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Speaker 1: Oh baby, how's that feel? Here's Craig Grioloud, Paul Calvic

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Speaker 1: and defensive force Rob Frederickson.

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Speaker 3: So there are two parts to the NFL offseason. Part

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Speaker 3: one just ended that includes free agency of the draft,

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Speaker 3: OTA's Mini camp. Now we begin part two, or the

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Speaker 3: off and off season is really stressed. The front office, coaches,

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Speaker 3: players except the rookies are all gone off until training camp,

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Speaker 3: which is evident here at the Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 3: Training Center by the number of parking spots still available

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Speaker 3: even at this hour. And then just walking around the

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Speaker 3: facility policy and the number of offices stores closed, lights

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Speaker 3: off on one side of the building. Yeah, we are

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Speaker 3: officially into the offseason where there is no.

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Speaker 5: More work to be done, and then the grind begins, right,

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Speaker 5: so you better enjoy it. Of course, if you're a

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Speaker 5: there is a team to be made, you can't let

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Speaker 5: yourself get too far into vacation mode or it will

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Speaker 5: cost you come that last week of July. But it's

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Speaker 5: necessary to get out, get away, get some mental health

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Speaker 5: for the next few weeks because it's gonna be a

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Speaker 3: Rookies here for one more week and then they are

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Speaker 3: given a five week break, and you do need that break,

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Speaker 3: rob both physically obviously, and then this the mental break.

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Speaker 3: Try to get away, but still make sure you're staying

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Speaker 3: in shape, because training camp is not to get in shape.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's right, agree, and you do need some time off.

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Speaker 6: But I gotta imagine after a week or so, even

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Speaker 6: you're gonna see some veterans. You're gonna see the free agents,

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Speaker 6: You're gonna see the rookies back in here. You're gonna

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Speaker 3: It's important because there is a lot of eyeballs on

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Speaker 3: to open up some eyes and make sure where they

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Speaker 3: level playing field for all ninety players, no matter how

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, it's a clean slate, right, and and there's

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Speaker 5: You know, Coach Belichick and is saying no days off.

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Speaker 5: to these decison vision makers. I just feel there's a

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Speaker 7: At a point there in the offseason, it felt like

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Speaker 7: This is where you start that developing not only the chemistry,

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Speaker 6: Well, I think I think you can see that by

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Speaker 6: You know, regardless of whether or not Kyler Murray considers

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Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting you look at some of the

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Speaker 5: We were doing the Big Red Rage and I threw

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Speaker 5: And it's amazing to me how many guys immediately say yes.

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Speaker 5: a team will take on the culture of the head coach.

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Speaker 5: So what has Jonathan Gannon been trying to do? What

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Speaker 5: winning behavior. It's either winning behavior or it isn't. So

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Speaker 5: when Dennis Gardec says that accountability has been ratcheted up,

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Speaker 5: and it was a little uncomfortable at first to quote

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Speaker 5: pressure and it's a good thing. It's all by design.

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Speaker 5: Jonathan Gannon is reminded me of that in front of

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Speaker 6: You're always gonna have buy in from that cultural shift

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Speaker 6: and those expectations shift. You're always going to have buy

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Speaker 6: a first round pick. Well, I'm just saying, uh, the

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Speaker 3: We heard from DJ Humphreyes talk about how much better.

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Speaker 3: He knows Kyler the person because one Kyler's been here

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Speaker 3: and he's been rehabbing, as has DJ rehabbing as well,

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Speaker 3: So there's been spending more time together within the facility

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Speaker 5: Look, you're either part of the solution or you're part

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Speaker 5: if you're not, guess what. Once again, no allegiances. Now,

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Speaker 5: Kyler's the exception in terms of his contract and he's

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Speaker 5: That is cap number this year is sixteen million. Cose

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Speaker 5: he's most definitely part of the future. But it's getting

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Speaker 3: Backups always want to be starters, and you don't ever

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Speaker 3: as we heard from Gannon earlier, training camp now is

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Speaker 3: the next step. First open training camp practice by the

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Speaker 7: I know they're rare and to go when they get

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Speaker 8: Network, Detroit. Hey, okay, so so twelve go ahead, twelve

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Speaker 3: That was Bonnie austin Ford back on draft night. That

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Speaker 6: Well, I was thinking more about Draft Day and Kevin Koshner.

