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Speaker 1: the first six quarters of the season rather than the

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Speaker 1: team we saw and that thrilling overtime comeback victory in

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Speaker 1: Week two in Vegas, seventh straight home loss for the

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Speaker 1: How that ended. Welcome into Morning Scramble presented by Verizon

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Speaker 1: alongside Jody Jackson and Q McCorvey. I'm Danny Siak. The

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Speaker 1: Cardinals start one and two now off the season and

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Speaker 1: Rams head coach Sean Sean McVeigh eleven and one against

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals with three different head coaches. Oh guys, we

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Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about. And I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: Number One, that win last week was huge now because

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Speaker 1: then this week, you know a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: that you know it was lost, you know, no touchdowns?

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Speaker 1: How does this team and it was a winnable game.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that kills you is that this was

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Speaker 1: a twenty to twelve game. It was thirteen to six.

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Speaker 1: You know, how did they not score a touch Yeah?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like the Rams played any better than we

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Speaker 1: I got in the end zone, but they didn't. It

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Speaker 1: like you said, it was a very winnable game, Danny. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: You know, DeAndre Hopkins was a huge part to that.

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Speaker 1: We saw that last year during that stretch where they

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Speaker 1: get a seven to nothing lead, you know even you know,

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Speaker 1: three to nothing tendon, whatever it is. If you have

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Speaker 1: a lead, everything is easier. But I think Kyler Murray

432
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Speaker 1: was sending that message that, hey, you know, we're not

433
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Speaker 1: gonna do what we did against the Raiders every week.

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Speaker 1: That's that's difficult. That's a lot of backyard ball, but

435
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Speaker 1: it's going to be made up on the fly at times,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make plays and I'm gonna try to

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Speaker 1: make things happen, and you have to be ready. And

438
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Speaker 1: I mean there's an opportunity here before these guys come back. Now,

439
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Speaker 1: Rondelmore might be back next week, but you're not going

440
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Speaker 1: to get the Hop or Wesley for another couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: These guys have a great opportunity to step up and

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Speaker 1: make plays. Now, there are veterans on this team that

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Speaker 1: don't you know, they have a great resume. Zach Ertz

444
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Speaker 1: is one of them. A mini doesn't necessarily need to

445
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Speaker 1: prove how great he is in this league. But it's about,

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Speaker 1: you know, having that high level of focus and you know,

447
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Speaker 1: and he's a guy that can cultivate that among the

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Speaker 1: young guys. But they're relying on you look at those

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Speaker 1: last couple of drives by the Cardinals that ended in

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Speaker 1: field goals. They were relying on really young guys, inexperienced guys.

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Speaker 1: This is their time to step up. Whether it's Eno Benjamin,

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Speaker 1: whether it's I. I can't name everyone but Celli. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these were key reps, key moments in the game, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, it isn't going to be like the

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Speaker 1: Hops coming to save you next week. Gotta get it done.

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Speaker 1: In Kyler Murray, I like that out of him. I

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Speaker 1: like him saying that to the guys that is publically.

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Speaker 1: That is a little concerning to me though, hearing that

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Speaker 1: when we heard after Week one losing to the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: that practice habits were already an issue and there needed

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Speaker 1: to be a sense of urgency as if you didn't

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Speaker 1: already have urgency going into week one of the season,

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Speaker 1: which tells me I'm not taking the blame off them.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much of this is just on

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff. It seems like it's a lot of

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Speaker 1: mental issues that this team is having to work through

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Speaker 1: to find that focus and connect and figure out what's

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Speaker 1: going on. If Kyler Murray is saying he needs his

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Speaker 1: teammates to be awake and we've already heard about needing

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Speaker 1: more sense of urgency this early in the season, it's

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Speaker 1: a little concerning me. It is, and I think it's inexperience,

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Speaker 1: you know, it really is. I mean, I'm not using

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Speaker 1: that as a complete excuse, but I mean, that's what

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Speaker 1: you've got to grow up fast. But that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: seeing when I see it. It's just like a tentative

