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Speaker 4: Hello everybody, and welcome to the newest edition of the

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Speaker 4: Giants Little Podcast. My name is John Schmelk. It's all

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Speaker 4: for discounts, rebates and home energy assessments. All right, folks,

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Speaker 4: this is simple. We had a chance to talk to

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Speaker 4: the players the Giants drafted in the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 4: NFL Draft, including first round pick Deontay Banks, second round

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Speaker 4: pick John Michael Schmidts, third round pick Jalen Hyatt, and

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Speaker 4: more So. It'll be a combination of Shon O'Hara and

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Speaker 4: matdelein Burke with the interviews. Let's get right to it.

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Speaker 4: Shon O'Hara with Giants first round pick Deontay Banks.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's with great pleasure that I welcome to

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Speaker 1: the New York Giants Deontay Banks, the twenty fourth overall

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Speaker 1: selection in this year's draft. First round pick. Congratulations, Deontay.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're excited. I know everybody around you excited.

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Speaker 1: Take us through what it felt like to hear your

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Speaker 1: New York Giants.

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Speaker 5: That's a little moment moment. I'm just excited to be

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Speaker 6: I'm ready to.

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Speaker 5: Get to work.

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Speaker 1: You look, you're from Maryland, not too far away. I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious, you know, have you ever been to the Giants?

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Speaker 1: Have you been to a Giants game? Are you a

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Speaker 7: Actually, I've never been to.

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Speaker 5: My closest friend actually, Giants man. Yeah, really, Giants man.

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I understand you came to the Giants

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Speaker 1: on one of your visits. I'm curious as we started

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Speaker 1: led you to Hey, I think the Giants.

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Speaker 5: Talked to me a bunch of times.

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Speaker 7: Be taught a lot, be taught a lot a lot,

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Speaker 7: So I feel like that kind of all.

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Speaker 1: Right, So, so you had a feeling that that they

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Speaker 1: coming and plucking them. Uh, let's talk about your style

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Speaker 7: I bring a lot of physicality. I'm just ready to work.

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Speaker 7: I'm really just ready to work, Like I'm just exciting.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 1: So, just kind of going through some of your film

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Speaker 1: You kind of like to be out on your own.

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Speaker 3: Uh where did you learn kind of that style of play?

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Speaker 7: I love being on that island.

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Speaker 5: It's just a mentality and I love it. I don't

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Speaker 7: It's just talking about meno. That's like I always my

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Speaker 1: Well, I think you're gonna be a great fit for

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Speaker 3: Well you look great in blue, Deontay.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations, I'll be a drafted twenty fourth overall by the

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, Thank you, appreciating all right.

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Speaker 1: Giants fans, it's with great pleasure that I introduced the

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three NFL Draft from Minnesota, John Michael Schmidts. Congratulations, John,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the New York Giants.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you're excited.

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Speaker 9: And obviously when you picked up your phone, your family

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's awesome. All right, put us in the

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Speaker 3: Talk about the process leading up to this.

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Speaker 1: How much interaction did you have with the Giants leading

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so coach coach Bobby Johnson went to our pro day,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, well I know he's excited to have you

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Speaker 3: Watching you on film, You're a powerful dude.

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Speaker 1: Man, You've got a lot of power, you got strong legs,

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Speaker 1: you got a little fights in this to you, you

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Speaker 3: How would you describe your play?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly what you said. I mean, just uh, just

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Speaker 3: So well, I know PJ. Fleck.

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Speaker 1: He also talked about how you're You've always been one

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Speaker 3: I got to ask you, what number are you going

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm not sure I'd be grateful to wear any number, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I guess all right, Well, at number sixty looks good

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Speaker 3: In the uniform. I gotta ask you.

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Speaker 1: You know, watching the film on you, you kind of

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Speaker 9: Transition to the dead ball snap that's what it's called.

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Speaker 9: And my first thing was my first year I got there.

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Speaker 9: I know coach coach Bobby Johnson was intrigued by it

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just curious. Do you have any favorite

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Speaker 1: Well, John Michael Schmids, congratulations the newest member of the

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Speaker 3: Can't wait to see you here in the building. Can't

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Speaker 5: Big blue Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Giants fans, it's with great pleasure that I

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Speaker 1: Third round pick seventy third overall from Tennessee, Jalen Hyatt. Congratulations, Jalen.

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Speaker 1: How does it feel to be a the newest member

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Speaker 5: Man, bless man, I'm blessed.

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Speaker 10: I'm blessed to be part of this so disfranchise and

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Speaker 5: You know, that's what we want to do. So that's

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear you talking about the wins, no

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Speaker 3: What are you bringing to this Giants offense?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, sir, I'm bringing everything.

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Speaker 10: Trying to be dynamic, explosives, somebody who's gonna go and

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Speaker 5: You know, that's the biggest thing. I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know they can't wait to see you in

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I gotta work on some of them.

