June 23, 2025 • 24 mins
On this episode of the Giants Huddle podcast, John Schmeelk is joined by the Giants running backs, Dante Miller, Devin Singletary, Cam Skattebo, and Tyrone Tracy Jr, to discuss how the room is gelling, how the group works in the film room, and what they can each bring to this Giants offense.
:00 - Dante “Turbo” Miller
3:48 - Devin Singletary
9:44 - Cam Skattebo
15:40 - Tyrone Tracy
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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We continue our position series as we interview players at
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Today it's the dude's toting the rock. We're going to
talk to the running.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Backs, all right, and now we welcome in Dante Turbo,
Miill Turbo.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
How are you? Not much?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Man?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
How about you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's good to see it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So what's the difference for you year two National Football
League versus coming here as rookie last year and just
kind of trying to figure everything out as you go?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I mean, you kind of got a lot of things
figured out are at this point, such as playbook, you
knowing how things go, slowing the game down, you know
what I'm saying. This year complete feels different when it
comes to playbook than it did last year. So I'm
out there, you know, being able to assess what's happening
with defenses easier than I did last year, for example,
So it's a lot of the smooth transition.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I'm sure last year you're just trying not to sink, right,
you're just trying to keep your head above water, figure
things out right, And ye.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You're trying to figure things out. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying, get things under under control.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But you're like this year, you're probably able to hold
it in on a few specific things from a specific
football perspective to work on.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And what are some of those.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Things that you really tried to walk in on this
offseason to kind of take that next step.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I want to aid the team on special teams a
lot more than I did last year. So that's gonna
be big for me this year.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know, turn or coverage units or both.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Everything, you know what I'm saying. So, I mean, when
the type of guy you can put anywhere on special teams.
So as you said, you know, coverage, your turning and everything.
So those are the type of things I want to
hold in on too, and you know, make sure I'm
aiding in the backfield and helping the team win where
abu I can.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And it sure looks like they're trying to use the
running backs a lot more in the passing but this year,
watching you guys in the spring, there's a lot of
wheel routes, a lot of option routes in the middle
of the field. How have you kind of taken to
that you think in terms of being a bigger target
in the.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Pass game, Hey, shoot, man, I mean I got speed,
you know, and that's one thing you can't teach. So
whenever we utilize that in the passing game, I just
want to be where I am, where I'm supposed to
be and make the players when it comes to me.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Of course, to earn your way on the field, you
have to be a pass protection, right, So how is
that part of your game coming along?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Both the physical part but even more importantly the mental
part of being in the right place.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I've never had an issue with like the physical part
of passing game. People think because of your fast it's like,
oh you might have Nah, I'm like, I'm one ninety
seven and yeah, that's one very strong. So I would
say it's more as just knowing what to do. So
like rookie year, you might be trying to get you know,
get the playbook down, know where protections are coming in. Right,
So your second year you already know the protection, So
it's a matter of just being where you're supposed to
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be rather than getting there in hand on the job.
You know what I'm saying. So you'll get their hand
a job. He's got to know where to be, So
you know what I'm saying. That's fine. Protections is what
it is.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You got a fun little running back room there. Man,
you do that in depth in singletary. You know you
Tyrone or young Cam's coming in as a rookie.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Eric Ray's been in league a few years.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What is the interplay between you guys like in that
room is as you talk through film, watch practice and
try to make each other better.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So honestly, like after practice, we'll go watch film Russ,
we'll watch film as an offensive unit and if we
see something that we could work on. So like somebody
ran an option around, you're like, oh, you can work
on your depth, working angle here, working in patience, maybe
speed it up a little bit, whether we're working on Oh,
you're supposed to have this gun protection, make sure we're
working on that. So there's no like definite oh this
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person's calling this person out. We're all aiding each other
whenever we see something, whether that's a rookie, vet, third
year or four if you or anything.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Any specific goals you've set out for yourself this year?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Man, how does want to make plays? Make plays and
help the team wherever that is. That's what I want
to do. That's want to help the team win. That's
my that's my goal.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
For this year. I can't wait to see it, dude, Turbo.
Appreciate it, man, thank you very much. Appreciate.
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Speaker 1 (03:44):
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How do we make that happen? I don't know, Bud.
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Speaker 1 (03:59):
And joined by a Giants running back Devin Singletary.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Devin, what's up, man? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You guys got a pretty thick, robust room in that
running back spot right now, Man, what do you think
of the group.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Man, I like it. You know it's going to help us.
You know, it's a long season, so I think it's
gonna help us for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What progress did you see from Tyrone Tracy last year
from when he walked in a guy that was in
college for a while but didn't play a ton of
running back? How much and in what areas did you
see and really learn and grow as a rookie?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Man, uh pass pro for sure he grew in that.
He grew in that aspect and then just being patient,
you know, the way he the way he started to
read the blocks and set up the blocks. He grew
a lot in that area, for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I was talking a lot of the offensive linemen and
they kind of talked about how you have a running
back room that can really run every type of scheme
in terms of black one, right, you guys are inside zone.
You guys can do a power Where do you think
the run game really hit its best stride last year
in terms of what you guys as a unit, you
and the offensive line together did best.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Man duo you know, and duo inside zone, a little
bit of outside zone, but definitely like duo, like that
gap scheme. Man, we took a big stride in that area.
I think that's where we was at our best when
we ran the ball in that area. Why just I
don't know if it was just the.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Old line liked it that way. We liked it that way.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
But you know, whenever we ran those plays, you know
it's positive.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know, well when you weren't due. And I'm not
a running back, so correct me if I have this wrong.
