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Speaker 1: It is a Football Friday Week ten edition and the

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Speaker 1: return of Kyler Murray. Welcome Bird Gang. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: Zach Gershman joins me Kyler. We'll start on Sunday, three

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five days since his last game when

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Speaker 1: he tore his ACL. That's the good news, bad news.

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Speaker 1: Who is protecting Kyler? There are a lot of injuries

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Speaker 1: along the offensive line. Plus we'll get into the matchup

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Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons. We'll head into enemy territory and

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Speaker 1: speak with de Orlando Ledbetter, longtime Falcons feat writer for

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Journal Constitution. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode six

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Speaker 1: ninety seven, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 3: Buda Baker, What Heart?

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Speaker 4: What rent?

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Speaker 1: This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: He's half a five, He's in again, So more Harry Magic.

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Speaker 2: Whoa Here's Craig Griolute.

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Speaker 1: Second half of the season kicks off this week, and

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Speaker 1: for the Cardinal Zach, that means kicking off with the

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Speaker 1: return of Kyler Murray. It is official. The week apparently

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Speaker 1: went well, so Kyler Murray will get the start Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 3: JG did say that if the week goes well, he's

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Speaker 3: gonna get the start. I mean, I feel like every

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Speaker 3: week has gone quite well for Kyler Murray. He's been

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Speaker 3: saying that he's laughed in JG's face when he said

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Speaker 3: that it might not be the same k one out there,

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Speaker 3: but Atlanta is gonna have a return, a rude awakening

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Speaker 3: in terms of Kyler Murray coming back in it's definitely

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Speaker 3: gonna be exciting one at State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 1: The storyline's now away, it's done. It was funny because

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Speaker 1: someone did ask Gannon Friday about, Hey, Kyler said, he

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Speaker 1: laughed in your face, and Gannon said, yeah, he laughed

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Speaker 1: right in my face, and that was the extent of

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Speaker 1: the answer. But I do think there has to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit of tempering the expectations, at least I

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Speaker 1: am personally, because when you don't do something for nearly

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Speaker 1: a calendar year, and officially it's been three hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty five days. On Sunday, when Kyler Murray makes his return,

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Speaker 1: after that ACL injury, so there is going to be

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Speaker 1: some russ. The question is is that all right done

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Speaker 1: knocked off? After the first series, the first quarter, the

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Speaker 1: first half, the first game, what do we expect to

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Speaker 1: see in in Yeah, we all want to see Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray throw for three hundred yards four touchdowns and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals win by twenty. I don't think that's very realistic.

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Speaker 3: I think more so Atlanta's gonna the fans are going

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Speaker 3: to be very excited to see Kyler Murray's return. And

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Speaker 3: I think that when the team is one and eight,

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Speaker 3: it's tough to get that sort of support in that

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Speaker 3: tough when the record's the way that it is. But

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Speaker 3: with Kyler Murray coming back, I mean it might. It

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Speaker 3: won't be k one of the past. That is going

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Speaker 3: and everyone's going to jump after the first play to

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Speaker 3: see what exactly he looks like. If the rust is

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Speaker 3: still there, that's not going to be an excuse. Kyler

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Speaker 3: Murray's at all this time to warm up and practice

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Speaker 3: whatever it is. I'm in the same boat as you.

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Speaker 3: As much as I would love to see Kawan go

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Speaker 3: you mentioned, the chances are of that happening are very slim,

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Speaker 3: and if they do happen, then that's an incredible storyline

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Speaker 3: at that and every question we have afterwards kind of

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Speaker 3: for the simple fact that the return is final.

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Speaker 1: Here I said this on Wednesday's Cardinals cover two presented

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Speaker 1: by Hyundai, probably partner of the Arizona Cardinals. I'll say

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Speaker 1: it here on Friday with you, Zach, and it is

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Speaker 1: I hope we are not. And I'll put myself in

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Speaker 1: this conversation making judgments conclusions based off of one game

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Speaker 1: when we talk about Kyler Murray, because for me, this

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Speaker 3: This is gonna be the most important eight game stretch

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Speaker 3: articles that say that JG does not have any sort

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Speaker 3: to Kyler Murray. I do think that JG has respect

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Speaker 3: It is an eight games sample size because it is

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Speaker 3: it's not fully there, what exactly how are you going

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Speaker 3: I asked John to gain it today at the press

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Speaker 3: conference on Friday, I said to him, is it kind

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Speaker 3: And he said every week is a fresh start because

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Speaker 1: A lot of the players, though in the locker room,

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Speaker 3: the other fifty two in the locker room, they want

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Speaker 1: Sunday from State Farm Stadium nine to thirty. Pregame coverage

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Speaker 1: de Orlando Ledbetter with the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The Falcons

