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Speaker 3: Here we go one.

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Speaker 4: Hand and catch it a touchdown?

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Speaker 3: Oh baby, how's that film?

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

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Speaker 1: Kyle Vandenbosch.

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Speaker 5: So no KVB as we like to say here, Paul

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Speaker 5: out on assignments. No truth to the rumor though that

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Speaker 5: he is getting some last minute Christmas shopping done because

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Speaker 5: there are five days left before December twenty.

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Speaker 6: I think plenty of time left. I mean, as someone

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Speaker 6: who operates and does his best on deadline over here,

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Speaker 6: plenty of time left. I hope it's not the Christmas

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Speaker 6: shopping because you got all week to get that done.

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Speaker 6: Come on, now, you just need to run the no

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Speaker 6: huddle at the end of the week and you'll be good.

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Speaker 5: Although you have one fewer day, maybe even two fewer days,

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Speaker 5: unless you plan on getting a little shopping done in Chicago.

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Speaker 5: It's a great call.

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Speaker 6: As someone who lived a couple of years in the

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Speaker 6: three one two love Christmas in Chicago, walking up and down,

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Speaker 6: whether it's the Loop or Michigan Ave. And you get

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Speaker 6: some shopping done, bring something home from the missus and

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Speaker 6: the kids. That's a great game plan. Now I can

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Speaker 6: push it off even farther. Paully procrastinate, can even wait

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Speaker 6: yet another day or two.

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Speaker 5: A little bit more on what's ahead for the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: later on on the show, as the Cardinals visit the

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Speaker 5: Chicago Bears on Christmas Eve Day to twenty five kickoff Arizona.

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Speaker 5: Time for that one. But first things first, before we

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Speaker 5: look ahead, we look back. Unfortunately, we must look to

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Speaker 5: what happened on at State Farms Stadium forty five twenty nine,

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals losing to the San Francisco forty nine ers,

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Speaker 5: and the Cardinals competed and this is the second straight

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Speaker 5: game against the forty nine ers, Paul that the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: competed and in the end, I think everyone's in agreements.

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Speaker 5: Talent just won out.

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Speaker 6: You know, the best movie ever made, Craig. I'm just

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Speaker 6: gonna go out on a limb here and see if

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Speaker 6: you can follow me on this one the best movie

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Speaker 6: ever made. And don't at me.

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Speaker 5: Ford versus Ferrari.

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Speaker 6: And there's a scene where the second time they're going

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Speaker 6: to Lamon, we're gonna have time to debate it. Just

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Speaker 6: take my word fower, Okay. So they're going to Lamon

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Speaker 6: to compete against the juggernaut Ferrari. It's like circa nineteen

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Speaker 6: sixty five, and they had a few issues in the race,

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Speaker 6: but they showed Ferrari that they were faster at that track. Now,

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Speaker 6: they had to fix a few other things along the

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Speaker 6: way to get the car ready to go twenty four hours, okay,

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Speaker 6: but they had a faster car than Ferrari. In what happened,

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Speaker 6: they won Lamon the next four years in a row.

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Speaker 6: To me, that's what this game was. You came out,

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Speaker 6: you rush or you had four hundred and thirty six

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Speaker 6: You went out there and just pummeled the number one

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Speaker 5: You gave them issues.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't for giving them a couple of touchdowns on

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Speaker 6: blown assignments basically in coverage. Guess what I think for

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Speaker 6: the second time this year, because they fought them tough

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Speaker 6: into the fourth quarter at San Francisco Week four, and

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Speaker 6: it got the attention to the GM John Lynch, and

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Speaker 6: he said, you know what, this Cardinals team as currently constructed,

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Speaker 6: might be a little deficient on talent right now. Okay,

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Speaker 6: against the most talent or roster in the NFL. I

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Speaker 6: think we'd all agree after seeing the Niners for a

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Speaker 6: second time. But the fight is there, the game planning

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Speaker 6: the odds on favorite to win the Super Bowl right now?

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Speaker 5: All right, the analogy is a good one. Whether or

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Speaker 5: because you're right, the Cardinals are right there. The first

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Speaker 5: because the Cardinals again a Mario de Mercado scores that

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Speaker 5: there's the second interception thrown by Kyler Murray, and then

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Speaker 5: it's forty five to twenty two. And at that point

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Speaker 5: the game was decided and the s Elijah Higgins congratulations

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Speaker 5: to him with his first career touchdown reception, but that

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Speaker 5: forty five to twenty nine. But to your point, yes,

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals. Everyone in the division looking up at the

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Speaker 6: What do you do when you defend the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 6: It's not that you can go in with a game plan.

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Speaker 6: The proverbial, oh take away, they're best player? Oh really,

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Speaker 6: guess what? They have all pros at three different positions,

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Speaker 6: they might have two Pro bowlers at wide receiver right now.

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Speaker 6: So it's such a loaded roster with a quarterback who

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Speaker 6: brock Perty at this point. The anticipation, the accuracy, putting

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Speaker 6: These are categories of forty nine ers lead the NFL

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Speaker 5: Their talent, but the scheme as well. Well, let's take

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Speaker 5: you back to Sunday postgame head coach Jonathan Gannon following

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Speaker 5: the forty five twenty nine loss to Yes, the division winners.

