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Speaker 2: So the fifteen of the ten He's gonna score touchdown.

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Speaker 2: Slammed the ground by Budda Baker like a torpedo. He

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Speaker 2: came flying into the backfield Connor to the ten, to

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Speaker 2: Here we go, one hand to catch it a touchdown?

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Speaker 3: Oh baby, how's that feil?

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Speaker 1: Here's Craig Griolu, Paul Calvic and three time pro bowler

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Speaker 1: Kyle Vandenbosch.

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Speaker 4: So it's cliche, but I never see it anyway. Where's

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Speaker 4: the time gone?

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Speaker 3: Gentlemen?

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Speaker 4: It is the final day of twenty twenty four. Just

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Speaker 4: like that, we are turning the page. Calendar switches to

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five at the stroke of midnight tonight. So

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Speaker 4: in early Happy New Year to the two of you

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Speaker 4: and everyone else listening here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 4: And yes, the calendar is just about done, and unfortunately KBB,

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals season is just about done as well, with

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Speaker 4: one more game left to be played.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been it's been an up and down year.

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Speaker 5: It's been a fun year. You know, this is a

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Speaker 5: fun team to cover. And I you know, in spite

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Speaker 5: of how things have gone recently, particularly after the bye,

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Speaker 5: there's so many encouraging things going on. I think, you know,

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Speaker 5: some of the young players are really stepping in playing

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Speaker 5: a key role. You can see that the veteran pieces

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Speaker 5: the leadership are in place, you know, and I think

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Speaker 5: this coaching staff has done done a good job. I

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Speaker 5: just you know, there's some things that need to be addressed,

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Speaker 5: some things that need to be tightened up in the

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Speaker 5: off season. But it's to me, in spite of how

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Speaker 5: things have gone recently, you know, when they had opportunities

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Speaker 5: a little bit. I'm excited about one this last game,

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Speaker 5: ending this season on a strong note, but the prospects

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Speaker 5: of what a few key additions this offseason could mean

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Speaker 6: So it's New Year's Eve a little bit later, if

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Speaker 6: time permits. I have New Year's resolutions, not for myself,

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Speaker 6: but for the two of you, just you know, I

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Speaker 6: know how I'll open you guys are to general feedback,

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Speaker 6: and so I'm gonna offer up some New Year's resolutions

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Speaker 6: that you guys should most definitely consider. As for the

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Speaker 6: Arizona Cardinals, I think their twenty twenty five New year

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Speaker 6: resolution is to just continue to build and add and

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Speaker 6: line a scrimmage. I'm guessing it's gonna continue from the

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Speaker 6: inside out. They're gonna look at another interior offensive lineman,

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Speaker 6: interior defensive lineman, could somehow get the edge guy, maybe

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Speaker 6: just maybe somehow in the off season. But I agree

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Speaker 6: with Kyle in that they have developed players. Not only

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Speaker 6: this staff has proven very capable of developing the players.

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Speaker 6: Dante Stills, a six rounder from last year, the integral

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Speaker 6: you can go up and down the roster, but there's

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Speaker 6: no doubt individually these players are better now can you

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Speaker 4: And I'd add Isaiah Adams as well, who all of

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Speaker 4: did see Christian Jones for a series on Saturday night,

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Speaker 4: and unfortunately we have to discuss what happened on Saturday

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Speaker 4: night as the Cardinals lose in Los Angeles, falling thirteen

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Speaker 4: tony out of the Rams. And despite everything, and again

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Speaker 4: I completely understand, Kyle, the only thing that matters is

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Speaker 4: did you score one more point than your opponent? Cardinals

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Speaker 4: did not. In fact, they were only they were held

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Speaker 4: that game and my feeling afterwards offense and defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's why this Cardinals team right now is looking at

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I completely agree I And it's tough. You know,

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Speaker 5: you know. The biggest thing again coming out of this

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Speaker 5: You know, it's a lot of underneath passing the run game.

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Speaker 5: to other teams. You know, you give up some yards

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Speaker 5: I feel like we talked about it a lot this season,

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Speaker 5: in spite of all the problems with the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 5: ball games in spite of not looking good in the

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Speaker 5: ways to finish. But you also have to sprinkle in

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Speaker 6: Did you hear Matthew Stafford after the game and what

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Speaker 6: his quote was, and it went something like this quote.

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Speaker 6: We didn't do a whole lot great, to be honest

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Speaker 6: the Arizona Cardinals. Matthew Stafford as the Rams starter ever

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Speaker 6: since the trade in twenty one is thirteen and one

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Speaker 4: And on Saturday they were minus two in that turnover

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Speaker 7: You know, we're not going to be playing in January.

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Speaker 7: And I thought the battle and the fight was there,

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Speaker 7: you know, And I told him I appreciate that because

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Speaker 7: and credit to LA. You know, they're a good team.

