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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang on today's show. Winning on the road

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Speaker 1: and in a manner never before seen by Cardinals team

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Speaker 1: history was made on Sunday, fitting two in the City

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Speaker 1: with a franchise Got It Started. There were contributions from

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Speaker 1: all three phases in week thirteen. First though clip Kingsbury's

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Speaker 1: best decision of the day. It's Cardinals Cover two episode

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Speaker 1: five oh five and it starts now Welcome to Cardinals

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

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Speaker 1: a touchdown? DeAndre Hopkins, Here's Craig Griolou and Mike Jarecki.

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Speaker 1: So coaches make what over one hundred different decisions on

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Speaker 1: game day? Whose active and active play calls? Go for no,

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Speaker 1: let's kick it? There are a number of decisions that

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Speaker 1: need to be made. Of all the decisions, though that

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Speaker 1: Kingsbury made on Sunday. For me MJ, the best one

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Speaker 1: happened post game. It was the smart decision and I

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Speaker 1: think you know what I'm getting at bird Gang. If

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Speaker 1: you have not seen it, go to Acy Cardinals dot

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Speaker 1: com exclusive footage inside the Cardinals locker room. We see

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Speaker 1: it all the time. Following a win, coach gives out

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Speaker 1: game balls and props to the decisions that were made.

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Speaker 1: As far as who got game balls, all three levels

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Speaker 1: of the defense Zach Allen, Jordan Hicks three, and the

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Speaker 1: secondary buyer Murphy Buddha Baker, Jalen Thompson, Kyler Murray the

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Speaker 1: for his fifty eight yard punt. Then there was one

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Speaker 1: more game ball handed out and it was given to

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Speaker 1: owner Michael Bidwell, whose birthday is on this Monday. So

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Speaker 1: happy birthday to the owner of the Arizona Cardinals. But

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Speaker 1: fitting because the franchise his grandfather founded started in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: So the smart decision by the head coach, who, if

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Speaker 1: you believe reports, is looking for a contract extension. So

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Speaker 1: you win in Chicago and you give a game ball

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Speaker 1: to the man who is responsible for signing your check. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it was perfect timing on close part. It's always

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Speaker 1: like he dishes it out and you know, this guy's

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Speaker 1: It is well thought out and it's reading stats and

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Speaker 1: career high five on the season. All those little details

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Speaker 1: by Hunday probably partner of the Arizona Cardinals. But Buddha

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Speaker 1: if you follow the Day Pash podcast, Pash interviewed Buddha

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Speaker 1: everyone that his girlfriend is pregnant and is going to

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Speaker 1: that's been a you know, a thorn in the side,

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Speaker 1: that one I did not know. That's good knowledge. And

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Speaker 1: So it's really two run plays, either to give it

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Speaker 1: to Connor or he takes it. And a lot of

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Speaker 1: times he'll put in his belly and he'll see where

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Speaker 1: the defensive end is and if he wants to go

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Speaker 1: down the line and try to block, he's going to

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Speaker 1: run outside. We've seen this guy walking in the end

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Speaker 1: zone usually when they're on the ten yard line where

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Speaker 1: everyone's focused on Connor now and Kyler, you know, five

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Speaker 1: yard line, is putting the ball in the air like

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna catch me. And I always think I would

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Speaker 1: now a Connor, I want them to go up the middle,

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Speaker 1: but it would be interested to see if they ever

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Speaker 1: needed like a two point conversion where he can get

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Speaker 1: they get they get chase back This is the one

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Speaker 1: two punch we've been talking about, and if Chase shit

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Speaker 1: had fresh legs, Hopefully he's healthy enough to come back,

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Speaker 1: because I'm sure he's chomping at the bit because he

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Speaker 1: wants to be part of this and he put a

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Speaker 1: ton of work in the offseason. He was a big

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Speaker 1: part of what this team did before he went down.

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Speaker 1: Expectation is that Chase Edmonds will be back this week.

