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Speaker 1: earliest victory Monday since twenty fifteen, the last time this

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Speaker 1: team started a season one. And oh about when you

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Speaker 1: revisit the twenty four twenty win at the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: A lot to like, a lot to work on, contributions

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Speaker 1: more about DeAndre Hopkins. We'll give it a shot. A

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Speaker 1: strong run game from the Cardinals, but the defense that

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Speaker 1: is what set this team apart from the forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: Also Chris Straveler, there is news on the CFL quarterback.

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Speaker 1: He is now your backup quarterback. It's all ahead, It's

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Cover two, Episode three ten, and it starts now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two with Craig Griga Lewin Mike Direct.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals dot com Slash podcasts. Murray rolls to the right,

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Speaker 1: throws near side of Fens, pots into the NS after

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Speaker 1: the touchdown. Here's Craig Griolou and Mike Jarecki, both funny

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Speaker 1: how much better Monday's feel after a win. But let's

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Speaker 1: face it, MJ, this was not just any win. One,

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Speaker 1: this was a road win. Two, this was a division win,

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Speaker 1: NFC in the Super Bowl. So we talked about it

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Speaker 1: not only last week, but all offseason the Cardinals would

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Speaker 1: the best. Oh, there's no doubt, Craig. And really it

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Speaker 1: this team went toe to toe last year. Unfortunately they

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Speaker 1: The offense obviously played much better in the second half.

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Speaker 1: worried about his football IQ. But a lot of times

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Speaker 1: the game is played between the years, and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the game's a little fast for him right now.

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Speaker 1: Because that was the first time where you're play in

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Speaker 1: the preseason. You kind of figured out even though a

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Speaker 1: lot of those guys are not NFL rosters when we

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Speaker 1: get to Week one, But he's gonna be fine. It's

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Speaker 1: just the good news is they don't have to relying

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Speaker 1: on him to be the savior in this first year

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Speaker 1: of his career. So they have other guys that have

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Speaker 1: done it at a high level, and that's Campbell and

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Speaker 1: Hicks and an obvioucy Chandler. And he's throwing canard the

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Speaker 1: last play. I think that deserves to be highlighted. This

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Speaker 1: is kind of more of a sequence, but how this

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Speaker 1: game ended with the defense on the field needing stop.

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Speaker 1: And remember a year ago the second meeting against the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers, also at Levi's Stadium, this defense MJ

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Speaker 1: was unable to get an end of game stop to

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Speaker 1: beat the forty nine ers. The offense had the lead

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Speaker 1: and the defense allowed a touchdown to take the go

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Speaker 1: ahead score and ultimately win by ten points. But here

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Speaker 1: almost deja vu, if you will, Jimmy Garoppolo driving down

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Speaker 1: the field, he takes two shots into the end zone,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson Byron Murphy with pass breakups. Then on fourth

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Speaker 1: and five at the sixteen yard line, Garoppolo once again

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Speaker 1: looks at the direction of Trent Taylor and there Murphy

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Speaker 1: is once again to knock the ball away another pass

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Speaker 1: breakup for the second year cornerback, the local kid at

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Speaker 1: Zuil High School. Huge play and I think a huge

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Speaker 1: confidence boost for him. Yeah, when he went through last year,

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Speaker 1: was only gonna make him stronger. He went through a

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Speaker 1: lot of being targeted. I always mentioned, you know, there

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Speaker 1: was a time he was covering Julio Jones, and you

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Speaker 1: know he was playing outside and he was playing outside

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Speaker 1: of his position, so to speaking. But here in Patrick

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Speaker 1: Peterson looked like Garoppolo tried to float the ball a

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Speaker 1: little bit and hit actually hit Patrick's helmet. Byron Murphy

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Speaker 1: made a play on the ball twice. So I think

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Speaker 1: what he went through with the growing pains and you know,

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Speaker 1: trial by air. He's going to be a much better

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Speaker 1: football player for it, and I'm sure he's more comfortable

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Speaker 1: and confident because he's playing his natural position now. One

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Speaker 1: thing Drake Kirkpatrick and coach hit out in the last