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Speaker 7: They're playing good football right now and they figured out

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Speaker 7: it stings, but I know we're close, man, and that

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Speaker 4: Those were JG's comments postgame on the Cardinals Locker Room Show.

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Speaker 4: He echoed those same sentiments, maybe not in the same words,

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Speaker 4: Said the same thing on Monday when he addressed the

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Speaker 4: you hear we're close, it's like, Okay, well how close?

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Speaker 4: How long is it going to take? But if you

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Speaker 4: It's only a handful of plays weekend and week got

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Speaker 6: And you know what's frustrating is a Kello Witherspoon, who

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Speaker 6: I mean he was absolutely getting worked and schooled by

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Speaker 6: It's the seven penalties in the first half again, six

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Speaker 6: after the game, they knew it was coming. That's why

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Speaker 6: they called that play. Well, okay, so why didn't run

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Speaker 6: The pass wasn't in the right place. That passed the

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Speaker 6: Why because if it's incomplete, it doesn't end up in interception.

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Speaker 6: So it's little things like that. If you can just resolve,

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Speaker 4: And how many times, Kyle will we hear that games

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Speaker 4: are won and loss within a possession or two. The

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Speaker 4: if the season is over, we're forced to talk about, Okay,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think you know the big thing again

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Speaker 5: personnel wise, And I know we're gonna talk at length,

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Speaker 5: exhaustively this offseason about what this team needs, which direction

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Speaker 5: they should go. But in games like this, you need

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Speaker 5: you know, as good as his defense has played, this

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Speaker 5: just lacking that one guy that steps up and makes

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Speaker 5: But again to Polly's point, earlier you take away any

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Speaker 9: Three tight ends to the left and now the tight

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Speaker 10: Ding dong the touchdown. We catch drought is dead as

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Speaker 10: Trey McBride finds pay dirt on the receiving end of

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Speaker 3: What a beautiful play design that was. Damn Trey McBride

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Speaker 4: A call that will live in Arizona Cardinals franchise history.

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Speaker 4: Trey McBride, on his ninety eighth reception, finally finds the

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Speaker 6: Paul, I got a big grin on your face because

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Speaker 4: Greg Hey Polly play by play on Saturday Night called

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Speaker 6: Pash could not deliver, you did, Paul, he was on assignment,

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Speaker 4: Face as we say welcome back. Here is the Cardinals

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Speaker 4: red seaer report, Craig Greia, Lupaul Calvici, and Kyle Vannenbosch,

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Speaker 4: and that has been the one thing that has been

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Speaker 4: and right now, Kyle, there is no defense that has

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and the statistics show, I mean he is the

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you listen to Trey and you think maybe he's

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Speaker 4: Let's go back to Saturday. Kyler Murray on the fact

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Speaker 4: that the Cardinals did not pull out the victory.

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Speaker 8: I felt like, for sure we were gonna win that game.

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Speaker 8: You know, I can think of a couple of games

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Speaker 8: I played what we drove all down and you know

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Speaker 8: felt like we were like for sure gonna win the game.

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Speaker 8: Like that feeling of we drove down the field, there's

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Speaker 8: nothing that the defense really could do with us. You know,

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Speaker 8: we had kind of having our way, and you know,

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Speaker 8: just at the end, it kind of you know turn

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Speaker 8: of events. You know, that's just kind of what it

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Speaker 8: comes down to right there, we h you know, just unlucky.

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Speaker 4: And sometimes that happens. Because that final drive, Kyle, you

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Speaker 4: look and it was Trey McBride seventeen yards, seven yards,

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Speaker 4: Michael Carter thirteen yard run, two yard run, six yard

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Speaker 4: run on third and one. So what Kyler was saying postgame,

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Speaker 4: the Rams had no answer for the Cardinals offensively on

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Speaker 4: that final drive until, as you talked about earlier, you

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Speaker 4: get inside the red zone and you need those last

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Speaker 4: five yards and it becomes more difficult when you're inside

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Speaker 4: the twenty yard line.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, really, they had no answer coming out of the half.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what adjustments the Cardinals made at halftime,

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Speaker 5: but you know, coming out putting together a thirteen play

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Speaker 5: drive for a touchdown, it's fourteen play drive that ends

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Speaker 5: in a field goal. And then you know it was

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Speaker 5: the two turnovers that ended up being But you're exactly right,

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Speaker 5: and this is what I was referencing earlier. You know,

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Speaker 5: this league, to a large degree, defensively has just become

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Speaker 5: a bind. But don't break defensive league, and very few

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Speaker 5: teams are able to crack that code. You need a

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Speaker 5: very special player. You need an elite number one receiver.

