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Speaker 1: Welcome Berg Gang. On today's show, Danny Siak joins me

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Speaker 1: first road test of the season. How much does last

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Speaker 1: season's road success carry over to this season? There seems

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Speaker 1: to be a differing of opinion, and the road says

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Speaker 1: this week is a familiar face Chandler Jones. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into what both DJ Humphreys and Kyler Murray had to

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Speaker 1: say about their former teammate, But first, Patrick Mahomes he resurfaces.

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Speaker 1: Three days later. It's Cardinals Cover two, episode five ninety

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Speaker 1: and it starts now Welcome to Cardinals Cover two, hit

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Speaker 1: ten half of five peas in again so for Harry Magic. WHOA,

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Speaker 1: here's Craig gree a little usually by Wednesday, Danny, I've

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Speaker 1: moved past what happened on Sunday. It's been a little

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Speaker 1: bit more difficult for obvious reasons this week. And then

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Speaker 1: this didn't help. The email was received in my inbox

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Speaker 1: at five thirty eight am from the league office. Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes named AFC Offensive Player of the Week. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying he didn't deserve it. I'm just saying I didn't

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Speaker 1: need a reminder of what he did this past week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had what almost four day had almost four hundred,

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Speaker 1: four hundred passing yards. Is that? What is his his number? Like?

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Speaker 1: Three sixty? I mean he just three seventy three seventy. Look,

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Speaker 1: he was Patrick Mahomes. He scrambled, he created things, and

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Speaker 1: when he didn't see anything at first, he elevated his

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Speaker 1: wide receivers. You're right, he deserves it. It does sting.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine still on Wednesday having that reminder. But

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Speaker 1: he deserved it. Yeah, I just I thought maybe it

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Speaker 1: would happen. But then based off of what Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus had released on Monday, in the fact that they

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Speaker 1: listed Mahomes as the eighth best quarterback of anyone as

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Speaker 1: far as grading out, there were seven quarterbacks that had

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Speaker 1: better PFF grades than Patrick Mahomes. Josh Allen was number one, okay,

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Speaker 1: but he had three three interceptions. Mahomes was darn near

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Speaker 1: perfect for three quarters, so he deserved it. It just

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Speaker 1: didn't have to be at the Cardinal's expense. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm getting at here. Well, maybe that's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: only time it's going to happen to them this season.

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Speaker 1: Fingers crossed by the way, third time Mahomes has been

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Speaker 1: honored for Kickoff weekend. So the Cardinals aren't all alone

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Speaker 1: in the fact that you know, and as we discussed

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Speaker 1: on Monday's edition of Cardinals Cover two, Present to Buy Honday,

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Speaker 1: probably partner of the Arizona Cardinals misery loves company. So

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals are in some good company. Now. The question

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Speaker 1: not to make a big deal out of the injury

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Speaker 1: report like I did a week ago. So let's start

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Speaker 1: with some good news, and there is actually some there's

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Speaker 1: day and then that did this quote, I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: he'll be all the way by Sunday. That's your good news, Craig.

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Speaker 1: The good news was that he was seen doing football activities.

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Speaker 1: The bad news is what the head coach had to

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Speaker 1: say after practice. Because now Wednesday, I'm not very optimistic

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Speaker 1: brought back Max Garcia who was here last year, and

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Speaker 1: Yet it's not so much the number of players, it's

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Speaker 1: against the Kansas City Chiefs. You have not, But that's okay.

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Speaker 1: That's Drew Stanton the next time you talk with him.

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Speaker 1: which you know, I think we need a larger sample size.

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Speaker 1: But to Nick's point, Okay, now it's week two. Is

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Speaker 1: week one enough of a quote unquote dress rehearsal to

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Speaker 1: now all right? Now we're playing for keeps. I wonder

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Speaker 1: with communication, does that entail everybody understanding the call? That's

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Speaker 1: being you're the play that's being called. Is that I

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily would I wouldn't think that the communication errors

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Speaker 1: come from Isaiah Simmons with the Green Dowton and how

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Speaker 1: he's relaying that information. I can't imagine that the communication

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Speaker 1: errors are all on him by any means. So I

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Speaker 1: wonder what the deep issue is there, and your question

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Speaker 1: of can this be fixed in one week? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out, but I don't. I wonder

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Speaker 1: how much this is communication issues and how much of

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Speaker 1: this is just the personnel that they're working with. Of

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Speaker 1: We've talked about looking at the pass rash, and that's

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Speaker 1: not necessarily a knock on the Dennis Cardx or Devon Knard,

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Speaker 1: who the plan is to call up from the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of young players who are not

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Speaker 1: very experienced. Savin Collins is only in year two and

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Speaker 1: didn't even really have that full first year where he

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Speaker 1: was playing consistent snaps week after week after week. You've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of younger players on defense that you're

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Speaker 1: now having to rely on. So I'm just curious. I

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Speaker 1: believe that there were communication issues, but I'm wondering if

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Speaker 1: that's all that was causing, you know, the mishaps on

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Speaker 1: defense talent? Is there enough talent's depth of talent because

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Speaker 1: and I'll give Paul Calvisi credit earlier in training camp. Look,

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Speaker 1: your starters won through eleven on defense. Yeah, I'll go

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Speaker 1: to battle. But when you're losing a JJ Watt, when

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Speaker 1: you're losing potentially at Jalen Thompson and you don't have

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Speaker 1: your full compliment, now, all of a sudden, there's a

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Speaker 1: huge drop off between first team and second team. And

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Speaker 1: not every defender plays one hundred percent of the snaps.