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Speaker 7: Forty nine ers prepared their ass off. We practiced well,

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Speaker 7: we were in pads like we knew it was gonna

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Speaker 7: be a physical game. You know, we just didn't do

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Speaker 7: where you could say, you know what, if you're in

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Speaker 3: No way.

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Speaker 7: It's the NFL. It's a big boy league. You got

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Speaker 7: to bring it every week, and I think our guys do, and.

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Speaker 5: The Cardinals did on Sunday, especially offensively, season highs in points,

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Speaker 5: against the forty nine ers, but getting inside the red

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Speaker 5: zone three trips, two touchdowns. Cannot let this team just

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Speaker 8: See a team like that, you can't give him points.

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Speaker 8: Not to say that that was, you know, kind of

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Speaker 8: spiraling effect, because it wasn't, you know, we drove the

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Speaker 8: you know, I felt like the guys man play hard,

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Speaker 8: like I said, they're a good team, and against a

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Speaker 5: Look, Paul, we all love Matt Prater. I just I

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Speaker 5: as far as a Pro Bowl berth what he has

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Speaker 5: accomplished this season, but maybe a little less Matt Prater

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Speaker 5: Putting up six tack on the pat Matt Prater as

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Speaker 6: You're saying, in an ideal scenario, the kicker isn't getting

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Speaker 5: Is that what you're saying? Like he got this week?

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Speaker 6: I mean, come on, you know, three for three on

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Speaker 6: the field goals, he had the fifty eight yard blast

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Speaker 6: I'll say it again, Matt Prade, you're thirteen of fifteen

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Speaker 6: missing right now to me when I watch the two offenses,

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Speaker 6: that in particular, but it's the big strike touchdowns that

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Speaker 6: It's the inability to maximize a Hollywood Brown all season

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Speaker 6: It's so much easier for a Niners defense, any defense

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Speaker 5: Cardinals made it difficult yep on themselves because of that

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Speaker 5: because each team had scoring drives six scoring drives, but

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Speaker 5: In order to mitigate some of that explosiveness, it would

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Speaker 5: Bottom line. Right now, the Cardinals don't have as much

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Speaker 5: Hit these pitches again. The mistakes the Cardinals are making

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Speaker 5: And that might be the biggest takeaway in these so

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Speaker 6: In terms of, you know, the actual passing game. It

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Speaker 3: Dong, James Conner calling, that's exactly what you want to see.

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Speaker 3: To cap that first possession, you run the inside play,

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Speaker 5: An opening drive that went seven plays for seventy five

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Speaker 5: great Seats, Craig raya lup Paul Calvisi looking back at

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Speaker 5: Sunday's loss to the forty nine Ers forty five twenty

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of consternation in the Bay Area Niner

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Speaker 6: There's certain things you're gonna make a team stop, right,

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Speaker 5: we do it again against a different opponent and keep

435
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Speaker 5: doing it until your stop not just once, but stopped consistently.

436
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Speaker 5: Because we also saw later in the game, late in

437
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Speaker 5: the second half, that the run game was still a

438
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Speaker 5: part of the offense even though you were down two scores.

439
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Speaker 6: It was great to see Fred Warner after the game

440
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Speaker 6: meet the media, the Niners media, and when they start

441
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Speaker 6: asking about the rush defense, of the lack thereof here's

442
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Speaker 6: a little loss for words. You could tell there was

443
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Speaker 6: some genuine concern that almost borderline shock. The Niners aren't

444
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Speaker 6: used to getting run on like that, and so for

445
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Speaker 6: the Cardinals to come out and have that sort of

446
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Speaker 6: success that really bodes well I think going into the

447
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Speaker 6: offseason and next season, because let's make no mistake about it,

448
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Speaker 6: you got to figure out your own division. And we've

449
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Speaker 6: talked about this at length, and maybe I'm more adamant

450
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Speaker 6: about this than most, but the forty nine Ers have

451
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Speaker 6: won a dozen straight games in the division. The other

452
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Speaker 6: three teams got to figure out the forty nine Ers

453
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Speaker 6: right now. Cardinals need to figure out the Rams. They've

454
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Speaker 6: had issues against Sean McVay with four different head coaches.

455
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Speaker 6: So to me, that's the offseason task. That's where that

456
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Speaker 6: self scouting and game planning starts with those two division opponents.

457
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Speaker 6: Because you look at the rest of the NFC in

458
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Speaker 6: the wildcard picture right now, a lot of those team

459
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Speaker 6: I mean, you can't tell me they're miles ahead of

460
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Speaker 6: the Cardinals. You win another offseason, you're gonna be able

461
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Speaker 6: to compete with a lot of those teams are in

462
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Speaker 6: playoff contention right now. Your real challenge is your own division.

