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Speaker 4: Mean, this isn't no stinking press release that gets facts
Speaker 4: to a newspaper, old school I mean, this is three
Speaker 4: days of measured, staggered leaks, international teasers, highly produced, breaking content,
Speaker 4: I mean, we're talking segments on Good Morning America, two
Speaker 4: hour shows on the NFL network in ESPN. Okay, it's
Speaker 4: not as much a release or reveal as much as
Speaker 4: it's an event these days in the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, the kids out there might say it's super Extra.
Speaker 4: You know, two hundred and seventy two games over eighteen weeks.
Speaker 4: Let there be a twenty twenty three campaign. And we
Speaker 4: are here to break it all down on this edition
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Speaker 4: We are Santan Ford, Paul Calvic, and Ron Wolfley Paully.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Super Extra, but I do know
Speaker 1: right now I've got a question, and that question is
Speaker 1: are the Arizona Cardinals back in the NFC East Ball?
Speaker 1: That's my question to you.
Speaker 4: By are you having sort of a throwback right now?
Speaker 4: I mean, Wolf, this is your life. This is what
Speaker 4: happened when you played ten years in the NFL, the
Speaker 4: first half of your career for the Cardinals, and this
Speaker 4: is what would happen you envelope please and then boom.
Speaker 4: You look at the schedule and right off the bat,
Speaker 4: it's like you're playing inter division games with three in
Speaker 4: a row against the NFC East.
Speaker 1: It truly is incredible right there. Of course, they are
Speaker 1: playing the NFC East, as we all know, next year,
Speaker 1: but starting in Week one at Washington, Week two, the
Speaker 1: New York Giants at home, Week three, the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: at home. Yes week seventeen, they actually travel to Philadelphia
Speaker 1: to play the Philadelphia Eagles. But man, the first three
Speaker 1: games of the season poly the NFC East.
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Speaker 4: buy tickets starting with that first month that begins on
Speaker 4: the road. We're gonna break this all down over the
Speaker 4: course of this show. For the third time in the
Speaker 4: last four years, Cardinals start on the road at Washington.
Speaker 4: This will be September tenth. Okay, And by the way,
Speaker 4: in terms of travel, only six teams are gonna travel
Speaker 4: more than the Arizona Cardinals this year because they're matched
Speaker 4: up against the NFC East in the AFC North. And
Speaker 4: when you're talking about Washington, I'll just say this much.
Speaker 4: Where's my ridiculous stet of Patrick Mahomes? Remember last year
Speaker 4: opening against Kansas City and they put the forty burger
Speaker 4: on the board in week one?
Speaker 1: Wolf?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Patrick Mahomes in five openers in his NFL career
Speaker 4: has averaged thirty nine point four points per game. So
Speaker 4: let me ask you, are you much happier to open
Speaker 4: against Sam Howe or maybe Jacoby Brissett Pouli?
Speaker 1: I am, But you know it's also you look at
Speaker 1: those first three games right there. Those are going to
Speaker 1: be pretty physical games. They really are. The NFC East
Speaker 1: is a physical division, of course, even Washington where they're
Speaker 1: going to open, of course at Washington on the road
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera. You know the kind of offense he wants
Speaker 1: to run. It typically is a very physical offense. Even
Speaker 1: though they're not prolific by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1: Even last year they were almost in the top third
Speaker 1: in the National Football League and running the ball paul
Speaker 1: per game, rushing yards per game, they were number twelve.
Speaker 1: They like to hammer the ball. They're going to be
Speaker 1: very very physical upfront. That's going to be a physical game.
Speaker 1: And then you follow that up with the New York Giants, PAULI,
Speaker 1: that that is that's a Donnybruck right there with Brian
Speaker 1: Dable as their coach.
Speaker 4: You know what, that is a great point because what
Speaker 4: have the Cardinals done this year? Where's the emphasis been
Speaker 4: on resetting this team from the inside, Right, So right
Speaker 4: out of the gate, your run defense is going to
Speaker 4: be tested against Washington at Washington on the road. And
Speaker 4: then think about that commander's defense.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: They missed the playoffs last year, but they had the
Speaker 4: number three ranked defense overall, and look at the defensive
Speaker 4: front with Jonathan Allen, Deron Payne Montes, sweat Chase Young
Speaker 4: if he's back from the knee. I mean, you talk
Speaker 4: about that Cardinals rebuild offensive line and maybe Paris Johnson
Speaker 4: Junior and more on him in a bit, getting tested
Speaker 4: out of the gates. Oh yeah, is there a deeper
Speaker 4: defensive line in the NFL than Washington.
Speaker 1: No, I know what you're saying, Pauli. They are very,
Speaker 1: very physical, no doubt about it. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: they're also really really good at getting to the quarterback
Speaker 1: number six in sacks per attempt, and they had the
Speaker 1: number one third down defense overall. And PAULI, you know
Speaker 1: the way I feel about this for the most part,
Speaker 1: when you talk about being the number one third down defense,
Speaker 1: that takes into account so many different things, not the
Speaker 1: least of which is getting pressure on the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: although it doesn't show up being number one, getting off
Speaker 1: the field thirty one percent of the time, that tells
Speaker 1: me you've got a wicked pass rush as well.
Speaker 4: That's the only ten AM start all season long for
Speaker 4: the Arizona Cardinals. The other games in the Eastern time
Speaker 4: Zone are eleven AM or later. And by the way,
Speaker 4: the Cardinals did not get a primetime game. That was
Speaker 4: pretty much as expected. They will be playing on some holidays.
Speaker 4: We'll get to that. That will not be an international
Speaker 4: game on the schedule this year for the Cardinals after
Speaker 4: they went to Mexico City last year, but once again
Speaker 4: Week one at Washington. Then you're home against the Giants,
Speaker 4: so you're gonna get All Pro defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence,
Speaker 4: who got paid in the offseason against that Cardinals offensive line.
