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Speaker 1: Welcome bird gang on today's show, got an email this

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Speaker 1: morning another Cardinals players selected NFC Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: This time it was Jordan Hicks Wall deserved and that

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Speaker 1: leads us into a discussion about the defense overall, including

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Speaker 1: how that unit will defend Matthew Stafford, Cooper cup and company.

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Speaker 1: That d did a great job slowing those guys down

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Speaker 1: in the first meeting. But first, the team did something

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Speaker 1: Wednesday that hadn't done in six years. It's Cardinals Covered two,

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Speaker 1: Episode five or six, and it starts now. Welcome to

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

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Speaker 1: Catchet It Much Down DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig Griolou and

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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki. It's been a long time coming, MJ. In fact,

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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen was the last time, the last time the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals put playoff tickets on sale, and that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: happened At ten am Arizona time on Wednesday. Now, all

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals have to do is make the playoffs. Are

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Speaker 1: no good to that in a moment, But tickets to

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Speaker 1: wild Card Weekend and the divisional playoffs are available. But

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Speaker 1: as we speak here on this edition of Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 1: presented by Honday, probably partner of the Arizona Cardinals, I'm

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Speaker 1: not expecting those tickets to last very long. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they might already be gone by the time Bird Gang

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Speaker 1: you listen to this edition of Cardinals Cover two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would agree. And for those that have season tickets,

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Speaker 1: make sure you keep your tickets. I understand that you

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Speaker 1: can make some money, but this is a magical year,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully the Cardinals are hosting playoff games in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: That's the idea of trying to get that number one seed,

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Speaker 1: even a two seed, win your division, you're at least

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Speaker 1: hosting a playoff game. So they got bigger aspirations and

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Speaker 1: just playing in a playoff game, but take care of

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Speaker 1: business on Monday and then beat the Lions on the road,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you win the division.

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Speaker 1: I liked how you referenced home games plural as opposed

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Speaker 1: to just one home game. I like your thinking there,

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Speaker 1: thank you, And you know it's Wednesday, you know, because

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals are playing on Monday, everything's kind of pushed

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Speaker 1: the players on the field. They're in the building, they're

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Speaker 1: going through meetings. Obviously you guys are getting rehab. But

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Speaker 1: I am sensing as we get closer to Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: this is a big week for the Arizona Cardinals. I'm

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Speaker 1: sensing it just just what's at stake. This team feels like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, that wasn't an anomaly what they did

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Speaker 1: So I'm not saying they're overconfident, but I think that

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Speaker 1: All divisional games are just a little bit bigger than

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Speaker 1: especially considering it's Monday nights, it's the only game in town,

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Speaker 1: and it's a win and you're in scenario the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals can clinch a playoff spot here in Week fourteen,

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Speaker 1: they hold their own destiny. You win or a tie

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Speaker 1: some other scenarios as well that involve the Vikings losing,

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Speaker 1: on Monday that they have clinched a playoff spot. But

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Speaker 1: I would prefer just the satisfaction selfishly of a win

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Speaker 1: Tyler Drake from Arizona Sports. He asked the question when

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Speaker 1: when they mentioned Monday night football, what comes to mind?

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Speaker 1: And you know what both guys said, Monday Night Football song?

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Speaker 1: it's a Wednesday following a Cardinals win. So what happened

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Speaker 1: which makes sense as you go through the season. They

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Speaker 1: got to figure out what works for them now coming

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Speaker 1: off a win, and the Cardinals, who like you know

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Speaker 1: obviously what happened last week, they want to get their

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Speaker 1: passing game going and I think that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a key on Monday Night Football. Well, the other edition

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Speaker 1: besides von Miller as Odell Belcolme Junior, and that was

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Speaker 1: just they had a boatload of riches, if you will,

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Speaker 1: when Beckham signed that Friday morning, and then that afternoon

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Speaker 1: they lost Robert Woods to an ACL injury during practice.

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Speaker 1: So it's Cooper Cup, Van Jefferson and O b J.

