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Speaker 1: score touchdown, Welcome to the Cardinals Red Sea Report. Slim

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Speaker 1: caught by Kirk at the twenty at the ten touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Oh baby hometfield. Here's Craig Griolou, Mike Jarecki and three

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Speaker 1: time pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch. Good teams overcome mistakes, and yes,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals are a good team. But too many mistakes,

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Speaker 1: especially against a quality opponent, you're just going to win,

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Speaker 1: and the Cardinals did not, losing to the Rams on

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football thirty to twenty three. A quick turnaround

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Speaker 1: here on the Cardinals Red Sea Report. Cardinals lose. They

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Speaker 1: are ten and three, still first place in the NFC West,

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Speaker 1: but they have dropped from the number one seed all

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Speaker 1: the way down to the number three seed. As we

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Speaker 1: say good morning here on the Cardinals Red Sea Report.

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Speaker 1: We do it each and every Tuesday, eleven am, year round.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, gentlemen talking about a loss, a loss in

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Speaker 1: prime time Kyle end of the loss at home, three

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Speaker 1: straight home defeats. Yeah, it's frustrating. Um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: go over and over trying to explain why they don't

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Speaker 1: play as well at home, why they haven't been able

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Speaker 1: And but you know, I don't have an answer. It

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Speaker 1: seems like, you know, Cliff, the players don't have an answer.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's something ideally, you set yourself up

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Speaker 1: you'd like to be playing your best football when you're

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Speaker 1: at home. But um, you know it was it was

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Speaker 1: just a sloppy game. Um, a lot of untimely mistakes,

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Speaker 1: uncharacteristic mistakes that this team made, and really almost across

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Speaker 1: the board, you know, they didn't match the intensity. You

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Speaker 1: didn't see the excitement from the Cardinals players like you

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Speaker 1: have in other games. Turnovers, penalties, drop passes, miss tackles

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Speaker 1: you name an MJ. The Cardinals offensively and defensively, in

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Speaker 1: the words of head coach Cliff Kingsbury, did not play

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Speaker 1: a clean game. And you have to, especially in the

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Speaker 1: month of December against the team like the Los Angeles Rams. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and in the Rams, you know they in a month

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Speaker 1: they played the Jaguars and probably didn't get enough credit,

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Speaker 1: but that was kind of their get back game, and

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Speaker 1: they were motivated all week. They talked about this is

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Speaker 1: personal He was a wrecking ball out there. He had

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Speaker 1: final the second time these two teams have met. Back

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Speaker 1: from the Cardinals quarterback after last night's loss. I thought

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Speaker 1: learning that you can't and won't win every single game

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals thirty to twenty three defeat. Is definitely, you know,

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Speaker 1: the first quarter against the Texans. And so I don't

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Speaker 1: like him seeing running around. I like the fact that

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Speaker 1: when he can take a play that's broken and scramble

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Speaker 1: for eighteen yards, and I just don't like him runing

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Speaker 1: around where he has to turn his back on the defense.

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Speaker 1: And that was something we saw early in his career.

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Speaker 1: He's definitely made improvements, but when you're getting pressure and

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald has fifteen pressures in that game. When you're

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Speaker 1: getting pressure, you're going to bail the pocket. You can't

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Speaker 1: sit in the pocket and make the throat. So it

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Speaker 1: was a little bit of both where he felt like,

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Speaker 1: I need to make some plays, but I just don't

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Speaker 1: like to see him running around where you're turning your

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Speaker 1: back on the defense. And there was pressure Kyle coming

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Speaker 1: up the middle, there was pressure coming from the edge.

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Speaker 1: There was more pressure on Kyle the Murray than we

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Speaker 1: have seen a long long time. Yeah, you talk about

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Speaker 1: him running, you know none of this. None of his

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Speaker 1: runs were game plan. They weren't called runs. He was

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Speaker 1: running it out of necessity. That was the worst pocket

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals have had all season. And you know, you

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Speaker 1: talked about even this offensive line struggled making holes for

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Speaker 1: James Connor in the run game. It put him in

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Speaker 1: bad situations to put him in second long often and

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Speaker 1: really made the play action pass for the Cardinals ineffective.