Speaker 4: We know the Giants. They just made the playoffs for
Speaker 4: the first time since twenty sixteen, bead Minnesota in the
Speaker 4: wild card game, so okay, we know that they have
Speaker 4: two tackles. You know, they invested top ten and picks
Speaker 4: in and that's a long time rivalry. Would be the
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty ninth meeting all time against the
Speaker 4: Giants for the Cardinals as a franchise. And then that
Speaker 4: brings us to Week three, Wolf and the Cowboys, and look,
Speaker 4: Cardinals have had success. They won six to last seven
Speaker 4: against Dallas. But you're talking about a Cowboys team that
Speaker 4: finished twelve and five last year, won a playoff game
Speaker 4: the lost in the Niners. And they can score. I
Speaker 4: mean they've averaged the most points over the last two
Speaker 4: years of any team in the NFL, nearly thirty a game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Not only that, they got a guy by the
Speaker 1: name of Michael Persons on defense who is pretty good, Paul,
Speaker 1: especially the last time I check coming off the edge
Speaker 1: right there. Week three, This is just me, Paul. And
Speaker 1: once again you know me, PAULI. I'm an optimist. I
Speaker 1: will be an optimist sign positive by nature. Week three
Speaker 1: is when I will allow myself to consider Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: coming back bye week by week three, now, PAULI.
Speaker 4: So are you reporting? Is this a guy?
Speaker 1: I reporting?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I am not reporting this, Okay, I'm just saying, based
Speaker 1: on the average time, the typical time that an ACL
Speaker 1: will take nine months is about right there, about week
Speaker 1: three that you could possibly start counting. Okay, is he
Speaker 1: ready to go? Okay? Maybe not week four, week five,
Speaker 1: week six, somewhere in there. Maybe that's better. But week
Speaker 1: three is where I will allow myself, who knows, Paully,
Speaker 1: maybe it comes earlier than that. But this is where
Speaker 1: I'm going to allow myself to even imagine Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: coming back week three, And it's interesting that it happens
Speaker 1: to be against Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys. So
Speaker 1: maybe it will be week four.
Speaker 4: Paul, And look, you know that's game. That game is
Speaker 4: gonna be off the hook the Cowboys fans, they travel.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so that will be a scene at Cardinals,
Speaker 4: you know, State Farm Stadium when the Cowboys come a
Speaker 4: call in there. That'll be September twenty fourth for the Cardinals,
Speaker 4: and that'll be on Fox, and that'll be a one
Speaker 4: twenty five start. Then you start getting into the NFC
Speaker 4: West three or your next four are division games starting
Speaker 4: with Week four at the forty nine ers. Cardinals historically
Speaker 4: have had a lot of success at Levi stadium and
Speaker 4: they're going in against the Niners. And then you want
Speaker 4: to talk about pass rushers. You got Washington's deep defensive front,
Speaker 4: you got Dexter Lawrence and the Giants, you got Micah
Speaker 4: Parson's head against the Cowboys, and then hello, Cardinals offensive line.
Speaker 4: You get Nick Bosa and Javon Hargrave in week four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, PAULI, maybe it's not gonna be Week four that
Speaker 1: Kyle will come back. Maybe maybe it's gonna be Week five,
Speaker 1: Paul against the Cincinnati Bengals right there, when I think
Speaker 1: of Nick Bosa coming off the edge, you might want
Speaker 1: to know I'm just kind of kidding obviously right here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, it's interesting because when you look
Speaker 1: at the first five games, and we were talking about this, Paula,
Speaker 1: I believe there's four playoff teams.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's only Washington in those first five games. Think
Speaker 4: about that, and then I mean, the Bengals win the
Speaker 4: conference championship, the Niners win the conference championship, and the
Speaker 4: Giants and Cowboys won playoff games as well.
Speaker 1: And you know me, Paully, that's the first thing I
Speaker 1: look for when the schedule comes out. The schedule comes out,
Speaker 1: I look for the nasty, as I like to call it,
Speaker 1: Where is the nasty? And if you had to look
Speaker 1: at it, those three or four games that are really
Speaker 1: really physical and really really going to be tough, you
Speaker 1: look at it, it's week two to week five for
Speaker 1: me right now. Those four teams playoff teams right there.
Speaker 1: When you consider Washington, the Giants, the Cowboys at San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals. Four of those playoff teams consecutively. And
Speaker 1: I realize three of the four games are going to
Speaker 1: be at home. But other than that, man, that is brutal.
Speaker 4: You know, we mentioned Paris Johnson Junior when we had
Speaker 4: him on the Red Sea Report recently right after the draft.
Speaker 4: He mentioned that he's already been doing film study on
Speaker 4: a few pass rushers, few of the elite guys in
Speaker 4: the NFL and a couple of the names he mentioned,
Speaker 4: Nick Bosa and Micah Parsons, and he just talked about
Speaker 4: how much he looks forward to measuring himself in his
Speaker 4: game against the very best in the NFL. He also
Speaker 4: threw in Devin White. I'm not sure exactly why the
Speaker 4: Tampa linebacker got into the mix as well, but Paris
Speaker 4: Johnson Junior so that was very intriguing stuff that he
Speaker 4: had to say on the Red Sea Report. And I
Speaker 4: don't know if you noticed it, Wolf, but Paris Johnson
Speaker 4: Junior was in attendance for the Cardinals with the rookie
Speaker 4: minichamp getting going this week the end of this week,
Speaker 4: and he showed up to sign his contract along with
Speaker 4: a handful of the rookies, and he was wearing a
Speaker 4: Pat Tillman number forty Cardinals jersey.
Speaker 1: That's well played, really well well played right there. You
Speaker 1: know what, Paul, it's interesting. I know this means nothing,
Speaker 1: and I want to make that very very clear to
Speaker 1: anybody that is listening. It means nothing. But looking at
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals depth chart, I thought it was very
Speaker 1: very interesting that they're at left guard. Was Paris Johnson
Speaker 1: Junior the starter, Paris Johnson Junior at left guard, And
Speaker 1: for me, that's exactly where i'd put him. The left
Speaker 1: guard traditionally gets more help than the right guard and
Speaker 1: traditionally gives more help than the right guard as well.
