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Speaker 1: Handed Catching a Touchdown, Here's Craig Griolu all CALABC and

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Speaker 1: nine year NFL veteran Rob Frederickson.

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Speaker 3: So today's show is brought to you by the number three,

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Speaker 3: as in there are three reported finalists for the Arizona

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Speaker 3: Cardinals head coaching position according to NFL Insiders, and then

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Speaker 3: as in three openings left of what was a ten

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Speaker 3: opening head coaching carousel in twenty twenty five, because before

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Speaker 3: we came on the air, the Bills filled their position,

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Speaker 3: promoting offensive coordinator Joe Brady to head coach and now

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Speaker 3: that leaves just three teams, Cardinals, Browns and Raiders.

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Speaker 4: It's like a big waiting room here. You know, this

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Speaker 4: might be a radio studio, but you know, gold School.

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Speaker 4: Grab a sports illustrated magazine over there, Rob, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'll just be over magazine. What is that, Paul, I'll

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Speaker 4: go over here and I'll and you know, it's like

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Speaker 4: the DMV. You know, take a number, grab a seat.

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Speaker 4: We'll get to you when we get to you. And

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Speaker 4: at this point, that's what we're waiting to hear. All right,

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Speaker 4: who is going to emerge? The number is three. I

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Speaker 4: thought this was going to be a Buddha Bakers show

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Speaker 4: there for a minute talking about the Pro Bowl, but no,

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Speaker 4: the number is get to that. Okay, all right, so

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Speaker 4: here we go. Look, I think I think, you know,

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Speaker 4: finger to the wind. We're all sensing, maybe anticipating, not

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Speaker 4: sure expecting, but wouldn't be surprised if it's in the

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Speaker 4: next forty eight to seventy two.

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Speaker 5: Hours, sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 3: With Super Bowl week approaching, and of course how that

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Speaker 3: dominates the coverage. And then you got to start thinking

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Speaker 5: Staff as well. Who are you getting.

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Speaker 3: To come in as your offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, assistance,

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Speaker 3: are you retaining any of the previous staff? Again, you

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Speaker 3: want to make sure you get it right, Rob, But

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Speaker 3: there's also the time element because oh, by the way,

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Speaker 3: the combine is in four weeks and then free agency

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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, and the most important date I think for

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Speaker 6: talking about assembling your staff, and you do want to

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Speaker 6: name your head coach as soon as possible because next

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Speaker 6: week is a Senior Bowl week and in Mobile, Alabama,

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Speaker 6: that becomes the indeed for NFL assistant coaches, that really

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Speaker 6: is is the place where it's a networking event and

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Speaker 6: it basically becomes a recruiting fair and that's where a

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Speaker 6: lot of coaching staffs are assembled. And to have your

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Speaker 3: Finalizing. The three candidates according to reports, and this is

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Speaker 3: based off either are Ian Rappaports, Adam Schefter, Diana Ricini.

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Speaker 3: Three candidates have had second interviews Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campinelli,

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Speaker 3: Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver, and Rams offensive coordinator Micha Lafleur.

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Speaker 3: The letter of whom, according to Albert Breer, had dinner

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Speaker 3: on Tuesday, Paul reportedly having a second interview, first in

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Speaker 4: All right, so what does that mean? Could there be

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Speaker 4: near future, don't know. We do know there is interest,

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Speaker 4: presumably if he's the first guy they went to once

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, Michael Floor is available and eligible

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Speaker 4: makes is to the Arizona Cardinals. You know, I think

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Speaker 4: He has really inside knowledge of the NFC West. He

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Speaker 4: to compete in this division, and we can argue what's

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Speaker 4: most important for a new head coach, but getting competitive

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Speaker 3: Before we hear from you, Rob, How about we hear

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Speaker 3: from another former Cardinal Cardinals radio analyst, Aq Shipley this

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Speaker 8: I have a guy that can get you to follow

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Speaker 8: play callers, I think that's the biggest thing. I think

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Speaker 3: We hear the phrase Rob leader of men. And yes,

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Speaker 3: Lafleur is thirty eight. He turns thirty nine next month,

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Speaker 3: but once upon a time, Sean McVay, I believe was

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Speaker 3: It's more about the experience. And then how do you

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Speaker 6: Yeah, My hot take is, I don't think that's the

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Speaker 6: You know, these the Arizona Cardinals last year, last couple

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Speaker 6: looking back, I think that's where Jonathan Gannon that regime

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Speaker 6: and that to me is the most important aspect of

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Speaker 4: So it goes beyond just hiring the head coach. It's

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Speaker 4: Player development? That was cited more than once. You know

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Speaker 4: there are a lot of draft picks, twenty eight draft

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Speaker 4: Who can best optimize the players who have been brought in?

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Speaker 4: And especially to your point, Craig, if you're going to delegate, well,

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Speaker 4: guess what, you better have a talented coaching staff around you.

