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Speaker 1: Welcome to GILLIANUS Playoff Preview Live, presented by Pepsi c

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Speaker 1: Row Sugar on the fan, Jones takes the staff, rolls right,

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Speaker 1: shubble pass for Berkeley Barkley in for the two pointed version.

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Speaker 1: The New York Giants have pump to London and rang

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Speaker 1: the bell of the Green Bay Packers. Two fires into

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Speaker 1: the end zone. Its plant in the one yard line.

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Speaker 1: Giants standing up. He's not in very well. Bran Wow.

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Speaker 1: The Giants stop. Holy Gown, the home of New York

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Speaker 1: Giants Football. He's double a year Ryant Dabile pumpet his

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Speaker 1: fist to the crowd. There. It is the final score

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Speaker 1: of the Giants, cardy eighth, the Colts tennant and the

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Speaker 1: Giants will make it to the postseason as the sixth years.

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Speaker 1: Bob Pappa, Carl Banks and Tiki Barber. Hey, good evening everyone.

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Speaker 1: We will give you into the Blue Owl House here

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Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Bap Pap, along with Carl Banks Tiki

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Speaker 1: will join us ullmentarily. Giants Playoff Preview Live is brought

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Speaker 1: up for you from the Blue Ale House here in Riverdale,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. We've got uh. We're live until nine pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern here on w f AM. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: the Giants and the Vikings. Are gonna be joined on

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Speaker 1: the phone momentarily by Giants defensive coordinator Wake Martindale. Giants

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Darius Slayton is gonna join us via the telephone.

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Speaker 1: Will also talk via the telephone with Mike Kafka, the

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of the New York Giants. And uh, we're

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Speaker 1: waiting Tiki's grand arrival. But two times Super Bowl champ

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Speaker 1: Carl Banks, how cool is to be back in the playoffs? Finally,

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Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. And I think it's awesome with

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Speaker 1: these great fans here that showed up here at the

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Speaker 1: Blue Oil House, how about it? Huh? Listen, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Playoffs and the Giants have not been synonymous for

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Speaker 1: almost eight years, and this is is the energy around

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Speaker 1: this team. The fans have been just incredible all season long.

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Speaker 1: Because you know, Bob and I talked earlier this year

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Speaker 1: and I say, I said, mentlife has been an Airbnb

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Speaker 1: for opposing teams over the last two years, right around Halloween,

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Speaker 1: it was filled with opposing fans, and you know, Giants

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Speaker 1: fans showed up and showed out this year, and I

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Speaker 1: think I know they made you guys made such a

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Speaker 1: great difference. So we're gonna talk about that. But one

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Speaker 1: of the guys that's been a key component to all

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Speaker 1: of that, the Wizard. The Wizard himself, I know that

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Speaker 1: he would feel very comfortable in this environment here at

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Speaker 1: the Blue Al House if he wasn't working right now

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Speaker 1: working on a game plan to deal with the Minnesota Vikings,

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Speaker 1: but joining us right now on the guest line, the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, Wink Martindale. Coach

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Speaker 1: Bob Popacarl Banks, thanks for a couple of minutes this morning.

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Speaker 1: What are we pouring you if you were here, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, I'd love to be there wings

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Speaker 1: and have appairs with you all and with the great

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Speaker 1: thing they're already so but we'll go you here in Minnesota. Coach,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having us on and we talk a lot

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Speaker 1: about just the job that your staff has done in

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Speaker 1: preparing players and not taking anything for granted because you've

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Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries on defense, but it's one

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Speaker 1: play after the next. It's not let's get in the

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Speaker 1: tank if they give up a big play. It seems

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Speaker 1: that though your team has has been so resilient that

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, that started early on here.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you when you can build up trust

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Speaker 1: understand that you know there's gonna be mistakes made. We

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Speaker 1: just want to we just want to get the opponent

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Speaker 1: you know, and just play relentless effort for sixty minutes

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Speaker 1: also built confidence that anybody getting off the bluff, get

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Speaker 1: anybody it's getting off the bus, obviously he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: able to play some decent source. But it's just you know,

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Speaker 1: the power of positivity of how we attack each day,

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Speaker 1: how we attack each play, how we attack each practice,

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, I think it's worked out really

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Speaker 1: well for US coach Cordell flot draft choice of you

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Speaker 1: and you're exactly right about Cordell because you know, he's

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Speaker 1: and uh, it's just, uh, it's been fun to watch

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Speaker 1: you know, there's just a great alignment between the coaching

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Speaker 1: you know, and there's just you know, a great organizational

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Speaker 1: Obviously you played the Vikings just a short time ago.

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Speaker 1: You get another chance to play him. You know, for

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Speaker 1: all those years that I did boxing, Um, you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of times that you're getting a fight and

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Speaker 1: to feel as much you guys went against Justin Jefferson,

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Speaker 1: got a chance. Your players got a chance to sort

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Speaker 1: Think so, Bob, you know, and you know, I have

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Speaker 1: a great challenge I think, Um, you know, there's two

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Speaker 1: you know. And I'm excited for this playoff atmosphere. You know,

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Speaker 1: You know, one of those pactor in its the Cinderella Man.

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Speaker 1: know that was it's a very similar situation of what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about. Coach. Obviously, you know they had some

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Speaker 1: so recently. Well, I think that you know that that's

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Speaker 1: you you all seen that firsthand. They they're not expecting

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Speaker 1: So you know there's I'm sure they've seen some things

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Speaker 1: They go back and watch everything, They go back and

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Speaker 1: just talk about um, the importance of football. I you

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Speaker 1: they're smart. It's a positions defense. I've said that many

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Speaker 1: I think this year we've had nineteen nineteen different guys

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Speaker 1: the best way to sum up this team is they're

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Speaker 1: greater than the sum of their parts. Yeah, And it

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Speaker 1: just goes to show you that coaching in this league matters.

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Speaker 1: It does, and I think we saw pretty early on

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Speaker 1: in this season that this is one of the best

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Speaker 1: coach of not the best coach team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And they're not perfect by any needs, but they find

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Speaker 1: ways to fight and stay in games and come from

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Speaker 1: behind and have resiliency about themselves that I don't think

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Speaker 1: you see it a lot of different clubs. You know,

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Speaker 1: we should have asked Darius Slave. You asked about Karl

436
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Speaker 1: his early struggles, and you know, he was kind of

437
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Speaker 1: an afterthought. They were trying to trade him. The same

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Speaker 1: thing if he said about Kenny Golladay. I mean, Kenny

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Speaker 1: Golladay has been trying to get on the field all

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Speaker 1: season long, trying to be irrelevant in some capacity. And

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Speaker 1: we saw it a couple of weeks ago when he

442
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Speaker 1: you know, screened against Minnesota. Actually he threw a screen

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Speaker 1: out there for one of the one of those real

444
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Speaker 1: wilds for Isaiah Hodgens, and we saw the touchdown last week.

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Speaker 1: Get a guy like that could easily have just laid

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Speaker 1: down and said I'm done. Yeah, I don't. I don't

447
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Speaker 1: want to compete anymore. Nobody likes me. I don't want

448
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Speaker 1: to compete. But that speaks to the professionalism and the

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Speaker 1: I think the culture that they have put forth, because

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Speaker 1: you know when we when I joined you guys this

451
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: summer was late July and we just basically said, what

452
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Speaker 1: are the expectations for the team? Right, this didn't come out.

453
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Speaker 1: Nobody thought the playoffs were on the horizon. Growth was

454
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Speaker 1: like the thing, like they would have been awesome. Right,

455
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Speaker 1: They can improve a couple of games and then build

456
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Speaker 1: from there. But if you listen to UH coach Dabo,

457
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Speaker 1: this is what's part of their plan. And it just

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Speaker 1: speaks to coaching. Like you said, because a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams and you've been around them, I have, and you've

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Speaker 1: talked to a lot of coaches and gyms when they

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Speaker 1: got players that get hurt, it's almost like they throw

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Speaker 1: up their hands as an excuse for well, if we lose,

463
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Speaker 1: we didn't have the players. These guys whenever they give them,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're doing a good job, Joe Shane

465
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Speaker 1: and company of aligning with what this team needs. But

466
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they're getting guys there

467
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,239
Speaker 1: are not on rosters. These guys are sitting on their

468
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Speaker 1: couch and they come in and they seem to fit

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Speaker 1: with what they want to do. Yeah, what would be

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Speaker 1: surprised if James Washington and we just signed from Dallas

471
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Speaker 1: Cowboys got cut as five catches in forty yards on

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, I wouldn't be surprised. But I think they've

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Speaker 1: created a culture that makes you want to be there.

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Speaker 1: It makes you want to have your say and some

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Speaker 1: piece of a game, even if it's not the biggest

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Speaker 1: piece of the game. Now they have their stars. Sa

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Speaker 1: Kwan has turned into turned back into the player that

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Speaker 1: everybody thought he was going to be. And I remember

479
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Speaker 1: I was out there early in training camp. You guys

480
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Speaker 1: were there all the time, but we went out for

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Speaker 1: a show and Sa Kwan told me, He's like, I

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Speaker 1: love with how they're gonna use me and Joe Shane's

483
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Speaker 1: that our strongest strength, Our biggest strength is gonna be

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Speaker 1: our offensive line, even though they had a lot of

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Speaker 1: injuries and our run game. I didn't realize that run

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Speaker 1: game would be Daniel Daniel Jones as well, who had

487
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Speaker 1: seven hundred plus ours and seven touchdowns. So I think

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Speaker 1: they've they've pieced together something that makes sense, even though

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Speaker 1: on paper you would say they're not nearly good enough

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Speaker 1: to be a playoff team. And that's awesome, but it

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Speaker 1: makes sense. Every week. Yes, that's the thing about it.

