1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: The Giants Total Podcast is brought to you by Citizens, 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,559 Speaker 1: the official bank of the New York Giants. 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 2: It's time to get inside the Giants Huddle on Giants 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 2: dot Com. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go on the Giants. Let's 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: go part of the Giants Podcast Network. All right, who 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: wants to cover some wide receivers? It's cornerback day on 8 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: the Giants Total Podcast. I am John Schmelk. Thank you 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: so much for being with us today. We talk about 10 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: the Giants cornerbacks. Dorri Jackson, new arrival, Amani Overwareway. We 11 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: have Darnay Holmes, Cordell Flott, Aaron Robinson coming back from injury. 12 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: Deontay Banks will be our final one, and before him, 13 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: we'll have fillow rookie Trey Hawkins. So make sure you 14 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: stay at the end to hear Deontay Banks. And you know, 15 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: a man a few words, but I think he opened 16 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: up a little bit and we kind of had a 17 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: fun conversation, joked around and had some laughs and we 18 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: had a good time with him. Different type of personality. 19 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: I think he's a guy that is really going to 20 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: be into the football here and not let everything else 21 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: kind of suck him in too. You know some of 22 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: the off the field stuff. I think he'll be a 23 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: great addition and gonna be a really good player for 24 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. All right, So let's leave 25 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: off with the Dory Jackson, the Giants vet and leader. 26 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: He kind of sets the stage here, and then we'll 27 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: end with again the Giants first round pick Deonte Banks. 28 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: Here's my interview with the Dory Jackson, and now we're 29 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: joined by Giants cornerback of Dory Jackson. 30 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 3: Could see man, Good to see you always. 31 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: All right, So you were rolling last year and then 32 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: the nick right, how was tough was it to kind 33 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: of fight through that? Teams are the playoff run. I'm 34 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: sure you're trying to get back as quickly as you can, 35 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: but you don't want to get back too early and 36 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: then either you're not yourself or you re enjoyed. 37 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 4: I think that's one of the things that you look at. 38 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 4: Just understand your body. Thankful that we were able to 39 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 4: be in a position where we were seven and two, 40 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 4: which gave me a little a little willer room to 41 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 4: be able to get my knee back to the best 42 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 4: of its ability one hundred percent to go out there 43 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 4: and play and compete at a high level, and you know, 44 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 4: I just always want to give credit, you know, not 45 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 4: just only to the trainers in there, you know, I 46 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 4: call them my p fat guys, but also the players 47 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 4: man for going out there compete and even though it 48 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 4: seemed like things were looking downhill, found a way to 49 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 4: just win one and to getting it to playoffs. 50 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 3: And so it's a. 51 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 4: You know, thank God for being able to give me 52 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 4: back out of their healthy and letting the circumstances play 53 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 4: out the way they played. But the trainers, my teammates, 54 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 4: for you know, even when things were looking rough, they 55 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 4: still had a positive attitude, smiling their face coming. 56 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 3: To word competing. And when you see that, only thing you. 57 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 4: Want to do is just get better yourself so you 58 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 4: can go out there and play, you know, for the 59 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 4: one next to you. 60 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 3: So you have a big shout out to those I. 61 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: Want to get your veteran perspective on something, because that's 62 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: someone that's follow and studied this game for a long time. 63 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: The quickest way for a defensive season to go to hell, 64 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: to be quite frankly with you, is for a bunch 65 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 1: of cornerbacks to get hurt and teams are throwing the 66 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: ball over the place. You guys had to bring it 67 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: in play so many different corners last year, right, yet 68 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: that never happened. What is it about the room or 69 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: maybe the way Jerome Henderson teaches you guys the way 70 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: wings defensive set up? How were you guys able to 71 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: do that with so many different bodies coming in and out? 72 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 3: Think it's about holding each other accountable. 73 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 4: We talk about Rome always says, just because one person 74 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,839 Speaker 4: goes out, the level of play shouldn't go down. Same 75 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 4: as wink you go out, there doesn't matter. It's like 76 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 4: plug and play. And when you have a room that 77 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 4: we have, you know, with Rome being in there, playing 78 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 4: in the league, coaching this league a while, giving us 79 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 4: different analogies, different stories, different tidbits to be able to 80 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 4: pick his brain to understand and help us play the game. 81 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 4: I think it helps out a lot. And then just 82 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 4: the guys that we have one to hold each other accountable. 83 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 4: Being in a relationship, so something is going on, you 84 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 4: can say, hey, come on, tighten up, or you know's 85 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 4: lock in, let's get together, and it's not coming from 86 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 4: a bad or malicious spot. You understand like, oh that's 87 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 4: my brother, Let me just do my one to eleven 88 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 4: out there and I'll be okay. So I think when 89 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 4: everybody has that same mentality, that same attitude, and you 90 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: have a great coach with great coaches, and Jerome and 91 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 4: Wink to be able to help you and Mike Man, 92 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 4: I feel like those those three being in our corner, 93 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 4: being in our ear, being positive, never beating you down, never. 94 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: Just always positive. 95 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 4: I say, I can appreciate that the most about him, 96 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 4: regardless what's going on. You got your guys next to you, 97 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 4: and we serviced the room as you as you speak. 98 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 4: So it's not like the coaches that have to say anything. 99 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 4: They can just give you that look or like when 100 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 4: he's a kid, you going somewhere and get that look 101 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 4: like okay, yeah, I know I'm tripping. I need to 102 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 4: lock in it and get it together. So I think 103 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 4: that's how our room operates. And you know, a big 104 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 4: shout out to Roam, Mike and Wink. 105 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: And Mike Trier is who you're talking about coach for 106 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,559 Speaker 1: the fans that might not know. Great great guy, great coach. 