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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Opposition Territory here at the Philadelphia Sports Table
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  Speaker 1: podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show
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  Speaker 1: in the world, twelve years strong, actually about twelve and
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  Speaker 1: a half years strong at this point. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: great Opposition Territory pod coming your way this week as
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  Speaker 1: we preview this upcoming Week eight New York Giants and
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles game that's going to be taking place at
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Financial Field this Sunday. We've got a great guest
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  Speaker 1: and we've had him on before. Been a little while.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on his podcast, Valentine's Views over at Big
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  Speaker 1: Blue view dot com. S Our good friend ed Valentine, Buddy,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for jumping on on, man. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thank you for having me. You know it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get over this heartbreak from from Sunville. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get into it. Yeah, you gotta this. Believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not. This believe it or not, this is therapy.
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  Speaker 2: It'll help me move on there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, when we do our postgame shows after
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  Speaker 1: we lost to the to I say we as though
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the Eagles team, but after us fans had
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  Speaker 1: to watch that loss to the Giants, the loss to
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos as well. It's therapeutic getting in front of
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  Speaker 1: these microphones here and talking about this. So I mean,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's get into the therapy stuff here. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean you talked about it. The Giants game last week
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  Speaker 1: against the Broncos probably the biggest heartbreaker of a regular
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  Speaker 1: season game I think any fan base has probably had
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  Speaker 1: to go through. I mean, Giants fans, they've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hope over the past few weeks because of
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart and his ability to revitalize things offensively. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm wondering, as we're moving into Week eight here,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think that loss against the Broncos did
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  Speaker 1: to this Giants team as they look towards the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Eagles this week and some other upcoming games as well.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first, I have to say this, when you look
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  Speaker 2: at this epic collapse by the Giants, all right, if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to collapse, all right, you might as well
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  Speaker 2: collapse in historic, epic, forever memorable fashions. And when one,
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  Speaker 2: six and two straight teams have managed to protect an
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  Speaker 2: eighteen point lead with less than six minutes to go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you fail to do that, you have certainly done
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  Speaker 2: something in spectacular fashion. Yes, and so, and and for me,
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  Speaker 2: since your since your viewership, your listenership is intimately familiar
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  Speaker 2: with some of these games. This is right up there
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  Speaker 2: with the fumble. Yes, right right up there with with
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  Speaker 2: the Hunter who shall not be named kicking to the
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  Speaker 2: to the Sean Jackson to the kick off to the
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  Speaker 2: kick returner who shall not be named. Yes, and and
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  Speaker 2: the the two thousand and two trade junkin playoff game. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: that's right. It's it's right up there with all of those.
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  Speaker 2: And now to your question, how do I think this
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  Speaker 2: is going to impact the Giants. I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: you can have something like this happen and not have
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  Speaker 2: some sort of a hangover. Yeah, okay, I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that, especially defensively. Okay, you you can't have
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  Speaker 2: some sort of a hang of a hangover where, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even if things are going well, you start to wonder
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  Speaker 2: when it's going to fall apart. You know. The shame
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  Speaker 2: of it is, you count the Eagle game. You look
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  Speaker 2: at the Broncos game. That defense, which is a tremendously
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  Speaker 2: talented group, had just put together five consecutive scoreless quarters
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  Speaker 2: and then they gave up thirty three points. And I
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  Speaker 2: took the time on Tuesday afternoon to go through, starting
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  Speaker 2: with I think two minutes and forty one seconds left
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  Speaker 2: in the third quarter, every defensive play, and forget all
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  Speaker 2: the yelling at defensive coordinator Shane Bowen about rush three
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  Speaker 2: and drop eight. I can probably count between mistackles, missed assignments,
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  Speaker 2: defensive penalties, plays that should have been made that weren't made.
