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Speaker 1: Joe Judge, who joins us right now. Joe, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. How are you very good? Guys?

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Speaker 1: We're doing great now. Last time we talked to you,

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Speaker 1: you finished up the interview and then you fired draffensive

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Speaker 1: talk to us. No, definitely, not, definitely not. You know

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Speaker 1: that that's uh, you know, it's an interesting thing because

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia's job just came open yesterday, Joe, And you know,

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Speaker 1: I try to explain to fans out there what the

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Speaker 1: interview process for you guys is like. Maybe you could

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Speaker 1: shed take a minute or two here to shed a

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Speaker 1: general manager to select the absolute right guy for the team,

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Speaker 1: and what it's like going through that. Yeah, I would

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Speaker 1: say that, you know, they're all generally different, is the

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Speaker 1: first thing that I've always been told, and I've been

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Speaker 1: For me, it was it was a lot of just

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Speaker 1: philosophical talks and conversations about what we valued, how we

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Speaker 1: but I would say that, you know, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: very tough decision for ownership and the general manage to

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Speaker 1: really make. Because why you think these interviews are really

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Speaker 1: you know, almost like week well, things are not. They're

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Speaker 1: very quick snapshots. You've got to get across your message.

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Speaker 1: They've got to ask the right questions kind of get

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Speaker 1: length of the interview, you know, is very important in

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Speaker 1: For me, it was a long one. I spent the

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Speaker 1: well on top of that. Yeah, I think this year,

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Speaker 1: the one thing that's unique about it um talking to

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Speaker 1: other in terms of you know, if you're hiring, is

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Speaker 1: If you're the guy you know interviewing. You know, is

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Speaker 1: to me, the second interviews in this process this year

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Speaker 1: the zoom stuff. No. I would think that every team

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Speaker 1: asks a prospective head coach who his staff is. Isn't

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Speaker 1: that like one of the more important questions and to

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Speaker 1: grow them inside. Talking to New York Giants head coach

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Speaker 1: Joe Judge on the Fan and CBS Sports Network, we

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Speaker 1: are now more than a week of a after your

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Speaker 1: it was obviously very challenging year for everyone on the

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Speaker 1: We'll Keeping Pat here was definitely a priority for us.

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Speaker 1: Um we know Path's gonna have a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 1: Daniel was physically able to go on the field. Uh.

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Speaker 1: To me, it would be more about making better adjustments

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Speaker 1: game plans. To me, it truly comes down those sixty

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Speaker 1: minutes of execution. And you know, I've talked to our

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Speaker 1: players before I left. I said, when you watch these games,

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Speaker 1: sit back, relax, allow yourselves, just watch and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: games that also watch the game from the lens that

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Speaker 1: you've learned to really see it. Look at the situations,

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Speaker 1: look at the things that really impact the game, turnovers, penalties,

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Speaker 1: the mental errors. You know, take a look at you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe something someone could have done differently and how we

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Speaker 1: would have handled it, and really try to look through

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Speaker 1: that lens. And that's kind of when I watch it.

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Speaker 1: I kind of sit down, I watch it and you know,

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Speaker 1: make a mental another sometimes shots some down a notebook

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Speaker 1: that I you know, come back in. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of texts and going back and forth. Be honest with

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Speaker 1: between you know, me and other members are staff in

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Speaker 1: terms of all, right, just have a situation, what we

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Speaker 1: want to do differently, how can we handle that, or hey,

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Speaker 1: it's something that we should implement what we're doing. Um,

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Speaker 1: But I think the common thread with all these teams

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Speaker 1: always ends up being just execution. As you watch these games,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously intensity is up, but it's always a

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Speaker 1: couple of plays. It's never, you know, very rarely is

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Speaker 1: a blowout, right, It's always a couple of plays here

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Speaker 1: or there, and how could you handle it different It's

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Speaker 1: it's a fumble here, it's an interception there, it's a

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Speaker 1: costly penalty that kills a drive. It's a mental area

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Speaker 1: where someone this is a blitz pick up and the

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Speaker 1: quarterback gets strip sack. So there's something that always, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of ties to it. To me, it's who can

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Speaker 1: do the best job for those sixty minutes, you know,

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Speaker 1: on that given day, because at this point all the

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Speaker 1: teams in are capable of winning any game on any day.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get to this. I don't I want

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Speaker 1: to get specific about a particular team. But first though,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady was amazing on Saturday night, was he not?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he will he and he knows how to

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Speaker 1: stand in that pocket. He knows how to read the

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Speaker 1: read the defenses. Um. But and this is a hypothetical,

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Speaker 1: and I know you've been up with Bill in New England.

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Speaker 1: I was just wondering how you would have handled, like, say,

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Speaker 1: a week seventeen game where you know where you are

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and let's say your guys are healthy.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about astin guys that have bumped some

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Speaker 1: bruises that are maybe a little older and they need it.

