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Speaker 2: So the fifteen to the ten mer He's gonna score touchdown?

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Speaker 2: Slam to the ground by Puda Baker Like a torpedo,

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Speaker 2: he came flying into the backfield. Connor to the ten

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Speaker 2: Here we go, one hand to catch it a touchdown?

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Speaker 3: Oh baby, how's that fail?

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Speaker 1: Here's Craiggriolu, Paul Calvic and three time pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch.

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Speaker 4: Late night, early morning. And if you're going to have

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Speaker 4: a quick turnaround, it had better be for a good reason.

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Speaker 4: And gentlemen, I think we have one. As the Cardinals

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Speaker 4: win on Monday night, seven fifteen, beating the Los Angeles Chargers,

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Speaker 4: improved a three and four and that sounds a heck

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Speaker 4: of a lot better than the alternative through seven games.

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Speaker 4: It was a late night for myself and the gentleman

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Speaker 4: to my right, Paul. But for UKBB living room, feed

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Speaker 4: up on the couch and able to relax and watch

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Speaker 4: what everyone else was able to watch last night.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was glad to have to make that commute

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Speaker 5: home late after the game. But yeah, it was fun.

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Speaker 5: That was a fun game to me. It was another

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Speaker 5: culture win, a lot like the Niners one was a

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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago. Showed a lot of grit, showed

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Speaker 5: a lot of toughness, you know, every this is what

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Speaker 5: the NFL is about, just the thin margin for air.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there is so many plays that came up

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Speaker 5: huge in that game, so many plays that had the

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Speaker 5: Cardinals not made, the outcome might have been completely different.

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Speaker 5: But in the end this team found a way. Again,

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Speaker 5: a lot like the game a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 5: against the forty nine Ers in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 6: What we say before the game, Craig, if if you

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Speaker 6: can match or their physicality, then you have better skill players. Right,

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Speaker 6: we don't sweat the stinking Chargers. If you can match

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Speaker 6: the physicality, if you can come out with that depleted

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Speaker 6: defensive line and you can hold drone against the run.

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Speaker 6: And that's exactly what the Cardinals did, and they even

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Speaker 6: threw in a trio of sacks for good measure, and

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Speaker 6: then you let James Connor eat. It's amazing how James

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Speaker 6: Connor in the fourth quarter is always the best player

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Speaker 6: on the field. But I mean, you know, I don't

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Speaker 6: know if I can necessarily prove it. You know, teams

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Speaker 6: wear another defense down, but if you're going to cite

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Speaker 6: an example, it has to be James Connor. So all

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Speaker 6: that above, you know, that's the formula for Cardinals win, right,

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Speaker 6: And they went out there and they did what they

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Speaker 6: needed to do. But it started with stopping the run

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Speaker 6: and matching the Chargers' physicality because that's the way they

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Speaker 4: Fifty nine rushing yards allowed by a Cardinals defense that

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Speaker 4: really was under the gun for much of this season

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Speaker 4: as far as being able to stop the run. But

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Speaker 4: look at what happened at the beginning of this game, Kylin.

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Speaker 4: The fact that the first possession interception and then a

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Speaker 4: great play by James Connor and Michael Wilson to get

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Speaker 4: go three and out, and then you force another turnover.

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Speaker 4: Darlinge Thomas with the great punch to get that ball

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Speaker 4: three turnovers in the game's first what four possessions, and

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Speaker 4: down and the Cardinals got their footing, and to your point,

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Speaker 4: it's you do just enough to get the w and

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Speaker 4: you win by twenty, you win by two, it's still

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Speaker 4: a win, and it matters only in the record book

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Speaker 4: as far as where you are right now, second in

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and just highlighting those two plays on that first drive,

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Speaker 5: to me, that is what's showing the culture. When look,

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Speaker 5: the team made a mistake.

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Speaker 3: What happened.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the ball got tipped in the air, kind

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Speaker 5: there was maybe one defender in the screen and there

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Speaker 5: that's the type of energy, that's the type of effort,

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Speaker 6: It's sort of the fifty to fifty ball, you know,

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Speaker 6: He said quote, that guy is a football dude, that

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Speaker 6: He was in the same d line room with Aaron

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Speaker 6: he does have the ability to turn into a defender

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Speaker 4: Where would this Cardinals team be without James Connor this

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Speaker 4: season and specifically last night seventeen fifteen, the Cardinals get

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Speaker 7: I thought we ran extremely well. You know, that's a

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Speaker 7: I thought that we ran it extremely well, got him

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Speaker 7: good job there. You know, pass game got a little

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Speaker 7: him kickfield goals all day. Knew that's what kind of

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Speaker 7: good team win their raid of battle. Our physicality and

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Speaker 4: And that right there, the physicality, Kyle, even from your

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, they controlled the trenches. And that's that's what

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Speaker 5: this team is built upon. And I know this team

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Speaker 5: opening up holes. James Connor having these physical type runs.

