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Speaker 1: catch by Kirk in the ends over a touchdown, Oh

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Speaker 1: Baby hild Here's Craig Griolu, Mike Jarecki and thirteen year

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Speaker 1: NFL veteran Drew Stanton in the grand scheme of things.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter, but it is so cool to

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Speaker 1: say the Arizona Cardinals are the only undefeated team in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. Don't know how long it's gonna last,

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Speaker 1: but enjoyed as the Las Vegas Raiders losing on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night football and Cardinals the only team that sits four

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Speaker 1: and oh through four weeks, and they did so after

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Speaker 1: beating the Rams thoroughly demolishing the Rams on Sunday at

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Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium thirty seven to twenty, and that is the

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Speaker 1: focus of this week's Cardinals Read Sea Reports drew watching

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Speaker 1: that game, as you did, what stood out? Offense or defense?

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Speaker 1: Where do you go first? Even though you are, you know,

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Speaker 1: an offensive guy by nature, Well, I think offensively, My

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Speaker 1: mind just goes to a methodical game plan that just

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Speaker 1: was executed to perfection. You look at what that was,

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Speaker 1: and it's always easier when you're the team that's being aggressive.

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Speaker 1: But to see the demeanor in which Kylie went out there,

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Speaker 1: me In these crucial games that you're going up against,

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Speaker 1: going up against the dynamic offense, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: those touchdowns start adding up more and you put yourself

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing in these tight ball games, and Kyler

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Speaker 1: when you have to defend every single portion of the field,

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Speaker 1: like they're making teams due now on defense, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if you have a Jalen Ramsey because you can

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Speaker 1: Max Williams shows up defensively. They did a phenomenal job

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Speaker 1: to see this week, when you can make them have

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Speaker 1: And sometimes you look at a team's strength and do

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Speaker 1: what they do well. When you feel like you can

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Speaker 1: even combat that, like Arizona was able to do on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you go in there with a whole newfound confidence because

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Speaker 1: no matter what they throw at you, you say, we

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Speaker 1: can handle this and we're going to answer it with X,

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Speaker 1: Y and Z. The Cardinals have six receivers with at

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Speaker 1: least fifteen receptions, led by Chase Edmonds, who's got twenty

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Speaker 1: one of those receivers Max Williams, who has certainly come

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Speaker 1: along the past couple of games. He spoke postgame about

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Speaker 1: why the Cardinals offense is so tough to defend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it all starts with k One And we've

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Speaker 1: been saying that all the year that he's a new

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Speaker 1: kind of leader this year. He's got a whole lot

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Speaker 1: of confidence going with him, and it all starts with

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, and we're rallying behind him and we're just

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Speaker 1: going to work every day and we're having fun doing it.

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Speaker 1: Max Williams fifteen catches, one hundred and seventy nine yards

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Speaker 1: and a touchdown MJ and just his ability to be

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Speaker 1: opened down the middle of the field. He took a

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Speaker 1: nice shot in the end zone, hung on to the football,

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Speaker 1: but now all of a sudden, spreading the football, spreading

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Speaker 1: the field out, you're tied in. And we talked about

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Speaker 1: it all off season on how valuable that could be

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Speaker 1: having someone running down the middle. Yeah, and again, I

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Speaker 1: know Cliff can finally run four wide, you know, go

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Speaker 1: ten personnel, but they still like, you know, eleven and

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Speaker 1: twelve personnel. And his catch races about ninety four percent.

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Speaker 1: He mentioned one hundred and seventy nine yards. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at yards from scrimmage between Chase sevens, you

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Speaker 1: got three hundred ninety five, Jay Green two forty eight,

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk two forty four, Hop two twenty five. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these guys and it's not just they're getting yards, have

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Speaker 1: to catch also. But Max Williams is a guy that

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Speaker 1: they definitely missed when he was injured. He's a meat

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Speaker 1: and potatoes guy. But now you're starting to see that

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Speaker 1: that trust factor down the scene with him and Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: Christen Kirk only had one catch the only time he

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Speaker 1: was targeted. Yet he played the most of the season

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Speaker 1: fifty six of seventy eight snaps, yet he's only targeted once.