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Speaker 3: You bring up good point, though, Paul, this might have

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Speaker 3: Ego will not be tolerated. Those five words, Rob just

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Speaker 3: and seven becomes a third and twelve.

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Speaker 6: It's a drive killer.

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Speaker 3: Or on defense, you're you jump off sides and all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden on what was first and third and three,

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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, it's an automatic first down.

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Speaker 3: You're and you're going backwards as opposed to walking off

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Speaker 3: the football fields. Those little things that sustain drives. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's where it begins right now, Rob is

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Speaker 3: here in this offseason that's not going to be tolerated.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's a different culture, and it's resetting the expectations.

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Speaker 6: And again everyone's buying in at the time right now

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Speaker 6: and once, honestly, all this in the off season will

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Speaker 6: be forgotten the first day of training camp. Okay, you know,

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Speaker 6: in terms of your attendance, in terms of everything that

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Speaker 6: happened in the off season. But it is important to

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Speaker 6: instill a new culture, instill really the new expectations for

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Speaker 6: this team because there are a lot of young guys

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Speaker 6: on this team. There are a lot of guys that

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Speaker 6: are going into contract years that really do need to

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Speaker 6: prove something, and so it's it's important for the buy

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Speaker 6: in and I think they're getting.

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Speaker 3: It that first training camp practice Paul Weather, it's the

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Speaker 3: open one or just that it's closed but open to

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Speaker 3: the media, And just how much is retained? How much

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Speaker 3: do these players bring back with them that was taught

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Speaker 3: in the classroom on the football field to where this

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Speaker 3: team can Yeah, it's training camp and you still have

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Speaker 3: several weeks ago before week one, But do you have

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Speaker 3: to go backwards in order to go forwards? Or can

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Speaker 3: this team kind of hit the ground running?

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 5: One of the comments I thought was interesting the Saw

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Speaker 5: season Jalen Thompson where he said that Nick Rowis is

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Speaker 5: allowing them to play a little more free, especially in

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Speaker 5: the secondary, but first they have to master the scheme.

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Speaker 5: And I think once they actually get the playbook in

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Speaker 5: the new scheme down, and zach Ertz ninety eight to

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Speaker 5: seven right said that this offense couldn't be any more

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Speaker 5: different than Cliff Kingsbury's scheme. So once they get it down,

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Speaker 5: I think it really will simplifying, streamline things and hopefully

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Speaker 5: take some of the thinking out that we saw the

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Speaker 5: last couple of years that maybe led to some of

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Speaker 5: the penalties. Too much thinking, too much second guessing, and

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Speaker 5: if you can really unlock some of the athleticism on

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Speaker 5: this roster by simplifying things. And Kyser White will be

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Speaker 5: instrumental knowing the defense, calling the defense, will be the

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Speaker 5: quarterback of the defense of that Mike linebacker spot. And

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Speaker 5: then Cole McCoy I think, fourteenth year in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: In a roundabout way, that'll maybe be beneficial to everyone

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Speaker 5: on that side of the ball because right out of

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Speaker 5: the gates he'll be illustrating and demonstrating here's how this

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Speaker 5: thing should be run.

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Speaker 3: These five weeks, Rob, yeah, you got to make sure

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Speaker 3: you're physically in shape, but don't forget about that playbook

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Speaker 3: and making sure you are aware and remember what you're

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Speaker 3: supposed to do, what your assignment is on a particular

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Speaker 3: play particular series.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, playbook is difficult in that you know, the players

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Speaker 6: learn best out on the field and especially when there's

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Speaker 6: full contact, full pads, and they're able to really get

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Speaker 6: a sense for the timing of plays, especially on offense.

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Speaker 6: So I'm looking forward to that in training camp, and

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Speaker 6: I know the players are as well.