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Speaker 1: week that you know, since he's only been here a

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Speaker 1: few weeks, they were going to watch his pitch count

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Speaker 1: and he didn't play a ton, so it looks like

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Speaker 1: Bribar Murphy and then Buddha Banker was playing in the box,

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Speaker 1: so that was interesting. But I think his snap count

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Speaker 1: will go up based on him getting more conditioning and

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Speaker 1: learning the defense. Good point. Kirkpatrick did not start and

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Speaker 1: only played twenty of the sixty two defensive snaps, so

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Speaker 1: perhaps conditioning. Maybe just the game plan against the team

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Speaker 1: that did not have all of its wide receivers and

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Speaker 1: was more run heavy and tight end heavy. So something

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Speaker 1: to pay attention to. And again, each week is a

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Speaker 1: new week as we continue to break down the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: dot com Slash podcast for more information. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to last Friday, our preview for this week one contest.

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Speaker 1: You had three keys for the Cardinals to win on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: They did win. Let's go over each of those three keys.

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Speaker 1: Number one was contained the run. I think, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, MJ a fairly decent job. The forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers did go for one hundred and twenty three yards

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Speaker 1: on the ground, almost a five yard per carry average,

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Speaker 1: fully back breaking plays and when the Cardinals defense needed

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Speaker 1: to stop they got this stop. Yeah, and they were

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Speaker 1: number two in rushing behind the Baltimore Ravens. So I

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Speaker 1: mean they're a team. Now. I thought we'd see more

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Speaker 1: of Jared McKinnon because he's been injury prone and I

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Speaker 1: gotta think he's got fresh legs. And then you look

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Speaker 1: at the touchdown that Simmons gave up. That was a

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Speaker 1: passing play. Yeah, so yeah, I mean, I don't like

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Speaker 1: the five yards, but I never felt like they were

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Speaker 1: in danger and the Cardinals did a great job on

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Speaker 1: third down. At one point the Niners were oh for nine.

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Speaker 1: I think they finished two for eleven, okay, and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals they were close to forty. And the Niners went

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Speaker 1: for twice on four down, So maybe they are even

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Speaker 1: two for two for eleven. But so that tells me

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Speaker 1: they were getting them off the field. But I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see that average for carry go down, and you

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Speaker 1: don't want to see a lot of rushing touchdowns. The

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Speaker 1: longest run from a scrimmage was McKinnon's sixteen yard Runnie

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Speaker 1: only finished with twenty four yards on the ground. Hey,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals had a better rushing attack than the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers one hundred and eighty yards on the ground

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Speaker 1: in abut twenty four in the second half. Are you

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Speaker 1: surprised by the success the Cardinals had running the football

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Speaker 1: to a certain extent, how much Murray was successful running

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Speaker 1: the ball. No, because they were playing that Cover two,

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Speaker 1: which is we're gonna let everything underneath and we're not

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Speaker 1: going to let you know. I thought the Cardinals, or

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Speaker 1: whether you want to say they meet some halftime adjustments.

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Speaker 1: I thought they threw the ball down the field more

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Speaker 1: in the second half to kind of loosened it up

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Speaker 1: because that you know, I think when Murray the majority

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Speaker 1: of his runs that there was only a six man box,

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Speaker 1: and when he had a seven man box was a

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Speaker 1: little bit different. Let me ask you this, Craig, and

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Speaker 1: not because it was Kyler Murray. Maybe it is, but

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Speaker 1: normally quarterbacks earned in the underneath center and they knee.

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Speaker 1: So Brady didn't want to have negative yards for his career.

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Speaker 1: So Murray is I think he's in the gun and

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Speaker 1: he kneels. It took away nine yards or eleven yards.

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Speaker 1: He was at one hundred yards rushing and then two

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Speaker 1: kneel downs ninety one yards on the ground. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: he lost nine yards on those final two kneel downs.

