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Speaker 1: The first victory Monday of the season, Welcome Bird Gang.

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Speaker 1: On Today Show, Paul Calvic joins me, no one gave

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals a chance. There was not a single talking

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Speaker 1: head in America that picked the Cardinals. But as the

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Speaker 1: saying goes on any given Sunday, there's a lot to

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Speaker 1: get into. But first is Paul Okay. It's Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 1: episode six seventy seven, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 3: Budda Baker, What Heart? What rent? This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: He's a ten half of five. He's it again, So

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Speaker 3: more Harry Magic.

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Speaker 2: Whoa, here's Craig griolud.

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Speaker 1: So we need a wellness check on Paul before we

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Speaker 1: go any further. For those that might have missed it,

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Speaker 1: late second quarter, Josh Dobbs throws a short pass to

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Speaker 1: Rondel Moore, who gets pushed out of bounds for a

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Speaker 1: one yard loss.

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Speaker 3: You want to take it from over, You want to

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Speaker 3: take it over for their port. Well, let's see here.

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Speaker 3: How about a dramatic reenactment. Okay, you want a dramatic reenactment.

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Speaker 3: The play is most definitely flowing our way.

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Speaker 1: Get out of the way movement.

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Speaker 3: And what happened was the kicking net was behind me.

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Speaker 3: See this is so rookie. I mean what, Paul, no excuses.

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Speaker 3: The stinking kicking net was behind me. I couldn't just

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Speaker 3: back pedal, so I got to go left or right

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Speaker 3: and then back. And to my right is the big

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Speaker 3: parabolic guy. Okay, you're not getting through that. And to

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Speaker 3: the left or the team docs, it's you or you know,

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Speaker 3: it's kill or be killed. I'm going through the team docks.

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Speaker 3: Problem is, were like four of them, and it took

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Speaker 3: me an extra moment hot second to get through them

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Speaker 3: until I got into my back pedal. At that, Oh

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Speaker 3: my god, Rondel Moore in my chest. Thank goodness he

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Speaker 3: is a sports car with good breaking because if it

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Speaker 3: would have been Jeff swayin like a twenty year old

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Speaker 3: SUV with drum brakes, I would have been jack stopped.

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Speaker 3: I'd still be in the blue medical tent. But thankfully

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Speaker 3: Rondell Moore was able to come to a pretty quick stop.

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Speaker 3: He took me for a good ride to the back

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Speaker 3: of the sideline, but it could have been.

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Speaker 2: A lot worse.

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Speaker 1: It looked like his hand was around your back to

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Speaker 1: kind of protect you a little bit as well. And

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Speaker 1: you are lucky that it wasn't Jeff Wayme or even

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Speaker 1: as zach Ertz won the size difference in an Erth's

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Speaker 1: ceeing a cal Golden Bear. Just what a truck? Jen said,

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Speaker 1: who cares friendly fire? No big deal?

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Speaker 3: True, but especially after we beat Stanford the last two

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Speaker 3: years in the Big Game, but after we lost like

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Speaker 3: eleven in a row against Jim Harbaugh and David Shaw.

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Speaker 3: But that doesn't really matter. I'd like to think that

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Speaker 3: I saved Rondelle Moore from going down, but you're probably right.

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Speaker 3: It's probably the other way around. Someone had to take

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Speaker 3: one for the team and preserve Rondel Moore from crashing

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Speaker 3: into that kicking net. So yeah, yeah, look, Craig, you

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Speaker 3: never want to be part of the story. Okay, I

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Speaker 3: wake up at three am thinking, don't ever be part

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Speaker 3: of the story, either as the interviewer or as the

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Speaker 3: sideline guy. So can we move along quickly? Please please?

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Speaker 1: I'll just say this for those that have access NFL

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Speaker 1: dot Com NFL Plus, it is late second quarter, maybe

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Speaker 1: we get the All twenty two just to kind of

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Speaker 1: see that hit on the sideline because on the broadcast

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Speaker 1: or was it no, I was talking to you at

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Speaker 1: Durian halftime that this was the first time then you

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Speaker 3: I've witnessed plenty of them, and I knew it might

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Speaker 3: be inevitable. And once again, it wasn't for the stinking

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I I don't hesitate to bail. There is

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Speaker 3: no glory in hanging in Craig. If it's coming our way,

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Speaker 3: I'm out of I have a backpedal, like you know,

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Speaker 3: And you know what, all the snarky docs they kept

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Speaker 3: You come in the training room. I'm good, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: It's always the next day though, when you feel it.

