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Speaker 1: Oh baby hometfield. Here's Craig Griolu, Mike Jarecki and three

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Speaker 1: time Pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch. Well, let's start right there.

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Speaker 1: Between the three of us, we have three Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: appearances and by this is Kyle your parents. Your experiences

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Speaker 1: did not mirror what we saw Sunday in Las Vegas. No,

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Speaker 1: I daresay you two have as many Pro Bowl tackles

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Speaker 1: You had touch right, that was hard to watch. That

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Speaker 1: Forty one thirty five, the final AFC wins. That's doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into the individuals as far as the five

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Speaker 1: Cardinals performing in that game. But when you played versus

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Speaker 1: I guess what we saw on Sunday and even over

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Speaker 1: the last five years, the intensity, the competitiveness, How did

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Speaker 1: you approach the game versus again what you saw on Sunday? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was never when I went, there was never a

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Speaker 1: the way I took it, and I completely understand the

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Speaker 1: my approach was fans voted me to be here. I

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Speaker 1: And I always felt like for meum and anybody else

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Speaker 1: And and just my opinion at this point, Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl is a tremendous honor and I respect

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Speaker 1: all the players that go there, but that wasn't football.

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Speaker 1: So if you're not going to make it a football game,

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Speaker 1: you know, just get the Pro bowlers together and have

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Speaker 1: a bowling competition or ping pong competition, because honestly, fans

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Speaker 1: love it. Fans love content. They will watch whatever with

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Speaker 1: just make it some other sort of competition. Now you're

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Speaker 1: you're going to Hawaii, correct? Yes? Actually I went to

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Speaker 1: and when you get that a fourth quarter thinking I

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Speaker 1: was there a gentleman's agreement because they changed the rules

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Speaker 1: eighty percent? Correct? Yeah, I mean, like I said, there

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Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl, And you know, I respect that.

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Speaker 1: It's if you're not going to make it a competition,

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Speaker 1: I just don't really understand the purpose of the actual

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Speaker 1: I think just how cool everybody is, you know you.

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Speaker 1: It's it's been super dope to see how everybody's been

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Speaker 1: It's a large fraternity, but it's an exclusive fraternity guys

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Speaker 1: toasy Cardinals dot Com. It was very tough, honestly, and

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Speaker 1: Burrow doing it in his second season. He's a year

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Speaker 1: older than Kyle Murray, who's going into season number four.

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Speaker 1: Drew Stanton last week on The Red Sea Report on

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Speaker 1: how he sees Kyle Murray compared to Joe Burrow. Kyler's

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Speaker 1: definitely in that realm of possibility next year, right that

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Speaker 1: you look at everything and I know that everybody's going

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Speaker 1: to be frustrated. And we've talked about on their show before. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so they get to eleven wins next year, everybody's gonna beick. Well,

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Speaker 1: when's the collapse come in? That's all outside noise and

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Speaker 1: when next year comes, you've got to be prepared for that.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Kyler has that ability to gravitate

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Speaker 1: people and pull everybody along with him, and that's the

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Speaker 1: most important part of leadership. People believe in Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: people believe in Tom Brady, people believe in Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: with the Los Angeles Rams. That's one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: components of playing this position, that you're never out of

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Speaker 1: a game because of who the signal caller is. For you,

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Speaker 1: are you uplifting your teammates, are you making others around

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Speaker 1: you better? And for me Kyle, that is what a

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Speaker 1: player in his position as the quarterback should do. And

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Speaker 1: we see it's you know, everyone makes the comparison to

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Speaker 1: I do. Anyway, Look at a point guard in the NBA,

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Speaker 1: Steve Nash, he makes everyone around him better. More recently

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Speaker 1: Chris Paul here locally. Are we seeing that from Kyler Murray?

