1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Welcome bird Gang. On today's show, Paul Calvisi joins me. 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Time to talk about the Patriots. And when you talk 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: about the Patriots, one name comes to mind, Bill Belichick. 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: So what should the Cardinals expect on Monday? Expect the 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: unexpected with those should expect a win. It's been way 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: too long. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode six twenty three 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: and it starts now. Welcome to Cardinals Cover two. Hit 8 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: in the backfield and Downey goes for a loss. J. J. 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: Watt Nailed at Cardinals. Cover two is presented by Hun Day, 10 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: Visit acy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts. He's at the 12 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: ten half of five. He's in again. So for Harry Magic, whoa, 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: here's Craig grieloup. So those of us here on the 14 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: West Coast, in the NFC West specifically, we do not 15 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: see the New England Patriots a lots, but when we do, Paul, 16 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: it's amazing just reading this week, listening to the questions, 17 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: listening to the answers from coaches and players. It's always 18 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: one man, one individual, and he will not be between 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: the lines on Monday nights. But we're talking about Patriots 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: head coach Bill Belichick. It's the New England fighting Belichick's 21 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: You're right. Even the head coach Cliff Kingsbury. Now, someone 22 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: who played for Bill belichicks someone who told the media 23 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: going into this game that he learned more in that 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: one year as a rookie two thousand and three six 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: round draft pick. Oh a six round quarterback for the 26 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: New England Patriots not named Tom Brady. It was Cliff 27 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: Kingsbury that he learned more that one year just in 28 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: terms of coaching one O one is the way Cliff 29 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: Kingsbury put it. Think about that, Think about the guy 30 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: who was the son of a high school football coach 31 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: in Texas and everything he learned, just how to go 32 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: about game planning, how to go about organizing a practice 33 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: schedule and assembling that team and getting ready for a game. 34 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: That's what Bill Belichick is all about. And that's what 35 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: you think of, at least to me, I think of 36 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: a team that won't beat itself. That's what you're gonna get. 37 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 1: Are you gonna recognize a lot in the names and 38 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: faces and numbers and names on the backs of jerseys. 39 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: Probably not, although they have a plenty of standout players. 40 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: It's just their task, the way they go about that task, 41 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: and the way they're always game ready, seemingly. I go 42 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: back to twenty twenty and that empty Gillette Stadium and Foxborough, 43 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: the COVID year and Cam Newton's stinking up that joint 44 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: with a passer rating somewhere in the twenties, and you're thinking, man, 45 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: there's no way the Cardinals can lose this team to 46 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: this quarterback. Yet the Patriots found a way. And for 47 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 1: all those everything that's made about those last two losses 48 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season, or rightfully so, you lost to CJ. 49 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: Bethird in Week sixteen and then you lost to John 50 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: Wolford in Week seventeen, I get it. It was a 51 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: few weeks earlier at New England that that was an 52 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: an excusable loss. Inexplicable maybe is a better way to 53 00:03:02,919 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: put it. And why Well, it came down to the 54 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 1: Patriots making a play on special teams, turning that game 55 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: and just the way they are able to finish that 56 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 1: game and getting a game winning fuel goal. The fact 57 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: the last three times you've played the Patriots has come 58 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: down to a game winning fuel goal attend So I 59 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: expect another close game. I really do. I think the 60 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: Cardinals will be fired up. But that X factor, to 61 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: your point, is always Bill Belichick. And we heard it 62 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: all week in the locker room from so many different angles, 63 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: the preparation that those players get each and every day 64 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: to prepare for the unexpected, to prepare for the unlikely, 65 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: any scenario, whether it's early in the game or late 66 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: in the game. Because you're right, and what does Belichick 67 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: do best? He takes away what you do best. Although 68 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 1: they'll argue, Paul, what do the Cardinals really do best 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: when you look at this offense going up against the 70 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: Patriots defense? Because yeah, it's I you know, what do 71 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: you take away? As far as the number one weapon, 72 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: well that would be DeAndre Hopkins. But really, this Cardinals 73 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: offense I don't think has an identity quite yet. So 74 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: maybe that's to the Cardinal's advantage to a certain extent. 75 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: Here in Week fourteen, You're right, does Belichick look at 76 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 1: the Cardinals last game against the Chargers and say, wait 77 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: a minute, we're taken away James Conner. He had twenty 78 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,160 Speaker 1: five carries for a buck twenty on the ground and 79 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: the Cardinals as a team ran for one eighty one 80 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: or is that just something the Cardinals got away with 81 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: or excelled at because the Chargers were historically bad in 82 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: yards per carry allowed. That's a good question. If you 83 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: listen to Bill Belichick going into this game and all 84 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,720 Speaker 1: the props and praisy heat on DeAndre Hopkins, I mean, 85 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: you're lucky if you get a couple of mumbles and 86 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 1: a grunt out of Belichick on your typical Q and 87 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: A at a press conference, he went off and gave 88 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: the longest quote ever on the prowess of DeAndre Hopkins. 89 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: He was pretty much Tolstoy what the Russian novelist was 90 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 1: to the written word. That's what Belichick was to the 91 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: SoundBite on DeAndre Hopkins. And I'll bottom line it because 92 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: the last thing he said about d hop was quote, 93 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: He's every bit as good as anybody I've ever coached against. 