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Speaker 1: So you look up this morning feeling all right. So

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Speaker 3: and then we got to move this along. There was

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Speaker 3: Five am. He woke up his back when he's like

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Speaker 3: So that was next level good news.

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Speaker 1: Paul is here and feeling okay on this victory Monday,

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Speaker 1: first of the season, and a lot of firsts on Sunday, obviously,

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Speaker 1: the first win of the season, first win for head

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Speaker 1: coach Jonathan Gannon, first win for quarterback Josh Dobbs, first

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Speaker 1: interception for Kaizer White since twenty twenty one, first interception

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Speaker 1: the biggest one. First time the Cowboys defense looked vulnerable

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, Micah Parsons, you had a front

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Speaker 3: One sack he had, I'll just tell you, the sideline

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Speaker 3: was screaming off sides, off sides like he jumped the

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Speaker 3: replay on that. I don't get a lot of those.

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Speaker 3: I do know. When they came back to the sideline,

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Speaker 3: Will Hernandez had a long talk with Paris Johnson. They

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Speaker 3: what did Lorenzo Alexander tell us? There's two ways to

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Speaker 3: go about it. You can either go up to the

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage where's number eleven and audible and run

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Speaker 3: and that has been done in the past. When you

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Speaker 3: that first half when they ran for a buck eighty

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Speaker 1: That second play of the game where Parsons could have

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Speaker 1: set the tone because if that handoff does not go

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Speaker 1: Instead, he pulls it out, takes it, eludes Parsons, and

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Speaker 1: that was okay, Yeah, we're a wareword number eleven is,

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Speaker 1: but we're not gonna be afraid to do what we

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Speaker 3: Than seven yards of carry. That wasn't just one half

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Speaker 3: that was the entire game. It's remarkable, especially against that

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Speaker 3: for the record, we did not call a Cardinals victory.

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Speaker 3: We thought they would compete, and there were a lot

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Speaker 3: of reasons why we thought that. You know what, running

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Speaker 3: Josh Dobbs more was very viable because the only thing

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Speaker 3: Breeze Hall and the other running back Dalvin Cook for

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Speaker 3: the New York Jets. So we suggested, we said, you

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Speaker 3: know what, we're putting this in the suggestion box. Use

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Speaker 3: Josh Dobbs. He's very adept to running of In fact,

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Speaker 3: you saw the next Gen stats miles per hour. That

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Speaker 3: was a great moment down in the sideline. Dobbs saw

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Speaker 3: Rondell Moore. He hit nineteen point eight miles per hour

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Speaker 3: on his forty four yard run versus Rondale Moore, who

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Speaker 3: five yard run. He was actually faster. So okay, use

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Speaker 3: that to your advantage. We suggest that it worked. You know,

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Speaker 3: at the very least you're keeping that defense. Honest, What

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Speaker 3: does Kyle Shanahan do better than any offensive coordinator and

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Speaker 3: play caller in the league. You listen to Cardinals defenders,

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Speaker 3: He keeps a defense, honest. You don't know who's coming when,

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Speaker 3: what is that play design going to be? What you

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Speaker 3: it's a tendency, no, because they break their tendencies very well.

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Speaker 3: I saw a lot of that from the Cardinals offense

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Speaker 1: A lot of eye candy, misdirection motion in the backfield

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Speaker 1: pre snat motion, which is something that I know a

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Speaker 1: it on Cardinal Talk Paul, when we're trying to figure out, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what's this offense going to be? Like, what's this defense

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Speaker 1: going to be like and Gannon always says adapt or die.

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Speaker 1: You look at what this offense was capable or what

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Speaker 1: it did against the Cowboys first two weeks, it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of short throws to the tight end. That

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Speaker 1: was not the case on Sunday, Zach Ertz Trey McBride

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Speaker 1: combined three targets. Wow, the tight end was a non factor.

