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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants huts.

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Speaker 2: Giants, my Giants, give me some job.

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Speaker 1: Part of the Giants Podcast Network. Let's role. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another edition of the Giants Little Podcast, our special schedule

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Speaker 1: release edition. I am John Schmel joined by Paul Deatino.

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Speaker 1: The Giants Tottle Podcast is, of course, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Citizens, the official bank of the New York Football Giants.

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Speaker 1: The Giants twenty twenty four schedule is released Paul, and

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Speaker 1: it's a fun one. We obviously knew all the opponents,

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Speaker 1: so now it's just a matter of how these get ordered.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like I am contractually required to start

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Speaker 1: this by saying, this is gonna be a fun conversation.

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Speaker 1: It's good to talk about how the placement of the

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Speaker 1: opponents will determine how the flow of the season will go.

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Speaker 1: But don't put too much stock into this because we

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Speaker 1: don't know what players on what teams are even gonna

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Speaker 1: be on the field and healthy when the Giants play

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Speaker 1: these opponents when they do them based on the schedule.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what I always do, and I always

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Speaker 2: put it up on Twitter. I do it an analysis

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Speaker 2: based on the logistics and the presumed competitiveness of the

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Speaker 2: teams that the Giants are going to play and where

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Speaker 2: they have been slotted. And you know, it's a fun

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Speaker 2: exercise to do. I think in most of the last

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Speaker 2: ten years or so, when I've done it, I've come

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Speaker 2: up with many more reasons to frown than to necessarily

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Speaker 2: be smiling. But I think in this particular instance, there's

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Speaker 2: probably a few more smiles.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So let's go through it here, Paul. Let's do

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand foot view stuff first here. Okay, I counted,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going through it again just to make sure

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Speaker 1: I have ever. I count in nine to one o'clock games,

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Speaker 1: h six at home, three on the road, one Sunday

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Speaker 1: at four to twenty five game. Right, we have three

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Speaker 1: prime time games Thursday night against Dallas on September twenty sixth,

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Speaker 1: Monday Night against Pittsburgh on October twenty eighth, and then

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Speaker 1: you have Sunday Night against Cincinnati on October thirteenth. Those

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Speaker 1: are the three primetime games. Now there are two other

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Speaker 1: standalone games. Get your turkey legs ready, folks at Dallas

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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. That'll be the four to thirty game on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: And then also the Giant says was previously announced, will

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Speaker 1: be in Munich to take on the Panthers on November tenth.

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Speaker 1: That's the game immediately prior to the bye week, and

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Speaker 1: that'll be a nine to thirty am standalone game on

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning November tenth. And then we have two to

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Speaker 1: be determined games at the end of the year, the

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. It'll all have to be Saturday, December twenty

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Speaker 1: eighth or Sunday, December twenty ninth at MetLife Stadium. And

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Speaker 1: then they'll close the year against the Eagles the following week,

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Speaker 1: and that could be a Saturday or Sunday game, sure

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Speaker 1: how that week's go. So that's how the days and

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Speaker 1: times are kind of spread out over the course of

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Speaker 2: The first thing that surprised me John when I saw

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Speaker 2: on and let's just go right to the big headline

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Speaker 2: item Saquon Barkley and the Philadelphia Eagles with a game

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Speaker 2: against the Giants. Knowing how Mike North, who is the

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Speaker 2: head of the division that does all the schedules, knowing

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Speaker 2: how he values storylines and values big name superstar players,

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Speaker 2: it seemed to me we would probably see Saquon Barkley

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Speaker 2: come back with Philly and play the Giants here at

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Speaker 2: Metlive Stadium in an early season game, probably a primetime game.