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  Speaker 2: I can probably count at least twenty defensive mistakes in
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  Speaker 2: the last seventeen minutes of that game, or twenty opportunities
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  Speaker 2: where defense either helped the Broncos or you know, had
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to to salt the game away and didn't do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just so I don't want to hear about
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  Speaker 2: this is Shane Bowen's fault. Yeah, yeah, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: made he made a call that that that still makes
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people shake their heads. But the defensive
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  Speaker 2: players put him in position to make that call.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, absolutely, Look, might there be a hangover with
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  Speaker 1: the Giants, like you were saying heading into this Week
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  Speaker 1: eight matchup against the Eagles, Possibly, but you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think you know in the games that I have seen
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  Speaker 1: with the New York Giants, I've certainly seen some strengths.
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  Speaker 1: I've certainly seen some weaknesses as well, So let's get
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  Speaker 1: into those in our Opposition Territory pod here every week
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  Speaker 1: when we're doing our preview show, we like to get
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  Speaker 1: into this two part question. So let's start with the
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  Speaker 1: biggest strength. What is the biggest strength of the New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants as we're you know, almost here at the
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  Speaker 1: mid midway point of this season, what what is that
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  Speaker 1: biggest strength?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because had you asked me that question
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  Speaker 2: two weeks ago, when you had you know, big reviews
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  Speaker 2: Chris Flumman on your show, had you asked me that
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  Speaker 2: question two weeks ago, I would have given you a
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  Speaker 2: different answer than I'm about to give you. I would
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  Speaker 2: have said, the biggest strength of this football team is
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  Speaker 2: Dexter Lawrence and the edge defender trio of Kevon Thibodeau,
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  Speaker 2: Brian Burns and Abdual Carter defensive line. Absolutely, And I
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  Speaker 2: still think that you could answer the question that way.
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  Speaker 2: But as I look at what's happening with this team
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  Speaker 2: and what's developing with this team, you know what, I
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  Speaker 2: think the biggest strength of this team actually is Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 2: It's the reasons and it's it's not the talent of
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart. It's the resolve, the toughness, the energy, the attitude,
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  Speaker 2: the I don't give a crap what the situation is,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't give a crap who's in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: attitude of both Jackson Dart and Cam Skataboo. It's that energy.
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  Speaker 2: Because that energy, more than anything else, despite what happened
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday afternoon, it's that energy that is changing this
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  Speaker 2: football team in ways so for me. So for me,
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  Speaker 2: that's the engine that starts all of it. And and
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be perfect because Jackson Darts a
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  Speaker 2: rookie quarterback and he's gonna do stupid things like throw
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  Speaker 2: interceptions with you know, with with two minutes left in
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  Speaker 2: a game that you know, the God Giants fans are
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  Speaker 2: still arguing about whether or not whether or not the
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  Speaker 2: Giants should have thrown a pass there, and and and
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  Speaker 2: you know what I say to that, I've said for years,
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  Speaker 2: going all the way back to when Kevin gilbrid was
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  Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator and people used to own and grown
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  Speaker 2: and complain about Kevin Gilbride and all of this. You
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  Speaker 2: know what a good play call is. A good play
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  Speaker 2: call is one that works. A bad play call is
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  Speaker 2: one that doesn't. Right, And what I will say about
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  Speaker 2: that pass by Jackson Dart is THEO Johnson was wide open.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jackson Dart just didn't get the ball there, right.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, a good play call is one that works,
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  Speaker 2: and a bad play call is one that doesn't. And
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  Speaker 2: you can argue about that as much as you want,
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  Speaker 2: but that's what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, on the flip side of the coin, what
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest weakness of this New York Giants team
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  Speaker 1: as we're heading into Week eight here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, again, at one point, you know, the Giants fans
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  Speaker 2: always talk about the offensive line, but I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that's the case anymore with Andrew Thomas. Andrew Thomas has
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  Speaker 2: single handedly taken an offensive line that was without him
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  Speaker 2: and without him last year in the first couple of
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  Speaker 2: games of this year, an offensive line that was a
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  Speaker 2: question mark and turned it into a strength. Andrew Thomas
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  Speaker 2: coming off list frank surgery that had all of us
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  Speaker 2: questioning what we were going to get, what we were
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  Speaker 2: going to see Andrew Thomas is playing as well or
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  Speaker 2: better than he ever has. Andrew Thomas was one on
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  Speaker 2: one with Nick Benito of the Broncos this past week,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a matchup that I was not necessarily
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  Speaker 2: frothing at the mouth to watch, but I was excited
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  Speaker 2: to watch. Okay, Nick Benito with eight sacks entering the game,
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  Speaker 2: the best pressure rate in the league of any edge defender.