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Speaker 5: I mean one run alone, he had three different stiff

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Speaker 5: it is your best players that need to take that

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Speaker 5: And you know, James Connor, some of the veterans on

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Speaker 5: making big plays and key moments in this ball game.

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Speaker 5: Those are the guys that stepped up for this team.

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Speaker 4: Well, you bring up Kyler Murray, let's hear from QB

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Speaker 4: one about the be about the win over the Chargers.

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Speaker 8: It's great to feel like this right now, but at

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Speaker 8: the process is what matters. We can be results driven. Obviously,

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Speaker 8: we got the result we wanted tonight. Last week we

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Speaker 8: a great week of practice. I felt like we could

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Speaker 6: There's a track record of Jonathan Gannon team's responding and

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Speaker 6: You know, that's the sort of game it was. And

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Speaker 6: guess what after they ran for what a buck eighty

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Speaker 6: one after Kyler Murray didn't get sack. Yeah, the right

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was an impressive performance in all three phases.

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Speaker 4: But it goes back to how the team practiced during

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Speaker 4: we practiced well, well, he mentioned it again with you,

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Speaker 4: Paul postgame win. Things got a little chippy in the

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Speaker 7: Game Thursday and Friday was chippy. Now reminded me of

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Speaker 7: But you got to prove it, man, That's why you

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Speaker 7: I thought their response and practice was really good. Now

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Speaker 7: the challenge is is let this go short week, all

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Speaker 7: our energy and focus into Miami. We got to win

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Speaker 4: Be stacking wins. That's the next step for this team.

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Speaker 4: But going back to the week of practice, Kyle, because

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Speaker 4: you play how you practice, and I think we're seeing

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Speaker 4: that and for some of us on the outside, like, well,

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Speaker 4: it's just practice doesn't matter. You need to play well

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Speaker 4: on Sunday, But it's the days leading up to the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's this coaching staff understands that this group of

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Speaker 5: you know, we're not results driven, we're processed driven. And

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Speaker 6: And Craig, how dare you? Chad Ryland told us on

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Speaker 2: Hurry off play action back of the pocket pump fakes

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Speaker 3: Oh hoist the kicker in parade of a routh of field.

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Speaker 4: By the way, the Arizona Cardinals undefeated against teams from

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Speaker 6: Oakland lost the Raiders too, So that's three teams Oakland loss.

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Speaker 6: So no, that would that would about cover it there, Craig,

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Speaker 4: By the way, James Connor that thirty three yard catch

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Speaker 9: James is the lifeblood and the hartbeat of this team.

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Speaker 6: I take this tone? What if I deliver this message?

435
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Speaker 6: And he runs it by them first, and Buddha and

436
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Speaker 6: James Connor will give him honest, straight up feedback as

437
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Speaker 6: to okay, how should you set the tone, what should

438
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Speaker 6: the temperature be? And practice this week? And I think

439
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Speaker 6: it's just a really smart way to go. And you're

440
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Speaker 6: not in your head call yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

442
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Speaker 5: Look, this league to me is it's a lot of things,

443
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Speaker 5: but it's a relationship business. And when a head coach

444
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Speaker 5: builds those type of relationships with the leaders on the team,

445
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Speaker 5: really with the entire locker room, because I remember Jonathan

446
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,120
Speaker 5: Anna talking about how he does check ins, make sure

447
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,720
Speaker 5: his guys are doing okay, maybe ask about their personal life,

448
00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,720
Speaker 5: ask about their hell, things like that. But when you

449
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 5: form these relationships and you empower your leaders, to me,

450
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Speaker 5: the teams could be run a number of different ways,

451
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Speaker 5: but when does a dictatorship and the head coach he's

452
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Speaker 5: the only voice in that locker room and he controls everything.

453
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Speaker 5: He doesn't have a pulse for what's happening, what the

454
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Speaker 5: players need. A good head coach always has a pulse

455
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Speaker 5: for what players need in that moment. You know, after

456
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Speaker 5: a tough loss, do they need to be yelled at

457
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Speaker 5: or do they need to be padded on the back?

458
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Speaker 5: You know what things emotionally do players need? Because you know,

459
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Speaker 5: football is a lot of things. I mean, you can,

460
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Speaker 5: you can break down all the analytics you want, but

461
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Speaker 5: emotions are a huge part of this game. And when

462
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Speaker 5: you give ownership to the leaders of the team and

463
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Speaker 5: you empower them because you know players trust them, players

464
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Speaker 5: are going to follow them, then you've got a good

465
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Speaker 5: locker room, and you've got a healthy locker room, and

466
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Speaker 5: you've got a good team.

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Speaker 4: Well those nuggets that we got postgame, then of course

468
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Speaker 4: James Connor walks in the room and what does everyone

469
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Speaker 4: want to know? Hey, James, what did you tell the

470
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Speaker 4: team the night before beating the Chargers?

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Speaker 10: Just telling them push all their chips in for this week.

472
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Speaker 10: You know that we're still want a mission and just

473
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Speaker 10: toell the guys, don't take nothing for granted and just

474
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Speaker 10: play good football. Push all your chips into this week.