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Speaker 5: You need good route combinations. You know, it's you see

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Speaker 5: this more often than not. You know, teams just forcing

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Speaker 5: opponents offenses to you know, take the check downs, run

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Speaker 5: the ball because they have light boxes. And again, you know,

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Speaker 5: you just hope as a defense at some point, you

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Speaker 5: know you're giving up yardage and it's frustrating as a

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Speaker 5: defensive player. But at some point, either the offense is

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Speaker 5: going to make a mistake or one of your playmakers

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Speaker 5: are going to step up and make a play that

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Speaker 5: kills a drive in. That's that's what happened. They forced

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals to run one more play and ball got

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Speaker 5: tipped up in the air and it was a game

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Speaker 5: ceiling interception.

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Speaker 6: And if you believe all the coaches and players, the

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Speaker 6: only way to truly make that shell coverage pay is

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Speaker 6: to run the football, to force them to stick that

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Speaker 6: extra safety in the box because you're just gashing him

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Speaker 6: with the run game. And minus James Connor, who really

485
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Speaker 6: had four insignificant carries in the game, you know, the

486
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Speaker 6: track record historically has not been good for the Cardinals

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Speaker 6: offense minus team captain James Connor, but Cardinals had almost

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Speaker 6: four hundred total yards. Michael Carter was really effective and

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Speaker 6: effective between the tackles often enough, and because of that,

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Speaker 6: they were able to forge some long drives. Like Kyle mentioned,

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Speaker 6: they just couldn't finish, and that is the big word

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Speaker 6: going into the offseason. Finished drives, Finish games, finished the season.

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Speaker 4: And it's the second straight week in which James Connor

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Speaker 4: doesn't finish the game. And did the Rams defensively really

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Speaker 4: respect who was playing behind James Connor. Yes, Michael Carter

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Speaker 4: got some runs, but nothing really of significance that would

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Speaker 4: make you as a defense sit back and go, wait

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Speaker 4: a second, They're still running the ball effectively whomever is

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Speaker 4: back there. So again it's your nitpicking here a little bit.

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Speaker 4: But at the same time, when you are seven and nine,

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Speaker 4: you have these questions because it's the difference between postseason

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Speaker 4: or the offseason. And right now the Cardinals are a

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Speaker 4: week away, Paul from the offseason.

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Speaker 6: And it's a valid question. But at the same time,

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Speaker 6: you know that Rams defensive front is talented, that defensive line.

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Speaker 6: You know the last two years they've hit some home runs.

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Speaker 6: In the draft, Jared Burs had seven quarterback pressures to

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Speaker 6: lead everyone. Braden Fist had two sacks the fellow rookie

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Speaker 6: and three quarterback hits. And you know the guys from

510
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Speaker 6: last year, Byron Young and Kobe Turner, they both got

511
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Speaker 6: a sack apiece. So it's no easy thing running it

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Speaker 6: against that Rams front. They are legit and they've won

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Speaker 6: a lot of low scoring games recently. Four games ago

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Speaker 6: they put a forty four burger on the Bills. With

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Speaker 6: the last three games they've won twelve six, nineteen to nine,

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Speaker 6: and then thirteen to nine, So they've been winning some

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Speaker 6: slugfest games. And actually the Rams defense has been their

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Speaker 6: strength in the last month.

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Speaker 4: And it's an impressive front seven. And when you get

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Speaker 4: into the month of December, Kyle, it becomes more difficult.

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Speaker 4: You might have to win some of these ugly looking

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Speaker 4: games as far as the final score is concerned, especially

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Speaker 4: if you want to get to where you want to go.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a multitude of ways of winning late in

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Speaker 5: the season, but conventional wisdom is you need to be

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Speaker 5: your most physical, so you need to be the best

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Speaker 5: in the trenches late in the year, and with injuries,

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals just aren't that right now. Had they had

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Speaker 5: their full compliment of players, maybe they would be and.

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Speaker 6: I'll say this after the game, Pokinakua told the media

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Speaker 6: that's a physical defense we went against, and they really

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Speaker 6: make you think. They do a really good job disguising.

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Speaker 6: So you know, the Cardinals formula on defense is there.

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Speaker 6: Now they got to continue to bolster the locker room

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Speaker 6: with playmakers.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of that Cardinals defense and how they performed on Saturday,

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Speaker 4: We'll get into that as we continue here on the

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Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals Radio Network, Roll Cooper.

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Speaker 10: Cup broke it up in the flat as Garrett Williams

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Speaker 10: that one out and snuffed it out, breaking up the pass.

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Speaker 3: Garrett Williams all over it.

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Speaker 9: How about rookie Darius Robinson penetrates it, takes down Kyron Williams.

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Speaker 3: Dearius Robinson stuffed it broken up.

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Speaker 10: Max Melton the PBu diving in front of Pooka aku.

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Speaker 9: Oh.

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Speaker 3: That is a huge play right there by Max.

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Speaker 9: Melton into Blake korm the rookie, and he has met

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Speaker 9: in the backfield Kaizer White there for a big takedown.

