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Speaker 1: And that's a wrap on training camp inside State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang. On today's show, Zach Gershman joins me

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals hell their final practice in the stadium on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Training camp though is not quite over, still two more

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Speaker 1: We'll also look ahead to Friday's preseason opener. What do

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Speaker 1: That's all straight ahead. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode six

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Speaker 1: sixty one, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 3: Who to Baker?

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Speaker 1: What Heart? What rent? This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: He's at the ten half of five. He's it again,

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Speaker 3: so more hurry magic.

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Speaker 2: WHOA, here's Craig Griolud.

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Speaker 1: Hate to begin this show on a down note, and

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Speaker 1: it's not because we have young Zach on the show,

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Speaker 1: but we did get news on Wednesday, and you always

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Speaker 1: saw on Tuesday running back Marlin Mack have to be

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Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals. And that is something that we

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Speaker 1: Radio network. We asked, we have repeatedly asked several follow

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Speaker 1: Yeah, too many penalties in the red and white practice

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Speaker 1: As the head coach likes to say, it's not winning behavior.

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Speaker 3: Nope, very frowned upon. I leave a water bottle at

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Speaker 1: It's true. He's even cleaning the place up. That's how

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Speaker 1: according to our head coach, Sean Payton, the starters will

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go on both sides of the ball here.

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Speaker 3: Dennis Gardick has taken a completely different role. He's been

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Speaker 3: The previous couple seasons have not gone to his liking,

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Speaker 1: For Gardik, it was twenty twenty, so we're talking three

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Speaker 1: But you bring up Paris Johnson. I'm just gonna include

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Speaker 3: And he's competing against guys like Zach Paskell, Hylod Brown,

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Speaker 3: Clark has been doing that throughout training camp and we've

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Speaker 1: I was videotaping the pre practice team stretch and I

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Speaker 3: and he was saying Pears is an outgoing guy, he's

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Speaker 3: talking to everybody on the line, John Gains as well.

435
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Speaker 3: They're starting to integrate themselves, not just on the field,

436
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Speaker 3: but off the field. It's been well documented so far

437
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Speaker 3: the type of food that Paris Johnson and John Gains

438
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Speaker 3: have had to get for the offensive line, the sort

439
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Speaker 3: of I don't want to call it the freshman initiation,

440
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Speaker 3: but it's the rookie. It's bringing in the rookies rooky duties,

441
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Speaker 3: rookie duties exactly. And not only are they doing that

442
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Speaker 3: to make the Vets happy, but these Vets are starting

443
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Speaker 3: to take them under their wing. When these drills are

444
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Speaker 3: going on on the field, you see guys like DJ

445
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Speaker 3: Humphreys bringing them over and giving them those pieces of

446
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Speaker 3: advices to say, hey, here's what you got to do.

447
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Speaker 3: So that we've had years of experience in the league,

448
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Speaker 3: we're gonna bestow that onto you.

449
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Speaker 1: Two other players that I want to talk about here

450
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Speaker 1: as far as again, depending on how much they play,

451
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Speaker 1: because if you're only getting four or five steps, it's

452
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Speaker 1: hard to determine where they are in their development. But

453
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Speaker 1: two players that are going to be talked a lot

454
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Speaker 1: about this entire year, Zavon Collins, Isaiah Simmons. Brand new

455
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Speaker 1: position for Zavon Isaiah deep safety not so much a

456
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Speaker 1: brand new position, but new in the sense that that's

457
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Speaker 1: his focus as opposed to bouncing around and being at

458
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Speaker 1: different parts, being at different points on the football field.

459
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Speaker 1: But as they say, the lights are on, cameras are rolling,

460
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Speaker 1: how do you respond, how do you look? Is Avon

461
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Speaker 1: Collins coming off the line quick? Is he getting beat?

462
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Speaker 1: Is getting pushed back? And then for Isaiah, is he

463
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Speaker 1: where he's supposed to be the last line of defense?

464
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Speaker 1: Is he making sure that no one is getting behind him?

465
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Speaker 1: So pay attention, ber Gang to those two players specifically,

466
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Speaker 1: part of those quote unquote veterans, if you will, but

467
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Speaker 1: still young and maybe a little bit unknown, especially what

468
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Speaker 1: they're being asked to do this season, Zavion Collins and

469
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, twenty five and number nine. Pay attention to them.

