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Speaker 1: and three time pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch. Still a little

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Speaker 1: Willie's away from the starts of the regular season, butts, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: we do actually have football activity. The rookie Minicamp just completed.

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Speaker 1: Phase two continues now with the rookies and veterans, and

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Speaker 1: then one week from now, first week of OTAs and

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Speaker 1: then of course Mini camp, then a bit of a

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Speaker 1: break before training camp begins. But we are actually going

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Speaker 1: just think or predict what might happen with this Cardinals

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Speaker 1: team in twenty twenty two. As we say good morning

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Speaker 1: here on the Cardinal's Red Sea Report presented by Sea Geek,

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Speaker 1: get your seats in a seat. Before though, we discussed

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Speaker 1: the rookies and their first taste of life in the NFL. Gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: we actually have the twenty twenty two regular season scheduled

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Speaker 1: to discuss MJ. It's kind of blown up. We know

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Speaker 1: the teams, we know the locations, we just didn't know

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Speaker 1: the order. And kudos the National Football League. They had

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Speaker 1: turned this not into a one day event, but a

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Speaker 1: week long events. But now we do know the seventeen

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Speaker 1: games over eighteen weeks, and I think really what sticks

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Speaker 1: out as the Cardinals got four primetime games, you know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of any night games, you know, and then

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Speaker 1: obviously you know hop comes back would be a short week.

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Speaker 1: They host the Saints on a Thursday night. You know.

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Speaker 1: I like the fact that they're opening up against the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: and then you know they play the Raiders in week two. Um,

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Speaker 1: But there's there's a point in the schedule where you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to stack some wins. And the good news

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Speaker 1: The bye week you know, you never run when that

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Speaker 1: this works believe the Cardinals can be here in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. But when you look at this schedule, Cole,

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Speaker 1: what stands out to you when you heard about it,

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Speaker 1: And then you know it's no easier Week two going

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Speaker 1: different points in my career when the schedule came out,

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Speaker 1: But that's not the case here two early kickoffs, one

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Speaker 1: course it all begins Week one, September eleven one, twenty

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Speaker 1: But of course the storylines here Kingsbury, Mahomes, Kyler Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: you hope McBride can do both. Yeah, exactly. You know

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Speaker 1: if he is that type player, the type of player

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Speaker 1: twice a year. And George Kittle. You see what a

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Speaker 1: guy like Mark Andrews does for an offense. When he's

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Speaker 1: can line him up anywhere, and he can be not

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Speaker 1: just be effective, but can be a game changer, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know George Kittle, when he blocks, he

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Speaker 1: But he is such a weapon with the ball in

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Speaker 1: And this is the type of player, you know. I

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Speaker 1: it gives defensive coordinators nightmares because they want to match

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Speaker 1: And when a player like Trey McBride, who like you said,

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Speaker 1: the football field. Other offensive weapon the Cardinals added in

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Speaker 1: the draft running back. Heanta Ingram six feet two hundred

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Speaker 1: big physical back, and we just felt he fit what

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Speaker 1: we do and that role. That can be your third

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Speaker 1: fourth guy that plays special teams and can come in

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Speaker 1: got James Conner, you got Io Benjamin, got Jonathan Ward,

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Samuels and those outside of you know Benjamin, those

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Speaker 1: also tell you something as far as how this offense

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Speaker 1: might look to be utilized, especially without DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I would assume twelve personnel and try to run

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Speaker 1: the football, and obviously defense stopped the run and force

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Speaker 1: some turnovers. But he looks the part, I mean, very

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Speaker 1: very fluid. I like the size. He can run between

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Speaker 1: You know, I think when he looking at a competition,

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Speaker 1: acted just because he plays on teams and Eno Benjamin.

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Speaker 1: You know, he has a similar skill set to Chase Sevemns.