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Speaker 3: Bringing Rabbit and Kaizer White up the a gaps boy,

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Speaker 3: how about that A little scheme up by Nick Rawless.

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Speaker 9: Throws gets it away incomplete pood up Baker and he

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Speaker 9: kIPS up from the ground in coverage against Cooper Cup

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Speaker 9: was there the instant the fall was and made.

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Speaker 3: A great play.

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Speaker 4: Defense made several great plays on Saturday nights. As we say,

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Speaker 4: welcome back second half of the Cardinals red seat reporting

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Speaker 4: here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Looking back at

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Speaker 4: Saturday's game, losing to the Rams by the score of

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Speaker 4: thirteen to nine, three tackles for loss, seven passes defense,

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Speaker 4: and you look at what Matthew Stafford did not do

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Speaker 4: in that game. There were fifteen incompletions, meaning almost half

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Speaker 4: of those were deflected somehow redirected by Cardinals defenders, either

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Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage or in the secondary. But

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Speaker 4: as you mentioned a couple of different times, Paul, the

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Speaker 4: almost interceptions, getting two hands but not securing the football,

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Speaker 4: not getting that takeaway which is kind of alluded this

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Speaker 4: defense for much of the season, and that again, you

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Speaker 4: stop one of those drives and get some favorable field

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Speaker 4: position in the game as opposed to being backed up

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Speaker 4: in your own end as you were in the first half,

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Speaker 4: then maybe things are different for the Cardinals.

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Speaker 6: Here on Tuesday, Cardinals have been stuck on fourteen takeaways

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Speaker 6: for a little while now. And that's definitely something I

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Speaker 6: don't know if there's an offseason study that's going to

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Speaker 6: be in the works. Last year was momentum. You know,

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Speaker 6: this year, maybe it'll be takeaways. We'll see. But affecting

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Speaker 6: the quarterback obviously results in more takeaways. Just the way

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Speaker 6: it is, there is a direct correlation. Here's the other

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Speaker 6: thing that affected the outcome of the game that was

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Speaker 6: different from Week two. Pooka Nikoua because Matthew Stafford only

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Speaker 6: had seventeen completions for a buck eighty nine and guess what,

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Speaker 6: ten of them went to Pooka Nicola for one twenty

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Speaker 6: nine through the air. So he's gonna be a problem.

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Speaker 6: He's gonna be a problem for the next five to

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Speaker 6: a half dozen years, at least in the division. If

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Speaker 6: there's a and we talked about this on Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 6: if there's a bigger corner that's on the board in

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Speaker 6: round two or three, you wonder if the Cardinals are

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Speaker 6: still thinking about, all right, we got to get someone

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Speaker 6: to go against Pooka Nicola twice a year, someone to

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Speaker 6: go against dk Metcalf. Although DK Metcalf hasn't done much

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Speaker 6: against the Cardinals in his career, and then, of course

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Speaker 6: you know the Niners receiver room, so that's a consideration.

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Speaker 6: But Pooku Naku is a player and they use them

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Speaker 6: a lot. Like ben' Skernick a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 6: He's almost half blocking tight end because when they want

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Speaker 6: to run the ball, a lot of times they run

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Speaker 6: it to Pooka Nakoula's side.

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Speaker 4: That was the only player that really had any game

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Speaker 4: of significance on Saturday night because the passing game wasn't there.

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Speaker 4: The running game wasn't there outside of the passes completed

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Speaker 4: to Nikua. So if you're Nick rawlis looking back at

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Speaker 4: this film, what what more can you do when you,

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Speaker 4: at the end of the day hold a team to

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Speaker 4: thirteen points.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think going into this game, you're sitting in

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Speaker 5: that defensive meeting room, I think you know, job number

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Speaker 5: one is to stop Kien Williams. You know, the team

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Speaker 5: had a problem with him last year. He's had a

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Speaker 5: phenomenal year rushing the ball, and he couldn't get going.

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Speaker 5: He you know, he just looked like another guy out there.

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Speaker 5: I think we did a good job in the run game.

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Speaker 5: I think we did a good job covering just about

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Speaker 5: every other single player. But this is kind of what

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Speaker 5: I'm talking about, is like special teams in order to

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Speaker 5: do special things, have special players, and Puka Nakua is

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Speaker 5: one of those guys. You know, anytime you know Stafford

618
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Speaker 5: was under duress, he was trying to fit it into

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Speaker 5: Pooka and he typically comes down with it. And to

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Speaker 5: your point, you know, he's not just a possession receiver.

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Speaker 5: He's not just a go route guy. He likes to

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Speaker 5: get in there, you know, and get dirty and get physical.