463
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Speaker 5: Seahawks winning on Monday Night Football, the Rams to teams

464
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Speaker 5: seven and seven and right there in the mix for

465
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Speaker 5: a playoff berth a wild card spot. So yeah, you

466
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Speaker 5: win the division you're automatically in. But after that you

467
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Speaker 5: might be able to sneak in, and this is again

468
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Speaker 5: looking ahead, you might be able to sneak in with

469
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Speaker 5: nine wins where you're hovering around five hundred. You can't

470
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Speaker 5: finish five hundred anymore, but you're hovering around that mark

471
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Speaker 5: keeps you in quality games and meaningful football in December

472
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Speaker 5: and early January.

473
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Speaker 6: I mean, even the Bears, until they blew a ten

474
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Speaker 6: point lead in the fourth quarter, were squarely in the

475
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Speaker 6: playoff mix till they cratered against Joe Flacco and the

476
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Speaker 6: Browns last week. They would have been six and eight

477
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Speaker 6: and really in contention down the stretch. So you can't

478
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Speaker 6: tell me the Cardinals are that far away from being

479
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Speaker 6: a playoff contender going forward.

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Speaker 5: They're able to continue to run the ball like they

481
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Speaker 5: have so far this season again top ten rushing offense

482
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Speaker 5: going into this week's game against the Chicago Bears. Post game,

483
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Speaker 5: DJ Humphreys chatting with our own Paul Calvic on that

484
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Speaker 5: successful run game.

485
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Speaker 10: From the old line room, in the Renner bed room,

486
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Speaker 10: in the tight end room, we're all kind of sinking together,

487
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Speaker 10: we're kind of jetting together. Everybody's talking everybody's communicating. We

488
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Speaker 10: have a good understanding between the old line and the

489
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Speaker 10: tight ends how we want to block looks, and we

490
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Speaker 10: have a good understanding from the runner bed where they're

491
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Speaker 10: trying to get with those looks and it's getting married.

492
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Speaker 10: So just kind of, like I said, it was just

493
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Speaker 10: trying to expand on these last three weeks and kind

494
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Speaker 10: of get it rolling. It's an offseason, and make sure

495
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Speaker 10: that's a part of our identity.

496
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Speaker 6: We always hear the offensive line talk about the chemistry,

497
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Speaker 6: the cohesion being in sync.

498
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Speaker 5: Those are real things.

499
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Speaker 6: And we talked to Will Hernandez about that last week

500
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Speaker 6: on the Big Red Rage, and you said, you know,

501
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Speaker 6: it's not just playing next to guy and knowing the playbook.

502
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Speaker 6: It's knowing how he blocks a certain play, knowing the

503
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Speaker 6: timing of how quickly he comes off or how quickly

504
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Speaker 6: he'll be able to establish his position. It's all those

505
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Speaker 6: So as you see the same five guys in this case,

506
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Speaker 6: the same six guys they.

507
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Speaker 5: Rotated a bit at left guard.

508
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Speaker 6: If you see those guys playing more and more when

509
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Speaker 6: you see the progress of a Paris Johnson Junior. When

510
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 6: we asked him last week, okay, you played the Niners

511
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Speaker 6: in week four, how's it compared to the film you're

512
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Speaker 6: putting out there right now at this point in December,

513
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Speaker 6: And he literally just reacted with awe, not even close.

514
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Speaker 6: And then he went into all these particulars about how

515
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Speaker 6: he's so much better in his technique and establishing certain

516
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Speaker 6: things and analyzing his own film. So, yes, the offensive line,

517
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Speaker 6: I think, and it's tough to assess. And look, ninety

518
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 6: nine point nine percent of us have never played offensive

519
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 6: line in the world. But you talk to those guys

520
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Speaker 6: in that locker room, they have made a lot of

521
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Speaker 6: progress from week one to here now week sixteen.

522
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Speaker 5: So the run game a positive on Sunday. The negative

523
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Speaker 5: the wide receiver production lack thereof four catches for twenty yards.

524
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Speaker 5: They were targeted thirteen times. Kyle, the Murray postgame at

525
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Speaker 5: a loss.

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Speaker 8: I feel it too, you know, I don't I don't know,

527
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Speaker 8: I don't know. Keep trying to find ways to get

528
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Speaker 8: those guys ball. You know that's something that you know

529
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Speaker 8: I can be better about as a whole, as offense,

530
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Speaker 8: you know, find ways to get those guys the ball,

531
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Speaker 8: because you know, I know it's frustrated. Hell, I'm frustrated

532
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 8: for him not used to that. You know, I'm not

533
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 8: used to that, So we'll be better now.

534
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Speaker 5: Hollywood Brown was in and out of the lineup and

535
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Speaker 5: ultimately did not finish that game because of a heel injury.

536
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 5: Michael Wilson had just returned from a shoulder neck issue,

537
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Speaker 5: So yeah, you're having some shuffling in and outs. They

538
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Speaker 5: were able to run the or move the football against

539
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Speaker 5: the forty nine ers. But again going back to our

540
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Speaker 5: earlier conversation, as far as the explosive plays, how about

541
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Speaker 5: you get the wide receivers involved for some chunk plays.

542
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Speaker 5: We'll get to the tight ends in a moment, but

543
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Speaker 5: the lack of production from the wide receivers that's been

544
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Speaker 5: an issue each of the past two weeks. Again, a

545
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Speaker 5: win in Pittsburgh, but a loss.

