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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki and Bertrand Berry. Okay, real quick wellness check.

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Speaker 1: How did everyone survive? What was one a long weekend,

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Speaker 1: the holiday on Monday and then more importantly than that,

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Speaker 1: And yes, there's always football to talk about, but I'm

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Speaker 1: a little worried about my co host here, Mike Direcy

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Speaker 1: and Bertram Berry because there was no actual football game

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Speaker 1: the rest, and you know, I'm still a working brother,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I never stopped moving and

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Speaker 1: work done on Saturday. Okay, I went to the matinee

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Speaker 1: game on Monday to see the Blues in the Coyotes.

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Speaker 1: So just finding other things to keep me occupied. But hey,

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Speaker 1: whoever made the NFL calendar, they need a rate because

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Speaker 1: coming up in March, free agency, the draft, hopefully we

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Speaker 1: see some offseason activities. Regardless the NFL calendar, sits mean

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Speaker 1: quite well, good segue MJ. Because in one month, one

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Speaker 1: month and one day to be specific, the new league year.

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Speaker 1: That is when teams can officially sign free agents if

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Speaker 1: there is a player on the market right now, I E. J. J. Watt, Yes,

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Speaker 1: sound like that more and more teams are gonna wait

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Speaker 1: because we don't know what the salary cap is going

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Speaker 1: to be. Is it going to be one? See eighty one.

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Speaker 1: All of these dollars matter, Even the slightest amounts of

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Speaker 1: So here, as we begin this week's show on the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Red Sea Report B Train, I'm gonna need your

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Speaker 1: positions of need rank the top two, top three, whether

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Speaker 1: it's free agency or the draft, or maybe even both.

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Speaker 1: Remember free agency comes first. The draft is not until

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Speaker 1: the end of April. But when you look at the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Erazona Cardinals, what position not specific players,

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Speaker 1: but what position does this team need to address asap?

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Speaker 1: I really believe they need to address the cornerback position.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be the first and foremost need. And

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Speaker 1: then you look at wide receiver. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: But as far as established receivers, you have one and

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Speaker 1: And then two big question marks, Hassan Reddick Marcus Golden.

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Speaker 1: you want to have a guy developed, you you want

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Speaker 1: him to take time. But it's the bottom line, business

431
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Speaker 1: and jobs are on the line and you can't afford

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Speaker 1: to wait forever for somebody to develop. They've got to

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Speaker 1: make sure that they have done enough to give you

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Speaker 1: that that patience and buy that time. So if they

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Speaker 1: can further develop. But if they don't show anything right

436
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Speaker 1: out of the gate and they just continue to struggle,

437
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Speaker 1: then teams are going to have to make business decisions. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then you got Trent Cherfield. You know, obviously he's

439
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Speaker 1: not a draft pick, but he's a guy that's earned

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Speaker 1: a spot on the roster from special teams. He's restricted,

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Speaker 1: you know, let's see what kind of tender they give there.

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Speaker 1: And then Joe Joe Award. I thought he you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that can take the top off the decent.

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Speaker 1: If Isa Bella is not going to be the guy,

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Speaker 1: you got to find someone. We watched Scotty Miller and

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Speaker 1: I don't know why any is it Bella can't be

447
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Speaker 1: like Scotty Miller. Now granted he doesn't, you know, have

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady thrown to him, But you know, Murray can

449
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Speaker 1: make thee AJ Richardson. He kind of built like an

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Speaker 1: Kuon Bolden's. He got a futures contract, so there's other opportunities.

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Speaker 1: But again, when you're a draft pick, you get more

452
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Speaker 1: opportunities or more more time. And the Cardinals didn't have

453
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: to see getting rid of Keen Butler last year. That's true.

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Speaker 1: He was here and then spent that first year on

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Speaker 1: I R and then was not around for a second year.

