Yeah.

They don't, in Germany and Russia or in China, they don't grow their players like we grow our football players.

The sports are different.

In basketball, yeah, basketball and soccer, all the players are the same globally.

Football is a different element.

And same in baseball.

Baseball is the same way.

If you were playing now, would you wear one?

[laughs]

Yeah, but, uh, but w- w- with the way teams usually think, I mean, Jacksonville, they were desperate.

They needed somebody, and the Giants found the right person to do it.

But as we move along through this preseason, teams really, this is how they think.

Why trade for somebody they...

Everybody knows everybody's roster.

They know the guys who are gonna make the team and the guys they're gonna cut.

But yeah, it, how nice is it to have that option if you need him?

I, I, I just don't get it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was, he was, he was a, he was a, he was a good talent, but just, he wasn't all there.

And I'm not saying it's a mental thing, he just wasn't focused on the right things.

And then, you know, you start hearing stories, I know the insi- situations, his mom was doing some other stuff.

There was a lot of stuff that I was hearing, and I was going, "Man, I hope this, uh, this doesn't c- come onto the playing field," but it did.

... and the guys who were on that boat.

Mark, what's the best way to coach a young receiver to, um, I guess, win against the jam if, if, you know, for a lack of a better expression?

I, I, I just don't want to stop him [laughs] you know? Um, I think it's, I- a receiver has, from a corner who's a great, a really good bump and run corn- uh, corner, it's hard.

I mean, 'cause sometimes when I played, I played against, uh, Art Monk, uh, Michael Irvin, guys like that in the NFC East.

Uh, those are big physical guys, so they will try to match my strength with my...

We go back and forth.

We, we tussle.

And if I can get them in a tussle, I'm gonna win because I'm, they're not running their routes.

But how can you maintain that football shape, if you will, if you're not out on the football field partaking in football activities?

I think it's gonna come into shape, but right now it, you can tell it's still a work in progress.

Well, probably 'cause he and Malachi had some time working together doing the OTAs and that other stuff, and I think they worked out in California if I'm not mistaken.

I, I don't know.

But, but the other guys, OBJ, uh, Juju, you know, Berrios, those guys, they don't have, they don't got the timing yet.

And I know they know routes, but there, there's gotta be timing involved with that, and that's gonna take some time to get used to that, and Jackson's gotta know the rhythm of, of, of how these guys run their routes.

All that stuff comes into play.

But on paper, I, I think the, the, the Giants receiving corps is, is...

We're gonna b- be allowed to fly around." And I can't wait to see d- what he does in the second season, or this, uh, this new season, I should say.

Uh, and again, that's not really a thing that I think you're getting answers for at this point in time, but throughout the remainder of the summer you'll hopefully get those answers and figure out what your interior offensive line's actually going to look like.

I, I think offensively, uh, all the skill posses- po- positions gonna pretty much factor out the way you want 'em to factor out.

If OBJ makes it, he's gonna play, but he's gonna be number one.

Uh, if Fields is on the field, he's gonna be number two.

Mooney.

So that, that's gonna work itself out.

But as far as the interior line, the line itself, the sooner they figure that stuff out, the better, because you can't be- you can't go into OTA, uh, or training camp, into a preseason rotating office alignment.

So I, I think that's gonna be one of the more, uh, important parts of training camp or mini camp right now.

He was kind of just throwing from the waist, so.

Yeah.

See, see, what this guy just basically did was, was pretty much gave the Giants right- they got video of him now, uh, not, not participating in the OTAs and stuff like that, but participating in non-football related events.

So if something comes up in a lawsuit where they can void his contract and use that against him, which they would do, they could do it.

Uh, secondly, I've always been a proponent of not doing anything like that, if I got an injury outside of the, the, the Giant's place, establishment.

'Cause if I get hurt there, I'm covered still.

You get hurt and we ask about an injury outside that complex, that's on you.

Uh, and so I'll say that about Cam Skattebo.

... and let's have you for the back end of the schedule," which is a little bit more challenging.

I said it before, and I'll say it again, you better, they better get a receiver in there right now if they thinkin' that way.

If he starts on PUP, four weeks, he won't be in football shape ready to go.

Now, I don't know if Mooney and those guys in the fields are, are ready to go, um, could hold up that, that, be receiver number one, I don't know.

But they gotta get somebody if they, they're, if they're thinkin' that way, Patricia, they gotta have somebody who can come in and be a legit number one, who can hold down all that, have broad shoulders to take on that responsibility, to be that alpha guy like Neighbors is, to come in and fill that void, if they're thinkin' that way by get- bring him back week four.

So there's a problem.

As far as his availability, if we, I, we don't know, we...

But they better have an answer, 'cause it just seems like, you know, even though they've added all these guys, it's like, what is the answer? What's the rotation gonna look like? Because you wanna keep those deep, those big guys up front, you wanna keep them fresh by rotating them, and that rotation kinda took a hit.

Great, and can you tell me a bit about how the Civil Aviation Authority and the Military Aviation Authority work together ahead of the air show season?

So as you'd expect with two regulators, the Civil Aviation Authority and Military Aviation Authority doing a very similar role, we work together as organizations very closely across all aviation in the UK.

Uh, but none more so than in display flying.

The two teams work highly together across a range of issues.

We make sure that every year, uh, we review each other's regulations for display flying activity, and that we release the civil and military display flying regulations at the same time, and that they're cohered together.

We provide a joint training course for display directors to make sure that whether you're in the military or you're a civilian display director, you're trained to the same standard.

We coordinate our efforts when we're going out to do assurance of flying display activities, uh, and we run this pre-season display symposium together to make sure that the whole of the civil display community and military display community can come together to share information.

And what benefits does that bring to the display community itself?

But, uh, look, you can never have too many good people on your staff, and they filled a position that basically has been empty now for, for a few years.

Yeah, which is strange 'cause every team has that.

So I mean, I think when I, even when I got drafted, I, I c- uh, what's his name? I think it was Rooney.

I forget his name, but he was head of, he was head of college scouting, and I would, I would imagine everybody has and they did.

So why now the Giants are filling a, a, a, a spot that they didn't have but had before and maybe because of the, since they've been down so bad, and I don't know who's running the scouting department.

That's the first thing I thought of.

Who's running the damn scouting department? [laughs] Who? So I don't know.

... ready to rip heads off." And sure enough, what a season.

You never wanna see anybody go through an injury, uh, let alone a kid who's just starting out and, and, and trying to live out his dream.

See, here, here is where I stand on some of these injuriesThis kid has been working out all year round just to try to make it to a tryout, an opportunity.

And there are players who are playing now who train all year round, and when you get an injury like this, torn Achilles or you blow your knee out, you strain ligaments, it's because they're, they don't rest.

Your body has to rest.

You can't do this crap all year round.

You can't be stopping and going and contorting your body all over the place.

Your body needs to rest, and when you don't rest, you get injuries like this.

But there's gotta be a give and take here.

I just thought it was a very productive environment.

I remember when I got drafted and went through our mini camp, uh, with the Giants in Jersey, and we'd walk in.

First they, they gave you this big thick playbook that they don't have anymore.

[laughs] And it was a thick playbook, uh, about maybe 10 inches.

It was just huge.

And then we walked in and got shoulder pads and helmets fitted, and then we walked on the field and went through all the stuff.

And then after that, that rookie mini camp, I remember the old Giants Stadium, used to walk out and there was a big mural.

It's not really real football, but it's football in, i- if you know what I mean.