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Speaker 4: Bruce Arians was the master of delegating, right down to

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Speaker 4: But you better have capable assistance on each side of

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Speaker 4: the ball. Who can game plan, who can develop, who

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Speaker 4: can teach? You can get the most out of these

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Speaker 4: young guys, A lot of young players, a lot of

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Speaker 4: we could sit here and do a whole show on that. So,

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Speaker 4: all right, who is if you're bringing an offensive guy,

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Speaker 4: How many of the coaches right now do you want

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Speaker 4: to retain? Is that a good fit? These are all

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Speaker 3: When you look across the league at what other teams

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Speaker 3: Then new surfaces that former head coach Mike Kafka is

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Speaker 3: To your point, Rob, yeah, it was a lot of

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Speaker 3: first first time head coach, first time offensive coordinator, first

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Speaker 3: So if you're looking for that guy, that right hand man,

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Speaker 3: don't know, but if you don't have it, then who

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you always want to have somebody that's been there

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: And you talk about Mike Lafleur and his potential, he's

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Speaker 6: I think is Arizona Cardinals. What you're buying when you

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Speaker 6: you're buying access to Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay and

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Speaker 6: their intellectual property. You're basically saying, I want all that

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Speaker 4: Heck, it even happens between Shanahan and McVeigh. At once

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Speaker 4: upon a time, you had Mike Lafleur, who was the

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Speaker 4: there's a quote from Kyle Shanahan lamenting the fact that

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Speaker 4: That's the way this works. When Robert Sala left and

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Speaker 4: did you make his offensive coordinator? Well, he brought Mike

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Speaker 3: At this point, and Lafleur called plays for the Jets,

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Speaker 3: The Bears or Raheem Morris defensive coordinator. Sure a former

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Speaker 3: As we mentioned, there are three openings left Cardinals, Browns,

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Speaker 3: into Paul alluded to it already the Pro Bowl and

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Speaker 5: Looks right, Rose, right, pawn on the goal line. Touchdown,

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Speaker 2: When you need a touchdown, go to your best player

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Speaker 5: Unbelievable play by Buddha.

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Speaker 2: Baker looks left, throws left, put mccride at the five.

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Speaker 2: He's hitting the one, but he crowns is off a

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Speaker 5: Again, he's been.

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Speaker 8: An absolute monster.

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Speaker 5: Arizona shows Blitz.

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Speaker 6: Here they come.

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Speaker 5: Lawrence in trouble.

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Speaker 2: Paddy sack back at the thirty four yard line by

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Speaker 3: Second straight year. Trey McBride selected to the Pro Bowl

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Speaker 3: for Buddha Baker, his seventh straight selection eighth overall. As

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Speaker 3: we say, welcome back. It is the Cardinals, Red Sea

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Speaker 3: report Greig Rea Lupaul Calvic and Rob Frederickson and yes,

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Speaker 3: as part of Super Bowl sixty. Everything is now in

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Speaker 3: so you'll have all the fun activities. The actual flag

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Speaker 3: turn it over to you, Paul, because well, one Buddha Baker.

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Speaker 3: There has been a lot of talk on whether or

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Speaker 5: Bowl selection this season.

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Speaker 3: His numbers overall not as gaudy as they have in

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Speaker 4: In previous seasons, Well, it wasn't as necessary. A year ago,

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Speaker 5: Have to seek and destroy.

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Speaker 7: We need your one hundred and sixty four tackles, which

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Speaker 4: This year was different. He put so much money, you know,

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Speaker 4: so all that being said, you know, Buddha Baker still

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Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty tackles for Boodha this past season.

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Speaker 3: But to Paul's point, Rob, you're looking at offensive coordinators,

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Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, okay, maybe you're shying away

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Speaker 3: And of course your stats drop. And when you're talking

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Speaker 3: players know, coaches certainly know what Budda Baker's capable.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, and I think if you ask Buddha Baker, yeah,

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Speaker 6: But you know, you got it's a team game and

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Speaker 6: So he's going to get a lot of the popular vote,

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Speaker 6: that's kind of I think what this Pro Bowl selection

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Speaker 5: And no more game.

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Speaker 3: It's again a list of activity is including the always

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's always gonna be bragging rights, right, and then

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Speaker 6: But I don't. I just don't even know that they

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Speaker 4: Maybe a cooking contact, you know, something like that. You

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Speaker 4: You know, declare a Madden Champion, you know something, maybe

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Speaker 4: you could come up with a whole battery of events.

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Speaker 4: You know, ballroom dancing made its way into the summer Olympics.

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Speaker 4: Throw it into the Pro Bowl games.

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Speaker 3: Why not getting selected though, still means something for the players.

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Speaker 3: Here's Budda Baker earlier in the season talking about getting

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Speaker 10: It's a great experience. Definitely a blessing, you know, players

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Speaker 10: week in and week out. Just try to play football

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Speaker 10: the right way and let everything handle itself. And by

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Speaker 3: All right, here's some trivia for you and feel free

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Speaker 3: players in France Chi's fishery to be selected to at

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Speaker 5: Can you name the other three fits? Yeah, that's the

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Speaker 6: I took the easy one.

