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Speaker 1: I was just curious, what, what's uh, what's your impressions

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Speaker 1: of this defense? Now you've you know, spent this whole

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Speaker 1: offseason kind of consorbing it now actually at least gotten

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Speaker 1: out there and talked to your coaches and seeing in

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I mean every day it's a learning process,

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Speaker 1: learning something new every day. Um. How I feel about it?

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm enjoying it. You know, I play anything,

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Speaker 1: go three, go two man anything, so I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: to it. What does it resemble? Does it resemble anything

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Speaker 1: you've done? Or I mean, how would you describe it

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Speaker 1: to someone if they said, hey, what what kind of

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Speaker 1: defense are you guys playing? Um? So of course I

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Speaker 1: did some of those things and care a lot of Uh,

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Speaker 1: some of the techniques and certain covers are a little

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Speaker 1: bit different, um, but it's pretty much saying like, the

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Speaker 1: defense is defense no matter where you play. Hey, James, UM,

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Speaker 1: I was wondering, what what do you what's been your

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Speaker 1: impression of darn a home so far? Coming in as

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Speaker 1: a rookies obviously get a lot of reps with you guys,

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Speaker 1: and what have you thought about him in the time

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Speaker 1: he's spending with time? The biggest thing that jumped out

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Speaker 1: to me. You know, he's very has a lot of questions. Um,

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Speaker 1: given that I'm one of the older guys in the room,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's always coming to me asking me different questions. So, um,

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Speaker 1: he wants to he wants to learn a whole lot

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Speaker 1: um and that's what you're supposed to do as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just enjoying him being host to wear him

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Speaker 1: looking for. It's very impressonable, you know. I'm able to

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Speaker 1: make an effects on him, and that's my goal. What

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Speaker 1: what has been? What is it like for you being

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Speaker 1: like the veteran of the cornerback room. It's obviously a

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Speaker 1: very young group and you're coming in You're only you know,

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Speaker 1: seven years old. I mean, what's what's it like being

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Speaker 1: the veteran of the room there? That's been pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: But of course I'm on a new team, so I'm

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Speaker 1: learning it every day too with them. Um, So I

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Speaker 1: try to teach them things that they might come up

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Speaker 1: like on film and watch the film that I might

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Speaker 1: note that might help them. But for the most part,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm learning as well. Thank you, Patty, Hi James,

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Speaker 1: how are you? I'm doing good about you? Good. Thank you. Um.

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Speaker 1: Coach Judge has been preaching all along about cross training

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Speaker 1: guys in this you know, I'm going touch to the ball.

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, have they asked you to do anything

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Speaker 1: new in this defense and along the lines to that

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Speaker 1: cross training philosophy. Well, it's still u kind of earlier

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Speaker 1: right now in a learning process. Um, right now, I'm

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Speaker 1: just just playing corner right now, but for the most part,

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Speaker 1: still learning the defense. So we'll see down the route.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Kennya. Hey James, how are you doing? Doing good?

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Speaker 1: About you? Good? Um? When you played? Do you like

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Speaker 1: to travel? I like to do whatever, like the game

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Speaker 1: plan is, you know. I'm cool with anything. I'm very flexible.

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Speaker 1: When I was in college, I was very flexible. So

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Speaker 1: anything the coach asked me to do, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: do it. It's not I'm just down with anything, honestly,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Lombardo. Hey James, I'm curious, good man, how

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Speaker 1: are you? I'm curious when you look at some of

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Speaker 1: the other cornerbacks in the room. You know, guys like

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Speaker 1: you know, even Xavier McKinney coming in versatile guy Jabrill

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Speaker 1: Peppers can drop in and play nickel at times. Darn

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Speaker 1: A Holmes, first of all, can play outside and play

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Speaker 1: the nickel. Um, when you have that many guys capable

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Speaker 1: of playing the slot, how does that help you as

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Speaker 1: an outside cornerback? And you know how much added pressure

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Speaker 1: does that put on you? Is really the guy who's

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Speaker 1: best suited to play on the outside out of everybody else? Um?

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Speaker 1: I think it helps goes Pat a whole lot more

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Speaker 1: certain offices. Um. So really that would be a question

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Speaker 1: for him, But for me, I'm with just whatever job

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Speaker 1: they have and the coverage, I'm gonna I'm gonna get

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Speaker 1: of my ability. As a guy who primarily plays out side,

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Speaker 1: how important is it to have the opposite side of

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Speaker 1: the field or you do you kind of like to

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Speaker 1: operate on your own island and you know, just man

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Speaker 1: up and do your own thing. You guys, that question again,

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Speaker 1: he was kind of going in and out. Sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: I'm just curious, as a guy who primarily plays outside,

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Speaker 1: kind of be on an island and lock it into

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Speaker 1: your guy, and that's all you're really focused on. Um,

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Speaker 1: just have a chemistry within the whole secondary is a point,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially with the safeties and nickels, the corners

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Speaker 1: across the board. Um, you know, as a brotherhood back there,

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Speaker 1: and that's how you gotta really look look at it,

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Speaker 1: especially like in the mean rooms and we're talking and

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Speaker 1: I say, overall, it's important, thanks shorts, Hey James, Um,

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Speaker 1: when you came to the Giants, um, you know, the

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Speaker 1: expectation was that DeAndre Baker would be there maybe you know,

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Speaker 1: first round pick, maybe starting alongside you. Uh. Sam Beale

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Speaker 1: was a guy who was there obviously, and those guys

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Speaker 1: are no longer around. So first of all, is that

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Speaker 1: to really hold down the fort? And also do you

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Speaker 1: think this cornerback room needs to bring in some veteran

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Speaker 1: who can at least know what's going on back there.

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Speaker 1: All we can do is worry about the guys that

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Speaker 1: we having a room. Um, it's next man up mentality

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Speaker 1: around here. And you look looking room right now, for

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Speaker 1: like we have a lot of ability. UM. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get the job done no matter what they

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Speaker 1: asked us to do. UM. And that's how mindset. Even

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Speaker 1: though you know a lot of the guys when you

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Speaker 1: look in the room, you said they have ability, but

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Speaker 1: they they don't have any proven track record in the league,

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Speaker 1: do they. Um. You know we're all young guys. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm still learning, um, and they're learning as well. At

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Speaker 1: the end of day, we're gonna get the job done

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Speaker 1: no matter what. Thank you last one here, Rock James.

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Speaker 1: How how much are you looking forward to, uh, actually

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Speaker 1: some football. It's been a while since uh because of

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Speaker 1: So I've been out there playing football, you know, my teammates.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to a lot. Any Giants receivers you're

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Speaker 1: particularly interested in going up again? Really all of them.

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Speaker 1: Haven't played against any of them too much. I played

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Speaker 1: against Sartler, Sheeping and the Senior Bowl, So I'm looking

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