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Speaker 1: dot Com. Here we go, Here we go on the

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Speaker 1: Giants Bumble. Let him in there, let's go out of

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Speaker 1: the Giants Podcast Network pulled the Tino with you on

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Speaker 1: the Giants Huddle with the rapid reaction to the Giants

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Speaker 1: to sixteen victory at home over the Houston Texans, joined

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Speaker 1: by Super Bowl champion Howard Cross and Howard Obviously, the

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Speaker 1: first thing that sticks out about this game is the

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Speaker 1: career high thirty five carries for sa Kwan Blackley, who

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Speaker 1: was just an absolute workhorse during the course of the day.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't always pretty, but man, he really worked hard.

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Speaker 1: He did a good job. I thought it was pretty

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Speaker 1: funny that the Giants sometimes had eight offensive lineman in

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Speaker 1: the game at the same time. Uh like that. I

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Speaker 1: did like that. I thought it was pretty pretty determined.

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Speaker 1: They were like letting you know that, Hey, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: run and you just got to stop us. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was also impressive that Sakwan did to work mostly

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Speaker 1: on his own, meaning that it wasn't a situation where

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Speaker 1: it was Daniel Jones catching the ball and Daniels not

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Speaker 1: Janiel catching the ball. But running the ball out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield on the quarterback option, So him being the

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Speaker 1: fall were going to run and him being able to

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Speaker 1: accomplish it. Very impressive agenda. Now we know the Texans

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Speaker 1: have been giving up a hundred and eighty yards a

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Speaker 1: game on the ground as the least impressive rushing defense

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Speaker 1: in the league. But for the Giants to come out

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it anyway Barkley did. Finished, by the way,

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Speaker 1: with a hundred and fifty two yards. That's his fourth

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Speaker 1: highest total ever. Yeah, I mean, like I said, they

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Speaker 1: knew they were gonna do it, Like breed Or ran

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Speaker 1: the ball. Everybody who got into run the ball rand

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Speaker 1: a ball. Daniel only had to run the ball one time.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was like uh more on a quarterback

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Speaker 1: weren't out of draw so much, but he was going

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Speaker 1: to throw the ball and didn't work out in the

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Speaker 1: ran and ran for nine yards. Outside of that, he

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Speaker 1: didn't run at all. So that that lets you know

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Speaker 1: that the line was blocking well, the tight ends were

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Speaker 1: some of those floods were blocking well, so everybody was

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Speaker 1: helping out. Let's talk about Daniel Jones for a second,

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Speaker 1: because today was his career high sixth straight game without

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Speaker 1: an interception. He is playing clean football. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: coaches got him doing doing the right things and being

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Speaker 1: smart about things. Uh, the the advent of him running

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Speaker 1: and that and that scheme has made it easier for

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Speaker 1: him to get to pass off from now what guys

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Speaker 1: being eight guys in the box. Nine guys in the box,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be even easier for him to pass the

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Speaker 1: ball if everybody's trying to stop Barclay from run the ball.

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Speaker 1: We've talked all along about explosive plays, Well, how about

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Speaker 1: Darius slayton fifty four yard touchdown catch at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the third quarter made a fourteen three That was

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Speaker 1: about as explosive as it comes. And the Giant's gonna

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Speaker 1: need some more of those the rest of the way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know that that was still a play where he

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Speaker 1: ran for a long way. Everybody wants to see them

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Speaker 1: kind of stretched to field, and Slayton is a guy

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Speaker 1: that that even when he's not catching the ball, they're

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Speaker 1: holding him, they're grabbing him because get a lot of

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Speaker 1: penalties called on him because they do, won't They know

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Speaker 1: he can run by it. And I'm pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: that the scouting report is the one guy on the

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Speaker 1: team that can get body with these Slayton don't let

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Speaker 1: him get value, so he gets a lot of penalties

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Speaker 1: winning Daniel's confidence, uh, and winning the coach's confidence as well.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the tight end position because Bellinger's still

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Speaker 1: out after the eye surgery, and the Giants filled up

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Speaker 1: that position today with offensive linemen on a number of occasions.

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Speaker 1: And then there's Lawrence Cager coming out of nowhere off

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Speaker 1: the practice squad catching the touchdown pass. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: they have those big hogs in there for it, though

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Speaker 1: goes on here. Giants threw up seven three at halftime,

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Speaker 1: but twice they had gotten the ball inside the forty

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Speaker 1: because they didn't even try going for field goals there,

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Speaker 1: I think they were frustrated more, not so much because

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Speaker 1: And it's this time when they try to kick kick

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Speaker 1: the cost of like scoring almost forty points in the game.

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Speaker 1: that game isn't twenty four to ten or whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: it's like more like thirty eight to ten or something. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting you mentioned that, Howard, because of the second half.

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Speaker 1: The Giants put together back to back scoring drives of

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Speaker 1: which is exactly the opposite of the contrast of them

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Speaker 1: stalling in the first half. Yeah, they put back to

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Speaker 1: The next one was a solid drift all the way

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Speaker 1: you mentioned turnover. Giants get their second interception of the season,

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Speaker 1: this one in the fourth quarter. Dane Belton coming over

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Speaker 1: and reading the play in the end zone did a

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Speaker 1: great job. They were playing cover two at that point.

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Speaker 1: They had gotten beaten earlier on the long pass down

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Speaker 1: played underneath the ball. The ball goes deep, Safety rolls

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Speaker 1: know that McKinney is a terrific player and the Giants

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Speaker 1: will miss him, there's no question. But if they could

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Speaker 1: And there was a one one passed. It was batted

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Speaker 1: It was the fumble calls, first fumble calls for that

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Speaker 1: the Giants rush defense was solid. I think you know,

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Speaker 1: making some tackles. So when you've got guys not just

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Speaker 1: how would you evaluate this pass rush? Tipideoats looks like

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Speaker 1: he's starting to get more and more into the rhythm

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Speaker 1: got his legs. I tell you dex of Lawrences was making.

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Speaker 1: DEXs was making a pass rush to pass rush. He's

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Speaker 1: a big, big body guy that's getting great push up

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Speaker 1: had like three holding calls against him today. Uh that

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Speaker 1: that creates problems When that guy's getting that much pressure

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Speaker 1: can't double team Williams anymore. When they're both doing that,

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Speaker 1: which is gonna give Tippoo more opportunities. When you got

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Speaker 1: a guy that's getting that much push, it changes the

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Speaker 1: pass for us drastically. Two stats the defensive coordinators love

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Speaker 1: to have on their side third down conversions in red zone.

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Speaker 1: Giants heeled detections to one of five in the red

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