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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray returns, James Connor returns, and the Cardinals return

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Speaker 1: to the win column. Happy victory Monday. Everybody live here

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Speaker 1: in the Sea Geeks Studios, It's Morning Scramble presented by

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Speaker 1: Verizon Zachers from joining alongside by Joey Jackson and speaking

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Speaker 1: of returns, Craig ReLU welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Only took me eight weeks to come back. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I think it was nine weeks week one. But it

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Speaker 2: is good to be back.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 1: We made sure to go over it ahead of time,

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Speaker 1: where like Craig does this thing called Songbirds at the end,

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Speaker 1: it's no longer an emotion, it's actually a song lyric.

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Speaker 1: It's actually a song title. And for a game that

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Speaker 1: had so many emotions, we got to start it off, Jody,

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Speaker 1: with Kyler Murray making his return.

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Speaker 4: What were your initial impressions of K one?

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Speaker 5: I mean, guys, I forgot how much fun it was

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Speaker 5: to watch Kyler Murray play football. And it didn't take

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Speaker 5: long because we all wondered would this be the Kyler revold?

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Speaker 5: And honestly, he was as fast as he was. I mean,

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Speaker 5: we have the next gen stats to prove it. Twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty one, going over twenty miles an hour on his

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Speaker 5: big third and nine run. It just it was great

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Speaker 5: to see him back. And I feel like he's a

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Speaker 5: different guy now, not so much the player, but the

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Speaker 5: person and the way that he's handling everything, and I

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Speaker 5: love to see that. I think he did well in

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Speaker 5: this We're going to break it all down a little

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Speaker 5: bit more, but yeah, I think he did just fine

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Speaker 5: in the new offense. We did see him under center

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Speaker 5: a little bit, and I think that's going to be

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Speaker 5: a progression Craig as well. But you know, the other

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Speaker 5: thing is Drew Petsing. I thought about him just calling

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Speaker 5: plays and how much he probably enjoyed coming up with

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Speaker 5: a game play that included Kyler Murray and James Connor

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Speaker 5: and you know, using a lot of the weapons.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday had Michael Wilson back on the football field as well,

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Speaker 2: and it certainly makes an offensive coordinator's job a whole

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Speaker 2: lot more easier when you have star players on that

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Speaker 2: see and just the expectations with Kyler coming into this game,

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Speaker 2: I really didn't have many expectations, but what we did

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Speaker 2: see was that Kyler Murray volt the Hills came off.

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Speaker 2: There were no hindrance at all. He came out, he

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Speaker 2: was running, he was throwing. He looked like K one

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Speaker 2: Before the injury.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon said that Kyler Murray laughed in his face

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Speaker 1: when he said that he might not look like Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is the message, Craig, that Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray sent to the NFL in this first game back.

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Speaker 2: That he's back and he never really left except for

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Speaker 2: the eleven months that he needed to get back on

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Speaker 2: the football field. But that Kyler Murray that we saw

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Speaker 2: that electrified fans and was a highlight every single night

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Speaker 2: is back here in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 6: Now it's one game.

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Speaker 2: Try not get too excited, but I do think there's

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Speaker 2: a reason to feel excited because now we know what

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Speaker 2: is Kyler is capable of doing within this offense. Now

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Speaker 2: you build upon it these next seven games.

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Speaker 1: Jody, were you surprised to kind of not see any

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Speaker 1: hesitancy from Kyler knowing that even within the first few

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Speaker 5: I wasn't sure what to expect either, just as you

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Speaker 5: I mean, there's so many things that are back kind

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Speaker 3: And that's no disrespect to Josh Dobbs.

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Speaker 5: Clayton Tune we all know was, you know, coming in

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Speaker 5: just I'm sorry to even bring that up, Dock.

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Speaker 3: We flushed that way.

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Speaker 5: We put it in the in the back and we

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Speaker 5: have some good stuff to talk about with Clayton Tune

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Speaker 2: I think the word that you use, Zach was that

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Speaker 2: there was no hesitancy whatsoever.