Speaker 1: To me, that's exactly where i'd put this young guy.
Speaker 1: Let him cut his teeth right there. Obviously, at some
Speaker 1: point in time, you'd like to move him out to
Speaker 1: the edge. But I thought that was interesting since you
Speaker 1: brought him up that he's starting at left guard on
Speaker 1: the depth chart.
Speaker 4: I wonder if that sets up a positional battle again
Speaker 4: between Josh Jones and Kelvin Beecham at right tackle. Interesting
Speaker 4: because we'll see what the trickle down is on that.
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Speaker 5: Burrow takes a knee and it's over. The winning continues
Speaker 5: for Cincinnati. The Bengals are going back to the AFC
Speaker 5: Championship Game. They have won ten in a row, and
Speaker 5: they will make an appearance in the conference championship for
Speaker 5: consecutive years for the first time in franchise history twenty
Speaker 5: seven to ten.
Speaker 1: The final here in Orchard Park, New York.
Speaker 4: Yeah, think about some of the quarterbacks that are coming
Speaker 4: through State Farms Stadium this season, including Joey b Wolf,
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow. I tell you what you talk about players
Speaker 4: that opposing players that I'm most looking forward to see.
Speaker 4: He would have to be top two, top three. There's
Speaker 4: the Lamar Jackson's, there's Joe Burrow, and honestly, that might
Speaker 4: be where I start my list as we go through
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Speaker 4: We already recapped off the top wolf Ad Washington start
Speaker 4: the season home against the Giants and Cowboys at the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers and back home against Cincinnati and Week five.
Speaker 4: What do you think of when you think of the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paulie, you think obviously of Joe Burrow. You think
Speaker 1: of this young quarterback who is becoming quickly one of
Speaker 1: the elite quarterbacks in the National Football League. Has been
Speaker 1: on that track, I would say for the last year particularly.
Speaker 1: And I think of the line of scrimmage as well,
Speaker 1: even though they don't run the ball very well. Even
Speaker 1: though they're not a good rushing team. They really want
Speaker 1: to round that part of their offense out because I
Speaker 1: think it really does help balance Joe Burrow doesn't put
Speaker 1: all of that pressure on him. He was under the
Speaker 1: gun last year. Now they've done some things this offseason
Speaker 1: to really try to fix that offensive line, but as
Speaker 1: you know, Paully, that offensive line struggled to protect Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow once again. And when I also think of the Bengals,
Speaker 1: I think of that defensive front, I think of their
Speaker 1: ability to stop the run. That is the one thing
Speaker 1: they were actually very very good at last year. Defensively,
Speaker 1: they were all over the board for the most part,
Speaker 1: but the one thing they could hang their hat on
Speaker 1: is playing tough against the run. In that box. They
Speaker 1: were top ten as a matter of fact in rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game and rushing yards per play allowed.
Speaker 4: You also have the lou Anarumo angle right, Cardinals head
Speaker 4: coaching candidate, the defensive coordinator of the Cincinnati Bengals. That'll
Speaker 4: be an intriguing little sidebar when they come in Week five.
Speaker 4: The two time AFC Nord champions, And once again we've
Speaker 4: been documenting the test the Cardinals old line is going
Speaker 4: to get early. You look at a Cincinnati team that
Speaker 4: over the last few years is added Trey Hendrickson, Sam
Speaker 4: Hubbard and now the Clemson rookie Miles Murphy. So you know,
Speaker 4: lou Anroumo, he's going to be very aggressive, he's going
Speaker 4: to bring it, and so that'll be a big time test,
Speaker 4: and that'll be the fourth of four in a row
Speaker 4: against teams who made the playoffs a year ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pauli, that's really a good point right there. Once again,
Speaker 1: they're going back to the Bengals specifically that had a
Speaker 1: really really hard time of getting to the quarterback, which
Speaker 1: is one of the reasons why they've made it a
Speaker 1: point of emphasis here. Number twenty nine in sacks per
Speaker 1: attempt last season and number twenty in third down defense
Speaker 1: as well. This is just general stats, but you can
Speaker 1: read inside some of these stats as well, and that's
Speaker 1: something that I think is going to be a point
Speaker 1: of emphasis for the Bengals, trying to get better, get
Speaker 1: more pressure on the opposing quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and going full circle on the Bengals, remember the
Speaker 4: at an Orlando Brown the Chiefs tackle and so yes,
Speaker 4: that was huge. As to your point, they're trying to
Speaker 4: bolster the line of scrimmage. No doubt, Joe Mixon is
Speaker 4: always handful to stop.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: Week six, now you're getting into back into the NFC West.
Speaker 4: You're going to the Rams where the Cardinals one year ago,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna get them in week six, October fifteenth,
Speaker 4: against what they presume will be a healthy Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it'll be a healthy Kyler Murray at that point.
Speaker 4: But look again, now you're getting Aaron Donald, all right,
Speaker 4: They're minus Jalen Ramsey. But I mean every single week
Speaker 4: there is gonna be that elite thread on the other
Speaker 4: side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul, you know, I look at that LA game
Speaker 1: in LA, of course, and all I can think of
Speaker 1: is Paris Johnson Junior. If he is starting at left
Speaker 1: guard at that point in time, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of Aaron Donald lined up over in. Paul.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say that right now. I think are
Speaker 1: going to go ahead and line them up there. I
Speaker 1: know the Arizona Cardinals, of course, are going to be
Speaker 1: very aware of that. I'm sure they're going to give
Speaker 1: him a lot of help with the protections that they're
Speaker 1: going to run and mixing up their protections, but not
Speaker 1: trying to put him on an island, of course, trying
Speaker 1: to give him an awful lot of help. The Rams,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, will try to isolate him as much as
Speaker 1: they can. But sometimes, Polly, it's the best thing that
Speaker 1: can happen to a young guy. It's just trial by fire.
