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May 20, 2025
John and Eric preview the NY Giants 2025 Positional Groups starting with the Running Backs. Tyrone Tracy @tyronetracy (x) Cam Skattebo @camskattebo5 (X) Devin Singletary @motorsingletary (x) are featured along with Turbo Miller and Eric Gray.
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all right Well welcome back to another edition of Inside BBI with John and Eric I'm John McDev and with me as always
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senior editor of Big Blue Interactive Mr Eric Kennedy And Eric we always introduce the beer that we're having And today we'll just do a real quick shout
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out to George went unfortunately passed away Norm from Cheers And I'm going with a Wicked Throat Charmer Hazy IPA Norm
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passed away Oh I thought I when I said that to you before the show I thought you knew he went George W passed away
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today Oh no Cheers Yeah No I did not know that Okay Yeah my bad So yeah So I'm going with the Wicked Throat Charmer
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hazy IPA for for Norm and uh all those great moments of Norm What's I like this
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i'm gonna have to go back and watch some of those So Oh that's too bad That's sad Okay Yeah So anyway we uh we decided we
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were going to do uh some shorter videos on kind of a positional previews That's what we're going to call these for 2025
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And for tonight we're going to do the running backs which doesn't have a lot of pieces at play It seems like a few of
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them are going to be locked in but some very interesting storylines with with the running backs Yeah this will probably be our easiest one I think of
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all the position previews I don't know if you that was intentional on your part but um and I don't want to speak for you
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but there are currently six running backs on the roster and I think I think we have a pretty good idea how this is
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going to go but um yeah so we I don't know how if you want to start off with
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reviewing sort of what happened last year but but again it was we started the
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year off with Devin Singleary as a starting running back that lasted four games until Tyrone Tracy was given the
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starting job and he he was the starter for the rest of the year and had the bulk of the carries for the year And you
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know overall given the fact that the we had no quarterbacks and the offensive line was a mess with all the injuries
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right running backs weren't too bad last year Um um they averaged I think as a
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unit around uh 4.2 yards per carry which is respectable I think it was 18th which
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is right in the middle of the pack And um as a as a team I think we were lower
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in terms of rushing yards per game And that that's probably a reflection of the quarterbacks not really running for many yards too So many of these teams now
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that are the high rushing teams their quarterbacks are are running for a lot of yardage So So it was a decent room
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last year and then of course we've added to it Yeah First first piece of what you
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just said is yes I I I kind of thought we would ease into it with one that was probably going to be a little bit easier
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to do Um yeah last year I mean let's start with really the the elephant in
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the room was the whole here comes Saquon Barkley there go Saquon Barkley and all
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the drama around that Exactly Exactly Sleeps better at night now um that
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really that that kind of led into the season where you kind of knew no matter
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what was going to happen the running back position wasn't going to be looked at by other people outside of the Giants
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world it wasn't going to be looked at favorably It was always going to come back to well you got you let Barkley go right but we did you got Turbo which I
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always hated when they kept calling him that but we had Devin Singleary and then we had we had uh um Tracy which was
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coming on and you didn't know what you were going to have with him Um and then you've got you know some guys we you
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know we're thinking about Turbo Miller might be able to his name sounds great Eric Gray was there another draft pick
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It was kind of like a mishmash of stuff but ultimately came down to Singleary and Tracy getting the bulk of the of the
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play and Tracy really surprising last year The only concern is put the ball on
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the ground a number of times But let's be honest Tiki Barber did that early in
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his career too right and there's some similarities in their body styles and stuff Um I think Tiki was a little bit
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more angular He was a little bit more easily slipping things where Tracy tends
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to he's a little more upright but he does have uh he has decent speed I don't think he has great long speed but he has
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definitely decent speed Um your thoughts though first off before we get to any of the competition for this year What did
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you think overall of where where they started which seemed like it was going to be Singleary and his connection to
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Dayball and then Tracy taking over yeah it's interesting that you know the
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we didn't really know what Tracy was going to be like because he was a lower
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round draft pick a fifth round draft pick He'd been a wide receiver most of his career in college and some people
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who were excited very excited about him were basing it on on that one year It's interesting the same people that were
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really excited about him um that I follow are really excited about Scataboo
