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Speaker 1: caught by Kurt at the twenty at the ten touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Oh babyfield. Here's Craig Griolou, Mike Jarecki, and three time

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Speaker 1: pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch. So, with an extra day here

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Speaker 1: to get ready for the start of the playoffs, I'm

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Speaker 1: choosing to use this day, gentlemen, to continue to process

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Speaker 1: Sunday's loss. The team moves on, of course, still use

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Speaker 1: the extra time to prep for the rams. Me. I'm

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Speaker 1: not quite ready to close that chapter, mainly because we've

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Speaker 1: got to talk about it one more time here today.

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Speaker 1: So that's acceptable, right, MJ. We're good. We're good. The

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Speaker 1: regular season is over, Yeah, it is. And I know

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Speaker 1: there's a twenty four hour roll call, and I'm always

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Speaker 1: impressed because players are able to push that in the

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Speaker 1: rear view mirror and get over losses, even wins a

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Speaker 1: lot quicker than everyone else. And shoot, maybe some of

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Speaker 1: those players were even done over that same night after

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Speaker 1: losing thirty eight thirty to the Seahawks. But again, with

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Speaker 1: everything that was on the line, everything the opportunity, it

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Speaker 1: still it still bothers me. It still bugs me, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I have to imagine it does the players as well.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can handle the loss if you play well,

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Speaker 1: if you execute, if on offense you had rhythm, you

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Speaker 1: some really good things. Some things you can build off of,

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Speaker 1: hang your hat off of. But going into a playoff

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Speaker 1: game where you have to not fix one area, not

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Speaker 1: and even special teams that you need to get better

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Speaker 1: at this week. You don't at this point in the

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Speaker 1: season want to go out and have to improve an areas,

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Speaker 1: just kind of want to fine tune some things, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it appears that this team, you know, has

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Speaker 1: has multiple areas that they really need to focus in

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Speaker 1: on and make leaps, not not just little steps before

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, but make leaps before these playoffs, but before

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Speaker 1: a potential playoff run. Yeah, and because their game is

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Speaker 1: on Monday, I was told there wasn't a lot of

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Speaker 1: getting treatment is obviously in the building. But I think

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Speaker 1: Field on Thursday for the first time Friday Saturday game.

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Speaker 1: On Monday Nights, they'll be at the Los Angeles Rams

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Speaker 1: kickoff six fifteen, first ever playoff game on Monday Nights football.

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Speaker 1: But before we get to that matchup, we do have

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Speaker 1: to look back at Sunday Week eighteen, the seventeenth game

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Speaker 1: of the regular season. Cardinals lose thirty eight to thirty

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Speaker 1: eight season high points allowed by the Cardinals defense, and yes,

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Speaker 1: You can't let a poor performance, you can't let mistakes

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Speaker 1: So everything is correctable. Yet at the same time, MJ,

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Speaker 1: the surface is an outstanding season, But how did you

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Speaker 1: in the preseason with the guys they have. UM, you

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Speaker 1: want to see execution, you want to see consistency. You

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Speaker 1: want to see, UM, something that looks like there's there's

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Speaker 1: a there's a real plan and a flow from one

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Speaker 1: play to the next and you know, I think you

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Speaker 1: you touched on this UM. You know, you talked about

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Speaker 1: how the Seattle executed third and longs which killed the defense.

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Speaker 1: It was the inability to convert you know, third and

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Speaker 1: shorts in this game was really concerning because you know,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that UM was also addressed,

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Speaker 1: you know, red zone offense and getting those those conversions

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Speaker 1: on third and fourth and short, and the team just

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Speaker 1: wasn't able to do it. Yeah, you look at the

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Speaker 1: nineteen play drive, okay, um field goal. You look at

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Speaker 1: the fourteen play drive in the fourth quarter field goal,

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Speaker 1: another fourteen play drive in the fourth quarter. Cardinals had

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Speaker 1: the ball ten minutes and twenty two minutes, ten minutes

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Speaker 1: and twenty two. Seattle scored two touchdowns. They had the

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Speaker 1: ball for four thirty eight in the fourth quarter, and

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Speaker 1: they scored late in the third quarter. They had three

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Speaker 1: consecutive touchdowns. So it's nice to go on these drives,

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Speaker 1: but you have to score touchdowns, not field goals. And again,

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Speaker 1: time of possession. They were overwhelming in time of possession

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Speaker 1: total plays. But it's what you do when you get

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Speaker 1: in the red zone. Yeah, those three scoring drives that

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Speaker 1: ended in field goals all at least fourteen plays or more.