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Speaker 1: It's impossible. There's a rotation on the defensive line at

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Speaker 1: outside linebacker, easier to do it in the secondary. So

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Speaker 1: when those young pieces, young players come out on the

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Speaker 1: football field that don't have the experience of a JJ

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Speaker 1: Water or Zach Allen, now there's a drop off. And

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Speaker 1: how big of a drop off? Well, I think we

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Speaker 1: saw on Sunday that it's a significant drop off between

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Speaker 1: starters and reserves defensively. Yeah, and that's not a great

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Speaker 1: place to be, especially because for the most part, this

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Speaker 1: is this is who you're rocking with. I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: talked about bringing in a veteran cornerback. But other than that,

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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what else you could do that

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Speaker 1: you would bring someone in from the outside and work around.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much that goes into it from

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Speaker 1: the business side of things. But this coaching staff, this

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Speaker 1: runt office, has made decisions like having to Von Kanard

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad and having Victor to McCage, cam Thomas,

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Speaker 1: myj Sanders be on the active roster. They've made decisions

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Speaker 1: to have those younger players play a bigger role. So

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Speaker 1: now it's up to Vance Joseph finding the strengths of

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Speaker 1: his players and putting together the best scheme possible for

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Speaker 1: their strengths. It's going to be interesting, to say the least,

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Speaker 1: because as I wouldn't say as bad, but all right,

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Speaker 1: Derek Car's numbers were not good on Sunday, yet it

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Speaker 1: was still a one score game. And he's very capable

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Speaker 1: quarterback and he's got capable weapons. So can enough be

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Speaker 1: done Wednesday, Thursday, Friday in the walkthrough on Saturday to

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Speaker 1: make sure that this team flips the switch, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: defensively and we don't see a repeat performance. We heard

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Speaker 1: after the game from Kingsbury from multiple players practice habits

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Speaker 1: needing to change, and when asked about that, everyone has

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Speaker 1: said it was sense of urgency at least in Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 1: So hopefully everyone's on the same page with that. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: that is enough. It is concerning that, you know, hearing

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Speaker 1: that it's been one week of practice in the regular

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Speaker 1: season and they're already seeing issues. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: the season to begin with. Why was in sense of urgency?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But hopefully that is enough this week.

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Speaker 1: Those practice habits that we've been told need to change,

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Speaker 1: hopefully change and we see a different team now. The

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Speaker 1: one bright spot heading into this week's game, it is

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Speaker 1: on the road in Las Vegas Allegied Stadium, first time

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Speaker 1: ever for the Arizona Cardinals to visit Las Vegas. A

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Speaker 1: preseason game couple of years back was canceled because of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. But now you're talking about being on the road,

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Speaker 1: first road test. We know how well this team tested

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Speaker 1: on the road. A year ago, they were the best

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Speaker 1: road team in all the NFL eight and one and

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Speaker 1: number one and a number of different offensive and defensive categories.

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Speaker 1: Question is does twenty twenty one translate to twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: When you ask that question as a whole, I would say, no,

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Speaker 1: you know, there isn't a lot of things you can

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Speaker 1: or want to carry over from the previous season. I

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Speaker 1: think when you look at how the Cardinals finished last season,

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Speaker 1: they would tell you they don't want to carry anything over. However,

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Speaker 1: when I talked to DJ Humphreys on that Silent Exchange interview,

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Speaker 1: I asked him about that a team that went eight

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Speaker 1: and one on the road last year, now it's a

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Speaker 1: different season, it's a different team overall, but with that

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Speaker 1: veteran carry over, how much confidence does that add knowing

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Speaker 1: you did so well on the road last year that

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Speaker 1: it's possible to do it again. He said, that's the

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Speaker 1: one thing you would want to carry over from another

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Speaker 1: season is the players who were here last year and

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Speaker 1: the players who are still here now know that we

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Speaker 1: can do that. So yeah, adds a little bit of confidence,

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Speaker 1: but that that's, you know, to a certain extent, right

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Speaker 1: like last season is last season, that that's in the past.

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Speaker 1: But I think just understanding like it's possible to go

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Speaker 1: out there not getting too down on yourself for starting.

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Speaker 1: Oh and one, it's possible. Kingsbury hoped that the success

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Speaker 1: last year on the road carries over. Now Kyle the

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Speaker 1: Murray asked about it, kind of completely dismissed it. Quote,

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Speaker 1: it's a new team, we got new players. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to look back and get and I totally get.