Speaker 1: Just walk through it, jump into it. And he certainly
Speaker 1: certainly will be jumping into it at that point of
Speaker 1: week six.
Speaker 4: And by the way, the Cardinals will definitely welcome that
Speaker 4: short road trip to La because once again there's seventh
Speaker 4: in the NFL in total travel miles this year number
Speaker 4: one Seattle thirty one thousand plus miles, number two, the
Speaker 4: Niners thirty thousand plus miles. The Rams actually are fourth,
Speaker 4: and the Cardinals are seventh twenty five thousand miles. Ron
Speaker 4: Wilfoo this year, as a Cardinals analyst, you will be
Speaker 4: changing time zones twenty six different times, so just to
Speaker 4: let you know over this travel schedule, and that's the
Speaker 4: way it works. And by the way, the strength of
Speaker 4: schedule was calculated and the Cardinals came in number eleven,
Speaker 4: So there are different factors at play here and look historically,
Speaker 4: and here it is five of the last six teams
Speaker 4: with the most difficult schedule in the league missed the playoffs.
Speaker 4: That was the Rams a year ago, Paul.
Speaker 1: See, and that is the thing I was going to
Speaker 1: say right there, when you say that strength of schedule,
Speaker 1: I understand, Yeah, it's you know, it's relevant. Yet at
Speaker 1: the same time we all know this is the National
Speaker 1: Football League, man. Is it not a year to year proposition? Paul?
Speaker 1: Is it not a year to year proposition? You can
Speaker 1: see a team go from worse to first and vice
Speaker 1: versa as well. We see it all the time.
Speaker 4: Here here's that stat. Well, at least one team in
Speaker 4: the NFL has gone from worse to first meaning worst
Speaker 4: in its division, to winning its division. In eighteen of
Speaker 4: the last twenty years, at least one team has done that,
Speaker 4: and at least two teams have won their divisions this
Speaker 4: season after missing the playoffs in nineteen of the last
Speaker 4: twenty years. Goodness, So that's how much turnover there is.
Speaker 4: And then here's the other one. Since nineteen ninety, we're
Speaker 4: talking thirty three straight seasons, at least four different teams
Speaker 4: have qualified for the playoffs every single year, meaning they
Speaker 4: weren't in the postseason. The year before last year there
Speaker 4: were six new playoff teams, and in twenty one and
Speaker 4: twenty there were seven new playoff teams.
Speaker 1: So wow, I mean, will you send me those pulling
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. That is well played by you. So there
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 4: You got the Rams in week six and you're going
Speaker 4: to Seattle in week seven. Look, Seattle was a playoff team.
Speaker 4: They seem to be ascending. They seemingly got another draft haul.
Speaker 4: What do you think of when you think of the
Speaker 4: Seahawks these days, because they have really reset their identity
Speaker 4: in the last two years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have. And once again, Paully, I think based
Speaker 1: on their draft and based on what it is they're
Speaker 1: trying to do, I see the Seattle Seahawks again trying
Speaker 1: to restore the line of scrimmage and a Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: kind of way. I think that's what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: They want to re reset, if you will, that roster
Speaker 1: in that depth chart and do it on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Very similar to what I think the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals are doing.
Speaker 4: They had a big discussion NFL Network pick a team
Speaker 4: that was sort of middle of the pack around five hundred.
Speaker 4: That's gonna have a breakout year, win twelve thirteen, fourteen games,
Speaker 4: and a couple of the analysts went with Seattle. M Okay,
Speaker 4: here's the thing, though, Wolf, if you can't stop the run,
Speaker 4: and they didn't add a lot to their defensive front,
Speaker 4: and they weren't in the draft able to add much
Speaker 4: in terms of an edge rusher, and they started last
Speaker 4: year historically bad against the run, and they ended last
Speaker 4: year not so good against the run. I just I
Speaker 4: wonder about their defensive front.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul, it's a great place to start again with
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks because they look so different last year.
Speaker 1: Now we know in the first half of the season
Speaker 1: they were absolutely on fire with Geno Smith, of course,
Speaker 1: but you know, well, we're going to have to see
Speaker 1: I know this, Paul, I know Pete Carroll. I know
Speaker 1: people that know him personally. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: believes in old school football. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: still believes the line of scrimmage is where this game
Speaker 1: starts offensively and defensively. And I wouldn't be surprised to
Speaker 1: see them be pretty good, especially when you got Geno
Speaker 1: Smith as your quarterback, right now.
Speaker 4: All right, so you go out to the Rams to Seattle,
Speaker 4: then you come home week eight, October twenty ninth at
Speaker 4: home against the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and Wolf. If
Speaker 4: you asked me to think about Kyler's career so far,
Speaker 4: one of the standout games, at least to me being
Speaker 4: on the sideline, was watching Kyler against Lamar Jackson week
Speaker 4: two of his rookie season twenty nineteen. Man, I hope
Speaker 4: that matchup materializes because that is great stuff. Kyler against Lamar.
Speaker 1: No, that really is PAULI. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: When I think of the Ravens, I think of one
Speaker 1: of the most physical teams still in the National Football
Speaker 1: League right now. John Harbaugh is one of these guys
Speaker 1: we're just talking about Pete Carroll. He's got that old
Speaker 1: world mentality, that old traditional mentality. I think John Harbaugh
Speaker 1: doubles down on that. I think he's a guy that
Speaker 1: covets physicality. Dare I say, demands physicality from his players.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why the Baltimore Ravens were
Speaker 1: number two and number three in rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: and rushing yards per play respectively. Again, I get it.
Speaker 1: A lot of that is because of Lamar Jackson, but
Speaker 1: if you go and watch tape on the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: a lot of that is also because they come off
Speaker 1: the ball and they hammer.
