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Speaker 1: Baby Field, Here's Craig Griolou, Mike Jarecki and three time

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Speaker 1: pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch. Nine games in and this team

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Speaker 1: has already matched, that's right, matched its win total from

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Speaker 1: last season. And eight wins has put this team back

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Speaker 1: atop the NFC standings, and that's what truly matters, not

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Speaker 1: some power poll. As we say, good morning and welcome

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Speaker 1: eight and one. After disposing of the San Francisco forty

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and Kyle, that was about as

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Speaker 1: great a performance as you could get from an offense

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Speaker 1: and defense and special teams considering you just played this

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Speaker 1: it was a completely different looking team really both sidelines,

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Speaker 1: because of players missing, because of players coming back and

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Speaker 1: coming into the game. You know, I had my concerns,

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Speaker 1: have done over and over this season, this team steps

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Speaker 1: later in the season, because that's what December football is.

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Speaker 1: It's it's adversity, players going down, players stepping up, players

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Speaker 1: they just move forward each week is very business like.

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Speaker 1: Take the same approach in practice and you're seeing the

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Speaker 1: same results in the games. And don't forget m J.

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Speaker 1: the game. That's five offensive starters. Yet still thirty plus

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Speaker 1: coach Cliff Kingsbury honors some players. Great effort from the start,

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Speaker 1: Six game balls handed out following the thirty one seventeen victory,

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Speaker 1: Now Colt McCoy looked like he'd been running this offense

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Speaker 1: maybe work a little bit harder. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: was more physical, it was more mental. And then in

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Speaker 1: the offseason we started to see the upside and so

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Speaker 1: and now with Chasetown, I think he's going to get

431
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Speaker 1: a good opportunity. But I love the way he trucked

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Speaker 1: over Drake Kirkpatrick. It's one thing to do that, but

433
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Speaker 1: another thing is to score a touch on at that play.

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Speaker 1: We see guys, you know, truck a guy or run

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Speaker 1: him over, but usually get tackled. The fact that he

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Speaker 1: was able to keep his legs were chopping and he

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Speaker 1: got in the end zone. I was thoroughly impressed and

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Speaker 1: I gave him a ton of credit because he worked hard.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Jonathan Ward's more of a special teams guy.

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Speaker 1: We'll see where he's at, but I think that you're

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Speaker 1: gonna see Eno get some reps just to take some

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Speaker 1: of the pressure off of Connor. We could see both

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Speaker 1: guys in the backfield together because I think, you know's

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Speaker 1: a little bit more like Chase and I think Ward's

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Speaker 1: a little bit like more like Connor and Chase, where

446
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 1: he's a little bit bigger back. According to Kingsbury, Edmond's

447
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Speaker 1: not expected to play this week, and then quote, we'll

448
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Speaker 1: just take it from there. Jonathan Ward had a concussion

449
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Speaker 1: going back to the previous game against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 1: Don't know his availability this week. So that does leave

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Speaker 1: James Connor, Cho Benjamin and then Tavian Feaster who is

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad. So you wait for that opportunity

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Speaker 1: and when your name is called, you've got to be ready.

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Speaker 1: And Benjamin had made the most of his opportunity. That's

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Speaker 1: exactly right. I mean, as a youth football coach, this

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Speaker 1: is what I tell the kids all the time, like,

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Speaker 1: if you don't like where you're at, just you know,

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Speaker 1: prepare and when you get your opportunity to make the

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Speaker 1: most of it. That's exactly what Eno did. And now

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Speaker 1: everybody feels good about these next couple of weeks. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously you'd love to have a Chase out there, but

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Speaker 1: you know, if he's not able to go, and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't appear he's probably going to be able to go

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Speaker 1: this week, you feel comfortable about him getting some reps

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Speaker 1: in the backfield and being able to make some plays

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Speaker 1: and fight for those hard yards and break some tackles.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he really looked explosive and you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean that was my favorite play the game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: anytime you see a running back take it to a

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Speaker 1: defender like that, you just gotta love it. And the

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Speaker 1: thing is, he also started playing on special teams, and

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Speaker 1: that's going to get you active. And the thing is,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously past protection and when you know you're

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Speaker 1: the least less safety net for the quarterback. He's getting

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Speaker 1: better there. Obviously it's more about technique because based on

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Speaker 1: his side, but he also is very fluent catches the