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but they a lot of people draft Nicks were really high on Tyrone Tracy even though he went late They said he he's
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one of their favorite guys to follow I I I was sort of in the camp of Yeah come
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on He's a He's just one year one year in college and he's gonna play with the big boys now He I besides the fumbling he I
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thought he blew me away I I I He's Yeah very instinctive Um he runs tougher than
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his size and I and you know when I saw his you know he's not a small guy but he's not big and I thought he was fairly
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physical running back with moves and he had some breakaway ability So um if he
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can rein in the f fumbling and the irony is I think he had five drop passes last year So again some of this is rookie
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hiccup type stuff Um when we get into the tight ends Theo Johnson for instance had some drops I always say with the
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rookies some of this is them being overwhelmed a little bit too So let's see how this fleshes out But I thought
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he was a good enough player that had the Giants not come out of the draft with a
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running back I would have been a little bit disappointed but I don't think I would have been um devastated I I I
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really like Tracy I I love our room now And we we'll talk about Scataboo in a bit but um to me Singleary's now kind of
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been relegated to almost third string because I'm I'm assuming Scataboo is going to play sooner than later And um
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Eric Ray was an afterthought other than kick returns And his biggest problem he's a little we'll talk about him a
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second but uh more in depth in a second but his biggest problem has also been ball security And he they they just
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don't give them he doesn't get any touches touches from the line He had 13
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carries last year There all the carries last year went to three backs They went to I had to look this up They went to um
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Tracy and Singleary overwhelmingly had all of them And then and then Gray had
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13 touches um after that He barely touched the ball as a running back So So
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and he had some catches as well I think he had about 10 catches So they basically were a two-headed monster but
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they really had handed off the torch to to to Tracy And I I was really impressed
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I And Singleary is isn't a bad back He's just I I just think that Tracy was more
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dynamic I I would think I if if the Giants had their I don't want to say
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their their their way but if they if their wishes kind of came through right you drafted Gray you kind of would hope
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that he could he could show you something and then you would have a Tracy and we're going to get to Scataboo
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and Gray and then you could kind of move off from Singleary if you wanted to because he's the one guy that's going to
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command more money than the rest and he's not and he's really going to be second at this point unless something
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weird happens in training camp and Tracy comes in and just does not take the bull by the horns Uh Singleary is going to
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move down the depth chart And right it was interesting to see that Uh the one thing you brought up that I think Tracy
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does need to work on a little bit the fumbles uh will will give that kind of a like you said it's a rookie thing He's
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also not he hasn't been a running back for a long time So those constant hits carrying the ball it's a little
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different But him dropping passes as a former wide receiver that that that's something that can't really happen If he
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wants to continue to be able to be a multifaceted dynamic user in that in the
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game plan he's got to be able to do both Um I would think and I'm I want to ask you your opinion I've I've made this
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point before I would think the Giants would want to keep his his touches at least his full-on carries maybe not
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receptions but his full-on carries probably within the same range of where they were Let's say give him maybe plus
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or minus 20 He had 192 You don't want this guy to be a 250 260 carry uh back I
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just don't think that's where he's where he's at physically Well I don't think that roster is set up for that now Anyways so that's the good news is by
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getting Scataboo he his his carries may actually decline but his productivity may
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actually increase That's one of the reasons why I like this room So I don't see I know we're jumping ahead a little
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bit a little bit here but I don't see the Giants carrying four running backs I
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see them stashing some guys maybe one or two guys on on the practice squad but I
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I I don't think they're going to We saw it last year Eric Ray barely touched the
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ball So now if Singleary kind of moves into that third role he's probably not
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going to get a lot of touches And I you know I don't I wouldn't keep a fourth running back on this team I think you
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can put guys like Eric Gray and um and Miller on the on the practice squad
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We'll see what on Rashan Baker the the the um free agent that they sent who's a big dude too He's a big physical dude
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But I would think Single Terry this might be his last year with the Giants And if everyone stays healthy I think
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you're looking at three running backs with a really good depth and and you