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Speaker 1: That's got to be the next step because individual his

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Speaker 1: numbers are off the chart, but what is his other

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Speaker 1: ten players on the team doing. Yeah, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: You know, the quarterback of any team, regardless of his ability,

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Speaker 1: needs to be the tone setter. He needs to be

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Speaker 1: the calm in the storm. He needs to, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: be the guy who does uplift his team like you said,

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Speaker 1: and um again, what I have seen from Kyler since

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Speaker 1: he's been here is he is a great leader. You

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Speaker 1: know when things are going really well and guys want

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Speaker 1: to follow him and he is you know, fired up.

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Speaker 1: You know it's it's just to me. He's got to

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Speaker 1: be the guy that helps study the steady this ship. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, he is the type of quarterback and the

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Speaker 1: type of athlete UM that could have you know said

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take this game over and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to help us win this game in a couple of

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Speaker 1: those games, somebody, uh, one of the leaders, somebody with

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Speaker 1: the ability, somebody with an ability to affect a game

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Speaker 1: needed to help that snowball, stop that snowball from rolling

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Speaker 1: down the hill, because it just kept rolling and it

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Speaker 1: rolled right into the playoffs and it was it was

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Speaker 1: too late. Now what you couldn't stop that momentum at

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Speaker 1: that point point. That's that's the kind of guy he

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Speaker 1: needs to be. And guys have done that. Great quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: have done that throughout the history of the league. You know,

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Speaker 1: when the team is going through some bad things, they

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Speaker 1: just put it on their shoulders and make something happen.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of you know what, in this short

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Speaker 1: sample size, what we have seen from a quarterback like

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. You know, things were not going well in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: At times it was going terrible. Things were not going

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Speaker 1: well against Kansas City, but he put that team on

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Speaker 1: his back and he carried them. And you've seen it

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Speaker 1: from Kyler at times, just sometimes not when the team

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Speaker 1: needed it the most. You know, you look at Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: he was at Ohio State. They decided to go with

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins and reports were if Shanno got the job

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee. He was going to go there, but you know,

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Speaker 1: then he plays at Lshoe and he puts up big numbers.

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Speaker 1: I dislike his demeanor, calm, cool and collective. You see

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Speaker 1: him on the sidelines, he's talking to the players. I

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Speaker 1: never feel like he's rattled. And Kyler's a very competitive

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Speaker 1: like they all are, and sometimes he wears his emotions honestly,

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Speaker 1: which again he wants to win. But I dislike the

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Speaker 1: demeanor of Joe Earl where when things aren't going well,

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Speaker 1: let's just stick to it. You know, it's only the

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Speaker 1: first half. Let's let's figure it out. Like they did

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Speaker 1: in the Chiefs game. In second half it was night

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Speaker 1: and day from their offense and defense. So you know,

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Speaker 1: that's he's twenty four years old, he's been in the league.

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Speaker 1: Now it's going to be going into his fourth year.

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Speaker 1: So to me, it's time to take that next step

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Speaker 1: if you want to be the franchise quarterback. No panic

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Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow trailing leading first quarter, fourth quarter, no

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Speaker 1: panic at all, Kyle, the Urry Panics and the wild

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Speaker 1: Card lost the Rams in that first half. He wasn't ready.

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Speaker 1: And now you hope that with a playoff game under

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Speaker 1: his belts. He'll be ready the next time around, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully it comes in twenty twenty two. Catch up on

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Speaker 1: past episodes of the Day pash Podcast video preferred podcast provider.