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Speaker 1: Now there was that throw and once again Dobbs to

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Speaker 1: the Ertz just missed again. But that play would have

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Speaker 1: been wiped out because of a penalty. But it was

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver and it was the ground game of

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Speaker 1: James Connor. Those two entities enabled the Cardinals to come

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Speaker 1: away with that twenty eight to sixteen win.

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Speaker 3: Well, and we talked before the game, how much would

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Speaker 3: you use your tight ends to chip the Dallas ends

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Speaker 3: and go after Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence and try

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Speaker 3: and provide some extra help. So I'd love to know.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to get an answer to that. How often

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Speaker 3: were the tight ends, even in the past game route

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Speaker 3: running versus staying in to help protect Josh Dobbs against

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Speaker 3: that Dallas front. So you're right, but it was different.

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Speaker 3: They did evolve it. Think about what we talked about

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Speaker 3: before the game as well, all the different things that

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Speaker 3: Cardinals favor the fast start, right, if you were able

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Speaker 3: to take a lead against Dallas, which the Cardinals obviously did,

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Speaker 3: they scored fifteen points in the first three possessions. Dallas

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Speaker 1: Continue to see the progress being made by Josh Dobbs,

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Speaker 1: bring in the Angry Bird with said helmet on top

433
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Speaker 1: to paint the picture for the listener here on Cardinals

434
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Speaker 1: cover two. I appreciate that at.

435
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Speaker 3: Some point this might be streamed, and so we're just

436
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Speaker 3: practicing in case there's ever a video element to Cardinals

437
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 3: cover two. Then boom, we've got it right here. We've

438
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: got the props right in front of us. So congratulations

439
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Speaker 3: to the old line. And I'll say this, Paul, I'm

440
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,439
Speaker 3: a little surprised. I wasn't quite sure which direction you

441
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 3: go in because there are a number of different candidates,

442
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 3: and I thought, just because of how big a moment

443
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,359
Speaker 3: was at the end of the game, that perhaps Kaiser

444
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,360
Speaker 3: White would have been a nice choice or at least

445
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,280
Speaker 3: a nominee. Again, nothing against what Kaiser White did. I'm

446
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 3: not comparing the old line what Kaizier was able to accomplish,

447
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 3: but fourteen tackles, one shy ty in his career high

448
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 3: and that interception on a play that he told the

449
00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 3: media post game that he had struggled with during the week,

450
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 3: a defensive call that he had not been sound on

451
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,520
Speaker 3: but wanted Nick Rowlis to call it again. It was called,

452
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 3: and he sat there in the zone and I don't

453
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,959
Speaker 3: know if Dak ever saw him because the pass was

454
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Speaker 3: thrown right to him.

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Speaker 1: Again, going back to the Michael Wilson conversation, sometimes those

456
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Speaker 1: are the most difficult to catch. Kaiser mentioned it as

457
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 1: well postgame. Don't drop it, don't drop it, got the ball,

458
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,400
Speaker 1: kept it, and again the defense huge stopping the Cowboys

459
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Speaker 1: late in the game.

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Speaker 3: He had fourteen tackles, so there's no question he is

461
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,879
Speaker 3: the brains of that defense, whereas Budda Baker might be

462
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Speaker 3: the heartbeat of the defense. He's the brains. And it's

463
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Speaker 3: interesting to note that both the Giants and Cowboys after

464
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Speaker 3: the Cardinals have put game film out there. Obviously in

465
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Speaker 3: the Jonathan Ganner Nick Rolis era, there's one more they

466
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,679
Speaker 3: use fast that what they see on film is a

467
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 3: fast Cardinals defense. Well, it's not just team speed, it's

468
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 3: playing fast football IQ. It's Kaiser White getting the calls in,

469
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 3: making sure the calls are in early enough where there's

470
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Speaker 3: time to spare, where guys can get aligned correctly. You're

471
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Speaker 3: not springing to the spot right before the snap and

472
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,680
Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're discombobulated. And if a completion

473
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 3: is made by a few inches, well, if you weren't

474
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Speaker 3: in the right spot to start with, guess what you're

475
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 3: playing from behind. So there's a reason why this defense

476
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,720
Speaker 3: is playing fast and has more than just to do