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Speaker 1: This Cardinals offense, as far as throwing the football middle

457
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Speaker 1: of the road, average seventeenth in the league as far

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Speaker 1: as passing yards per game, and that's a number that

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Speaker 1: certainly with the weapons and the skill set of a

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray should be much much better. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: the running game and our next segment, but as far

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Speaker 1: as this offense overall, more from Frederickson last week on

463
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Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage as far as making sure they

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Speaker 1: are not too predictable, and I think we saw a

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Speaker 1: little bit that last season. It was always just you know,

466
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Speaker 1: am I going to hand it off? Or am I

467
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Speaker 1: gonna run? As Kyler Murray, there was never that pass

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Speaker 1: option off of it, and to me, they need to

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Speaker 1: expand on that and become a little bit more are

470
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Speaker 1: unpredictable because we all know Cardinal fans are probably tired

471
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Speaker 1: and sick to death of the wide receiver screens and

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Speaker 1: the Jets sweeps and the run plays that bounce out

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Speaker 1: to the outside. Those are hard to execute in the

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Speaker 1: NFL with the speed of defenses and this their ability

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Speaker 1: to get off blocks. You have to be able to

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Speaker 1: mix it up, and that some comes with self scouting

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Speaker 1: and this coaching staff going back and looking at the

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Speaker 1: plays that they ran, the plays that were successful, the

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Speaker 1: plays that weren't successful, and yeah, Betrand, there's gonna be

480
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Speaker 1: plays that weren't successful, but sometimes those plays lead or

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Speaker 1: set you up for something later in the game or

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Speaker 1: maybe even later on in the season. Yes, and that's

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Speaker 1: all true, but you have to win the game that

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Speaker 1: are in front of you. And when you start talking

485
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Speaker 1: about later down the season, there's no guarantee that the

486
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Speaker 1: person mill is going to be the same. There's no

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Speaker 1: guarantee that that particular player is going to be available, because,

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Speaker 1: as we've talked about, it's a war of attrition and

489
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Speaker 1: sometimes you lose players and you don't like that, but

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Speaker 1: that's just a of the business, and so it's great

491
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Speaker 1: to think about down the road, but you're better off

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Speaker 1: winning right now as opposed to trying to set somebody

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Speaker 1: up long term, because you can not win a championship

494
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: in September and October, but you can definitely put yourself

495
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Speaker 1: in a position where you're going to be packing up

496
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Speaker 1: and going home in December if you don't take care

497
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Speaker 1: of that business in the first part of the season. Well,

498
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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people are wondering what's

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Speaker 1: the identity of the Arizona Cardinals offense and as a whole,

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Speaker 1: you know, Cliff said, tempo, aggressiveness and physicality. We know

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Speaker 1: that they have to run the football to set up

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Speaker 1: the pass, but at some point you just got to

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Speaker 1: win your one on one matchups at the physicality at

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Speaker 1: the point of the line of scrimmage. So you may

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Speaker 1: want to throw it, and obviously Cliff's willing to do both,

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Speaker 1: whether it's running the ball or throwing it. But to me,

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Speaker 1: you've got to get more consistent when it comes to

508
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Speaker 1: running the ball and staying with the run and then

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Speaker 1: open up with the play action. So it's easy for

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Speaker 1: us to sit here in second guests, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of the times that comes down the players, and when

512
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Speaker 1: we talked about the receivers, you've got to get separation.

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Speaker 1: Are those guys getting separation open things up for Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray and connecting with those wide receivers on the run

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Speaker 1: the yards after catch, and that was something that the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals did not have a lot of. You get those

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Speaker 1: receivers out in space and let their natural ability work

518
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Speaker 1: for you, throw them open, so to speak. The Cardinals

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Speaker 1: less than four and a half yards per catch as

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Speaker 1: far as yards after catch, and that is just something

521
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Speaker 1: that is not very good when you look at this

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Speaker 1: wide receiver corps as a whole. Something certainly that will

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Speaker 1: be addressed, as we talked about, probably in free agency

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Speaker 1: and in the draft as well. We have had half

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Speaker 1: time here on this week's edition of the Cardinals Red

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Speaker 1: Sea Report. When we come back, be trains gonna love this.

527
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Speaker 1: More offense because you know that is always the key

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Speaker 1: to a successful team. More offense. Hey, if you like

529
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Speaker 1: what you here, we should fite you to subscribe to

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals podcast, Goodasy Cardinals dot Com slid podcast for

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Speaker 1: more information. Chase Edmonds in the back food with Murray

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Speaker 1: third down in one of the twenty nine four receivers

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Speaker 1: set shotgun snap, It's a run play right side, big whole.