475
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Speaker 10: You know, give it all you got. You know, we

476
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Speaker 10: got some guys on the team, you know who out

477
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Speaker 10: for the season, who wish they could be out there. Man,

478
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Speaker 10: just play hard. So yeah, I just told them to

479
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Speaker 10: play hard and push all their chips in just get

480
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Speaker 10: a victory for this week.

481
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Speaker 4: Again, there is no better example than James Connor on

482
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Speaker 4: and off the field. The run game is solid, better

483
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Speaker 4: than solid. Now. On the flip side, Kyle, when you

484
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Speaker 4: talk about this offense, there is another area of offense.

485
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Speaker 4: There's running and then there's pass and catching, and that

486
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Speaker 4: has been an issue all season long as far as

487
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Speaker 4: getting this passing game on track, the vertical passing game,

488
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Speaker 4: regardless of who's catching the ball. I know Marvin Arrison

489
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Speaker 4: Junior hasn't got a lot of catches given the number

490
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Speaker 4: of targets, but getting the ball downfield ten yards in

491
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Speaker 4: the air, so you can have those fifteen to twenty

492
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Speaker 4: twenty five yard receptions that right now, this is not

493
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Speaker 4: part of the Cardinals offense.

494
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Speaker 5: No, And it's difficult to understand why. I think we

495
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Speaker 5: have a talented wide receiver Corp Kyler has a live arm.

496
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Speaker 5: He can put that ball anywhere he wants. He can

497
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Speaker 5: buy time in the pocket to allow his receivers to

498
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Speaker 5: get downfield. This was a game where the Chargers cornerbacks

499
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Speaker 5: were decimated by injuries and players were unavailable, and Jonathan

500
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Speaker 5: Gannon himself said, for the first time maybe this season,

501
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Speaker 5: what James Connor did on the ground brought them out

502
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Speaker 5: of their shell coverage. They had to bring a safety

503
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Speaker 5: up into the box because they were getting Gash for

504
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Speaker 5: ten to eleven twelve yard runs and they needed that

505
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Speaker 5: extra defender in the box. So the opportunities should have

506
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Speaker 5: been there. And you know, this is the one element

507
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 5: that has been missing from this team, is that deep threat,

508
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Speaker 5: that one play scoring threat that every defensive coordinator fears.

509
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Speaker 5: And you know, I to me in order for this

510
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Speaker 5: team to go from right right now. You know, this

511
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 5: team is tough, This team is gritty. This team will

512
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Speaker 5: do things throughout the course of a ball game to

513
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Speaker 5: give it an opportunity to win late. It just does

514
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Speaker 5: not have that explosive aspect. You know, outside of that

515
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Speaker 5: Rams game, there just has not been a lot of

516
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Speaker 5: explosiveness to this offense. And you know, you had hoped

517
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Speaker 5: that it would be there from day one. You'd hoped

518
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Speaker 5: we'd have seen it, you know, through this first you know,

519
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Speaker 5: mostly half of the season, but there's still time. There

520
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Speaker 5: is still the players, there is still the weapons on offense,

521
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Speaker 5: and at some point the floodgates are going to open.

522
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Speaker 4: This is now back to back weeks in which wide

523
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Speaker 4: receivers combined five catches on twelve targets last week in

524
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Speaker 4: Green Bay against the Chargers, and again that goes beyond

525
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Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison Junior. But when you are the top five

526
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Speaker 4: pick and you are a wide receiver one, all the

527
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Speaker 4: focus and attention centers around eighteen. Bottom line is yes,

528
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Speaker 4: it's good every once in a while to have a

529
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Speaker 4: game like last night, but it's not sustainable. You have

530
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Speaker 4: to get that passing game equal to what your running

531
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Speaker 4: game is.

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Speaker 6: He had that one double move where he got behind

533
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Speaker 6: the Chargers' secondary and he was wide open, but Kyler

534
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Speaker 6: had pressure up the middle, didn't see him. They did

535
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Speaker 6: not connect. But it's not from a lack of attention

536
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Speaker 6: on the matter. You heard Michael Wilson talking to reporters

537
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Speaker 6: at his locker last week saying, you know what, we

538
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Speaker 6: simplified things going into this game, trying to make things

539
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Speaker 6: easier for the receivers, trying to make things easier for

540
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Speaker 6: Kyler to read and connect what you're seeing, I think

541
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Speaker 6: is a constant ever since the Rams game. Is a

542
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Speaker 6: lot of disguising to the coverages, a lot of pre

543
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Speaker 6: post snap stuff, a one look pre snap, totally different

544
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Speaker 6: look post snap. So you've got a rookie out there

545
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Speaker 6: as your number one receiver, You've got a second year

546
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Speaker 6: guy and Michael Wilson. Are they in the right spots

547
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Speaker 6: at the right time? Are they reading that coverage the

548
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 6: same way Kyler Murray? Is you saw that field late

549
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Speaker 6: connection to Zay Jones? Should ja Jones have set it

550
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Speaker 6: down in that zone? He was continuing as if it

551
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 6: was man Kyler was thrown to the spot. And so

552
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Speaker 6: it's stuff like that, And that's all it takes. If

553
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 6: you don't have that precision in the passing game, guess

554
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Speaker 6: what you're not gonna have production.

