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Speaker 1: Store Touchdown, Welcome to the Cardinals Red Sea Report. Swam

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Speaker 1: to the ground by Buda Baker like a torpedo. He

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Speaker 1: Visit Asycardinals dot com Slash podcast. Here Queen go one

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Speaker 1: hand to catch and a touchdown. Oh Babymmettfield. Here's Craig Grioloud,

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Speaker 1: three time pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch, and thirteen year NFL

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Speaker 1: veteran Drew Stanton. It was a win, a win at

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Speaker 1: home and a win on primetime. Cardinals checks off a

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Speaker 1: lot of boxes in Thursday Night's victory of the New

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints forty two thirty four. As we welcome you

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Speaker 1: here on this Tuesday to talk all things Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: and Yes, after back to back losses, the Cardinals found

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Speaker 1: themselves back in the win column. They are three and four,

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Speaker 1: much like everyone else within the division, which is good news,

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Speaker 1: but bottom line, this team, Kyle needed a w, especially

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Speaker 1: going into a long weekend, much easier to enjoy the

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Speaker 1: three day weekend, and then going into this week's game

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Speaker 1: against the Vikings. After victory, Yeah, the w was huge,

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Speaker 1: you know, like you just talked about, winning at home

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Speaker 1: was huge. Get that monkey off their back, play well

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Speaker 1: in prime time, put on a good show. It was

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Speaker 1: an exciting game. And I could tell you, like you

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Speaker 1: just mentioned, going into this mini buy, getting a win,

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Speaker 1: a hard fought win, no matter how it looked at times.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't always pretty, It wasn't a dominant win, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't everything wasn't clean and buttoned up, but they fought.

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, what you've seen from this team

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Speaker 1: throughout the season. And I can tell you, you know,

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about the previous couple of games the

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Speaker 1: postgame locker room, how disappointing, how upset some of the

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Speaker 1: players were. And it is so tough to fully invest

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Speaker 1: yourself into a game plan, to practice hard all week,

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Speaker 1: to prepare as hard as you prepare, and go out

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Speaker 1: and fight and come up empty. So just to get

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Speaker 1: the win, going into this mini buy, you can you

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Speaker 1: put some new things on tape, both offensively and defensively,

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Speaker 1: a good opportunity to self scout. You can build off

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Speaker 1: with some of the changes you made and move forward

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Speaker 1: and hopefully pick up where you left off. Might have

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Speaker 1: been the first time this season drew in which we

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Speaker 1: can say complimentary football where the offense had its moments,

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Speaker 1: the defense certainly had its moments, and it added up

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Speaker 1: to a forty point performance. Yeah, the defense complimented itself

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Speaker 1: think the thing that stands out to me most is

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Speaker 1: just the effort being put forth right now and being

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Speaker 1: opportunistic all of those things. Because it's very easy to

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Speaker 1: led up to that, the Antonio Hamilton interception that we

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Speaker 1: You know, Jalen Thompson comes screaming across the sidelines and

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Speaker 1: another thing that doesn't show up on the stack column

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Speaker 1: is getting the attitude and energy back of a DeAndre Hopkins.

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Speaker 1: And everybody said, well, one guy can't be a savior.

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Speaker 1: One guy that is an elite talent can't just be

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Speaker 1: And again, when you're plus three in the turnover ratios,

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Speaker 1: So what's the stat I know you got a stat.

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Speaker 1: They're trending in the right direction after last week, and

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Speaker 1: this is a week to week business. Forty two thirty four,

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Speaker 1: Hopkins targeted fourteen times, had ten catches for one hundred

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Speaker 1: not one on one. I'm just gonna work the progression.

