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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Cardinals Locker Room Show, presented by Arizona

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's get back to the stadium for analysis

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Speaker 1: and exclusive interviews from the Cardinals locker Room. Here's Dave, pash,

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Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley, and Paul Calvicy.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Cardinals Locker Room Show. The Cardinals lose

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Speaker 2: to the Buffalo Bills thirty four to twenty eight. Cardinals

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Speaker 2: had some opportunities. They had two possessions, trailing by three

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Speaker 2: and then by six in the last three minutes of

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Speaker 2: the game. They got to the thirty two yard lined

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Speaker 2: down six on their last possession, but on fourth and seven,

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Speaker 2: a deep ball fell in complete. There was contact downfield

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Speaker 2: on Greg dors No flag was thrown for pass interference

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Speaker 2: and the Cardinals lose the game. Murray finishes with one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two yards in a touch He also

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Speaker 2: ran for fifty seven yards. Greg Dortsch had six catches,

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Speaker 2: Trey McBride had five, Michael Wilson only had one it

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Speaker 2: was a touchdown. Marvin Harrison Junior and his debut three targets,

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Speaker 2: one catch four yards. Meanwhile, Josh Allen, two passing touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: two rushing touchdowns, and the Cardinals were able to get

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Speaker 2: off the field a couple times late, but needed stops

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Speaker 2: earlier in the game. Look, they played a great team.

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Speaker 2: This is a team that's been in the hunt for

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Speaker 2: an AFC title every year since Allen was drafted, and

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Speaker 2: they had a good showing. But and it's certainly encouraging

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Speaker 2: that it was a good showing being discompetitive with a

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Speaker 2: good team in the early stages of year two of

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Speaker 2: this new regime. But you only gets seventeen of these,

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Speaker 2: and I think the Cardinals will look back and find

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Speaker 2: some late mistakes on both sides of the ball Wolf

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Speaker 2: that will need to get rectified.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right about David, There's no denying it.

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Speaker 3: I think late in this game there were some mistakes

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Speaker 3: that were made offensively and defensively in particular. Listen, we

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Speaker 3: knew this was going to be a hard game. Everybody

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Speaker 3: knew this was going to be a tough game on

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Speaker 3: the road against the team most people feel will be

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Speaker 3: a playoff team coming out of the AFC. Of course,

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Speaker 3: how good they are. Could they possibly win the division?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think they could win the AFC East. Yet at

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Speaker 3: the same time, the Cardinals had the opportunity to win

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Speaker 3: the game on that last possession, even though they did

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Speaker 3: make some mistakes late in that fourth quarter, they had

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Speaker 3: the opportunity to go down and actually tie the game up,

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Speaker 3: and then the extra point would have given them the

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Speaker 3: win had they been able to score that touchdown. They

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Speaker 3: didn't do it. Yeah, that really hurts, and that's going

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Speaker 3: to leave a mark, there's no doubt about it. But

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Speaker 3: it sure is better losing thirty four to twenty eight

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Speaker 3: than losing thirty four to nothing, if you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean.

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Speaker 2: Certainly improvements have been made, but not enough to get

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Speaker 2: a win in Buffalo thirty four to twenty eighth. The

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Speaker 2: final back but more on the Cardinals Radio network. Back

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Speaker 2: on the Cardinals Locker Room showed Dave Pash alongside Ron Wolfley.

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Speaker 2: We'll hear from Paul kelvc here in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Just got to wrap our minds around the offense in

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Speaker 2: the second half, which after a terrific first half, really

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Speaker 2: struggled with Kyler's passing yards were only around thirty in

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Speaker 2: the second half and yards per attempt five thirty one

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Speaker 2: attempts for one sixty two. Did not see a lot

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Speaker 2: they ended up rushing for one hundred and twenty four yards,

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Speaker 2: but basically half of them came on those two plays,

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Speaker 2: only two hundred and seventy yards of total offense. Wolf

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Speaker 2: as we got out of.

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Speaker 5: Paul, all right, we're alongside the first Arizona Cardinal two

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Speaker 5: house a kickoff return since twenty fifteen. David Johnson DJ

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Speaker 5: Dallas is alongside and we'll get to that. Just tell

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Speaker 5: me about the locker room right now. Just the level

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Speaker 5: of disappointment, especially in a close loss where you guys

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Speaker 5: led early.

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Speaker 4: We competed our tails off.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's not the outcome that we want it,

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Speaker 6: but I feel like we're we're turning in the right

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Speaker 5: Anything change in that second half, just you know, is

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Speaker 5: it a matter of being on the road and trying

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Speaker 6: Half, I'm not too sure, but yeah, you know, we'll

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Speaker 5: So tell first off, tell me about the wind out there.

