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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Giants Huddle, a New York Giants podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the newest fision of the Giants Subtle Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am John Schmelt. Today's guest Colton McCoy and Levine

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Speaker 1: toy Lolo, two of the newest members of the New

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Speaker 1: York Football Giants. We'll get to them in just a moment,

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Speaker 1: Let's start. Colton McCoy are a very own Michael Eison

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Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to Colton about joining the Giants.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just curious. This may seems like a strange

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Speaker 1: first question, but was you a Cowboys faring growing up?

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Speaker 1: I was? I was. I uh, you know, I grew

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Speaker 1: a big toy atmant Fan. You know, I kind of

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Speaker 1: grew up in there sort of glory days they you know,

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Speaker 1: they won all the Super Bowls, and um, I think

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Speaker 1: just now as a kid, you know you love football,

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Speaker 1: you kind of love the Cowboys growing up in Texas.

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Speaker 1: I don't love them anymore, that's your question. Yeah, uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I played for the Redskins for six years

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Speaker 1: and now I'm now moving on to the Giants, so

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Speaker 1: my my Cowboys days are way in the past. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was, so I was gonna ask you, do you

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Speaker 1: find that kind of Uh. I don't know if iron

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Speaker 1: it's the right word, but you know, you've you've you've

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Speaker 1: Now I'll be seven years in a row playing for

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Speaker 1: one of the cowboys most intense rivals. I know, I

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Speaker 1: know I'm happy about it. I am, you know. I

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Speaker 1: think my family, on the other hand, you know, I

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Speaker 1: still they still are just shaking their heads a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But I'm we're all good. We're all good. So they

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Speaker 1: they still rooted for the Cowboys even when you were

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Speaker 1: with the Redskins. I think they rooted for the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: whenever they weren't playing the Redskins. Um. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I I every time we played in Dallas, like have

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Speaker 1: to get a lot of tickets for friends and family. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I always tell them if you wear blue and

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Speaker 1: I find out you're never coming back. Well, now they're

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Speaker 1: allowed to wear blue, just a different kind of blue,

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Speaker 1: just a different kind of blue. Correct, that's right. So

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Speaker 1: what what was it about the Giants that attracted you?

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Speaker 1: How did this marriage come about? Because because a lot

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Speaker 1: of the guys we signed have prior connections to either

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Speaker 1: Joe or Jason Garrett or some one of our coaches.

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Speaker 1: Do you did You didn't really have that, did you? Right?

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Speaker 1: You know? I I to be honest, when free agency started,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that the Giants were gonna be uh

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Speaker 1: pursuing me as much as they did I because because

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Speaker 1: of that reason, I didn't really know anybody there played

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Speaker 1: against Jason over the last six years. And uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think there there are several things, Um I am.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to a place where I really don't know

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Speaker 1: anybody into my eleventh season. But I look at it

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Speaker 1: over the past six years. But I'm I was I

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Speaker 1: was ready for a change and a new scene. And um,

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Speaker 1: I really you know, looking at the options that I

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Speaker 1: and UM, this just this just feels right. And they

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