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Speaker 2: and the mistakes that were made very small, very minor,

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Speaker 2: and easily correctible. The deep shot to Hollywood Brown. That's

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Speaker 2: the delay of game, Okay, you're getting back in the

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Speaker 2: flow of things. The false start penalty again, very easily correctible.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray nineteen for thirty two two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: Also six rushes for thirty three yards, the one rushing touchdown.

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Speaker 2: You saw when he crossed the goal line, he immediately

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and he made it look easy, you know, And

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Speaker 5: just like thinking it was a bit poetic. Just he's back.

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Speaker 5: That looked like the Kyler Murray we had seen. There

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Speaker 5: he would have had the passing touchdown. Michael Wilson was

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Speaker 5: So that's kind of a cool role for Clayton Tune

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Speaker 2: What do you want from a franchise quarterback. Yes, you

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Speaker 2: more importantly than all of that is a franchise quarterback

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Speaker 2: has got to uplift your teammates and elevate everyone else's game.

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Speaker 2: And we saw that James Connor back on the football field,

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Speaker 2: That you saw what a franchise quarterback is capable of doing.

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Speaker 2: And then defense feeds off of that, and special teams

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Speaker 1: And I think that Kyle Murray when he spoke earlier

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Speaker 1: When you have a quarterback Kyler Murray's not the tallest.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the shortest ones in the NFL. But

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Speaker 5: dissect that play, you can see brock Perty got hurt

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Speaker 1: What was working for Trey McBride to have this kind

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Speaker 5: Know, he was unbelievable. He's just a kid that again

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Speaker 5: it's great to see that finally broken a tight end

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Speaker 3: It was what it ended up with in the books.

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Speaker 5: But then throwing that to McBride who was able to

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Speaker 3: The whole way he adjusted.

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Speaker 2: The pass was underthrown, so all credit to McBride to

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Speaker 1: McBride's last three games ninety five plus yards against the

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Speaker 1: throw me the rock once the safety's guarding me. He said,

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Speaker 1: Craig does Trey McBride have the ability to be one

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Speaker 2: Since Zach Ertz has been on IR these past three games,

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Speaker 2: Within the AFC West, but someone who has that talent,

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Speaker 1: One of the things Trey McBride and Kyler Murray did

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Speaker 4: I messed up on that one.

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Speaker 3: You're the quarterback, that's what you have to do.

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Speaker 2: Even better is you throw an interception, and what do

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he threw his body out there.

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Speaker 1: What has it been What has it been about Bjojali

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Speaker 3: Clearly, you can see the talent.

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Speaker 5: You can see that he's able to come with some

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Speaker 6: Far as total yards allowed. This was their best passing

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Speaker 6: defense as far as net.

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Speaker 2: Passing yards allowed. Didn't allow a play longer than eighteen

442
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Speaker 2: yards and with Ojalari. I think what you're seeing is

443
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Speaker 2: we always heard that plan for Kyler Murray. There's a

444
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Speaker 2: plan to get him back on the football field. O

445
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Speaker 2: Jaalari didn't have an offseason. He was dealing with the

446
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Speaker 2: issue for much of the offseason in training camp. But

447
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Speaker 2: now for the first time, first time since Week three

448
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Speaker 2: and edge rusher not named Zavon Collins had the most

449
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Speaker 2: snaps among outside linebackers thirty seven, tied with Zavon Collins.

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Speaker 6: There was a plan to get o Jali up to speed.

451
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Speaker 2: And I now think you're going to see him a

452
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Speaker 2: heck of a lot more on the football.

453
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Speaker 1: And in a lot of cases, this coaching staff is

454
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Speaker 1: going to tell you they're not surprised in one bit.

455
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Speaker 1: They knew the type of potential that b j Ojalari

456
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Speaker 1: brought to the table, and as we've seen week after week,

457
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Speaker 1: he's starting to continue to progress. When I spoke to

458
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Speaker 1: Paris Johnson Junior following his first career sack, b Jojlari,

459
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Speaker 1: that is, and I asked him about his rookie teammate,

460
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Speaker 1: he said, I just know that this is just the

461
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Speaker 1: start for bj because it's going to continue getting better

462
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Speaker 1: and better. He's going to continue coming to practice harder

463
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Speaker 1: and harder, and he's clearly has done that. But let's

464
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Speaker 1: pull out the whiteboards a little bit because I think

465
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Speaker 1: BJ could have been one of those.

