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Speaker 1: Week two of free agency is underway, and while we

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Speaker 1: about what's been done so far? Welcome Bird Gang. On

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Speaker 1: today's show, Danny Surrek joins me. She's back and better

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Speaker 1: than ever, and back in time to answer the question,

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Speaker 1: can the Arizona Cardinals play a game? Right now? It's

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Cover two, Episode eight sixty one, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 3: Buda Baker, What Heart?

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Speaker 4: What rent?

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Speaker 3: This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Cardinals Cover two is presented by Hyundai, proud partner of

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Speaker 1: He's at the ten half of five. He's it again.

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Speaker 1: Some more hurry magic.

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Speaker 2: Whow here's Craig Triolo.

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Speaker 1: So let's start here. Welcome back. I can't speak for everyone.

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Speaker 1: I'll speak for myself. You were missed?

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Speaker 5: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Did you miss us?

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Speaker 3: No, of course not.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't when you're on vacation. You're not supposed to

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Speaker 1: miss the people.

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Speaker 3: It's not personal, No, of course not.

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Speaker 4: I did walk down the stairs one morning. My dad

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Speaker 4: was working in his office and he had Cardinals Underground on.

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Speaker 4: I said, you know, you don't have to listen.

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Speaker 3: I'm not on this week, and what.

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Speaker 1: Was there I needed? Okay, And Dad's response was.

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Speaker 4: He wanted to listen and make sure that Zach Gershman

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Speaker 4: was doing a good job.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So he's a loyal listener. Is a loyal listener

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Speaker 1: in the radio industry. I don't believe this is the

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Speaker 1: P One and it sounds like your dad is a

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Speaker 1: P one listener when it comes to Arizona Cardinals content. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 4: He did a better job than I did. I was

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Speaker 4: really trying to truly unplug on my time off. I

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Speaker 4: kept an eye on free agency, you know, did what

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Speaker 4: I had to do. But I was definitely enjoying my vacation.

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Speaker 1: Well it was well deserved. I believe it was spring break, right,

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Speaker 1: That's what I saw on social media.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when that nice bumber to come back with the

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Speaker 4: time change though, holy smokes, I do not like being

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Speaker 4: on Pacific, but nobody asked me so, okay.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's how I grew up, was being on

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Speaker 1: for a while, once upon a time there was some

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to that. Okay, there's a

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Speaker 1: You were detached, yet I know, I think I know

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Speaker 1: big picture here as far as what the Cardinals did

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Speaker 4: Like the free agency moves so far. The goal of

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Speaker 4: now the Cardinals already have a leg up going into

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Speaker 4: That's apparent in all of the newest additions to the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Good people. Can they fit in that Cardinals locker room?

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Speaker 1: And what we've seen so far, Again, this is the

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Speaker 1: And this is what Moni said in Indianapolis. Quote, when

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Speaker 1: So I ask again as we speak here on this Monday,

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Speaker 4: One to two positions where I feel you can.

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Speaker 5: You can.

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Speaker 4: That's the important part is you still have I think

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Speaker 4: whether that is competition from the draft, competition from free agency.

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Speaker 4: You can play a game. And what I like about

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Speaker 4: This is what we've come to see from Ausome for

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Speaker 4: based on not even even just talking money or cap space,

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Speaker 1: There are some question marks, at least from my standpoint,

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Speaker 1: course they can. Their roster right now is seventy four players,

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Speaker 1: so you have enough bodies. Now, are there eleven starters

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Speaker 1: The big thing right now is, well, you're missing the

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Speaker 4: That is the big question when I'm thinking on defense

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Speaker 5: Just because a.

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Speaker 4: great need. After bringing in Josh Sweat, after expecting bjo

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Speaker 4: You also can't have enough competition there. You can't have

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Speaker 4: whether it's that player coming in or that player's competition

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Speaker 1: Late last week there was a report that a Sante

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Speaker 1: Samuel Junior was in town for a visit. Someone who's

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Speaker 1: four games. So to your point, is there someone that

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Speaker 1: we don't quite know what we have in Elijah Jones.

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Speaker 1: late in the season, but that was a day too

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Speaker 5: What do you have with them?