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Speaker 1: They've created a profile that every week, if they do

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Speaker 1: the things they're they're gonna be in games. You know,

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Speaker 1: unless they're just dramatically outmatched, which in the first Philadelphia

495
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Speaker 1: game they were de Troy outplayed them, but everyone else

496
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Speaker 1: they're right there. They have an opportunity to get back

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Speaker 1: or to win a football Well. I love how especially Wink.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys just chatted with a Wink before

499
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Speaker 1: I got here. Wink will tell you and where he

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Speaker 1: doesn't tell you, but I don't think. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if he says this, but you can clearly see this.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you in a position to make a play.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna make that play here, but I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: change the way I call a defense because you're not

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Speaker 1: experienced enough. And so in some ways that empowers you.

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Speaker 1: You almost feel like bad for letting the team down.

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Speaker 1: If you're put the position to make a play, you

508
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Speaker 1: don't go and make that play. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: why he feels so confident. So when you know zero

510
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Speaker 1: blitz is and you know, bringing the house and letting

511
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Speaker 1: rookies or or or practice squad guys try to cover

512
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Speaker 1: some of the best receivers in the NFL, and the

513
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Speaker 1: thing is he's like, just get him to the ground,

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Speaker 1: and you can get him to the ground, we can

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Speaker 1: play another down. You know, t want to ask you

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Speaker 1: about Carl and I talked about this perception and reality.

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Speaker 1: So Golladay has had this god awful season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's done nothing since he's been a Giant as far

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Speaker 1: as touchdowns or anything like that. I mean, he did

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Speaker 1: get his first, he did finally, but I mean when

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Speaker 1: you think of the list of guys that have gotten

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Speaker 1: their first touchdown and then some before he ever got

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Speaker 1: one of his price tag, you're sitting there and you're saying,

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Speaker 1: and then they kind of show him and he's kind

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00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: of sitting there. But perception is not always reality. Because

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Speaker 1: what we did learn was when they after they clinched

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Speaker 1: the division and they all went out to a nightclub,

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Speaker 1: rushed out in New York City, Kwan Shepherd, Kenny Golladay

529
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: picked up the tab for the whole team. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're in the tank and you're checked out, you might

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Speaker 1: not even go yeah, I'm saying, oh man, so so

532
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Speaker 1: it must And then you saw the way they all

533
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: were so far, he secluded even though he's not playing,

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Speaker 1: he's included. And that's that's that's the true definition of

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Speaker 1: a team. And it's hard to like find the perfect

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Speaker 1: combination that makes that dynamic work. But I mean, I've

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Speaker 1: been there, Carl. I'm sure you've been. There's times I

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Speaker 1: sat on the sideline when Sean Bennett was playing, Joe

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Speaker 1: Montgomery was playing. I'm sitting there like, dude, I'm a

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Speaker 1: disgruntled employee, right, I'm not happy right now, but when

541
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Speaker 1: my number was called, you go play, right. And but

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Speaker 1: that's you know, you talk about the definition of a team,

543
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: but it's also, to his credit, the definition of a teammate. Yes, right,

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Speaker 1: he didn't bring the mood down like whatever his situation was,

545
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: he's happy for the guys, but he's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, he wanted to try to get something on

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Speaker 1: the books, but you know, just to be a teammate

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00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: in no situations. And we haven't heard anything on in

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Speaker 1: the locker room though about him being a bad guy. No.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the hardest thing to do as a professional

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Speaker 1: athlete is watch someone else do your job. Right. It's

552
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: hard to sit and watch because you know that you

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Speaker 1: want to be a part of it. You know that

554
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: you can be a part of it, but someone else

555
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: is doing it. And and to keep your mind right.

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Speaker 1: As a testament to the honesty I think of of

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable. He doesn't not gonna beat around the boys.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna ps you and tell you you know

559
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: this is going to happen or it's not going He's

560
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: gonna tell you exactly what you need to do. And

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00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: if you do it, then you're gonna play. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: get some burn. If you don't, you're gonna sit there.

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest example of this was the whole

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00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: take Crowder and I forget the DV that we're Darus

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00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: Williams and we're bitching after one of those games, and

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Speaker 1: you know he's Brian Dable said, look, I'm gonna have

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00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: a conversation with him. You didn't hear another thing about it, right.

568
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: It just got squashed like that, And not a lot

569
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Speaker 1: of organizations of teams or coaches can handle it that way.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's take some questions. We've got some fans here

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Speaker 1: at the Blue Oulhouse, Brandon, who we got? We got?

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Speaker 1: What's your name? My man? Come on, Mike Vivelo, what's

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00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 1: our voice? And before we get this started, please everyone

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Speaker 1: be respectful when we're when we're talking. You know, we

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00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: got kids in the audience and all uh, you got

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00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: your hair slicked up, you're ready to go right now,

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Speaker 1: You've got two Instagram lot alright, guys. Daniel Jones Uh.

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Speaker 1: In the Colts Colts game, he had eleven carries and

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Speaker 1: two rushing touchdowns. How important is Daniel Jones running the

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Speaker 1: ball in this game? To me, it's one of the

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Speaker 1: most important factors. Making plays with his feet important down.

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Speaker 1: So Daniel Jones running the ball, Well, I'm I'm not

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Speaker 1: the offensive expert that he is, but I can tell

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00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: you this is an offense that does what's necessary. So

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00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: it's in the game plan if they need it. If

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Speaker 1: sake Barn Barcoley is getting it done, that's where they're

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Speaker 1: gonna go with. But you know, having the threat of

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones a legitimate threat, they've got to honor it.

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Speaker 1: And whether or not they use it a lot or

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00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: a little, I think it's gonna depend on how they

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00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 1: get the run game going with the traditional running back. Now,

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00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: Carl's right, if you can hand it off to the

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00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: running back and let him take the hits. Do that.

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00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Daniel Jones took a couple of hits in

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Speaker 1: that Colts game that made it just cringe a little bit.

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Speaker 1: You haven't quite learned how you know. It's interesting because

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Speaker 1: if you look at Josh Allen, who is a runner,

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Speaker 1: he runs like a running back, like he sets you

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00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: up like a running back. He tries to make you

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Speaker 1: miss like a running Daniel Jones doesn't quite have that

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Speaker 1: skill yet. So if Sa Kwan can take those carries handed,

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00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: the se kuon. But I think there was an example

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00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: in that Indian Apples Colts game right before halftime where

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00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: you saw like the mind of of Mike Kafka and

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable working in coalition with each other and Daniel

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Speaker 1: Jones on a design QB run. They're talking about how

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Speaker 1: are we gonna get in the field goal position, like

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Speaker 1: how are we gonna manage our time outs? And they're

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Speaker 1: thinking about it before they even call the play. And

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Speaker 1: Dabel you can read his mouth, he says on the

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Speaker 1: sideline when Daniel Jones goes down and bounce, this is

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Speaker 1: where we're gonna use our time out, well, Daniel Jones,

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00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: because he's a smart runner, gets the first down and

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Speaker 1: goes out of bounds and they don't have to use

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Speaker 1: the time out like there's a there's above the xs

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Speaker 1: and ohs kind of game planning relationship with with with

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Speaker 1: Kafka and Dable and Daniel Jones. That's allowing them to

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Speaker 1: be successful. And if it requires running him running the football,

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Speaker 1: because you're you're not guarding the extra athlete on the

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Speaker 1: field that is the quarterback. Believe me, they're gonna do that,

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Speaker 1: especially in the playoffs. Let's go to Frank and Scotch planes. Frank,

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Speaker 1: you're on Big Blue Playoff preview live on the Good

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Speaker 1: Evening's Frank Happy one day. Hey, listen my take on

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Speaker 1: this game. If that's so much on the on the

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Speaker 1: offense side of the ball for the Giants, I know

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00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: they need to play well, no turnovers, strow the ball.

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00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: But I think the Giants, I think the defense, the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, will win this game for

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Speaker 1: the Giants. If if they get into a shootout with

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Speaker 1: Cousins and the Vikings, I no, we're not gonna be

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Speaker 1: in the shoot I'd be very worried. Does not happening.

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Speaker 1: The Giants aren't gonna be in the shoot out. They

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Speaker 1: have no no, no reason or no want to be

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Speaker 1: in a shootout. And Carl and I talked about this today.

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00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: Carl comes on every week on our show, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about this today. I think they've gained an advantage

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00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: because of Landon Collins's health and they use him effectively

638
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Speaker 1: as a linebacker. He's a dB, and it looks like

639
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: you have seven dbs on the field, but Landon Collins

640
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: gives Wink a lot of versatility to play man coverage

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Speaker 1: and double whoever, double Justin Jefferson and and and cover T. J.

642
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: Hockinson with a qualified dB even though he's technically a linebacker.

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00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: And Wink says, their position list right, so he's at

644
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: linebacker depth and at any point he could be a

645
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: linebacker or he could be an extra defensive back or

646
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 1: a combination of both. And I think that allows them

647
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: to put pressure on Kirk Cousins because you have so

648
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: much variety in the second and third level. So if

649
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: from a Wink Martindale standpoint, you know he's not gonna

650
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 1: change his m O. Right, pressure, you know, pressure bus pipes,

651
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: that's what that's what he wants to do. And you

652
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: love it, you can die by it. But you know

653
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: sometimes he's gonna get home. You're gonna make the get

654
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: ran a blitz on the last play in Minnesota, and

655
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson got enough for them to at least line

656
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: up for a kick. Brandon. We got the star of

657
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: last year's NFL Draft, Sam Princes here, Sam, thank you. Bob.

658
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: You know this game, the Giants are gonna have to

659
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: cover Justin Jefferson. They're gonna have to containe because they're

660
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: not gonna stop them. Just Jefferson the best receiering league.

