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Speaker 1: It's time to get inside the Giants Huddle on giants

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Speaker 1: dot Com, part of the Giants podcast Network. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the latest edition of the Giants Huddle podcast. He's Jeff

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Speaker 1: Eagle's I'm Lance Meadow and it's a special rapid reaction

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Speaker 1: edition as the Giants have landed a new head coach

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Speaker 1: to joint forces with new gm Joe Shane, and that

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Speaker 1: is former Bills offensive coordinator Brian Dable. A reminder, you

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Speaker 1: which we discussed table with a local Bills NFL reporter. Alright, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: let's get right into it. As I mentioned, last four

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Speaker 1: seasons he served as the Bill's offensive coordinators and that

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Speaker 1: goes back to two thousand eighteen, and over those four seasons,

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Speaker 1: they obviously developed Josh Allen, the team got into the

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Speaker 1: playoff mix, and we saw the amount of success that

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Speaker 1: they had obviously in each of the last two seasons,

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Speaker 1: they made the conference championship game in two thousand twenty

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Speaker 1: felt just short here. In two thousand twenty one, But

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Speaker 1: this is somebody that has never served as an NFL

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Speaker 1: head coach, but he has been a coordinator. He's been

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Speaker 1: a QB coach with various NFL teams. He got his

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Speaker 1: two thousand. All the way through oh six, he was

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Speaker 1: had another stint with the Patriots as a tight ends

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Speaker 1: coach in two thousand, thirteen and sixteen. But we're talking

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Speaker 1: about somebody that's been involved in various schemes, has worked

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Speaker 1: with various head coaches, and certainly is coming off an

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Speaker 1: extremely impressive tenure with the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: it's exciting. I think that, you know, one thing that

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Speaker 1: Mara talk about, um, you know, no, there's there's no

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Speaker 1: package or I think about Yeah, I think it was John,

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Speaker 1: there's no package deals. Well you got yourself a package

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Speaker 1: deal here, so um. But I think what's impressive about

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Speaker 1: with all due respect that the offense was pretty much

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Speaker 1: moving that offense in the right direction, but he did it.

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Speaker 1: And now the last couple of years, you know, you

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Speaker 1: see that the offense is gonna get improved because of him. Now,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine that it's gonna be his offense. Will

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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting now lands to see about his coaching staff. UM,

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Speaker 1: who is going to be the offensive coordinator, UM or

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but this is exciting. And I think

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Speaker 1: that you heard Joe Shane and his press conference mentioned

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Speaker 1: that you know, we don't care if there's no head

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Speaker 1: coaching experien that doesn't matter. We're looking for somebody with leadership,

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Speaker 1: somebody that can come in and take this, uh this

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Speaker 1: feel good about handing over the rings. But I think Jeff,

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Speaker 1: we can't forget the appeal of why he was a

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Speaker 1: the plate calls with the Buffalo Bills, Right, So I

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Speaker 1: would think part of them that appeal is will come

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Speaker 1: there you have it. The Giants have a new head coach,

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable, joining forces with him man he's familiar with

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Speaker 1: in new GM Joe Shane has both of them come

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Speaker 1: over from Buffalo. We'll have more on this on Mondays

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Speaker 1: that they should a Big Blue Kickoff live, which you

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Speaker 1: can listen to at noon Eastern on giants dot com,

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Speaker 1: the mobile app, and on all podcast platforms. For Jeff Eagels,

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Speaker 1: I'm Lance Meadow. We will speak to you next time

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Speaker 1: right here on the Giant Huddle Podcast