546
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Speaker 6: To the forty nine ers, And look, it would open

547
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Speaker 6: everything else up if you're able to complete some throws downfield.

548
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Speaker 6: You know, teams are too app these days to play

549
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Speaker 6: that shell coverage and keep everything underneath. So now if

550
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Speaker 6: you're able to gash them deep with chunk throw downfield

551
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Speaker 6: down the seam, especially out to the sidelines, which is

552
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 6: what is really missing right now, if you have receivers

553
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Speaker 6: who can get behind that secondary and we've seen Hollywood

554
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Speaker 6: Brown do it enough this year when he's healthy. I

555
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 6: haven't been able to cash it in, haven't been able

556
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Speaker 6: to maximize it, but it really does open up everything else.

557
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Speaker 6: So Jonathan Gannon telling the media, yes, we need to

558
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Speaker 6: get the receivers more involved. Now, did he notice it

559
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,360
Speaker 6: over the course of the game. Not necessarily, because every

560
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 6: game sort of has its own identity. But you know,

561
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Speaker 6: you go into this game against the Bears defense that's

562
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Speaker 6: playing really well right now and picked off Joe Flacco

563
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Speaker 6: three times. It's on these receivers to try and pick

564
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Speaker 6: up their game and give Kyler some viable options too.

565
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Speaker 6: He's holding onto the ball too long, and presumably that's

566
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Speaker 6: because he doesn't have receivers getting open downfield.

567
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Speaker 5: Hollywood Brown not targeted at all, Michael Wilson targeted three times,

568
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Speaker 5: no catches. In fact, only the catches buy wide receivers

569
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Speaker 5: Greg Dortsch with two, Rondell Moore with two. Here's the

570
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Speaker 5: head coach, Jonathan Gannon.

571
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Speaker 7: When they take away certain guys outside, then you should

572
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 7: be able to run a little bit better, and guys

573
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 7: inside the numbers should have big days, which I know

574
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Speaker 7: Trey had a pretty big day. But you know, there's

575
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Speaker 7: no doubt we have to have production from all guys

576
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Speaker 7: in the passing game to be successful. And sometimes that's

577
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Speaker 7: coverage dictated. Sometimes that's winning one on ones, that's the

578
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Speaker 7: pass pro holding up, you know, Kyler delivering the football

579
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Speaker 7: where should go. But that's all eleven of us. Coaches

580
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Speaker 7: and players have got to do a better job there.

581
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Speaker 5: And again, the Cardinals need another wide receiver or somebody

582
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Speaker 5: to step up because you know what's going to happen now,

583
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 5: Paul moving forward is all of a sudden, not only

584
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 5: trade McBride is going to have one on one, but

585
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 5: he's gonna have someone over the top. Boy, he's gonna

586
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 5: be double teamed and they're going to take away that

587
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 5: number one option. So the Cardinals have to go elsewhere

588
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 5: in that receiving game, and it has to be a

589
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Speaker 5: wide receiver.

590
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Speaker 6: And I'm looking at Rondel Moore. I mean, if we're

591
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Speaker 6: going to name names, Rondel Moore. Two years ago, we

592
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Speaker 6: heard a lot about how he's a complete receiver, he

593
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 6: has a complete route tree, he's a down the field threat,

594
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Speaker 6: even though during the Cliff king Bury era he wasn't

595
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 6: utilized as much in that regard. He was more of

596
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 6: a guy along the line of scrimmage going horizontally. So

597
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,719
Speaker 6: Rondale Moore downfield. Can Rondale Moore, you know, at his

598
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 6: size present a viable target to Kyler Murray. Loved to

599
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 6: see that developed. Now, Michael Wilson and missed a month

600
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 6: or so, and you know, maybe he was dealing with

601
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 6: some rust. But he's a guy who has had success

602
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Speaker 6: this season even as a third round rookie. You know,

603
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Speaker 6: you'd like to think that, Okay, a game in Chicago

604
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 6: with some inclement weather, this is a Michael Wilson game.

605
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Speaker 6: He's more of a physical receiver. You know, he can

606
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 6: get himself between the dB and the football. So these

607
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 6: are things that are confounding. You know, why isn't it happening?

608
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Speaker 6: Is it an aspect of Kyler Murray in the new offense?

609
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Speaker 6: And maybe this is the last part of the scheme

610
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 6: to click, you know, with Kyler and the receivers. But look,

611
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Speaker 6: there's no more DeAndre Hopkins, and when Hollywood Brown isn't

612
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 6: out there, Kyler Murray should be going to wear his

613
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Speaker 6: eyes take him instead of forcing the ball to a

614
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Speaker 6: number one receiver instead of trying to force argus to

615
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Speaker 6: a certain receiver, which you know, at times you know,

616
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Speaker 6: would render the passing game, you know, you know a

617
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 6: little ineffective because perhaps the guy wasn't open well right now,

618
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Speaker 6: you know, his eyes should be going through his progressions

619
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Speaker 6: and if guys are getting open, you're getting the ball.