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Speaker 1: Knock on wood that it happens for the Cardinals and

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Speaker 1: Rams game on Monday night. Richard Lawrence defensively could be

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Speaker 1: A couple of other items on Kyler Murray, who accounted

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Speaker 1: for four touchdowns, two rushing, two passing. We mentioned the

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Speaker 1: pass attempts those were the fewest and a win in

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Speaker 1: his career, only fifteen pass attempts, and you noted on

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Speaker 1: Cardinal Talk that just two of those passes went beyond

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Speaker 1: ten yards, both touchdowns DeAndre Hopkins and James Connor. He

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Speaker 1: also had a clean pocket the first play of the game,

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Speaker 1: in which he fumbled the snap. The Bears got credit

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Speaker 1: for a team sack. Outside of that, there was not

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Speaker 1: a single Bear who touched Kyler Murray all game long.

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Speaker 1: No sacks, no quarterback hits. So credit the offensive line

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Speaker 1: as well for making sure that the franchise quarterback was

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Speaker 1: kept upright and clept clean in a very dirty ball game.

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Speaker 1: According to Pro Football Focus, the unit allowed just five pressures,

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Speaker 1: zero losses and pass protection. Both Humphreys and Hudson had

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Speaker 1: zero pressures and received eighty plus blocking grads. Kelvin Beacham

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Speaker 1: gave up three of the five pressures. He was the

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Speaker 1: only starting offensive linement below sixty seven. Garcia was sixty seven,

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Speaker 1: Humped eighty three, Hudson eighty two, Harlow seventy eight, and

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Speaker 1: then Kelvin Beacham in fifty one. But again, Kyler's not

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Speaker 1: taking those sacks. I mean, it's night and day you

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Speaker 1: keep him upright, upright in the pocket to allow him

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Speaker 1: to survey the defense. Where are his open targets? And

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Speaker 1: he found those. There weren't a lot of passing attempts.

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Speaker 1: You relied a lot on James Connor who had twenty

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Speaker 1: carries for seventy five yards just under four yards a carry,

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Speaker 1: ad in two catches for thirty six yards and one

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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven yards from scrimmage. He was the leading rusher,

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Speaker 1: hand leading receiver in that game on something. Who would

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Speaker 1: have thought that never in a million years. And again

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Speaker 1: I just assumed this guy. I looked at it. When

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Speaker 1: they find them, were like, okay, Chase is probably has

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Speaker 1: more upside just because we see it. We watched it

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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. Did you see that

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Speaker 1: one hand and catching made that was unbelievable And the

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Speaker 1: fact that he was able to score because he was

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Speaker 1: able to make that catch still in stride, Yes, and

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Speaker 1: with him open space in front of him to take

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Speaker 1: it twenty three yards for the score. His ability to

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Speaker 1: catch the ball out of the backfield is going to

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Speaker 1: get talked about again this week. It's been talked about,

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Speaker 1: asked about since training camp. As far as his ability

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Speaker 1: to add another dimension to this offense. It's not just

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Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds who can catch the ball as a running back.

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Speaker 1: James Connor kent as well. Yeah, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you can go far wide with Chase or O'Connor. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's another guy in the roster. And Larry

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Speaker 1: used to be this guy in hop maybe the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. He has more one hand and catches

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Speaker 1: anybody else. James Connor, yep, more than d hop Well,

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Speaker 1: he missed some games, that's true. And I mentioned this

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Speaker 1: last night on the postgame show. I know Kyler Murray's

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Speaker 1: the MVP of this team just based on he touches

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Speaker 1: the ball, but I don't know where this team would

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Speaker 1: be without James Conner. You can make a case if

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Speaker 1: you if you want to take Kyler Murray out of it,

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Speaker 1: just because that's that's obvious the MVP. But it's maybe

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Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year for the Arizona Cardinals. Twelve

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, two passing or two receiving touchdowns fourteen total

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Speaker 1: touchdowns be a hard argument to make against James Conner

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Speaker 1: for being the Offensive Player of the Year. Yeah, and Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have the targets. He doesn't have the yardage,

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Speaker 1: but do you know what he has? Are you listening

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Speaker 1: Kyle Odegard? He has the touchdowns, eight touchdowns, but his

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Speaker 1: touchdown was not in the red zone on Sunday. It

