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Speaker 1: Welcome to this week's episode of The Giants Subtle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: This week's guest rookie offensive tackle Andrew Thomas. But first

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Speaker 1: we have it completed. But now let's get to our

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Speaker 1: interview Madaline Bark with Andrew Thomas. I'm Madeline Burke. Joined

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Speaker 1: it today by Giants rookie tackle number four overall pick

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Speaker 1: in the two thousand twenty draft, Andrew Thomas. Andrew, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining me today. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: be here. Have you been, uh, spending a lot of

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Speaker 1: time at home with with your family, especially during this

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Speaker 1: kind of COVID era. Well, so I've currently been an

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Speaker 1: adfens with my roommates and I've been here and my

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Speaker 1: coming they're back in mock on you, but I'll go

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Speaker 1: home every now and then just check on them. Nice.

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Speaker 1: How has this been? I mean obviously, it's such a

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Speaker 1: unique offseason experience or rookie offseason experience for you, going

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Speaker 1: from the draft to virtual meetings and such. What what's

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Speaker 1: this process been like for you? It's a huge adjustment. Um,

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Speaker 1: nobody will be prepared for it. But I've just been

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Speaker 1: trying to you know, play the cars that I've been dealt.

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Speaker 1: I was been having our meetings online. I've been fortunate

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Speaker 1: enough to be able to work out because I'm in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: so some of the gyms are open, so I've been

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Speaker 1: able to you know, to stay in shape and things

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Speaker 1: like that. So just trying to make the best of

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Speaker 1: you know, my time that I have. Obviously, Dave Gentleman

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Speaker 1: puts a strong emphasis on a strong offensive line. I

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Speaker 1: mean coming to an organization with that emphasis, you know

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Speaker 1: how important in online is you're playing at Georgia and

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Speaker 1: the success that you guys have had their What is

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Speaker 1: this like kind of joining an organization with that as

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Speaker 1: a priority. First of all, it's an honor, you know,

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Speaker 1: to be to play for the New York by Giants.

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Speaker 1: UM great organization, a lot of good history and I'm

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Speaker 1: obviously line obviously, so you know, I take pride in

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Speaker 1: you know, being run the ball, being to protective quarterback

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Speaker 1: and obviously that's something that they take, you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of interest into and I'm I'm glad to be

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Speaker 1: a part of it. Absolutely. I mean, you've had a

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Speaker 1: lot of versatility to you start your college career right tackle,

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Speaker 1: you play left tackle. I mean, obviously it's a similar position,

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Speaker 1: but mirrored is it? Is it more than that when

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Speaker 1: you're changing between the right and the left side. How

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Speaker 1: would you describe the mentality behind that? So for me, Um,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a switch in my head that

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Speaker 1: kind of goes off because you know, the players and

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Speaker 1: everything are the same, the techniques the same, but everything

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Speaker 1: is flipped to the other side. So you might be

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Speaker 1: using your right leg for something, it'll be the different,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the left side. So I'm just getting

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Speaker 1: used to that. But once you know, I get a

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Speaker 1: few repetitions and it, Um, it's just natural. How do

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know quarterback can practice throwing a receiver,

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Speaker 1: can you know, practice edge rugging with coming the edge

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Speaker 1: back and forth builds that muscle memory. What are some

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Speaker 1: of the drills you go through? So we do different

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Speaker 1: What's your relationship in like with him so far? Um?

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Speaker 1: Pretty good. Um, we've been having our medians and UM

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Speaker 1: your teammates are also kind of on the same page

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Speaker 1: So it's just the rookies that we're in there. We

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Speaker 1: but they point out different things and the way the meetings.

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Speaker 1: No coach will just ask us to um. You know,

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Speaker 1: like they test us all the time because they want

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Speaker 1: us to know. You know, the NFL is a people leaving.

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Speaker 1: We got to know our teammates, no people that we

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Speaker 1: good with names? Are you better with faces? Hasn't been

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Speaker 1: There's so many people, but it just takes repetition. Um,

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest difference when you're kind of approaching this

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Speaker 1: Like you understand where the play is going, um, and

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Speaker 1: It's it's a different It's different from college. There's nobody

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Speaker 1: letting us and letting the Giants fans get to know

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