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Speaker 1: You know, the the rams. You know, Sony Michelle didn't

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Speaker 1: have a great game, but he was effective on the ground,

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Speaker 1: kept getting positive yardage. And Matthew Stafford had a lot

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Speaker 1: of success with the play action and he had a

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Speaker 1: lot of time. I mean, one way you control a

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Speaker 1: good pass rushing team like the Cardinals as you established

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Speaker 1: the run and you use play action because the defensive

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Speaker 1: lineman or on the line of scrimma is trying to

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Speaker 1: stop the run and you're back there patting the ball

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Speaker 1: while your receivers are going downfield. So you know that

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Speaker 1: that's to me, it's not about how Kyler Murray played.

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Speaker 1: I think he played well enough to win this game.

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Speaker 1: The offensive line struggled in the defensive back struggled and

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Speaker 1: that was the story of the game. Yeah, and it

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Speaker 1: really defensive backs. I thought all three corners and both

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Speaker 1: safety struggled. And that's been the strength of this team.

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Speaker 1: And now were you a little surprised? Now? I know

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Speaker 1: it's based on opponents and the quarterback, but they played

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Speaker 1: a lot more man than man last night, and Byron

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Speaker 1: Murphy had a trouble covering Cup. You know. I talked

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Speaker 1: to Drew Stamton before the game. He was more concerned

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Speaker 1: about Jefferson than Odell Beckham. And then Robert Alford looked

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Speaker 1: like he was on Beckham, and then Marco Wilson because

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Speaker 1: of his speed. You know, But I thought the secondary

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Speaker 1: that's the first time all year they really struggled, And

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Speaker 1: the problem was they weren't getting pressure up front, and

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford was able to pad the ball and make

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Speaker 1: these throws. So it's a combination. You don't get pressure

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Speaker 1: from the front seven all of a sudden, the responsibility

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Speaker 1: goes to the secondary. Stafford had time to throw. Kyle

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Speaker 1: Murray did not. Despite all of that, Kingsbury liked what

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Speaker 1: he saw out of his starting quarterback. It's probably the

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Speaker 1: proudest I've been of his effort since I've been here.

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Speaker 1: I thought he battled his ass off the entire game.

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Speaker 1: It was some adverse conditions. They got a great front,

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Speaker 1: but he ran around, made plays, kept us in the

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Speaker 1: game when he had to when it was tough. And

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Speaker 1: that's what this leagues about, adverse conditions, not weather related,

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Speaker 1: but their own doing. How many times this team had

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Speaker 1: to play behind the sticks. There were seven penalties, including

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Speaker 1: a couple of false starts in the first half and

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Speaker 1: another one in the second half. Three false start penalties,

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Speaker 1: two by skilled position players. Those can't happen period, let

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Speaker 1: alone happen at home, and then a costly defensive holding

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Speaker 1: penalty on Robert Alford that would have gotten the Rams

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Speaker 1: off the field or at least attempt to field goal

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Speaker 1: rather than a touchdown. So issues once again, you talk

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Speaker 1: about the turnovers and penalties and you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: Cardinal's loss. Here's Christian Kirk on the penalties on what

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Speaker 1: they did to the Cardinals offense. I've always said this

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Speaker 1: is a day one. This offense predicates itself on explosive

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Speaker 1: plays to run game and just staying in our tempo

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Speaker 1: and staying in front of the chains. It's when you know,

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Speaker 1: you get holding calls off sides and those penalties and

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Speaker 1: you get behind in the chains. Its stalls you know,

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Speaker 1: the momentum and uh, you know, once we're in the groove,

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Speaker 1: we're at our best. And so that's what holds us back.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Kyle eight of fifteen on third down, which is

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Speaker 1: not bad, but five of nine nine of the fifteen

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Speaker 1: third downs were third and seven or more third and long.