94 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 1: And that was after a lot of other flowery things 95 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: he said about him. So does that mean the Patriots 96 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: are going to start with DeAndre Hopkins? It was interesting, 97 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: was it not? To hear d Hoops say that Belichick 98 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: historically has had quote a certain way he plays me, 99 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to tell you what that is, 100 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: but I do have an expectation as to how he's 101 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: going to play me. And what is the number that 102 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: d Hop in his career in the AFC against Belichick? 103 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: Believe it's one in seven seven, So okay, and then 104 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: Kyler Murray meeting the media says, yeah, in twenty twenty, 105 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 1: he played me a certain way. So is that different 106 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: than any other team has approached Kyler Murray? What does 107 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: that mean for Monday Night? No one's really given details 108 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: as to the xes and os, but the answer to 109 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: your question is yes, I do think that Belichick starts 110 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: with d Hop and then one B is Kyler Murray. 111 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: And there's certain ways because look, Josh Allen has been 112 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: a problem for Belichick's defense. They went twenty three straight 113 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: drives without punting over two plus games the Bills did. 114 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,679 Speaker 1: They've won three to the last four against the Patriots. 115 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,239 Speaker 1: Josh Allen is a mobile quarterback. Now, totally different style 116 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: of running than a Kyler Murray. Here comes six five, 117 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: two thirty five, and he's going to run over you 118 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: if needed. Josh Allen. That's obviously not Kyla Murray. But 119 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: but you can't tell me the Belichick isn't a little 120 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: concern a little bit with a mobile quarterback because based 121 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: on pass games, that sort of quarterback has had success 122 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: against the Patriots. I want to go back to what 123 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,239 Speaker 1: you said about d hop because I'll give you credit. 124 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,039 Speaker 1: It was your question, and I think it might be 125 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: the first time this season that we've heard, whether it 126 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: was a coach, an assistant, or a player, say thank 127 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: you for Ant's asking that question. But you could tell 128 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: it meants a lot to hop that Belichick went out 129 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: of his way glowingly praising what DeAndre Hopkins has done 130 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: not only this season, but his entire career. And there 131 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: is a reverence that these players have for coach Belichick. 132 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 1: Even Kyler Murray brought it up as well that he's 133 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: one person that every one of those players on the 134 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: Cardinal sideline might seek out in post game, no matter 135 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: what the outcome of the game is. But it is 136 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: always that feather in the cap if you can beat 137 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: a Belichick team. Cardinals, as you mentioned, did not do 138 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: it in twenty twenty, losing twenty to seventeen. Did not 139 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: do it. When the Patriots last visited the Cardinals in 140 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: the regular season. Don't want to bring up twenty sixteen. 141 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: It was Week one and yeah, but it was twenty three, 142 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: twenty one, so a close game, yeah, to be expected. 143 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: And this is a Patriots defense. Going back to Kyler Murray. 144 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: The one thing this Patriots team does do very well 145 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: is get after opposing quarterbacks. Although Kyler Murray is just 146 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: a different kind of quarterback. Yeah, when you see the 147 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: Patriots defense is number three in sacks overall in the 148 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: NFL as a team. Matt Judown is number two behind 149 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: Nick Bosa thirteen sacks going into this week. Josh Oocha 150 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: has been coming on. He's that speed rusher off the 151 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: edge with tremendous bend. You saw him in that Thursday 152 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: night against the Bills and their two backup tackles. He 153 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: had his way. And then they have a stud defensive lineman, 154 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: Dietrich Wise with six and a half sacks. That front 155 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: is stout, there's no question about it. And then of 156 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: course the Cardinals offensive line is comprised of Beach and 157 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: the backups, that's what we're calling them these days. You 158 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: have four starters on ir and then Kelvin beacham the 159 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: one constant. The right tackles so they're gonna have their 160 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: hands full up front. I fully expect talking to some 161 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: of the guys that you'll see a lot of Cardinals 162 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: tight ends, chip blocking. You'll see James Conner in there, 163 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: you know, good size and physicality for a running back. 164 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: He'll be asked to help pass protect, probably more often 165 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: than not, depending on how the Cardinals front holds up 166 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: against that Patriots front seven. They're not known for really 167 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: dialing it up as much. They don't have to, they 168 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: don't have to bring numbers, but I think you'll see 169 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: that as well. Especially you know, if you go back 170 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: to that game at Foxboro twenty twenty, they did a 171 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: really good job mugging the A and B gaps and 172 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: coming up and getting pressure inside pressure, which of course 173 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: is problematic to any quarterback, especially Kyle Murray. They're gonna 174 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: try and flush them out to the sides and then boom, 175 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: here comes Jude on in oocha. You know that that's 176 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: something to look at. But but you have a Cardinals 177 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: offense that if they do have the ability to take 178 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 1: away or minimize DeAndre Hopkins, guess what, here comes Hollywood Brown. 