661
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: Last game, they did not have both Xayer McKinney and

662
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: Ray Jackson. This game, they're gonna have them both. How

663
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: do you think Wake is gonna use them to somehow

664
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Speaker 1: contain him and win this ball game? Yeah, that's a

665
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: good question. I think that um and Justin Jefferson's is

666
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: trending to be the best wide receiver in the history

667
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: of the National Football League. He's averaging ninety eight point

668
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: five or six or something like that yards per game,

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00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: which is the most by I think twelve yards of

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00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: anybody in the history of the league. So he's a

671
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: great player. But I think what we're gonna see is

672
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: a lot of combo coverages on him. What I mean

673
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: by that, you take a safety, you put him in

674
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: a robber position. The safety the robber usually just hangs

675
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 1: around and follows the quarterback's eyes. And but there's another

676
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: way to use the robber double the best ride receiver. Right,

677
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: so it's single high, but the robber is sitting there

678
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: guarding whoever the most dangerous threat is. I think we

679
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: might see a lot of that. And if Dorry Jackson

680
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: is playing, then then expect them to to be on,

681
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: to be on. Justin Jefferson and Carl We we talked

682
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: about this today. You and I don't discount what happened

683
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: last week in Philadelphia against A. J. Brown and DeVante

684
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: Smith where Cordell flot he held his own like so

685
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: now and and even Roe Darius Williams. So now you've

686
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: got guys that since the last meeting against these top

687
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: receivers have gained some confidence playing in that environment. That's

688
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: gonna help to right. And I'll tell you guys another

689
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: defensive hack. When you want a double a guy or

690
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: you don't want a double a guy and they think

691
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: you are you blitz to the side, that that ride

692
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: receiver lines up, so you take him out of the

693
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: plate immediately, he's not part of the progression because when

694
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback see you blitz and off that side, he

695
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: immediately's got to go somewhere else. That's a good, very

696
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: good point. Now it's hard. You can they can. They

697
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: can slot it in motion and do all his other

698
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: things to combat that. But that's a that's a great

699
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: one as well. But but you know Wink wants to

700
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: do that, right. It's what's it's how he's leaves his

701
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: life multiples just because it's the playoffs. It's the first

702
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: time here with the New York Giants. Was your first

703
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: playoff game against the Rams and Andy four? Yes, so

704
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: you guys won that one on the road. Then you

705
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 1: lost to the Niners who went on with the Super Bowl. Correct.

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00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: I was just watching on TV here on MSG they

707
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: have Giants chronicles. They were showing like history of the

708
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: Giants and like wild card rounds. So you you would

709
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: choose to forget your first playoff game. It was the

710
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: worst worst feeling in the world, because we we should

711
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: have won that game easy against the Minnesota Vikings. We

712
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: were winning at halftime. I ran in so I was

713
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: the first guy in the locker room, and then there

714
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: was nobody else in the locker road. When the heck

715
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: is going on here Tito Wooten and I don't know, Philippi.

716
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: They're fighting, they're fighting in the tunnel and it was

717
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: a disaster. And in the second half of the Minnesota

718
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: Vikens found a way to come back and beat us.

719
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: But we got him back. We got him back in

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00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: two thousand forty one. You guys remember that, and I

721
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: remember that forty one set. Brandon, next question, Oh, do

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00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 1: you think Mike Kafko and Dann Jones offense will produce

723
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: what Johns fans are looking for on Sunday evening? I do,

724
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: do you? Well, what are you looking for? And I'm

725
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: looking for Dann Jones two touchdown passes the Kenny all day.

726
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: Do you think what you settled for a victory? Yes? Yes, yes,

727
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: you would settled for a victory. Yeah. I think they

728
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,879
Speaker 1: can do that. By the way, Carl, do you think

729
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: Kenny Gollady will get more red zone opportunities? I believe so.

730
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: I think just he he has established the one thing

731
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: that he is known for that fifty body you out

732
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: and get it, and he's had a few opportunities this

733
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: year where Daniel didn't look that wet so down in

734
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: the red zone. Now don back, this is the guy. Yeah,

735
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: I don't look. I don't think he has the birds

736
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: the suddenness that he once had when he goes back

737
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: in Detroit. But if you go watch those Detroit touchdowns

738
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: that he I think it was he had eleven or twelve,

739
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: maybe even more than that. He led the league a

740
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: lot of them red zone targets, and a lot of

741
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: them were just like you said, Carl, the fifty fifty balls.

742
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: He's got a big body and he got it. He

743
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: hasn't one to and your athleticism doesn't matter at that point.

744
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: It's kind of just who can get to the ball first.

745
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: So I expect to see can't go and I didn't.

746
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: I won't say two touchdowns, but I think he will

747
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,240
Speaker 1: get some burn at the Blue Ale House in Riverdale,

748
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: New Jersey and his Giants playoff preview Live brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Diet Pepsi zero sugar, zero sugar. We're all

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00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: fired up. Um, We're gonna go back to the full

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Speaker 1: lines at eight seven seven three three seven sixty six

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Speaker 1: sixty six. Steven Rockland you're on the air, Steve. Yeah,

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00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: what's up? Steve? Yeah? Yeah? Is that better? Sorry? So

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00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: first thing first, before I get to my comments, Bob,

755
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: I want to tell you that I was in the

756
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: car driving on the Sterling Shepherd sixty five yard touchdowns

757
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: and your call I I had not only did I

758
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: have to turn the radio down. I thought something happened

759
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: to the car, Bob. So that was for me the

760
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: call of the here okay, and it was great. So

761
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: two things about Daniel Jones said, I am not hearing

762
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: a lot of First of all, to me, he is

763
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: a football player who was playing quarterback. Okay. To go

764
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: along with the fact and all this talk about development

765
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: and everything, no one is No one has used the

766
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: word coachability, the idea that the concept that that he

767
00:39:54,640 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: is coachable. Whatever they have, whatever is going on on,

768
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: he is taking the information and he's processing it. And

769
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that whole thing on the bye week

770
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: when he was in you know, when he was at

771
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: the training facility the whole time. What more or people

772
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: are gonna gonna look for? And I think that this

773
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: game on Sunday is winnable to say the least. And

774
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Kenny Gallaty wants a little revenge against

775
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: his NFC central photos. You know, now you never know. Look,

776
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: you're right about Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones has been well

777
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: coached for a long time. David cut Cliffe was as

778
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 1: a college coach. Obviously, that's the Manning's personal coach back

779
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: when they were playing Eli and and Peyton, so he

780
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: knows how to play the position. There was just a

781
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: lot of moving parts with coordinators and head coaches in

782
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: his tenure here. And I think you know, one of

783
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: the things that I hear that Brian Dable did, it's

784
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 1: kind of similar to what Bruce arians used to do

785
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: with his quarterback. He would bring him to his house.

786
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: He would get to know him, he would he would

787
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: he would develop a personal relationship. So that for instance,

788
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: like in Tennessee, as we talked about Carl, when that's happened,

789
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: he yells at Daniel Jones on the sideline, you know,

790
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: be smarter with your decisions. He doesn't take it personal, right,

791
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 1: because he knows he's just trying to make them better.

792
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not screaming at him because he hates him.

793
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: He's screaming at him because he did something wrong. Right.

794
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: It's no different than parenting a kid. Right. So I

795
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: think that relationship matters so much for especially offensive minded

796
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:33,320
Speaker 1: coach and the primary you know, signal callers. And that's important,

797
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: that that level of trust, because then you do feel accountable,

798
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: not just to your coach, but to the process. Yeah. Right,

799
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: you're not combating him. You're not saying, you know, stop

800
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: yelling at me, coach, You're saying, you know what, You're right,

801
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right. I should have made a better decision,

802
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: and it was there. And that's the type of relationship

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00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,840
Speaker 1: you want to have. And he's the one thing that

804
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones doesn't give a lot of credit for actually

805
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: playing quarterback in this town. His mental maturity. It takes

806
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: a special type of mindset or mentality to play quarterback

807
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: in this town because he was scrutinizing. You know, he's

808
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: been beat from pillar to post. Not unlike Eli Manning, Right,

809
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: they just keep going and keep going. You know. It's

810
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: interesting as I met Daniel before he was drafted and

811
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: he was still at Duke, and the first thing I

812
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: thought was, man he has a lot of the same

813
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: personality trades is Eli. And if I hadn't played with Eli,

814
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 1: wouldn't have thought it would have worked in New York City.

815
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: And so when he got drafted and said, look this

816
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: could work, and he saw it. His rookie season he had,

817
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: he had a lot of success. He didn't get that

818
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: Danny Don's nickname for no reason, right, So it was

819
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: just a matter of funding the right right environment for him,

820
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: the right kind of skill position players around him, I think,

821
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: most importantly, the right coach. All right, Brandon, you have

822
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: another fan here at the Blue Ale House. Hey, that's

823
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: gonna guys very curious. So brandable and came out and

824
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: said that, um, experience in the playoffs is very over rated.

825
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: Just curious on what you guys think. I'm a fun

826
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: believer in that Eli over Brady twice. Well, experiences only

827
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: when you have that experience, right, Um, I think the

828
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: Giants have one player in the locker room that's been

829
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: to a playoff game. They've got an entire coaching staff

830
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,800
Speaker 1: that has been to either Super Bowls or National champions

831
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Speaker 1: So that's the experience you need. Like you are the

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00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: guy who's calling the plays and making decisions to have

833
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: that experience, because he's not gonna make the coaching the

834
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: stake right the players. What coach Dabel said to Bob

835
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: and I A on Monday, he said, they don't have

836
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: to worry about that. Just play. When it took to

837
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: win your first game is what it will take to

838
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: win this game. So whatever you put into winning is

839
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: all you have to do and the rest will take

840
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: care of itself. And by the way, even if he's

841
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: wrong about that, the players are believing it because he

842
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: said it right. That's that's that's the relationship that they

843
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:00,959
Speaker 1: have with with their head coach. Um. Experience does matter,

844
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: especially for the quarterback like the guy the decision makers

845
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: coaching has covered obviously is Carl just mentioned. But quarterbacks

846
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: sometimes struggle because it's not it's not like a linebacker

847
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: or running back. You get hit and you get piste

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Speaker 1: and you don't happened to your game. The thing about

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Speaker 1: it the bigger like who was your first playoff game? Like,

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Speaker 1: how do you remember it? Yeah? It was it was

851
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Speaker 1: a lock card game my rookie year. I end up

852
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: getting into fighting the game. It was just a game.

