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Tiki Barber | Former New York Giants Running Back Previews His Running of the NYC Marathon This Weekend · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So last week in the Rosenberg household, it was Sid
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  Speaker 1: Rosenberg week because I made the New York State Broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: That's over. That's like long forgotten. This week in.
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  Speaker 1: My house, it's Daniel Rosenberg week because... For the seventh
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  Speaker 1: time and the 41st time overall, she's going to run
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  Speaker 1: a marathon. Seven New York City marathons, 41 overall. My
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  Speaker 1: beautiful wife has even earned the Abbott Trophy. Yes, they've
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  Speaker 1: got majors in marathon running like golf and tennis. Three domestic,
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  Speaker 1: New York, Boston, Chicago. Three international, London, Chicago. Berlin, and Tokyo.
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  Speaker 2: She's done them all.
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  Speaker 1: She's done Paris and Miami and Big Sur. But New
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  Speaker 1: York is Sunday. And even though Danielle Rosenberg is very
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  Speaker 1: famous because she's married to me, the most famous New
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  Speaker 1: Yorker who runs that race annually is one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest New York football giants ever. I've made the argument,
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  Speaker 1: and I still believe it, over about a five, six-year period,
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  Speaker 1: the best offensive player in the history of the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: now sharing middays with Evan Roberts at WFAN, the great
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  Speaker 1: Tiki Barber.
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  Speaker 2: He runs that race, and he's doing it again. Tiki,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, buddy. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, my friend? I'm looking forward to this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: even though I'm not fully ready for it, as I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you know, watching Danielle train so many years, doing 41.
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  Speaker 3: That's unbelievable. This will be my 16th. You got to
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  Speaker 3: get in on a super long run, and I barely
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  Speaker 3: got in the long run.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she did it. She did a couple of 20s
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  Speaker 2: and some 22s. Oh, God. She's going to smoke me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know. We live in Queens.
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  Speaker 1: You go into the city and run with these runners groups,
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  Speaker 1: but now she's doing the tapered down week. Now, you've
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  Speaker 1: done 16. I know you've done New York a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've done Israel a bunch. What others have
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  Speaker 1: you done?
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  Speaker 3: So this will be my eighth New York City, which
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited about. At least I have her on that one,
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  Speaker 3: at least. So I did do Israel. I heard you
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  Speaker 3: say Big Sur, which is an amazing one out there
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  Speaker 3: on the West Coast, runs on the Pacific Coast Highway.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: I did the three Abbott majors in the state. So
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  Speaker 3: I did, obviously, New York, Chicago. in Boston. I was
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  Speaker 3: scheduled to do Tokyo and start to do the international one,
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  Speaker 3: but COVID hit. So I signed up to go in 2020.
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  Speaker 3: And then they were telling me, yeah, you probably can
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  Speaker 3: get over to Tokyo, but you're probably not going to
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  Speaker 3: be able to come home. So I postponed it and
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  Speaker 3: I haven't gotten back around to do it. I did Paris,
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  Speaker 3: which was gorgeous. I mean, it was just beautiful running
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  Speaker 3: through that city and seeing all the sights and the sounds.
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  Speaker 3: And That was a good one. I did New Jersey
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  Speaker 3: because obviously I live in New Jersey. And there was
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  Speaker 3: one other one I've done. I can't remember now.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good. Pretty good, though. That's a pretty good list.
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  Speaker 3: Israel was fun. I know you've been over to Israel
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  Speaker 3: a lot and I'm sure you've walked a lot over there.
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  Speaker 3: It is punitive, man. It is. It is hikes. It is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think eleven hundred feet up ultimately as
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  Speaker 3: you go through it. But I tell you, one of
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  Speaker 3: the best sites I had. ever running a marathon was
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  Speaker 3: at mile 10 in the Jerusalem Marathon. You're standing on
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  Speaker 3: top of the mountain, basically, and you're looking down at
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  Speaker 3: the wailing wall and the Dome of the Rock. It's
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  Speaker 3: just this unbelievable view. So, I mean, I love marathoning
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  Speaker 3: for the experience, but it's also for the people. And
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  Speaker 3: so I'm sure you'll say this coming up in the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I know Danielle appreciates this. congratulations to all those people
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  Speaker 3: that are running 60 plus thousand, I think this year, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and the 50th anniversary of the new course of the
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  Speaker 3: New York city marathon. It's going to be an amazing Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we're actually going to get pretty good weather. Um,
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  Speaker 3: so it's going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's important. And you're right.
