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Speaker 1: Calvic he joins me together. We'll be joined by the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals new man in the middle, big defensive tackle Dalvin Tomlinson,

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Speaker 1: and let us stress the word big. Also, as we

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Speaker 1: reach the end of the first full week of free agency,

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Speaker 1: we ask what's next? Plus news on Marvin Harrison Junior.

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Speaker 1: It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode eight sixty and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two, p.

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Speaker 3: To Baker, What Heart?

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Speaker 3: This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: He's at the ten half of five. He's it again,

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Speaker 2: Whow here's Craigcreolo.

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Speaker 1: So we have reached the end of the first full

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Speaker 3: All Yeah, and the not the numerical pie either. Don't

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Speaker 1: So you had a apple pie this morning and it's

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Speaker 3: At the same time, did I see correctly you had

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Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, so you were able to put up career

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Speaker 1: Okay, outside of the stats, though, your best ability might

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Speaker 4: You have to take the extra time out throughout the

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Speaker 3: And you know what, I threw those stats out there,

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Speaker 4: Hundred percent, It's like that's not everything going to interior

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Speaker 3: What's your favorite play to make?

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Speaker 3: Football is about making plays. What do you enjoy the most?

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Speaker 3: The sack, the tackle for loss, the force fumble, maybe

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Speaker 3: putting the center on his keyster. You know what do

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Speaker 1: Have you thought about the pairing of you inside and Josh,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like it could be very dangerous? Is

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Speaker 3: You mentioned playing for Alabama wearing the red again, right.

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Speaker 3: Paying round one, right, Jonathan Allen, round one then A'shawn Robinson,

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that was my guys. Man. I love to

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Speaker 4: And man, you love to see those guys around and

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Speaker 1: There is one Alabama gentleman in that Cardinals lockerroom. I've

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I love his leadership now. I just he's

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Speaker 4: He's one of those younger guys you know, he's gonna

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Speaker 4: And I talked to him about that. I agreed the

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Speaker 3: What do you know about playing D line that you

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Speaker 4: The biggest thing is, you know, we all compete against

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Speaker 4: That's that's how we can link. So I'm here to

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Speaker 4: But I'm going to be just as decided if I

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Speaker 1: The coach in that defensive line room brand new, Coach Debo.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was just saying earlier, it's not too

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Speaker 4: I learned a lot from him, And just to have

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot of energy in that room.

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Speaker 3: There's no doubt from the from the position coach on

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Speaker 3: down right. Here's my last question for Dalvin Tomlinson. In

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Speaker 3: What does that do for you as a defensive lineman?

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Speaker 4: I take everything from wrestling, Uh, just leverage, learning how

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Speaker 4: So I feel like I took a lot from just

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Speaker 1: You walked into your press conference with a big smile.

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Speaker 1: You walked in here studio with a big smile. Is

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Speaker 3: I feel like.

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Speaker 4: It is a switch, but I'm definitely always smiling. I

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Speaker 4: I'm always happy, I'm in the zone. And uh, it's

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of Cardinals fans smiling right now, by

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Speaker 4: All right, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to go out on a limpol and

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Speaker 1: hopefully for years to come. It's not just a two

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Speaker 3: When you say you got to include some of his

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Speaker 3: his resume? Three times state champion wrestler? Very interesting when

440
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Speaker 3: you're a nose tackle slash three technique, how many of

441
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Speaker 3: those guys really use that to their advantage right leverage?

442
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,879
Speaker 3: You know, I mean we could have I should have

443
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,080
Speaker 3: asked him. Actually now in hindsight about the tushpush. We'll

444
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:50,560
Speaker 3: have to talk to him about that, because you know,

445
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 3: Roy Lopez had had a great philosophy. You know, you

446
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 3: were close with Roy, and you know when it came

447
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 3: to the whole tush push and what do you do

448
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,840
Speaker 3: as a defensive lineman and there you are at the

449
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Speaker 3: epicenter of the whole thing. Low Man wins and he

450
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 3: felt really confident about that as a as a state

451
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Speaker 3: champion wrestler. But just what he did from a pass

452
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Speaker 3: rushing standpoint last year in career highs and getting to

453
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Speaker 3: the quarterback, hitting the quarterback, that's intriguing. It really is

454
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Speaker 3: now obviously, and he mentioned it, Miles Garrett gets a

455
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Speaker 3: lot of attention, but you know what, Josh Sweat's gonna

456
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Speaker 3: get a lot of attention. So once again, the quickest

457
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Speaker 3: route to a quarterback A to B straight up the middle.

