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Speaker 1: The Michae Lafleur era is underway. God Zach Kursmin Whipenberg

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Speaker 1: Gang Day one, Week one. We continue to react to

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Speaker 1: the news Michael Lafleur is the new head coach. What

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Speaker 1: others are saying about the hire, and what we hope

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Speaker 1: to hear Lafleur say when he gets introduced on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Plus Zach's viral moment. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode nine

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Speaker 1: seventy four, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 3: Who to Baker? What Heart?

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Speaker 4: What rent?

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Speaker 3: This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Right at the five hit the ends up for the

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Speaker 4: Drey McBride, he's been an absolute monster.

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Speaker 2: Here's Craig Griolo.

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Speaker 1: So I think we can all agree, Zach, but this

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Speaker 1: is so much better here being in studio, Yes versus

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Speaker 1: on zoom as you and I along with Darren Urban

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, following the breaking news that Micha Lafleur is

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Speaker 1: your new head coach of the Arizona Cardinals the podcast

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Speaker 1: we did on Sunday. Appreciate the engagement Bird Gang certainly

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Speaker 1: reminiscence of the days in which we were all at

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Speaker 1: home and had to rely on zoom. Love the technology.

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Speaker 1: Just prefer this face to face and the interaction that

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Speaker 3: Of course, it.

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Speaker 4: Definitely was a blast from the past. Minus the blast

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Speaker 3: But no, we look when duty calls, we answer.

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Speaker 1: Hey, that's what it is. It's twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: And certainly with this coaching process, and it was a

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Speaker 1: process from January fifth to February first, and now here

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Speaker 1: we are on February second, by the way, February third, Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: at noon, we will hear from Mike Lafleur, the new

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Speaker 1: head coach, will hold his introductory press conference. It will

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Speaker 1: be streamed live on Easycardinals dot com, the mobile app,

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Speaker 1: official YouTube channel, Twitter, and Facebook as well to hear

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Speaker 1: from your new man in charge.

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Speaker 4: Of course, and then after that we're gonna have a

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Speaker 4: lot of other content that'll be out on.

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Speaker 3: All those platforms as well.

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Speaker 4: Asycardinals dot com especially, I'm sure we're gonna have a

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Speaker 4: bunch of different articles that are gonna be going out

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Speaker 4: time once uh, the new man in charge, Michael four

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Speaker 1: Before we hear from him, Actually we did hear through

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Speaker 1: a statement we heard from Laflor something that I want

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Speaker 1: the press release on Monday before, mentioned that he couldn't

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Speaker 1: be more fired up to become the head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Arson Cardinals, thank both owner Michael Bidwell and GM

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Speaker 1: on the Austin Ford. Then Laflor added this, having competed

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Speaker 3: What do we want to hear?

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if we're gonna get a lot

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Speaker 4: And I think the question that we can get answered

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Speaker 1: What pieces and maybe specifically offensively, his offensive background as

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Speaker 1: is no right or wrong way to do it. We've

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay had final say, but it was the input

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Speaker 1: A lot of x'es and o's. I think we will

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Speaker 4: have a smile from year to year because you're saying,

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Speaker 4: how can I take another step? Like you look at

438
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Speaker 4: some of the historic numbers that he put up there

439
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Speaker 4: obviously most receptions by a tight end in a single

440
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Speaker 4: season in NFL history, passing zach Ertz, and you start.

441
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Speaker 3: To think to yourself, man, like, how can I do more? Now?

442
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Speaker 4: Do I think he's going to reach that level? Again,

443
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Speaker 4: I don't know, because you kind of have to hope

444
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Speaker 4: and expect that everyone is healthy and you're not in

445
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 4: known passing situations for a large trunk of the season.

446
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Speaker 4: But you start to think about it, like, all right,

447
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Speaker 4: I can take my game to the next level. And

448
00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 4: you look at what the Rams had on offense. They

449
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Speaker 4: also had two wide receiver ones and DeVante Adams and

450
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Speaker 4: pookin Nakua. They had a really solid tight end and

451
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Speaker 4: Tyler Higby, who has gotten a lot of recognition over

452
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Speaker 4: the year, and then a really solid running back duo

453
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Speaker 4: in Kyen Williams and Blake Korum. Everybody got the rock.

454
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Speaker 4: Everybody was a star. Everybody was Pro Bowl caliber. That's

455
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Speaker 4: what you kind of hope that this team has in

456
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Speaker 4: the weapons that they already do, because now you got

457
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent conviction in the fact that Michael Wilson's

458
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Speaker 4: capable of being a thousand yard receiver, been there, done

459
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Speaker 4: that a healthy Marvin Harrison Junior can be there and

460
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Speaker 4: he can do that. Obviously, Trey McBride is in a

461
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Speaker 4: whole new level of his own. So man Craig, It

462
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Speaker 4: just it is. This is the time of year where, uh,

463
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Speaker 4: you get really excited and optimistic and hopeful because you

464
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Speaker 4: have a new voice that's in the building, a lot

465
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Speaker 4: of new possibilities. But at the end of the day,

466
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Speaker 4: right now, talk is cheap. You just got to be

467
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Speaker 4: able to show it out on the field.