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Speaker 5: And you know, for him to talk about our defense

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Speaker 5: being physical, I'm sure a lot of our dbs are

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Speaker 5: talking about how physical he is. And you know it's

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Speaker 5: it's just in big games like this late in the

627
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Speaker 5: season again, you're just looking for playmakers on both sides

628
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Speaker 5: of the ball. Somebody that, hey, you know, game is

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Speaker 5: on the line. Who can we go to, Who's the

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Speaker 5: person that can close out on defense, Who's the person

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Speaker 5: that we can target on offense? And the Rams had

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Speaker 5: that guy in this game.

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Speaker 4: So the Cardinals offensively have that guy I think in

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Speaker 4: Trey McBride. It's defensively that you believe, Kyle, it's still

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Speaker 4: missing that dude, if you will on third down, that's

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Speaker 4: gonna get the offense off the field, either with the

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Speaker 4: sack or a takeaway, which has been lacking, right.

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Speaker 5: And I think the defense does so many things well.

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Speaker 5: I think you know, they probably play collectively above their

640
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Speaker 5: individual talent for most of the year. I think they

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Speaker 5: tackle phenomenally well, you know, outside of maybe a couple

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Speaker 5: of games and a couple of mistackles here and there.

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Speaker 5: You know, they teams don't get a lot of yards

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Speaker 5: after contact, they don't get a lot of yards after

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Speaker 5: the catch. I think they do a really good job

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Speaker 5: with a lot of things. It's just those big game

647
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Speaker 5: changing plays that we keep talking about, they're just not there.

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Speaker 5: It's the you know, the pick six is that swing

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Speaker 5: a game, the crucial interceptions that give you a short field,

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Speaker 5: like you were just talking about, the sack strips, you know,

651
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Speaker 5: they those are the plays that I think that we're

652
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Speaker 5: missing that can really help this team turn that corner.

653
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Speaker 4: Overall, the defensive performance against the Rams, yeah, very solid.

654
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Speaker 4: Here's the head coach, Josh Jonathan Gannon.

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Speaker 7: I thought they battled to day, I really do. I mean,

656
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Speaker 7: you know, the two explosives on a touchdown drive, but

657
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Speaker 7: you're playing a damn good offense with a damn good

658
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Speaker 7: play caller. They got good players over there. I thought

659
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Speaker 7: our guys battled. I really, do you know we didn't

660
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Speaker 7: generate a takeaway there. I think that would have been

661
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Speaker 7: a component of the game. Gave us a better chance.

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Speaker 7: But I thought we stopped to run pretty well. I

663
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Speaker 7: thought we got off decently on third, So you gave

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Speaker 7: us a chance to win.

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Speaker 4: Several times now, Paul, we've either heard either during this

666
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Speaker 4: show or postgame takeaway, and it's been kind of a

667
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Speaker 4: constant theme in recent weeks. And again to your point,

668
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Speaker 4: I don't know what the answer is. How do you

669
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Speaker 4: manufacture takeaways? Because, as they say, sacks coming bunches and

670
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Speaker 4: sometimes takeaways coming bunches, But there needs to be that

671
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Speaker 4: first one, and it's been a little while since there

672
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Speaker 4: has been that game changing takeaway.

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Speaker 6: So I asked that question somewhat in that form to

674
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Speaker 6: the head coach Jonathan Gannon in the last twenty four

675
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Speaker 6: hours on his weekly TV show, and it said, is

676
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Speaker 6: it a matter of affecting the quarterbacks, speeding up the quarterback?

677
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Speaker 6: Is that where it all starts with the takeaways? And

678
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Speaker 6: he said it's the former, not the latter. He didn't

679
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Speaker 6: like the term speed up the quarterback. He was all

680
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Speaker 6: about affect the quarterback. So, and there's lots of different

681
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Speaker 6: ways to do that, and we've seen Nick Ross and

682
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Speaker 6: Jonathan Gannon scheme up a lot of different ways. Can

683
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Speaker 6: you do it with a four man rush? I think

684
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Speaker 6: that's the big area of improvement that you hope to

685
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Speaker 6: target and designate this offseason. Whether it comes from a

686
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Speaker 6: fully healthy Darius Robinson getting a full off season and

687
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Speaker 6: coming out of the gates strong next year, whether it's

688
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Speaker 6: getting back your two free agent defensive tackles. I mean,

689
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Speaker 6: you almost forget that Justin Jones and Ball Nichols are

690
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Speaker 6: members of this team. They went down so early in

691
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Speaker 6: the season, and then okay, what about off the edge?

692
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Speaker 6: You forget that In week two when they jack stopped

693
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Speaker 6: the Rams, Dennis Gardak had three had three sacks in

694
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Speaker 6: that game. So can you get back to that? And

695
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Speaker 6: once again, it's affecting the quarterback. When you get a

696
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Speaker 6: guy in year sixteen like Matthew Stafford, he has the

697
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Speaker 6: ability to get rid of the ball. He can read

698
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Speaker 6: and recognize and react accordingly when you are bringing numbers.