458
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Speaker 3: And that's what the quarterbacks. Hey, Drew Stanton told us

459
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Speaker 3: that on the big red rage. You know, in the

460
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Speaker 3: whole Santa Claus effect, you don't like it when a

461
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,719
Speaker 3: d liman's right in your lap. And Dalvin Thomason has

462
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Speaker 3: been very successful at doing just that.

463
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Speaker 1: I brought up his availability. One hundred and twenty five

464
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Speaker 1: games played, one hundred and twenty five starts. He has

465
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Speaker 1: played at least sixteen games in every season but one,

466
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Speaker 1: and that was twenty twenty two when he played thirteen games.

467
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Speaker 1: So you can rely on him on Sundays. You can

468
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Speaker 1: rely on him being on the football field better than

469
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Speaker 1: fifty percent of the defensive snaps, which is going to

470
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Speaker 1: be unusual because again, we don't see very many defensive

471
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Speaker 1: linemen in Cardinals uniforms play that much. But that's what

472
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Speaker 1: he did with the Cleveland Browns, and well, I guess

473
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Speaker 1: I have to wait and see if that rotation. They'll

474
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Speaker 1: still rotate, maybe just not as frequently, especially for someone

475
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Speaker 1: as experienced as Dobvin were. Okay, yeah, I'm on the

476
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Speaker 1: football field for that first and second down, maybe even

477
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Speaker 1: that third down because I get used to it and

478
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Speaker 1: I get better as the game goes along a lah

479
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Speaker 1: James Connor who kind of sets things up in the

480
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Speaker 1: first quarter to where he can break something off later

481
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Speaker 1: on in the second half.

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Speaker 3: You know, this D line room is really intriguing now,

483
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Speaker 3: presuming everyone's healthy, Justin Jones, Blall Nichols, Darius Robinson, Round

484
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Speaker 3: one pick, Dalvin Thomlinson, LJ Collier, Dante Stills. I mean,

485
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Speaker 3: think of the depth that you have in this D

486
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Speaker 3: line room this draft. You know, you're at the combine

487
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Speaker 3: all week. It is its deepest in a long time

488
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Speaker 3: along the defensive line. So the Cardinals is gonna go

489
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Speaker 3: that route in number sixteen. They certainly don't have to.

490
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Speaker 3: Like Mani Ocibor is fond of saying, you know what,

491
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Speaker 3: we like to be able to have a roster going

492
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Speaker 3: into the draft where we can line up and play

493
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Speaker 3: a game. Well, the Cardinals right now, if they go

494
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Speaker 3: elsewhere at sixteen, if they go elsewhere at forty seven,

495
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked. They're pretty stacked right now in

496
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Speaker 3: that d line room. So you know, hey, if they

497
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Speaker 3: add yet another guy, guess what, Eagles rode that all

498
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Speaker 3: the way to a ring in the Lombardi Trophy, just

499
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 3: having ways of dudes in the defensive front. But it's

500
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Speaker 3: no longer than necessity. It was a month ago where.

501
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Speaker 1: About six weeks away from the drafts, and you're right,

502
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Speaker 1: you don't want to go into the draft knowing you

503
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Speaker 1: need something in order to be ready week one. So

504
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Speaker 1: with that being said, what's next? What would you like

505
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Speaker 1: to see Moni do ahead of the drafts? You're nots

506
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Speaker 1: pigeon toed into one specific position. And I know the

507
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Speaker 1: reports out there earlier this week that cornerback of Sante

508
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Speaker 1: Samuel Junior visited the Cardinals, someone only played four games

509
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Speaker 1: last season. Because of a shoulder injury. But here's someone

510
00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: who's a former fourth round pick four seasons with the Chargers.

511
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: When healthy, he's been very good. Maybe doesn't have that

512
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Speaker 1: size that I know you were talking about earlier this offseason.

513
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Speaker 1: Wanted to see maybe a little bit more physicality out

514
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Speaker 1: of a cornerback, but someone again you're looking to upgrade

515
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Speaker 1: that room, and maybe you take a flyer on someone

516
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Speaker 1: who's coming off an injury riddled season and you catch

517
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Speaker 1: lightning in a bottle.

518
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he played the first four games last year and

519
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Speaker 3: then he spent the rest of the year on the

520
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 3: sideline with injury as Sante Samuel Junior. But before that

521
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 3: he was a starter in every single game of his career.