468
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Speaker 1: And we're only not going to know that aspect until

469
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Speaker 1: games are played in September October and the season begins.

470
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Speaker 1: But when people here personnel groupings eleven, twelve, thirteen personnel, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's just the that's just the bodies on the field.

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Speaker 3: But it's also the identity of your team. True.

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Speaker 1: What Lafloor has shown is, Okay, I'm showing you two

474
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Speaker 1: tight ends, three tight ends. Typically it's okay, well, if

475
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Speaker 1: you got extra tight ends, that's more than likely a

476
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Speaker 1: run play. What Lafloor showed with the RAMS is the

477
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Speaker 1: ability to have two tight ends three tight ends on

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Speaker 1: the field, but defensively you still don't know is it

479
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Speaker 1: a run or is it a pass? And then it's

480
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Speaker 1: just maybe the same plays but out of different personnel

481
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Speaker 1: groupings to confuse the defense.

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Speaker 4: So out of those three hundred and thirty one plays,

483
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Speaker 4: that the Rams ran out of thirteen personnel, one hundred

484
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Speaker 4: and twenty seven of them were past situations, so you

485
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Speaker 4: it's kind of going to your point there, Craig, and

486
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Speaker 4: that number, it's one hundred and twenty seven. The Cardinals

487
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Speaker 4: were at sixty seven, the Steelers were at sixty nine,

488
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Speaker 4: so similar in the rankings there obviously, but you know

489
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Speaker 4: that you have the ability to throw the rock out

490
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Speaker 4: of thirteen personnel. Like we said, it's an identity to

491
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Speaker 4: be that ground and pound team. The Rams obviously still

492
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Speaker 4: ran the ball two hundred times out of thirteen personnel,

493
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Speaker 4: but it's the opportunity to start to swing the football

494
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Speaker 4: around a little bit more because, like you were saying,

495
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Speaker 4: chip Riman comes back healthy, he could see the football

496
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Speaker 4: a lot more in a lafor McVeigh style offense. By

497
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Speaker 4: the way, all credit to True Media, because I think

498
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Speaker 4: this website is outstanding not only for us but kind

499
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Speaker 4: of everyone to learn more about the game of football,

500
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Speaker 4: the ends and the outs. And I'll defer to you

501
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Speaker 4: because you know how to navigate that site more than

502
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Speaker 4: most of us, but it does give you an identity,

503
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Speaker 4: or least a starting point on what a new person

504
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Speaker 4: coming in to the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: What do they like to do? Yes, they were part

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Speaker 1: of the staff that was led by Sean McVay. But

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Speaker 1: the head coach is a product of who he has

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Speaker 1: with them on staff. So you're bringing in Mike Lafleur,

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Speaker 1: You're also bringing in a little of Sean McVay. You're

510
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Speaker 1: also bringing in a little Kyle Shanahan at least offensively

511
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Speaker 1: now defensively. What is it going to look like? And

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Speaker 1: I think that's again one of those questions that we

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Speaker 1: all want to know and have hopefully answered sooner rather

514
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Speaker 1: than later. You brought up the reports potentially Gus Bradley

515
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Speaker 1: coming on board, certainly would love to have, especially with

516
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Speaker 1: a first time head coach, a veteran on the staff,

517
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Speaker 1: previous head coaching experience, someone that Lafleur could lean on

518
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Speaker 1: a little bit more in house, as opposed to calling

519
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Speaker 1: up big brother in Green Bay and asking for some advice,

520
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Speaker 1: which may or may not happen once the season begins.

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Speaker 1: Packers are not on the schedule in twenty twenty six,

522
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Speaker 1: but the but.

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Speaker 4: Then Mat just walks downstairs and says, hey, Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: My brother, that's right, And that became official on Monday,

525
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Speaker 1: the amazing how seems like everyone knows everyone within the

526
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Speaker 1: NFL circle.

527
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Speaker 4: They call it a fraternity for a reason. And then

528
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Speaker 4: it's times like this or you're like, man, it really is.

529
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Speaker 4: And then you start to see some of the other photos,

530
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Speaker 4: like the twenty sixteen Falcon staff, and you start to

531
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Speaker 4: see a lot of the coaches that are on there,

532
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Speaker 4: and you're like, man, that person's.

533
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Speaker 3: A head coach. That person's a head coach. Dan quinn

534
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Speaker 3: is still a head coach.