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Speaker 1: That dictates to the defense what you're going to do

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Speaker 1: as an offense. Yeah, and like we talked about it,

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Speaker 1: it's the penalties, and it was the ineffectiveness of the

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Speaker 1: runs on first down. They just weren't getting the four

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Speaker 1: or five, six yards on first down link they typically do.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you can get in second and three, second, four,

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Speaker 1: you're unpredictable and the defense is kind of on its

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Speaker 1: heels China. It's kind of a guessing game about what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do next, whether you're gonna run it again

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Speaker 1: or you can you know, it's almost use it as

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Speaker 1: a waist down to take a deep shot when you're

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Speaker 1: on offense. So the it was a product of the holding,

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Speaker 1: the pre snap penalties, and the ineffective you know run game.

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Speaker 1: I mean this again, it was completely different than the

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Speaker 1: first time they played the Rams, where they just ran

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Speaker 1: at will and physically dominated that Rams team. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald set the tone with the first play of

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Speaker 1: the game and showed how he was going to play

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Speaker 1: and how he approached it and how physical he was

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Speaker 1: going to be. Yeah, I mean, you go back to

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Speaker 1: that first game forty carries. Chase Edmonds had twelve carries

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty yards. He had a fifty

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Speaker 1: four yard run and hopefully he returns because I think

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Speaker 1: it would give it the one two punch. And we

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00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: know both now James Connor and Chase Edmons catch the

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Speaker 1: ball in the backfield, but hopefully he returns because I

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Speaker 1: think they missed him yesterday, even though Connor's been carrying

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Speaker 1: the load over the last few weeks. The Day Pash

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Speaker 1: Podcast Episode nineteen, featuring ESPN analysts and Basketball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer Bill Walton, available now. This week's gift is former

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Speaker 1: Lions linebacker and special Assistant to the Owner and CEO,

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Speaker 1: Chris Spielman. That episode will premiere Wednesday. To catch up

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Speaker 1: on past episodes followed the Day Pash Podcast via your

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Speaker 1: preferred podcast provider, get the Lettus updates via Twitter at hashpot.

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Speaker 1: We've had halftime here on the Cardinals Red Seat Report.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, the focus shifts the Cardinals defense

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Speaker 1: and the inability to stop the big play that's next

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Speaker 1: here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Back to Pasco's

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Speaker 1: Stafford throws over the middle, Beckham touchdown. Stafford backs up,

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Speaker 1: throws farside wide open. Beckham caught at the forty fifty

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Speaker 1: five forty thirty five thirty. On third down and four,

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Speaker 1: they get forty yards and Beckham was wide open. Bootleg

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Speaker 1: to the left off play action, fires it deepall got

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Speaker 1: a receiver in middle of the field in the end zone,

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Speaker 1: it's caught bara touchdown and it's banned Jefferson to give

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Speaker 1: the Rams the lead. Fifty two yard pass back to

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Speaker 1: Pasco Stafford steps up, throws a deep ball far aside

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Speaker 1: for Coffey, caught it at the thirty and tackled out

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Speaker 1: in the twenty five yard line. The top five longest

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Speaker 1: plays of the game for the Los Angeles Rams all

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Speaker 1: pass place, including a fifty two yard touchdown toss the

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Speaker 1: Van Jefferson of forty four yard completion to Cooper Cup

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Speaker 1: and forty more yards to Odell Beckham Junior. First time

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Speaker 1: this season, the Cardinals secondary or the Cardinals defense overall,

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Speaker 1: has allowed passing plays of forty or more yards, three

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Speaker 1: of them a season high against the Cardinals defense. As

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Speaker 1: we walcome back here to the Cardinal's Red Sea Report.

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Speaker 1: Craig Rail, Louke, Kyle Vannibosch, and Mike Jarecki dissecting a

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Speaker 1: Cardinals loss to the Los Angeles Rams thirty to twenty

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Speaker 1: three on Monday Night football. First time in a long time,

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Speaker 1: maybe first time all season. MJ that that secondary was

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Speaker 1: exposed and it wasn't just one player, it was everyone

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Speaker 1: across the board. Yeah, I mean, I thought the safeties

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Speaker 1: that was probably the worst game they've played this year.