620
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Speaker 5: Now. Look, four hundred and thirty six total yards against

621
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Speaker 5: the forty nine ers. Okay, maybe not a big deal.

622
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Speaker 5: But when you zoom out and you start looking about

623
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Speaker 5: how to improve this offense, make it more efficient and effective,

624
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Speaker 5: that's where you start targeting the wide receivers and saying,

625
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Speaker 5: why aren't they getting more production? And this week against

626
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Speaker 5: the Bears, twenty sixth best pass defense, that's what the

627
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Speaker 5: Cardinals are going up against. I would hope I would

628
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Speaker 5: expect a little bit more production out of that wide

629
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Speaker 5: receiver room.

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Speaker 6: I mean, if you're mad at you refluc in that

631
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Speaker 6: Bears defensive staff, I would say, okay, you got to

632
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Speaker 6: stop the run. Obviously, we're gonna load up the box

633
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Speaker 6: and then we're gonna give extra attention to Trey McBride.

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Speaker 6: Guess what if I'm a Cardinals receiver right now, you're

635
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Speaker 6: gonna get a lot of one on one coverage on Sunday.

636
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Speaker 5: You gotta beat it. Speaking of Trey mcfride, he is

637
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Speaker 5: the guest on episode seven of the day Patch podcast,

638
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Speaker 5: available now via your preferred podcast provider. We will speak

639
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Speaker 5: more about the Cardinals starting tight end as we continue

640
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Speaker 5: here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network, Trey mcplay.

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Speaker 2: Let's play action of boot to the left, the short

642
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Speaker 2: throw to the left and a nice catch by Trey

643
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Speaker 2: McBride past the thirty five knocked out of bounds of

644
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Speaker 2: the forty. McBride with that catch sets the Cardinals single

645
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Speaker 2: season record for most receptions by a tight end. His

646
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Speaker 2: second NFL season has been phenomenal and it continues.

647
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Speaker 5: And he and Jackie Smith, who did it three times,

648
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Speaker 5: the only tight ends in franchise history was seven hundred

649
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Speaker 5: or more receiving yards in a season. Congratulations to Trey McBride,

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Speaker 5: or should I say? As we continue here on the

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Speaker 5: Cardinals Red Sea Report presented by Seek Your Ticket The

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Speaker 5: Great Seats, Trey mcplay, We'll see. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: it's gotten tracket. I don't know if it ever will,

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Speaker 5: but you know, we're trying and we think it's apped

655
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know what it's ah, look, I mean

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Speaker 5: in the last month, month and a half, it's most

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Speaker 5: definitely since week eight. Dare I say it has most

658
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Speaker 5: definitely been an apt and fitting nickname.

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Speaker 6: Trey mcplay. That's all he's doing right now. I don't

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Speaker 6: know what the updated stats are after this past weeks

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Speaker 6: of action, but I know going into that game before

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Speaker 6: he had ten for one oh two. He was number

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Speaker 6: two in the NFL since week eight and catches by

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Speaker 6: a tight end and number three in receiving yards by

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Speaker 6: a tight end since week eight. Ever, since basically zach

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Speaker 6: Ertz was out of the picture due to injury, he

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Speaker 6: is a you know, whether it's because he's been out

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Speaker 6: of zach Ertz's shadow, whether they are able to give

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Speaker 6: him more targets, maybe they are using more of as

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Speaker 6: a receiving tight end. Maybe it's all the above, but

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Speaker 6: it's working. We can update those stats for you right here.

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Speaker 6: Paul Trey McBride now is first among tight ends with

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Speaker 6: fifty one catches since week eight and second in receiving

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Speaker 6: yards with five hundred and forty two. And again some

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Speaker 6: background here because it was on Cardinals Underground in which

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Speaker 6: Paully mentioned Trey mcplay. It showed up in prints on

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Speaker 6: Asycardinals dot Com on an article written by Darren Urban.

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Speaker 6: Now we need to hear its audio wise on the

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Speaker 6: play by play, which brings me to Saturday or should

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Speaker 6: day Sunday's game, because Paul Calvisti will be on the

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Speaker 6: call for Sunday's game against the Bears. Yeah, note to self,

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Speaker 6: put it on the spotting board. Okay, to remind yourself

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Speaker 6: because there will be plays made by Trey McBride. Let's

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Speaker 6: work it in. We'll see. And then if Wolf starts

685
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Speaker 6: talking about is blocking at the point of attack and

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna cut Wolf off. Okay, I'm just going nobody Wolf. Okay,

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Speaker 6: I know it's a big deal. I'm not minimizing and

688
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Speaker 6: dismissing it, but come on, now, he's a play making

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Speaker 6: tight end with a pension for this spectacular grab in traffic.

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Speaker 6: Nobody cares about a seal block a seal block on

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Speaker 6: a twenty two wham play. Okay, let's just leave that

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Speaker 6: out of the equation for now.

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Speaker 5: McBride has become a target of Kyler Murray eleven targets

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Speaker 5: on Sunday against the forty nine Ers, ten catches for

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Speaker 5: one hundred and two yards. By the way, the Cardinals

696
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Speaker 5: waited thirty four years to have a tight end surpass

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Speaker 5: one hundred receiving yards in a game. McBride has now

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Speaker 5: done it twice in five games. Here is k one

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Speaker 5: talking about his young tight end.

