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Speaker 1: Hey, Granham, can you just take us throughout these last

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Speaker 1: two weeks to bet like for you? Um man, it

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Speaker 1: was it was rough. You know. We go from from

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Speaker 1: our medical staff, you know, our trainers and everybody's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I mean even uh even our team nutrition Steve. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were unbelievable helping me out, you know, throughout the

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Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's it's all because of the

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Speaker 1: guys and everybody, the team that we have around us.

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Speaker 1: We're also that video with the kicking net, was that

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Speaker 1: in your department? We're actually at me? That was that

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Speaker 1: was in the hotel room. Um that's that's where I

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Speaker 1: I was getting some reps in somehow, so uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: think I've been in rooms next door to somebody who's

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Speaker 1: doing that one a couple of times in post house. Uh, Graham,

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Speaker 1: what happened on the on the kickoffs there? That was?

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Speaker 1: That was all my fault. Um, I've got to kick

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Speaker 1: off better directionally, you know. I hit it down the

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Speaker 1: going off the field. I told coach that as well.

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta put us in better position than Um.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I gotta make that

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Speaker 1: So I've made enough tackles in my career that that

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Speaker 1: I know what to do, and and I just you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you can just put that

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Speaker 1: to tackle the guy. So um, yeah, that's that's what

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Speaker 1: happened on it and he and he rusks there was that.

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Speaker 1: There's that a case of you know, I had I

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Speaker 1: think if you'd been on the field all week, that

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Speaker 1: put that on, you know, being sick for a week

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Speaker 1: or whatever. I just gotta go out there and hit

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Speaker 1: a good ball. I mean I felt like I hit it. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's just I didn't hit it where we're supposed to go.

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Speaker 1: So um, at the end of the day, if I

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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a professional, and and uh with that,

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Speaker 1: whenever I don't do well. So um, that was all

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Speaker 1: kickoff coverage. I just gotta put them in a good

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Speaker 1: How about just a field goal operation of you know,

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Speaker 1: We'll take two more Za and tablet Zach and Graham.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm curious what how we described what life was

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, I mean there's so many people

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Speaker 1: you another thing that happened since you had that test,

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Speaker 1: as he signed a contract extension to stay with the Giants.

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Speaker 1: What what what does that mean to you to be

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Speaker 1: such a blessing for for my family and I and

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Speaker 1: with this team. Last question, you're Pat Lennard hey Graham. Physically,

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Speaker 1: you you know, like today just not just the rust,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just feel like I'm just gonna keep

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Speaker 1: He could taste those meals that yeah, man, that was

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Speaker 1: But thankfully I got that back before Thanksgiving and the

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