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Speaker 4: You start to see stuff like that, and you're like, man,

536
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 4: this really as big of a world and as many

537
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Speaker 4: eyeballs as there are on the NFL, the people that

538
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Speaker 4: are in the buildings, it's a pretty small it's pretty

539
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Speaker 4: small universe.

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Speaker 1: Hiring a staff, formalizing a staff certainly probably task number one.

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Speaker 1: My guess is it's already kind of started behind the scenes.

542
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Speaker 1: You don't reach out to certain people, Hey, I'm interviewing

543
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Speaker 1: for this job. If I get it, would you be

544
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Speaker 1: my position coach, my coordinator or whatever. So those conversations

545
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Speaker 1: have already happened, and certainly whether that gets announced officially

546
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Speaker 1: sooner rather than later, who knows. But that's something again

547
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Speaker 1: with the quarterback coaching staff, and then what's your identity

548
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Speaker 1: or what if you're sitting in that press conference on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday and have the opportunity to ask a question, if

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Speaker 1: you're Mike laflor or if you're the Arizona Cardinals fan,

551
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Speaker 1: what do you want that head coach to tell you

552
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: about the team identity, how you're going to play. Yes,

553
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Speaker 1: it's about the players getting in some personnel, but then

554
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Speaker 1: also player development, which is something that Monty austin Ford

555
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Speaker 1: mentioned when he released the press release on Sunday and

556
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Speaker 1: included his statement on Lafleur, who he mentioned was a

557
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Speaker 1: strong communicator with a detail oriented teaching style that has

558
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: always gotten the best from his players. What can you

559
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Speaker 1: do with the talent already in the building, not only

560
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Speaker 1: on offense, but defense as well to elevate those guys,

561
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Speaker 1: especially some of those younger pieces defensively that we saw

562
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Speaker 1: glimpses of and hopefully see more of in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, player development is the name of the game right now.

564
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Speaker 4: Everybody's talented. If you're good enough to play in the NFL,

565
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Speaker 4: you are a star like own in your own right. Athletically,

566
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Speaker 4: you're talented, physically or talented. There's a lot of different

567
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Speaker 4: things that you need to have to be able to

568
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Speaker 4: play in this league. But it's what has Michael Leafora

569
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Speaker 4: learned from watching Matthew Stafford's process being in what year fourteen,

570
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Speaker 4: year fifteen or whatever it is now for Stafford contemplating

571
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Speaker 4: retirement potentially, but how he's been able to play at

572
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Speaker 4: an elite level in the tail end of his career.

573
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Speaker 4: What makes DeVante Adams a really good player from being

574
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Speaker 4: in the building, How is Jared Verse able to make

575
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Speaker 4: such an impact come year one and Branden Fisk and

576
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Speaker 4: how have they been able to work together? You know,

577
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Speaker 4: you start to see some of these things, and a

578
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 4: lot of people come through the buildings, but you could

579
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Speaker 4: remember a lot of the talented players that had their

580
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Speaker 4: process down to a tee and how they were able

581
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Speaker 4: to separate themselves. And I was listening back to Peter

582
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Speaker 4: Schrager's podcast that he did with Michaelford from two years ago.

583
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure it's called like the Season or Season

584
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Speaker 4: one and something of that nature. And he he was

585
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Speaker 4: sitting down with Michael Floor after his first season as

586
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Speaker 4: the offensive coordinator for the Rams back in twenty twenty three,

587
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Speaker 4: and he was asking him about how Pukunaku was able

588
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Speaker 4: to make such an impact, and he was talking about

589
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Speaker 4: his process and his willingness to do certain things like

590
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Speaker 4: we talked about willingness to block in the run game

591
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Speaker 4: and things of that nature. And you take that and

592
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Speaker 4: those lessons you were able to see from the players

593
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Speaker 4: developing themselves in their own process, and you start to

594
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Speaker 4: implement that a little bit more within your own player

595
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Speaker 4: development and how you're trying to incorporate your own vision

596
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Speaker 4: within this building. You're obviously going to hire coaches that

597
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Speaker 4: are going to help in that process as well. You

598
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Speaker 4: need a lot of coaches in terms of the way

599
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Speaker 4: that they teach. You know, you need teachers in the

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Speaker 4: building so that these guys that are already talented helping

601
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Speaker 4: them reach on next level. And that's kind of the

602
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Speaker 4: thing I keep going back to it. I feel like

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Speaker 4: it's kind of become a crutch word a little bit,

604
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Speaker 4: is like that next level, But it's because I don't

605
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Speaker 4: think the Cardinals are terribly far off because of the

606
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Speaker 4: pieces that they have in the building. You just have

607
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Speaker 4: to find a way to to lock something like Marvin

608
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 4: Harrison Junior is a really good wide receiver. And I

609
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 4: know that there's so much talk about his first two

610
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Speaker 4: seasons in the league, but there was a time when

611
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Speaker 4: he was coming out of college where people thought during

612
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Speaker 4: his time in Ohio State he was one of the

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Speaker 4: best receivers in football period, both in college and in

614
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Speaker 4: the NFL. Like he was regarded in that light, you

615
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 4: have to have a coach that's in the building that

616
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Speaker 4: could teach and find a way to help these guys

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Speaker 4: reached own next step.