470
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Speaker 3: And JG has talked about wanting to have Isaiah play

471
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Speaker 3: that deep center field safety role. He compared it to

472
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Speaker 3: his time playing baseball and compared it to the time

473
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Speaker 3: on the track and field of Isaiah Simmons that is,

474
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Speaker 3: and he said that that's where he's most comfortable at

475
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Speaker 3: and when the coaching staff came in. They asked him

476
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Speaker 3: and he appreciated this. They asked him where do you

477
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Speaker 3: want to play? And he said back there? And JG said, Hey,

478
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Speaker 3: if that's where you want to play, and if it

479
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Speaker 3: works best for you and it works best for the team,

480
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Speaker 3: you're going to be back there. And so far throughout

481
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Speaker 3: training camp, we've seen him come from that high safety

482
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Speaker 3: blitz and coming right into the box. And somebody asked

483
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Speaker 3: him if he's going to mishitting somebody. He said, I

484
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Speaker 3: saw a Buddha and j T make a lot of

485
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Speaker 3: hits last year. I know that I'm going to be

486
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Speaker 3: able to get my fair share of hits. And from

487
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Speaker 3: the Xavi and Collins standpoint that you mentioned, I was

488
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Speaker 3: standing on the sidelines yesterday with Dave Pash and we

489
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Speaker 3: were talking a little bit, and obviously Craig I was

490
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Speaker 3: going to bring up my Penn State connection one way

491
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Speaker 3: or another, but he compared it to Micah Parsons. Michael

492
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Speaker 3: Parsons in college played that middle linebacker, that Mike linebacker spot.

493
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Speaker 3: Once he came to the NFL, they moved him to

494
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Speaker 3: the edge, to the outside linebacker spot, and we see

495
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Speaker 3: the type of impact Michael Parsons is making on the

496
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Speaker 3: Dallas Cow. Zavion Collins has a similar opportunity going for

497
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Speaker 3: more of that coverage, save me that coverage linebacker spot,

498
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Speaker 3: going to the edge and trying to get to the quarterback.

499
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Speaker 3: And we've spoken plenty of times about the work Key

500
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Speaker 3: and coach Rodriguez have been putting in and it's starting

501
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Speaker 3: to show as we've expanded to the seven on seven,

502
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Speaker 3: as we have expanded to the eleven on eleven drills,

503
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Speaker 3: we've seen Zavion Collins dropping back and coverage, but we've

504
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Speaker 3: also seen him getting to the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Don't get lost on that football field. Know what you're

506
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Speaker 1: supposed to do, and then go out and do it.

507
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Speaker 1: And that's true of all ninety one players on this roster.

508
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Speaker 1: And if you want to know where certain players are

509
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Speaker 1: on that depth chart as opposed to what is released

510
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Speaker 1: in the weekly game release, focus on special teams, who's

511
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Speaker 1: on coverage units, who's on kickoff, punt, return, field goal,

512
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Speaker 1: especially that first unit. Because if you are maybe not

513
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Speaker 1: a starter but a rotation player and you're on special teams, okay,

514
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Speaker 1: now you've made yourself valuable. Now you can do more

515
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Speaker 1: than just one thing. You're gonna be active on game day.

516
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be one of those fifty three and hopefully

517
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Speaker 1: one of those forty eight that dresses out on Sundays.

518
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Speaker 1: Special teams can be an uh could be a window

519
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Speaker 1: into what this roster potentially could look like at the

520
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Speaker 1: end of August.

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Speaker 3: You want to show your versatility and you want to

522
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Speaker 3: show that, as you mentioned, the value component of it.

523
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Speaker 3: If you're good at one thing, that's great, but when

524
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Speaker 3: you want to help a team, you got to be

525
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Speaker 3: willing to do anything. And I'm putting together a story

526
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Speaker 3: that you're at the fans back at home, we're gonna

527
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Speaker 3: see on Azycardinals dot com about Davion Davis and Caden

528
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Speaker 3: Davis not related at all, but two of the same

529
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Speaker 3: last name and they're time in the USFL. But I

530
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Speaker 3: was talking with Dave on in the in the locker

531
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Speaker 3: room and I said to him, like, when it comes

532
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Speaker 3: to this game on Friday, what do you want to do?

533
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Speaker 3: What do you have to do to make sure that

534
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Speaker 3: you have a spaw on this team? And he said,

535
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Speaker 3: obviously it's gonna be on the punt return and kick

536
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Speaker 3: return side. He's gonna he's on the depth chart for that,

537
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Speaker 3: but he said, if he's got to take out the

538
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 3: trash every morning before getting onto the field in order

539
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Speaker 3: to make this team, he's gonna be willing to do that.