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Speaker 4: That's a big question mark And I'm sure that was

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Speaker 4: we're saying year one point five because he played six

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Speaker 1: It goes back to what you were talking about as

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Speaker 1: far as his impact, potential impact within that defense, especially

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Speaker 4: Those two free agency additions, and I'm not just saying

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Speaker 4: two editions of Sweat and Tomlinson made me significantly more

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Speaker 4: so you're looking at a pass rusher, you're looking at

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Speaker 4: that the Cardinals have already bolstered their pass rush and

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Speaker 4: right to your point, there is no pressure to come

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Speaker 4: Look at the pressure and attention that wide receiver Marvin

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Speaker 4: The defense is now setting itself up to where you

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Speaker 4: pass rusher. So do you go somewhere else at sixteen

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Speaker 4: one of those defensive tackles or edge players at sixteen

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Speaker 4: and forty seven? My point being my long winded point

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Speaker 4: here is that just the additions of Dalvin, Tomlinson and

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Speaker 4: Josh has made me so much more excited for this

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Speaker 1: It's a good point. And look, there's always going to

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Speaker 1: be a spotlight. There's always going to be pressure on

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Speaker 1: At sixteen, though there's not nearly enough or as much

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Speaker 1: attention as if it was top ten, top five. To

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Speaker 1: to elevate the wide receiver room, high expectations, huge expectations,

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Speaker 1: interesting topic. Could it be an offensive player? Because offensively

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Speaker 1: is that something this coaching staff in front office says, No,

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Speaker 1: are there still thoughts of will Hernandez Kristan Cologne being

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Speaker 1: Paris did it a little bit different for him as

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Speaker 1: That's good bookend for a young player, even if it

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Speaker 4: With the consistency of the rest of the offensive line.

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Speaker 4: If the Cardinals are still looking for a starting right guard,

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Speaker 4: that's okay because you've got four of your starters from

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Speaker 4: that is huge. To have that consistency. It is exciting. Look,

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Speaker 4: I'm the kind of person I get why fans you

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Speaker 4: want a player who's going to find the end zone

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Speaker 4: every week. I love a good trenches draft pick. Give

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Speaker 4: me a big offensive lineman, Give me a mean, nasty

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Speaker 4: defensive lineman. Who's going to put his hands up in

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Speaker 4: your face, get around you to the quarterback. That's where

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Speaker 4: you win and lose game. So I am all for

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Speaker 1: And that's where games are won and lost. Offensive line,

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Speaker 1: defensive line. Again, maybe not the headline grabbing selection if

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Speaker 1: it's someone that's wearing a jersey number in the seventies

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Speaker 1: or nineties, But at the end of the day, what

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at just numbers as far as a

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Speaker 1: So how do you knock on that door and walk through?

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Speaker 1: Eleven wins? To me, based off a seventeen game regular season,

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Speaker 1: be the goal, because now, all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 1: avoid a lot of tiebreakers if you can hit that eleven.

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Speaker 4: Win mark, especially when you start to broaden things up

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Speaker 4: I mean, look at the Rams. They always annoyingly seem

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Speaker 4: But when you look at what LA, Seattle, and San

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Speaker 4: The fact that the Cardinals were as competitive as they

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Speaker 4: then you start to look at who you're going to

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Speaker 4: easiest way to secure a spot in the playoffs, the Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: I'm not in a betting so I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay, Matthew Stafford certainly are going to, at least

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Speaker 1: for me, always be the standard bearer until they're no

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Speaker 1: seen rec games with their front seven. I don't really

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Speaker 1: Are you getting the Sam Donald who couldn't survive in

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Speaker 3: That relationship dramatics.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's when you're looking for the less dramatic

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Speaker 1: it would seem to be the Arizona Cardinals. They have

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Speaker 1: twenty unrestricted free agents. They've only lost three, all three

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Speaker 1: defensive linemen Nakwon Jones, Roy Lopez and Kyrie's Tonga. That's it.

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Speaker 1: They've not lost anyone else to another team. Again, as

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Speaker 4: I know, it's so crazy, right, and it isn't so

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Speaker 5: It's so crazy how that.

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Speaker 1: Everyone negotiates very quickly.