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Speaker 10: It's definitely something that I think about later. But right now,

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Speaker 10: but you know, I met with the Giants plenty of times,

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Speaker 5: Yes, there you know this closness. They want me be dynamic, explosive.

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Speaker 5: And like I said, this is just the first step.

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Speaker 5: We have the reason.

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Speaker 1: All right, Amen to that, Jayleen, Well listen, I'll let

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I can't wait to be up there.

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Speaker 8: First of all, thank you for congratulating me. It's an honor,

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Speaker 11: It's a good you know, you got to change up

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Speaker 8: Just being here today also tells me that, you know,

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Speaker 11: Coming out of Tennessee. I know you've got a lot

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Speaker 2: For sure?

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Speaker 8: You know, like I said, I try to take something

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Speaker 8: I would say, you know, taking something from both of

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Speaker 11: Now, you started your college career at Tennessee. You actually

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna call him.

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Speaker 8: Soon as we get off and I get some time,

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Speaker 8: I'm definitely gonna call him.

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Speaker 11: Yeah. How was your relationship with Jalen?

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Speaker 2: Jyalen was really good.

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Speaker 8: You know, he was younger than me, He was kind

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Speaker 8: I was kind of wanting to help him as a freshman,

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Speaker 8: kind of teaching him the rose a little bit, you know,

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Speaker 8: teach him about working hard. You know what it takes

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Speaker 11: So now you started at Tennessee, but then you transferred

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Speaker 8: You know everybody, everybody. I went to Tennessee because I

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Speaker 8: It was a great place for me to be. Taught

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Speaker 11: I've heard too in other interviews you talk about how

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Speaker 11: of love that competitive mentality. Where'd you get that from?

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Speaker 8: I would say being a coach's kid, growing up in

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Speaker 11: Now correct me if I'm wrong, But in your college

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Speaker 2: I do not, I do not, I do not fair.

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Speaker 11: That is a great skill to have coming into this league.

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Speaker 8: Just a weapon on the offense, Somebody who can run,

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Speaker 8: the ball out of the backfield. Just another weapon on

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Speaker 11: Eric Gray, thank you so much for taking the time. Congratulations.

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Speaker 11: I know that phone's going off the hook, so I'll

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Speaker 8: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 11: With the two hundred and ninth pick of the twenty

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Speaker 11: Trey Hawkins, the third out of Old Daminion. Congratulations Trey.

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Speaker 11: How does it feel to be in the National Football League?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you is? It's a blessing. Honestly, it's something I

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Speaker 12: Blessing and honor to be a part of not only

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you had a thirty visit with the Giants. I

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Speaker 11: What is the most memorable part of this process in

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Speaker 12: I'll say the most memorable part that kind of stuck

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Speaker 2: It feels like a family, feels like home.

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Speaker 12: It feels like it just feels like it just I

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Speaker 11: Now, paint a picture for me. Where were you when

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Speaker 2: When I got the call, I was.

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Speaker 12: I was at my house and sit in front of

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Speaker 2: Just like congrats.

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Speaker 12: They was telling me congrats and all that, and I

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Speaker 2: So I called my agent and I asked him. I

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Speaker 2: Is this this is what this means? Already?

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Speaker 2: And then I had called me everybody down and.

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Speaker 12: Didn't once they called my name, I just couldn't do

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Speaker 11: Honestly, that's amazing. I'm so happy for you. Love to

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Speaker 12: Most definitely. I've always been able to do those things.

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Speaker 12: I've always been fast, strong, athletic. It was just more

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Speaker 11: Well, now you're gonna let him know. On the NFL level,

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Speaker 11: what do you want Giants fans to know about you, Trey?

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Speaker 12: Not only are you getting just a good player, a

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Speaker 2: Just just a good person.

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Speaker 11: Giants cornerback Trey Hawkins the Third, Thanks so much for

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Speaker 2: Yes, that I appreciate you.

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Speaker 11: Welcome to the NFL. Jordan Riley, the newest member of

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Speaker 11: what's going through your mind right now?

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Speaker 6: Man? My most is everywhere right now. Man. It's a

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Speaker 13: Man, you know, you know, I just thank God, you know,

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Speaker 11: Giants GM Joe Shane talks about how you know, you

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Speaker 13: Oh yeah, it's the first thing people see, you know,

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Speaker 11: So what do you think your biggest attributes are? Your

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Speaker 13: I bring I bring like to this NFL level. I

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Speaker 11: Now, guys that are already on this Giants D line.

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Speaker 11: You got Dexter Lawrence who calls himself Sexy Dexy. You

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Speaker 11: got Leonard Williams who calls himself big Cat. I gotta know,

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Speaker 11: do you have a nickname?

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Speaker 6: Uh? No, not yet, but you know, you know, I'm

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Speaker 6: trying to get them.