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Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, but it's what happens. He wasn't happy about

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Speaker 1: that the end of the game, but he'll tell he

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Speaker 1: would have been He would have been one of the

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Speaker 1: him and Marcus Mariola would have been one of the

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Speaker 1: only players to rush for a hundred yards and throw

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Speaker 1: for over two yards and get a rushing touchdown. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. I just think maybe I

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Speaker 1: ought to put him under center. Now. You don't want

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Speaker 1: him to get jacked up. You know Gless, Greg Shanolstone

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Speaker 1: the league where they're they're fighting to the end. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean I'm not surprised. And five quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: led their team in rushing they all won, including Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Murray rushed for eighty one yards and the second half alone.

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Speaker 1: And I think we'll see a little bit more of

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Speaker 1: that ground game, especially if the clus are able to

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Speaker 1: either one have the lead or keep it to within

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Speaker 1: one possession, because then all of a sudden, every play

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Speaker 1: in your arsenal is open. It's when you're down multiple scores.

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Speaker 1: It's when you got to air it out a little

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Speaker 1: bit more than perhaps teams want to or head coaches

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Speaker 1: would like to. The second key that you had on

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Speaker 1: Friday was what j eliminate the chunk plays splash plays

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Speaker 1: which I consider over twenty yards and then a chunk

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Speaker 1: played would be over forty yards. Now we know they

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Speaker 1: gave up the huge touchdown for seventy six yards, so

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Speaker 1: but we went through it last week. In both games

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Speaker 1: they almost had multiple splash plays over twenty yards, and

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Speaker 1: then I wanted to say, maybe they had a couple

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Speaker 1: over forty yards. So eliminate the big plays because to me,

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Speaker 1: I thought the defense would be a lot more on

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Speaker 1: the same page. Not so much Michigan miscommunication, guys running free,

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Speaker 1: but they did have the one. But I thought, if

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Speaker 1: you can eliminate big plays in chunk plays, that will

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Speaker 1: go a long way in the victory. And I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at the ten longest plays for the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: eight and in the first half, including six in the

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Speaker 1: first quarter. The biggest obviously the seventy six yard catch

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Speaker 1: and run by Most for the touchdown. The other big

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Speaker 1: play was a forty one yard passed from Garoppolo to

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Speaker 1: Kyle Uschek in the fourth quarter that almost could have

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Speaker 1: been a backbreaker, but it was not. But you nailed it.

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Speaker 1: Eliminate the big plays or contain the big plays, and

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals for the most part, were able to do

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Speaker 1: that defensively. And number three was Dan Arnold. He caught

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Speaker 1: a couple balls. Looks like him and Max Williams kind of.

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Speaker 1: They were very even on the snap count, you know.

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Speaker 1: And then Darrell Daniels plays more on special teams. Matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, he was one of the guys I thought

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Speaker 1: was going to try to pick up the football, but

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Speaker 1: Garda got it and was able to advance the balls

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Speaker 1: a little bit there. You know, I think Arnold's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a target when the Cardinals go three wide one

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Speaker 1: tighten one back. But I mentioned earlier on that play

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Speaker 1: by Kyler Murray to Chase Edmonds, I mean he was

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Speaker 1: able to freeze the linebackers. So even though it doesn't

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Speaker 1: show up in the box score or the stats, but again,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Dan Arnold. I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna do good this year. Well, let's be honest, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to be a factor, the X factor as you

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Speaker 1: put it, when DeAndre Hopkins is getting sixteen targets and

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Speaker 1: basically wide open on his fourteenth and final catch of

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Speaker 1: the ballgame, there was something as we you know, thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes into this show here we're going to finally talk

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Speaker 1: about number ten's debut. But it's whatever one has been

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Speaker 1: talking about since the game wrapped up on Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I do not expect Hopkins to get fourteen catches for

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards weekend and week out, but

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Speaker 1: there is something to be said about that chemistry between

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Speaker 1: quarterback and wide receiver and what happened to not practicing enough,

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Speaker 1: not getting enough reps in training camp. That just flew

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Speaker 1: out the window. Well, they lined up on the left side,

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Speaker 1: and Richard Sherman, he plays sides, so he avoided you know,

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Speaker 1: their number one corner who's made a living future Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer, you know, being physical, playing press coverage and

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Speaker 1: getting interceptions. You know, he's a playmaker. So to lend

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Speaker 1: him up on the left side and he gets separation

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Speaker 1: and he didn't make any circus catches. It looked like

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Speaker 1: him and Kyler had a miscommunication. I think Kyler was

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Speaker 1: expecting him to come back for the ball, So that

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Speaker 1: was one mental air. I want to say. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if hop didn't hear the call, but they were.

