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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants Huddle on Giants

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Speaker 1: dot Com on the Giants The Giants Podcast Network. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Week eight teen Rapid Reaction on the Giants

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Speaker 1: Huddle Podcast. My name is Madeline bark Along with a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Amani Tumor, the Giants went down to

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia felt to the Eagles sixteen in a game where

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Speaker 1: a lot of the starters rested Amani we saw Davi's

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Speaker 1: Webb getting his first career NFL start in a regular

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Speaker 1: season game. Daniel Jones didn't play, say Juan Barkley was out,

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Speaker 1: dexter Lawrence Leonard Williams, a lot of the keep starters

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Speaker 1: got some rest in this Week eight teen matchup. That

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Speaker 1: it was more of a formality for a Giants team

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Speaker 1: that had already clinched the number six seed in the

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Speaker 1: postseason and was a necessity for an Eagles team that

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Speaker 1: needed the win to get the number one overall seed

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Speaker 1: in the NFC. Yeah, it was a weird kind of

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Speaker 1: atmosphere because of the fact that it's it had a

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Speaker 1: because there meant something to the Eagles. But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: really affect what we had to do, what the Giants

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Speaker 1: had to do, and the most important thing going into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs as you want to be healthy, and so

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Speaker 1: we realized that are that we needed to rest our starters,

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Speaker 1: but yet keep the competitive put a competitive product on

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Speaker 1: the field, and I think that's exactly what we did.

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Speaker 1: I I really enjoyed watching um the start of Davis

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Speaker 1: opportunity to play guess, an opportunity to throw the ball

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Speaker 1: forty times. I mean that that's a rarity. Especially it

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Speaker 1: just shows that the coaches really believe in him. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, Gola Day had a touchdown

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Speaker 1: just more people are on the up in terms of

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Speaker 1: momentum going into this game. Playing against the Minnesota Vikings,

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Speaker 1: a team that we've played against just a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, competed very well against, had one of our

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Speaker 1: So it's of the season, so it just seems like

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Speaker 1: everything is pointing towards us, towards the Giants really being

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into that in a little bit, but

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Speaker 1: at that point you made too about Kenny Golladay getting

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Speaker 1: which a few minutes left in the game. Golliday goes

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Speaker 1: up and he contested catch, brings it down with one hand,

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Speaker 1: to see, and as a wide receiver to you know that.

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Speaker 1: You know, oftentimes when you look at the NBA, you know,

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Speaker 1: shooters shoot sometimes you go on to drought and you

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Speaker 1: just need to see the ball go through the hoop.

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Speaker 1: When you are a receiver and you have that dry

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Speaker 1: going into the postseason having kind of gotten that monkey

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Speaker 1: stakes are higher in the playoffs. And so if he comes,

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Speaker 1: And you know, when you look at the way that

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Speaker 1: Throwing out everything in the kitchen cupboard on the film

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Speaker 1: Right now, well, now they're special teams coach has to

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Speaker 1: And just to show it means that it's something you

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Speaker 1: Getting those two playmakers back in a playoff game could

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Speaker 1: be extremely helpful against this this Vikings passing attempt. Oh absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I mean anytime that you know you get more back

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