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Speaker 2: To the fifteen to the ten, Berry's gonna score touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Swam into the ground by fooda baker like a torpedo.

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Speaker 3: He came flying into.

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Speaker 2: The backfield Connor.

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Speaker 3: To the ten, to the five and end of the

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Speaker 4: Here we go one hand to catch it a touchdown?

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Speaker 5: Oh baby, how's that fail?

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Speaker 1: Here's Craig Griolu, Paul Calvic, and three time pro bowler

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Speaker 1: Kyle Vandenbosch.

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Speaker 6: Well, it was well worth the wait four hours and

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Speaker 6: eighteen minutes two weather delays. Although Kyle, do we feel

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Speaker 6: bad about our co host? Here Pauli's sideline, The fact

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Speaker 6: that I actually admitted earlier in the week that I

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Speaker 6: did feel bad considering not only the rain, but the

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Speaker 6: wind and the lightning all at once.

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Speaker 3: Feel bad.

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Speaker 7: No, I was hoping. I was hoping Paul was suffering

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Speaker 7: no offense. Paul look I was sitting at home watching

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Speaker 7: the game and around the fireplace and my feet got hot,

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Speaker 7: So I don't want to hear anything from Paul. It

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Speaker 7: was it was really uncomfortable that second half when my

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Speaker 6: So I was warm and toasty in the studios as well,

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Speaker 6: so it didn't bother me at all. I enjoyed what

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Speaker 6: was going on and also the result twenty four to ten.

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Speaker 3: But pretty bad when your own family sends you emojis

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Speaker 3: of rain, lightning and then lol, right, so it's pretty bad.

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Speaker 3: You just get it from all side. You know that's cool.

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Speaker 3: We're sideline strong down here, so you know you just

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Speaker 3: step to weather it literally and then wear it literally

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Speaker 3: all the way home. So I know nobody wants to

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Speaker 3: hear it. But if you go to Pittsburgh in December

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Speaker 3: and you wait out too weather delays, there's one rule

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Speaker 3: when the State game, and that's exactly what they did.

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Speaker 6: Longest Cardinals game of the Super Bowl era, the first

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Speaker 6: road win of the season, and really, Kyle, when you

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Speaker 6: look at what happened through all four plus hours, offense, defense,

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Speaker 6: special teams, quite the opposite from what we saw a

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Speaker 6: week ago at State Farm Stadium against the rams a

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Speaker 6: huge turnaround.

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Speaker 7: This was a huge culture win, right. I mean, there

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Speaker 7: were so many built in excuses for this team to

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Speaker 7: not play well. You know, the early slot, tough environment,

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Speaker 7: playing in Pittsburgh, You're playing against one of the better

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Speaker 7: defenses in the league, a team that you know was

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Speaker 7: just built on physicality. And then you've got the weather

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Speaker 7: and you've got the delays, and you know, all those

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Speaker 7: things potentially can play into the home field's hands. And

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Speaker 7: it seemed like every time they came out of a break,

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Speaker 7: the Cardinals were re energized and recharged and they didn't

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Speaker 7: lose their momentum throughout those breaks. And you know, look,

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Speaker 7: you know, I don't think this happens very often, but

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Speaker 7: I think that Mike Tomlin got out coached. You know,

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Speaker 7: I don't A lot of it goes down to what

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Speaker 7: happens in those breaks. Look, how do you deal with adversity?

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Speaker 7: How do you keep your players engaged? Can you keep

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Speaker 7: the field, Because you know, we were just talking about

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Speaker 7: this off the air, when those when they had those stoppages,

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Speaker 7: nobody had any idea if it was gonna be five

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Speaker 7: whatever Jonathan Gannon did, whatever the leaders in that locker

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Speaker 7: and it was it was, you know, again, a huge

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Speaker 7: culture win. And you know, PAULI talked about this before

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Speaker 7: the game. That was December football, and I don't know

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Speaker 7: that we've seen this team play December football for a

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Speaker 7: number of years, and this will serve them well through

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Speaker 7: the rest of this season and going into next year.

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Speaker 3: Best win of the year, I mean by far in

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Speaker 3: To me, I was actually more impressed by Kyler and

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Speaker 3: this win. We'll get into that. But Mike Tomlin had

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Speaker 3: and he paused for effect, because you're talking about a

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Speaker 3: And he said, December football, with an air of authority,

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Speaker 3: a texture to it. Well, guess what to what KVB

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Speaker 3: just said. Cardinals went out and they played December football

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Speaker 3: better than the hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, and it just had

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Speaker 3: Wasn't just handling the weather delays, it was some of

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Speaker 3: the adjustments made during the game. They were confused and

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Speaker 3: tip of the Iceberg. Cardinals showed a lot of different

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Speaker 3: It was a complete effort from the coaches to the players.

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Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin post game, that was a horrible day at

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Speaker 6: the office, just JV football in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 6: Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon, what did he say postgame?

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Speaker 8: The belief of the players, You know what I mean.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I know we're not where we want to be,

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Speaker 8: that's in the past, but there is never any doubt

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Speaker 8: we're going to come in here and give ourselves a

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Speaker 8: So I'm happy for the players.