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Speaker 1: if he just continues to execute the way they ask

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Speaker 1: him to. Great athleticism by Simmons and Marco Wilson, but

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Speaker 1: for me, the most important of the takeaways was Antonio

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Speaker 1: Hamilton's interception in the end zone, because if you look

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Speaker 1: at that point, you're down seven to three. You put

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Speaker 1: that ball in the end zone, it's fourteen to three,

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Speaker 1: you're trailing by eleven, and I think, at least for

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Speaker 1: me and maybe a lot of the fans in the stands, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: it's like, all right, here we go again. You're trailing

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Speaker 1: by two scores early in a ball game. It's time

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Speaker 1: to play catch up. Can you do it against the Saints? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're right. That was huge to get that takeaway and

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Speaker 1: to take points off the boarder because I had that

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Speaker 1: exact same feeling at home off to a slow start

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Speaker 1: getting down early. You know, we've heard over and over

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Speaker 1: coach Kingsbury said, we just can't get in these deficits

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Speaker 1: early because we can't run our full offense and you're

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00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: always chasing. And that play right there, you know, kept

447
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: it a game, kept a minute, allowed them to do

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Speaker 1: to execute their full game plan. Both offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it was a huge momentum swing because the

450
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Speaker 1: Saints offensively, we're having a lot of success both on

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Speaker 1: the ground game and in the passing game. Up to

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Speaker 1: that point, um it looked like, um, you know, the

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Speaker 1: worst the defense had been playing for several weeks, and

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Speaker 1: to make a huge play like that get the ball

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Speaker 1: back for your offense and not allow them to get

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Speaker 1: points ended up being not just because of the circumstances

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Speaker 1: of the game, a huge play, but a huge emotional

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Speaker 1: lift for the entire team. First interception of Hamilton's career

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Speaker 1: head cutch Cliff Kingsbury on that end zone pick, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was huge to keep him out there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be a fourteen to three I believe in

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Speaker 1: you know, Ham's first career picks then on seventeens. He's

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Speaker 1: earned every bit of this and to see him have

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Speaker 1: that success and continue to thrive has been really cool

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Speaker 1: for all of us. The other note defensively drew in

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Speaker 1: this forty two thirty four ball game is seeing Zaven

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Speaker 1: Collins name atop the list of tacklers for the Arizona

468
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Speaker 1: Cardinals second straight week he's led the team in tackles.

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Speaker 1: He's playing one hundred percent of the snaps now four

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Speaker 1: straight weeks, and I just think that he is figured

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Speaker 1: things out, or at least the coaching staff to say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we're going to put you out there

473
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Speaker 1: because one year, first round pick, we need to figure

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Speaker 1: out can you do it. I haven't seen a lot

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Speaker 1: of mistakes from him, and he's seemed to be in

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Speaker 1: the right place at the right time. And you want

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Speaker 1: that second level of your defense to be among the

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Speaker 1: leader and tacklers, not so much the back end of

479
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Speaker 1: your defense exactly well, and I think, right you pair

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Speaker 1: these two guys together, these two first round picks, and

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Speaker 1: they have now established a trust with the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: right these the coaches trust them to go out there

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Speaker 1: and do what they were drafted to do and what

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Speaker 1: they're capable of doing. Each kind of took their own

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Speaker 1: road of getting there, but they are established now as Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is a guy that we know is going to

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Speaker 1: give us this and it's not this up and down

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Speaker 1: and roller coaster. There is a level of expectation when

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Speaker 1: both of these linebackers step foot on the field that

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Speaker 1: they're going to produce tackles or Isaiah Simmons is going

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Speaker 1: to produce big plays or be in the right position

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Speaker 1: from now on. So all of these things, right, are

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Speaker 1: starting to solidify themselves on this defense at this point

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Speaker 1: in the season, which is much needed. The talent that

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Speaker 1: they're going to see, the skill level of going to

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Speaker 1: see is going to only continue to increase, especially this week,

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Speaker 1: of what they need to do within the communication, within

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Speaker 1: the confines of what's going on. So it's going to

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Speaker 1: be exciting because again, I think this defense is playing

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Speaker 1: at an extremely high level and we saw a lot

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Speaker 1: of firsts this weekend or this past Thursday for a

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Speaker 1: lot of these guys. So to get a taste of that,

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Speaker 1: to be able to see what that success is like,

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Speaker 1: hopefully that can manifest itself and to continued success of