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Speaker 1: And again that's each week, someone different, it seems, is

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Speaker 1: going to have their day. Although you would like to

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Speaker 1: see maybe your top end guys always be involved. DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins was, Yet it's that how do you spread the

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Speaker 1: ball out to make sure everyone is happy at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. Yeah, I think the flow of

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Speaker 1: the game dictates that, right the I would imagine Cliff

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Speaker 1: as a box of These are the calls that I

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Speaker 1: can get the ball in Deandre's hand, whether it's a screen,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a short passing in, whether it's a stop

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Speaker 1: right on the outside when he knows he's getting one

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Speaker 1: on one. But you know, the point of offending every

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Speaker 1: portion of the field. Those safeties when they feel vertical

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Speaker 1: stretched and there, they've got to sit there and first see, okay,

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Speaker 1: does DeAndre get a clean release? Now my eyes got

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Speaker 1: to get back inside and he was late trying to help,

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Speaker 1: and Kyler throws an unbelievable all to get in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Those are the fine details that people don't

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Speaker 1: really understand the stress that's put on these these defenders.

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Speaker 1: And really when you can get into four wide receiver sets,

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Speaker 1: like can you name the third and fourth corner for

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Speaker 1: the Rams? I mean, I'm sure you guys can. But

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Speaker 1: beyond that, when you take advantage of what they're trying

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Speaker 1: to do in their areas of weakness, where you gain

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Speaker 1: an extreme advantage, that's really the beauty of the game

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Speaker 1: within the game in the NFL, and why Cliff can

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Speaker 1: go so many directions within this because how do you

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Speaker 1: defend that, especially like we were talking about in the

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Speaker 1: red zone, when you can sit there and convert touchdowns

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Speaker 1: as opposed to having to settle for field goals because

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Speaker 1: you can line up and punch somebody in the mouth man,

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Speaker 1: how how do you stop? And I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: They literally could run four wide with Chase Edmons because

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Speaker 1: you can make all of a sudden he can go

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Speaker 1: out for a pass. They're also leaving a receiver next

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Speaker 1: to the sideline, so if Murray's going through his progressions

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Speaker 1: and nobody's open, he has the ability. I watch aj

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Speaker 1: Green do it. I think a few times last year

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk dot it so instead of him running, he's

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Speaker 1: got a check down. And granted it's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: a big play, but he's gonna it's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: a negative play. Team is playing with a lot of

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Speaker 1: comfidence right now, and they're deservedly so after beating in

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Speaker 1: the Rams thirty seven to twenty four, and oh for

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Speaker 1: the first time since twenty fifth or excuse me, since

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, though it's September and or early October, and

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Speaker 1: for Chase Edmonds, it's all about looking ahead, making sure

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Speaker 1: these games matter in December and January. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to get too far ahead of ourselves. Man. Obviously, we

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Speaker 1: played a hell of opponent in the La Rams and dial.

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Speaker 1: We had to do with us the expectation, you know,

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Speaker 1: we really changed that lock them around. We got big

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Speaker 1: time players in there, we got culture guys where it's

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Speaker 1: expected to win big time games. I think it was

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Speaker 1: a small step in the right direction to where we

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Speaker 1: want to go when when the games really matter in

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Speaker 1: December and January. We've heard Buddha Baker mentioned at MJ

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Speaker 1: a lot the one in old mental never gets too

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Speaker 1: far ahead. In fact, it's just focusing on that particular

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Speaker 1: day and we went one and other this week. You

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Speaker 1: said that now for four straight weeks, and you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get him to say anything more than that. No,

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Speaker 1: And to me, you know, Chandler Jones obviously is the

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Speaker 1: guy that has all the numbers, but Buddha Baker, to me,

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Speaker 1: is the face of this defense and he's not afraid

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Speaker 1: to get in your face. And you heard Max Williams

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Speaker 1: talking about Kyler's taking another step being a leader. You

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Speaker 1: know you'd like to have those conversations take place during

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Speaker 1: the week. You're gonna have him on game day. But

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Speaker 1: you could just see that everyone's gravitating to what what

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff is asking to do, and everyone's on

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Speaker 1: the same page. I mean, yeah, you're gonna have Eagles

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Speaker 1: in the locker rooman as he pointed out. Drew A

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Speaker 1: pointed out, yeah, I'm sure hopped like more numbers. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, these guys want to

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Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. That's where you make your mark.