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Speaker 3: There's no doubt in my mind. After that Rams loss,

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Speaker 3: lackluster loss. Then a message was sent to that locker room.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Gannon made him self clear, we might lose the game,

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Speaker 3: but we're not going to lose the fight. We're not

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Speaker 3: going to lose the effort out there. Dennis Gardak talked

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Speaker 3: about that, and that's what you saw. Yeah, the Cardinals

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Speaker 3: They took a black and blue approach to the Black

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Speaker 6: Started with a red zone stop after the Steelers just

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Speaker 6: on offense their first possession, three plays, zero net yards.

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Speaker 6: You go three and out, and again to Paul's point,

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Speaker 6: what's going on here in the first couple of possessions

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Speaker 6: Are they overlooking this team looking ahead of the time off.

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Speaker 6: That did not happen. Things clicked for the offense, specifically,

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Speaker 9: Murray honestly felt good the whole game. I think, you know,

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Speaker 9: than we did, myself included. And I think we'll you know,

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Speaker 9: we had things there earlier in that game. You know, me,

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Speaker 6: And again, the numbers don't look great for Kyler overall,

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Speaker 6: as far as throwing thirteen twenty three one hundred and

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Speaker 6: forty five yards a touchdown, he was sacked twice. Both

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Speaker 6: of those happened in the first half, running the football

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Speaker 6: nine times for twenty yards. So those numbers on the surface, Kyle,

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Speaker 6: don't look great. But if you watched the game and

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Speaker 6: you watched how Kyler to his point kind of settled

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Speaker 6: into that ninety nine yard scoring drive as well. But

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Speaker 6: it looked different than what the numbers show on paper.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and again, you know the thing I love about

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Speaker 7: this game, for Kyler, for the offense, really for the

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Speaker 7: entire team was Pittsburgh had control of this game until

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Speaker 7: really late into the second quarter. I mean, Pittsburgh was

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Speaker 7: moving the ball, they were getting some chunk runs. Arizona

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Speaker 7: couldn't get any flow. Kyler looked uncomfortable at times in

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Speaker 7: the pocket. And this is the biggest thing, and I

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Speaker 7: agree with both of you, this is one of Kyler's

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Speaker 7: would have kept fighting and would have moved on to

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Speaker 7: the next play. You know, he wears his frustration. He's

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Speaker 7: such a competitor that you know, we've seen him before

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Speaker 7: when things don't go well, he goes to the bench,

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Speaker 7: he puts his head in his hands, and and you

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Speaker 7: know it's it's difficult for him to dig his way

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Speaker 7: out of that. Kyler stayed up, he stayed engaged, He

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Speaker 7: even his rushing numbers were not great. And this is

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Speaker 7: And they were taking away some things from this offense.

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Speaker 7: And this is what a good team does. And this

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Speaker 7: is what Jonathan Gannon talks about, like, it doesn't matter

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Speaker 7: what it looks like, as long as we finished with

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Speaker 7: more points than they did. And in the end, this

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Speaker 7: was a dominating win. It was dominating. I mean from

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Speaker 3: He had a forty yard pass right on the money

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Speaker 3: had another touchdown pass derond deel Moore nullified by penalty

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Speaker 3: that was questionable at best. Yet to Kyle's point, he

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Speaker 3: had that mental toughness to move past that. And then

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Speaker 3: also hear Kyler say about how he started the game

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Speaker 3: a little fast, maybe thinking a little too fast, processing

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Speaker 3: a little too fast. I asked Jonathan Gannon about that

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Speaker 3: if he to start the game as well. There were

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Speaker 3: some miss blocks, especially on the edges. Once he started

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Speaker 3: and that's where the whole offense started to click. Did

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Speaker 3: he have great passing numbers, No, but look at some

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Speaker 3: of the other numbers for the offense, right ten to seventeen.

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Speaker 3: On third down, they went eight of nine at one

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Speaker 3: three in the red zone. That's always a winning stat.

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Speaker 3: And then of course they had a balanced offense. They

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Speaker 3: As an offense, you protect the football ball security. That's

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Speaker 7: It's extremely difficult, you know, honestly, Mike, My game was

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Speaker 6: Even some adversity. For the sideline reporter as well. You

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the tunnel was freezing. It dropped about twenty

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Speaker 6: Cardinals beat the Steelers twenty four to ten, improved to

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Speaker 2: James Connor, the running back, gets the call, dives over

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Speaker 3: You know that game ball they should put on their

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Speaker 3: And that's what the Cardinals did, because I thought going

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Speaker 12: as best as you can. But those guys are so tough.

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Speaker 11: Man.

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Speaker 12: But my tight ends and offensive line just staying with it,

436
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Speaker 12: staying consistent all game, and you know the big one

437
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Speaker 12: is gonna come.

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Speaker 6: Connor had a lot of open rushing lanes because of

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Speaker 6: that offensive line pushing the Steelers front seven back on

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Speaker 6: their heels. You mentioned the number of successful third downs,

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Speaker 6: ten of them. Well, one of Connor's touchdowns came on

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Speaker 6: third down and it was a lot of James Connor

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Speaker 6: in that second half. Here's head coach Jonathan Gannon.

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Speaker 8: That's our leader, and he put us on his back

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Speaker 8: today and game of game ball because I know this

446
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Speaker 8: was special coming back for him, but that's what he

447
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Speaker 8: always does for us. So and it was you know,

448
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Speaker 8: in the run game took a little bit to get

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Speaker 8: going there, but there was belief that we could get

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Speaker 8: it going, and we thought we could run it on

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Speaker 8: him pretty good, and that's what we did.