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Speaker 4: Yan apparently, I think the Cardinals are setting themselves up

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Speaker 4: prime position short and long term to win the division.

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Speaker 4: And I do think it says something when you've got

438
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Speaker 4: big name players who had other opportunities to go to

439
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 4: other teams, and sometimes it's not even just about the money,

440
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 4: but for these big time players like Sweat and Tomlinson

441
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 4: to choose to come to Arizona, it's telling. It is

442
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 4: telling from the front office, from the coaching staff, from

443
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 4: the players, from the effort that was put out on film,

444
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 4: how competitive this team was.

445
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 5: It's telling.

446
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: And I think it's good for Cardinal fans as we

447
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: kind of get consumed in our own bubble, but when

448
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: you hear that from someone on the outside now coming

449
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 1: in now, all of a sudden, it makes you feel

450
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: good on where this team has gone or what they've

451
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: done to get to this point as far as laying

452
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,960
Speaker 1: the foundation and building upon it now going into year three,

453
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Speaker 1: it does make you excited about twenty twenty five. Absolutely,

454
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: there is one other position offensively, at least for me.

455
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 5: Oh, where we going wide receiver?

456
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 1: Exactly? Is there a move? I'm not saying it has

457
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,840
Speaker 1: to be made, but right now again you're running it back.

458
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: Would you like to see something different? Is there you

459
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: know Marvin Harrison Junior. Would you like to see someone

460
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: opposite of HJ? Is that Michael Wilson? Does he need

461
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: to be pushed a little bit? Can you get better

462
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: as a two or a three wide receiver? You bring

463
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Speaker 1: back Za Jones? Greg Dortsch has been tendered. Not sure

464
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,239
Speaker 1: if he's going to be officially back or not. But

465
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 1: is there someone? Is there a veteran another j Jones

466
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: out there? Do you want a speedy wide receiver, someone

467
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,880
Speaker 1: going back several years, a John Brown who can really

468
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,120
Speaker 1: take the top off as Bruce Arians would like to say,

469
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: a lot of the times. Can you find someone that

470
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Speaker 1: would be able to take advantage when everyone's looking at

471
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Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior, Trey McBride underneath, and James Conner in

472
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: the backfield? Is there room within this offense to find

473
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,959
Speaker 1: a little bit more speed at the receiver position.

474
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 4: That's a great point because if you want to see

475
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 4: improvements based on last year, which is what we heard

476
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 4: from players and coaches alike, are you expecting those changes

477
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 4: to come from the same group of players.

478
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Speaker 5: It's possible.

479
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 4: Sure, Maybe that that's pushing the players to go to

480
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 4: a new level. Maybe that's in the scheme and the

481
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 4: plays that are being called and what's being asked of

482
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 4: the players, maybe you do need somebody new, some fresh legs.

483
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 4: I would love to see a speedy receiver really stretch

484
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 4: the field and be a deep threat option. We saw

485
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 4: that and Harrison and his ability to make those contested

486
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 4: catches as a big body. By would love to see

487
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 4: just a small, speedy receiver work his way around a

488
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,159
Speaker 4: defender and really open up the field for those deep

489
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,320
Speaker 4: passes from Kyler Murray. The following question, though, is what

490
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 4: you just said, which is how's everybody going to get

491
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 4: the ball right? And that's not necessarily the main priority,

492
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 4: because the priority is winning. You have to do what

493
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 4: it takes, and that's going to change on a week

494
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 4: to week basis based on your opponent. But in terms

495
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 4: of if you're talking about free agency, how much money

496
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Speaker 4: are you willing to spend on a receiver when they're

497
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Speaker 4: not going to come in and be the number one

498
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 4: that's already set right, You've got an incredible tight end

499
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 4: in McBride that's going to come in and deservingly demand

500
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 4: not himself, but the way the offense is run demand

501
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 4: attention there. And you've got a great running game in

502
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 4: Connor and all the depth in the running back room,

503
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 4: So what exactly makes sense for you to spend right,

504
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 4: So it'll be interesting to see how that position unfolds

505
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 4: throughout the rest of the off season, especially when you

506
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 4: start coming around draft. Now, I don't expect the Cardinals

507
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 4: to use a top draft pick on a receiver. What

508
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 4: didn't surprise me necessarily to use a later pick on

509
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 4: also a running back. Right, you start getting all those

510
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 4: positions where they're not really a need, but you've got

511
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,719
Speaker 4: a great player who would be a good fit. That

512
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 4: is a kind of an underrated position wide receiver to

513
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,919
Speaker 4: keep an eye on this offseason of what moves are

514
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 4: going to be made. If you've made clear you want

515
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 4: to see improvements and changes, what's going.