107 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: The only I want to ask you about it. Seems 108 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: like when people think of Wings defense, they're like, all right, 109 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 1: blitz man to man, he coos knots crazy blitz is 110 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: all this guys roll over the place. But I think 111 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: it's a little underrated how much you focuses on technique 112 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: with you guys, where you play exactly the right technique 113 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: based on what scheme you're in, knowing where your help is, 114 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: and I think that does mitigate some of the issues 115 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: I kind of ask you about in the first question 116 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: right where if you know where the defense is vulnerable 117 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: and you know where you need to be and you 118 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 1: just play that technique properly, what really bad stuff is 119 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: probably not gonna happen. 120 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 3: Right exactly. It's some more of a mental thing. 121 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 4: Everybody, like you said it is man bliss, but it's 122 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 4: all a mental aspect, like if you know that's what's 123 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 4: going to happen, and then you're out there, you know it, 124 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 4: you just gonna go out there and play it. And 125 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 4: then despite you know, going out there and not knowing 126 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 4: like oh dang, they're playing Man, or you just out 127 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 4: there like, oh we usually plays on now we gotta 128 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 4: play Man on this play. So for us it's like okay, 129 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 4: we're always playing this, playing that, and then mentally you 130 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 4: get your mind wrapped into it. Mentally you get together mentally, 131 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 4: you think like, man, I've been in this situation a 132 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 4: thousand times at practice, and I feel like that practice 133 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 4: builds that callous. When you get in the game, everything 134 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 4: goes smoother. 135 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,359 Speaker 1: So and just like knowing your leverage right, like simple 136 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: things like that. 137 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's always understanding what is the weakness of this 138 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 4: I don't want to say defense, but what is the 139 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 4: weakness of what's going on right now? 140 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 3: Where can they exploit you? 141 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: Every scheme exactly right. It's just a matter of playing 142 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: it so that that doesn't happen. 143 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, understanding your job and your brother's job. That's what 144 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 3: I'm saying. 145 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 4: I say, do your one eleven, but you knowing your 146 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 4: brother's gonna do here, so you don't have to overcomverspate conversation. 147 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 3: You just do your job. You do your job. Everything 148 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 3: else gonna play out the words ship. 149 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: So give me the ve outlook on the Ante Banks, 150 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: your young rookie first round pick that you're. 151 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 5: In the room with. 152 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 3: I like Banks. 153 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 2: He is. 154 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 4: A humble a humble guy, a great head on his shoulders. 155 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 4: Talking to him, speaking with him, very open, very vocal, 156 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 4: but a respectable, respectable guy. You can see the confidence 157 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 4: in there, but you can also see the humbleness that 158 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 4: is needed to not just be in the league, but 159 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 4: to keep driving it to do great things. So I'm 160 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 4: seeing that regardless of I don't even care what he 161 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 4: does does on the field, just seeing those tangibles of 162 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 4: his head is on straight. 163 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 3: He's respectable. It seems like he knows what. 164 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 4: It takes to to mesh and be in a room 165 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 4: and to thrive. 166 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 3: And that's you can appreciate that. 167 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: You also had a lot of moving pieces at inside 168 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: linebacker last year in middle year defense, right, guys coming 169 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: in and out, a lot of new faces. Now you've 170 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: got Bobby okaac here, right, he's been He's done it 171 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: for a long time. He's fast as hell. How does 172 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: having a constant force in there that you know what 173 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: you're gonna get out of him, and he's doing it 174 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: for a while, how does that help the defense as 175 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: a whole. 176 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 3: It's great. 177 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 4: We build those those conversations, you build that rapport on 178 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 4: each other, you. 179 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 3: Know, hanging out with him. 180 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 4: I think that's the biggest thing of you know, you 181 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 4: can be a great player on the field, but you 182 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 4: need to be a great teammate. And that's what we 183 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 4: hold in, hold into as you see you talk about 184 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 4: a lot of changing pieces where we are as at 185 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 4: corner safety or whatever. It may be just an interchange. 186 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 4: But at the same time, building that relationship with those 187 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 4: guys and understand each other makes you go out there 188 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 4: and play fast and play for each other. But you know, 189 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 4: having Bobby is a great a great addition, a great piece, 190 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 4: you know, being a Pack twelve guy. I'm a little biased, 191 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 4: so I respect this game. So it's nice having. 192 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: A final question two part question, where is the next 193 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: step for you in this defense as an individual and 194 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: what's the next step for this defense as a group 195 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: kind of being together for that second straight year. 196 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 4: I think for me individually is to just up the 197 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 4: level of play, to continue to grow, to continue to 198 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 4: get better, to continue to learn, trying to put out 199 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 4: the best version of me each time. And I step 200 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 4: not on the game field, but that practice in the 201 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 4: weight room. Just give my my two percent trying to 202 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 4: be better. And I think for this defense is the 203 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 4: same thing. I understand that like we know what we 204 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 4: did last year, but can't really harp too much in 205 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 4: the in the past. That's your ego. Don't want to 206 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 4: get too far into the future. You know, now you're 207 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 4: over anxious, and so to be right here in the moment, 208 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 4: be present and understanding, like, okay, you can change your 209 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 4: narrative about what you do out. 210 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 3: There on the field. 