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Speaker 1: Welcome bird Gang. On today's show, We've known the who

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Speaker 1: and the where. Now we get to win. The twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one regular season schedule has been released. It's time

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Speaker 1: to give our thoughts. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode four

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Speaker 1: twenty three, and it starts now. Welcome to Cardinals Cover

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Speaker 1: two with Craig Grigolu and Mike Jarecki. Cardinals Cover two

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Speaker 1: and by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit acy Cardinals dot Com,

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Speaker 1: Slash Podcasts. Murray rolls to the right, throws near site

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Speaker 1: of Pitts Bob. He's into the ends, off to the touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Here's Craig Griolu and Mike Jarecki. So the last puzzle

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Speaker 1: piece is in place. We now have a complete picture

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Speaker 1: of what the season will look like. MJ. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the Cardinals twenty twenty one their season schedule,

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Speaker 1: what stands out? Where did your eyes go to? First?

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Speaker 1: First of all, you can't finish eight and eighth this year.

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Speaker 1: That is true. So you're either going to finish shot

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Speaker 1: nine wins, ten wins, you know, hopefully eleven or twelve wins.

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Speaker 1: What stood out to me was three out of their

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Speaker 1: that won eleven games last year. They rely on Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: They made some changes to their defense, and they don't

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Speaker 1: their offense. But you know, Kim is preached physicality and

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Speaker 1: And then you know, going to Jacksonville, young quarterback, first

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Speaker 1: week one, Houston, Okay, Well that will be an interesting matchup.

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Speaker 1: It's unknown quarterback against Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, David Collie, your

428
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Speaker 1: first time head coach. Maybe he gets his first win

429
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Speaker 1: Urban Meyer. But it's just interesting that you know, first

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Speaker 1: time head coach. They got a new young quarterback, Titan

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Speaker 1: Texans could have a new quarterback. So that's again that's

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Speaker 1: the NFL saying you better get a win early, get

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Speaker 1: a win early because it may not happen often throughout

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Speaker 1: the year or so. Anyways, Yeah, again, we don't know

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Speaker 1: what kind of system they're gonna run. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: got that two four six deal where you either get

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Speaker 1: two two yards, four yards or six yards. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's going to work in the NFL. With

439
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Speaker 1: the hash marks. He was very effective with Percy Harvon.

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Speaker 1: You get these guys in space. He's got speed down there.

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Speaker 1: He's got a good running back. I thought the rookie

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Speaker 1: running back Robinson was really good last year. You're throwing

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Speaker 1: the Clemson Travis etn. I think they got a one

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Speaker 1: two punch there. But I think there are three or

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Speaker 1: four win team, I really do. Yeah, it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a long road for Jacksonville. All right, we get to

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Speaker 1: Week four once again, another road contest. Oh, it's on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast. You play at the Rams first division matchup.

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Speaker 1: You're going to Sofi Stadium, site of this year's Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: and you get Sean McVeigh and it is certainly the

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Speaker 1: elephant in the room. If you will, you have not

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Speaker 1: beaten McVeigh. You're o and eight since twenty seventeen. This

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Speaker 1: is the first opportunity. Last year it was two games

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Speaker 1: late in the season, but you get in the Rams

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Speaker 1: early and the first four weeks of the regular season,

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Speaker 1: so your first division matchup. We know the Cardinals started

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Speaker 1: well in the division a year ago, didn't finish well

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Speaker 1: in the division last season. Well, I mean, you hope

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Speaker 1: you're two and one going into that RAMS game and

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Speaker 1: you'd like to go three and oh you split with

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Speaker 1: the Titans and Vikings, beat the Jaguars because we'll get

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Speaker 1: into the Rams after that. It's forty nine Ers, Browns,

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Speaker 1: Texas and Packers. So there only made me one win.

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Speaker 1: Now was some meat and potatoes of the schedule. Rams.

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Speaker 1: We know they have the Cardinals number. Cardinals feel like

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Speaker 1: they can you know, added a different element when it

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Speaker 1: comes to mel Butler. We know they have it to

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Speaker 1: Sean Watson. He could take the top off the defense.

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Speaker 1: Stafford can make every single throw cam makers. They got

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Speaker 1: two good corners. They did lose a couple of corners

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Speaker 1: and safeties and free agency guys went out and got paid.