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Speaker 3: Training camp at the end of July, all the details

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Speaker 3: on Azcardinals dot com once again will be held at

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Speaker 3: State Farm Stadium. We have hit halftime here on the

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Speaker 3: Cardinals Red Seat Report presented by seat Geek, your ticket

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Speaker 3: to great seats. When we continue defense, Rob's parts of

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Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage where he is the defensive force, well,

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Speaker 3: he is our force here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 12: Let's go, Get out of huddle, Get your eyes to

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Speaker 12: the offense.

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Speaker 1: Get out of the huddle, Get your eyes to the offense.

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Speaker 12: How you showing getting all the metal adjustment checks. You

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Speaker 12: know what I think we got to do a better

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Speaker 12: job of is getting us I'm on at the offense,

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Speaker 12: you know, get him out of the huddle and get

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Speaker 12: your eyes to the offense. We shouldn't be like mulling around,

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Speaker 12: like looking around at each other, like get your eyes

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Speaker 12: of the offense, so we can start identifying be ahead

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Speaker 12: of the motion. Yeah, like we gotta break, get in

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Speaker 12: a huddle. Git. Yeah, a little too late. We got

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Speaker 12: guys like kind of moving around this and that. Like

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Speaker 12: you set that tempo, let's go.

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Speaker 3: This is why this is the perfect week to have

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Speaker 3: defensive force. Rob Fredrickson here on the Cardinals red zea

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Speaker 3: As we walking back to the second half of the show,

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Gannon wired on a recent Ota practice talking with

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Speaker 3: linebacker Kaiser White, and it's something I'd never really thought about, Rob,

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Speaker 3: but it makes perfect sense. Defensive guys typically don't huddle

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Speaker 3: in a circle. You're always kind of lined up, huddling up,

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Speaker 3: semi humble, but you're always looking at the offense, trying

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Speaker 3: to get an idea of what the offense is going

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Speaker 3: to do, and just listening to JG there. Maybe the

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Speaker 3: defensive players aren't spending enough time looking at how the

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Speaker 3: offense is breaking in the huddle or initially lining up

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Speaker 3: and getting that extra split seconds or able to get

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Speaker 3: everyone else where they need to be defensively to attack

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Speaker 3: that particular snap.

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Speaker 6: In the player's defense, A lot of times in between plays,

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Speaker 6: especially in mini camps, and then you're stalling a new defense,

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Speaker 6: new offense. There's a lot of coaching going on in

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Speaker 6: between plays, and so if a players over here trying

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Speaker 6: to listen to his coach but also trying to get

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Speaker 6: back in the huddle and get the play, things can

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Speaker 6: happen like that. But yeah, of course, obviously defensively, you

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Speaker 6: want to see what personnel grouping is in there. You

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Speaker 6: want to see how they come out of their huddle.

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Speaker 6: You want to see you want to because you're thinking, Okay,

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Speaker 6: this is the play call, but if this guy motions,

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Speaker 6: if this guy shifts, then we're changing to this. You

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Speaker 6: have to have all of those potential scenarios running through

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Speaker 6: your mind so that when it does happen, you're not

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Speaker 6: a caught off guard and you're not shocked.

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Speaker 3: Guys say this.

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Speaker 5: I think Kayzer White is an underrated part of this

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Speaker 5: defense right now. I think he might be the key

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Speaker 5: to the defense absolutely in terms of yes, calling the

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Speaker 5: defense quarterback of the defense. Cardinals had their struggles in

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Speaker 5: that department obviously, Isaiah Simmons, he was tasked week one

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Speaker 5: last year. By the end of the game it was

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Speaker 5: Zavon Collins wearing the green dot, and then that was

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Speaker 5: a process. There was a learning curve for Zaman Collins

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Speaker 5: to call the defense the rest of the year. That's

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Speaker 5: why playing in the outside linebacker spot is so much

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Speaker 5: easier for Zavin. He just has to worry about his

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Speaker 5: position and what's either coming at him or away from

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Speaker 5: him instead of playing the mic and any and everything

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Speaker 5: is an option for where he's lined up. But Kaizer

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Speaker 5: White is adamant that his best year in the NFL

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Speaker 5: was his fourth season for the Chargers, the one season

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Speaker 5: he played middle linebacker, and I think he's really motivated

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Speaker 5: to prove that he's a legit productive middle linebacker in

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Speaker 5: this league, something you need to get a chance to

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Speaker 5: do in that Eagles defense, And I think that's one

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Speaker 5: of the big reasons he came here because Nick Rolis

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Speaker 5: and Jonathan Gannon, he's now running their scheme.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't needed to do too much within that Eagles

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Speaker 3: defense because they had so many stars, if you will.

