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Speaker 1: Score Touchdown. Welcome to the Cardinals Red Sea Report. Slim

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Speaker 1: to the Ground by Buda Baker Like a torpedo. He

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Speaker 1: dot com Slash podcast Here week go. This is caught

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Speaker 1: by Kurt at the twenty at the ten touchdown. Oh

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Speaker 1: Baby Field. Here's Craig Griolu, Mike Jarecki, and three time

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Speaker 1: pro bowler Kyle Van Deenbosch. Doesn't always have to be pretty,

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Speaker 1: it just has to be effective efficients good enough for

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Speaker 1: that day against that opponents, and the Cardinals were just

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Speaker 1: that's On Sundays, we're talking about another win, another road

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Speaker 1: to win here on this edition of the Cardinals Red

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Speaker 1: Sea Report. That is seven consecutive road wins, all by

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Speaker 1: double figures, thirty three twenty two, the final from Chicago

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Speaker 1: and Kyle thirty five degrees rain throughout as a player,

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Speaker 1: you enjoy that. As a fan, I don't imagine watching

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Speaker 1: it from the stands is all that enjoyable. But as

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Speaker 1: a player, how much fun with those guys having on

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Speaker 1: the football field on Sunday. It looked like they're having

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I mean, from my experience, it

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Speaker 1: really depends on the situation, right, And one of the

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Speaker 1: great things about this game, once again, as a team

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Speaker 1: got off to an incredibly fast start, and really after

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Speaker 1: and so you could you know, you didn't have to

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Speaker 1: Chicago did as they got behind, and it I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things I love about watching this

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Speaker 1: just how much they like each other and cheer for

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Speaker 1: each other on the sidelines. Yeah, and they found another

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Speaker 1: way to win. I mean, Kyler was eleven for fifteen,

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Speaker 1: but they were able to run the football and obviously

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Speaker 1: twenty three total points Craig when it came to the turnovers,

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Speaker 1: and so they're finding different ways to win. And I

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Speaker 1: think it was important, and I think all three of us,

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Speaker 1: Obviously a very winnable game, a better team where the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and there they played complimentary football once again, and when

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Speaker 1: you do that, you're going to win a lot of games.

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Speaker 1: First win after the bye week under head coach Cliff Kingsbury.

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Speaker 1: again playing in inclement weather. Remember it was cold in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: Finding different ways to your point MG and how to

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Speaker 1: And you know all week they talked about you know,

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Speaker 1: And it was perfect because Colte McCoy came in wins

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Speaker 1: First and foremost, you're talking about one of the best

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league. Chronicled how where he stacks up

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Speaker 1: as far as different stats, and now DeAndre Hopkins with

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Speaker 1: eight touchdowns this season that is tied for the third

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Speaker 1: most in the league, that one two punch or just

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Speaker 1: that combination, Kyle, I think bodes wall of this Cardinal's offense. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And then with you, I hated that, you know, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to see him move the chains, and I

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Speaker 1: hated that shot, the shot at the end zone until

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Speaker 1: he caught it. But I loved the signal. It's sent

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Speaker 1: right like we're back, and it tells teams, look, we

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Speaker 1: can do this anytime we want. You know, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to become predictable in any phase of the game,

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Speaker 1: and you certainly don't want to be predictable on fourth

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Speaker 1: and two or it's at best going to be a

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty proposition. But if you say, hey, sometimes we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go for it on fourth and two and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a deep shot, it really puts the defense

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Speaker 1: in a bind because you know, corners are almost always

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Speaker 1: one on one on fourth and two because they need

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Speaker 1: extra bodies in the box, so that look will be

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Speaker 1: there again. And it's it's nice to send that signal

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Speaker 1: that hey, we're gonna take this shot because yeah, we

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Speaker 1: got a quarterback that can put the ball there, and

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Speaker 1: we got a receiver that's going to catch that ball

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Speaker 1: every single time, you know, Craig pointed out to me earlier. Today,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals are running the ball forty eight percent of

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Speaker 1: the time and throwing at fifty two percent of time.

