Giants Are Building a Culture

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The Evan & Tiki crew discuss the Giants inter squad scrimmage with the Lions and how they are building a culture.

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00:00When we showed up at the facility today, there was, I'm not going to lie, for the reporters

00:04and everybody, and wait until you see what happens with this team versus the Lions.

00:07There was a negative aura to what they had seen in camp.

00:10There were noticeable players, but overall it was a team.

00:12And we walked away today and it feels like every reporter is saying it from here to Kington,

00:15any fan that was in the stands today.

00:18The Giants flat-out, Tiki, looked like they belonged versus the Detroit Lions, and now

00:21the question is, is that a one-day thing or should we up our expectations for this team?

00:27That's the hard thing because this doesn't mean anything.

00:29We talk about how much fight the Giants have and how exciting it is to see the skirmishes

00:34and Daniel Jones being a part of this, but the reality is, until you win, until you do

00:39it consistently, then you're not going to be taken seriously.

00:44And the perfect example is the team that they're scrimmaging against.

00:48So the Detroit Lions, three years ago, four years ago, hired Dan Campbell.

00:54And they're better, right?

00:57They have that fight in them.

00:58You can see it.

01:00You can see how he talks.

01:01You can see how his team responds to him.

01:03But they don't go out and set the world on fire.

01:06But what they did do was set a culture and set a precedent that as they started to get

01:12more and more talent on this team, it culminated in what we saw last year, which is they're

01:18a game away from getting to the Super Bowl and a tight game, obviously, last year in

01:23the NFC Championship game.

01:24So you know that once the talent gets there, if the culture and the fight is right, then

01:30the team has a chance.

01:31It doesn't feel like, oh, we got this put-together team right now, but what you have is what

01:38I talked about last season with the Giants.

01:40They fight, right?

01:42They had no business being in some of the games that they were in at the end of the

01:45year last year.

01:46They just didn't have the talent out there.

01:48Their quarterbacks hurt.

01:49Saquon was banged up at some points of the season.

01:52Your wide receiving core is nowhere near where it is now.

01:56The offensive line is a group of rotating inferior pieces, yet they were in games.

02:03They had this fight about them.

02:04And so the only thing I take away from today from the Giants is that that fight is part

02:09of their culture.

02:10And it's what we saw with the Lions three years ago, and it's where you can hope as

02:14long as you keep this thing together and don't get so anxious about firing a coach because

02:19of disappointing whatever, you know that the system is right, the program is right,

02:25the people are starting to get right, and eventually you'll see success.

02:28I don't know when that's going to happen, but I love the fight that this team has.

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