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Speaker 1: ball out of the backfield another guy. When he gets

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Speaker 1: in the open field, he's gonna make a guy miss.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited, But I also think that he really

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Speaker 1: put the work in and now mentally and physically he

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Speaker 1: knows what the grind is to be a professional football player. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's here from Benjamin specifically, how his teammates reacted to

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Speaker 1: that first career touchdown. We've been working at this for

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Speaker 1: quite some time, and everyone was just kind of excited

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Speaker 1: to see me get my chance. And the reactions was

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Speaker 1: just that we saw DeAndre Hopkins obviously inactive on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: but he was out there among the first players and

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Speaker 1: among the first that was not in uniform as far

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Speaker 1: as going to Eno Benjamin or a James Connor. And

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Speaker 1: I think it does speak to how well you're received

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Speaker 1: in that locker room, because as much as you want

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Speaker 1: your own personal success, sometimes you are more proud when

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Speaker 1: someone else gets that success. Yeah, it also shows how

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Speaker 1: great this locker room is. I mean when guys who

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Speaker 1: were unable to play, because I've been on teams where

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Speaker 1: guys are inactive, they're injured and they just sit on

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Speaker 1: the bench the entire game like they don't even want

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Speaker 1: to be there. These guys are up on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: they're celebrating with their teammates because they're happy for their success.

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Speaker 1: They see the work they put in. They want these

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Speaker 1: guys to do well. And it's just a completely unselfish team,

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Speaker 1: a group of guys that genuinely wants their teammates to

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Speaker 1: succeed and make big plays. And you just love to

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Speaker 1: see that. And you know, the energy on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: is just so impressive throughout the beginning part of this season,

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Speaker 1: and you could hear the reaction when we played the

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Speaker 1: locker room and Kingsbury given game balls. I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest reaction was Eno Benjamin and being recognized in front

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Speaker 1: of him, in front of the entire team. So that's

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Speaker 1: what you like to see. To your point, Kyle, about

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Speaker 1: the respects and everyone wants to be on a winning

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Speaker 1: team and everyone wants to be able to contribute. The

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Speaker 1: Day Pash Podcast Episode fifteen coming up later on this week,

514
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 1: in fact, premiering on Wednesday with Cardinals defensive coordinator Vance Joseph.

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Speaker 1: To catch up on past episodes, follow the Day Pash

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00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: Podcast via your preferred podcast provider. Get the latest updates

517
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: via Twitter at pash pod. We have had halftime here

518
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Speaker 1: on the Cardinals Red Sea Report Craig Rayo, Lukavanibosch and

519
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: Mike Drecki when we come back defense and what they

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00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: were able to do against the San Francisco forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers in Week nine. This is the Arizona Cardinals Radio

522
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Speaker 1: networking drop straight back to throw in trouble, steps up

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Speaker 1: and sack by Golden at the forty six yard line.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden having a heck of a season. Shotgun snap

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00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: Garoppolo three step drop, steps up, gets hit and sacked

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Speaker 1: back at about the thirteen yard line by Marcus Golden.

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Speaker 1: When you need a play, forty four is there for

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Speaker 1: the takedown On a five yard loss. Garoppolo takes the

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Speaker 1: shotgun snap short set in the pocket, gets hit by Golden,

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Speaker 1: sacked again at the forty yard line. Have a day,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden three sacks as he takes down Garoppolo or

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Speaker 1: start Barkin. Marcus Golden once again. Third time in the

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Speaker 1: last four games, Marcus Golden has recorded at least two sacks.

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Speaker 1: The three sacks a career high part of a defensive

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Speaker 1: effort against the forty nine ers Cardinals win thirty one seventeen,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking about it here on the Cardinals Red

537
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: Sea Report. Craig Rayo, Luka Van Debosh and Mike Jarecki

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Speaker 1: look at Marcus Golden since coming back mid season a

539
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: year ago, twelve sacks in eighteen games doesn't get talked

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Speaker 1: a lot about. Earlier in the year, it was JJ

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Speaker 1: Watt Chandler Jones, don't forget about Buddha Baker. But quietly

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00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: and maybe needing a little bit more recognition because it's deserved,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden has really stepped up his game, absolutely, And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's stepped it up because he's

545
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: always true. He's always the same guy, right, Like you

546
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: know what you got with Marcus Golden on the football field,

547
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: and I love watching him play. I mean, he's a

548
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: completely different type of pass rusher than Chandler Jones is.