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Speaker 1: But to your point, how many players on this year's

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Speaker 1: roster from last year's roster that was a part of

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Speaker 1: that road's success and being able to get back on

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Speaker 1: the road and get a w Now we can talk

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Speaker 1: until we're blue in the face about the home struggles,

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Speaker 1: but this team did have success on the road. Now

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Speaker 1: you can't fall back on that and just assume it's

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Speaker 1: going to happen again. But that is the one again

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Speaker 1: bright spot positive if you're looking to hold out hope

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Speaker 1: to avoid an O when to start. Yeah, absolutely, But

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Speaker 1: like it was I believe it was Dennis Cardack maybe

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Speaker 1: or Kingsbury after the game, one of them said, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can't just be all talk. You gotta go out

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Speaker 1: there and you got to do it. So it's time

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Speaker 1: to not just be all talk or about to see

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Speaker 1: you know, can you go out and you can continue

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Speaker 1: to win on the road, because unfortunately they continued to

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Speaker 1: lose at home, so maybe that'll be in their favor

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Speaker 1: they can continue to win on the road this year.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of all Talk again, Sideline Exchange this week's guest

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Speaker 1: DJ Humphridge, you can find it's on all of the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals platforms, including the official YouTube page. You also

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Speaker 1: have in something that we forgot to promote. I apologize

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Speaker 1: I forgot to bring up a week ago. But I'm

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Speaker 1: excited about this because I'm a huge fan film study

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Speaker 1: in getting the perspective of a former player. It's why

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Speaker 1: it's so good on the Red Sea Report to have

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Speaker 1: cole Nybosch and Drew Stanton, and then post game to

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Speaker 1: have one or both and also Rob Frederickson involved as well,

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Speaker 1: because you get a different perspective, a player's perspective which

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Speaker 1: is different from the media, which is different from the fan.

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Speaker 1: But Cardstock, you and Drew Stanton weekly will now discuss

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Speaker 1: whether it's looking back or looking forward from the player's

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Speaker 1: standpoint and a very good player and Drew Stanton don't

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Speaker 1: tell him I said a very good player, but he

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Speaker 1: is a very good player. Drew has done a really

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Speaker 1: great job. The second episode of Cardstock dropped that's also website,

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Speaker 1: social media channels, YouTube channel, And You're right, every week

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Speaker 1: is just going to be looking at trends or matchups.

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Speaker 1: So that first week we talked about quarterbacks going up

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Speaker 1: against Kansas City, talked a lot about this pass rush

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Speaker 1: against Vegas. That duo of Darren Waller and Davantae Adams

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Speaker 1: and Drew has such great insight and not just lays

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Speaker 1: read defenses and how they see the field and how

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Speaker 1: they see the game is so intriguing. And so to

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Speaker 1: give Drew that opportunity to explain all of that and

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Speaker 1: how he sees things and evaluates teams is really very

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Speaker 1: interesting and he's done a really great job. So I'm

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Speaker 1: excited for that to continue every week throughout the season.

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Speaker 1: Cardstock go check it out let Drew No on social media.

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Speaker 1: He's doing a great job. I don't know how active

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Speaker 1: he is on social media. We're gonna have to get

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Speaker 1: him pretty actively. He has a Twitter account. I just

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Speaker 1: don't know again how active he is with that Twitter account.

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Speaker 1: But I'll say this, he has spoken more in the

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Speaker 1: last year and a half media wise than he did

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Speaker 1: during his tenure with the Arizona Cardinals. And when you're

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Speaker 1: backing up Carson Palmer, you just didn't get a lot

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Speaker 1: of that media love. But he's getting it now. He

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Speaker 1: is definitely getting it now. He's done a great job

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Speaker 1: so far. Unbiased opinion to go, go recommend, I recommend

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Speaker 1: checking it out. By the way, speaking of this road trip, now,

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Speaker 1: it is Las Vegas and we know it's only a

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Speaker 1: one night States fly on Saturday, come back Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Where you going with this? I'm not traveling, so I

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Speaker 1: need to know because you know, there have been stories

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Speaker 1: back from the twenty twenty two NFL draft are excuse me,

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Speaker 1: pro Bowl? There were stories from the trip to Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: stories about the content team, the digital content team. Well,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily include me, Craig, don't run me in

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Speaker 1: with everybody. I'm telling you. Every time Paul KALBC mentions it,

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Speaker 1: he throws out certain people's names. Yeah, my name, thanks Paul,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Darren On Cardinal Underground, Craig going to be on

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Speaker 1: my best behavior. It's a work trip. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be in bed by ten o'clock and that's that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll have to get a report next week, one twenty

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Speaker 1: five is the kickoff on Sunday Again Cardinals. Looking to

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Speaker 1: avoid that O and two hole, they will travel and

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Speaker 1: play the O N one Las Vegas Radio Raiders. Danny

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Speaker 1: appreciate it again. I'll have to wait and see for

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Speaker 1: those reports next week on the trip to Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna be on my best behavior, so

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Speaker 1: there are no reports to be shared, all right, We'll

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Speaker 1: And on that note, we will put a lid on

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Speaker 1: this edition of Cardinals Covered two, presented by Hunda, proud

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As always, special thanks to

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Speaker 1: our executive producer Jim Almandro for Danny Surrek. I'm Craig

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Speaker 1: Riel Lou. We'll talk to you next time here on

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