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Speaker 1: Head coach Cliff Kingsbury and what his offense showed against

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. So we weren't in rhythm altogether offensively, play calling,

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Speaker 1: you know, holding the ball, not getting first downs, and

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Speaker 1: we had an opportunity to I just thought we were

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Speaker 1: off and five sacks, six penalties. You can't have that

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Speaker 1: many negative plays and expect to win a game. And

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Speaker 1: all six of those penalties called against the offense. And

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Speaker 1: you heard coach Benson. The sacks, Kyle the Murray backpedaling

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Speaker 1: a lot, whether that was the offensive line or the

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Speaker 1: coverage by the Seahawks, Kyler holding the ball a lot,

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Speaker 1: sacked five times, seven quarterback hits by the Seahawks defense.

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Speaker 1: And then the red zone issues just one touchdown on

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Speaker 1: three trips inside the twenty yard line. Kyle Murray on

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Speaker 1: that issue facing the Cardinals team, I mean, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: basically played you know, Benbodon break defense, and we couldn't

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Speaker 1: we couldn't punch it in. I mean it was I

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Speaker 1: think we had a penalty on that last draft pushed

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Speaker 1: us back to the pr or whatever. But yeah, we

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Speaker 1: gotta be better going into playoffs, Cardinals over the last

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Speaker 1: five games. Keep in mind DeAndre Hopkins has missed the

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Speaker 1: past four Cardinals six of seventeen inside the red zone.

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Speaker 1: So we know what the issues are on offense. On

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Speaker 1: the other side, defensive line, you brought it up earlier,

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Speaker 1: Kyle here on the Cardinals Red Sea report, and that

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Speaker 1: is the issues in the secondary, whether it's injuries or

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Speaker 1: just guys running free because too many miscommunications, blown assignments,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, regardless of who you have on the feet. Old,

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Speaker 1: I don't like seeing wide receivers open within five to

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Speaker 1: seven yards of each other. Yeah, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: you can take a guy getting beat um because you

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Speaker 1: know he takes a false step. He is not great

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Speaker 1: on coverage, he doesn't jam the receiver. But to have

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Speaker 1: you know, complete you know, just mistakes, not not running

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Speaker 1: what's called not picking up the man you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: pick up. Um, I mean really um. You know, we

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Speaker 1: talked about how great it was, how much the defense

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Speaker 1: helped out the offense with a touchdown and interception returned

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Speaker 1: to the one. The defense also gave up, you know,

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Speaker 1: on mistakes, twenty one points. Basically, you know, two passes

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Speaker 1: in a sixty two yard run so that that stuff

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Speaker 1: will get you beat. And you'll hear coaches talk about

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Speaker 1: it all the time. Um, you know, explosive plays gets

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Speaker 1: you beat. And that's what the difference, you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the differences. There was many in this game. Um,

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Speaker 1: like you talked about, Seattle was able to have explosive plays.

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Speaker 1: They were, you know, getting big chunk plays you know,

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Speaker 1: throughout the game, and the Cardinals just weren't. And and

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Speaker 1: a team, you know, it's it's what you do against

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Speaker 1: an offense like the Cardinals. We used to do it

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Speaker 1: against the Colts with Peyton Manning. Make them drive the field,

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Speaker 1: make them, you know, put these twelve fourteen play drives

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Speaker 1: together and hold them to threes and not sevens. And

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Speaker 1: Seattle executed that perfectly. Seattle had nine plays over twenty yards.

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Speaker 1: Of course, you had the sixty two yard or from

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Speaker 1: Penny and then Russell Wilson forty three to lock it.

