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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Giants Huddle Podcast. I'm Paula Tino. This

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Speaker 1: episode is brought to you by Prime Point, the official

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Speaker 1: payroll processor of the New York Giants. Today we will

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Speaker 1: speak with the latest trio of Giants free agent signings,

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Speaker 1: Matt Brita, jehad Ward, and Jamil Douglas. We are now

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Speaker 1: joined by the latest Giants running back to come onto

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Speaker 1: the roster, Matt Brita, a veteran who has spent several

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Speaker 1: years in the National Football League, most recently with the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And I guess the first question anybody's got

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Speaker 1: to ask you is about the Buffalo influence with Brian Dable,

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Speaker 1: who was now the Giants head coach. I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: was a major factor in you coming here. Oh yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: you know. Uh, he's a great coach um, you know,

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Speaker 1: a great person off the field, and that was a

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Speaker 1: big reason why I came here, you know, because I

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Speaker 1: know what type of guy is. I know what type

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Speaker 1: of and he's gonna bring to the team, and he's

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you for a scouting report, since you

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Speaker 1: were a part of his offense when he was the

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Speaker 1: o C with the bills. What can we expect from him?

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Speaker 1: And how do you expect that he's going to use

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Speaker 1: you very fun, very exciting offense, you know, Um, you

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Speaker 1: never knows you're gonna expect with him. Very hard to learn,

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Speaker 1: but um, you know the game plan is always gonna

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Speaker 1: be good. Um. Definitely got a lot of audibles and

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna try and get me in space,

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Speaker 1: you know, just like anyone tries to do. What do

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Speaker 1: you think about his situation with Josh Allen who clearly

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Speaker 1: flourished under him, and now he's got Daniel Jones here,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people think the similarities because he's

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Speaker 1: good mix. I think it would be a very great mix, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially like you said what he did with

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Speaker 1: um with his legs, and I feel like once he

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Speaker 1: gets into offense, he's gonna love it and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: do a great job. How do you feel your rule

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Speaker 1: is going to be here? We know you want to

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Speaker 1: get the ball in space. Do you think you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be more of a third down back? Do you think

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Speaker 1: you're going to be more of a guy who's gonna

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Speaker 1: work in conjunction with stake Kwan Blanckley, how do you

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Speaker 1: see it? Um? You know I'm leading up to day ball.

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Speaker 1: You know, Um, he knows how to use me best.

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Speaker 1: So whatever my role is gonna be whatevery third down own, uh,

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Speaker 1: second down um coming for sake, Kwan Howard's gonna be

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna let him make that decision. I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna go out there and play as well as

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Speaker 1: I can. Now I'm looking at the numbers here, four

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Speaker 1: three eight When you came out of Georgia Southern. That's

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Speaker 1: why they called you the Cheetah. And I believe at

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Speaker 1: one time you thought or boasted that you think you

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Speaker 1: think that's still the case? I do? I do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know there's probably a couple of other guys that

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Speaker 1: so uh, you know I got the nickname of cheetah

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Speaker 1: for a reason. How much does it drive you that

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Speaker 1: when you came out of Georgia Southern and they listed

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Speaker 1: you at five nine, undrafted rookie free agent. Here you

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, I've always had doubt my whole life,

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Speaker 1: carry that chip on my shoulder every day to put

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Speaker 1: everybody wrong. And like you, just like you said to

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Speaker 1: here I am still playing in the NFL blessed every day,

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Speaker 1: so I'm continue to do that. I noticed five career

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Speaker 1: quite clear that if they want to give you a

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Speaker 1: certainly capable of doing it. Oh yeah, and you know

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Speaker 1: favorite kind plays? Type of plays that you don't have

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Speaker 1: I love the outside zone stuff. I'm fast, but you know,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm a big believer in that, and um,

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Speaker 1: I enjoy past protection. You noticed that this running backs

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Speaker 1: But there's another guy, you know, Antonio Williams, who was

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Speaker 1: know he's he's a great player. Jamil Douglas and John Feliciano,

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Speaker 1: Definitely a lot of great you know, they're hard nos,

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Speaker 1: I picked up with him in Buffalo, I'm gonna tell them.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you can't be a selfish

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Speaker 1: Matt Breed is so good to see you. We wish

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Speaker 1: you the best of luck here with the New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Thanks, we welcommend your hard ward

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Speaker 1: Football Giants. Welcome to Big Blue. And I have a

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Speaker 1: hunch that Wink Martin Dale, who you obviously know very

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Speaker 1: I know, Wink since um back and be more. And

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Speaker 1: all about. It's all about we're gonna come to you.

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Speaker 1: You don't know where we're gonna go, but we can't

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, versatility, you know what I'm saying, inside, outside,

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Speaker 1: Well you put me, I'm just gonna dominate it. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much you know about the Giants

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Speaker 1: defensive line, but they got, of course, Leonard Williams, a

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Speaker 1: We will fit in a hundred percent. We're gonna We're

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Speaker 1: You know I may even though we don't see face

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