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Speaker 1: Giants and on Super Bowl forty six. Hi everybody, and

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Speaker 1: welcome back to another episode of Papa's Perspective podcast. It's

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Speaker 1: all brought to you by Bob's Discount of Furniture, the

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Speaker 1: official furniture store and Mattress partner of the New York

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Speaker 1: Football Giants. I am John Schmilk, joined as always by

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Giants, Bob Papa. Every week we

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Speaker 1: with you. How are you yeah? I mean John, this

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Speaker 1: here with I'm the Cowboys. So many choices. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a million of them. We can't get

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Speaker 1: you know, home and away. But man, I listen, Cowboys Giants.

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Speaker 1: You know, for me, there's no great calls from the game.

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Speaker 1: But it was a special moment opening night of the season.

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Speaker 1: It was September four. It's my first game as the

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Speaker 1: Old Giants Stadium. Uh, Giants got throttled thirty five nothing.

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Speaker 1: It was the Phil Simms retirement jersey night. The highlight

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Speaker 1: There you go. Until this day. They still run these

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Speaker 1: but had Dan Bailly made like fifty straight kicks or

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Speaker 1: yard ars. Uh Romo had a seventy four yard pass

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Speaker 1: In that game, Uh Dez had a fifty yard touchdown catch,

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Speaker 1: um Romo had a he had what four completions of

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Speaker 1: thirty or more yards. Honestly, like, we could have done

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Speaker 1: a whole podcast just on that game. That's how much

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Speaker 1: action there was back and forth. But it's at the

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Speaker 1: stage for winner to call. Right. A couple of weeks later,

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Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium Giants and Cowboys. The winner of this game

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football flexed out January the first whoever wins

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Speaker 1: wins the NFC East. Whoever wins goes into the postseason.

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Speaker 1: And uh, what did the Giants do? Well? Like they

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Speaker 1: did all season, they went to their big time playmaker

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Speaker 1: early in this football game. Uh, to give the Giants

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Speaker 1: and the fans something to get excited about. This is

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Speaker 1: a third and one. If they're on twenty six manage

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Speaker 1: in a shotgun set, it takes the snap, they roll

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Speaker 1: them laft, He throws it left. Cruise has got it

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Speaker 1: devil upside. He girls across midfield to the forty, to

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Speaker 1: the thirty, to the twenty, to the to the five.

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Speaker 1: Cuts down victor Cruise seventy four yards. Then he's done

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Speaker 1: it again. I mean, big play after big play, and

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Speaker 1: you think about that season. Nix was awesome, Manningham was clutch.

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Speaker 1: He would be in the Super Bowl. Um, Jake Ballard,

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Speaker 1: you know all these guys. But man Cruz with the

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Speaker 1: big play after big play, so boom with seven nothing,

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Speaker 1: Cowboys try to respond. Oc gets a sack and uh,

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Speaker 1: this would be a common theme for the Giants. Thirty

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Speaker 1: four for the Cowboys after on twenty four yard line

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Speaker 1: with three to go there on the first quarter, seven nothing,

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Speaker 1: Giants got to be aware of a draw. Cowboys oh

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Speaker 1: for two on the third downs, go empty, set two

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Speaker 1: receivers right, two to the left. Romo in a shotgun

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Speaker 1: O s u Man York in the game. Romo takes

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Speaker 1: the snap, he's back to throw. He's our de quession.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna get sacked back in the fifteen Oh see

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Speaker 1: you Man York gets it. After a four game absence,

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Speaker 1: Oci gets sacked number eight on the season, second one

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Speaker 1: of Romo Cowboys after punt. Yeah, the Giants would get

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Speaker 1: six sacks in this ballgame. Um. So the Giants, Uh

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Speaker 1: wind up with the football and Manning for Nicks for

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Speaker 1: eighteen year A you they put together a good solid

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Speaker 1: Giants drive and what they did near the end of

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Speaker 1: the season was they found a run game that had

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Speaker 1: been vacant for most of the year. Really kicked off

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Speaker 1: the week before against the Jets, and then the Giants

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Speaker 1: used the run game to push the lead to two touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Sack of the goal up to five man in handoff,

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Speaker 1: Bradshaw breaks the tackle, runs to the right to the

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Speaker 1: five and to walk in touchdown Giants. So now it's

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Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. Early second quarter, Cowboys go three and out.

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Speaker 1: Kawan Williams gets a sack for the Giants. Um, everybody's

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Speaker 1: getting in on the party. Robinson in motion. Two deep

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Speaker 1: safeties for the Giants. Romo back, he's under pressure and

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Speaker 1: he sacked again to Kwan Williams gets his first career sack. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Giants are playing the playing lights out defense. They're

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Speaker 1: getting pressure on Romo. Um, you know. Two possessions later

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Speaker 1: for the Giants again, starts out with a nice play

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Speaker 1: on first down, Henry Hynoski with a fourteen yard catch.