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Speaker 3: But within this defense, Rob he comes in knowing the

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Speaker 3: head coach, knowing the defensive coordinator, all three together in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: So as much as a lots on Kaiser White's plate

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Speaker 3: as far as just his own role and assignments, He's

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Speaker 3: gonna be asked a lot to get his teammates and

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Speaker 3: answer a lot of questions, whether that was in the

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Speaker 3: off season or training camp, just to make sure everyone

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Speaker 3: else is on the same page.

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Speaker 6: Just getting getting them lined up correctly. You know that

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Speaker 6: that's number one, and that's that's the job of the

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Speaker 6: middle linebacker. And Cazerer White has has familiarity in history

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Speaker 6: with this defense, so he's gonna understand. He's gonna be

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Speaker 6: able to communicate with everybody up front. Buddha Baker has

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Speaker 6: always been the lead communicator in the back and he's

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Speaker 6: done a tremendous job. And and I envision that continuing

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Speaker 6: because you have to have the coverage right, you know,

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Speaker 6: and and with motions and shifts pre snap and post snap. UH,

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Speaker 6: you have to be on the same page. And so

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Speaker 6: you know, there's some solid book ends right there with

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Speaker 6: Kazeer White up front, getting everybody lined up and getting

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Speaker 6: everybody on the same page up front, uh, and then

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Speaker 6: Buddha Baker on the back end.

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Speaker 5: And by the way, that clip there where Jonathan Gannon

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Speaker 5: walks up on Kaiser White and they have that conversation.

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Speaker 5: You go back to the interview that Nick Rawalis, the

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Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, did with Wolfe earlier in the offseason where

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Speaker 5: he said, Hey, that's Jonathan Gannon. He's going to walk

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Speaker 5: up on you and he's gonna let you know right

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Speaker 5: away straight forward. That was either good or bad. You know,

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Speaker 5: a lot of times coaches will tell players what they

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Speaker 5: want to hear instead of what they need to hear,

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Speaker 5: and Jonathan Gannon is most definitely in the latter category.

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Speaker 5: He's going to walk up and tell you what you

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Speaker 5: need to hear. And Nick rollis I remember him sort

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Speaker 5: of finishing that thought by saying, you know, that's what

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Speaker 5: I respect Jonathan Gannon for that. He says what's necessary,

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Speaker 5: not always what's pleasant. One of the bigger questions about

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Speaker 5: this defense, and it was a question that whether it

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Speaker 5: was the head coach or Nick rollis asked repeatedly, and

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Speaker 5: that is Isaiah Simmons. Where is he going to be

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Speaker 5: on the football field. Well, we got a little bit

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Speaker 5: of an answer to that when Isaiah addressed the media.

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Speaker 13: I've been with the defensive back so far, so you know,

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Speaker 13: it was kind of taking it from there as of now,

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Speaker 13: So moving forward. I'll be with the defensive backs. So

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Speaker 13: I got a real good grasp on the playbook. Everybody

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Speaker 3: He has been talking about Isaiah Simmons. He has been

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Speaker 3: with the defensive back specifically rob though it's been the

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Speaker 3: safety group for the last year plus. The question is,

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Speaker 3: though we did see him last year, the majority of

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Speaker 3: his snaps were as a slock corner. Now does that

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Speaker 3: stay the same or is he going to be more

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Speaker 3: of a safety on the back end with Baby the

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Speaker 3: ability to move up, creep up towards the line of

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Speaker 3: scrimmage like we've seen with Buddha Baker and Jalen Thompson.