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  Speaker 1: The new course, because for people that don't know this
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  Speaker 1: 51 years ago, they ran the marathon solely in central park.
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  Speaker 1: And 50 years ago, we started doing five burrows and
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  Speaker 1: from the Staten Island side, all the way to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: New York City, the Manhattan side at the very, very end.
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  Speaker 2: And listen, Central Park is rough. That's very, very hilly.
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  Speaker 1: This is not an easy race, the five boroughs, but
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be easier than doing the whole race
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  Speaker 1: in the park, right?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Sid. I mean, Central Park has all
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  Speaker 3: those hills. We feel like Central Park is flat because
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  Speaker 3: we look at it from pictures and it's like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: it's just a flat little park. It's like, no, it's
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  Speaker 3: got hills and major climbs. The challenge with the boroughs
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  Speaker 3: is that you've got to go over so many bridges.
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  Speaker 3: And every bridge is a mile hike. So it's a
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  Speaker 3: mile up. And when you're driving it, it feels like
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  Speaker 3: it's not as steep as it is. But when you're
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  Speaker 3: running it, it's a mile up and then a mile down,
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  Speaker 3: which is also hard because you're trying to slow yourself
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  Speaker 3: down until you're killing your quads and all these other
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  Speaker 3: crazy things. But it is cool to go through all
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  Speaker 3: the boroughs because they're so different. Staten Island gets shorted, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: because we only start in Staten Island on the on
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  Speaker 3: the Staten Island side of the Verrazano Bridge and then
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  Speaker 3: go over into Brooklyn where it gets raucous. Like, there's
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  Speaker 3: bands playing and people standing outside of churches singing and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's actually really cool when you get to Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: And then you get to Queens and then you got
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  Speaker 3: to go over the bridge. And then you're into the
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  Speaker 3: Bronx and then ultimately back into Manhattan. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's challenging. It's one of the funnest ones, though, because
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  Speaker 3: there's people everywhere. I remember doing some of these other marathons. Like,
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  Speaker 3: for instance, I did Boston. And Boston is basically 24
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  Speaker 3: miles straight out. And then you run like a mile
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  Speaker 3: and a half inside of a two miles inside of
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  Speaker 3: Boston proper. But on that 24 miles running into Boston
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  Speaker 3: is like nothing there. It's just like, it's empty road
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  Speaker 3: until you get to, The college where the girls are
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  Speaker 3: screaming at you on the side of the road. Going
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  Speaker 3: up the hill. They're like, hey, you're almost there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, shut up.
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  Speaker 1: I stood there on Boylston Street when Danielle finished that
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  Speaker 1: marathon for me. And I've gone to all them with her,
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  Speaker 1: including Paris. Would have been a much different Paris marathon
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  Speaker 1: last weekend with all the protests going on.
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  Speaker 3: No, crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy. But I did that one with her. I did
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  Speaker 2: all these others.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good excuse for us to travel, which we
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  Speaker 1: do do.
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  Speaker 2: We go to all these great places.
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  Speaker 1: But for me, the one other than New York, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll be at mile 22 on Sunday to watch her
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  Speaker 1: and to root her on to finish the race. The
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  Speaker 1: one that was most fun for me, London. Those people,
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  Speaker 1: they go, they're drinking early, Tiki. They're drinking early.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing it. I'm doing it next year. I think
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to, cause I've people have been telling me
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  Speaker 3: how great it is. And I know it's gotten enormous.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think last year they had to do
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  Speaker 3: it on two days because there were so many people,
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  Speaker 3: but I've heard that like Londoners know how to bring
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  Speaker 3: out the pints, right? Give me the pint. You know
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  Speaker 3: what's funny one, one year, because I always start struggling
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  Speaker 3: like miles 17 or 18. I start slowing down. I
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  Speaker 3: start getting crampy. So I told Tracy, my wife, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, be at mile like 17 or between 17
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  Speaker 3: and 18 and have like a beer ready for me
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  Speaker 3: so I can like relax. So I ran over to
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  Speaker 3: the left side of the first avenue. I was like
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  Speaker 3: cracking beers, drinking beers. That's great.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't help you. It didn't help you.
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  Speaker 1: So what's more difficult for Tiki Barber? And again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't say this to patronize you because I've said
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  Speaker 1: it to you for a long time. You were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's the two most diverse running backs I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be 60 in April. I remember OJ Simpson and
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  Speaker 1: Tony Dorsett. The two most diverse backs I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: are Marshall Falk and you. Bottom line, for a five-year period,
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  Speaker 1: if you would have stuck around two more years, you'd
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  Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: You were that unstoppable. You were great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to get beat up anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. I'm glad you made that move.