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Speaker 1: this one or no mentality that they preached about all

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Speaker 1: of last year of harping on we did this right,

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Speaker 1: and there are some really good things that they did

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Speaker 1: as a team, as an offense, as a defense, but

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Speaker 1: you also need to correct those mistakes so those little

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Speaker 1: things don't become bigger things. There was a big spotlight

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Speaker 1: on Zavian in the off season and training camp Kyle

512
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Speaker 1: about how sure you were. As far as tackling, leading

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Speaker 1: with your shoulder, getting off blocks, I haven't seen a

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Speaker 1: lot of that this so far this season. No, you

515
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: can see again he's played himself into becoming a contributor

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Speaker 1: and a really good player. And it shows by his

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Speaker 1: stats these last few weeks. But it really shows on

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Speaker 1: the field as well. His eyes are in the right place,

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00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 1: his hand placement is great on playing blocks us. He's

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Speaker 1: really maturing and becoming the impact type player that they've

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Speaker 1: needed him to be. That improvement from year one to

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Speaker 1: year two. Yeah, exhibit A Xavian Collins. We have we

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Speaker 1: have hit a halftime here on the Cardinals Reds Report

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Speaker 1: presented by Set Your Ticket to Great Secrets. More looking

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Speaker 1: back and what the Cardinals were able to do against

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Speaker 1: the scenes on Thursday Night football. That's next here on

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Snapped to Murray gonna give

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Speaker 1: to Ingram running straight ahead, Ingram diving for the goal

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Speaker 1: line and he's into the end zone. Just first NFL touchdown.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about right there, Baby, snapped to Murray,

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Speaker 1: quick throw left side, It's caught at the one and

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Speaker 1: into the end zone for the touchdown. Is Greg dord

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Speaker 1: straight throw by Kyler Rue to the body of Greg

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Speaker 1: dorts On that slant rock. They run it again. Benjamin

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Speaker 1: off the right side hit but Dice for the end

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Speaker 1: zone sticks the ball out. They're gonna mark him down

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Speaker 1: at the one. Oh. He just absolutely busted the tackle

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Speaker 1: of Calmer Jordan. They just changed to call to a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Officials were having a conference. Water an effort by Eno Benjamin,

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Speaker 1: the desperation coming from this kid. This is a fantastic

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Speaker 1: performance by best performance of his career. Talking about Eno

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Speaker 1: Benjamin and what he was able to do along with

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Speaker 1: the rest of the Arizona Cardinals offensive players in a

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Speaker 1: forty two thirty four win Thursday night against the New

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Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. As we welcome you back here to the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Red Sea report Craig Riel and Drew Stanton, Nankov,

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Speaker 1: Nibosch and yeah, James Conner, no, Darryl Williams, no aj Green.

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Speaker 1: He was active but did not see the field. So

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Speaker 1: you saw Keanta Ingram score. You saw Greg Dortsch be

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Speaker 1: more involved and find the end zone. You know. Benjamin

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Speaker 1: with a five yard touchdown to put the finishing capper

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Speaker 1: for the Cardinals forty point effort, first time since the

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen season that the Arizona Cardinals hit that forty

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Speaker 1: point mark. But you're seeing younger players. You've seen a

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00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: little bit difference of an offense, at least as far

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Speaker 1: as how it looked Drew and how much of that

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Speaker 1: was DeAndre Hopkins, how much of that was because ye

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Speaker 1: had some running backs hurt and you chose to not

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Speaker 1: utilize a j Green this week for maybe it was

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Speaker 1: this particular week, or maybe it's for the duration of

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season that I think we're I'm

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Speaker 1: interested to see specifically how that works because we know

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Speaker 1: Kyle's a big Greg Dorch fan over here, but we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen a lot of Greg Dortch until Thursday. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, you're trying to put it all

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Speaker 1: together what it's going to be like when you're at

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Speaker 1: full strength. They're not even going to be at full

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Speaker 1: strength until Hollywood Brown is back. But as you add

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Speaker 1: different pieces back into this, and obviously everybody knew DeAndre

