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Speaker 1: My leak.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you were keeping track or not,

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Speaker 2: but on that touchdown catch, it was number one O

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Speaker 2: nine for the season. Such an NFL single season rookie

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Speaker 2: receiving record. Bowers may or may not pass you with

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Speaker 2: the Raiders this afternoon, but for the moment, you have

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Speaker 2: the record to do it on an athletic touchdown where

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Speaker 2: you were avoided to tackle and scored a touchdown. How

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Speaker 2: much does that mean, do you?

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it means a lot. I was keeping track, uh,

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Speaker 3: I mean keeping track all year. I had a few

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Speaker 3: texts of Brock and I told him he got there

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Speaker 3: before me, So you know, I applauded for that. You know,

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Speaker 3: Brock was He was in me through the training process,

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Speaker 3: of the rookie process, the pre draft, so kudos to him.

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Speaker 3: But you know, it felt good to do that. It

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Speaker 3: felt good to get another touchdown. That's really it.

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Speaker 1: We were the Giants single season record. Also that you said.

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Speaker 3: Before, Yeah, I was aware of that. Also. I thought

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Speaker 3: I had it earlier in the game. That's why I

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Speaker 3: was trying to get the ball, but they had told

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Speaker 3: me afterwards I still got to have too much catches,

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I was all that to end the year

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Speaker 3: off right. I mean in my rookie season, off right

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Speaker 3: in and off strong carried on to the next year.

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Speaker 1: There was there was a series before you came in

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Speaker 1: and had to touch up where you didn't play the series.

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Speaker 1: You were on the sideline, hold yere you banged up

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Speaker 1: or taking a breather.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, after that little hit at the beginning kind of

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Speaker 3: messed up my arm. So they were just being cautious

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Speaker 3: of just putting me in all the time, asking me

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Speaker 3: how I feel and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Like that last couple of plays of that last drive

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Speaker 2: was that. Do you know why or did that bother you? No?

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Speaker 3: I just they told me to come out when I

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Speaker 3: came out.

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Speaker 1: But you feel okay?

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Speaker 2: I mean I know there's no more games.

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Speaker 1: But you feel okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel good.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little banged up, but none none, I'm not

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Speaker 3: used to before.

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Speaker 2: What needs to change here next season for this team

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Speaker 2: to start winning most.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm gonna let the you know upstairs

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Speaker 3: handle that. My job is to god dang catching football, I.

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Speaker 2: Guess more so than just whether the coaching separate from that,

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Speaker 2: What do you guys to do better as a team,

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Speaker 2: regardless of coaching. What you see.

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Speaker 3: It's just the little things. I mean, it's stay on pace, penalties,

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Speaker 3: I mean, penalties gonna hurt the team playing together, and

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Speaker 3: that's really about it. I should say, well.

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Speaker 1: That I see, how do you shut up your rookie

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Speaker 1: season individually, team, the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: Individually, I'll say a lot, a lot. I learned a lot.

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Speaker 3: I can get better on a little stronger, but it's

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Speaker 3: a lot more I could have did out there. A

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Speaker 3: lot I can't learn from moving on to next year

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Speaker 3: as a team, just a lot of just camaraderie. Like

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Speaker 3: I said before, penalties, stand on track, having your brother's back.

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Speaker 3: That's really it.

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Speaker 1: Knowing that the season is over and did the way

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Speaker 1: that it did. I mean, just immediately coming off the

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Speaker 1: field and knowing you're not playing.

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Speaker 3: You know, it hits hard. You know a lot of

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Speaker 3: guys going out and playing you don't. You gotta go home,

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Speaker 3: so you know it hits hard. But that's that's football,

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Speaker 3: That's the NFL. That's gonna be a lot of teams

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Speaker 3: going home, so you know, off the first year it hurts,

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Speaker 3: but I mean, I'm gonna lead on to next year

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Speaker 3: just to have that in the back of my head.

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Speaker 1: The Giants don't have a single quarterback under contract.

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Speaker 3: For next year.

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Speaker 1: Drew Thomas, free agent. How closely will you pay attention

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Speaker 1: throughout the off season here to what they do at

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Speaker 1: quarterback because it directly affects you.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you know, I'm gonna have a lot of

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Speaker 3: phone calls being you know, called through my phone. But

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Speaker 3: I mean, like I said, I'm gonna let upstairs hound

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Speaker 3: of that that's out of my control.

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Speaker 2: Through a tough team season. That if you stay here

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Speaker 2: and are part of the building block to making this

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Speaker 2: thing work, that it will feel that much better and

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Speaker 2: you might look back. It's just you know, it started something.

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Speaker 3: You guys can get this turned around. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: what that mean to you? Uh? I mean, I'm sure

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Speaker 3: we mean the most to anybody. I mean, to come

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Speaker 3: from up down load and to go up the top.

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Speaker 3: I mean it feels good.

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Speaker 2: What are some lessons you take away from your first

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Speaker 2: year in the NFL? Just what you want by yourself

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Speaker 2: and then just about playing in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Long season, making sure your body is the healthiest can

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Speaker 3: be and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about that touchdown catch sideline?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Well, yeah, so I really had I really had

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Speaker 3: a post, but I converted it and I ran like

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Speaker 3: a little a little go and I guess me and

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Speaker 3: Drew was on the same Basically we had talked about it,

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Speaker 3: so you know, he gave me a you know, a

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Speaker 3: good ball, and then I didn't know what a defender was,

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Speaker 3: so when he hit me, it's like he hit me

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Speaker 3: like a little kind of wrong while I could have

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Speaker 3: stayed up and then after that just kept my feet

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Speaker 3: in the score.

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Speaker 2: How how close were far to being legit contender? Do

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Speaker 2: you think these team wants?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: We wins.

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Speaker 3: People look at it say teams for I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you see anything like internally that says you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean, we have the right pieces. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we just gotta you know, we gotta play as a unit.

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Speaker 3: We gotta play as a team.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot of games that we lost

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Speaker 3: with it was close games or if we would have

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Speaker 3: just did this right, we would have won the game.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, this team is close. We just gotta, you know,

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Speaker 3: get the little things right.