211 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 4: And I feel like if we all have that mindset 212 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 4: of just trying to get one percent two percent better, 213 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 4: be better than last year, be better than yesterday, be 214 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 4: better than three hours ago, whatever it may be, not 215 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 4: just in the football on the football field, in the 216 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 4: weight room, in the classroom. You know, those three areas 217 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 4: just trying to improve and play for each other and 218 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 4: enjoy the game, have fun and not take it for granted. 219 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 3: I think that's the next step. 220 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: And you guys got some quarterbacks on the schedule this year, 221 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: too many. 222 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 4: Then we got we got some teams we play. Man, 223 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 4: that's the that's the that's the fun part about it. 224 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie, you know, seeing the schedule when 225 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 4: it comes out, you get to see who you go against. 226 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 4: And it's all about I don't know, accepting the challenge 227 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 4: and not not running away from and not showing away from, 228 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 4: but embracing it. 229 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 2: You know. 230 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 4: It's just like I feel like us as the defense 231 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 4: were like the villains of the movies, and it wouldn't 232 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 4: be a movie without them. So that's why it's always exciting. 233 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: Doing good stuff. That's lock. 234 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 3: I appreciate it. 235 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: And now we're joined by a Giants quarterback, Amani over 236 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: Warrior A right, got it perfect, that was working on it. 237 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: Thank you talk about it. You decide to come to 238 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: the Giants this year? Why was this a good fit 239 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: for you? 240 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 6: I think this is a team, a good young team 241 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 6: going in the right direction. Obviously, with this Country staff 242 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 6: taking over last year, I think they shifted the culture 243 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 6: and they started to drive the bus in the right direction, 244 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 6: and I think I wanted to be a part of that. 245 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 6: I think I saw opportunity at the corner position to 246 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 6: come from contribute, and I felt like this would be 247 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 6: a good place, great market, great team, and I felt 248 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 6: like the right fit. 249 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: We do a lot of draft work on our production 250 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: side here. I remember scotting you coming out and I said, boy, 251 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: this got'd be great in a pressman system? Was that 252 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: part of it too? Know one the way Win wants 253 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 1: to play on defense that. 254 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 6: You and knowing that it's it's intentional, that's what he does. 255 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 6: He's known for that, and I feel like, like you said, 256 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 6: I feel like I could fit right in with that 257 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 6: and make some plays in this defense. 258 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: Now, you came in and you played very early in 259 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: your career, then you didn't have the story job anymore. 260 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: How were you able to kind of process that mentally 261 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: and fight through what to kind of keep going? I 262 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: know that can sometimes, you know, getting guys heads a 263 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: little bit sometimes. 264 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it was tough. It definitely was tough. You know, 265 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 6: they they made that decision, and you know, I kind 266 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 6: of just had to go back to work, just keep working, 267 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 6: working on my craft, working on, like you said, the 268 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 6: mental side of it, and making sure I was, you know, 269 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 6: helping being being though I still was one of the 270 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 6: older guys in the room, so helping those young guys 271 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 6: out when they had to go out there and playing 272 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 6: those big games. So just getting myself right and preparing 273 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 6: myself for this year. 274 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: For fans that maybe didn't watch you in the true right, 275 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: what can you tell Giant fans about how you play 276 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: and what you bring to the game. 277 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 6: Yeah, Man, I feel like I'm a confident corner. I 278 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 6: feel like I'm a corner that doesn't back down. I 279 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 6: want to show up in the big moments, make the 280 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 6: big plays. I feel like I've done that in this 281 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 6: league and I just want to continue to do that here. 282 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: What do you think about the cornerback group you have 283 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: in that room? 284 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 6: A lot of talent, a lot of talent top to bottom, 285 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 6: a lot of diversity, guys all from all over, different stories, backgrounds. 286 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 6: But that's the beauty of it all coming together to 287 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 6: try to get one thing accomplished, and that's, you know, 288 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 6: win a Super Bowl. 289 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,719 Speaker 1: Now, Unfortunately for you, you have been around a bunch of 290 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: different dB coaches right in secondary coaches. What is a 291 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: little bit different about how Wink and Jerome teach what 292 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: they want you guys to do? 293 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 7: Uh? 294 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 6: I mean it's there's differences without throughout the league and 295 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 6: with any dB coach def coordinated relationship. They just bring 296 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 6: their own kind of unique way to the game. Obviously 297 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 6: it's it's Wink system. So Jerome kind of has understood 298 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 6: that and like likes how has learned how Wink once 299 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 6: stuff done, and so he's reiterated at to us and uh, 300 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 6: we just we just adapt, listen, learn they got a 301 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 6: lot of knowledge to give us, and just go out 302 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 6: there and put our best foot for it. 303 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: No I don't mean this in the mean way, but 304 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: they don't make your guys job easy. Like it's a 305 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: lot of you. You're not gonna have safety help on display. 306 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: You got to go cover. Yeah, you do you like that? 307 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: Do you embrace that? 308 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 3: Yeah? 309 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 7: Man? 310 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 6: I mean I think at the end of the day, 311 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 6: you're gonna be in some of these close games. So, uh, 312 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 6: you pick your poors and you want to sit back 313 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 6: and be out there all day, or you can go 314 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 6: after them, buckle down and and kind of make some 315 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 6: plays in that uh, in that defense. And I think, Uh, 316 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,839 Speaker 6: if you do it right and everyone's all eleven or 317 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 6: playing together, it can it can work out really well. 318 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: Finally, if the fans watching you and they're thinking, boy, 319 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: he played that exactly the way it's supposed to be. 320 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: What what are some of the most important technique things 321 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: a cornerback needs to execute properly to be good in 322 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: this type of press. 