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Speaker 1: Look at Larry Fitzgerald where he did in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight, that was his coming out party. You want

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Speaker 1: to win at the end of the day, right, Drew.

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Speaker 1: I mean, no matter what the numbers, individual numbers are

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Speaker 1: I mean, you want to walk out that field on

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Speaker 1: with the win on Sundays exactly. And that's what it

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Speaker 1: boils down to, I think early on in your career,

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Speaker 1: when you're trying to establish yourself and we all play

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Speaker 1: this game for respect. I think that's one thing that

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Speaker 1: people don't truly understand. You know, and you look at

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Speaker 1: this and you have to go out and you earn respect.

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Speaker 1: It's not given it. And it was well documented last week.

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Speaker 1: Go into the game. Everybody was just talking about how

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Speaker 1: good the Rams were because of what they did the

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Speaker 1: week prior. But you're only as good as your last

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Speaker 1: game in this league as well, and as you move forward.

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Speaker 1: There's no awards given out in September, and I think

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Speaker 1: that really is a point of emphasis within the locker

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Speaker 1: room because all these guys that are on the same page,

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Speaker 1: they're saying the exact same thing and they truly believe it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's one thing I don't think this is

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Speaker 1: just talk to the media. This is no guys like

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Speaker 1: we're keeping our head down, we're grinding and we'll figure

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Speaker 1: it out. Because this is too tough at a division

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Speaker 1: to sit back and back man we were in the

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Speaker 1: same boat again to start, But now you've got to

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Speaker 1: worry about San Francisco, you gotta worry about Seattle, and

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Speaker 1: you've got to play the Rams again, and all of

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Speaker 1: these things are going to matter because you can't take

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Speaker 1: a single week for granted, or else you're gonna find

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Speaker 1: yourself with the loss in the and it's just not,

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Speaker 1: you know, something that you can afford to do when

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Speaker 1: you're playing as well as you are. It's a good start. Cardinals, though,

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Speaker 1: got off to a good start last season, and we

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Speaker 1: all know how it finished. So that's why this one

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Speaker 1: and O mentality that the Cardinals have adopted in that

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Speaker 1: locker room is so important to keep the focus on

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Speaker 1: the here and now and not what happens in November

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Speaker 1: and December. The Day Pash Podcast Episode ten available now

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Speaker 1: featuring ESPN at ABC football announcer Kirk herp Street. Episode

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Speaker 1: eleven coming up later on this week on Wednesday with

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Speaker 1: podcast provider, get to let us updates via Twitter at

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Speaker 1: pash pod. We have hit halftime here on the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: red see report Craig Riel, but Mike Jarecki Andrew Stanton

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Speaker 1: when we come back. Oh yeah, the defense. In fact,

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Speaker 1: my number one takeaway from Sunday on just how well

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Speaker 1: the defense shut down. Matthew Stafford and company will get

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Speaker 1: into what we saw on Sunday while we've seen so

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Speaker 1: far through the first four games defensively, that's all straight

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Speaker 1: ahead here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Second and three,

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Speaker 1: nine minutes to go in the first It's a fake

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Speaker 1: handoff rolling right a Stafford looking back to the left,

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Speaker 1: throwing a deep ball farside for to Sean Jackson head

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Speaker 1: it picked off inside the fifteen yard line. It's Byron Murphy.

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Speaker 1: He's tackled around the twelve. Byron Murphy, the NFC defensive

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week who had two picks last week,

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Speaker 1: gets one here on Stafford in the first quarter. Ah

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Speaker 1: Byron Murphy painted Matthew Stafford the pro fat ball and

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Speaker 1: then broke on the ball one. An unbelievable play from

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Speaker 1: Byron Murphy fained Matthew Stafford to throw it. Man Murphy's

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Speaker 1: playing like a pro bowler the first month of the season.