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Speaker 1: And Cooper Cup is the Cooper Cup that we didn't

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Speaker 1: see in Week four. But he is gotten on a

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Speaker 1: roll once again. Htraight games with at least ninety receiving yards,

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Speaker 1: he leads the league and catches receiving yards, receiving touchdowns

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Speaker 1: almost one hundred and fourteen receiving yards per game. But

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Speaker 1: bird Gang, his season low total happened in Week four

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Speaker 1: against the Arizona Cardinals, and that was in large part

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Speaker 1: not just to Byron Murphy but everyone else because Murph

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Speaker 1: hurt his back early in that contest. And that's the

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Speaker 1: first time we really saw a lot of Antonio Hamilton

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Speaker 1: play defense. So credit the entire secondary for slowing down

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. And I know that, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it happened before Murphy. Maybe it was Jalen Thompson and

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Speaker 1: they put a nice lick on him on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: and you could see he wasn't running like he normally is.

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Speaker 1: It's remarkable, I mean that you can tell when they

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Speaker 1: made the trade that they spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: a lot of its timing. But he became the first

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Speaker 1: player ever with a hundred catches and ten receptions. He's

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Speaker 1: got eleven in the team's first twelve games of his season,

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Speaker 1: and he become the third player in Super Bowl Air

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Speaker 1: with ninety plus receiving yards in nine straight games. As

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Speaker 1: hundred yards. He has five catches in sixteen straight games,

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Speaker 1: a longer streak in the NFL. Clearly he's a weapon.

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Speaker 1: And I like the way they use Beckham on the

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Speaker 1: of years ago when Cleveland was here, he had a

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Speaker 1: decent day against the Cardinals. And again I think they

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Speaker 1: gotta get on the same page. I mean, Odell's really

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Speaker 1: good on that that double move where you got to

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Speaker 1: keep your eyes. You can't look at the quarterback. You

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Speaker 1: gotta keep your eyes. We know he's talented, it's just

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Speaker 1: how much impact can he have Because you look at

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Speaker 1: vans Van Jefferson Ames for his third in a row

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Speaker 1: touchdown catch. He had ninety yards and a receiving touchdown

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Speaker 1: a week four against the Cardinals. He was a weapon,

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Speaker 1: so that at that point in time, it's you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just glad that Robert Woods won't be out there,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately for him as terrible injury and it happened in practice,

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Speaker 1: as you mention, and I think that injury was a

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Speaker 1: little bit more significant to the overall scheme of the

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Speaker 1: Rams offense than people realize. Is oh, you lose him.

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Speaker 1: There's Obj's like, no, no, no, no, not quite, just

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Speaker 1: because of what Woods has meant, not only to the offense,

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Speaker 1: but the entire Rams team and organization, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you take that out. It's going to take

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Speaker 1: a little while, and hopefully it's still taking some time

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Speaker 1: because the Cardinals don't want to face that Rams team

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Speaker 1: that has been clicking on occasion this season. But they've

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Speaker 1: been up and down. They've been riding the roller coaster,

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Speaker 1: especially offensively. They are number five in scoring, but there

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Speaker 1: have been games where they just go stretches without being

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Speaker 1: able to move the football, get the ball in the

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Speaker 1: end zone, or let alone kick a field goal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in the first half against the Jaguars, they had to

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Speaker 1: kick three field goals because they are all of six

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Speaker 1: on third down. It wasn't until the second half that

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Speaker 1: they got rolling. Now that's the Jaguars team. This is

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Speaker 1: a Cardinals team. But still you like the weapons from

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Speaker 1: Afar that the Rams have. Cardinals, though, shut down those

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Speaker 1: weapons in the first meeting in Week four. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think they're going to be a desperate team because they

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Speaker 1: know what's at stake right here. Again, anytime you go

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Speaker 1: on a three game losing streak, you know, people start

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Speaker 1: to question things. And I'm sure they did a nice

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Speaker 1: self evaluation. But they got that, you know, they got

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Speaker 1: that win last week. Yeah, I mean it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting just from a standpoint of the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: after all of these years under Sean McVeigh, they get

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Speaker 1: a chance to sweep them, and that has been the case.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Cardinals swept the series this year with

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers and Rams in the same season

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Speaker 1: for the first time in two thousand and eight. Arizona

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Speaker 1: will be the first season sweep of the Rams since

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. So, and again can't predict the future, but

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Speaker 1: I just feel like maybe the tightest turning based on

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals where they are in year three with the

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Speaker 1: same coordinator, head coach, and quarterback. And that would be