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos got so frustrated because Nick Benito couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: around Andrew Thomas that they just put him over on
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  Speaker 2: the other side Andrew. You know, Nick Benito couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: anywhere near Jackson Dart, so they just moved Benito to
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  Speaker 2: the other side. So I think right now, the biggest
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  Speaker 2: weakness of this football team, to get back to the
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  Speaker 2: original question, you know, I don't, I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: love to be long winded or anything. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest the biggest weakness of this football team right
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  Speaker 2: now is the defensive secondary, especially with Paulson Adebo and
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  Speaker 2: Javon Holland right now questionable with a knee injury, and
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  Speaker 2: even Brian Burns has a foot injury and we don't
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  Speaker 2: know where that you know where that's gonna lead at
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  Speaker 2: this point, But I would say it's the defensive secondary,
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  Speaker 2: and overall it would have to be the fact that
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  Speaker 2: as talented as this defense is, overall it has only
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  Speaker 2: shown flashes of playing the way that it should the
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  Speaker 2: way that it can. And I just don't know. They
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  Speaker 2: can say what they want. But after Sunday and after
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  Speaker 2: blowing a game in very similar fashion in Week two
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  Speaker 2: against the Dallas Cowboys, when they again played a drop
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  Speaker 2: eight rush three defense that allowed Dallas to kick a
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  Speaker 2: game tying field goal at you know as at the
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  Speaker 2: end of regulation, yep, the players can say what they want,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know if they can completely trust or
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  Speaker 2: will completely buy into what they're getting from Shane Bowen.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know. And that's so for me, it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on paper, it's the secondary, but mentally, it's
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  Speaker 2: are these guys. Are these guys checked in and all
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  Speaker 2: in with the defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: And we're definitely gonna get into the Giants secondary in
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  Speaker 1: a in a bit, because the Philadelphia Eagles wide receivers
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  Speaker 1: had quite a week this past week against the Minnesota Vikings,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna get to them in a bit. First,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a very quick break, and when we
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  Speaker 1: get back, we're gonna get into that subject matter and
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  Speaker 1: a lot more with regard to this Week eight matchup,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles against New York Giants. We're gonna take that break. Now,
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  Speaker 1: stick with us. We'll be back in a bit. All right,
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  Speaker 1: We are back with our good friend Ed Valentine from
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  Speaker 1: Big Blue View dot com. I believe it's at Ed
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  Speaker 1: Valentine over on Twitter slash x. If I'm not correct,
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  Speaker 1: Am I correct?
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  Speaker 2: There? Yeah? Okay, and it's and mostly you know what,
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  Speaker 2: mostly though, I mostly just use that at Big Blue
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  Speaker 2: View account. Okay, sounds good. At Big Blue View folks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's that's the best place to find me there.
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  Speaker 2: There is there is a personal account out there somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you're sort of sending that out into
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness to never be found you there.
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  Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. That's very fair, very fair. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's keep diving into this pregame preview show here, because look,
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  Speaker 1: the reality of this Week eight matchup. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: have to be reflective of the fact that the Giants
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  Speaker 1: beat the Eagles already this year and they beat them
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  Speaker 1: good again just a couple of weeks ago. They scored
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns on both their opening possessions and really controlled the trenches.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the New York Giants needed to do to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Philadelphia Eagles two weeks ago, and they absolutely
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  Speaker 1: did it. The Eagles defense only got three quarterback hits
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  Speaker 1: on Jackson Dart during that game. And on the flip side,
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles offensive line they struggled in the rushing game,
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  Speaker 1: which has been an ongoing theme for this Eagles offense
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  Speaker 1: game after game after game. The offensive line is just
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  Speaker 1: not syncing up with each other. There are injuries, the
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  Speaker 1: depth is just not there. We'll certainly get into it more,
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  Speaker 1: but Ed, what did you see in that first game
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  Speaker 1: that gives you some hope that the Giants can really
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  Speaker 1: rebound from the loss against the Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: Well, again, I think I talked a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: the offensive line earlier, and I think that the the
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  Speaker 2: fact that for years there have been so many questions
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  Speaker 2: about the Giants offensive line and the defensive line as well,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just the Giants' ability to hold up
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  Speaker 2: at the line of scrimmage, and first and foremost, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's real. I think what they're doing on both
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  Speaker 2: lines in holding up in the trenches is real. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they do. They still need more help there, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Van Roten is a thirty five year old more
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  Speaker 2: or less placeholder at right guard, but he's not hurting them.
