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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside on Giants Huddle on Giants

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Speaker 1: Platino back on the Giants Huddle with Giant Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: champion receiver Victor Cruze after the Giants knock off the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles at That Life Stadium by the account of

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Speaker 1: thirteen to seven. Here's the rapid reaction. You could always

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Speaker 1: hear it on all of your Giants social media platforms

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Speaker 1: and at Giants dot Com. Look, Victor, I know it

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Speaker 1: was dramatic. I know it came down to the final

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Speaker 1: incompletion inside the one yard line. But a win is

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Speaker 1: a win is a win, no matter how crazy or

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Speaker 1: how dramatic it might have been. Yeah, how we'll take

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Speaker 1: them however they come. Man, you know the Giants we've

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Speaker 1: been uh, you know, the season hasn't been good to

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Speaker 1: us so far, but we'll take the win. Um, Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones played a clean game. The defense played their tails

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Speaker 1: all four takeaways. Um, It's just it was happy just

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Speaker 1: to see, you know, the full team kind of come

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Speaker 1: together in the defense played just above and beyond. There's

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Speaker 1: no question that the defense stole the show today. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to take the headline from them. However, because

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Speaker 1: of the changeing offensive coordinators from Jason Garrett to Freddie Kitchens,

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Speaker 1: we do to address the offense. It wasn't pretty all

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Speaker 1: the time, but they were methodical. They took what their

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Speaker 1: eagles gave them, and most importantly, I thought, no giveaways

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Speaker 1: and the team only had two penalties today for fifteen yards.

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Speaker 1: It was huge. They didn't shoot themselves in the foot

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Speaker 1: Dan and Jones. Traditionally, when he keeps the ball and

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Speaker 1: doesn't turn the ball over, they win games and he

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Speaker 1: plays well and they win football games. So that's what

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Speaker 1: we did today. I love seeing the creativity that Freddy

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Speaker 1: Kinds doing their little fleet figure to the tight end.

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Speaker 1: Usually think flee figure, we're going down the field. It's

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Speaker 1: get some good some big yards. So it was just

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Speaker 1: good to see them mix it up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You can see they played inspired football. The offense did

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, and that usually comes when there's

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Speaker 1: a change at that position. You want to play not

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Speaker 1: only for yourself, but to prove that you know that

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Speaker 1: guy or Jason Garrett wasn't the focal point. That we

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Speaker 1: can also do this too. Now, again, the running game

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Speaker 1: did struggle some. I mean, sake Kwon Barky I think

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Speaker 1: he did have that one big explosive run that gave

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Speaker 1: and I think that was great to see, not just

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Speaker 1: for us as Giants fans um, but but for se Kwan.

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Speaker 1: I think he still has that ability to be that

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Speaker 1: But he just gotta you know, having some injuries kind

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Speaker 1: of set you back mentally, So he's gotta just continue

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Speaker 1: to put these these good moments and these big runs

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Speaker 1: down the stretch here to be the se Kuan that

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Speaker 1: we all know and love. Show me what you saw

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Speaker 1: today offensively that you think they can build on. Because

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Speaker 1: even though they only wound up with thirteen points, they

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Speaker 1: build on? What spark did you see? Well? I just

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Speaker 1: quicker down here with design plays and play calls to

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Speaker 1: Final numbers on Daniel Jones nineteen of thirty for a

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Speaker 1: You kind of see how they don't lose the games.

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Speaker 1: They make plays throughout the game, but when it's time

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Were the aready moments during the course of

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Speaker 1: They've been going with this bend but don't break now

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's Tom Brady, and he did what he needed

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Speaker 1: Tell me what you see in this pass run because

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Speaker 1: You could see Hurts was bothering on the interceptions that

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