477
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 3: with the athleticism. But beyond that, Craig the Angry Bird

478
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 3: Award also goes to the all line because after the game,

479
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 3: Kaiser White still had the football in his hands. He

480
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 3: took it all the way to his locker. He didn't

481
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Speaker 3: even let go of it on the sideline. He's keeping

482
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 3: that thing because he like he told us he had

483
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Speaker 3: on that interception since twenty twenty one and so, and

484
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Speaker 3: then of course Josh Dobbs brought his football up to

485
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Speaker 3: the podium. So what does the offensive line have? They

486
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Speaker 3: don't have anything, So we're giving him the Angry Bird Award. Okay,

487
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Speaker 3: fair enough.

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Speaker 2: I like that.

489
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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 1: It's a good analysis here on the Angry Bird Award

491
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Speaker 1: winner four week number three. By the way, speaking of

492
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Speaker 1: that defense, the ultimate bend but don't break. Yeah, the

493
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys had better than four hundred yards of total offense. Yeah,

494
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Speaker 1: but the red zone defense something that both the head

495
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Speaker 1: coach and Nick Ralis touched on a week ago. They

496
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Speaker 1: were not happy with how successful the opponent was inside

497
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Speaker 1: the red zone. Different story this week. One of five

498
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: but four opportunities in the second half and the Cowboys

499
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Speaker 1: go two field goals, turnover, on downs, interception, but all

500
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Speaker 1: four of those possessions Paul wound up inside the Cardinals

501
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Speaker 1: ten yard line. Wow, no touchdowns on four trips, not

502
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,400
Speaker 1: inside the twenty, inside the ten.

503
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Speaker 3: And once again, we didn't call this Cardinals win. We

504
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 3: thought they'd compete. But before the game, what did we

505
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 3: talk about Craig that if you look at red zone.

506
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,959
Speaker 3: That's where Dallas struggled against the Jets. They had four

507
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 3: Fueld goals in the red zone. They really struggled there.

508
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 3: So we talked about that pregame. You know what, Dallas

509
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 3: ain't all that when it gets to the red zone.

510
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 3: So this could be an advantage for the Cardinals defense,

511
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 3: and sure enough that materialized as well. So there are

512
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Speaker 3: very real reasons why the Cardinals ended up with a victory.

513
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 3: This isn't some fluke, this isn't some sort of one off.

514
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 3: This was a lot of what we talked about before

515
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 3: the game. It was very viable and plausible for the

516
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 3: Cardinals to execute, and then they went out and did it.

517
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 3: They were prepared enough to go out and do it.

518
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 3: They are the more intense team from the get go, obviously,

519
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 3: and then they were able to finish something they haven't

520
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,040
Speaker 3: been able to do. So you're seeing the evolution and

521
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 3: as day passed so adroitly said at the end of

522
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 3: the game, you're seeing the validation, the affirmation of what

523
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,199
Speaker 3: this means. Jonathan Gannon to moniasen Fort hitting that Resa button.

524
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 3: And by the way, if you don't think these guys

525
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 3: are invested, if you don't think they care. All it

526
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Speaker 3: to do was watch maniasin fort in the mouth of

527
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Speaker 3: the tunnel. When players are coming off the field, nobody

528
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: was more fired up than the GM. Every single player

529
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 3: and coach coming off that field got a handshake, got

530
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 3: a salute from the general manager. So there is tangible

531
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Speaker 3: visual evidence just how vested the GM is in this

532
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 3: whole process, and it resonates in that locker room. More

533
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 3: than one guy said, you know what, it does help

534
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 3: You don't feel like just a number or a cap number,

535
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 3: you know in a spreadsheet. You realize, okay that hey,

536
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 3: they're investing in you. We're gonna invest in this team.

537
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 3: It's not just a matter of looking for your next team,

538
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 3: you're your next contract. No, we're building something here.

539
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: I hope there was a moment though for Gannon as well,

540
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: because he just seemed like it was matter of fact

541
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Speaker 1: that this was just another game another week. And I

542
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,200
Speaker 1: get it. He's not results driven. It's the process for him.