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Speaker 1: Get the latest updates via Twitter at pash pot. We've

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Speaker 1: hit halftime here on the Cardinals Red See Report presented

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Speaker 1: by See Geek, Hit your seat in the Seats Craig

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Speaker 1: Rio Lukov and Tobosh and Mike Drecky As would continue

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Speaker 1: to look at the offseason, plus will preview Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty six. But on the other side, we'll stick with

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Speaker 1: the offense. Kyle's favorite parts of the NFL game. Where

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Speaker 1: does Kyler Murray need help as far as offensive priorities.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that next here on the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Radio Network, and off Conner off the right side, he

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Speaker 1: breaks a tackle into ten to the five and end

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Speaker 1: of the end zone for the touchdown James Conner from

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Speaker 1: thirteen yards out and the Cardinals strike first Aaron Santa Clara,

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Speaker 1: A great breath by James Connor touchdown and the bloody

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Speaker 1: nose snap the McCoy and off Connor up the middle

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Speaker 1: plows forward into the end zone for the touchdown, second

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Speaker 1: of the day for James Conner. Lower the plow and

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Speaker 1: hit the gas baby, snap to McCoy in trouble as

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Speaker 1: he backs up, and it's a screen to the right

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Speaker 1: to Connery. Caught it at the forty, turns eight to

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Speaker 1: the thirty, back to the left of the twenty, Connor

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Speaker 1: to the ten to the five and end of the

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Speaker 1: ends off of the touchdown. James Connor with his third

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Speaker 1: touchdown of the day, this one through the air, and

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals lated twenty three to seven. Eighteen total touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: fifteen rushing touchdowns, eleven of those coming against division opponents,

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Speaker 1: and those three touchdowns you just heard Dave pash Ron

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Speaker 1: Wolfley at San Francisco earlier in the season. As we

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Speaker 1: walk me back to the Cardinals Red Sea Report presented

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Speaker 1: by seat Geek get your seat in a seat Greigora,

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Speaker 1: lukav Nibosh, and Mike Dreckie talking James Connor and the

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Speaker 1: running back position overall. Both Connor and Chase Edmonds free agents,

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Speaker 1: OH wide receiver, Christian kirk a J Green free agents,

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Speaker 1: tied in zach Ertz, Max Williams free agents. I just

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Speaker 1: listed six players Kyle that accounted for sixty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the rushing yards and seventy one sense of the

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Speaker 1: passing yards in twenty twenty one. You can't bring them

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Speaker 1: all back. Oh you bring you back. Yeah, that's that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of production, UM that you can't let leave

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Speaker 1: the building. UM. If I was a GM, which UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly not qualified. Uh, I think James Conner becomes

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Speaker 1: a priority. UM. You know, again, he was one of

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Speaker 1: the great stories of this season. UM. It seemed like

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Speaker 1: he was brought in for a very specific purpose. UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, being your short yardage back, being a guy

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Speaker 1: potential first and second down running back, and really became

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Speaker 1: and showed, UM that he's a complete player, UM, both

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Speaker 1: catching the ball and you know, one of the underrated

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Speaker 1: aspects of being in NFL running back is your blocking

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Speaker 1: in past protection, and he's excellent at that as well. So, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think he becomes a priority. And then, UM,

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Speaker 1: whichever direction you want to continue to evolve this offense,

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Speaker 1: I think answers your question at the tight end position,

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Speaker 1: because UM, you know, Max Williams is a good inlineer, UM.

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Speaker 1: Excellent actually, and UM showed his value as a receiver

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Speaker 1: before he got injured. And UM, but zach Ertz opens

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Speaker 1: up a lot of opportunities when you are, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you need an answer in the passing game. He

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Speaker 1: seemed like he had a good relationship with Kyler, was

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Speaker 1: able to find the voids in zone defenses and and

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00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: always be an answer when when Kyler was you know,

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Speaker 1: under duress. So, UM, I think that becomes a priority

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00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 1: as well. And then yeah, I mean, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think this team could has a potential to upgrade

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Speaker 1: their number two receiver. UM. Having both AJ Green and

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk potentially leaving that is a lot of production,

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Speaker 1: um walking out the door in a lot of talent. UM.

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Speaker 1: You know they both played well, um in really well

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Speaker 1: at times this past year. So UM. If whether that

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Speaker 1: answer is bringing one of the two backs so you

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Speaker 1: don't lose all that production or finding somebody in free

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Speaker 1: agency or the draft, um, that remains to be seen.