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Speaker 1: And then along with the three corners, again we've seen

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Speaker 1: more zone from this team. Now let's dive a little

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Speaker 1: bit deeper. So first and ten, right after halftime they

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Speaker 1: get that fifty two yard touchdown, and then it was

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Speaker 1: first in twenty in Cooper Cup goes for forty four yards,

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Speaker 1: okay pass, and then it was third and four and

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Speaker 1: Beckham goes for forty. So I mean, those are big plays.

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Speaker 1: They they had at least five splash plays were over

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Speaker 1: twenty yards. And but again, I mean you're looking at

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Speaker 1: third and four and they get up, they pick up

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Speaker 1: forty yards, and then at first and twenty they pick

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Speaker 1: up forty four yards. That's where you got to make

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Speaker 1: some stops. You can't let guys get behind you. And

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Speaker 1: if I felt that watching the game, those receivers they

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Speaker 1: were they were wide open at times. And again it

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Speaker 1: goes two fold if you're not getting pressure up front.

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Speaker 1: And let's be frank here, they had a backup center

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Speaker 1: and a backup right tackle. Now Andrew Whitworth obviously he's

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Speaker 1: you know, he turned forty years old on Sunday. He's

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Speaker 1: a guy that you know gets it done regardless of

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Speaker 1: how it happens. But the fact that their pass protection

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00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: was really good it surprised me a little bit because

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Speaker 1: they had two backups in there. How do you look

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Speaker 1: at that, Kyle, from your defensive perspective, is at the

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Speaker 1: front seven ability to get pressure on the quarterback or

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Speaker 1: the secondary their inability to cover. Although if you're not

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Speaker 1: getting the rush, then you're asking those guys in the

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Speaker 1: back end to cover for a second and a half

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Speaker 1: or longer. And I don't care who you are, that's

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Speaker 1: darnier impossible for anyone to cover one player for a

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Speaker 1: long period of time. Yeah, it's really the fault of

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Speaker 1: both groups. Neither group played well. Didn't get pressure up front,

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Speaker 1: blitzes didn't get home. You know, the Cardinals ended up

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Speaker 1: with three sacks, four quarterback hits, but it didn't feel

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Speaker 1: like any of those were, you know, super impactful. Zach

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Speaker 1: Allen had one that ended a drive, but it they

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Speaker 1: just didn't get the consistent pressure. And you know, to me,

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Speaker 1: the surprising thing was that touchdown by Van Jefferson. He

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Speaker 1: got over the top, but it was it was going

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Speaker 1: deep the whole way because it was a two man

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Speaker 1: route and Odell Beckham was open too, so Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: had his choice. You got regardless, you're not going to

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Speaker 1: get pressure when a team max protects and only sends

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Speaker 1: two receivers out. But we had five dbs back there

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Speaker 1: and playing a zone and they were both open on that.

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Speaker 1: So neither group played well and it was it was

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Speaker 1: really surprising because yeah, I mean they at times this year,

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00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: the Cardinals pass rush has been dynamic, has changed changed

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Speaker 1: how games have ended because of the pressure they got.

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Speaker 1: And really, you know, like we talked about, this defensive

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00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: back group has been consistently good to dominate in most

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Speaker 1: games this season. Chunk plays, explosive plays, however you want

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Speaker 1: to describe it. As far as what Matthew Stafford and

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00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: company were able to do against the Cardinals defense, here's

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Speaker 1: Corey Peters postgame. They definitely had more explosive plays and

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Speaker 1: you know, having Obj, I know he showed up a

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Speaker 1: lot tonight, But like I said, we just got to

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Speaker 1: get back to the drawing board and get it fixed. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think we made way too many mistakes

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00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: tonight to get the outcome that we wanted, and a

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00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: lot of those mistakes Kyle coming on first down, and

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Speaker 1: again you're looking for trends when you have so few defeats.

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00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: And now in each of the three losses, the Cardinals

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00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: are allowing yards a lot of yards on first down

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Speaker 1: with the fifty two yard touchdown pass and Cooper cups

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Speaker 1: forty four yard catch taken out because those two plays,

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Speaker 1: the longest two plays of the game, happened on first down.