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Speaker 6: A lot gets made about the running back position, Kyle,

453
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Speaker 6: and you can find someone later rounds, maybe even undrafted,

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Speaker 6: but there's a difference at least with James Connor because

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Speaker 6: and Paul mentioned this earlier in the week that Buddha

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Speaker 6: Baker is a heart and soul on defense. James Connor

457
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Speaker 6: is that for this offense. And as he goes, so

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Speaker 6: goes the offense. Yes, Kyler Murray, you can't win without

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Speaker 6: a good quality quarterback. But within this offense, with what

460
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Speaker 6: Drew Petsing wants to do with the run game, the

461
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Speaker 6: tight end position, you need a James Connor type running

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Speaker 6: back that bigger, physical, not gonna go down on first contact.

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Speaker 7: No, you're right, And you know when Jonathan Gannon took

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Speaker 7: this job, he talked about how they wanted to be

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Speaker 7: violent and they wanted to be physical. And you need

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Speaker 7: those guys. You need those leaders on both sides of

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Speaker 7: the ball that show that, that can demonstrate that to

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Speaker 7: the younger players, to the rest of the team. If

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Speaker 7: you have a running back that's, you know, looking to

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Speaker 7: get down, looking to step out of bounds, but you're

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Speaker 7: preaching physicality and you're preaching toughness, you know it's not

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Speaker 7: going to go very far. And you know, the thing

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Speaker 7: I love about this game on offense to me, you know,

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Speaker 7: the two players that made the biggest difference in this

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Speaker 7: game are the two most physical players on that side

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Speaker 7: of the ball. With Trey McBride, because when he gets

477
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Speaker 7: the ball in his hands, he also seeks out contact,

478
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Speaker 7: he fights for extra yards, shows a tremendous degree of toughness.

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Speaker 7: And James Connor. Those are the two guys that really

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Speaker 7: stood out in this and that's a big reason why

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Speaker 7: they out physical the Pittsburgh Steelers. They beat them at

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Speaker 7: their own game.

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Speaker 3: That final touchdown run by James Connor was third and

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Speaker 3: one at the nine. He didn't even get touched till

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Speaker 3: he was inside the five. The offensive line surge at

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Speaker 3: that point, the way they came off the ball and

487
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Speaker 3: just bulldozed the front seven of the Pittsburgh Steelers, that

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Speaker 3: was truly remarkable. And then you look and at the

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Speaker 3: end of the game, we talked about this right on

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Speaker 3: Cardinals Cover two was Cam Hayward's name ever called, and

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Speaker 3: we had to look. He had won like assisted tackle.

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Speaker 3: So that interior o line did a heck of a job. Now,

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Speaker 3: there were some struggles the first couple of play, but

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Speaker 3: it was really on the edges. I mean a guy

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Speaker 3: like Will Hernandez. And I had asked Will going into

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Speaker 3: this game, said how many times he played against Cam Hayward.

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Speaker 3: He said, yeah, I played against him before, and he

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Speaker 3: just sort of let a trail off, like, you know,

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Speaker 3: he had a quiet confidence about him. Well, rightfully so,

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Speaker 3: because Cam Hayward did not wreck that game whatsoever. When TJ.

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Speaker 3: Watts says after the game, we got our butts kicked,

502
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Speaker 3: we got pummeled, quote end quote, I never saw that happening.

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Speaker 3: I never saw a Steelers team just look physically defeated

504
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Speaker 3: and admit as much after the game.

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Speaker 6: Well, you played on that side of the wall, Kyle.

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Speaker 6: When an offensive line is able to push you around,

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Speaker 6: you know the Cardinals want to run the football, yet

508
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Speaker 6: you still can't stop the run.

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Speaker 7: It is demoralizing, absolutely, and that was a demoralized Pittsburgh

510
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Speaker 7: Steelers defense that we saw in the fourth quarter. And

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Speaker 7: to Paul's point, I saw at least a couple of

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Speaker 7: players where Will Hernandez didn't just block Cam Hayward, he

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Speaker 7: dominated him. I mean he he made him look like

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Speaker 7: just another guy. And at times, you know, there's one

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Speaker 7: play in particular where he dumped him on his back

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Speaker 7: and you never see an offensive lineman do that to

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Speaker 7: Cam Hayward, one of the best run players, one of

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Speaker 7: the best defensive tackles in this game for a number

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Speaker 7: of years. And you know, Will Hernandez took it to him.

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Speaker 6: A week after just six carries, James Connor with a

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Speaker 6: season best twenty five carries against the Steelers, and yes,

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Speaker 6: according to Kyle Murray, that was by design.

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Speaker 9: Something we wanted to do, you know, coming in this

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Speaker 9: game was have you know a goal of you know,

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Speaker 9: getting him, you know, a lot of carries because he's

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Speaker 9: such a great player. You know, he's such a great player,

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Speaker 9: he's a great leader for this team. We know how

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Speaker 9: much it means for him to come back home and

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Speaker 9: then to do his thing. So I was super excited

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Speaker 9: for him, happy that he got to you know, obviously

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Speaker 9: two touchdowns one hundred plus yards was good for him.