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Speaker 1: Edmonds twenty five twenty ten five touchdown the inside zone

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Speaker 1: being run and Chase Edmonds follow the hole and to

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Speaker 1: the Hall's baby twenty nine yard touchdown run on third

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Speaker 1: down in one for Chase Edmonds. All four of Chase

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Speaker 1: Edmonds touchdowns at Medlife twenty parts are longer hard to believe,

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Speaker 1: but that was the only touchdown run of twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: for Chase Edmonds game and week five at the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets. Edmonds right now, gentlemen, appears to be your

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Speaker 1: starting running back, at least as we sit here and

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Speaker 1: discuss things on this February sixteenth edition The Cardinals Red

544
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Speaker 1: Sea Report. Welcome back Craig Riolu, Mike Drecky and Bertram

545
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Speaker 1: Berry and yes, b train more offensive discussion. We have

546
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Speaker 1: not forgotten about the defense, but we know what sells

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Speaker 1: and that is offense. And when you have an offense,

548
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Speaker 1: B trained, it always starts one at the line of scrimmage.

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00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: You need five guys up front to do their job.

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Speaker 1: Is six if you will, maybe with the tight end,

551
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Speaker 1: but when you come to the pass and we're kind

552
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: of going in reverse order here. The run does set

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00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: up the pass. And right now, this Cardinals running team

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00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: very very solid each of the past two seasons. There

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Speaker 1: is a question mark though, with Kenyan Drake to to

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Speaker 1: become an unrestricted free agent. Is Chase Edmonds the guy

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Speaker 1: to be running back number one? Greig, you said, it

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Speaker 1: all starts with upfront. If those guys up front aren't

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Speaker 1: doing their jobs, then it doesn't matter who you have

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Speaker 1: in the backfield. And the one thing that we've seen

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Speaker 1: with the Cardinals, they do love to run the football,

562
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Speaker 1: and the quickest way to win football game is the

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00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: established that line of scrimmage. From an offensive line standpoint,

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Speaker 1: if you can dictate to the defensive line what you're

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Speaker 1: going to do and you're getting three four yards per carry,

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Speaker 1: that just tends to wear down a defensive line and

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Speaker 1: the defense as a whole, and it gives your defense

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Speaker 1: in turn rest and the ability to be fresh when

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Speaker 1: they come back on to the field. So if you

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Speaker 1: can get points after you've had one of those long

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00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: drives and really give your whole sideline a boost, then

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00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: that's something that is definitely a winning formula. So I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say that you don't need offense to win

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Speaker 1: you do. You just need them to give you just enough.

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Speaker 1: And if they can give you running game and they

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Speaker 1: can give you time of possession, then I really believe

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Speaker 1: that your team has a much better chance of winning

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Speaker 1: set games than not with what you've seen so far

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Speaker 1: out of Chase Edmonds, How comfortable, how confident are you

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Speaker 1: and him? As far as being that running back starting

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Speaker 1: running back in twenty twenty one, I think he can

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Speaker 1: be a really good running back. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: he's able to carry the load. He's not the biggest

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Speaker 1: guy in the world. He does do nice things, and

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Speaker 1: I think the role he's played the last couple of

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Speaker 1: years have been perfect for him. I would like to

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Speaker 1: see a guy that can really just move the crowd,

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Speaker 1: if you will, a guy that's a physical type runner,

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Speaker 1: a guy that's between the tackles, and defenders are going

590
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Speaker 1: to have to make business decisions on how they want

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Speaker 1: to go and approach him as far as trying to

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Speaker 1: bring him down. So there's nothing against Chase Edmonds as

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Speaker 1: a player because I think he maximizes what he's able

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Speaker 1: to do really well. But I think he works best

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Speaker 1: in a two back system where he's kind of the

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Speaker 1: yang to another guy's yang, if you will, and he

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Speaker 1: compliments that guy, and he's more of a of a

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Speaker 1: counter than the main attraction. And m JA. That's what's

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Speaker 1: something that you talked a lot about, the duel back,

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Speaker 1: the guys that do something similar, but they just look

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Speaker 1: and act differently. Drake specifically, bigger, taller. He would be