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Speaker 1: Typically the running back position is not a position of

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Speaker 1: priority in free agency. MJ. I say, typically, because I'm

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Speaker 1: in agreement with Kyle, of those six pieces on the

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Speaker 1: offensive side, I'm putting James Conner up there at number one,

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Speaker 1: I would agree, And you know he came in here

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Speaker 1: last year obviously a late signing so to speak, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of the second or third wave. Took a low deal,

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Speaker 1: obviously proved himself, so he has the right to earn

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Speaker 1: see what he's worth in the open market. But you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that you know, you don't want to

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Speaker 1: bounce around because eventually they're gonna draft the running back

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Speaker 1: and then he's always always going to be that one

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Speaker 1: two punch short yardage guy here. I think he can

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Speaker 1: be the Bell cow. I mean, you compliment him with

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Speaker 1: another back, and eno Benjamin is similar to Chase Edmins.

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Speaker 1: I would definitely retain James Conner. And you know, whether

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Speaker 1: that's six seven million, you know, we'll see, you know,

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Speaker 1: but I think there's gonna be a market out there

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Speaker 1: for him. But I don't think you're going to see

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Speaker 1: him get a long turn deal. Maybe it's a one

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Speaker 1: or two year deal. See if he can stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Chase Edmins, but you know,

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Speaker 1: he's got to be able to stay healthy, and unfortunately

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00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: he wasn't. It wasn't healthy this year. I like him

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Speaker 1: from the twenties to the twenties, catching the ball to backfield.

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Speaker 1: Zach Ertz to me, he sounds like he wants to

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Speaker 1: be here. Another guy would gives similar to Connor, two

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Speaker 1: or three year deal. They do want to retain Max Williams,

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Speaker 1: probably get him back at a minimum deal with incentives.

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Speaker 1: He is a perfect eleven personnel tight end. And then

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Speaker 1: the draft is loaded at tight end, so it's time

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Speaker 1: to go out and find one of these young tight

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Speaker 1: ends you can develop. You watch the bowl game, you

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Speaker 1: watch a senior Bowl. It's loaded, so you'd have two

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Speaker 1: veterans and then you'd have a backup there. But I

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Speaker 1: definitely Connor would be my number one priority. His ability

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Speaker 1: to catch the ball out of the backfield opened up

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Speaker 1: a lot of eyes and that went back to training

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Speaker 1: camp and it's a reason why he finished with thirty

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Speaker 1: seven catches and three touchdowns through the air, including that

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Speaker 1: one at San Francisco earlier and the year I would

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Speaker 1: think the Cardinals want him back. What is James Connor

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Speaker 1: wants as far as impending free agency? And then he

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Speaker 1: was also asked last week at the Pro Bowl on

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Speaker 1: how the season ended. So ending twenty twenty one and

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Speaker 1: looking ahead to twenty twenty two, here's James Conner just

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Speaker 1: missing a game, you know, and just how we went out.

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Speaker 1: It's not the way we wanted to end. Know, we

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Speaker 1: had so much talent on our team, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we just fight through and you know, just uh, trying

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Speaker 1: to regroup and get back and get another shot out

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Speaker 1: of the next year. You're appending free agent once your

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Speaker 1: mindset as you approached that, whether continuing to be an

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinal or maybe test the market, right well, you know,

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Speaker 1: just what easy opportunity that they gave me, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just relationships I built there. You know, we'd love

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Speaker 1: to continue out there. But yeah, free agents, so I'm

639
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Speaker 1: excited to see what's next. You know, A man of faith,

640
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Speaker 1: so I know it all work out for me. James

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Speaker 1: Connor speaking with our colleague Danny Serek on asy Cardinals

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Speaker 1: dot com, then entire interview up on asy Cardinals dot

643
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: com and we talked about James Conner and the postseason

644
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: at game against the Rams, and what he did admits

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Speaker 1: is how much pain he was in and he turned