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Speaker 6: And again it wasn't just James Connor. Michael Carter four

533
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Speaker 6: carries onety five yards better than six yards of carry.

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Speaker 6: So even when Connor got a blow Paul, there was

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Speaker 6: someone to come in and say, all right, let's keep

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Speaker 6: this going, this successful ground game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, hashtag fresh legs on Michael carter Man. Did he

538
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Speaker 3: have a burst? That was that secondary was surprised at

539
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Speaker 3: how he got out of the gates there and got

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Speaker 3: loose in a hurry. To me, this game plan answered

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Speaker 3: the question from the earlier the week before from the

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Speaker 3: Rams where you had you had that twelve play, seventy

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Speaker 3: five yard touchdown drive out of the gates against the

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Speaker 3: Rams where Kyler was under center five times, they gave

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Speaker 3: four carries to James Connor and then went away from

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Speaker 3: that the rest of the game. To me, this game

547
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Speaker 3: was the answer, Well, what would happen if you stuck

548
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Speaker 3: with that sort of approach? Because Kylo was under center

549
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Speaker 3: twenty four times more than his first three games combined.

550
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Speaker 3: You gave the ball twenty five times to James Connor.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you look at what they did and it's

552
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Speaker 3: exactly what they did on the first drive against the

553
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Speaker 3: Rams and then abandoned the rest of the game. So

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Speaker 3: there's your answer. What happens, Well, you come out and

555
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Speaker 3: you can play a physical game, you have ball security,

556
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Speaker 3: you get the ball and even minus your two best

557
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Speaker 3: blocking receivers were not in the game, Michael Wilson and

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Speaker 3: Zach paskeal nieh. So somehow you got that done with

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Speaker 3: a bunch of smaller receivers who aren't who don't have

560
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Speaker 3: a forte at run blocking. So all the above just

561
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Speaker 3: shows you what happens if you can if you can

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Speaker 3: stay balance, you can stay with that power run game,

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Speaker 3: and that's sort of mentality instead of operating strictly out

564
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Speaker 3: of the gun and throwing the ball laterally and running

565
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Speaker 3: that spread which is what we saw I think too

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Speaker 3: often against the Rams, and sticking with that ground game

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Speaker 3: and if it's not successful.

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Speaker 6: Early in the game. And we've always heard Kyle James

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Speaker 6: Connor talk about, yeah, it's the running back. You get

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Speaker 6: better as the game goes on, but in order to

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Speaker 6: get better, to kind of feel your way into a game,

572
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Speaker 6: you need those touches, even if they aren't successful early

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Speaker 6: in the game.

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Speaker 7: Exactly. That was the story. One of the big stories

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Speaker 7: of this game is you know, we talked about it

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Speaker 7: early on. There was struggles either communication either with Pittsburgh

577
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Speaker 7: was doing defensively, there was guys running free in the backfield.

578
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Speaker 7: James Connor couldn't get his feet going. Really didn't have

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Speaker 7: much success on the ground early, but the offense stuck

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Speaker 7: with it. The offense believed in it. They stuck with

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Speaker 7: what their base offense is. You know, they didn't they

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Speaker 7: didn't panic at any point when when it wasn't working.

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Speaker 7: They and and in the end, you know, this offensive

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Speaker 7: line wore them down, James Connor wore them down. It was,

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Speaker 7: you know, to me being on a team when I'm

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Speaker 7: on the defensive side of the ball, when our offense

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Speaker 7: goes out there and just eats up by converting over

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Speaker 7: and over and over and running the ball against the defense,

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Speaker 7: I mean that got me more pumped up to making

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Speaker 7: a big play on defense. See and offense do that

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Speaker 7: to another team.

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Speaker 3: It was interesting. Jonathan Gannon, we talked to him after

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Speaker 3: the game about the difference in third down. Then he

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Speaker 3: was asked about it again on Monday and he said,

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Speaker 3: I talked with Drew Petzing about it earlier today, meaning

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Speaker 3: Monday morning. You can't be afraid to repeat plays when

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Speaker 3: they're good. And what did they do? They kept going

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Speaker 3: back to Trey McBride. Kyler was smarter. You know what,

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Speaker 3: they can't cover them. That linebacker's not gonna cover Trey

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Speaker 3: McBride that safety. He can't get it done against Trey McBride.

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Speaker 3: I don't care if there's safety help over the top.

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Speaker 3: If he's single covering and I get the ball in

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Speaker 3: the right window. Trey McBride has really good hands. He's

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Speaker 3: gonna make that catch and he's gonna break tackles. They

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Speaker 3: came back to the same place until the Steelers stopped it,

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Speaker 3: and in a lot of cases they never did.

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Speaker 6: Speaking the Cardinals second year tight end, more on his performance,

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Speaker 6: more on what he has done since Week eight, his

609
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Speaker 6: ascension to tight end number one on this Cardinals team.

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Speaker 2: Game tied at three, five ten to go in the

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Speaker 2: first half, fourth and goal on the one coming up,

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Speaker 2: and they run at Harris left side and Kevin Strong

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Speaker 2: drives him back at the one yard line. Woods is

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Speaker 2: in there, Lopez is in there, and the Cardinals defense

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Speaker 2: with a goal line stand.

