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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giants Huddle. Get Him in a Huddle,

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Speaker 1: Get him in a Huddle, Get Him in a Huddle

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Speaker 1: in New York Giants Podcast. I'm Madeline Burke, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of The Giants Huddle podcast, which you

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Speaker 1: what you hear. Today, we've got a couple of Giants

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Speaker 1: rookies joining us on the program. We'll have DeAndre Baker

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Speaker 1: here in a little bit, but first we've got Big Dexi,

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Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence in studio DEXI. How you doing? How you doing?

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Speaker 1: How you doing pretty pretty good? How about yourself? How's

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Speaker 1: how's adjusting to life as a professional football player. It's

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Speaker 1: definitely different from college. Um. In college, I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about all the outside factors, all had to

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Speaker 1: worry about his class and in football. Now I got

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Speaker 1: worried about life and taxes and budgets and managing in houses.

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Speaker 1: To find that type of stuff, it's definitely a little

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Speaker 1: different tack and stuff like that that comes such a

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Speaker 1: fast it's got to be nice though. There's some rookie

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Speaker 1: things in place too for the league to help you

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Speaker 1: guys adjust to that. Oh yeah, we definitely get good

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Speaker 1: coaching on that. Um every day pretty much just every

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Speaker 1: topic you can think of getting coached. You mentioned you

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Speaker 1: had just class and just football, but now it's just football.

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Speaker 1: Has the game changed for you at all? Um? I say,

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Speaker 1: the speed is definitely different. Offensive limens are much faster

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Speaker 1: than heywhere in college. UM, running backs a little more

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Speaker 1: skilled going up. It's a little different, very different. But UM,

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Speaker 1: I just say it's definitely fun. Um, you feel yourself,

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Speaker 1: You get better each day. Um. The competition is never down,

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Speaker 1: so you always got to come ready. And so that's

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Speaker 1: that's definitely one of the departs that I enjoyed the most.

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Speaker 1: What type of learner are you? How do you go

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Speaker 1: about absorbing this new information and this new playbook? How

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Speaker 1: do how do I see it? I write it down

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Speaker 1: I think that's how line best. You're a very versatile player.

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Speaker 1: You can play really all three positions from the shade

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Speaker 1: of the three technique. How do you adjust and does

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Speaker 1: actually it's really not. I feel very comfortable and natural

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Speaker 1: reasons that they drafted me because they kind of saw

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Speaker 1: that out of my tape. Uh. I just said, it's

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Speaker 1: a different mindset when you're inside that one is dangerous

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Speaker 1: little more sexy, I say, um, And then we're in

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Speaker 1: how to just the timing of things are a little

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Speaker 1: Like I said, just to speed. You gotta know how

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Speaker 1: How important is a strong D line to a defense? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Very important. UM's it all starts up front so if

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Speaker 1: My my theory, it makes the back seven jobs easy.

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Speaker 1: And um, so that's just that's kind of just an

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Speaker 1: little bit before too, but you're coming out of Clemson

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Speaker 1: Not only were you guys a solid unit, but you

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Speaker 1: were also a really good group of friends. First of all,

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Speaker 1: talk about on the field. What made you guys so good?

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Speaker 1: to dress up in a power Rangers suit all five

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Speaker 1: I just said, you know, pink is a is a

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Speaker 1: just flying, making plays, you know, just just doing your things, soaring, soaring,

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Speaker 1: So that kind of explains me. It's very on brand though.

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Speaker 1: You've got this comp evidence in this swagger about you.

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Speaker 1: I feel like you're ready to be a fan favorite

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Speaker 1: in this organization. Most definitely fans gonna love me and

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Speaker 1: the rest of this unit too. You got Christian Wilkins,

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Farrell. You guys are all getting drafted into the

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Speaker 1: NFL in different organizations, But how much have you guys

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Speaker 1: stayed in touch through this process we communicate. We communicate

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Speaker 1: just about every day. What's the group chat like? Pretty funny.

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Speaker 1: We just talked about our days. You know, what happened

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Speaker 1: on the field, what what plays you got messed up all?

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Speaker 1: of the manset. And so in that group messages a

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. Came to say any specifics

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Speaker 1: like that. I appreciate the fact that you're giggling just

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Speaker 1: thinking about it, but also that you're protecting your friends,

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Speaker 1: like I not gonna tell you who got pain. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you know there are some things that are Gary

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Speaker 1: He says that we think Dexter can develop into a

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Speaker 1: I just say, just a mindset. Uh, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: see this game evolved over the years? Um? Definitely. I

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Speaker 1: tell us later. I'll tell you later. Yeah, after you

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Speaker 1: go up against yeare exactly all right, that's fair. That's fair. Um,

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Speaker 1: When you look ahead, what do you see your career trajectory?

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Speaker 1: What do you want your career to look like? Um, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I just I just want to come in every day

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Speaker 1: don't don't waste any days, and ultimately that's gonna help

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Speaker 1: me be the best version of me. Um, just knowing

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna work. You know, I'm gonna make you happy,

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Speaker 1: win some help, win some games. Um, hopefully I'll get

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Speaker 1: a little a couple of snaps on offense, Uh, trying

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Speaker 1: But I'm definitely gonna bring just a lot of humor,

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