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Speaker 1: Doing Remarkable Things. Learn more at CCNY dot quney dot edu.

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Speaker 1: And we're joined by Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale. And

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Speaker 1: how exciting is it to finally get these young guys

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Speaker 1: into the building and starting to do some work with them.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's it's really exciting. And it's not only exciting

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Speaker 2: just for them, it's just getting everybody back and seeing

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Speaker 2: the new additions that we added a free agency and

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Speaker 2: have them come together and it's it's you know, it's

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Speaker 2: really going well.

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Speaker 1: You were pretty fired up when the team took Deontay

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Speaker 1: Banks with that first round pick. Now, not at all.

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Speaker 1: What is it about the kid's skill set that you

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Speaker 1: really like?

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Speaker 2: I just think he's everything you want in the corner,

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Speaker 2: you know, starting off with he's tough, and he can tackle,

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Speaker 2: and he likes to play press coverage, and he likes

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Speaker 2: to be on the island out there and he loves it,

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Speaker 2: challenge of it, and you can see these that way here,

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Speaker 2: very humble kid from Baltimore. And a matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: I went down to a football camp at Jamil McClain

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Speaker 2: put on who Jamil you know played here and he

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Speaker 2: played played for US in Baltimore as well, and he

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Speaker 2: was at that camp as a camper when he was

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Speaker 2: like a freshman in high school. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: So he's got a lot of game. Obviously, there's a

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Speaker 1: learning curve when you come into the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the things that you try to

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Speaker 1: get accomplished with him this time of year before you

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Speaker 1: get to camping and the other young guys, the other

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Speaker 1: rookies and the other undrafted free agents.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that the biggest thing has stripped their

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Speaker 2: game completely down. You know. I think he's got the

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Speaker 2: best secondary coach in the league with Jerome Henderson, and

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Speaker 2: he does a great job of that. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about start from stance, initial footwork, you know, stance,

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Speaker 2: start techniques and fundamentals, and you know, he's done a

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Speaker 2: nice job of just jumping in there and you know,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it right now? They don't have any bad habits,

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Speaker 2: you know, when you start that way, and I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you'll see some and but the thing I like about

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Speaker 2: him is just his energy and how he wants to compete.

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Speaker 1: So last season obviously used a lot of three safeties

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Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways. Some of it was

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Speaker 1: a functional roster, some of it's a function of what

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Speaker 1: you want to do. It is it a situation where

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Speaker 1: as you get to camp and you take a look

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Speaker 1: at the overall strengths of your defensive secondary, you'll kind

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Speaker 1: of figure out from there what you want to do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it, you know, because you think everybody's

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Speaker 2: going to take a step forward, you know, from X

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Speaker 2: on down, and you know, and and get better at

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Speaker 2: certain things. And you know, what we do is we're

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Speaker 2: always trying to evolve as a defense and always you know,

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Speaker 2: trying to throw the change up after you throw them

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Speaker 2: three fastballs at him or you know, and keep them

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Speaker 2: guessing that way. So we're going to put the best

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Speaker 2: level on the field, especially in critical situations.

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Speaker 1: And it's really not eleven in today's NFL. Is that

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Speaker 1: it's more like fifteen to seventeen that you've got.

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Speaker 2: To be oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: It's really seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Last year it was more than that. Yeah, but I'm

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Speaker 2: excited about where we're at defensively with the roster. I

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Speaker 2: was just talking to Joe about that earlier. It's you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's come a long way in one year, and

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to getting back in training camp and

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Speaker 2: getting things going.

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Speaker 1: You know, last year being around the building during training camp,

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of positive vibes about Darien Beavers

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Speaker 1: and then unfortunately he got hurt, so he loses his

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Speaker 1: rookie season. What are some of the things that you

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Speaker 2: I think that what you liked about him was his

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Speaker 2: he's really going to play his rookie year this year,

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Speaker 2: so red shirt rookie if you will. And I think

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the edge because Cavon Thibodeau obviously last year,

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Speaker 1: you know, once he got healthy started to show more

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Speaker 1: seen from him moving forward that excites you.

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Speaker 2: I I, first of all, it's like I love the

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Speaker 2: kid himself. You know, so I said earlier. You know,

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Speaker 2: he has no ceiling and I believe that because he

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Speaker 2: can do whatever he puts his mind to. You know,

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Speaker 2: we talked about last year after the season was over with,

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Speaker 2: I said, I think you need to get stronger in

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Speaker 2: your legs and in your core, and that was his

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Speaker 2: focus this year in the off season, and you're going

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Speaker 2: to see it that keep developing. I just he's going

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Speaker 1: And the football I Qano is something that you unbelieve.

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Speaker 2: Humble. Yeah, it's good to catch off, but unbelievable. He's

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Speaker 2: an old soul guy who has a lot of aspirations

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Speaker 2: and dreams and he's going to chase them. And that's

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Speaker 2: good for the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, last year you never had that full balance with

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Speaker 1: the rookie season, which was pretty darn good. Just but

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Speaker 1: practice that just lingered throughout the course of the season.

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Speaker 1: How important is it to have balance and have both

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that it's going to be good for

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Speaker 2: both of them, first of all, because there's not just

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Speaker 2: come back. You can see that he's taking care of

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Speaker 2: his body. To me, he looks bigger than what he

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Speaker 2: did last year, and I'm excited to see him get

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Speaker 2: going as well.

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Speaker 1: Final question, as the game continues to evolve and more

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Speaker 1: and more quarterbacks that have this mobility come into the

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Speaker 1: sport that can also throw it, not just run it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've had a lot of different philosophies over

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Speaker 1: have to evolve each year as a defensive coordinator, just

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Speaker 1: based on the way the game is evolving right now.

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Speaker 2: Right If you don't have a growth mentality as a coach,

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Speaker 2: you're not gonna be coaching much longer. I think that

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Speaker 2: you know, you look at college tape when you're doing

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Speaker 2: and see the different things of how defenses are playing,

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Speaker 2: the offenses with the mobile quarterbacks, and you also look

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Speaker 2: at plays. You know, if they're successful plays, they'll show

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Speaker 2: up on Sunday because the offensive coordinators in this lake

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Speaker 2: are too good and they're going to go. They're always

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Speaker 2: looking for something to steal. So it's it's it's like

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Speaker 2: college football is like four years ahead of what we'll

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Speaker 2: see offensively in the NFL. Just because of that, and

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Speaker 2: because of the mobile quarterbacks, you're going to see more

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Speaker 2: and more of it. You know, the RPOs, the options,

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Speaker 2: the you know, the sprint outs, all the different things,

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Speaker 2: and uh, you know we're gonna have our hands full

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Speaker 2: with that. But I think we got enough guys that

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Speaker 2: are ope to the challenge.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate a couple of minutes. Good luck this off season,

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Speaker 1: and we'll revisit in the summer.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's near it.

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Speaker 1: That's near a Giants defensive coordinator, Wake Bartindale. The Front

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