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Speaker 1: They weren't on the same page, and you could see

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Speaker 1: looked at him and Kyler they had a conversation on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines. But yeah, I still think you know, practicing

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Speaker 1: goes a long way, but I think he's definitely gonna

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Speaker 1: get targeted. I mean, he could have one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty targets. Now, Christian Kurse's gonna have to step up

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Speaker 1: when the ball's thrown to him. We know Larry's really

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Speaker 1: good when it comes to finding the sticks. He finds

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Speaker 1: ways to get open he's very savvy and Larry will

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Speaker 1: give you yards after catch. But Larry's biggest contribution yesterday

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Speaker 1: he was helping Mason Cole and helping the official spot

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Speaker 1: the ball right before the end of the first half. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a great teaching moment. And I'm sure Belichick will

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Speaker 1: show that to his team because Kingsbury said, they do

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Speaker 1: a lot of situational football. You know, maybe the fire drill,

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Speaker 1: get the field goal unit on the field and they

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Speaker 1: could be you know, they can obviously have a fake

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Speaker 1: field goal called and then you got to call it

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Speaker 1: off because they're noticing something. So situational football doesn't get

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00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: discussed enough and that's between the years, and you don't

643
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Speaker 1: want to leave plays on the field. So I think

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00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: that's a great teaching moment and I think it was

645
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: a question that Kingsbury today that a couple of high

646
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: school coachers reached out to Cam Cameron and they said,

647
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: we want to show that play to our players. But

648
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: I think in house, and I know Belichick, you know,

649
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: looks at Larry Fitzgerald with high regards. I'm sure he's

650
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Speaker 1: going to show that team because you have to know

651
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,479
Speaker 1: down in distance and can you imagine if they didn't

652
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: line up and get the field goal. Obviously, you know,

653
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: Gonzalez is gonna have to make some of these field goals,

654
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Speaker 1: but I'm not really worried about him. Yeah, selflessness is

655
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: what Kingsbury he said that would describe Larry Fitzgerald with

656
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: that play because thirteen seconds on the clock, Hopkins makes

657
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: the catch, goes down and immediately Fits runs over and

658
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: he didn't take the ball. I think Hopkins almost handed

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Speaker 1: the ball to him, but Fits sprints towards the middle

660
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Speaker 1: of the field, gives it to Mason Cole, who gives

661
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: it to the umpire spots of football and just like that,

662
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: you've got two three seconds left to go before the

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Speaker 1: end of the first tap. Because remember the Cardinals did

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00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,799
Speaker 1: not have any timeouts. So once again, yeah, heads up

665
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Speaker 1: football IQ for number eleven. Yeah, and Murray did a

666
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: good job. You know, he knew how much time was

667
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: left and he was able to spike it. And to

668
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: me that that's exactly what you want to do. Stop

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Speaker 1: the clock. As you said, no timeoutse clock runs out,

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Speaker 1: you don't get any points, and any allowed the field

671
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Speaker 1: goal Union to get on there. Now, my guess is

672
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,919
Speaker 1: after watching film, Washington will and even Detroit and everyone else,

673
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: there'll be a different game plan against the Cardinals moving forward, Well,

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00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: there are times when they had bunches. They had three

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00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: Wilde receivers the majority of the game he lined up

676
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Speaker 1: I want to say, probably sixty or seventy percent on

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Speaker 1: the left side. But there was the time that had bunches.

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00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: It was Hopkins, Kirk and Larry on the right formation.

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00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: So it's possible if you want to move them around.

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00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: That's fine. But Kyler Murray realizes and again, I'm just

681
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 1: glad they didn't go out and spend money in free agency.