516
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 5: To take to get there.

517
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: Money talks, but so does opportunity. And to your point,

518
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: if you're bringing in someone into the wide receiver room,

519
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: knowing you've got Marvin Harrison Junior, Trey McBride, James Connor,

520
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: and you know I'll even throwing Kyler Murray with his legs,

521
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: you're now really the fifth option offensively to move the chains,

522
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: score a touchdown. Again, money talks, but also just how

523
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: involved would you be as a wide receiver to attract

524
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: someone in. Yeah, you're you're joining a pretty loaded, top

525
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: heavy offensive room. Ye know. The other the other side

526
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: of this is, okay, well we need we need a

527
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: plan B. We need options in case something.

528
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 4: Someone loses a shoe recording.

529
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 5: Nick Rawlis likes to say.

530
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: Or you're just all right, you know what, this particular week,

531
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: we can't get the Baltimorvin Trey McBride. He's just not open.

532
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: It's it's just for O what reason, it's not working?

533
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: All right? You know what? We have this player over here,

534
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: he's he's been around, he's worked real hard. He's got

535
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: a couple of catches. Let's target that and see what happens.

536
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 1: That's where all of a sudden a door opens for

537
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: someone and you come in. We saw it with Greg

538
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: Dortch a couple of times late in the season, all

539
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Wow, where was this all season long? Well,

540
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: it's always been there. It's just there are other guys

541
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: that a little bit higher priority as far as where

542
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 1: the pecking order, as far as who's getting targeted, who's

543
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,479
Speaker 1: getting those catches, who's getting those carries? And again I

544
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: do throw Kyler into this mix because you want to

545
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: be able to respect what he can do when he's

546
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, especially on the run.

547
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 4: I could be wrong on this, but my feelings as

548
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 4: when we're talking about receiver, if there is going to

549
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 4: be that player that we're talking about to come in,

550
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 4: whether that is the depth or to come in and

551
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 4: be another piece in this offense on a consistent basis,

552
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 4: I feel like that's not going to happen until training camp,

553
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 4: until you kind of get through the draft and free

554
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 4: agency and teams start to make the first round of

555
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 4: cuts and you kind of get a feel that wide

556
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 4: receiver specifically seen to be a position every year where

557
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 4: there's kind of a player where you don't really know

558
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 4: a lot about him, and he comes in and you

559
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 4: see him, you're like, oh, this player is good. Sometimes

560
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 4: they are just on teams where you've got a star

561
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 4: receiver and you don't have a lot of opportunities that

562
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 4: that's my gut feeling. Now, Look, I could be wrong.

563
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 4: It's not often, but sometimes I am. I kind of

564
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 4: feel like, if we're if this team is going to

565
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 4: sign a you know, a true number two receiver per se,

566
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 4: it might not happen until later in the off season,

567
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 4: more training camp time.

568
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: Trying to think the last time that you were wrong,

569
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 1: and it's nothing's coming.

570
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 5: To mind, urt yourself thinking too hard.

571
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: Good for you on that. We might be in a

572
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: little bit of a lull here when it comes to

573
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: free agency and a move or moves that gets people excited.

574
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 1: You're again, you've got as we speak, seventy four players

575
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: on a roster. You got to get to ninety. So

576
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: there are going to be additions in addition to your

577
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: rookie class, and you're undrafted rookie free aid, and so

578
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: you're going to to see and hear names coming in.

