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Speaker 1: How about some love for the defense. Welcome bird Gang

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Speaker 1: on today's show, Danny Surrek joins me, Yeah, the defense

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Speaker 1: got overshadowed on Sunday, probably expected we give them their flower,

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Speaker 1: something the league did not do. We got your back.

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Speaker 1: Dennis Gardek also Budda Baker and what we're seeing from

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Speaker 1: him through two games, plus what we're seeing with multiple

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Speaker 1: tight ends on the field. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode

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Speaker 1: seven to ninety six, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 1: Buda Baker, What Heart? What rent? This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: He's at the ten half of five. He's it again,

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Speaker 1: So more hurry magic.

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Speaker 2: Whow Here's Craig Grioler.

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Speaker 1: So as forecasted temperatures on Wednesday during the open portion

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Speaker 1: of practice in the eighties eighty six. I believe while

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Speaker 1: and yes, things have definitely cooled down. Just don't look

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Speaker 1: at next week's forecast.

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Speaker 3: Danny, is it spiking again?

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Speaker 1: It is unfortunately, yes, but hey, enjoy it right now

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Speaker 1: because again it will break permanently or at least for

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Speaker 1: several months, probably not for another couple of weeks. Though

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Speaker 1: we're close. Yes, it is close. But it did feel

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Speaker 1: good out there. And I'll say this, you could not tell,

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Speaker 1: and I know you turn the page usually on Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: you could not tell whether the Cardinals had won by

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Speaker 1: one points out there at practice. And again that goes

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Speaker 1: back to Jonathan Gannon being processed driven and not paying

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Speaker 1: attention to the past, but just focused on again this

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Speaker 3: And that's how it should be. It should be that

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Speaker 3: big picture, I mean, they're one and one. It's not

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Speaker 1: A lot of talk still about the offense, but I

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Speaker 1: think I think the defense certainly needs its flowers, and

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Speaker 1: there is a conversation to be had about the offense.

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Speaker 1: Something that you've been paying attention to and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden now I'm hearing it elsewhere, but you were

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Speaker 1: tight ends. But first things first, just the defense and

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Speaker 1: what they were able to accomplish. Shutting down Matthew Stafford,

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Speaker 1: Kyraen Williams, Cooper Cup. Yes he did not play the

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Speaker 1: second half, but that is something. Whether it's sustainable or not.

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Speaker 1: But you hold a team to ten points, that means

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Speaker 1: something in the National Football League because that just doesn't

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I think that's important to note because to

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Speaker 3: not minimize the performance. The Rams were banged up. You

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Speaker 3: of the game. Already without Pukinakua, you had a banged

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Speaker 3: up offensive line already in Week two. The Cardinals were

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Speaker 3: still able to stop the run. They still completely shut

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Speaker 3: anything offensively, but that's the life of the NFL. Injuries

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Speaker 3: take advantage of those week spots. The opportunities are ahead

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Speaker 1: To do that. The big beneficiary of the Cardinals defense

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Dennis Gardik, who set career highs in total tackles,

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Speaker 1: I was expecting that Gardick would have been named NFC

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Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Week. He was not. Jesse Bates,

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Speaker 1: Falcon safety earned the Player of the Week honors. Twelve tackles,

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Speaker 1: And yes it was on Monday Nights as they come

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Speaker 1: I mean, does that not greater than twelve total tackles

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because if the roles were reversed and somebody put

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Speaker 1: That's true. I probably would be on the other side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a tough one for sure.

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Speaker 1: Now, Kyler did win the FedEx Air Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: this again going back to what gard Dek did, it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we talk about it every year with Dennis Gardak

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Speaker 3: nice when you see a player like gard Deck shine

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Speaker 1: He was able to bull rush, took on a double team,

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Speaker 3: The former, and I think you know, you would hope

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Speaker 3: The difference is the rest of the offense. Again, the

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Speaker 1: His completion percentage isn't probably where you would want it

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Speaker 1: your point, Danny, this is an offense that can move

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Speaker 1: I think, and something that the Cardinals defensively need to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to be able to shut him down.

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Speaker 3: I do think that the Cardinals defense outside of the

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Speaker 3: Buddha Baker's someone who stands out and just how he

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Speaker 1: It can be argued, and I will right now that

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Speaker 1: Buddha Baker had the two biggest defensive plays of the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, and that's what you'd expect of Baker. I'm

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Speaker 1: And he is lining up because I was looking at

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Speaker 1: And this goes back to the discussion in the offseason

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Speaker 1: because Buddha did not have any splash plays last season,

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Speaker 1: Because that Kyra and Williams tackle out the goal line,

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Speaker 3: I think that's normal in year two with a system

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Speaker 3: is it's not as vanilla because the foundation is there,

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Speaker 3: and so you're able to get a little more detailed.

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Speaker 3: And because that foundation is there, your players who are

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Speaker 3: to rely on those natural instincts a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's what you're seeing with Baker.

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Speaker 1: Nick Raulis earlier on Tuesday mentioned that Buddha is doing

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Speaker 1: baker this season three tackles for loss over two weeks.

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. And yes it is a challenge,

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Speaker 3: gonna win by thirty points every week, because you're not.

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Speaker 3: But you got to go out and you got to

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Speaker 3: play clean, strong, physical football.

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Speaker 1: Offensively, the Cardinals have only had two relatively quote unquote

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Speaker 1: poor quarters, and that was the second half in Buffalo. Otherwise,

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Speaker 1: this offense has basically been unstoppable. First half of Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and the entire game against the Rams. I mean against

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Speaker 1: fumble that wasn't even Kyler, So he was only stopped

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Speaker 1: talking about Kyler once on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I again, I think it's going to be nice

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Speaker 3: outing to see what this team is capable of. They're

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Speaker 3: going to be at their home field, State Farm Stadium,

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Speaker 3: which was rocking, so that will hopefully help as well.

