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Hey, Giant fans.

Welcome to the Giant Insider podcast.

My name is Jerry Foley.

I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper.

And with me, as always, is the beat writer, the heart of Giants Nation.

Nobody beats the biz.

Chris Missignano.

And in this podcast, guys, we have a very special guest.

Super Bowl 25 champion. third all time in giants games

played only behind elinning and michael strahan we welcome the great howard cross to the program

thanks howard for joining us hi guys how you doing tonight good how my man how you doing i can't complain

nobody listens when you do.

First off, Jerry, I see Howard around the building during game day. I see him at the facility. Dude, you know, I'm not blowing smoke up his ass, but dude's a first-class act, bro. I'll be standing by the immediate door. Howard, I can walk into his car. I always throw us a, give the yell out. See him. So Howard,

you know, it's an honor to have you on. And the reason, one of the main reasons is what,

well, we always love the way you played Howard. But you got the pulse of the team, my man.

You know, you're right there with popperman banks. You're there every Sunday. And there's no better guy to bring on to tell everybody listening about, you know,

the feel of this team. So let's get into it out a little bit. Hey, three and six coming off

the boy. Hey, the Tampa Monday night. Howard, what do you what's the state of this team?

How do you feel the state of this team is? And is there a potential to go on a little bit of a run? Tell us how you feel about this squad.

Well, right now, you know, they got to go up against Tampa, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Tampa's like kind of reeling and rocking right now. But the problem is that they don't have all their guys. If Tampa gets healthy, like, you know, get back

Brown and and Grunk, then Tampa's going to be a problem. But if they don't, then I think

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