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Speaker 1: Rhino A couple of plays later again, remember I said

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Speaker 1: the running game got gone, Bradshaw rips off a twenty

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Speaker 1: nine yard run. Take it inside the two minute warning

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Speaker 1: and instead of handing it to Bradshaw, Eli throws it

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Speaker 1: to him first and goal at the town, handing out

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Speaker 1: of the gun back to throw it looks left, now

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Speaker 1: looks right. He has all day kits. Bradshawt the five

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Speaker 1: pratch out of the goal line touchdown. Giants. They say

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Speaker 1: he broke the plane as the ball came out. All

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Speaker 1: story plays are reviewed and it stood, So it's twenty ones.

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Speaker 1: Yet Dallas drives the ball at the end of the half,

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Speaker 1: but they miss. They miss a field goal and missed

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Speaker 1: a fifty two yard or so. The Giants get the

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Speaker 1: ball to start the third. The twenty one nothing. I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't feel like they're gonna lose this game.

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Speaker 1: But you know that Dallas and Romo are explosive offensively.

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Speaker 1: And on their first possession they started on their own

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Speaker 1: six yard line, but uh Lauren Robinson with a thirty

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Speaker 1: four yard touchdown catch, So it's now seven Giant offenses

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Speaker 1: in mothballs here a little bit. They trade possessions um

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Speaker 1: and then the Giants decided to do something that I

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Speaker 1: liked what Coughlin did here because it was fourth and

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Speaker 1: one at the Dallas thirty five and Tom Coughlin decides

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Speaker 1: to roll the dice fourth and one for the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Jacobs in an eye set with anasty strong formation to

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Speaker 1: the right, and I passed on motion to the lad

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Speaker 1: I think the Giant's gonna just try to draw him

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Speaker 1: offside me and it calls out stickers, guys gonna hand

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Speaker 1: it off the Jacob lowers and shoulder. He didn't get there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that was all coming off an antro roll interception

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Speaker 1: that uh, you know, so the Giants didn't get anything

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Speaker 1: out of that, and Dallas started at their own thirty

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Speaker 1: six yard line and Chunk plays, chunk plays, chunk plays.

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Speaker 1: The next thing you know, they have a first intended

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Speaker 1: the nineteen yard line um and you know, the Giants

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Speaker 1: are winning this football game. And Dallas decides, you know, hey, look,

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Speaker 1: Manning is making big plays on the other side, although

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Speaker 1: our defense is stabilized a little bit. Uh, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go for it. We're not gonna kick a field goal

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Speaker 1: on the you know, there's fourteen minutes to go in

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Speaker 1: the game. There's a lot of time left and the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are trailing by fourteen points. But they passed up

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Speaker 1: on the field goal and decide to go for it.

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Speaker 1: Fourth and one Romo is gonna keep it and fall forward,

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Speaker 1: and he stopped. He did not get there. He got

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Speaker 1: to get to the nine. He did not get there.

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Speaker 1: Giant ball, Romo saying I was there, really wasn't. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: But the Giants are pinned at their own tent. And

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Speaker 1: I remember they didn't do anything with the ball. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dez Bryant Weatherford didn't hit a great punt.

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Speaker 1: Dez Bryant has a return and then Devin Thomas gets

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Speaker 1: called for unnecessary reference. So Dallas, you know, there's still

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Speaker 1: plenty of time to go on the game, and Dallas

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00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: is starting a possession at the Giant and in three

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Speaker 1: plays during the end zone and it's one to fourteen.

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Speaker 1: It's that's a seven point game, getting up Giant offense

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Speaker 1: and uh again. On the next possession, Victor Cruz makes

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Speaker 1: a huge play for the Giants, running back to Throck.

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00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: He's undepressive. He rolls, leapt throws get deep down the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field for crews. Who makes the catch

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Speaker 1: of the cowboys between two defenders. It gets tackled there.

