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Speaker 1: We talked to Blake Martinez and he's brought to you

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Speaker 1: by HSS Official Hospital of the New York Giants and

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Speaker 1: by town Fair Attire and nobody beats town Fair Attire

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Speaker 1: and Nobody. It feels like it's been six months since

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Speaker 1: that game last week, the Giants against the Eagles, and

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Speaker 1: the Giants will have to wait a few more days

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Speaker 1: to play again Monday night against Tampa. Blake Martinez and

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Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants joins us Blake, Joe and Evan.

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Speaker 1: How are you, Blake? How are you good? Um? And

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Speaker 1: I also wanted to say, uh, congrats to Joe. UM.

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Speaker 1: Always heard about the news. I'm kind of new to

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Speaker 1: that I appreciate it. Blake, thank you. It's been good

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Speaker 1: to do it, So thank you for the kind words.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. What is and It's it's been six days now,

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Speaker 1: so I guess you've had time to digest it, maybe

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Speaker 1: the last six minutes of that game with a two

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Speaker 1: reason that you guys weren't able to close it out

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Speaker 1: on Thursday night against the Eagles. Yeah, I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: it was kind of domino effects of things, UM. The

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Speaker 1: things we talked about that lose game, turnovers, penalties and

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Speaker 1: mental errors UM. And that kind of was the thing

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Speaker 1: game and end up winning the game. Like you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at your team, you guys are sitting there

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Speaker 1: at one in six, and it could be easily be

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Speaker 1: a lot better than that. I mean really outside of

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Speaker 1: the game where yeah, you guys got beat up pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have really been in every game.

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Speaker 1: I mean you could, you know, you could easily Probably

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Speaker 1: you should have beat the Cowboys. I don't think there's

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Speaker 1: you played pretty tough. I mean, and obviously the Eagle game.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys, look at you one in six,

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Speaker 1: but you could easily have, you know, three or four

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Speaker 1: tough aspect of it is looking at that and saying

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Speaker 1: we're so close and multiple games this season, um, but

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Speaker 1: that's the biggest aspect of us right now is just

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Speaker 1: being able to UM learn and understand how to close

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Speaker 1: out those type of games and and make those crucial plays,

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Speaker 1: um throughout the sixty minutes that that end up having

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Speaker 1: those games turned into those one score, one possession UM

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Speaker 1: seccure the win. You mentioned the penalties on the final

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Speaker 1: highly penalized team, But in the final two drives of

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Speaker 1: not allow those fundamental mistakes to obviously happen um in

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Speaker 1: those crucial moments. Well do you think, because look, you've

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's part of the learning experience for

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Speaker 1: They certainly aren't trading you. But what was your reaction

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Speaker 1: end of it. UM. And I've always always be in

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Speaker 1: it um for the most part, probably depending on the

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Speaker 1: good luck on Monday night. Go go get a few

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Speaker 1: on Brady. Okay, Oh yeah, I got you. I got

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Speaker 1: nice good good good luck Blake. We appreciate it, man.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate Blake, Mark, Blake Martinez and the New York

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Speaker 1: Giants weird, man. Whenever you play a Thursday game, it's

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Speaker 1: weird because it does feel like goodbye. And now you're

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Speaker 1: Monday nighter. It is weird that And I'm not expecting

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Speaker 1: them to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by any stretch,

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Speaker 1: but it is still right in front of them. This

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Speaker 1: whole division is still sore about it, Like like even Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: because that's the team you and I probably everybody expects

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Speaker 1: is healthy. They certainly have the experience. They had the

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys and they'll get the three, four and one,

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Speaker 1: and they got a hell of a coach. But I

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Speaker 1: was looking at their schedule in the second half of

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Speaker 1: that mean? Doesn't mean they're gonna win all these games

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Speaker 1: and lose all these games. They still have to play Seattle,

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Speaker 1: they still have to go to Green Bay, They still

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Speaker 1: actually the Giants have to start winning games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they can't be one and eight. We can't sit here

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Speaker 1: the divisions, right right, right, right right. Eventually, they do

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Speaker 1: have to win some football games. But they have been

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Speaker 1: given the gift of being in such a god awful

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Speaker 1: right there. Do I would I bet on that. No,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't. It's funny how Washington is like sneaky in

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Speaker 1: this thing. You know. Well, I look, you know, Washington's

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Speaker 1: got they got that terrific defensive line. Uh you know that.

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Speaker 1: They obviously Rivera's committed now to Kyle Allen being the quarterback. Uh,

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something else that to me that

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Speaker 1: Washington benefits from is that they have no expectation level

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Speaker 1: whatsoever coming into this season. And I think that's a

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Speaker 1: that helps them too. Bro. Yeah, and you meant in

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Speaker 1: this before they also now have two divisional wins in

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Speaker 1: the bank, which is a big help, right Philly in Dallas.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.