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Speaker 8: He's getting better each other week. I say it every week.

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Speaker 8: But the more he plays, more comfident he gets in

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Speaker 8: this swag and the jews from him just continues to grow.

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Speaker 8: I think there's still things that me and him can

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Speaker 8: be better at. Like we had an opportunity to make

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Speaker 8: a play we didn't, you know, interception go the other way.

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Speaker 8: Those things happen, you know, and we'll fix them.

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Speaker 5: And again that is what you want to hear. And

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Speaker 5: we heard even Trey McBride own up to hey, maybe

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Speaker 5: he could have done something a little bit better to

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Speaker 5: not allow your various war to jump that route. But

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Speaker 5: that all comes with reps. And you remember those two

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Speaker 5: have not had a lot of reps together, not only

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Speaker 5: this season, but going back because it was zach Ertz

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Speaker 5: as you're starting tight end, McBride was the backup. Now

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Speaker 5: there's no question who your starter is, so you get

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Speaker 5: that chemistry between quarterback and tight end, and who knows,

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Speaker 5: do we have the next George Kittle? Do we have

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Speaker 5: the next Travis Kelcey right here wearing number eighty five

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Speaker 5: for the Cardinals.

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Speaker 6: It's interesting to hear some of the comparisons. You hear

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Speaker 6: that you hear Lorenzo Alexander last week on the Red

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Speaker 6: Sea Report, you know, throw out Adjason Witten. I thought

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Speaker 6: that was interesting. So you know, a guy who's really

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Speaker 6: skilled at catching the ball, making those catches in traffic,

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Speaker 6: getting downfield, and then good enough to be a factor

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Speaker 6: in the run game, to be a blocker. And it

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Speaker 6: is good to hear Trey McBride say he wants to

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Speaker 6: be a complete tight end they can use in any

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Speaker 6: scenario and that'll only benefit him because it'll it'll, you know,

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Speaker 6: minimize the tendencies of the Cardinals and are they running?

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Speaker 6: Are they passing? But you know, here's here's the other

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Speaker 6: thing about Trey McBride is he's getting so many targets

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Speaker 6: and Kyler is going to him in so many money

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Speaker 6: moments that I think, now, if you're Drew Petsing, there's

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Speaker 6: an opportunity to use that against a defense. Tarvarius Ward

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Speaker 6: coming over the top even though he's a corner. You've

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Speaker 6: seen extra down feel bracket coverage. Okay, other guys have

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Speaker 6: to be open. Now, maybe you use that and you

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Speaker 6: try and break your own tendencies and that's how you

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Speaker 6: get your receivers involved.

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Speaker 5: Let's hear from Cardinals tight end Try McBride this when

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Speaker 5: he joined the day Patch podcast on Monday.

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Speaker 11: You know, I think we just do a really good

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Speaker 11: job of marrying up the run game in the past game.

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Speaker 11: You know, we do so much stuff with James and

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Speaker 11: we run the ball. We do so many different things

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Speaker 11: in the run game, and Drew does a good job

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Speaker 11: of marrying that up in the past game where we're

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Speaker 11: running a route, but it looks like we're blocking the

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Speaker 11: same way that we would block on that run and

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Speaker 11: then we're slipping in the back or things like that.

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Speaker 11: So he's he does a great job of marrying up

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Speaker 11: those two things, and we do a good job of

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Speaker 11: running the ball, and then that opens up the play

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Speaker 11: action stuff for the tight ends and that's where I

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Speaker 11: you know, get a lot of action again.

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Speaker 5: Trey McBride on the day Patch podcast talking about the scheme,

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Speaker 5: the Drew Petsing scheme within this Cardinals offense.

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Speaker 6: You know what that sounds like Kyle Shanahan when you

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Speaker 6: hear defenders talk about going against Kyle Shannan and the

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Speaker 6: forty nine ers. Oh yeah, I've seen this personnel group before.

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Speaker 6: I've seen this formation before. I know what's coming.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't.

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Speaker 6: And all of a sudden you're in trouble because they

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Speaker 6: use that against you. And so if Drew Petsen is

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Speaker 6: coming out and he's showing a similar look that they

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Speaker 6: used earlier in the game, but now it's a totally

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Speaker 6: different play, or there's a totally different you know, primary

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Speaker 6: target and recipient of the ball on.

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Speaker 5: That's that's smart football. That's football IQ.

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Speaker 6: I think that is that is increasing and growing on

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Speaker 6: the offensive side of the ball. And then of course,

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Speaker 6: if you can get it to Trey McBride in space

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Speaker 6: at all, he's never going down on first contact.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you.

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Speaker 6: Saw his first big catch thirty eight yards in the game, right,

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Speaker 6: that was against Fred Warner. Then they took Fred Warner off,

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Speaker 6: they put Drake Greenlaw on because he's maybe a little

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Speaker 6: quicker in coverage. You saw then some safeties and corners

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Speaker 6: against Trey mcbridy. You saw Steve Wilkes use some different

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Speaker 6: matchups against Trey McBride as they were trying to formulate

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Speaker 6: a way to stop him. Over the course of that game.