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Speaker 1: is going to be back, but as soon as Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Brown gets hurt, you go add Robbie Anderson. So does

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Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson fill that role? I think that you're seeing

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator is doing a really good job of negating

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Speaker 1: guys one they're on the outside. So when you put

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Speaker 1: guys on the inside like DeAndre Hopkins, like Cooper Cup,

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Speaker 1: like Justin Jefferson we're going to see this week, it

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Speaker 1: becomes hard to dictate what's going to go on because

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Speaker 1: a lot of people structure the shell of the defense

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to really hone in on one specific

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Speaker 1: guy if you on the inside, because then it does

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Speaker 1: create these one on one matchups outside. So and saying

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Speaker 1: that you want to have as many weapons as you can.

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Speaker 1: Greg Dortch has been a tremendous weapon all season, but

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Speaker 1: touchdown he had scared me to death because that was

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Speaker 1: an awful play by Marcus Many. If the safety should

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Speaker 1: have it was an in an alcohol That's why that

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00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: was outside leverage on the slot corner. That safety should

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Speaker 1: have absolutely taken his head off. He didn't. Greg Dortsch

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Speaker 1: is the willing to go in the middle and make

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Speaker 1: that catch, which is tremendous because that's the style of

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Speaker 1: play that he has. A guy like aj Green that

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Speaker 1: hasn't had a firm foundation to stand on for the

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Speaker 1: year and change that he's been here. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can see a little bit of a lack of trust

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Speaker 1: from Kyler's standpoint of what's going on. Do they cut

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Speaker 1: their losses at this point. It's sad and it's hard

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Speaker 1: to say because you've seen ajb an unbelievable wide receiver

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Speaker 1: in this league for so long, a guy that you

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Speaker 1: want to be able to rely on four those one

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Speaker 1: on one matchups when they come on the outside. But

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Speaker 1: there's so many playmakers. We talked about this running back

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Speaker 1: room in the preseason, and these guys that are getting

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Speaker 1: that next man up mentality of the Eno Benjamin's that

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00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: have been here, even Kean th Ingram. They run hard,

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Speaker 1: they are difference makers, and when their opportunity come, they're

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Speaker 1: making the most of it. So it affords these guys

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Speaker 1: like James Connor to get fully healthy, to be able

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Speaker 1: to feel good about those type of things. And as

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Speaker 1: you move forward of saying the nucleus of this team

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00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: is now expanding and becoming great and setting it up

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Speaker 1: for years to come, which is exactly what the front

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Speaker 1: office guys like love to see. George played thirty five snaps.

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Speaker 1: He had played a total of six snaps on offense

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Speaker 1: the previous two games. So I don't know if it

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Speaker 1: was your comments, Kyle and the analytical research that you

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Speaker 1: had done to show that Greg Gorge needed to play more.

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Speaker 1: But obviously someone's listening to you. Nobody listens to me,

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00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: including my family by the way now, but he just

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Speaker 1: always seems to make plays, and it was just a

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Speaker 1: mystery to me why he wasn't being used more. When

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Speaker 1: he gets his hands on the ball, He's quick, explosive,

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Speaker 1: he's got that dog in him too. I mean he

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Speaker 1: will put his shoulder down and fight for extra yards. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know you're the again next gin stat guy. But um,

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00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: you know he's I think he's leading the league in

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Speaker 1: separation yardage m on his route. So, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: why not get him the ball? He's done some special things.

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Speaker 1: He was a special player in the preseason and his

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Speaker 1: limited amount of reps in the regular season up to

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Speaker 1: this point. Um, he makes plays when when the ball

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Speaker 1: is thrown to him. Um, so I hope he continues

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00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: to be a big part of the game play and

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Speaker 1: even when you know Robbie Anderson is integrated more, even

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Speaker 1: when Hollywood Brown comes back, Because like Drew said, um,

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Speaker 1: if this offense, gets everybody healthy and gets clicking on

636
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: all cylinders. Um, there is so many threats, so many

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00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: good weapons on this team that um, Kyler Murray can

638
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: really spread the ball around and guys can make play.