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could you could you could start one guy one week start another guy in another
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week and I don't know if there'd be much of a drop off So and like you said now you don't have to give them each of them
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a lot of carries They all can catch Um they're all good runners Um you know and
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I still think we kind of underrate Single Terry a little bit here He's not he's not a great back but he's he's he's
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been a very successful back in this league And if he's your third running back you've got a really good room So I
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like the running back room I think it's f I think it's great You got the shiftier a little bit more explosive guy
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in in in Tracy and now you've got the you've got the bowling ball and Scataboo
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And what's going to be interesting is how they use them Do they go series by series do they go with the guy who's got
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the hot hand is it situational you know is Scataboo the short yardage back but is he more than
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that he can catch the ball He may have the best hands on of all the running backs right believe it or not Scataboo
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So it's just going to be very interesting It's a fun room I'm actually really excited I hope they've got the
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run blocking because I think this is a really good running back room Um I never
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really felt like they got Seaquan into his groove
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and I don't there there might be various reasons for that offensive line quarterback play coaching um Saquon
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getting hurt a lot but this room has depth and if somebody get does get
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nicked up you've got somebody to fall back on So I I'm actually really excited about it Yeah You know it's funny I was
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I was just thinking I wanted to ask you your thoughts um how much of the running game is is going to
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be I we're projecting but it's going to be opened up just from the fact that you
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have in theory very competent quarterback play very veteran
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quarterbacks and quarterbacks that if you just ignore Dart for the moment we'll and that'll be a whole different
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show when we do the quarterbacks but just with with uh Wilson and Winston you have guys who throw the ball down the
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field Right So you can't commit seven eight to the box When you had Jones and
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and Barkley a lot of it was really and we've talked about it many times right in 22 the Giants caught a lot of people
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off guard because it would be is it going to be Barkley carrying it or is Jones keeping it running once teams
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figured out if I just stay home on the outside as far as the fake to Jones and
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everybody else on the other side keys to wherever Barkley goes we can handle their running game We We got it more
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contained their passing game wasn't going to beat us But with a Wilson and a Winston I don't think you can commit as
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easily that way And neither one of those guys is going to be a running guy They're not going to fake the handoffs
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and keep the ball So it is going to it's you're going to have to play the run or the pass but you're not going to be able
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to sell out on either one What I'm very very curious to see is
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what the New York Giants offense son's Daniel Jones is going to
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look like Are we finally going to see what Brian Dable and Mike Kfka's vision
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for this offense is going to be running the ball passing the ball because as you and I
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have talked about repeatedly we never really knew what we were on offense And
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I still don't really know what we intend to be on offense And that's a good thing in the sense that the teams that we're
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going to face probably don't know that either So maybe we can catch them offguard a little bit But I hope they
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come up with a with a plan here I could see us being more of a play action team
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now That's something that that Russell Wilson's very good at So but is that the
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kind of offense that we're going to run i I don't I don't know I mean but you make a great
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point You saw it on BBI Big Blue Interactive You saw that on BBI this
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week is you still got people lamenting and pining for Daniel Jones I don't get
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it I I don't I I can't fathom I I was talking to this about
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this with my wife earlier and she said he had six years How many right how many
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chances did they give him i mean so I I still think in the the Giant there's a
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group of Giants fans out there that don't really want to accept how bad our quarterback play has been for the last
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six years And that included Drew Lock last year and it's included um um Devito
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and and it's just been bad and and teams haven't been had haven't had to worry about our quarterbacks So like you said
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if they have to start worrying about a Super Bowl winning quarterback like Russell Wilson seeing one-on-one
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coverage and he's got Malik Neighbors or he's he's got Sllayton they may not have they may have
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to back off a little bit and that'll open up the running game So will the Giants coaching staff take advantage
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that that's what one of the big mysteries that I'm actually very curious to to see But I think they've got the