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Speaker 1: Michae Laflor introduced to the Bird Gang and local media

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday at noon. Press conference will be streamed live

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Speaker 1: on Azycardinals dot com, the mobile app, YouTube, Twitter, and

621
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Speaker 1: Facebook to hear for the first time Michaelaflor and get

622
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Speaker 1: a sense of what he helps to bring and turn

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Speaker 1: this Arizona Cardinals team into again in a division that

624
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Speaker 1: is the best in the NFL and now twice a year,

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Speaker 1: Lafleur will go up against Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan,

626
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Speaker 1: two of his biggest mentor or at least two of

627
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Speaker 1: probably a handful of his biggest mentors to get him

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Speaker 1: into the position he.

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Speaker 3: Is here today. Bring it on.

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Speaker 4: I think this is going to be an exciting and

631
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Speaker 4: exciting matchup. And at least we know because in our business,

632
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Speaker 4: storylines are.

633
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Speaker 3: A big part of it.

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Speaker 4: After about the first year, that's so, that's gonna that

635
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Speaker 4: storyline is kind of gonna be moot. He's gonna have

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Speaker 4: his own identity and what he's been able to do here.

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Speaker 4: It's still gonna be a fun little anecdote that we

638
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 4: can mentioned on the podcast every now and then of

639
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 4: always going up against his former employer. But I'm excited

640
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 4: to see Michael four not just be known as working

641
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Speaker 4: under Sean McVay, not just being known as being the

642
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Speaker 4: guy that worked under Kyle Shanahan, not just being known

643
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Speaker 4: as Matt Lafour's younger brother, but how Michael for is

644
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Speaker 4: able to create his own identity here in the valley.

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Speaker 1: Well said, that is Tuesday afternoon. Now, Tuesday night is

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 3: It's not a game at football.

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Speaker 1: Game by football, it's activities. So that is Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: Trey McBride, Buddha Baker in the bay a car for that.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing both will participate in everything in all activities.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've already seen on social media some of the

652
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Speaker 4: teams have been posting some of the activities that have

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Speaker 4: been kind of going on.

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Speaker 3: So I'm not really sure what the festivities are this year.

655
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Speaker 4: The coordination of it hasn't fully been there, truthfully, but

656
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 4: I do know last year in the Flag Football Game,

657
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 4: Trademing Bride had like two touchdowns and Buddha baker at interception.

658
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 4: So if it's another repeat for the NFC, I'm sure

659
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Speaker 4: we'll take it.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a busy twenty four to forty eight

661
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Speaker 1: hours for both Trey and Buddha because after they participate

662
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: in Tuesday's Pro Bowl activities, they along with Zavi and Collins,

663
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Speaker 1: we'll be back here in Arizona participating in Wednesday's Waste

664
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Speaker 1: Management Phoenix Open pro am. You will be out there

665
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Speaker 1: as well. All three of those or two of the

666
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Speaker 1: three were there for what media day.

667
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 3: All three were there.

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Speaker 4: The one that is not on the pro am list

669
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Speaker 4: is Denzel Burke, uh, but the three others were there,

670
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Speaker 4: so they already kind of have some ex driving around

671
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 4: the course and seeing seeing how the grasses and everything

672
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 4: of that nature. But I'll also get the chance to

673
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 4: ask some of those guys because there's a chance that

674
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 4: they might not be at the press conference so hopefully

675
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 4: we'll have a chance to speak with some of them

676
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 4: and we get to ask him about what their thoughts

677
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 4: are on the new head coach.

678
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: Now, will you follow Trey, Buddha and Zavin or try

679
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: to weasele your way over to Travis Kelsey or maybe

680
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgial who will be there on Wednesday before hopefully

681
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: Thursday night receives word that he has been voted into

682
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Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of stars that are

684
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 4: in attendance with this one. I saw Mookie Betts just

685
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 4: got added to the list. Cal Raley the big dumpers

686
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 4: on the list, so that is exciting. I'm not sure

687
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 4: who yet. I know Emmitt Smith is also going to

688
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 4: be taking part in that, so I might go speak

689
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Speaker 4: to the former cardinal because that's how everybody knows Emitt

690
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 4: Smith is.

691
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 3: You know, he's making his return to the valley.