682
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: I think they were intrigued with the wide receivers in

683
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Speaker 1: the draft. You know, maybe they didn't like the top

684
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: couple guys, but they definitely liked a couple receivers and

685
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: they took the best available player in Isaiah Simmons. So

686
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: you know, I know that Tom Brady got traded. We

687
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: talked about in the postgame last year, Jamal Adams got traded,

688
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: tent Williams got traded, But that David Johnson and DeAndre

689
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: Hopkins trade to me, was the most fascinating trade in

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00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: the offseason. Oh and that's already paying dividends and if

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00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: you want, you can say it worked as well for

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans that came at a loss, but Johnson

693
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 1: looked very good on that Thursday night opener. Last point

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Speaker 1: here on Hopkins, and I think this is something that

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Speaker 1: Kingsbury said at the end of his video conference call

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Speaker 1: with reporters on Monday, Hopkins was given a game ball

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Speaker 1: and to no one's surprise after this contest. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you can go to Acy Cardinals dot com and the

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Speaker 1: social media accounts to see Kingsbury's postgame locker room speech

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Speaker 1: and giving Hopkins the game. Couple things here to note.

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Speaker 1: One is how much joy Hopkins had on his face

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Speaker 1: and how much excitement his teammates had to see Hopkins

703
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: get singled out. You're talking about a veteran here, MJ.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he's got football stacked from one end of

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Speaker 1: the room to another. Yet this meant a lot to him.

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00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: It's not lip service. He wants to be here. He

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00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: just signed his contract and you can just see that,

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Speaker 1: as he mentioned, not only postgame, but in that locker room,

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Speaker 1: there's something special that he sensed when he has derived Yeah,

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00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: and he said he got that feeling when he was

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Speaker 1: in the building and now they weren't in the same building. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I mean the guys in his prime

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Speaker 1: and hopefully they were together for the next five to

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Speaker 1: ten years. I mean, he's embraced the valley, he's embraced

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Speaker 1: the culture, he's embraced the coaching staff, he's embraced I

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00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: mean the fact that he negotiated ninety percent of his

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00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 1: contract with Steve Kinman. That's never comfortable because you don't

718
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: want to tell a player what he's good at, and

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00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: then you have pol holes in his game. And he

720
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: also had three advisors, and maybe that's the future where

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Speaker 1: guys don't want to pay agents three percent. Larry Fitzgerald

722
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Speaker 1: unfortunately his agent passed away, Eugene Parker, and so Larry

723
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: obviously has a direct link to the general manager and

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Speaker 1: the owner and Michael Bidwell, so he can negotiate his

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00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: own contracts. So yeah, I mean, I just like I said,

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Speaker 1: I know, Tom Brady was a free agent signing, but

727
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,240
Speaker 1: when you look at trades, I think it tips of scale.

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Speaker 1: But they were able to acomplish, and Kingsbury brought up

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Speaker 1: the fact not only did Hopkins play well after getting

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00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: a contract extension, Buddha Baker fifteen tackles, a team high

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Speaker 1: fifteen tackles. He as well receiving a contract extension in

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00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: the offseason, and that's what you want to see. Not

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Speaker 1: only do your big play or your big time players

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Speaker 1: make big time plays, but they get rewarded and they

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Speaker 1: continue to have that same mentality. Much like we've talked

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Speaker 1: about with Chandler Jones. He signs that extension and only

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00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,359
Speaker 1: got better and continues to get better. And I think

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Speaker 1: we could say the same thing about Hopkins and Buddha Baker. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean those two guys, I mean, just based on

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Speaker 1: their positions, they're not going to get fat and happy.

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Speaker 1: You know, Cliff also pointed out at the time, and

742
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: it changes, but they are the two is high players

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Speaker 1: at that those positions safety and wide receivers. So it's

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00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: not like they were reading their press clippings and you know,

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00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: saying I got paid and all that and I'm gonna

746
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: go on easy shoot that that's not their personalities, not

747
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: that's that's not their football, that's not how they got here.

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00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: So it goes a long way, and you can just

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Speaker 1: see the celebration in the locker room going to easy

750
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Speaker 1: Cardinals dot Com and he got a game ball and

751
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: you could just see he loves this team. And you know,

752
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: he obviously was in Houston for seven years and I

753
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 1: don't know if they were as close as this Cardinal team.