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Speaker 4: I have Pat p there's two and then the other one. Hmmm,

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Speaker 4: let's think about this for a minute. A Larry Wilson.

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Speaker 4: Do they have it back in the day? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: it's his expectation. But that's what he's put out there

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Speaker 4: and I will say this when he is miked up

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Speaker 4: to Rob's point about okay, popularity contest whereas the fan vote,

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Speaker 4: But the players know and they know a Buddha Baker

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Speaker 7: Play differently?

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Speaker 4: Maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit, But I

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Speaker 6: I was gonna say if they had like a you know,

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Speaker 3: So Trey McBride, Buda Baker will be in San Francisco

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Speaker 9: They had my best season from the start of the

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Speaker 9: I don't know what else I could have done at

436
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Speaker 9: that point, you know what I mean. It's just it's

437
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Speaker 9: I don't know what else I could have done. Now.

438
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Speaker 9: Previous years, maybe you could have said he didn't have

439
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Speaker 9: the popularity, maybe he didn't get the fan vote. This year,

440
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Speaker 9: I was second in fan voting for NFC. What else

441
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Speaker 9: did they want me to do?

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Speaker 3: Here are sweats numbers. Twelve sacks, seventeen quarterback hits, thirteen

443
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Speaker 3: tackles for lost, four forced fumbles, And you brought up

444
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Speaker 3: earlier rob as far as the popularity contest, Okay, did

445
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Speaker 3: it matter that the Cardinals weren't winning well? Brian Burns

446
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Speaker 3: of the Giants named to the Pro Bowl. Now there

447
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Speaker 3: are two Rams selected as well, Jared Versu and Byron

448
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Speaker 3: Young if they had made it to the Super Bowl,

449
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Speaker 3: those two would have been removed from the Pro Bowl

450
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Speaker 3: and Josh what would have been as the alternate in

451
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Speaker 3: which he was named. But again it comes down to

452
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Speaker 3: not so much the game itself, but the recognition of

453
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Speaker 3: what you did during the season matters to these players.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and despite the selection process, this matters to the players.

455
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Speaker 6: It matters obviously to Josh Sweat. This is something you

456
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Speaker 6: put on your resume, This is something that stays with

457
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Speaker 6: you for the rest of your life. You know that

458
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Speaker 6: I was a Pro Bowl player, and so it does matter. Yeah,

459
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Speaker 6: it's a team sport and you obviously want to win

460
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Speaker 6: football games and win the Super Bowl, but individual accomplishment

461
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Speaker 6: also is very important to these guys. It matters because

462
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Speaker 6: it especially when your peers are the ones that are

463
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Speaker 6: recognizing you. So you know, I can understand, Josh, what's frustration.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

465
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Speaker 4: Every time you're introduced after your playing day, say a

466
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Speaker 4: two time Pro Bowl or three time Pro Bowl or

467
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Speaker 4: absolutely it's part of your introductions of the DNA of

468
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Speaker 4: your career. You know, Jared vers and Byron Young from

469
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Speaker 4: the Rams, you know, I think in hindsight, if the

470
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Speaker 4: Rams have had maybe some other position players who had

471
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Speaker 4: made the Pro Bowl. I think there was a maybe

472
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Speaker 4: a need or an urgency to put more players from

473
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Speaker 4: the Rams because at that point they were going to

474
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Speaker 4: be the number one seed in the NFC. And so

475
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Speaker 4: they're thinking, all right, you know what, other teams have

476
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Speaker 4: six and seven, got to get more for the Rams

477
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Speaker 4: and they put their parent edge guys when instead, honestly,

478
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Speaker 4: Josh Sweat had a heck of a case.

479
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Speaker 3: So made mentioned that the Pro Bowl and the All

480
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Speaker 3: Pro two individual honors that define who you are as

481
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Speaker 3: a player in your career, and left out this season.

482
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Speaker 3: When we come back here on the Cardinals Red See

483
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Speaker 3: Report Championship Sunday, we'll get into that next here on

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Speaker 3: the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 11: Ten seconds to go if they're thirty down by four,

486
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Speaker 11: shotgun snapped to Stafford sets in the pocket, plenty of time,

487
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Speaker 11: winds up close to the near sidelight clock, fifty yard

488
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Speaker 11: lighted out of bounds, the coua the clocket won or

489
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Speaker 11: to cheat the clock going it's.

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Speaker 5: Over, it's over, Seattle is won. The officials are still

491
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Speaker 5: on the field to mccua get out of bounds, rubbers

492
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Speaker 5: down in bounds.

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Speaker 12: The game is now over.

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Speaker 1: Oh love.

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Speaker 11: Seahawks are going to Super Bowl sixty. It's the first

496
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Speaker 11: trip to the Super Bowl in eleven years. It's a

497
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Speaker 11: rematch with the New England Patriots in Super Bowl sixty

498
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Speaker 11: in Santa Clara.