179 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: And to me, that's what I'm looking at. This is 180 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: Game two, you sort of have the feeling out process 181 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: against the Chargers the first time ever Hollywood and d 182 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: Hop together. Okay, so now can you make them pay 183 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: for these two high safety sawt shell coverages? Can you 184 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: get that that in intermediate passing? Game going? Can you 185 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,960 Speaker 1: get the underneath stuff take with the Patriots give you? 186 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: Can you be precise? Because I'm guessing Belichick's going to 187 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,199 Speaker 1: force you to go ahead and have a ten, twelve 188 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: fifteen play drive. So like what the Rams have tried 189 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: to do, the Niners have tried to do, I'm guessing 190 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: that's what Belichick is going to put on the Cardinals. 191 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: And can you not be your own worst enemy? Can 192 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 1: you not get victimized by the unforced errors? Because that's 193 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: essentially what these defenses are asking you to do. To believe, 194 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: be flawless and precise over an extended drive. Can the 195 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: Cardinals do that? On Monday Night? What lessons were learned 196 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: from that game against the Chargers With respects to Hollywood 197 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: and d Hop first time on the field together, they 198 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: were targeted to combine ten times, but I'll go back 199 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: to that fourth quarter they were targeted to combine one time, 200 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: and those final drives were Tray McBride got twice as 201 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: many targets too, So does that change, because you're right 202 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: if you're gonna take away DeAndre Hopkins, and that opens 203 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: up a Hollywood Brown. Patriots do have some decent cover guys. 204 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones in the set secondary a team best eight 205 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: passes defense three interceptions. But the key is he's well 206 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: tested the last two games, justin Jefferson. Although Jefferson had 207 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty nine receiving yards and a touchdown 208 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: two weeks ago, or I should say a week and 209 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: a half ago on Thursday Night, Stefon Diggs ninety two 210 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: receiving yards and a touchdown. So Jones can't do it 211 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: all by himself. He does have another other guys in there, 212 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: a Jack Jones, the former ASU product, and then those 213 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: safeties Devin mccordy and Kyle Dugger. So it is somewhat 214 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: of a strength of the Patriots defense that secondary. But 215 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: we have seen I eat Jefferson and Diggs really exploits 216 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: the Patriots defense. And we did see a little bit 217 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: of a different run game by the Cardinals, and we 218 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: have James Connor in the Big Red Rage this week 219 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: and He didn't necessarily say it was different plays because 220 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: you know that's a big line of question in New England. 221 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: Everyone is all over Bill Belichick and Matt Patricia and 222 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: the offense. And Belichick had a comment this week he said, look, 223 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: this is on Wei, the radio show that he does 224 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: every week, and he said, quote, we're not going to 225 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: the wishbone offense here. We're not going to run the veer, 226 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: meaning we're not changing the entire playbook or the DNA 227 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: of our offense. Now, you watch play number one, they'll 228 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: run the wishbone just to stuff it in everyone's face. Yeah, 229 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: here comes to the fullhouse backfield. You're right. So with 230 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: that in mind, when you have Steve Hyde now and 231 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: Brian Natkin running the Cardinals offensive line room as the 232 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: run game coordinator, Steve Hyde and replacing the now dismiss 233 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: Sean Coogler, what does that mean exactly? I think you 234 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: did see more of a North South run game against 235 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: the Chargers. Fact James Connor, he commented on that he 236 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: confirmed that much that, yes, we were more intent on 237 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: getting more physical in the run game, more North South. 238 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury told us after the game they wanted James 239 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: Conner on those dB especially the corners. Connor nodded, he 240 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,000 Speaker 1: said yeah, he said, yeah, went in doubt. We were 241 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: trying to get on those corners of the run game 242 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,440 Speaker 1: because they're gonna turn it out eventually. They don't want 243 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: to tackle. They have to tackle, it's part of their job. 244 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: They'd rather cover and try and make plays in the 245 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: passing game. So okay, we're gonna get him out on 246 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: those smaller corners. So I'm guessing there's going to be 247 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: a lot of that against the Patriots. We'll see if 248 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: they can actually get outside because Judeon is very good 249 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: at setting the edge. But with that being the case, 250 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: I'm curious how this run game evolves, especially coming off 251 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: a bye week. What does that mean if you self 252 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: scouted and they did what did you see? Where else? 253 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: Can you maybe maximize the talent? Because I think we 254 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: all agree he hit zoom out, there's still a lot 255 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: to be maximized in this Cardinals offense. There's no question 256 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: that we haven't seen at the very least, can you 257 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: turn in a complete game on offense? To your point, 258 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: everything dried up in the fourth quarter? Why what happened? 259 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: Can you just get a consistent game, and then how 260 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: many times have we talked about it over the last 261 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: week plus? Can you get Kyler Murray back to what 262 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 1: he looked like the first half, the first two thirds 263 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: of last season when he was a legitimate MVP Kennedy, 264 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: Can you get him back to that? Because agree, I'll 265 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: tell you what if it isn't some of the noise 266 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: that's out there from the Patrick Peterson's and the other 267 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: bs that's floating around, then you have things like this. 268 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: You have the QB Power rankings that are put out 269 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 1: by the NFL CBS Twitter account. Okay, oh boy Wolf 270 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: loves and when I bust out the power rankings, but 271 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: I thought this was conspicuous by its disrespect. When Kyler 272 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: Murray is ranked eighteenth and the latest QB Power rankings, 273 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: it's not so much as he's eighteenth, it's who's behind 274 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, Ryan Tannehill, Jared Goff, Derek Carr, Justin Fields, 275 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. These are all quarterbacks of going into this season, 276 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: it was no question Kyler was a better player, was 277 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: a higher ranked quarterback than all those guys I just listed. 