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Speaker 1: Minus those two, the Cardinals defense still allowed almost five

646
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: yards on first down, and that's been the mo for

647
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Speaker 1: Vance Joseph. You went on first down that dicks Tate's

648
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: second down, and third down you can get off the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So I'll look at first down and the amount of

650
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Speaker 1: yards that an opponent is gaining against the Cardinals defense,

651
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: and in all three losses four point eight, five point four,

652
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: four point five. That is not sustainable in the NFL. Yeah,

653
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Speaker 1: Vans Joseph has has talked about it in interviews, like

654
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: when this front gets a lot of pressure and the

655
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: defensive backs play well, particularly on third down, he doesn't

656
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: necessarily credit the third down defense. He credits how well

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00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: they played on first down. And it's it's about again,

658
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: you know, trying to make the offense predictable. You need

659
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: to try to get them in second and long. You

660
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,959
Speaker 1: need to try to get them in third and long.

661
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: And the Rams offense, you know, again throughout the game

662
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: was able to stay more balanced. They did. You know,

663
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: they weren't, you know, super effective on the ground. They

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00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: weren't killing us in the run game, but they ran

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00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: just well enough that it kind of kept the defense guessing.

666
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: And like you said, their yardage on first down sets

667
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: them up to where Vans Joseph has no idea what's

668
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: going to happen on second down. When it's second in

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Speaker 1: five or less. You don't know whether to um, you know,

670
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: call a run blitz, or whether to play coverage. So

671
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: it really puts the defensive coordinator in the defense as

672
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: a hole in a bind. A total of seven explosive plays.

673
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: Pass plays of twenty five or more yards, run plays

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Speaker 1: of ten or more yards. Matthew Stafford two hundred and

675
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards, passing three touchdowns. Here's head coach Cliff Kingsbury.

676
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: They're just really good. I thought Stafford played a great game,

677
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: protected the ball and without Higbye, you could sell they

678
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: really went to those whiteouts instead, and those guys made

679
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of big time players down the field, and

680
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: you got to sip your hat to those guys. Tight

681
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: End Tyler Higbee one of those players, one of those

682
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: offensive daughters MJ that was unavailable placed on the reserve

683
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list. So you're talking about two fifths of

684
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: your starting offensive line. You're number one running back and

685
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: Darrell Henderson, plus you're starting tight end. Yet you look

686
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: and that's thirty points and three hundred and fifty six

687
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 1: yards of total offense against a very stout Cardinals defense. Yeah,

688
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: and there were times they would have two tight ends

689
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: in the game for protection, just to get you know,

690
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,919
Speaker 1: Stafford some time. And Blayton he had three targets, two

691
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: catches for twenty nine yards. His long was twenty three yards.

692
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,959
Speaker 1: But for the most part they were more as blockers were.

693
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: Higbee would more be a pass catching tight end and

694
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: out there he actually opens things up for the outside.

695
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: And you know, going to this game, we thought, man,

696
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: they don't have Robert Woods, but Jefferson and it looks

697
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: like Beckham's fitting in and Cooper Cup I mean, nobody

698
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: can cover him. Last night, targeted fifteen times, thirteen catches

699
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty three yards, so and he's

700
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: having an outstanding year. Just the routes he runs and

701
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: the fact that he's wide open at times. It's kind

702
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: of mind boggling. But he's doing it against everyone, it's

703
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: not just the Cardinals, and you know, I look at it, Craig.

704
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Speaker 1: It would have been difficult to go six and ozer

705
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Speaker 1: in the division. I mean it's yeah, actually swept the Niners.

706
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: You hope to sweep the Seahawks. The Rams are probably

707
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: the second best team, if not the Yeah, they're the

708
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: second best team, So it would have been difficult. But

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Speaker 1: the fact is they won on the road, and you

710
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: thought what was at stake in that game. But I

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00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: give the Rams a lot of credit. They took that

712
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: game personal. They actually thought it was a playoff game.

713
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: And I hope the Cardinals focus on that going forward,

714
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: where you just can't show up and expect to play well.