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Speaker 1: So ideally you'd like to take some of the pressure

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Speaker 1: to do to kind of, you know, end games when

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Speaker 1: the football. It's just gonna be how quickly can Ingram

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Speaker 1: though very excited to be an Arizona cardinal, very excited

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Speaker 1: to study under the tutelage of James Connor. I study

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Speaker 1: him a lot, especially come out of pit, you know,

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Speaker 1: And I love the study bigger backs because I kind

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Speaker 1: him a little bit. I like his game. I'm ready

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Speaker 1: you know, and elevate my game. Time called Keyanta Ingram

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Speaker 1: the tackles. For Ingram, he kind of bounced it outside

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Speaker 1: a little bit more, but someone not afraid of that physicality.

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Speaker 1: But again, as Kingsbury mentioned earlier, Kyle, it's going to

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Speaker 1: Ingram understands that in order to play offense, it starts

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Speaker 1: playing on special teams. Yeah, and you know the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: lot of it is these young developmental players come in

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Speaker 1: looking back at Ingram's pre draft that the one I

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Speaker 1: about James Connery. You know, tough runner, good balance, hard

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Speaker 1: great in the screen game. And then going back again

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Speaker 1: pro and the fact that he has shown the ability

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Speaker 1: and chip defensive ends to be a part of the

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Speaker 1: other rookie running backs. There are two drills in training

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Speaker 1: one matchups offensive line versus defensive line edge rushers. The

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Speaker 1: other one blitz pick up, especially with young players, right,

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Speaker 1: can they handle it? Coming from college and all of

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden coming at him. What do you do? Right?

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Speaker 1: It's so tough too, because you know, good rushers will

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Speaker 1: mix it up sometimes, you know, running backs trying to

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Speaker 1: trying to match their quickness, and a good edge rusher

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Speaker 1: is just going to run a running back over, and

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Speaker 1: typically that's your first move. You know, if I if

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Speaker 1: And so you know, it's not just a matter of

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Speaker 1: and study the rushers and how to block them and

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Speaker 1: what they're going to try to do. Sometimes you'll be

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Speaker 1: able to cut a guy. Sometimes a guy's almost uncuttable.

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Speaker 1: You know, a guy like Chandler Jones was such a

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Speaker 1: smooth athlete. He never got cut, was never on the ground.

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Speaker 1: So you know, the fact that he has shown again

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Speaker 1: the ability to block some of these edge rushers and

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Speaker 1: pass pro gives him an opportunity to hopefully get on

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Speaker 1: USC twenty two catches for one hundred and fifty six yards.

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Speaker 1: That was over ten games, seven starts. We'll see how

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Speaker 1: much we see Ingram on offense, but definitely want to

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Speaker 1: see him make him mark on special teams. Episode thirty

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Speaker 1: of the Day Pass Podcast featuring Cardinals defensive lineman J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt is available right now. To catch up on past

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Speaker 1: from number ninety nine courtesy of the Day Patch Podcast.

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Speaker 1: As we continue here on the Cardinals Red Sea Report

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Speaker 1: presented by Ziki get your seats in a seat, craig Ria,

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Speaker 1: Lukal Vanibosh, and Mike Drecki. As we've hit halftime here

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Speaker 1: on this Wednesday here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network,

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Speaker 1: hands it off, no running room, off the right side

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Speaker 1: and back of loss up two on the play. Zaban

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Speaker 1: Collins the first guy there, and that is a big

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Speaker 1: man coming down from the week's side, shooting the gap.

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Speaker 1: Saban Collins again throws over the middle, tipped into the air,

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Speaker 1: and in complaint he was going for his tight end

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Speaker 1: pass was off the mark. Xavan Collins at coverage that time,

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Speaker 1: and it's fourth downs. Even Collins bats that fall into

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Speaker 1: the air with all of that great length, use check

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Speaker 1: in motion. It is a quarterback drop the middle. Lance's

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Speaker 1: head drives the legs forward, Gonna be close. The forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers are short. Saban Collins with the tackle. Savan Collins,

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Speaker 1: the rookie at two sixty playing downhill, came in and

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Speaker 1: late some lumber baby. Defensively this season, there may not

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Speaker 1: be any more scrutinized or a player under the spotlights

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Speaker 1: than second year inside linebacker Xavan Collins. The Cardinals invested

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Speaker 1: a high first round draft pick on him, and last

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Speaker 1: season did not see a lot of Zaven Collins defensively,

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Speaker 1: in a s craig Ria, Lukal Vanibosch and Mike Dreki

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Speaker 1: talking about Isaiah Simmons plus Xavin Collins. You're two inside linebackers.

