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Speaker 1: interview of day four of Newsmakers Week. As we wrapped

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Speaker 1: things up on this Friday, the owner of the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: Michael Bidwell, kind enough to join us for two segments

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Speaker 1: this morning. Michael, good morning to you. How are you

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Speaker 1: Vinskin morning, I'm great, Thank you. How are you doing well? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: We'll start with the end of the season, you know,

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Speaker 1: another end, the disappointing end to the season, and last year, Michael,

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Speaker 1: you were very open about your disappointment about the way

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season wrapped up. A little different this

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Speaker 1: year a playoff berth, but a disappointing performance. How would

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Speaker 1: you compare what you're feeling this season going into the

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Speaker 1: offseason as opposed to what you were feeling going into

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty offseason if you will well this year.

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Speaker 1: Certainly you look at the beginning of the season starting

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Speaker 1: more challenged at that point. But I'm certainly more optimistic

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Speaker 1: when I take a look at this, Michael, I think,

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Speaker 1: me like many other people, it was a very emotional

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Speaker 1: end to a season that at one point in time

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Speaker 1: So how do you go about building on that, extrapolating

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Speaker 1: the good and sort of getting the problems out of

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Speaker 1: And when I look at it, it's it's really about

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Speaker 1: think about the off seasons. You know, the draft choices

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Speaker 1: after that, we never had a full off season program

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Speaker 1: We're excited about the off season, free agency coming up.

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Speaker 1: We've got a focus. I know Steve's focused on free

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a fun twenty twenty two season

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Speaker 1: as well. Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell our guest during

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Speaker 1: Newsmaker's Week here on ninety eight seven FM, Arizona Sports Station. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of theories out there on why the

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Speaker 1: the DeAndre Hopkins injury certainly the offense looked different. Is

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Speaker 1: We know we've got to get better. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: But specifically, where would you like to see improvement from

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Speaker 1: When you look at Kyler, how comfortable are you in

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Speaker 1: in a cleaner way going forward. Well, we're never going

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Speaker 1: But there's no doubt there are other areas where we will, uh,

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Speaker 1: And we've brought a lot of leadership. Steve has done

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Speaker 1: We'll continue our conversation. We appreciate it, sure thing. Thanks

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Speaker 1: going back to Kyler Murray earlier, you stated you've had

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Speaker 1: at this point, and a lot of fans are wondering about, um,

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Speaker 1: a contract extension. Certainly, he's part of our long term plan.

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Speaker 1: These contracts, especially to UH quarterback contracts are very complicated,

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