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Speaker 1: They brought Leonard Floyd back, which is interesting because he

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Speaker 1: was asking for a lot of money. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think the Rams are a double digit win team. You know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see if do they you know, do they still

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Speaker 1: go with that offense because now he doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: feed the play to Matthew Stafford. They should be at

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Speaker 1: the lineup and just you know, run their offense. Where

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals they were on the most no huddle offense

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And again they're not taking thirty five kis.

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Speaker 1: Again they're not snapping the ball thirty five seconds, but

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Speaker 1: they're utilizing the Rams. They like to push the gas

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Speaker 1: button to get you kind of confused with your coverage.

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Speaker 1: After the Rams, it's back home to play the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers, so you get back to back division opponents.

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Speaker 1: But in Week five, second home game, and the question

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Speaker 1: I went into this one and maybe it will be answered,

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Speaker 1: but Jimmy Garoppolo or Trey Lance, you know, is week

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Speaker 1: five on October tenth? Is that the date that we

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Speaker 1: see Trey Lance or is he already playing or do

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Speaker 1: we not see him at all? But that's going to

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Speaker 1: be something to pay attention to in that Week five

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Speaker 1: contest against the forty nine ers. I think when you

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Speaker 1: when you face the forty nine ers this year, I

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Speaker 1: think you got you gotta prepare for both quarterbacks. I

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Speaker 1: think you prepare for the starter, because we know he's

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Speaker 1: when he's healthy, he's effective, he knows the offense. Trey

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Speaker 1: Lance is a guy that's going to learn the offense,

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Speaker 1: but his skill set is really sings up with Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 1: They think he's got the feet of Lamar Jackson, maybe

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Speaker 1: the arm strength of Drew Brees. So I do think

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Speaker 1: to have some packages for him. So when we get

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Speaker 1: to that week, I think, I think you got to

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Speaker 1: prepare for both. They're gonna get all their defensive players back. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna play a fourth place schedule. I

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Speaker 1: think you know they may be the team to beat

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Speaker 1: in a division if they got off to a good

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Speaker 1: start at Garoppolo stays healthy. Following week Speaking of quarterbacks, Kyler,

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Speaker 1: Murray Baker Mayfield Part two. Week six, the Cardinals are

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Speaker 1: at the Browns, and this is the matchup that I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to the most. Remember this is the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote seventeenth game. This is what was added to the

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Speaker 1: schedule when the owners approved a seventeen game regular season.

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Speaker 1: And it's a rematch of two years ago when Kyler

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Speaker 1: at State Farm Stadium bested his good buddy from Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. So Kyler Baker Part two in Week six,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you know. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: Andrew Barry gets enough credit now him and his wife

519
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Speaker 1: had a baby on the day of the draft, and

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Speaker 1: you know this guy again that they got one of

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Speaker 1: the most talented rosters in the NFL. Craig. You look

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Speaker 1: at Miles Garrett. Now you know this is a second matchup.

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Speaker 1: I do like the way Kyler and Baker were kind

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Speaker 1: of Kyler's little laugh on the field, and you know

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Speaker 1: this is going to be going for years and hopefully

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Speaker 1: they get a chance to play each other, maybe the

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Speaker 1: big game. But yeah, I mean they can run the ball,

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Speaker 1: they can throw it, Miles Garrett can get to the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So this is going to be another game where you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to be physical and probably don't want to

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Speaker 1: fall behind. But I'm looking forward to the matchup. There's

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Speaker 1: great respect for each other and Kylin Murray and Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield and let's be honest. You know, chemist Stefanski, you

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Speaker 1: know we knew he was a hot name a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago. He finally got the opportunity, and maybe

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Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that you know when you

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Speaker 1: start looking at Sean mcvain and Kyle Shanahan, he may

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Speaker 1: be a guy that you know he's the play caller.

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Speaker 1: And I told you he had that conversation with Baker

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Speaker 1: kind of come to Jesus moment. All the outside distractions

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Speaker 1: focus on football, and I think Baker's taken that next step,

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Speaker 1: and we're all hoping the same thing from Kylin Murray

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Speaker 1: going into his third year. That is the hope and

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Speaker 1: really the expectation because three years you should be able

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Speaker 1: to quote unquote get it, because as we've seen, teams

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Speaker 1: are not patient with quarterback anymore. So year three. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's a big year for Kyler Murray and the entire

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals team. We continue here looking at the schedule.