466
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Speaker 4: Players per player of the game. But let's get through

467
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Speaker 4: our player of the games, shall we.

468
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Speaker 5: Okay, I think a couple of them are pretty clear, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See, this is one of those games where like anybody

470
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Speaker 1: could really be a player of the game.

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Speaker 4: It was that dominant of performance.

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Speaker 5: It was a good team win and I think, you know,

473
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Speaker 5: I mean the only I hate to be the negative

474
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Speaker 5: one here, but yeah, the penalties are probably the worst

475
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Speaker 5: thing about this game. But you can't look at any

476
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Speaker 5: one player and say, I mean, I love that stat

477
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Speaker 5: you mentioned, Craig about the eighteen or Zach you mentioned

478
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Speaker 5: eighteen yards being the longest play. That tells you a

479
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Speaker 5: lot about the ability both upfront on defense and on

480
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Speaker 5: the back end. They didn't give up any big plays.

481
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Speaker 5: But should I go first, I feel like this is

482
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Speaker 5: the low hanging fruit on the Kyler Murray is my

483
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Speaker 5: player of the game, maybe because I responded first in

484
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Speaker 5: our production text.

485
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Speaker 3: To change, which I never do. So I just took it.

486
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Speaker 3: I took it and ran with it here Kyler Murray.

487
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Speaker 5: We went over a lot of the things that made

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Speaker 5: yesterday special for him, and I think one thing that

489
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Speaker 5: was clear after the game, just the way that the

490
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Speaker 5: players mentioned. You heard a lot of players talk about

491
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Speaker 5: it was so much fun playing with K one again.

492
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Speaker 5: And you know, the numbers were solid, they would have

493
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Speaker 5: been even better if maybe there wasn't maybe a little

494
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Speaker 5: I don't even know if I call it rust. I mean,

495
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Speaker 5: I played a Hollywood Brown was on his fingertips. You know,

496
00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,080
Speaker 5: maybe a little bit too much on that one, but

497
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Speaker 5: he was very close to having a game, maybe even

498
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Speaker 5: over three hundred yards passing, having the passing touchdown.

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Speaker 3: The numbers don't mean anything to me. What we saw out.

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Speaker 5: There was a healthy Kyler Murray in a good place

501
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 5: mentally and physically. That's something that we really haven't seen

502
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Speaker 5: in I feel like quite a while.

503
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Speaker 3: And I think this is just the beginning for him.

504
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Speaker 5: And we saw him incorporating all the weapons on this offense.

505
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Speaker 5: I think we're going to see more of that going forward.

506
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Speaker 5: But guys, there's no surprise to me. He kind of

507
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 5: laughed at JG when he said, you know, oh, are

508
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Speaker 5: we gonna you know, when he was told he told

509
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Speaker 5: us the media, are we going to see the Kyler.

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Speaker 3: That we know out right out of the gate.

511
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Speaker 5: And I mean at times it looked like he was

512
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Speaker 5: just showing off, But that's just him, that's just Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 2: I like what he said postgame that the wind was

514
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 2: icing on the cake because to a certain extent, yeah,

515
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Speaker 2: the result didn't really matter. Now at the end of

516
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Speaker 2: the day, yes, you want to get that win. But

517
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Speaker 2: to your point, Jody, what did Kyler Murray look like?

518
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Speaker 2: Is he healthy? Is he comfortable? Is he confident? And

519
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Speaker 2: you can check all those boxes off to now where

520
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Speaker 2: he could Okay, this was step one.

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Speaker 6: You got seven more steps left to go.

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Speaker 4: Correct, take it away.

523
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Speaker 2: So Kyler Murray was low hanging fruit. I'm going to

524
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Speaker 2: go with the other low hanging fruit here, and that

525
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Speaker 2: would be tight End Trey McBride, who had one hundred

526
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Speaker 2: and thirty one receiving yards, as we talked about already

527
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Speaker 2: thirty four years to the day, first Cardinals tied End

528
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Speaker 2: with over one hundred receiving yards, and yeah, it was

529
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Speaker 2: just good to see because two weeks ago he had

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Speaker 2: ninety five receiving yards, falling just short of that century mark.

