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Speaker 1: talked to a bunch of players at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year to wrap up two. The first episode earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week featured four offensive players, Andrew Thomas, Nick Gates,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Hodgens, and Wandall Robinson. This week we head over

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Speaker 1: to the defensive side of the ball. On the day

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Speaker 1: after the Giants lost of the Eagles, they called Baggy Day,

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Speaker 1: Madeline Burke was in the locker room. She talked to

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Speaker 1: rookies Dane Belton and Mike and McFadden, safety's Julian Love

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Speaker 1: and Davy McKinney, and defensive lineman Leonard Williams. Will play

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Speaker 1: those interviews back for you right here on the Giant

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Speaker 1: Huttle Podcast. Let's start off with Giants safety Julian Love,

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Speaker 1: who was one of the players. That was a mainstay

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Speaker 1: all year. He had the green dot in his homet

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Speaker 1: after Steven McKinney got her great teammate is the friging

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Speaker 1: after the year, But really was one of the leaders

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Speaker 1: of this Giants team all year long. Here's that talk

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Speaker 1: with Julian. I'm here with Julian Love. Julian looking back

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Speaker 1: on this two Giants season, the first season that you

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Speaker 1: it's a lot to look back at. It's a lot

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Speaker 1: of high moments, some low, some low moments. But it

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Speaker 1: was fun. You know. We had a lot of big

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Speaker 1: wins this year and the team was pretty close. A

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Speaker 1: lot of great characters in this locker room, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy I could have my stamp on this team

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Speaker 1: this year. Um, and it was a special team to

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Speaker 1: the sentiment I hear around this locker room that it

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Speaker 1: the key to that closeness. I'm not sure. I think

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Speaker 1: and the camaraderie was the highest I've ever been a

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Speaker 1: And so when you get that among pros, among grown men, that's, uh,

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Speaker 1: that's special. And I think everyone in this locker room,

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Speaker 1: I realize that now you know that's over. Now you

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Speaker 1: personally this year, you know, starting every game and going

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Speaker 1: I've always felt myself to be the dependable guy that

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Speaker 1: just that consistency level, um, and that confidence level was

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Speaker 1: safety position. Why not loves running mate Zavian McKinney played

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Speaker 1: what do you even remember most? Um, just this team. UM.

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