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Speaker 1: was twenty yards, but I don't think it officially counts

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Speaker 1: as a red zone score. Why has to be inside

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Speaker 1: the twenty? Okay, so if he was at the nineteen yeah, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: Well I lose that staff all right, So let's go

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Speaker 1: back to Kyler in his target death nine yards are

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Speaker 1: less completely eighty one percent, eighty eight yards, quarterback rating

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Speaker 1: past one thirty ten to nineteen yards thirty three percent,

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Speaker 1: fourteen yards, yards per attempt four to seven, about fifty

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Speaker 1: twenty plus. He only had twenty one yards, so again

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Speaker 1: that ten to nineteen is normally where he's shown improvement.

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Speaker 1: I do think that whether it was a factor where

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Speaker 1: data really didn't want him to throw the ball to

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Speaker 1: where it would obviously I don't know. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: he didn't have control of it, but he was not

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Speaker 1: comfortable to throw the ball down the field. And it

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Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of the San Francisco game when

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Speaker 1: Colt McCoy was checking it down. There wasn't as many

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Speaker 1: screen passes it because you had more weapons out there.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty seven total yards by the Cardinals offense,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty seven of those coming on the ground.

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Speaker 1: You put up thirty three points. Still, and after the

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Speaker 1: ball game, Kingsbury called the offense disjointed, and I understand

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Speaker 1: what he's saying, because you're expecting a better flow at times.

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Speaker 1: There were two fumbles initially and now that's twenty four

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Speaker 1: fumbles on this season. Only three lost fumbles, so it

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Speaker 1: wasn't perfect. In fact, there were times both offensively and defense,

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Speaker 1: and I was thinking, like, this team is just not

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Speaker 1: playing very well. Yet you look at the score and

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Speaker 1: they're up two touchdowns and they are hitting that thirty

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Speaker 1: point mark. Again, you play like that in those kind

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Speaker 1: of weather conditions. There's a reason why they are the

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Speaker 1: number one team and all of football and should be

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Speaker 1: considered Super Bowl contenders. Yes, there's no doubt, and I

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Speaker 1: think because of the conditions, it was a little sloppy

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. I mean, again, I

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Speaker 1: want to give the defense credit because they set the

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Speaker 1: tone earlier in that game. James Conner team high twenty carries,

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Speaker 1: let alone what he did in the receiving game twenty carries.

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Speaker 1: I believe this is now three times in the last

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Speaker 1: four games he's hit that twenty carry mark and over

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Speaker 1: thirty rushes my magic number, thirty rushes. This team more

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Speaker 1: times than not, we'll get the job done or be

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Speaker 1: in position to win a ball game. And again that

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Speaker 1: a lot of it is playing with the lead. When

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Speaker 1: you get in that fourth quarter, you just and they

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Speaker 1: know you're gonna run and they still can't stop it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's I mean, they're gonna clean some things

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Speaker 1: up the offensive line and to get p back. They'll

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Speaker 1: be set there. They get Chase Edmonds back, they get

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Speaker 1: Richard Lawrence back. We'll see about Jonathan Ward. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna need their weapons against the Rams. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into that later in the week. But this is a

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Speaker 1: good team win. They played complimentary football, you know. You know,

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Speaker 1: Matt Prater did exactly what they wanted. Andy Lee had

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Speaker 1: a great punt for Guardeck. I mean, it's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: the guy plays, you know, balls to the wall. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that they had that punt on the two

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Speaker 1: yard line that was huge. You know. I had a

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Speaker 1: guy actually tweet me, I'm a big Dennis Gardeck fan,

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Speaker 1: but he should have downed at the one. At that point,

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Speaker 1: if you can get it inside the five yard line,

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Speaker 1: you've done your job. It's an oblong shape ball. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't beause a number of different things that you can't

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Speaker 1: always predict. I couldn't believe he said he could have.

