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Speaker 1: All Red Sea, its rising up, gimb you, rising vision,

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Speaker 1: flurring rage, tack it over. Here's Paul Calvic.

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Speaker 5: I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you

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Speaker 5: The Big Red Rage Meet Big Red Carpet times two.

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Speaker 5: We've got a new head coach to talk about little

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Speaker 5: hour roll out The Big Red Carpet on the Big

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Speaker 5: Red Rage presented by Emergency Here Paul Calvic, Ron Wolfley

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Speaker 5: and Wolf. If we're gonna scan the big red rage landscape,

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Speaker 5: here we go. This is what the game plan looks like. Tonight.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna hear from new head coach Mike Lafleur. We're

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Speaker 5: gonna hear from the decision makers, including owner Michael Bidwell.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna hear from your former teammate RAMS radio sideline

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Speaker 5: analyst DeMarco Farr, who will give us the inside in

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Speaker 5: the intel on coach Lafleur, Michael Wilson. We'll hear from

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Speaker 5: Cardinals players as well, and then we're gonna state our

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Speaker 5: twenty six class the Pro Football Hall of Fame. How's

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Speaker 5: that sound like for a game plan?

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Speaker 6: You know what, Pully, It sounds fantastic. The other thing

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Speaker 6: Isn't this a beautiful thing? We don't have to sit

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Speaker 6: We have clarity, Clarity on where the Arizona Cardinals are headed,

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Speaker 6: I cannot wait to talk about this, and that's clarity.

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Speaker 5: In fact, you know what the team president and owner

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Speaker 5: was the introductory press conference for the new head coach,

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Speaker 7: As we went through the interview process, the clear winner

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Speaker 7: He's been training under the brightest offensive coaches in the

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Speaker 5: Right, So that is the why behind the decision. So

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, I love that the fact that you brought

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Speaker 5: to see if he's gonna do it.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Paul, at least he didn't say we're gonna win

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Speaker 5: Him and we're going to get into all that. But

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Speaker 9: Doing up now? You guys stole my OC and made

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Speaker 6: Come on now before Tobarco. Honestly, you know what. You

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Speaker 9: So you get to see a glimpse of what McVeigh

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Speaker 5: We were talking about that. It's DeMarco Farr Rams radio

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Speaker 9: the room. This is the pros now, they get paid too.

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Speaker 9: So I think Lafloor gets that. He's he's been brought

432
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Speaker 9: up in the business, He's watched McVeigh do it, so

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Speaker 9: I think he has a pretty good understanding of what

434
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Speaker 9: it what it feels like, and what it is like

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Speaker 9: to be in front of a group of sixty men.

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Speaker 5: DeMarco love it.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate Marco, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 9: Got it.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk to you soon.

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Speaker 9: Well, how do I root for you?

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Speaker 1: Just root for us please.

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Speaker 5: We'll talk about that Lafleora offense next. On a big

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Speaker 5: red rage presented by Emergency Air.

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Speaker 2: To the current players.

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Speaker 8: I really appreciate you guys showing up. When I got

446
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Speaker 8: the list of how many guys were coming and who

447
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Speaker 8: was coming, touched me man and I cannot wait to

448
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Speaker 8: start building relationships with you guys. I can't wait to

449
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Speaker 8: get to work with you guys. I promise I'll pour

450
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Speaker 8: it all for you guys every single day, and I

451
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Speaker 8: can't wait to just get this show going. I told

452
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Speaker 8: every single one of you I'll be reaching out to you,

453
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Speaker 8: but this is for you, guys, and the staff that

454
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Speaker 8: we're going to put together is to pour into you guys.

455
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Speaker 8: When I got some of those facetimes on that Sunday,

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Speaker 8: whether it be for my family, some friends, the ones

457
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Speaker 8: that fired me up the most was coming from you guys,

458
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Speaker 8: and it got me just more excited to get going.

459
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Speaker 8: So I appreciate you guys. Can't wait to get to work.