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the the horses in the stable here I I love the diversity of the running backs
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You've got again Tracy is the shifty guy Um Scataboo is the battering ram Um
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Single Cherry is the the wy vet who can do a little bit of everything I just I really love the makeup of the room It's
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got veteran experience It's got youth It's got attitude It's got toughness now
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And the one thing that all these guys have to do though is is hold on to the ball They've all they've all they've all
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had some fumbling issues Even Scataboo in his career So so hopefully the high and tight from the old Tom Coughlin days
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gets gets preached into them So but the other thing too is this If somebody starts fumbling or somebody is not
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having a great game guess what you're out of here And the other guys coming in So you talked earlier about Tracy's got
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to clean some things up Well he better clean some things up or Scataboo is going to take his snaps So is that let
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let let's talk about him for just a minute So he he's rookie coming in again another mid round pick guy So obviously
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he wasn't wasn't a first or second round guy and so was Eric Ray A guy Yeah So a
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guy though that he's kind of a jack of all trades I don't know whether which if
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he has one particular thing that I would say he's just that but it's a lot of it is around his more like his attitude
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Um I know I said it before he kind of reminds me a little bit about Ahmad Bradshaw He's got that herkyjerky
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movement He's he's he runs a little bit bigger than I think he is So your thoughts what are you
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expecting from him and then anything you're worried about with
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him my I'll start with the negative first My negative is what some people have talked about is does his game
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translate to the NFL and I'm I'm optimistic but it is a
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it is a legitimate question He is so physical and he is a throwback and the
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game is not is different than it was 30 years ago and he's kind of an old
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throwback you know I'm going to run over you kind of guy right and I think some people
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um ignore or have missed that he's pretty shifty So he he does he can make
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you miss But his the reason why he doesn't remind me of Ahmad Bradshaw is I
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don't know who he remind we've talked about this before I don't you said it for you I don't know what who I would compare him to He's he's almost built
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like a fullback but but he's so shifty and he just people just bounce off of
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him and he and he and his his center of gravity is so low to the ground The
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first time I saw his highlights I was I was in the living
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room My wife was in the kitchen and I was like "Holy shit." I was like "This is unbelievable." I said "You got to
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come here and watch this guy It he he's got some of the best highlights I've ever ever seen." I mean fun too My My
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favorite one of my favorite runs he had was it was an it was in a it was a red
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zone run where he was running outside and there were two defenders who had him defensive backs At least one was a
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defensive back I think one was might have been a smaller linebacker but they both had him dead to rights and he out
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ran them to the corner shows he showed his athleticism and then somebody tried
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to try to tackle him at the goal line and he just laid his shoulder in him and just the guy just collapsed and
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Scatteroo stood over him just like you know like and it was like one
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of the best runs I've ever seen for like I don't know it was like a five yard touchdown run but it was like holy crap
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and and and in the playoffs he was insane So I don't know if you saw any of the playoff games that he had but he was
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he was like a oneman because they were out with they were without their their um star wide receiver who's going to be
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in the draft this year Um can't think of his name right now Jordan Um but he was
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basically a oneman wrecking crew And um so I I I don't know who he reminds me of
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I I I don't think it's Bradshaw I think he's got a unique style and and I'm really excited to to see him I also
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think Brian Dable loves the loves the guy because when when he talks about he lights up So So I have a feeling that
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Dable like he was lobbying for the quarterback in Dart I have a feeling Dable was lobbying for Scataboo And
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what's interesting is the Giants had a number of running backs on the on on on
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the table when they took him So there was like a run of running backs earlier on the second day of the draft and then
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on the third day of the draft the Giants kind of started the run on the next group of running backs and I think Tuton
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went right before Scataboo and but then after the Giants took Scataboo there was
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a run on running back So like the Giants had kind of had their preference with quarterback they kind of had their preference with with running back too It
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wasn't like the Giants settled on a running back I think they got the guy they were target and again he was a 30
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visit All the Giants draft picks right except for Fedoni were 30 visits and Fedoni might have been too We just don't