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean. We're fighting any game, so if

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Speaker 1: we're not, no, But the thing was who when you

855
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Speaker 1: have some level of leadership on your team. Yeah, and

856
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Speaker 1: when they prioritize preparations, there's not a lot of time

857
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Speaker 1: unless you're caught up in the height, right, and there

858
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Speaker 1: are players that will get caught up in the height.

859
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Speaker 1: But when you are when when in the mandate, all

860
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Speaker 1: year has been focus and let's do our jobs. The

861
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: extraneous stuff just doesn't free thin Like in the media availabilities,

862
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 1: they don't come in like they used to, Like they

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Speaker 1: got a little more instructured the access to the guys.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, experience as good as you can get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how about that? Yeah, that's right. All right, round of

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Speaker 1: applause here for number twenty one future Hall of Fame

867
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Speaker 1: er Tiki Barber your ears. Tiki has got to get

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Speaker 1: out of here. Thank you, guys. Appreciate you guys taking it. Tyranny,

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Speaker 1: you can hear him here on the fan. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be back. Mike Kafka joins us to kick off the

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Speaker 1: number two, We're gonna be joined by Giants offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: Mike Kafka. Plus DJ Envy's gonna join us here on

885
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Speaker 1: the program as well, and Carl getting ready here for

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Speaker 1: this game on Sunday. I know you've been studying a

887
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: lot of tape. UM. I encourage everybody that's out there.

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Speaker 1: If you have MSG, if you have a cell phone,

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00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: if you have a computer, you go to the Giants

890
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: Mobile app, all the Giants platforms. You can watch the

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00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: show on MSG. It's uh the Coach Table Show. And

892
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Speaker 1: there's a segment that you do every week called Strategy

893
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: where you go to the coaches take and you kind

894
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Speaker 1: of break things down for the fans, you know, like, hey,

895
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: here's what this guy does well. Here's what that guy

896
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: does well on the other team. These are routes they

897
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Speaker 1: like to run. These are things they like to do defensively.

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Speaker 1: This week, when you took a look at the Vikings,

899
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Speaker 1: you didn't go so much into that. You went into technique.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about what the Giants have to

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Speaker 1: do this week against the run game in order to

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Speaker 1: have a chance to win this game. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: like Wink Martindale said, they they look at films just

904
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: like their opponent, and the opponent looks at their film,

905
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Speaker 1: and when Minnesota cuts on their tape, they're gonna feel

906
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Speaker 1: like they can run to football. Because at the second

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00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: level of the Giants defense they did not fare well.

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00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,839
Speaker 1: And it wasn't because they were overpowered. It was things

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00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: as simple as formation recognition, uh, things that will give

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00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: you a tip on where the ball is gonna go,

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00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: or as simple as if there's one back in the

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Speaker 1: backfield and there's no jet motion and there is the

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Speaker 1: quarterback is no threat to be a r P O guy.

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Speaker 1: He's the only guy's gonna get the ball. Follow the

915
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna get the ball, right wasted motion um

916
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: not playing downhill. But when you look at the strategy

917
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Speaker 1: session this time around, it's more granular. It's kind of

918
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Speaker 1: I don't want to call it a master class, but

919
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: it's advanced linebacking for dummies. And you'll be able to

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00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,919
Speaker 1: see and and and I'm sure their teeth they're they're

921
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Speaker 1: going over the same things I am, because they have

922
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Speaker 1: great coaching staff, but things that are easily fixable, but

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Speaker 1: easily exploited by the Minnesota Vikings if they don't get

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Speaker 1: it corrected. I assure you when they look at some

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Speaker 1: of the they had and look at the film and say,

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Speaker 1: we passed it on a fourth and short. We should

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Speaker 1: have run it, and as a matter of fact, we

928
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Speaker 1: should have run it a lot more. So you can

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Speaker 1: expect the Minnesota Vikings to give the Giants a heavy

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Speaker 1: dose of Dalvin Cook until they stop it. And I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's incumbent upon the Giants to look at

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Speaker 1: this tape and say, oh, we can't give that up

933
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Speaker 1: our inside stretcher and we gotta press that. We can't

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Speaker 1: be off the line of scrimmage and getting blocked five

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Speaker 1: yards down the field because it leads too big of

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Speaker 1: a crease for the runner to go through. So there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of those things that they have to do.

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Speaker 1: And even on the coverage and coverage responsibilities, you're not

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Speaker 1: out of position, but you're not quite in position. You've

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Speaker 1: got to be intentional when they give you something. Be

941
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Speaker 1: intentional because there are a lot of players that could

942
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Speaker 1: have been made just by you know, slight hesitation that

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Speaker 1: one of the players had in coverage. So I would

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Speaker 1: suggest all of you that are here that consider yourselves

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Speaker 1: like xs and ohs and fans of sort of the

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Speaker 1: art of the play, or those that are listening on

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Speaker 1: w f A N or on Odyssey UM check out

948
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Speaker 1: the TV show, or on the giants social media platforms

949
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Speaker 1: when they put the strategy segment up. Because if you

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Speaker 1: really want to feel like you're a player on a

951
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Speaker 1: football team and you're being talked to by your position

952
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Speaker 1: coach or your coordinator, Carl takes on that role this

953
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Speaker 1: week and really points out what made him a two

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Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champion and a Hall of Fame player

955
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Speaker 1: because the attention to detail that you get into that

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Speaker 1: it's only through film study. Not only with the coaches

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Speaker 1: pointed out, but what guys study when they're at home

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Speaker 1: when they take the film home and they look at

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Speaker 1: night and they watch the take. Something that I didn't

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Speaker 1: even notice you brought up in this thing. Dalvin Cook

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Speaker 1: was lined up to the left of Cousins. Cousins motioned

962
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Speaker 1: him over to the right. He lined up to the

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Speaker 1: right of Cousins, but he went two different alignments, two

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Speaker 1: different steps wider, which for you as a player, said,

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Speaker 1: for me as a linebacker, so and and for you

966
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Speaker 1: guys listening, you'll see me diagram this in our strategy session.

967
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Speaker 1: But they're in a shotgun. Dalvin Cook is on um

968
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins left. His normal alignment is behind the offensive guard.

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Speaker 1: He gets he gets shifted over by Cousins nonchalantly. He

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00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 1: lines up, but he's over the tackle this time, which

971
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Speaker 1: is wider. And if you're a linebacker and you see

972
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Speaker 1: that's not the normal alignement, which they did it so casually.

973
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Speaker 1: An untrained I would think he was in the same position,

974
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Speaker 1: but he was closer to the edge, which meant this

975
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Speaker 1: is either gonna be an outside runner, he's gonna run

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Speaker 1: a wheel route because they moved him out there. For

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Speaker 1: they didn't move him out that wide. On the other

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Speaker 1: side of the ball to run him back across the

979
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Speaker 1: football or inside. So when you see these things, and

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Speaker 1: these are the things that the Giants linebackers have to

981
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Speaker 1: pay attention to. When you have a back of that nature,

982
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Speaker 1: you need something that is a tell. And it's easy

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Speaker 1: to do. You know, it's easy easy to not to

984
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Speaker 1: see that when you just said, oh, he's offset, he

985
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: shifted from right from left to right. No, it's where

986
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: did he shift to right? And it was so casual.

987
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: But when you know his normal alignment and shotgun is

988
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Speaker 1: behind the guard and he shifts over and he's as

989
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Speaker 1: wide as the tackle. I mean, obviously, why if you're

990
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: not paying attention, you won't see it. But if you're

991
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: paying attention, you're like, wait a minute, he's not in

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Speaker 1: the same position he was on us. Something's up and

993
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on the outside of our defense. So

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00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: we get into that great deal and this is these

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00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: are the things that you know, this defense has to

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00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: be pay attention to. And these are the things that

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Speaker 1: the coaches when they go into the the tendencies, right.

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00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: You know, there's a thing analytics, right, they can tell

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00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: you the frequency of certain things. But these are the things.

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00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: These are the heartbeat, things that analytics can't cover. Right

1001
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: when you look and you see a difference in alignment,

1002
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: and then you know it's gonna be an outside run. Now,

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00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: analytics to tell you they may run the ball eighteen

1004
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: times when he's to the right, but if he's to

1005
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 1: the right the other forty five times, they don't know.

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00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: But you can tell when just by his alignment and

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00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 1: everything stacks up perfectly. Landon Collins talked about that after

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00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: his Pisis six against India. Afters he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching the film. I'm watching the film. I'm watching

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00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: the film. I'm looking at tendencies and they like to

1011
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: run that out on this down and distance from that

1012
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: hash mark in this situation. And as soon as I

1013
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 1: saw the receiver, he gave a towel and I knew

1014
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,799
Speaker 1: I can undercut that thing, because that was the first

1015
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: read for the quarterback was And it's almost like he

1016
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,720
Speaker 1: baited it because he knew that was what they wanted

1017
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: to do from watching film being coached, but also taking

1018
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Speaker 1: the time to watch it on his own right. And that's,

1019
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 1: you know, the beauty of having a guy like Mandon

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Speaker 1: Cowins who has played the deep field and he's played

1021
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: up close to the line of scrimmage. He understand passing

1022
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: concepts right, so he knew when he got that alignment,

1023
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Speaker 1: he knew what the possibilities of that route, and all

1024
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: the other films that he put in just confirmed that

1025
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: he should go and take a jump on his ball

1026
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Speaker 1: and get the interception. Obviously, the Giants and Vikings played

1027
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: a tight one a couple of weeks ago on Christmas Eve,

1028
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Speaker 1: and Hew Minnesota wins on the sixty one yard field goal. Carl,

1029
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: these games, you played in a ton of playoff games.