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  Speaker 2: You've had a great video career since.
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  Speaker 1: But tougher for you, fourth quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles
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  Speaker 1: on a cold December day or mile 21?
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  Speaker 3: That's a tough one. I'm going to say, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to say the cold Philadelphia afternoon, especially in that old
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  Speaker 3: crappy vet where they used to play, where they were
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  Speaker 3: screaming at you, the wind was howling and throwing people on,
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  Speaker 3: throwing stuff from the stand. The marathon at 20, like
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  Speaker 3: the good thing about the marathon is that there are
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  Speaker 3: like thousands of people around you supporting you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and they don't, I mean like obviously the crowd on
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  Speaker 3: the side, but even the runners themselves, they'll like pick
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  Speaker 3: you up and encourage you and, and drive you through.
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  Speaker 3: And so like the, the relationships that you make on
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  Speaker 3: course that are going to last for, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: 20 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour. If you run
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  Speaker 3: long enough with somebody or the things that push you through,
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  Speaker 3: it's what makes New York great. I know we are
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  Speaker 3: a city that's often divided at times, and we have
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  Speaker 3: different ideas about different things, whether it's politics or sports
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it may be. But on, on that day
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  Speaker 3: on Marathon Sunday, which is coming up this weekend, it
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  Speaker 3: feels like everybody is just all together. And it's, You know,
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  Speaker 3: it gets you through it when it gets hard.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, I'm so glad you said that. Because, look,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to a divided city, I'm guilty. I
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  Speaker 1: am so guilty. I hate the mayor. I hate the governor.
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  Speaker 3: I hear you, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: I hate them all.
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  Speaker 1: So I am guilty of doing that every day. But
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  Speaker 1: I also say this. So does Steve Sharippa. So does
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  Speaker 1: Tiki Barber. Marathon Sunday. I don't know if you're a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're a Republican. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I cry when I watch people finish that race. For
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  Speaker 1: my money, it is the best single-day event all year
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  Speaker 1: long in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you. And the reason is because what
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  Speaker 3: you said is exactly right. The accomplishment, it's hard to do, right?
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  Speaker 3: Most people, forget the marathoning people, but most people just
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  Speaker 3: can't do it. And most people don't even want to
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  Speaker 3: think about doing it. But then something clicks in somebody.
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  Speaker 3: And they're like, you know what? I want to challenge myself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to try to run a marathon. And they
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  Speaker 3: train for it. And then they get all the support
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  Speaker 3: that we've been alluding to and talking about. And then
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  Speaker 3: you get in the race and you hate it. You
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  Speaker 3: love it at times. And then You finish, and you
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  Speaker 3: get this medal. And it's just like, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 3: I did something I never thought I was going to do.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a metaphor for life, but there's something that
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  Speaker 3: grows in you when you do a marathon. I know
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  Speaker 3: Danielle has experienced this a ton of times. And all
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  Speaker 3: the 60-plus thousand that do it this time, whether it's
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  Speaker 3: your 40th or 41st, like your wives or your first,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm sure a lot of people will be out there, It's,
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  Speaker 3: There's something that wells inside of you that just becomes forever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's true.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Brett Favre was walking away from the game
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  Speaker 1: a thousand times and Bill Parcells is never coach again.
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  Speaker 2: That's my wife. I'm done. I'm finished. What are you doing, D?
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready for next week. But I really believe
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  Speaker 1: this time around, my wife may be serious. Again, 41 in,
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  Speaker 1: she is really contemplating retiring, doing just half marathons and
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  Speaker 1: doing some occasional recreational runs. Have you considered retiring after
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  Speaker 1: the great NFL career from your marathon career? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I, I did because, you know, I was
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  Speaker 3: doing CBS games for a long time and you just
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  Speaker 3: took away my weekends to train and it would have
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  Speaker 3: to time out perfectly in order for me to do
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  Speaker 3: New York city. I could do the ones in the
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  Speaker 3: off seasons. But so I thought about it, like maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm done because Daniel's right. Like the, The half marathons,
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  Speaker 3: they're not easy because they're hard, too. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: still two hours on your feet or an hour and 30,
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  Speaker 3: 40 minutes on your feet. But your body doesn't feel
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  Speaker 3: beat up and broken down when you're done with a
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  Speaker 3: half marathon. So I thought about the same thing. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'll just do half marathons from here on out. But
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  Speaker 3: I keep coming back to what you talked about in
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  Speaker 3: the intro when you were talking about your wife. She
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  Speaker 3: has the world Abbott majors. She has all six of those.