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Speaker 5: There you go, Michael Lafloor talking to the players essentially

461
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Speaker 5: back of the room the introductory press conference. It is

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Speaker 5: a big Red Rage presented by Emergency or Paul calvic

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Speaker 5: Ron Wolfley Special thanks again to you, DeMarco Far the

464
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Speaker 5: Rams radio sideline analyst, former team eate of yours, defensive

465
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Speaker 5: linemen and a lot of interesting stuff there. Especially I

466
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Speaker 5: thought him telling the story of the Rams road trip

467
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Speaker 5: to the az this year Week fourteen, where Sean McVeigh

468
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Speaker 5: was sick. He was down with the flu and basically

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Speaker 5: Michael Lafleur took over installing the game plan, running the offense,

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Speaker 5: calling a lot of the plays, and if you remember,

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Speaker 5: that was the game where they scored thirty five straight points,

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Speaker 5: they went thirty two straight plays about ever reaching third down.

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Speaker 5: So Wolf, if you're Moni and Michael and you're up

474
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Speaker 5: in the owner's booth and you're watching that, I mean,

475
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Speaker 5: that was a display by the Rams offense and you're

476
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Speaker 5: thinking to yourself, Wow, who's masterminding this. It isn't Sean McVay.

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Speaker 5: Let's hire the guy who's not Sean McVay. And that's

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Speaker 5: ultimately what they did.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Pauli, there's no doubt about that. But you know

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Speaker 6: what I liked about it was the fact that Michae

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Speaker 6: Laflora was talking about how he walked around the facility

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Speaker 6: for three days. It feels like he knows it very

483
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Speaker 6: very well and felt like he was going to be higher.

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is really really cool, man.

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Speaker 2: This stuff.

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Speaker 6: The fact that Michael lafloor is the next head coach

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Speaker 6: for the Arizona Cardinals. I think this I'm going to

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Speaker 6: put into the positive column.

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Speaker 2: He said.

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Speaker 5: He told us in this radio studio that the first

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Speaker 5: person he called after he accepted the gig was his

492
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Speaker 5: big brother Matt, who is the head coach of Green Bay,

493
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Speaker 5: and he said in the past that, look, there are

494
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Speaker 5: four schemes that have similar nuts and bolts. Those are

495
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Speaker 5: his words between Kyle Shannan, Sean McVay, Matt Lafleur, and

496
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Speaker 5: then Mike McDaniel his recent run with the Dolphins, and

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Speaker 5: you know, there's a lot of there's a foundation that's similar,

498
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Speaker 5: but each coach is smart enough to fit the scheme

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Speaker 5: to what the player's skill sets are and that's where

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Speaker 5: the offense ends up going. In particular, what sort of

501
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Speaker 5: quarterback you have, You cater to the players, especially the quarterback.

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Speaker 5: And so we had a chance to talk about just

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Speaker 5: that on the Red Sea Report with the head coach

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Speaker 5: and what his offensive scheme might look like. Here's Mike Lafloor.

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Speaker 8: We're going to have a marriage of the run in

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Speaker 8: pass game. You know what personnel we're gonna be and

507
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Speaker 8: what we're gonna live in. We've got to figure out

508
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Speaker 8: what our roster looks like, you know. But foundational speaking,

509
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Speaker 8: core concepts are coming over. We're gonna have the wide zone,

510
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Speaker 8: we're gonna have the inside zone. We're gonna have our duos,

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Speaker 8: We're gonna have our play actions, we're gonna have our

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Speaker 8: boots off of you know, our wide zone. We're gonna

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Speaker 8: have our quick completion plays. We're gonna go across the

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Speaker 8: board with our drop packer. Like that's similar to all

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Speaker 8: the systems that I've been a part of. That's no different.

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Speaker 8: But what makes every system unique is, well, what players

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Speaker 8: do you have?

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Speaker 5: Interesting? And he cited before that they didn't realize just

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Speaker 5: how physical Puka Nikola was a couple of years ago,

520
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Speaker 5: you know, and he's a big body guy. So all

521
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Speaker 5: of a sudden, they're like, you know what, we're gonna

522
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Speaker 5: line them up as full back. We're gonna bring him.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's gonna be a blocking receiver. We're gonna

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Speaker 5: use that. And then mac Wilson Senior spoke about that

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Speaker 5: to the media, Wolf that he would make it tough.

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Speaker 5: You know, McVeigh and Lafloor would put certain guys in

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Speaker 5: the backfield and then all of a sudden, they're forcing

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Speaker 5: the defense to tell who's covering them. Yeah, and he

529
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Speaker 5: said it was a really tough challenge. So if you

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Speaker 5: can bring some of that football IQ to the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: and run that sort of scheme all the better.