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Speaker 6: The problem is, in the history of football and the NFL,

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Speaker 6: I don't recall really seeing a team go out there

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Speaker 6: with three safeties play after play after play. And I

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Speaker 6: don't see any scenario where Buddha Baker Jalen Thompson are

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Speaker 6: coming off the field. So you know, is he truly

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Speaker 6: a safety? I don't really care what you call him.

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Speaker 6: You call him a linebacker, call him a safety, call

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Speaker 6: him call him a slot corner. If he's going to

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Speaker 6: be playing, and if he's going to be a big

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Speaker 6: part of this defense, it's going to be in some

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Speaker 6: type of role where it's it's almost like a nickel defense,

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Speaker 6: and he's that nickelback. And whether it's a in the

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Speaker 6: slot and or maybe he sometimes goes deep middle, that's

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Speaker 6: fine too. But I wouldn't get caught up in what

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Speaker 6: you call him right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what is the base defense?

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Speaker 6: We don't know.

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Speaker 5: They're purposely not answering that question. They're not let us

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Speaker 5: in on it. We have to wait and see week

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Speaker 5: one at Washington. What does it mean? Could they run

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Speaker 5: three safeties out there? Technically because he's in the safety room,

652
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Speaker 5: but he's playing more of a will alongside Kaiser White. Absolutely,

653
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Speaker 5: we've seen Isaiah Simmons in that role. We've seen him

654
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Speaker 5: play center field safety. You've seen him play in the

655
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Speaker 5: slot obviously, you've seen him mugg in the A and

656
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Speaker 5: B gaps, and you've seen him off the edge. You've

657
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Speaker 5: seen him everywhere. What you think is a big part

658
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Speaker 5: of the problem. So can they really reduce his description

659
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Speaker 5: to one or two things that he can master and

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Speaker 5: be effective at, because let's face it, we've had it's

661
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Speaker 5: sort of like Robin his golf game in his handicap.

662
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Speaker 5: We've had the sandbag gir alert from these coaches in

663
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Speaker 5: the past. They've sandbagged us before and said he's gonna

664
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Speaker 5: play one or two spots, and then guess what. By

665
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Speaker 5: the end of month two, He's played a half dozen

666
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Speaker 5: different positions. So I'm real curious if they can stick

667
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Speaker 5: to what they're saying. And it's a big year for Isaiah,

668
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Speaker 5: whether that is with the Arizona Cardinals or just in

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Speaker 5: the National Football League. It is a contract year for

670
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Speaker 5: Isaiah Simmons, and his future within this team or within

671
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Speaker 5: this league is going to be up in the air

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Speaker 5: until we actually see it at some point this season.

673
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Speaker 5: And you talk about the defense and what to expect defensively,

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Speaker 5: Nick Rolis comes in first time defensive coordinator, well Jalen

675
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Speaker 5: Thompson on what he thinks this defense might look like.

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Speaker 4: I like it. It's a little different than last year,

677
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Speaker 4: you know what I mean. I feel like this year

678
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Speaker 4: it's kind of a little bit more. He lets the

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Speaker 4: players be a little more free out there, you know

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Speaker 4: what I mean, maybe not so robotic, I feel like,

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Speaker 4: And I feel like that's gonna lead to more plays

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Speaker 4: being made.

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Speaker 3: You brought that up earlier, Paul. Now, you have to

684
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Speaker 3: know your assignment. You have to know the playbook inside

685
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Speaker 3: and out in order to play more free But going

686
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Speaker 3: back to something we heard from owner Michael Bidwell earlier

687
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Speaker 3: in the offseason, his conversation with Dave Patch on the

688
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Speaker 3: Day Patch podcast about simplifying things. Now, that conversation was

689
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Speaker 3: more about Kyler Murray, but same could be said about

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Speaker 3: the defense as well, no question, And as far as

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Speaker 3: Jalen Thompson goes, you guys remember it was fairly early

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Speaker 3: in camp last year and there were some hot takes

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Speaker 3: out there that maybe Jalen Thompson was every bit the

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Speaker 3: safety as Buddha Baker.

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Speaker 5: Well last season re established Buddha Baker is one of

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Speaker 5: the best safeties in the NFL. Now, is that a

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Speaker 5: slight of Jalen Thompson. Did he have his best year?

