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Speaker 1: Blake Martinez and the Giants. Report is brought to you

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Speaker 1: Nobody beats town Fair Tire. Nobody. Hey, Blake, Mark Melosis

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Speaker 1: and Maggie Gray. Thanks for a couple of minutes this morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you got to be on you got Blake.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna be wearing that Carl Banks starter jacket

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Speaker 1: that he sent you? Oh yeah, I'll be wearing it

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Speaker 1: every day now. Some type of game or a playmaking ability?

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Speaker 1: Can you know rub off on me? I'll take it.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it well. And and Lizzen we talked to Carl,

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Speaker 1: and how do you not love the way you're you play? Blake?

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Speaker 1: You lay it on the line, you've got a note

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Speaker 1: for the football, you'll or you're all over the field,

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Speaker 1: and you know what. The tradition of the linebackers are

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Speaker 1: and he said, he is a prototypical Giants linebacker. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think there is a better way to describe

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Speaker 1: because there is a history of great linebackers for this organization,

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Speaker 1: and the way that you play and the way that

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Speaker 1: you lay it on the line each and every week,

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Speaker 1: you deserve that kind of consideration and those kind of accolades. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it means a lot, especially coming from him. Um.

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Speaker 1: It's something that I knew coming here. Uh, big shoes

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Speaker 1: And so it's just often to be going in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. And every day I'm trying to try to

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Speaker 1: make sure I keep getting better and better and UM

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Speaker 1: keep proving that I can keep being that same New

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Speaker 1: Giants fans are hoping Blake Martinez is our guests, so

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Speaker 1: Blake in the in the In a normal season, maybe

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Speaker 1: the bye week is a time you can get away.

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Speaker 1: Maybe mentally you can take a break because of the

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Speaker 1: restrictions of COVID. How did it change it for you?

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Speaker 1: Did you feel like you had a mental break? Have

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Speaker 1: You we had to obviously stay here UM and still

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Speaker 1: But I think you saw it every week. You saw

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Speaker 1: So give us Blake's picks. What were the best things

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Speaker 1: I need to get into that. I haven't actually started

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Speaker 1: Don't know. I Eerie ted Lasso. You gotta watch Ted

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Speaker 1: Lasso on app. It's it's about a football coach that

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Speaker 1: Blake's got his afternoon. We appreciated, Blake, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for the time being generous with your time today. Good

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Speaker 1: luck against Cincinnati and we'll catch up with you soon. No, definitely,

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