699
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Speaker 6: So the key is to try and put more guys

700
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Speaker 6: in coverage against especially a guy like him, and see

701
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Speaker 6: if you can get home without having to bring the blitz.

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Speaker 4: There's another name missing as well, and we haven't seen

703
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Speaker 4: much of them, but b j O Jolie, there's another

704
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Speaker 4: guy at least when we were talking about all off

705
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Speaker 4: season long going into training camp. Okay, now potentially year two,

706
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Speaker 4: here's your edge rusher, here's your dude. We haven't seen

707
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Speaker 4: it because he hasn't been on the field. Even his

708
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Speaker 4: first year he was dealing with the effects of an

709
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Speaker 4: offseason injury. So now year three, it's a lot to

710
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Speaker 4: put on one player, however.

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Speaker 5: It is, but it happens. Also, I mean again the

712
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Speaker 5: development of some of these young players. I mean, Xavier

713
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 5: Thomas had a nice rush almost looked like a sack strip,

714
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Speaker 5: but you know, Stafford's hand was coming forward a little bit.

715
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Speaker 5: That those types of players are the players we're talking about.

716
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Speaker 5: But players do make that leap. Sometimes you'll get a rookie,

717
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Speaker 5: you know, in the first round, and he's immediately impactful.

718
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Speaker 5: He's he's that guy. Sometimes it takes a few years

719
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Speaker 5: and again like probably because of injuries, but I wasn't

720
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Speaker 5: productive until my fifth year in the league, and then

721
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Speaker 5: you know, it's like you turn a corner. So we've

722
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Speaker 5: got just a number of guys on this roster that

723
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Speaker 5: it would not surprise me if they're double digit SAT

724
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Speaker 5: guys next year. So it could the guy could be

725
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Speaker 5: on this roster. We don't necessarily need to sell the

726
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Speaker 5: farm to find one. We don't necessarily need to pay

727
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Speaker 5: a guy, you know, twenty million dollars a year to

728
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Speaker 5: get after the quarterback to come here. You can develop

729
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Speaker 5: some of these players, and you can see some of

730
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Speaker 5: these younger players turning that corner, and you talk about,

731
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Speaker 5: you know, unfortunately the loss of Gardek and bj Oja

732
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Speaker 5: Lari and the guys that could have been contributors, and

733
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Speaker 5: we were in this situation last year at a number

734
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Speaker 5: of positions, but because of injuries, some of these young

735
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 5: players are really speeding up their learning curve. They're really

736
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Speaker 5: speeding up their ability to make an impact, maybe not

737
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Speaker 5: in this game at the end of this season, but

738
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Speaker 5: going into next year because they have that confidence, they've

739
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 5: had that experience, they've seen things, and they understand things

740
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Speaker 5: much better.

741
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Speaker 6: And I get it. Nobody wants to hear about injuries

742
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 6: everybody deals with them bought when you look at that

743
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Speaker 6: Week seventeen matchup, and remarkably, almost inexplicably, the Rams were

744
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 6: completely healthy until they lost Rob Hanstein right before the game.

745
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 6: They had to go with Joe Noteboomer, by the way,

746
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 6: didn't have a great game at three holding penalties against him. Otherwise,

747
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 6: go back to Week two when the Cardinals destroyed the

748
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 6: Rams and that one in four Rams start why because

749
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 6: they're all was decimated because they had a lot of

750
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Speaker 6: injuries on the defensive side of the ball as well well.

751
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Speaker 6: Sort of flip that situation the inverse that was the

752
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Speaker 6: Cardinals in Week seventeen when you look at the state

753
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 6: of their offensive line and to play the Rams that

754
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 6: tough to literally the last few seconds of the game,

755
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 6: and it had come down to one single play. Once again,

756
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 6: the culture is there, the formula is there. Can you

757
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 6: get healthy, can you get a few more difference makers

758
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 6: on either side of the ball? And I just I

759
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 6: watched that game and as disappointing as and no one's

760
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 6: more disappointed and yours truly than going from six and

761
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Speaker 6: four to where the Cardinals are now, I'm just as

762
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 6: bullish going into next season because of all that.

763
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Speaker 4: The injuries it comes. Sometimes it's not the best team

764
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Speaker 4: that wins each particular week or the Super Bowl. It's

765
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Speaker 4: sometimes and oftentimes the most healthiest team. Because to your point,

766
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Speaker 4: I mean Week two, poking a good didn't play. Now

767
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 4: Cooper Cup got hurt, didn't finish the game, and all

768
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 4: of a sudden, both are healthy on Saturday, and you

769
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Speaker 4: see the different result.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, particularly like you said, late in the season and

771
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Speaker 5: into the playoffs. The teams that have that continuity on

772
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Speaker 5: the offensive line, the teams that have some of that

773
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 5: continuity on the defensive side of the ball, they're the

774
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 5: ones that are tough to beat, that are tough out

775
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 5: in the playoffs for sure, because trying to get new guys,

776
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 5: young guys up to speed in you know sometimes short

777
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 5: weeks are in a hurry, is a difficult task.