692
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 4: Definitely not for the star that he once wore, but

693
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,439
Speaker 4: he was also a teammate Larry Fitzgerald during their time

694
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Speaker 4: in Arizona, So I'm curious to see he has a

695
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 4: gold jacket himself, what he might think of adding a

696
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 4: new teammate that was a former teammate of his, to that,

697
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 4: to that fraternity.

698
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Speaker 1: It's a busy week across the NFL, and then, of

699
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: course it all ends on Sunday with Super Bowl sixty.

700
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: The Patriots and Seahawks both landed in the Bay Area

701
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: on Sunday. By the way, everyone woke up this morning

702
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: to an earthquake, actually several earthquakes in the Bay Area.

703
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: Not sure how many people felt it. I saw one

704
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: report it was a four point two followed by a

705
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: three point nine. Having lived in the Bay Area, yes,

706
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: that's a pretty significant earthquake. I've always gone by the model, Hey,

707
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: if it's a five or above, okay, now we can

708
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: have a conversation. Otherwise it's just a little shaking. But

709
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: if you're not used to it happen to be in

710
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: a high rise and things start shifting, it can be

711
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: very scary. But that was the start of Super Bowl week.

712
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 3: I was gonna make I'll make the joke anyway.

713
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 4: I'm already too deep into it, as I say, if

714
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 4: it's anything like Mike eight point average, then we're okay,

715
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 4: like a three point nine, four point two.

716
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: You never even got close to a four to two,

717
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: you're right, or a three nine.

718
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:11,959
Speaker 4: You're right, That's why I didn't want to I didn't

719
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 4: want to lie. You're on shaky ground, see what, I

720
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 4: get it very quick. See, I don't make a joke

721
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,240
Speaker 4: out of it, because that's serious. You're you're from you're.

722
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:21,760
Speaker 3: From that area.

723
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 4: I can't make a joke about its sensitive topic.

724
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,479
Speaker 1: Everyone from what I can gather is okay. In Super

725
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: Bowl Opening Night will go on as scheduled or on

726
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: Monday night.

727
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 4: It's just the NFL making an impact on the world. Yeah, shaking,

728
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 4: shaking the land, little more publicity for the biggest game

729
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 4: of which I saw. Ticket prices are now a little

730
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: bit down for this game. I'm not sure why that

731
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 4: is the case, but but hey, if it helps people

732
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Speaker 4: get inside the door.

733
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 3: Do you have a mean, it's only like forty six.

734
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: Pocket change? Right?

735
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 3: Yeah? Right?

736
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: Do you have a uh an idea on one way

737
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: or the other and how this game on Sunday might

738
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: go though that We've got plenty of days to discuss

739
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: this and see day every single day.

740
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Seattle team is really good. I'll go on record.

741
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: Go Patriots.

742
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 3: I can't.

743
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: I just I don't think it's possible.

744
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 4: I'm ready for Monday, a week from Monday, a week

745
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 4: from today, a week from today, because then all sites

746
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 4: are set on the twenty twenty sixth season.

747
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 3: Because I can't. I can't.

748
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 4: The Patriots I like, I like Robert Kraft.

749
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: I like Robert Kraft. But beyond that, no.

750
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: Good news is bird Gang the Patriots year one with

751
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: Mike Brabel, of course, second time head coach, and then

752
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: year two for Mike McDonald with the Seahawks. So yes,

753
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 1: these turnarounds can happen, and they can happen quickly within

754
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: a year or two. And hey, it's something under Michael

755
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: would bid Well mentioned on that press conference on January fifth,

756
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: when they made the announcement to part ways with Jonathan Gannon,

757
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: referenced not only the Seahawks, but the Patriots, the Jaguars,

758
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: the Bears, teams that have flipped literally flipped the script

759
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: from one season to the next to make a playoff run,

760
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 1: in the case of the Patriots and Seahawks, a deep

761
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: playoff run.

762
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 4: And the thing is, when Jonathan Gannon was hired and

763
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 4: Monti austin Ford came to town, so much of the first

764
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 4: year was just centered around patients. We're gonna fix this roster.

765
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 4: It's going to take some time here, but we're going

766
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 4: to figure it out. They took that jump in year

767
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 4: number two. Year three, Michael Bidwell said it was going

768
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 4: the wrong direction. So that's why they had to make

769
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 4: a do make make a move and you know, kind

770
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 4: of put a fork in that road and stop that

771
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 4: right there. You know, put a hall to all that

772
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. Now you have a new coach that's

773
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 4: coming in. You just have to figure out a way

774
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 4: to build off of what that year two strategy could

775
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 4: have been like for this team. And it happens all

776
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 4: the time that the worst to first flip continues to

777
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 4: take place. It's what makes the NFL one of the

778
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 4: most exciting leagues out there. It'll but Michael Floor, he

779
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 4: comes in knowing what this NFC West is going to

780
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 4: look like.