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Speaker 1: He said, I'm a fan of Guardic Like cool, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna keep raining. He goes, but he should

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Speaker 1: have down at the one. I'm like, no, we're splitting

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Speaker 1: hairs here, like you said. If it goes into five,

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Speaker 1: Sign me Up. Cardinals Cover two presented by Hunday proud

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As we continue talking about

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Speaker 1: a wig thirteen win in windy Rainey Chicago Gold Cardinals

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Speaker 1: win thirty three twenty two, it was not a clean game,

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Speaker 1: and let's talk about what didn't quite go right. And

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Speaker 1: I understand bird Gang, we are nitpicking here, but these

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Speaker 1: are the focal points of a coaching staff that now

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Speaker 1: can look at the film and say, yeah, you're playing well,

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Speaker 1: but it can be better. And that's the job of

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Speaker 1: a coaching staff to keep this team motivated. I did

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Speaker 1: not like and Kingsbury even admitted to it after the

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Speaker 1: fact quote, I wish I could have had that one

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Speaker 1: play back, and it was the direct snap to James

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Speaker 1: Connor on third and goal from the one and the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. At that point, you could have really put

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Speaker 1: the Bears away. You had to settle for a field

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Speaker 1: goal because that play lost six yards. Kyler Murray was

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Speaker 1: on the field, just lined up as a wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind going fords or I don't mind the

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Speaker 1: direct snap, but not on third and goal from the one.

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Speaker 1: You know my feelings. On short yardage, you go under center,

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Speaker 1: whether that's a quarterback sneak Kyler keeps in himself, you

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Speaker 1: give it to James Connor, or you throw the pop

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Speaker 1: pass to the tight end. Did not like the decision,

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Speaker 1: forget the result. Did not like the decision the play

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Speaker 1: call on the direct snap. Yeah, I would agree with

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Speaker 1: you when you're you're close down there like that. I

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Speaker 1: mean the offensive line they thrive on that put put

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Speaker 1: the quarterback under center. Obviously, you don't want Kyler jamming

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Speaker 1: his neck in the middle of the pile. But Connor,

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Speaker 1: if he's got four or five yards behind the liner scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: he can he can get on his horse and get

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Speaker 1: through there. So I understand, and maybe maybe he was

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Speaker 1: just trying. Yeah, you know, because everyone's probably thought the

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Speaker 1: way Kyler's running, we're gonna take him out of the play.

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Speaker 1: You know, he basically goes out. It's like a right

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Speaker 1: wide receiver. He's still on the field. But I couldn't

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Speaker 1: agree more. I thought at the time, let's just pound

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Speaker 1: the ball inside and get you get the points here

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Speaker 1: to where you know you don't have to use Kyler

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Speaker 1: in that situation. But Connor's built for that. It's just

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Speaker 1: I want to see Kyler hand the ball off to him.

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Speaker 1: And they've used the direct snapped the wild card formation

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Speaker 1: before with James Connor Chase Edmonds. It's it's not the

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Speaker 1: play design, it's the decision at that moment in the

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00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, when you're up by ten and you could

642
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Speaker 1: punch it in and go up thirty one fourteen. Instead,

643
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: you have to set you're literally you settle for a

644
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: field goal. Matt Prader should not be kicking twenty five

645
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: yard field goals. That's shorter than an extra point, And

646
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 1: we talked about that that's I can't you can't have

647
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: those kinds of field goal attempts. And yes he made

648
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: it did not cost the team, But just some of

649
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: those decisions that you helpe a coaching staff and a

650
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: head coach they learned from. Right, we're get in that

651
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: situation again, We're gonna do something different well, and you know,

652
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: when it comes to play, call a subjective. You know,

653
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: if all eleven guys are doing their job, then maybe

654
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: we're not having this conversation. It's just sometimes I would

655
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 1: like to see Cliff like go back to something that works.

656
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: You know, like you can show the same formation and

657
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: there's four different things you can do out of it.

658
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: You can throw that a right, you can run to

659
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: the right, you can throw to the left, you can

660
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: run to the left, and it all looks the same,

661
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: but your motion, guys. But sometimes I like to see

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00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: him go back to things that worked earlier in the game.

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00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: And you know, who am I to tell him. I've

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00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: never called a play in my life, And again it's early.

665
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: It's subjective. If the play works, nobody's talking about it.