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Speaker 5: McBride invites the contact, he doesn't shy away from it

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Speaker 5: at all. But now you wonder going into this game

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Speaker 5: against the Bears, not only because he'll be top of

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Speaker 5: that scouting report, but no Jeff Swain potentially carted off

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Speaker 5: with a calf issue. Now you lose one of your

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Speaker 5: big time blockers on that line of scrimmage, also capable

789
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Speaker 5: of catching the ball. But how does that change thing?

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Speaker 5: Maybe change the role of Trey McBride this week? Perhaps

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Speaker 5: maybe here comes Blake Whiteheart, the undrafted rookie tight end

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Speaker 5: who spent a good part of his college career as

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Speaker 5: an offensive lineman a split especially as a blocking tight end.

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Speaker 5: You got to figure he's really well equipped to maybe

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Speaker 5: make his NFL debut. So but yeah, you're right, and

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Speaker 5: you know what, it's even more onus on those receivers

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Speaker 5: to get involved right now if Jeff Swain is not

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Speaker 5: going to be available on Sunday. Now, I'll say this,

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Speaker 5: Elijah Higgins, who had that touchdown catch on Sunday, converted

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Speaker 5: wide receiver making the transition to tie it end from

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Speaker 5: your favorite college, Stanford. Yeah, but there's another name that

802
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 5: is becoming more prevalent within that tight end room.

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Speaker 6: And you can see his confidence growing, right. His first

804
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Speaker 6: attempt earlier in this season was a brutal drop and

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Speaker 6: then his head dropped.

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Speaker 5: But he's getting some more.

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Speaker 6: Confidence, just like a Trey McBride has gotten a lot

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Speaker 6: more confidence over the course of this season. Not only

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Speaker 6: you know, remember Trey McBride was not this sort of

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Speaker 6: player the first month of the of the season. He's

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Speaker 6: grown into this and they've been able to maximize his potential.

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Speaker 4: Fourth and two on the Bears twenty back.

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Speaker 2: The throw goes Kyler looks right and throws a deep

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Speaker 2: ball right side and the ends up Penn.

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Speaker 4: It's caught. It's a touchdown. Touchdown. DeAndre Hopkins Kyler Murray

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Speaker 4: with the dime. On fourth down, Murray.

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Speaker 2: Takes the shotgun snap straight drop back, flushed out of

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Speaker 2: the pocket, rolling right, beIN chased, he talks.

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Speaker 4: He runs at the five and he heads to the

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Speaker 4: corner and he's into the end zone.

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Speaker 3: Four.

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Speaker 4: The touchdown. Tyler Beck will throw fires right side, want

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Speaker 4: to catch it.

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Speaker 2: The twenty runs right to the ten of the five

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Speaker 2: into the end zone.

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Speaker 3: Four.

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Speaker 2: The touchdown. James Connor stabbing a ball that was an

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Speaker 2: errant pass. It looked like it was going to go

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Speaker 2: over his head. He grabbed it with his left hand

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Speaker 2: and then he ran down the right sideline into the

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Speaker 4: For the touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Snapped to Murray, he keeps it again, runs right, he's

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Speaker 2: at the five and he walks into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: Four his second rushing touchdown, and the Cardinals just put

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Speaker 2: the Bears away.

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Speaker 5: Cardinals have one three straight at Soldier Field, including the

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Speaker 5: most recent matchup, which you just heard Dave Pash describe

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one. As the Cardinals will visit the

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Speaker 5: Bears on Sunday, Week fifteen to twenty five is the

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Speaker 5: The Bears Paul five and nine, coming off a road

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Speaker 5: loss to the Bears in which they led seventeen to

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Speaker 5: seven entering the fourth quarter, probably should have still won

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Speaker 5: the game if it wasn't for Darnell Mooney dropping a

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Speaker 5: hail Mary, but they lose twenty to seventeen to Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 5: The defense of the Bears, though, did pick Flaco off

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Speaker 5: three times, including a pick six, but just not enough

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Speaker 5: to get the w. You know, they sacked him four times.

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Speaker 5: So Joe Flacco off his couch a month ago, joining

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Speaker 5: justin Pew you know, off their couch this season and

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Speaker 5: and in that fourth quarter to towards the Bears defense

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Speaker 5: more than two hundred yards passing and guess what, they

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Speaker 5: hit the tight end David Unjoku for a couple of

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Speaker 5: big ones on that final drive. And so hello Trey McBride,

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Speaker 5: Trey mcplay. Based on your Joko did against that Bears defense,

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Speaker 5: especially late, there might be opportunity. As for Justin Fields,

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Speaker 5: I'm intrigued to see him in person, I really am.

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Speaker 5: He's six to three, he's two thirty. He ran a

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Speaker 5: four to four five at the combine. I mean he

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Speaker 5: can really run, he can really break tackles. And Iberflus

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Speaker 5: doesn't hesitate to use him in an aggressive quarterback run game.

