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Speaker 1: Alan, you've been in this league for ten years going

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Speaker 1: on eleven. You came here to the Giants, Brian Dables said,

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Speaker 1: He explained what your role would be as you came here. Well,

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Speaker 1: now preseason is about over. How do you feel you've

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Speaker 1: acclimated yourself and how do you feel your stand right now?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, again, as far as we're I stand

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Speaker 2: and things like that. You know, it's not really for

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Speaker 2: me to judge. You know, I feel like I was

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Speaker 2: able to make players and my number was called. You know,

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Speaker 2: I feel I showed up. I think I showed consistency.

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Speaker 2: So you know, again, for me, it just was about

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Speaker 2: going out here each and every day and trying to

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Speaker 2: get better, you know, learning the playbook, you know, learning

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Speaker 2: more to offense and things like that, you know, which

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Speaker 2: I thought I did, you know. And again at the

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Speaker 2: same time, like I said before, for me, it was

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Speaker 2: about being consistent. It was about stecond days on top

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Speaker 2: of each other. You know, I thought I was able

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Speaker 2: to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought you were consistent. You showed good hands,

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Speaker 1: Like we always say, you have three thousand yard seasons

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Speaker 1: and in less two weeks, I thought you got even

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Speaker 1: more and more targets in practice, and I thought that

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Speaker 1: that was a real plus for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, again, like I said before, for me,

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Speaker 2: you know, in this business, you know, it's always about

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Speaker 2: just making plays and doing what you need to do

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Speaker 2: in your numbers called, you know. So for me, you know,

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Speaker 2: I challenge myself each and every day, you know, to

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Speaker 2: be able to make that happen, you know, And I

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Speaker 2: feel like I was able to make plays my number

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Speaker 2: is called, you know. And again for me, it's about

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Speaker 2: going out there every day and trying to get better,

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Speaker 2: you know. I feel like I was able to do

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Speaker 2: that during the training camp.

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Speaker 1: Has there ever been a time in your career that

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Speaker 1: you've been part of what could be a bubbles numbers game?

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Speaker 1: Has that ever happened to you before? I can't remember it?

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Speaker 2: Oh nah, no I have it.

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Speaker 1: So is this different? Is it kind of weird? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't even concern myself with things that are really

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Speaker 2: out of my control, you know what I mean, I

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Speaker 2: have no control over that. So again I don't even

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Speaker 2: really you know, give it, give it much thought, you know,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, for me, it's just about going out

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Speaker 2: there being a football player, being a best football player

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Speaker 2: that I can be, you know, And that's all I know,

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Speaker 2: you know, Like I said before, for me, throughout training camp,

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Speaker 2: I feel like I was able to do that, you know,

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Speaker 2: and that's that's all I can control.

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Speaker 1: I remember you seeing a couple of weeks ago when

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Speaker 1: we talked to you in a media availability that being

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Speaker 1: the best football player also means being the best teammate.

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Speaker 1: And you are praised for being a pros pro and

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Speaker 1: helping the young guys in the room. How valuable do

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Speaker 1: you think that's been for you in this team? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't really you know, or that to

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Speaker 2: be at all you know of value? You know. Again, man,

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Speaker 2: I want to I want to be the best teammate

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Speaker 2: that I can, you know, because when you're around these

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Speaker 2: guys for three, four or five months, you know, you're

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Speaker 2: able to create that bond and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: So it's not a value thing for me. It's just about,

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Speaker 2: you know, whenever you're in a room like this, man,

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Speaker 2: and you spend around as amount of hours as you

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Speaker 2: do around these guys, you know, anyway that I can

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Speaker 2: help guys get better, you know, Like I said, before

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Speaker 2: on the field, off the field, you know, whatever that

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Speaker 2: may be, football, recovery, life, you know, I try to

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Speaker 2: I try to always keep it that, you know, because again,

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Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, it's it's numbers,

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Speaker 2: it's all these other things. But you know where people

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Speaker 2: you know, and I've been in those shoes as a

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Speaker 2: younger receiver, as a year two receiver, as a year

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Speaker 2: three receiver, as a rookie.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: So for me, whatever knowledge I can kind of I

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Speaker 2: can try to spread to those guys, you know, I do.

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Speaker 1: There's an awful lot of potential in this young receivers

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Speaker 1: room that the Giants have right now. How do you

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Speaker 1: think they can best get to maximize what they've got

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Speaker 1: in terms of ability?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know it starts with you know, taking it

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Speaker 2: one day at a time, you know, figuring out when

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Speaker 2: you know every time you step on that field, you know,

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Speaker 2: how you can get better.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest thing. Like I said before,

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Speaker 2: that's one of the biggest thing that I've learned in

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Speaker 2: this league for me is you know, every time I

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Speaker 2: step on that grass, you know, I have to figure out,

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Speaker 2: you know, where do I feel deficient at you know

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Speaker 2: what needs to be improved, you know what things can

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Speaker 2: I polish up on, you know, and I think when

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Speaker 2: you do that on a day to day basis, you know,

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Speaker 2: you find consistency,