Speaker 4: You, and you know what, some of that and you
Speaker 4: bring it up. It is a real legit, genuine curiosity
Speaker 4: because they're going away from Greg Roman and they brought
Speaker 4: in Todd Monk, the offensive coordinator from Georgia and those
Speaker 4: championship teams the last couple of years. So all right,
Speaker 4: you know, to what degree are they still going to
Speaker 4: be that team? Will they really embrace that They brought
Speaker 4: in Odell Beckham junior, they drafted into the first round
Speaker 4: rookie receiver Za Flowers. Bateman is going to be healthy
Speaker 4: this year, they hope. So with Mark Andrews, I mean,
Speaker 4: do you think maybe Lamar starts airing it out some more.
Speaker 1: I think there's a possibility that he does, Paul, But
Speaker 1: keep in mind, Lamar Jackson has never thrown for more
Speaker 1: than thirty two hundred yards in a season. Never done it. Wow,
Speaker 1: thirty two hundred yards.
Speaker 4: And you're talking about the twenty nineteen NFL MVP at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. So to me, once again. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get Todd Monkin from Georgia. Hey, Paul Georgia, have you
Speaker 1: watched their tape? You'd like to hammer the ball too?
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Speaker 3: Somebody been getting hand on Budda Baker, who.
Speaker 1: To Baker's a fan.
Speaker 3: Put to Baker ban man, Huda Baker's a bad after.
Speaker 1: Watson. That's a running and hitting everything.
Speaker 4: That's exactly why my opinion, Ron Wolfley, Buddha Baker isn't
Speaker 4: going anywhere, because when all time great NFL head coaches
Speaker 4: like Mike Tomlin who are miked up on the sideline,
Speaker 4: that's a real clip from a real game from him
Speaker 4: looking up at the jumbo tron, the video board and
Speaker 4: just raving about the play of Buddha Baker and all
Speaker 4: pro safety. That's exactly why I firmly believe he's still
Speaker 4: very much in the future of the Arizona Cardinals. It
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Speaker 4: three schedule. It is out. We are breaking it down.
Speaker 4: Cardinals are going to Pittsburgh, where a Wolf will reunite
Speaker 4: with his counterpart on the Steelers radio network is Big
Speaker 4: Brother and Steelers Analysts. We'll get to that Wolf, but
Speaker 4: let's start with where we left off. Baltimore at home,
Speaker 4: which leads us to another of your former teams, the
Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns. Cardinals going to Cleveland on November fifth, Week nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paully, can I just go a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: than the four games that we got right now? I
Speaker 1: just want to point this out. I always loved a
Speaker 1: little home away, home away, home away action. I always
Speaker 1: love that. Why would that be well, just because it
Speaker 1: was a nice rhythm. It was a nice flow right
Speaker 1: home away, home away. I like that for me, and
Speaker 1: I know that some of my teammates loved it as well.
Speaker 1: I look at week eight the Baltimore Ravens home, then
Speaker 1: at Cleveland and then home against Atlanta, then at Houston
Speaker 1: and then home against the Rams, and then at Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and then the bye man when you go, that's a
Speaker 1: nice little rhythm right there, from Week eight all the
Speaker 1: way to the bye which is week fourteen, and I
Speaker 1: know we're going to talk about that, but when you
Speaker 1: think big picture, that's a home away rhythm right there.
Speaker 1: And I really really like that at Cleveland, that's going
Speaker 1: to be a physical game, especially coming off playing the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens at home the week before, because you know,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns like to run the ball, attack the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage with Nick Chubb, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why Drew Petsing is.
Speaker 4: Here, no doubt, there's no and you know what, when
Speaker 4: you talk about this schedule, you got to talk about
Speaker 4: the fact, you know, a rhythm. There aren't going to
Speaker 4: be any night games. These are there's no primetime game,
Speaker 4: so okay, they're gonna get in the rhythm of playing
Speaker 4: you know, midday kickoffs and then uh, you know, these
Speaker 4: are all going to be Sunday games except for the
Speaker 4: very end of the year, this season finale against Seattle
Speaker 4: at home. It could be a Saturday, could be a
Speaker 4: Sunday game. So you know, if if these players love
Speaker 4: are creatures have a wolf and they love that, then
Speaker 4: guess what they're gonna get a lot of that. This
Speaker 4: isn't gonna be a lot of always sometimes you're going
Speaker 4: to a four day week. Sometimes you're getting ten days
Speaker 4: after a Thursday night international. That was last season, that
Speaker 4: is not this season schedule, Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 1: And then when we look at Week nine and week
Speaker 1: ten at Cleveland, of course, in Week nine and then
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons week ten, those two teams in particular
Speaker 1: and this little stretch that we're looking at right now,
Speaker 1: those two teams were very, very good in terms of
Speaker 1: running the ball. I consider them this is just me.
Speaker 1: I consider them to be elite teams rushing the football. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Browns and what they do with Chubb, and then
Speaker 1: you look at the Atlanta Falcons and the way they
Speaker 1: ran the ball. I'm very interested to see if there's
Speaker 1: any resemblance whatsoever to the Atlanta Falcons with the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals in their offense, because the Falcons loved to move
Speaker 1: their quarterback around. They love to put them under center,
Speaker 1: put them in the gun, put them in the pistol,
Speaker 1: use all of it. And they ran the ball at
Speaker 1: an elite level last year.
Speaker 4: And we saw it. We saw the last four games
Speaker 4: of the year when Desmond Ritter went two and two
Speaker 4: when he took over as a starting quarterback, the third
Speaker 4: round rookie out of since they're sticking with him as
Speaker 4: the guy. So to your point, not only did they
Speaker 4: emphasize the run, but look what they just invested in
Speaker 4: the draft. They took Bijon Robinson out of Texas, that
Speaker 4: all world running back. He's the first top ten running
Speaker 4: back selected since Saquon Barkley. So they're all in on
Speaker 4: the run game. They're all in on getting him weapons.
