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Speaker 1: Welcome into the season finale of Giants Hangouts, brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Crestrawn. My name is Madeline Burke, as always

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Speaker 1: joined by Russ Salzburg and Matt Sietek and as a

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Speaker 1: season finale treat to you all. We are three in

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Speaker 1: the same room for this one, at the same desk.

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Speaker 1: All huddle up, three p's in a pod here as

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Speaker 1: we recap the twenty twenty four season that was in

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Speaker 1: the big news of course, Giants finishing the year three

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Speaker 1: and fourteen on the season. But John Marrow wasting no

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Speaker 1: time Monday morning coming out with a statement saying in

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Speaker 1: part that the team is retaining head coach Brian Dable

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Speaker 1: and general manager Joe Shane moving forward. We heard from

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Speaker 1: John Marra about the decision. We heard from Brian Dable,

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Speaker 1: we heard from Joe Shane, We've heard from players as

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Speaker 1: we recap the twenty twenty four season that was, and

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Speaker 1: the consensus, guys seems that you know what, Yes, three

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Speaker 1: wins not enough, but they are staying in the course

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Speaker 1: and committed to the process of moving forward with the planet.

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Speaker 2: Hand Listen as we talk amongst ourselves in the dining

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Speaker 2: room here there, everywhere, I've said all along, I believed

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Speaker 2: that Joe and Brian would be back. I'm glad they're back.

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Speaker 2: The easiest thing, you know, is to appease the what

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Speaker 2: I call the loud minority, and the loud minority is, well,

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Speaker 2: we got to make this change. We got to make

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Speaker 2: that change. And a lot of that is stirred up

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Speaker 2: by certain people in the media. To me, how many

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Speaker 2: times did we mention on the hangout that we've been

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Speaker 2: in the locker room. We see what's going on. It's

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Speaker 2: a good locker room. There's never been a demoralized locker room. Sure,

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Speaker 2: the guys are angry when they lose a game, they're

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Speaker 2: very upset about three and fourteen, but they never quit

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Speaker 2: on Dave's and that's very important. And as John said,

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Speaker 2: continuity is very important. You don't change for the sake

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Speaker 2: of making a change. That can sound good, it can

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Speaker 2: sound sexy, but that's not the way it's done. And

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Speaker 2: some people are not going to like me saying that,

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Speaker 2: but that's reality. And they made the decision to let's

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Speaker 2: move forward and get this thing straightened out. And when

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Speaker 2: you listen to Joe and Brian talking, they're confident of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean one hundred percent. I mean we heard

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Speaker 3: from all three of them, mister Mahra, Brian Davil, Joe Shane,

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Speaker 3: and all three acknowledged that this season just nothing was

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Speaker 3: good enough from top to bottom. You know, between coach

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Speaker 3: and Joe, they both you know, took responsibility for their

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Speaker 3: own parts of you know, the Giants going three and fourteen,

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Speaker 3: but they made it very clear nobody was happy with

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Speaker 3: how the season went. There results, but they think that

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Speaker 3: there are pieces in place to build upon to get

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Speaker 3: to the Giants where they need to go or whether

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Speaker 3: everyone wants them to be in twenty twenty five, and

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Speaker 3: you know, even beyond and even going back to last

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Speaker 3: and then especially this morning when we heard from the

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Speaker 3: players right after you know, the Giants put the statement

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Speaker 3: out that both Brian and Joe would be back. Every

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Speaker 3: single player that spoke was happy everyone that they would

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Speaker 3: So I know, you know, as you mentioned, there's you know,

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Speaker 3: a segment of the fan base that we know will

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Speaker 3: not be happy with this decision. But at the end

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Speaker 3: of the day, the locker room, the players, they are

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Speaker 3: that is, in my opinion, the most important part of

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Speaker 1: A lot of different guys mentioned the word continuity being

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Speaker 1: we have buy in. I think we have the right guys.

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Speaker 1: We've just got to continue to add some pieces and

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Speaker 1: be consistent. And like you said, you know, this locker room,

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Speaker 1: we've all been around this team for several years and

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Speaker 1: seen some of the ups and downs, but this locker

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Speaker 1: And many of the guys in that locker room have said,

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Speaker 2: He says where you said, that he.

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Speaker 1: Was standing there earlier today saying, listen, nobody is more

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Speaker 1: you know this time next year, you know we're standing

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Speaker 1: in the same position, then I'll take the heat. But

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Speaker 1: right now, I do believe in these guys.