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  Speaker 2: And they could use more talent on the defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: But they have enough, right they haven't you know, they
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  Speaker 2: could use another another real impact players, another rotation piece. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but but but they're doing well on the lines. They're
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  Speaker 2: holding up there, and you know, I look at it
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  Speaker 2: and I think the other part of this is the
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  Speaker 2: thing that gives me hope is, look, the Giants drop
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  Speaker 2: thirty four points on the Eagles. Yeah, the Eagles are
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  Speaker 2: defending Super Bowl champions, and maybe they're not firing on
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  Speaker 2: all cylinders. Maybe they have a couple of weaknesses that
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  Speaker 2: that didn't show up at times last year. But the
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  Speaker 2: Giants backed that up by dropping five touchdowns on the Broncos,
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  Speaker 2: which is the first or second ranked defense in the league.
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  Speaker 2: So what gives me hope in that sense is even
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  Speaker 2: without Molik Neighbors, this team is finding ways to move
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  Speaker 2: the football and finding ways to score points, you know,
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  Speaker 2: without without their best player right right, And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of that comes from Jackson Dart's ability to move in
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  Speaker 2: the pocket to make what some people call loose plays.
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  Speaker 2: There was a pass he threw to one Dale Robinson
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  Speaker 2: in the Denver game where I was watching that play
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, Okay, if Daniel Jones was the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones can move in the pocket, like Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 2: can get out of the pocket if he chooses to run,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and make some yardage with his legs. But
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  Speaker 2: what Daniel Jones could never do is throw a dime
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  Speaker 2: just a couple of inches over a defensive back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to a wide receiver for a twenty five or thirty
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  Speaker 2: yard game. Yeah, and make that sort of improvisational play.
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  Speaker 2: So what gives me hope is just these, like I
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  Speaker 2: said to me, these back to back performances, you know,
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  Speaker 2: by an offense, that that tell me that that there's
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  Speaker 2: progress being made there.
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  Speaker 1: They are growing. That's how I, as an objective viewer
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  Speaker 1: from the outside, I view the New York Giants offense
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  Speaker 1: as an offense that is growing for sure, ed. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, as we're moving along, the Giants they had
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and nineteen yards rushing last week in Denver,
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  Speaker 1: again against one of the better defenses in this league.
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  Speaker 1: But the Denver defense did a good job of bottling
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  Speaker 1: up the Giants, you know, running backs in general, on
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  Speaker 1: a number of rushing plays as well. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Dark, how he is continuing to grow. However, he
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  Speaker 1: did complete less than fifty percent of the passes that
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  Speaker 1: he threw. So I'm wondering going into the matchup in Philly,
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  Speaker 1: how will the Giants really try to balance out the
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  Speaker 1: rushing attack and the passing attack. What are your thoughts here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, all of the praise we're heaping on Jackson Dark
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  Speaker 2: is deserved. He you know, he has been fantastic. Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: He's been everything that the Giants could have wanted. And
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  Speaker 2: when you look, you know, when the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: NFC East has to look at the Giants and say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're two and five, but they have
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback now that they can build around, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're a team that I don't know what's going to
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  Speaker 2: happen the rest of this of this year, but a
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  Speaker 2: team that's coming. But Jackson Dart's still a guy that
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  Speaker 2: started four NFL games. Okay, you cannot if you're the
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  Speaker 2: New York Giants, go out there and say, ah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we don't need the running game this week. We're just
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  Speaker 2: we're just gonna let Dark throw the ball forty five times,
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  Speaker 2: you know, So they have to have some sort of balance.
