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Welcome to the Giant Insider podcast, presented by Bandul on the Believe Network. My name is Jerry Foley. I'm the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer, Heart of Giants Nation. Nobody beats the biz. Chris Bizignano. All right. So we're going to have a guest tonight folks you know this rick saratella but before we

get to rick we do want to cover the uh the biggest issue in giants land right now uh the dexter

paulson debo not showing up to uh to the first day no uh the dexter lawrence issue where dexter

lawrence is uh requesting a trade uh Obviously, contract related, not happy.

So, Chris, you kind of, you put out on X that it had nothing to do with the elbow, right?

And also that some things were taken out of context.

Rather than me speculate, you just want to talk about what you know about the situation and, you know, I guess speculate.

The only speculation would be how likely they are to keep them, trade them, figure this out.

What's the year, Chris?

Yeah, I mean, if they go to, if they go look, I don't know the mindset of Dex-A-L Lawrence.

I mean, look, he, he, he wanted a new contract last summer and Shane threw a couple

million in incentives.

He didn't really reach him.

He wasn't happy that he didn't get a new contract.

You know, now he's like like now he's 12 highest paid

defensive line he shouldn't be he's better in three quarters of those guys in front

of him and he wants to get paid actually wants to be the highest paid which isn't

going to happen but he wants to be the highest paid um and he wasn't happy he wasn't happy

really last year he wasn't happy um he doesn't i don't know if he really

trust joe shane anymore after what happened with good friends ledin williams julia

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