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Speaker 2: But Trey McBride, I do think is it going to

532
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Speaker 2: be someone now that's going to elevate his game or

533
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 2: have his game elevated because of the quarterback play And

534
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Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, you start looking for pieces

535
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Speaker 2: players that you can circle and say, all right, that's

536
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Speaker 2: who's going to be on this team next season and beyond.

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Speaker 4: And it's games like that.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't need one hundred every single week, but someone

539
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Speaker 2: that can affect a defense to what the defense has

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Speaker 2: to pay attention to him.

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Speaker 1: Definitely, both both of those, especially if their chemistry continues

542
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Speaker 1: to grow, it's going to produce hopefully more wins, start

543
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Speaker 1: stringing more wins together. If those were the low hanging fruit,

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Speaker 1: I think this is the wild card. I went with

545
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Speaker 1: the kicker, Matt Prater. Got to give automatic Matt Prader

546
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Speaker 1: some love because he was incredible for field goals, including

547
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Speaker 1: the game winning field goal.

548
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Speaker 4: As time was expiring.

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Speaker 1: Craig he is seventeen for seventeen on game winning field goals.

550
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Speaker 1: He tied and then took over the franchise record for

551
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Speaker 1: a fifty yard plus field goals in this one game.

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Speaker 1: I mean it just it's incredible seventeen years in the league,

553
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Speaker 1: Matt Prater continues to establish himself and solidify himself as

554
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Speaker 1: one of the NFL's best kickers, and honestly, to see

555
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Speaker 1: him get lifted off the ground at the end of

556
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Speaker 1: the game by his teammates was quite a thrilling one

557
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Speaker 1: to see.

558
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Speaker 2: Look, a twenty three yard field goal is a chip,

559
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 2: chip shot, but sometimes those are the most difficult to make,

560
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: but even more impressive than the seventeen field goals of

561
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Speaker 2: fifty or more yards this season, it's what Prader has

562
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Speaker 2: done in his career. Seventy six career makes of fifty

563
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Speaker 2: or more, the most in league history. The next closest

564
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Speaker 2: is fifty eight. So that just shows you not only

565
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Speaker 2: the consistency of a Matt Prader, but the confidence that

566
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Speaker 2: coaches have in sending out Prader to kick along field goal.

567
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Speaker 1: Jody, this was the turning point that sent the Falcons

568
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: home with the loss. But what was the turning point

569
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Speaker 1: of the game as a whole.

570
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I thought about this and I thought,

571
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Speaker 5: you know, just to kind of be you know, flipping

572
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Speaker 5: about it, but you know, just Kyler Murray taking the

573
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Speaker 5: field to was a turning point because we kind of

574
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Speaker 5: knew if this is the Kyler of old.

575
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Speaker 3: You're gonna have a chance.

576
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Speaker 5: You're gonna have a puncher's chance here against anyone I

577
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 5: know is the Falcons. Falcons, a team that had a

578
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Speaker 5: better record than the Cardinals coming in, had a lot

579
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Speaker 5: more to play for, called it their super Bowl apparently

580
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 5: going into a bye week. So you know, that's one thing,

581
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 5: you know. The third and nine is the other maybe

582
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 5: obvious one, But again I go back to the defense and.

583
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Speaker 3: That stop on fourth down.

584
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 5: Ritter was in the game, Jonathan Ledbetter comes up with

585
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 5: a stop there, and this defense continues to you talk

586
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Speaker 5: about having a chance. You know, sometimes you think, okay,

587
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 5: this is gonna be difficult there, even in the in

588
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Speaker 5: the red zone. Throughout the last couple of weeks, we've

589
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Speaker 5: seen it with this team. They stop first down, second down,

590
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 5: then you get you get to a fourth down stop

591
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 5: and they are able to make it happen. And so

592
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Speaker 5: that really is a credit to this team fighting, this

593
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Speaker 5: defense fighting, And so I love that as maybe one

594
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Speaker 5: of the moments there because again, this was a battle,

595
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 5: This was a game that was going back and forth,

596
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 5: and for Kyler Murray to have to come up with

597
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 5: the game win drive I think was a bit of

598
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,520
Speaker 5: a storybook ending, but there were a lot of moments

599
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 5: leading up to that, including the fourth downstop.