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Speaker 6: Yes, And you know what I love too, the fact

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Speaker 6: that the Rams really expanded from eleven personnel. A few

534
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Speaker 6: years ago, Paully, they were almost exclusively eleven personnel, and

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Speaker 6: there's still an eleven personnel team for the most part.

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Speaker 6: But man, did they use so much more twelve and

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Speaker 6: thirteen personnel this year. And this is what I love

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Speaker 6: about it. Mike Laflor was right in the middle of

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Speaker 6: all of that. They thought they had the personnel to

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Speaker 6: actually go out there and run some twelve personnel run duo.

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Speaker 6: You heard him right there, Mike Laflor talking about, Hey, listen,

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Speaker 6: you know we're going to run the wide zone the

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Speaker 6: inside zone. Now, the wide zone is the stretch play.

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Speaker 6: Of course, I call it the tackle zone. That is

545
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Speaker 6: a play that everybody's got in their playbook for the

546
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Speaker 6: most part in the National Football League. The inside zone, Polly,

547
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Speaker 6: is more straightforward. It's more of a power scheme, straightforward.

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Speaker 6: The duos what I loved right there. Think of ba

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Speaker 6: think of lining up and running the power without the pull,

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Speaker 6: the duo, the double twenty two and twenty three double.

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Speaker 6: That is exactly what he's talking about as well and

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Speaker 6: tailoring all of that to the players that you have.

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Speaker 6: That's what I love.

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Speaker 5: By the way, NFL Network reporting this week that the

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Speaker 5: Cardinals have hired or at least agreed to the offensive

556
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Speaker 5: coordinator position with Nathaniel Hackett, who was the Green Bay

557
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Speaker 5: OC for Matt laflora now Matt Laflor called the place

558
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Speaker 5: twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one. He was the Denbrak coach

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty two. So there's a little bit of head

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Speaker 5: coaching experience that'll be on the side there for Mike

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Speaker 5: Laford to lean on a little bit. And then of

562
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Speaker 5: course he was the Jets offensive coordinator with Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 5: most recently, and so that's one hire.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 5: Pete Thammel college football reporter saying that from the u

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Speaker 5: University of Miami running backs coach Matt Merritt has accepted

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Speaker 5: a job as a Cardinals running backs coach, and he's

568
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Speaker 5: had a lot of experience and coached a lot of

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Speaker 5: outstanding running backs at the college level. So that's interesting.

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Speaker 5: Speaking to the players, here's Michael Wilson and what he

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Speaker 5: feels like Michael Lafore can bring to the offense.

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Speaker 10: He talked that this the system is going to be

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Speaker 10: built organically around the players, but I'm sure he's going

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Speaker 10: to take and sprinkle in a lot of the McVeigh

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Speaker 10: system and the Shanahan system. It seems like all those

576
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Speaker 10: guys that play for those organizations play really well and

577
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Speaker 10: maximize their playability and their play speed and honestly turn

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Speaker 10: into superstars. Looking at me, Marvin Trey like, I'm excited to,

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Speaker 10: you know, get with an offensive guy who hopefully can

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Speaker 10: you know, maximize all of our skill sets and I'm

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Speaker 10: so excited to get.

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Speaker 5: To work and wolf to me in the NFL's toughest division,

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Speaker 5: if the Cardinals have a competitive advantage, it's that trio

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Speaker 5: right there that Michael Wilson named the best receiving tight

585
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Speaker 5: end of the game, and Trey McBride, Michael Wilson, who

586
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Speaker 5: had an unbelievable second half of his season, who can

587
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Speaker 5: a cool light in my opinion, And then if you

588
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Speaker 5: can unlock and maximize Marvin Harrison Junior, you know another

589
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Speaker 5: team has that trio of receiving weapons like the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: do in the NFC West.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, you're you're right about that, PAULI. The Arizona

592
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Speaker 6: Cardinals have talent offensively, they really do, especially at the

593
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Speaker 6: skill positions. They've got talent. They just got to figure

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Speaker 6: out how to use that talent best. You know, I

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Speaker 6: honestly am really jacked up about Nathaniel Hackett as well.

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Speaker 6: PAULI I just want to say this quickly. You brought

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Speaker 6: them up. I think this is great for Mike Lafleur.

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Speaker 6: This is fantastic when you're talking about a family like

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Speaker 6: the Lafleur's Matt Lafleur, Mike Lafleur, and the fact that

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Speaker 6: they have gone on vacation with Nathaniel hackettah in his family.