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Speaker 1: and we see it from from the first quarter. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like this offense is feeling their way, needing

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Speaker 1: more guys to come out and kind of punch the

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Speaker 1: opponent in the mouth, you know. And I don't just

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Speaker 1: mean the line there, I mean I mean everyone executing

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Speaker 1: that high level and they're just a little tentative and

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Speaker 1: they're just kind of eating to see what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: and they have to be the aggressor. Again, you play

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Speaker 1: with Kyler Murray, you have to expect the unexpected. I

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Speaker 1: mean his whole career has been rolling out the pocket

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Speaker 1: making things happen. And like you said, you have to

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Speaker 1: be awake when you play with Kyler Murray. My hot cake,

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Speaker 1: Oh that's what it is, hot cake. Take is what

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Speaker 1: is this offense's identity? And they have to figure it

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Speaker 1: out this week. They cannot come in next week coming

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Speaker 1: back to stay farmed against the Eagles, who are arguably

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Speaker 1: the best team in the NFC right now, really in

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Speaker 1: the league, and not have this identity. So they really

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Speaker 1: need to figure out what this team's identity is this

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Speaker 1: week in Carolina and hopefully break this Carolina Panther's curse

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Speaker 1: that they have been struggled with so for how many

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Speaker 1: games this is now, But figure it out this team's

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Speaker 1: identity and whether it be in practice this week or

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Speaker 1: in game. They need to figure it out. My hot

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Speaker 1: cake take that might be a mouthful to take slowly

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Speaker 1: every week, I'm gonna go more on the positive side.

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Speaker 1: I still have high hopes for this K one Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Brown connection, and I said that last week on Morning

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Speaker 1: Scramble of needing to see more of that connection. Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Brown wasn't being targeted away a lot of these number

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Speaker 1: one receivers on other teams were. In the first week,

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Speaker 1: he had six targets. Week two, eleven Sunday against the

508
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Speaker 1: Rams went up to seventeen. He out one hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty yards. And that's what you're expecting to see from

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Speaker 1: this connection, the whole reason they brought in Hollywood Brown.

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Speaker 1: So they still have to connect on those deep balls.

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Speaker 1: There weren't a lot to begin with, but they were

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Speaker 1: going to Hollywood Brown and they were not connecting. Obviously

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Speaker 1: did not connect in the end zone, and those have

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Speaker 1: to be fixed. In the locker room postgame, Hollywood Brown

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Speaker 1: was talking about the frustration of that of not being

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Speaker 1: able to get in the end zone. Zero touchdowns for

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Speaker 1: an offense who later on in the game was really

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Speaker 1: moving the ball a lot better. Than they were early

520
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Speaker 1: on and talking about the need for a fast start.

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Speaker 1: He also talked about how the concern there is now

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Speaker 1: for being so thin at this wide receiver group, but

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Speaker 1: he knows that he's going to have to step up

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Speaker 1: even more. So. So I liked seeing Hollywood Brown targeted

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Speaker 1: significantly more in this game the way he should be

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Speaker 1: as a number one receiver, which even when DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: comes back, I would still like to see Holly Brown

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Speaker 1: targeted a significant amount. However, that's my high hopes is

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Speaker 1: we saw more of that connection that we've been wanting

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Speaker 1: to see a little more consistency between those two, and

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Speaker 1: so I think that's only going to continue to get better,

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Speaker 1: especially if aj Greene, who knows what. We don't know

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Speaker 1: what the status of his injury is yet, but if

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Speaker 1: that's gonna he's gonna be questionable or unable to play,

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Speaker 1: that's even more on Hollywood. Yeah, And I mean he

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Speaker 1: had a great game. I mean he did. He had

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Speaker 1: a fantastic game. Hollywood Brown and Kyler and Hollywood. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can't ask for much more there. I mean, sure,

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Speaker 1: you like you said, the deep shots, but continually moving

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Speaker 1: the chains, you know, that's and I did hear that interview.