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Speaker 10: Oh my goodness, they broke out the flat shovel at

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Speaker 10: the point of attack and flat the face of Najie Harris.

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Speaker 10: Two hundred and forty two pounds of smoked salmon. At

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Speaker 10: the point of attack.

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Speaker 2: Baby snapped to Murray'll throw looks left, fires left in

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Speaker 2: the end zone. It is caught by McBride.

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Speaker 11: Hey, it's a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Murray engineers a ninety nine yard touchdown drive and

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Speaker 2: the Cardinals take a nine to free lead.

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Speaker 6: Pittsfurh the definition of complimentary football. Defense gets a stop,

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Speaker 6: the offense responds, goes the length of the field to

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Speaker 6: take the lead ten to three. Going into the locker room,

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Speaker 6: Cardinals ultimately beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh twenty four to ten.

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Speaker 6: As we say, welcome back, it is the Cardinals Red

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Speaker 6: Sea Report presented by a Seek Geek your ticket to

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Speaker 6: great seats, Craig Rayelu, Paul Calvic and Kyle Vannibasch. And

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Speaker 6: we talk about those two drives and let's first cale

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Speaker 6: discuss the goal line stand the Steelers again. At that point,

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Speaker 6: it's three to three Steelers marching down the field. You

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Speaker 6: get to stop on third down, knock Kenny Pickett out

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Speaker 6: of the game with an ankle injury. And then fourth

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Speaker 6: and goal, Naji Harris gets the ball. You know what's coming.

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Speaker 6: But as a defender your goal, get low, push that

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Speaker 6: pile as much as you can. And Dave Pasch called it.

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Speaker 6: Kevin Strong, Jesse Luketta, Roy Lopez, a lot of bodies

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Speaker 6: in there. But ultimately, Harris stop for no game.

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Speaker 7: And that's big. I mean, that's what Naji Harris, that's

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Speaker 7: his forte. He's a big, physical back, keeps his legs churning.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you got to think nine times out of

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Speaker 7: ten he's punching that ball in the end zone. You know,

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Speaker 7: there's probably few things that happen on Sundays on a

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Speaker 7: football field that get an entire team more excited than

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Speaker 7: a goal line stand. Now saying that it typically you

652
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Speaker 7: don't get much out of it. I mean, you're backed up.

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Speaker 7: You know, most offenses are just trying to create rooms

654
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Speaker 7: so their punter can punt it and you know, make

655
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Speaker 7: give the ball back to the other team. So the

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Speaker 7: entire sequence. And it felt like up to that point,

657
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Speaker 7: and I mentioned this earlier, that Pittsburgh was in full

658
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Speaker 7: control of this game in spite of the score being tied.

659
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Speaker 7: You know, they made two trips deep into the red zone.

660
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Speaker 7: They were moving the ball, they were getting some chunk runs.

661
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Speaker 7: Their offense looked efficient. Our offense wasn't necessarily clicking, and

662
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Speaker 7: that goal line stand it completely flip the game. It

663
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Speaker 7: got the sideline energized, It gave the defense confidence, It

664
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Speaker 7: gave the offense confidence, and then you know, I know

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Speaker 7: we're gonna talk about it, but what ensued after that

666
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Speaker 7: goal line stand? You know, it completely gave the Cardinals

667
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Speaker 7: the momentum in this ball game.

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Speaker 6: Well, Paul, you were on the sideline. What was the reaction.

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Speaker 6: We saw the reaction on the field, but on the sideline,

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Speaker 6: what was the reaction of those players that weren't on

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Speaker 6: the field and the coaches.

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Speaker 3: I tell you, you talk about complimentary football, and okay,

673
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Speaker 3: you know, on the field, but it's on the sideline

674
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Speaker 3: as well. The defense comes off and they're fired up,

675
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Speaker 3: and they started interacting with the offensive guys and that

676
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Speaker 3: sparks them. It's like a catalyst, like, Okay, did they

677
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Speaker 3: really just stop Naji Harris at the goal line? Yes,

678
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Speaker 3: they did. Jess Lukette got in there. They call it

679
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Speaker 3: cutting the engine. That's what Jonathan Gannon and then I

680
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 3: was talking to some of the defensive coaches. You get

681
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Speaker 3: to Najie Harris to get him to stop his legs

682
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Speaker 3: and then boom they bring him down and then you

683
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Speaker 3: saw it. Different guys get involved on the subsequent drive, right,

684
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Speaker 3: Michael Carter had a big chunk run, Wija Higgins had

685
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Speaker 3: a catch and run. James Connor obviously had a few runs,

686
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Speaker 3: had got him out of the shadow of their own

687
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Speaker 3: goal line. But yeah, it's it's akin to win. James

688
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Speaker 3: Connor will truck a defender if you get a goal

689
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Speaker 3: line stop on a fourth down, So now it's turnover

690
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Speaker 3: on downs. The whole sideline comes alive.

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Speaker 6: Kevin Strong in the middle of the action Monday, he

692
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Speaker 6: discussed that goal line stand with the media.

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Speaker 5: I just knew we had one yard. I just had

694
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Speaker 5: to come on my stairs and I couldn't get pushed back.

695
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Speaker 5: So I just came out with everything I had and

696
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Speaker 5: made the tackle, sir, And they worked out and I

697
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Speaker 5: wanted it too.