522
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Speaker 3: Former round two pick, really talented dude, still age twenty five.

523
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Speaker 3: So you can see the Cardinals interest in that. That

524
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 3: position is JG's specialty. He knows exactly what he wants

525
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 3: in terms of the traits and the skills and the

526
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Speaker 3: mental makeup of cornerbacks. So that's intriguing. We have our

527
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Speaker 3: eye obviously of that one. But if you're giving me

528
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Speaker 3: a power pole of needs right now in terms of

529
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Speaker 3: what else might be added at this point, you know,

530
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Speaker 3: a guard, a veteran starting guard, I think is where

531
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Speaker 3: you start. Could that w that b Will Hernandez? We'll

532
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 3: see middle linebacker? Do the Cardinals have their middle linebacker

533
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,479
Speaker 3: right now? Between Mac Wilson, Senior King, Davis Gaythier, you know,

534
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: Michael Walker, don't Zaven Collins. You know, as we break

535
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 3: out the oven mits for a bit of a.

536
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Speaker 1: You're gonna write that all the way into the off season.

537
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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just all the way name and names,

538
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Speaker 3: But who is your mike linebacker? You know? That would

539
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Speaker 3: be that might be my first question for Jonathan Cannon

540
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 3: when we meet him again. In terms of media, you know,

541
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Speaker 3: wide receiver. They they've addressed a little bit obviously, and

542
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Speaker 3: they've added some depth on the back end of that room.

543
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Speaker 3: But is there a definitive or potential wide receiver too

544
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Speaker 3: incoming via free agency and or the draft. There's still

545
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 3: some pretty big names out there. Maybe the Cardinals are

546
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Speaker 3: waiting for the price to come down in terms of

547
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Speaker 3: veteran established receivers. Maybe I don't expect it. I don't

548
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Speaker 3: think it's an urgent need. And then I'll throw out

549
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Speaker 3: there safety, what is the future of Jalen Thompson, he

550
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 3: has the third highest cap number, doesn't have any guaranteed money.

551
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Speaker 3: Does he stick and stay under the current contract? Perhaps

552
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Speaker 3: is there a maneuver there is there a need to

553
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Speaker 3: maybe add some more depth of the safety. If JT

554
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Speaker 3: is not a cardinal this season, and you may not

555
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 3: know that until training camp, and once again, if he

556
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Speaker 3: plays the entirety of twenty twenty five, I would not

557
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 3: be shocked whatsoever. But you know, there's the business end

558
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 3: of this that might still be addressed at some point.

559
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 3: So we'll see. That's the other position that maybe might

560
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: be on the radar.

561
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Speaker 1: And are you looking to get Rabbit on the field more,

562
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Speaker 1: because when he did play, he was very, very good.

563
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Speaker 1: But it's hard to get that third safety on the

564
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Speaker 1: football field when you like what you have at the

565
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: cornerback position. But when one or both were out talking

566
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Speaker 1: about JT or Buddha, it was Rabbit who was stepped

567
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Speaker 1: out on the football field. And again, someone that was

568
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Speaker 1: not a Day one or Day two pick, came in

569
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Speaker 1: and learned the defense and always was around the football.

570
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Speaker 3: When he wasn't thinking and he was playing. He was

571
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Speaker 3: really effective. Man. We called his name when he was

572
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 3: in the game. We called his name a lot on

573
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Speaker 3: the Cardinals radio broadcast. I had a chance to spend

574
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 3: five to ten minutes with him late in the season.

575
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 3: It was late December, and he actually literally just sat

576
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Speaker 3: up up on the counter and he sort of reflected,

577
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 3: he really he's mature beyond his ears, but he's also

578
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 3: has the mental acuity and to admit, there was a

579
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 3: lot he didn't know that the scheme they ran a

580
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 3: Texas attack radically different than what Nick Ross and Jonathan

581
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 3: Gannon run. And he said, you know, there's a reason

582
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 3: I sat in the front row of the position room.

583
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 3: There's a reason why I just I said virtually nothing

584
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 3: and listened to Buddha Baker and Jalen Thompson just talked

585
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 3: football and talk about the scheme, and he spoke of

586
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 3: how much progress he made mentally, and because he has

587
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 3: all the explosion and the physical skills, he much in

588
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 3: the same way you know, Buddha Baker and Jalen Thompson are.