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Speaker 1: Heinikee making his second straight start, and then head coach

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Speaker 4: he likes. You know, they're gonna sip somebody deep. It

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Speaker 4: may be a tight end and may be a receiver,

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Speaker 4: maybe a running back, and then you'll have an underneath

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Speaker 4: route to throw off of that, and then maybe something

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Speaker 4: on the backside for safety precaution. So it's been a

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Speaker 4: you know versatile attack. Coach brought a Wooding from Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: It was what Ryan Tenney hill and A. J. Brown

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Speaker 4: was running so well up there without Jonald Smith was

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Speaker 4: part of that also, So it's a diverse defied attack

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Speaker 4: that you really you know, have to learn how to

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Speaker 4: read the defenses and spread the ball around to make

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Speaker 4: it most effective.

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Speaker 1: Last question, I know limited this week in practice, but

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Speaker 1: if Drake London is able to play on Sunday, how

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Speaker 1: does that change things for the Falcons.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it gives him that leading receiver back, which is key.

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Speaker 4: And he's a big important person on third down for

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Speaker 4: the Falcons because they like throwing those Mike Evans back

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Speaker 4: shoulder jump off out pattern to him and he's been

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Speaker 4: very good at catching him, especially from Ritter. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: big big receiver who's made some plays for him. He's

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Speaker 4: their leading receiver. It'd be a big plus for the

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Speaker 4: Falcons to get him back this week.

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Speaker 1: D Orlando Ledbetter, Falcons beat writer, Atlanta Journal Constitution. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time and all the best and look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing you on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Greig. Look forward to coming and

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Speaker 4: I have a great day and enjoy the game. On Sunday.

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Speaker 1: There is no one better when you talk about the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons than de Orlando Ledbetter. A great guy and

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Speaker 1: he is a wealth of information concerning than franchise. So

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Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing him on Sunday. Looking forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing the bird Gang as well again. Kickoff two oh

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Speaker 1: five from State Farm Stadium nine thirty am. Pregame coverage

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Speaker 1: begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Cardinals come in

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Speaker 1: with a record of one and eight, the Falcons four

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Speaker 1: and five, and as you mentioned it earlier in the

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Speaker 1: show here, Zach, they are considering this their super Bowl

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Speaker 1: going into a bye week, Taylor Heinike getting another start,

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Speaker 1: but just some matchups to pay attention to because this

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Speaker 1: is an interesting Falcons offense. Just looking at some of

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Speaker 1: the metrics, there is no team in the NFL that

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Speaker 1: uses multiple running backs and multiple tight ends more consistently

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Speaker 1: than the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 3: I think that that's that the Cardinals have wanted to

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Speaker 3: mimic in a sense. I mean, obviously the running back

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Speaker 3: the health status has not been there, and for that

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Speaker 3: to be the case. Tight end wise, we've seen Drew

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Speaker 3: Petsing draw out some one tight end, two tight end

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Speaker 3: three tight end personnel formations, and with Zach ERT's sideline

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Speaker 3: and Jeff Swain miss practice as well on Thursday, that's

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Speaker 3: going to potentially have a completely different look. But the

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Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons have two tight ends in the top ten

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Speaker 3: in terms of receiving yards. John news Smith and Kyle

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Speaker 3: Pitts both have been doing really solid. I believe they're

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Speaker 3: at seven to nine each of them respectively. And there's

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Speaker 3: no other team in the NFL that has two tight

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Speaker 3: ends in the top twenty in terms of receiving yards.

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Speaker 3: So they've done a really solid job. And I think

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Speaker 3: with their quarterback turmoil in a sense of not knowing

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Speaker 3: if they're gonna go with Heinike or Desmond rit Or,

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Speaker 3: it's been really impressive to see how involved their tight

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Speaker 3: ends have been. And when it comes to the running backs,

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Speaker 3: I mean it starts and ends with Jon Robinson. And

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Speaker 3: there's been a lot of questions to post to Arthur

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Speaker 3: Smith about his usage in the red zone because he's

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Speaker 3: only has one score, but he's averaging five yards of carry.