781
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 3: It's going to be a tough challenge.

782
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: All eyeballs on Super Bowl Sunday, Super Bowl sixty between

783
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Speaker 1: the Patriots and Seahawks, Now a lot of eyeballs were

784
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: on something else over the past several days. I just Zach,

785
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: I just looked an update. Five point three million views

786
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Speaker 1: on your social media post from that was Saturday, correct Saturday, Yes, LJ.

787
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,479
Speaker 1: Collier Dalvin Tomlinson in Japan. LJ had talked about making

788
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: this trip for a while now because of his love

789
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 1: one of travel and then to his love of anime.

790
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: So this video and at this point, Berd Gang, I

791
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Speaker 1: don't know how many people haven't seen this, but if

792
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,760
Speaker 1: you haven't, got to zach A z Cards to see

793
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 1: this video, because darn near the entire world has seen

794
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: this video that you somehow someway found. And I would

795
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: love to know the back story on all of this

796
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: first and foremost because I just retweeted it because I

797
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Speaker 1: thought I was a fantastic.

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Speaker 3: You were the first person to retweet it.

799
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: Was that really, so look at what you helped start.

800
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Speaker 1: I was a spark, you were Okay, all it takes

801
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Speaker 1: is one. I feel pretty good about that.

802
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Speaker 4: You should all right that that was important.

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00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: It's a great video, and again I don't know a

804
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: lot of the behind the scenes or even who created it.

805
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: Some media poster calls himself Cooney, Yeah, cooney, and it's

806
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: it's just a fascinating just almost like a dumb luck

807
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: that he approached two individuals, large individuals and then had

808
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 1: the conversation and credit LJ and Dovin for being great

809
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: sports about it and really engaging in this, and certainly

810
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: the post. Your post certainly took on a life of

811
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Speaker 1: its own after that.

812
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'll give the I'll give the background on this.

813
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 4: I was scoring through TikTok late at night on Friday night.

814
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: In other words, we're gang. This is how Zach Spence's

815
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: Friday evenings.

816
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 4: That that Friday evening of these, I was scoring through

817
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Speaker 4: TikTok and I saw the video and I bookmarked it,

818
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 4: and I was like, this is a really sweet, wholesome video.

819
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 4: We always talked about it. When Dalvin first came to Arizona,

820
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 4: we were talking about like how nice he was, Like

821
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 4: this big dude was known as like a wall was

822
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 4: how like he was described to us from various different people,

823
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 4: just like his sheer size, but when you talk to

824
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 4: Dalvin that the deep voice, the Southern accent, and the

825
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 4: laugh for always things that people talked about when it

826
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 4: came to the big number ninety four, and I saw

827
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 4: that video and I I just love seeing.

828
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 3: How happy our guys were. It was a tough season.

829
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: L J.

830
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 4: Collier faced the big injury that he had that knocked

831
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 4: him out for majority of the season. Dalvin Tomlinson did

832
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 4: not put up the statistical numbers that I think he thought.

833
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 4: But those two guys who have Kalaise Campbell in between

834
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 4: him in terms of locker mats, I've been both big

835
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 4: anime fans, and they obviously ended up planning this trip together.

836
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Speaker 3: They go to Japan.

837
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Speaker 4: And the photographer, his whole page is a batter of

838
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 4: going up to people and saying, do you speak English

839
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 4: or Japanese? And then he meets them in whatever their language,

840
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 4: and and he talks to them and you know, he

841
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 4: gets to know them a little bit, he compliments them,

842
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 4: and it's just it's a very sweet, wholesome video. And

843
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 4: he's also a damn good photographer. Like it was awesome to.

844
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,280
Speaker 1: See very well put together and it did very well.

845
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 4: It was and to just see the the kindness. So

846
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 4: our world obviously has a lot of issues and to

847
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 4: see something like this, and I think part of the

848
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 4: reason why the tweet is blown up and the way

849
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 4: that it has is because it's brought up a lot

850
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,919
Speaker 4: of hope from people to see NFL stars that are

851
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 4: that are out there and you just have just a

852
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 4: random act of kindness and it was it was pretty

853
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 4: It was pretty awesome to see. So I saw the video,

854
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 4: I bookmarked it. The next morning, I tweeted it out,

855
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 4: I retweeted it, and then Craig retweeted it, Cardinals Inside,

856
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 4: Cardinals Insider retweeted it. I wonder who runs that account

857
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 4: because those tweets took place thirty seconds apart from each other.

858
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 4: And then there Walker and retweeted it, and and then

859
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,720
Speaker 4: on my retweet and it started to become a big

860
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 4: you know, and Cody, you I think, retweeted it and

861
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 4: it started to become like a big He shakes his head.

862
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 4: He doesn't even remember, but he has seen it.