646
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Speaker 1: down the opportunity to a painkiller shot before that game,

647
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: quote for safety and health reasons. It was his choice

648
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: not to do it. Only played fourteen snaps in that game,

649
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: but he discussed Kyle last week that he was going

650
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Speaker 1: to do everything in his power to be on the

651
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Speaker 1: football field because he was going to finish the season

652
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Speaker 1: with his teammates. The toughness, the physicality that he brought,

653
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: that's not going to show up in stats, but it

654
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: is gonna wear or it's gonna take over the entire

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Speaker 1: rest of the locker room. Guys are gonna feed off

656
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Speaker 1: of that, And I do think it meant a lot

657
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Speaker 1: to his teammates. See James Connor on the football field

658
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Speaker 1: against the Rams. Yeah, there's nothing that endears you to

659
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Speaker 1: your teammates that gets you more respect than going out

660
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: there when you probably shouldn't when you're in a lot

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Speaker 1: of pain in doing it for your teammates, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's the reason why I see him. I don't know

663
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Speaker 1: what free agency is gonna look like, especially from the

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Speaker 1: running back position. You know, I was surprised that the

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Speaker 1: money Kenyan Drake got when he left here last year.

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Speaker 1: So there may be a team that sees that type

667
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Speaker 1: of value in James Connor, But nobody knows, you know,

668
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 1: with maybe the exception of Pittsburgh, how tough this guy is.

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Speaker 1: And you know, as a player, the hard part is

670
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: that sometimes you're sacrificing production. You're putting a subpar product

671
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: on film that's going to hurt you in free agency

672
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: and your stats aren't going to look as good and

673
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 1: you might not look as good, but the team knows

674
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: what you went through. The team knows that you battled,

675
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: and they know your value because you know, anybody you

676
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Speaker 1: can find. You know hundreds of running backs that are

677
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Speaker 1: productive and we'll go out there when they're feeling good.

678
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Speaker 1: But when you know, when you know you have a

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Speaker 1: guy that's going to fight for your team and fight

680
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Speaker 1: for those extra yards and do everything he can to

681
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Speaker 1: be on the field and be accountable to his teammates,

682
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: those are the ones that hold true value for teams. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see about Kenyan Drake. I really think that was

684
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Speaker 1: a one year deal for three million. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: happens there. Obviously, you know, a new head coach and

686
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Speaker 1: a general manager. I think when you look at James

687
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Speaker 1: Connor and yes, the grass isn't always grew on the

688
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Speaker 1: other side. When this offense was humming, when hops out

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Speaker 1: there and Kyler Murray was running and he was the

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Speaker 1: bell cow. You know when obviously when Chase he fits

691
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: his offense perfectly when you got hoping if they can

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Speaker 1: develop round him more depending on the receivers at tight ends.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if there's a better situation

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Speaker 1: for him besides obviously somebody over paying or paying him.

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Speaker 1: What do they think, you know, if somebody's gonna pay him,

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Speaker 1: then they think he's worth that. But I just think

697
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: when he looks at this offense, he can even get

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Speaker 1: better when it comes to yardage, let alone the touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he had a career year in a lot

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Speaker 1: of different areas and just don't look at the yards

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00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: per carry. It would look look at the objects. When

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00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,759
Speaker 1: it happened in the game, he became the short yardage guy.

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Speaker 1: You didn't have to rely on Kyler and he was

704
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Speaker 1: a bully. I mean, he brought a lot of physicality

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Speaker 1: to his team. So again he's gonna make the decision.

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Speaker 1: But I just think this offense fits him perfect for

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Speaker 1: going somewhere else and trying to learn a new offense.