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Speaker 5: What sort of challenge was the wind?

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we kind of knew that coming in here.

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Speaker 6: You know, the wind off the lake was gonna be

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Speaker 6: you know, hit or miss, and uh, yeah it was.

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Speaker 6: It was tough to deal with, but we we dealt

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Speaker 5: All right, So take us through it. Ninety six yard

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Speaker 5: kick off return all the way and just take us

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Speaker 5: from the kick that sort of seemed to dive or

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Coach Rogers called a great return. The guys blocked

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Speaker 5: At what point are you thinking, okay, this might hit.

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Speaker 6: Uh the guys will say, yeah, he called it before,

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Speaker 6: But I said before I'm gonna try to take this one,

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Speaker 6: So yeah, I kind of called it before it even happened.

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Speaker 5: Did have something to do with the scheme or yeah?

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Speaker 5: First sure, for sure.

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Speaker 4: Coach Rodgers doubted it up.

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Speaker 5: Man, you know it hit DJ Dallas our guest, all right,

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Speaker 5: So be honest, were you guys sitting on that all

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Speaker 5: a preseason?

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Speaker 6: We ran that all a preseason? Really, Yeah, Coach Rodgers

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Speaker 6: has doubt it up at the right.

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Speaker 5: Time and it hit really okay, So that was hiding

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Speaker 5: to playing sight. I get it, okay, DJ, congratulations on

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Speaker 5: the kickoff return and we'll see about a winning week

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Speaker 5: to appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: There you go, DJ Dallas. Roy Lopez is alongside as

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Speaker 5: a make way over here, and Roy, you just tell

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Speaker 5: us about this team and this unit here in year

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Speaker 5: two and what sort of challenge it was going against

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Speaker 5: Josh Allen today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think the biggest thing is, you know, it comes

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Speaker 7: down to leaning on one another, and we knew that.

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Speaker 7: You know, it's gonna take all of us, and you

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Speaker 7: know I prove that at the end, it's gonna take

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Speaker 7: every single one of us.

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Speaker 4: You know, So this is only gonna make a stronger.

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Speaker 4: We're excited to keep going.

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Speaker 5: Is he more dangerous throwing the ball or running the ball?

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Speaker 8: Josh Allen?

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Speaker 7: That's the reason he's Josh Allen. Man, He's a He's

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Speaker 7: a threat in every single way. So had their game.

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Speaker 7: They had a great game plan and we got to

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Speaker 7: axek you as a team.

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Speaker 5: Tell us about the sack you got home and you

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Speaker 5: got the strip.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it's again team effort. Man.

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Speaker 7: They great coverage on the back end, and you know

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Speaker 7: it took Like I said, man, it takes all of

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Speaker 7: us every single time.

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Speaker 4: And when you're there to make the plane, it comes

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Speaker 4: to you. Gotta make it.

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Speaker 5: As DJ if he knew, you know at what point

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Speaker 5: he was taking it all the way? Do you know

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Speaker 5: on a sack? I mean do you you said, when

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Speaker 5: you beat a guy, can you sort of okay, all

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Speaker 5: right here here we go? Does things sort of slow

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Speaker 5: down at that moment you know.

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Speaker 7: When you're playing like you said, Josh Allen, Right, Josh

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Speaker 7: Allen's a great quarterback guy that can you know, make

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Speaker 4: You know, so you gotta sometimes, you know.

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Speaker 7: Be in the block, isn't you know the hardest you know,

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Speaker 7: part of it is getting the quarterback down, you know.

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Speaker 4: So to answer your question depends to your plane, you know.

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Speaker 5: So what do you think the Cardinals defense learned in

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Speaker 5: this game that you're gonna take forward? Not only next week,

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Speaker 5: but maybe the rest of the season.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we learned that. You know, we're right,

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Speaker 7: We're right, we believe in each other. We're a good defense,

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Speaker 7: and we got to execute them as long as we

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Speaker 7: do that. And uh, like I said, keep saying, man,

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Speaker 7: so take all of us, you know, so we just

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Speaker 7: keep proving ourselves right and keep doing.