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  Speaker 2: They I hate beyond one Dale Robinson, who he's five
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  Speaker 2: 't eight, He's one hundred and eighty five pounds. He's
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  Speaker 2: got the shortest arms of any wide receiver in the league. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm blown away by what he's doing this year.
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  Speaker 2: They've always told us he could be an explosive playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: They've always told us he could get yards after Africa catch.
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  Speaker 2: The Giants have always told us they could he could
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  Speaker 2: get down the field and catch the ball. But this
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  Speaker 2: is his fourth year in the league and it's the
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  Speaker 2: first time we've seen it. So But beyond wan Dale Robinson,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have a trustworthy wide receiver unless Darius Slayton
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  Speaker 2: comes back from his injury. And I don't know whether
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be back or not. You know, they're
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  Speaker 2: they're scheming to get the ball to tight ends. They're
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  Speaker 2: using a lot of play action, They're using a lot
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  Speaker 2: of misdirection, They're they're getting the ball to the running
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  Speaker 2: backs out of the backfield. They're doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: creative things to create passing attack, to create passing opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: They can't do what the Eagles can do, which is
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  Speaker 2: just say, hey DeVante, you know, just just go win,
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  Speaker 2: or hey Jay Brown, just go win, right, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and the Giants can't do that even with Wandale.
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  Speaker 2: They can't do that because of his physical limitations. But
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  Speaker 2: but they have to have run game. And Cam Skataboo
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic, but he's not going to give you explosive
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  Speaker 2: thirty five or forty yards at a crack run game.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna give you churn out the first downs, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get people juiced up by by turning five yards into nine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, by by putting his head down and running
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  Speaker 2: somebody over. Tyrone Tracy might give you that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he had the thirty one yard touchdown run on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: But as I said to one of the guys on
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  Speaker 2: on my on my staff, I watched Andrew Thomas basically
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  Speaker 2: cave in the entire left side of the Denver defense,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought I could have scored that touchdown right,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm and I'm sixty five years old. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: thought I I thought I could have scored that touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: But but they they need to have some sort of balance.
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  Speaker 2: They need to have that run game because it's like
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  Speaker 2: I said, it's a rookie quarterback. You just don't want
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  Speaker 2: to put him in that situation. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right again, folks, we're talking to Ed Valentine
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  Speaker 1: from Big Blue view dot com. Gonna take a quick
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  Speaker 1: break when we get back, got more and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: concluding our discussion.
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  Speaker 2: Stick with us, all right.
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  Speaker 1: We're back with our good friend Ed Valentine from Big
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  Speaker 1: blue view dot com. Great esp Nation site them, him
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  Speaker 1: and the staff over there. Fantastic content always if you
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  Speaker 1: want to head them over and check out some New
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: York Giants content. So so we're moving along and we
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: conclude our discussion here after this last break. The Eagles
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: receivers were finally able to shine this past week. All
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of us in Eagles Nation, we have been waiting for this.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: When you have a talent like Davante Smith and AJ Brown,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you're saying, my goodness, what has been happening? They were
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  Speaker 1: finally able to shine them and them and Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. Aj Brown one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: one yards two touchdowns, Davonte Smith one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: three yards in a touchdown. I'm wondering, ed, how do
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  Speaker 1: you see the Giants defense and their secondaries we were
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: talking about earlier really stacking up against the Eagles receiving
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  Speaker 1: corps this week since they really seem to be getting
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  Speaker 1: some things into sync together. What are your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: My thoughts are the Giants better blitz a lot and
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  Speaker 2: they better get home. Okay, Look, look if you're if
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  Speaker 2: you're the Eagles, you look around that secondary. Paulson Adebo's hurt.
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  Speaker 2: He's their best corner and he's been He's been okay
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  Speaker 2: so far this year. But one of the big reasons
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  Speaker 2: they brought Paulson Adebo over from New Orleans in free
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  Speaker 2: agency is because he was becoming a turnover machine. He
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: had I think seven interceptions in twenty two games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and he's a guy that always had his hands on
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  Speaker 2: the ball the last couple of years in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: and that guy hasn't shown up. Okay, he's been okay
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  Speaker 2: in coverage, but that guy making a difference by making
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  Speaker 2: plays on the ball hasn't shown up. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know at this point if he's going to play this week. Right,
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  Speaker 2: So what I would say, Look, if you're Philadelphia and
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  Speaker 2: you're going to pass the ball, you find number twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: who's Cordell flot And I never in a million years
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  Speaker 2: thought I thought I would be about to say this.