540
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Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna compare taking out the trash to

541
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Speaker 3: your opportunities on special teams, but it's really showing what

542
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Speaker 3: you're able to do and that you're not just one dimension.

543
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Speaker 1: Davion Davis a little bit older, a little bit more

544
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Speaker 1: experienced than Cayden, and this past offseason was with the

545
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Speaker 1: USFL champion Birmingham Stallions. Cayden was with the USFL Michigan Panthers.

546
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Speaker 1: Last season. He was on the Broncos practice squad under

547
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Speaker 1: the connection for Friday's game. But two players that I

548
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: don't think both with the opportunity to make the team,

549
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Speaker 1: maybe one and then the other winds up on the

550
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Speaker 1: practice squad as more of a development for this team

551
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Speaker 1: and then when needed, if needed, during the course of

552
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Speaker 1: the season. I've been impressed just because I've seen Number

553
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Speaker 1: ten on that football field a lot special teams, punt

554
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Speaker 1: return and then during the course of the offense as well,

555
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Speaker 1: second third team reps. Mainly third team reps, but if

556
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Speaker 1: you can win as Jeff Rodgers talked about on punt return,

557
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Speaker 1: us to the football. Catch the football, that is first

558
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: and foremost, and then whatever you do after that. As

559
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Speaker 1: far as trying to move the football up the field

560
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Speaker 1: to get better field position for the offense, that's almost

561
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Speaker 1: a bonus at this point in special teams.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you want to give your offense a chance to

563
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Speaker 3: get the best field position possible. But in order to

564
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Speaker 3: get them that field position, you got to possess the ball.

565
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Speaker 3: And there can't be any careless errors on the punt

566
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Speaker 3: return side of things or on the kickoff return side

567
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Speaker 3: of things. Although we've seen a lot of Greg Dorsch

568
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Speaker 3: back there on the kickoff returns as well, along with

569
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Speaker 3: Davion Davis. But one our way or the other, they're

570
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Speaker 3: both trying to fight for their spot on the team.

571
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Speaker 3: Davion Davis, as you mentioned, the ball seems to find him.

572
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if as Cardinals fans just used to

573
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Speaker 3: seeing number ten getting the ball, but seeing this number

574
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Speaker 3: ten getting the ball on the field, it's the ball

575
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Speaker 3: seems to find him, one way or another. You mentioned

576
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Speaker 3: that's a story coming up on Asycardinals dot Com. You

577
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: also have the battle at left guard, Elijah Wilkinson Dennis

578
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 3: Day probably the only true competition right now along that

579
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Speaker 3: offense line. They've been rotating mainly. However, it has been

580
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Speaker 3: Wilkinson who's been consistently that first team guard and then

581
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,719
Speaker 3: sometimes you see Daily sprinkled in. But you've got that

582
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 3: update coming up on Acycardinals dot Com. Yes, both of

583
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Speaker 3: them have had thirty six career starts. Both of them

584
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 3: are not a natural left guard. For Elijah Wilkinson, he's

585
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 3: had nine starts on the left guard side of the ball.

586
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Speaker 3: He had all nine of them. Came with the Atlanta

587
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Speaker 3: Falcons last season, so he's coming in with some experience,

588
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Speaker 3: he said. It's a lot of it's focusing on the

589
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 3: little details of the technique, your hand placement. For Dennis Daily,

590
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Speaker 3: he comes from the Tennessee Titans where he has that

591
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 3: connection with Monte Austen for but he was on the

592
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Speaker 3: tackle side of the ball. He wasn't on the left

593
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Speaker 3: guard side of the ball. He has five career starts

594
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Speaker 3: out of his thirty six at left guard. He's still

595
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Speaker 3: trying to get into the mix. Whatever way it is

596
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: he's trying to get into the mix. You know you

597
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 3: have him as a potential backup tackle spot on both

598
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Speaker 3: sides of the ball, whether it's for Paris, whether it's

599
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Speaker 3: for DJ Humphries. You have that experience and that versatility

600
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Speaker 3: from Dennis Daily. But when it comes to the left guard,

601
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Speaker 3: Elijah Wilkinson hasn't beat by a few games and so

602
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 3: far has had majority of the first team reps.