You got the two double team blocks right, and then
that gives you guys, the running back group a little
bit of a free freedom right to read the linebacker
where they get a feeling and then you can kind
of pick your whole right.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, it's that you can read it or you know,
you kind of get a sense of where you can
set them up a little bit as well. You know
what I'm saying. But that double team, it takes you
a long way. When them big guys get to move in,
you know, two on one guy, that's trouble. You know,
no defender want to see that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
How much can you see growth from a run game
when you bring back this pretty much the same running
back room. And we'll talk about the new member of
your running back room in a second, and a lot
of the offensive linemen of the same Yeah. Does that
make a big difference having that same combination for two
consecutive years with you know, similar coaches.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I would say so, because you get to know your guys.
You know your guys well, and that go a long
way when you when you know your guys, you know
who blocking for you, that go a long way. Now
y'all jailed together, you know what they expect from each other.
So when you're out there playing, man, it's a scary sight.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Now you do new running back coach and Ladell Betts.
What has it been like having him in the room
with you.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Guys, Man, it's been lit, bro, you know, because he
played in the league so a long time, so exactly,
it wasn't just no two years like he played a
long time. So just picking his brain, learning from him,
you know, taking little nuggets from him, you know, that's
been very helpful for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What are some of the things that he's tried to
impart to you guys from his experience in the league.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean just some of the basics, you know,
but I think it go a long way, like taking
care of your body, you know, obviously he knew how
to do that, you know, and then your study habits,
your study habits gonna gonna take you a long way.
And you know, just sees whatever opportunity you get, you know, don't,
whatever your position may be, whatever your role may be,
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when your opportunity comes, make something heaven.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All right, tell me about the rookie camp Scatabo. I
know we haven't seen him on the field a ton,
but what has his personality been like? And what has
been like working.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
With the man man Scot cool man, that's my guy,
one of a con for sure. Brains great energy every day.
I think that's important. I'm a big energy guy. So
you never want to have nobody in the room that's
a we call him a vampire. That that's second, the
bad you know, bringing bad energy. He always brings good energy.
He's a he's a grinder and we know when he
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touched that pill, he gonna be physical.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I imagine you guys probably had a similar mentality coming
in right like he do. Go to Sacramento State and
then he had to transfer. You were never a bigger.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Guy, you were a smaller guy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Just he seems to bring a real kind of just
blue collar, earn everything.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
He that type of mentality at a home Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Man, definitely, And I feel like that's, you know, that's
our culture in a way with the team, real real
blue collar, put your head down work, who cares what
anybody got to say? Man, We're gonna show up and perform. Man,
That's that's what he brings.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The final two one. How do you see this group
kind of coming together and you guys complimenting each other
over the course.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Of a year.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Man, I feel like we'll Jill fine, you know what
I'm saying. We all kind of bring something different to
the table. But we all I feel like we can
all do everything, but just in a different way. So
and we can learn from each other. Even though Scatters
a young guy, I can learn from him. Of course
he can learn from me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We can.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know, we're bouncing ideas off each other. And the
competition that's the name of the game. So when you
got a great competition, that's when you get the best
out of everyone.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
What are the positives and negatives of not being a
bell cow and you know, maybe not getting worn down
and only having to carry it eight to twelve times
in the game, But at the same time, you don't
maybe get the rhythm you would getting the twenty carries
as a running back. How do you kind of look
at that the positive minuses of being part of.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
A committee as it helps you, I feel like definitely
longevity in a way. It helps you that way, But
at times it could be not how you want it
to be as far as getting in the rhythm, because
sometimes you might need a certain amount of carriers to
get in a rhythm. So you just got to find
your balance, find a way with that. But you know,
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it's it's always a way to find a way to
make something happen.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What are your goals for this year?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Before we rap, man, my goals is just be better
than I was last year. That's always my goals. Be
better than I was the year before, you know, and
get out there and make plays. That's the name of
the game.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Good stuff, man, good luck this year. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
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Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, now we welcome in Giants rookie running back
Cameron'scataboo's Cameron.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
How are you man? Good? Good?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm excited to be here now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I know it's been disappoint you. I haven't been on
the field as much you'd have liked in the spring.
But what has it been like in the classroom trying
to kind of figure out an NFL offense and see
where you might fit inside of it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, I mean I've been getting it down and everything
that they're doing here to you know, feed me into
the offense has been awesome. So I'm excited to you know,
keep learning and you know, get the rolling in this
offense to see see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
On our GIHNTS Total podcast, we had a chance to
talk to Sean Iguana, your running backs coach, that nothing
but great things to say about you. What did you
what did he help teach you when you got at
Arizona State that helped you prepare to become a pro.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I think the biggest part was the emotion side of football.
You know, he he helped me understand that I need
to calm down when things get hot, and I can't
get too high when things are you know, things are
going well. So I'm a very energetic and emotional guy,
and you know I like that to be heard. You know,
if I'm upset, you know, at times it used to
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come out, and you know now I've been able to
channel that. So I think me and him as got
a very personal relationship, and you know he helped me
with setting that emotional side of my life to the
side while I'm on the football field.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
When you spoke to the media when you first got here,
I just I have fell in love with your kind
of blue collar approach, and I imagine that has to
go back to you were underrecruited. You go to Sacramento State,
you kill it there and you get getting it brought up.
I mean, I just feel like you just have a
very much I will go out there and earn everything
that I nothing to be given to me, and I'm
going out there, I'm gonna earn it, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Cool with that, Like I don't need to have anything
given to me.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, I mean the biggest thing is I've had one
offer both times I was in the portal. Really had
one big offer, one FCS offer each time I was there,
So there's nothing that's ever been handed to me. I've
had a fight for it all. I went to a
team that was three and nine after my sophomore year,
and then after my junior year, after going three and
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nine again, you know, we went twelve and three. So
it was awesome, you know. And and I do my
best to make sure that I don't take anything for granted.