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Speaker 5: They will go quarterback power. It's a very hard hitting,

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Speaker 5: aggressive team. Jonathan Gannon knows matter. Eber flues very well

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Speaker 5: from their Indianapolis Colt Stays. So it's an interesting matchup

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Speaker 5: from that aspect. And look, what is the future of

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Speaker 5: Justin Fields in Chicago when the Bears come to the

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Speaker 5: az next season. Is Caleb Williams going to be their quarterback?

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Speaker 6: If they end up getting the number one pick is Carolina,

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Speaker 6: they own Carolina's pick. So there's a lot hanging in

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Speaker 6: the balance right now if you're the Bears franchise.

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Speaker 5: Bears, Eagles and Seahawks. The final three games remaining for

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals, Kyler Murray asked about what there is still

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Speaker 5: left to play for in this season?

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Speaker 8: Does this team I know that's not this team. Offensively,

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Speaker 8: we won't allow it, you know. Defensively, I know those

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Speaker 8: guys over there won't the goals that go one to

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Speaker 8: know each week, obviously, you know we've said it all along.

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Speaker 8: You know, a record doesn't determine, you know, how we're

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Speaker 8: gonna play footballor how we're gonna prepare each week. And

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Speaker 8: that's the case. But obviously this one stings. But we

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Speaker 8: got another game next week.

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Speaker 5: No quick in Kyler Murray and company, and he talks

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Speaker 5: about this matchup against the Bears, Paul, and you look

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Speaker 5: at that Bears defense and it is dramatically different. In

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Speaker 5: the past six games with Montes sweat on the field

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Speaker 5: acquired from the Commanders for a second round pick, twelve

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Speaker 5: and a half sacks this season, but six in six

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Speaker 5: games with the Bears, that leads the Bears team, which

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Speaker 5: coming into this matchup, is number one against the run.

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Speaker 5: For the second straight week, the Cardinals will face the

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Speaker 5: number one rush defense. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 6: They went against the Cleveland Browns offensive line last week

906
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Speaker 6: that was beyond banged up. They had a third string

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Speaker 6: right tackle, they had a third string center, they had

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Speaker 6: a second string left tackle, they had a backup guard

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Speaker 6: in there. So hopefully the Cardinals O line can fare

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Speaker 6: better against the Bears defensive front. But it is amazing

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Speaker 6: when you add that premier pass rusher, not like what

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Speaker 6: the Cardinals did not too long ago when they got

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Speaker 6: Chandler Jones, when you add that premier pass rusher to

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Speaker 6: your defensive front, where the opposing offensive coordinator has to

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Speaker 6: start with that in his game plan. How do we

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Speaker 6: account for Nick Bosa, Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald. You know,

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Speaker 6: I think all the guys the Cardinals have gone up against,

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Speaker 6: and they've already gone against Montest what week one against Washington,

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Speaker 6: So it'll be very intriguing to see how Paris Johnson

920
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Speaker 6: Junior and DJ Humphries fair against Montest sweat. But yeah,

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Speaker 6: it's a defense that has played some really good ball

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Speaker 6: until they got to the fourth quarter against Cleveland and

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Speaker 6: then they just imploded and lost the game.

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Speaker 5: The Bears overall, their numbers aren't great, bottom third on

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Speaker 5: third down, goal to go dead last in the red zone.

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Speaker 5: But again, just look at the six games with Montest.

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Speaker 5: What on the football field, it is a much different

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Speaker 5: looking Bears defense. Now you've got to be able to

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Speaker 5: score in order to win as well. And justin fields

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Speaker 5: just three passing touchdowns in his past four games since

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Speaker 5: returning from injury. And when you talk about justin fields,

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Speaker 5: it's not just the throwing, it's the running. Paul. He

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Speaker 5: leads the team in rushing yards at better than five

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Speaker 5: yards of carry. That is the seventh best mark in

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Speaker 5: the league. James Connor ranks eighth behind justin fields and

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Speaker 5: yards per carry.

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Speaker 6: But you know, they're just not very efficient. They went

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Speaker 6: four of eighteen on third down ouch, they were three

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Speaker 6: and out on eight of fifteen possessions. They had ten punts,

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Speaker 6: so that number one rank Cleveland d overall number one

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Speaker 6: in total defense fared pretty well against the Bears offense.

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Speaker 6: In fact, their only touchdown was after Eddie Jackson picked

943
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Speaker 6: a ball off and took it to the one, and

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Speaker 6: it took him eight attempts to get it in the

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Speaker 6: end zone. So the Bears offense right now has struggle.

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Speaker 5: Lane two twenty five is the kickoff from State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk about it next week here on the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: Red Sea Report Special. Thanks to those on the scenes.

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Speaker 5: Jim Mamahundro, Cody Fincher, Matt Lazarus for Paul Calvic. I'm

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Speaker 5: craig reallou Cardinals and Bears. Is your matchup in Week

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Speaker 5: fifteen on Sunday. Here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: You've been listening to the Cardinals Red Sea Report.

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Speaker 2: It is caught by McBride. Hey, it's a touchdown boot

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Speaker 2: a Baker with the sack, strip the ball. Harry's gonna

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Speaker 2: score touchdown.

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