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Speaker 1: Remember no Jordan Hicks, So the baton has been handed

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Speaker 1: to Simmons and Collins. That was kind of the plan

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Speaker 1: last year, but Jordan Hicks had one of his better

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Speaker 1: training camps and was not going to come off the field.

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Speaker 1: Don't have that luxury anymore. It's all Zaven Collins and

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Speaker 1: it's a big ask, but hey, you get drafted for

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Speaker 1: a reason, MJ. Year two, it's Zaven Collins's defense to call. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and really, this is the first time that you know,

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Speaker 1: last year was you know, it wasn't a full offseason

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Speaker 1: where we were able to do everything. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's be honest. If you're Andy Reid or Josh McDaniels

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Speaker 1: or even Sean mcvain in those first three games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna look at those linebackers and everything's gonna be

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Speaker 1: help these guys out. Isaiah. Maybe they'll cut down and

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Speaker 1: him playing five five different positions, but they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get targeted, and there's basically every week. But

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, these coordinators and these play callers in

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Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, they're going to attack the middle of the

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Speaker 1: field of the Arizona Cardinals. You always hear Kyle that cliche,

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Speaker 1: and it's become cliche, but the jump that players make

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Speaker 1: defensive system. Here you have Zamon Collins who's been out

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Speaker 1: working this entire offseason with the defensive coaches, and you

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Speaker 1: hope that he becomes the next success story as far

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Speaker 1: as making that jump in his second year. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: exactly right now. I particularly think for the position he plays,

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Speaker 1: you know it it's so much mental. You know, both

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Speaker 1: of these linebackers have all the physical tools. They play physical,

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Speaker 1: they play downhill, they range, they can cover just about

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Speaker 1: any tight end that they have to cover. So they

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Speaker 1: have the physical attributes, but the mental part of it

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Speaker 1: it takes time. I mean, offenses in the NFL are

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Speaker 1: way more complicated than offense in college. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: a lot of them are. Um you know, check with me,

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Speaker 1: then for whatever reason, you know, was unable to sustain

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Speaker 1: that and see the field much last year. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully with this extra work, with the opportunity to look

639
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Speaker 1: at his own film from last year to learn from

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Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks, I really do expect him to make a

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Speaker 1: take a giant leap this next season. Well, the work

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00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: needs to be put in and that's what's happening right now.

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Speaker 1: On the day Hash podcast this week, JJ Watt, who

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Speaker 1: has been in town Darnier every single day working out

645
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Speaker 1: at the facility, asked about what he thinks Simmons and

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Speaker 1: Collins can accomplish this season. Um, I think it's all

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Speaker 1: about time you put in, and I think it's about

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Speaker 1: repetition and just consistency. I think that the more time

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Speaker 1: that you're able to commit to the job and that

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Speaker 1: you're able to learn and grow, and the more time

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Speaker 1: that you have to learn the playbook and the plays

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Speaker 1: and see as many looks as possible, whether it's walk throughs,

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Speaker 1: whether it's practice, whether it's offseason program, training camp, whatever

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Speaker 1: it may be, and being able to do those things

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Speaker 1: over and over and over again, that's when you really

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Speaker 1: get good. I think that having an off season program

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Speaker 1: is going to help him a lot, because we haven't

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Speaker 1: had one true off season program for a few years,

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Speaker 1: especially since they've been in the league. Great article up

660
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: on Easy Cardinals dot Com. Darren Verban had a chance

661
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: to catch up with Aman Collins and that was part

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Speaker 1: of their discussion. MJ. As far as working with vanch

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Speaker 1: Joseph and going over it and taking the time. It's

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Speaker 1: much easier to spend twenty minutes in the offseason. You

665
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: don't have that time in the regular season to make

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Speaker 1: adjustments on the fly or between weeks one and two.