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know But but he obviously was a target of theirs So uh for me the I I
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think you hear him talk and yeah I actually heard him talk about Dball I I
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I'm on board with you 100% It's not just the way Dball talks about him It's the way he talks about Dayball and the
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interactions that they've been having with Dayball that he You saw that today yeah I saw that with the K Adams thing Yeah You want to explain that because
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people Yeah So So basically they were talking about this this this headbutt thing that was between uh Scataboo and
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and Jackson Dart And yeah for those who haven't seen it um Jackson Dart and Scataboo have started headbutting each
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other in public Yeah Which which there we go Um and then they met me you know
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mentioned and K Adams goes "Brian Dable's gonna have to you're gonna have to step in and stop the" And then
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Scatteroo says "Dall is a big part of he goes called them little." That little guy is is you know all part of a and I'm
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thinking he's shown so much excitement around this this rookie
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class overall That might be a very good thing but it also might be like um are
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you tethering your coaching career to this class that just came in and that's why you're so excited that's for another
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day But Dball seems very very very excited I see Scataboo as a guy that is
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going to compete for time I don't know if he's going to compete to possibly start I think Tracy Singleary those guys
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are probably but I don't think starting is going to matter so much as we move forward I think it's you know I think
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it's semantics you know like it doesn't matter It was just who was out there first Um
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my question though is we know there's three You say there probably won't be
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four I agree If there was a true fullback maybe we would do four and the
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fullback would be four but they're going to use tight ends When we do that group I think we'll be talking about that's
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going to be the fullback essentially That's one of the reasons why I think they're going to have three I think they're going to carry more tight ends
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That's my prediction I don't know if that's going to be accurate but I think they're going to carry more tight ends and they'll have to carry fewer running
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backs So do you see any chance that any of the other guys that that we are kind
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of talking about right now could knock Singleary out of the 30 because you're not getting rid of Scataboo You're not
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getting rid of Tracy They're young They're cheaper It's just not happening Singleary is the one guy that
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potentially the Giants still need to make up more more room on the on the salary cap It's not that they're in bad
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shape salary cap wise They just need to adjust some contracts for this single year Next year they're in really good shape But Singleary is a guy though that
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on on the numbers wise if if he's equal like let's say Eric Gray tears it up in
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camp and the Giants are like man Gray's really come in Could he unseat a single
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could a Miller unseat single if Singleary is going to be the three it would have to be something like that It
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would be have to be one of the other three guys is clearly better because I think there's a comfort Well it's
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stating the obvious because Dable brought him back Dable had him in Buffalo and then they brought him brought him with him to New York There's
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a comfort level with Dable and Singleary And I think there's an advantage to having a veteran in the in the room with
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the Scataboo And still Tracy's still a very young player So I would I be shocked no But I expect
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Singleary to make this team unless something happened like like you just said The one thing I do want this Eric
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Ray gets a lot of grief and again I know I'm one of his few few defenders out there
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and I went back and watched his college tape because I wanted to see and I
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talked to Sai about this offline a little bit too and and I'm like what what what is going on with Eric Gray
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because Eric Gray doesn't look like the same player he was in college to me and
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I don't know if it's he missed a month last year because he had he got hurt I think it was a calf injury but I'd have
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to double check that But he had he missed a month last year and he only touched the ball you know running the
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ball 13 times and they've really pretty much put on kick returns which is
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something he never did in college Again you and I have talked about this over the years about the number of coaching
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curious coaching decisions this team has made You know not getting ready for the the opening game and and and and kicking
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issues and stuff like that One of the other ones is the not having a kick returner and a punt returner And finally
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they got one the last couple years and we saw what what a difference it makes But they still have him returning
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kickoffs which I don't think he's terribly comfortable with doing that So I think Giants fans understandably
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conflate the the kick return lows and there have been many I think he's got
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five or six fumbles and say the player sucks Well I don't like the fact the
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coaches have put the player in in a position that he's he's clearly not suited for And I still think there's