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Speaker 1: Week seven, it's a home game against the Texans, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people will point to this

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Speaker 1: to maybe being the most intriguing storyline because of JJ Watt.

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Speaker 1: After a decade in Houston, DeAndre Hopkins a long time

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Speaker 1: with the Texans. My thinking here, though, MJ, is it

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Speaker 1: becomes more of a storyline if Deshaun Watson is playing,

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Speaker 1: but if he's not, Bill O'Brien's not on the sideline,

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Speaker 1: it's a completely different team than when Watton Hopkins were there,

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Speaker 1: and it's not in Houston, so you don't get that

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Speaker 1: aspect of it with the fans reacting to Watt and

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Speaker 1: Hopkins returning. So it's a storyline, But once the ball

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Speaker 1: is kicked off, it's just another game on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: For me. We'll see what happens with Deshaun Watson with

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Speaker 1: his legal team. Right now, they have Tyrod Taylor around

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Speaker 1: the roster, so he got to prepare for him. You know,

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Speaker 1: David Culley's in a tough situation. They went out and

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Speaker 1: had a ton of draft picks. They went out and

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Speaker 1: got a lot of players. They have to turn that

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Speaker 1: roster over. You know, he's in a spot when not

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Speaker 1: having one of the better quarterbacks in the league. So

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Speaker 1: this just should be the only reason I bring it

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Speaker 1: up is because j JJ Watt forced his way out

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Speaker 1: of there. Okay, he asked it when you could say, well,

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Speaker 1: he's under contract they were, they said, okay, but he

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Speaker 1: forced his way out. Hopkins forced his way out of

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Speaker 1: there because he wanted a new contract. He was going

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Speaker 1: to hold out. So there's some animosity towards that franchise.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the reason why I think it's

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Speaker 1: a revenge game. Well yeah, and by definition yet is

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Speaker 1: a revenge game. It's just I think it's a bigger

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Speaker 1: deal if you're in Houston as opposed to at State

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Speaker 1: Farm Stadium. Cardinals will be back at State Farm Stadium

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Speaker 1: the following week. It's a short week Thursday Night Football

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Speaker 1: to host the Green Bay Packers. And we've got another

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Speaker 1: question at quarterback. Is Aaron Rodgers the quarterback? And it's

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Speaker 1: not a question or it's not an answer that we

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Speaker 1: know at this point. I'll say this though, people are

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Speaker 1: going to have a lot to write about this week,

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Speaker 1: Packer's first visit to State Farm Stadium since the twenty

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Speaker 1: fifteen playoff matchup when we saw Rogers throw two Hell

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Speaker 1: Mary's to force over time and then Carson Palmer with

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Speaker 1: the shovel pass to Larry Fitzgerald winning that game. N

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Speaker 1: ot you know a lot of talk about Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: and Davante Adams come out and said, I got to

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Speaker 1: make a decision about my future if he's not going

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Speaker 1: to be here. You look at David back Tierry, he resigned,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, who mine who was going to throw a

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Speaker 1: ton of minute he resigned. So you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he's going to be there. I think June

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Speaker 1: first is a big date. And so the Brillian and

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Speaker 1: Blake Bortles now right now, they just need some arms.

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Speaker 1: They also brought in Chad Kelly and another quarterback just

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Speaker 1: for rookie minicamp. But you know, Bortles, you're ready for this.

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Speaker 1: Stant Bortles has as many playoff wins as Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: two now in the last couple of years. Obviously, Rogers

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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl, Bortles was in you know, Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: So I just think they need an arm. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know. If they do make a trade, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be either Drew Locke or Teddy Bridgewater or they're

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Speaker 1: gonna go with Jordan Love. But every all the reports

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Speaker 1: are he's just not ready. So let's hope it's Rogers

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Speaker 1: because you know, he's exciting to watch, especially in person. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would certainly like to see Aaron Rodgers because he

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Speaker 1: is very, very good with the football in his hand.

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Speaker 1: All right, bird gang, we are eight games into this

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Speaker 1: So we are through the month of October. Thursday Night Football,

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Speaker 1: Cardinals next in action on Sunday, November seventh at the

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. You get a little bit more time

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Speaker 1: to prepare for a second matchup against your division opponents.