278 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was taken after Kyler in the draft. He 279 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: was the sixth overall pick and thought to be a 280 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: reach by the New York Giants at the time. Now 281 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: he's ahead of Kyler and these power rankings. So if 282 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: I'm Kyler Murray, I'm looking at this, I'm going I 283 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: got five games. I got five games to re establish 284 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: myself and my reputation in this league. Numbers, though, back 285 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: up those power rankings, because when you look at Kyler's numbers, 286 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: yards per tempts a career low. In fact, it ranks 287 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: thirty fourth among quarterbacks, Paul, there's only thirty two teams 288 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: in the National Football League. His average pass length twenty ninth, 289 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: average pass length completion thirty fourth. Again, there's only thirty 290 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: two teams in the National Football League. And it goes 291 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: back to what you're saying, can Kyler Murray become Kyler 292 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: Murray again? The lack of a deep ball threats in 293 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: this offense when the longest pass play is a catch 294 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: and run and a lot of rung of Greg Dortch 295 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: forty seven yards that was not a bomb that was 296 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: underneath and then Greg Dortch doing what Greg Dorge does. 297 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: But can we connect? Can Kyler connect with a Hollywood 298 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: Brown Robbie Anderson, whomever. Maybe it is Greg Dorge coming 299 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: back this week after the thumb injury kept him out 300 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: of the Chargers game. But a deep shot, either to 301 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: the sideline or down the middle, we have not seen 302 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: that this season. We haven't. And you know what, there's 303 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: really no excuse in terms of the chemistry because we've 304 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: seen Kyler and de Hop excel. We know Kyler and 305 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown had instant chemistry. So that's not what it is. 306 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: But you have to diagnose what why can these teams 307 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: really continue to get away with these soft shell coverages, 308 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: these two high safeties. You have to be able to 309 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: make them pay, get that safety up into the box 310 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: and then hit them deep. And if nothing else, can 311 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: you find the tight end work in the seams, working 312 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: the underneath drags. That's where Trey McBride comes in. Kyler 313 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: was pretty forthright with the media this week. We gotta 314 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: get Trey McBride going, gotta get them going as around 315 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: two rookie of the time is now. But yes, and 316 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: you know what, it's not necessarily that some of those 317 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: completions aren't there. It's that the Cardinals have missed him. Yes, 318 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 1: Kyler has missed him, he hasn't been as accurate, or 319 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,400 Speaker 1: plays haven't been made on the ball in those one 320 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: on one situations. So there's no question in my mind 321 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: that that is job number one. First of all, it's 322 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: number one himself, Kyler Murray. And then number two it's 323 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: where is the downfield passing attack? We asked the question 324 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: just flat out blunt, what is up with a downfield 325 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: passing attack or lack thereof? And Cliff Kingsbury didn't give 326 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: any real specifics. Is that because he isn't willing or 327 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: they don't know? And I would say the latter is 328 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: probably more concerning than the former. If there's really isn't 329 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 1: an answer yet, then why not? And because you do 330 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: need these answers, I think going into the offseason, that's 331 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: where these five games come in. Okay, what are you? 332 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: Where do you need to improve? And if you go 333 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: into January with all these question marks, that's worse than 334 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: having the answers, because at least the answers can be 335 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: addressed and ideally remedied. But if you go in with 336 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: too many question marks and unknowns, then that that gray 337 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: area is more concerning to me than anything. The concerning 338 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: part when you talk about the deep ball threat. Is 339 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: historically least the last couple of seasons, Kyler Murray has 340 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: been number one the best quarterback as far as accuracy 341 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 1: on passes down field. The deep threat. Now he's near 342 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: the bottom amongst those quarterbacks. Does he have time to 343 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: throw the deep ball? Are receivers getting separation? Are they 344 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: beating their man off the line of scrimmage? Is there 345 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: are are there opens opening lanes passing lanes for Kyle 346 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: the Murray now again the protection this week. It will 347 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: be his ninth different offensive line combination. If Rashad Coward 348 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: does not play, I'm not expecting him too as in 349 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: practice this week due to a chess issue. He started 350 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: the last three games at left guard. Does Cody Ford 351 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: come in and replace him at left guard? Now? All 352 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 1: of a sudden, again, Calvin Beecham, he's looking, all right, 353 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: who do I have to my left down the line 354 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: this week? And you know what, if Cody Ford goes 355 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: a complete game, that's not the worst thing in the world, 356 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: because you need to know, you need to know, you 357 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 1: need to know at that left guard spot you really 358 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: do Josh Jones, Okay, let's see Josh Jones now against 359 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: Matthew Judon in neu Ja. I mean, it's a pretty 360 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 1: big test. It's significantly stiffer test than you saw against 361 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,160 Speaker 1: the LA Chargers front. There's no question minus a Joey 362 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: Bosa and Khalil Mack wasn't much of a factor. If anything, 363 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: what's ironical, if you will, about all this is that 364 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: the Patriots are dealing with a lot of same issues. 