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talent there When he played last preseason I don't know if you remember but he had some really good preseason
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games last year I think it was against Detroit Detroit It was against Detroit He had a huge run for a touchdown He had
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a great catch out of the back field So so if your scenario was to happen I
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think it would have to be somebody like Eric Gray really finally showing why the
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Giants drafted him in the first place And if he does that that's fantastic My guess is this is Eric Gray is fourth
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string on the depth chart in camp He doesn't get many touches He gets a few
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touches in the preseason The Giants feel like they can cut him and put him on the practice squad And then if somebody gets
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hurt like a Tracy or Scataboo or Singleary they could safely bring him up from the practice squad That's my guess
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is what's going to happen But your scenario is not impossible but it would have to be like you said one of these
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guys like like him or and and Dante Miller is a fan favorite Um even though
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he hasn't done any he hasn't done anything yet because he's so fast you know and again that that speed is is
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there I mean he's he's the fastest He's the fastest I I mean I think it's easy to say he's the fastest running back on
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this team You but but it but running the football is more about than speed too
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But but uh Turbo Miller is another guy I I don't like Turbo I should say Dante Dante Miller is another guy that could
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end up on the practice squad too I these are the kinds of guys that I don't think other teams are going to be clamoring for is my guess If you cut a a Dante
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Miller and an Eric Gray I think you can you can stash them That's my opinion You
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may feel different No no no I I I'm 100% In fact I was going to ask you
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this If the Giants felt like they needed a different kind of player at the
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position could you see them in camp as players are being cut or released maybe bring in
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a different veteran in who brings let's say size maybe a 230 a 240lb guy that
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they can bring in and they could use as a a short yardage guy a goal line guy if they wanted to If they wanted a
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different type of back because really if you look at it Tracy Scataboo and
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Singleary they do things slightly different but they're all roughly in the same group There isn't one of them
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that's like 195 or 245 They're all kind of right around in that same size same
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type of body same type of usage ability Scataboo would be the one maybe a more
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physical but that's more mentality than it is just pure size So could you see them possibly maybe bringing somebody
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else in who's just a completely different back no And I don't think that there's a big big difference in body
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type from Tracy and Scataboo Uh they may be listed like the same general weight
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and height And I mean Scataboo is like they they list him at 510 on Giants.com
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He's closer to 5'9 He's he's he's a short dude Um what is it Tracy tracy's
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510 or 5'11 I can't 5'11 5'11 He's 210 and and Scatteraboo is 225 And look
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Scataboo is not Some Giants fans who haven't seen Scataboo play are going to say he's a he's a he's a situational
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short yardage runner He's not He's more than that But he can be that guy too So I I I can't see any world where unless
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there's an injury the Giants bring in another running back at this stage I think if anything they've got too many
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running backs and not enough carries at this point So I think they're going to carry three and they've got their three
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Again knock on wood no one gets hurt but I think they've I this is the going to be the easiest preview I think that we
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have I think it's it's the three guys we know they are if they stay healthy are going to be the opening day starters I
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mean opening day players and and and I I would be shocked if they weren't and I
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would be a little bit shocked if one or two of the other guys aren't aren't put on on the practice squad And the other
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guy we should not completely discount is Rashawn Baker and um from Elon
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University And um he's an interesting guy He's a big physical guy He's more like the guy that you were just talking
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about You know he's a bigger guy more of that big big if you wanted a big back a
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different body type He's got the different body type He's a big dude and
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he is um someone again I don't think they're going to put three running backs
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on the practice squad but he's a guy who could contend for a spot And then the other long term is this is is um Devin
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is probably Wouldn't you think this is going to be his final year oh yeah without a doubt So they got to think
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which of the other three if any might be the number three running back in 2026 I
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mean I don't they're only going to have six draft picks next year I don't think they want to spend another draft pick on a running back next year unless there's
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somebody really really good out there But I I I think they're gonna want to um
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hopefully have one of the other guys on the other three guys stick around and be