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Speaker 3: For the eighth time since twenty twelve, an NFC West

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Speaker 3: team will be represented in the Super Bowl. Of course,

501
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Speaker 3: that was an automatic even before the NFC Championship game

502
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Speaker 3: because the Seahawks beat the Rams thirty one to twenty seven.

503
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Speaker 3: Kevin Harlan on Westwood One with the play by play

504
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Speaker 3: as we look back at Sunday's game, in which it

505
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Speaker 3: was very eventful, the fourth Super Bowl appearance for the Seahawks,

506
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Speaker 3: who have now won nine in a row going back

507
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Speaker 3: to the regular season and perhaps rob the biggest question

508
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Speaker 3: answered Sam Darnald I think answered a lot of questions

509
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Speaker 3: with his performance three hundred and forty six passing yards,

510
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Speaker 3: three touchdowns, no interceptions. Here's a fun fact, and the

511
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Speaker 3: two regular season meetings against the Rams, Donald had two

512
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Speaker 3: touchdowns six interceptions, so he protected the football and then

513
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Speaker 3: sending Seattle back to the Super Bowl for the first

514
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Speaker 3: time since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think it was the best game he's

516
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Speaker 6: played all season long, and Minnesota Vikings are probably regretting

517
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Speaker 6: letting him walk out. Sam Darnald to me, yeah, you know,

518
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Speaker 6: mentioned he played the best game of the season and

519
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Speaker 6: he saved it. It was a great back and forth

520
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Speaker 6: game though, between them and the Seahawks. I thought Stafford

521
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Speaker 6: looked good as well. Pooka Nakua was just amazing, and

522
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Speaker 6: Jackson Smith and Jigba for for Seattle. Again, these these

523
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Speaker 6: are two of the best, very best receivers in this league.

524
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Speaker 6: And I couldn't help but thinking. I'm I'm sitting there

525
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Speaker 6: watching it, and I'm I'm thinking about, you know, potential

526
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 6: of maybe Mike Lafleur coming to the Arizona Cardinals, and

527
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 6: I'm thinking, well, you know, Pooka Nakua and look what

528
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Speaker 6: he's put up there in this offense. You know, what

529
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Speaker 6: is that gonna foretell for a guy like Michael Wilson

530
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Speaker 6: with the Arizona Cardinals. I don't know. That was just

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Speaker 6: in the back of my mind while I was watching

532
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Speaker 6: that great game.

533
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Speaker 4: I see a lot of pookin a coo and Michael Wilson.

534
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Speaker 4: I really do, and vice versa. So I'm with you

535
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Speaker 4: on that.

536
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Speaker 5: Now, JSN.

537
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Speaker 4: How how the Seattle Seahawks got JSN in space against

538
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Speaker 4: box safeties like Quinton Lake, Like that was happening repeatedly

539
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Speaker 4: in that game. I'm like, where is the game plan?

540
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Speaker 4: Wouldn't you double Jackson Smith and Jigma and then take

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Speaker 4: your chances with everyone else? I know Sam Donald after

542
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Speaker 4: that muff punt he hit Jake Bobo for like only

543
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Speaker 4: his fifth catch all year, and that was keeping there

544
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Speaker 4: you go, So there you go? And I mean, but

545
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Speaker 4: he was decisive. He's finding other receivers not named JSN.

546
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Speaker 4: To Rob's point, yeah, Donald definitely looked the part. Think

547
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Speaker 4: about badd he looked in the playoff loss to the

548
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Speaker 4: Rams at State Farm Stadium after this SOCW Wildfires moved

549
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 4: the game out here, think about bad when he got

550
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Speaker 4: sacked nine times? How horrendous he looked in that game.

551
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Speaker 4: And I'm guessing that went a long way to the

552
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Speaker 4: Vikings partying ways was Sam Donald, But he seemingly just

553
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Speaker 4: got better. And for his fifth team in his career,

554
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Speaker 4: for them to unlock the former number three pick overall

555
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Speaker 4: and for him to look that good, and for Seattle

556
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 4: looked that buttoned up. And then Mike McDonald after the game,

557
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Speaker 4: when asked by Michael Strahan, he had the quote of

558
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Speaker 4: the game. I thought, he said, you know what about

559
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Speaker 4: the fact no one picked you? Everyone picked the forty

560
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Speaker 4: nine ers in the Rams and you went through the

561
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Speaker 4: niners in the Rams in the Innerstry Championship And mc

562
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Speaker 4: donald sort of stared at him said, we did not care.

563
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Speaker 5: It was about us.

564
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Speaker 4: But I'm like that was that not illustrative of the

565
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Speaker 4: culture that he has built on that team and the

566
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Speaker 4: sort of buy in he got from Seattle. John Schneider,

567
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Speaker 4: the GM was just beaming because that's a sort of

568
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Speaker 4: mentality Seattle played with all year long under their young

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Speaker 4: head coach.

