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KING'S HAWAIIAN, THEY'RE COMING UP TOMORROW BUT UH LOOK WHO'S IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY. IT'S ELI MANNING JOINING US ON THE HOW ARE YOU ELI? I'M DOING GREAT. DAN. HOW ARE YOU? I GOTTA GET. YOU GOTTA COME VISIT MY CART, YOU KNOW, YOU GOTTA GET SOME SOFT PRETZEL BITES HERE. WELL, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THAT TOMORROW. KING'S HAWAIIAN IS COMING TO US AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO BRING THAT. IT LOOKS LIKE STAND HERE. I IT IS THAT IS THE IDEA EXCEPT IT'S KING'S WINE, SOFT, PRETZEL BITES AND I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF NEW YORK CITY AND THIS IS WHAT I DO. YOU KNOW, NEW YORKERS BROUGHT ME SO MUCH JOY AND THEIR SUPPORT. I WANT TO GIVE BACK BY GIVING OUT SOME UH SO YOU. YOU'RE JUST A MAN OF THE PEOPLE, OKAY? BUT DO YOU EVER RUN INTO A FAN WHO'S MAD AT YOU FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU MAY HAVE DONE DURING YOUR CAREER? UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK 5 YEARS BEING RETIRED. THEY'VE FORGOTTEN. IT'S AMAZING HOW THEY FORGET ABOUT ALL THE INTERCEPTIONS, THE TERRIBLE GAMES, THE LOSSES, THEY ONLY REMEMBER, THE GOOD STUFF AND SO I YOU KNOW, THE SAME THING HAPPENS AT QUARTERBACKS, YOU KNOW, 5 YEARS. I MIGHT I LOST THE GAME. I DON'T REMEMBER LOSING A GAME. I THOUGHT WE WON EVERY 1. I WAS WATCHING THE MANNING CAST AND I WAS WONDERING WITH YOUR BROTHER AND BILL. BELICH THERE IN THE SAME ROOM WHO IS MORE OF A FOOTBALL NERD PAYTON OR COACH BELLICH. AH MAN, I GOTTA I MEAN, I THINK I GOTTA GO WITH BELLICH. JUST, I MEAN, HE'S JUST AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF KNOWLEDGE ON ON FOOTBALL AND EVERYTHING. YOU COULD HEAR HIM IN THE TV TIMEOUTS. IF SOMEONE IN HIS ROOM THAT HE'S TALKING WITH HE'S LIKE, HEY, WOW, THEY'RE GOING LIKE BARE DEFENSE. THIS IS NOT REAL SOUND. I DON'T LIKE THIS MOVE, LIKE HE IS HE IS YOU KNOW, CONSTANTLY JUST GAME PLANNING. ANALYZING LOOKING AT EVERYTHING, SEEING THINGS THAT ARE UNIQUE OR DIFFERENT OR OH, THIS IS A REALLY GOOD AND SO, I MEAN, HE IS JUST RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT PAYTON. DURING THE DURING THE TV TIMEOUTS, HE'S EATING LIKE A CHICKEN, PARM SANDWICH OR LIKE, YOU KNOW, BUFFALO WINGS JUST, YOU KNOW, HE'S ALWAYS GOT SAUCE ON HIS FACE. HE'S A DISASTER BUT HE WAS OFFENDED WHEN, UH, BRANDON AND I DROPPED THAT BALL. LIKE IT. IT WAS IF HE WAS STILL PLAYING IT, IT HURTS HIM FOOTBALL. IT DOES, IT DOES HURT HIM AND ESPECIALLY WHEN A GUY YOU KNOW, BEEN OUT OF TRAINING CAMP, YOU SIT OUT, YOU SIGN THIS BIG GREAT, BIG CONTRACT AND THEN YOU DROP, YOU DROP PASSES LIKE WHAT, YOU KNOW? HEY, LET'S GET THE CONTRACT DONE. I THINK HE JUST MAD AT THE WHOLE SITUATION THAT THAT THE IDEA OF LIKE MISSING TRAINING CAMP. BLOWS HIS MIND TO HIM. HE, HE, HE, HE LOOKED FORWARD TO TRAINING CAMP. HE'S LIKE, FINALLY, I GET