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Speaker 1: The game. I know it's wild. Yeah, it feels weird,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it's like it's like you go into

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Speaker 1: high school as a freshman, senior year. The college you're

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Speaker 1: a freshman, senior year and rookie. Now it kind of

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Speaker 1: feels similar to like senior year in terms of timing.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I always just try to angry from on

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Speaker 1: in your mind. I think we're doing a lot better.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things that we needed

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Speaker 1: to work on as a whole group, and I think

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Speaker 1: we've taken a lot of length and strides and taken

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Speaker 1: big steps in both the past game and run game.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Russ and the offenses is being kind

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Speaker 1: of the tight end. So we're we're getting some more

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Speaker 1: opportunities and we're taking advantage of them. What have you

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Speaker 1: seen from us?

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Speaker 2: We got a couple of guys that how is he?

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Speaker 1: How's he different houses? Leadership? What have you just seen

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Speaker 1: working with them? Yeah, just incredible leadership. You know, He's

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a guy be able to lead a

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Speaker 1: room or conduct a room like he has. He's bringing

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Speaker 1: a ton of wisdom, experience, and he's just he's such

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Speaker 1: a he's such a love for football that every time

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Speaker 1: I talk to more see him he's got squeeze in

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Speaker 1: some football there. And so that that kind of leadership

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Speaker 1: from him is something that we need.

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Speaker 2: Is this offense open things up more for the tight ends?

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Speaker 2: You think?

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Speaker 1: I think so. I just think it gives the skill

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Speaker 1: guys the best opportunity to make plays, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: the tight ends. You know, we got to make more plays.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's stuff that are designed for us, but

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Speaker 1: it's our job to you know, build that trust with

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Speaker 1: Russ and the other quarterbacks and get the ball and

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Speaker 1: make the opportunities when we get them.

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Speaker 2: You've been here a while now, do you I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you've noticed, it seems like New York in

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Speaker 2: particular loves tight ends. It's you know, whether it's the

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Speaker 2: Jets of the Giants, it's just it seems to be

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Speaker 2: the real connection to that position. Do you do you

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Speaker 2: feel that and and do you have any theories on

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Speaker 2: why that is? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's definitely a history. You know, Shocky Bavaro,

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Speaker 1: you know, even Kevin Boss. You know, these guys that

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Speaker 1: were here before us. They set the standard of of

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Speaker 1: what a tight end is. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: it is gritty in the hand, you know, handing dirt,

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Speaker 1: getting out of the mud. Gritty tight ends and you know,

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Speaker 1: the new NFL I guess for tight ends is a

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Speaker 1: little bit different nowadays. But at the same time, we

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Speaker 1: got to bring that style to the New York Giants,

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Speaker 1: to New York and show them that we are, you know,

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Speaker 1: a gritty tight end group. But we can also make plays,

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Speaker 1: big plays too, in passing,