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Speaker 1: One interception in his first thirty three career games. Byron

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Speaker 1: Murphy now three interceptions in his past two games. As

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Speaker 1: we can see you here on the Cardinals Red Sea

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Speaker 1: Report following a Cardinals win in Los Angeles handling the

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Speaker 1: Rams thirty seven to twenty, Gregoryeol, Mike Drecky, Andrew stan

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Speaker 1: talking specifically about Murphy and the defense, and it was

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Speaker 1: all Matthew Stafford, the entire offensive performance of what he's

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Speaker 1: done through the first three games, and Cooper Cup the

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Speaker 1: NFC Offensive Player of the Month and those guys. I

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Speaker 1: mean it was one possession and I don't even count

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Speaker 1: that last touchdown Drew that that's just me. I mean

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Speaker 1: it counts in the records, but outside of that final score,

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Speaker 1: one touchdown allowed on eight possessions. That's what the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: defense to the Rams. Yeah, it's remarkable. I think you

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Speaker 1: look at the comfort and the ability against just it's

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Speaker 1: a confidence boost each and every week. And when you

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Speaker 1: have a guy playing at that high of a level

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Speaker 1: that can go out there and the ball just kind

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Speaker 1: of finds you, and it just seems to find him

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Speaker 1: a couple of times. And he had a great, a

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Speaker 1: great play on the ball to go up and make

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Speaker 1: a play. Matthew left it a little short and again

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Speaker 1: those guys, it's a new dynamic. Sometimes you see that

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Speaker 1: it's well documented the count. You know, the continuity that

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Speaker 1: already exists between Matthew and Cooper Cup, but that was

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Speaker 1: also off. So you start trying to like reach a

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Speaker 1: little bit. You try and start making plays and push

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Speaker 1: them on the ball downfield and advanced. Joseph's defense has

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Speaker 1: the ability to make you earn everything. That's the beauty

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Speaker 1: of playing that quarter's coverage. It's kind of muddied up.

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Speaker 1: That has help with the safety over the top or

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Speaker 1: allows guys to run with you. So you've really got

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Speaker 1: to be honed in on what you're trying to do,

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Speaker 1: and it allows guys to go out there and make

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Speaker 1: plays because they can see what's going on that that

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Speaker 1: zone defense that sometimes allows you to be able to

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Speaker 1: get eyes on the quarterback or these safeties coming out

647
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Speaker 1: and coming downhill and really setting the tone defensively with

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Speaker 1: the tackles not allowing big plays to even get started.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though you're going into that game,

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Speaker 1: I thought they're gonna have to try something different. I

651
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Speaker 1: mean nothing nothing against the three four, but they won

652
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Speaker 1: a lot of nickel and time. Sometimes we saw two

653
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Speaker 1: linemen three linemen, so they wanted to have and I thought,

654
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: you know, Vans had a great chap. They didn't really

655
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Speaker 1: have to wait till halftime. Even though you're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: from Buddha Baker, how you know, the Rams got out

657
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Speaker 1: to a good start initially, but I love the game

658
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Speaker 1: plan going in. Well, you look at the numbers that

659
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Speaker 1: first quarter, the Rams had sixty eight rushing yards, but

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Speaker 1: in quarters two, three, and four combined just fifty three.

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Speaker 1: And that's last week in Jacksonville. We pointed to that

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Speaker 1: one scoring drive that the Jaguars just ran it down

663
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals throats, but that was really it was the

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Speaker 1: only time yet if you look at the overall numbers

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Speaker 1: defensively drew as far as what this team is allowing

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Speaker 1: on the ground, it's not great. Yet at the same time,

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Speaker 1: when this team needs to stop, they are getting stops. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's huge. I mean that's what it really is. Stats

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Speaker 1: can be so misleading. We can twist them and make

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Speaker 1: them into what we want them to be. But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you can go out

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Speaker 1: there and get those stops when they're needed, that's what

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Speaker 1: it's all about. I mean, Derek Henry had you know

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Speaker 1: this one where he was rattling off some runs or

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Speaker 1: that drive that you talked about in Jacksonville. When you

676
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Speaker 1: can set something up and you make those adjustments within

677
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Speaker 1: the game to really not allow them to carry over

678
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Speaker 1: throughout the entire course of the game, I mean, that's

679
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Speaker 1: what's going to turn into championship football. So what changed

680
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Speaker 1: defensively for the Cardinals. Here's Buddha Baker on just that.

681
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Speaker 1: That's a point of emphasis every single week. Physicality, of course,

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Speaker 1: be smart and you know with this week playing against

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Speaker 1: the Rams, they do a lot of jet motions. You know,

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Speaker 1: they kind of mess with a lot of guy's eyes.