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  Speaker 2: You find number twenty eight, and you throw the ball
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  Speaker 2: anywhere else, anywhere else? Right, all right? Drew Phillips, who
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  Speaker 2: I love, the kid had a really good rookie year.
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  Speaker 2: Drew Phillips, the slot corner has been targeted as much
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  Speaker 2: or more than any cornerback in the league. And there's
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  Speaker 2: a reason, all right, there's a reason because when you
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: throw the ball to the guy he's covering, the guy
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  Speaker 2: he's covering catches it, or if he doesn't catch it,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the little yellow hanky hits the ground. Gotcha? Because I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: think I think Drew Phillips also leads the leads defensive
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: backs in penalties. Okay, all right, and Deontay Banks first
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  Speaker 2: round pick, you know out of Maryland, the good you know,
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  Speaker 2: all of that, all the talent in the world, all
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the physical ability in the world. Except what I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you is, even when receivers look covered by Deontay Banks.
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  Speaker 2: They're open for for this simple reason. There's a thing
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  Speaker 2: called a football that's coming in the air. Deontay Banks
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  Speaker 2: has no idea how to find it. Okay, he has
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  Speaker 2: no idea how to find it or no idea how
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  Speaker 2: to react to it except to hit the guy who
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: just caught it. There you go, even if even if
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: it happened to go right over his head, which does
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  Speaker 2: quite often. So if Deontay Banks and the Broncos as
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  Speaker 2: soon as Paulson and Debo got hurt the other day,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the Broncos saw number two on the field, which is
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the number that Banks wears now, and the ball just
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: started going in that direction again and again and again
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  Speaker 2: and again. So so what I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 2: is just just find twenty eight throataball somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. Sounds good. Sounds like A J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown and Devontae Smith could have another good week here perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: so uh ed, before I let you go, we love
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: ending our show here on our Opposition Territory podcast with
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: these two questions. And it's the one thing that each
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: team is going to need to hit on for a win.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I'd love to get your thoughts on it. Let's start
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: with the Giants. What is the one thing that New
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: York Giants are going to need to hit on for
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  Speaker 1: a win this week against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's got to be their pass rush. They have
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: got to because they're we just talked about secondary, okay,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and I don't know what's going on with the Eagles
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: run game, and and every Giants fan fears Saquon Barkley
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: waking up Sunday and remembering that he's Saquon Barkley. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but but the Giants pass rush has got to make
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: a difference because that's second that secondary gets exposed over
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: and over and over, and it's not going to get
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  Speaker 2: better if Pulson and Debo can't play. So I would say,
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  Speaker 2: I would say the Giants. They're certainly not going to
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  Speaker 2: surprise the Eagles. They're not going to catch the Eagles thinking,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know if they did two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's the Giants. We're gonna win the game. You know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: they'll screw it up somehow, because they always screw it
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: up somehow. But but you know, the Giants the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: What I want to say is the Giants have the
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Eagles attention. Yes, okay, absolutely, so they're going to have
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that pass rush is going to have to is going
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: to have to be a big difference maker. All right,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: flip the coin.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: What's the one thing the Eagles are going to need
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  Speaker 1: to hit on for a win against the New York
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  Speaker 1: Giants this week?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it. I think it goes to to
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the the same thing we just talked about. If if
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: you can protect Jalen Hurts, Yeah, you can protect Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a talk.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: But if you can give Jalen Hurts a chance to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: get the ball out to aj Brown to Devonte Smith,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: the tight ends to sake one. And you know, in
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: in space, the Giants have yet to really prove that
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: they can cover anybody except for number twenty eight. Just
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: don't go there. Just don't go there. And you're good.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Sounds good, folks, He has at Valentine from Big Blue
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• 28:18
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• 28:23
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• 28:26
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• 28:29
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• 28:32
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• 28:35
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