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Speaker 1: the guy to go between the tackles, although sometimes he

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00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: would bounce to the outside a little bit too much

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Speaker 1: to people's liking. But you do need I think that

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Speaker 1: Gone is that running back that's going to get thirty

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Speaker 1: thirty five carries every single week. Yeah. I mean if

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Speaker 1: you look at the rushing touchdowns last year, the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: had twenty two and you pointed out that Edmonds only

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Speaker 1: had one, which surprising to hear, Drake had ten and

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray eleven. Yeah, I think what they're looking for

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Speaker 1: is a bigger back, somebody like five eleven, two hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty two hundred and twenty five pounds, a guy

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Speaker 1: that can get those tough through two or three yards

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Speaker 1: of course, third and inches, fourth and one, where you

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Speaker 1: don't have to rely on Kyler Murray going under center,

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know, maybe this is a good

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Speaker 1: opportunity for Eno Benjamin. If Chase Edmonds is going to

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Speaker 1: be your starters, he get a chance to possibly return kicks.

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Speaker 1: I know they're intrigued with Jonathan Award, he was on

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Speaker 1: the active roster and Moron teams. He kind of reminds

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Speaker 1: me of a little bit of Andre Ellington and then

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Speaker 1: DJ Foster. So and I do think and I think

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Speaker 1: I said as five or six times, and the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: only have five draft picks, but I do think they're

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Speaker 1: going to draft a running back, not in the first round,

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Speaker 1: but I think they want to get a back that

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Speaker 1: can compliment what Chase Edmond does, and that would be

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Speaker 1: a bigger back to get the grunt yards. And the

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Speaker 1: one thing that Edmonds does very very well is catch

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Speaker 1: the ball out of the backfield or line up as

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver in this slot. Earlier this season, Kingsbury

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Speaker 1: on what he likes about Chase Edmonds. We all feel

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Speaker 1: like he's starting running back in this league, and he

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Speaker 1: does too. And when he had his opportunities, he shined

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Speaker 1: and he continues to shine. I mean, he can catch it,

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Speaker 1: he can run it. He can block play special teams

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Speaker 1: and he's really bright football wise. Of course, it always

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Speaker 1: goes back to what we began this segment talking about

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Speaker 1: Beatryan and those offensive linemen, those five guys up front,

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Speaker 1: and I think we all like what DJ Humphreys has done,

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Speaker 1: Justin Pugh has done. The question is at center, at

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Speaker 1: right guard, at right tackle, Because there are guys that

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Speaker 1: are set to become unrestricted free agents aj R Sweezy

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Speaker 1: at Calvin Beach, Max Garcia who we saw occasionally come

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Speaker 1: in fill in at guard at time, and then the

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Speaker 1: difference between a Mason Cole, a Lamant Gilliard at center

647
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Speaker 1: or do you look to upgrade that in free agency.

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Speaker 1: The thing about offensive lineman, when you have really good

649
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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, you don't hear anything about them, and there's

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Speaker 1: no knock on them as individuals because those guys take

651
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Speaker 1: a lot of pride in their play and they deserve

652
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Speaker 1: all the money and all the credit that they can get.

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Speaker 1: But when you start talking about how a team works

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Speaker 1: and what makes the successful team, when you have guys

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Speaker 1: that you have no idea who they are, but they

656
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: just plug along, they just do their job. They just

657
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: road great people and they keep people off their quarterback.

658
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Speaker 1: Those are the best type of offensive lineman to have.

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Speaker 1: And I don't need to hear about a high price

660
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Speaker 1: guy or a guy that has a reputation to them.