543
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: He acknowledged, though, you are judged by your one loss record,

544
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: but he dismissed. I believe it was to you the

545
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,479
Speaker 1: validation affirmation and he's like, no, you don't need that.

546
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: If you know what you're doing is the correct way

547
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: on a daily basis, So I don't know if that's

548
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: just him publicly and privately, there's a smile. There's a

549
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: moment to be able to say, all right, yeah, this

550
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: is a big deal for me personally because I understand

551
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 1: it's team first, you second. But you got to feel

552
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 1: good that what you are doing as a head coach,

553
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: what you are are teaching these players is working. So yeah,

554
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: to pass his final call, there is affirmation there, and

555
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 1: you hope the players understand it that there is at

556
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: least a little bit of a smile for Gann. And

557
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: even though he did not like the fact that he

558
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: was doused at the end.

559
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 2: Of the ball game.

560
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: And I don't think we saw any video from inside

561
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 3: the locker room. I don't think we saw it. Unlike

562
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 3: last year, especially with Hard Knocks Intown, we saw virtual

563
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 3: everything in the postgame locker room, or quite a bit

564
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 3: enough to get a sense of what the mood and

565
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 3: atmosphere and reaction was like, like, that's not the case

566
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 3: after this wins, So I'm guessing that's by design, like

567
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: everything else, And you're right. I asked him two different times,

568
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 3: in two different ways to see if maybe there was

569
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 3: a little gratification on his end, maybe he needed this

570
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 3: as part of the process to truly get this team

571
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 3: going in the right direction. I was over too. I'm

572
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 3: both those questions. I get it, But at the same time,

573
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 3: I also get the approach to some degree in that

574
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 3: you want it to be the expectation. You don't want

575
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 3: it to be some monumental achievement that we actually won

576
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 3: a game, that we actually beat Dallas. No, this is

577
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 3: the expectation. This is what happens if you follow the process,

578
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: you invest the time in the effort. This should not

579
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 3: be viewed to some remarkable, transcendent event. No, this is

580
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: the expectation. You're gonna win more than you lose, and

581
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 3: that's what we're trying to set, among other things. I

582
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 3: get it.

583
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Speaker 1: And at the same time, if you're sitting there at

584
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: soh and six and you're oh and seven, then that

585
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: all falls on deaf ears inside a lie, and you know,

586
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: you start losing the fan base as well. That's why

587
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: the opponent mattered. But just that first win, because the

588
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: longer you go becomes more difficult, the noise gets a

589
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: lot louder. And I just again for his own personal benefit.

590
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: And I know you'll get a chance to talk to

591
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: him again on the Coaches Show this week. So maybe

592
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: he could be try number three third times to charm

593
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: just to get him to smile just a little bit

594
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: about his first win as a head coach.

595
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 3: Maybe I got to think of the way to put

596
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 3: the question. Maybe the question will be what was the

597
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 3: reaction from the family? There you go when he got home, right,

598
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 3: the little ones, right, that'll be sure to bring a

599
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 3: smile to his face. Maybe there's a good anecdote. Maybe

600
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 3: there's a you know, a congratulations from his elementary school

601
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 3: age kids.

602
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 1: Right unless the kids say, Dad, what took you so long?

603
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: And what are we doing here?

604
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

605
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,200
Speaker 3: Or maybe because say Dad, when an're we going to

606
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 3: get ice cream? You know, maybe they don't even care

607
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 3: about what they saw. Maybe they weren't even watching. They were,

608
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 3: you know, in the in the kids room, playing with

609
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 3: some of the blocks and some of the toys or

610
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 3: video games these days, had a tablet in their hand.

611
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 3: But look, I firmly believe that it was part of

612
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 3: the plan to set the tone. But behind closed doors,

613
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 3: come on, there had to be some sincere satisfaction and

614
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 3: to get a win against this team that was near

615
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 3: the top of every power pol So this wasn't just

616
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 3: beating a bottom dweller. This was a win that really,

617
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: to use that word again, validated how good this team

618
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 3: can be. That you know what, This isn't a two

619
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Speaker 3: or three year process waiting for wins. No, it can

620
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: be achieved early.

621
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Speaker 2: Now.

622
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 3: The ultimate test is gonna be this forty nine Ers team.