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Speaker 1: ideal because we don't know what's going to happen in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what it's going to happen in San

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Speaker 1: Francisco with their quarterbacks. Yeah, we know that Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: is going to be there and Stafford is going to

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Speaker 1: be there for the next few years. But I just

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Speaker 1: wonder if the tide is gonna change, if the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: can win this game and then win the division all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, now they'll be chasing us. Let's hope

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Speaker 1: the tide has turned and the Cardinals get back on

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Speaker 1: top of the division for the first time in a

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Speaker 1: long long time. They can do that with two more wins,

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Speaker 1: clinch a playoff spot this week next week in Detroit,

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Speaker 1: clinch the NFC West. But first things first, and that

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Speaker 1: is get the job done. On Monday Night football again,

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Speaker 1: six to fifteen is the kickoff two thirty Pregame coverage

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Speaker 1: begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. We will continue

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Speaker 1: to break it down all week long here on Cardinals

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Speaker 1: But we look at that Rams wide receiver group and

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Speaker 1: pairt with the Cardinals secondary group. And you had a

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Speaker 1: note earlier this week on social media, and I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about it here Bird Game because I think

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Speaker 1: it's important to note when you look at the secondary

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Speaker 1: going into this season, the secondary was a question mark.

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Speaker 1: In the offseason. The secondary was a question mark. It

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Speaker 1: was a question mark, a loud, large question mark when

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Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler went a wall and training camp. Yet you

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Speaker 1: keep saying it, MJ. The secondary right now is the

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Speaker 1: strength of the defense. Yeah, I mean, I mean you

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Speaker 1: got to give Greg Williams and Marcus Robinson a lot

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Speaker 1: of credit because they've coached up some of these young guys,

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Speaker 1: including Marco Wilson. But you look at the defensive backs

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Speaker 1: and Antonio Hamilton's twenty seven. Robert Alford, I want to say,

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Speaker 1: is thirty two, and he's probably not getting enough credit

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Speaker 1: because you know, he doesn't blow assignments, he's very physical

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Speaker 1: into the line of scrimmage, and he's a really good

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Speaker 1: open field tackler. But defensive backs under twenty five years old,

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Speaker 1: these are all draftees. Okay, Marco Wilson twenty two years old,

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Speaker 1: fourth round pick byber And Murphy, twenty three second round pick,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson, twenty three supplemental pick, fifth round pick James Wiggins,

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Speaker 1: twenty four seventh round pick, Deonte Thompson, fifth round pick,

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Speaker 1: Buddha Baker twenty five second round pick. The future looks

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Speaker 1: bright at that position. Now, eventually you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: pay Murph, and they obviously see extended Buddha, Baker, and Thompson.

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Speaker 1: But this allows his team to where they don't have

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Speaker 1: to go out and find that number one corner in

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Speaker 1: free agency or use a high draft pick. I mean

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Speaker 1: the fact that you have these guys under twenty five

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Speaker 1: years old. This will be the strength for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Because let's be honest, Craig, they've gotten better every single

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Speaker 1: week throughout the season, and they're well coached. And we'll

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Speaker 1: give the front seven a lot of credit because when

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Speaker 1: you can get pressure all of a sudden, we always

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Speaker 1: talk about get that quarterback off the spot, and they've

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Speaker 1: done that and they've capitalized on it. Murphy, Wilson, Thompson, Baker,

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Speaker 1: those are your four starters when you look at cornerback

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Speaker 1: and safety. Yet it is those names that when you're young,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to rely on. This specifically Marco Wilson. He

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Speaker 1: hasn't gotten a lot of talk, and I think to

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Speaker 1: a certain extent MJ that's good news because rookies get

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Speaker 1: picked on, and he's been picked on. He's given up

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Speaker 1: some plays, but nothing really egregious. It hasn't been an eyesore. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you watch film and it's a

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Speaker 1: little bit different, but I haven't been on postgame and

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Speaker 1: looked at you know, what happened defensively or whatever and say, oh, wow,

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Speaker 1: that was that was just a bad game for Marco Wilson.

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Speaker 1: He's been pretty consistent the entire season, and it's a

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Speaker 1: lot to ask, not for a draft pick, but a

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Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick as opposed to first round draft

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Speaker 1: pick who outplayed everyone else that he was competing up.