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Speaker 3: He's been doing a really solid job. And plus he's

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Speaker 3: an Arizona native, so he's gonna be coming back home

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Speaker 3: for this one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah out a two seconds south Point High School, the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals high school player of the Year back in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Yeah, the touches is something that a lot

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Speaker 1: of people in Atlanta are talking about because Bijon Robinson

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Speaker 1: five yards of carry, Tyler Al's year three point two

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Speaker 1: yards of carry. Yet Tyler has thirteen more carries than

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Speaker 1: your first round draft pick. And not just a first

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Speaker 1: round draft pick, but a top ten selection. And there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people that want to see more of

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Speaker 1: Bijon Robinson, but he only has sixty two or fewer

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Speaker 1: rushing yards in his past five games. It doesn't sound

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Speaker 1: like a top ten draft pick. Are you getting enough

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Speaker 1: production out of a player that you invested not just

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Speaker 1: a first round draft pick in, but again a top

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Speaker 1: ten pick. Now, do we care about that this week? No,

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Speaker 1: we don't, but moving forward, especially with the Arizona connection,

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Speaker 1: but that that is the curiosity factor with Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: This week is okay based off the number of conversations

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Speaker 1: that have been having that have had as far as

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Speaker 1: running back usage, what do we expect to see this Sunday?

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Speaker 1: And do the Falcons coaching staff go okay? You know what,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna load it up and give it to Bijon.

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Speaker 3: I think that I think the tight ends are going

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Speaker 3: to be more heavily involved, and I think the running

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Speaker 3: backs are going to be for the simple fact that

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Speaker 3: the Cardinals have really struggled in the past in their

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Speaker 3: past coverage. They've done a really solid job. The previous week.

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Speaker 3: They did a really solid job at limiting the Cleveland

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Speaker 3: Brown's rushing running ability. Even with Nick Chubb out, the

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Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns are still top of the league in terms

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Speaker 3: of rushing yards with Kareem Hunt and Jerome fod They

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Speaker 3: did a really solid job in Cleveland, but the Cardinals

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Speaker 3: only limited them to one hundred and thirteen yards total rushing,

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Speaker 3: which I thought was really solid all things considered. But

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Speaker 3: I mean, you kind of have to hope that you

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Speaker 3: do limit Bjon Robinson. You have to hope that the

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Speaker 3: usage remains a question the following week when Atlanta goes

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Speaker 3: back before the bye and they say, why did you

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Speaker 3: not use Bijon as much? To Arthur Smith, But I

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Speaker 3: think when Vijon Robinson's been such an elusive running back,

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Speaker 3: he has not necessarily had the number of carries he

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Speaker 3: would expect for in the number of yardage as you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: but he's such a skilled player, his elusiveness, his mobility,

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Speaker 3: he's very agile. He's a fun running back to watch,

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Speaker 3: but he has not gotten the rock nearly as many

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Speaker 3: times as a top ten pick would be expected to get.

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Speaker 1: And it's going to be curious to see how the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals handle a tight end where it's multiple tight ends

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Speaker 1: in both John Smith and Kyle Pitts, as far as

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Speaker 1: not having both out there, as far as running routes

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Speaker 1: as opposed to maybe sometimes one stays in as an

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Speaker 1: extra blocker but had to handle covering the tight end.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals this season have only allowed two touchdowns to opposing

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Speaker 1: tight ends, but those are two big targets. Typically it's

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Speaker 1: Buddha Baker on a tight end. Do we see some

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Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson is Marco Wilson on tight end versus a

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Speaker 1: returning Drake London who missed last week with a growing injury.

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Speaker 1: Very curious on how that secondary matches up when wide

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Speaker 1: receiver wise, it's not top heavy. You do get London

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Speaker 1: back on the field this week, but typically the touches

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Speaker 1: or the targets, I should say, tend to go to

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Speaker 1: that tight end position, and.

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Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts has the type of skill set that he's

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Speaker 3: basically another wide receiver out there. He's done a really

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Speaker 3: solid job out of Florida. He's also a Philadelphia guy.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Gorse, you got to bring that up weekly. Listen, Listen.

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Speaker 3: I think though, as I saw it throughout high school,

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Speaker 3: he's always had that kind of that predominant rise, and

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Speaker 3: he's done a really solid job in Atlanta so far.

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Speaker 3: Last year he did not get used nearly as often

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Speaker 3: as he is right now. And I think having two

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Speaker 3: tight ends that have been really solid in John new

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Speaker 3: Smith and himself he's done, it's kind of opened up

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Speaker 3: the playbook for him.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: The Cardinals have done a really solid job at containing

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Speaker 3: tight ends. As you mentioned, they've only given up two touchdowns,

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Speaker 3: one of them to David Joko, the other one to

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Speaker 3: Mark Andrews. But like when they played George Kittle, they

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Speaker 3: limited him to one reception for nine yards, and Mark

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Speaker 3: Andrews was only he had that one touchdown, but they

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Speaker 3: limited him to forty yards. So they've done a solid

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Speaker 3: job at defending the tight ends, even when you don't

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Speaker 3: have a Buddha Baker or Jalen Thompson out there like

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Speaker 3: they didn't against the San Francisco forty nine ers. So

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Speaker 3: I mean, they've done a really solid job in the

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Speaker 3: defense side of the ball. Whatever they've been doing, they

