Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider Podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I am the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me, as always, is the beat writer of the Heart of Giants Nation. Chris Bizignano. And Chris, we got Pepper Johnson, baby. How awesome was that?

Yeah, was that a great interview or what? Oh, my God. Wow. Yeah, listen, we knew Pepper was a fun guy. He liked the talk. He was like that as a play. He was like that as a coach, right? Yeah. Always talked to the media as a coach. I always spoke his mind. And he basically did with us, had a good time in him. You know, Pepper spoke about some stuff that happened when, you know, in his little thing in the XFL, which we were kind of grateful for, right? Yeah. First time he expressed what happened as a defensive coordinator of the L.A. team out, you know, in the XFL league. And Pepper actually saying this is the first time he's talked about it, from the media which was very nice that was that's what they call it

get baby nice job that was awesome yeah but I was good I was good but we were happy

me and you were happy we thanked Pepper for that I mean he didn't have to do that

but he did went into some old fascinating stuff with Parcells, the old team. Yep. Went on to his coaching, you know, Balochek. We got into Balochek a little bit. You know, listen, Jerry, you know, Parcells, of course, is a legend around here, you know, and his sidekick on those teams was Belichick. So, you know, it's good to get into him, too, because he played for him, you know. Belichick was a big part of those teams, too. So some, some fascinating stuff, right, from Pepper? It was awesome. It was, and look, man, we're blessed. Collins, Otis Anderson, Pepper Johnson, like, these are names. And they're talking to us. And it wasn't, it's incredible. It great you know the the the the thrill of it you know

we get such a bang out of it you know we're still fans and to be able to talk to these guys these

are heroes of ours and for them to go on and talk about their career what they're doing and then

like you said like talking about the xFL to us that was that was awesome and then the

bellichick and parcels you guys will hear it soon we're dropping it with this uh awesome absolutely

awesome yeah everybody listen jerry everybody had positive feedback about listening to the old players

right yeah um and just you know just to tell everybody that when training camp starts, you know,

we're going to have some other guys, you know, that will very, should I say, very important

in the giant organization and the Giants media and broadcasting and all that.

We're going to have people coming on in August, Jerry, talking about training camp, right? Yeah. What the team looks like, Joe Judge, the players, what's going on on the field. Now, you know, it might be a little, it's probably going to be tougher. We're going to get some players on, do the podcast with us, but now I'm not in a locker. Well, nobody is. Yeah. So to speak to them on the side is, you know, it's not going to happen now this season because of the COVID virus. So that might be difficult, but we're going to have other guests, right, Jerry? And people are going to be, I think are going to really like it. And dude, shout out to Banks, your boy Banks for hooking us up.

I mean, that's, and that's you.

I mean, your relationship with Banks and, you know, getting us in touch with Pepper Johnson. Talk about a thrill. Awesome. Great job by Banks. He's the man. Yeah, well, listen. Thank you. You know, I thank Carl and thank you again if he's listening. If he listens. and so yeah that was very nice to him um and we might have some more people pepper's still in touch with a lot of people from the 86 teams and 90 teams you

know yeah i even joked him out about one guy who was pretty good lineback on the team you'll hear

at the end of the podcast yeah if that could ever could ever happen, well, that would be something.

But, you know, we're trying, Jerry, the people really like, listen, the people really like going down

memory lane, right? Jerry, yeah, 16 to 90 team. Yep. I love it when these guys, I love it when

they say, you have time, right? I'm like, yeah, dude, keep going. Yeah. I love that. You know, listen, we're going to get Mr. Banks down the road. Yeah. He's going to chat with us about, you know, training camp. And he'll chat with us about the old times, too. You know, I'll remind them how he blew to tackle on Randall Cunningham again. No, I'm only kidding. So any, we'll have some other guests. I think people are going to really like to, Jerry. You know, so good time. Good things, but speaking to training camp, I guess we could get into it a little bit, right? Yeah, it's upon us, buddy. Next week, the squad reports, the full squad.

Um, they're going to have to get tested, go back in quarantine a few days, do some virtuals.

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