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Speaker 1: The Giants are back at home for division matchup, and

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Speaker 1: we are back with another episode of Crossfire, presented by

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Speaker 1: Prime Point. I'm Madeline Burke, joined by Howard Cross and

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Speaker 1: Carl Banks and guys. Giants are facing a tough Washington

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Speaker 1: front seven. So this offense is more important for the

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Speaker 1: past protection or the run blocking in this game. I

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Speaker 1: got this one. I got this one. You gotta run

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Speaker 1: to football. I think play action passes your best you

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Speaker 1: know your best option right now, considering when teams are

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Speaker 1: teeing off on you. You want to give them something

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Speaker 1: extra to think about. Howard, I know you're gonna agree

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Speaker 1: with me because you love run blocking. You know what

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Speaker 1: it is. I think blocking any type would help this

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Speaker 1: team right now. They need to get something going. You know.

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Speaker 1: The run blocking can set up a lot of things

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Speaker 1: you write play actions, but it also gives them a

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Speaker 1: little confidence to be able to push forward and get

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Speaker 1: guys off the ball. I hope they can run block.

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Speaker 1: They need to run block, but this is a really

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Speaker 1: strong front seven. Yeah, them worse than losing your confidence

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Speaker 1: because your quarterback is on his butt early in the game.

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Speaker 1: They need to get this this guy's rhythm going early

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Speaker 1: and you talk about confidence. One thing we've seen that

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Speaker 1: has instilled a lot of confidences When the young guys

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Speaker 1: take one, Barkley breaks off for a nice run. There,

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Speaker 1: so definitely a positive in the run game. The Giants

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Speaker 1: offensive has had some struggles. What's more important this week?

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Speaker 1: To get right? Third down or the red zone? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'll take just what I'm gonna tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: It's got to be the red zone. The third down thing.

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Speaker 1: You can get it. You know, it's sometimes its third

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Speaker 1: and short, third and long, third and longer you don't

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Speaker 1: get anyway. But the red zone. You have to put

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Speaker 1: points on the board and not field goals, actual touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: If they score touchdowns, confidence flows all over the team. Well,

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Speaker 1: I can just say whatever it takes because this is

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Speaker 1: the can't get right team while everybody else is getting right.

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Speaker 1: But third downs are important. I mean it's great to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, a first down run, second down, but third

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Speaker 1: downs you want to keep drives going. You want to

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Speaker 1: keep your your defense off the field and put points

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Speaker 1: on the board. So you gotta get these third downs

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Speaker 1: before you even get to the red Yeah, but the

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Speaker 1: third down to be third and ten, third and twenty.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter. If it's third and short, I

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Speaker 1: get it. Third and five, I get it. After it

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Speaker 1: gets that past third and five, it's lucky third intending

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Speaker 1: your punting buddy, I kind of gotta I gotta agree

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Speaker 1: with Howard on this one. If you're in the red zone,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get the points on the board. But if

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Speaker 1: you're looking at the Washington side of the ball, their

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Speaker 1: quarterback Alex Smith. Would you guys say he's underrated? I mean,

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Speaker 1: if the guy was anyone else, they'd be calling him

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Speaker 1: a very consistent and special player. What he has only

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Speaker 1: done is just overachieved every everywhere he's been. He's been

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Speaker 1: great in Kansas City, he was good in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: and he's running the show in Washington. I think he's

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Speaker 1: highly overrated. He's an overrated or underrated caause it sounds

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Speaker 1: like to me, you're trying to say that he's underrated,

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Speaker 1: but that's an overrated statement. Underrated, I almost he's kind

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Speaker 1: of where he is. He's been in the legal a

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Speaker 1: long time. He's made some plays. He played at San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: moved on, played in Kansas City, gotta moved on in Washington.

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Speaker 1: He just keeps floating around he's a guy that he's

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Speaker 1: a floater. I don't know if it's overrated underrated, but

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Speaker 1: he's just he's just a floater. He's underrated. I take

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Speaker 1: it back, he's not overrated because everywhere he goes, he starts,

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Speaker 1: and he's very productive, and his team's win and he's

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Speaker 1: a game manager. We managed to win. That's alright. Well.

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Speaker 1: The Giants host the Red Skin Sunday at one pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern at MetLife Stadium for Howard Cross and Carl Banks

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Speaker 1: and Madeline Burke. Thanks for watching Crossfire