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Speaker 2: Hey, you know you bring up John Mara and the fans.

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Speaker 2: I get it. We always understand when fans are frustrated.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows that, and John will tell you. John Mara

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Speaker 2: will tell you nobody knows it better than him. But

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Speaker 2: I also can tell all of you fans out there this,

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Speaker 2: games harder than John Mara nobody. And his father was

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Speaker 2: the same way, and he's the same way. They take

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Speaker 2: you want to accuse me of of waving big blue

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Speaker 2: pomp poms, that's fine. But you know, you can fly

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, nobody cares about the fans more than

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Speaker 2: the Mara family and the Tish family as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think that feels pretty evident. I

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Speaker 3: But even more so, like everyone in this building wants

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Speaker 3: the Giants to get better, and obviously from top to

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Speaker 3: like everyone is doing their own part and just helping

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Speaker 3: move forward and get the Giants to where we all want.

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Speaker 1: It to be, right, and a consistent key in doing that,

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Speaker 1: of course, and something that was echoed in every media

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Speaker 1: Joe Shane is the importance of getting a quarterback. The

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Speaker 1: Giants going into twenty twenty five have no quarterback under

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Speaker 1: process is also something that John Merhra acknowledged and said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I've never seen the personnel process functioning as well as

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Speaker 1: the reason that went into this decision for him as well.

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Speaker 1: But this process and this draft process, Joe Shane, we

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Speaker 1: scouts have been so imperative. Last year's draft, they had

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Speaker 1: the importance on not just the tape and who this

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Speaker 1: whether it be in the draft or free agency, is

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Speaker 2: Bang on, listen, we all know there's no defending three

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Speaker 2: Days won't defend it. They all said, it's on me,

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Speaker 2: It's on me, It's on me. But if we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk about that, let's be honest and talk about

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Speaker 2: their draft class from this past year. And John brought

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Speaker 2: that up, and he's right. They had an excellent, a

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Speaker 2: top shelf draft class. All those young men that they

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Speaker 2: Now they go into the draft with they moved up

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Speaker 2: know what, I'm not convinced one way or the other.

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Speaker 2: If they're gonna draft, if they're gonna do something with

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Speaker 2: which happens to be the quarterback position, not just at football,

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Speaker 2: in sports, well, the most important position and.

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Speaker 1: Also important to point out to that right now, it

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Speaker 1: is January, and so much changes between January and April

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Speaker 1: in terms of draft boards, and draft position. We're going

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Speaker 3: Matt, Yeah, one hundred percent. But Russ, you took the

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Speaker 3: words out of my mouth. I was literally about to

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Speaker 3: say that not only is the quarterback the most positioned,

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Speaker 2: And second ain't close. Yeah, it was like one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: And you know, obviously the quarterback position was a question,

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Speaker 3: to you know, Marra, to coach Stable, to Joe, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: It's not gonna be figured out today. It's not gonna

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Speaker 3: need to go through the evaluation process both with the

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Speaker 3: So there are a lot of different avenues the Giants

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Speaker 3: someone as well. I mean, as you said, well, I

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Speaker 1: DeVito is the multiple quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Tommy DeVito is the only quarterback I think that is

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Speaker 3: at least most likely to be back with the quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: I think he's the only one that makes.

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Speaker 3: It a lot easier for them to bring him back

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Speaker 3: at a reasonable rate. But yeah, they did just fill

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm glad you brought up Maleik because if

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Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, look at the turnaround Washington exactly.

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season, the one hundredth season of the

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Speaker 1: Giants franchise, is behind us. Rest easy, Giants fans.

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Speaker 2: You did it.

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Speaker 1: You made it through eighteen weeks three and fourteen. It's

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Speaker 1: not how we wanted it to go, but you know what,

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Speaker 1: we learned a lot. We had some good times, we

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Speaker 1: had some memories, and we had eighteen episodes of Giants

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Speaker 1: Hangouts brought to you by Creston. It has been fun

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Speaker 1: hanging out with you guys this season and doing.

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Speaker 2: This very much, so very much so, looking forward to

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Speaker 2: next season.

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Speaker 1: As well, looking forward to it as always for Matt

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Speaker 1: Sietech and Ross Salzburg. I'm Madeline Burke. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for hanging out with us. We'll see you next time.