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Speaker 2: That's not the way that this shapes up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if it wasn't a primetime game, you figured

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Speaker 1: Fox would have been heavy on it for a four

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Speaker 1: game on a Sunday afternoon on October twentieth. Yeah, I agree,

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Speaker 1: that is a surprise. I thought that would be given

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Speaker 1: I wonder obviously, you know, we even't a chance to

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Speaker 1: what the I wonder what the four to twenty five

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't know, but from a storyline, I mean, John,

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Speaker 2: we don't have to be too smart to figure out

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Speaker 1: And especially that's Week seven. You know, Saquon does have

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Speaker 2: You just don't know. So, I mean, with all of

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Speaker 1: And we will go through this sequentially, folks, just a

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Speaker 1: NFC East games, because a lot more earlier in the

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Speaker 1: NFC East games by November three. Yeah, So of their four, five, six, seven,

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Speaker 1: They have Dallas first time ever on Thursday Night Football

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Speaker 1: Washington September fifteenth, and week two that's in Washington, so

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Speaker 1: it's in Washington September fifteenth, week to week four home

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Speaker 1: So not only for the first nine games against NFC

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the flip side of that, as you can imagine,

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Speaker 2: I always prefer to get more of my inside division

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Speaker 2: in the season, because it's really painful to scoreboard watch.

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Speaker 2: If you're trying to catch up and you're trying to

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Speaker 2: want to have to be scoreboard watching all the time.

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Speaker 2: You'd like to be able to play your division opponents

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Speaker 2: and know if, oh if we win this game, they lose,

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Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about it. But after Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: when the Giants play the Cowboys, they only have one

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Speaker 2: more NFC East game, and it's the season finale against.

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia, and that game in the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: Very rare, and it puts the Giants in a situation

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Speaker 2: where and I know the coaches and the players will

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Speaker 2: tell you you have to take care of business on

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you you are going to be stressed out

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Speaker 2: you know you're not playing them and you can't take

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Speaker 1: Okay, any other larger themes here, Paul, you want to

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Speaker 1: hit before we take this thing in sequential order, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think before.

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Speaker 2: We started, John, you mentioned to me the Gauntlet.

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Speaker 1: Well, well I would to go in order, all right,

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Speaker 1: that'll be in the middle of Okay, the other larger

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Speaker 1: things that you do, yeah, you know what, you know.

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Speaker 2: What I think the other one that that kind of

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Speaker 2: there's no more than two consecutive road games at any

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Speaker 1: That's a good one.

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Speaker 2: And folks, I am fact.

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Speaker 1: They only play back to back road games once in

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Speaker 1: weeks two and three, Right, that's it.

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Speaker 2: And if you, if you know anything about the way

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Speaker 2: you that is a very welcomed move that the Giants

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Speaker 2: this is what the league gave them. But it's very

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Speaker 2: Of the league does try to avoid giving you three

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Speaker 2: very good. The other item I would just throw out there, John,

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Speaker 2: And they do.

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Speaker 1: Have back to back home games on two separate occasions.

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Speaker 1: By the way, they'll pay back to that home games

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Speaker 1: October thirteenth, October twentieth, and then back to back home

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The other thing that I that I would throw

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Speaker 2: it's a familiar foe. They're coming off a short road

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Speaker 1: They go back to back road trips, correct, right, correct,

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Speaker 1: that's advantageous.

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Speaker 2: You hate to have a road trip involved with one

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Speaker 1: Now, Cleveland is a physical, good defensive football it is,

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Speaker 1: And I like being familiar with the opponent. You know,

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Speaker 1: bring up Paul. Paul, and this kind of just bumped

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Speaker 1: So they have their rest breaks split up pretty well here, Paul,

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Speaker 1: Monday Night. Then they get a far trip, no, correct,

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Speaker 1: go through this in order. And then I don't like

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Speaker 1: A little bit, correct, all right, all right, now let's

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Speaker 2: So it is what it is. But I noticed, and

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Speaker 2: it wasn't like the Giants had a bunch of warm

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Speaker 2: climates on their their road schedule. But when you look

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Speaker 2: at it, they're in the Dome at Atlanta uh and

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Speaker 2: the third to last week of the regular season. Uh.

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Speaker 2: And then their previous road game before that is Dallas

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Speaker 2: on Thanksgiving, so also a dome. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Is the German Stadium at Dome?

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Speaker 2: I believe there's a hole in the roof.

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Speaker 1: It's like Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I think, you know. I don't think

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Speaker 2: they close it.

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Speaker 1: I do not have details on the German stadiums.