555
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Speaker 4: Is the quarterback. Does he have time to throw? Is

556
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Speaker 4: he making the correct read? Are the wide receivers where

557
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,639
Speaker 4: they're supposed to be? Again, Kyle, there's a number of

558
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 4: different reasons why that. So now it's okay, well corrected.

559
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Speaker 4: We did hear Kyler last week say it's been discussed,

560
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Speaker 4: it's been fixed, it is fixed. Well, it's not fixed yet.

561
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Speaker 5: No it's not. And you know, the hope is that

562
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Speaker 5: it will be fixed soon because again I think and

563
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Speaker 5: I think we all still believe this offense can be

564
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Speaker 5: extremely explosive. It just has not happened up to this point.

565
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Speaker 4: Three times this season, the Cardinals overall passing game less

566
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 4: than one hundred and fifty yards. Again, that is not

567
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Speaker 4: sustainable for this Cardinals team wants to be and a.

568
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Speaker 6: Lot of his contested catches. That's the way it works

569
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Speaker 6: in the NFL.

570
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Speaker 4: Good thing though, last night the Cardinals had their defense

571
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Speaker 4: at the ready. We'll discuss that side of the wall

572
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 4: as we continue. It's a Cardinals Red Sea report here

573
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Speaker 4: on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

574
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Speaker 2: Herbert in the pocket looking at trouble, steps up, gets

575
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Speaker 2: hit and sacked at the thirty three. The Chargers don't

576
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Speaker 2: have a timeout. Ben Stilly got the sack. Herbert drops

577
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Speaker 2: back to throw, steps up, gets hit and sacked back

578
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Speaker 2: at the forty three yard line by d Kwon Jones.

579
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Speaker 3: That is Jones right there. Get hit my belly. That

580
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 3: is a huge play.

581
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Speaker 2: Guard hack forced Herbert to step up into the waiting

582
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Speaker 2: arms of na Kwon Jones snap to Herbert straight drop

583
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 2: looking hunk steps up and taken down at the ten

584
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Speaker 2: by Dante Stills for a sack a loss of one.

585
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Speaker 3: On the play. Once again, a defensive lineman getting off

586
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Speaker 3: a block and making plays.

587
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Speaker 4: Well, if not recording a sack. In two of the

588
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Speaker 4: last three games, the Cardinals brought down Justin Herbert three times.

589
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Speaker 4: Last night, Ben Stilly, Nakwan Jones, and Dante Still's in

590
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Speaker 4: a seventeen fifteen victory, all defensive lineman, Paul, because from

591
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 4: your vantage point, it was good to see pressure with

592
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Speaker 4: just four and sometimes five.

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Speaker 6: You gotta win your one on ones, and that has

594
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 6: been missing at times in that defensive front, as you've

595
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 6: been missing serious parts of your d line, whether it's

596
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Speaker 6: Justin Jones, Ball Nichols, Darius Robinson the entire season. So yeah,

597
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 6: it's falling on the shoulder pads of some guys who

598
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Speaker 6: didn't even make the original fifty three Ben Stilly and

599
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Speaker 6: Nakwon Jones in particular. You know, Dante still is a

600
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 6: sixth rounder from last year. So it's a lot of guys,

601
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Speaker 6: you know, in front of a nationwide audience where folks

602
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 6: are like, wow, I never heard of that guy, but

603
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 6: he's making plays and he was making a pretty stout.

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Speaker 6: You know, charges offensive line, especially as interior offensive lineman.

605
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Speaker 6: Now he knew going in Rashaun Slater and Joe Walt. Okay,

606
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Speaker 6: all right, you'll give him those two tackles, but the

607
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 6: interior line was right for the plucking and the Cardinals

608
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Speaker 6: I think did a really good job of exploiting those matchups.

609
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Speaker 4: The Ben Stilly sack led to a field goal, the

610
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Speaker 4: Dante Still sack followed by a good Garrett Williams pass

611
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Speaker 4: breakup another field goal, and then you had the Naikwon

612
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Speaker 4: Jones sack on second and twenty. Chargers end up punting

613
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Speaker 4: the ball. So sometimes it's not the number of sacks,

614
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Speaker 4: but when they happen, are you able to get off

615
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Speaker 4: the field. In this case, all three times Cardinals got

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Speaker 4: off the field.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And again I hate this phrase, but the defense to

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Speaker 5: a large degree, they gave up a number of yards,

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Speaker 5: particularly in the passing game. You know, it was again

621
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Speaker 5: tightening up and making plays when you when you have to.

