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Speaker 1: How do you your cornerback right now? Do you think

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Speaker 1: Aaron Robinsons a guy could play you know, being outside

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Speaker 1: that at that level. We're excited about him. Um, just

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Speaker 1: a starting job Josh in games and yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: it's very impressive. And he's he's an outstanding kid. You know,

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Speaker 1: at else you that uh, you know, played in a

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Speaker 1: you know works out. It's got really good movement skills. Um,

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Speaker 1: So it seems like you guys were kind of prepared

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Speaker 1: surprised that, you know, there's a couple of guys that

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Speaker 1: again it's you know, draft picks or currency. It allows

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Speaker 1: best decision for the Giants. After our conversations that was

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Speaker 1: what we came up with. It for the best decision

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Speaker 1: I mean to assess you know, after today and tomorrow

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Speaker 1: morning and say, all right, we kind of need these positions,

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Speaker 1: positions that we didn't address, you know what I mean

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Speaker 1: with these six picks. Yeah, we have conversations you know

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Speaker 1: after every day of the draft relative to where we've

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Speaker 1: acquire as many good players as we can to try

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Speaker 1: we've played with three tight ends, sometimes four tight ends.

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Speaker 1: I think when you put together an offense, try to

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Speaker 1: And if that's a bunch of receivers, it's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of receivers. If it's one tight end. It's one tight end.

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Speaker 1: there's a long time to build our roster too. It's

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Speaker 1: not just the draft we have, you know a while here.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things that could happen. What

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Speaker 1: know again, leadership communication. He's thinking, Oh the copa Deem

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Speaker 1: there's a reason he's dropping. I don't know what's all

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Speaker 1: there's a reason he's fallen, I think, And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's a great kid, he had a great career

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