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Speaker 1: And the Cardinals have done very well on the road

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Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers, having won five of six,

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Speaker 1: including last year against the forty nine ers, So something

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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. But at this point November seventh,

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Speaker 1: you're done with the forty nine ers perfect and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals got a good start last year and they didn't

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Speaker 1: play as well. So again, division games are gonna be

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Speaker 1: very important. We talked about, you know, in the first

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Speaker 1: six there's two of them. He got the Rams and

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Speaker 1: Niners in back to back weeks, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season, you still got to

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Speaker 1: You've still got to deal with the Rams and Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: So I mean worst case scenario three and three, but

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Speaker 1: you'd love to go four and two. And that means

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Speaker 1: not only division wins, but it also means conference wins absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of the conference, Week ten, you've got the

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Speaker 1: Panthers coming to State Farm Stadium, third straight season playing

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Speaker 1: the Panthers, and the Cardinals have not done well against

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Speaker 1: the Panthers in the past couple of seasons oh and

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00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: two and last year we know it was not a

641
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: great game on the road, but a Baker missed that contest.

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Speaker 1: But this is another team that there's some questions because

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald is now the quarterback in Carolina and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot to kind of figure out. But now you're

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Speaker 1: talking about in November, two months to figure out what

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Speaker 1: the Panthers like to do under head coach Matt Rule. Yeah,

647
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: and you know, Carolina is a team where the owners

648
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: willing to spend money. They went heavy on defense, but

649
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: they they're gonna get Christian McCaffrey back. He got Sam Donald,

650
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: he could win games for you. You know, Phil Snow

651
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: kind of cutting his teeth in the NFL. But I

652
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: think Matt Rule has a respected of players who I

653
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Speaker 1: think they've had some good draft picks over the year,

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Speaker 1: Derek Brown, Jeremy Chin. You know that's another team where

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Speaker 1: you know, again there's no easy game on Sunday. You

656
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: got to show up and play. I think it showed

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Speaker 1: last year when they went there without Buddha and according

658
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray, not me, they just thought they had

659
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Speaker 1: to step on the field. So, and let's be honest,

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00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: the Cardinals have struggled against the Panthers. Has been Ron Rivera,

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Speaker 1: whether it's been Kyle Allen, whether it's been Matt Rule

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Speaker 1: and Teddy Bridgewater, I mean Bridgewater, he looked like a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer in that game. Yeah, that's a game

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Speaker 1: and that's an opponent that the Cardinals need to change history.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens on that game on November fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: The next week on the road November twenty first at

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. First time looking at Seattle, and this is

668
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Speaker 1: typically a matchup that we see at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season, closing out the year, but now we get

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Speaker 1: it kind of in the middle of the season. The

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Speaker 1: Cardinals do like going to Seattle. They are four and

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00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: two in their past six visits to Seattle, and maybe

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Speaker 1: Weather's a factor. Maybe not November twenty first, who knows.

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Speaker 1: But this is a game right before the bye week,

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00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: so we hope that the team is not looking ahead

676
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: to those days off over Thanksgiving. Yeah, and they finish

677
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Speaker 1: out with the Seahawks at State Farm Stadium on January ninth. Yeah,

678
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's going to be the same.

679
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: I think they weathered the storm. I don't know if

680
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson would be a quarterback next year, but just

681
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: based on the salary, cat hit thirty nine point five million,

682
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: and every time they signed a free agent or trader

683
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Speaker 1: for one, he tweeted out, we know it was big

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Speaker 1: to bring Chris Chris Carson back. He actually told Carson

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't going anywhere. You know. They added some

686
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Speaker 1: wide receivers, just like the entire division, but they're going

687
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: to rely on metcalf and and obviously Lockett and those

688
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: guys could be game changers. So you know, we'll see

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Speaker 1: what their defense looks like. They lost some corners, you

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00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: know right now, kJ right, he hasn't signed. He's not

691
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: giving a hometown discount. They lost one of their safeties

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Speaker 1: in corners. But they're a team that just finds ways

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Speaker 1: to win. They really don't beat themselves. And if Russell

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00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: Wilson and the offensive line that cuts out in the

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00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: sacks and how many times he's hit, you know, I

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00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: think they're a team that come put up twenty five

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00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: thirty points every week going into that bye week. It's

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Speaker 1: a little bit later, but I've seen other teams with

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Speaker 1: buys in week thirteen, week fourteen, and I think maybe

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Speaker 1: we're just gonna have to get used to later bye

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Speaker 1: weeks with a seventeen game regular season schedule. But this note,

702
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: Cardinals haven't had a bye this late in a regular

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00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: season since nineteen ninety one, when the bye week fell

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Speaker 1: on December first. But personally, I like where this bye

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Speaker 1: week is happening. It's right during Thanksgiving weeks, so you've

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Speaker 1: got time with your family, and I think the players

707
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: are really going to enjoy this, the fact that you're

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Speaker 1: not playing around the holiday. Yes, we'll get to the

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day game, but at least Thanksgiving Day you're with

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Speaker 1: your family. Yeah. I think it was the Buccaneers last year.