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Speaker 5: Not only do we call your name, we called Kaiser

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Speaker 5: White mac Wilson Senior a lot in this game. Do

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Speaker 5: you guys take pride in that as as a d

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Speaker 5: line keeping those linebackers clean their dogs?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 7: You know, they they produce no matter who's out there, right,

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Speaker 7: That's the reason why they got the name that they

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Speaker 7: got in the league. And there's a reason why they

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Speaker 7: give them such green lights here in Arizona because there's

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Speaker 7: some ballers. Man, there's there's they got a different level

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Speaker 7: of play making ability and and as a you know,

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Speaker 7: spectator and a lover ball you love to see it.

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Speaker 5: Man, what sort of adjustments did you guys make? It's

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Speaker 5: this game went on. You guys are always meeting, you know,

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Speaker 5: not just at halftime, but over the course of the game.

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Speaker 5: James Cook had a couple of runs. It hit early,

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Speaker 5: then you guys seem to clean that up a bit.

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Speaker 7: I think it's just going back to the basics, you know,

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Speaker 7: and and Nick Ralis is a great coordinator that I

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Speaker 7: got a plan for everything, you know, So back to

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Speaker 7: the basics, you know, technique, assignment and alignment and technique,

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Speaker 7: man is, the biggest thing is just leaning on every

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Speaker 7: single one of the who I got a job to do,

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Speaker 7: you know, and the you know, first game of the year,

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Speaker 7: so everybody's excited, everybody's ready to go, and you know,

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Speaker 7: throughout the game, you got to settle down and be

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Speaker 7: able to make, you know, make the play that comes

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Speaker 7: to you because the defense designed a certain way.

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Speaker 4: So as long as you do your job, you'll be there.

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Speaker 5: Okay, right, thanks for the time you say.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: There you go, Roy Lpis. Guys, we'll talk with the

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Speaker 5: head coach Chananthangannon shortly, all.

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Speaker 8: Right, Paul.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, just look at some of the stats. The Cardinals

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Speaker 2: actually lost the time of possession battle. Think about that. Whoa,

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Speaker 2: at one point it was twenty to ten. They lost

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Speaker 2: it by a minute, but still they only had the

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Speaker 2: and again finished with two hundred and seventy yards of offense.

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Speaker 2: What was the difference, do you think, Wolf, And while

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Speaker 2: the offense was not as good as it was in

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Speaker 2: the first half, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The win picked up here in the second half, I thought, David,

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Speaker 3: And so did the pressure from the Buffalo Bills. There

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Speaker 3: was no doubt about it. They started coming after Kyler

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Speaker 3: Murray on a fairly regular basis in terms of third

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Speaker 3: and obvious pass situation coming after Kyler's so they got him.

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Speaker 3: They did a better job, I thought against the run,

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Speaker 3: the wind picked up, and so did the pressure. They

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Speaker 3: brought a lot of that against Colin, and I thought

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Speaker 2: You look at Murray's numbers again, thirty one attempts for

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Speaker 2: One hundred and thirty rushing yards allowed in this game,

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Speaker 3: Yes they were. It's a matter. I'm stunned to hear

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Speaker 3: And yeah, there were a lot on first down. There's

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Speaker 3: it was in critical situations as well. When you think

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Speaker 3: once again, great players make gray plays when it matters

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Speaker 2: Ray Davis had a thirteen yard run too, Remember he

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Speaker 2: came in, had a big run. Bill's had nine penalties

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Speaker 2: even game. It just when you know you didn't watch

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm thinking already of game number two

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray and that's where it kind of changed. In

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Speaker 3: That was the combination. I thought of those two things

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Speaker 2: Maybe schematically there was something that they were doing to

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Speaker 5: The head coach Johnathan again is with us and coach

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Speaker 5: just big picture, to what degree do you feel like

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we definitely had opportunities to win the games. There's

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Speaker 9: You know, we got to I just told him, we

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Speaker 5: What was clicking in the first half, especially Kyler? One

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Speaker 9: Like you said, he made plays with his legs which

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Speaker 5: The last two possessions. When you think back, what what

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Speaker 8: So give me the second to last one, Paul.

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Speaker 5: So that was about five and a half minutes to go,

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Speaker 5: Jeff Rogers just walked in front of me. DJ Dallas

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he schemed it up good and DJ

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Speaker 8: But then we hit him back scored on it.

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Speaker 9: But I think when he got to about the thirty five,

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Speaker 5: I mentioned eight different receivers caught a passing that first half.

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Speaker 8: They were clouding them. They were clouding them.

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Speaker 8: This guy we played, we played with enough effort to

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Speaker 5: In Jonah Williams update here, Yeah he's got a knee.

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Speaker 9: I don't know the severity of it, and then Max

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Max Melton, we could actually see it.

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Speaker 8: It was late.

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