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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Giants Huddle on Paulatino. You can

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Speaker 1: Today we are joined by Giants offensive lineman Shane Lemieux. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a guy who is part of the Giants

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Speaker 1: retooling process. Last year, we know, devastating knee injury cost

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Speaker 1: him a lot of time. But things are looking up

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Speaker 1: right now. And Shane, we welcome you to the program

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Speaker 1: with a big smile to say, man, you are back.

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Speaker 1: You're on the practice field, You're cleared and ready to go.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel in these days and what's your outlook? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me first off, but I'm feeling feeling

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Speaker 1: how did you, besides working with your teammates as a

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Speaker 1: Because it's one thing to be mentally involved in the game,

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Speaker 1: But what I what I did, I basically gave a

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Speaker 1: Where do you want your game to take the next step? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's great to see you walking around here. It's great

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Speaker 1: slides and they jump over the top of them, like

429
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Speaker 1: they didn't hit him necessarily. But that's just saying that that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I feel like it's like an intimidation

431
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Speaker 1: thing to the quarterback and that's not gonna happen while

432
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Speaker 1: I'm out there. And where did that come from? Because

433
00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,760
Speaker 1: there would be people who say, well, he's not a

434
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Speaker 1: tenure veteran, you know, he's he's not been in this

435
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Speaker 1: league at all that long. But here you are, um,

436
00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,040
Speaker 1: young guy, um, you know, playing multiple positions. But no,

437
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,199
Speaker 1: you're taking that leadership role. You're taking that assertiveness to

438
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,040
Speaker 1: say that's not happening to my guy. Um. I think

439
00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,720
Speaker 1: I've always just been like that, had always been that

440
00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,399
Speaker 1: rout here, like protector guy. And I think that was

441
00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,040
Speaker 1: just my role, Like I'm not everybody's gonna think I'm not.

442
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't feel I'm not the best athlete

443
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Speaker 1: on the field. I'm not the best player on the field.

444
00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,080
Speaker 1: I'm not the best you know lineman on the field.

445
00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:28,200
Speaker 1: But the way I think that's just my role is

446
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,600
Speaker 1: to be out there and be the protector and you know,

447
00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,040
Speaker 1: be that guy. How much do you think this new

448
00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,800
Speaker 1: coaching staff coming in recognizes what you did on tape,

449
00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,800
Speaker 1: your work ethic, what you are as a person, because

450
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,680
Speaker 1: they've seen you around here now every day and they're

451
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,520
Speaker 1: getting a feel for who Nick Gates is. How important

452
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,800
Speaker 1: is that to you And do you think they see

453
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Speaker 1: everything that you're about. Definitely they saw, you know, the

454
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,080
Speaker 1: film and stuff. They they've watched, you know, everybody they

455
00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 1: told us individually they saw our film and if they

456
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Speaker 1: had to go back a couple of years, they saw

457
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Speaker 1: you saw that film, and um, it's it's just hard

458
00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,359
Speaker 1: for them to you have to count on meeting if

459
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back and play or not, and stuff

460
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,560
Speaker 1: like that. So you know, it's kind of like the

461
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,320
Speaker 1: next guy up. So you know, John will get in

462
00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 1: there and be the guy you know starting off. And

463
00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:10,920
Speaker 1: what's kind of nice for me, I don't feel like

464
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Speaker 1: I have to rush back. I don't have to get

465
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Speaker 1: back to be to be there. But you know, I

466
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 1: think it's good that you know they I think they

467
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,280
Speaker 1: know what I could do, and they know I could play.

468
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Speaker 1: And and you know, how much do you know about

469
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Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson the offensive line coach since he's been here,

470
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Speaker 1: Because clearly, even though you're not on the field taking snaps,

471
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 1: you're still around him, You're still going through meetings, you

472
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Speaker 1: still know what's going on with his system and what

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Speaker 1: he wants. Yeah. No, definitely, Uh. I feel all the

474
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Speaker 1: guys like Bobby. He's a he's a good dude. He's

475
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Speaker 1: a fact. We can relate to him. He seem he's

476
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Speaker 1: on like fortis not too much older than us, and

477
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Speaker 1: he's just he's just a good dude. He cares about us.

478
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Speaker 1: He cares to me once us do our job right,

479
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Speaker 1: and you can tell like the way he coaches that

480
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Speaker 1: he wants you to do it right and wants you

481
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Speaker 1: to succeed. What in generic terms, I don't want to

482
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Speaker 1: get specific if we don't want to let other teams

483
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 1: listen in and find out what's going on here, but generically,

484
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Speaker 1: what do you think is different about his offensive line

485
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Speaker 1: and what he wants from a line as opposed to

486
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 1: maybe upper things Um, the three things he would preach

487
00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: is just smarts, being known what you do, and just

488
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 1: be tough. And I think those if you could do

489
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: those three things is alignment. I think you could you know,

490
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Speaker 1: you could play. So that's like his three things he preaches.

