2: is something. Yeah, and your young wide receiver trying to

738
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 2: you know, he was five six years in the league, right,

739
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 2: You're a young guy trying to learn it last year.

740
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: Tell me the process, because when I believe Neighbors, I'm

741
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: asking the same question of learning this playbook and why

742
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 2: is it so difficult?

743
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,359
Speaker 10: There's just a lot of different ways to run plays,

744
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 10: a lot of different ways to have you lined up

745
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 10: and at where they want you to be lined up.

746
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 10: It's just it's it's a bunch of plays. I'm not

747
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 10: gonna lie. It's a very hard offense, but once you

748
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 10: get it, you know, it's kind of an offense that

749
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 10: a lot of defense would have a trouble with adjusting

750
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 10: to with the formations and the motions and things like that.

751
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 10: So it's a lot but once you learned it, I mean,

752
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 10: it's very beneficial.

753
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 2: How about the terminology? Is there a lot of memorization involved.

754
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 10: There's a bunch of memorization involved. It's a lot different

755
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 10: than what I did in college. Since we were no

756
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 10: huddle and you know, you were signaling plays.

757
00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 2: He would just hold up the signs.

758
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 10: But yeah, coming here just learning this offense. That's my

759
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 10: first NFL offense. Is it was? It's real, But I'm

760
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 10: glad I was up for the challenge.

761
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 2: Are you seeing early results on the field and ota

762
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: from all the stuff you worked on knowing the offense

763
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 2: better or some of your releases route running? Are you

764
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:16,239
Speaker 2: seeing that show up?

765
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 10: Do you think I've been able to play at different

766
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 10: positions that I didn't do last year during camp? Just

767
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 10: knowing the plays better. Once you have a firm grasp

768
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 10: like the playbook, I feel like you don't have to

769
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 10: think about things so you're able to go out there

770
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 10: and play full speed and just do.

771
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 2: What you do now. Last year, before the injury, I

772
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 2: was excited to because everything I saw you doing on

773
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 2: special teams in the summer, Gunner, Are you doing all

774
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff? Talk about why that's so important

775
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 2: for you and why do you think you've kind of

776
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 2: picked up on that so quickly and made that a

777
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 2: strength of your game.

778
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 10: I have to give a credit to my special teams

779
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 10: coach and my head coach in college, just for they

780
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 10: always implemented special teams and every day. So when I

781
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 10: came here and I was put at different positions that

782
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 10: I haven't even played before, it was it was kind

783
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 10: of second nation because I had already been doing it

784
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 10: in college for so long. And yeah, I just feel

785
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 10: like special teams is a part of my game just

786
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 10: because I'm undrafted, you know what I'm saying. So I

787
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 10: have to prove myself and earn a roster spot. So

788
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,239
Speaker 10: if I could do that through special teams, and I'm

789
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 10: willing to do that.

790
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 2: What do you think of new kickoff rule? So far?

791
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 3: I love it. It's gonna be right.

792
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 10: I think just shortening the distance between you and the

793
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 10: man that's blocking you, vice versa two.

794
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 3: It just takes out a.

795
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 10: Lot of like the the hard parts out of it.

796
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 10: So it's just a one on one battle now, and

797
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 10: I feel like the best man is going to win.

798
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 2: Obviously, you're competing with everybody in the wide receiver room.

799
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 2: What do you think of the group together? How are

800
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: you guys working together, and what do you think you're affecting?

801
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: This can be on the field when you finally get

802
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: into some games here.

803
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 10: This is definitely like my favorite receiver group that I've

804
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 10: been around. Like, I feel like, top to bottom, we

805
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 10: all have a good relationships with each other. We hang

806
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 10: out outside of we hang out, we hang out outside

807
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 10: of the facility. We do things. We play games, and

808
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 10: we go fishing together things like that. So there's been

809
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 10: a lot of like bonding and stuff. So I know

810
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 10: this is a good group of guys I compete with

811
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 10: and it's going to be interesting.

812
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 2: Count Finally, what kind of advice did you give him?