600
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Speaker 2: I also want to shout out Antonio Hamilton because you

601
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Speaker 2: want to talk about plays that if it doesn't get made,

602
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Speaker 2: then we're talking about something completely different here on Monday morning.

603
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 2: But that is a costly pass interference penalty against Hamilton

604
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 2: that got the Falcons into the go ahead touchdown, but

605
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 2: going for two to make it a twenty five or

606
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 2: two point or twenty five twenty two ballgame in favor

607
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 2: of the Falcons, they threw at Hamilton again. Drake London

608
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 2: makes the catch, but he doesn't get into the end zone.

609
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 2: Hamilton able to have that short term memory get off

610
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 2: the field with something positive. Make it just a one

611
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 2: point deficit or should say, yeah, one point deficit to

612
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 2: allow a game winning drive as opposed to potentially a

613
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Speaker 2: game time drive and going into overtime.

614
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Speaker 1: The resiliency from Antonio Hamilton to fall back with that

615
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: DPI and it to come back that truly game saving

616
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: play definitely is an important one.

617
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 4: So let's pull back these white boards out.

618
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: Let's take out the markers here because it's time for songbirds,

619
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Speaker 1: and Craig, I warned you about it, so I'm telling you.

620
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 4: Right now going wrong.

621
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 6: I still last night to figure this thing out.

622
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 5: This was a big redemption for you, Craig. But also,

623
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 5: you know we're not gonna have Danny here drawings.

624
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 4: Is that she'll be back next week drawing. Don't you worry.

625
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna like try if there's anything with drawing.

626
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: I was giving a songbird suggestion from our team illustrator

627
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: Chad Burtons, who said out of Pocket was the song

628
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: of his choice because of Kyer Murray's ability to get

629
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: out of the pocket.

630
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Speaker 4: Uh. You know what, there, kudos to you, Chad.

631
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: It's okay if it's a cover song, right sure, too.

632
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 5: Late, Okay, so much for my Craig.

633
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm still writing over here, so somebody else can.

634
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 4: Craig is gonna go first. I make sure this go ahead, Okay.

635
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 2: Well, nineteen eighty nine the last time Cardinals tight end

636
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: had one hundred receiving yard game. So I'm back to

637
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 2: nineteen eight I did my research.

638
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 4: I'm proud of you.

639
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 2: I went back to look for some of the top

640
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 2: songs in nineteen eighty nine, and I came up with

641
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: a cover song, but Tina Turner nineteen eighty nine released

642
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 2: the Best and that explains. That describes Trey McBride. He

643
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: was the best on the football field on Sunday.

644
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 4: You know you're the best for finally putting together a song.

645
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 4: I'm proud of it. Oh it took me nine wenuks

646
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 4: Krudo's all around. We give around to applause, Jody take

647
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 4: it away with yours.

648
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I was just trying to put together

649
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 5: my emotions for Kyler Murray what he's able to do.

650
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,719
Speaker 5: So this is a lot of words here. It's the

651
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 5: title of the song. Is Mama said knock you out?

652
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 5: But don't call it a comeback? The first line from

653
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 5: mellow cool Jay, I've been here for years, and yes,

654
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray, while he's still.

655
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Speaker 3: Young and he hasn't been in the league that long.

656
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 5: Is it is a bit of a comeback though, isn't it?

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Speaker 5: And it's a lot of fun to watch. So props

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Speaker 5: to you, Kyler. We enjoyed watching you and many more

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Speaker 5: to this year.

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Speaker 4: That's awesome. I went back kind of similar to a Kyler.

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Speaker 1: Theme, but also for the Cardinals as a whole. I

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Speaker 1: went welcome back because I think that this is a

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Speaker 1: song where it's.

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Speaker 4: An exciting song.