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  Speaker 3: And now there's actually a seventh. You've got to go
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  Speaker 3: to Australia and do the seventh one. And that's in
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  Speaker 3: the summer because it's winter over there. And so it's
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  Speaker 3: actually nice to run. It's not sweltering. But I still
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  Speaker 3: have this goal, Sid. I still have this goal that
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  Speaker 3: I want to do all the world majors. And so
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  Speaker 3: I've got to get to Tokyo. I've got to get
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  Speaker 3: to Berlin, London I think I'm going to do next year,
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  Speaker 3: and then ultimately Australia at some point. I still have,
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  Speaker 3: I think– I'm going to say five or six years
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  Speaker 3: where my body will still hold up because that's the
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  Speaker 3: big thing. I mean, I played football for a decade.
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  Speaker 3: I got bad knees and my muscular structure is not
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  Speaker 3: built to run for four hours. So it's wearing on me,
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  Speaker 3: but I still have that goal that I'm not willing
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  Speaker 3: to give up yet. Good.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do it. And by the way, you're still in
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal shape.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're the greatest shortstop I've ever seen. The
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  Speaker 1: greatest running back I've ever seen. This is the amazing
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  Speaker 1: Tiki Barber, who also does a great radio show. I
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: listen every day on the way back from the ferry
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  Speaker 1: with Evan Roberts on WFAN. And number 21 provided all
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: those giant bands with... So many thrills over the years. And,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: you know, it looks like the Giants are back right now.
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  Speaker 1: We still have 10 games to go, right? We have
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  Speaker 1: 10 games to go.
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  Speaker 2: It is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: 10 games to go. But, and this is a large assumption,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm going to do it anyway. If J.J.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy, who was a very good quarterback at Michigan, the
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  Speaker 2: kid was great. He got buried.
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  Speaker 3: He's a winner.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He got buried behind, of all people, Kyler Murray. He's terrible.
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: I know the Vikings are undefeated. He's terrible. Carson Wentz.
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  Speaker 2: So he gets buried in Minnesota. If this kid.
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  Speaker 1: Plays this way the rest of the year, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have an off-season quarterback controversy between.
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  Speaker 3: Dodd and McCarthy. It'll be the best thing that's happened
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: to the Giants in a long time, right? Competition is
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  Speaker 3: what makes people better. Being challenged is what makes— players
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  Speaker 3: and teams better. And so I hope that that's the
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  Speaker 3: problem that we have to worry about in 2027, but
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  Speaker 3: you're right about JJ McCarthy. I don't know. Cause we
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  Speaker 3: were not there. We're not talking about it. Like we
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  Speaker 3: do on WFAN every day in Minnesota, what the issue was.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like from afar, it was a personality thing
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  Speaker 3: between him and his head coach. It ultimately got his,
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: his general, the general manager, Questy Adolfo Mensah fired. Cause
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: that never worked out. He gets hurt his first year.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Sam Donald has the year we know he had. that season.
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  Speaker 3: And then he plays 10 games last year and he
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: was six and four. He wasn't horrible. He looked like
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  Speaker 3: a rookie. And then for whatever reason, he couldn't even
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: win the backup job this season. So it became expendable.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was deeper than the on-field performance because
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  Speaker 3: what we've seen in New York is that he's buying in.
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  Speaker 3: He sounds like a great teammate and he didn't make
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  Speaker 3: any mistakes and threw some passes that were just perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Like the layered throws, he had one to elite neighbors
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  Speaker 3: on a corner route. It was one of the prettiest
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  Speaker 3: throws you've seen all season long. And he's helped the
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  Speaker 3: run game because of his presence as a runner, even
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  Speaker 3: though he didn't, he's not running as much as Jackson
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  Speaker 3: Dart when Jackson Dart was our quarterback, but his presence
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  Speaker 3: as a potential runner helped us run for 180 yards
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  Speaker 3: last week and four rushing touchdowns. So like you feel
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  Speaker 3: good right now, if you're a giant fan, one, because
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: you have a quarterback who's, who's playing competent football and two,
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  Speaker 3: seven weeks into the year. And even after eight weeks,
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: they have a bi-week, they're going to be on top
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  Speaker 3: of the division, which is something we haven't been able
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  Speaker 3: to say for over a decade. So, It's all coaching,
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  Speaker 3: I think, but it's also players being challenged and buying
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  Speaker 3: in to a new system and a new way of being,
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  Speaker 3: and you see it every Sunday. And they don't quit.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome. It's awesome to watch them.