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Speaker 1: I just need guys to go in and be able

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Speaker 1: to handle that business. And I think they prefer it

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Speaker 1: that way. They prefer to be the no name group,

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Speaker 1: the five guys that just go about their business each

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Speaker 1: and every weekend. And I don't care what their names are,

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Speaker 1: I don't care where they came from. As long as

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Speaker 1: they're able to do that job, then I think you're

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Speaker 1: That is the foundation of any football team. And as

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Speaker 1: a guy that is a defensive lineman, I understand that

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Speaker 1: very well. And so you really have to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you have five guys, really six to seven, because

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Speaker 1: you need somebody to come in and spell too, just

673
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Speaker 1: in case, but you need to have at least five

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Speaker 1: guys that you can really depend on each and every

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Speaker 1: week that you know, once they put that helmet on

676
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: and they go out on that field, they're gonna make

677
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: everybody else on that field shine because they're not going

678
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: to be looking for that name and notoriety, but they're

679
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Speaker 1: going to be the ones that are most responsible for

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00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: you know, the guy that I'm intrigued with and once

681
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: again needs an offseason, preseason games and all that other

682
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: stuff is Josh Jones. I mean, he did get a

683
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Speaker 1: chance to play as a sixth offensive lineman. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a guy now. He played

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Speaker 1: at Houston a left tackle. Maybe he could be your

686
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Speaker 1: swing tackle this year if some that happened to hump

687
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: or are possibly on the right side again. Calvin Beaches

688
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,359
Speaker 1: to me, you know played well. I'm curious to see

689
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Speaker 1: when Marcus Skilber is going to do. But Josh Jones,

690
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if he can play multiple positions. I

691
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: know that Cardinals want to get more athletic at that

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Speaker 1: right guard and that's why probably Justin Murray's going to

693
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Speaker 1: be the guy going in. But at the end of

694
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Speaker 1: the day, you know, Coogler's gonna have to play the

695
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: best five guys, and you know late in the year

696
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: last year, they are kind of substitute and I thought

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00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: some guys wore down. I don't know if that's the

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Speaker 1: best position where you start rotating guys. Cardinals and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty a top five running team or excuse me, a

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Speaker 1: top ten running team as far as yards per game

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Speaker 1: and yards per play as far as rushing yards per play,

702
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Speaker 1: just under four points seven every time they touched the football.

703
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: I was tied for eighth best in the league. Rod

704
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: Frederickson last week on The Big Red Rage that running

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Speaker 1: the football is where everything begins and sometimes ends. It's

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Speaker 1: running the football and sticking with it even if it's

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Speaker 1: not successful, even if it's only for two yards or

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Speaker 1: three yards. To me, that's successful because that sets up

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00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: so much else off the play action, and then the

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Speaker 1: middle of the field is wide open. Okay, with the

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Speaker 1: two ice safeties, you got a guy like Dan Arnold,

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Speaker 1: give me a break him against the middle linebacker. That

713
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: that should be a win every time. And that's what

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Speaker 1: we talk about as far as running game MJ is win.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that first two or three carriers don't amount too much,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it's only a two or three yard game,

717
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,399
Speaker 1: or you get pushed back a yard, but you have

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Speaker 1: to be patient enough to stick with it. And with

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Speaker 1: run game coordinator now an addition to offensive line coach

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Speaker 1: Sean Coogler, might we see more of an emphasis as

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Speaker 1: far as running the football, even more than what we've

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Speaker 1: see in the past. Two seasons, I believe. So I

723
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Speaker 1: mean again, if teams are going to put seven or

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Speaker 1: guys in the box and you know there they want

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Speaker 1: to run the football to open up the pass, the

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00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: thing that would help a lot. One hundred and thirteen penalties.

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Speaker 1: Forty five were pre snap penalties according to you Greenland,

728
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: which is in the league. Okay, Philadelphia had fifty six.

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Speaker 1: In other ways, as you point out, nearly forty percent

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Speaker 1: of the penalties have in pre snap, So avoid those

731
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Speaker 1: pre snap penalties. Cut that in half and avoid those

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Speaker 1: you know, third and lungs, And that's where the running

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Speaker 1: game will come in, where if you're in third and two,

734
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: third and three, you can do so many different things.

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Speaker 1: And when we talk about the running game, the wild

736
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Speaker 1: card is Kyler Murray, but you don't want to depend

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Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, use him to your advantage, but don't

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Speaker 1: rely on him as far as carrying the football. And yeah,

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00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: he carried the ball a lot, and it's a great

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Speaker 1: option to have. You would just like to see someone else,

741
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Speaker 1: whether that's the Chase Edmonds or someone else emerged to

742
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Speaker 1: become that other running back, much like we talked about

743
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Speaker 1: with wide receiver. It's great to have it DeAndre Hopkins,

744
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: but he can't do it all by himself. We also

745
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: know that it can't just be about offense. The defense

746
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: plays its own parts and maybe the largest parts according

747
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Speaker 1: to bertrad Ferry, and based off what we saw in

748
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty five, come back, we will talk about

749
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: the Cardinals defense, specifically that front seven, who's coming back,

750
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: who needs to come back, and what we see out

751
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Speaker 1: of this team moving forward under defensive coordinator Vans Joseph.