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Speaker 2: Paul, you know this.

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Speaker 6: You've got a really tight relationship when you're willing to

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Speaker 6: go on vacation with your friends.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you do, and you know, I mean you've got to.

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Speaker 6: And I love that because this is somebody that can

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Speaker 6: speak into Mike Lafleur's life as the head coach. This

607
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Speaker 6: is something that they can have some very frank and

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Speaker 6: honest conversations that maybe two guys trying to learn each

609
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Speaker 6: other and understand each other and haven't been around each

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Speaker 6: other very often much. You know they're gonna have a

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Speaker 6: rapport between them that I think is going to be special.

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Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be perfect for Mike laflor.

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Speaker 5: Well, if you knew Bruce arians better than any member

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Speaker 5: of the media, remember what he used to say. Oh,

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Speaker 5: as to the reasoning behind hiring Tom Moore, Yes, right,

616
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Speaker 5: not just fifty years of football experience and wisdom. He

617
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Speaker 5: needed someone he could rely on, he could trust, he

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Speaker 5: could vent to, right, because you know the head coach

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Speaker 5: shoo does the head coach go to when he wants

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Speaker 5: to complain or he wants to That's right, right, he

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Speaker 5: has to have that guy. And so to your point,

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Speaker 5: it's a great point. You know, Nathaniel Hackett, I'm guessing

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Speaker 5: is gonna be that guy from Mike Lafleur.

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Speaker 6: Yes, And again does he come from the McVeigh tree. Yes,

625
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Speaker 6: he comes from that tree in the Shanahan tree as well.

626
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Speaker 6: And get getting back to Tom Moore in BA, that

627
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Speaker 6: relationship was so important. You needed somebody who could look

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Speaker 6: at you and say, what are you doing? You know,

629
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Speaker 6: what are you doing? You're doing this the wrong way.

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Speaker 6: Somebody that could speak into the head coach's life, and

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Speaker 6: that was Tom Moore. And to your point, Palie, that's

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Speaker 6: what Nathaniel Hackett's gonna bring for Mike Laflor.

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Speaker 5: You know, Micha Laflor spoke ninety eight seven when he

634
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Speaker 5: did that interview about look, you have to innovate. You

635
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Speaker 5: have to stay ahead schematically, you know, week to week,

636
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Speaker 5: season to season. You know, if you don't, if it's over.

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Speaker 5: Those are the words of Mike Laflor. And what if

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Speaker 5: Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay done better than anyone season

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Speaker 5: to season, week to week, right, they break their own tendencies,

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Speaker 5: They find new ways to get personnel involved, new formations,

641
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Speaker 5: new looks, new ways to test the defense. So I'm

642
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Speaker 5: really curious to see how he looks at the Cardinals

643
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Speaker 5: roster and what he comes up with and how is

644
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Speaker 5: able to keep defensive coordinators on their toes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and this is why you've got to be on

646
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Speaker 6: the same page for the most part, with the with

647
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Speaker 6: the general manager. When the general manager is trying to

648
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 6: actually accumulate all this talent, you've got to be on

649
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 6: the same page. Hey, listen, we need tackle zone offensive

650
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 6: lineman so to speak. You know, we were gonna be

651
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 6: heavy on that, or maybe you want to go gap scheme,

652
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 6: whatever it may be You've got to be on the

653
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 6: same page with the general manager.

654
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Speaker 2: And that's the great thing about this. I think he's.

655
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Speaker 6: Got a young but budding relationship with Manti asin Ford

656
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 6: as well.

657
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Speaker 5: And when he was asked about whether it's a major

658
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 5: overhaul or tweaking, he cited this, seven losses by four

659
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 5: points or less, You've got to figure out a way

660
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Speaker 5: to finish, to close out those games. We continue, how

661
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Speaker 5: about Larry Fitzgerald, Hall of Famer. That's next and the

662
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 5: Big Red Rage presented by Emergency Air.

663
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Speaker 4: With the third choice in the two thousand and four

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Speaker 4: NFL Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Larry Fitzgerald.

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Speaker 5: Wide receiver, University of foot Play.

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00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals, number one pick.

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00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 7: We bring him to the Valley of the Sun, whide receiver,

668
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Speaker 7: University of Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, First.

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Speaker 2: I always like to say thank you for having me.

671
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Speaker 2: You know, it's honor and pleasure to be here.