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00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: Even saw involved in the running game, but that was

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Speaker 1: mainly you know, Benjamin's space to work and twe carries

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00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: ninety two rushing yards for catches twenty one yards for Eno.

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Speaker 1: Benjamin again his best game as a pro. Here's Kyla

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Speaker 1: Murray on his running back Thursday night. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: always been a great football player. I've been familiar with

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Speaker 1: Eno since high school, growing up in Texas. He's been

646
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Speaker 1: a great football player ever since I can remember, so

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm not surprised by anything that he's accomplished or

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Speaker 1: will accomplish on the future. You know, he runs hard,

649
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Speaker 1: always falls foward, can catch the rock. He's a good

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Speaker 1: football player. Eno established career highs for scrimmage yards, rushing

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Speaker 1: yards scored his third career touchdown, also broke the longest

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Speaker 1: run of his career forty five yards. That's the longest

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Speaker 1: play from scrimmage for this Arizona Cardinals offense. And that

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Speaker 1: is something that Kingsbury brought up on Monday as far

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Speaker 1: the lack of explosive plays here is the head coach.

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Speaker 1: We got to go in early, which was good. I

657
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: still gotta be better on the red zone, I thought offensively,

658
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Speaker 1: we gotta be able to make the routine plays more

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Speaker 1: often and then be sharper. But it was good to

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Speaker 1: see us answer some of those drives early, three or

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Speaker 1: four inside the red zone. But I'll go back to

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Speaker 1: what Kingsbury talked about on Monday, Drew, and that is

663
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to get this passing game

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Speaker 1: going and not rely so much on the chunk plays

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Speaker 1: on the ground. There has not been. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals are the only team without a passing play of

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Speaker 1: forty or more yards this season. Now, is that quarterback,

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Speaker 1: is that the play call, or is that the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver is not getting open deep downfield? Well, I think

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00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: it all plays a hand in it, right, But when

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Speaker 1: you get that run game going, that's where you're going

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Speaker 1: to see more of it. So, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: the other thing that's alarming is the third nouns. Right,

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Speaker 1: We got bailed out a couple of DeAndre Hopkins holding calls,

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Speaker 1: luckily having him on the field but still being three

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Speaker 1: of ten. It's that situational football that, yes, it feels

677
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Speaker 1: good to get a win, it feels to do all

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Speaker 1: these things, particularly realistic. Look at what this offense can do.

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Speaker 1: I think you know, you're still it's still a work

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Speaker 1: in progress. That's why you're not seeing guys that are

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Speaker 1: solidified in certain spots. DeAndre Hopkins will be in the slot,

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Speaker 1: who's on the outside, how they mix and match him.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a quiet game from zach Ertz, but

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Speaker 1: he's been having a good as his role going to

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Speaker 1: diminish now with Robbie Anderson and with DeAndre Hopkins there

686
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Speaker 1: all of these things. But if you can control the

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00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: short and the intermediate passing game, that's what will open up.

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Speaker 1: When these guys start to get nosy and they try

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Speaker 1: to do all these different things and stick their nose

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00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 1: where they shouldn't, that's where you're going to be able

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00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: to see it. There's been opportunities, they just haven't connected

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Speaker 1: on them yet this year. But you need to keep swinging.

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Speaker 1: You need to keep swinging for the fences and hoping

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Speaker 1: that eventually once you kind of get it. It's like turnovers,

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Speaker 1: they seem to come in bunches. You seem to start

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Speaker 1: getting this, and there's just this growing confidence of what's

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Speaker 1: going on offensively. When you hit a home run per

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Speaker 1: se that you feel good about going back to it,

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Speaker 1: or you start drawing them up, or they present themselves differently,

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Speaker 1: and there's plenty of guys capable of doing it. It's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of when the opportunity presents itself. Answering

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Speaker 1: third down something that this team really needs to get better.