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Speaker 1: That's all streight ahead. It is the Cardinals Red Sea

753
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: report Here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Each team

754
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: of the time out a minute four to go in

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Speaker 1: a tie game here and over time thirty four piece,

756
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: gotta get a stop here, third and fourteen playclock at

757
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: one snapped to Wilson, quick for over the middle, picked off.

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00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: It's intercepting at the forty yard line. Isaiah Simmons has

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Speaker 1: it running far side of the forty five pot of

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Speaker 1: pounds half the fifty yard line, fifty seven seconds line.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals have the ball man in time up. The rookie

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Speaker 1: made of play. Isaiah Simmons is right there with the

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Speaker 1: Sweethends want to catch by Isaiah Simmons huge play by

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals rookie linebacker Isaiah Simmons, helping the Cardinals beat

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks in overtime thirty seven thirty four, the first

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Speaker 1: career I n T picking up Russell Wilson. Later on

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Speaker 1: in season, Simmons would have his first career sack, also

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Speaker 1: against Russell Wilson. Simmons finishing with two sacks on the

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Speaker 1: season in that play certainly made things a lot easier

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Speaker 1: and maybe gave Simmons the confidence that yes, he could

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Speaker 1: play and play very well at the next level, that

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Speaker 1: being the National Football League. As we continue here on

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals Red Sea Report, Craig Rielu, Mike Dreckie and

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Speaker 1: bertram Berry looking at the front seven and specifically here

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Speaker 1: for a minute talking about Isaiah Simmons year two. What

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Speaker 1: can we expect. Here's Rob Frederickson last week on the

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Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. From your first year to your second year,

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Speaker 1: that's where you see the biggest growth, and I think

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Speaker 1: you're going to see it from Isaiah Simmons. In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: he's too good of a player to ever be on

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Speaker 1: the sideline. Too good of a talent, is too good

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Speaker 1: of an athlete, and he's fast and this league the

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Speaker 1: way it is right now, you have to be fast.

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Speaker 1: Speed kills. Isaiah Simmons has it. He has to be

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Speaker 1: on the field all the time. A lot of problems

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Speaker 1: be trained. We've heard advanced Joseph the defensive coordinator call

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Speaker 1: him any eracer talking about because of that speed, he

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Speaker 1: can make up for a lot of people's even his

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Speaker 1: own mistakes. And I think we all anticipate next year

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Speaker 1: or this coming season to be a huge one for

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons. The one thing you see what rookies is

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Speaker 1: from year one to year two is that the game

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00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: slows down, and that refers to the thinking. They don't

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Speaker 1: think as much. They're just more reacting and they understand

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Speaker 1: that the pace of the game, and they just seem

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Speaker 1: to come into their own And the biggest jump for me,

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Speaker 1: I know, going from year one to year two was

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Speaker 1: just how fast everybody was. When you were usually the

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Speaker 1: fastest guy in the field, and then you got offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman and you've got tight ends and all these other

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Speaker 1: positions that are it's as fast as you. It takes

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Speaker 1: a moment to really process that, and once you do that,

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00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: then you're able to go out there and you're able

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00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: to adapt him adjust and didn't find other ways to

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00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: make contributions to the team. Is not necessarily about being

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Speaker 1: the fastest or being the strongest, but then who can

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00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: think the fastest and who can anticipate the best and

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Speaker 1: go and make those particular plays when your numbers call.