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00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 9: You know, it's a very special time for me.

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Speaker 2: Right now.

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, I'm not even sure Larry at that

675
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 5: point could rent a car. He couldn't. I mean, yeah,

676
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 5: that was a very young Larry Fitzgerald. After the two

677
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 5: thousand and four draft, and what a career. By his

678
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 5: second year in the NFL, he was a Pro bowler.

679
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 5: He ended up on the All Decade Team two tens,

680
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 5: eleven time Pro bowlers, second most Pro Bowl selections by

681
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Speaker 5: any receiver in NFL history, in fact, second most catchup

682
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 5: and receiving yards, behind only Jerry Rice. Now the question

683
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 5: Ron wolfully in less than two hours from now, will

684
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,799
Speaker 5: his new initials be hof Hall of Fame? As once

685
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 5: again we are rolling out the big red carpet on

686
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 5: the big red rage presented by emergency. Are your thoughts

687
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 5: on Larry Fitzgerald's candidacy?

688
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, PAULI I think Larry Fitzgerald is going to be

689
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 6: a first ballot Hall of Famer. I think he is

690
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 6: going to get into the Hall of Fame. I think

691
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 6: he deserves to be a first ballot Hall of Famer,

692
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 6: A class act on the field, a class act off

693
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 6: the field. Of course, seventeen seasons. Man, when you think

694
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 6: about it, seventeen seasons, Paul had over seventeen thousand yards,

695
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 6: seventeen four hundred and ninety two yards. Paul, listen, West

696
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 6: Virginia grad here. But you know what, that's over one

697
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 6: thousand a season on average one hundred and twenty one touchdowns.

698
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Speaker 2: Truly amazing.

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Speaker 6: This is a Hall of famer and whether it's going

700
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 6: to happen today or we're going to get word on

701
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 6: it today or not remains to be seen. But he's

702
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 6: going to be a Hall of Famer at some point.

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00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 5: So this week it was the Pro Am and the

704
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 5: Phoenix Open. Fitz was out there. You know what, his

705
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 5: former teammate and fellows soon to be Hall of Famer

706
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 5: Emmitt Smith was out there as well, and our Zach

707
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 5: Gershman caught up with Emmett for his first impressions.

708
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: Hilarry.

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00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 5: Back during his rookie year.

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Speaker 11: I saw the potential. The one thing about potential, everybody

711
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 11: has it, but not many people are willing to nursery.

712
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 11: He nurtured that potential, He grew it, he developed it,

713
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 11: and he matured it, and he took advantage of it

714
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 11: and played at a high level for a long period

715
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 11: of time for the Arizona Cardinals. And so there was

716
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Speaker 11: no doubt in my mind he had the potential. The

717
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 11: question would be who would they surround him with to

718
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 11: help that potential really develop and grow. And they found

719
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Speaker 11: the right folks, Kurt Warrener and others as well. He

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Speaker 11: deserved to be He's a first ballot in my opinion.

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00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 5: Jim Mo Mahunter just recollected. Guess what Emmett was involved

722
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 5: in Larry's very first career reception at Saint Louis. It

723
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 5: was a fla flicker and Larry.

724
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: Hauled it in.

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Speaker 5: And I mean think about it. Larry led the NFL

726
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 5: and catches at age twenty two, led the NFL and

727
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 5: catches at age thirty three. So to your point, Wolf,

728
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 5: you know the consistency, the long jeventy and he did

729
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 5: it with twenty two different quarterbacks throwing him a pass.

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00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 2: Oh that's incredible.

731
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 5: I mean Jerry Rice caught two thirds of his passes

732
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Speaker 5: from Montana and Young Yeah, two Hall of famers.

733
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Speaker 6: You know what I love, though, Paully, I just want

734
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 6: to jump in here and say that you know what

735
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 6: Larry Fitzgerald's superpower was and is.

736
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 5: The playoffs?

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00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: No, humility. That is his superpower is humility, Paully.

738
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Speaker 6: When you're humble, you're willing to look at yourself and

739
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 6: say where do I need to get better? Larry was

740
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 6: always looking at himself. His humility is What makes him

741
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 6: the player that he was and the man that he

742
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 6: is his humility to be able to look at yourself

743
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 6: and say, man, I need to get better here, I

744
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 6: need to be better there, I need to be better.

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00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 2: Period.