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Speaker 3: got to continue doing. They just can't let him get

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Speaker 3: to the back of the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Let's quickly turn the tide over and our attention to

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Speaker 1: the Falcons defense with a brand new defensive coordinator, Ryan Nielsen,

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Speaker 1: who was previously with the Saints, who replaced Dean Pease

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Speaker 1: who retired. But this Saints or this stay, this Falcons

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Speaker 1: defense went through a massive makeover in the offseason. They

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Speaker 1: added a number of offseason pieces in free agency and

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Speaker 1: in acquisitions as far as trying to figure out and

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Speaker 1: correct the defense that in twenty twenty two finished twenty

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Speaker 1: seventh in yards allowed twenty fifth in passing yards allowed.

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Speaker 1: This year they have the sixth best defense, fourteenth against

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Speaker 1: the run, tenth against the pass, and oh yeah, there

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Speaker 1: is a familiar face on defense. Kalais Campbell spent his

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Speaker 1: first nine seasons with the Cardinals. He is coming back

607
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Speaker 1: to town for just the second time since leaving the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of production, but three sacks and those

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Speaker 1: three sacks have happened in the last handful of games,

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Speaker 1: including the one hundredth of his career. So yeah, Kalayis

611
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Speaker 1: might be getting up there in age, but he's certainly

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Speaker 1: found a home in Atlanta, affecting everyone else on that defense.

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Speaker 3: He's a big body.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, six foot eight, he's a big.

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Speaker 3: Body, and I think with the ailing offensive line, that's

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Speaker 3: the type of player you don't want bull rushing you,

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Speaker 3: but that's what you're gonna be getting this Sunday when

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Speaker 3: when he does come to town. I think when it's

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Speaker 3: so funny because you rattle off the stats, yet they

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Speaker 3: still have a four and five record. Their record does

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Speaker 3: not tell the full story because they are a really

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Speaker 3: solid team that NFC West has kind of been. They've

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Speaker 3: gotten a lot of heat over the previous years of

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Speaker 3: not being able to produce I mean, the records have

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Speaker 3: they've kind of been on the on the lower side

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Speaker 3: in terms of the standings, but they've had to have

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Speaker 3: a spot in the playoff race, and they've they've had

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Speaker 3: that at four and five and the Saints being at

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Speaker 3: five and four, the race is very close. But their

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Speaker 3: records don't tell the full story because the stats are

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Speaker 3: truly there to showcase for it. With this matchup against

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Speaker 3: the Cardinals, you obviously know the scheme, but you're not

633
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Speaker 3: gonna know fully what you're gonna be getting out of

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray or if James Connor will in fact be

635
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Speaker 3: activated until Saturday. So it's going to be a challenge

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Speaker 3: for that Atlanta Falcons defense.

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Speaker 1: Falcons defense has four tacklers with at least sixty tackles

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Speaker 1: on the season. They're secondary led by aj Trell team

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Speaker 1: best six passes defense, Jesse Bates the safety, a team

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Speaker 1: best three interceptions, five passes defense, two force fumbles an

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Speaker 1: offseason addition by that Falcons front office. So yeah, numbers wise,

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Speaker 1: it looks very good, but record wise it hasn't matched up.

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Speaker 1: And again they've lost three to four overall, and they

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Speaker 1: did not look good. They had the lead last week

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings and Josh Dobbs led the Vikings to

646
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Speaker 1: an improbable win if you will, in Atlanta. So now

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Speaker 1: Falcons coming on the road. Which Atlanta Falcons team shows.

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Speaker 3: Up, Yeah, that'll be that'll be the question. I think

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Speaker 3: Drew Petsng hit on two important things. One, he's had

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Speaker 3: a lot of familiarity with some of their Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 3: the defenders that were in the or that were in

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Speaker 3: And he said, it helps a little bit. It's a

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Speaker 3: planning for it. So they do have an idea. They

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Speaker 1: Kickoff on Sunday at two oh five from State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Anything else that we might have missed here, Zach as

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Speaker 1: the focus and attention has been in Kyler Murray rightfully so,

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Speaker 3: I think the only thing that we the only I

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Speaker 3: for the first time, him and James Connor, assuming you're

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Speaker 1: The last word goes to Kyler Murray himself. The last

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Speaker 1: Kyler's response quote, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about us. And we will see Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: almost eleven months. And on that note, we will put

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Speaker 1: a lid on. This edition of Cardinals. Cover two, presented

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Speaker 1: by a Hundai, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, has

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Speaker 1: always special thanks to our executive producer jim Onmhundra, our

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Speaker 1: associate producer Cody Fincher. For Zach Gershman, I'm Praig Grildu.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time here on Cardinals Cover

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