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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Giants Huddle, a New York Giants podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the newest edition of the Giants Huddle podcast.

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Speaker 1: John Schmalk Michaeliesh with you today's guest, one of the

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Speaker 1: newest members in New York Football, Giants linebacker Blake Martinez.

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Speaker 1: Before we get to Blake, first one reminds you can

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Speaker 1: Now let's get to Blake. Hey, Blake, how's it going

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Speaker 1: in he get this chat with you guy? Alright, Blake,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the real simple question, why did you

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Speaker 1: choose to come to the New York Giants. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean there's a lot of kind of factors that went

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Speaker 1: into I think that one of the main appealing things

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Speaker 1: was young team, a lot of talents across the board um,

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Speaker 1: and then another aspects my old intelumber coach now that

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Speaker 1: the coordinator pack Graham um and just the market there, um,

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Speaker 1: fan base, just everything kind of just was so appealing

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Speaker 1: to me. UM throughout the whole process, and once it

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Speaker 1: kind of narrowed down to my choices, UM, that just

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Speaker 1: seemed like the greatest fit. Yeah. You mentioned Patrick Graham.

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Speaker 1: You know how much was his presidence? How much did

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Speaker 1: that influent your pocision to come here, and why do

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Speaker 1: you have such strong feelings about him from your season together. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he's probably one of the smartest coaches I've

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Speaker 1: ever been around. UM, just with his ability to get

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Speaker 1: you ready within uh four to five day fan um

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Speaker 1: every single week I went in my third year when

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Speaker 1: he was my silmber coach, I went into the games

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Speaker 1: on Sunday feeling like I knew exactly what players were

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Speaker 1: going to happen, exactly what I need to do within

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Speaker 1: our scheme. Um. It just made each game so you

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Speaker 1: to play. And I think that was the biggest thing

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Speaker 1: that I got from him going throughout that year and

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Speaker 1: got me so excited to be able to work with

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Speaker 1: him again. UM. Obviously coming up this season, Hey Blake,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these analytics sites thought that was your

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Speaker 1: best year of your career. How much do you think

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Speaker 1: they had to do with the type of preparation he

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Speaker 1: helped give you over the course of the weekend. What

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Speaker 1: was it about the way they used do that year

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Speaker 1: that you think accentuated your best qualities? Yeah. I think

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Speaker 1: the main thing, kind of going through his stuff is

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Speaker 1: throughout the week he knew exactly obviously what team we

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Speaker 1: and given each week whatever those strengths where we worked

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Speaker 1: on smallest rails to make sure that we were attacking

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Speaker 1: and those types of things. So it made made it

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Speaker 1: and it made you four um within those games because

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Speaker 1: to attack the hip on a guy, what routes they're running, Um,

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Speaker 1: all these types of things that just made you um

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Speaker 1: that much better every single week. Yeah, Blake, I'm curious.

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Speaker 1: You know, you had a lot of teams success. You

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Speaker 1: know at Stanford you went to football games one three pack,

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Speaker 1: twelve titles, and then this past season you came one

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Speaker 1: kind of feeling that left you with coming out of

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Speaker 1: that year. Yeah, it's it's one of those things. I

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the youth in the town on the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Blake is something that really appealed to you when you

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Speaker 1: How do you think that can help you bring your

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Speaker 1: you that without the phrase tackling machine. Yeah, um has

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Speaker 1: You played through a fractured hand last year. I understand.

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Speaker 1: I just have one lok like you go out in California.

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Speaker 1: us on this week's episode of The Giant Subtle Podcast Again.

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Speaker 1: much for being with us. For Michael Eison, I'm John Schmilk.

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