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Speaker 1: dot Com, the Giants Moblet, the Giants Podcast Network. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Giant Subtle Podcast. John Schmoke with you

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Speaker 1: today's guest, Giants defensive lineman Leonard Williams. You can find

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Speaker 1: And now we're joined by Leonard Williams. Leonard, good to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. My friend has everything. I'm doing great, man,

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Speaker 1: It's it's good to have you guys back in the building.

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Speaker 1: What has it been like kind of making that transition

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Speaker 1: back from the stadium over here really just a week

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Speaker 1: before your season was gonna start. I mean, everything in

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Speaker 1: general has been a little interesting this year. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: camp over at the stadium, Um, you know, staying six

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Speaker 1: and you know, just trying to trying to connect as

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Speaker 1: much as possible and be a team even though all

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Speaker 1: this stuff is going on. It's been a little difficult,

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Speaker 1: but we're making it. We're making it happen. Now you've

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Speaker 1: been through a normal NFL off season a ton. You've

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Speaker 1: or contrast the level of preparedness that you and your

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Speaker 1: regular year where you had more on field time in

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Speaker 1: the off season. Yeah, I think the biggest difference is

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Speaker 1: not having those O T A s that we normally

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Speaker 1: to meet up during that time this offseason and had

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Speaker 1: to do zoom call meetings instead. And uh, during that period,

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Speaker 1: it was it was you know, this is my six

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Speaker 1: was my most difficult time trying to learn the playbook

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Speaker 1: through zoom calls. Um, because you don't have the walkthroughs,

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Speaker 1: But you know, I think guys came in, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and UM, you know, I think our team has been

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Speaker 1: doing a good job of you know, preparing the best

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Speaker 1: let our fans might not know this, but in a

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Speaker 1: normal training camp that's usually either the third or fourth

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Speaker 1: installation on the field. You guys are doing right, and

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Speaker 1: it's it's the first time this year. So did you

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Speaker 1: guys have to accelerate things that you do it at

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Speaker 1: the same pace and just maybe everything didn't going right away?

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Speaker 1: What was the adjustment like in camp once you did

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Speaker 1: like you said, usually we have O t A so

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Speaker 1: we would have already gone walked through and practice um

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Speaker 1: basically had to start from I wouldn't say from zero,

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Speaker 1: this offseason, Leonard, we talked to a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: How much have your responsibilities changed from last year's scheme

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Speaker 1: to get better. From your individual perspective, Leonard, what is

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Speaker 1: had earlier in your career. Yeah. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely excited about um, the way they've been moving

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Speaker 1: on the team in general, I think, uh, they put

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Speaker 1: a lot of emphasis on knowing that it's a people league,

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Speaker 1: meaning like, um, you know, you gotta know your guys.

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Speaker 1: and everyone's different and everyone plays the game differently, and uh,

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Speaker 1: What makes the Steelers such a tough team to go

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Speaker 1: We all wanted to be here too. That's Leonard Williams. You.

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