666
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: In this case, just when you're watching the play line up,

667
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know if this is gonna work,

668
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: and that's what transpired. It's very easy from press box,

669
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: from inside the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network studios, from your couch.

670
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: A little different when you're in the moment on the sideline.

671
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: But again, did not like that, and it was good

672
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: to hear Kingsbury say, yeah, I wish I could have

673
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Speaker 1: that back as well. The other and I wouldn't even

674
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: call it a concern, just pointing out. And it's the

675
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: number of penalties, actually not even none. The number it

676
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: was eights, which I looked at. It was one more

677
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: than they had in the previous two games combined. But

678
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: it's not always the number of penalties, it's what kind

679
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 1: of penalty and when those penalties occur. And I'll give

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00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: you five penalties that I think you have. You cannot

681
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: have happened one though I'll put a little asterisk, but

682
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: first quarter false start by zach Ertz. A third and

683
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: goal from the four becomes third and goal from the nine. Now,

684
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray ended up scoring a touchdown. He ran at

685
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: nine yards anyway, but you can't have a false start

686
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: when a third and manageable becomes a third and long.

687
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: There was another false start by Kelvin Beacham. In the

688
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, third and three became a third and eight.

689
00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: They punted the ball pre stnap penalties can't happen, especially

690
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: on the road. And then the most egregious penalty of

691
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: all was the third quarter delay of game. After a timeout,

692
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: a third and two became a third and seven and

693
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: the drive stalled. I don't know exactly what happened, but

694
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: that can never happen ever. Again, Craig, it's happened. It's

695
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: happened a few times this year out of a timeout. Yeah,

696
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: you can't have a delayed Is that trying to get

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00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: the right personnel out there, because clearly they're having a

698
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: conversation before they go on the field. Now he could

699
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: still talk to Kyler in his headset sixteen seconds it

700
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: goes off, But that should not happen, especially out of

701
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: a timeout, and when you're you're you're taking the field.

702
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: Those are mental errors. And I don't know if it's

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00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: on the sidelines or the players, but you know, somebody's

704
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: got to take the responsibility. But yeah, again, I'm glad

705
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: we didn't talk about this to start the show because

706
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: that would be unfair. But these are little things when

707
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: you can you start playing better teams. The football gods

708
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: have been the cardinal side this year, and you know

709
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: they've earned the right to be in this position. But

710
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: when you start playing better teams, these little things that

711
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: are like when you mentioned twenty three fumbles, you're playing

712
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: with fire cleaning up and the only lost three and

713
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: a lot of times as Kyler getting a little snap

714
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:15,479
Speaker 1: jumping at it. But you start playing better teams, they're

715
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: not going to give you an extra possession here and there,

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00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: and they know that. And I listened to Zach l

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00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: after the game and he says, we haven't played a

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00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: perfect game. Now, No, I don't know if you'll ever

719
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: play a perfect game because you got twenty two guys

720
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: running around on the field together eleven on eleven and

721
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: every time we hear cliff, we left some points on

722
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Speaker 1: the board. And then Jordan Hicks said, this is the

723
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: time of the year where we want to start to

724
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: hit that button like the hit the accelerat. We want

725
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: to be playing our best football. So clean this stiff

726
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: up because they got the talent to beat anybody in

727
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: the NFL. Homer Away. It's the little things that you

728
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: don't want to come up late in a year that

729
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 1: cost you a game against better opponents, because you can't

730
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: make those mistakes against the Rams, against the Cowboys, maybe

731
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: even against the Colts on Christmas Day. Two other penalties,

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00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: and this is the first one is where I have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of an asterisk because I didn't quite

734
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: get a good look at the replay. But it's third

735
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: quarter and Byron Murphy gets called for illegal use of

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Speaker 1: hands on third and twelve. You're off the field, yet

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00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden that laundry shows up on the

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Speaker 1: field and the drive continues. That. It's more frustrated than

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00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: anything because you think as a defense you're off the

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00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: field and all of a sudden you turn around and

741
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: you're like, what happened? Well, I mean they showed Vance

742
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. He thought he was hitting with his shoulder.