715
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: You got to put the work in which they do

716
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: during the week, but at the end of the day,

717
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: it's about execution, blocking, tackling, protecting the quarterback. And that

718
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: was the message in the locker room after the ball

719
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 1: game as well. You can't just show up and expect

720
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: to perform. The work has to be put in during

721
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: the week and then you have to execute. And yeah,

722
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: it's a very good Rams team, and it was a

723
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: very good Packers team Kyle against the Cardinals on Thursday

724
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: Night football, even though the Packers were missing a handful

725
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: of players as well. But the better teams, the good

726
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: teams are able to overcome those mistakes or those missing

727
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: pieces and still come away with victories. Yeah, and you know,

728
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: we talked a little bit last night about how the

729
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: Cardinals have moved from becoming the hunter to the hunted

730
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 1: and you can't just show up and rely on your

731
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: talent and your ability. It was, I mean, the big difference. Again,

732
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: there's a lot of differences between this game the first

733
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: time they played the Rams, but their stars played like

734
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: stars and dominated and took over the game. Our best players,

735
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: you know, several of them played okay, but you can't

736
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,720
Speaker 1: say that, you know, Buddha Baker had an impact, Chandler

737
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: Jones didn't really have an impact, Byron Murphy didn't really

738
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: have an impact. Kyler played okay and had an impact,

739
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: but you know, DeAndre Hopkins had an okay game. So

740
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: our stars didn't necessarily play like stars. Where their stars

741
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: dominated the game and that was a reason for the victory. Yeah,

742
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: that's a valid point. Episode ten of Cardinals Folk Tales,

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Speaker 1: entitled nine More, is available now on the Cardinals YouTube channel.

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00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,760
Speaker 1: Go to YouTube dot com slash Azy Cardinals. A story

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Speaker 1: of former Cardinals safety or Shaw Johnson losing the tip

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Speaker 1: of his finger during a twenty thirteen game against the

747
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Speaker 1: Saints at the Superdome. Go to YouTube dot com slash

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Speaker 1: Azy Cardinals for all episodes of Cardinals Folk Tales and

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Speaker 1: Don't Forget. You can also check out original podcasts by

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Speaker 1: searching Cardinals Folk Tales wherever you get your podcast ten

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Speaker 1: and three, seven and oz on the Road, four and

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Speaker 1: two in the division, Excive me, four and one in

753
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: the division. All is not lost. We'll check on the

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Speaker 1: NFC and NFC West. Standing's next here on the Arizona

755
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio Network. Hurrying the gun takes the shotgun, snap

756
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: stand looks now, backs up, goes office, back foot com

757
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: headed catch Connor over the middle of the ten, inside

758
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: the ten and down to the five yard line for

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00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: an eighteen yard game. What a grahab. He does it

760
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: in back to back weeks with one handed catches. Go

761
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: Go cadget Staff the peg. They run Connor up the middle.

762
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: He's stuff but he breaks a tackle and get into

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Speaker 1: the end zone for a touchdown. James Connor continues to

764
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: be one of the best free agent signings maybe ever

765
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Speaker 1: for the Cardinals. They're gonna go wildcat Jonathan Ward in

766
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: the backfield with Connor, who takes the snap. Connor runs left.

767
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: He's down to the five. He keeps defeat moving. James

768
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Speaker 1: Connor is into the end zone for the touchdown. Two

769
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Speaker 1: more rushing touchdowns for James Connor gave him fourteen on

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Speaker 1: the season, twenty two total touches for one hundred and

771
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Speaker 1: twenty five yards and a couple of touchdowns. Nine catches

772
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Speaker 1: for ninety four yards. What were you telling us, Kyle

773
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Speaker 1: during the break that James Connor leads the league in

774
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Speaker 1: one handed grabs? Yeah, random stats man. It's apparently they've

775
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: had it teed up on the broadcast last night, but

776
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: they said I think it was five or six. I

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00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: don't remember what the number was, but and I was

778
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: saying off the air that he almost looks like he's

779
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: just showing off at this point, because I swear he

780
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: could he could have gone up with both hands, but

781
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: he makes it look so easy. And I mean he was.