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Speaker 1: I want to say it was Week twelve they had

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Speaker 1: the latest bye week. They were the last team to

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Speaker 1: have a bye week was Tampa Bay and then they

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Speaker 1: didn't lose after their bye week, and I think Week

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Speaker 1: eleven is when they played the Chiefs, so yeah, they did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they had a week twelve. There was two teams that week.

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Speaker 1: It could have been the Vikings, I don't remember, but

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00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: I know it was the Bucks. And then they run

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Speaker 1: the table. So you know, you'd like to have it

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Speaker 1: midway through the season. But at the same time, it's

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Speaker 1: night like you're going on the road back to back weeks.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're you're you're going on the road, come

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Speaker 1: back at home. So yeah, hopefully, you know, you never

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Speaker 1: know when injuries you're going to occur, especially with you're,

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Speaker 1: you know, five star players, but right now it's a

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00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: good spot. And then they go travel to Chicago for

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Speaker 1: an early start at Soldier Field, and we know the Bears.

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Speaker 1: You know, at that point, is it going to be

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Speaker 1: uh Andy Dalton, Is it gonna be justin fields? You know,

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Speaker 1: they went out, they got some web Alan Robinson. I

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00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: think the defense doesn't get enough credit. Chuck McGonnell left

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Speaker 1: that they still have Kloe Mac, they still got some

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Speaker 1: cover corners. But you know, it's kind of a black

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Speaker 1: and blue division and we'll see if Dalton's a starter,

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00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: but that's another game I would prepare for both quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: This is the start of a six game sprint to

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Speaker 1: the finish line. You mentioned the early starts eleven am.

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Speaker 1: And if there is one game on the schedule that

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Speaker 1: you know you would look at and say, wow, this

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00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: could worry me, depending on what happens, just because you're

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Speaker 1: coming off the bye week, You're coming off the holiday weekend,

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Speaker 1: and we know that this team under coach Kingsbury has

743
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 1: not responded post bye week. He knows it's an issue,

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00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: but how do you address it, especially going on the

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Speaker 1: road at Chicago. Is weather a factor on December fifth?

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Speaker 1: But I think a very winnable game for the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: and maybe even a must win game if they hope

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Speaker 1: to make the postseason, Because the next week you're back

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Speaker 1: at home hosting the Rams on Monday Night Football, and that's,

750
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: you know, again, your second of three primetime games and

751
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: the second time facing McVeigh. Are you still winless or

752
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: have you already now trying to go for the sweep

753
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: against the Rams? Well? I hope they. I hope they

754
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: beat him on October third, But if they don't, I

755
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: mean you just can't be the nail all the time

756
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: because they've been the hammer and it's got to stop

757
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: at some point. And to me, it's a pride thing,

758
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: and I know, you got to go out there and

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00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: execute plays. And it seemed like the Rams had much

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00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: more explosion plays and the Cardinals have had during his

761
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: time there. It's been different coaches, has been different head coaches,

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00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: have been different quarterbacks. So it's hard to put my

763
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: finger on it, but you know, you got to look

764
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: at the scoreboard and say, they're probably one of the

765
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: reasons why the team didn't make the playoffs last year

766
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Speaker 1: because they didn't have enough wins. Well, Matthew Stafford is

767
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: now the quarterback with the Rams, his previous team and

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Speaker 1: the rams previous quarterback Jared Goff. The Cardinals will see

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Speaker 1: him in week fifteen when they go face the Lions

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Speaker 1: in Detroit. Of course, the Cardinals always play the Lions.