579
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: But it's is it really gonna move the meter if

580
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: you will? Is it more of depth rotation? And then

581
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you do find a gem in that based

582
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: off how they practice in the offseason and compete in

583
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: training camp in the preseason. Where remember that move right

584
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,479
Speaker 1: before the draft or right after the draft, when all

585
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: of a sudden the dust is settled a little bit. Hey,

586
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: you know what, we weren't able to get this position

587
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: in the draft based off how things fell. Let's go

588
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: back and look at who we have on our ready

589
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: list that still might be out on the market.

590
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 4: What did the Cardinals have in Xavier Weaver? That was

591
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 4: a name that really caught eyes in training camp and

592
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 4: just kind of didn't have the opportunity when looking at

593
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 4: the depth chart and as a rookie last year. But

594
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 4: that's a player where if we're talking about you're looking

595
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 4: around that time of year or somebody to stand out.

596
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 4: That's a player that has the opportunity to shine.

597
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: A player that they chose to keep quote unquote red

598
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: shirt if you will, until late in the season. But

599
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: they kept them around for a reason. Could it be

600
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: they have that four four four five guy that can

601
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: be the guy who stretches the field a little bit for.

602
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 5: You offensively, will be nice if he's already in the building.

603
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: It's a good name to keep an eye on. By

604
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: the way, keeping an eye on this. As far as

605
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: how much the Cardinals have been active, there was a

606
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: lot of debate as far as Okay, every team says

607
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: they're going to be active, well, what does that mean?

608
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: How active are you going to be? Found this interesting?

609
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: According to overthecap dot com, the Cardinals has spent the

610
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: sixth most money among teams one hundred and sixty four

611
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: million dollars. Again, these are according to the numbers that

612
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: have been thrown out there by agents. Whether that's a

613
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: true number as far as guaranteed money, it's not. But

614
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: as far as realistic expectations. But the Cardinals are just

615
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: out of the top five as far as going out

616
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: and spending money to fill holes. But I don't think

617
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: spending recklessly and going out there and throwing a boatload

618
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: of money out there to fix things because you weren't

619
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: very good as a draft evaluator and didn't bring the

620
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: right talent into the locker room.

621
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 4: It's great when you can evaluate talent well enough that

622
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 4: your rookies or second year players can come in and

623
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 4: be starters and impact players, and then you can fill

624
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 4: holes elsewhere without feeling like you have to make a

625
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 4: player the highest paid at their position in NFL history.

626
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 5: That is great.

627
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 4: I mean, look at the Bengals, for example. A significant

628
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 4: amount of their cap space is going to be used

629
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 4: on three players, a quarterback and two receivers. Look, those

630
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 4: are three of the best of their position. I'm not

631
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 4: saying that's not the case. How are you going to

632
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 4: boost a defense that was.

633
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 5: Bad last year?

634
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 4: How are you going to make sure you have enough

635
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 4: for the rest of the offense to be balanced and

636
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 4: do what you need to do. So again, what works

637
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 4: for some teams doesn't work for others. And I very

638
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 4: much like the approach the Cardinals have taken to free agency.

639
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: We go back to the combine and Moni talking about

640
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: salary cap space because the Cardinals were one of the

641
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: big teams as far as having the most calf space.

642
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: But Moni quote, it gives us opportunity, it gives us flexibility.

643
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: Then he continued, you also have to be smart about it.

644
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: You don't want to just spend to spend. You have

645
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: to make the right decisions.

646
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 4: So my mom always tells me, don't just spend to

647
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 4: spend on things. You have to think it through.

648
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: I got you there, I said, a really good analogy.

649
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're shopping, Yeah, you just I would think.

650
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 4: I mean we're talking like zero point zero zeros DearS

651
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 4: years zero to the ten degree one percent of the

652
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: money that's being spent by the Cardinals when I'm shopping.

653
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: But sure, I mean if money was no object, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure money would have been more aggressive. If you will,

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Speaker 1: and if mom is saying, hey, you know what, just

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Speaker 1: have some fun. Here's the card. Go have go enjoy

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Speaker 1: your spring break, Danny.

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Speaker 5: That would be nice.

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Speaker 1: That didn't happen that way.

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Speaker 5: Enjoyed my break, Just not you.

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Speaker 1: You prey little financial responsibility? Yes, can I get you

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Speaker 1: to part with some of that money?

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Speaker 5: Oh? What's at stake?