863
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 3: And it blew up. And it started to really.

864
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 4: Start to pick up some steam towards the middle of

865
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 4: the afternoon. And then I see Busting with the Boys

866
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 4: likes to tweet, and Jack Mac from Barstool retweets, and

867
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 4: then Barstool Sports retweets it. Uh, and I'm like, okay,

868
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 4: this is starting to have a life of its own

869
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,840
Speaker 4: a little bit. And then of course the day continues

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Speaker 4: to go on.

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Speaker 1: This is the this is when my eyes will open

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00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: up real wide, going okay, this is something.

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Speaker 3: So it's I was on the phone with my dad.

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Speaker 3: I was on the phone my dad out.

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Speaker 4: We had like a ten minute conversation and I told him, Hey, Pops,

876
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 4: the tweets like six thousand views, And by the time

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Speaker 4: the call ended, I was like, all right, Pops, the

878
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 4: tweets at seven point two thousand views, Like, I don't

879
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 4: know how how it's getting so fast here, but it is.

880
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 4: And I see a notification from at Maserati Marvin. I'm like,

881
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 4: that's not Marvin Harrison Junior that just interacted with this,

882
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 4: That's not Marvin's handle. And then I see at King

883
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 4: James quote tweets you, and I'm like, that's not Lebron James.

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Speaker 4: And I'm reading the tweet. I'm like, this tweet was

885
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Speaker 4: really written like Lebron James would tweet something out And

886
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 4: then I look at the account and holy you know what,

887
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 4: it was forty seven and a half million followers. Lebron

888
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 4: James tweeting it out there, and not just tweeting it

889
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Speaker 4: out there, but giving credit to Dalvin and LJ for

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Speaker 4: the kinds of guys that they were. It was a

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Speaker 4: big cultural moment for a lot of the things that

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Speaker 4: he talked about. You know, two African American men that

893
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Speaker 4: are going overseas and just appreciating culture and just being

894
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Speaker 4: authentic and incorporating themselves with just humanity.

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Speaker 3: And it was an.

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Speaker 4: Awesome thing to see get posted out there, a special

897
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Speaker 4: thing to see get posted out there. And I think

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Speaker 4: one of the coolest parts about this is LJ. Collier

899
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Speaker 4: is a huge Lakers fan, and he's a big lebron fan.

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Speaker 4: So to see LJ then to tweet it out the

901
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Speaker 4: next morning and say, I appreciate you Lebron, Go Lakers,

902
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 4: and to see how this tweet is kind of taking

903
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Speaker 4: a life of its own. It's got almost a combined

904
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Speaker 4: a twenty million something views. While the notifications are overwhelming

905
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Speaker 4: for me and I appreciate the fact that people are

906
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Speaker 4: somewhat crediting me for this, I'm just happy that, you know,

907
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Speaker 4: if it helped put a smile on people's faces, you know,

908
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 4: shout out to Tokuni for even posting it. Definitely go

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Speaker 4: check out his page. His handle is on the video.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's a glimpse of what I think you

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Speaker 4: have to hope the world is going to shape out

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Speaker 4: to be.

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Speaker 1: That was a sentiment that was shared repeatedly over the weekend,

914
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Speaker 1: and you see this sometimes commented on certain videos the

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Speaker 1: best thing you'll see all day, the best thing I've

916
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Speaker 1: seen this week. And I think that's what Lebron James

917
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Speaker 1: was getting at, because he retweeted it with the following quote,

918
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Speaker 1: love this so much. He shouted out LJ added great

919
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Speaker 1: initials and Dalvin for quote traveling the world, appreciating culture

920
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: and showing great humility, and Lebron also shouted out Cooney

921
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Speaker 1: as well, So again, fantastic video. Great for you, Zach

922
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Speaker 1: to spot it, to post it to share with everyone else,

923
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: and then again, hopefully al Jan Dalvin know what's happening

924
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Speaker 1: here stateside, because I give them all the credit in

925
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Speaker 1: the world for being so open and approachable, because typically

926
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Speaker 1: in a foreign country, someone approaches you and you're and

927
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Speaker 1: automatically your guard goes up. Even walking around your neighborhood,

928
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Speaker 1: sometimes many people their guards are already up. That's just

929
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Speaker 1: how we are as individuals. It's something that I hope

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Speaker 1: we all get better at, myself included. But the fact

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Speaker 1: that LJ and Dalvin smiled immediately and then had this conversation,

932
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Speaker 1: and knowing that it's being videoed, photographed, recorded, and finding

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Speaker 1: its way on some social media platform, and it's turned

934
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Speaker 1: into this. Again, credit to you for finding it, but

935
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Speaker 1: I think we need to see more of that, not

936
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Speaker 1: only involving in Arizona Cardinals players, but across the world

937
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Speaker 1: because it was a it was a very good, wholesome moment.