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Speaker 1: Victor Cruz, what can I say? And the best part

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Speaker 1: of it the highlight, I don't make our label these

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00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: all the highlight says is Manning heaves it up to crew. Well,

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Speaker 1: because it was the third and seven, it was like

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Speaker 1: a punt, right, it's a third and seven, it's like

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Speaker 1: he's gonna punt it. Worst case scenarios if it does

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Speaker 1: get picked, you're hoping that the defender gets knocked down

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00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: and it would have been like a punt. Instead. Cruise

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Speaker 1: makes the play over Orlando Scandrick Um. So now you're

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Speaker 1: sitting there in all right, Now, come on, guys, I

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00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,239
Speaker 1: iced the game, but they don't. Um. Dallas holds the

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Speaker 1: Giants to a field goal, so it's four um. Cowboys

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00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: go three and out though, and then the Giants put

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Speaker 1: together a good drive. Manning hits Knicks on a big

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Speaker 1: play on a third and five. Fanning him and Nick

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00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: split wide right and it takes the snap he's back

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Speaker 1: to throw. He has come fastball over the middle, completes

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Speaker 1: it to Knicks inside the twenty, moves on sense about

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Speaker 1: the ten, spins ahead to the five head down. He

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Speaker 1: goes at the four first and gold Giants game the

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Speaker 1: thirty six pluck bows with three five to go and

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Speaker 1: the Giants closing in on an NFC East champion Chip. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean Keem Knicks with a big play. And then

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Speaker 1: Eli says, you know you made that big play for us.

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Speaker 1: A team finish it off first and goal Giants out

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Speaker 1: before to Gold. Giants up by ten fourteen, handing over

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Speaker 1: center right, saw the tail bout's gonna throw it left

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Speaker 1: for Niche touchdown Giants and that was it. Uh the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys got the ball back. We gotta play this last

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Speaker 1: one though, because I think the pressure on Tony Romo

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Speaker 1: really told the story in this game. And just inside

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Speaker 1: the two minute warning, the Giants get that one last sack.

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Speaker 1: Third and six for the Cowboys at their own forty

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Speaker 1: six single high safety, Romo back to throw under pressure

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Speaker 1: of boys. The tuck sack rolls right now, sack by

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Speaker 1: Tuck fubbles the football. If a Giants have it, I'll

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Speaker 1: fit out your ball game. That's it. That's the NFC East,

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Speaker 1: that's the Giants win. Uh um, And as we say,

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Speaker 1: that's all she wrote. Next thing, you know, the Giants

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Speaker 1: whipped the Falcons, hold him to the next week and

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Speaker 1: go on and win. You had another Super Bowl. These

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Speaker 1: Romo Giant games, Bob like it never failed. They were

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00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: the craziest back in fourth games where both teams could score.

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Speaker 1: You know, Elin Romo at that point, you know, before

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00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: you got a little bit more conservative later in their career.

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Speaker 1: They were guys that just said, all right, you know what,

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Speaker 1: let's go. They would throw the ball the danger, they

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Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field. They'll be big plays

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00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: left and right. You have some interceptions, just crazy stuff

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00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: in these games all the time, you know, and Cowboys

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Speaker 1: fans who were anti Romo because he didn't win, like

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Speaker 1: eight man or Roger Starback or whatever. You know. Let

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Speaker 1: me just give you his numbers from that season. Romo

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Speaker 1: in the loss against the Giants in December, which one

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Speaker 1: thirty one for one yards with four touchdowns no interception.

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Speaker 1: In the January first loss at MetLife Stadium, he was

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Speaker 1: twenty nine of thirty seven for two nine yards, two

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Speaker 1: touchdowns and the intra roll interception. Eli threw for three

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Speaker 1: forty six that night. In the game in Dallas, he

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Speaker 1: through for four hundred. You know what the difference was,

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00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: you know why Eli's teams won and Romo's teams didn't.

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Speaker 1: In the game in Dallas, Eli was not sacked once.

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Speaker 1: Romo was sacked three times, and in the game at

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Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium, Eli got sacked twice, Romo got sacked six times,

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Speaker 1: so nine sacks to two. That was the difference. Because

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Speaker 1: they they're completion percentage, their yardage, their touchdowns. That's high

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Speaker 1: level stuff. But at the end of the day, the

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Speaker 1: Giants had a much better consistent pass rush and defense

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Speaker 1: and the Cowboys did. Bob, always a pleasure. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, we got so many more these for next season.

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Speaker 1: We'll bust out some more Cowboys stuff. We could almost

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Speaker 1: do a full season just individual Cowboys gave has been sold,

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Speaker 1: many of them within them, the Eagles and Washington forget it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Bob, we'll talk to you next week when

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Speaker 1: the Giants have a Christmas matchup against the Eagles, and

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Speaker 1: we'll go. And we had to look pretty hard when

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Speaker 1: we found some good Giant moments in Philadelphia. They weren't

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Speaker 1: easy to find, but we got them. Oh yeah, yeah. Listen,

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Speaker 1: listen to some of the giants better moments in recent

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00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: history against the Eagles have actually been in Philadelphia as

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Speaker 1: opposed to at MetLife Stadium. All Right, we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you guys, then see you next week. On another episode

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