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Speaker 1: Last season, Wilkinson started nine games at left guard, missed

604
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Speaker 1: five games on ir with a knee injury, and then

605
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Speaker 1: set out the last two games with a calf injury.

606
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Speaker 1: So when healthy, he has been a starting left guard

607
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Speaker 1: for Daily. He was kind of pushed to that tackle

608
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Speaker 1: spot last season with the Titans because of injuries around him,

609
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Speaker 1: but probably a little bit more experienced to play the

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Speaker 1: guard position, can play tackle when needed. Wasn't great last

611
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Speaker 1: season with the Titans. According to Pro Football Focus, he

612
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Speaker 1: allowed a league high twelve sacks and fifty two pressures,

613
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Speaker 1: but again, injuries at that spot forced Daily to play tackle.

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Speaker 1: I think for both of those more likely to see

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Speaker 1: their see their time in the interior, specifically at one

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Speaker 1: of the guard spots.

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Speaker 3: They're big bodies as well. You want to get those

618
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Speaker 3: big bodies on the on the inside of the line.

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Speaker 3: You know, you have a reliable left tackle in Dj Humphries.

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Speaker 3: On the blind side, he is as he is as

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Speaker 3: strong as one could be. On the right side. We've

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Speaker 3: talked about him already, Paris Johnson Junior. You have that

623
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Speaker 3: sort of skill set from him to put a big

624
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Speaker 3: body on the interior side of the ball. You have Will,

625
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Speaker 3: You have Will Hernandez as right guard, and then on

626
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Speaker 3: the left guard that competition as you mentioned. But Elijah

627
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Speaker 3: Wilkinson when he was healthy, was doing a pretty solid

628
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Speaker 3: job with the Atlanta Falcons. Now he comes over here

629
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Speaker 3: to this team, a new offensive system with a first

630
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Speaker 3: time play caller and Drew Petsing. He said, it's been

631
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Speaker 3: a good transition so far. It's nothing that he's unfamiliar with,

632
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Speaker 3: but it's focusing on the little details. The minor details

633
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,959
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, the technique, the hand placement, the footwork

634
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 3: that people back at home might overlook, but for a

635
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 3: guy on the inside of the line are very crucial.

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Speaker 3: Wilkinson six six three twenty two Daily six six three

637
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Speaker 3: twenty six. So yeah, that's a beef upfront and again

638
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 3: all protecting whomever the quarterback is going to be during

639
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 3: the preseason and then in the regular season. Hopefully we

640
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 3: do see Number one on that football field quicker rather

641
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 3: than later, but who knows when Kyler Murray might be available.

642
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 3: He'll be a spectator on the sideline on Friday, just

643
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 3: as you and I will be, though we'll be up

644
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 3: in the press box. Are you ready for your first

645
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 3: preseason NFL game? I don't even know. I really don't.

646
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Speaker 3: I'm going into this like, listen, we have the nine rookies.

647
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Speaker 3: I'm like the tenth in the draft class.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd give you full rookie status,

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Speaker 1: maybe we'd just make you an honorary rookie.

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Speaker 3: I'll take it nine point honorary. Anything is still an honor.

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Speaker 3: But I'm very excited for it. I'm excited to see

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Speaker 3: the Red Sea kind of rise up, as they like

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Speaker 3: to say here, and see the fans out in full force.

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Speaker 3: And I recognize that is the preseason game, that it's

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Speaker 3: not going to be what we're going to expect week

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Speaker 3: two when the Giants come into town. But listen, football

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Speaker 3: is football, and I'm excited for it.

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Speaker 1: It is here. Coming up on Friday seven pm is

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Speaker 1: the kickoff three thirty pregame coverage begins here on the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals Radio Network preseason opener against the Denver Broncos.

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Speaker 1: The following week, Cardinals will once again be at home

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Speaker 1: a Saturday game against the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs. But more on that later. Let's just first

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Speaker 1: focus on this preseason opener again. Seven pm is the kickoff,

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Speaker 1: three thirty pregame coverage begins, and then of course we'll

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Speaker 1: be back and talk all about it following the coming days,

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Speaker 1: or I should say in the coming days after Friday,

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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 Cover two percent to by Honday,

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

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Speaker 1: to our executive producer Jema Mahudre our associate producer Tody Fitcher.

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Speaker 1: For Zach Kershman, I'm Greg Rial Lou. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you next time here on Cardinals Cover two