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Speaker 1: So now is when you can really kind of take

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Speaker 1: a step back if you're Avon Collins and really digest

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Speaker 1: what is being asked of you. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 1: I assume he's going to wear the green sticker. That

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Speaker 1: means he's gonna make the calls. And I couldn't agree

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Speaker 1: more with Kyle about if this defensive line can occupy

673
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Speaker 1: double teams. That's where those linebackers come in and they

674
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: can shoot the gaps instead of making tackles, four or

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Speaker 1: five six showers down the line of scrimmage and in

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Speaker 1: Furnace to Jordan Hicks, that was happening here. They're athletic enough,

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Speaker 1: but it all starts up front. But I'm curious to

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Speaker 1: see who's going to be making the calls. You've got

679
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Speaker 1: to assume it's going to be one of the inside

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Speaker 1: linebackers that has a sticker on the helmet. Collins sixty

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Speaker 1: four two sixty Simmons sixty four two thirty eight. You

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Speaker 1: brought up Nick Vigil earlier in this segment, but going

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Speaker 1: back to JJ Watt again this on the Day Pash

684
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: podcast talking about Simmons and Collins. For Simmons, it's going

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Speaker 1: into year three, but learning from their past mistakes. This

686
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: game comes down to making plays. It comes down to

687
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Speaker 1: being on the field and just making plays. And I

688
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Speaker 1: think that you're gonna make mistakes. Guys are gonna make mistakes.

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Speaker 1: I make mistakes, so they got to go out there

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Speaker 1: and play and when you do make those mistakes, you

691
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Speaker 1: got to learn from them. But it's all about repetition

692
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Speaker 1: and consistency and work. It all sounds good at the moment, Kyle,

693
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Speaker 1: but when the game starts and you're the coaching staff

694
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, mistakes are made. You want

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Speaker 1: guys that can get the job done. And if you've

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Speaker 1: got a team that's a veteran team and expects to

697
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Speaker 1: win and has lofty aspirations, it's hard to bring along

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Speaker 1: a rookie who's making mistakes. And that might have been

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Speaker 1: why Zaven Collins he started five of the first seven,

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Speaker 1: didn't start, only started one other game the rest of

701
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Speaker 1: the way. You're looking to win ball games. But now

702
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Speaker 1: is when you can kind of work on those mistakes. No,

703
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: you're right, accountability is huge. And again, you know, offensive

704
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Speaker 1: coordinators are so smart. If there's a player that seems

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed or can't do a certain thing, or makes mistakes

706
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Speaker 1: on certain formations or plays, they're gonna take advantage of that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, both of the last two JJ Watt quotes,

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Speaker 1: he talked about repetition, right, especially with guys that are

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Speaker 1: this talented, You want them to just go. The more

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Speaker 1: they can go and the less they can think. Right,

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Speaker 1: you know, another cliche is the paralysis by analysis you

712
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Speaker 1: don't want you want your mic linebacker to know what

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Speaker 1: he's doing without thinking about it, and you just want

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Speaker 1: them to go and flow and make plays. And we've seen,

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Speaker 1: you know, even in Isaiah Simmons rookie year on the

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Speaker 1: tail end of it, they put him out there in

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Speaker 1: certain packages, but he was just allowed to make place

718
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Speaker 1: and he wasn't he was no longer a liability. He

719
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Speaker 1: was a playmaker and he was allowed to run around

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Speaker 1: and just kind of feel the game. And I kind

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Speaker 1: of feel like both of these guys are the same way.

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Speaker 1: They're instinctive players, and so you know, if something is

723
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Speaker 1: too complicated, then it's on the coaches. It's on advanced

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Speaker 1: Joseph to put them in situations where they can use

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Speaker 1: their physical abilities to make plays and help this team win.