365 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 1: Here's Kendrick Borne this week and I quote, we've got 366 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: to get the ball downfield. Mac needs more time wide 367 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: receivers can't do anything at the ball. If we can't 368 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: get it downfield, if we can't throw it past five yards, 369 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a long game. So these two offenses 370 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: in some ways are mirror images of each other, at 371 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 1: least the passing games. When you look at what Kendrick 372 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: Born voiced, when you look at that tirade by Mac 373 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: Jones on Thursday Night Football where he said, and we 374 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: think we're quoting throw the bleeping ball, the bleeping running 375 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: game sucks now. He went on to say later he 376 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: was talking about the quick game. He wants more downfield passing. Okay, 377 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: either way, it's an issue. It's a box that the 378 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: Patriots feel like they have to check and you look 379 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: at Mac jones numbers, you know, to your point about 380 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, most of the people watching the New England 381 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 1: Patriots and a game by game play by play Bassis 382 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: would agree that Mac Jones looks much more like a 383 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: rookie quarterback this year than he did last year with 384 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels. And then you could buy Matt with the 385 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: comments of Vance Joseph May loved them about Matt Patricia, 386 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: and I'm sure those made highlights, headlines and waves in 387 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: New England because that's exactly a lot of the Patriots 388 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: fans are lamenting. If you don't know what we're talking about. 389 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: Vance Joseph meets the media each week. He's very engaging, 390 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: very forthcoming when asked questions, and he was asked about 391 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: the Patriots and their offense, and he called it a 392 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: very conservative passing game. But then he added this quote, 393 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: it's like a defensive guy is calling the offense end. Quote. Now, 394 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:17,679 Speaker 1: that is entirely true because Matt Patricia background in defense. 395 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: Heck Joe Judge on that offensive staff background in special teams. 396 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: But what I think what VJ was getting at is 397 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: it's more conservative, but maybe taken out of context. Oh 398 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: it's Vance Joseph takes a shot at the Patriots offense. 399 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, vanch Joseph is in the 400 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: crosshairs perhaps those new England Patriots players. But it's to 401 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: your point, when you look at the numbers, No, it 402 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 1: is conservative. It is like you're playing a defensive minded 403 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. But that goes to the head coach Bill Belichick, 404 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: his backgrounds in defense, and that's what Vance talked about. 405 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: That's when you are that defensive background, you tend to 406 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: be less conservative, shorter passing attempts, and you try to 407 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: get down field milks and clock. And that's what we're 408 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: seeing out of the Patriots, what we've seen even when 409 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: Tom Brady was the quarterback. And you know what Vance 410 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: Joseph voiced, what a lot of the players will tell 411 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: you in the Cardinals locker room, is that if you 412 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,359 Speaker 1: try and analyze and assess the Patriots offense, it's the 413 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 1: screen game number one, it's the quick game number two, 414 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: and then stopping the run really in that order, it's 415 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: that short pass a game. It's you know, a couple 416 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: of guys said, you're gonna see at least ten to 417 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: a dozen screens on Monday Night and then vance Joseph Well, 418 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 1: he ended up in the New England media because he 419 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: essentially said the same thing. So what does that mean? 420 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: Keep in mind that the Patriots played three games in 421 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: twelve days, but have had eleven days coming off Thursday 422 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: Night Football in week twelve to prepare for this week fourteen. 423 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: So guess what they have had the ability to maybe 424 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: make a few adjustments to the past game. Are they 425 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: going to look a little different schematically? Maybe potentially, We'll 426 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: see maybe, especially in light of those vans. Joseph comments, 427 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 1: what is Matt Patricia doing to try and prove everybody wrong? 428 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: Especially in prime time, the bright lights of Monday night football. 429 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 1: I don't think they want to pick up where they 430 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: left off on Thursday Night Football. Right, You'll have Mac 431 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 1: Jones and shotgun five wide. They'll spread it out, look 432 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: like Cliff Kingsbury and the offense and the ara going 433 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: to work. Well, you know what's interesting too, is we 434 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 1: brought up some of this Cliff Kingsbury's TV show, just 435 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: the conservative short passing game Mac Jones, and he said, yeah, 436 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: but you go back to the Minnesota game two games 437 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: ago Thanksgiving Day and mac Jones had a career day. 438 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: He went twenty eight to thirty nine for three eighty two, 439 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no picks, and a passer rating of nearly 440 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: one twenty. So you know, look, they have shown it 441 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: in flashes. It hasn't been strictly the short captain checkdown 442 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 1: sort of philosophy from mac Jones. They did have that 443 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: success against the Vikings, so we'll see now they've also 444 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: had issues at times protecting mac Jones. In two games 445 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: again and the Jets, Robert Sala has registered a dozen sacks. 446 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: So they've had success getting to mac Jones, and they've 447 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: largely played two backup tackles in most recent history with 448 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Okay, which brings us to something else, 449 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: another box you want to check. If you're a Cardinals fan, 450 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: my j Sanders get him ninety percent of the snaps. 