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Speaker 1: He'll be twenty seven in May, and that's that age

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Speaker 1: when you talk running backs, that all right, what do

710
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: you do? What do you invest? And if you know

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Speaker 1: you're James Connor, this might be your last shot at

712
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Speaker 1: a huge payday and it might be best offer wins

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Speaker 1: just because of the longevity of the running back position. Yeah,

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00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: usually they talk about thirty. You know, he was able

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Speaker 1: to stay healthy for the most part, obviously dealing with

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Speaker 1: the ribs, and you know he played through it, and

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Speaker 1: I give a ton of credit. I just think that

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Speaker 1: when you're again, it's always good to be wild and

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Speaker 1: you want to be wanted and only takes one team

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Speaker 1: to offer you money. But being twenty seven, the way

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Speaker 1: he takes care of his body, he's got a big build,

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Speaker 1: six two about two thirty three. I would think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, two or three year deal be feasible. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna give him David Johnson money. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna give him Nyan Drake eight point two million a

726
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Speaker 1: year like on a transition tag. But I would think

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Speaker 1: it would be a two or three year deal, and

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Speaker 1: we know that third year is always an option. Always

729
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: want to be wanted, Kyle, but also want to be

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Speaker 1: used as well. And the Cardinals have shown James Connor

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Speaker 1: that he'll be used within this offense. He might not

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Speaker 1: have had that with the Steelers. Yeah, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I think there would be some assurances too that you

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Speaker 1: like Mike said that you will be the feature guy,

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Speaker 1: because obviously if you bring you're only gonna bring one

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Speaker 1: of those two running backs back. It's not a situation,

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Speaker 1: you know. I'm sure a lot of teams do view

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Speaker 1: him as a complimentary back, a guy that can rotate

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Speaker 1: and take half the snaps, and you know, as a

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Speaker 1: player that has worked hard, and I'm sure he has

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Speaker 1: a lot of pride and he has shown the ability

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Speaker 1: to be in every down back. I'm sure that's the

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Speaker 1: situation he's looking for. In a situation he would probably

744
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Speaker 1: be granted if he stayed here. James Connor played fifteen

745
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Speaker 1: games and missed two games because of rib injuries that

746
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Speaker 1: again popped up again in the postseason. But his physicality

747
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Speaker 1: and his toughness and then the production running the football,

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Speaker 1: catching the football, I think guys his team as fed

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Speaker 1: off of that. You'd like to see him return for

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Speaker 1: another year, maybe even two seasons for the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: But again, we play general manager here. There's actually a

752
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Speaker 1: general manager that has to make that decision, and that

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Speaker 1: seats talking super Bowl fifty six Bengals and Rams. That's

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Speaker 1: all straight ahead here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: One rod attempt for sinnatic must now puts the big

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Speaker 1: fiercon kick on the way it's gone bigs fiercit bocks

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Speaker 1: a crow and the fairy tale continues for the Cincinnati thing. Goals,

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Speaker 1: they are going to the Super Bowl. Go up all

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Speaker 1: under gun. Listen to treat me. The five nine rushing

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Speaker 1: man going away. Pick comes in the six and less.

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Speaker 1: He was talking. He just don long he was in

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Speaker 1: s the boy Howard, the lads of the Inner Cito

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Speaker 1: Groan Bowl, the lambs who made quick moves with big

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Speaker 1: huge bill, got corner the Super Bowl, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: take on cuts the plazing Cincinnati Biggles here in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and Super Bowl fifty six happens on Sunday four

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Speaker 1: thirty in the afternoon broadcast on NBC Westwood One. We'll

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Speaker 1: have the play by play in fact ian Eagle Kevin

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Speaker 1: Harland with the final calls for the Bengals and Rams.

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Speaker 1: They're coming into this segment the Cardinals Red Sea Report

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Speaker 1: present to buy seat geek, get your seats in a

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Speaker 1: seats two, number four seeds. First Super Bowl without either

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Speaker 1: the number one, two or three seed in the game

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00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety. Second time quarterbacks drafted number one overall

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Speaker 1: will meet Joe Burrow drafted number one overall in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford number one in two thousand and nine. And

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Speaker 1: before we go any further with this discussion on Bengals

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Speaker 1: and Rams, Kyle's connection to both of these quarterbacks is fascinating,

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Speaker 1: he told us during the break, please explain the Kyle

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00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: Vanenbosch connection with Joe Burrow, and then Matthew Stafford Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well I'll start with Stafford. So I played my last

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Speaker 1: three years in Detroit with Matthew Stafford, and you know,

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Speaker 1: in spite of some of his struggles, UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've I've been singing his praises every time we talked.

