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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants Huttle on giants

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Speaker 1: dot com The Giants Podcast. Hello everybody, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of the Giants Shuttle podcast. John Smoke

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Speaker 1: with you. As the Giants search to fill out their

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Speaker 1: front office and coaching staff continues, I thought this would

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Speaker 1: be a good time to talk to some of the players.

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Speaker 1: Madeline Burke again of the season, had a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk to a bunch of Giant players. So I figured,

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Speaker 1: let's take these short interviews, put them together, and we

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Speaker 1: got ourselves a podcast. Right, So we'll have two of these,

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Speaker 1: one this week, one probably coming your way next week.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine four short interviews. On this week's show,

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Speaker 1: we have rookie edge rusher or Z's Ogilari, second year

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Speaker 1: safety Davier McKinney, and both Giants starting cornerbacks Dorry Jackson

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Speaker 1: and James Bradberry. As a reminder, the John Suttle Podcast,

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Speaker 1: if an Apple podcast, please leave a five story, a

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Speaker 1: tell them to go check it out. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: start with James Bradberry. He was obviously the giants second course,

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Speaker 1: second year corner. They brought him into free agency in

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Speaker 1: twenty and he had a second year with the Giants

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Speaker 1: this year. Let's take a listen to his interview with

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Speaker 1: Madeline Burke. James, thanks for taking the time today. Obviously

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Speaker 1: this season didn't go the way this team would have hoped.

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Speaker 1: But as you look back on this year, what's one

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Speaker 1: thing that's going to stand out about this season? UM?

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Speaker 1: I think just guy's attitude. UM, Like every day it

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Speaker 1: for the game itself. But we kept our attitude is

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Speaker 1: together through the adversity. You guys face. Why was that her?

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Speaker 1: What do attribute that to? UM? I think we just respected,

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Speaker 1: see how much guys put in toward outside of practice,

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Speaker 1: the effort was there, you know, just one coming together

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Speaker 1: you learn about yourself this year? You know, it's just

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Speaker 1: tough playing in the NFL altogether. You know, I gotta

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