698
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Speaker 6: So the Cardinals defense gets to stop the offense takes

699
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Speaker 6: over at the one yard line. Fifteen plays, ninety nine

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Speaker 6: yards in four minutes and thirty six seconds. Kyler Murray

701
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Speaker 6: a five yard touchdown toss to Trey McBride, who had

702
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Speaker 6: four catches for forty nine yards on that scoring drive.

703
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Speaker 6: Kyler Murray going ninety nine yards for the first time

704
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Speaker 6: for him, second time for the team this season.

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Speaker 11: We know what type of kind of swing that you

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Speaker 11: know does for a team.

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Speaker 9: You know, it's kind of a demoralizing sense. But to

708
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Speaker 9: go nine nine yards and putting the end zone, it's tough,

709
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Speaker 9: you know, especially when they got we gotta go on stop,

710
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Speaker 9: so to shift the momentum right there, it was pretty

711
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Speaker 9: big for us to go out there and just execute,

712
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Speaker 9: you know, just execute whatever coach called.

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Speaker 11: You know, that was that was pretty much the mentality.

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Speaker 6: By the way, the fifteen plays tied to a season

715
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Speaker 6: high as far as scoring drives for the Cardinals this season.

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Speaker 6: And in order to have a fifteen play drive, Kyle,

717
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Speaker 6: you have to be able to convert on third down.

718
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Speaker 6: Cardinals perfect on third down. They were five of five overall,

719
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Speaker 6: ten to seventeen, but five conversions on that drive.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, real quick, it was raining, I

721
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Speaker 3: mean cats and dogs right at the end of the

722
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Speaker 3: first half. The win was in Kyler's face. People don't

723
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Speaker 3: realize the degree of difficulty just in completing some of

724
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Speaker 3: those passes and then executing in the driving rain.

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Speaker 7: Now you're exactly right. And again this is when the

726
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 7: game flipped right. The team up to this point was

727
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Speaker 7: not converting third downs, and to do it over and

728
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 7: over and over this sequence, you know, the goal line stamp,

729
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 7: the offense for the Steelers goes the sideline deflated, the kicking,

730
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Speaker 7: the kickers probably upset that he did an opportunity to

731
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Speaker 7: kick a field goal. The defense after that drive had

732
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Speaker 7: to be completely you know, just out of energy, out

733
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Speaker 7: of juice, like no confidence because again, you know, drives

734
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Speaker 7: like that happened typically with you know, a handful of

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Speaker 7: two or three explosive plays to move the ball ninety

736
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Speaker 7: nine yards and and you know we've seen there's so

737
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Speaker 7: much that can go wrong in fifteen plays. You know,

738
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Speaker 7: a penalty here, a tackle for a loss, a sack,

739
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Speaker 7: all of those things would have killed that drive. But

740
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Speaker 7: it was an efficient drive. Kyler showed so much poise

741
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Speaker 7: and confidence on third down, putting the ball where it

742
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Speaker 7: needed to go. Big plays by yeah, you know, three

743
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Speaker 7: different tight ends, and you know it was it got

744
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Speaker 7: the entire team involved, you know, it was it was

745
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Speaker 7: the statement drive. To me, it was the statement drive

746
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Speaker 7: of this season. Like when we look back at this team,

747
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 7: we talk about, you know, when the team has success.

748
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Speaker 7: Next year, we might talk about what was the turning

749
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Speaker 7: point when did we feel like this culture really was

750
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Speaker 7: embraced and the players showed it and the coaching staff

751
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 7: got through to the players and they started to believe.

752
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Speaker 7: They believe in each other, they believe in Kyler Murray,

753
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Speaker 7: they believe in this office, they believe in this defense.

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Speaker 7: I'm going to point back to this sequence where they

755
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 7: had the goal line stand. They put together a long,

756
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Speaker 7: impressive ninety nine yard drive for a touchdown.

757
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Speaker 6: Officially ninety nine yards, but they actually won one hundred

758
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 6: and nine yards because Trey McBride was called for holding.

759
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Speaker 6: So again, you go fifteen plays, things are going to happen.

760
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Speaker 6: But we bring up Trey McBride and what he was

761
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Speaker 6: able to do and not only on Sunday with the

762
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Speaker 6: eight catches for eighty nine yards in the score, but

763
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Speaker 6: so far this season. Before we get our thoughts about

764
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Speaker 6: the thoughts the starting quarterback Kyler Murray on his tight end.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's confidence through the roof.

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Speaker 9: You know, he's become a matchup nightmare for you know,

767
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Speaker 9: whoever's on them.

768
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Speaker 11: You know they're gonna put a safety on him.

769
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Speaker 9: This tough for safety's guard him Super Athletics, Scots and

770
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 9: Leomen for Tredy. You know, it was just I think

771
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Speaker 9: for me and him to be able to keep playing

772
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Speaker 9: with each other, keep playing with him, and you know

773
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 9: he'll the better he'll get.

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Speaker 6: I remember an off season conversation and it was the

775
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Speaker 6: three of us and Kyle. You brought out a stat

776
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Speaker 6: that Paul and I were not ready for when you

777
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 6: talked about Drew Petsing and what he came from in

778
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Speaker 6: Cleveland and the use of three tight ends. Well, the

779
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Speaker 6: Cardinals three tight ends on Sunday, Trey McBride, Jeff Swam

780
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 6: and Elijah Higgins all played a season high in snaps.