778
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Speaker 4: Perfect example. Got a team coming into town on Sunday

779
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Speaker 4: a year ago in the Super Bowl this year, like

780
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Speaker 4: the Cardinals out of the postseason. We'll talk about the

781
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Speaker 4: rematch with the forty nine ers next here on the

782
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Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals Radio network.

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Speaker 2: Snap to Murray and he's gonna keep him running to

784
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Speaker 2: the right. He's got rid of the forty five to forty.

785
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Speaker 2: He points to the sky as he takes up at

786
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Speaker 2: the thirty. At the twenty, the ten to five touchdown

787
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Speaker 2: a design run for Tyler Murray. It goes for fifty yards.

788
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Speaker 2: He's barking at the crowd in the end zone, and

789
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Speaker 2: less than two minutes in the Cardinals half, the first

790
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 2: score of the game snapped a rdy straight drop. I

791
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Speaker 2: get trouble, hint, and the ball flutter's far side and

792
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Speaker 2: Kaizer White with a diving interception to win the game.

793
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Speaker 2: Head midfield. Purdy got hit, the ball fluttered and Kaizier

794
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Speaker 2: White caught up to it, holed it in and the

795
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Speaker 2: Cardinals are gonna get one in San fran.

796
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Speaker 3: I'm getting the mohawk, baby, you.

797
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 4: Know, I forgot that was on the line. Back in

798
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Speaker 4: Week five, the Cardinals win in Santa Clara twenty four

799
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Speaker 4: to twenty three. And Kyle, we were just talking about

800
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Speaker 4: those game changing takeaways. There was one, and that might

801
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Speaker 4: have been the only one, the Kaiser White game ending

802
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Speaker 4: interception in which Ron Woofley got himself a mohawk. But not,

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Speaker 4: Let's be honest, Kyle, I mean that's not really a mohawk,

804
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Speaker 4: was it?

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Speaker 7: No?

806
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Speaker 4: He was sorry.

807
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he did not deliver on his end.

808
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Speaker 6: I think it was a Dennis Garde called it a

809
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Speaker 6: faux hawk that Wolf likes to go with. I think

810
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Speaker 6: brohawk is what he's going with now or whatever. It's

811
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Speaker 6: my hawk is what he's going with. My that's it.

812
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Speaker 6: That's what he's going with my hawk because get off me.

813
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Speaker 6: Basically Wolf saying I'm doing it my way.

814
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Speaker 4: Cardinals and forty nine Ers is the season finale coming

815
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Speaker 4: up on Sunday at State Farm Stadium. Two twenty five

816
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Speaker 4: is the kickoff. Nine thirty pre game covers begins here

817
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Speaker 4: on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Forty nine Ers six

818
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Speaker 4: and ten just the one win inside the NFC West

819
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Speaker 4: coming off a short week. However, they played last night's

820
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Speaker 4: at home, but still played last night on Monday Night

821
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Speaker 4: Football lost forty to thirty four. They looked good on offense,

822
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Speaker 4: not so much on defense. But the big question mark

823
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Speaker 4: now Paul is rock Party. Does he or does he

824
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Speaker 4: not play because of the elbow injury that he suffered

825
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Speaker 4: late in the game, And if he doesn't, do we

826
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Speaker 4: see back up Joshua Dobbs make his return to State

827
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Speaker 4: Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 6: We saw the past or not at the very end

829
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Speaker 6: of that game with a touchdown run. And that was

830
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Speaker 6: the big takeaway from the Cardinals sideline was, Oh, Josh Dobbs,

831
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Speaker 6: we knew he's no he can run. I mean, he

832
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Speaker 6: can really run. He made a lot of defenses look

833
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Speaker 6: stupid in his half season as a starter for the

834
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Speaker 6: Cardinals last year, he busted off a lot of runs

835
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Speaker 6: where he exceeded twenty miles per hour. So that would

836
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Speaker 6: be very intriguing. That would be very interesting, would it not,

837
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Speaker 6: Josh Dobbs. And it's a very banged up forty nine

838
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Speaker 6: ers team. But I'll say this, the way Nick Bosa

839
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Speaker 6: dominated last night, I don't want you that game you watched,

840
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 6: but against a against Penney Sewel and even Taylor Decker

841
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Speaker 6: and I mean like some elite tackles and Nick Bosa

842
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 6: was all over the field and mostly in the Lions backfield.

843
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Speaker 4: Two sacks, four quarterback hits from Nick Bosa last night.