Speaker 4: Think of the last two years before that when they
Speaker 4: went Drake London, the receiver out of USC and then
Speaker 4: Kyle Pitts. They've been getting him weapons. In the top ten.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're coming in trying to bolster that offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know they're trying to do that. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams right now, Paul that are trying to
Speaker 1: hit the reset button again. I think the New Age
Speaker 1: offense came into the National Football League four or five
Speaker 1: years ago, and there was no doubt about it. Everyone
Speaker 1: was jumping on board, everybody especially I think the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons were the last team to actually get on board
Speaker 1: with a quarterback that was gonna be in the shotgun
Speaker 1: a vast majority of the time and that we're going
Speaker 1: to run some of his own reads that had Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan before that, Paul, stop and think about it. So
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why they were dragging their
Speaker 1: feet on that New Age offense. But I think, Paulie,
Speaker 1: it's starting to come back once again. You've heard me
Speaker 1: talk about this in the Pass, Paul, but it's the truth.
Speaker 1: I think it's really all a blot all about a
Speaker 1: blending of the old and the new right now in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and I think the Falcons are
Speaker 1: a spearhead team on that.
Speaker 4: By the way, you know who's coming in with the Falcons,
Speaker 4: our old pal Kalais Campbell.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, former player.
Speaker 4: Host here of the Big Red Race for many years.
Speaker 4: He's going to turn thirty seven this season. Yeah, he's
Speaker 4: coming in with the Falcons. So there you go. All right,
Speaker 4: Week eleven, you're back on the road at Houston, and
Speaker 4: that'll be interesting, right because it'll be Paris Johnson Junior
Speaker 4: against Will Anderson potentially, and then the whole aspect of
Speaker 4: the Cardinals and Texans doing business on Draft Day and
Speaker 4: the Cardinals the Texans draft pick in the first round
Speaker 4: in next year's drafts. So what do you think of
Speaker 4: when you think of a Texans team that you figure
Speaker 4: is going to be playing the rookie CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud. Yeah, this is a team that has got to
Speaker 1: get a lot more physical. Very much like the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: The Houston Texans have got to get a lot more physical.
Speaker 1: They were horrible. There's no other way to say it.
Speaker 1: They were horrible on the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: last year. Offensively as well. They've got to be able
Speaker 1: to run the ball. It's something they could not do.
Speaker 1: They could not control the line of scrimmage last year,
Speaker 1: very similar to the Arizona Cardinals. And what happened to
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and the breakdown of the Cardinals came
Speaker 1: that they could not control the line of scrimmage. That's
Speaker 1: my opinion, Paul. They really struggled to do that on
Speaker 1: both sides. The Houston Texans were right there with the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals as a team that struggled to control the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage on bull sides. And PAULI, if you
Speaker 1: don't have that, this is the amazing thing. This is
Speaker 1: the amazing truth about the game of football. Even in
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty three of our Lord Paul, if
Speaker 1: you don't control the line of scrimmage, your skill will
Speaker 1: not have the opportunity to go out and do what they.
Speaker 4: Do, no doubt. Then you come home and get the Rams.
Speaker 4: November twenty six And we like pointing this out that
Speaker 4: the Rams went five to twelve last year, which qualifies
Speaker 4: as the worst season by a defending Super Bowl champ
Speaker 4: in NFL history.
Speaker 1: And there it is, Paul the whole worst of first
Speaker 1: at first, the worst.
Speaker 4: It's like to throw that in his little jab. So
Speaker 4: we already talked about the Rams. Let's go to week thirteen.
Speaker 4: It's always a marquee road trip, especially for you personally.
Speaker 4: You're going to Pittsburgh. Your brother is their analyst as well.
Speaker 4: You know, longtime stealer. And you know what, it's been
Speaker 4: a long time since they won a playoff game by
Speaker 4: Steelers standards, twoenty sixteen, last time they won a playoff game.
Speaker 4: And then you got the Cardinals ol line against that front,
Speaker 4: including TJ. Watt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, TJ Watt, he's pretty good. That defense, of course,
Speaker 1: being a little facetious right there, that defense is the
Speaker 1: strength of this team. He got Kenny Pickett, who's going
Speaker 1: to be in his second year, the quarterback of course
Speaker 1: they drafted last year to replace Ben Roethlisberger. Kenny Pickett
Speaker 1: is a guy that is coming along nicely. My brother
Speaker 1: Craig says many, many good things about him. He really
Speaker 1: thinks he's going to be a player. He thinks he's
Speaker 1: going to be a player, just the way Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: was a player for how long almost two decades for
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. He thinks Kenny Pickett has got the
Speaker 1: right stuff as well.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about Big Ben or the fact this
Speaker 4: is a rematch of Super Bowl forty three. I'm not
Speaker 4: talking about that. I will point out that Kenny Pickett
Speaker 4: does have Najee Harris right right at running backs. He's
Speaker 4: a load. And then they drafted a franchise tackle and
Speaker 4: Broderick Jones out of Georgia. They right ahead of the
Speaker 4: Cardinals in round two. They got Joey Porter Junior at corner.
Speaker 4: And then they got your guy, Wolf Darnell Washington, the
Speaker 4: massive mountain of a tight end six seven, two sixty five.
Speaker 1: Paul, When you think of those three guys you just
Speaker 1: mentioned right there, what does that say to you? It's
Speaker 1: a mentality, is it not?
Speaker 5: Pauly?
Speaker 1: That is it is a cherishing of physical football players.
Speaker 4: That big men win football games, and all of those
Speaker 4: guys are massive dudes for their positions.
Speaker 1: I would just say physical physical, I'll give you away.
Speaker 1: We have football games, right yep.
Speaker 4: And then by the way, Week fourteen, the bye week,
Speaker 4: which is the latest season in a season ever for
Speaker 4: the Cardinals, tied with nineteen ninety one. So think about that, right,
Speaker 4: Your bye week is in week fourteen. And then down
Speaker 4: the stretch you come. And this is where my prayers
Speaker 4: were not answered by the schedule gods, as your sideline
Speaker 4: reporter outside in the climate. We'll get to that next.