323 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 6: Man skame technique. I think just knowing situationally how you 324 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 6: need to play everything. You can leverage things like exactly 325 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 6: different leverage different like you said situation, knowing set first 326 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 6: second down versus third down distance, you know how this 327 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 6: player fits into that. Allen specifically what the coordinator thinks 328 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 6: and just learning. If you learn the defense and how 329 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 6: it's supposed to be structured and then fitted in against 330 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 6: whoever you're playing, I think it's really beneficial. 331 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: Amani, good stuff, man. We appreciate the time, sir. Thank 332 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: the Giants. 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And now we're joined by Giants cornerback Donay Holmes, Donney, 341 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: how's it going man? 342 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 9: How you dom doing good? 343 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 10: Man? 344 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 3: Can't complain about nothing that's going on at all. 345 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: So what's your focus in this offseason when you went 346 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: into the shop after last year? Where was Donnay Holmes 347 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: trying to get better? 348 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 3: Truthfully? 349 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 9: The things that was hindering my game and hindering the 350 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 9: defense with penalties. I feel like the the experience I 351 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 9: was able to grasp last year. 352 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 3: I got to give it. 353 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 9: Give it up to the coaching staff for me be 354 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 9: out there to experience those plays because a lot of 355 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 9: people don't understand that I never played Nike until I 356 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 9: got to the NFL. You feel me so understanding that 357 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 9: you got to be able to guard from side and sideline. 358 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 9: That's something that I never was scared of. Two ways 359 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 9: go right exactly. That's something that I was never shining 360 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 9: away from. But being able to understand that it's a 361 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 9: passing lead. It's a lead where anything that's stopping the 362 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 9: receiver from getting to this route is it's a flag. 363 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 9: So understanding and reflecting on who I was as a 364 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 9: dB from high school to where I was at now, 365 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 9: I always had a niche of not having my hands 366 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 9: ready to go, so when things were getting frantic at 367 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 9: the top of the route, it was not for me 368 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 9: to grab. So that was the biggest thing for me 369 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 9: this off season was figuring out the why behind things. 370 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 9: At the end of the day, there's a reason behind 371 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 9: everything that's going on in your life, you feel me, 372 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 9: So I'm like, it's the reason behind And once I 373 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 9: figured out the reason, you know, I feel like I 374 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 9: definitely been sharpening those tools up. 375 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: Knowing you're really not allowed to touch anyone without any 376 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: contact in the spring, does that help you work on that? 377 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean definitely, definitely before we even got the 378 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 9: OTA rules. That was my big emphasis was end of 379 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 9: the day, I feel like I got a guy given 380 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 9: tell him a great feet. 381 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: You have all the speeding, the quckness exactly. 382 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 9: Exactly exactly, So by me understanding that, it was like, 383 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 9: all right, why are these things happening? And why do 384 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 9: I have this label on me? So that's my biggest 385 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 9: thing to just remove that label through first knowledge of 386 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 9: the game and second understanding my body and why these 387 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 9: things were taking place. 388 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: And when you went into there, do you feel like 389 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: you've gotten a good handle on that? 390 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 3: For sure? 391 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 9: For sure, it's still more work to do, but definitely 392 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 9: feel I'm way ahead than I was at the end 393 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 9: of the season, and definitely way ahead or what I 394 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 9: was before the beginning of the season. 395 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: However, one of the young guys in from Incorrdo flopped 396 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: come along, but he was he's still like, you're right, 397 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: but he's inside, he's outside. Are kind of in the 398 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: same boat, right, Yeah, Now. 399 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 9: Fly came along and great man. He's a great guy 400 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 9: on and off the field. He's definitely knowledgeable, you know, 401 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 9: coming from a university of a DVU university, you know, 402 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 9: I'm able to pick his game through observing, you know. 403 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 9: And he probably never have me told him that in 404 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 9: person because we always nit picking each other. Sure, but 405 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 9: being on a mic right now, I definitely observe his 406 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 9: game a lot because he comes from a coaching staff 407 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 9: that had fluid DB's and DB's who are top tier 408 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 9: and Hall of Fame dB So he got something about 409 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 9: his game that a lot of people don't have because 410 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 9: they wasn't being polished by these coaches. So I definitely 411 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 9: observe the way he played, and he definitely helped me 412 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,400 Speaker 9: out a lot this spring by just observing the way 413 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 9: he played, catching different tools that he used. 414 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: I asked the story of this, and I'll ask you 415 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: the same thing. I think the fastest way for a 416 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: defense to fall apart is that there be a lot 417 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: of injuries in the secondary and balls going over the top. 418 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: That's the quickest way things can go back. Last year, 419 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: you guys had injuries, so many new guys filtering in 420 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: it out? What is it about the way these coaches 421 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: teach you guys, the guys in the room, how you 422 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: hold each other accountable. That allowed you guys to just 423 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: hold it together even with all those moving pieces last year, 424 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: because I don't think I've ever seen it before to 425 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 1: that extent, to be quite honest with. 426 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 9: You, Yeah, at the end of the