EXCLUSIVE Ryan Poles on Caleb Williams, Hard Knocks & more
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🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's Hogan Johns. |
| 0:05.3 | What's up? Welcome in Hogan Johns with you from Hallis Hall with a special episode, our annual sit down with general manager, Ryan Poles. |
| 0:17.1 | We're going to take you inside, behind the seats, actually in Ryan Poles's office. |
| 0:21.1 | Yes, you saw it on Hard Knocks. |
| 0:22.6 | Now you get to see it here on Hogan Johns. |
| 0:25.6 | And very grateful that they allowed us to sit down on Ryan in his office, Ryan especially. |
| 0:32.5 | And fun conversation, as always. |
| 0:35.0 | Make sure you are following us on Twitter. |
| 0:36.6 | At Adam Hogue, at Adam Johns. |
| 0:38.3 | At Hogan Johns is our show account. |
| 0:41.3 | You know, we learned in this episode that we need to get the GM some merch. |
| 0:47.4 | So that merch you can get at Hoganjohns.com, too. |
| 0:50.4 | So don't forget that. |
| 0:51.6 | It's all up there. |
| 0:52.3 | We're rocking it today here at House Hall. |
| 0:55.0 | We will have some thoughts on Saturday's game against the Bengals and how Caleb played and all that. |
| 1:01.1 | But we know what you're here for it today. And that is the GM. So here he is Ryan Poles on Hogan Johns. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's go. All right. Time again for our annual sit down with the general manager in training camp. I've been doing this for a long time since like 2016, I think. So, Ryan, thanks for doing this again. And thank you for having us in your office for the first time. Yeah, no problem. It's not bad. Not a bad space, right? No, it's very nice. We could do a whole tour, but we'll save that for Hard Knocks, I think, because they've gotten a glimpse on that. This is probably our best chance to get on Hard Knocks, to be honest with you. Yeah, so if you want to send Shannon Furman a text, we're here. The camera's already moved. Oh. Is that weird? Have you been able to block that out? Is it weird to have cameras in your office? Yeah, you forget about it over time. But there's been some, you know, just funny interactions. Ian and I were in here watching tape and he's like, I wonder how they do laundry. And then I got a text. Like, this is how we get laundry done. So they're always listening and watching. But you do forget about it. Just kind of go about your day. Where is the microphone? Did you even know? Yeah. So there's two on my desk and I believe that right there is another microphone. Oh, wow. Like a high tech. My two. They can hear everything. It's pretty good yeah so like when you see this this |
| 2:18.9 | camera move do you notice it if you're like working at your desk and like it shifts like oh they're |
| 2:22.9 | around me right now it's really quiet so you can't hear it move but like you'll kind of just |
| 2:26.8 | feel something yeah so did you happen to see any of the giants hard knocks in the offseason yeah |
| 2:33.9 | yeah i mean what i don't know how close you are with joe shame but that had Did you happen to see any of the Giants Hard Knocks in the offseason? Yeah. |
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