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Speaker 1: So in the first half, you know, we're kind of

686
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Speaker 1: messing up the run game because all the jets going

687
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Speaker 1: different ways. Guys, you know, having to see those jets.

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Speaker 1: And we just settled down later on and a half

689
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Speaker 1: and you just settled down and everything took care of

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Speaker 1: his silk that entire secondary m Jay led by Buddha Baker.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson, I think he's really coming to his own

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Speaker 1: this season. A mini Buddha Baker, if you will. Won

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Speaker 1: He's healthy, but a sure tackler, physical player. He did

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Speaker 1: get called for two penalties, but you like the physicality,

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Speaker 1: you like the aggressiveness. And then by our Murphy, which

696
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Speaker 1: we've always we've already talked about, Marco Wilson and Robert Alford.

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Speaker 1: Those are five guys right there in the secondary that

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Speaker 1: are able to handle. If you've got a number of

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Speaker 1: different offensive weapons that can cover five different receivers, well,

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Speaker 1: this is night and day from a year ago. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've got corners that are willing to come down and

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Speaker 1: run support. They're physical at the point of attack. And

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Speaker 1: you know, listen, you look at Byra Murphy, Robert Alford

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Speaker 1: and Marco Wilson, even Antonio Hamilton. I mean you can

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Speaker 1: say right now the strength has been the secondary over

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Now, in Week one, clearly

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Speaker 1: it was the front seven. I mean the way they

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Speaker 1: were able to get to Ryan Tannehill and shut down

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. But the secondary, I mean, and they and

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Speaker 1: they're physical. I mean there you're not seeing a lot

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Speaker 1: of mistakes out there. And I think it all starts

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Speaker 1: with Buddha and Jalen Thompson. What a what a tackler.

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Speaker 1: He had ten tackles last week, So I like the

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Speaker 1: physicality from the secondary, and you got to give them

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Speaker 1: guys a lot of credit because there was so many

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Speaker 1: question marks a when Malcolm Butler left camp. Is Marco

717
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Speaker 1: Wilson is too big for him? Can allor state health?

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Speaker 1: He's Byron Murphy actually a number one corner. Those are

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Speaker 1: question marks and they were fair going into the season,

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Speaker 1: and I think they've quiet those naysayers and those questions

721
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Speaker 1: have been answered, especially through four games now the front seven.

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Speaker 1: As far as getting after the quarterback, I know people

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Speaker 1: are pointing to the lack of sacks. Chandler Jones has five,

724
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Speaker 1: but nothing since Week one. You look at some of

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Speaker 1: the defensive metrics. JJ Watt grated out very very well

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, yet he doesn't have a sack yet. As

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Speaker 1: a quarterback sometimes though, you know, more than anything else,

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Speaker 1: it's not always about the sack. If you can make

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Speaker 1: a quarterback uncomfortable, which I think Matthew Stafford was uncomfortable

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Speaker 1: a lot on Sunday. Yeah, you could just see it.

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Speaker 1: I think that after a week one it was well

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Speaker 1: documented how good this front seven was playing. So as

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Speaker 1: an offense, if I'm game planning for you, what do

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Speaker 1: I need to do. I need to make sure that

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Speaker 1: that front seven doesn't wreck the game before it even

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Speaker 1: gets started, right, So you try and set up that

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Speaker 1: everything with the run game. And that's the beauty again

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Speaker 1: of what they're going to see this week against Cisco.

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Speaker 1: It's the same offense. It's it's Sean McVay, it's Kyle Shanahan.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple wrinkles, but that eye trouble that existed

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Speaker 1: that first quarter hopefully won't even be an issue this

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Speaker 1: week because it's already the exact same carbon copy of

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Speaker 1: what they're doing. Now. Yes, they have the ability to

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Speaker 1: do different things, but you want guys around the football.

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Speaker 1: Any noise around a quarterback makes him uncomfortable and people

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Speaker 1: at his feet, even like Kyler was talking about when

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Speaker 1: he got hit in the head, just a little bit

748
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Speaker 1: of distraction can create chaos and this feeling of uncomfort.