TO GO. I THINK IT SHOULD BE A LONGER FOOTBALL SEASON, AND THAT'S HIS MENTALITY. SO I THINK IF HE SENSES SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE THAT SAME MENTALITY, HE HE JUST CAN'T RESONATE. YOU KNOW, BELLA. CHECK TALKED ABOUT GOING TO THOSE SUPER BOWL PARTIES AFTER YOU LOSE A SUPER BOWL AND THEN YOU GO. UM, I NEVER WENT TO 1 OF THOSE AND IT WAS IT WAS AN AWESOME LINE JUST TO SEE BELLICH CHECKS RESPONSE TO IT. YEAH, I WAS DONE. I ALMOST SAY LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, BILL WERE YOU INVITED TO PAYTON'S LOSER? YOU KNOW, SUPER BOWL PARTY BUT I I I BIT MY TONGUE ON MY. I CAN'T SAY THAT TO COACH HIM. YOU WANT TO DO THEM IN THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, SUPER BOWLS AND BUT UH YEAH I MEAN PAYTON, I WAS SURPRISED LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE ABOUT HAVING EVERYBODY HAD TO LOST THE CHAMPIONSHIP TO GET INVITED TO THIS PARTY. UM, SO I GUESS I'M GLAD I WASN'T INVITED. YOU ELI MANNING 2 TIME SUPER BOWL, MVP, JOINING US, COURTESY OF KINGS HAWAIIAN. THEIR NEW SOFT PRETZEL BITES AND HE'S IN THE HEART OF MANHATTAN'S FLAT IRON DISTRICT TODAY. UM, KIND OF MURRAY TALKED ABOUT HEY, YOU KNOW, THE GAME PLAN DIDN'T CALL FOR US TO GET THE BALL TO MARVIN HARRISON, HE SAID BLAKE YOU KNOW LIKE POINTED THE FINGER AT THE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR HE SAID IT'S NOT ON THE OKAY? AND I CRITICIZED HIM BECAUSE EVEN IF IT'S NOT ON YOU, IT IS ON YOU. YOU'RE THE QUARTERBACK, YOU OWN IT, IT IT'S YOUR TEAM BUT HOW DO YOU GET THE BALL TO KNOWS WANT TO GET THE BALL TOO. WELL, I THINK THERE'S ALWAYS A COUPLE STAPLE PLAYS WHERE YOU CAN PUT THEM YOU KNOW PUT YOUR RECEIVER TO CERTAIN SPOTS, YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS HEY NO MATTER BASICALLY NO MATTER WHAT THE COVERAGE IS NO MATTER WHAT THE DEFENSE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET HIM, THE BALL ON THE OUTSIDE, ON A SHORT END OR ON A HITCH, ROUTE ON A SLANT ROUTE AND IT'S NOT A GUARANTEED, IT'S GOING THERE. THEY COULD DICTATE THE COVERAGE TO TO TAKE YOU AWAY, BUT YOU KNOW, I DON'T I DON'T THINK THAT. MARVIN HARRISON JR. IS GETTING DOUBLE TEAMED ON EVERY PLAY RIGHT NOW. I DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW, THE ROOKIE HADN'T PLAYED A GAME. I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DRAW THAT ATTENTION AND, AND SOMETIMES IT'S JUST, IT IS TRULY JUST BASED ON YOU KNOW, HEY, WE WANT TO GET HIM THE BALL. IF THEY'RE PLAYING MAN-TO-MAN, YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO YOUR GUY BUT IT JUST DEPENDS ON ON WHAT THE COVERAGE IS, OR YOU HAVE SOME SPECIAL PLAYS TO GET THEM ON SOME PLAY ACTION. THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE A LITTLE HARDER AND WE HAVE A PLAY ACTION, A 2-MAN ROUTE. MAYBE THEY THEY PLAY A DIFFERENT COVERAGE OR HE GETS COVERED UP BY THE BY A ZONE COVERAGE, BUT THERE ARE A COUPLE PLAYS IN THIS, YOU