day, I feel 427 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 9: like we got to approach them mentally of nobody's gonna 428 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 9: beat us because nobody can run pass us. And when 429 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,199 Speaker 9: you come with that approach, you're gonna be able just 430 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 9: to lean upon your technique and the tools and the 431 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 9: knowledge that we're sharpening up each week through game prepping, 432 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 9: through prep through camping Ota. So when we had new 433 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,879 Speaker 9: guys filling it in, Coach Rome was making sure that 434 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 9: he was emphasizing what our DNA was. You know what 435 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 9: we stand on. Then at the end of the day, 436 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 9: each and every game, we stand on what we stand on, 437 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 9: and we're gonna let it be and let the chips 438 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,400 Speaker 9: fall how it's supposed to fall. So those who come 439 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 9: to the Giants defense, they gotta have an understanding that 440 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,239 Speaker 9: we got to approach the mentality that's we ready to 441 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 9: take on any opponent that comes our way and We're 442 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 9: gonna constantly sharpen our tools, so we put our best 443 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 9: self out there each week. 444 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 1: Final. You've been here a while now, you're kind of 445 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: a young vet, right, what's the limit for this defense here? 446 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: You've got a lot of new faces in, a lot 447 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: of new guys, new guys in the second area, new 448 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:07,679 Speaker 1: middle linebacker and Bobby, and you've a couple of new 449 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: big guys up front two. So where can this defense 450 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: take the biggest jump this year? Yeah? 451 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 9: Truly, I truly believe the limit that we may have 452 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 9: is the limit we place on ourselves if we get 453 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 9: complacent and satisfied. I feel like that's the only limit 454 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 9: that we truly have, you know, And I feel like 455 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 9: that's the only limit in life. Is once you get 456 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 9: satisfied and you get settled with wherever you at in life, 457 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 9: you know, you get complacent, then you limit yourself. So 458 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 9: if we stop spending time together off the field, if 459 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 9: we stop spending time watching film together, we stop running 460 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 9: gases after practice, if we stop paying attention to walk 461 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 9: throughs and correcting walk throughs, you know, that's when we're 462 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 9: gonna start limiting ourselves. Man, I feel like the way 463 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 9: we built ain't gonna be no limits. I feel like 464 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 9: we got no siling, and I feel like a lot 465 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 9: of players on this defense having reached the peak. And 466 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 9: it's a lot of things that we're going to showcase 467 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 9: this year. 468 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:52,360 Speaker 3: For sure. 469 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: Can't wait to see it doing itation, appreciate it. And 470 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: now we're joined by Giants quarterback Quartel. How are you man? 471 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 3: I'm good. 472 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 1: How are you I'm doing great? Man? All right, So 473 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: put the mirror on your rookie season. What do you 474 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: see when you look into it? 475 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 2: I was actually proud, you know, regarding some of the 476 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 2: nick knack injuries I had, I was actually proud of 477 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 2: how I've done and over the course of time a 478 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 2: lot of the stuff I learned. So you know, ricking 479 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: season is about learning. You know, you can learn, take 480 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 2: stuff from and continue to approve. 481 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: How tough was it trying to kind of fight through 482 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: all those little things that kept popping up. 483 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know it's an ongoing season. Every week 484 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 2: you gotta prepare for different teams, and every day you 485 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 2: gotta focus on yourself getting better, taking a step closer 486 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 2: to whatever maybe have injury, or a step closer to 487 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 2: somewhere you want to get on the field. So it's 488 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 2: just taking it one day at a time every time. 489 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 1: And you're trying to learn and get better, right, and 490 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: when you got to focus on rehabits, it's it's gotta 491 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: be tougher to kind of do both at the same time. 492 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 2: I imagine, right, Yeah, it's it can be tough. But 493 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 2: you know, just what we getting paid to do this 494 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:58,360 Speaker 2: no top one percent being in the league. So that's 495 00:19:58,359 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: one thing we gotta handle. 496 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: You're also doing outside and you're doing slot. You're trying 497 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: to do both. What was that process? Trying to learn 498 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,680 Speaker 1: both those spots and the defense that, let's be honest, 499 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: puts a lot on the quarterback's plates. 500 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, for real, I just take it, you know, I 501 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 2: take countability for it. You know, it's it's a blessed 502 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 2: to be able to do both of those positions, and 503 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 2: so I just take full advantage of and I, you know, 504 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: put the infid into learning, to the playbook, to wink defense, 505 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 2: to how to be the best I can be? 506 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: Which one do you like better? Do you care? Nah? 507 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 2: I don't really care. It's just whatever available. 508 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 1: Which one you think you're better at? How about that? 509 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 2: I say, Nickel? Why more freedom and different coverages? You know, 510 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 2: you don't be so locked in on one thing. Maybe 511 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 2: he can zo, maybe you can man, you can blitz, 512 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 2: you know, so it's different said it. 513 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: And I'm honestly surprised you pick slot because you got 514 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: to tackle on slot, like you're the edge player on 515 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: like like like that's not easy. Like I remember plays 516 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: last year. I'm talking to how across the Solar Reporter 517 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: and there's a guard point out there, and like you're 518 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: the dude, dude, and you got this three hundred and 519 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: fifteen pounds dude rolling hat. You like, take me through that. 520 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all about technique too, when you're dealing with 521 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 2: them bigger guys and you know how you avoid blocks 522 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 2: or how you so you can't cut them anymore though, No, 523 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 2: you can't cut them. You gotta get out the way 524 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 2: for real. But yeah, it's kind of nerve wrecking though I. 525 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 1: Know one thing you wanted to do was put all 526 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: over wake it a little stronger when you came to 527 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,239 Speaker 1: the league. How is that process spending and where you're 528 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: at right now when I'm talking to you. 529 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I did that. I'm in one nice Yeah, so 530 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 2: that's one thing coming to this camp, you know, to 531 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,199 Speaker 2: keep it on and continue to get in shape with 532 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: that weight. 