1030
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: You know it better than anybody. When you get to

1031
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you get teams that are good enough to

1032
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Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. The games tend to be tighter,

1033
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Speaker 1: which means there's a handful of plays, six maybe seven

1034
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: plays in the game that will define and really who's

1035
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: gonna win the football game. And in that first meeting, look,

1036
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: the Giants fumbled in plus territory, They threw an interception

1037
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Speaker 1: of plus territory, they dropped two interceptions, and they dropped

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Speaker 1: a big third and five. They didn't make any of

1039
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Speaker 1: the plays that matter. Sure, is it simple enough to

1040
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 1: say if they make half those plays this time around,

1041
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: they can win. Sure. I mean that that's that's a realism,

1042
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 1: a reality, I should say, because we know who the

1043
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings are and they know who the Giants are,

1044
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: and their styles are compatible. So you can say it's

1045
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 1: gonna come down to two or three plays or or

1046
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: three out of six make uple plays because they're not

1047
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Speaker 1: changing a lot of who they are, the fundamentals of

1048
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: who they are they are, So if you can make

1049
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Speaker 1: those plays, you're gonna have a chance. Along with Carlan,

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Speaker 1: so glad you can join us. Blue Ale House here

1051
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: in Riverdale, New Jersey, fans are all far it up.

1052
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Speaker 1: Giants Playoff Preview Live is brought to you by Pepsi

1053
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: zero Sugar New and Improves zero never tasted so good.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a time out. Mike Kafka is gonna join us.

1055
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Speaker 1: We're gonna take some questions from the fans here as well.

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Speaker 1: All here have a little fun talking Giants playoff football. Uh,

1057
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Speaker 1: We're not gonna take the break. We're gonna keep it

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Speaker 1: right here. The offensive coordinator of the New York Giants,

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Speaker 1: Mike Kafka, is ready to go as he Giants joins

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Speaker 1: us on Giants Playoff Preview Live. Coach bab Papacarl Banks,

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Speaker 1: thanks for a couple of minutes this morning. How are you,

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Speaker 1: or this afternoon or this evening, how are you? I'm

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Speaker 1: doing great. Thank you for having me on. Coach. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: on the job that you guys have done our year

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Speaker 1: and getting the team to focus no matter what the

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Speaker 1: circumstances are. You've come up with game plans that had

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Speaker 1: you giving yourselves a chance to to win football games.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that I must ask you though, is

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Speaker 1: you know, as a coordinator there's a lot of moving

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Speaker 1: parts when they're out injuries, but you guys have had

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Speaker 1: them in the offensive line, You've had them at the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver position. And what is the process of like

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Speaker 1: next man up? I mean, really, you don't seem to

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Speaker 1: change a lot. You always seem to have a lot

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Speaker 1: of options available to whoever's out there on the field,

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Speaker 1: and they seemed to produce. What is that process like?

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Speaker 1: From from your behind your desk, Yeah, you know, I'd say, um,

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Speaker 1: I'd say first and foremost. You know, I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: number one, the work, our our our our assistance to

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Speaker 1: right our coaching staff. I have a great staff because

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Speaker 1: you guys spent a bunch of time, not only one

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Speaker 1: with the players, but number two helping build his game

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Speaker 1: plan together that we're all you know, unified with. And

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Speaker 1: then the second part I say is the players for

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Speaker 1: having the flexibility and mental capacity to kind of work

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Speaker 1: through things like that and and have that, like you said,

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Speaker 1: next man up, mentality, step up, blur in their assignments

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Speaker 1: and then go on execute. You know, it's certainly um

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Speaker 1: it certainly makes it easier as a coordinator when you

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Speaker 1: have smart players that you trust that that can go

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Speaker 1: in there and and then tough situations and go on

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Speaker 1: execute fast. And you know, we we throw a lot

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Speaker 1: at them, you know, from an insult standpoint, and in

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Speaker 1: the spring and then we get into this regular season

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Speaker 1: and you know, we try and trim things down and

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Speaker 1: give ourselves much flexibility to be able to have answers

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Speaker 1: to attack a defense really in any way we can. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, having smart players definitely definitely helps that coach.

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Speaker 1: You you have players that weren't even on the roster

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Speaker 1: and training cab. You have guys that are late ad

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Speaker 1: dishes to your roster, especially at the wide receiver UH position.

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Speaker 1: And you talked about your staff and one guy who's

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Speaker 1: had that task has been might Grow. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: the receiver's coach, and it seemed like his guys come

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Speaker 1: out prepared every weekend. I just inside story, I'm not

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Speaker 1: shocked because his father was one of the greatest teachers

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Speaker 1: of linebackers that this game has ever seen. And I

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Speaker 1: think he's a chip off the old block because you know,

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Speaker 1: those wide receivers whoever it is, and I know it's

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Speaker 1: a collective effort, but he's the day to day contact

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Speaker 1: with those guys, and it just seems like whoever's out

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Speaker 1: there stays ready, and you're not hesitant to make make calls,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the the quarterback makes a decision and

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Speaker 1: those guys make the catch us. Yeah, I mean those

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Speaker 1: guys have done a great job with it. Coach Grow

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Speaker 1: certainly is um is heading that group and making sure

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Speaker 1: everyone is detailed with their assignments and putting those guys

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Speaker 1: in the right spot and and just you know, continually

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Speaker 1: just trying to teach, continuing trying to help those guys

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Speaker 1: grow as players and as men. And you know, we're

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Speaker 1: thankful to have not only coach Grow, but again, just

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Speaker 1: like I said, like that such a smart group and

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Speaker 1: just create this really intelligent football players. UM, on that,

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Speaker 1: on that in that room, coach you on to ask

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Speaker 1: you about Daniel Jones, who had a fantastic year this year. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, listen, since you've got drafted here by the Giants,

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Speaker 1: he's been through a bunch of different systems, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of different coaches, and then you guys came in trying

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Speaker 1: to implement what you want to do. Just talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit about working with him and the growth that

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Speaker 1: you've seen in him as we've gone through this season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: DJ has done a great job. I'm really I'm really

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Speaker 1: proud of him. And you know, obviously from AFAR you

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Speaker 1: get to see a young you know, when I was

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Speaker 1: in Kansas City and seeing a young player you know,

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Speaker 1: have some success and kind of goes through some struggles

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Speaker 1: and then being able to have an opportunity to work

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Speaker 1: with him, and you know, I did my research on

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Speaker 1: him and watch the tape on him, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at his interviews and the kid was

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Speaker 1: just so well spoken and you can tell that the

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Speaker 1: game really means a lot to him. And and then

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Speaker 1: to get to be able to work with them and

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Speaker 1: seeing how much how much time he puts into it,

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Speaker 1: how much time he puts into the study in and

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Speaker 1: the film work, and how much Preppy does um in

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Speaker 1: the weight room and for his body, and you know

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Speaker 1: how he is around the players and the guys, and

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Speaker 1: you know, he's just a true pro. And I'm just

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Speaker 1: really proud of the fact that you know, we get

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Speaker 1: to we get to work with him every day. He

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Speaker 1: comes to work every day prepared, He works his butt off,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, he asked great questions and he's

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Speaker 1: one of those guys that as a coach you really

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Speaker 1: appreciate because he's always he's always gonna challenge you and

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Speaker 1: make sure you're here prepared and give him the answers,

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Speaker 1: and he he continues to push you as a coach,

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Speaker 1: which is which is awesome, is what he wants the

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Speaker 1: you know, the best guy's ever been around. They've done that,

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Speaker 1: Mike Um. Just to follow up on that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Phil Simmons once said, the quarterback has got to be

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Speaker 1: the toughest guy on the team. And it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be a guy that screams alaha, Marino or you know,

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. You know, you gotta be tough in your

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Speaker 1: own way and and it appears that Daniel has won

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Speaker 1: that respect from the locker room like his predecessor Eli

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Speaker 1: Manning did, but doing it in his own skin. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I think every every quarterback, every player has to do that.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have to go out there and beat you,

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Speaker 1: not try and beat somebody else or someone else you

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Speaker 1: see on TV. Um. And you know, Dan does a

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Speaker 1: good job with that. He's his own guy. And UM,

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Speaker 1: I think I think what you said is is true.

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Speaker 1: I think that's something that I noticed right away off

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Speaker 1: the tape, even from Afar, how tough he was. And um,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know he has not only just physically tough,

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Speaker 1: but he's a mentally tough kid. And um, you know

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Speaker 1: those are one of the one of the I think

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Speaker 1: one of his average attributes, one of my favorite actual

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Speaker 1: breaths the bottom is that he's a tough kid. Coach.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about s kran Berkley too,

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Speaker 1: because you know he's he's a guy who's had the

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Speaker 1: battle adversity as well too, and a new system for him,

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Speaker 1: an offensive line that UH didn't produce the year before,

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Speaker 1: and he comes out this year obviously determined to do

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Speaker 1: and to prove that he is the the running back

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Speaker 1: for the New York Giants. He talked a little bit

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Speaker 1: about how he goes about his job and his sense

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Speaker 1: of leadership. Yeah, you know, I I kind of um,

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Speaker 1: I speak on that as well, Like he's he's a captain.

