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Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of the Giants Little Podcast, brought

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Speaker 2: to you by Citizens the official bank of the New

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Speaker 2: York Football Giants, johnsh Weulc Matthew Sitek. The Giants have

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Speaker 2: their initial fifty three man roster. Keep in mind, by

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Speaker 2: the time this is up, even or shortly thereafter, the

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Speaker 2: Giants might have some waiver claims and some of these

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Speaker 2: games might change. But we know who the initial fifty

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Speaker 2: three players are man and we did our predictions on

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Speaker 2: Big Blue Kickoff Live on Monday. For more detailed analysis,

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Speaker 2: A Tatino and I are on Big Blue Kickoff Live

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Speaker 2: Wednesday Live at twelve thirty, or just check out the

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Speaker 2: archive on your favorite podcast platform. So not a ton

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Speaker 2: of surprises here. We'll kind of rapid fire through this

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Speaker 2: in about fifteen twenty minutes. UH, position group by position group.

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Speaker 2: I think we got a lot of this right. We

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Speaker 2: got a couple players wrong. We'll talk about that. So

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Speaker 2: as we suspected, Matt and I'll go through these three

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Speaker 2: groups quickly because I think this is exactly what we

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Speaker 2: thought it was going to be. Quarterbacks, they kept all

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Speaker 2: three in Daniel Jones time to Drew Locke. They kept

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Speaker 2: the three running backs we all expected and Eric Gray,

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Speaker 2: Devin Singletary and Tyrone Tracy Junior. Then at tight end,

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Speaker 2: they kept the three guys we thought were shooings for

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Speaker 2: no one else was able to get in onto the

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I would say the only thing that maybe I

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Speaker 1: both thought Jacob Johnson had a decent chance to make

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Speaker 1: of hybrid position. But you know he was part of

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Speaker 1: we expected to make the final roster. Yeah, initial roster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll see, you know, what are these other

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Speaker 2: players from these positions at running back, like maybe Adante Miller,

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Speaker 1: Guys like that at tight end.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if they try to get Jack

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Speaker 2: He obviously has the hamstring injury, if they can figure

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Speaker 2: So if can they figure out a way to bring

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if they can figure out a way

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Speaker 1: You know, there's some fans out there that are upset

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Speaker 1: just because they got released yesterday, it doesn't mean they're

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Speaker 1: not going to be part of this team. Their giants

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Speaker 1: have sixteen practice squad spots to fill, and I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: So just because someone got released yesterday doesn't mean that's

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Speaker 2: The other players that were waved injured prior to the

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Speaker 2: So he was another guy that was waved injured. And

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Speaker 2: Wide receivers Jay and I Molik neighbors Darius Slayton won

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Speaker 2: the Robinson obviously the four guys we all expected. Then again,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say this was probably one of the

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Speaker 1: This summer. We both thought Miles Boykin had a really

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, all right, let's get to the offensive line. You

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Speaker 2: Austin Schloltman was the tenth guy that you add on.

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Speaker 2: They really have a lot of depth at different spots.

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Speaker 2: So at tackle you have your two starters of Luminore

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Speaker 2: free agent Jake Kubas. I believe he was the only

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Speaker 2: undrafted free agent this year to make the Elijah Chadmans.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've spent I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: front was perhaps the biggest priority for the Giants in

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Speaker 1: this offseason. I think they accomplished that. Looking at the

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Speaker 1: you know, give props to Jay Kubas. It's not easy

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Speaker 1: you bring these undrafted guys in because you want to

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it that Jay Coubas earned his

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Speaker 2: All right, we got about ten minutes to go here, folks.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to defense, Matt.

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Speaker 2: The defensive line ended up looking like both of us

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no surprise is there. I mean I expect Dexter

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Speaker 2: But if you'd the guest who would have the third

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it'd be Davidson. But it would not

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Speaker 1: earn himself an actual role, a rotational role on this defense.

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Speaker 2: Ended keeping five edge players, I'm sure you're kicking yourself

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all five of these guys have been captains for

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Speaker 1: I know. Can we get a nice little weekend somewhat

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I will once again thank the NFL gods

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