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  Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing. Seven games in, they've had three
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  Speaker 1: different starting quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: You never hear that.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: And they're still 4-2-1.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have to include in all what you just said,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: which was 100% right. Included in that, the Giants are
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: fortunate because between Dallas, Philly, and Washington, it may be
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: the worst division in football.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it definitely is. It feels like the perpetual NFC South. Right.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: It's always like a 500 or below 500 team making
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: the postseason. But you know what? It's football. And once
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: you get to the postseason, especially if you keep getting
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: better as the year goes on, anything can happen. And
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen a wildcard team go and take that
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: run and win a championship for a while. But, I mean,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: who knows? The NFL feels flawed, right? Even the best teams.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: You just said it with the Minnesota Vikings, who are undefeated.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: They don't look unbeatable. The San Francisco 49ers last week,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: they were undefeated. They lost. I don't think anybody is
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: really undefeated.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Right, they got blown out by Seattle.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Blown out. Pat Mahomes looked average for the first time
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: in the history of his career. Anything can happen. That's
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: why you love the NFL. It's a shorter season game-wise
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: relative to hockey or baseball and basketball and things like that,
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: but it also presents these great opportunities for teams that
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: come from nowhere to do something special. And I think
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: we're on the right track, and it feels good, and
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: it feels like you want to go watch. That's the
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: biggest thing. There were years over the last decade, Sid,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: where it was just like, I don't even want to
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: watch this team. I know what the product's going to
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: look like. Now you tune in on Sundays expecting something
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: special to happen.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: I totally agree.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: So to wrap this up in a nice little boutique-y,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Today is Wednesday, so now we're four days away from
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: race day, but Danielle, she'll eat a big meal on
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Friday night.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I see goo all over my house. There's goo everywhere, Tiki.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Goo.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: What does Tiki Barber do the next four days right
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: before the race?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to jog a little bit, not doing
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: anything crazy to get my body ready. The beauty of,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: even though I haven't had that super long run like
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Danielle had, I feel healthy. Like a lot of these races,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: you train so much that you've come into the race
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: week feeling beat up. I feel very healthy. I'm going
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: to have a big, I think I'm going to do
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: steak and pasta, a steak pasta dinner on Friday, just
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: to carbo load myself, get some extra protein. I've got
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: to find my goo, my goo packs and stick them
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: in my pouch. Cause those things save your life. You're
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: like 50 miles in and really stretch a lot and just,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: be thankful that at 51 years old, you said you're
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: going to be 60, I'm 51 years old, that I
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: can still compete at a good level. I feel good.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I look good. And I'm going to be with 60,000
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: other people running the New York City Marathon. So I
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: appreciate New York Roadrunners because they're amazing with all the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: events they do year-round, but particularly this marathon. Another thing,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: and it's worth mentioning, So many of us are not
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: even– we're not winning. You know what I mean? But
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: so many of us are raising tons of money for
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: a lot of very good and worthy charities, whether it's
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Fred's team, whether it's who I'm running for, Team for Kids,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: whether it's Culture City, an autism awareness organization that I
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: previously run for. CC has one, the Pitchin Foundation, that
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: he has people running for. I want to thank all
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: the runners, not just for running and being a part
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: of this massive event, but also raising hundreds of thousands
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: of dollars for great causes.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: That's a great point. Team for Kids is a great one.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Danielle is running with Tom Biggers on the NYPD. She
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: runs with the Cops every year. And CeCe Sabat, of course,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: is CeCe. Tiki, we love you in New York. Really,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you're doing a tremendous job at WFAN. You're one of
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the great running backs. You and I have been friends,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: good friends, for a very, very long time. I'm excited
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: for you, yes. Have a great run on Sunday, Tiki Barber.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And thank you for doing this. You're one of the greats.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I love you. Thank you, pal.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, brother. Love you back.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: God bless you.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: There he is, the great number 21, midday host at
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: WFAN and all-time giant great and marathon great, my good
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: buddy Tiki Barber. We'll take a break. Still to come, Saritha.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: She's going to beat Letitia James, folks. Keep it right here.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Sit and friends on a Wednesday.
• 19:09
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• 19:12
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• 19:15
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• 19:38
  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here?