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Speaker 1: The Giants are coming off of by and headed into

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Speaker 1: a Monday night football matchup with the forty Niners. We

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Speaker 1: are back with another episode of Crossfire, presented by a

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Speaker 1: prime Point. I'm Madeline Burke, joined as always by Howard

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Speaker 1: Cross and Carl Banks, and guys, let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: The Giants and Niners are both tied and thirty one

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Speaker 1: sacks allowed on the season. The Giants going for the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, do they have to focus

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Speaker 1: on defensive sex or offensive sacks allowed. I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: they've got to focus on protecting the quarterback. So they

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Speaker 1: got to focus on offensive sacks not allowed. I think

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Speaker 1: that's great. I do appreciate the offensive sacks not allowed,

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Speaker 1: but they got to get to the quarterback. Those three

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Speaker 1: and outs are very, very important. They gotta find a

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Speaker 1: way to get some stops. I don't know how they're

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Speaker 1: gonna get them, but they gotta find a way to

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Speaker 1: get them. Olivier Vernon and the other defensive lineman gotta

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Speaker 1: come up with stock. You gotta sustained drives and when

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Speaker 1: you get down in the red zone, you gotta make

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Speaker 1: those drives turn into seven points. But they cannot do

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Speaker 1: that if they cannot protect the quarterback. I get it, Howard.

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Speaker 1: I'm a defensive guy. Those of glory plays, and yes,

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Speaker 1: they get the ball back for your offense sometimes, but

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Speaker 1: when your offense gets it, you've got to protect them

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Speaker 1: and so that your tools can be utilized to their

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Speaker 1: full potential. Think the offense is really close and I

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Speaker 1: think they need to protects You need more opportunities, more protection.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. The opportunities come when you sustain drives,

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Speaker 1: not when they give you the ball and a turnover

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Speaker 1: and you can't do anything with it. Sacks, protection of

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Speaker 1: the coarterback Hitdor not allowing defensive sacks, but when the

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Speaker 1: linebacker is saying they got to keep the quarterback up right,

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Speaker 1: I gotta agree with you on this one. Carl. Definitely

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Speaker 1: a priority for the second half of the season. But

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Speaker 1: when we look at the offense going forward for the

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, who's going to lead this

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Speaker 1: team in touchdowns? O'Dell Beckham Jr. Or stake One Barkley. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be easy there. I'm gonna say it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Odell Beckham. I think I'm looking for more explosive

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Speaker 1: place throughout the season. I think you know Barker's gonna

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Speaker 1: do a lot. He don't get the ball a lot

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Speaker 1: of times. Odell, I'm looking for those breakout games. He's

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Speaker 1: already having games over a hundred yards, and I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for those games where there's a sixty yard touchdown, a

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Speaker 1: fifty yard touchdown. He's gonna make some place. It'll be

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Speaker 1: off of play action because they're gonna run the football

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Speaker 1: and Saint Kwan Barkley will have a lot of opportunities

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Speaker 1: and he can be a major threat in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: a place that they get too often but they're denied entry.

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Speaker 1: So I think he is the key to getting the

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Speaker 1: scores on the board more so than you know that

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Speaker 1: area that you say they don't need a lot of

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Speaker 1: protecting the quarterback passing. When that's Phil gets short, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Sae Kwon Barkley. I think Odell Beckham is

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Speaker 1: gonna be the benefactor of Sa Kwan Barkley's awesome play

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Speaker 1: in the second half of the season. He's gonna run

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Speaker 1: the ball. It's gonna be play action and you have

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Speaker 1: to bring eight guys up and sneak closer to the

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Speaker 1: line of safety. He's gonna get a little nosy and

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Speaker 1: over the top is odell back red zone. They call

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Speaker 1: it the velvet rope. For this team, they've got to

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Speaker 1: be able to get behind the velvet rope, and that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Sae Kwon Barkley sneaking right through it. I

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Speaker 1: think O'Dell knows about the velvet rope well. Obviously, both

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Speaker 1: of these guys are going to have an impact on

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Speaker 1: this team. Sa Kwan Barkley, We've talked a lot about

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Speaker 1: the dominance this rookie has been having, but of the

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Speaker 1: rookie is not named sake Kwan. Who are you looking

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Speaker 1: for to have the biggest impact on the second half

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Speaker 1: of the season. I like Zoe Carter. I think he's

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Speaker 1: really been getting that. They've allowed him to stick his

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Speaker 1: toe in the water a little bit and let him

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Speaker 1: kind of grow at his pace. Now it's time to

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Speaker 1: take the training wheels off. I think he can be

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Speaker 1: a major impact on this defense in their pass rush

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Speaker 1: as well as in their run game, now that he's

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Speaker 1: got some experience under his belt. I like that as

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Speaker 1: a good player. There you go pass rush again. But

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Speaker 1: denmco on your side, I'm gonna go her Nandez. He

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Speaker 1: could be the cornerstone of this offensive line. He's young,

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Speaker 1: he's aggressive, he's strong, and if he keeps for wresting,

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Speaker 1: he could be the guy that they can build the

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Speaker 1: offensive line around. Here's the thing about that. He can

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Speaker 1: be great and nobody will know about it, and that

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Speaker 1: will be a good thing, because if you're saying his name,

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Speaker 1: he's not doing a good job. I think he's doing

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Speaker 1: a good job. But you said your rookie who can

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Speaker 1: get it done. That's my guy. Okay, I won't disagree.

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Speaker 1: We got two guys we like. The Giants and Niners

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Speaker 1: will face each other on Monday Night Football, eight pm

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Speaker 1: on ESPN