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Speaker 1: He rose up on that depth chart from where he

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Speaker 1: was in the offseason into training camp to where they

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Speaker 1: were comfortable when Malcolm Butler decided he didn't want to

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Speaker 1: play football anymore. That you know what, we're okay, we

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Speaker 1: got Byron Murphy, Marco Wilson. We'll go into the season

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Speaker 1: with that. Still had a lot of reservations, but those

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Speaker 1: are reservations for me. They're gone. Yeah, I mean, Marco

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Speaker 1: Wilson outplayed Malcolm Butler, so I can use the word

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Speaker 1: wally pipped. He got Wally pipped. And maybe he has

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Speaker 1: some other stuff going on off the field where football

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Speaker 1: wasn't his priority. And if he doesn't want to be here,

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Speaker 1: then obviously the Cardinals did the right thing way putting

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Speaker 1: him on the reserve reserve list. So if he wants

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Speaker 1: to come back, somebody's gonna have to offer a draft

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Speaker 1: pick or you know, we'll see if they release his rights.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I you know, early in the season,

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Speaker 1: I thought maybe his awareness where you got to turn

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Speaker 1: around for the ball, because if you're not turned around

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Speaker 1: and the balls in the air, likely going to get

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Speaker 1: the past interference call. And there were some times what

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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, maybe he should have made a

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Speaker 1: tackle after the guy catches the ball. But that's just

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Speaker 1: growing pains. But now you don't see those same things.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's listen. They had a late second round

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Speaker 1: grade on him, and because there was maturity issues throwing

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Speaker 1: the shoe and he took responsibility for it. It was

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Speaker 1: a game against LSO and he threw a shoe and

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Speaker 1: they hand up losing that game. But him go playing

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Speaker 1: in that conference and going against these top wide receivers

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Speaker 1: wasn't too big for him. And again having Buddha out there,

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Speaker 1: and you know the way they get this defense lined

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Speaker 1: He's got the speed, he can turn his hips and

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Speaker 1: he'll he'll get his hands on more balls, whether they're

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Speaker 1: past defense or just covering receivers. And you know when

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Speaker 1: they when they face the Titans in Week one, you

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Speaker 1: know a j Brown, Julio Jones. I mean, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: were able to get to um Ryan Tannehill, but I

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Speaker 1: would have thought going into that game they would target

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Speaker 1: in the young receiver like that who first NFL start.

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Speaker 1: But he's played in big games, even though the NFL

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Speaker 1: is a lot faster and the players a lot better.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers targeted him on that Thursday night game. He

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Speaker 1: get up the Cardinals, see Tom Brady and the Tampa

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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Brady's going to target Marco Wolston. But by then, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he will have seventeen, eighteen, maybe nineteen games under his

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Speaker 1: belt and at that point you're no longer a rookie.

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Speaker 1: But Marco Wilson on Sunday in Chicago, he played the

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Speaker 1: most defensive snaps of any corner sixty eight, Byron Murphy

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Speaker 1: sixty one, Robert Alford fifty six. Those are your top

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Speaker 1: three corners and you're not looking for anyone now, knock

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Speaker 1: on wood. They've all stayed healthy and in years past

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Speaker 1: the cornerback situation because of injuries, and then all of

645
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Speaker 1: a sudden you have to look on the street. Well,

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Speaker 1: they've got good depth and right now it's not just

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Speaker 1: the corner position, but it's a safety position as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and and last year, you know, obviously not have an Alford.

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Speaker 1: They brought in, you know, Drake Kirkpatrick. They signed some

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Speaker 1: guys during the season. But you know, you go back

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Speaker 1: to the to the draft, and I know Steve kim

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Speaker 1: he's his biggest critic. Um. You know when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the draft, and it's it's really a crapshoot, And

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Speaker 1: you can do all the work and studying from your scouts,

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Speaker 1: because the scouts study to study these guys for the

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Speaker 1: last three years, but just don't know what's between the

657
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 1: years the football like you, and then what's in the heart,

658
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: how much passion today if they want to be good

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Speaker 1: or great. So it's always a crap shoot. But the

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Speaker 1: fact that even in the offseason when they signed Butler,

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Speaker 1: I would assume they thought he was the number one corner.