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Speaker 2: No, we do not, but but those are those are

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Speaker 2: your road games. Besides Philly, you've got Dallas, which could

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Speaker 2: potentially have a closed roof, and you've got Atlanta, which

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Speaker 2: which will have a closed roof. So you know, weather

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Speaker 2: should not necessarily be impactful as this team goes on

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Speaker 2: the road down the stretch, but obviously the home games

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Speaker 2: here in East Rutherford, you're playing the Saints, the Ravens,

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Speaker 2: and Indy uh in the final stretch of the season.

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Speaker 2: If we have nasty weather in New Jersey, well, so

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Speaker 2: be it. I mean, that's just the way it's gonna

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Speaker 2: have to be. I don't think New Orleans would like

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Speaker 2: really nasty weather, and I don't think the Colts would

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Speaker 2: like to face really nasty weather. If the Giants are

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Speaker 2: looking for some kind of home field advantage due to

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Speaker 2: the climate Baltimore, I don't think they care.

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Speaker 1: No, I don't think they do. So I'll close with this, Paul,

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Speaker 1: and then you can give your final comments. I just

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Speaker 1: think critical if you can figure out a way to

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Speaker 1: win those first two games, to beat two to zero

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Speaker 1: before you go yeah, gaultlet that to be is gonna

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Speaker 1: be very important because you're gonna lose some games in

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Speaker 1: that week three to week eight range, and you're playing

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Speaker 1: all those teams that made the playoffs last year. If

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Speaker 1: you know, all the quarterbacks are healthy. We've talked about

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Speaker 1: that already, but I think very important to figure out

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Speaker 1: a way to beat Minnesota week one, beat Washington in

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Speaker 1: week two, two rookie quarterbacks, and have a little bit

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Speaker 1: of build a little cushion for yourself heading into that

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Speaker 1: stretch again where you're playing a lot of playoff teams

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Speaker 1: and all teams that finished over five hundred last year

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Speaker 1: at Cleveland, holmvers Dallas at Seattle. Since he Philly at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: I wonder how much Shane Bowen is going to be

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Speaker 2: able to bring with him in his notebook about the

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns in week three. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean AFC South, AFC North.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how often they've played in the time

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Speaker 2: he was in Tennessee. I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'll say, don't sleep on the Colts.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I think the Colts have a chance

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Speaker 1: to be a pretty good team this year. Well, if

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson says healthy and he plays.

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Speaker 2: Well, they are a Dome team though correct, And again

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Speaker 2: I've always said if you can get home field weather advantage,

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Speaker 2: but that's yeah, correct, and that game's here correct, and

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Speaker 2: so is the Saints game with about a month left

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Speaker 2: in the season. The Saints have to come up here,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure that they don't want to see freezing

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Speaker 2: rain or nasty wind either. Final thoughts, well, again, I

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Speaker 2: think for the most part, if you were to weigh

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Speaker 2: out the logistical and put competitive aspects of this schedule,

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Speaker 2: I think it weighs a little more positively in the

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Speaker 2: Giants favor than I thought it was going through.

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Speaker 1: This is one of my I like this schedule more

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Speaker 1: than the last few where you kind of just got

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Speaker 1: all these really tough games at the beginning of the

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Speaker 1: year and it was hard to survive them. I feel

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Speaker 1: like this is that three to eight period is rough,

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Speaker 1: but at least you're starting the season with two teams

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Speaker 1: that did not make the playoffs last year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The one thing that kind of really does stick

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Speaker 2: as the thorn in my side is the fact that

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Speaker 2: there's so few NFC East games in the stretch run. Again,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm not one who enjoys scoreboard watching and wanting

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Speaker 2: to find out what's going on in other buildings as

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Speaker 2: you're in the final playoff push. I kind of like

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Speaker 2: to take care of business myself within the division. That's

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Speaker 2: the one thorn that probably bothers me more than anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we already knew this going in. But really

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Speaker 1: only seven true road games, right, you know Munich is

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Speaker 1: technically a road game, but there's gonna be more Giant

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Speaker 1: fans there than Panthers fans.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I would think.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be a virtual home games. You're

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Speaker 1: almost have ten home games and seven road games, which

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Speaker 1: will which will help as well. And we know, you know,

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Speaker 1: Giant fans will show up well in places like Atlanta

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Speaker 1: where Giant fans have generally had a pretty good showing. Paul,

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