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Speaker 1: Another one a thirty one yard passed to date, dk

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Speaker 1: Metcalf to Cardinals had two plays over twenty yards and

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Speaker 1: that would have been Kyler Murray deep to Kirk for

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Speaker 1: thirty five and obviously a short pass to Connor for

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Speaker 1: a twenty yard touchdown. Well six of those nine explosive

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Speaker 1: plays by the Seahawks passing plays of at least twenty

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Speaker 1: or more yards. So we again know what the issues

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Speaker 1: are on offense, know what the issues are on defense.

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Speaker 1: Is there enough time for this team to correct those

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Speaker 1: issues and get a win on Monday Night football against

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams. Here's Christian Kirk again earlier this

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Speaker 1: week on the Day Patch podcast. This is the NFL.

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Speaker 1: If you don't show up to play your best every Sunday,

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Speaker 1: you will lose, and you will continue to lose until

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Speaker 1: you fix that. And you know, for me, I don't

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Speaker 1: lose the you know memory of you know, only winning

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Speaker 1: three games and not even you know being competitive to

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Speaker 1: now making it to the playoffs and being able to

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Speaker 1: play in that stage and you know have the opportunity to,

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Speaker 1: you know, if we continue winning, making it to the

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Speaker 1: place where you know, we all dream of as as

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Speaker 1: as young kids. So I think it's you know important

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Speaker 1: for everybody to you know, really hone in on you know,

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Speaker 1: what this means to them and um, you know, really

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Speaker 1: try to be the best that they can be. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you catch the entire interview between day Pash and

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk on the Day Pash Podcast. It's episode twenty

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Speaker 1: four featuring Christian Kirk available now. You can catch up

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Speaker 1: on past episodes. Follow the Day Pash Podcast via your

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Speaker 1: preferred podcast provider. Get the latest updates via Twitter at

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Speaker 1: pash pod. We have hit halftime here on the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Red Sea Reports, and now we can close the book

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks and turn our attention to the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. Third meeting of the season, and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen on Monday Night. Football six fifteen is the kickoff

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Speaker 1: two thirty pm. Pregame coverage begins here on the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio Network. Greg Rayo, Lukavannibosh, and Mike Jarecki looking

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Speaker 1: at the postseason, the Cardinals in the playoffs for the

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Speaker 1: first time in six seasons. That's all straight ahead here

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Speaker 1: on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. You came into LA

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Speaker 1: today and you dominated the Rams. The Cardinals slay the Dragon.

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Speaker 1: Sean mcvah finally goes down against Arizona after an eight

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Speaker 1: and o record. The Cardinals beat the Ms and beat

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Speaker 1: them soundly in Los Angeles by the final score of

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Speaker 1: thirty seven to twenty behind an MBD caliber performance by

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Speaker 1: their franchise quarterback Kyler Murray. That was back in Week four.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals beat the Rams thirty seven to twenty and still

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Speaker 1: I think maybe the most important win of the season

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Speaker 1: as far as what Dave Patch mentioned there, the losing

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Speaker 1: streak had not beaten Sean mcfay. Cliff Kingsbury oh four

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Speaker 1: against his good friend Sean mcfah. And now they'll meet

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Speaker 1: again for a third time this season on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: Football Super Wild Card weekend again. Rams and Cardinals kickoff

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Speaker 1: at six to fifteen as we welcome back here to

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals Red Sea Report GREGORYA, Luka, Vanibosch and Mike

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Speaker 1: Drecky looking at not only the Rams and what they

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Speaker 1: did or didn't do on Sunday losing to the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers twenty seven twenty four in overtime. But now, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: these two matchups previously against the Rams, beating them in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, losing to them at home on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: football thirty to twenty three. Always difficult to be a

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Speaker 1: team twice in the same season, but now here you

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Speaker 1: have not a second meeting, but a third meeting against

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Speaker 1: your rival. Yeah, it's kind of the what we were

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Speaker 1: talking about earlier. You know, it's tough to know what

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Speaker 1: team we're gonna get really, both sides. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's such an interesting matchup, both teams coming off of

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Speaker 1: a disappointing loss. You know, the Cardinals for the most part,

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Speaker 1: were in full control and dominated the first matchup, you know,

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Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty five yards of offense ran for

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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixteen, were able to control the clock