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Speaker 5: You know, I don't love the moniker of a ben

623
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Speaker 5: but don't break defense. But you know, when the defense

624
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Speaker 5: has to make a play, they were making it. And

625
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Speaker 5: I thought all three of those players that had sacks

626
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Speaker 5: had you know, phenomenal games. On top of their three sacks,

627
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Speaker 5: between the three of them, they had five quarterback hits

628
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Speaker 5: and so, you know, it's it's extremely hard. It's it's

629
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Speaker 5: difficult for an edge rusher to get sacks, get pressures,

630
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Speaker 5: but typically d tackles interior defensive lineman, it is much

631
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Speaker 5: more difficult. You would think you're closer to the quarterback,

632
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 5: you got a more direct path, but you're never single blocked.

633
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Speaker 5: You there's almost always a center that scanning side to

634
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Speaker 5: side that's coming to help, whether it be a two

635
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Speaker 5: to I or a three technique. You know, and these

636
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 5: guys were winning. And again, these rushes were nothing dynamic.

637
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 5: It wasn't a spin move, it wasn't a cross chop.

638
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 5: It was it was the mentality that they were using

639
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 5: in the run front. They carried it over to their

640
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 5: pass rush. They were bowl rushing, they were physically displacing

641
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Speaker 5: offensive linemen. They were they had guys on skates and

642
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Speaker 5: you know, I'm just happy for these guys. These are

643
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Speaker 5: you know, Naikwa Jones has been a playmaker every time

644
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 5: he's been given an opportunity, and it's good to see

645
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 5: him to continue to do that.

646
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Speaker 6: And here's the thing, Justin Herbert at six six to

647
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Speaker 6: thirty six is what they list him. You know, he's

648
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Speaker 6: willing to hang in the pocket. He's got some Josh

649
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Speaker 6: Allen in him right. Doesn't have the running ability of

650
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 6: Josh Allen or the ability to truck dudes, but he

651
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Speaker 6: will hang on to the football and he gave the

652
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Speaker 6: Cardinals d line a chance at times to get home,

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Speaker 6: get into the pocket as he's waiting for routes to

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Speaker 6: develop with a lot of you know, backup receivers himself

655
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Speaker 6: and a bunch of tight ends you've never heard of

656
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Speaker 6: who actually end up being pretty productive in the game

657
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Speaker 6: for the Chargers. But Kyle don't feel so bad because

658
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Speaker 6: kay Zier White was the leading tackler. He had ten tackles,

659
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Speaker 6: and after the game he said, quote, we played ben

660
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Speaker 6: but not break defense tonight. So so you know, at

661
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Speaker 6: least he was realistic about how things went.

662
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Speaker 4: At least you're getting the W and that's all that

663
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Speaker 4: matters at the end of the day. How did the

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Speaker 4: head coach feel about his defensive performance? Here's Jonathan Gannon.

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Speaker 7: Hats off to the players man attention to detail, alignment,

666
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Speaker 7: assignment key technique in violence, and I think we controlled

667
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Speaker 7: the line of scrimmage. The edge players said violent edges.

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Speaker 7: There was knock back in the run game. We build

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Speaker 7: a wall and guys are hitting the ball man, they're

670
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Speaker 7: getting off blocks, hitting the ball tackled.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 7: I thought it was excellent tonight.

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Speaker 6: Can I just say that before the game, had a

674
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Speaker 6: couple of defensive linemen tell me watch their running backs

675
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Speaker 6: and if they take the handoff and go straight north

676
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Speaker 6: without making a cut, that means we're not in our gaps.

677
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Speaker 6: If JK. Dobbins is making one, two, three cuts and

678
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Speaker 6: he's looking and he's searching, and he's trying to find

679
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Speaker 6: a running lane, we're doing our job because there's gap integrity.

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Speaker 6: And I'd say far more often than not you saw JK.

681
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Speaker 6: Dobbins having to make a cut because the Cardinals were

682
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Speaker 6: in the right place at the right time. That's what

683
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Speaker 6: Jonathan Gannon is talking about, that alignment and simon, especially

684
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Speaker 6: with backup defensive linemen who sometimes are prone to those

685
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Speaker 6: mental errors.

686
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Speaker 4: Cardinals get the win seventeen fifteen. Not to suck the

687
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Speaker 4: life out of the building here, but we do have

688
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Speaker 4: some news. NFL Networks Mike Garafalo is reporting that Dennis Gardak,

689
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Speaker 4: who left last night's game with a knee injury, according

690
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Speaker 4: to sources, tore his ACL, which means he is done

691
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Speaker 4: for the year. The seven year veteran three sacks, an interception,

692
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Speaker 4: and a fumble forced in seven games this season. So

693
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Speaker 4: that is a blow already, Kyle to a defense that

694
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Speaker 4: along that front seven has been hit with multiple injuries

695
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Speaker 4: at the defensive line, and now losing one of your

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Speaker 4: captains in Dennis Gardak.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, first of all, you know, prayers go to him. Look,

698
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Speaker 5: it is a tough roadback from an ACL surgery and recovery,

699
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Speaker 5: and he exemplifies what Jonathan Gannon's vision, what mister Bidwell's

700
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 5: vision is to be an Arizona Cardinal. I mean, he

701
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 5: does everything right, works extremely hard. He will be a

702
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Speaker 5: big loss for his playmaking, but maybe a bigger loss

703
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Speaker 5: because of his leadership and what he brings to this

704
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Speaker 5: locker room. You know, but it don't count him out.