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Speaker 1: At three of ten on Thursday four sixteen, the week prior,

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Speaker 1: they are twenty eight converting on third down. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the rest of the league and yes, for

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Speaker 1: the head coach and his offensive staff and areas to

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Speaker 1: look forward to or to work on, especially this week

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Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings on the schedule, we will touch

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings, who are five and one. That is

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Speaker 1: next for the Arizona Cardinals here on Sunday. It is

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Speaker 1: an early kick ten am five thirty am. Pregame coverage

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Speaker 1: begins here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Cardinals will

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Speaker 1: be home in two weeks and for single game tickets

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Red Sea Report. We do it every Tuesday, eleven

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network account. With the ball, I

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Speaker 1: s will be the last player the town steps on,

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Speaker 1: rolling Farson, but come rolling far sight eat of the

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Speaker 1: end zone where the ball is Touchdo Cardinals? Hey? Cool?

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Speaker 1: Cardinals win the game on the final part and the

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Speaker 1: Mirkings are going home for the new year. The seasons

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Speaker 1: on the line. McCown takes the shop, he steps up,

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Speaker 1: he's all by himself, fires into the Enzo dots down

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals of me. I'm the King of the Playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Still one of my favorite opposing calls of all time.

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen Vikings Radio Network. You flashback Cardinals and Vikings

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Speaker 1: two thousand and three, then Sundevil Stadium they pass first,

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Speaker 1: and then Paul Allen second. And yes, the Cardinals knocked

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Speaker 1: the Vikings out of the playoffs. There's an upcoming folk

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Speaker 1: Tales episode on just that game and that season. Go

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Speaker 1: to Easy Cardinals dot com for more information. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: folk Tales, the Stanton Shuffle is out as we speak

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Speaker 1: on all your favorite platforms. Go to easy Cardinals dot com.

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Speaker 1: Do you give me a weird look for let me? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: go watch it. Yes, we want to increase exactly. We

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Speaker 1: need to get that number up. All right. Cardinals and

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Speaker 1: Vikings ten am kickoff, five thirty am. Pregame coverage begins

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Speaker 1: here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. And Kyle, you

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Speaker 1: look at the Vikings five and one, one of four

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Speaker 1: teams with one or fewer losses. They have a four

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Speaker 1: game winning streak. But the all by one score and

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Speaker 1: I believe it's five and a half points is the

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Speaker 1: average margin of victory. They're finding ways to get the

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Speaker 1: job done. And they're one of the surprise teams. Not

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about, but they are one of the

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Speaker 1: surprise teams as far as when you look at the

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Speaker 1: top of the standings. Yeah, you're exactly right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: nothing about them particularly overwhelms you nothing when you break

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Speaker 1: down their stats. Um, you know, the middle of the

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Speaker 1: pack in a lot of categories, both offensively and defensively. Um.

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Speaker 1: But you know that seems to be the way most

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Speaker 1: of the NFC is. UM. You know, there's there's not

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Speaker 1: those dominant teams right now. Everybody's kind of middle of

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Speaker 1: the pack teams. And even though they are five and one,

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Speaker 1: which is truly the only stat that matters as your record,

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Speaker 1: you know they're not a super intimidating team. You know,

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Speaker 1: they do have weapons, you know, justin Jefferson, a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook can be a game breaking type running back

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Speaker 1: in and Kirk Cousins, you know, for the most part,

763
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Speaker 1: is an efficient quarterback that gets the job done. So

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Speaker 1: you know, but there is something to be said for

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Speaker 1: a team that continually finds ways to win, particularly those

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Speaker 1: close games. There are five wins against teams with a

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Speaker 1: combined record of twelve and twenty one. The Dolphins the

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Speaker 1: only team currently that has a winning record. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the teams that they've beaten, how much is

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Speaker 1: what the Vikings doing. Drew with their first year head

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Speaker 1: coach and Kevin O'Connell, the former Rams offensive coordinator, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a lot. Because you're just winning close

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Speaker 1: football games. You're finding ways to win it and that

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Speaker 1: starts to breed confidence. And when you start to do that,

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Speaker 1: you know that much like we saw with the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals against the Raiders. Right, there's becomes this belief you're