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00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: He gets the ugly sax, right, he gets the effort sex.

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00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: I mean you watched the sax he had in this

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00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: game and there's a pile of offensive lineman on his

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00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: back and somehow he's getting the quarterback around the waist

553
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: like he's he's not necessarily winning with these amazing pass

554
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: rush moves. He's winning with all out efforts, sometimes crawling

555
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: on the ground, getting up, getting held, having a guy

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00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: on him, and getting the quarterback down. And those are

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00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: the kind of guys you rally behind. And it wasn't

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00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 1: just the sacks energy three tackles for loss, five tackles total,

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Speaker 1: three quarterback hits. So it's not just getting to the quarterback,

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00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: but it's disrupting the entire offense. What's the quarterback or

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00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: the ball carrier? Yeah, And if you recall when Chandler

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Speaker 1: and Marcus were together, Marcus had twelve and a half

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Speaker 1: sacks that hear and Chandler had ten and a half

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Speaker 1: and Sali's now he's set the bar, and you know,

565
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: obviously the more of the merrier, but again he's the

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Speaker 1: glue of the defense. You know, it sounds like they

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00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: want to give him some more playing time, but getting

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Speaker 1: Chandler back the way Canard's kind of set in the edge.

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00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: They're bringing in Dennis Cardck on the NASCAR package. So again,

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Speaker 1: last year with Chandler Jones going down, they had close

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Speaker 1: to fifty sacks and they're probably unpaced to get there again.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I just you gotta like the way that

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Speaker 1: fans Showseph calls the game. He puts his players in

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Speaker 1: good position to make plays. But Golden, he just wins

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00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: a lot of one on one matchups. I mean, I

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00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: think Kyle's right. I mean, it may not be pretty,

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Speaker 1: but he gets there and if he's not making the play,

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Speaker 1: somebody else is making the play. Especially when when it

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Speaker 1: came to the run game, Golden's nine sacks leads the team,

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Speaker 1: and what the defense was also able to do was

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Speaker 1: stop the forty nine ers rushing attack thirty nine rushing

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Speaker 1: yards allowed, that was a season low performance for the

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Speaker 1: defense allowed on Sunday on that run game. As far

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Speaker 1: as stopping the run, here is the aforementioned Marcus Golden.

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Speaker 1: We expected to come out here and stop this run

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Speaker 1: man and beat nasty. That's the type of defense we are.

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00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: That's how we are in practice every day. That's how

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00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: we are in the meeting rooms, getting getting my assignment

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00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: done and overstudying one that we're doing our job the

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00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: right way. So that's the type of stuff we expect.

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Speaker 1: We expect to come out there when we work hard,

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Speaker 1: and we expect to get great result. That defense was

593
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: not able to stop the run the first time around

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00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers, and there were only eleven

595
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: rushing attempts. But you talk about vance Joseph preaches and

596
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: that every week it stopped the run. Stop the run,

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: make a team one dimensional, Well, you can't get more

598
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: one dimensional than eleven rushing attempts versus forty pass attempts. Well,

599
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: and perhaps there's no week that you need to execute

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00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: that plan more than San Fran week, right, because that's

601
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: their whole thing. They got to get the run started

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00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 1: in order to get their passing game going. They're not

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00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: a team that's gonna drop back, you know, forty five

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00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: times and beat you that way. They're a team that

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00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: needs to beat you up on the ground, get your guys,

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00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, playing up in the box and then try

607
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: to throw some balls over the top of the play

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00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: action pass. And from the beginning, I mean, the eleven

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00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: attempts is a product of two things. One, they stopped

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Speaker 1: the run early. Secondly, all you've got to do is

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00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: stop the run early and get up, you know, two

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00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: touchdown seventeen points like we did. And they need to

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00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: start to abandon that run game real quick. If I

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Speaker 1: told you guys that Marcus Golden only played twenty eight

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00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: snaps forty seven percent, I mean, you talk about our

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00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: turn on investment in Canar. They say they want to

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00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: get him more time, but it was nine. And I

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Speaker 1: think it's a lot based on their formation as their

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Speaker 1: tight ends and Chandler Jones he played forty nine snaps,

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Speaker 1: but twenty eight snaps and the numbers you mentioned three

