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Speaker 1: Welcome to the newest edition of the Giant Subtle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: John Smoke with you today's guest Giants Defensive Back and

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Speaker 1: Special Team or Nate Ebner. Remind you can find the

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Speaker 1: we appreciate the time today, Thanks so much for being

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Speaker 1: with us. Yeah, no worries, thanks for having me. All right, Nate,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's get right to it first. How do you

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Speaker 1: think the team got back to work this week? Coming

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Speaker 1: off that mini by off, that disappointing lost to Philly

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. You know, it was tough for you had

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Speaker 1: but get our bodies right. But you know, today it

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Speaker 1: was a really good work day and you know, guys

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Speaker 1: are right back at it. And because that's that's really

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Speaker 1: all we can do at the end of the day

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Speaker 1: is get back to work. And uh, like I've said,

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Speaker 1: control what we can control. And that's you know, putting

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Speaker 1: in work to prepare for the opponent this week. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know that's really it. How is this team kind

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Speaker 1: of state together mentally? Obviously you've lost more games than

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Speaker 1: you've wanted to, but you've continued to come out and

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Speaker 1: play hard every week. No, I mean the team has

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Speaker 1: been been good. It's it's actually impressive how well uh

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Speaker 1: this this team has stuck together through thick and thin,

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Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, they work extremely hard. Everyone

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Speaker 1: works extremely hard from the training camp to uh the season.

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Speaker 1: It's just built really as as the weeks have gone on. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and that's been impressive to see and I'm actually proud

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Speaker 1: to be a part of that. Um, it's been tough,

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Speaker 1: but I think we know, we know as a group

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Speaker 1: it's tough to swallow every week, but we know we're

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Speaker 1: of the control goles, which is of work we put

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Speaker 1: in for our opponents. And the team has done a

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Speaker 1: really good job of just focusing on that. So it's

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Speaker 1: been good and they for the most part, except for

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Speaker 1: that forty Niners game. You guys have been in every game,

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Speaker 1: you know, that first week against the Steelers, you guys

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Speaker 1: are right there at halftime, you go down to the

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Speaker 1: wire and in all the division games. What needs to

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Speaker 1: improve in order to kind of get this team, you know,

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Speaker 1: over the top? And you know sometimes it's a play

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter that that causes you to lose,

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Speaker 1: even if it's close at the end. One of the

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Speaker 1: things you guys need to do to just finish these

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Speaker 1: games better and start coming in with victories. You know, Um,

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Speaker 1: uh we we gotta start just start making the little

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Speaker 1: that throughout a game? Um, you know, a couple too many,

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Speaker 1: all along, we just got to continue to work to

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Speaker 1: Guys continue to work um their tails off like they

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Speaker 1: Um it it's gonna be there for us. And your

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Speaker 1: And that's been the miset and um, you know it's

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Speaker 1: it's a really a good team atmosphere to be a

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Speaker 1: part of a lot of selfless guys. What did that

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Speaker 1: that's what we're going to continue to do. And um,

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Speaker 1: the most part, you've kept everything in front of you.

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Speaker 1: How important has that been to executing some of these

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Speaker 1: you about the special teams outfit here, Nate, because I

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Speaker 1: really think for the most part, you guys have done

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Speaker 1: my friend. That's Giant Safety and Special Team's ACE, Nate Evner.

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