451 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: There's five games ago. There's no reason not to, especially 452 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 1: when Van's Joseph says he's been really good against the run. Okay, 453 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: then why isn't he playing for a second and third 454 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: down Because you love his skill set as a pass rusher, 455 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,920 Speaker 1: and if he's been reliable against the run and he's 456 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,719 Speaker 1: been adept at setting the edge. To me, there's no 457 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,679 Speaker 1: reason not to play him the vast majority the snaps 458 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: in this game. He should not be in some sort 459 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 1: of pass rushing package at this point. Just let him, 460 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: let him learn on the job. And you'll always like 461 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: to say, reading between the lines, when Vans Joseph speaks 462 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 1: to the media, did you not get the impression that 463 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: my J Sanders is ahead, maybe even well ahead of 464 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: his fellow third round draft pick Cameron Thomas. Now they're 465 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: two different edge rushers. My J stands up, comes off 466 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: the edge. Cameron Thomas can do that, but we've seen 467 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: him with his hand in the dirt more of an 468 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: inside guy, maybe alongside a Zach Allen and JJ Watt 469 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: because he did that more at San Diego State. But 470 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: it does seem and I haven't noticed this in training 471 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: camp in the preseason because it's easy to just tell 472 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: a young player, go get the quarterback off the edge, 473 00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: just rush, get into the backfield anyway you can. But 474 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: to your point, I would like to see both of 475 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: them play more than the sometimes nine snaps or twenty 476 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: snaps that we've seen the last couple of weeks. I 477 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 1: did do an interview this week with Cam Thomas, the 478 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: third round rookie Cardinals TV. We talked about a couple 479 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 1: of things. Yes, he was very amped up for the 480 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: Chargers game because he grew up with the San Diego Chargers. 481 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: He had a ton of family in town for that 482 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: game from San Diego. Yes, the sack celebration was a 483 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: shout out to surfers and the SoCal culture. He says 484 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 1: he's a really bad surfer. I said, there's no way 485 00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,719 Speaker 1: you can get on anything except an ultra longboard. Right, 486 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,000 Speaker 1: he's all my size. I gotta get on a long board. 487 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 1: But as to how they're using them, yeah, they're using 488 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: them inside just as much as they're using them off 489 00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 1: the edge. And they're really not asking him to be 490 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: in space and in coverage very much rightfully. So, I 491 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: mean there were times of San Diego State he played 492 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: nose tackle, so he's used to be in that interior 493 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: d lineman and I'm not so sure that is in 494 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: his future. I don't know if this offseason for Cam 495 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: Thomas isn't spent akin to what Zach Allen did after 496 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: his rookie year, trying to put on some size, trying 497 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 1: to bulk up a little bit, and then maybe he's 498 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: a really effective three or five technique going forward. Does 499 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: he become the replacement for JJ Watt? Now, all of 500 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: a sudden, you're not playing inside where Richard Lawrence and 501 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: Lucky Fote two are, and they still have question marks themselves. 502 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 1: But does that and all of a sudden, now that 503 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: that's just a question that came to mind because you 504 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: talk to him and what we're seeing, maybe things do 505 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: change here these final five games, where are players lining up? 506 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: Does that give us an indication on where this coaching 507 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 1: staff sees them, not this season, but perhaps next season, 508 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: because we've also seen Zavian Collins and Isaiah Simmons on 509 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,640 Speaker 1: the edge quite a bit, and that's great. I don't 510 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: view that as their future. I view that as a 511 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: necessity because of the lack of edge rush prowess that 512 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: this team has still the leading edge rusher as two 513 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: sacks on this team. So it's glaring and there's no 514 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: doubt they go And I think Kyle Vannabosh even said 515 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: former rage rusher extraordinarily said, you know what, the Cardinals 516 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 1: go into this year's draft with a lot of the 517 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: same needs they had last year, although I disagree a 518 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: little bit on the cornerback spot. We viewed corner as 519 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: an ultra need. If you're bringing back Byron Murphy, I 520 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: do like the combo and Marco Wilson, Antonio Hamilton, I'm 521 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: not so sure you're looking at corner in the first 522 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: or second round. Just fingers crossed with Byron Murphy because 523 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: that back. I mean, Paul, he was on the practice 524 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: field on Wednesday, was not on the practice field on Thursday, 525 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: and seeing him walk around the locker room didn't really 526 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: look all that great. He's already missed three games as 527 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 1: he missed a fourth game, and DJ Humphreys was shut 528 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: down with back issue. Do we get to the point 529 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: where Byron gets shut down because of back? Advanced Joseph 530 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: reading between the lines again about a month ago when 531 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: this first flare it up with Byron Murphy brought up 532 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,719 Speaker 1: on his own that you get young guys with back issues, 533 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: it can be a concern. Could be one reason why 534 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: there's been no contract extension as of yet. Bat's a 535 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: gray area. There's some uncertainty there. There's no doubt about that. 536 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,359 Speaker 1: So we'll see. By getting back to the Cardinals needs, 537 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 1: I would say Zamon Collins and Isaiah Simmons. I want 538 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: to see them and the roles you envision them playing. 