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Speaker 1: Now when you talk to Vance, it was Byron Murphy.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even close. And then a healthy offered and

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Speaker 1: then they get Marco Wilson in the fourth round and

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Speaker 1: they moved up to get him. So yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's nice to see some of these picks pan out

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Speaker 1: because you know, we were talking about you know, Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray's draft class and unfortunately the receivers haven't panned out.

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Speaker 1: But you look at you know, Briber and Murphy, you

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Speaker 1: look at Deontay Thompson. I mean, even though Keen Butler,

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Speaker 1: Keyshawn Johnson and he's on the roster, Isabella, they came

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Speaker 1: away with some good players. The fact that they got

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Speaker 1: Byron Murphy in the second round. I mean, could you

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Speaker 1: imagine if they take a receiver there. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: the number one corner and you know, he's physical. So

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Speaker 1: I've been thoroughly impressed with this secondary and the fact

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Speaker 1: is they got youth and they're only going to get

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Speaker 1: better with more experience. And the fact that we're talking

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Speaker 1: about them as a strength of the defense. When you

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Speaker 1: got you know, five star players in the front seven,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive. Byron Murphy, Buddha Baker, Jalen Thompson, all

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Speaker 1: deserving a Pro Bowl consideration. You think so, Bird Gang,

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Speaker 1: go to NFL dot com slash Pro Bowl Vote NFL

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Speaker 1: on Cardinals Cover two presented by Hunday probab partner of

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. Some other notes with respects to this defense,

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Speaker 1: and something that you've mentioned a couple of different times

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Speaker 1: even on Cardinal Talk is the change defensively for Vance

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Speaker 1: Joseph from more man to man press coverage to now

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Speaker 1: playing a little bit more zone looks. And it was

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Speaker 1: really highlighted by an article on The Athletic this week

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Speaker 1: by Robert Mays. I thoroughly encourage everyone to go and

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Speaker 1: read this. For a lot of us that have been

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Speaker 1: around the team, watched the team cover the team, fan

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Speaker 1: of the team, not a whole lot of new stuff,

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Speaker 1: but it's a national article on Vance Joseph and the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals defense and the fact that there was some

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Speaker 1: patients and some continuity. This is year three. This is

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Speaker 1: what was the expectation when Cliff Kingsbury brought Vans Joseph

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Speaker 1: on board. Year three, You're going to build this. And

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Speaker 1: then also some dynamics with respects to how the Jordan

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Speaker 1: Hicksavian Collins dynamic played out, the improvement of Isaiah Simmons,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson, how quiet he was and now maybe not

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Speaker 1: so quiet as far as him leading team meetings. And

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Speaker 1: then just some analytics as well. And Kylodguard certainly would

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Speaker 1: appreciate that our former colleague here with the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: but that press man versus now more zone looks, And

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Speaker 1: it was Marcus Robertson who Vanish Joseph credited for making that.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say making the change, but just a little

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Speaker 1: bit different idea to kind of load up the fronts

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Speaker 1: and just play with more three defensive backs, whether it's

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Speaker 1: a corner or a safety, but you have a five

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Speaker 1: man front, three off the ball linebackers and The idea

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Speaker 1: is to get those teams that like to run the

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Speaker 1: football to see that and say, you know what, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be hard to throw against that. Let's let's open

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Speaker 1: it up a little bit. And I think that's where

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this Cardinals defense is getting those

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Speaker 1: takeaways because teams that would prefer to run the ball

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Speaker 1: are having to throw it based off the coverage that

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Speaker 1: the quarterback sees when he breaks the huddle. And it

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Speaker 1: can change weekly because Alan Robinson and Marcus a good

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Speaker 1: when we're out. Last week, besides Mooney, they did play

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Speaker 1: some man press at the line of scrimmage and I

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Speaker 1: think that led to Andy Dalton holding onto the ball

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Speaker 1: a little bit longer and it led to four interceptions.