771
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 1: It's the fifth straight season playing the Lions, but now

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Speaker 1: the first time with Jared Golf as the quarterback and

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Speaker 1: a new head coach. Yeah, we'll see, if you know,

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Speaker 1: if Golf's a guy. I mean, clearly they loaded up

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Speaker 1: on defense and they got a really physical team. I

776
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: just wonder how much hitting you can do during the season,

777
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Speaker 1: what's their record, and then you know they got to

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Speaker 1: try and to find out the next golf if he's

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Speaker 1: not the case, but I think they may try to

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Speaker 1: extend him. I mean they they made that deal to

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Speaker 1: obviously move on for Stafford. They acquire picks there, so

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00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna have picks. And Brad Holmes well respected are

783
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Speaker 1: on the league. He's in. The new general manager, Dan Campbell,

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Speaker 1: hired a bunch of former players on his staff. I

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00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: just don't know how it's going to work. But I

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00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: still think they're a year or two for a win

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Speaker 1: from winning. But they do have at least a comprehensive

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Speaker 1: front office where before I think, you know, Bob Quinn

789
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: came from New England, Patricia came from New England, and

790
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: a lot of times he had yes men in there.

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00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: I think they actually here. There's a little bit more

792
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: challenging in decisions. Third Gang would continue to go game

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Speaker 1: by game. Looking at the twenty twenty one regular season schedule.

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Speaker 1: to you Week sixteen home to the Indianapolis Colts on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, the third and final primetime contest. It's on

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Speaker 1: NFL Network. Six fifteen is the kickoff. Playing on Christmas

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Speaker 1: Day for the third time. Cardinals last time beat the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys at State Farm Stadium in twenty ten. They lost

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Speaker 1: to the Cowboys on Monday Night Football back in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety five, and of course that was the final game

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Speaker 1: in the Buddy Ryan era. But Cardinals and Colts on

807
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: Christmas Day will be a double header with another game

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00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: preceding that contest. But we're seeing the NFL moved to

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day over the last couple of seasons, usually a

810
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: day reserve for the NBA, but now the NFL, especially

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Speaker 1: on a weekend, going to play some games on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1: I recall two thy ten, you were there and I

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Speaker 1: was there on Christmas Day. I actually went to Vegas

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Speaker 1: spend some time in my family. I flew in that

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Speaker 1: morning and I went to the game, and yeah, it

816
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Speaker 1: was It's kind of interesting where it's Christmas Day and

817
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Speaker 1: we're at the stadium and it's like, all right, this

818
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: is perfect. Anyways, Yeah, I mean Colts new quarterback Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 1: They didn't go out and get a tackle on the draft.

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Speaker 1: There were one of the teams that went out and

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Speaker 1: got multiple defensive lineman. I think Chris Baller's done a

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00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: nice job with that roster. They you know, I think

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00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: it was key to bring t Y Hilton back. They

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00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: got Michael Pittman back there. They've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: running backs now Marlon Mack, and then you got some

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Speaker 1: rookies in there. So I think there were eleven and

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Speaker 1: five team. I think they'll compete with the with the Titans.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Jacksonville and Houston's going to be in

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Speaker 1: the race. But they're a physical team and I think

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00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: Ballard's really built that team. And you know the fact

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Speaker 1: that they went out and signed Eric Fisher, who's he's

832
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: going to be out until possibly October November. But if

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Speaker 1: you look at their line with Nelson and some of

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Speaker 1: their other draft picks, and the only reason they needed

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Speaker 1: to left tackle Anthony Costanza he retired and so you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see, but I think Carson Wentz a little bit

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Speaker 1: more fluid, a little bit more mobile than Philip Rivers was.

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Speaker 1: And Colts the seventh playoff team that the Cardinals will

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Speaker 1: face in twenty twenty one. They've got seven teams nine

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Speaker 1: games as far as teams that made the postseason a

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Speaker 1: year or ago. Week seventeen, the final road trip. It's

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Speaker 1: at eighteen T Stadium, second straight year Cardinals and Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray a perfect seven n O at at and

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Speaker 1: T Stadium, including last season on Monday night football interests

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Speaker 1: and that that game is late in the season, but

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Speaker 1: certainly right around first of the year. It's technically January second,

847
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: but you begin the new year with the Cardinals at

848
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys price as stadium is available considering the Bowl season.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they do things big in Texas, and

850
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: they can turn that stadium over. Dak Prescott, we didn't

851
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: see him last year. Andy Dalton turned the ball over.

852
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: Zeke fumbled, Cardinals got a you know, Kylo struggle for

853
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: the first two quarters. Got settled down there. They Cardinal's

854
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: benefited from some big plays there. But you know, Dallas,

855
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: I don't know about the offensive line, and you know,

856
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: I watched Zeke. It looks a little bit thinner. He knows.