And uh, I don't expect anybody to hand anything that
I have to earn it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How did you develop your run style? Because I think
it's pretty unique.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm not gonna say you seek out contact because you
actual you are really good at making guys missing in
short areas, but you seem to really embrace the physicality
in the position.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
How did you develop kind of that that run style?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, you know, I got I got beat up by
my older brother growing up and spanked by my dad.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
But you know, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm starting to realize as I get older, like when
you impose pain and will on the other person, you
feel it less. You know, when you're when you're the
car going through a t bone, you don't feel it
as much. But when you get t bone. That's when
you when you feel it, you know so it I
mean when you when you impose the power through somebody
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and if you end up winning and their power doesn't
mean anything because you go right through it, that's when
it feels good. And I mean these big hits when
you see people get ran over, the person running the
ball doesn't feel it like it's it's to go through
and keep going kind of mentality. And you know when
you when you impose will it doesn't you don't. You
don't hurt as much.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And the other thing you talked about, and coach Iguana
talked to me about this too, is that you make
contact with the right type of contact. You don't catch
the guys scoring the chest right, you catch him on
the side. You catch half a man instead, and that
allows you to break as many tackles as you did
and really developed that contact bounce I think, right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I mean when when you catch a side of your
head or shoulder to your shoulder and it's coming real hard,
you don't You don't usually want to get hit by that.
You know your shoulder starts to get a little sore,
and you don't want to hit me next time. So
you know, I worked it over the years instead of
you know, going straighthead up with people trying to attack
half a man. And also coach Iguana has helped me
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with that, you know, split into defenders and you know,
attacking the weaknesses of defenders.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So how did you develop the contact bounce part of it?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That just came with time? You know, as I was young,
I've I mean, I've been breaking tackles since I was
seven years old. It's just been the way i' and
I've been playing the game for a long time, you know,
at a high.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Level too, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And and even when I was younger, we won five
championships in a row, you know, and it was just something.
I was always the best player on the field, and
it was just something that as I played more and
more football, I got better and better, and the contact
balance just stayed with me. I didn't grow to be
six foot four to where I you know, you kind
of lose some of that balance as you get a
little taller. Sure, I'm still only five to nine three quarters,
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so I'm blessed to have that contact balance naturally.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I know you have a lot of self confidence, but
did you almost prove something to yourself with the way
you played in that playoff game against Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Out you know they're running out there.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You know, they got all these super talented guys, and
your team just kept feeding.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
To the ball and you kept gating yards and you
kept gated yards.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They went back to you again so many touches, and
they wrote you and you guys were a player two
away from winning that football game.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I don't know if it's I proved to myself because
I know I could do it. It's and and I
hate to say I proved the haters wrong or I
proved the people that doubted me wrong, because you know
that's that's everyone's doubted. Everybody on the planet is doubted
by somebody. It's just how it is. You have to
live with it. But I proved to the coach that
he was right on giving me the ball in those moments.
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And you know, I enjoy touching the ball. And when
I know it's time to take over and I have
that feeling inside my heart or my in my mind,
I'm gonna let the coach know I want the football
and that the game is going to be taken over.
And you know, in this early in that fourth quarter,
last against Texas. You know, I told the coach like
I'm about to take over, give me the football, and
you know it ended up working in our favors, So
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I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Can we can't wait to see on the field.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You expect to be good to go by the time
trading camp rolls around end of July.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh absolutely, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Can't wait to see it. Man, get the pads on
place in real football. All right, thank you, appreciate cam'skataboo.
All right, now we're joined by Timer, Tracy jun or Tyrone.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
How wat man, I'm doing good, man, doing good, having
a great time.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You got a fun running back up? We do we do?
Why is it fun?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
I mean we have a lot of different characters. You know,
you got Turbo, you know, out going nine ten million
for those of you who don't know. And then you
also got obviously me, I'm very energetic. I'm a character myself.
Then you got the new additions obviously Scatterboo. I mean,
my boy, he's he's he's a character. He's that very outgoing,
very outspoken. Then you got molded and laid back oldhead.
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Don't tell about don't tell him, I said, oh ahead,
don't tell him, I said, ohhead, but.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I pretty much called what old I don't think. I
didn't want to. I don't want him to tell him.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I don't want him to say oldhead, you know, because
he's not oldhead, but you know, he just the older
head in the group. I basically that I think, yeah, yeah,
the heat a pops eat an uncle.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You know what I'm saying, absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
But look, I think what I like about the room
is that the three I'll just specifically you, Devin and
and Cam.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And we had Turbo. He was great, he's super fast.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But the three of you guys, I have three distinct
styles and how you play, but all three of you
can do every aspect of the running back position, even
if it's in a different way. You can all catch,
you can run inside, outside.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I just think it's a.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Really fun group of guys that depending on what team
you're playing, what scheme you're gonna run, they can utilize
all three of you guys in different ways to make
and you're interchangeable too.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I think that we have, like I said, it's a
great group of guys that is gonna come together for
one goal. You know what I'm saying, We want to win.
We won the football games. But we also know our role,
We also know our style. Like we're not trying to
be the other guy, you know what I'm saying, not
trying to.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Be each other. Like we're gonna be who we are.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Whoever you know, the Giants draft for us to be,
That's who we're gonna be every single day. You know,
I'm not gonna be Cam and try to you know,
power through everything. You know what I'm saying. That's that's
his that's his super strength. You know what I'm saying.
Mine is running around people, making people miss in space,
catching the ball down the field like that's mine. Like,
and then you also got motor. Motor is also very smooth,
very elegant. When he gets the ball, he's he knows
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what to do, what's gonna happen. Like he's a vet.
He's a true vet. So like we're gonna be us,
you know what I'm saying. And then, like you said,
versus the team, whoever going against whoever the opponent is.