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Speaker 3: Year two for Mike McDonald after year one, fired his

571
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Speaker 3: offensive coordinator and brought on board Clint Kubiak. We always

572
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Speaker 3: talk about this Seahawks defense, but offensively, they were the

573
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Speaker 3: number three scoring offense, and we saw thirty plus points

574
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Speaker 3: on Sunday. We saw the passing game, a little bit

575
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Speaker 3: of a run game early in that contest. Kenneth Walker

576
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Speaker 3: didn't do much after the first half, but it was

577
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Speaker 3: because of Sam Donald that they got into the Super Bowl,

578
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Speaker 3: which I don't know, if you're going quarterback by quarterback,

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Speaker 3: edge would be to Stafford over Donald. But that's why

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Speaker 3: I go back and say, I think now only answered

581
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Speaker 3: a lot of questions, but certainly the biggest win of

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Speaker 3: his career.

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Speaker 6: Oh, it's huge win. And you're right, Stafford may very

584
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Speaker 6: well be the MVP of the league. But Donald to

585
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Speaker 6: me just had his best game of the season. You

586
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Speaker 6: mentioned Kenneth Walker. Yeah, maybe rushing he wasn't as big

587
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Speaker 6: a part in that game, but the receiving and the

588
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Speaker 6: ability out of the backfield to make those catches and

589
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Speaker 6: to get yards after catch that was huge. And Seattle

590
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Speaker 6: offensively to your point, you know, they really have performed

591
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Speaker 6: all season long. It just gets overshadowed by how great

592
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Speaker 6: that defense really is.

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Speaker 4: Now, look, Seattle earned it, There's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 4: The Twelves did not twelve didn't deserve it. They simply

595
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Speaker 4: didn't deserve it. And don't give me this dynasty stuff either.

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Speaker 4: That was their first set of home playoff games and

597
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Speaker 4: over a decade in Seattle, so I don't hear the

598
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Speaker 4: word dynasty attached to the Seahawks.

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Speaker 5: Pot.

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Speaker 4: They're talented, and they are well coached, and they are

601
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Speaker 4: going to be a force to deal with in the

602
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Speaker 4: near future, and the way they are are rolling, and

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Speaker 4: we talked about it for last month, Craig, the NFC

604
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Speaker 4: Championship was going to be all NFC West and the

605
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Speaker 4: winner of the NFC Championship was going to win.

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Speaker 5: The Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: And if you tell me the Seahawks go out and

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Speaker 4: jack stop Patriots team that doesn't have a lot of

609
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Speaker 4: offensive talent. To me when you look at them, and

610
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Speaker 4: I think they're overachieving on defense, if this game gets

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Speaker 4: lopsided quick, I would not be surprised.

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Speaker 3: How are you going to handle next season, Paul then,

613
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Speaker 3: because you've already lost the ability to say last place

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Speaker 3: Seahawks And if for whatever reason they go into the

615
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Speaker 3: forty nine ers home and hoist the Lombardi Trophy and

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Speaker 3: then bring it back to the NFC West and the

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Speaker 3: Cardinals see them twice next season, again, I didn't want

618
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Speaker 3: to see any anybody but the NFC West.

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Speaker 5: But that's what we're left with in the NFC.

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Speaker 3: But I'm full blown Patriots over here.

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Speaker 4: And you know it as someone who was in the

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Speaker 4: stadium for the Super Bowl here, what you know, how

623
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Speaker 4: when was that at twenty nine so it'd have been

624
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Speaker 4: eleven years ago or so so for that one where

625
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 4: they failed to give the ball to Marshawn Lynch of

626
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Speaker 4: the goal line, and then there's the interception and thing

627
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Speaker 4: a lot of chaos broke out in the stands.

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Speaker 12: Leave me.

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Speaker 4: I was in an auxiliary media, which is code for

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Speaker 4: three rows from the very top of State Farm Stadium,

631
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Speaker 4: and there was a lot of chaos between Seahawks and

632
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Speaker 4: Patriots fans because when one fan base has every expectation

633
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Speaker 4: of winning the Super Bowl and then two seconds later

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Speaker 4: they're not going to win the Super Bowl, let's just

635
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Speaker 4: say the emotions flow over.

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Speaker 6: Did you get a couple of punches in there, pah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you my escapability in that moment. I

638
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 4: got out of there so quick. I mean, honestly, I've

639
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 4: ran a four to three forty just getting out of

640
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Speaker 4: there into the concourse.

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Speaker 3: Malcolm Butler with the interception on the gold line. We'll

642
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: get into the AFC Championship game here momentarily. But this

643
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 3: Seahawks team, again, what they have been able to do

644
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 3: because I don't know, especially going into this season, Rob

645
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 3: when we talk about when we talked about the Seahawks,

646
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 3: because it was okay year two for Mike McDonald. In

647
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 3: year one, double digit wins, don't make the playoffs unusual,

648
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Speaker 3: made a change in offensive coordinator, but it was still okay.

649
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Speaker 5: Well, the Rams are the Rams and the forty nine

650
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Speaker 5: ers of the forty.