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Speaker 1: I used to hear it on all the different commercials

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Speaker 1: before MLB season came back, because they're saying welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the MLB season. Well, welcome back to Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: to James Connor, to Michael Wilson, to the Cardinals, to

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Speaker 1: the win Column, to Craig Reelou on Morning Scramble. It's

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Speaker 1: just it's truly incredible. How the hope for this team,

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Speaker 1: it's truly there. It's all in the putting. They have

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Speaker 1: everything that they could do to put together a couple

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Speaker 1: of wins and string together a couple of wins.

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Speaker 4: So it's a really exciting time.

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Speaker 1: And for Kyler this has kind of been the message

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Speaker 1: to him, being welcome back.

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Speaker 5: I think it's interesting because if you're looking from a

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Speaker 5: national perspective, yes it's a two and eight team, But

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Speaker 5: is it really a two and eight team now that

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Speaker 5: you look at Kyler and James Connor back, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think no, right, and they were already close on

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Speaker 5: a couple of those games you can look at, but

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Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. I think when you are looking from outside,

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Speaker 5: when you're in this building. If you're a Cardinals fan

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Speaker 5: who's been watching and following, you know that it's maybe

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Speaker 5: not about what they can get to this season, because

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Speaker 5: they you know, there is a hole that you dig

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Speaker 5: at one in eight.

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Speaker 3: But it's about the future.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's what we're so excited about that

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Speaker 5: you see that the team is in good hands with Kyler,

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Speaker 5: the coaching staff, the front office. You trust what's going

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Speaker 5: on here. And so yeah, welcome back to Hope.

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Speaker 3: Also to spring off of what you were.

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Speaker 2: Saying, the second season began on Sunday, and I know

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Speaker 2: head coach Jonathan Gannon didn't like the word reset with

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Speaker 2: the return of Kyler Murray, but to me, this was

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Speaker 2: a reset. The season starts anew, what started anew on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: and the Cardinals are one and zher with Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: So I'll ask you guys quickly as we head to

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Speaker 1: Houston for the next upcoming game, before the latter half

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Speaker 1: of the season really kicks off, what are the realistic

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Speaker 1: expectations for the remainder of the season.

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Speaker 6: Again, it's not so much the end rest.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you want to see wins, but what you more

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Speaker 2: importantly want to see is this team, building pieces that

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Speaker 2: you can advance into the future. How much more does

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Speaker 2: this offense look better, more efficient, eliminate some of those

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Speaker 2: penalties with Kyler Murray as your quarterback, and then figuring

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Speaker 2: out those pieces that you can surround Kyler with, because

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Speaker 2: if Kyler does become your franchise quarterback, you make that decision,

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Speaker 2: then that certainly opens up a whole different can for

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Speaker 2: options for this front office to put pieces on offense

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Speaker 2: and defense around k One.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, there's some tough games on the schedule here,

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Speaker 5: and Houston is no slouchum coming in. We all, of course,

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Speaker 5: we know the situation with the pick and everything, but

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Speaker 5: this team is doing well right now with CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 5: Demiko Ryans what they're doing, and so it's gonna be

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Speaker 5: a good challenge, I think. Again, going back to the

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Speaker 5: lack of explosive plays from the Falcons, we're going to see,

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Speaker 5: you know, that's kind of what Houston's been doing really

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Speaker 5: well and piling up yardage. So I'm interested to see.

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Speaker 5: But again, every challenge is gonna make this team better.

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Speaker 5: We're going to learn more about them, We're gonna learn

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Speaker 5: more about about this version of Kyler. This you know again,

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Speaker 5: I could say new version. But the good news is

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Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of Kyler looked pretty much

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Speaker 5: the same guys, So that's a that's a good thing.

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Speaker 5: But I think mentally he's in a better spot right

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Speaker 5: now and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna be a showdown in Texas featuring a

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Speaker 1: Texas kid at quarterback, being Kyler Murray. That'll do it

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Speaker 4: So for Jody Jackson is Craig Reelou. I'm Zach Gershon.

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Speaker 4: We'll see you next week for another edition of Morning

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Speaker 4: Scramble