705
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Speaker 5: He's come back from this before. He will come back,

706
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 5: and you know he will come back even stronger and

707
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Speaker 5: you will see him down the road. It's just unfortunate

708
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 5: for him as a person, as an individual, It's unfortunate

709
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Speaker 5: for this team, this defense, because they need him and

710
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Speaker 5: there's gonna be a little bit of a void in

711
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Speaker 5: leadership because he really exemplified what it is to be

712
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Speaker 5: a pro. And you know, the young guys that walked

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Speaker 5: into this building after the draft were you know, young

714
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 5: free agents that come into this building. You only have

715
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Speaker 5: to look to him and to see what it means

716
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Speaker 5: to be a professional and how to handle yourself, how

717
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Speaker 5: to prepare yourself both mentally and physically for the NFL game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, four time team captain for a reason. Dennis Kardak

719
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Speaker 6: that leadership. I mean, he's one of the older statesmen

720
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Speaker 6: in that locker room. I'm gonna guess now, Mac Wilson,

721
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Speaker 6: you were going outside linebacker quite a bit. Chris Barnes

722
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Speaker 6: has been playing pretty well. You saw a lot of that,

723
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Speaker 6: you know, in the game plan to begin with on Monday,

724
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Speaker 6: where Mac Wilson was outside on the edge and Chris

725
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Speaker 6: Barnes would come in alongside Kyzier White off the ball

726
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Speaker 6: inside linebackers Darius Robinson. If indeed he's tracking to play

727
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Speaker 6: sometime soon, then okay, that's good. And then you saw

728
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Speaker 6: a pro football focus. They just rated all the Cardinals performances.

729
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Speaker 6: Number one highest graded Cardinal James Connor not a surprise.

730
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Speaker 6: Number two Zavi and Collins, so three tackles in the game,

731
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Speaker 6: but that doesn't tell the entire story, and that's what

732
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Speaker 6: coaches will tell you that Zavin has been really sound

733
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Speaker 6: in alignment and assignment and being productive doesn't always necessarily

734
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Speaker 6: show up in the box score.

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Speaker 4: Also have Xavier Thomas, the rookie had of Clemson, though

736
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Speaker 4: he's been inactive. Maybe it's learning what he needs to

737
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Speaker 4: do or just a numbers game and not being available

738
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Speaker 4: on a Sunday. Does this now open up the door

739
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Speaker 4: for him? Also waiting word on Sean Murphy Bunting, who

740
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Speaker 4: left the game in the first half with a neck injury.

741
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Speaker 4: That's the second time in as many weeks he's exited

742
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Speaker 4: game because of a neck injury. Head coach Jonathan Gannon

743
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Speaker 4: will address reporters later on on Tuesday. But again, the

744
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 4: news courtesy NFL Network Dennis Gardak done for the season

745
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 4: with a torn acl certainly not the news you wanted

746
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Speaker 4: to hear after a good win, a home win and

747
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Speaker 4: a win on Monday night against the Los Angeles Chargers

748
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 4: seventeen to fifteen. Yes, the Chargers almost had four hundred

749
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Speaker 4: total yards of offense. Yes, Justin Herbert had three hundred

750
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 4: and forty nine passing yards. But again, bend but don't break,

751
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Speaker 4: Kaiser White postgame means everything.

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Speaker 11: For like, we had a great defensive performance, still can

753
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 11: be a lot better. But you know we played ben

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Speaker 11: but don't break defense tonight and you know it came

755
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Speaker 11: out with the victory, so can't be mad about that.

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Speaker 4: First time an Arizona team or Arizona has kept a

757
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Speaker 4: team out of the end zone since October twenty fourth,

758
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, when they beat the Houston Texans thirty

759
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Speaker 4: one to five. In that game, they allowed the Texans

760
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 4: to score the first five points of that and then

761
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Speaker 4: win thirty one to five. But earlier, Kyle, you mentioned

762
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Speaker 4: you don't like that term bend but don't break. But

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Speaker 4: I'm guessing you have no problem with Okay, we're holding

764
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Speaker 4: you out of the end zone, and if you're going

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00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 4: to kick or if you're going to score, make it

766
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 4: five field goals as opposed to five touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Look, there's a ton of metric stats that you can

769
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Speaker 5: use to break down what a team looks like, how

770
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Speaker 5: a defense is performing. The only one that really matters

771
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Speaker 5: is points. And you know when you're holding a team

772
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Speaker 5: down in points, when you keep them out of the

773
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Speaker 5: end zone, when you tighten up when you need to

774
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 5: tighten up, and look, it's it's not a bad philosophy.