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Speaker 1: He's one of our captains for our teams. So obviously

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of responsibility that goes with that. But

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Speaker 1: he's handled it the right way. He came into camp

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Speaker 1: just um in great shape. He came into camp gray

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Speaker 1: to learn, was open to new things and new ways

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Speaker 1: of thinking about whether it's a run game, the past game,

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Speaker 1: how we passed protect and he's just he's just dove

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Speaker 1: into all that information. And coach DeAndre Smith has done

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Speaker 1: a great job with him of of simplifying it right

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Speaker 1: and just making sure he's seeing it through the same eyes,

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Speaker 1: the same set of eyes, whether it's through the quarterback's eyes,

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Speaker 1: whether it's through the offensive line's eyes, Like those guys

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Speaker 1: are all intertwined and um, you know, all those responsibilities

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Speaker 1: work together, and so I think Sakon is a nice

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Speaker 1: job of of being in front of that coach. Final

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Speaker 1: question for me, we're talking with offensive coordinator Mike kafka. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know you played them just a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: to go. You obviously had some success against their defense.

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Speaker 1: How much more work this week? Is it? Kind of

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Speaker 1: doing a deep dive into all right, let's see from

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Speaker 1: their past some wrinkles they may throw at us that

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Speaker 1: we didn't see when we met him on Christmas Eve. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you have to bet all that stuff and can pull

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Speaker 1: up as much tape as you can, study as much

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Speaker 1: as you can, you know, any kind of tendencies you

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Speaker 1: can find. That's that's really what we what we do

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Speaker 1: all week, um, all the way up until the game,

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Speaker 1: is to see what we can find an edge anywhere, Um,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a personnel grouping, whether it's a formation, a

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Speaker 1: motion and shift like, anywhere we can find an edge.

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Speaker 1: We're always looking for those type of things. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: we spent a bunch of time diving through that and

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Speaker 1: we got again we had a great staff that's filtering

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Speaker 1: in everyone kind of has their areas and then um,

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Speaker 1: you know we've got a great support staff as well

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Speaker 1: that helps build those cut ups for us. Coach, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate a couple of minutes. I know that it's a

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Speaker 1: busy night for you, a busy week for the entire staff.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking time to do want us here

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Speaker 1: tonight and best of luck on Sunday. Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for having me with pleasure to have you.

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Speaker 1: That's my cap to the offensive coordinator of the New

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Speaker 1: York Football Giants. We're gonna take a time out when

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Speaker 1: a big Giants fan and uh obviously one of the

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Speaker 1: friend and be what's happening, Hey, how's it going, fellows?

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Speaker 1: Every day? Good? Good man? It's been a while since this, uh,

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Speaker 1: this Giant team has been to the playoffs. How does that?

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Speaker 1: How does that as a celebrity fan make you feel? Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's very exciting. I mean I'm a huge,

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Speaker 1: of course Giants fan, and I've been taking my kids

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Speaker 1: to the games for the last couple of years, even

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Speaker 1: when we were lose, and so to be winning and

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Speaker 1: to be back in the playoffs season the wild card,

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Speaker 1: and not only that, I think what the Giants have

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Speaker 1: been doing in the last year where the in the

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Speaker 1: city involved and getting the fans involved, and it's just

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Speaker 1: an excitement we haven't seen in a long time. So

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Speaker 1: I'm loving every aspect of it. So as a Giants fan,

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Speaker 1: what has been obviously you got the Super Bowl runs right,

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Speaker 1: um and I you know, as a player, I've had

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01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 1: my moments during my era, but this era of Giants

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Speaker 1: football which resonates with you, What has been that moment?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a game. It could be

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Speaker 1: that time you DJA party or you met so and

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Speaker 1: so out somewhere. What has been your your most memorable

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Speaker 1: Giants moment outside of just going to a game. Um, well,

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Speaker 1: it would have to be to One would of course

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Speaker 1: be Victor Cruze, who is a Jersey you know, from Pattison,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey. Just seeing him out and about, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the one thing that you know, and I'm seeing

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01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: it more with a quantum, seeing him more with a

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Speaker 1: lot of the other players. I love the fact when

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01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 1: the players actually touched the community. You see it in

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01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 1: all these different markets where the players go out and

1283
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:09,680
Speaker 1: whether it's their favorite restaurants or the mall or community

1284
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: events where they're give them back. I love to see that.

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01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: And you've see that a lot with Zick the Cruise,

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01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: especially since he's from Pattison and Patterson is right around

1287
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 1: the corner for where the Giants play, so you would

1288
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,559
Speaker 1: see him out and about doing giveaways, doing backpack drives

1289
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: and turkey giveaways, and even teaching the kids how to

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01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: do his his favorite dance. That was big. And then

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Speaker 1: when O'Dell was here, you know, uh, Now, one thing

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Speaker 1: about O'Dell. O'Dell loved the nightlife and he would be

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01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 1: out all the time. But I always think that's a

1294
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: good thing because I think, besides the games and besides

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01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: the winning and losing, I love when the city really

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01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 1: backs the players and backs the teams. And it's I'm

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Speaker 1: starting to feel that again, which is like a feeling

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Speaker 1: like no other. Yeah, it is envying, you know, Like

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Speaker 1: I said, during the era I played, it was similar

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Speaker 1: because you know, we are fans of entertainers, right, and

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01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:04,040
Speaker 1: and we don't know what level the entertainer is of us,

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01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:08,280
Speaker 1: right of of of athletes. It's a lot more prevalent today.

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Speaker 1: But my moment was meeting run DMC outside of a nightclub.

1304
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: Pepper Johnson and I and we get out of our

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01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:21,719
Speaker 1: car and it's d MC jumps out of his limo

1306
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:25,240
Speaker 1: and he's screaming our name like a regular fan, and

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01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:28,799
Speaker 1: we're like, we're like huge fans, and you know, Pepper

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01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: and and God rest his soul jam. Mr J became

1309
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: best of friends because Pepper was a DJ and he

1310
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: used to try to scratch like uh like Jay and

1311
01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,560
Speaker 1: it was it was just the most amazing thing. And

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01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: then we go into this club and it's like, you know,

1313
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 1: the who's who celebrities are like, oh, we big fans,

1314
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 1: And it was just the most incredible thing. And now

1315
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: you know, the access obviously is a lot easier now

1316
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:57,320
Speaker 1: in terms of how people communicate on social media and everything,

1317
01:09:57,439 --> 01:10:00,599
Speaker 1: but it is it is really such a rate feeling

1318
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:04,679
Speaker 1: when you know you have um, I would just say

1319
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: pop culture New York. Pop culture loving you and and

1320
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: in this sport and in this city is the thing

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01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: that is is unparalleled than any other city. Yeah. I

1322
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: love that. And I love seeing you know, I love

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01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 1: seeing the celebrities at the game. I mean I'm at

1324
01:10:20,200 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: the game and I'm seeing I'm seeing Carmelo Anthony, I'm

1325
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: seeing Fabolis, I'm seeing five your Forward. So I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: younger artists, I'm seeing older artist Tracy Morgan. Uh. It's

1327
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Speaker 1: so many different people at the games. And the games

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01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: are fun. I mean you're you're going from you know,

1329
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:36,640
Speaker 1: from the three sections to the one hundred section to

1330
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 1: the switch and you're running into everybody. But this excitement

1331
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: is back in New York and that's what I'm loving

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01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 1: the most. How did you? How did you enjoy? Because

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01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 1: you've djd a lot of places in a lot of arenas,

1334
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:51,560
Speaker 1: but like to be a fan and you get a

1335
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 1: chance to really rock the crowd in like stadium. How

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01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: is that for you? You know, it's very difficult, and

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01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. It's MetLife is so many different people, young, old,

1338
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: different background, So you're trying to play for everybody. You're

1339
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 1: trying to keep the crowd hype, and then you're trying

1340
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 1: to watch the game as well. So it's so much

1341
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:14,519
Speaker 1: going on because you're trying to take it all in

1342
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: because you know, when you go to the game, by

1343
01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: the time you get through parking and security and get in,

1344
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:22,599
Speaker 1: it's almost game time. But you're there actually early set up,

1345
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: so you get to see the players practice and I'm

1346
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: taking their you know, they're sprints and they're stretching, and

1347
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: it's it's just so entertaining because you don't get to

1348
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: see that a lot. And then when you're dj during

1349
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: the game, although that's your job and that's what you're

1350
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 1: there for You're really into the game, so you're yelling,

1351
01:11:38,360 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 1: you're screaming, and they're like energy going. You're like, wait, wait,

1352
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 1: i'm watching, let me see what's back there? When you watching,

1353
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 1: you know the replay, but you know it was it's

1354
01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: it's a lot and and and they showed so much

1355
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: love and you know in New York, New Jersey. So

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01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,880
Speaker 1: I love it every time. So your your breakfast club

1357
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: made it is a Dallas Cowboys fan. Oh yes, how

1358
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: is like do you tell him that his quarterback is

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01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:03,760
Speaker 1: or do you play some of the clips that you

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01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: see on some of the sports shows when they just

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01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 1: trash his quarterback rival like that? Yes, all day long.

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01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:14,679
Speaker 1: I mean we go back and forth and uh, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's always horrible when when the when the cow Girls,

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01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 1: excuse me, the Cowboys play the Giants and they do win. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's always horrible because I have to go to work

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Speaker 1: and face him. Or it's always horrible if my team

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01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 1: loses one week and his team wins that week. But yes,

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01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: we go back and forth hard and every time you

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Speaker 1: know his quarterback is missing throws or uh, you know

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Speaker 1: his his running back is not doing well or the

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01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,600
Speaker 1: defense just falls off after having a you know, a

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Speaker 1: first good couple of games and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're doing pretty bad. I'm not gonna say trash,

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Speaker 1: they're doing pretty bad. Yeah, talk about it all the time.

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01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: But he also does the same with me. So yeah,

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01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 1: we go back and forth for all the time. And

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Speaker 1: that's one thing we never agree on. We probably will

1378
01:12:56,560 --> 01:12:58,680
Speaker 1: never go to the game together. We'll never watch a

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Speaker 1: game because we go back and forth and we talk

1380
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: smack all morning long. It gets a little personal the times.