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Speaker 1: pretty much do what they wanted to on offense. And

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Speaker 1: then the second time around, where you know, the Rams

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Speaker 1: I mean just punctuated by a sack on the first

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Speaker 1: play and a sack on the last play by Aaron

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Speaker 1: Donald in an offensive line that did not play well,

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Speaker 1: and really the offense didn't do as well. So you know,

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Speaker 1: again it's what you want as a fan. There's hope,

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Speaker 1: you've seen it. There's success, there's a track record. Um,

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Speaker 1: you got that monkey off your back early in the

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Speaker 1: year against Sean mcvayh and the Rams, and so it's

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's possible, but you know, because of

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Speaker 1: where we're at, we just don't know. So I think

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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be tuned in really the whole country will

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Speaker 1: be tuned in to find out, really who who prepares

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Speaker 1: better this week, who gets their players more arrested, Who's

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Speaker 1: able to bounce back both mentally and physically quicker from

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Speaker 1: from these last disappointing losses. Yeah, and you go back

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Speaker 1: to that game. I mean the Rams were up ten

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Speaker 1: to seven at the first quarter. Cardinals score seventeen points

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Speaker 1: in the second quarter, ten and a third and three

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Speaker 1: in the end. And that was one game where I

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Speaker 1: thought the Cardinals were the more physical team, and when

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Speaker 1: it came to that fourth quarter, they were able to

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Speaker 1: run that football. And that was the first time where

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Speaker 1: you said, maybe the Rams aren't as tough as they

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Speaker 1: think they are. And I think based on what they

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Speaker 1: did that day, the Rams came in here and they

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Speaker 1: said we're not gonna have let this happen again, and

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Speaker 1: they treated like a playoff game because they were all

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Speaker 1: in three in the month of November, and they punched

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals in the mouth. I mean, Aaron Donald the

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Speaker 1: fifteen pressures in that game. But you know Max Williams

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Speaker 1: played in that game, and I think they miss him

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Speaker 1: in eleven Personnelity's a perfect tight end. Urtz is more

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Speaker 1: of a high energy guy who can catch the football,

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Speaker 1: but they miss Max went in eleven personnel and it

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Speaker 1: was just I mean, they were rolling that day and

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Speaker 1: I think the Rams said, if we're gonna win this division,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to beat these guys on the road

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Speaker 1: on Monday Night football. They did it and that game Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: if they had one and it was a one possession loss,

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Speaker 1: they would have been infirm control of winning the NFC

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Speaker 1: was But that is all now out the window, doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: According to Kyler Murray, it's a new season. Really, nothing

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Speaker 1: in the past matters at this point, so that I

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Speaker 1: think that's the focus. You gotta go one to oh.

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Speaker 1: I mean this is this is you're one and done

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Speaker 1: if you don't win, and I think the guys understand that.

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Speaker 1: But obviously after you know, losing this is definitely for

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Speaker 1: could be a lot of cliches thrown out this week

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Speaker 1: on both sides, coaches, players, both teams across the league.

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Speaker 1: As far as the one and done mentality, there is

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Speaker 1: no tomorrow backs up against the wall, lay it all

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Speaker 1: on the line question. Now for the Cardinals, though, because

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Speaker 1: it has been a long time since they've been in

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Speaker 1: the postseason. Are they playoff ready? For Cliff Kingsbury Kyle

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Speaker 1: Murray in particular, this will be their first ever playoff appearance.

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Speaker 1: Here's the head coach on that. I think we'll have

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Speaker 1: a great sense of urgency. We're disappointed that we weren't

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Speaker 1: ever to get it done, but it's a competitive group

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Speaker 1: and I expect us to come back strong. It'll be

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Speaker 1: a great challenge. They're one of the top teams in

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Speaker 1: the league. I have played at a high level all

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Speaker 1: year and we're very familiar with them. They're familiar with us,

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Speaker 1: so it should be a hackway game playoff experience. Kyle,

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Speaker 1: does it matter? How much does it matter? You look

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Speaker 1: at the last time this team was in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: Corey Peters, Marcus Golden, DJ Humphries the only players still

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Speaker 1: on the roster Humphries though inactive all of that season

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. It does matter, you know, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: dictate necessarily who's gonna win the game or not. But coaches,

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Speaker 1: players that have been there before, they understand the urgency

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Speaker 1: of the moment. They understand that you don't want to

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Speaker 1: look back on this game and walk away and look

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Speaker 1: back and say I didn't prepare hard enough. I didn't

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Speaker 1: do enough. I didn't you know, I didn't give my all.