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Speaker 1: So I really expect Isa him and to come into

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Speaker 1: his own And I think for him, once the game

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Speaker 1: slows down and he's not out there thinking as much

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Speaker 1: as he did in year one, I think he's going

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Speaker 1: to realize all that that the Cardinals used for the

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Speaker 1: eighth overall pick to bring him here to the battlem Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's go back to his rookie season. First

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Speaker 1: of all, you know, he played what seven eight nine

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Speaker 1: is different positions in college and they wanted to, you know,

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Speaker 1: slow play him at week side linebacker, and then injuries

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Speaker 1: started to occur, you know, and they signed Campbell to

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Speaker 1: a one year deal where seven point five millions, so

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Speaker 1: it was going to be difficult. Now I don't disagree

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Speaker 1: where he should be on the field, but he did

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Speaker 1: play three hundred and seventy six snaps, which is thirty

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Speaker 1: three percent. Campbell played seventy nine percent of the snaps, so,

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Speaker 1: but I do think when offseason workouts happen, or we

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Speaker 1: get the training camp and preseason games, hopefully he's going

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Speaker 1: to be a three down linebacker and he's not going

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Speaker 1: to come off the field and his versatility is going

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Speaker 1: to allow him to cover guys maybe possibly get a

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Speaker 1: chance to get to the quarterback. So I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: about him. And he actually tweeted out on Sunday, is

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Speaker 1: a football season yet, And I'm encouraged by that because

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Speaker 1: he wants to get back in the story that Hassan

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Speaker 1: and Roddick told us last year when he came to

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Speaker 1: the sidelines, he told him, Hassan, I can do this.

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Speaker 1: So now that's a confidence thing. And now he knows

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Speaker 1: and that he comes in here and he could be

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Speaker 1: a big part of that defense, and opposing defensive quarters

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Speaker 1: are gonna have to id him based on a skill set.

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Speaker 1: You line them up next to Jordan Hicks, who's returning,

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Speaker 1: and you mentioned I Andrey Campbell a one year contract.

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Speaker 1: They don't anticipate him coming back because you draft Simmons,

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00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: but he can do so much be training with Simmons. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you can drop him back into coverage, but as we've

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00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: seen you can also rush the quarterback, and I know

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Speaker 1: that is something you'd like to see because it's what

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Speaker 1: you did so well. Yes, But the thing about Isaiah, though,

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Speaker 1: is you don't want him thinking too much, meaning having

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Speaker 1: too many responsibility. If you can really strip away all

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Speaker 1: the different things and just have him hone in on one,

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Speaker 1: maybe two things, then I think you will really get

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Speaker 1: the best of Isaiah Simmons. Yes, he's a tremendous athlete.

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Speaker 1: Yes he can do a lot of things well, but

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Speaker 1: you don't want him to be the jack of all

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Speaker 1: trades and the master of none. You want him to

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Speaker 1: just lock in on something that he can do best

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Speaker 1: of all those things and bring that to the table

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Speaker 1: each and every time he lines up on his cardinal sleeps.

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Speaker 1: And maybe you don't need to have him rush the

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Speaker 1: quarterback a lot if you do have a Hassan Reddick

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones on one side, and then Simmons being able

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Speaker 1: to man the middle of the field, whether that's taking

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Speaker 1: care of a titan coming across the middle or if

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Speaker 1: he sees a running back try to sneak out of

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Speaker 1: the backfield MJ and then all of a sudden, that's

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Speaker 1: what Simmons is there for, to utilize that speed and

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Speaker 1: in the course of physicality to handle a tight end. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and let's be honest, Campbell did a really nice job

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Speaker 1: covering those tight ends. It wasn't an issue like it

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Speaker 1: was two years ago. And so there's gonna be opportunities

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Speaker 1: for him there. Maybe he's more of a front seven guy,

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Speaker 1: but I do like the fact that he may have

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Speaker 1: to cover those slots sometimes depending on the defense. But

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Speaker 1: one thing that stood out to me, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: see it in training camp, how physical he is on

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Speaker 1: game day. Absolutely, he was not afraid, as Ron Whippley

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Speaker 1: likes to say, stick your nose and the fan. Not

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Speaker 1: afraid of contact. And that's something that you're never quite

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Speaker 1: certain when you're talking about a first year player. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Good stuff, A fun, fast paced hour here

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Speaker 1: this week. We'll do it in one week's time once again.

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Speaker 1: next week year round, and I expected to be a

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Speaker 1: very busy offseason ahead. The Arizona Cardinals will cover her

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