775
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 5: And we've talked about this before. You know, when you

776
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 5: go against good teams, potent offenses, your objective is to

777
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Speaker 5: not give up the big play and give up the

778
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 5: two one, two three play touchdown drive where it's they

779
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 5: get an explosive and they score a touchdown. Because those

780
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 5: are difficult to overcome. What you do is you make

781
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 5: them execute for you know, twelve plays, fourteen plays, and

782
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 5: through that drive, you force them into a mistake. You

783
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 5: make a play, somebody steps up and gets a sack,

784
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 5: gets a tip ball, gets an interception, you know, forces

785
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 5: a fumble because it's very difficult to execute over and

786
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Speaker 5: over and over. And you look at their drive chart.

787
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Speaker 5: You know they had several drives the Chargers did that

788
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 5: would go thirty four yards but took twelve plays. I

789
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 5: mean that is making them work for every single inch

790
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Speaker 5: in every single yard, and they that happened multiple times

791
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Speaker 5: in this game where they had long drives or at

792
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 5: least plays wise and time of possession wise, But they

793
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 5: just weren't going anywhere.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, four of their five scoring drives at least nine plays,

795
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Speaker 4: at least nine.

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Speaker 6: You got to know your opponent. The Chargers have been

797
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 6: abysmal in the red zone. And this isn't like Christian

798
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Speaker 6: McCaffrey twenty twenty three, where dude is automatic in the

799
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Speaker 6: red zone, it's gonna be a touchdown.

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Speaker 8: No.

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Speaker 6: Two weeks ago, they had a twenty play field goal drive.

802
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Speaker 6: Last night they had a fifteen play, eight and a

803
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 6: half minute field goal drive. They've been terrible in the

804
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Speaker 6: red zone. So you know what, you do what you

805
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 6: have to do, and maybe you're gonna give them some

806
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 6: yardists between the twenties, but you're gonna make darn sure

807
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 6: you stop the run. And maybe that means taking a

808
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 6: certain guy at a coverage because you're gonna load the

809
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 6: box and so oh yeah, you can throw for three

810
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 6: point fifty, but you're not getting in the end zone

811
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 6: because once we do get backed up against our own

812
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Speaker 6: goal line, well now we're just gonna become much more stout.

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00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, throw for three hundred and forty nine yards, but

814
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 4: no touchdowns. And that's exactly what Justin Herbert had last night.

815
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Speaker 4: So now Cardinals with the wind, can they stack wins?

816
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 4: We'll discuss next week in Miami. Next here on the

817
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: Murray under center, trying to pay off this drive with

819
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Speaker 2: a touchdown. Back to throw off play action, deep in

820
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Speaker 2: the pocket, stepping up, moving left, taking off running far

821
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Speaker 2: side forty five, forty gets past the defender at the

822
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Speaker 2: thirty far side, twenty people will walk in ten five touchdown.

823
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray a forty four yard touchdown run And as

824
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Speaker 2: soon as he got past the defender on the far

825
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Speaker 2: side of about the thirty, that was all she wrote.

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Speaker 3: Four to three is nasty fast, and Kyler Murray was.

827
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Speaker 3: He's thirty fast around the edge man, he hit the

828
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Speaker 3: jets and the pants fired, and down the sideline he

829
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Speaker 3: went untouched.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Remember earlier this season at San Francisco, in about the

832
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Speaker 4: forty four to forty three yard line, Kyler Murray knew

833
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Speaker 4: he was scoring a touchdown. That one was a fifty

834
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Speaker 4: yard run. This one last night, forty four yards in

835
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Speaker 4: which probably at about what maybe the thirty five yard line.

836
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Speaker 4: He knew once he hit that corner. He was not

837
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Speaker 4: going to be caught. Scored for Kyler his second rushing

838
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Speaker 4: touchdown of the season. That play gave the Cardinals the

839
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Speaker 4: lead fourteen to nine early in the fourth quarter. They

840
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Speaker 4: would go on to win beat the Chargers seventeen to

841
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Speaker 4: fifteen behind one hundred and eighty one rushing yards. And

842
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 4: that is the identity right now of this Arizona Cardinals

843
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 4: team until they can figure out this passing game and

844
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 4: this week try to figure out how to win back

845
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 4: to back games with a two day road trip. Paul,

846
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 4: You're headed to Miami, me on Friday for a game.

847
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 4: Sunday morning. Ten am is the kickoff, five thirty am.

848
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 4: Pregame coverage begins with Cardinals early bird, very early and

849
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 4: a Dolphins team that could be getting well their quarterback

850
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 4: back this week.

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00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, it all goes well. He's going to practice on

852
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,760
Speaker 6: Wednesday's scheduled to start on Sunday. They've used four different

853
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 6: quarterbacks this year. The Miami Dolphins are the lowest scoring

854
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 6: team in the NFL. In the four games that Tua

855
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 6: has missed, they've scored a grand total of forty points.