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00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a take. I mean it's a

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00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 1: bang bang play. But Vance was not happy with the

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00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: call they showed him. He kept he kept hitting his

746
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Speaker 1: shoulder or you're talking about the helmet to helmet hit.

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00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: I think that was earlier in the game. Okay, yeah,

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00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: because they they I know that was that was about.

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Speaker 1: I did not like that decision. Yes, Murphy. Yeah, because

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00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: Vance was really upset about that. I know what you're saying,

751
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: but that's the way Murph plays though, I mean aggressive, physical. Yeah,

752
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: But again, that stuff can happen in the first quarter,

753
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: it happens in the fourth quarter. You know, when teams

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00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: are down Craig and they need a touch on, they're

755
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball on the field. You know why,

756
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: because Bruce Arians used to have a theory, I'm gonna

757
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field five day times. Again,

758
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get two pass interference calls two And the

759
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: teams are doing that now. You could see when you're

760
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: trailing they're gonna throw it down the field. They're just

761
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: hoping to get a PI call or necessary roughness or something.

762
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: And there's a difference between PI and holding where they

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00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not automatical first down depending on where the

764
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 1: call is. So but Arians that was his theory sometimes

765
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: seven to ten he said, I'm gonna get two PI calls,

766
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: So look for that for teams to start doing that

767
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: when you're when you're kind of aggressive. But I can't

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00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: fault Murph because the way he attacks the ball, the

769
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: past defense, the physicality he brings a little bit of

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00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: edge to that secondary even though they got Buddha and

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00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson. From a corner standpoint, he's much more physical

772
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: than Marco Wilson. And Robert Alford doesn't get the credit

773
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: he deserves because he's very physical too, And that's why

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00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: I put a little bit of an asterisk on that

775
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: particular call of the last one. And this we all

776
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: love Dennis Gardeck, but you can't have a rough in

777
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: the punter call on fourth and sixteen in the fourth quarter.

778
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: Now it didn't cost the Cardinals because on the next

779
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: play Andy Dalton was intercepted, but at that point you're

780
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 1: only up ten and now all of a sudden, you

781
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: give new life to your opponents. And it's about field awareness,

782
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 1: game awareness. There was no need to go after the

783
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: punter in that situation. And I know you want to

784
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: be aggressive, but there are certain times where you have

785
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: to dial it back a little bit because you know,

786
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: big picture, you're up ten, don't give the opponent another

787
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: set of downs. Again, it didn't matter because at the

788
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: end of the day, the very next play interception. But

789
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: little things to your point, you have to clean this

790
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: up if you want to continue to win. In December

791
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: and jam and you wearing more importantly hopefully in February.

792
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: These little details you can't have happened against the Packers,

793
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, the Cowboys, because better teams will take advantage

794
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: of those extra breaks, those extra set of downs. And

795
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: it's just something that again nit picking ten and two

796
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: after twelve games. But still this team has the ability

797
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 1: and we've seen their capability of playing much much better. Craig.

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00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: I mean, when these guys get in the meeting room,

799
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: the coaches are telling them the same thing. I mean

800
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,399
Speaker 1: it so little things. And Zach Allen said, we haven't

801
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: played again. I don't know if you have a perfect game,

802
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: but meaning like, okay, when we go into film room

803
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: on Monday, we only had three errors versus ten airs

804
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: and they're called Emmy's mental errors. A lot of pre

805
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: and post nap where were you in position? So the

806
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 1: coaches are having the same conversation and according to Kingsbar

807
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 1: and Collar, they feel like they can put up forty

808
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: points a game. It's just the little things. And again

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00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: I'm just this is really fun coming in here every

810
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Monday trying to find something wrong the day right, But

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00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: I mean to start to show them go oh man,

812
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: that was they got lucky to win that game. And

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00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: you know they went on the road and they didn't

814
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: look like they were ready. And this whole narrative about

815
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: after the bye week, and it was real because they

816
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: haven't played well after the bye. But this is the NFL.

817
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: Like I say, throw out the records. They went there

818
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: and took care of business. It was a good team win.