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Speaker 5: Did last year serve him as well in terms of

699
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Speaker 5: that scheme? What does this defensive alignment mean for Jalen Thompson.

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Speaker 5: I'm expecting, silly a bounce back year because I don't

701
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Speaker 5: think it was a down year, but I think he

702
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Speaker 5: had a better twenty twenty one than he had twenty two.

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Speaker 5: Jalen Thompson. So if you can elevate his game back

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Speaker 5: to that level, along with Buddha Baker back in that

705
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Speaker 5: in that secondary, there's there's no question I think that

706
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Speaker 5: they can exceed expectations on defense because basically no one

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Speaker 5: on the national media level is giving the Cardinals defense

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Speaker 5: any respect whatsoever at this point.

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Speaker 3: And it's that last line of defense in that safety

710
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Speaker 3: group because the question marks at corner you're gonna rely

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Speaker 3: on whether that's Isaiah, Buddha or Jalen. Are all three

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Speaker 3: of them rob at some point for a lot, at

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Speaker 3: least early in the season.

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Speaker 6: Those safeties are everything to this team and to any team.

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Speaker 6: And you know, Jalen Thompson, I think is an exceptional safety. Hey,

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Speaker 6: you may have had some some bad games, some off games,

717
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Speaker 6: but you know, when you're on a defense and you're

718
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Speaker 6: on a team with Buddha Baker and playing the same position,

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Speaker 6: that's tough to get notoriety, it's tough to get oied.

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Speaker 6: But Jalen Thompson to me, is one of the better

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Speaker 6: safeties in this league.

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Speaker 3: JT a team best seventy eight solo tackles, last year,

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Speaker 3: so he is very capable of doing whatever is needed

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Speaker 3: within that defense. But again we all wait and see

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Speaker 3: what it might look like week one into week two

726
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Speaker 3: and so on and so forth. This is the Arizona

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Speaker 3: Cardinals Radio Network, thirty.

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Speaker 2: Twentieth fifteen ten five touchdown Tyler Hurry, you are ridiculous.

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Speaker 11: It's a language, so he's got to learn to speak

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Speaker 11: the language and understand the language to make sure that

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Speaker 11: when he does hit the field, he's not thinking about that,

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Speaker 11: because if he's thinking about that and performance, the performance

733
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Speaker 11: will struggle. Whereas if he can get the language down

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Speaker 11: and the understanding of the reads and the footwork and

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Speaker 11: what we're asking me to do, his physical talent's there.

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Speaker 11: I think we've all seen that, so we got to

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Speaker 11: be able to let that take over. And I think

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Speaker 11: he's really embraced that. It's not always the you know,

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Speaker 11: called the sexy work, but it's really important to go

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Speaker 11: out there and perform on Sunday, and he do a

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Speaker 11: great job.

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Speaker 3: We have seen Kyler Murray on the football field as

743
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Speaker 3: a spectator. When do we see Kyler Murray the football

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Speaker 3: player on the football field. That's the big question. As

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Speaker 3: you heard Drew Petsing talk about QB one, brand new

746
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Speaker 3: offensive coordinator, and yeah, K one is putting in the

747
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Speaker 3: work in the classroom, going through those mental reps on

748
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Speaker 3: the football field, and it's a big question mark going

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Speaker 3: into this twenty twenty three season. But before we get

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Speaker 3: to that, need to remind you Cardinal fans that the

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Speaker 3: Cardinals and State Farm are teaming up and you can

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Speaker 3: help out donating a backpack field with school supplies for

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Speaker 3: Support your our virtual back to School drive now through

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Speaker 3: to School. That's Azycardinals dot com slash back the number

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Speaker 3: two school. All right, Rob, what do we expect from

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Speaker 3: Kyler Murray here this season? When do we expect Kyler

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Speaker 3: Murray this season? And then how comfortable are you that

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Speaker 3: you have a Colt McCoy, a Clayton Tune, David Bloud,

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Speaker 3: Jeff driscoll four, QB's behind QB one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, everything that I've heard as far as Kyler Murray