539 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 1: None of these packages where they're going to come off 540 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: the edge. If that's not what you're seeing as their future. 541 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: Let's see Zamon Collins strictly a middle linebacker at mike backer. 542 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: Let's see Isaiah Simmons and whatever hybrid role you envision 543 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: for him. And you know what, I hope that teams 544 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: go after Isaiah Simmons like the Chargers did at the end. 545 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: He needs to continue to learn on the job. Where 546 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: are the eyes? Can he be reliable or is he 547 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,560 Speaker 1: going to be a step slow or just that instant 548 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: reaction and is just he hesitates just enough to get 549 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: beat in coverage. So we'll see, we'll see what the 550 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: Patriots have in mind. And that's always the great thing 551 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: about playing Bill Belichick is what does he think of you? 552 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: You found out? You find out in that first quarter? 553 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: What does he assess as what you do best? Because 554 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: he's gonna try and take that away on both sides 555 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 1: or attack your weaknesses? What is that? So? I always 556 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: find it intriguing to go against Belichick just watching even 557 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: from the sideline. Okay, where is the Patriots focus on 558 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Because he's telling you what 559 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: he thinks of you. This might be a great game 560 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,040 Speaker 1: then for both Isaiah and Zavian. As far as the 561 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: number one offensive weapon for the Patriots is running back 562 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: Romandre Stevenson seven hundred thirty four rushing yards, but it's 563 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: his fifty six catches, third most among running backs, and 564 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: just the yards from scrimmage that he's had over these 565 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: last three games. He is the main offensive weapon. And 566 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: keep an eye on wider Jacoby Myers. He's in concussion protocol. 567 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: He's your number one wide receiver. Might not be available 568 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: this week. And it was Stevenson who Evans talked up 569 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: as far as where their focus is when you're not 570 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: talking about the quarterback. And when Buddha Baker talked in 571 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: the media, he's like, Hey, I need help. Okay, this 572 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: dude is a loading, big, big running back and he's 573 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: gonna break any and every arm tackle that's out there, 574 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: and he's gonna challenge guys. So guess what it needs 575 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: to be Buddha and company getting to the ball carrier. 576 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: You gotta get a lot of hats over there, because 577 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: according to Buddha and what he saw in film. This 578 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: guy does not get solo tackled. It doesn't happen. So 579 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: guess what, you better be ready to ball once again. 580 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: It's a guy like Romandre Stevenson two forty plus who 581 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: can make you look bad in primetime. So that's one 582 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: of those things you're going to know right from the 583 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: get go. Have the Cardinals come to tackle? Have they 584 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: come to play? Is the mentality there? The physicality is 585 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: it there? We'll see that early enough. And if it isn't, oh, 586 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: you know, Belichick is gonna feed Romande Stevenson. He'll get 587 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: twenty plus touches easily, maybe by halftime, and there will 588 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: be a big spotlight on what the Cardinals defensively are 589 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: not doing. You already, referenced Troy Aikman. It was Antonio 590 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: Hamilton's and we saw on hard knocks. Hamilton owned up 591 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: to it, thought that George Kittle was out of bounds. 592 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: But our business decisions being made here over these last 593 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: five games, regardless of offense or defense. Because you have 594 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: five games, whether you win them all or lose them all, 595 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: what do you put on film? Are you here next year? 596 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: Are you not here next year? Are out of the 597 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: league next year, so maybe the motivation postseason not so much. 598 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: But do you still want to play football in the 599 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: pro game, because, as they say, the eye and this 600 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: guy does not lie. And I'm very curious on what 601 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: kind of Cardinals team we get we get because coming 602 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,479 Speaker 1: off to Mexico City lost, the Cardinals did respond and 603 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: played very well against the Chargers. Now, what happens this 604 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 1: week on Monday Night Football and on Hard Knocks? We 605 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: saw Advanced Joseph talking to the defense after the Mexico 606 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: City loss, after that fourth quarter where there are a 607 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: lot of big touchdowns by the forty nine ers, a 608 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: lot of lackluster tackling, shall we say out there Advanced 609 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: Joseph's quote quoting it loose Leo as we don't want 610 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: our name on that sort of film. That's not our 611 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: brand of ball. So that is the message going into 612 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: this one. Other things I'd like to see would be 613 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: red zone defense. Right now, the Cardinals and almost every 614 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: metric are dead last in the NFL and red zone defense. 615 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: Why is that? Is the football IQ not there like 616 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: it wasn't at the end of the Chargers game where 617 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: they're getting beat with certain schemes and play calls. Here's 618 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: the thing. The New England Patriots are dead last in 619 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: red zone offense. Their touchdown rate is abysmal, So something's 620 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: got to give there is They like to say third 621 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: down as well? New England is twenty seventh with a 622 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: thirty six percent conversion rate. And how often does Vance 623 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: Joseph talk about at it's red zone, it's third down, 624 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,959 Speaker 1: it's stopping the run, you know, in that order in 625 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: a lot of cases in today's NFL. So where will 626 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: the Cardinals rate in those categories? Defensively, That's that's what 627 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: we're looking at. And then that banged up New England 628 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: offensive