746
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Speaker 6: The fact that he had that kind of humility, Paul,

747
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 6: There's a lot of players in the National Football League.

748
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 6: They're not willing to look at themselves and put themselves

749
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 6: under the magnifying glass because you know what, they might

750
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 6: see something they can't fix or they can't improve on,

751
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 6: and sometimes that'll burst you into a million pieces. With Larry,

752
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 6: he was humble. He worked incredibly hard. And this is

753
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 6: the reason, Paul, this is the reason why I'm not

754
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 6: giving up on Marvin Harrison Junior, because I see an

755
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 6: awful lot of Larry in Marvin Harrison Junior.

756
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 5: Look, if somehow someway someone still needs to state the

757
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 5: case or Larry Fitzgerald getting into Kandon, Ohio, well, may

758
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,720
Speaker 5: we cite the greatest playoff run ever the two thousand

759
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 5: and eight postseason as we go into the cold tub

760
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 5: time machine for a highlight montage.

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Speaker 4: They're going nuts here at the University of Phoenix Stadium

762
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 4: as the Cardinals get ready to take on the Atlanta

763
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Speaker 4: Falcons in the first playoff game at the University of

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Speaker 4: Phoenix Stadium. Keeping on the ground with James. It's a

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Speaker 4: fleet flicker. Warner gonna throw deep near side, going for Fitts.

766
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 4: He's in double coverage.

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00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.

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00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: He caught it anyway. Touchdown, Cardinals. You can't stop that guy.

769
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: I'm the flee flicker. Whoa whoa play? Larry Fitzgerald stabs

770
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: the ball out of the air.

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00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 4: Larry Fitzgerald led the NFL with twelve receiving touchdowns during

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00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 4: the regular season. He catches his first postseason touchdown.

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Speaker 1: The flee flicker. Oh my gosh, it does not matter.

774
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: You can get five guys on him.

775
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: You gonna catch it.

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00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 4: Welcome to Bank of America Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals

777
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 4: and the Carolina Panthers. Were just a few minutes away

778
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 4: from kickoff to start this divisional playoff game. Warner takes

779
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 4: makes the pitch, stands in the pocket, looking deep, airing

780
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 4: it out far side for Fitzgerald and a leaf being

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00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 4: a tip and it's caught up a ten won a

782
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 4: grab by fitz goes over the middle, fits wide open.

783
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 4: Caught him midfield near side forty thirty five thirty hit

784
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 4: at the twenty five and knocked out of bounds. Wow,

785
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 4: Fitzgerald somehow got wide open across the middle of the field.

786
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: Hump Fay going deep.

787
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 4: Fits is open far side, He's got it at the

788
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 4: forty yard line and he's tackled there.

789
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: Boy, was Fitzgerald wide.

790
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 4: Open down the far sideline. Warner with a ton of

791
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 4: time throwing right side, Fits open.

792
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 12: Caught at the five, heading for the pylon, and he

793
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 12: is gonna be ruled EO tordal Warry Fitzgerald, Do you

794
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 12: believe it?

795
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald cramps it down their throat.

796
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 4: Larry Fitzgerald, you are absolutely ridiculous. Oh my goodness, just

797
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 4: look at those NFC chains ehip logos on the field.

798
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 4: Do you believe it that Cardinal's hosting the NFC Championship

799
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 4: game winner to the Super Bowl. Warner takes short, set,

800
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 4: has time, looks left.

801
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: Throws up in the middle of the Fits on inside

802
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: the five, breaks.

803
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 12: A tagle head.

804
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: Fits is in touchdown.

805
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 12: Cardinals on the open, they drove, They take it the

806
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 12: length of the field.

807
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 1: How's that for making some bacon in a short pand that.

808
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 4: Was huge, absolutely huge on the opening drive, Orner takes

809
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 4: it's a pitch to Arrington. He's gonna throw. He's gonna

810
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 4: throw it back to Kurt far side of the twenty

811
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 4: five Now Warner going deep, airing it out middle of

812
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Speaker 4: the field.

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00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: Fits is Arry Corner at the town.

814
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 12: Put the fog, put down, Larry vindaryld the triggery of

815
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 12: the Arizona Cardinals.

816
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 6: Yes, Sir, Larry Fitzgerald is literally trying to will.

817
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: This team to victory right now. Warner takes back to

818
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: throw fad left side. Fitz Darryl's he.

819
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 12: Got it touch down, his third of the day. It's

820
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 12: twenty to six, Arizona.