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the number three three dude next year And it could be Rashan It could be still again Eric Gray and um um it could be uh
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Dante Miller We'll have to see What will set a lot of this apart too and then people are going to say we didn't bring
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it up so I want to bring bring it up now is pass protection Whoever's really good in passion is gonna probably play more
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as well too That's the one thing I'm very curious in Scataboo Some people have said he's not great at it Other
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people say he is Um he certainly has the demeanor if he's headbutting he's
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headbutting people left and right He's probably should have the physical instinctiveness to be want to you know
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he's not shying away from contact So we'll see So I'm excited about this This is one of the my favorite position
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groups now on the Giants And I'll be honest with you even when Saquon was there other than his rookie year look
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when Saquon had his rookie year I thought we were set for a decade And that just shows you how things can can
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can um spiral out of control so quickly in the NFL And then he kept getting hurt
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And then he finally kind of rebounded in 2022 And then again he kind of got hurt again last year And we all a lot of us
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weren't really upset he was gone last year And we all said the same thing pretty much If he stays healthy he'll be
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great in Philadelphia And that's what happened He stayed healthy We a lot of people expected him to get hurt And for
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the third time in his career he didn't get hurt last year So that always kind of bothered me that we were relying on a
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a star running back who who kept getting hurt And once he got hurt the whole offense collapsed Now we got a room that
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if somebody gets hurt somebody else can pick up the slack Well you know and not to beat a dead horse It's a conversation
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we had multiple times I still don't really care what he did with Philadelphia It wasn't applicable to
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what he would have done with the Giants last year Would would they have gone to the Super Bowl with Barkley no Would
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Barkley have had the the numbers that he had with the Eagles that with the Giants last year no And it's it's all
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circumstance right and it's it's it's system it's moments it's it just collectively that was the best spot for
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him A team built around a very big offensive line a very physical offensive line a very deep offensive line but also
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with a lot of weapons and a quarterback with weapons and a quarterback that can run weapons Yeah And so that just opens
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up But when you suddenly make him the only guy it's a whole different world So
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yes I it's disappointing on how things went with the Giants It's too bad I kind of like where we're at I'm with you I
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like the committee piece that we have I like the fact that I don't really know which guy is going to be week I do like
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the fact too that Russell Wilson throws a pretty good ball to the outside coming out of the back field He keeps got some
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looping nice passes to backs And the one thing we've always said is the biggest problem not to bring up the carcass one
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more time but one of the biggest problems with Daniel Jones is lots of his passes never led anybody anywhere
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They were at the person but not leading them Thus reducing the ability to make
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yards after the catch Wilson's going to hit you in stride Wilson's going to give you a ball that lets you continue going
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forward And our backs are going to get a much better chance We've been horrible horrible with screen passes for
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I mean even with Eli we were not good So we have been really bad and I kind of
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feel like now Wilson Ken I don't know about Winston but I definitely know Wilson Ken That's a really excellent
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point John that he is Again we've been talking about the moon balls and he's
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not well he hasn't historically thrown a lot over the middle but he does throw in
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the flats a lot So he's very good at running throwing to the running backs out of the back field and that fits our
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offense right now Guy that's it's again we'll have to see but Juan Dale is
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probably not going to be thrilled with this but um we'll see We we'll see And we've got some big tight ends now with
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with big catch radiuses And we'll talk about that in our next in our next preview which will be the tight ends And
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so I I'm excited about that There are things about this team that I'm actually really looking forward to I'm looking
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like the carcass is not it's not there anymore And that in itself has got me excited about the Giant I think people
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have picked up on on on the site I'm more excited about the Giants than I've been in in years because consciously or
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subconsciously I know that they're a better team right now So we'll see The the schedule's a We've already
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talked about it You you you're in a different place than I am about that It is what it is You can't you have to deal with it But I really like to make up the
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last thing I will say to wrap this up is a point that you made earlier in this
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video and it will tie into one of our upcoming specials which is going to be previewing the or reviewing the 1984 New
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York Giants season with we're going to have Larry and Matt on and that's going to be a lot of fun and and doing a