You know, one person might get in a little bit
more carried than the other. And then you depending on
the game, depending on how the game's going. You know,
you never know but at the end of the day,
like we're just trying to win. We're just trying to
win football games.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I know all you guys want to be on the field,
So so the answer to this question in some way
is always gonna be yes. But as a grouper, you
guys getta care who's getting the most carries each game,
as long as as a group, you guys are being
effective in the run game as an offense is working.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Nah to be honest to me, personally, I really can't
speak for a sket or or motor, but for me personally,
I don't care. You know what I'm saying, Like, obviously
there's one football you got, you know, three receivers, four receivers,
a tight end. You know what I'm saying, Like we
got quarterback runs. Like there's only a limited amount of
touches in a football game, period, point blank. So if
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I get ten, I gotta do what I can with
that ten. You know what I'm saying. If I get eight,
I gotta do what I can with that eight. Like
you're gonna get what you earn. You know what I'm saying.
They ain't gonna give you nothing. You know what I'm saying.
You gotta earn whatever you're getting. If someone else is
playing good, yeah, yes, go touch that rock and do
what you do.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know, a hot hand, right ye, Like whatever is
going on, Like.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
This is professional football, man, Like it's gonna be. It's
gonna be games where someone else is doing better. Obviously
you want to have a good game every game, but
that in reality, that's just not gonna happen, you know
what I'm saying. But that's why you want to have
a stack room. You know what I'm saying, not just running,
but you want to stack you know, dB room, you
want to stack d lin room, stack quarterback room, just
in case you know somebody else is.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Outperforming or whatever. You robbed that hot hand.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Whoever's having a good game and giving the ball, let
them produce, let them make plays. And that's when you
look in the postseason, all the good teams, they have
stacked rooms, they have stack rosters. So like again, the
more people we have that can play ball at a
high level, the better we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I know you mentioned it in your media availability with
with with the media, but I think it's been jarring.
Maybe what the all you're saying jarring? How much they've
thrown the ball to the running backs down the field
in practice. Yeah, and I think it's much more than
I've seen here really anytime in the last four or
five years.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Are you just like salivating any And.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I've been having conversations with CAF about it, because, like,
I want to be used, man, I want to be
used at all areas of the football field, like outside, inside,
down the field.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Like I'm gonna make a joke about the way you
play wide receiver vi Iowa.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
To the ball.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
They they did.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I had a few catchup, but that's really about it,
you know. But like I'm loving it, man, I really
I'm loving it. I'm getting opportunity to show up, show
off my skills. I'm allowing, you know, really the game
just to ooze out of me.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I'm not forcing anything like whatever happens happens. But I
also want to make sure that, like when opportunities come,
you make that play. And that's kind of the things
that I'm harping on the running backs, just to make
sure that, you know, when we do get opportunities, we
take care of them, because again, we're running backs, They're
not looking to throw what's the ball down and field
unless we make them look for us to throw the
ball down the field. So we have to take advantage
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and put trusting the coaches in our quarterback to throw
the ball. You know, even when we look covered throwts
about giving us an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
We're gonna make a play and then boom neyhing.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You know he wants look for us again.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
All right, you talked about the receiving a part of it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You mentioned past protection when you spoke to the media
about something you want to get better at as a
pure runner, just you know, whether it's pressing the whole,
reading the blocks. What are some of the things as
a pure runner that you think you can get better
at in your second year, I was.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I would probably say my pre snap and post nap vision.
You know, I think I have really good vision, but
I think last year it was more reactionary than actually
reading the D line for what it is. So for instance,
like understand if I have a three take versus a shade,
you know, in sid zone versus outside zone, having my
eyes correctly to my keys, and then just playing ball
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after that, you know what I'm saying. Last year, again,
I think I was more reactionary when the ball is hyped.
Now I'm reacting to what the defense is doing instead
of having a plan for what they're going to do.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And again that's just.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Again football IQ from year one of year two, looking
at your film, understanding that, like you know, I can
slow down a little bit on some place, I can
speed up, understanding where my blocks are going to happen. Again,
just full BYQ overall foot by Q. I think it's
something that's going to help me a lot with this
second year because at the end of the day, you
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want to make plays, but it's an easier way to
make plays than what I did last year.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I have to figure that out for myself.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
All right, final question you talked about past pro. It
was a few months ago when I went back. I
looked a lot of your past pro stuff and I
felt like a lot of times you were in the
right place at the right time, and you were set
up to make the block, just sometimes you couldn't get
latched and you couldn't actually stop the guy. So if
you is that like that technique in terms of that
is that something you've worked on a lot in the
off season.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
So it's really just technique. That's really all it is
is taknoking. Again, my eyes are fine, I know who's blissing.
I know where to look, I know how to pick
him up. There's more so technique and then just overall
getting the job done. You know, you don't have to
kill a person to stop them, you know what I'm saying.
You just got to make sure your feets in the ground,
your arms are in the right positions, and that you
know you're actually striking them. And that's the main thing
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I want to do, you know what I'm saying. I
want to strike somebody, stop him, to stop him, you
know what I'm saying. From getting to the quarterback man.
But again, at the end of the day, I gotta
do the work, you know what I'm saying, behind the
scenes to make it. You know, come come alive on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And by the way, should have asked you about Scatterble
You mentioned him. He is he hasn't had a chance
to do much yet. Yeah, does he have like just
the right amount of crazy in him.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
In order to be a good I would I wouldn't
even say right, he has a lot of crazy, and
he has a lot He has a lot of crazy
in them. But yeah, I mean he's like I said,
he's a he's a great human. You know what I'm saying,
he's a great he's a great human. Yeah, he's a
great dude. Man, he's a great dude. He loves football,
he loves the ball.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Blue collar guy.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, whatever it is, man, he's he's
gonna do the dirty work if he needs to, like
whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Like he he's a good dude.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Like I invitehim over my crib a couple of times,
like we done hung out, we went to the next
game before.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Like he's a good dude.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
But yeah, he's a really blue collar dude, like put
his hands in the dirt, like ready, ready to work,
you know what I'm saying. Obviously, you know hasn't been
able to get on the field, but you know when
he's out there, I know.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
He's he's gonna do something. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Yes, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Thank you always. Good year from the running backs. It
should be a fun group this year.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Are splitting carries, guys with different skill sets, complimenting each other,
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Today it's the dude's toting the rock. We're going to
talk to the running.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Backs, all right, and now we welcome in Dante Turbo,
Miill Turbo.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Man?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
How are you? Not much?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Man?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
How about you?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's good to see it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
So what's the difference for you year two National Football
League versus coming here as rookie last year and just
kind of trying to figure everything out as you go?