KNOW, 3 STEP 5-STEP, PASSING GAME WHERE YOU CAN GET THE BALL TO YOU KNOW TO CERTAIN GUYS, HOW OFTEN WOULD RECEIVERS COME BACK TO YOU IN THE HUDDLE AND SAY I'M OPEN. THEY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE PRETTY GOOD RECEIVERS. IF YOU IT'S 1 OF THOSE DEALS, IF YOU ASK THEM, HEY WERE YOU OPEN ON THE LAST PLAY? THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS. YES. LIKE THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT WHAT THE PLAY WAS, THEY DON'T EVEN SAY YES, THAT'S JUST THEIR MENTALITY. BUT THERE ARE THERE ARE YOU KNOW, TIMES WE'RE ON THE SIDELINES. THEY'LL COME UP AND THEY'LL BE LIKE, HEY, THIS GUY CANNOT HANG WITH ME. THEY'RE THEY'RE PRESSED AND THEY'LL COME AND SAY HEY, NEED A DOUBLE MOVE. I'M LIKE, NORMALLY THEY HAVE PRETTY GOOD SUGGESTIONS. UM AND YOU KNOW AND THERE WERE TIMES THERE WERE MAYBE A FEW TIMES ON THE SIDELINES WHERE I WORKED, YOU KNOW WORKED THE OTHER SIDE OF A MAN-TO-MAN, I THREW UP, YOU KNOW, A FADE STOP TO A TEAM MIX AND I WOULD ASK LIKE VICTOR HEY VICTOR DID YOU GET OPEN ON THE FADE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND SOMETIMES HE WOULD SAY LIKE NO, NOT NOT REALLY, NOT REALLY. HE KIND OF COVERED ME UP ON THAT 1, BUT, YOU KNOW, NEXT TIME I'LL DEFINITELY BEAT HIM. I'M PREPARED FOR THE NEXT 1. SO THEY, THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO, UH, THINK DON'T GO TO HIM BY ANY MEANS. PATIENCE FOR ROOKIE QUARTERBACKS. LIKE, AT WHAT POINT DO, WE GET A SENSE OF WHAT KIND OF SEASON IT'S GOING TO BE FOR THESE ROOKIE QUARTERBACKS UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK IT TAKES LIKE A GOOD. IT KIND OF TAKES TO THE HALFWAY POINT. I REALLY DO FEEL. IT TAKES THAT LONG TO GET A SENSE OF OF YOUR OFFENSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON THE COMFORT. LEVEL OF THE QUARTERBACK TO MAYBE HAVE AN HONEST CONVERSATION WITH THE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR BEING LIKE, HEY, I REALLY LIKE THIS PLAY OR IF THERE'S A PLAY THAT THE COORDINATOR REALLY LIKES FOR THE QUARTERBACK TO BE LIKE HEY, I'M JUST NOT FEELING IT YET. LIKE AT FIRST, YOU JUST KIND OF LIKE WHAT THE COORDINATOR LIKES AND YOU DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER AND THEN AS THE SEASON GOES ALONG YOU START TO YOU KNOW KIND OF GET YOUR FAVORITE PLAYS, YOU GET YOUR FAVORITE CONCEPTS. UH, PROTECTIONS THEM OF CERTAIN PLAYS AND YOU START, YOU KNOW, GETTING THE NERVE TO SAY, HEY, LET'S, LET'S JUST RUN THIS PLAY, LIKE, THIS IS MY FAVORITE PLAY. LET'S RUN IT 3 TIMES AND JUST CHANGE UP THE FORMATION A LITTLE BIT SO I CAN GET COMPLETIONS, I CAN GET INTO A RHYTHM AND I REALLY DO THINK IT JUST TAKES IT TAKES ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HALFWAY POINT TO TO GET THAT CONFIDENCE AND TO GET THE FEEL AND THE SPEED OF THE GAME, I LOOK AT DEMEANOR OF QUARTERBACK. CERTAINLY YOUNG QUARTERBACKS BECAUSE CHANCES ARE THEY HAD A REALLY SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE CAREER? THEY'RE NOT USED TO HEY, I JUST THREW A PICK 6. NOT, I GOT TO GO BACK OUT LIKE YOU SHOW ME MORE AFTER A PICK 6 OR AN INTERCEPTION, THEN YOU DO AFTER A TOUCHDOWN, I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU GO BACK OUT THERE AFTER DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS FOR YOU. IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOMEBODY'S HEAD IS DOWN OR THEY GO OUT THERE AND THEY'RE LIKE, ALL RIGHT, COME ON, LET'S GO. THAT WAS 1 PLAY, LET'S GET IT BACK. NO, I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING TO LOOK AT AND AND ALSO JUST, YOU KNOW, IF THEY IF THEY MAKE A A BAD PLAY, THEY DO A BAD INTERCEPTION THAT NEXT SERIES. DO THEY GET GUNSHOT? ARE THEY ARE THEY GOING TO COME OUT AND STILL A YOU KNOW RIP THIS THIS SKINNY POST ON TIME OR ARE THEY GOING TO BE LIKE A LITTLE HESITANT AND GO TO THE CHECK DOWN OR A LITTLE HESITANT AND NOT NOT, YOU KNOW, TAKE THEIR EYES DOWN THE FIELD INSTEAD JUST YOU KNOW FIND MY COMPLETION IS. INSTEAD OF, OPEN I'M STILL GOING TO RIP THIS AND I STILL GOT CONFIDENCE, I CAN MAKE THESE THROWS AND SO THE HEAD, YOU KNOW, BEING BEING, UM, KIND OF CAUTIOUS. IS IS NOT A GREAT THING, UH AS AN NFL QUARTERBACK, IT USUALLY LEADS TO MORE MISTAKES BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE MAYBE NOT THROWING IT TO YOUR FIRST READ WHO IS OPEN, BUT IT'S A LONGER THROW AND YOU'RE GOING TO CHECK DOWNS VERSUS MAN, WHICH IS NOT GREAT. AND YOU SO, THAT IS SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, TO, MAKE SURE, UM, THEY DON'T GET CONSERVATIVE, THEY DON'T GET GUNSHY AND THEY STILL FEEL THEY CAN GO AND AND UH, YOU KNOW, BALL GET THE BALL OUT ON TIME, ARE YOU CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED TO SAY NICE? THINGS ABOUT THE NEW YORK GIANTS PLAY THIS YEAR? I'M I'M NOT OBLIGATED UH, TO SAY NICE THINGS. I THINK UH AFTER WEEK 1 JUST, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING I'VE BEEN IN THIS SITUATION, I'VE HAD A BAD WEEK 1 BEFORE. UM, I'VE THROWN 3 OR 7 SECTIONS IN IN WEEK 1, WE'VE HAD LOSSES. WE WE'VE STARTED DOING TOO AND AND THE SUPER BOWL YEAR, WE STARTED 0 AND 2 AND AND UH HAD TO GO DOWN TO WASHINGTON AND DOWN AT HALFTIME AND HAD TO COME BACK WHEN TO GET ON A LITTLE WIN STREAK. I ALSO KNOW, IT CAN CHANGE QUICKLY. YOU CAN YOU CAN GET YOUR CONFIDENCE BACK, YOU CAN GET ON A WIN STREAK. SO THAT'S WHAT, UH, I'M ALWAYS OPTIMISTIC AND AND, AND I'M A FAN OF, OF THE GIANTS AND THE FAN OF THE COACHES. I KNOW THEM, PERSONALLY, I SEE HOW HARD THEY WORK. I'M A FAN OF DANIEL JONES AND, AND WHAT, AND THIS I'M ROOTING FOR HIM TO DO WELL AND I'M GOING TO BE OPTIMISTIC IN THAT. GREAT TO TALK TO YOU, HAVE FUN DOWN THERE. UH, IN THE FLAT IRON DISTRICT. IT'S A KING'S HAWAIIAN, THE SOFT PRETZEL BITES. THE UH, FIRST EVER SNACK, BY KINGS HAWAIIAN GREAT PEOPLE THAT UH, HAVE BECOME 1 OF OUR FAVORITE SPONSORS. GOOD TO TALK TO YOU, ELI.