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

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Speaker 1: now until training camp, we'll have a series of player interviews.

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Speaker 1: We've split him up by position to kind of give

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Speaker 1: you a feel of where this Giants team is heading

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Speaker 1: into training camp of two. Just as a reminder, you

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Speaker 1: slash podcast. Alright, a bit of a hodgepodge episode today.

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Speaker 1: We only got one running back this year, Matt Brada.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to him first. Also after that, stay tuned,

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Speaker 1: we have Casey Cried to the Giants long snapper and

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Speaker 1: the place kicker, Graham Gano. Let's start with newcomer Matt Brada.

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Speaker 1: Now we're joined by Giants running back Matt Brada. Matt,

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Speaker 1: how are you man? Welcome aboard? How has it been?

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Speaker 1: I know you were with Buffalo last year? So how

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Speaker 1: much is just suspend a continuation? How much is different

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Speaker 1: coming down here with coach table? A lot of us

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Speaker 1: a continuation, especially the culture and everything that he brought over. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, also Joe r gm uh you know kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, feels like buffalo almost, but with they're

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Speaker 1: own a little bit of flavor to it. Well, give

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Speaker 1: me a feel. Obviously I've been here for a long time,

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Speaker 1: but I've only been the building with these guys for

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Speaker 1: a few months. What is Bill's culture? Explain it to me.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, it's definitely, uh, first and foremost. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're here to win. You know, we're here

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Speaker 1: to win games. Uh, here to win championships. And I

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Speaker 1: feel like, you know, um, Dave Ball and Joe come

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Speaker 1: And then the next big thing is team karate. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're here to play for one of our

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Speaker 1: brothers and one another. And I feel like when you

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Speaker 1: do that it helps you later on the season. So

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Speaker 1: how do you balance then, Because based on I would

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Speaker 1: se her always back Tom Conflin. So I've seen really

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Speaker 1: serious atmospheres. I've seen looser atmospheres, and this seems like

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Speaker 1: a bit of a looser atmosphere. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: I've also seen when things go from on the practice

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Speaker 1: field that coach doesn't like he lets y'all know about it, right,

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Speaker 1: So how does he balance keeping that great camaraderie, keeping

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Speaker 1: a little more relaxed, but at the same time making

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Speaker 1: sure you get the job done. Yeah, I think that's

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Speaker 1: what you said, you know, just making sure we get

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Speaker 1: the job done. You know, he wants us to be loose,

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Speaker 1: I said, you know, we're here to win, so you know,

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Speaker 1: when it's time to get serious, when it's time to

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Speaker 1: get on the field. You know, it's time to go

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Speaker 1: to work. And you know, I feel like he does

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Speaker 1: can relate to a lot of guys well, just from

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Speaker 1: guy you want to play for. What is this running

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Speaker 1: What your giant fans expect from the ring games? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a little mixed of everything.

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Speaker 1: You know. Um, obviously, you know, if any of you

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Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit swimmer, but you know, also

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Speaker 1: to a casket here, Um, there'll be a little more

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a mixture of both. So

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Speaker 1: lot of people have mentioned that to me. Davie's quite

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Speaker 1: that word, but explained to me, what's the sauce that

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Speaker 1: it helps it tremendously because you know it's harder for

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Speaker 1: basically running back in Nebraska before he went to Kentucky, right,

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Speaker 1: you got a lot of areas Tony get the ball

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Speaker 1: that just put the defense make them pause a couple

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Speaker 1: to see him share what they're gonna do. Describe your

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm versatile, you know, I feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: you don't you guys know him very fast? But you know,

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Speaker 1: so motion out and that then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: that's what you're looking for. Oh yeah, man, you're looking

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Speaker 1: be a great one. Just a running back perspective, because

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Speaker 1: too in the spring when there's no hitting and there's

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Speaker 1: it's not quite real football. Yeah, I think it's good,

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Speaker 1: It was so much of your position is feel right,

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Speaker 1: And I gotta imagine, you know, maybe some nine on

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Speaker 1: and know what's going on in the past game. Matt,

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Speaker 1: you can't wait to see it. Thanks for the time, man,

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Speaker 1: now we're joined by Giants kicker Graham. Good Graham, how

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Speaker 1: are you man doing well? Glad to be here, happy

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Speaker 1: so let's let's let's start here. You have a new holder,

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Speaker 1: that's right. How's it going. It's going. Well, we've been

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