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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Giant Huttle podcast, brought

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Speaker 1: rebates and home energy assessments. The Giants have traded for

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders tight end Darren Waller, sending the third

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Speaker 1: round pick they received in the Canarius Tony trade last year,

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Speaker 1: which was a compensatory pick at the end of the

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Speaker 1: third round. Darren Waller arrives to the Giants with two

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Speaker 1: consecutive one thousand yard seasons during the two thousand and

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty twenty season. I had a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: up with him and talk about his arrival in New York.

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Speaker 1: And now we're joined by one of the newest members

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Speaker 1: of the New York Football Giants, tight end Darren Waller. Darren, Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Big Blue. Thank you mans honored to be here.

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Speaker 1: So take us through what this last twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: has been like for you. Uh, it's being kind of crazy. Um.

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Speaker 1: I was finished up with my physical therapist yesterday in

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Speaker 1: general major for the Raiders called me and said I

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Speaker 1: was being traded, and a couple of ments after that,

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Speaker 1: I got a FaceTime from from Joe and Dave's and

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Speaker 1: they were super excited, which was cool to see, you know.

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Speaker 1: And a former coach of mine and I'm really close

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Speaker 1: to is has good relationships with coaches on this staff

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Speaker 1: and speaks very highly of them. So that's very just

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Speaker 1: the overall culture of the building so far. Just being

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Speaker 1: What was the FaceTime like with Joe, Shane and Brian Davie.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, it was just jokes, um, you know, but

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Speaker 1: just you know, good energy. Uh really felt like they

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Speaker 1: Did this really catch you by surprise or is this

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Speaker 1: a potential thing on your radar that you were thinking

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Speaker 1: about before you got the call. Um didn't totally shot me. Um.

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Speaker 1: I was on and off the trade blocks and the

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Speaker 1: whole time since the the coaching staff and the front

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes like them, maybe I answer not to me,

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Speaker 1: I'm not, but it's how the business goes, all right.

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Speaker 1: So for Giant fans and maybe haven't seen you play

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Speaker 1: a ton being on the East Coast, could you describe

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Speaker 1: your game for them in one word? I would say versatile.

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Speaker 1: I mean you look at times I've split outside the numbers,

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Speaker 1: Kind of like I said earlier, is outside the numbers

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Speaker 1: down while on the field. How would you describe your personality?

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Speaker 1: What type of guy is this locker room gonna have

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Speaker 1: How about coming to New York? Now, what do you

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Speaker 1: Always known that this is you know, flagship organization in

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Speaker 1: So he's from New York, from Queens, Jamaica. Queen's been

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Speaker 1: Do you have any other connections to any players in

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, just very creative approaches of you know, building

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Speaker 1: In your time with the Raiders, and then prior to that,

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Speaker 1: I feel like, UM, in twenty twenty one, getting my

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Speaker 1: Waller arrives in New York, Dad and native New Yorker

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Speaker 1: Brian Dable episode that's the one before this on your

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Speaker 1: This week we should be with former NFL General manager

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