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Speaker 1: Welcome back to courts Light Giants game Day. The Giant

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Speaker 1: and this week's Spotlight Wide receiver Cody Lottam Cody were

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Speaker 1: midway through the preseason. As a veterman who's been around

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Speaker 1: this league for a while, what is it that you

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Speaker 1: still want to accomplish? In preseason games three and four,

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Speaker 1: starting tonight with Cincinnati, I was wins. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: most people say don't count, but you know they wouldn't

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Speaker 1: like our receiver coach, it's tight. They won't keep scoring

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Speaker 1: with the accounting. It's just gotten funny. But you know,

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Speaker 1: just wins and uh just daily you know, improvement for everyone,

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Speaker 1: you know seeing now you know, I play, we all

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Speaker 1: played from game one, the game to the game three

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Speaker 1: to know how we finished off, you know, so I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, in these last couple of games obviously is

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Speaker 1: a momentum builder going into you know, regular season. So

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Speaker 1: you know, I finally get the last you know, in

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Speaker 1: game rep. So if you know being on target, you know,

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Speaker 1: same page as the quarterback. You know, make sure you

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Speaker 1: got all the players that make sure you're out so

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Speaker 1: we're going to be and make sure you're conditioning where

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Speaker 1: it needs to be, you know, for a week one.

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Speaker 1: I remember last year you would go into ir with

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Speaker 1: the hammy and then when you came back, you were

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Speaker 1: about as happy as a three year old in a

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Speaker 1: candy store. So grateful to be able to come back

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Speaker 1: and play the end of the season, made some plays too.

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Speaker 1: How much of you used that as a motivating factor

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Speaker 1: for this year because you're so grateful to be able

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Speaker 1: to still play this game. Just motivation being able to

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Speaker 1: you know, face adversity and come back, you know after

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Speaker 1: you know, injury I had and be having to set

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Speaker 1: out the year after, you know, going out to a

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Speaker 1: good start and kind of hurt. You know, it was

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Speaker 1: more mentally and everything you know, helped work on my

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Speaker 1: mental part, you know, because I mean I was so

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Speaker 1: down and heard I've said about it, because it's like

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Speaker 1: all the work you put in, you know that for

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Speaker 1: your season to just be ended, you know by something

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Speaker 1: you really can't control. You know, it's like it's football.

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Speaker 1: Things happened, but it's just especially you know, you felt

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Speaker 1: things were going your way, you were on the right track.

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Speaker 1: For you know, for a breakout year if you want

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Speaker 1: to call it, or you know, honestly pick off where

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Speaker 1: I left off. You know, that was a game last

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Speaker 1: year and I would come out here and so to

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Speaker 1: you know, be the same person, but also improve every

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Speaker 1: day and get better. But you know, I've been focusing

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Speaker 1: a lot on just my health, you know, to making

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Speaker 1: sure every day I'm getting treatment, and I call it

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Speaker 1: preventative maintenance. You know, just get there the little thing

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Speaker 1: it's getting, you know, Norman tagging ice cul ice, cub

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Speaker 1: ice to you know, stretching whatever I can size to

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Speaker 1: make sure you know, my body is that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the best health it could be. So nothing like that happens. Again.

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Speaker 1: The perception had been that you were more of a

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Speaker 1: medium range possession receiver when you came to the Giants.

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Speaker 1: It looks to me like, especially this summer, you've been

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Speaker 1: much more of a vertical threat, and you certainly showed

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Speaker 1: that at the end of last year as well. Was

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Speaker 1: that something that you concentrated on and and is it

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Speaker 1: something that that even held water at all to begin with?

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean it's just everybody got their opinions

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Speaker 1: and outlooks on everything. You know, obviously didn't you know,

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Speaker 1: get to play as mu as I went to endeavor,

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Speaker 1: so everybody didn't really get to see me play like that.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I know what kind of receiver I am,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the coach isn't that people didn't get

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Speaker 1: haven't really got to see me play. So I'm glad

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Speaker 1: they're getting a little insight. Now, could you give me

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Speaker 1: an indication as to what the dynamic is like in

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Speaker 1: your wide receiver's room. There's no alpha male in that

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Speaker 1: room right now, but it looks like collectively it is

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Speaker 1: one really tight knit group. And it's hard because the competition,

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Speaker 1: but you guys all seem to be fighting for each

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Speaker 1: other because your brothers in there. I mean, that's you

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Speaker 1: just said it. I mean any must add onto it.

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Speaker 1: We're brothers, We're all hungry, we all want the same goal.

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Speaker 1: We all want to make the team, we all want

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Speaker 1: the championship, we all want to push each other, we

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Speaker 1: all want to be the best. You know, because you know,

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Speaker 1: and I sat looking there and everybody you know, looking

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Speaker 1: down on us, and you know that's a room full

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Speaker 1: of people. You know, we have you know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people have been you know, looking at the guys

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Speaker 1: like me and nobody, Oh they Cody and do that,

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Speaker 1: and there Bendy is not any or Russell or these

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Speaker 1: guys didn't experience enough blah blah. But you know, we're

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Speaker 1: just hungry and we all know what we can do.

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Speaker 1: And we've all been waiting our opportunity in our shots.

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Speaker 1: You know, we haven't. None of us in every room

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Speaker 1: really had that opportunity to come out and you know,

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Speaker 1: get the ball, make plays in the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: and get the attention and you know, make plays. You know,

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Speaker 1: I said, a lot of us a special teams guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, but you know it's just hungry and you

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Speaker 1: know the humbleness and the brotherho we have because we

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Speaker 1: all know where we came from, you know, all special

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Speaker 1: team stars and you know, trying to make the team

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Speaker 1: every every year, wanting that opportunity, want to you know,

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Speaker 1: make that play. And you know, now being in the

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Speaker 1: position to go out there and have the opportunity and

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Speaker 1: make the plays, Man's the best thing that could have

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Speaker 1: happened to our room. Honesty. Man, I mean we're all

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Speaker 1: so tightening and push each other every day and I

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Speaker 1: want everybody each other to be great. You mean, you

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Speaker 1: can see us out there in the field supporting one

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Speaker 1: another no matter what and no matter what cord of

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Speaker 1: the game. It is that you know in practice, you know,

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Speaker 1: drop pass now, it's good. Next thing, you know, you

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Speaker 1: gotta make that play. But not we're good. We're good

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Speaker 1: and nobody perfect. But study and studying or what I

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Speaker 1: gotta net helping each other, you know, high five and

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Speaker 1: everybody got their handshakes. They do. I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: the close knit group and like I said, everybody's hungry

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Speaker 1: and we all reaching for the same goal. Man, I

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Speaker 1: think it's great, and I mean it brings out the

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Speaker 1: it makes you know, the receiver group corps look good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so proud of our receiver room. I

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Speaker 1: mean facing adversity. You know, we started camp with everybody

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Speaker 1: going down, Body's dropping, body dropping over, everybody panic over there,

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Speaker 1: gonna do you know everybody, we all kept our cluel

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Speaker 1: and kept pushing and riding me through the dog days

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Speaker 1: and push one another. And like I said, we're all

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Speaker 1: hungering out there and make play, support each other, and

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Speaker 1: it got each other's backs and everybody's putting on the

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Speaker 1: display out there this preseason. It looks amazing. Oh, Cody Latimer,

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Speaker 1: thanks for your time, best of luck, all right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's Giants wide receiver Cody Latimer when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Final thoughts from Jeff Feagles and Lance Meadow after this