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00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: We used to talk about Lions games and then Rams

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00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: games this year. Um, he's a great leader, of great

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00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: person and you know his arm talent is about as

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Speaker 1: good as anybody in the NFL. So I've always been

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Speaker 1: since I played with him, and since I've been retired,

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00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: I've been a big Matthew Stafford fan. For Joe Burrow.

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00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: When I was at Nebraska, I played with his two brothers.

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00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: They both played defense. Jamie Burrow was in my recruiting

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00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: class in my freshman year roommate, and so little Joe

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00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: Burrow would come around when he was a baby. And

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00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: I held Joe Burrow when he was a baby. So, UM,

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00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: i'd like to think that, um, you know, I got

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Speaker 1: him started down a successful football career just by the

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00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: advice I gave him when he was a baby. The

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00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: mightas touch about that. That's awesome. Can we get you

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00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: to hold Kyler Murray? I don't know if you would

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00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I got this visual here which is outstanding,

813
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: and now he's in the ball yep. Wow. Yeah. So

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00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's that's why when you said that daring

815
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 1: a break, I'm like, let's not bury the lead here. Well,

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00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: I think his dad was a defensive coordinator as a

817
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: coach for most of his life, so I don't know

818
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: where he got started as a quarterback, but um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's pretty amazing to see the

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00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: things he's doing as a young player. All right, let's

821
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Speaker 1: get into this matchup the Bengals representing the AFC, the Rams,

822
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: the NFC, and when you look at the Rams, obviously

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals connections. They played him three times this season

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00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 1: and at one point this Rams team was seven and four,

825
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: lost three straight, but then went five and one to

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Speaker 1: close out the season. Earlier this month, on The Big

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Speaker 1: Red Rage, Rams radio analyst de Marco far on how

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Speaker 1: the Rams adjusted their offense to get them to where

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Speaker 1: they will be on Sunday, he went old school, Um,

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Speaker 1: the way they were playing, and I'll just go ahead

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Speaker 1: and say, Matthew Stafford, he was turning it over. There

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00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: was some issues there. If he could have taken the

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00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: logos off the helmet. He would have like, you guys

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Speaker 1: don't deserve these right now, you're not playing football. So

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Speaker 1: it seemed like he took the offense away from the

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Speaker 1: quarterback and started running the football with Tony Michelle, run

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Speaker 1: the football. We're gonna be a little more physically oriented,

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00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 1: and then we'll start to open it up as we go.

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Speaker 1: That was DeMarco far talking about Rams head coach Sean McVay.

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Speaker 1: As you look at this matchup, m J, how do

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00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: you see it playing out? I know the Bengals are underdogs,

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00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: yet they've been an underdog this entire postseason run. Yeah.

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00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 1: What's interesting is normally when you get to the Super Bow,

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Speaker 1: you'd have you'd think you have a one or two

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Speaker 1: top ten defenses. These teams are ranked in the in

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Speaker 1: the teams you know, they actually are scoring the same

847
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: amount of points, and then the regular season twenty seven

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Speaker 1: defensively they ranked seventeenth and eighteenth. Their rush defense is

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Speaker 1: very similar. So I think this game is gonna come

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Speaker 1: focusing on in the trenches. Colin, I know it's a

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Speaker 1: I think the Rams will win as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: over the top. We'll see what happens on Sunday Bengals

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Speaker 1: and the Rams at his Super Bowl fifty six, and

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Speaker 1: we will discuss the outcome of that game next week

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