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Speaker 1: That's cool. Well, I mean that's what fandom is all about, right,

1382
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:11,519
Speaker 1: whether you're a celebrity or not. Fandom is fandom, and

1383
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: you gotta give your your opponent, your ap a little

1384
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:18,799
Speaker 1: bit of the business. But we really appreciate you jumping

1385
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: on with us. And then not only that, but we

1386
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:25,720
Speaker 1: are appreciate your fandom and your participation and you know,

1387
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 1: making sure our fans had a good time in in

1388
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium. And we hope to have you back doing

1389
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 1: more and more because you know your your fandom is

1390
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: important and pop culture is important. Man. When I appreciate you,

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01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: I appreciate all the giant fans and appreciate the Giant

1392
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: and everybody in that the organization that showed me so

1393
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: much love and anytime I have an I did you

1394
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:49,639
Speaker 1: guys ride with it? And I just wanted to appreciate

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01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 1: you and especially you. You know you You've always had

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01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 1: my back from beginning. So I just want to say

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Speaker 1: thank you, and uh, let's get this victory. We almost

1398
01:13:56,520 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: had to win. We played the Vikings a couple of

1399
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:00,920
Speaker 1: weeks ago. We would have had that win. It was

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01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes that we made that you know

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01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:05,320
Speaker 1: couldn't but I think we'll fix those mistakes. Will be

1402
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: good money and then you know it'll be the road

1403
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: to the to the super Bowl. Hey, you know what

1404
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,640
Speaker 1: you could do? You could invite your broadcast partner to

1405
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: the super Bowl when the Giants get there because his

1406
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 1: team hasn't been there in a quarter of a century

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01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 1: and the Giants have been the three of them since

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01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 1: and do and do the show from the Giants Hotel.

1409
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:28,240
Speaker 1: I would love to j and you appreciate a couple

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01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 1: of minutes enjoy the game on Sunday. Definitely, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate great having your draft season is the Giants year

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Speaker 1: Right turn out by the Giants fans. Where's my man

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Speaker 1: rand in London? I got Carl Banks by my son

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Speaker 1: Brandon at your time to do your thing. We got

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Speaker 1: a bunch of fans here that want to ask Carl

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Speaker 1: some questions before Carl has gotta make a break. So Brandon,

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Speaker 1: who do we got and ask the questions? Here we

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01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: go right here? What's your name? Him? Hi? My name

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01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 1: is Laura from Sparta. Thanks guys for coming up here. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So my question is if you are the Minnesota Vikings,

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01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:31,439
Speaker 1: what are you going to do to slow down the

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01:16:31,520 --> 01:16:36,519
Speaker 1: New York Giant offense? You right, that's a good question. Um.

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01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: They're gonna attack the inside of the Giants offensive line.

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01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're the center from guard to guard to guard.

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01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:47,720
Speaker 1: That triangle is where they're going to attack. That's where

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01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 1: most teams try. The Giants have faired pretty good the

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01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. I mean the Philadelphia Eagles. We're

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01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,120
Speaker 1: going for the sack record, all time sack record. They

1451
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:03,519
Speaker 1: need it. For they got zero last game, and they didn't.

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01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:06,560
Speaker 1: They needed to to set the record three great a

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01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: tie it for to make it right, and so they did.

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01:17:10,640 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: They did a great job against the Eagles, and they're

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01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:17,560
Speaker 1: getting better each and every week. So I like what

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01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,240
Speaker 1: they're doing. That's but that's where they're going to start

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01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,559
Speaker 1: trying to attack. And and I think, just to follow

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01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: up on her point, Carl is this, you know, what

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Speaker 1: are they gonna do against the Giants. You know, let's

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Speaker 1: not forget Minnesota was ranked dead last in defense until

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Speaker 1: this past weekend and now they ranked thirty one, and

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01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,840
Speaker 1: they're one of the worst teams against the past. You know,

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01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: the burden is on them to figure out a way

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01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: to play better. I think the Giants have a lot

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01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: of saying a lot of this in the sense that

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Speaker 1: Minnesota's defense. When you're ranked thirty one over seventeen game

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Speaker 1: as it means you've been bad. And I think having

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01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:06,640
Speaker 1: Mike Afka on earlier, um, I think the Giants are

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01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,280
Speaker 1: gonna throw some wrinkles at them and exploit what their

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01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: weaknesses are, which is the middle of the field. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and again, they all watch film though, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna want to try to show that

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01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 1: they're not as bad as that thirty first ranking, and

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01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,120
Speaker 1: it's on any given Sunday, But it's up to the

1475
01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: Giants to exploit that, to make them and remind them

1476
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: that they are a bad past defense brand. You got

1477
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 1: another one for us, We got another right here, Bob.

1478
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: What's going on? Guys? You're the best in the business.

1479
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: Looking forward to hearing you guys call Sunday and hopefully

1480
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: three games after that. So my questions about going into Minnesota,

1481
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 1: what's the environment gonna be like having just played there

1482
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago? Um, obviously I wudn't call an

1483
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: advantage because Minnesota allows home to advantage, But is there

1484
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: benefits having played there a few weeks ago? Doesn't happen

1485
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:55,720
Speaker 1: a lot in the playoffs, especially against a non division opponent. Yeah,

1486
01:18:56,120 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 1: familiarity certainly helps. Right, It's a hostile environ but as

1487
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 1: Bob said, they felt the punch. The Giants have felt

1488
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: that punch. They know what the crowd is gonna be like. Um,

1489
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 1: they know what the competition is going to be like.

1490
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:14,559
Speaker 1: So it helps. Instead of walking into a hostile environment

1491
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:18,680
Speaker 1: not knowing what you're walking into, they know, they know

1492
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: what they're silent, snap counts should be and and how

1493
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 1: to operate because this crowd does get into it. Good question. Yeah,

1494
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: I think you know. And it was hyped up on

1495
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve. I mean they were and they and they

1496
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: got some things going here. They had the white out.

1497
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 1: They even had fake snow coming down from the ceiling,

1498
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:39,599
Speaker 1: which I think is still in my bag. I couldn't

1499
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: get it all out. But so the gunt, you're right,

1500
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 1: So the Giants have had a chance. They're not going

1501
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,439
Speaker 1: in there, no matter how loud it gets, no matter

1502
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 1: how many times they screamed skull and they do the

1503
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: whole thing with the Viking. They've already experienced it. And

1504
01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: it was only a couple of weeks ago. Let's get

1505
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:57,439
Speaker 1: one more before Carl's gotta go. Here we go, Hey, guys,

1506
01:19:57,640 --> 01:20:01,040
Speaker 1: So Jared Davis, the linebacker they line from the Lions

1507
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: practice squad. He looks really good against the Eagles. I

1508
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 1: was making plays lets and right, cars wanted to know

1509
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 1: your thoughts on him, and if you would want to

1510
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:13,479
Speaker 1: play him over Jalen Smith next week. Well, I keep

1511
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:17,560
Speaker 1: play him beside Jalen Smith. You know, um, he was

1512
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: very impressive against the Eagles. He ended up with I

1513
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 1: think tin tackles. He's very active, UH plays downhill, which

1514
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 1: is something that the Giants desperately need need from that

1515
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:31,920
Speaker 1: linebacking crew. UM. So, I think he's gonna be a

1516
01:20:32,040 --> 01:20:36,680
Speaker 1: part of what they do in Minnesota, especially if Minnesota

1517
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 1: decides that Dalvin Cook is gonna be uh used heavily

1518
01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 1: in the run game. He's got a factor in that.

1519
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 1: Good question. Hey, famous fifty eight gotta get rolling. How

1520
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: about a round of applause here for two times Super

1521
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 1: Bowl champion Carl Back. Thank you guys. Yeah, John Schmelch,

1522
01:20:57,400 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 1: who you can see on the Giant Shuttle podcast, and

1523
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: Paul all the Tino you watch him on uh Big

1524
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 1: Blue Kickoff and all that other stuff on the Giants platforms.

1525
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 1: Joining us right now on Giants Playoff Preview Live presented

1526
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:14,720
Speaker 1: by Pepsi Zero Sugar, and Uh, we're gonna take some

1527
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: more questions. We're gonna be here until nine o'clock and

1528
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:21,320
Speaker 1: then Keith McPherson until two am here on w f A.

1529
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: Bobby by the way, he just mentioned Jared Davis. I

1530
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: talked to him in the locker room about eight minutes

1531
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:28,840
Speaker 1: today and keep this in mind too. He came from

1532
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:32,879
Speaker 1: the Lions in the NFC North. He is extremely familiar

1533
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:35,479
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings and he knows what they like

1534
01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:37,559
Speaker 1: to do. This is his third game of the year

1535
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:40,800
Speaker 1: that he's prepared for against the Vikings. And we talked

1536
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 1: about Kirk Cousins, how if you show him some things

1537
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,439
Speaker 1: he's not expecting and you pressure him on those plays,

1538
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: he does have the tendency to throw it up for

1539
01:21:47,800 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 1: grabs sometimes if the secondary can turn those throws into picks,

1540
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: which they weren't able to do in the first game,

1541
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: they'll try to do it in this game. Yeah. I

1542
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: mean they dropped two interceptions. The Cordell flat drop was

1543
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,679
Speaker 1: huge because it would have been a change of possession

1544
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: Giant U Paul on the plus territory with momentum. Instead,

1545
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: Minnesota goes down the field and they wind up throwing

1546
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass to Justin Jefferson, which widen that lead

1547
01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 1: a little bit. Paul. You're since you're in the locker

1548
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 1: room today, Um, very confident Giant team, isn't it. Yeah.