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Speaker 1: I heard part of the interview. I believe it was

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Speaker 1: on the radio post game, and Hollywood seemed in disbelief

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Speaker 1: that they couldn't get a touchdown out of that game

544
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Speaker 1: and out of that offensive effort. His fourteen catches and

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Speaker 1: just being able to that was the type of playmaking

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Speaker 1: that they needed. So, Danny, I think you're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and thankfully the Cardinals made that trade for him,

548
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Speaker 1: because if you don't if you don't have Hollywood right

549
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Speaker 1: now on offense, you don't have a lot of experience

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Speaker 1: or guys that you can really trust to make those plays. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're really gonna look just looking at zach Ertz right

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Speaker 1: there are the people that we have left over right

553
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Speaker 1: now at our receiving corps. Yeah, definitely lots to figure

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Speaker 1: out this week in practice before the Cardinals travel to

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Speaker 1: Carolina to face the Panthers, a team that has had

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Speaker 1: this Cardinal's number the last couple of years now, also

557
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Speaker 1: a team who hasn't had the greatest start. However, it's

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Speaker 1: time for the Cardinals to turn things around. You knew

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Speaker 1: without having Deandrew Hopkins for six games these games, those

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Speaker 1: six games, it was going to be crucial to win.

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Speaker 1: I still think you can get three wins out of

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Speaker 1: those when you look at the teams that they're facing.

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Speaker 1: But this game is absolutely a must win, not only

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Speaker 1: looking for division standings right now, but just looking for

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Speaker 1: the long haul of this season to really stay in

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Speaker 1: it with likely the Rams. I mean, you don't know

567
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Speaker 1: now with the forty nine ers with Jimmy g but

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Speaker 1: to really keep yourself in this division early on, this

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Speaker 1: game against the Panthers is a musclin. And the Rams

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Speaker 1: have some problems. I mean, regardless of what we saw yesterday,

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Speaker 1: they're not functioning at the highest level that they can.

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Speaker 1: They've got some injuries on the offensive line and in

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Speaker 1: the defensive secondary. But yeah, the Cardinals. No Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: They saw him last year with Cleveland. That was a

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Speaker 1: game that the coaching staff I remember was down. I mean,

576
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: that was a crazy game. And they they know Baker,

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Speaker 1: they know what type of things they can possibly do

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Speaker 1: to him. It is a different team over there with Carolina.

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Speaker 1: But you're right because the Eagles game, I mean, again,

580
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Speaker 1: no shortage of high powered offenses. Chiefs, Rams, Eagles coming

581
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Speaker 1: in that next week, and you know, I remember I

582
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Speaker 1: think it was gosh, I thought it was last year,

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Speaker 1: but I guess it was twenty twenty when Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray had a shootout and it was unbelievable

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Speaker 1: to watch and it was just so and with Kyler

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Speaker 1: coming out on top. But Jay and Hurts is such

587
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Speaker 1: a great player. He's got that offensive rolling and that

588
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: was a fun game to watch. And we are going

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Speaker 1: to see it again at State From Stadium, and let's

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Speaker 1: hope that the Cardinals can snap that seven game home

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Speaker 1: losing skit. It's hard to believe that that's what they

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Speaker 1: have going right now at home, but you know, you'd

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Speaker 1: love to see that snapped in that game. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get that monkey off your back. It's been almost a

595
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Speaker 1: full calendar year since getting a win at State Farm

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Speaker 1: Stadium in front of their home fans. So but they're

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Speaker 1: going on the road this week, So get that win,

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Speaker 1: worry about Carolina. Hopefully it works out a team that

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Speaker 1: has been successful on the road, and hopefully that carries

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Speaker 1: over into Carolina. As always, more coverage on Easy Cardinals

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Speaker 1: dot Com, more in depth about Sunday's loss to the Rams,

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Speaker 1: and then later on in the week, looking ahead to

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. For those of you that are live

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Speaker 1: streaming with us on Twitter at asy Cardinals, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. We will see you next week. For those

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Speaker 1: listening on the podcast, thanks so much for tuning in

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Speaker 1: to Morning Scramble. Jody Jackson and Ki McCorvey. I'm Jay Streck.

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