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Speaker 3: Nine ers because of their two head coach and Kyle

652
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 3: Shanahan always figures out a way no matter who's available.

653
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Speaker 3: Almost did again this season until they finally ran out

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Speaker 3: of steam. But it's impressive what the Seahawks have been

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Speaker 3: able to do from a far considering where they were

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Speaker 3: once upon a time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you look at the defense of the

658
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Speaker 6: Sale Seahawks and that's really, to me kind of their

659
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Speaker 6: cornerstone and how they've built this team, just the draft

660
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Speaker 6: picks and the people that they've brought in from through

661
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Speaker 6: free agency, and what they're able to do defensively really

662
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Speaker 6: leads away in terms of how you think about the

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Speaker 6: Sales Seahawks in this division. And so I always kind

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Speaker 6: of turn it back to the Cardinals and what does

665
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Speaker 6: what does that, you know, foreshadow for the Cardinals. What

666
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Speaker 6: kind of coach do they need to bring in here

667
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Speaker 6: to combat that to it to have a game plan

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Speaker 6: against that lethal defense from Seattle, and is it an

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Speaker 6: offensive mind or is it a defensive minded head coach.

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Speaker 3: Key stat at least for me from Sunday, the Seahawks

671
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Speaker 3: seven to thirteen on third down, the Rams one of eight,

672
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Speaker 3: and yeah, you want to be good on third down,

673
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Speaker 3: but there were a lot of times in that game

674
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Speaker 3: where the Seahawks had third and short or a third

675
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Speaker 3: and manageable because they were so successful on first and

676
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Speaker 3: second down. Going back to our discussion about, okay, where

677
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Speaker 3: the Cardinals need to be Cardinals gonna better on first

678
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Speaker 3: and second down in order to be proficient on third down.

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Speaker 4: And a quick thought on the Rams because they were

680
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Speaker 4: so close and special teams got them again with that

681
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Speaker 4: fumbled punt, the muff punt. They own picks number thirteen

682
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Speaker 4: and twenty nine, and they don't have a lot of

683
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Speaker 4: prominent free agents. If Matthew Stafford comes back, and you

684
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Speaker 4: saw Sean mcgay's reaction, it ended the press conference. He

685
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Speaker 4: did not like the Matthew Stafford questioned at all. But

686
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Speaker 4: if he comes back and they had maybe a first

687
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Speaker 4: round corner, Rams are going to be right there again.

688
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Speaker 3: It was perfect weather in Seattle, not so perfect in Denver.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about the AFC Championship Game next here on

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Speaker 3: the Arizona Cardinals Radio network.

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Speaker 12: May with his hands under center trumps to his knee

692
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Speaker 12: and that's it. The New England Patriots are back in

693
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Speaker 12: the Super Bowl. The Patriots win the AFC Championship, feeding

694
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Speaker 12: the dead for Broncos ten to seven, and a new

695
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Speaker 12: era of Patriots football is upon us. The Drake by

696
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Speaker 12: Mike Frable. Patriots are going to the Super Bowl New

697
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Speaker 12: England with a three point win in the snow, and

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Speaker 12: the Broncos see their season come to an end a

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Speaker 12: three point loss here at Mile High. Patriots ten, Broncos seven,

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Speaker 12: and New England for a record setting.

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Speaker 5: Twelve time will go to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Saw those that were tired of the Kansas City Chiefs

703
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Speaker 3: welcome back New England as the Patriots their twelveth Super

704
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Speaker 3: Bowl appearance, and they outlast the Broncos ten to seven.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Radkey Ons won with the final call of the

706
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Speaker 3: AFC Championship Game. And as I mentioned in our last segment, yes,

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Speaker 3: perfect weather in Seattle. It looked good on television in

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Speaker 3: the first half until it didn't in the second half,

709
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Speaker 3: to the point where I don't know what the technology

710
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Speaker 3: is when televisions put the graphics up so you can

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Speaker 3: see the numbers and the yardage and the hash marks,

712
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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden they just said to

713
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Speaker 3: he can't do that anymore because it was too busy,

714
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Speaker 3: because that was interfering with the Patriots white uniforms and

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Speaker 3: you basically couldn't see anything on the television, especially in

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when you have the announcers citing the Patriots'

718
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Speaker 4: uniform caller as a competitive advantage, I mean, at what point.

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Speaker 4: And I went on this ran last week and I've

720
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Speaker 4: done it in years past. I just I am not

721
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Speaker 4: a fan of the extreme cold climate games, never have been. Yes,

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Speaker 4: lot has to do with having to endure it as

723
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Speaker 4: a sideline pencil neck, But to me, when it becomes

724
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Speaker 4: as much about survival skills as it does football skills,

725
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Speaker 4: I just I really wonder if we're deciding the best

726
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Speaker 4: football team in conditions like that. When Will Watts after

727
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 4: the games, after the game, he blames the snowy field

728
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Speaker 4: and his alignment mistake on the block field goal because

729
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Speaker 4: instead of being eight yards deep, he was seven yards

730
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Speaker 4: deep because he couldn't tell where he was.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's just not a good product on the field.

