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Speaker 1: Welcome to the news edition of the Giants Huttle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: John Schmoke with you today. We'll talk to a couple

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Speaker 1: of the Giants edge rushers, a chat with Lorenzo Carter

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Speaker 1: first guest. The Giants signed them as a free agent

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Speaker 1: from Minnesota this offseason. A Faudio Dnibo and now we're

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Speaker 1: joined by Giants. I'm gonna call him Defender. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into that a little bit more, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of Fadio Denibot. Thank you much for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for being here than Yeah, it's good to

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Speaker 1: seeing you in person, which is great as you slowly

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Speaker 1: get back to normal here. Um. So you know, Dave Gentleman,

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Speaker 1: after they signed you talked about using you inside, using

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Speaker 1: You've gotten someone feel what you've been in meeting rooms?

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Speaker 1: How would you define how and where the Giants going

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Speaker 1: to use you this show? I haven't thought much of it,

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Speaker 1: you know. Just right now, I only get ahead of

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Speaker 1: the get ahead of the season. You know, the season

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Speaker 1: is still ninety nine five days away, So right now

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Speaker 1: I'm in a new scheme, so I'm trying to learn

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Speaker 1: the fundamentals. I'm trying to learn the technique. So Coach

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Speaker 1: Judge is a very particularly He's a perfectionist. So one

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Speaker 1: thing that I've learned, you know, I'm understanding. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to my fifth year in the league. Now, I've had

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Speaker 1: my time in Minnesota. So one thing to watch co

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Speaker 1: Judge and his coaching staff is that they're all about

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Speaker 1: officier movements, no wasted efforts, so I see the big pictures.

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Speaker 1: So in that sense, there's still much more I have

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Speaker 1: You talked about Joe Judge. Patrick Graham is obviously his

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Speaker 1: carries Joe's vision to what is it like working with

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Speaker 1: you so so number one thing that I what I

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Speaker 1: He always coaches he doesn't want us to be robotic.

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Speaker 1: So the thing that he tries to do as a decordinator,

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Speaker 1: we can all communicate at a pretty high level, especially

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Speaker 1: we're not we're not robots. We're not so so he

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Speaker 1: w wants us to use your intelligence and this is

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Speaker 1: this is a very good fit. How does that give

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Speaker 1: you war freedom to Obviously you're not gonna freelance, right,

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Speaker 1: So just depending on formations, you can make a calculator

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Speaker 1: risk and the coaches will understand why he made that risk.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, this this season

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Speaker 1: want to see results. But from that same point, he

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Speaker 1: wants you to understand the concept, what the defensive scheme is,

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Speaker 1: You know, this is like, you know, this is the

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Speaker 1: You know, coaches, I said it best. That's the first

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Speaker 1: So so that's the mindset as I think for when

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Speaker 1: so he's being able to understand the difference. It's like

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Speaker 1: My pleasure. Thank you. That's a fatio Dennibo. We thank

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Speaker 1: All right, Now, let's move on to Lorenzo Carter, entering

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