813
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: A leak in his rookie year coming in here, trying

814
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 2: to learn all that you know, trying to drink out

815
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 2: of a fire hose, as the old expression.

816
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 10: Goes, I didn't really give him too much advice. He

817
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 10: knows about the playbook, so we just try together with

818
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 10: the playbook.

819
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 3: He's in it.

820
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 10: He's he's really thrown into the fire at the playbook,

821
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 10: but he'll have it down. He's learning real fast, so

822
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 10: it'll be good.

823
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: What do you think of him as as an athlete

824
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 2: watching him out there do his thing?

825
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,719
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean he's as good as advertised. I feel like,

826
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 10: you know, I watched games last year and when he

827
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 10: was in college and things like that. You would hear

828
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 10: a lot about him. But yeah, he's he's as good

829
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 10: as advertised.

830
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 2: Rice, good luck this year. Man, We appreciate the time.

831
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, And now we're joined by Giant's

832
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: second year wide receiver Jail and high Galen. What's going on, man?

833
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 5: Doing good? I'm doing good, doing good? Blessed?

834
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 3: All right.

835
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 2: When you talked to the media last week, you talked

836
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 2: about putting a little weight in the off season and

837
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: you joked, my speed's not going to change. What do

838
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 2: you notice that's different when you're out there? And I

839
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 2: realized that there's there's no physicality at the keys impressed

840
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 2: or you can't get hit. But what are some of

841
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 2: the tangible difference you've noticed with the weight you've put

842
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 2: on over the last couple of years since you got drafted.

843
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 2: Because I know you said last year, this year maybe

844
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,239
Speaker 2: not a ton, but physics you got drafted. I'm sure

845
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 2: there's been a big.

846
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 5: Jig, right.

847
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 11: That was just you know, talking to coach Dave's and

848
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 11: coach bro you know, just looking at my film from

849
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 11: last year and you know, trying to figure out, you know,

850
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 11: what we can do to improve and that year, you know,

851
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 11: we always want to improve. And I think that was

852
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 11: the biggest thing for me is just you know, just

853
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 11: getting a little stronger, getting bigger, and for me, for myself,

854
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 11: you know, when I was doing that process, you know,

855
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 11: eating and standing in the weight room, you know, getting

856
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 11: you know, getting the consistent calories in I think the

857
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 11: biggest thing I'm more confident, more confident in myself. You know,

858
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 11: when I'm on the field, I know what I'm doing now.

859
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 11: And I think that's just the biggest thing is just

860
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 11: for me, just makes myself feel more confident so when

861
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 11: I go on the field, I know I can do

862
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 11: what I have to do.

863
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: I know for some people putting on weight to be

864
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 2: challenging just based on your frame, your body type. You

865
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 2: really you know, you look at some of these offensive linemen.

866
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: You know they retired two years later. They dropped like

867
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty pounds and they're like two hundred pounds.

868
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: What's that process like for you? Trying to trying to

869
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: book up a little bit?

870
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 5: It's hard.

871
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 2: It's actually a good way too. It can't oh yeah, way.

872
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 5: It can't.

873
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 11: You know, you just can't just eat anything, you know,

874
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 11: and it's hard. It's definitely hard for myself. You know,

875
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 11: some guys it's easier for them to you know, gain weight,

876
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 11: to gain muscle. For myself is harder. I burned a

877
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 11: lot of calories quick, and I just got to want

878
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 11: of I'm just one of those guys.

879
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 5: I gotta keep eating and keep eating. Keeping got to

880
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 5: you know, PP and J's Uh.

881
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 11: It was one of my biggest things because you know,

882
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 11: I'll eat the meals and you know, you want to

883
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 11: eat your full meal, you know, I mean, you don't

884
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 11: want to eat a little bit and drinking protein shape

885
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 11: then you're not really getting anything. So for myself is

886
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 11: you know, finishing, you know, completing your full meals and

887
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 11: then you know when you do have you.

888
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 5: Know, an hour later or thirty minutes later.