856
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 6: So they are struggling on offense. There is no doubt

857
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 6: about that. Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill were non factors

858
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 6: at Indianapolis this weekend. They had one catch apiece. You

859
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 6: can't get them involved at all, not even in some

860
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 6: of the Jets sweeps and so forth that Tyreek Hill

861
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 6: has been famous for. So yeah, I'm really intrigued to

862
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 6: see what this Dolphins team is all about and to

863
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 6: see what the Russ factor is like on Tua. You

864
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,919
Speaker 6: haven't played since Week two when you add your third

865
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 6: concussion in two years, so this will be interesting to

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Speaker 6: see what they look like, especially offensively.

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Speaker 4: Dolphins have scored twenty points just once, and that was

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Speaker 4: Week one against the Jacksonville Jaguars when they scored twenty.

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Speaker 4: Since then, ten, three, twelve, fifteen, and ten, they are

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Speaker 4: getting outscored Kyle one hundred and twenty nine to seventy.

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Speaker 4: That's not good. But again, now you have your franchise

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Speaker 4: quarterback returning. Is he you're still your franchise quarterback? Meaning

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Speaker 4: how hesitant is he or does he come in like

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Speaker 4: you never missed a beat.

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Speaker 5: That's a good question. I guess that remains to be seen.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we've lived through the pain of losing our

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Speaker 5: franchise quarterback and what that looks like on the football field.

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Speaker 5: And this team is obviously much different without Tua. This

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Speaker 5: offense is much different without Tua. When this offense is

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Speaker 5: working like it's designed to work, like it worked for

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Speaker 5: the majority of last season, it'll look completely different than

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Speaker 5: this Chargers offense we saw where they were trying to

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Speaker 5: ground it out. You know, it was a team that

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Speaker 5: was ball control, you know, just eat up yards on

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Speaker 5: the ground, you know, three four yards per run, and

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Speaker 5: it was gonna be a big, tough, physical matchup. Now,

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Speaker 5: a team like the Miami Dolphins probably have the most

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Speaker 5: team speed of any team in the in the National

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Speaker 5: Football League with Tyreek Jalen Waddle devon a chain. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they they have a ton of speed and they're gonna

891
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Speaker 5: spread you out and they're going to do some creative

892
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Speaker 5: things on offense. So you know the off this is

893
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Speaker 5: what would be hard, and I've done this before, is

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Speaker 5: when a quarterback returns your week, you don't really have

895
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Speaker 5: any recent film to break down, you don't. I mean

896
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 5: there's certain things you can look at, but I expect

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Speaker 5: the offense for the Dolphins to look completely different than

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Speaker 5: it's looked in recent weeks. So you know, it's it's

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Speaker 5: definitely a challenge for this coaching staff and these players

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Speaker 5: to try to understand how they're going to attack this

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Speaker 5: our defense.

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Speaker 6: You know, Mike McDaniel, overall, I would say there's a

903
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Speaker 6: solid amount of time where the overall quarterback play wasn't

904
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Speaker 6: good enough minus Tooa. And here's the thing to Kyle's point,

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Speaker 6: they want to play fast and two is able to

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Speaker 6: process fast, and Mike McDaniel mentioned like footwork and other

907
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Speaker 6: things that Tua has mastered in this offense, so they

908
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Speaker 6: can do what they want to do, and he can

909
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Speaker 6: get the ball out fast and get it to a

910
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Speaker 6: lot of these playmakers and get it to them in

911
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Speaker 6: space instantly and let him create and that definitely wasn't

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Speaker 6: happening minus Tua.

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Speaker 4: So this Cardinals defense, Kyle, one, there's the unknown two

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Speaker 4: short week three, two day trip and all of a sudden,

915
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Speaker 4: you're preparing for a lot and then all, yeah, you

916
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Speaker 4: need to rest your body and get as quickly as

917
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Speaker 4: possible to one hundred percent, which no one ever does

918
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Speaker 4: as you enter week eight. But that's now where this

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Speaker 4: Cardinals team is going into this week's contest.

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Speaker 5: Well, you just mentioned about five things that could potentially

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Speaker 5: be distractions. But I can tell you, having been around

922
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Speaker 5: Jonathan Gannon as much as we have, he's not going

923
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Speaker 5: to let it. You know, he is big into the

924
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 5: mental processes. He is big into just put a ball down,

925
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Speaker 5: let's play football. And you know, I expect you to

926
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Speaker 5: not notice that the Cardinals are on a short week,

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Speaker 5: on a long road trip, all of those things when

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Speaker 5: when it's time to kick off on Sunday.

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Speaker 6: Consistency. You don't want the big red roller coaster. Okay,

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Speaker 6: win one week and then a lackluster effort the next week.

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Speaker 6: You cannot let that continue. Ten am is the kickoff

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Speaker 6: on Sunday five thirty. Pregame covers begin.

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Speaker 4: Special thanks to Jim al Mahundro, Cody Fincher, Matt Lazareth

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Speaker 4: for Kyle Nabash, Paul Calvis. I'm Craig Riolu. We'll talk

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Speaker 4: to you in one week's time. It's the Cardinals Red

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Speaker 4: Sea Report right here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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