781
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Speaker 6: They accounted for eleven catches on thirteen targets for one

782
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown. But McBride right

783
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 6: now top five in the league in receptions and receiving

784
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Speaker 6: yards among tight ends here in year two.

785
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and let me ask you to this, So take

786
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 7: your Cardinals colored glasses off for a minute, Like, if

787
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 7: you could take any tight end in the league right now,

788
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 7: if you were starting a team, would you take anybody

789
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Speaker 7: over at Trey McBride, a second year player that has

790
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 7: shown vast improvement. That has probably the best catch radius

791
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Speaker 7: of any Titan in the league. I mean he went,

792
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 7: he climbed the ladder for a couple of his catches

793
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 7: that I don't know that very many players on our

794
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 7: roster or around the league could have made. He shows

795
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Speaker 7: a tremendous toughness. He brings juice to this offense. I mean,

796
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Speaker 7: I don't know, you know, I know that there is

797
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 7: tight ends in this league right now that are surefire

798
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 7: Hall of famers that can you know, are still huge

799
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 7: weapons on their team. But if I'm starting a team today,

800
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Speaker 7: I don't think I take anybody over a trade McBride

801
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 7: and what just because of his ascension, and he just

802
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 7: continues to show improvement throughout the course of this season,

803
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 7: and the sky's the limit for him.

804
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Speaker 3: If you're a Lions fan, you probably throw out Sam

805
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 3: Laporta if you want a young and upcoming tight end.

806
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Speaker 3: That's just off the top of my head. You know, TJ.

807
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 3: Hockinson has had a heck of a season for the Vikings,

808
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 3: But you're right, a Mark Andrews is in his prime

809
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 3: instead of being on the back end. Not quite yet,

810
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 3: but he's prone to injury. Just the ability of trade

811
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Speaker 3: McBride to always break for contact seemingly. I mean, it

812
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 3: always takes two dudes to bring him down and or

813
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 3: he's getting those extra yards. And that's so he told

814
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 3: us on the Big Red Rage last month. He had

815
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Speaker 3: a coach early in his college day said you should

816
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Speaker 3: never go down on first contact. And you know what,

817
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Speaker 3: a lot of what he's seen, especially the last two games,

818
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 3: is akin to his college days. He's getting a lot

819
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Speaker 3: of extra coverage, getting a lot of safety help over

820
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Speaker 3: the top. I talked to him about that. He said, Eh,

821
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Speaker 3: I'm used to it. That's fast. Majority of my college career,

822
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Speaker 3: I was getting double covered or bracket coverage over the top.

823
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Speaker 3: He said, Look, he's to the point now where if

824
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 3: he's single covered, he's still open. Just throw it. He's

825
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 3: got great hands. That catch from field level that he

826
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 3: went up and down the seam and the vertical on

827
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Speaker 3: that just snag that out of the air in the

828
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Speaker 3: rain was remarkable.

829
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Speaker 6: No tight end has caught more passes than Trey McBride

830
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Speaker 6: since Week eight, and McBride is second among tight ends

831
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Speaker 6: in receiving yards between weeks eight and thirteen. That's how

832
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Speaker 6: well he's been playing recently for the Cardinals. This is

833
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Speaker 6: the Arizona Cardinals Radio network.

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Speaker 2: Gillick the punt high in the air, far side, It

835
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Speaker 2: bounce us at the five, and the Cardinal's down at

836
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Speaker 2: at the three. Right punt, gillickan put it on an island?

837
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Speaker 4: Where's the skipper, ginger, Mary Anne?

838
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Speaker 10: Oh my goodness, Gillikan, what a perfect punt man. Once again.

839
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Speaker 10: You give me a punter, baby, you give me a

840
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 10: punter or a defense, and I'll be in every game.

841
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Speaker 6: Five punts for two hundred and fifty two yards. That's

842
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Speaker 6: better than fifty yards of punts. And yes, a great

843
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 6: call by Dave past I don't think we're dating ourselves, gentlemen.

844
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Speaker 6: At least we all get the Gilligan reference. I don't

845
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Speaker 6: know how many others get it.

846
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Speaker 11: But.

847
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 6: Very very apropos of that moment.

848
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Speaker 3: It actually took me a moment when he said that

849
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Speaker 3: it was a great punty checked up right inside the five,

850
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Speaker 3: And it took me a moment. I'm like, okay, all right,

851
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 3: the Gilligan's island as someone has watched way too many

852
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 3: reruns as a young punk right in the whole three

853
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 3: hour cruising. It took me a moment, but that was

854
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: very well done.

855
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Speaker 6: We talk about offense, defense, and special teams, so we're

856
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 6: gonna give a little love here to the special teams units.

857
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 6: Matt Prater continues to be phenomenal this season. But what

858
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 6: Prader cook? I think he has a very good chance

859
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 6: to be your Pro Bowl kicker at least in the

860
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 6: mix for the Arizona Cardinals. But again, as we've established

861
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Speaker 6: here on the Cardinals Red Seat Report presented by Seek

862
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Speaker 6: Your Tickets Your Ticket to Great Seats, the special teams

863
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 6: coordinator amongst the three of us is Kyle Van and

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Speaker 6: Bosch over at Phoenix Brophy College. So let's just hand

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Speaker 6: the segment over to you.