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I mean, you kind of got a lot of things
figured out are at this point, such as playbook, you
knowing how things go, slowing the game down, you know
what I'm saying. This year complete feels different when it
comes to playbook than it did last year. So I'm
out there, you know, being able to assess what's happening
with defenses easier than I did last year, for example,
So it's a lot of the smooth transition.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, I'm sure last year you're just trying not to sink, right,
you're just trying to keep your head above water, figure
things out right, And ye.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You're trying to figure things out. Yeah, you know what
I'm saying, get things under under control.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
But you're like this year, you're probably able to hold
it in on a few specific things from a specific
football perspective to work on.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And what are some of those.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Things that you really tried to walk in on this
offseason to kind of take that next step.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I want to aid the team on special teams a
lot more than I did last year. So that's gonna
be big for me this year.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
You know, turn or coverage units or both.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Everything, you know what I'm saying. So, I mean, when
the type of guy you can put anywhere on special teams.
So as you said, you know, coverage, your turning and everything.
So those are the type of things I want to
hold in on too, and you know, make sure I'm
aiding in the backfield and helping the team win where
abu I can.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And it sure looks like they're trying to use the
running backs a lot more in the passing but this year,
watching you guys in the spring, there's a lot of
wheel routes, a lot of option routes in the middle
of the field. How have you kind of taken to
that you think in terms of being a bigger target
in the.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Pass game, Hey, shoot, man, I mean I got speed,
you know, and that's one thing you can't teach. So
whenever we utilize that in the passing game, I just
want to be where I am, where I'm supposed to
be and make the players when it comes to me.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Of course, to earn your way on the field, you
have to be a pass protection, right, So how is
that part of your game coming along?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Both the physical part but even more importantly the mental
part of being in the right place.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I've never had an issue with like the physical part
of passing game. People think because of your fast it's like,
oh you might have Nah, I'm like, I'm one ninety
seven and yeah, that's one very strong. So I would
say it's more as just knowing what to do. So
like rookie year, you might be trying to get you know,
get the playbook down, know where protections are coming in. Right,
So your second year you already know the protection, So
it's a matter of just being where you're supposed to
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be rather than getting there in hand on the job.
You know what I'm saying. So you'll get their hand
a job. He's got to know where to be, So
you know what I'm saying. That's fine. Protections is what
it is.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You got a fun little running back room there. Man,
you do that in depth in singletary. You know you
Tyrone or young Cam's coming in as a rookie.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Eric Ray's been in league a few years.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
What is the interplay between you guys like in that
room is as you talk through film, watch practice and
try to make each other better.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
So honestly, like after practice, we'll go watch film Russ,
we'll watch film as an offensive unit and if we
see something that we could work on. So like somebody
ran an option around, you're like, oh, you can work
on your depth, working angle here, working in patience, maybe
speed it up a little bit, whether we're working on Oh,
you're supposed to have this gun protection, make sure we're
working on that. So there's no like definite oh this
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person's calling this person out. We're all aiding each other
whenever we see something, whether that's a rookie, vet, third
year or four if you or anything.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Any specific goals you've set out for yourself this year?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Man, how does want to make plays? Make plays and
help the team wherever that is. That's what I want
to do. That's want to help the team win. That's
my that's my goal.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
For this year. I can't wait to see it, dude, Turbo.
Appreciate it, man, thank you very much. Appreciate.
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Speaker 1 (03:44):
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Speaker 1 (03:59):
And joined by a Giants running back Devin Singletary.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Devin, what's up, man? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You guys got a pretty thick, robust room in that
running back spot right now, Man, what do you think
of the group.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Man, I like it. You know it's going to help us.
You know, it's a long season, so I think it's
gonna help us for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What progress did you see from Tyrone Tracy last year
from when he walked in a guy that was in
college for a while but didn't play a ton of
running back? How much and in what areas did you
see and really learn and grow as a rookie?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Man, uh pass pro for sure he grew in that.
He grew in that aspect and then just being patient,
you know, the way he the way he started to
read the blocks and set up the blocks. He grew
a lot in that area, for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I was talking a lot of the offensive linemen and
they kind of talked about how you have a running
back room that can really run every type of scheme
in terms of black one, right, you guys are inside zone.
You guys can do a power Where do you think
the run game really hit its best stride last year
in terms of what you guys as a unit, you
and the offensive line together did best.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Man duo you know, and duo inside zone, a little
bit of outside zone, but definitely like duo, like that
gap scheme. Man, we took a big stride in that area.
I think that's where we was at our best when
we ran the ball in that area. Why just I
don't know if it was just the.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Old line liked it that way. We liked it that way.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
But you know, whenever we ran those plays, you know
it's positive.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know, well when you weren't due. And I'm not
a running back, so correct me if I have this wrong.
You got the two double team blocks right, and then
that gives you guys, the running back group a little
bit of a free freedom right to read the linebacker
where they get a feeling and then you can kind
of pick your whole right.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yeah, it's that you can read it or you know,
you kind of get a sense of where you can
set them up a little bit as well. You know
what I'm saying. But that double team, it takes you
a long way. When them big guys get to move in,
you know, two on one guy, that's trouble. You know,
no defender want to see that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
How much can you see growth from a run game
when you bring back this pretty much the same running
back room. And we'll talk about the new member of
your running back room in a second, and a lot
of the offensive linemen of the same Yeah. Does that
make a big difference having that same combination for two
consecutive years with you know, similar coaches.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I would say so, because you get to know your guys.
You know your guys well, and that go a long
way when you when you know your guys, you know
who blocking for you, that go a long way. Now
y'all jailed together, you know what they expect from each other.