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Speaker 11: So we'll put Giants fans up to the task. I'm

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Speaker 11: sure they'll come up with something good. Jordan, I know

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Speaker 11: you started your college career at you and see you

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Speaker 11: played at Nebraska. You played in a couple of different conferences,

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Speaker 11: some different schemes. How much has that versatility contributed to

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Speaker 11: who you are as a football player?

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Speaker 6: Just being in different environments?

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Speaker 13: You know, I've been in I've been in a culture

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Speaker 13: you know where you know, winning winning was you know,

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Speaker 13: it was tough for us, you know, we had to

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Speaker 13: go through the process. And then I also have been

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Speaker 13: in an environment of you know, winning this tradition. So

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Speaker 13: you know, I pre been in you know, any situation

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Speaker 13: you know a team you know has been through, you know,

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Speaker 13: through our season. So I think I think just being

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Speaker 13: in a different environments, being being through different adversity, you know,

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Speaker 13: kind of helped me.

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Speaker 11: What do you want Giants fans to know about you

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Speaker 11: and what you're going to bring to this program?

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Speaker 13: Hey man, I'm just coming I'm just coming into work,

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Speaker 13: you know, just stop to run. I think I think

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Speaker 13: that I just take probably in it, and I know,

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Speaker 13: you know, you know, the Giants fan do too. I

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Speaker 13: love stopping to run and you know then agetting the

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Speaker 13: right to rest the passes.

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Speaker 6: So you know, that's why I look forward to coming

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Speaker 6: to New York.

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Speaker 11: Jordan Riley, congratulations on being drafted by the New York Giants.

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Speaker 11: Looking forward to seeing here. You in here next week

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Speaker 11: for rookie mindicamp. All right, thank you, welcome to the

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Speaker 11: National Football League, Houston Safety, your various oens GEO. Congratulations

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Speaker 11: on becoming a New York Football Giant. Where were you

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Speaker 11: when you got the call?

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Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, thank you so so much.

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Speaker 14: I was down in Oklahoma City just chilling around at

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Speaker 14: the house of my family and friends.

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Speaker 11: I love it. I love it. Good way to be

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Speaker 11: celebrating surrounded by family and friends. Now you're a four

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Speaker 11: year starter at safety at Houston, but you led the

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Speaker 11: team with fifty solo tackles. What's the key to that

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Speaker 11: success for you?

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Speaker 14: Yes, man, I feel like tackling is all about the mentality.

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Speaker 14: You know, when you're trying to set the tip on defense,

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Speaker 14: that's that's a big way to come up there, and

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Speaker 14: you know, deliver a.

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Speaker 5: Message pretty early on.

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Speaker 14: So you know, I like to prible myself on being

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Speaker 14: able to be one of those guys, you know, just

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Speaker 14: ignited in the defense in the back end to get

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Speaker 14: the rest of the.

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Speaker 11: Team going, especially an important and vital skill in the secondary.

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Speaker 11: Of course, you are converted from a quarterback to a safety.

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Speaker 11: That versatility, I mean, versatility is a big key in

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Speaker 11: a Wink Martindale defense. But you know you played wide

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Speaker 11: receiver a little bit in high school. How would you

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Speaker 11: describe your thought in versatility.

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Speaker 14: I feel like I'm just a playmaker all around, you know.

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Speaker 14: I feel like a lot of guys, it's high value.

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Speaker 5: When you can play more than one position.

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Speaker 14: So you know, I definitely grew up being able to

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Speaker 14: play corner nico an safety, and I feel like it

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Speaker 14: allows you to do so much.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to sub a guy in to cover

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Speaker 5: in man.

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Speaker 14: You don't got a different guy in to go up

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Speaker 14: and blids or play in the post to be in

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Speaker 14: the run support. So just being able to do all

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Speaker 14: those guys, you know, I like to pire myself of

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Speaker 14: being a football player, so I'm willing to play any

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Speaker 14: phase of the ball on defense.

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Speaker 11: But not just an elite football player. Also, you letter

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Speaker 11: to track and wrestling. Having those skill sets. I mean,

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Speaker 11: I know a lot of linemen get that wrestling work in,

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Speaker 11: but that hand technique and stuff in wrestling does that

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Speaker 11: help you in the secondary.

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Speaker 14: Truly, a lot of people like to say, you know,

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Speaker 14: tracks like the most translated translating thing to football, But

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Speaker 14: I really feel like it's wrestling just teaching, especially if

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Speaker 14: you play defense. Teachers you level changes, how to play

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Speaker 14: with your hands, how to drop drop levels and things

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Speaker 14: like that being and a lot of stuff in wrestling

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Speaker 14: is otimate tackle, single leg, double leg and things like that.

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Speaker 14: So I feel like wrestling is definitely the best translator

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Speaker 14: of the football GEO.

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Speaker 11: Congratulations on getting drafted. Welcome to the New York Giants.

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Speaker 11: We're looking forward to seeing out here at Rookie Minni

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Speaker 11: Caamp next week.

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Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, I'm glad to have you.

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