938
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Speaker 1: And as I believe that was the phrasing that you

939
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Speaker 1: mentioned on your retweet, that seeing two NFL players in

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Speaker 1: a different country appreciating where they're at in that moment

941
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Speaker 1: and immersing themselves in another country's culture.

942
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Speaker 4: And the last sounds say about this, this is how

943
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Speaker 4: they are with us, like behind the scenes, on camera,

944
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Speaker 4: off camera, like just good dudes. And and I'm glad

945
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Speaker 4: that defensivelignment don't get a lot of attention in a

946
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Speaker 4: lot of ways unless you do something really wrong. Where

947
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Speaker 4: you do something really good. Uh, it's funny. I think

948
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Speaker 4: back to a conversation that I had in the locker

949
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Speaker 4: room PJ Mustard for he and I went up to Uh.

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Speaker 4: I was walking over his direction his lockers, right next

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Speaker 4: to Walter No. One the third, and I was walking

952
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Speaker 4: over in PG. I think thought I was going up

953
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Speaker 4: to him, and I'm like, PG, I'm actually going up to.

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Speaker 3: Get Walt here.

955
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,959
Speaker 4: And He's like man us zero texts us no to

956
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Speaker 4: our nose tackles.

957
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Speaker 3: We don't we don't get no recognition. And I'm just

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Speaker 3: I'm happy that in this.

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Speaker 4: Case, Uh, Dalvin and LJ despite what position they are

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00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 4: out are on the field, have sorry to get a

961
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Speaker 4: lot of a lot of love all the way to

962
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Speaker 4: probably top three, top five most recognizable people in the

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Speaker 4: world and Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: So my follow up to that is, what are you

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Speaker 1: going to do next, Zach? Because you have set the

966
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Speaker 1: bar now uh five point three million.

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Speaker 4: I am going to hopefully ask Michael four a lot

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Speaker 4: of great questions during a Tuesday's press conference, and you know,

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Speaker 4: maybe Lebron becomes an Arizona Cardinals fan and he starts

970
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 4: to follow along with the content, or Katie just you know,

971
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Speaker 4: decides to come back to Phoenix. I know, I'm a

972
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Speaker 4: Suns fans with a love that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely yes, Zach Gershmand Lebron James didn't have that

974
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Speaker 1: on my big car, but here we are either.

975
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Speaker 4: And the fact that I, because I occasionally do this

976
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Speaker 4: to make sure I stay out of trouble, I sometimes

977
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Speaker 4: google myself just to see what comes up and to

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Speaker 4: now see, like Zach Gershman and Lebron James and the

979
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Speaker 4: same article weird.

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Speaker 1: One of these things is not like weird, weird? What

981
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Speaker 1: is it? What is not weird? It is what is

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Speaker 1: happening on Tuesday at noon. Mike Laflora here, Oh, we

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Speaker 1: got some breaking news at the end of the show.

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Speaker 4: Titans are working a higher forty nine Ers assistant Gus

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Speaker 4: Bradley as their new defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so much for that conversation that we had earlier

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Speaker 1: in the show. That was another that was something that

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Speaker 1: that other the Titans wasn't the other team that Albert

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Speaker 1: Breer had mentioned as far as looking for a defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator because Bradley was in San Francisco as an assistant.

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Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers get Rahie Morris to come back to

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00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: their DC. So Gus Bradley's available, and now the Cardinals

993
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Speaker 1: still looking for a defensive cordon. Maybe it's someone already

994
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 1: in the building, potentially Nick Rolis.

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Speaker 4: Potentially it could be Aubrey Pleasants is somebody that was

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00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles that was getting some interviews. Uh, you know,

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00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 4: he interviewed with the Los Angeles Chargers for the defensive

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Speaker 4: coordinator position. Will Sean mcvagh how many people he let

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Speaker 4: leave from the building. I'm not too sure about that,

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Speaker 4: but hey, you know, at least we have the show

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Speaker 4: at some breaking news.

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Speaker 1: Glad we got that in there. Of course, if you

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Speaker 1: reach this part of the show, props to you burg Gang.

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Speaker 1: And again today at noon here from Michael Laflor. The

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Speaker 1: press conference will be stream live Easycardinals dot com, the

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Speaker 1: mobile app, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and of course we'll

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Speaker 1: have all the reaction and post pressure contents on asycardinals

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Speaker 1: dot com. A new era is underway for the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and on that notes, we will put a lid on

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Speaker 1: this edition of Cardinals Cover two, presented by Hyundai, probably

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals Special. Thanks as always to

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Speaker 1: our executive producer jim Mo Mohunre, our associate producer Cody

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Speaker 1: Fincher for Zach Kershman, I'm Craig Real. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you next time here on Cardinals Cover two.