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Speaker 1: sacks and twenty eight snaps, that's pretty impressive. And his

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Speaker 1: third and or his final two sacks happened in the

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Speaker 1: second half. When you can make that team one dimension

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Speaker 1: on their force to throw the football and then of course,

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00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: you know you get that pen years back cliche, and

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Speaker 1: that's what defenders like to be able to do, specially

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Speaker 1: lates and the contest. But going into Sunday's game, Marcus

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Speaker 1: Golden was made available to the media and he talked

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Speaker 1: about this forty nine Ers game and looking forward to

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Speaker 1: it because, in his words, it was nasty football. Well,

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00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: he explained what he meants by that post game. I

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00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: meant it like old school football. Man, would you line up,

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00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: you know, the the quarterback gonna be in the stand,

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Speaker 1: in the linement, gonna come at You're gonna have to

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00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: set the edge. You're gonna have to stop the run

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00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: first before you can even get the chance to rush

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00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: the pass. And so that's what I mean about nasty football,

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00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: and um, that's what they try to do at first. Well,

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00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: we got out there and we was a little nasty today,

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Speaker 1: and um, we take pride in it. We don't see

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00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 1: a lot of nasty football played anymore where it's two backs,

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00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: two wide receivers, quarterback under center. We're just gonna run

643
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: the football. And it's not what you know for sure,

644
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: the national perception is of this team. You know, this

645
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: team plays hard. This team plays physical, and it's Marcus

646
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: Golden and it's Buddha Baker, and it's I mean, really

647
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: everybody's throwing their bodies around. We just talked about or

648
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: I just talked about how on offense, you know, there's

649
00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: eleven guys and they're all blocking down the field on

650
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: these screenplays. I love watching and this is the way

651
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: the games should be played. But I love watching defensive

652
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: linement make plays down the field. I love watching our

653
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: safeties come up and how quickly they close and make tackles.

654
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: I love seeing Buddha Baker the game is out of

655
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: hand and he's throwing his body around like that play

656
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: is going to be the game winning play. It's it's

657
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: really the total approach of this team, and it's there's

658
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: no drop off from you know, how hard this offense

659
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: is playing to how hard this defense is playing in

660
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: and it's it's come. It's taking this team out of

661
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: holes in games because there has been periods of time

662
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,360
Speaker 1: where the offense for whatever reason, isn't clicking in the

663
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: defense steps up and the defense makes big plays and

664
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: and this team is capable of winning in a lot

665
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: of different ways. The good news is he's under contract

666
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: next year and they only give up a six round

667
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: pick for him. Yes, And that's the ability of a

668
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: general manager who doesn't get talked enough about in the offseason.

669
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: A lot of talk, but general manager Steve Kame deserves

670
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 1: a lot considering Marcus Golden James Connor. Connor was not

671
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: an early free agent signy. It was a month into

672
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: free agency before they signed him, and look what he

673
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: did on Sunday. Jordan Phillips also had a sack Chandler Jones. No,

674
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: we did not forget about him more the Arizona Cardinals

675
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: sack King when we come back this week. Episode seven

676
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: of Cardinals Folk Tales, entitled Cards Go Hollywood, premieres on

677
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: Wednesday on the Cardinals YouTube channel. Go to YouTube dot

678
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: com slash Azy Cardinals a look at the hit movie

679
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: Jerry Maguire and the role the Cardinals played in its production.

680
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: Go to YouTube dot com slash Asy Cardinals for all

681
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: episodes of Cardinals Folk Tales. The defense certainly put on

682
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: a performance on Sunday, but the biggest highlight, perhaps franchise

683
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: squad excuse me, belong to Chandler Jones. This is the

684
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals Radio Network second and five of the eight

685
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: shotgun formation. Again, three receivers, two level one right snapped.

686
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: The garoppolo drops back to draw and Trouble steps up

687
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: and gets hit and down he goes. Chandler Jones was

688
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: leading the way. They give Chandler Jones a full sack.

689
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: He's the record holder. Chandler Jones, the all time sack

690
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: king for the Arizona Cardinals. You should have seen the

691
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: locker room when we announced that they went crazy. Now

692
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: the all time sack leader in my history. There was

693
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: in the card He's a guy brings joy every day.

694
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: You know, he's always smiling, he's always into it. And

695
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: what a phenomenal run he's had here. That elusive one

696
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: more sack needed finally happened on Sunday in the second quarter.