Speaker 4: A reminder, you can buy your tickets for Cardinals games
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Speaker 3: Fourth and two on the Bear's twenty back to throw goes,
Speaker 3: Kyler looks right, throws a deep ball right side and
Speaker 3: the end zone. Pennant's pot hits a touchdown touchdown DeAndre
Speaker 3: Hopkins Kyler Murray with the dime. On four down, Murray
Speaker 3: takes the shotgun snap straight, dropped back, flushed out of
Speaker 3: the pocket, rolling right, being chased, he talks. He runs
Speaker 3: at the five and he heads to the corner and
Speaker 3: he's into the end zone. Four the touchdown, Kyler back
Speaker 3: will throw fires right side, want to catch it at twenty,
Speaker 3: runs right to the ten of the five into the
Speaker 3: end zone. Four of the touchdown, James Connor stabbing a
Speaker 3: ball that was an errant pass. It looked like it
Speaker 3: was going to go over his head. He grabbed it
Speaker 3: with his left hand and then he ran down the
Speaker 3: right sideline into the end zone. Four the touchdown, snap
Speaker 3: to Murray, he keeps it again, runs right, he's at
Speaker 3: the five, and he walks into the end zone. Four
Speaker 3: his second rushing touchdown, and the Cardinals just put the
Speaker 3: Bears away.
Speaker 4: Bad weather in Chicago, Yes, yes, I'm here to verify that.
Speaker 4: Was it a factor for the Cardinals. No, they went in,
Speaker 4: they got a win. They were prolific on offense. You're
Speaker 4: a couple of rushing touchdowns are ridiculous. One hand a
Speaker 4: grab on four down by d Hop and then an
Speaker 4: even more ridiculous catch and run by James Connor that
Speaker 4: I have the sideline running with them all the way
Speaker 4: to the end zone. So we bring that up because
Speaker 4: the Cardinals are going to Chicago on Christmas Eve. Ron
Speaker 4: Willefully get ready maybe to do some Christmas shopping, all
Speaker 4: the downtown lights in the Windy City. You'll be at
Speaker 4: Soldier Field December twenty fourth for a nice afternoon affair
Speaker 4: against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: PAULI you know what I was thinking about too, is
Speaker 1: I looked at this last section, of course of the
Speaker 1: schedule for the Cardinals Christmas Eve in Chicago and New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve in Philadelphia. Yeah, Paul, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people who think, boy, that must be great.
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve in Chicago, the Windy City, and then there
Speaker 1: you are in Philadelphia on New Year's Eve. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: does sound really really good unless you're the sideline reporter.
Speaker 1: Isn't that right, Paul?
Speaker 4: For Father's Day, I'm asking for new boots. I'm just
Speaker 4: telling you that right now I need a few extra layers.
Speaker 4: You're ready for this season?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: My prayers with the schedule, gods were not answered. When
Speaker 4: you see some of these late season games open air
Speaker 4: stadiums on the East Coast or Midwest Chicago and Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: But this final stretch, let's pick up coming out of
Speaker 4: the by as the Cardinals will have the forty nine
Speaker 4: ers and that will be in week fifteen. That'll be
Speaker 4: at home, and we're talking about a Niners team that
Speaker 4: will bring in Nick Bosoon, Javon Hargrave. We'll see exactly
Speaker 4: what the quarterback situation is. They're sticking with brock Party.
Speaker 4: I mean, Mike Kyle Shanahan, he doubled down on that
Speaker 4: just this week that Brock Party is the future of
Speaker 4: the quarterback spot for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Ron mostly, Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me, Polly,
Speaker 1: it really does. This is a guy that is very,
Speaker 1: very proficient once you put him in a bounce offense,
Speaker 1: and that was the one thing that I think we
Speaker 1: saw last year and that's what the forty nine ers are.
Speaker 1: It's still their beating hard Paly, it really is. I
Speaker 1: know that you know the defense, of course, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: it gets an awful lot of the attention when you
Speaker 1: talk about the forty nine ers because of their incredible
Speaker 1: front seven. They're incredible pass rush led by Nick Boso.
Speaker 1: Of course, defensively they are a nightmare and can be
Speaker 1: a nightmare. But it's still about their top ten rushing
Speaker 1: offense and that's exactly the kind of offense they need
Speaker 1: to put Brock Party in and they're going to do
Speaker 1: that Paully. They're going to attack the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: They're going to do it in a north south way.
Speaker 1: They're also going to attack the edges as well. That's
Speaker 1: something Kyle Shanahan loves to do. Maybe move Brock Purty
Speaker 1: a little bit, roll them out some half rolls as well.
Speaker 1: But the forty nine ers are a physical team still,
Speaker 1: I think the most physical team in the NFC West, and.
Speaker 4: They're the benchmark you measure yourself against in this division.
Speaker 4: Not only swept the Cardinals last year, They've won three
Speaker 4: straight against Seattle, including the playoff game. They've won eight
Speaker 4: in a row against the Rams in the regular season,
Speaker 4: So the Niners have been dominating recently. Then you go
Speaker 4: to Chicago. We talked about that. We didn't talk about
Speaker 4: how the Bears defense finished dead last year ago with
Speaker 4: only twenty sacks justin fields though, and yeah, he was
Speaker 4: sacked fifty five times, most in the NFL along with
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson. They're trying to bolster that offensive line. But
Speaker 4: it looks like a lot of people, including the NFL
Speaker 4: schedule makers are in on the Bears. They believe the
Speaker 4: Bears are about to take a step with Justin Fields.