844
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And you know there was a game earlier this

845
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 5: year where he had like the fastest get off I

846
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Speaker 5: think in like the last ten years throughout the course

847
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Speaker 5: of that ballgame, Like he's he's really good, and I

848
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 5: know he's battled some injuries this year as well, but

849
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Speaker 5: a healthy Nick Bosa against backup tackles is a scary proposition.

850
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Speaker 5: And that's you know, that's again, they have those dudes.

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Speaker 5: They even in spite of all their injuries, in spite

852
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Speaker 5: of of missing last year's league MVP, in spite of

853
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Speaker 5: you know, being down to their four string running back,

854
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 5: in spite of not having maybe their top receiver and

855
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Speaker 5: Brandon a Yuk, they still have plenty of talent and

856
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 5: they can't they have those guys, you know, I think,

857
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 5: you know, they're not necessarily because of all of the injuries.

858
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 5: They're not solid across the board. They do have some

859
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 5: liabilities and they do have some weaknesses at certain positions,

860
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Speaker 5: but they have guys that can make plays that can

861
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Speaker 5: win you ball games, and you better find a way

862
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 5: to account for him.

863
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

864
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Speaker 4: I just ask the Lions, who again in a dogfight

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Speaker 4: last week before. They're a big matchup coming up on

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Speaker 4: Sunday Night football against the Minnesota Vikings in which the

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Speaker 4: number one seed is on the line. Cardinals head coach

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Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon going into the final week, what is he looking.

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Speaker 7: For maximizing our process? And I think going out and

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Speaker 7: playing a good, clean game and winning the game. You

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Speaker 7: know what I mean. We're gonna compete to win the game.

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Speaker 7: We're gonna put all our energy and focus, just like

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Speaker 7: every week into San Francisco, and you know, when the

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Speaker 7: final bell rings, see where that gets, and then we'll

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Speaker 7: have a plan to improve.

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Speaker 4: I know that we'll have to wait and see whether

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Speaker 4: or not James Connor will play this week as he

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Speaker 4: continues to deal with that knee injury. But this forty

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Speaker 4: nine Ers team, Kyle and we were talking about it

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Speaker 4: before we hit the airwaves here on Tuesday. But you

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Speaker 4: look at some of the numbers offensively and defensively as

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Speaker 4: far as the yards allowed, the yards that they've gained,

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Speaker 4: very good, top five across the board offense and defense,

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Speaker 4: but like the Cardinals in the red zone. Offensively, they're eighteenth. Defensively,

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Speaker 4: they're tied for twenty eighth as far as allowing teams

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Speaker 4: to score touchdowns when they get inside the twenty yard line.

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Speaker 4: So there might be a lot of yards in this game.

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Speaker 4: I don't know how many points might be scored based

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Speaker 4: off these team's history, at least recently.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm excited about this matchup for a number

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Speaker 5: of reasons this team needs to finish on a positive note.

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Speaker 5: They have an ability to sweep the Niners, which would

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Speaker 5: be huge, you know, and you mentioned James Connor were

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Speaker 5: not certain on his availability. I don't know if you

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Speaker 5: can say enough about what he means to this team

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Speaker 5: and his leadership. He probably should not have suited it

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Speaker 5: up and tried to play in that ballgame. But in

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Speaker 5: this league, particularly in this type of situation, you have

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Speaker 5: two groups of players. You have players looking for a

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Speaker 5: way out of the fight and players looking for a

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Speaker 5: way into the fight. And we've seen players on this team,

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Speaker 5: not this team, but in this organization in the past,

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Speaker 5: late in the year, trying to find ways out of

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Speaker 5: the fight. But when your leader on offense is going

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Speaker 5: out there and wants to show you that these games

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Speaker 5: mean something to him, that he wants to go out

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Speaker 5: there and try to get through the game for his team,

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Speaker 5: I think that says a lot about him, and it

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Speaker 5: says a lot about this team and this locker room.

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Speaker 6: The Cardinals' final two scoring drives in that win Week

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Speaker 6: five at the Niners, you had James Connor twelve carries

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Speaker 6: seventy two yards just on those two final scoring drives

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Speaker 6: as they pulled out the one point win.

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Speaker 4: Cardinals have not swept the season series from the forty

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Speaker 4: nine ers since twenty twenty one. Can they do it

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Speaker 4: on Sunday again? Kickoff is to twenty five. Then we'll

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Speaker 4: talk about it next week here on the Cardinals Red

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Speaker 4: Sea Report Special. Thanks behind the scenes, Jim Amahundro, Cody Fincher,

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Speaker 4: Evan Reiser for cayv Nabash, Paul Calvec, I'm Craig real

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Speaker 4: lou As we leave you for the final time here

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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty four. Happy New Year, bird gang. This

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Speaker 4: is the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: You've been listening to the Cardinals Red Sea Report.

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Speaker 3: It is caught by McBride.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it's a touchdown boot a baker with the sack,

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Speaker 2: strip the ball. Who's gonna score touchdown?

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