491
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Speaker 1: And just being effort, like big thing on effort, you know,

492
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Speaker 1: finishing down the field, finishing to the ball or if

493
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 1: the balls you know, fifteen yards on the field and

494
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 1: he's still up, you get you better get your butt

495
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Speaker 1: there and you know, get around the ball in case

496
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Speaker 1: it pops out, or get that extra lick on a

497
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Speaker 1: dB or something like that. That just you know, they

498
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Speaker 1: think about it when you know later on in the

499
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,040
Speaker 1: game they're like, oh, that kind of hurt. And you

500
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Speaker 1: keep keep on and keep on and keep on. That's

501
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Speaker 1: how I think you wear teams down and you break

502
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Speaker 1: guys down. How much do you think it helps that

503
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 1: even though this offensive line as a group has been retooled,

504
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Speaker 1: some of the guys who are coming into the room

505
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 1: already have experience with him. No, it's good. Just like John,

506
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Speaker 1: he's been with him i think the last three years,

507
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Speaker 1: and he knows offense and I think that helps us

508
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Speaker 1: as a line. That you know, not all the other

509
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Speaker 1: guys don't really know they know what they're doing. But

510
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Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's not We've been in the

511
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 1: system for three years and you know, you just know

512
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: it on on a snap and it's it's nice to

513
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: have when you have a center in there that knows

514
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,560
Speaker 1: exactly what to do and knows the plays and you

515
00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 1: could just point everybody and tell everybody to do. I

516
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Speaker 1: think that helps out a lot. Give me a second

517
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Speaker 1: thumbnail capsule of what it characterizes a Brian Dable practice.

518
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 1: Up tempo, fast. We're gonna get our plays in, but

519
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:24,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna be smart about and we're gonna get done.

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Speaker 1: How excited do you think you're going to be to

521
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Speaker 1: get on the field at some point with this offense,

522
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: because I'm being told that this is an offensive lineman's

523
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Speaker 1: dream to play in this kind of style offense. No, definitely,

524
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Speaker 1: from what I've seen it, it looks like it's gonna

525
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 1: be fun. You know, it's gonna be you know, creative.

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Speaker 1: They seems like they're real creative and they're gonna do

527
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: a lot of things to try to help DJ out

528
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: and get those wide receivers open and things like that

529
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: being a co captain by the way, and I know

530
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: we're running out of time here. Um, how much have

531
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Speaker 1: you seen Daniel Jones development grow over these last few

532
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Speaker 1: years too? It's been it's been good to see him

533
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: where he's trending upwards. I think everybody gives him crap

534
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: about you know stuff, and I don't really think, my

535
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,159
Speaker 1: personal opinion, I don't think it's all on him. I

536
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of it's on him, to be

537
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 1: honest with you, last year, there was the last couple

538
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: of years old line really hasn't been good or last

539
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,400
Speaker 1: you know, since I've been near the line really hasn't

540
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: been great. And he has no time back to throw

541
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,600
Speaker 1: the ball and he's you know, it's not like only

542
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: one guy has to mess up their job. And he

543
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: seems like he's there in the lab and he he

544
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 1: doesn't have time to get through his progressions and usually

545
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: getting sacs to roll out of the pocket. And you know,

546
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: it's tough when you're like that, when you have two

547
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: seconds back there to get rid of the ball, it's

548
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,719
Speaker 1: and nobody's gonna be able to succeed. I don't care

549
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: if you're Tom Brady or Russell Wilson. I mean it's hard. Well,

550
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: I mean, look even John Marrow, the co owner, has

551
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 1: said they had not done enough things to help him out,

552
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Speaker 1: to give him the best chance to succeed. And when

553
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: se Kwan Blackley had been hurt for so much as well,

554
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: you weren't getting that two thousand yards out of out

555
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: of him that you had a a rookie. So this

556
00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: all impacts everything it does. It's tough. It's tough when

557
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: you you know, kind of you don't have to worry

558
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: about the round and things like that. They can play

559
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,719
Speaker 1: one dimensional almost all. Right, final thing before we let

560
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Speaker 1: you go get Nick Gates joining us, you look at

561
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Speaker 1: some of the other guys on the other side of

562
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,399
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. This rebuilt defensive line to in

563
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 1: front seven Thibodeau Old Lowry comes in last year. Looks

564
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Speaker 1: like this is gonna be quite a front seven that

565
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,280
Speaker 1: people are gonna have to deal with, you know, definitely.

566
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Speaker 1: I know the inside three have always been tough since

567
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: we've we've you know that since I've been nearly had Leo.

568
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: They had Dalvin there for a little bit, and now

569
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Speaker 1: they have decks and they're big boys up Frontly you know,

570
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: they're definitely hard to move and they could. You know,

571
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Speaker 1: they're athletic too. I think that's what like three fifteen.

572
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: He's moving like that, the way he is and strong,

573
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Speaker 1: I don't know, he's just gifted physically, just gifted, I think. So.

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Speaker 1: It's just crazy how decks can move like that, Leo

575
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,640
Speaker 1: can move in there, that big man. It's uh, it's

576
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Speaker 1: certainly something I'll watch every single day while we're out

577
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 1: of here practice. Nick Gates, it is so good to

578
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: see you out and about walking around continuing your rehab.

579
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Speaker 1: We wish you the best of luck. Of course, Giant

580
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: fans can't wait to see you back out on the field. Also,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you,