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Speaker 1: And they've done a great job. I mean again, the

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Speaker 1: versatility throughout each level of this defense is what allows

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Speaker 1: them to kind of say, okay, like that was your week.

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Speaker 1: Week one. Front seven handled it okay. Now the secondary

753
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Speaker 1: is playing at such a high level because the safeties

754
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Speaker 1: they can come down out of center field or the

755
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: out of their side of the field and make tackles

756
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Speaker 1: that doesn't allow a big play to even get started. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Cardinal's gonna lie eye candy. On defense, you

758
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Speaker 1: start with J. J. Watt, and then you look at

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones, and then you look at Buddha Baker and

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you've ben looking a guy like Isaiah Simmons,

761
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Speaker 1: but the guy that's really playing well as Marcus Golden.

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Speaker 1: He had two tackle, a quarterback hit, a force fumble.

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Speaker 1: Through four games, He's got eight tackles, two sacks, tackle

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Speaker 1: for lost, three quarterback hits, a pass defense, two forced fumbles,

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Speaker 1: in a fumble recovery. He is making his presence felt.

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Speaker 1: He's had either a sack, a force fumble, or a

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Speaker 1: fumble recovery in every game so far. And you looked

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Speaker 1: at the force fumble that he caused on Sunday, punching

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Speaker 1: the ball out at no one really knew where it

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Speaker 1: was and it's on the ground. Buddha Baker scoops it up.

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Speaker 1: So it's going back to what you're saying, the little things,

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Speaker 1: the small little details, and that's part of a larger

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Speaker 1: picture that why this Cardinals team is four oh exactly.

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Speaker 1: And I think two. You know, you hate to bring

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Speaker 1: up this term, but role players, right, but you have

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Speaker 1: role players on the team when you accept your role

777
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Speaker 1: of what you are and you can go out there

778
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Speaker 1: and there's that's the beauty of this team why there's

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Speaker 1: so much success as they have role players at every

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Speaker 1: single position. Marcus Golden changed the outcome of that game

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Speaker 1: by punching the ball away. He's not a guy that's

782
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Speaker 1: sitting there like worried about checking the if he was

783
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: on Instagram or what his feed was or anything like that.

784
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Speaker 1: He's going out and doing his job. Aj Green same

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Speaker 1: thing when his opportunity comes, he makes the play. Christian

786
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Speaker 1: Kirk the same thing. Ron del Moore, you saw him

787
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Speaker 1: in the backfield a little bit. They're setting all of

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Speaker 1: these things up that just allows you to not really

789
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: get a beat on what's going on. And there's no

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00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: substitute for effort, And there's effort seen on the film

791
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 1: each and every week by guys out there that you know,

792
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: it's almost becoming happenstance because you take it for granted.

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Speaker 1: But those are the little things that show up so big.

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Speaker 1: You know, we look how Kyler's spread the ball out

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Speaker 1: and how he's getting guys involved in that forcing things

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Speaker 1: on defense. I mean, every week somebody else is stepping up.

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00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: We've gone forty five minutes and we haven't talked about

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Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks right now. I mean, he's playing really well.

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Speaker 1: His great last week was somewhere in the high eighties.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's taking so much pressure off the front.

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00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: Obviously people want to see Zavian Collins and but they're

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00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: trying to win games right now. And then the way

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Speaker 1: that Isaiah Simmons is playing. But yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: like the fact that other guys are chipping and they're

805
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: just not relying on one or two guys, just like

806
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 1: the offense is relying on a handful of players. Coming

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Speaker 1: up this week on Wednesday, in fact, episode three of

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Folk Tales entitled One Time in Mexico looking back

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Speaker 1: at the two thousand and five game between the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: and forty nine Ers in Mexico City, you can go

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Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals YouTube channel, YouTube dot com slash

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Speaker 1: as Cardinals that is One Time in Mexico Episode three

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Speaker 1: of Cardinals Folk Tales. This is the Arizona Cardinals Radio

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Speaker 1: Network snapped to Kyler Murray three step drop loops at

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Speaker 1: deep middle in the end zone. Max Williams hangs on

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Speaker 1: as he's head touchdown. Williams over the middle, got pop

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Speaker 1: and Tyler Murray with a feutiful tuck crow and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals are back and runt. What are you gonna do

819
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Speaker 1: when Max Williams runs the seam on you? What a

820
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: great read by Kyler Murray, play Baker Murray and a

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Speaker 1: dump off to Williams carton right side with the room

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Speaker 1: at the twenty five twenty flaves and up fifteen of

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Speaker 1: the ten and summer assaults as he's upbended inside the

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Speaker 1: ten at the eighty yard line at twenty five yard game.

