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Speaker 1: It was a disappointing season for you as far as

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Speaker 1: the injury was concerned. What about from a team perspective,

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Speaker 1: how do you feel about what happened here in a

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Speaker 1: three win season?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously you lose that many games, it's not exciting,

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Speaker 2: But I will say I'm proud of the effort that

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Speaker 2: the guys showed. We dealt with a lot of adversity issue,

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Speaker 2: a lot of injuries, and it's not easy to continue

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Speaker 2: to play, but you know, guys continue to play hard.

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Speaker 2: By the winning versus the coach. You know, they had

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Speaker 2: the opportunity to be in the playoffs. The guy's fall hard,

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Speaker 2: So I'm definitely proud of that.

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Speaker 1: Brian Dave all back. What does it mean to have

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Speaker 1: your head coach back?

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Speaker 2: It means everything. Continuity is a big thing in this league.

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Speaker 2: He's a great leader, a really good coach. So I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'll be excited if he's back.

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Speaker 1: But continuity when you're not winning, is that necessarily a

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Speaker 1: good thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been part of you know, different regimes, and

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Speaker 2: I know what it's like starting over. It's not always easy.

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Speaker 2: So whatever decision they make, I'll be happy if he's here.

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Speaker 3: For sure. I think people looking what makes them a

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Speaker 3: good coach that you want to back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say first, the starts with personality. You

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Speaker 2: can tell how he cares about the players. Who's always

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Speaker 2: putting guys first. Anytime someone's going through some personal it

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Speaker 2: gives him opportunity to take care of that. He's a

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Speaker 2: player friendly coach, so I think he listens to the

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Speaker 2: opinions of the players, and I think that makes a

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Speaker 2: big difference.

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Speaker 3: I think people look at the three wins and kind

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Speaker 3: of like Bruce was saying, continuity is one thing, but

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Speaker 3: if you're not winning, why does it matter? So what

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Speaker 3: do you see that makes you believe that three and

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Speaker 3: fourteen is in a better position than maybe some of

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Speaker 3: the other regimes you were a part of that did

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Speaker 3: not work and failed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say first, something you can look. I

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Speaker 2: know it was a few years ago, but his first

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Speaker 2: year here, you could argue that the roster was tendically

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Speaker 2: better on paper this year, and you know we made

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Speaker 2: it to the playoffs that year. So I think and

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Speaker 2: you know, I had five O line coaches, so I

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Speaker 2: know who just like to have, you know, a guy

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Speaker 2: stay in the room the same year. I think that

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Speaker 2: makes a big difference.

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Speaker 1: You're frustrated. The fans are frustrated as well. What's your

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Speaker 1: message to them that.

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Speaker 2: We're doing everything we can to get it better. Obviously

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Speaker 2: it's not acceptable, and we understand that when we're doing

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Speaker 2: everything we can to change that. Good rehabs coming along.

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Speaker 2: I'm on schedule, so just trying to not have any setbacks. Really,

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Speaker 2: everyone see scooter for you with scooter for John.

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Speaker 1: Is it kind of like you know at some point

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Speaker 1: some of the story of the season and those scooters,

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Speaker 2: We had a lot of foot injuries this year. I

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Speaker 2: don't know why, but that's part of the game. We

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Speaker 2: do everything we can to be back healthy. Before I

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Speaker 2: got hurt, I thought this was probably the most consistent

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Speaker 2: online we've had in a long time. So hopefully can

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Speaker 2: get back to that next year.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that there is some hope, there is

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Speaker 1: some brightness somewhere in here as far as the future

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Speaker 1: for this franchise, definitely.

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Speaker 2: I mean we have talented players. You saw Tracy and Malik,

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Speaker 2: you know, cet a rookie record. You know this year

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Speaker 2: first time in a long time that two guys went

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Speaker 2: over a thousand, So I think we have good players

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Speaker 2: on this team. We just got to, like I said,

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Speaker 2: with that continuity, to be consistent. I think that's the

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Speaker 2: biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: How important is it to get the right quarterback in here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an important thing that decisions above my pay grade.

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Speaker 2: But whoever's in front, if the old line is protecting

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Speaker 2: and we can run the ball, I think that makes

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Speaker 2: it easier on whoever that is. How tough was it

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Speaker 2: with this on line? Obviously you guys you mentioned this

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Speaker 2: line potential, but how tough was it with tea? Some

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Speaker 2: of the guys get hurt.

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Speaker 1: You get hurt just to see what this line could

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Speaker 1: have been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's very frustrating. I mean, we dealt with

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Speaker 2: some of the things last year with injuries, but I

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Speaker 2: think we have the right guys in the room. Like

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Speaker 2: I said, before I got hurt, I thought that was

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Speaker 2: some of the best offensive line played by the Giants

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Speaker 2: in a long time. So hopefully we get back to that.

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Speaker 2: I don't have any exact date. They say it sometimes

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Speaker 2: it takes longer just because I am a bigger guy.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see how long it takes. Were you were

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Speaker 2: you wondering about the coach, you know, and wondering what

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Speaker 2: would happen, you know you kind of like seeing you

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out what was going to happen here. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I try not to put too much thought into things

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Speaker 2: I can't really control. Like I said, I would love

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Speaker 2: for you know able to be back and Joe and

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Speaker 2: the same you know, the same machine, because I know

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Speaker 2: it's like to you know, have to start over. But

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Speaker 2: that decision, like I said, it is above my bag race.

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Speaker 2: So I just try to focus on what I can

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Speaker 2: and that's you having right now.

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Speaker 1: Would you feel differently, do you think, I know it's hypothetical.

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Speaker 2: If you didn't believe in the vision that they have

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Speaker 2: for this team.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you feel differently and you would have focused in

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Speaker 1: on who's coming back because you wanted things to change.

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Speaker 2: Definitely. Like if you if you if you see guys

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Speaker 2: giving up and people not playing hard, I think and

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Speaker 2: you have concerns that you know, someone's losing the locker room,

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Speaker 2: I think they you know, think about those type of things.

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Speaker 2: But like I said, I mean we played a coach

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Speaker 2: team had a chance to be in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 2: you know we went out there for hard. So I

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Speaker 2: think I think we have buy in. I think we

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Speaker 2: have the right guys. We just got to continue to

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Speaker 2: ask some pieces and be more consistent