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Speaker 1: I didn't give it the gravity that it deserved. Because

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Speaker 1: this is playoff football. There's nothing better than it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you work for this moment, for this moment in time

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. You work three hundred and sixty four

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Speaker 1: days for that one moment, and you need to, you know,

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Speaker 1: put that amount of pressure on yourself, but be able

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Speaker 1: to go out and execute and play your best football

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Yeah, you go back to that game,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, forty carries for two hundred and sixteen yards.

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Speaker 1: I had a couple of rushing touchdowns there. And that

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Speaker 1: was the game when Cooper Cup was targeted thirteen times

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Speaker 1: but only he had five catches for sixty four yards.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's catching ten twelve thirteen passes a

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Speaker 1: game now over one hundred yards. So that's going to

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Speaker 1: have to be the key matchup going in there. And

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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle. You know, he's not gonna be a guy

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Speaker 1: that's going to touch at twenty five times, but he's

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Speaker 1: very shifty between the tackles and he can also catch

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Speaker 1: the ball in the backfield. So that's kind of their

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Speaker 1: bread and butter now to run the ball, utilize play

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Speaker 1: action and hopefully Stafford will throw some interceptions. Oh that's

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Speaker 1: what's been happening with Matthew Stafford. Eight interceptions in the

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Speaker 1: past four games, all since that second meeting with the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Monday Night Football, Cardinals and the Rams. When you move

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Speaker 1: on lose, while you're heading home and thinking about what

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Speaker 1: could have been. Here's Christian Kirk on the sense of

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Speaker 1: urgency now for the Cardinals, the sense of urgency and

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Speaker 1: the heightened intensity of the game. You'll be able to

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Speaker 1: feel that and you know every single play that nobody

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Speaker 1: will be taking a playoff just because you know you're

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Speaker 1: playing for it to not be your last play. More

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Speaker 1: with Christian Kirk on The Day Podcasts. Again, prefer your

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Speaker 1: your follow along via your preferred podcast provider, but a

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Speaker 1: pretty honest, assessments and revealing interview with Christian Kirk with

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Arizona Cardinals Dave Pash this week

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Speaker 1: on The Day Pash Podcast. As we continue here on

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals Red Sea Report. Much more on this Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Rams matchup, including a key injury for the Rams as well.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Cardinals banged up, but Rams are gonna

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Speaker 1: be without at least one key piece on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the football. Will get into that on the

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Speaker 1: other side. Here on the Cardinals Red Sea Report, Graig

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Speaker 1: raya Lukaal Vanibash and Mike Jarecki postseason Football. Yeah it

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Speaker 1: is difference. Question is the Cardinals up for that challenge?

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Speaker 1: We wait and see it, as does everyone else. For

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Speaker 1: six fifteen on Monday, January seventeenth. This is the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio network. Let's start that off as Bruce Arians. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about that at Murray and shot gun snapped

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Speaker 1: the Kyler at the tiny little short set. See I

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Speaker 1: did that short set a little bit now throwing deep

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Speaker 1: fire side and has pulled in into five yard All right,

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Speaker 1: hold on, I gotta grab myself a crown royal here.

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Speaker 1: I have a little sipp in Debby, little sipp at

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Speaker 1: Dibby deos nude NIPPERU finished the callege Jack Nicholson A J.

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Speaker 1: Green just too strong, too big, too athletic. To Tracy Morgan, Oh,

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Speaker 1: what a great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball.