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little bit of reading on that season because to just refresh my memory is um
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one of the reasons Parcels um turned over that roster between an 83 and 84 is he
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wanted you and I have talked about it more like get the stink of the losing off of off of the team He wanted new
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guys with a fresh perspective He wanted his guys and you talked about earlier in
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this video about is Dable maybe getting some of his guys now better or worse
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they're bringing in some more of his guys So I feel almost that there's a parallel there that you've brought up
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before with the 1984 Giants about is this going to be a sim somewhat similar There is a similarity in this sense is
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Dable these these rookies these young this young class may have a
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psychological impact on on the on the New York Giants too So Scataboo might
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bring toughness and an attitude to this team And um there uh Alexander the the
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defensive tackle the same thing He may bring again a new presence in the in
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middle of the defense We're not talking about him enough So we'll we'll see So it's it's a it's a fun it's a fun group
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and I'm looking forward to it So with that if you could uh comment in
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uh in in the comment section you know who are your running backs are you going with three are you going with four who
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are your four uh who do you think's going to be the starter anything you want to talk about did what did we miss
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did we miss something with the backs uh what what's your thoughts on where the Giants are with the running backs we
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want to kind of keep that going I like the there's been a lot of comments We try to keep up on them too So if sometimes if we don't don't take it
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personal So I'm trying to I am trying to keep track of a lot of different things at the same time But we will we will
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continue to stay up there But if you can comment on that I might do a poll uh on the Spotify one I usually add a poll on
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Spotify but uh definitely uh keep it up And uh yeah I'm looking forward to the 84 one for a lot of reasons And uh what
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you got there buddy just question Who's your starting running back on opening day uh Tyrone Tracy Yeah it's mine I'm
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going with that I minus minus injury Tyrone Tracy I think I think Tracy is
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the the the what he did last year I think is just a tip of the iceberg of
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what the Giants think they can do with him Uh and that offensive line just
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assuming it's healthy and we have a solid five which I worst case scenario
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Van Roen's the guard from last year back again right but other than that if you have if one of the other guys steps in
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if Neil becomes a big road grader running block you know guy at guard I
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don't know about his pass blocking but if they get something like that out of there somebody like Tracy's really going
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to start seeing some holes that he can exploit And I think with Russell Wilson that opens up So I think it's Tracy they think and they those two first games
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they got to they got to try to win they got to try to win those first two games and you kind of and you throw a rookie in there that makes you a little more
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nervous So again I think I think Scataboo is going to play and I think he's going to play in a very important
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role but when they're going to be on the road and they're and that stadium's going to be rocking those two stadiums
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both are going to be rocking because we're we're the home openers for both those teams and right Dallas we're the
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home opener for Dallas as well too Yeah we're on the road for both games Yes Dallas But that's Dallas Dallas is at Philly week one So it's their home
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opener So those stadiums are going to be rocking I think they want the vet in their start So but I'll do one I I'll
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throw one other thing in there 1989 the Giants open up in Washington on
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a Monday night Oh yeah That was one of my favorite games It is a round running back Dave Meget who catches a pass over
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the middle breaks a tackle by Monty Coleman and he's off to the races for a touchdown We have a fourth round running
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back who we just drafted and a fifth round running back from last year So just you know just the old wy veteran OJ
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Anderson was the one who really set the tone in that game and why one of that's
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one of my favorite games is the local Washington DC announcer for the on the
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sports um sports show um said predicted he said there was no way the Redskins
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were going to lose to a team with a running back as old as OJ Anderson starting and and and you know how that
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game ended with that long field goal Oh yeah Raul It was like 50 54 50 52 52
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Yeah And and that was a great game Yeah that was a great game Man I love going back in time I just love I just That was
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a game the Giants were not supposed to win either So So And they were and they were gassed at halftime The Giants
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defense LT had to get an IV at halftime He was all over the field but he was owning Jim Lache in that game So that's
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something to remember as well Yeah that was a great game Okay So with that like subscribe all that good stuff We're
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