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Speaker 1: Simmons after the bye week kids rookie year, saw his

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Speaker 1: playing time increase. Collins after the bye week did not

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Speaker 1: see his playing time defensively increase. In fact, three of

729
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Speaker 1: those last six games didn't see a single defensive snap,

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Speaker 1: and when he was playing defensive was as an outside

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Speaker 1: linebacker because they needed someone to rush the quarterback. So

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Speaker 1: a huge offseason and a huge season ahead for Zavan

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Speaker 1: Collins and Isaiah Simmons. You want to see those two

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Speaker 1: young inside linebackers in action. Arizona Cardinal season tickets are

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Speaker 1: available now. Visit easy Cardinals dot com, slash season or

736
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Speaker 1: more information. Of course, the season will begin minus DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: A talking points all off season long. We hear from

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Speaker 1: head coach Cliff Kingsbury on how to deal without the

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Speaker 1: hop the first third of the regular season. This is

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Murry back to throw on

741
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Speaker 1: second and nine in trouble, moves to his left, being

742
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: chased by Bosa. Now throws it deep across the field

743
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Speaker 1: near side Jeff callings by Hopkins at the ten and

744
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: tackled at the nine yard line. Kyler Murray threw that

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Speaker 1: ball outside the numbers on the far side to the

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Speaker 1: near sideline. Five twenty to go. Cardinals lead ten to seven.

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Speaker 1: Can they put them away? Can they get a touchdown?

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Speaker 1: Snapped to Tyler, he throws a fade left side in

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Speaker 1: the end zone and in his Cardiner cut down by

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Speaker 1: de hop The hop bought it with Josh Dorman draped

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Speaker 1: all over. I'm trying to pull the ball away. What

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Speaker 1: a great catch by DeAndre Hopkins broke the signles out

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Speaker 1: on the fade and stamped the pig on the air

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Speaker 1: and brought it in man. At some point, when you've

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Speaker 1: got dudes who are just better than the other team,

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Speaker 1: that's enough. A team leading eight touchdown catches for DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins and he did that in ten games. Remember, miss

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Speaker 1: seven because of a hamstring injury and a knee injury,

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Speaker 1: the ladder of which ultimately sideline him for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the regular season and postseason. But it is going

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Speaker 1: to be a little while before we see d hop

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Speaker 1: on the field again in the regular season. He is

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Speaker 1: going to miss the first six games this year's we

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Speaker 1: Welcome me back here to the Cardinals Red Sea Report

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Speaker 1: presented by Ziki Get your seats in a seats. Here

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Speaker 1: are the six games Chiefs, Raiders, Rams, Panther's Eagles and

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Speaker 1: Sea two division games, three home games, three road games.

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Speaker 1: So you know you're not gonna have him, Kyle. So

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Speaker 1: what do you hope to do minus your best offensive

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Speaker 1: weapon outside of Kyle mur Right, what he's able to do? Well? Hope,

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Speaker 1: I hope you win all of them, right, I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: you've got to manage without him. Um, you know, he

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Speaker 1: is a difference maker. He's a huge part of this offense.

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Speaker 1: So um again, you know the bright side is is

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Speaker 1: coach Kingsbury in this offensive staff half time, they have

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Speaker 1: time to prepare and playing for what this offense is

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Speaker 1: gonna look like without DeAndre Hopkins, whereas last year they

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Speaker 1: didn't you know it was it was changing things up

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Speaker 1: at the last minute and probably not making enough adjustments.