533 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: What was that process like, Oh it was It wasn't 534 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:39,120 Speaker 1: too difficult. 535 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 3: You know. 536 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,399 Speaker 2: Once you're in an off season, you have more time 537 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 2: to sit, like, you know, rest, let your body catch up, 538 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 2: eat more meal, a lot of calories, taking more calories. 539 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,959 Speaker 2: So yeah, it's much easier than during the season. So 540 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 2: that's that. 541 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 1: On that What are your main personal goals? 542 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 2: Main personal goals to be healthy during the season, that's 543 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 2: all personal goal, you know, just so I can be 544 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 2: able to last, so I can be able to do 545 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 2: what I want to do in the field it and 546 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 2: make a lot of plays. 547 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: What are you really trying to work on this offseason 548 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: to get better? 549 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,239 Speaker 2: Uh, like I said, my weight, my body composition and 550 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: how you know, can take on injuries or hit or 551 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 2: whatever that's coming in the season. 552 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: Hell man, you lucky. We can see it. Man, I 553 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Now we're joined by 554 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: Giants defensive back Aaron Robinson. 555 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 3: Aaron, how are you? 556 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:19,719 Speaker 7: Man? 557 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 3: Good man? 558 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: All right, So you've had to obviously deal with some 559 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: injuries here. What is that rehab process been like for 560 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: you trying to get back on the field. 561 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 7: There's nothing nothing too bad, you know, you know, just 562 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 7: coming in every day ready to you know, attack the day, 563 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 7: knowing knowing pretty much knowing what the day is going 564 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 7: to look like, and you know what I'm up against. 565 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 7: But it's been pretty good. 566 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 3: You know, it's coming along smooth. 567 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: What's the biggest challenge the mental part of it, the 568 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:45,159 Speaker 1: physical part of it? 569 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 7: Definitely say that the physical part. You know, mentally, I'm 570 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 7: in a good headspace. You know, got some good people 571 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 7: around me in the building, you know, back at home, 572 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 7: you know, so definitely the physical part of it is 573 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 7: the most talented. 574 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: Is it trying not to go too fast? Is it 575 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: just staying disciplined and doing your work every day? What's 576 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: the most challenging part of that from a physical standpoint? 577 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 7: Just early on, you know, early on in the process 578 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 7: where you know, you're trying to get to arrange a 579 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 7: motion back and you know everything else. You know, outside 580 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 7: of that, it's pretty much coming alone. But you know, 581 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,959 Speaker 7: the movements and everything early on, is it has been 582 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 7: the hardest part for me? 583 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: Are you closing in? Do you do you see the 584 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel Without putting exact 585 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: time frame on it, where you feel pretty good about 586 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: all right. I think I'll be able to help contribute 587 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: at some point this season. 588 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's definitely always right at the end 589 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 7: of the tunnel, you know, you just you just staying down, 590 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 7: you know, you know, attacking the day every day, you know, ready, 591 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 7: ready to get to it. 592 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: What are your major goals for twenty twenty three? 593 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 7: The most importantly right now is to get back healthy 594 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 7: and to stay healthy to be able to contribute. 595 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: Do you have a really good feel for what your 596 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: role is going to be once you are on the field, 597 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: given how you so kind of saw how this scheme 598 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: works and how they want to use you in it 599 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:02,400 Speaker 1: last year. 600 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 7: Oh, not really thinking about it too much, you know, 601 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,199 Speaker 7: just just being with my feeta is, you know, attacking 602 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 7: rehab every day, trying to get back out there. 603 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: All right, man, we look forward to seeing you out 604 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: thereon Thanks so much, Giants. 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How is the 620 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: reality of being in the NFL met your kind of 621 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: childhood dreams and expectations of playing in the league. For 622 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,360 Speaker 1: the first six weeks you've been here, man, it's a blessing. Man. 623 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 10: As a child, you don't see, really, you don't see 624 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 10: what it takes being here as in you don't see 625 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 10: what all NFL players have to do. But it's most 626 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 10: definitely a blessing just being here and just getting this 627 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 10: whole experience and just living with it. 628 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,439 Speaker 1: So what has it been like trying to learn wings 629 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 1: defense and then figure out what he's asking of you 630 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: as a cornerback. 631 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 10: It's been a process. It's a roller coaster, just like 632 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 10: every rookie coming in is. You have good days, you 633 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,199 Speaker 10: have bad days. Just trying to keep my head up 634 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 10: and continue to go to the next day, next play 635 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 10: and continue understand the playbook also, but it's our say. 636 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 10: It's been a roll close to ups and downs, but 637 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 10: majority I'm loving the process of it. 638 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: It seems like giving your your skill set though what 639 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: this defense wants their outside corners do it kind of 640 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: matches your skill set. 641 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 10: Right most definitely? 642 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: Why Because I feel like. 643 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 10: Just being a tall just being a tall, long physical 644 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 10: corner you able to play. I'm able to play press, 645 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 10: and I think winks like that, like that, winks wink 646 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 10: likes that. 647 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: Why do you like to play press? 