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Speaker 6: It's not when you when you have weather like that,

733
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Speaker 6: it slows everybody down to almost a crawl because they

734
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Speaker 6: don't want to slip and fall. They want to maintain

735
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Speaker 6: their their grip. There is no grip. You can't you

736
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Speaker 6: can't get cleats in that. It's just it's it's a

737
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Speaker 6: slow game. It's it's the statistics bear it out. I mean,

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Speaker 6: they barely ran for any yards or passed for any yards.

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Speaker 6: It's just not a not a great product, a defensive game,

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Speaker 6: you know. I think the difference he probably the two

741
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Speaker 6: turnovers that Denver had.

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Speaker 3: Denver held the thirty two total yards in the second

743
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Speaker 3: half one hundred and forty nine in the first half.

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Speaker 3: And then just looking at the final score and historically

745
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Speaker 3: seventeen combined points tied for the third fewest and a

746
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Speaker 3: conference championship game. The Patriots ten points score tied for

747
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Speaker 3: the second fewest by winning team in a conference championship game.

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Speaker 3: But the Patriots are back in the Super Bowl for

749
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Speaker 3: the first time since twenty eighteen. And yes, Drake may

750
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Speaker 3: was the healthy quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Bo Nicks was not.

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Speaker 3: He was watching from a luxury suite and watching Jared

753
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Speaker 3: Stidham look good at times, but then in the second

754
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Speaker 3: half when things unraveled, you didn't have that veteran play

755
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Speaker 3: caller to get yourself back into range, not just field

756
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Speaker 3: goal range, but try to get a touchdown. And the

757
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Speaker 3: one decision that everyone is pointing to is in the

758
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Speaker 3: first half when the Broncos had it inside the red zone,

759
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Speaker 3: but on fourth and one at the New England fourteen,

760
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Speaker 3: deciding to go for it as opposed to kicking a

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Speaker 3: field goal to try to go up ten nothing. I

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Speaker 3: get it, it's a second quarter. And I understand Sean

763
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Speaker 3: Payton with the aggressiveness. He's always been that guy. But

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Speaker 3: I watched that CBS pregame show and all I heard

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Speaker 3: was Bill Kauer consistently say take the points, and he

766
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 3: was talking about both teams because weather and then the

767
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Speaker 3: defenses of these two teams, points were going.

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Speaker 5: To be at a premium.

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Speaker 4: And to your point, pregame, there were a lot of

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Speaker 4: predictions there was going to be extreme weather in the

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Speaker 4: second half, so you should have known that it could

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Speaker 4: have been. It could be a tough slog in that

773
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Speaker 4: second half trying to move the football all the more

774
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Speaker 4: reason to take the points. It's almost as if in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, that you're not seen

776
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Speaker 4: as aggressive, that you're seen as weak, you're not seen

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Speaker 4: as cutting edge. If you just take the points, if

778
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Speaker 4: you kick the fuel goal, it's almost like, what are

779
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Speaker 4: you're gonna kick the fuel goal? Okay, boomer right? I

780
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Speaker 4: mean it's almost like some sort of year behind the

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Speaker 4: times and you're not with it. Well, it can still

782
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Speaker 4: be really smart football, considering the game conditions and who

783
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Speaker 4: you have playing quarterback and the fact you have a

784
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Speaker 4: top three defense that can hold the other team, and

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Speaker 4: they did, as it turns out. So I just think

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Speaker 4: you're failing your team if you don't have the ability

787
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Speaker 4: to go beyond the analytics and the probabilities and try

788
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Speaker 4: and factor in, okay, game conditions, who's playing the game,

789
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Speaker 4: and then make the best choice possible.

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Speaker 6: You know what's interesting is twenty years ago, fourth and

791
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Speaker 6: inches punt team's coming out right.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there was no question it was too risky

793
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Speaker 5: then no question about it.

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Speaker 6: And analytics have completely shifted the mentality in the way

795
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Speaker 6: offensive play callers see a game, and it has completely

796
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Speaker 6: changed the dynamic of NFL football.

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Speaker 3: Drake May in that game eighty six passing yards, sixty

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Speaker 3: five rushing yards, and he was basically the Patriots offense

799
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Speaker 3: in the second half, had that game clinching seven yard

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Speaker 3: run for a first down, plus had a six yard

801
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Speaker 3: rushing touchdown the only touchdown of the game following a

802
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Speaker 3: Jared Stidham stripsack fumble, and the Patriots defense, Paul when

803
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 3: you look at the numbers, next Gen stats and what

804
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Speaker 3: they did to Jared Stidham. Now, again, this is someone

805
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Speaker 3: who not attempted or completed a pass in the regular

806
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 3: season in the past two years, but when under pressure,

807
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 3: Stidham went one of ten for four yards and two

808
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 3: turnovers and a huge, costly first half turnover that allowed

809
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Speaker 3: the Patriots to tie the game at seven.