1549
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:17,800
Speaker 1: It's been that way actually ever since the game in

1550
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,439
Speaker 1: Philadelphia the other day, even in the locker room after

1551
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 1: the Eagles game when all the reserves played and gave

1552
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: Philadelphia all they could handle. You got the impression that

1553
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 1: this Giant's team was really looking forward to this week

1554
01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:34,759
Speaker 1: of preparation. Because Brian Dable has preached consistency all along,

1555
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:37,639
Speaker 1: they're not treating this any differently than they did all year.

1556
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 1: As coach said, you do what you have to do

1557
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 1: to get here, and you keep doing the same thing

1558
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: over and over again. They know they can play with Minnesota.

1559
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 1: Let's not kid ourselves. They know that they showed that

1560
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:51,800
Speaker 1: they got sloppy that day and they blew the game.

1561
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 1: So I think these guys are very assertive and confident

1562
01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 1: and looking forward to this one. His line all week, Bob,

1563
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:00,080
Speaker 1: what what it takes to win in September is the

1564
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 1: same thing that it takes to win in the playoffs.

1565
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: And that's that's who he's been preaching to his team.

1566
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:05,880
Speaker 1: Right and you gotta punt blocked, you're probably gonna lose.

1567
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:07,880
Speaker 1: And that's what happened in the Minnesota game. Let's go

1568
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 1: back to our audience here at Blue Ale House. Brandon,

1569
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: who you got here? We come on, come on, come on,

1570
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 1: let me see that Brandon thing. I my name is Robert.

1571
01:23:16,680 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: I have a question, Um, what are the three key

1572
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 1: factors leading to the Giants win this week? John, With

1573
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:25,920
Speaker 1: three key factors, I think one thing they did really

1574
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: well in that first game Bob he had no sacks,

1575
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 1: but Dexter Lawrence was dominant. He was in the backfield

1576
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 1: all game. He had a three quarterback hits. Now they're

1577
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 1: gonna have a different center. Austin Schlattman is not playing

1578
01:23:35,880 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 1: for them anymore. Chris Reid could be the center. And

1579
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,559
Speaker 1: there's also a chance that Bradbury, their starter, is back

1580
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,720
Speaker 1: for this game. So that's one. I correct. He has

1581
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: a bad back, so we'll see who plays at center.

1582
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:47,599
Speaker 1: The other thing I think is interesting, and I talked

1583
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: to Chris Simms about this on the John Suttle podcast today.

1584
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: The Giants in that first game, Bob dropped back fifty

1585
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 1: two times and ran it just seventeen times. It's not

1586
01:23:56,160 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: like the Vikings are good against the run. You know,

1587
01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: Saco and Barkley rush for sixty arts per carry in

1588
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 1: that game. He just ran a fourteen time. So, Paul,

1589
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how much the Giants decide to

1590
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 1: maybe balance that run pass balance out a little bit more.

1591
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 1: You know, you can still throw it a lot, but

1592
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 1: maybe if you cut that down, go from fifty two

1593
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: to thirty eight, maybe you cut down a couple of

1594
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: those turnovers. Se Kwan gets the one twenty rushing and

1595
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 1: maybe you have a little bit better balance. Yeah. I

1596
01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,120
Speaker 1: think the Giants could use the passing game actually to

1597
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 1: open up the run. We've talked about that a number

1598
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:29,640
Speaker 1: of times this year, and occasionally they've been able to

1599
01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: do that. I think they do need to work that

1600
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 1: against Minnesota. But my matchup, guys is um is only

1601
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 1: you know, the right tackle for the Minnesota Vikings who's

1602
01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:43,760
Speaker 1: replaced O'Neil. O'Neil only gave up four sacks last year.

1603
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 1: He was a pro bowler, pretty solid player. He was

1604
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:47,880
Speaker 1: really good in that first game. He was, but he

1605
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,760
Speaker 1: was the problem for you though. Last year he got

1606
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:55,200
Speaker 1: called for sixteen penalties, twelve of which were holding penalties.

1607
01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: He tied for the second most penalties in the NFL.

1608
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 1: This guy is a very bad liability for Minnesota's the

1609
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 1: offensive line. He's gonna be opposite a zazonel Are now.

1610
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: He played pretty well the last two weeks, but his

1611
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: history is not good. It's right and then Paul Bob

1612
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:12,719
Speaker 1: on the other side, the Giants right tackle Evan Neil.

1613
01:25:12,920 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: He had issues with Daniel Hunter and that first did

1614
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 1: he did that entire right side of the Giants offensive

1615
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 1: line struggle. They're gonna have to fix that up against

1616
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 1: Hunter and Zadarius. So yes, for three keys, we gave

1617
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: you about fourteen. All right, Brandon who we got Doug

1618
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:30,560
Speaker 1: from Pompton Plains. Uh so, you guys, you guys have

1619
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,040
Speaker 1: been around the game a long time and just coming

1620
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 1: off the last game, coming into this game, I just

1621
01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:38,599
Speaker 1: wanted your opinion. Do you think they lost momentum by

1622
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: sitting the starters last game and kind of taking it easy,

1623
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: taking those guys out of out of their usual routine

1624
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: or what was your what's your opinion on like the

1625
01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: rest factor or just kind of keeping them went um going.

1626
01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: What do you think, Well, you got no chance to

1627
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 1: win this game on Sunday if Daniel Jones would have

1628
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 1: gotten hurt, right, I mean, look at Mike Williams of

1629
01:25:56,880 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: the Chargers, he got hurt. They didn't really need the

1630
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: game with the way the other game was going. And

1631
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 1: now who knows that what he's gonna do against the

1632
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 1: Jaguars on Saturday. You had to keep Say Kwan, you

1633
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: had to keep Jones, you had to keep you have

1634
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 1: to keep your stars player Dexter Lawrence available to play.

1635
01:26:13,200 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 1: The way the game played out, I think the Giants

1636
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: game momentum is a franchise because remember Philadelphia's starters played

1637
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 1: the entire game because they needed the one number one

1638
01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 1: seedon and Buy and the Giants reserve players went toe

1639
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 1: to toe and put the fear of God in him.

1640
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:33,560
Speaker 1: And I think what that has done is it's energized

1641
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 1: this entire locker room. And now there's guys that were

1642
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: deeper on the depth chart that if they got to

1643
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 1: go in and play against Justin Jefferson or theling, well,

1644
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: they just went against A. J. Brown and DeVante Smith.

1645
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:47,679
Speaker 1: They just went against Miles Sanders, they just went against

1646
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:50,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. On the other side, they just went against

1647
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:53,360
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham and the two corners and

1648
01:26:53,520 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: had success. So I think that game energized the entire

1649
01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:59,719
Speaker 1: locker room. And I don't think one week is gonna

1650
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,040
Speaker 1: break rhythm. If you were to buy and you're taking

1651
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: two straight weeks with nobody playing, then you run two

1652
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: issues one week. I think you're fine, fellas. I would

1653
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:08,680
Speaker 1: add one more thing, and that is a lot of

1654
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:11,880
Speaker 1: Giants have been playing hurt, They've been playing sword, They've

1655
01:27:11,920 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: been banged up. A lot of guys had their gas

1656
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 1: tank on low, near empty. Not this guy, though, not made,

1657
01:27:18,640 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: never made. They needed this week off. They needed this

1658
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: bye week so that they could take a pitch stop, refuel,

1659
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 1: get the oil in the engine, and put more air

1660
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 1: in their tires. Next question, we're running out of time.

1661
01:27:31,640 --> 01:27:34,320
Speaker 1: Outside of the Dorry Jackson coming back from injury, who's

1662
01:27:34,320 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: gonna make the biggest impact coming back from injury? I think, oh,

1663
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: Larry because he only played seven snaps in the Colts games.

1664
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 1: So this week off, the Giants played the game without

1665
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: Xavian McKinney the last time. I think that was a

1666
01:27:49,520 --> 01:27:51,680
Speaker 1: big fact. Yeah. Leonard Williams, I know he played in

1667
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:53,400
Speaker 1: the last game. He didn't play last week. He had

1668
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:55,680
Speaker 1: two sacks. Ezra Cleveland and ed and Grew with their

1669
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 1: two guards. They struggled against Leonard Williams. I think he

1670
01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 1: could add a big game. I like Gowari. I think

1671
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: that matchup against you, though, is a really good one

1672
01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 1: for the Giants. All right, Uh, listen, I want to

1673
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:08,240
Speaker 1: get your thoughts real quickly here. We got less than

1674
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:10,920
Speaker 1: a minute. Um, how do you see the game play out?

1675
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:12,799
Speaker 1: How do you what do you see the final result?

1676
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: These two games have played, these two teams have played

1677
01:28:15,080 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 1: close games all the year. The Vikings haven't lost when

1678
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:19,040
Speaker 1: the Giants had been good in these spots too. I

1679
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,640
Speaker 1: think the Giants protect the ball better and they're the

1680
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:23,679
Speaker 1: ones that come out ahead in a close game this week.

1681
01:28:24,720 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 1: What do you think? I like the Giants leading close

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the fourth quarter than going in

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Speaker 1: on a touchdown drive that will give them a comfortable

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Speaker 1: lead in the final minutes. I think it'll work out

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Speaker 1: very well. All right, we want to thank round of

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Speaker 1: applause here for the entire staff at Blue Ale House

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Speaker 1: rolling out the red carpet. A big thank you for

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Speaker 1: all the Giants fans here as well. Round of applause

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Speaker 1: for you. Thank for showing up and you know a lot.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a win on Sunday and let's do this

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Speaker 1: again somewhere else in your right. Let's go and preeview

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Speaker 1: another playoff game. Keith McPherson until two am is coming

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Speaker 1: and Tiki Bar run Ball Papa. Thanks for joining us

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Speaker 1: here from the Blue Ale House. Enjoy the game, everybody,