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00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: You build off it. First time under Cliff Kingsbury, this

820
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: team wins the game after the bye week. Now, those

821
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 1: first two were at home, this one was on the road.

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00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: But Cardinals one and oh post bye week and three

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00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: and one since a seven and one start, And I

824
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: go back to a couple of weeks ago in our

825
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: postgame show, you brought a valid point up and you know,

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Speaker 1: when you go with a backup quarterback, you were just

827
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,919
Speaker 1: hoping to win. We know Colte McCoy did a great job,

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00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: but I think going into the bye week with a

829
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: win gave this team a little bit more security to

830
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: where we're gonna rest our bodies and then we're gonna

831
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: go play Chicago regardless of the weather. We're the better team.

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00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: And then we get all our guys back between now

833
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 1: in the Rams game. But I think it was important

834
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: to go into the bye week because otherwise the narrative

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00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: would we, oh, they can't win without Kyler Murray. Colt

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00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: McCoy was one and two, and it was the opposite,

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00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: you'll lose two in a row, three or four going

838
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: into the bye week. That all changed. It went a

839
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Speaker 1: one eighty the other way as far as how well

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00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,320
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were playing with a backup quarterback. Cardinals Covered

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Speaker 1: on out of here on this victory Monday, if you will.

847
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: Although I don't think this team officially has had a

848
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: victory Monday in which they have been given the day

849
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: off and which hey, I'll see you on Wednesday. Don't No,

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00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: I don't quote me on that bird Gang, but I

851
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: don't think this team has had that given to them,

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00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 1: presented to them, or the opportunity because I think they've

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00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: all said, no, we've got work to do, whether it's

854
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: quick film, starting to get a workout in, make sure

855
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: we're healthy so we can get on the practice field Wednesday, Greig,

856
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: when you're winning, you want it. You want to get

857
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Speaker 1: out of the house. I mean you got you got

858
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: your family there and you know, a lot of guys

859
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: like to come to the facility now then will work

860
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: out and the camaraderie. I mean you can come in

861
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: here with coffee and donuts and just sit there and talk.

862
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: I mean it's like us going to work together. So

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Speaker 1: they like coming here on Mondays and Tuesdays when they

864
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: don't have to. If you if you've been injured and

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Speaker 1: you've got treatment, you have to be here. But for

866
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: the most part, guys will just pop in if you know,

867
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: just it's this is their workplace, and so no, this

868
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: is a close knit group and they know what's at

869
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: stake here. They know if they can take care of

870
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: business down the stretch, they can make a run in

871
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: the postseason. They are two wins away from wrapping up

872
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 1: the NFC West. The card are ten and two, the

873
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: Rams eight and four. The forty nine ers after losing

874
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: on Sunday, six and six, and the Seahawks four and eight.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals right now have the best record in the division.

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Speaker 1: Within the division they are four. No, you know, the

877
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: second best record is within the division. I only found

878
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: this out this morning as I was looking at these standings.

879
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 1: Got to be a trick question. Now, Oh yeah, it's

880
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: a trick question. Don't tell me the Seahawks. It is

881
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,959
Speaker 1: the Seahawks with their win on Sunday over the forty

882
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: nine Ers, they are two and two, Cardinals four and no,

883
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: Seahawks two and two, the forty nine Ers one and four,

884
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Speaker 1: and the Rams one and two. Those are your four

885
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Speaker 1: division records. Yeah, all week we heard and I think

886
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: you and I were somewhere in agreement, but I wanted

887
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: to see more. You know, San Francisco was on a

888
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: roll and all of a sudden, now they're gonna start

889
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: Trey Lance, I mean, and they got a lot of

890
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: questions there, and you know, again they're still in the

891
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 1: thick of things. The only thing that changed on the standings,

892
00:46:56,560 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: all four division winners stayed where they were. Only differences.

893
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: Washington goes against San Francisco when it comes to the

894
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 1: six and seven seed because of their better conference records.