So when you're out there playing, man, it's a scary sight.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Now you do new running back coach and Ladell Betts.
What has it been like having him in the room
with you.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Guys, Man, it's been lit, bro, you know, because he
played in the league so a long time, so exactly,
it wasn't just no two years like he played a
long time. So just picking his brain, learning from him,
you know, taking little nuggets from him, you know, that's
been very helpful for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What are some of the things that he's tried to
impart to you guys from his experience in the league.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yeah, I mean just some of the basics, you know,
but I think it go a long way, like taking
care of your body, you know, obviously he knew how
to do that, you know, and then your study habits,
your study habits gonna gonna take you a long way.
And you know, just sees whatever opportunity you get, you know, don't,
whatever your position may be, whatever your role may be,
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when your opportunity comes, make something heaven.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
All right, tell me about the rookie camp Scatabo. I
know we haven't seen him on the field a ton,
but what has his personality been like? And what has
been like working.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
With the man man Scot cool man, that's my guy,
one of a con for sure. Brains great energy every day.
I think that's important. I'm a big energy guy. So
you never want to have nobody in the room that's
a we call him a vampire. That that's second, the
bad you know, bringing bad energy. He always brings good energy.
He's a he's a grinder and we know when he
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touched that pill, he gonna be physical.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
I imagine you guys probably had a similar mentality coming
in right like he do. Go to Sacramento State and
then he had to transfer. You were never a bigger.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Guy, you were a smaller guy.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Just he seems to bring a real kind of just
blue collar, earn everything.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
He that type of mentality at a home Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Man, definitely, And I feel like that's, you know, that's
our culture in a way with the team, real real
blue collar, put your head down work, who cares what
anybody got to say? Man, We're gonna show up and perform. Man,
That's that's what he brings.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
The final two one. How do you see this group
kind of coming together and you guys complimenting each other
over the course.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Of a year.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Man, I feel like we'll Jill fine, you know what
I'm saying. We all kind of bring something different to
the table. But we all I feel like we can
all do everything, but just in a different way. So
and we can learn from each other. Even though Scatters
a young guy, I can learn from him. Of course
he can learn from me.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
We can.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
You know, we're bouncing ideas off each other. And the
competition that's the name of the game. So when you
got a great competition, that's when you get the best
out of everyone.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
What are the positives and negatives of not being a
bell cow and you know, maybe not getting worn down
and only having to carry it eight to twelve times
in the game, But at the same time, you don't
maybe get the rhythm you would getting the twenty carries
as a running back. How do you kind of look
at that the positive minuses of being part of.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
A committee as it helps you, I feel like definitely
longevity in a way. It helps you that way, But
at times it could be not how you want it
to be as far as getting in the rhythm, because
sometimes you might need a certain amount of carriers to
get in a rhythm. So you just got to find
your balance, find a way with that. But you know,
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it's it's always a way to find a way to
make something happen.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
What are your goals for this year?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Before we rap, man, my goals is just be better
than I was last year. That's always my goals. Be
better than I was the year before, you know, and
get out there and make plays. That's the name of
the game.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Good stuff, man, good luck this year. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
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Speaker 2 (09:55):
All right, now we welcome in Giants rookie running back
Cameron'scataboo's Cameron.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
How are you man? Good? Good?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'm excited to be here now.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I know it's been disappoint you. I haven't been on
the field as much you'd have liked in the spring.
But what has it been like in the classroom trying
to kind of figure out an NFL offense and see
where you might fit inside of it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Yeah, I mean I've been getting it down and everything
that they're doing here to you know, feed me into
the offense has been awesome. So I'm excited to you know,
keep learning and you know, get the rolling in this
offense to see see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
On our GIHNTS Total podcast, we had a chance to
talk to Sean Iguana, your running backs coach, that nothing
but great things to say about you. What did you
what did he help teach you when you got at
Arizona State that helped you prepare to become a pro.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I think the biggest part was the emotion side of football.
You know, he he helped me understand that I need
to calm down when things get hot, and I can't
get too high when things are you know, things are
going well. So I'm a very energetic and emotional guy,
and you know I like that to be heard. You know,
if I'm upset, you know, at times it used to
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come out, and you know now I've been able to
channel that. So I think me and him as got
a very personal relationship, and you know he helped me
with setting that emotional side of my life to the
side while I'm on the football field.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
When you spoke to the media when you first got here,
I just I have fell in love with your kind
of blue collar approach, and I imagine that has to
go back to you were underrecruited. You go to Sacramento State,
you kill it there and you get getting it brought up.
I mean, I just feel like you just have a
very much I will go out there and earn everything
that I nothing to be given to me, and I'm
going out there, I'm gonna earn it, and I'm.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Cool with that, Like I don't need to have anything
given to me.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, I mean the biggest thing is I've had one
offer both times I was in the portal. Really had
one big offer, one FCS offer each time I was there,
So there's nothing that's ever been handed to me. I've
had a fight for it all. I went to a
team that was three and nine after my sophomore year,
and then after my junior year, after going three and
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nine again, you know, we went twelve and three. So
it was awesome, you know. And and I do my
best to make sure that I don't take anything for granted.
And uh, I don't expect anybody to hand anything that
I have to earn it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How did you develop your run style? Because I think
it's pretty unique.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm not gonna say you seek out contact because you
actual you are really good at making guys missing in
short areas, but you seem to really embrace the physicality
in the position.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
How did you develop kind of that that run style?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, you know, I got I got beat up by
my older brother growing up and spanked by my dad.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
But you know, I think.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I'm starting to realize as I get older, like when
you impose pain and will on the other person, you
feel it less. You know, when you're when you're the
car going through a t bone, you don't feel it
as much. But when you get t bone. That's when
you when you feel it, you know so it I
mean when you when you impose the power through somebody
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and if you end up winning and their power doesn't
mean anything because you go right through it, that's when
it feels good. And I mean these big hits when
you see people get ran over, the person running the
ball doesn't feel it like it's it's to go through
and keep going kind of mentality. And you know when
you when you impose will it doesn't you don't. You
don't hurt as much.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And the other thing you talked about, and coach Iguana
talked to me about this too, is that you make
contact with the right type of contact. You don't catch
the guys scoring the chest right, you catch him on
the side. You catch half a man instead, and that
allows you to break as many tackles as you did
and really developed that contact bounce I think, right.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I mean when when you catch a side of your
head or shoulder to your shoulder and it's coming real hard,
you don't You don't usually want to get hit by that.