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Speaker 1: Say it as Morgan Freeman. What a great read by

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray to throw the ball. You've got a scarecrow

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Speaker 1: on a stick. Put it out there, let him go

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Speaker 1: get it. Thanks exactly what age J Green? Big? Can

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Speaker 1: you do it? As Liam Neeson on a great read

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Speaker 1: by Kyler Murray to throw the ball. You've got a

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Speaker 1: scarecrow on a stick, put it out there, let him

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Speaker 1: go get it. That's exactly what AJ Green did the

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Speaker 1: greats Frank Caliendo, the Man of Many Voices, on an

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Speaker 1: episode of The Day Pash podcast, looking back at that

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Speaker 1: week four win Cardinals at the Rams. AJ Green forty

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Speaker 1: one yard touchdown part of a five catch sixty seven

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Speaker 1: yard performance that afternoon in Los Angeles. Certainly would like

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Speaker 1: to see that come Monday night, especially with no DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: AJ Green and that entire Cardinals offense needs to get

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Speaker 1: on track, needs to get into a rhythm. Maybe not

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Speaker 1: so many thirty points, but just to kind of get

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Speaker 1: up a flow, some third downs, some key drives, keep

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and company off the football field. At least

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Speaker 1: that would be the goal here. When you look at

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Speaker 1: this matchup, Kyle, is there something that you point to

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Speaker 1: do you even look back at what went right, what

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Speaker 1: went wrong in the first two meetings or as they say,

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Speaker 1: look it's a new season and you just kind of

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Speaker 1: go fresh. Well, there's several things you can take from

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Speaker 1: their first two meetings. We talked about it earlier with

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup and his targets that first game and the

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Speaker 1: number of catches he had. Matthew Stafford is one of

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Speaker 1: the streakiest quarterbacks he'll see in the league. When he

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Speaker 1: is on, he could put that ball anywhere he wants

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Speaker 1: on the football field. When he is off, he is

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Speaker 1: really off. And he was off the first time we played,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of it was you know, I think

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Speaker 1: the key to this game, with both teams dealing with

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Speaker 1: injuries on the back end, I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the pass rushing. Which front gets more pressure, because

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Speaker 1: if we can pressure Matthew Stafford early, he's gonna sail

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Speaker 1: some balls. He's gonna give you an interception or two.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we've seen the same thing with Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: Look just looking at the two Rams games. Look, you know,

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Speaker 1: when he has time and when the offense is in

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Speaker 1: a flow, when the run game is going, and were

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Speaker 1: able to execute some play action passes us there's no

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Speaker 1: better quarterback rolling out of the pocket in the league

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Speaker 1: than Matthew or than Kyler Murray. However, the second game,

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Speaker 1: he just didn't have time. He didn't have time to

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Speaker 1: set up, He couldn't set his feet, he couldn't drive

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Speaker 1: the ball. He always had somebody in his face. So

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Speaker 1: I really think, you know, the defensive line or even

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Speaker 1: the outside linebackers that get more pressure on the opposing quarterback,

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Speaker 1: they're going to have the most success in this game. Well,

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Speaker 1: you look at the difference in those two games, MJ.

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Speaker 1: The first game, Cardinals two takeaways to Matthew, Stafford interceptions,

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Speaker 1: Cardinals capitalized with fourteen points. Second meeting, Cardinals to giveaways

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Speaker 1: to Kyle the Murray interceptions, Rams capitalized fourteen points. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you want to boil it down, and probably hurts

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Speaker 1: Kyle to say that, it comes down to the quarterback play.

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Speaker 1: But that is going to be someone, you know, which

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Speaker 1: quarterback plays better. And maybe that's the case for every

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Speaker 1: single playoff game here in twenty twenty one. Well in

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Speaker 1: Stafford he's owing three in the playoffs. This will be

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Speaker 1: Kyla Murray's first opportunity. You know what's interesting about you

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Speaker 1: look at these teams after you know the regular season,

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Speaker 1: both teams have scored fifty two touchdowns. Now the Rams

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Speaker 1: have ten rushing touchdowns forty one passing touchdowns. The Cardinals

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Speaker 1: have twenty three rushing and twenty seven total yard six

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Speaker 1: thousand and three twenty five six thousand and three, fifty

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Speaker 1: two a third down conversion. I mean, they're similar when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the offense. It's just it looks a

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Speaker 1: little bit different when things aren't rolling for the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: At least the Rams are winning with Stafford turning the

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Speaker 1: ball over. Yeah, winning despite Matthew Stafford, not because of