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Speaker 3: Kyle.

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Speaker 6: What have you seen from the specialist I e. Blake Gillikin, Well.

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Speaker 7: Gillikan Prader Dorsch as a returner. Look, you know, we

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Speaker 7: talked about the importance of this team embracing December football

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Speaker 7: because it will serve them well in the future. And

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Speaker 7: that's a big part of December football. That hidden yardage,

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Speaker 7: right you know, pillig In punting over fifty yards per punt,

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Speaker 7: whereas Pittsburgh punch averaged around four under forty five. So

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Speaker 7: that's five yards right there, and hidden yardage every time

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Speaker 7: they we forced them to punt. You know, Derts continues

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Speaker 7: to be a threat when he gets the ball in

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Speaker 7: his hands, you know, And all of these little things matter,

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Speaker 7: particularly when we expected it to be the type of

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Speaker 7: game that it was, where it was going to be

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Speaker 7: a ball control type game, you know, running the ball,

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Speaker 7: enduring the weather, you know, not making big mistakes. And

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Speaker 7: again to have a weapon like Matt Prater to have

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Speaker 7: kicked what's the what's the tally now seventy eight kicks

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Speaker 7: over fifty yards still.

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Speaker 6: Seven this season.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that I mean that those things.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 7: Again, sometimes in the game of football, you you expect

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Speaker 7: with your offensive game plan, with what you have in defense,

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Speaker 7: you expect to have a lot of success, to have

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Speaker 7: some explosive plays. And Jonaha Gannon talks about the explosives, right,

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Speaker 7: But sometimes you just have to grind out tough games.

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Speaker 7: And a big part of that is having a good

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Speaker 7: special team, special teams unit and specialists that you can

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Speaker 7: count on that can make big plays, that can flip

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Speaker 7: the field, that can pin offenses inside the five yard line,

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Speaker 7: that can get you good field position. And two of

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Speaker 7: the Cardinals scores, one was on a turnover. One was

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Speaker 7: on a bad punt by their punter and a face mask.

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Speaker 7: They had the short field and that was a huge

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Speaker 7: difference in this ballgame, is that the Cardinals had a

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Speaker 7: short field a couple of times were able to punch

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Speaker 7: it in for touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: Three things. One, the Praterer field goal looked like it

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Speaker 3: would have been good from seventy It was an absolute

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Speaker 3: surface day or missile in the elements. That was remarkable.

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Speaker 3: And then you talk about late first half, the fourth

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Speaker 3: down stuff, the ninety nine yard touchdown drive. Then you

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Speaker 3: get the ball back to start the second half, but

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Speaker 3: you go three and out. That's when you got the

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Speaker 3: sixty two yard punt that was critical. And then what

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Speaker 3: the Steelers do. They fumbled it right, Mitch Trubisky on

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Speaker 3: that next possession, fumbled it boom. Cardinals punched it in

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Speaker 3: seventeen to three, and for all intents and purposes, game over.

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Speaker 3: They ran them down in the fourth quarter. And then

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Speaker 3: a great observation from Kyle on Greg Dortsch, who was

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Speaker 3: phenomenal not only the nineteen yard catch on third down,

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Speaker 3: but a couple of those punt returns making guys miss

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Speaker 3: in the phone booth and on the sideline, dudes were

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Speaker 3: just shaking their head like, wow, look at him.

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Speaker 8: Go.

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Speaker 3: And I told Craig this that oncovered two that Kelvin

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Speaker 3: Beatram turned around, he saw my notebook and my pen.

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Speaker 3: He said, right down, Greg dort write down his name

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Speaker 3: again and again. Just the appreciation they have for Dorch.

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Speaker 3: Smallest dude on the field, lightest dude on the field,

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Speaker 3: maybe the biggest heart.

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Speaker 6: Well there's no bigger fan of number eighty three than

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Speaker 6: KVB because you've been on him or as far as

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Speaker 6: on this team. To get more touches for Greg Dortch.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's crazy the analytics last year. But

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Speaker 7: like when targeted, you know, he creates separation, He does

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Speaker 7: special things with the ball in his hands. Every time

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Speaker 7: when given an opportunity, he has huge games and he's

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Speaker 7: showing it again this year when he's a part of

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Speaker 7: the lineup, when he's a part of the game plan,

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Speaker 7: you know, he makes these unbelievable plays and a lot

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Speaker 7: of them is just effort. I mean, and again that's

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Speaker 7: what this culture is about. So I can see him

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Speaker 7: sticking around and being a part of the future of

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Speaker 7: this franchise.

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Speaker 6: Gotta wait a little while before we see Dorsch and

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Speaker 6: the Arizona Cardinals in action. December seventeenth at State Farm Stadium,

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Speaker 6: San Francisco, forty nine ers in town. Two oh five

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Speaker 6: is the kickoff the Cardinals in week fourteen. It's the

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Speaker 6: bye week. Gentlemen, bird gang, enjoy it. It's deserved coming

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Speaker 6: off a twenty four to ten win in Pittsburgh. We'll

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Speaker 6: talk to you next week here on the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 6: Radio Network.

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