782
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: His receiving was a huge factor in this game. And

783
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: again we talk about it seems like every week. You know,

784
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: he just seems like he's the bowling ball that will

785
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 1: get you the yardage needed on third and short, fourth

786
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: and short. But he is so good in space, He's

787
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: got good vision, he's elusive, very rarely in the open

788
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: field as the first defender get him on the ground,

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Speaker 1: and he's been a huge weapon in the passing game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I gotta give you credit because you were the first

791
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: kuyd of bringing this up that he's got more one

792
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: headed catches and Kirk and I he always mentioned hop

793
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: and I'm like he missed a few games. Now. AJ

794
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,799
Speaker 1: Green had a career game, you know, seven catches one

795
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: hundred and two yards. I wish they would have been

796
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: able to connect earlier in the game. There was obviously

797
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: Kyler said it was on him. But Connor nine receptions

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Speaker 1: from ninety four yards. I mean basically he was up

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00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 1: there with Green and Hopkins. Hopkins was targeted twelve times

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Speaker 1: for five yards. But well, let's flift the script. A

801
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: team's ten and three. Obviously, people are disappointed as stings

802
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: that the way they the outcome of the game. But

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00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray made some great throws. I mean throws a

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00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk and AJ Green, So it wasn't all just bad.

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00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: You could you can build off of some of this

806
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: stuff when it comes to Kyler Murray. I mean some

807
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: of those throws, y they were they were on target. Yeah,

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00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: there's one player on the planet that can make that

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Speaker 1: throw and he's Kyler Murray, And I mean it's just

810
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: incredible what he can do. And you know, just the

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Speaker 1: fact that you know, I don't want to pile on

812
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 1: but the offensive line played its worst game of the season,

813
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: and it was really, like coach Kingsbury said earlier, Kyler

814
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: willed this team to stay in it and made the

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00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: plays necessary. Um, you know, Kyler doesn't want to be

816
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: running around all over the field and trying to gain

817
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, yards with his legs, but he will if needed,

818
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: and it was a necessity. And his ability to both

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00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: create time and buy time for his receivers to get open,

820
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: and his ability to pull it down and run and

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Speaker 1: convert first downs when needed. You know, it's it's going

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00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 1: to serve this team well, especially going ahead and getting

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Speaking of the Cardinals starting quarterback Kyler

824
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: Murray now on what this team has in front of them,

825
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: specifically the Detroit Lions. Everything's in front of us right now. Um.

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Speaker 1: Great thing about tonight it was it was that atmosphere

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Speaker 1: that you know you need and you want as a competitor.

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Speaker 1: You know, this was a big time football game. I

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Speaker 1: guess a great team. They got the best of us tonight.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, I know the guys in the

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00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: locker room world will be back for sure and back

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Speaker 1: next week on the road. Well, this team is undefeated.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals and Lions kickoff at eleven am. Six thirty am.

834
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Speaker 1: Pregame coverage begins here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network,

835
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: and then after that it's back home Christmas Day against Indianapolis,

836
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 1: another home game. This team is. We've talked about three

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00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: and three at home, three straight defeats at State Farm Stadium.

838
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: Here's Corey Peters. I don't know, it's it's really baffling.

839
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: It's definitely something that we've talked about in house and

840
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: trying to figure out, you know what the problem is

841
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: getting off to better starts at home and playing better

842
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 1: at home overall, and it's something that's continued to play us.

843
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: So we're going to have to continue to work to

844
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: be a better home football team. Despite all of that,

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00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: Cardinals still have a one game advantage in the NFC West.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals ten and three, the Rams nine and four,

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Speaker 1: and then you look at the NFC Packers ten and three,

848
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Speaker 1: Buccaneers ten and three, Cardinals ten and three, and Cowboys

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Speaker 1: nine and four. Those are your four division leaders in

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Speaker 1: order of seating. The Rams this week will play the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks while the Cardinals are on the road. At the

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00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: lines of that, you made a good point on Cardinal Talk,

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00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: Kyle about the Lions. Yeah, they have one win, but

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00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: they've been in a lot of close ball games and

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Speaker 1: Eleven am is the kickoffs. Six thirty am. Pregame coverage

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Speaker 1: that game against the Indianapolis Colts on Christmas Day special

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