You know your shoulder starts to get a little sore,
and you don't want to hit me next time. So
you know, I worked it over the years instead of
you know, going straighthead up with people trying to attack
half a man. And also coach Iguana has helped me
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with that, you know, split into defenders and you know,
attacking the weaknesses of defenders.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So how did you develop the contact bounce part of it?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
That just came with time? You know, as I was young,
I've I mean, I've been breaking tackles since I was
seven years old. It's just been the way i' and
I've been playing the game for a long time, you know,
at a high.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Level too, you know.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And and even when I was younger, we won five
championships in a row, you know, and it was just something.
I was always the best player on the field, and
it was just something that as I played more and
more football, I got better and better, and the contact
balance just stayed with me. I didn't grow to be
six foot four to where I you know, you kind
of lose some of that balance as you get a
little taller. Sure, I'm still only five to nine three quarters,
(14:23):
so I'm blessed to have that contact balance naturally.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
I know you have a lot of self confidence, but
did you almost prove something to yourself with the way
you played in that playoff game against Texas.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Out you know they're running out there.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
You know, they got all these super talented guys, and
your team just kept feeding.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
To the ball and you kept gating yards and you
kept gated yards.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They went back to you again so many touches, and
they wrote you and you guys were a player two
away from winning that football game.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I don't know if it's I proved to myself because
I know I could do it. It's and and I
hate to say I proved the haters wrong or I
proved the people that doubted me wrong, because you know
that's that's everyone's doubted. Everybody on the planet is doubted
by somebody. It's just how it is. You have to
live with it. But I proved to the coach that
he was right on giving me the ball in those moments.
(15:11):
And you know, I enjoy touching the ball. And when
I know it's time to take over and I have
that feeling inside my heart or my in my mind,
I'm gonna let the coach know I want the football
and that the game is going to be taken over.
And you know, in this early in that fourth quarter,
last against Texas. You know, I told the coach like
I'm about to take over, give me the football, and
you know it ended up working in our favors, So
(15:34):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Can we can't wait to see on the field.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You expect to be good to go by the time
trading camp rolls around end of July.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Oh absolutely, yeah, we.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Can't wait to see it. Man, get the pads on
place in real football. All right, thank you, appreciate cam'skataboo.
All right, now we're joined by Timer, Tracy jun or Tyrone.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
How wat man, I'm doing good, man, doing good, having
a great time.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You got a fun running back up? We do we do?
Why is it fun?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
I mean we have a lot of different characters. You know,
you got Turbo, you know, out going nine ten million
for those of you who don't know. And then you
also got obviously me, I'm very energetic. I'm a character myself.
Then you got the new additions obviously Scatterboo. I mean,
my boy, he's he's he's a character. He's that very outgoing,
very outspoken. Then you got molded and laid back oldhead.
(16:16):
Don't tell about don't tell him, I said, oh ahead,
don't tell him, I said, ohhead, but.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I pretty much called what old I don't think. I
didn't want to. I don't want him to tell him.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I don't want him to say oldhead, you know, because
he's not oldhead, but you know, he just the older
head in the group. I basically that I think, yeah, yeah,
the heat a pops eat an uncle.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You know what I'm saying, absolutely no.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
But look, I think what I like about the room
is that the three I'll just specifically you, Devin and
and Cam.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And we had Turbo. He was great, he's super fast.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
But the three of you guys, I have three distinct
styles and how you play, but all three of you
can do every aspect of the running back position, even
if it's in a different way. You can all catch,
you can run inside, outside.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I just think it's a.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Really fun group of guys that depending on what team
you're playing, what scheme you're gonna run, they can utilize
all three of you guys in different ways to make
and you're interchangeable too.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I think that we have, like I said, it's a
great group of guys that is gonna come together for
one goal. You know what I'm saying, We want to win.
We won the football games. But we also know our role,
We also know our style. Like we're not trying to
be the other guy, you know what I'm saying, not
trying to.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Be each other. Like we're gonna be who we are.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Whoever you know, the Giants draft for us to be,
That's who we're gonna be every single day. You know,
I'm not gonna be Cam and try to you know,
power through everything. You know what I'm saying. That's that's
his that's his super strength. You know what I'm saying.
Mine is running around people, making people miss in space,
catching the ball down the field like that's mine. Like,
and then you also got motor. Motor is also very smooth,
very elegant. When he gets the ball, he's he knows
(17:51):
what to do, what's gonna happen. Like he's a vet.
He's a true vet. So like we're gonna be us,
you know what I'm saying. And then, like you said,
versus the team, whoever going against whoever the opponent is.
You know, one person might get in a little bit
more carried than the other. And then you depending on
the game, depending on how the game's going. You know,
you never know but at the end of the day,
like we're just trying to win. We're just trying to
win football games.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I know all you guys want to be on the field,
So so the answer to this question in some way
is always gonna be yes. But as a grouper, you
guys getta care who's getting the most carries each game,
as long as as a group, you guys are being
effective in the run game as an offense is working.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Nah to be honest to me, personally, I really can't
speak for a sket or or motor, but for me personally,
I don't care. You know what I'm saying, Like, obviously
there's one football you got, you know, three receivers, four receivers,
a tight end. You know what I'm saying, Like we
got quarterback runs. Like there's only a limited amount of
touches in a football game, period, point blank. So if
(18:47):
I get ten, I gotta do what I can with
that ten. You know what I'm saying. If I get eight,
I gotta do what I can with that eight. Like
you're gonna get what you earn. You know what I'm saying.