697
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones breaks Freddye Joe Nunns all time franchise sack

698
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: record that stood for twenty nine years. Jones, by the way,

699
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 1: in case you might have missed it, paid tribute to

700
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: none by warring a shirt honoring him under his uniform

701
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Actually had that shirt on the previous week

702
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: against the Green Bay Packers. But finally Chandler Jones was

703
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: sixty seven sacks in just seventy six games. Here is

704
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: the Chandler Jones the all time Cardinals sack king. I'm

705
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: smiling right now, honestly, yeah, and I feel I feel

706
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: really good. It's it's a great feeling, honestly, and I'm

707
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna go home and I'm gonna go call my family

708
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: and talk to them about it. I'm pretty sure they're

709
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: posting everything and everything. But it's a great Males song

710
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: for me personally. Hopefully we can keep that going. It's

711
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: the one time that I can remember MJ in which

712
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones has been a little bit maybe more open

713
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: about an individual mark slash record. He always dismisses and

714
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: just says, you know what, I want to do better

715
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: than I did the previous season. But this one, and

716
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: you could hear post game, this one meant something to him. Well.

717
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: When he addressed the media last night or last night

718
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,360
Speaker 1: last week, when somebody asked him, are you frustrated, and

719
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: initially he said no, and then at the end of

720
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: the he said, I'm paraphrasing, yeah, yeah, I'm frustrated. Because

721
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: he looks at Baker Mayfield net game he was out

722
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: with Covid how long he was holding the football. He

723
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 1: probably got a couple of sacks there, and then against

724
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: the Texans he probably gonna got a sack there, and

725
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: then you think you're not going against David Bactieri had

726
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: left tackle. But yeah, I would agree with that. Usually

727
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: it's a one game at a time, or you know,

728
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 1: sacks coming bunches. But I'm glad he got that monkey

729
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: off his back and it was a great tribute to

730
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: Freddy Joe Nunn. Here's Freddy Joe Nunn sixty six and

731
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 1: a half sacks and one hundred and thirty one games.

732
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones sixty seven in seventy six games. It's been

733
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: a quite a remarkable run for Chandler Jones. Yeah, and

734
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: Kyle can attest the game was much different when Freddie

735
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: Joe Nunn was playing correct more, Yeah, more rush. I

736
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: mean they were playing in the NFC East here they're

737
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: passing more. So you would anticipate he would get more

738
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: sacks with less games, right, But for as long as

739
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: the record stood, you know, Chandler is going to be

740
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 1: at the top of that list for the foreseeable future.

741
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 1: In you know, as a player, you don't talk about

742
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: things like this. You know, it's not necessarily even on

743
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: your radar a lot of the time. But to get

744
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: the validation of a tremendous career. And I'm not talking

745
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: like at the end of his career. I mean, he's

746
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: still got a lot of good football ahead of him.

747
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: But to get records and reached milestones, and it really

748
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: couldn't come like they talked about, couldn't happen to a

749
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 1: better guy for again, you know, I guess it's probably

750
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: the theme of the show because I keep talking about it.

751
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: This shows a tremendous character of this locker room and

752
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: the people in it that when he got the record,

753
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: he took time not to pound his own chest, but

754
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: to pay tribute to the history of this game and

755
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: to one of its greatest players. Yeah, great gesture. And

756
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, they gave up Jonathan Cooper,

757
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: obviously he got hurt. They were going to move in

758
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 1: the center that offseason, and they gave up second second

759
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: round picking Jonathan Cooper for Chandler Jones. And nothing against Belichick,

760
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: but clearly Steve Kin won that trait. That sack happened

761
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: in the second quarter. What also happened in the second quarter.

762
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: In fact, it happened on the previous possession in which

763
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were on offense. The quote unquote friendly banter

764
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: between a head coach and Josh Norman. Here is head

765
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: coach Cliff Kingsbury. I thought they were both on me

766
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: and I was getting the JA, so I'm glad they weren't.

767
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: But now that that was just kind of a misunderstanding,

768
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: I got to keep my composer better and can't call

769
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: the reps to things I called him. But luckily it

770
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: worked out for us. How often do opposing players yell

771
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: at a head coach? Yeah, I don't know. I think

772
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: I think I got that youthful exuberns. I think that

773
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: attracts it sometimes. All right, we will ask who played

774
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: the game, Kyle Vanenbosch. How often does a head coach

775
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: get into a quote unquote friendly banter? As Kingsbury said

776
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: on Monday the day after, That's how he described the conversation.