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Speaker 1: So that but their their backbone of this defense, playing zone,

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Speaker 1: and we know that if they can you know, contain

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Speaker 1: them on first down, they give him in second and

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Speaker 1: six or third and six. That's when Vance can bring

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Speaker 1: in his sub packages, nickel and dime and get your

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Speaker 1: playmakers on the field. And he's not afraid to go

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Speaker 1: with that NASCAR package, you know, rush five sometimes. Last

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Speaker 1: week they only had two defensive linemen and then you're

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Speaker 1: seeing some guys come to the liner scrimp and then

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Speaker 1: they drop back into coverage. So I can't say enough

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Speaker 1: about Advance and what he's done with his defense, but

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Speaker 1: I think he was thinking we got Patrick Peterson, a

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Speaker 1: number one shutdown corner at the time until the suspension.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of years, he wasn't the same player.

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Speaker 1: Maybe lost his first step and then you lose Alford.

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Speaker 1: So I get what he was trying to do there,

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Speaker 1: and you got Chandler. You know, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: when you're playing um, you know, man to man, you

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Speaker 1: hope that somebody can get to the court of zone.

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Speaker 1: We're going to bring pressure on you now. So he

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Speaker 1: just didn't have the personnel, but now they have the

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Speaker 1: personalities change it up weekly. They can do it during

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Speaker 1: the game. But I would assume this week we're going

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Speaker 1: to see more zone because of the weapons they have,

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Speaker 1: and you have a better quarterback in Matthew Stafford than

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. Here are some numbers to back up this discussion,

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Speaker 1: and this his courtesy the article on the Athletic by

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Speaker 1: Robert May's. Last season, Cardinals played man coverage on nearly

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Speaker 1: forty six percents of their snaps and blitzed on nearly

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Speaker 1: thirty nine percents of their plays, the third and fourth

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Speaker 1: highest rates in the league, respectively. This season, the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: defense has already played more snaps of covered two than

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Speaker 1: all of last season. They're playing with just three defensive backs,

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Speaker 1: which is, as I said, four seen teams that like

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Speaker 1: to run the football to open up their offense. And

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Speaker 1: the specific example that the writer Robert May's mentioned was

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Speaker 1: the game against San Francisco the second meeting, and we

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Speaker 1: saw Jimmy Garoppolo drop back forty plus times, I believe

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Speaker 1: because of what he was seeing and what Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 1: was seen from the sidelines. You've got eight nine in

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Speaker 1: the box and then all of a sudden's like, well,

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Speaker 1: our advantage is to throw the football. And the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: have the talents and they understand what is being asked

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Speaker 1: to them in year three and the different schemes that

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Speaker 1: vanch Joseph is providing that they're able to make sure

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Speaker 1: that those open receivers at least initially look open, but

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Speaker 1: they're able to recover in an instant. Yeah, we're not

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Speaker 1: seeing you know, as I say this, you know every

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00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: game is different, but we're not seeing a lot of

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Speaker 1: yards after catch. You know, you're not saying, guys, just

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Speaker 1: wide run, wide open. When you play that cover too,

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Speaker 1: you're basically saying, we're not going to let anything over

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Speaker 1: the top. And then if we need to support the

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Speaker 1: run game, that's when the safeties come down, and we

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Speaker 1: know how well they tackle between Buddha and Jayleen Thompson.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I I completely understand why he did it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that did it that much last year

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Speaker 1: and man to man. But at the same time, though,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just I always look forward to his

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Speaker 1: game plan when it comes to vance. I mean he

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Speaker 1: I mean, he said that he spent a couple of

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Speaker 1: months on the Titans, and I think once you get

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Speaker 1: to schedule, you look at everyone who the new additions,

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Speaker 1: But then when you get to this point year, you

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Speaker 1: look at the last four game games were they doing.

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Speaker 1: But he always comes up with something, And to me,

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Speaker 1: that's the beauty of having him in the system and

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Speaker 1: being the coordinator for three years and the players. I

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Speaker 1: thought the Chandler had made a good point during the

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Speaker 1: press conference on Wednesday that because they've been in the

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Speaker 1: same scheme and system for three years, a lot of

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Speaker 1: these guys and even guys like Chase Whittaker and some

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Speaker 1: of these other guys that we don't talk about, they're

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Speaker 1: getting a ton of reps. He almost says like some

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00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: of these guys are like coaches on the field now

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00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: because they've been in the same system and they're not confused.