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Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's really going to be

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Speaker 3: a good matchup.

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Speaker 1: Quick check the injury report with respect to the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: Will Hernandez Xavier Weaver, both full participants. Will dealing with

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Speaker 1: an ankle Wea were still with that oblique and then

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Speaker 1: Dante Stills, who was inactive on Sunday, showed up on

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Speaker 1: the injury report on Wednesday because of a shoulder issue.

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Speaker 1: And wonder if that happened in practice because if he

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Speaker 1: have been on the injury report Friday, and I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: expect an injury to happen during the walkthrough on Saturday

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Speaker 1: or Sunday unless something else happened to Dante. But he

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Speaker 1: was limited because of that shoulder injury in Friday and

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Speaker 1: Wednesday's practice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think too, it's if he wasn't hurt,

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Speaker 3: it was a healthy scratch And I think when you

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Speaker 3: have a pocket passer like Stafford, you want maybe a

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Speaker 3: little more of an act pass rush, and that's why

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Speaker 3: Julian o'quara was elevated an act of that game day

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Speaker 3: and Stills was inactive.

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Speaker 1: Could be a sign of things to come this week

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Speaker 1: as well. Speaking of the defensive line, LJ. Collier tell

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Speaker 1: me about him and this week's sideline exchange with one

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Speaker 1: of the Cardinals. I keep saying new, but he's been

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Speaker 1: here for two seasons. Just that we last year only

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Speaker 1: saw him for less than one week, and then we

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Speaker 1: didn't see him again until he was watching his teammates

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Speaker 1: practice because he was sidelined with that biceps injury.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: LJ.

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Speaker 3: Collier had a couple quarterback hits fumble recovery in which

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Speaker 3: he went back to his running back roots from when

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Speaker 3: he was in like middle school, high school. So we

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Speaker 3: talked a little about that, and honestly it was mostly

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Speaker 3: about just kind of more good to know you lifestyle

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Speaker 3: questions and get to know him off the field a

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Speaker 3: little better.

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Speaker 1: How did he or did you ask about that running ability,

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Speaker 1: because it did seem like when he picked up that

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Speaker 1: ball he was looking for some open space and even

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Speaker 1: kind of spun around a little bit.

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Speaker 3: He was a running back at one point early on

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Speaker 3: when he started playing football. So is maybe that's what

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Speaker 3: he was envisioning.

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Speaker 1: That is a big, big running I know. So that

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Speaker 1: is this week's sideline exchange. By the way, Mac Wilson Senior,

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Speaker 1: this week's guest on the Big Red Raids six pm

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Speaker 1: at Trophy and Chandler. That is on Thursday, camp be

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Speaker 1: at Trophy and Chandler. Then tune in ESPN six twenty

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Speaker 1: am for the details on that. All right, before we

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Speaker 1: get out of here, d need to give you your props.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what I do?

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Speaker 1: Boy? Did you just perk up? Gotta give Danny R

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Speaker 1: props yourself, Dave pash Ron Wolfley The Flag Football the

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Speaker 1: first ever NFL team with a broadcast, fully produced broadcast

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Speaker 1: of a girls flag football game on Tuesday Nights. Thought

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Speaker 1: it was very well done, great competition. Congratulations to Hamilton

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Speaker 1: beating Xavier College Prep forty eight to fourteen. But it

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Speaker 1: looked good, sounded good.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate that. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. We

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Speaker 3: had good weather, It was a good turnout with the

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Speaker 3: crowd out there, so we had a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have a game of the Week every week

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Speaker 3: through I believe November.

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Speaker 1: Seventh, Azycardinals dot com for all the details on the

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Speaker 1: girls flag football Game of the Week, and yeah, we'll

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Speaker 1: all be participating in that throughout the rest of the season,

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Speaker 1: or at least through November. And again, as far as

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Speaker 1: the tackle football is concerned with the Cardinals, that is Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It is game two of a three game homestand one

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Speaker 1: twenty five is the kickoff Cardinals get the Lions. Can

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Speaker 1: they go to two and one against a Lions team

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Speaker 1: that is also one and one and coming off a

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Speaker 1: loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Again, as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: they were one of seven in the red zone, so

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Speaker 1: that was a Lions team that completely dominated the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: as far as on offense, just could not punch it

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Speaker 1: in into the end zone. So any other key for

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Speaker 1: you as far as Sunday as we get another's still

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Speaker 1: several days ahead of the matchup, but anything that you're

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Speaker 1: painted your early attention to for Sunday afternoon, I think.

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Speaker 3: It's really just you gotta prevent a Hutchinson from being

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Speaker 3: a menace the best that you can.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a good start to make sure

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Speaker 1: number ninety seven is not in the backfield and does

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Speaker 1: not touch Kyle the Murray. Easier said than done, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll go with that as well. So our fingers crossed

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Speaker 1: and let's hope that the Cardinals can get that w

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Much more on that matchup as the days

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Speaker 1: continue here, but right now we're gonna put a lit

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Speaker 1: on this edition of Cardinals Cover two percented by Hyundai Prout,

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As always, special thanks to

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Speaker 1: our executive producer Jim Andre, our associate producer Coddy Fincher

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Speaker 1: for Danny Surrek, I'm Craig Raylu. We'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: next time here on Cardinals Cover two