line? All right, look, you're two leading sack guys, 629 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: are your two interior defensive lineman J. J. Watt and 630 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: Zach Allen. Can they continue to get home and push 631 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: that pocket from the inside out? Trent Brown Isaiah Win, 632 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: Your two tackles for the Patriots both questionable, Brown dealing 633 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,719 Speaker 1: with an illness, Win a foot issue. And yeah, defensively 634 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: for the Cardinals thirty first and scoring dead last in 635 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: red zone twenty eighth on third down, you look at 636 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:44,239 Speaker 1: the Patriots on offense twenty fifth and third down and 637 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: tied for thirty first and red zone. In fact, Paul, 638 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: they have not scored a touchdown and their last seven 639 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: trips inside the twenty yard line. Wow wow, And so 640 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: you know why New England Patriots fans are frustrating. Yeah, 641 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: that's that that will determine gas. So right now, the 642 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: Patriots are six and six. They still do have somewhat 643 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 1: realistic playoff aspirations, but only if they figure out their offense. 644 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,279 Speaker 1: Because basically the formula has been score seventeen or more 645 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,920 Speaker 1: points and you beat the Patriots because they just can't score. 646 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 1: They know they're trading touchdowns for fuel goals way too often, 647 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,479 Speaker 1: and then that ultimately adds up to a loss for 648 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: this team. They're getting a lot of blowback on their 649 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: offensive scheme and the play calling and Matt Patricia, the 650 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:32,759 Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. We've covered that. So how different does it look? 651 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,399 Speaker 1: Can you take Belichick at face value when he says 652 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 1: it's not realistic because we can't practice it any significant 653 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: scheme change. Look, Belichick's defense is so deep and vast. 654 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: The playbook that talked a lot of Cardinals players on 655 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: offense this week, you never quite know what he's gonna bring. 656 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: He will do different things, and you try, over the 657 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: course of a game to sort of get a beat on. Okay, 658 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 1: here's what he's doing. This is the theme this week, 659 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: and then he constantly is changing things up. And that's 660 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,879 Speaker 1: what makes it difficult for any quarterback is you can't 661 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: say that they're coming with one, two, or three. It 662 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: could be one, two or three hundred different things you see. 663 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 1: So if that's the case on defense, why not on offense. 664 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 1: I know defense is Belichick side of the ball, but 665 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 1: the Belichick ways are to at least have enough in 666 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: the arsenal to pull them out week to week to 667 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: beat you once again. What does that mean? What's the 668 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: style of offense for New England on Monday Night. Well, 669 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: you've got Cliff Kingsbury going up against his mentor, if 670 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: you will, Bill Belichick vanch Joseph matching wits with Bill Belichick. 671 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,319 Speaker 1: So perhaps two on one the Cardinals can get the 672 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,560 Speaker 1: best of the Patriots on Monday Night. Six to fifteen 673 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: is the kickoff two thirty pre game and fans for 674 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,839 Speaker 1: those that are coming to the game, support the toy 675 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 1: drive presented by Desert Financial Credit Union, bring a new 676 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 1: unwrapped toy to the game and drop it off at 677 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,919 Speaker 1: a collection point outside the stadium. They'll be all over 678 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: the place and the toy drive benefits Arizona helping hands. Again. 679 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,799 Speaker 1: That is Monday, third primetime game. Cardinals have one more 680 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: on Christmas Nights. But it is a long time, Paul, 681 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: since this team with Kyle Murray at the quarterback has 682 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: been in the win column Week seven and that was 683 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,399 Speaker 1: a Thursday night game against the New Orleans Saints. That's 684 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: the last time Kyle Murray walked off the field with 685 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 1: a w. And we know the record last year in 686 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: primetime was not good for the Arizona Cardinals. Oh and 687 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: four in primetime. So this whole Monday night thing and 688 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: we saw what happened in Mexico City against the forty 689 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,160 Speaker 1: nine ers. I mean, this is something they need to 690 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 1: address and I think internally in that locker room, just 691 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: the whole showcase. It is Monday night. Yes, look, they 692 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: may not have realistic hopes in any sense in the 693 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,880 Speaker 1: NFC playoff picture, but guess what you want to go 694 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 1: out there, and I don't expect to have a flat 695 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 1: football team. I don't expect if the Cardinals are not 696 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: playing at their best to be a byproduct of a 697 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,719 Speaker 1: lack of energy or intensity or urgency. I think they've 698 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 1: heard internally that on Monday Night they have not been 699 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,399 Speaker 1: good the last couple of years. So let's figure out 700 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,279 Speaker 1: what you're going to see against a Patriots team that 701 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: definitely has a reason to be motivated, and let's just 702 00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: get a home win. Cardinals are one in six at 703 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 1: home this season, and yes that does include the game 704 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 1: in Mexico City, second worst home record in the National 705 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: Football League. The Texans are oh five and one. Cardinals 706 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,760 Speaker 1: again home on Monday night and then home on Christmas 707 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,399 Speaker 1: nights against Tampa Bay. So the Cardinals with two more 708 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: chances at State Farm Stadium. And on that note, we 709 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,359 Speaker 1: will put a lid on this edition of Cardinals Cover two, 710 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,880 Speaker 1: presented by Hunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As always, 711 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,280 Speaker 1: special thanks to our executive producer, Jim mohund Ball CALVC. 712 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,399 Speaker 1: I'm quig rail Loop. We'll talk to you next time 713 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:49,919 Speaker 1: here on Cardinals Cover two.