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Speaker 6: and where he's at, he's ahead of schedule in terms

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Speaker 6: of just his rehab. But also you know, the Cardinals

765
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Speaker 6: want to be careful with him. They want to they

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Speaker 6: want to take their time and make sure that he's

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Speaker 6: really ready to go. And and so as far as

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Speaker 6: when he's back, I have no idea. You'd hope, uh,

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Speaker 6: first quarter, first half of the season. But but you

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Speaker 6: got to feel good about having Colt McCoy and and

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Speaker 6: Paul mentioned it earlier. He's he's the type of quarterback

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Speaker 6: he's he's got a long history in this league, and

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Speaker 6: he he picks up offenses quickly in terms of the semantics.

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Speaker 6: And and you know, once you get past that and

775
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Speaker 6: the changes in terms of the nomenclature, a lot of

776
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Speaker 6: the plays and the route concepts are similar. So you

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Speaker 6: know that that will be a safety blanket for this

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Speaker 6: team offensively, at least in the first portion of the

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Speaker 6: season until Kyler gets back. But when Kyler gets back

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Speaker 6: real quick, I think they really want to make sure

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Speaker 6: that he understands the playbook and he understands where they

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Speaker 6: want him to go with the ball and to get

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Speaker 6: the ball off on schedule and on time. To look,

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Speaker 6: a lot of it is for Kyler's preservation. They they

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Speaker 6: they value what he can do when the play deconstructs

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Speaker 6: and when it becomes off schedule, but they want him

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Speaker 6: to be able to get rid of the ball to

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Speaker 6: the correct read and on time.

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Speaker 3: Until we see Kyler Murray on the football field, the

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Speaker 3: expectation is we will see Colt McCoy under center running

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Speaker 3: this offense going into his fourteenth season, colts on again

792
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Speaker 3: learning a new offense, and if needed, he'll be that

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Speaker 3: Week one starter.

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Speaker 14: You know, my number one priority is learning the system right.

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Speaker 14: It's new, it's different. There's things as a quarterback that

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Speaker 14: you got to know that other people don't. So there's

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Speaker 14: a lot of thinking going on out on the field

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Speaker 14: and a lot of like first time I'm seeing plays okay,

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Speaker 14: like you know, understanding and processing it, and then in

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Speaker 14: my mind, like I don't know if Kyler's going to

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Speaker 14: be healthy or not. You know, I think we all

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Speaker 14: certainly hope that he is, but if he's not, I'm

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Speaker 14: one hundred percent gonna be ready to go.

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Speaker 3: And we've seen Cole each of the last two seasons,

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Speaker 3: Paul step in when Kyler was unable to six starts

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Speaker 3: over the past two seasons three and three as his starter.

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Speaker 3: And I don't want to put words in your mouth.

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Speaker 3: But I'm I'm very comfortable by what I've seen from

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Speaker 3: Colt's in limited action, and that's what you're looking for

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Speaker 3: in a backup quarterback. Someone just kind of hold down

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Speaker 3: the fort until your staughter returns.

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Speaker 5: The key is the locker room believes. They believe that

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Speaker 5: he is capable and he can lead him to victory

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Speaker 5: and he can be that guy. Here's the thing, Cole

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Speaker 5: McCoy has run this sort of offense before. Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 5: to my knowledge, has not. Kyler Murray is really specialized

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Speaker 5: his entire career, whether it was high school, whether it

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Speaker 5: was Oklahoma, whether it was Cliff Kingsbury in the NFL,

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Speaker 5: and in the spread sort of offense, almost exclusively in

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Speaker 5: the gun. Nobody was in the gun a higher percentage

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Speaker 5: of time than Kyler Murray a year ago. So how

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Speaker 5: radically different is this gonna be once he does get back?

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Speaker 5: You know, Cold has a proven track record and the

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Speaker 5: knowledge and something to lean on in terms of this

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Speaker 5: sort of scheme. But how foreign is it going to

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Speaker 5: be to Kyler Murray? And what's he going to look

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Speaker 5: like once he does get healthy?