821
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: There's no dirt like Peydt, and there's no Peytert like

822
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: playoff Peter.

823
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 4: Super Bowl forty three here we come. Welcome to the

824
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 4: biggest sporting event in the world, the Super Bowl from Tampa, Florida,

825
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 4: the forty third edition. Your Arizona Cardinals. They're Pittsburgh Steelers.

826
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 4: Warner takes gonna throw a fade right side.

827
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 12: FITZGERALDY got on touchdown.

828
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,720
Speaker 4: Larry Fitzgerald and the Cardinals are back within a score.

829
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: Midway through the fourth quarter. Ough, oh baby, flow the

830
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: whistle and send in the kicker. The scurge of the

831
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: red zone is done it again. Larry caught his first

832
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: Super Bowl touchdown. Warner to pass with time Fyers.

833
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 12: Over the middle of the fence, caught it the forty

834
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 12: five birthday thirty goodbye, hed Bye, Marginals lead touchdown, Larry Fitzgerald.

835
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: You've gotta be kidding, be Larry Fitzgerald running the post round.

836
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 12: He turned off field and ran it home.

837
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: Good to how Larry Fitzgerald.

838
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 4: A sixty four yard touchdown pass by Warner to Fitzgerald

839
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,959
Speaker 4: and the Cardinals lead. Super Bowl forty three went two

840
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 4: thirty seven to go.

841
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 5: I can still smell the air in Tampa, Florida and

842
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 5: see that scoreboard just over two and a half minutes

843
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 5: to play. Kurt to Larry. Now both headed for the

844
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame. You gotta figure after tonight fits this

845
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 5: single greatest playoff run ever by any playoff you know,

846
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 5: performer ever. Think about it. In the playoffs he had

847
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 5: thirty catches from five hundred and forty six receiving yards,

848
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 5: seven receiving touchdowns better than eighteen yards a catch. Wolf

849
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 5: and the receiving yards and seven receiving touchdowns both the

850
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 5: most ever by any player in any single postseason. Just

851
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 5: it is record setting, It is legendary. I I'm not

852
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 5: sure we've seen a guy be in the zone for

853
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 5: a full month like Larry Fitzgerald was. He's still the

854
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 5: only player in NFL history of at least three games

855
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 5: of one hundred and fifty or more yards receiving in

856
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 5: the playoffs, So when the games were the biggest, he

857
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 5: was at his best.

858
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 6: Just incredible. I just to listen to that all over again.

859
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 6: Number one, Dave Pash is the best play by play guy,

860
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 6: just fall just number one. Can I say that at

861
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 6: number two, two thirty seven of all that set out

862
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 6: to me, it was the two thirty seven PAULI. I

863
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 6: think we all were communicating with each other, man, is

864
00:43:58,880 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 6: that too much?

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Speaker 2: Is there too much time on the clock? And it

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Speaker 2: just ah And you know what, memories on that fantastic if.

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Speaker 5: You want memories. For me, probably the most enjoyable fits

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Speaker 5: postseason highlight ever was twenty fifteen, the playoff win against

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Speaker 5: the Packers in overtime. Hail Larry's seventy five yards in

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Speaker 5: the catch and run, and the best part of that

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Speaker 5: was the no look stiff arm Larry's looking in his

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Speaker 5: side view mirror and just boom boom, there's the no

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Speaker 5: look stiff arm because he does that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, how did he know? The guy was unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: And as his sideline reporter all those years, it is amazing.

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Speaker 5: Now he'd be so calm, he'd be so cool, calm

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Speaker 5: and collected. He's talking to a ball boy during the

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Speaker 5: Super Bowl, and then he goes out and almost wins it.

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Speaker 5: It's uh great. So when he gets his name called

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Speaker 5: tonight and we all expect that to be the case,

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Speaker 5: how about it? How about a moment of reckoning for

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Speaker 5: an all time great Arizona Cardinal Larry Fitzgerald. Hey special,

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Speaker 5: thanks as always to Jimal Mahandro, Cody Fincher, Max Brown Special.

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Speaker 5: Thanks to Marco far the RAMS Radio sideline analysts for

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Speaker 5: joining us. Ron Wolfley on Paul KELVC. This has been

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Speaker 5: the Big Red Rage presented by Emergency Air.

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Speaker 1: Arison dies for the en zone. He's in touchdown.

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