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Speaker 1: So they have time to get it figured out. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I I'm hoping through those first six. You know,

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Speaker 1: this team has started strong, started strong last year, came

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00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: out played well. Um, you know, three and three, four

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Speaker 1: and two, manage without him, and then you get you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the top two three receivers, if not the

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Speaker 1: best receiver in the league. You get him back for

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Speaker 1: the stretch run at the end of the season and

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Speaker 1: healthy and hungry and ready to show that you know

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Speaker 1: he's he's still doing DeAndre Hopkins type things on the

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Speaker 1: football field. Yeah, here we say go more twelve personnel

791
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Speaker 1: just based on you know who you have, and then

792
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: try to run the football. Obviously he got a couple

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Speaker 1: backs and then Cliff will come out and go four

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Speaker 1: wide Week one with Markith Brown and everyone. But then

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Speaker 1: you know you've you've got the time. Plus you do

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Speaker 1: have Markis Brown full off season, Zach Ertz full off season,

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Speaker 1: So those help as well. To Kyle's point, MJ that

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Speaker 1: you know the time and then the talents as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and listen, Cardinals put up over thirty points, you know

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Speaker 1: when they were seven and zero and ten and two

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Speaker 1: four hundred yards. I'm not looking for style points. Just

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Speaker 1: win at the line of scrimmish. And if you know,

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Speaker 1: if Matt Prater had us to make a field goal

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Speaker 1: at the end, so be it. Just win the game though.

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Speaker 1: But one way to shorten the game though, is being

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Speaker 1: able to run the football and then utilize in twelve personnel,

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Speaker 1: and of course you also have Ron del Moore AJ Green.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if other receivers step ups, and we could

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Speaker 1: see two backs in the backfield at the same time

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Speaker 1: depending on how the game flows. So we're not going

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Speaker 1: to know exactly how this team deals without DeAndre Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: but it's not going to stop us from asking head

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Speaker 1: coach Cliff Kingsbury about it, as the media did last Friday.

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Speaker 1: Marquis will help, I mean, he's a dynamic playmaker and

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Speaker 1: we just have to play better as an offense. It's

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Speaker 1: unfortunate that he won't be available, but I'm excited when

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Speaker 1: we get him back. We struggled the second half of

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Speaker 1: the season, and you know, when we get him back,

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Speaker 1: I think that'll be a real shot in the arm

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Speaker 1: for that back half and I know we'll get his best.

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Speaker 1: It's always looking at the bright side of it when

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Speaker 1: you have something like this. All right, so you without him,

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Speaker 1: but you do get him back, and you look at

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Speaker 1: maybe as a mid seas an acquisition. There's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Cliff Kingsbury to figure things out,

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on Kyler Murray to execute what

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Speaker 1: he is being asked to do, but to elevate the

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Speaker 1: other players on the team as well. You're missing your

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Speaker 1: number one option. You've got your best friend, Marky's Brown.

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Speaker 1: It's not an equal comparison swap one for one. But

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray needs to figure out and maybe do a

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Speaker 1: little bit extra those first six weeks. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not I'm in trouble. I'm just chucking it

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Speaker 1: up to DeAndre Hopkins, you know. But again, when DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins went out last year. You talk about everybody elevating

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Speaker 1: this team couldn't find the number one to step in.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of really good number twos and threes,

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Speaker 1: but nobody was that guy. You know it by default

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Speaker 1: was zach Ertz. He was the guy Kyler looked too

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Speaker 1: when he was in trouble. But what you did is

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Speaker 1: you traded for a true number one, a guy that

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Speaker 1: has been a number one in an offense for a

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Speaker 1: few years, and a guy that is a dynamic playmaker.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like the cupboard's empty and you don't

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Speaker 1: have that guy that you can rely on that can

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Speaker 1: stretch the field and can make huge plays for you.

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Speaker 1: You know, because Hollywood Brown has been that guy for

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Speaker 1: games are so tough, they're gonna be exhausted, and you've

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Speaker 1: Trying to prepare for that in week seven on a

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Speaker 1: week for everyone, and a bunch of walkthroughs that's okay,

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Speaker 1: leave me like fresh legs. They'll be involved in the

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Speaker 1: game plan, open things up for the entire offense. Something

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Speaker 1: to look forward to in week seven, something that we

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Speaker 1: will be looking forward to here on the Cardinals Red

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