895
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: So here are all the standings in the NFC, Cardinals, Packers, Buccaneers, Cowboys, Rams,

896
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: Washington and the forty nine Ers. The Packers and Buccaneers

897
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: both nine and three, but because the Packers are seven

898
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: and two within the conference and the Buccaneers are six

899
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: and three, Packers get the two seed, Buccaneers the three

900
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: seed and your point. Same thing with Washington and the

901
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Both are six and six, but the

902
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: Washington football team has a better conference record than the

903
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, so they get the six spot and

904
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers the final seed at number seven.

905
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: I want to get a clarification. Are the Cardinals half

906
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: game ahead of the Packers or are they a full

907
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: game ahead of the full one game ahead ten and

908
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: two versus nine and three, but Packers won to beat

909
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, still one game seed one game. I always

910
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: think it's a half game because if you finish a

911
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: one game ahead, you get that number one seed. If

912
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: you finish tied, then all of a sudden you lose

913
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: that because of the game on Thursday night, So that

914
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: that's always in the back of everyone's mind. Well, it's

915
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Speaker 1: only that's the only team that I think it's a

916
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:10,480
Speaker 1: half game because they beat us, you know what I mean,

917
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: they beat the Cardinals. Hey, before we get out here,

918
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,919
Speaker 1: what did you think of Kingsbury's hat yesterday? I did

919
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: not see it. I mean, I mean I noticed it,

920
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 1: but I didn't understand it until afterwards. And we're not

921
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: used to kind of seeing Kingsbury in a hat like that.

922
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: It's usually what are they called the that he wears

923
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: on practice, whether the rim goes all the way around.

924
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: It was a nineteen twenty and I think that was

925
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: when they had their hundredth season. I can't tell you.

926
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Speaker 1: I started in nineteen twenty, yes, and I can't tell

927
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: you how many people want that that hat now he

928
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: looked like Kyle Shanahan though, just the brown gotta keep

929
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: that rain from from dripping. Yeah, that's right. I didn't

930
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: even think of all that stuff. Yeah, because normally he's

931
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Speaker 1: wearing sunglasses. But I can't tell you a lot of

932
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: people are asking about that hat. And I don't know

933
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Speaker 1: if I'll have to try to find out through our

934
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: peeps here, because that was a good looking hat. And

935
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Speaker 1: by the way, coach is just fine. As he told

936
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Speaker 1: Paul Calvci on postgame, the bloody lip was taken care

937
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: of and invertent clash with Kingsbury's lip and like he

938
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: fowed too, as everyone joked, that is the one player

939
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Speaker 1: you don't want to run into the mountain of a

940
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: man like he foe too. Yeah, you know, I wonder

941
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: how Cliffs gonna look today on zoom the lip requires stitches?

942
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: Is that it blow up? Yeah, he's officially on the

943
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: injury room. Yeah, he might be the only one that

944
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: came out of that game worse than he entered the

945
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. But hey, it feels better because you

946
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: walk off that football field with the w Yeah, this

947
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: is this is a great feeling. And you know, the

948
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: last couple of years would come in here and do

949
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: the show, and we know that it was going to

950
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,720
Speaker 1: take some time or clearly we were disappointing what happened

951
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: last year the end of the the season. But I really

952
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: believe Craig that was a blessing in disguise what happened,

953
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: because it changed the focus of what this team wanted

954
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,720
Speaker 1: to do. And year three was going to be huge,

955
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 1: and you got to give Steve Kime and you know,

956
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,760
Speaker 1: Adrian Wilson, Quentin Harris, Drew Grigs and all the scouts

957
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: credit because they went out an idd veteran players with leadership.

958
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 1: And you know, even though Avan Collins isn't really playing

959
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: right now because of Jordan Hicks and Isaiah Simmons, this

960
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: draft class is set up the future and I like

961
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Speaker 1: what they've done, not only in the off season but

962
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Speaker 1: bringing these guys in. It's been a fun ride, and

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Speaker 1: the ride is far from over. Of course, we'll get

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Speaker 1: into the Monday Monday Night matchup coming up later this

965
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Speaker 1: week as we work our way towards Week fourteen, And

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Speaker 1: on that note, we'll bittle it on this edition of

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

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

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Speaker 1: Joe Almahndre for Mike Drecky. I'm Greig Rael Loup. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next time here on Cardinals Cover two.