648 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 10: It's just just the competitiveness about it. When I'm getting 649 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 10: when I mess somebody face out, just gonna believe they're 650 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 10: better than me. It's like you gotta kind of beat 651 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 10: me off. 652 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:12,640 Speaker 1: Rip. 653 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 10: You can't like set me up. You can set me up, 654 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 10: but it's gonna be hard to when I'm dead in 655 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 10: your face. You gotta you gotta get to your routh 656 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 10: faster than what you think you have to. 657 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: Now, Unfortunately, in the spring you can't really play that 658 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,160 Speaker 1: way yet, right because there's no pads on. You can't bump, 659 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: you gotta have hands off and everything like that. So 660 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: how has it been like, uh, having to play without 661 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: getting the benefit of being able to get your hands 662 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: on the receiver at the wine of scrimmage in the spring. 663 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 10: I look at it more as an opportunity playing with 664 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 10: my feet more. Some days I'm gonna have to do. 665 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:42,959 Speaker 10: I'm not gonna be able to play with hands every day. 666 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 10: I feel like you gotta usually hate your feet before 667 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 10: your hands. So just playing on my feet more and 668 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 10: learning how to play with my feet, and it's kind 669 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 10: of been helped me. It's a flag is gonna improve 670 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 10: my game in the long run. 671 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: So you got some speed on that wide receiver room right. 672 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 3: Definitely. 673 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: What's been the difference so far between guarding the wide 674 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: receivers here at the Giants and what you do back 675 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 1: at Old. 676 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 10: Dominion, I'll say overall, kind of everything. You can see 677 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 10: guys more talented at the Giants. You can see guys 678 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 10: more experienced, guys who would do things that you never 679 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 10: seen that at the different level. 680 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: Like just as. 681 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 10: In the educate the IQ of the football game, the 682 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,919 Speaker 10: a Q of playing receiver, like, they released different. They'll 683 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 10: they'll do different moves on you that you never seen before. 684 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 10: So it's just mainly the experience of everything. 685 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 3: They're more experienced. 686 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: What have you been able to learn from Jerome Henderson 687 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: and in your short time with them? 688 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 10: What have I been able to learn? Basically just the 689 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 10: defense and being able to play corner the Giants way. 690 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 10: He's a good coach and he was a great player. 691 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 10: He's a great coach, player and a man. He's been 692 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 10: teaching me how to be a better full player and 693 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 10: a better man also, and I and I appreciate coach Rome. 694 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: All right, Finally, what are your individual goals? You don't 695 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: have to give me numbers or anything like that, but 696 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: what are some of the things you want to accomplish 697 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: and show the coaching staff as a rookie when you 698 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: get bat there on the field in August to get 699 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 1: ready for the regular season. 700 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 10: You said, what am I? 701 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 3: What do I want to show them in August? 702 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 10: I just want to show them that they're they're getting 703 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,119 Speaker 10: a competitor, a player that's a player that's just ready 704 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 10: to help help impact the team anyway as possible. That's 705 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 10: on special teams, if that's on defense, anyway, any anyway possible. 706 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 3: I just want to help the team win. 707 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: How much special team experience do you have from your 708 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,400 Speaker 1: time in college and high school? 709 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 10: I have I have I have a little bit kick 710 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,479 Speaker 10: coverage or yeah, I really kind of did everything. But 711 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 10: coming from over you, you don't. I wasn't playing specially. 712 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 10: I was playing majority of the game. But I'm a 713 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 10: fall all player. It won't be nothing to learn. 714 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: Hey, especially if you don't mind being physical. If you 715 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: don't mind being physical and you're fast, you can play 716 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,239 Speaker 1: special teams right most definitely Trey good stuff man, nice 717 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,479 Speaker 1: being this offseason. 718 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 10: Nice to meet you too. 719 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: We're joined by Giants first round pick Rooky cornerback the 720 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 1: Ant Banks. So how has it been now that you've 721 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: kind of been in the building since you've been drafted. 722 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: You know, all the guys that get drafted you dream 723 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 1: of being in the NFL forever. So how was the 724 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: reality matched kind of what your expectations were before you 725 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,959 Speaker 1: started this journey in the NFL. 726 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,880 Speaker 5: I want to say, I really had no expectations because like, 727 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 5: I never did this before. But it's been a real, 728 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 5: like enjoyable morning, Like it's everything I expected to be. 729 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 5: It's really everything I dreamed of it to be. So 730 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 5: I'm loving it here. That's awesome. 731 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: Now you went back and you got your degree, you 732 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: got your guy. Why was that so important for you. 733 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 5: I really want to do it because I wanted my 734 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 5: grandmother to see me do it like that's your familiar. 735 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 5: Was a really big inspiration for my grandmother cause for me, 736 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 5: she't had no grandchild that has graduated college. So I 737 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 5: wanted to do it for my grandmother. 738 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 1: That's awesome. Man as my mother. 739 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 5: Too, but I wanted to do it for my grandmother 740 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 5: for sure. 741 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: I got you. So we were talking with your head coach, 742 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: Mike Loxley from Maryland, and we asked him about you, 743 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: and he goes, you know, you know what to do. 744 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: I tell all the new kids about not getting into trouble. 745 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: I want to say, go look at the bags. He 746 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: is always wre he's supposed to be. That's what he's 747 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: got to do. He does his work. I don't. He 748 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: comes back and I see him in study hall after 749 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: he gets drafted in the NFL, the ready first test 750 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: to graduate. What is it about you that kind of 751 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: has you operating that way? Why is it important for 752 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: you to just be that way? 753 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 5: I just feel like I was I was made that way, 754 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 5: Like I feel like that's where my parents started to me. 755 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 5: Like I don't know, I just always been a don't 756 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 5: you feel me just finish what you started. I feel 757 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like, if you're going to do it, 758 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 5: finish it. So I'm gonna try to finish everything. 