857
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: I think he knows his CAP hits pretty high next year.

858
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: They do have the wide receivers, you know. But Prescott,

859
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: you know, he was playing like an MVP and then

860
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: they went out and got Dan Quinn and kind of

861
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: that four or three defense, and I think he's going

862
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: to improve them. Nothing against um Mike Nolan, he was there.

863
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: I think the defense rolled over for those guys they

864
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: were playing just not to get hurt. I think Dallas

865
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: is a talented team. Now, you know, Philadelphia will see

866
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: what Jalen Hurts does. You know, you look at the Giants.

867
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: I still think they're rebuilding in Washington with a good

868
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: quarterback play from Ryan Fitzpatrick. So I think Dallas has

869
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: a talent. And we've been saying this for years. I

870
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Speaker 1: haven't won a Super Bowl during the night during the nineties,

871
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: but I think a Dak Prescott team you're gonna have

872
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: to put points up that night or in that afternoon

873
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. Well, he was well on his way

874
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: to winning MVP last season before he got hurt. By

875
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: the way, that's an eleven am Arizona time kickoff. The

876
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: Cardinals with three eleven am kickoffs in their final six games.

877
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a big deal. I'm just making

878
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: mention of that because the time change. And then, of

879
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 1: course the final game on the schedule January ninth. Hard

880
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: to see a regular season game on January ninth, but

881
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: it is Week eighteen, game number seventeen, and the Cardinals

882
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: will host the Seattle Seahawks. Hopefully the Cardinals have already

883
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: locked up a playoff spot, but if not, no better

884
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: way beat the Seahawks on that final game to get

885
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: into the postseason. Yeah, hopefully you're jockeying for position. You

886
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, winning division games, who wins a

887
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: tiebreaker there? You talk about conference games, common green games,

888
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: so that will go a long way. And it's nice

889
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 1: to be home where last year they're on the road,

890
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 1: and you know, let's say, you know the Cardinals have

891
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: to play for something. Well, they had that opportunity last

892
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,720
Speaker 1: year and they came up short twice Week sixteen and seventeen.

893
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens in Week seventeen and eighteen this year,

894
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: but to me, those are the week those are the

895
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: games you gotta win. You go on the road and

896
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: beat a good Cowboys team, come back home, be the

897
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Speaker 1: Seahawks team, and now you're ready for the postseason. Hey listen,

898
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: if you have to limp in there, so be it.

899
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: The whole ideas to get there, but you want to

900
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: be playing your best football late in the year. It

901
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: is the thirteenth toughest schedule in the National Football League,

902
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: tied with the Titans as far as opponent's rankings from

903
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: a year ago as far as their records. So I

904
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: do like it big picture, m D. You look at

905
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: how the difficult portion of the schedule. I think we're

906
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: both in agreement that those first four games, three on

907
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: the road, that certainly stands out. And then you brought

908
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: up what happens post bye week. But I do like

909
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: the fact that only once do you have back to

910
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: back road games, once you have back to back home games.

911
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: But that I think comes at a perfect time, becomes

912
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: it comes right for Thursday night football, so you're not traveling,

913
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: you're you're still at home the week prior and you

914
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 1: have or staying at home for that Thursday night game.

915
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Speaker 1: So I like it, outside of the fact that I

916
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: do think that they got shafted as far as the

917
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: number of primetime games, just three compared to five for

918
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Speaker 1: the Rams, Seahawks and forty nine Ers. Yeah, and obviously

919
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: the NFL agrees with everyone else, the NFC West is

920
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: the best division in football. They got eighteen, I want

921
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 1: to say. Then AFC South got nine, Okay, and that's

922
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: that's Jacksonville, that's Houston, that's the Colts, and then the

923
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: you have the Titans. You're looking at what happened a

924
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 1: year ago. We all thought that the NFC West was

925
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: the toughest division in football and they were going to

926
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: beat each other up, and I think for a large

927
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: part that's exactly what happened. So Bird Gang, it is done.

928
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: The schedule is in now. Just make sure you're there

929
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: at State Farm Stadium. Asy Cardinals dot com Slash game ticks.