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Speaker 1: But I do think that some teams get a little

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Speaker 1: bit careless in the final week of the season when

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Speaker 1: the game doesn't really matter anything, and they give players off,

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Speaker 1: and then when they come back and play the next week,

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Speaker 1: they don't look right. I know that wasn't the way

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Speaker 1: that it was done with Bill Belichick. Is that how

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Speaker 1: you would carry your team? You know? I think, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think it always comes down to the specific team

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Speaker 1: and players involved in that specific case where it's not

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Speaker 1: going to affect seating one way another. I think for

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Speaker 1: the most part, most players want to go out there

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Speaker 1: and play a couple of series. That's from my experience

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Speaker 1: of listening to kind of older veteran players. There were

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Speaker 1: times we discussed sitting guys and they came in and said, no,

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Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and get the first quarter

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Speaker 1: under my belt before we get into the playoffs. Um So,

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Speaker 1: I think there's things you have to consider in terms

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Speaker 1: of who the team is and how they respond everything.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, you know, you could do ahead

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Speaker 1: and say, well, some such such team, rest of the

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Speaker 1: players came back rusty and started slow. I think that

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Speaker 1: can happen either way. I think it happened either way.

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Speaker 1: But to me it's you know, you want to play

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Speaker 1: your players as much as possible. You want to put

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Speaker 1: them out there. You still want to be successful in

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Speaker 1: final game up. You know, I don't really see any

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Speaker 1: game evers a throwaway game or you know, take for

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Speaker 1: granted games, So you want to put your team out

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Speaker 1: thing in the chance to be successfulness. Sometimes at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year that does include getting some other

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Speaker 1: guys some reps, because as you get into the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: they may end up having a significant role that maybe

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Speaker 1: they haven't had throughout the regular season. You want them

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Speaker 1: to be prepared as well. So there's a time you

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Speaker 1: want to go ahead and make sure you guys rotate

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Speaker 1: in there and get as many reps as can. Bet see,

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Speaker 1: it's a tricky situation because I look at what the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers did in Week seventeen, and there was a

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Speaker 1: playoff spot on the line for the Cleveland Browns. It

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Speaker 1: also affected other teams in the league like the Miami Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers did not put their best players out

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Speaker 1: there in that game, and that had an effect on

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Speaker 1: other organizations. You know, what's your opinion on that in

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Speaker 1: that situation as opposed to your opinion on maybe making

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Speaker 1: a change in game, like we saw what the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Eagles did in Week seventeen. Pre Honestly, I didn't pay

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Speaker 1: too much attention to how Pittsburgh handled the week's seven

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Speaker 1: team deal. Um like sat Ben and they sat Marquet's pouncing.

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Speaker 1: So I mean they didn't play Ben Roethlisberger, so clearly

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Speaker 1: they weren't, you know, playing their best players at the

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Speaker 1: most importan and positions. You know, look, I have to

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Speaker 1: ask Mike and talk more about what I thought was

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Speaker 1: behind that, you know, obviously in terms of how that

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Speaker 1: goes right there you know, was he trying to get

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Speaker 1: somebody else rest prepare the case they had to play

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs. Um, I don't know where Ben was

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Speaker 1: with everything in terms of health. Was I can't really

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Speaker 1: speak on that team right there. So did you call

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban after last night's game congratulate him and say

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Speaker 1: how you can get the Bante Smith on your team.

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Speaker 1: I'll definitely touch basement talking without the spring, I'll shoot

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Speaker 1: I shot him a Texas morning. Other than that, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, the score, I kind of carried

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Speaker 1: away and fallen asleep before the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: but woke up to a lot of role time texts.

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Speaker 1: But they're definitely impressive. There's a lot. There was a

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Speaker 1: lot of good players in that field from both teams

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Speaker 1: last night. Could you imagine coaching against them at Mississippi

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Speaker 1: State as opposed to be in the New York Giant

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Speaker 1: head coach, that would be that would be an awful

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Speaker 1: tough job to do. I'm sure the last one for

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Speaker 1: I know you're so focused and you work so hard,

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Speaker 1: and we know you're going to be in that building

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Speaker 1: all the time. But in the off season, do you

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Speaker 1: have any hobbies? You know what I mean there's things

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Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I'm not a big golfer. Um. I

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Speaker 1: haven't gone hunting in a little while, to be honestly,

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, living in Massachusets for years, that

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Speaker 1: wasn't something that was really readily available. I haven't that

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Speaker 1: chance to go out in Jersey yet. But look, it's

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Speaker 1: mostly family time for me, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: kind of like it free time. It's I got four

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Speaker 1: children to try and catch up with as much as

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Speaker 1: possible to be involved with them. They all play youth sports,

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Speaker 1: try to beat every game I can, and then you

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Speaker 1: know around the house, there's always something going on with

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Speaker 1: the kids. So to be honest with if I'm not working,

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Speaker 1: my hobby really ends up become my family. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: sounds like me told you, it's family and it's worth

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Speaker 1: I don't have any family. Yeah. Well, Joey was great

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Speaker 1: talking to you and getting to know you this year.

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Speaker 1: Best of luck in this offseason and hopefully we'll get

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk to you soon. Yeah, definitely, guys,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you, all right, Joe. Thanks. That's Joe Judge,

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Speaker 1: New York Giants head football on the Fans. Gotta had

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Speaker 1: him on for an hour. Yeah, oh easily, easily