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Speaker 4: It's just really sound coaching, from the fact that New

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Speaker 4: England is undefeated this year on the road, to the

812
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Speaker 4: fact that the offense averaged just eighteen points per game

813
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Speaker 4: in the playoffs, which is a few us by any

814
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Speaker 4: playoff team to reach the Super Bowl since nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 4: And that Rams team, Yes it was skewed a little

816
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 4: bit by that snow game in Denver, but just really

817
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 4: sound coaching to me, they still don't have all that

818
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Speaker 4: talented a roster in the New England. Patriots and Craig

819
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 4: we talked about this the end of last season. They

820
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Speaker 4: came in and it was late in the season, week

821
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Speaker 4: fifteen or sixteen, and they had rookie Drake May against

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals at State Farm Stadium. They had Christian Gonzales

823
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Speaker 4: and a bunch of guys with first named Jack and

824
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Speaker 4: last named squad. It was one of the least talented

825
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Speaker 4: rosters I'd seen it in a long time. Mike Grabel

826
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Speaker 4: comes in, they go from four wins to four losses,

827
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Speaker 4: right from four and thirteen to thirteen and four. Just

828
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Speaker 4: some excellent coaching. Drake May obviously blossom. Josh McDaniels the experience,

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Speaker 4: Mike Rabel and experience head coach, and they never made

830
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Speaker 4: the mistakes so would beat themselves.

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Speaker 7: Just very sound and because of.

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Speaker 4: That, Look how far they've gone.

833
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Speaker 3: And you look, going back to what you always say

834
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Speaker 3: when you're watching teams in the playoffs, rob and the

835
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Speaker 3: Cardinals are not in the postseason, all right, what do

836
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Speaker 3: the Cardinals need?

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Speaker 5: Well, you look at Seattle.

838
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Speaker 3: They turned it around in two years under Mike McDonald.

839
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Speaker 3: Patriots needed just one year under Mike Brabel. Now the

840
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Speaker 3: difference between those two teams. Seahawks went out and got

841
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Speaker 3: Sam Donald. Patriots already had Bonnicks, excuse me, already had

842
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 3: Drake May and House. That's the one missing element the

843
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 3: Cardinals right now. Yeah, you've got Kyler Murray, you've got

844
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Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissett, and you got Keten Slovas under contract.

845
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Speaker 5: But who's that guy that is going to lead this team?

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Speaker 3: Forget the head coach, but who's your quarterback that is

847
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Speaker 3: going to lead this team in twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, obviously quarterback position. If you don't have that, you

849
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Speaker 6: don't have anything. And that you have to have a quarterback,

850
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Speaker 6: a good quarterback in this league to even be considered

851
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Speaker 6: into the postseason. But the other detail, I think that

852
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 6: when you're talking about coaching staffs and head coaches, that's

853
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 6: vital and you see some of these rapid turnarounds and

854
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 6: ken the Cardinals do it is finding out, okay, identifying

855
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 6: who are the players that maybe struggled in the last

856
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 6: year or the year before, and how do we maximize

857
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 6: their athletic ability, how do we maximize their assets and

858
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Speaker 6: put them in positions to succeed and then we can

859
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Speaker 6: identify we talked about a d rob somebody like him.

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Speaker 6: I mean Marvin Harrison junior here, you know John Gains,

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Speaker 6: There's there's you know, Max Melton. There's a ton of

862
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 6: players on this on this Arizona Cordinals roster that maybe

863
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 6: haven't been utilized to their fullest extent in the past,

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Speaker 6: and and can we unlock them and can we put

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Speaker 6: them in positions to succeed?

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Speaker 3: And you look at these two head coaches now in

867
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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. One a first time head coach who

868
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Speaker 3: calls plays in Mike McDonald. The other one Mike Rabel,

869
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Speaker 3: former head coach, doesn't call plays. He is that CEO

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Speaker 3: if you will, on the sideline.

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Speaker 4: He won three rings as a player. He's trying to

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Speaker 4: become the first ever to win a Super Bowl as

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Speaker 4: obviously had all that experience with Tennessee. So if you're

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Speaker 4: the Bills and you got rid of Sean McDermott and

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Speaker 4: you hired reportedly Joe Brady today, are you gonna regret

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Speaker 4: getting rid of a Sean McDermott, like maybe the Tennessee

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Speaker 4: Titans regretted parting ways with Mike Brabel Head.

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Speaker 3: Coaching search continues, at least from what we can tell

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Speaker 3: here late morning on a Tuesday. But the next time

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Speaker 3: we are together in one week here on the Cardinals

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Speaker 3: Red Sea Report. Has that vacancy been filled? Maybe we'll

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Speaker 3: see special thanks behind the scenes. Jim Momanro Cody Fincher,

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Speaker 3: Max Brown for Rob Friderison, Paul Calvec. I'm Craig Riolou.

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