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00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: They're all on the same page. And I think it

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Speaker 1: shows on game day. There is very little miscommunication with

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Speaker 1: this defense here this year, and guys know where they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be or they're quickly directed to where they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be, but not a lot of confusion. Now

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have some of that. But you remember first

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Speaker 1: two seasons, a lot of guys arms up in the

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Speaker 1: air shaking their head finger. That's not happened. Now you're

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Speaker 1: going to get beat. I think we had a game

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Speaker 1: this year, maybe it was against the Packers, maybe the

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Speaker 1: Randall Cob play where Byron Murphy maybe thought Buddha was

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Speaker 1: gonna come help out. I mean, that's gonna happen. Plus

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Speaker 1: it's Aaron Rodgers. He can be looking to the right

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Speaker 1: side and he's setting you up, and all of a

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00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: sudden he doesn't have to look and he just rolls

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Speaker 1: the ball. Again, you're talking about a Hall of Fame quarterback.

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Speaker 1: But if I can only count a couple on one hand,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive versus guys widing right wide open and

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Speaker 1: everyone pointing to each other who you know, not it

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Speaker 1: wasn't me, because everyone at home is going to say

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Speaker 1: who blew the coverage? But honestly, I haven't seen as

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Speaker 1: much as we had in the first two years under Fans. Overall,

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Speaker 1: this defense number four and scoring number four against the past.

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Speaker 1: They are fourth as far as takeaways. Now, the run

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Speaker 1: game certainly a little leakage there as well, But if

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Speaker 1: this team can win on first and second down, then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, third down becomes predictable. You can

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Speaker 1: attack the quarterback. So yeah, the run defense, you'd like

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Speaker 1: to see some of those numbers down, but it goes

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Speaker 1: back to what they do on first down that dictates

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Speaker 1: what happens the rest of those set of downs. The

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Speaker 1: Cardinals are winning on first down as they have been great.

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Speaker 1: If they're not Ie Packers and Panthers, then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, yeah, the entire playbook is open to your disposal. Well,

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Speaker 1: and you know, depending on the quarterbacks they play. I

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00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: mean it's to me, it's it's really impressive that they're

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Speaker 1: only giving up two hundred and ten yards in the

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Speaker 1: air per game. I mean you look around the league.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's really impressive. And you know, like

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Speaker 1: I mentioned maybe on the Red Sea Report, maybe I

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00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: mentioned it on Monday on cards Cover two. It's not

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Speaker 1: like they're giving up one hundred and sixty five yards

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Speaker 1: on the ground per game. Now you'd like to see

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Speaker 1: the average per carry come down. What is it one

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Speaker 1: thirteen or one twenty? Right now they're given up correct, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: which one is one? They're almost one fourteen Okay the

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Speaker 1: game and four point seven yards, thank you. And I

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Speaker 1: think it gets overlooked because they're forcing turnovers. But clearly,

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Speaker 1: and this is a nippick and they talk about it

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Speaker 1: every week. I mean they want to run the ball

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Speaker 1: and getting chased back and obviously a Luxurian collar and

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Speaker 1: stopping the run. I mean getting these guys in second

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Speaker 1: and third and long and that's something that it may

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00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: not be perfect, but if you're getting gash for one

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00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five hundred and seventy yards per game,

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00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: that's an issue. And the Cardinals, according to your your

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00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: stats this week that you gave me. They ran for

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Speaker 1: over two hundred yards on the rams and it was

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Speaker 1: a week four and week four forty carries average better

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00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: than five and al yards another way to win. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we like to see them spinning ball down the field.

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Speaker 1: And there's gonna be options for these these wide receivers

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Speaker 1: and tight ends this week just based on the rams,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they can't cover the entire field, even though

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Speaker 1: they got some playmakers. And we'll see what Kyle Murray

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Speaker 1: has to say about this matchup when we rejoin you

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Speaker 1: on Thursday here on Cardinals Cover two presented by Hunday,

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Speaker 1: proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals. Last thing for this show,

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00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: and it's an important notes. Each team recognizes a player

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00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: for outstanding community service off the field as well as

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00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 1: their excellence on the field. Calvin Beacham this week named

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. Beacham

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00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: will receive a donation of forty thousand dollars in his

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00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 1: name to a charity of his choice. This is a

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Speaker 1: second time he has received his individual players Walter Payton

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Speaker 1: NFL Man of the Year distinction. Back in twenty eighteen

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00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: with the Jets. He was so honored. But can't think