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. You look at the Cardinals now again, first

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Speaker 1: time since twenty fifteen, first time for a lot of

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Speaker 1: these players to be in the postseason, including Christian Kirk.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear one more time from the Cardinals wide receiver

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Speaker 1: this week on the Day Patch podcast. Being a hometown guy,

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Speaker 1: does it mean more to you that you're part of

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Speaker 1: an Arizona Cardinals team that has made the playoffs one

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Speaker 1: thousand percent. It's been my only goal since I've been here, is,

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Speaker 1: you know, to make it the playoffs and bring a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you know, to Arizona, just because I remember,

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Speaker 1: you know, the last time Cardinals played, you know, on

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Just the buzz and the energy. He

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Speaker 1: saw similarly with the Suns this past year, just how

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Speaker 1: they talk about rally the valley. You know, it really

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Speaker 1: was you know, the valley came together and you know,

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Speaker 1: we were having neighborhood watch parties, and just the aura

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Speaker 1: of when an Arizona sports team is making it to

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Speaker 1: that game and they're able to bring the valley together,

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Speaker 1: it just really means a lot. And as a kid,

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Speaker 1: it really hit home for me. So I always knew,

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Speaker 1: you know, once I got drafted here that that's what

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do for this team. It's been a long,

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Speaker 1: long wait, and I think as we get closer and

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Speaker 1: closer to Monday night, we'll start to sense that it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit more difficult coming off a loss the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: But again, Cardinals and Rams, it is a winnable ball game.

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Speaker 1: I teased it, so I have to pay off the tease.

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Speaker 1: I'm hesitant because we've been through this before. Cardinals will

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Speaker 1: not see Ram safety Jordan Fuller. He has done for

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Speaker 1: the season after suffering an ankle injury in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: That is the defensive captain, defensive signal caller Jalen Ramsey,

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Speaker 1: according to Sean McBee, might take on more that responsibility.

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Speaker 1: The reason I bring it up, it's because it's news, Kyle.

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Speaker 1: But I'm hesitant because let's not forget Week fourteen. Oh

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, Oh, Darrell Henderson, O Tyler Higbee. Rams without

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Speaker 1: their starting right tackle and they came in to State

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Speaker 1: Farms Stadium, and what let's see if the Cardinals can't

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Speaker 1: reciprocate that. And when it's so far stadium. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's so it's so hard to um, you know,

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Speaker 1: predict it. You know, I thought too we had a

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Speaker 1: huge advantage when players came down either game day of

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Speaker 1: the day before with covid um. But again, it was

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Speaker 1: that defensive front of the Rams that took over. And

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Speaker 1: you know, talking about um, you know, injuries and you

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Speaker 1: know a big factor in this game. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a large part which which group

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Speaker 1: of running backs has more success. And the success I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about is not necessarily success that Seattle had the

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Speaker 1: success we had against the Cowboys, where you know, we're

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Speaker 1: not breaking off fifteen yard runs, We're not breaking off

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Speaker 1: the even you know, eight nine yard runs. But we

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Speaker 1: are running the ball enough to keep the defense on

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Speaker 1: their heels, to keep to keep the you know, the

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Speaker 1: chains moving, to convert first downs, to eat up some clock,

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Speaker 1: to keep drives going. And that's again just looking at

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Speaker 1: the two matchups we've had a ready this year. That's

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Speaker 1: what the Rams did the second time. They were able

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Speaker 1: to have effective play action passed because they were effective

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Speaker 1: in the run games. Just a crossing my fingers, both

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Speaker 1: James Conner and Chase Edmulinds will be out there. They

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Speaker 1: ran the ball forty times. Edmonds had one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty yards in that game. Chase Edmonds missed that second

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Speaker 1: meeting James Conner in week fourteen one hundred twenty five

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Speaker 1: total yards and two touchdowns. The other key matchup Aaron Donald.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's the Aaron Donald in week four not the

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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald in Week fourteen. Again. Super Wildcard Weekend coming

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Speaker 1: your way on Monday Night. Football six fifteen is the

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Speaker 1: kickoff two thirty Pregame coverage begins on the Arizona Cardinals

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