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Speaker 1: never out of a game, or you can now go

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Speaker 1: win these close football games. And so again they've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of veterans on that team. That team is

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Speaker 1: very veteran heavy, and they have elite talent at the

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Speaker 1: positions where you need it. And Justin Jefferson playing on

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Speaker 1: the inside, talked about how he was going to take

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Speaker 1: over this Cooper cup roll, but do it better, and

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Speaker 1: so may argue that he is right now. So you

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Speaker 1: look at what he's able to accomplish. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be an all day feat. The Cardinals have done a

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Speaker 1: very good job of kind of taking away option number one.

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Speaker 1: It's option number two or three or four that it

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Speaker 1: seemed to be hurting this Cardinals defense at times of

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Speaker 1: guys like, okay, well you shut down Alvin Kamara, but

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Speaker 1: then Chris Alabe goes off. You can't really do that

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Speaker 1: with both of these guys because Dalvin Cook and Justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson are so dynamic, and Adam Feelin can beat you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a good rapport with Kirk, and

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Speaker 1: Kirk's just kind of fine just being this dorky, geeky guy.

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Speaker 1: Miss and State guy. You know that we are not

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Speaker 1: alike in that regard, uh you know, but in saying that,

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Speaker 1: he has just quietly gone about his business. And again,

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Speaker 1: this is has been a very good football team over

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Speaker 1: the past. You look at the defense and the emphasis

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Speaker 1: that's playing on a place on it when Zimmer was there,

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Speaker 1: what they were able to do, some familiar faces. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that always plays into it. When you're looking at a

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Speaker 1: guy like Patrick Peterson that wants to be able to

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Speaker 1: play for the fan base that he left to. Look

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Speaker 1: at Jordan Hicks who left, you know, in good standing,

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Speaker 1: but at the same time, they drafted his replacement right

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Speaker 1: off the bat. So that all plays into this, especially

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Speaker 1: when you've got to go to kind of an interesting

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Speaker 1: situation where it's not fully East Coast. You're going up

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Speaker 1: that they start sounding the horn, all of these things.

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Speaker 1: you know, beat up pretty bad, and we looked our

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Speaker 1: be a tough task to go in there and try

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Speaker 1: and come away with a win. But this team is

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Speaker 1: trending in the right direction. Like I said, it's a

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Speaker 1: a lot more confidence in that locker room. They can

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Speaker 1: go on the road and beat a good five and

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Speaker 1: one football team. You gotta be able to score points

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Speaker 1: and that's something that Kingsbury brought up on Monday, using

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Speaker 1: to do some self scouting, specifically looking at the offensive

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Speaker 1: Cardinals the only team without a passing play of forty

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Speaker 1: or more yards. But the Vikings asn't mentioned five and one.

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Speaker 1: They're on a four game winning streak. Here's more from

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Speaker 1: the head coach on what he sees out of the

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Speaker 1: Vikings tremendous offensive scale. Kevin's a great offensive line was

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Speaker 1: with Sean played quarterback. I mean I have been a

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Speaker 1: big fan of what he's done. And then defensively, you know,

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Speaker 1: and they're playing at a high level I think complimentary football.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of their their deal right now. Jordan Hicks

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Speaker 1: leads the team and tackles Patrick Peterson eighteen best, seven

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Speaker 1: passes defense and one interception. The Vikings at home always

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Speaker 1: a difficult place to play. Cardinals have not one in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota since nineteen seventy seven. That's ten straight losses, including

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Speaker 1: the postseason. To either one of you have any experience

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Speaker 1: winning in Minnesota, Kyle, I think we were both in

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Speaker 1: Detroit the first time we wanted the Metrodome. It had

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Speaker 1: been a long time, but it was the old Metrodome

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Speaker 1: and it was yeah, the roofless caven in and stuff.

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Speaker 1: So no secret to success, no, No, They're notorious for

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Speaker 1: pumping crowd noise into that place too though. I mean

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Speaker 1: It's early in the week, but those are some things

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