589
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 3: He's a similar body type. And I can see why

590
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,199
Speaker 3: the Cardinals identified him in the draft because he is

591
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 3: that type of safety. And if he's made enough progress mentally,

592
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 3: you know what, I'd love to see him get a

593
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 3: lot of reps, a lot of snaps in twenty twenty five.

594
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Speaker 1: Is there a want? Is there a need? Defensively offensively?

595
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: I kind of point to where you went as far

596
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Speaker 1: as the offensive line, specifically a guard, whether that's left guard,

597
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: right guard, Evan Brown. Do you stay on the left side,

598
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: you move to the right side because you found someone

599
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: that you want to pair next to. Paris Johnson Junior,

600
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: who knows speaking of once and needs. I know your

601
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: birthday just passed last month. Mine is coming up, Paul,

602
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,239
Speaker 1: So if you're looking to get me anything. Probably the

603
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: biggest news though here on this Friday, March fourteenth, Yeah,

604
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior, his uniform is available. MHJ and Fanatics

605
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: settled their legal dispute, meaning number eighteen jerseys are available

606
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: as we speak Azycardinals dot com Forward slash Shop or

607
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: go to Azycardinals dot com and click shop in the

608
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Speaker 1: upper right hand corner, and I am hold that. On

609
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: Saturday at State Farm Stadium at the team shop, you

610
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: can go and pick up your Marvin Harrison Junior number

611
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: eighteen jersey.

612
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a double ding right there. Yeah, I knew

613
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 3: it was a big deal with fans. When they started

614
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 3: tweeting me, The news started.

615
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: Tweeting me like I got one this morning too.

616
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 3: Yes, and you're like, okay, I mean this obviously resonates

617
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 3: with the Red Sea. I mean, bird Gang is all

618
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 3: about it, and you know that's human nature, right, you

619
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 3: want what you can't have. And I haven't been able

620
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 3: to purchase some Marvin Harrison eighteen jersey. I tell you

621
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 3: what though, the white especially to me, man is at

622
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 3: a clean look, right Harrison Junior with the eighteen on it,

623
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 3: the White Road jersey maybe because it's somewhat akin to

624
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 3: the Ohio State look, and so they're a little bit

625
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 3: and it's I'm real curious to see how many of

626
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 3: those jerseys are going to be in the stands come

627
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 3: training camp in this season, and knowing how quickly those

628
00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 3: things sold, because we know how that that how quickly

629
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 3: that can populate a stadium when you get a jersey

630
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 3: like that and a guy that's that popular, I'd be

631
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Speaker 3: very curious to find that out.

632
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Speaker 1: Darren Ravel broke the story earlier this week about MHJA

633
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: and fanatics settling their legal disputes, and according to Darren,

634
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: he estimated that missing that first year after the draft

635
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: and his rookie season. Then Marvin Harrison Junior himself cost

636
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: himself upwards of five hundred thousand dollars in merchandise because

637
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: of this dispute. So that's all behind him. But again,

638
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: that goes to show what fans wanted and that's not

639
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: going to change. If you wanted it, then you're gonna

640
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: want it now, especially now because you've seen him on

641
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 1: the football field and yeah, maybe he didn't meet expectations,

642
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: but he's not going anywhere and he's only going to

643
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 1: get better. So get your eighteen jersey right now before

644
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: the season begins.

645
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Speaker 3: And they track this sort of stuff. They have a

646
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 3: powerpole of best selling jerseys, right I mean, TB twelve

647
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 3: was the best selling jersey in the NFL for how long,

648
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 3: So I'm really cy curious. I could see him entering

649
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 3: the top ten, the top five there, I say, real quickly,

650
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 3: just because of the suppressed demand over the last year,

651
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 3: folks weren't able to get what they wanted.

652
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: Again, Paul, it's what I want, so get on it. Well,

653
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: that's it's good.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what Syracuse's track record is against Ohio State,

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Speaker 3: collegiate connection. But okay, yeah, we'll see. If I'm in

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Speaker 3: we'll go in and maybe I'll see if I can

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Speaker 3: get everyone to chip in here in the office place.

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing no, go fund me, accountant, Yeah, guessing go

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Speaker 3: fund me for Greele New's birthday. That's what it might

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Speaker 3: take at this point.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've got your assignment for the weekend, Paul, so again,

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Speaker 1: get on it and we'll see what happens come next week.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe I'll just get you what you got me,

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Speaker 3: which is Jack to the squad.

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Speaker 1: That well, on that note, we'll put a lid on.

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