777
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: But how many times have you seen it? If at all,

778
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen it with a couple of

779
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: my coaches. I've seen it with probably both of the Harbos.

780
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: I mean anytime a player trip said a coach. I

781
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: mean the player shouldn't be doing that, And quite honestly,

782
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: it was about the only contribution Josh Norman made to

783
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: the game. I got bench didn't play the rest of

784
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: the game, right, Yeah, And I believe Cliff. I mean,

785
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: you have relationships with players and it's always I mean,

786
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 1: some of my best friends on other teams we would

787
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: talk trash and it was never you know, there's never

788
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: any ill will. So I think it was probably misinterpreted

789
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: at that moment. But what happened before that with Cliff

790
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: running onto the field and and you know, getting after

791
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: the officials and protecting his players. You love to see

792
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: that as as you know, as a sideline when your

793
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: head coach is going to bat for you and he's

794
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: out there fighting for you know, for your success, for

795
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: your safety. Um, you know, you you rally behind a

796
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: head coach like that. He was felt that Rondel Moore

797
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 1: that there was a face mask or something that tackle

798
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: that was made on the field. He thought of flags

799
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: should have been throwing. What I also like, Kyle, was

800
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: DJ Humphrey's entering the mix, not knowing what was going on,

801
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 1: but seeing an opposing player stand up to his head

802
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: coach and always the protector. DJ Humphrey's protects the quarterback.

803
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,240
Speaker 1: He's going to protect the head coach. Yes, and again,

804
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: I mean you love that, you love guys. I mean,

805
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: we always just have a model with our defensive line

806
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: that you fight one of us, you fight all of us.

807
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: And it's like that's the approach this team has. I mean,

808
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: it's like they love every other person in this locker

809
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: room and they're going to protect them. And and it's

810
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: still you know, the perception of this team with the

811
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: national media and what people think of us, it's it's

812
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: it feels like it's us versus the world because people

813
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: don't believe in this. We're the only ones that believe

814
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: in ourselves. So we've got to go out there and

815
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: play together and back each other up. Yeah. You know,

816
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: I love listening to Wolf and recently he said, well,

817
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: that's not a good example for the players. I'm like,

818
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: this doesn't happen every week. I mean, he I know,

819
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: he was on the field earlier in that game and

820
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: they eventually through a flag, didn't he Yes, Yeah, so listen,

821
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: you don't want to see your players with that. But

822
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: I think the players respect the fact that he was

823
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: that passionate about something and he wanted to make sure

824
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: his voice was heard. And you know, whether he gets

825
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: respect on game day or not. I just like that,

826
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury. I like the fact he's showing passion and

827
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: he's not going to back down and the players back

828
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: him up, and I think that goes along way in

829
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: the locker room. He's been more emotional at least what

830
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: we've seen on the sidelines here in year three. Cardinals

831
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,240
Speaker 1: eight and one. This week back home at State Farm Stadium,

832
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: they'll host the Carolina Panthers. Two h five is the

833
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: kickoff nine thirty am. Pregame coverage begins on the Arizona

834
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio network, and is a Panthers team that is struggling.

835
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: Lay have lost five of six after three and oh

836
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: starts Sam Darnolds some question on whether he'll play this week.

837
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: Heard his right shoulder underwin an MRI on Monday. They

838
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: put their starting left tackle and starting center on injured reserve.

839
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: It is a offense that does have Christian McCaffrey, although

840
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: he is now This will be his second game after

841
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: missing five contests. But this is a team, Kyle, that

842
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: always seems to give the Cardinals fits. You go back

843
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: to when local hero, local boy Kyle Allen beat the

844
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 1: Cardinals and in when Buddha Baker missed the week two contests,

845
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 1: I think it was, and the Cardinals lost in Carolina.

846
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: They've lost five straight to the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, and

847
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think this is a well coached team.

848
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: Like you said, Christian McCaffrey always a threat, right, and

849
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: he's just getting his legs back underneath him so he

850
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: can be a game changer. You know, they've got good

851
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: receivers Dj Moore, Robbie Anderson, they can both break the

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