They ain't gonna give you nothing. You know what I'm saying.
You gotta earn whatever you're getting. If someone else is
playing good, yeah, yes, go touch that rock and do
what you do.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know, a hot hand, right ye, Like whatever is
going on, Like.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
This is professional football, man, Like it's gonna be. It's
gonna be games where someone else is doing better. Obviously
you want to have a good game every game, but
that in reality, that's just not gonna happen, you know
what I'm saying. But that's why you want to have
a stack room. You know what I'm saying, not just running,
but you want to stack you know, dB room, you
want to stack d lin room, stack quarterback room, just
in case you know somebody else is.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Outperforming or whatever. You robbed that hot hand.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Whoever's having a good game and giving the ball, let
them produce, let them make plays. And that's when you
look in the postseason, all the good teams, they have
stacked rooms, they have stack rosters. So like again, the
more people we have that can play ball at a
high level, the better we're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I know you mentioned it in your media availability with
with with the media, but I think it's been jarring.
Maybe what the all you're saying jarring? How much they've
thrown the ball to the running backs down the field
in practice. Yeah, and I think it's much more than
I've seen here really anytime in the last four or
five years.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Are you just like salivating any And.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I've been having conversations with CAF about it, because, like,
I want to be used, man, I want to be
used at all areas of the football field, like outside, inside,
down the field.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Like I'm gonna make a joke about the way you
play wide receiver vi Iowa.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
To the ball.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
They they did.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I had a few catchup, but that's really about it,
you know. But like I'm loving it, man, I really
I'm loving it. I'm getting opportunity to show up, show
off my skills. I'm allowing, you know, really the game
just to ooze out of me.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You know what.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I'm not forcing anything like whatever happens happens. But I
also want to make sure that, like when opportunities come,
you make that play. And that's kind of the things
that I'm harping on the running backs, just to make
sure that, you know, when we do get opportunities, we
take care of them, because again, we're running backs, They're
not looking to throw what's the ball down and field
unless we make them look for us to throw the
ball down the field. So we have to take advantage
(20:50):
and put trusting the coaches in our quarterback to throw
the ball. You know, even when we look covered throwts
about giving us an opportunity.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
We're gonna make a play and then boom neyhing.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
You know he wants look for us again.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
All right, you talked about the receiving a part of it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You mentioned past protection when you spoke to the media
about something you want to get better at as a
pure runner, just you know, whether it's pressing the whole,
reading the blocks. What are some of the things as
a pure runner that you think you can get better
at in your second year, I was.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I would probably say my pre snap and post nap vision.
You know, I think I have really good vision, but
I think last year it was more reactionary than actually
reading the D line for what it is. So for instance,
like understand if I have a three take versus a shade,
you know, in sid zone versus outside zone, having my
eyes correctly to my keys, and then just playing ball
(21:37):
after that, you know what I'm saying. Last year, again,
I think I was more reactionary when the ball is hyped.
Now I'm reacting to what the defense is doing instead
of having a plan for what they're going to do.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And again that's just.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Again football IQ from year one of year two, looking
at your film, understanding that, like you know, I can
slow down a little bit on some place, I can
speed up, understanding where my blocks are going to happen. Again,
just full BYQ overall foot by Q. I think it's
something that's going to help me a lot with this
second year because at the end of the day, you
(22:09):
want to make plays, but it's an easier way to
make plays than what I did last year.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I have to figure that out for myself.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
All right, final question you talked about past pro. It
was a few months ago when I went back. I
looked a lot of your past pro stuff and I
felt like a lot of times you were in the
right place at the right time, and you were set
up to make the block, just sometimes you couldn't get
latched and you couldn't actually stop the guy. So if
you is that like that technique in terms of that
is that something you've worked on a lot in the
off season.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
So it's really just technique. That's really all it is
is taknoking. Again, my eyes are fine, I know who's blissing.
I know where to look, I know how to pick
him up. There's more so technique and then just overall
getting the job done. You know, you don't have to
kill a person to stop them, you know what I'm saying.
You just got to make sure your feets in the ground,
your arms are in the right positions, and that you
know you're actually striking them. And that's the main thing
(22:56):
I want to do, you know what I'm saying. I
want to strike somebody, stop him, to stop him, you
know what I'm saying. From getting to the quarterback man.
But again, at the end of the day, I gotta
do the work, you know what I'm saying, behind the
scenes to make it. You know, come come alive on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And by the way, should have asked you about Scatterble
You mentioned him. He is he hasn't had a chance
to do much yet. Yeah, does he have like just
the right amount of crazy in him.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
In order to be a good I would I wouldn't
even say right, he has a lot of crazy, and
he has a lot He has a lot of crazy
in them. But yeah, I mean he's like I said,
he's a he's a great human. You know what I'm saying,
he's a great he's a great human. Yeah, he's a
great dude. Man, he's a great dude. He loves football,
he loves the ball.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Blue collar guy.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, whatever it is, man, he's he's
gonna do the dirty work if he needs to, like
whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Like he he's a good dude.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
Like I invitehim over my crib a couple of times,
like we done hung out, we went to the next
game before.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Like he's a good dude.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
But yeah, he's a really blue collar dude, like put
his hands in the dirt, like ready, ready to work,
you know what I'm saying. Obviously, you know hasn't been
able to get on the field, but you know when
he's out there, I know.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
He's he's gonna do something. It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Yes, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Thank you always. Good year from the running backs. It
should be a fun group this year.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Are splitting carries, guys with different skill sets, complimenting each other,
really trying to make this offense go. That's all the
time we are for the Giants. Little podcast, brought to
you by Citizens, the official bank of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
We'll see you next time.
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