759 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to look at things. 760 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: And you're used to finishing plays on the football field 761 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: and watch your corner, So just tell me about your 762 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: mindset and approach at corner that you think maybe set 763 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: you apart from other people that play your position. 764 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 5: Like to me, like, I'm just a real more aggressive 765 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 5: type dude, Like I want to and I want to, 766 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 5: like I want to play man like that's just what 767 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 5: I want to do. 768 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 1: And that's just like I feel. 769 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,800 Speaker 5: Like as a corner, if you don't really if you 770 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 5: don't want to, I mean, you don't know, I don't 771 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 5: think you're in the right position. So I just like 772 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 5: I always want to play. You know what I'm saying. 773 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 5: I want to be physical with you. So that's what 774 00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 5: I feel like, that's what separates me. 775 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: It's funny and talking to your head coach, we were 776 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: asking about that and he said, well, you know, the 777 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: first couple of years we played zone like, we played 778 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,600 Speaker 1: like cover two. Is that one of the reasons why 779 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: maybe popped a little bit late, like I'm bored to 780 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: play man. I mean, I'll play zone. I'll do what 781 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: they want me to do. This isn't my thing, necessarily. 782 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 3: Not my thing. 783 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 5: I like playing man. I have a playing man. I 784 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 5: like sending pressure, like blitzing. 785 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: So when the draft was going on, I'm sure you 786 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: met with the Giants, you talked to Wink, you were here, 787 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: You're on one of the thirty visits, right, and you 788 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: know how the Giants want to play right where you're 789 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: sitting there, like, don't pick me. I want to get 790 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: to the Giants. I want to play because that you 791 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: knew that scheme was gonna fitz out. 792 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 5: Is exactly what I want to do this and it 793 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 5: fit me. So it's like I just magically popped into 794 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 5: the right place for me. 795 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: Like, yeah, now, unfortunately in the spring you can't put 796 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: hands on people, which I'm sure it's not fun for you. 797 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: That's not the way you want to play. So are 798 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: you excited to kind of come back here at the 799 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: end of July when the fit pads come on and 800 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: it's kind of real football? 801 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 5: Extremely like extremely excited because like it's a whole different 802 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 5: tay out there when we got pads on, so I'm 803 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 5: really just ready for it. I hope I wish to 804 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 5: start tomorrow because I'm too ready for it. But you 805 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 5: gotta wait till the end of July. 806 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: How much pride you take in the tackling part of it, 807 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 1: whom I've put hands on people like bumping around, But 808 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: how about the whole tackling part of it, which which 809 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: is a lot of corners. You know they aren't down 810 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: with that necessarily. But if I watch your tape. 811 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 3: You know I like that. 812 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: I know that's not a problem. 813 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 7: Man. 814 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: I don't really try to. 815 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 5: I don't do the whole missing tackle. I feel like 816 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 5: missing tackles is like somebody like taking money or something 817 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 5: like why you for me? Less somebody get past you. 818 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 5: So I don't really try to misstag because I'm trying 819 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 5: to and I'm trying to hit you. So, like my 820 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 5: whole thing is just to be aggressive out there. 821 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:45,480 Speaker 3: I want to fore me. 822 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 5: I want to set the tone out. 823 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: There, absolutely, So here's my final question. Then they run 824 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: a little pin and poll around the outside sweep. You 825 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: have either the tackle or the guard breathing down on you. Yeah, 826 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: you can't cut now. Corners used to cut edge. She 827 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: can't cut anymore, said edge for sure. How are you 828 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: setting the edge against that thrill? 829 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 5: Your leg and your shoulder and I'm gonna hold him off. 830 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 5: You're gonna see it because it's gonna come. It's gonna come. 831 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: So you just run at you. 832 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 3: You're going to see it. 833 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: You're going to see it, all right. Final, Finally, what 834 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: are your goals, Deontay for your rookie year? What do 835 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: you want to put out there? 836 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 5: Goals? I just want to be a big I just 837 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 5: want to be a big, big, big part of our defense. 838 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 5: That's how I wanted to be, Just a big part 839 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 5: of our defense. Hopefully from me, get us to start winning, 840 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 5: get us winning. 841 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,719 Speaker 1: Can't wait to see it. Deontay, Welcome to board man. 842 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. I can't wait to see in 843 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: the field. Thank you for joining us for the Cornerbacks 844 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,680 Speaker 1: episode of The Giants Little Podcast. I had fun talking 845 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: Deontay Banks. You know, I think I got him to 846 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 1: give some longer answers. I think he's better one on 847 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: one minut in a crowd, and I just had fun 848 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: getting in a little bit of talking to him. You know, 849 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: Trey Hawkins another guy he's had some confidence as a rookie. 850 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: Cordell Flat we found out he got up to one 851 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: to eighty. A lot of good stuff from him, Darnay 852 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: Holmes talking about how we tried to practice on using 853 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: his hands less and the slot this year. That's very important. 854 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: He got flagged more than any other Giant last year 855 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: for penalties and then do arrival Amani Overraiway who you know. 856 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: He really thinks he can kind of help the Giants 857 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:12,919 Speaker 1: as an outside corner and he really fits the scheme 858 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: wink Martin Dale has in store. Thank you so much 859 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: for being with us on the Giants Little Podcast. We 860 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 1: will see you next time.