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Speaker 3: This offense is huddling. They're under center talking about that

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Speaker 3: quarterback position. You also had David Blough, who returns Jeff

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Speaker 3: Driscoll kind of an outsider free agent edition in your

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Speaker 3: draft pick in the fifth round, Clayton Tune. Everyone's excited

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Speaker 3: about him, probably no more so than the gentleman to

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Speaker 3: my ride in Paul Calvis was anxious to start that controversy.

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Speaker 3: Here at the end of June, let's hear from Clayton

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Speaker 3: on how he is adjusting to life in the NFL.

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Speaker 15: I've worked really hard, really most my life to play

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Speaker 15: this position at a high level, and you know, put

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Speaker 15: in a lot of work in the off season with

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Speaker 15: you know, my throwing mechanics, footwork, body, all that type

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Speaker 15: of stuff. So you know, I pride myself on being

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Speaker 15: able to put the ball where I want it.

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Speaker 3: The ninth quarterback drafted in twenty twenty three. And I

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Speaker 3: know there is a segment of that fan base rob

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Speaker 3: that is anxious to see Clayton Tune on the football field,

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Speaker 3: and I think we will in preseason action. But I

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Speaker 3: don't know if I would rush him out there and

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Speaker 3: supplants a Colt McCoy in the event that Kyler is

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Speaker 3: not ready.

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Speaker 6: No, that's not going to happen. Colt McCoy is has

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Speaker 6: demonstrated in the past couple of years really his ability

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Speaker 6: to understand the offense and to execute it. And as

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Speaker 6: Paul said, he's got the belief of the locker room.

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Speaker 6: So hey, look, Clayton Tune, you know, he's going to

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Speaker 6: have an opportunity obviously in training camp, and that's that's

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Speaker 6: when guys like that that are drafted in the fifth, sixth,

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Speaker 6: seventh rounds. So that's the opportunity for those guys to

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Speaker 6: really showcase what they can do, whether it's going to

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Speaker 6: be on this team, whether it's going to be you know,

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Speaker 6: on a practice squad or somewhere else. You know, putting

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Speaker 6: things on tape and getting your resume ready in terms

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Speaker 6: of what you can do is vital and it's important.

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Speaker 6: And Clayton Tune is no different.

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Speaker 5: According to Jonathan again, and he's already checked two big boxes.

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Speaker 5: Command and confidence. In the words of the head coach,

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Speaker 5: he's been able to command the offense so far.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 5: It hasn't been mistake free. There have been issues and

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Speaker 5: we've seen it out there and Cole McCoy has talked

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Speaker 5: about all the quarterbacks have committed mistakes trying to execute things,

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Speaker 5: but just the confidence. We know what he said when

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Speaker 5: he was drafted about I'm the best QB in this class.

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Speaker 5: But you know he went on to say, I'm a

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Speaker 5: natural leader. People follow me. I elevate everyone around me.

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Speaker 5: People see the work I put in. He's known for

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Speaker 5: being a better runner with more athleticism than he's given

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Speaker 5: credit for. You have some really gaudy rushing stats and

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Speaker 5: rushing touchdowns. In college. She had the highest on target

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Speaker 5: percentage in all of college football, according to Pro Football Focused.

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Speaker 5: So if you're telling me he has confidence and he's

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Speaker 5: accurate and he's actually a little bit mobile, let's see

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Speaker 5: it in the preseason once again, gentlemen. It gets us

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Speaker 5: through the preseason.

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Speaker 3: And that's the thing, rob because that preseason, how much

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Speaker 3: can you do and just running around and then the

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Speaker 3: ramps up for preseason. There's a bigger ramp up to

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Speaker 3: regular season.

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Speaker 6: Action, you know, And I know preseason is preseason and

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Speaker 6: Kyler Murray, if he could have played, probably wouldn't have

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Speaker 6: played a lot. But you want to have those reps,

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Speaker 6: those game time reps to learn a new offense, and

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Speaker 6: Kyler is not going to have the benefit of that.

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Speaker 6: So that's going to be another little hurdle for him,

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Speaker 6: but these other guys will will learn it and get

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Speaker 6: it going as well.

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Speaker 3: Two home preseason games and in the regular season. Asycardinals

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