623
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 3: There's no question about it, because unlike the Dallas Cowboys,

624
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 3: the San Francisco forty nine Ers are not only talented,

625
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 3: but they're about as well coached as any team in

626
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 3: the league. So you're not going to get away with

627
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 3: some of what maybe what you got away with against Dallas.

628
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 3: One of the reasons why Dallas has lost the last

629
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 3: two years into the playoffs to the forty nine ers

630
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,959
Speaker 3: because I just think there is much better coaching in

631
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 3: that Niners sideline than there ever has been on the

632
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: Dallas sideline. And we'll see how that develops.

633
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 2: Well.

634
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers are not going to commit thirteen

635
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: penalties right or exactly have ten in the first half

636
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: right like the Cowboys did. And I meant to look

637
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: this up, but once again, it does not matter which

638
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: team Mike McCarthy is coaching. Sometimes there is just an

639
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,719
Speaker 1: opponent that has your number or the building. Yeah, the

640
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: Cardinals love playing Mike McCarthy coach teams, and it goes

641
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: back to his last game as Green Bay Packers head coach.

642
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: Even before then during the playoffs as well, McCarthy just

643
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: doesn't have an answer for the angry.

644
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 3: Bird, if you will, I'm still trying to decide what

645
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 3: I enjoyed more in Week three. Was it the Cardinals

646
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 3: beating Dallas and sending on those Dallas fans home unhappy?

647
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 3: Or was it watching Sean Payton, the most advanced football

648
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 3: mind the game has seen since Todd Graham giving up

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Speaker 3: the seventy burger. Yeah, I'm still trying to decide that.

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Speaker 3: Give me to the end of Monday on that one, Craig,

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Speaker 3: if you will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a number of things that happened in

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Speaker 1: Week three to the point where you would think a

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Speaker 1: Cowboys loss would be top of mind, But you cannot

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Speaker 1: ignore seventy points. And then obviously you cannot ignore Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift and the suite at Arrowhead Stadium alongside Missus Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there were a lot of things in Week three,

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Speaker 1: but maybe not the the upset, certainly biggest upset of

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Speaker 1: the day. But seventy points, I mean, Paul, you hardly

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Speaker 1: see that in college unless it's Division one versus Division two.

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Speaker 1: But seventy points. Just let that hang for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Seventy points against Sean Payton and everyone over there, Vance

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Speaker 1: Joseph zach Allen and company.

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Speaker 3: And they shut it down. Dolphin shut it down.

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Speaker 1: It could have been a heck of a lot more.

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Speaker 3: The red zone at the very handy could have set

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Speaker 3: the all time NFL scoring record, There's no question about it.

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Speaker 3: Although I did watch the Alma Mater give up nearly

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Speaker 3: seventy at Washington on Saturday night, that's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 3: I'll say this about the whole Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce thing.

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Speaker 3: Where's Dan Lanning, the Oregon head coach when you need them?

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Speaker 3: Because guess what it looks like. The Chiefs are about

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Speaker 3: the clicks right now, not just about the wins. They're

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Speaker 3: about the clicks, just like Colorado football, allegedly according to

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Speaker 3: the Oregon head coach. So you might want to go

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Speaker 3: ahead and play that pregame pep talk for anyone going

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Speaker 3: after the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: These days Cardinals, not worried about clicks. Just get that

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Speaker 1: first win out of the way, and now you can

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Speaker 1: set your sights on five hundred. But Paul, this team

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Speaker 1: is seven points away from being undefeated. I mean you

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Speaker 1: can make that argument that. Okay, locally we know about it. Nationally,

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Speaker 1: I think more and more people are picking up on it.

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Field Yates Sunday Afternoon tweeted about the Cardinals and

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Speaker 1: how extremely well prepared, tough, and competitive they have been

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Speaker 1: under Jonathan Gannon. This team those first two weeks not

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Speaker 1: a fluke based off the performance on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: So as good as Josh Doabbs has looked after three weeks.

