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Speaker 1: Welcome in the greatest receiver in the history of the

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Speaker 1: New York Football Giants and Monti Tumor first and foremost,

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year to you and your family. Oh thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot um. You know good twenty two has been

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Speaker 1: good for the Giants and hopefully two thousand twenty three

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Speaker 1: will be better. So the Giants are ending their season

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Speaker 1: playing in Philadelphia, so as part of this podcast series,

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Speaker 1: we kind of like to look back at past games

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Speaker 1: against opponents. Um and when I thought of the Giants

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Speaker 1: on the road in Philly. Let's face it, for the

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Speaker 1: past fifteen years, it's pretty much been a house of

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Speaker 1: horrors for the New York Giants. Uh in the gym

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Speaker 1: Fossil era, it was pretty good. And in the early

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Speaker 1: September two thousand and six, the thirty to twenty four

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Speaker 1: overtime win in Philadelphia, Now Almana, you had, you know,

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Speaker 1: you had one of those games for the ages. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you were targeted twelve times, you had twelve catches, you

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Speaker 1: had a hundred and thirty seven yards, and you had

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Um. Do you remember going into that game

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Speaker 1: or is that just the way it worked out. I

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Speaker 1: they're always plays where in the back of your mind

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Speaker 1: you think you can make a difference, but you don't

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Speaker 1: know if the defense is gonna give you the right opportunity,

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Speaker 1: and you don't know if the quarterback is going to

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Speaker 1: see this offense same way that you see it. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was that was a phenomenal game. I remember in

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Speaker 1: Eagles said, Hey, money, you're old, and I was so

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Speaker 1: mad and I was like, yeah, but you're paying to

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Speaker 1: that I responded to him, and he was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: but you're great, and I'm like, na man. But from

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Speaker 1: So right out of the gate, opening possession of the game,

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Speaker 1: you score on a thirty seven yard touchdown pass. So

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Speaker 1: you guys go up seven nothing. You know, at this

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Speaker 1: point in time in this Giants Eagles rivalry, whether it

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Speaker 1: these early years of Tom Coughlin, um, you guys had

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Speaker 1: But can you talk a little bit about the fact that,

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Speaker 1: because we always heard about how horrible a place it

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Speaker 1: was to go play, but it never seemed to bother

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Speaker 1: really weren't a good run, run stopping team, and we

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Speaker 1: They were very aggressive, blitzing defense, and we were able to,

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Speaker 1: I think it was mostly just the matchup issues that

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Speaker 1: Right start of the fourth quarter, you guys are driving

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Speaker 1: Just like you said, that's not discouraging. You know, when

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Speaker 1: Is there any doubt that you're gonna score? No? I

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Speaker 1: And coach Coffees always preach on turnovers, and every week

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Speaker 1: And one thing that that's when I really started learning

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Speaker 1: a great story you told about plax Goes game winner.

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Speaker 1: we want to thank you for sharing your remembrances of

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Speaker 1: Be well, um, and thanks for sharing some great memories

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