889
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 11: That's when you put in an uncrustable like a PPMJ

890
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 11: and you know, a little protein shape. Those are the

891
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 11: little calories that that helps you. And that's why I

892
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 11: started noticing, you know, while I was, you know, putting

893
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 11: on weight. So I'm still going, you know, I'm still

894
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 11: getting there. I'm not at my goal yet. That's why

895
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 11: I hadn't. That's why when they asked me, you know,

896
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 11: I'm not there where I want to be at yet

897
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 11: and I'm still working towards it. So you know, we

898
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 11: just got to keep, you know, keep doing the process

899
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 11: and you know, keep being.

900
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 2: Consistent with without putting numbers on. Are you close to

901
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: your goal?

902
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 3: Oh?

903
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm close, very close.

904
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: You don't want to get like or anything like that, right.

905
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 11: This wasn't This wasn't a twenty just winning a twenty

906
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 11: pound or you know, a thirty pound jump. You know,

907
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 11: I just wanted to, you know, good ten pounds on me,

908
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 11: just to you know, I still want my speed. I

909
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 11: still want to feel fast. I still want to feel

910
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 11: splow so quick exactly. But at the same time, I

911
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 11: just want to be stronger with catch points, stronger when

912
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 11: I balls in my hands, you know, stronger with you know,

913
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 11: guys around me.

914
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 5: You know, So that that's the areas I wanted to

915
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 5: focus on.

916
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: How much were you working on your releases this offseason

917
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 2: when you kind of worked in the lab and you know,

918
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 2: even at the top of your routs, guys tried to

919
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 2: get physicals sometimes and just using you know, tricks and

920
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: strength and stuff to kind of just keep your speed

921
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 2: up even when guys are trying to get physical with you.

922
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 11: Yeah, the whole thing, you know, the whole time, the

923
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 11: whole time when I was uh, you know, my off

924
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 11: season training.

925
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 5: I'm still doing it to this day.

926
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 11: You know, the NFL they're going to throw a lot

927
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 11: of surprises at you.

928
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,479
Speaker 5: You know, obviously they scout to they have good players too.

929
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 11: Whoever we're facing, you know, they're in the NFL too,

930
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 11: so you know, it's it's it's just a whole bunch

931
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 11: of elite guys going against the league guys. And you know,

932
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 11: I try to focus every off season. I try to

933
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 11: focus on my my weaknesses. You know, what was my

934
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 11: weakness last year? Okay, let's just try to fix that.

935
00:33:58,240 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 11: You know, how many drivers did I have that?

936
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 3: Okay?

937
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 5: Let's try to fish that.

938
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 11: You know, it's just those those little things how you

939
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 11: know that that you know, really you know, try to

940
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 11: you know, get you be the complete receiver.

941
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 5: And you know that's why I want to be.

942
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 11: So you know, it starts now, it starts, uh, you

943
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 11: know when nobody's looking, and just got to keep going.

944
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 3: All right.

945
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: You talk about improving from a physical standpoint, but I

946
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 2: got to imagine heading into year two in an offense

947
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 2: that every wide receiver, including Alan Robinson, has been the

948
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 2: lead forever it's come through and it's like this offense

949
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 2: is tough, man Like, it's hard to learn. How much

950
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 2: does your increased level knowledge and comfort in the offense

951
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 2: help you play faster and make you a better player?

952
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 2: Once you.

953
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 5: It's it'll be a whole completely, completely different thing. You know,

954
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 5: you're one.

955
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,919
Speaker 11: You know, I knew the playbook, but you know there's

956
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 11: different spots they had me at. You know that I

957
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 11: was trying to still learn and you know, on the fly,

958
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 11: and you know you have know it and just in it,

959
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 11: you know, and actually not thinking on the field, you know,

960
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 11: doing what you know what you can do. And I

961
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 11: think that's the biggest difference with myself is now I

962
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 11: got to playbook down, been in it in the year, now,

963
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 11: understanding what coach Daves likes to call, understanding how he

964
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 11: likes to call his plays. You know, I feel like

965
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 11: now I understand him as a coach, and it helps

966
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 11: me play, you know, it helps me go out there

967
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 11: and not think and then you know, only thing I'm

968
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 11: thinking about is how can I beat the guy in

969
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 11: front of me instead of Okay, how can I run

970
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 11: this route? So that's probably the biggest difference. And you know,

971
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 11: we're still getting there. We're still getting there. So you know,

972
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 11: we'll see if.