754
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: Now it's early, but again I think he gives them

755
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: a different element they didn't have the last couple of years.

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00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,720
Speaker 1: I know it's just one win, but there are certainly

757
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: bates of the alternative, first and foremost, but always better

758
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: to work on improvements, work on adjustments after a win

759
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: as opposed to after a loss. And we can say

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Speaker 1: this confidently here on this Monday, the Cardinals tied for

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Speaker 1: first place in the NFC West. Yeah, we don't have

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00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: to say on paper anymore. True point, we now have

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00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: seen it on the grass, that's right. And we'll judge

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Speaker 1: how every game goes and every week to week and

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00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: we'll tee it up. Now. You know, our colleague Kyle Odegar,

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00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: he started looking ahead though Craig. He gave the Cardinals

767
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: schedule like the next four or five games. Let's be

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Speaker 1: honest to me. Usually you have a dud one game,

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Speaker 1: you can't you can't forecast it, you can't predict it.

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00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 1: Usually usually it happens on the road just because you

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00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 1: get distracted, and maybe not the fans, but Kyle's looking ahead.

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00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: I'm and you know, one game at a time. It's

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Did anyone think Washington was going to get

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00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: eight sacks on the Eagles? And anyone think that Jacksonville

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00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: was gonna win that game when they were quote tanking.

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Speaker 1: So I don't want to get ahead one game at

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Speaker 1: a time. Well, the next game Washington coming up this

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Speaker 1: Sunday one oh five is the kickoff from State Farm

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Speaker 1: Stadium thirty am. The pregame coverage begins on the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Readio network. And I'm in agreement with you, MJ.

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Speaker 1: As well as the schedule sets up over the next

782
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I'm going to just strictly focus on

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00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: the Washington football team and Washington football team only until

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Speaker 1: we get to Sunday night Cardinal talk and we can

785
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: start then looking at Detroit. Okay, this is something I

786
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: thought about this morning, because the Cardinals practice in a

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Speaker 1: stadium with no fans, and some teams will go to

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Speaker 1: the stadium, maybe to have a scrimmage, maybe because they

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Speaker 1: want to do address rehearsal. So let's say, you know,

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00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: like like Belichick was asked to the game, what was

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Speaker 1: the atmosphere, Like he said, like practice at the stadium,

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Speaker 1: And so I started thinking Cardinals practice with twenty three

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00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: times at State Farm Stadium during training camp twenty three, right, yeah,

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00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: so they're familiar with it now. Not every team had

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00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,439
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes the stadium is a little bit further

796
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,320
Speaker 1: than the facility. But I think that really helped the

797
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: Cardinals when it came to playing in a stadium that

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Speaker 1: had no fans. Did you see any parallel there? I

799
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: think we need a little bit larger sample size. Okay,

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00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: that's fair, but I think, you know, just again, every

801
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 1: team will go to their stadium just players. I've never

802
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: been there before, They do a scrimmage, they go into

803
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: locker room. But I really believe by them having no fans,

804
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 1: and again, it's gonna be like that for a while.

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00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: Hopefully things clear up and you know what, the Cardinals

806
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 1: gonna have fans. You know, it's never gonna be full

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00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: capacity this year. I think only one team had fans yesterday.

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00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: So but I'm gonna I'm gonna go with this and

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00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: we'll see if it has any you know, parallel to

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00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, because the next two games are going to

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Speaker 1: be at home, and again they practice in there with

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Speaker 1: no fans this year, so I think I think there's

813
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: something to it, but we'll wait and see. All Right,

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Speaker 1: let's revisit this conversation in a couple of weeks and

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Speaker 1: see where the Cardinals stand at the moment. One and

816
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: oh and a huge Wick victory on the road against

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers. And on that note,

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Speaker 1: that's going to wrap up this edition of Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 1: presented by Hunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals Special

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Speaker 1: Thanks as always to our executive producer Jim Monro or

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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki. I'm greg Riel Loup. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: next time here on Cards Cover two.