930
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Speaker 1: That's Asy Cardinals dot com Slash game t i x

931
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Speaker 1: Cardinals again some nose playing. Seven teams nine games that

932
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: made the playoffs a year ago. Three teams with new

933
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: head coaches the Texans, Lions, and Jaguars. Six teams seven

934
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: games with new quarterbacks Matthew Stafford, Andy Dalton or Justin Fields,

935
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Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Sam Darnold, Carson Wentz, Trevor Lawrence and potentially

936
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Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers and potentially with the Texans

937
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: and Packers. Of course that would up it to nine

938
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: total teams, but we'll have to wait and see on that.

939
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: So I think I think we're good m J. Again,

940
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: I like how it sets up. Of course, we'll have

941
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: plenty of time, and I'm not getting into oh, that's

942
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: a win, that's a loss, and here's a three game

943
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: winning streak. You can't do that in May because there's

944
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: a long time between May and September. Very similar to

945
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: when it comes to draft grades. There you go post

946
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: draft grades, don't want a hand, don't want to hear

947
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: about it. And as far as predicting a record base

948
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: off the schedule that is released in May, yeah, that's

949
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: just an exercise in futility. Yeah, at some point we'll

950
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: come up with a record for the season and you know,

951
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 1: hopefully it's you know, a ten or eleven win team.

952
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: I think the front off has put it together a

953
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: ten win team last year and didn't happen a lot

954
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 1: of blame to go around. You can go to the staff,

955
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: the players. The onus has to be on them at

956
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: some point, and this year I think they are a

957
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: better team on paper, you got to prove it on

958
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: a game day. If you get to eleven or twelve wins,

959
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a successful year, and then hopefully you

960
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: make a you know, get deep into the postseason, win

961
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: a playoff game, host a second playoff game. That is

962
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: a successful season versus you know, just being competitive and entertaining.

963
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: Those days are behind us. I think double digits is

964
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Speaker 1: what it's going to take to be in the postseason conversation.

965
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Speaker 1: And maybe you do, based off of some tiebreakers, you

966
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: do get in with ten. But with a seventeen game schedule, MJ.

967
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: No longer can you sit there and go, you know,

968
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Speaker 1: eight wins, nine wins, maybe ten wins, that's a lock.

969
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: I think with a seventeen game schedule you need at

970
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Speaker 1: least ten, and that might not even be enough. Yeah,

971
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: and it comes down to you know, conference wins and

972
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,919
Speaker 1: common opponents. But yeah, I mean ten and seven, three

973
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Speaker 1: games over five hundred playoff team. I would sign up

974
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: right now for eleven and six. I think a lot

975
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: of people would. And you know, if you get off

976
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Speaker 1: to a good start, you know, we know there's gonna

977
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Speaker 1: be one one game where we didn't see it coming

978
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Speaker 1: and I don't know which one that is. Hopefully it's

979
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Speaker 1: not against an NFC team or it's not a home game,

980
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: but it happens every year. But again, ten and seven, eleven,

981
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: eleven and six I would sign up for right now, Well, mom,

982
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: look at you. Hope you don't overlook the Jaguars on

983
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: the road and you come off the buy and you're

984
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Speaker 1: not just going through the motions at the Bears. Those

985
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: would be the two games that I would look at

986
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Speaker 1: and point to that say, okay, be cautious with those games.

987
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Speaker 1: But again, a lot to debates and a lot to discuss,

988
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Speaker 1: a lot of contents on Azy Cardinals dot com and

989
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Speaker 1: a reminder the next episode of flight Plan will debut

990
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Speaker 1: May twentieth, with a lot on the schedule and of

991
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Speaker 1: course a lot on the draft that just happened. You

992
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Speaker 1: can catch all of the Cardinals Flight Plan episodes on

993
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals official YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash as Cardinals.

994
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Speaker 1: Make sure you download new would improved Cardinals app. You

995
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Speaker 1: can look at schedule, you can print the schedule up.

996
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Speaker 1: You can actually look at tickets. They have single game

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Speaker 1: tickets going on right now. So pick a game you know,

998
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Speaker 1: invite your family. They want to have folk capacity this year,

999
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Speaker 1: so the Red seat step up. They need you to

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Speaker 1: be there. Of course, you know it's going to be

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Speaker 1: loud and proud and as Craig pointed out, three primetime

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Speaker 1: games at State Farm Stadium in twenty twenty one, looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing the Red Sea at State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 1: And on that note, we will put a lid on

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

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Speaker 1: our executive producer Jim Amhundro For Mike Jarecki, I'm Craig

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