973
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 2: You feel like that the whole route I'll do use

974
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: a metaphor, the whole route tree is blossoming for you

975
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 2: now where no matter what they're asking you to do,

976
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 2: you can go hit your landmarks. Need to be in

977
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 2: sync with the quarterback.

978
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 11: And oh yeah, always, I mean, that's that's why we do,

979
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 11: you know, that's why we throw with DJ all the time.

980
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 5: That's why we you know, do do.

981
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 11: Certain situations, you know, in certain times in practice just

982
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 11: to get ready for those those moments. You know, I'm

983
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 11: confident DJ, I'm confident on offense. Confident coach Dave's uh,

984
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 11: and I'm just you know, I'm proud of this team

985
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:53,760
Speaker 11: and we just got to execute.

986
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 5: You know, that's the biggest thing for us.

987
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 2: I didn't even asked anyone of this, Yeah, but you

988
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: brought it up with the final question if if he

989
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 2: wasn't out there, if it wasn't with the fact that

990
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 2: he was not playing in team, would you have any

991
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 2: idea that Daniel Jones towards acl last year with the

992
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: way he's moving and throwing the ball out there.

993
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 5: He looks good right now, he looks very good.

994
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 11: Right he looks very good, and you can just see

995
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 11: just how he throws the ball, how he's running. You know,

996
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 11: I can't wait to see him play this year. You know,

997
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 11: he's been working. He's been working so hard.

998
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 3: And it.

999
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 11: Really it really bounces on everybody else. You know, when

1000
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 11: we see him work, you know, we want to work

1001
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 11: as well, you know, with him. Wherever he's at, we

1002
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 11: want to be with him. And we're just following him.

1003
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 11: And uh, you know, we got all our faith in him.

1004
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 11: And you know, as far as receivers for us man,

1005
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 11: we got to make plays for him.

1006
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 5: And that's what we're gonna do this year. For sure, I'll.

1007
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 2: Cheat it one more because you said you have built

1008
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: a relationship with Elak neighbors. You guys texted back and

1009
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 2: forth a little bit. How is he coming along? And

1010
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 2: how good can that dude be once he figures everything out.

1011
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 11: Yeah, man, he's gonna be a lead. I have no

1012
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 11: worry about him. Just you know, I've seen this film

1013
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 11: before we got him.

1014
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 2: It's fun.

1015
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 5: It's fun. It's fun to watch. It's fun to watch.

1016
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 11: You know, he's he's a he's a great athlete and uh,

1017
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 11: but not only that, he's a good person, you know.

1018
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 5: You know, he's a he's a good dude in locker room.

1019
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 11: You know, he respects his guys and you know as

1020
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 11: as a you know, as a as another receiver.

1021
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 5: You know, watching him, you know that's what you want.

1022
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 11: You want to know, you want another brother in there

1023
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 11: that respects people in that locker room, but at the

1024
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 11: same time knows that he can do what he gotta do,

1025
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 11: and he's gonna.

1026
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 5: Be a good player for us.

1027
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 11: You know, I'm glad we got him in the draft,

1028
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 11: and he's gonna be a guy that will go towards

1029
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 11: you know, in the season.

1030
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 5: So we need we need him.

1031
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 2: I can't wait to see your group playoff each Thanks.

1032
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, thank you, thank you, thank you.

1033
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 2: That's a look at the Giants wide receiver room. I'm

1034
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: really looking forward to see these guys play together. A

1035
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: lot of young players, a lot of promise. Happy to

1036
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: see them put it together this year and turn the

1037
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 2: Giants wide receiver position into his strength for the first

1038
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 2: time in quite a while. I'm Johns Shmulk'll see you

1039
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:50,840
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1040
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