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Speaker 1: They completely fooled the Rams defense. What a great call

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Speaker 1: by Cliff Kingsberry. The tight ends screen. Keep Max Williams

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Speaker 1: healthy and he will do everything that we saw on

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Speaker 1: Sunday and then some. As he likes to say, tight

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Speaker 1: ends problem solvers, and he's certainly been a problem solver

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Speaker 1: so far this year. As we continue here on the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Red Sea report, focusing on yeah, still talking a

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Speaker 1: little bit about what happened against the Rams, and now

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Speaker 1: also turn in our attention to this week when the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers visit State Farm Stadium. One

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Speaker 1: twenty five is the kickoff eight thirty AM. Pregame coverage

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Speaker 1: begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio network. Before we get

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Speaker 1: too much into that, and I want, Drew, want your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on one name that we haven't touched on, and

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Speaker 1: that I think, at least for me, is the most

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Speaker 1: valuable player on this team offensive and that would be

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Speaker 1: the center, Rodney Hudson. But before I get your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on that, here's Chase Edmonds on what Hudson has meant

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00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 1: to this team offensively, Big Rod, Uncle Rod I call him.

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Speaker 1: He's been a hell of ad for us, man, I

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Speaker 1: mean night and day difference, whether it's the run game,

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Speaker 1: the pass game, keeping us poise. You know that was

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Speaker 1: a hostile environment, man, and Rod does a great job

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Speaker 1: of keeping us poised, making all the right calls, telling

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Speaker 1: us what he sees out there, and just open dialogue.

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Speaker 1: And the addition of Rodney Hudson. Man, I can't I

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00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: can't harpen it enough. You know, it's been tremendous for us,

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Speaker 1: especially in the run game and obviously with Kylin in

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Speaker 1: the past game. The value of the center position, a

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Speaker 1: veteran center. I'll go back, a huge fan of a

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Speaker 1: Q Shipley and what he meant to the Arizona Cardinals.

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00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: They always tried to replace him, trying to get more

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Speaker 1: athletic at that position, and it just never worked. You

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Speaker 1: couldn't move him out of that spot unless he was injured.

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Speaker 1: Exactly another good point. But what Hudson has done and

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Speaker 1: what a veteran center can do, not only along the

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Speaker 1: offensive line, but for a young quarterback, oh man, I mean,

862
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: there's no replacement for experience. There truly isn't. And you

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Speaker 1: get a guy in there like that, and that's why

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Speaker 1: you can shift guys around a tackle and guard and

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Speaker 1: move guys because the centerpiece is still the centerpiece and

866
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Speaker 1: when everything revolves around him and he goes up and

867
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Speaker 1: he makes these calls and he's telling the right side

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Speaker 1: of line which to do the left side of the line,

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Speaker 1: and everybody has confidence in that, As was talked about

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Speaker 1: in the leading, I mean, there is not a substitute

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Speaker 1: for that. When everybody feels like they are on the

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Speaker 1: same page, which is of the utmost importance in a

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Speaker 1: hostile environment with a guy that's seen every single look

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Speaker 1: under the sun, it doesn't matter what it is. He's

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00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: so well studied. He knows how to study tape, he

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00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: knows how to do it, and he knows how to

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00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: communicate that down the line. I mean it's huge. I

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00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: don't I don't think that that's something that gets enough

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00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: point of emphasis because a guy like him to be

880
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: available for Steve Kime to go out and get him.

881
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: And Steve's done a couple of these moves that have

882
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: really paid off in the nineteenth hour because it allowed

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00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 1: them to get a center, a pro bowl caliberal center

884
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: that just makes everything, all that offense flow that much easier.