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Speaker 3: To the point of whoever was making that assessment right there,

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Speaker 3: if Josh Dobbs had just had a preseason, had just

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Speaker 3: had the month of August with the Cardinals, do they

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Speaker 3: win that Washington game based on what we see? How

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Speaker 3: good this offense looks now after three games? Think how

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Speaker 3: elementary rudimentary the game plan had to be against Washington

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Speaker 3: because he'd only had a week or so week plus

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Speaker 3: and really had no real time full speed reps with

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Speaker 3: his guys because it's never the same running full speed

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Speaker 3: in practice as it is in a game. And you

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Speaker 3: saw how much better the timing rhythm of the passing

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Speaker 3: game was in week two from week one. So is

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Speaker 3: that a win at Washington considering how you got up?

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Speaker 3: And then if you don't have all those brutal injuries

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Speaker 3: in the defensive line, and I know everyone is dealt

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Speaker 3: with injuries, I get it, But if that d line

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Speaker 3: wasn't so u gassed and depleted in Week two against

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Speaker 3: the Giants, is that a different outcome? Well, ultimately, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Look close on the scoreboard doesn't always equal

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Speaker 3: close in the standings. We get that you got to

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Speaker 3: win those close games, but the Cardinals have obviously been

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Speaker 3: very competitive with some of the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: Let's bring it full circle. As Josh Dobbs postgame said,

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Speaker 1: pretty cool full circle moments winning his first game as

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Speaker 1: QB one. How did we begin this edition of Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Cover two asking Paul for a wellness check? And we

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Speaker 1: hope that the injury report comes clean on Wednesday, Otherwise

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Speaker 1: Danny Sorrek might be waiting in the wings and being

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter for Sunday's game in San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't need any painkillers. I didn't need the

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Speaker 3: Cairo practor I didn't need any of that, you know.

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Speaker 3: So we're good once again. That's the first time and

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Speaker 3: hopefully last time in nineteen years. Note to self, do

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Speaker 3: not ever become anywhere close to the storyline. And I

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Speaker 3: will say, when my life flashed in front of my

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Speaker 3: eyes and Rondell Moore came crashing into me, don't go down.

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Speaker 3: Don't go down, CALVC, don't go viral. Okay, don't go down.

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Speaker 3: Don't go viral. Don't be the guy who hits the

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Speaker 3: deck and gets flattened by an NFL player, and then

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Speaker 3: everyone enjoys it on Twitter for the next ten years.

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Speaker 1: Nineteen years? Are we are we losing a step?

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Speaker 2: Paul?

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 3: Year nineteen This is my lateral quickness I did that

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Speaker 3: was observed. Now there was a snarky member of the

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Speaker 3: sideline crew said, you know, your sideline quickness isn't what

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Speaker 3: it used to be, CALVC. So yeah, that is true.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I need to start. I need to get way

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Speaker 3: off the line, you know, I need to be I

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Speaker 3: need to get way back, maybe in a pistol formation.

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Speaker 1: From now on, it is early in the season, they'll

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Speaker 1: may We'll see what happens later on as the weeks continue.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you get that lateral quickness back.

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Speaker 3: By the way, they just showed a bunch of Cardinals

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Speaker 3: highlights on the NFL Network show Behind You, and they

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Speaker 3: just splashed up a stat the Dolphins the first team

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Speaker 3: in NFL history with three hundred and fifty passing yards

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Speaker 3: and three hundred and fifty rushing yards in a game.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea that is remarkable. Seven hundred p

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Speaker 3: yards of total offense. That's like Alabama against Burman. What

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Speaker 3: is going on? And I'll tell you what. We all

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Speaker 3: love vance Joseph, but if that continues, there's no doubt

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Speaker 3: in my mind he'll be made the scapegoat pretty quick.

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Speaker 2: In Denver.

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Speaker 1: That is not pretty in Denver, certainly it is bright

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Speaker 1: and shinny sunny here in Arizona Cardinals celebrating a twenty

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Speaker 1: eight to sixteen win over the Dallas Cowboys. And on

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Speaker 1: that notes, we will put a lid on this edition

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Speaker 1: of Cardinals Cover two presented by Hyundai, proud partner of

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. As always special thanks to our executive

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Speaker 1: producer Joe Mamahundro, our associate producer Cody Fincher for Paul Calvic.

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Speaker 1: I'm Craig Rayal Lou. We'll talk to you next time

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Speaker 1: here on Cardinals Cover two in coming