Speaker 4: Are you a believer?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paully. You know, it's very similar almost to Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts and going into last season, the narrative that was
Speaker 1: surrounding Jalen Hurts, PAULI it was it was a question
Speaker 1: Poe Mark, Jalen Hurts right going into the season is
Speaker 1: well and whether or not he was going to be
Speaker 1: the guy. Now he showed flashes of the year before
Speaker 1: last of course, no doubt a that, but there was
Speaker 1: a serious conversation that was going on in Philadelphia in
Speaker 1: regard to Jalen Hurts and whether or not he was
Speaker 1: the right guy, the guy you were going to build
Speaker 1: your team around. Well, he went out and last year
Speaker 1: he put that narrative to bed. That's not going to
Speaker 1: be around for any time soon. I think Justin Fields
Speaker 1: has the exact same opportunity. There are similarities that are
Speaker 1: there right now. Now. Last year they had a hard
Speaker 1: time throwing the ball, and Justin Fields would be the
Speaker 1: first one to tell you that number thirty two in
Speaker 1: passing yards per game, Paul, number thirty two, would you
Speaker 1: say that's bad. Yeah, that is bad.
Speaker 4: You need to be more balanced than that.
Speaker 1: Yes, they had only one hundred and thirty yards passing
Speaker 1: per game, one hundred and thirty per day. Bad. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's for Rolf right there, that's Trent Dilfer stuff
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4: Again, he got sacked fifty five times. So we'll see
Speaker 4: if they can figure that out. Speaking of Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 4: the Cardinals in week seventeen, go to Philly. That'll be
Speaker 4: New Year's Eve, that'll be December thirty first. My thinking here,
Speaker 4: Wolf is if Eagles fans are still hot at JG,
Speaker 4: they're giving them seven more months to simmer down. Now, Okay,
Speaker 4: They're stending this Cardinals Eagles game all the way until
Speaker 4: December thirty first, and then we'll see. Look, I'm just
Speaker 4: gonna tell you in two thousand and eight, the Cardinals
Speaker 4: played a Thanksgiving night game at Philadelphia, and that was
Speaker 4: the most lubricated crowd I've ever seen in the NFL,
Speaker 4: firsthand from the sideline because they weren't working the next day.
Speaker 4: So I showed her to think what Eagles fans are
Speaker 4: going to be like when they have New Year's Day off.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, PAULI bring your helmet. Okay, bring your helmet.
Speaker 1: You might want to put that thing on right there, Paul.
Speaker 1: Isn't it weird? Though? There it is Week sixteen in
Speaker 1: Week seventeen at Chicago at Philadelphia. One is Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: the others the other is New Year's Eve, as you said,
Speaker 1: And it's Justin Fields and Jalen Hurts. Two very similar
Speaker 1: quarterbacks when it when you consider their skill set, and
Speaker 1: yet on two completely diff different planes. And yet, just
Speaker 1: like we were talking about Jalen Hurts and the narrative
Speaker 1: surrounding him, could this be the year that it goes
Speaker 1: away for Justin Fields as well? What if he leads
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, that team that can run the ball
Speaker 1: number one in rushing yards per game and rushing yards
Speaker 1: per play, They attack the line of scrimmints, and Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: of course, is right in the center of all of that,
Speaker 1: very much like Jalen Hurts was the year before last.
Speaker 1: The similarities are stunning to me. And yet here it
Speaker 1: is back to back Week sixteen in Week seventeen at
Speaker 1: Chicago at Philadelphia. That's going to be an interesting conversation
Speaker 1: over the Holidays.
Speaker 4: Yep, Kyler against those two guys as the quarterback matchup,
Speaker 4: and then Kyler against Geno Smith for the second time
Speaker 4: in the season. As for the second time in three years.
Speaker 4: They end the season with the Seahawks at home, So
Speaker 4: that's where the Cardinals will wrap up the regular season.
Speaker 4: And we know how much the Cardinals love to win
Speaker 4: at Seattle, and they've done a lot of that in
Speaker 4: the last decade, and Seattle's returned the favor here in
Speaker 4: the az.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of Seattle. It's gonna be interesting to see what
Speaker 1: the condition will be at the Seattle Seahawks at that
Speaker 1: point in time. Right there. I'm a huge Geno Smith fan.
Speaker 1: It's West Virginia, West Virginia, you know, Paul, Hey, Okay.
Speaker 4: He's on a glorified one year deal. I think he's
Speaker 4: still to a certain degree in a prove it season
Speaker 4: for Gino Smith.
Speaker 1: Very very interesting, PAULI, That's what I was going to
Speaker 1: say that there he is on this this one year
Speaker 1: contract that he signed up there. Yeah, we're gonna pay
Speaker 1: you if, in fact, you can put out, and I
Speaker 1: think Geno Smith is going to be able to put out,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna have a conundrum. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to sign him to a long term contract or
Speaker 1: let him go.
Speaker 4: By the way, some of the marquee happenings, well, the
Speaker 4: NFL opener, by the way, is September seventh, the annual
Speaker 4: Thursday night game with Kansas City hosting Detroit. They put
Speaker 4: the Lions into that slot. That was very interesting. And
Speaker 4: then the Monday Night football opener the Jets. Get ready
Speaker 4: for the Jets. And by the way, the Jets had
Speaker 4: not hosted been in a Sunday night game since twenty twelve.
Speaker 4: They start the season on Monday Night, one of many
Speaker 4: in prime time and they're hosting Buffalo. So that's Aaron Rodgers'
Speaker 4: debut against the Bills and Josh Allen Paul.
Speaker 1: Do you think that might be a game right there home?
Speaker 1: My goodness, Yeah, you might want to slide the protective
Speaker 1: gup in.
Speaker 4: Get ready for some serious serious TV ratings on that one.
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 4: By the way, once again, Asycardinals dot com slash buy
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Speaker 4: more than twenty five thousand miles with the NFC East
Speaker 4: the AFC North. That's twenty six different time zones. You
Speaker 4: will be on the road for Christmas even New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4: You'll be home for thanks Thanksgiving weekend, so that's a
Speaker 4: plus right.
Speaker 1: There, Paulie. You'll be wearing a parka.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I'm already heading over to the equipment room
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