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00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 1: And I know he's got input behind the scenes with

886
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: the run game. COO talks about how good he has

887
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 1: been for that room because protection wise, all these things,

888
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: and it just alleviates everybody's responsibilities that much more because

889
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: Cliff doesn't have to worry about protections. He can sit

890
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: there and say, well, I want to draw up all

891
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 1: the past game, but how are we going to protect this?

892
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: And then that falls on the Center to be able

893
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: to do it. And he has done a tremendous job

894
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Speaker 1: for the first four weeks. Everyone has tooked so highly

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00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: Hudson as far as what he has meant. You asked

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00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: Hudson about it, and he's like, oh, you know, I'm

897
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: just doing my job. He's very matter of fact, very humble.

898
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Speaker 1: Yet I think his presence MJ has spoke volumes for

899
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 1: what he's able to do and then make those line

900
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 1: calls and then help Kyle the Marine get the offense

901
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: set for that particular play. Well, they always say, what

902
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: the center is probably one of the smartest guys on

903
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: the team. Oh, he has to be, you know, he's

904
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: got to be able to get up there and he

905
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: can't have any hesitation. You know, you're on a shot

906
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: clock and depending on what's being asked to you from

907
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: a center position, as you make the mic in, the

908
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: quarterback either reaffirms that or they try and dictate what's

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00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: going on. But he has to completely trust and what

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00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: he's seeing. Much like a quarterback, right, you have to

911
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: rely on preparation, You have to rely on all this

912
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: different than the quarterback. He's got to communicate that and

913
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: he's got to make sure the left tackle knows, the

914
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Speaker 1: right tackle knows, the guards communicate everything and also being

915
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: able to adjust right. Hey, I mean I remember being

916
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: in a game with Lyle in Saint Louis, and Lyle's like, hey,

917
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: this nose keeps trying to swim me and do all this.

918
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Speaker 1: If we alert to this, we can get this run

919
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: game going and all of a sudden, boom is implemented

920
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: and I think we went for over two hundred yards

921
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Speaker 1: in the ground of that game. So when you have

922
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Speaker 1: a player of that caliboard that you trust and you

923
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: can rely on to see the flow of the game,

924
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: I mean, allows you to make these adjustments that Again,

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Speaker 1: he's not looking for accolades. He just takes pride in

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Speaker 1: what he does and does it at an extremely high level.

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Speaker 1: Before we close up this edition of the Cardinals, read

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Speaker 1: Sea Report on Sunday. Forty nine ers in town two

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Speaker 1: and two that are on a two game losing streak,

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Speaker 1: coming off a loss to the Seattle Seahawks, and now

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo dealing with a calf injury, Trey Lance waiting

932
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Speaker 1: in the wings, perhaps getting his first career NFL start

933
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Speaker 1: in the regular season. We were talking off air, but

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Speaker 1: if you're the Cardinals, you have to play. You have

935
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Speaker 1: to prepare for both because we've seen both on the field.

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Speaker 1: But Garoppolo, you know what, you're getting from him. Trey

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Speaker 1: Lanz is the unknown in this equation. Yeah, he's a

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Speaker 1: wild card. But to that point of Jimmy can play,

939
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Speaker 1: I would imagine they at least try him to play

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Speaker 1: because he doesn't need the course of the week to

941
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,839
Speaker 1: go out there. He just needs to be physically ready

942
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Speaker 1: to play. Where Trey Lanz is gonna get all the reps,

943
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to do all these things, so

944
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: you kind of have to prepare. But the offense is

945
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Speaker 1: the offense, stop the run game. Everything's predicated on that

946
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Speaker 1: and you'll hopefully have the same result as last week

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Speaker 1: against the Rams. Forty nine Ers have won three of

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Speaker 1: the last four against the Cardinals, including their last two

949
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Speaker 1: trips to Arizona. And we all remember what happened last

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Speaker 1: year at State Farm Stadium. It was not pretty. One

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Speaker 1: to twenty five is the kickoff eight thirty am. Pregame

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Speaker 1: looking to go five and oh, two and oh inside

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Speaker 1: the NFC US again. That game coming up on Sunday

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Speaker 1: Special Thanks to those behind the scenes, Senior broadcast Manager

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Speaker 1: and producer Joe Malmhandro, Technical director Jeff Darge for Mike Jarecki,

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Speaker 1: Drew Stanton. I'm praig Riel Loup. We'll talk to you

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