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00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: of a more deserving person, an excellent player, an outstanding

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Speaker 1: right tackle who is only here in Arizona because of

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00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: Sean Coogler. He has made that clear a number of

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00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: times and the Cardinals are better off for it. But

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00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: it's what Calvin Beacham has done around the community. A

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Speaker 1: great article upon easy cardinals dot com by Kevin Parrish

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00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,240
Speaker 1: about Beacham and what he has done not only locally,

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Speaker 1: not even across the US, but worldwide. His contributions for

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00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: him and it's a great honor and best of luck

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00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 1: to him to now to become the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, which will be

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00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: announced before the Super Bowl. Yeah. I actually talked to

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00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald yesterday that name dropping, and Fitzis said, Mike,

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00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. Maybe Larry just because Larry has a

894
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,879
Speaker 1: great rolodex, maybe they knew each other before. But we're

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00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: talking about like providing water to some of these cities

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00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: that can't afford it. We're talking about bringing Wi Fi

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00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: to some of these schools. I mean the little things,

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00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: and you know, we didn't get a chance to talk

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Speaker 1: to him today. I'm assuming maybe he'll be available tomorrow

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00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: along with Michael Bidwell. I don't know that for sure,

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00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: but this guy, I don't I don't think he'll be

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00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: a run for a politician, but he's got a bright

903
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: future and he's so respected in that locker room. And

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Speaker 1: what he does on the field is kind of that's

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Speaker 1: his job. And he played all sixteen games last year.

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Speaker 1: But whatever he does in life, he's winning at it,

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00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: and he puts the time in and it's nice to

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00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: see when he was announce day, all the other players

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00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: around the league, including his teammates, just you know, they're

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00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: not surprised, but I'm glad he's getting recognized for what

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00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: he does, not only on the field, but off the field.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's really trying to make a difference in

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Speaker 1: some of these communities that just don't have the funding,

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Speaker 1: and he's going to get forty thousand dollars and he

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Speaker 1: can spread that out for a couple of different charities. Again,

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Speaker 1: just a great guy. He's got a bright future off

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Speaker 1: the field. Whatever he chooses to do, you bring up fits.

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Speaker 1: And I heard Kurt Warner this week on the NFL

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Speaker 1: Network say what fits has told a lot of people privately,

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Speaker 1: but the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award

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Speaker 1: is the most important award any player can receive, higher

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Speaker 1: than the MVP as far as an individual honor. It

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Speaker 1: means more to those players because yes, you're excellent on

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Speaker 1: the football field. Everyone in the National Football League is

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Speaker 1: excellent on the football field, But are you excellent off

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Speaker 1: the field in your community? Well? I remember Warner, he

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Speaker 1: got the trophy in uniform. Yeah, they don't do that anymore.

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Speaker 1: And then Larry, you know, obviously Eli Manning does a

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Speaker 1: lot with New York so they were co Man of

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Speaker 1: the Year award. But I'm telling you that's the most

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Speaker 1: prestigious award you can get. And yes, they're all great

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Speaker 1: football players, but they're even greater in their communities around

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Speaker 1: the country. They're always giving back and a lot of

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Speaker 1: times there's no cameras around. So props to him. And I,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I would love to get a chance

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Speaker 1: to pick his brain and like what's next in your life.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to push him out, but obviously he's

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00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: got other aspirations and a great family man. He was out,

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Speaker 1: you know, bringing gifts and food to people. I want

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00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: to say on Monday or Tuesday. So again there's not

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Speaker 1: always cameras around, but we know that he's one of

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Speaker 1: the best guys that they've had in a long time,

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Speaker 1: just what he does, and Antoine Bethet was worthy of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, Claius is on the list. Claius wanted J. J. Watt.

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Speaker 1: Obviously he's a guy who's done a ton of the community,

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Speaker 1: so it's always nice to see guys get recognized. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: again to Calvin Beecham, the Cardinals, Walter Peyton NFL Man

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Speaker 1: of the Year, and on that note, we will put

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Speaker 1: a lid on. This edition of Cardinal Scovered two, presented

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Speaker 1: by Hunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, has always

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Speaker 1: special thanks to our executive producer Jim MoMA androw for

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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki. I'm Craig Riel Loup. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: next time here on Cardinals Covered two.