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna bring up the fact that if

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Speaker 1: you want, yes, Marvin Harrison junior's number eighteen, how about

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Speaker 1: your hat is now available?

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Speaker 4: You mean like legit no longer bootleg jerseys that are

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Speaker 4: the wrong color, red, the wrong shade, the font is

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Speaker 4: a little.

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Speaker 1: Off, misspelling Harrison.

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Speaker 5: But now you can get the real thing.

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Speaker 1: Asycardinals dot com, Forward slash Shop or good Aisycardinals dot

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Speaker 1: com and click shop in the upper right hand corner.

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Speaker 1: And yes they are available at the team shop. At

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Speaker 1: least they were as of late. I've not done to

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Speaker 1: check on it. You did bring up money and money

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Speaker 1: and what was at stake? Do you fill out a bracket?

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Speaker 1: I think we have to go at some point if

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Speaker 1: you're speak, if you're going to speak on a Monday

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Speaker 1: following selection, at some point point you have to bring

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Speaker 1: up the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 4: I am not a college basketball expert. I'm the furthest

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Speaker 4: thing from a college basketball expert. Now, I will fill

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Speaker 4: out a bracket. However, it is too soon for me

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Speaker 4: to tell you who I'm picking or what I feel

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Speaker 4: good about, because I haven't done enough research on the

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Speaker 4: internet or on Twitter. And so that's what I am

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Speaker 4: going to have to find time to do before I

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Speaker 4: make my bracket. I don't think I'm going to go

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Speaker 4: and make a bunch. I think I'm just going to

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Speaker 4: try and lock in on one and see how I do.

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Speaker 1: Bragging rights.

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Speaker 5: Yes, hey, Missouri's playing.

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna mention that the fact that, amongst

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Speaker 1: the group of us currently here inside the Dignity Health

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals Training Center, in this radio studio, your alma

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Speaker 1: mater is the only one that is involved in the

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Speaker 1: NCAA tournament. No Syracuse, no ASU assues in some other

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Speaker 1: tournaments in Las Vegas. I can't remember what it's called,

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Speaker 1: but they're a smaller tournament. But no, it's the only

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Speaker 1: tournament that matters is the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 5: Hop on the bandwagon.

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Speaker 1: Syracuse wasn't good enough to get invited to anything. Just

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Speaker 1: gonna man, I will hop on the Missouri Tiger train.

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Speaker 3: Come on that good. Everybody welcome, Everyone's welcome.

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Speaker 5: Plenty of room. No, I gotta see.

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Speaker 4: Once I make my bracket by this point next week,

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Speaker 4: I will be able to share more insight to my

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Speaker 4: decision making.

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Speaker 5: I gotta pick. I've got to pick the right upsets.

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Speaker 5: That's the key. The key is picking the upsets, the underdogs.

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Speaker 1: Twelve five.

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Speaker 5: Can someone tweet me? Because someone let me know who's

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Speaker 5: actually good?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm being serious. I don't really know who's who's

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Speaker 4: even favored to win.

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Speaker 1: Here you go, here's some advice. You have a pretty

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Speaker 1: good chance if you just select one of the fourteen

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Speaker 1: SEC teams that made up the field of sixty.

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Speaker 4: Eight Missouri and then and that's one of them.

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Speaker 1: Florida's very good, Houston's very good. Okay, Duke hard to

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Speaker 1: go wrong with Duke, that's true.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's helpful.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: We're all here for you.

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Speaker 4: Danny.

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Speaker 5: Are you gonna make a bracket?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I always do? Okay, great, but again, bragging rights,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's again, Yes, entertainment purposes here amongst.

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Speaker 5: Don't get it.

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Speaker 4: A couple of people here, yes, don't report us never.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad to have you back there, Thank you, glad

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Speaker 3: to be back.

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Speaker 1: On that note, we'll put a lit on this edition

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Speaker 1: of Cardinals Cover two presented by Hyundai, proud partner of

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. As always, special thanks to our executive

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Speaker 1: producer Jim Mamahudro, our associate producer Cuddie Fincher. For Danny Siak,

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Speaker 1: I'm Craig rail Lou. We'll talk to you next time

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Speaker 1: here on Cardinals Cover two