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Speaker 1: You were thought to be sixty forty Now attempts per game,

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Speaker 1: they are fourth in the league. Ravens thirty two, Eagles

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Speaker 1: thirty one, the Titans thirty one, and the Cardinals are

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Speaker 1: thirty one. And when you come to rushing touchdowns, they

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Speaker 1: are second behind the Colts with nineteen rushing touchdowns. So again,

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Speaker 1: they can line up and run the football and utilize

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Speaker 1: play action, and that's where your weapons have to you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously make plays, but I like the recipe and in

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Speaker 1: the game plan going in. Now, if you're trailing, then

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Speaker 1: the numbers are going to reflect the other way. But

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Speaker 1: they found another way to win by running the football.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five rushing attempts on Sunday compared to fifteen pass attempts.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into that ground game, but one of those

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Speaker 1: pass attempts another touchdown, this one to James Connor, a

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Speaker 1: twenty three yard catch and run in which James Connors

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Speaker 1: show his hands, or more specifically, his one hand ability

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Speaker 1: to bring that ball in and score. Here's Cliff Kingsbury.

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Speaker 1: That's got to be Sports Center Player of the Week, right,

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Speaker 1: that was unbelievable. Jadges in one hand, he breaks the

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Speaker 1: tackle and then goes for a touchdown. Mean I had

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Speaker 1: to run down there and get my hug because I'm like,

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Speaker 1: that is insane. You know, a third down too. So

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Speaker 1: he's been just a godsend for us, especially with Chase

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Speaker 1: out being able to shoulder the load like he has offensively,

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Speaker 1: he just continues to get better and better. Fourteen total touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Now for James Connor, someone that the Cardinals got on

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Speaker 1: the cheap and free agency, but I don't know where

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Speaker 1: this team would be offensively, specially with James Chase Edmonds

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Speaker 1: out without having to James Connor on the football field. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so when he was signed, everybody thought he was going

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Speaker 1: to be the thunder to Chase Edmonds lightning and that's

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Speaker 1: how they're going to use him. And that's how he

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Speaker 1: was used early in the season. I mean, he would

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Speaker 1: you know, he was brought in for the short yardage plays.

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Speaker 1: He would run into the pile and pick up the

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Speaker 1: yardage necessary. But he has shown, you know, since Chase

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Speaker 1: went out. He's the thunder and the lightning, you know,

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Speaker 1: being able to catch the ball, his effectiveness in the

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Speaker 1: screen game that you know, there was a run yesterday

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Speaker 1: where he was or not yesterday, I'm sorry Sunday, he's

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Speaker 1: exactly like lev Bell where he had his hand on

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Speaker 1: his blocker's back, was waiting for the blocker to pick

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Speaker 1: his cut. I mean it's he has shown that you know,

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Speaker 1: he's he's definitely a complete back and you can use

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Speaker 1: him in any type of situation. Led the team in rushing,

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Speaker 1: led the team in receiving, mj twenty two total touches

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Speaker 1: for James Conner and now hopefully as you get Chase

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Speaker 1: Edmunds back, perhaps this week against the Rams. If not,

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Speaker 1: you get Chase Edmunds back, hopefully sooner rather than later.

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Speaker 1: But it just adds another weapon, if you will, for

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury to dial up. Yeah, a

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Speaker 1: few weeks ago he had twenty seven touches, three touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: In this game, he had twenty carries for seventy five yards,

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Speaker 1: but it was when those carries happened he had the

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Speaker 1: long twenty one yard run and then he was targeted

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Speaker 1: a couple of times. They only complete eleven passes. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you look at his numbers in Pittsburgh and

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Speaker 1: they didn't use him as much in the passing game,

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Speaker 1: and then you see it in camp and then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know, I mean, I think Kyle

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Speaker 1: is the one that brought it up a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: When you look at one hand, it catches James Connor.

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Speaker 1: I mean, nothing against hop obviously he does it, you know, weekly,

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Speaker 1: but he's missed a few games. James Connor. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they thought they would get this

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Speaker 1: from a production from the passing game. Now you can

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Speaker 1: go four wide, you can have both running backs in

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Speaker 1: the game at the same time and split one out.

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Speaker 1: So just another weapon on the field once you gets

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Speaker 1: chased back carried the ball. Talking about James Connor twenty times,

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Speaker 1: twelve of those in the second half as the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: had the lead, built the lead and go on to

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Speaker 1: win thirty three twenty two. I mentioned the thirty five

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Speaker 1: rushing attempts. DJ Humphrey certainly liked the sound of that man.

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Speaker 1: It was so far, you know what I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: kind of one of those those games. The Office Alignment

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Speaker 1: pride theirself on it and they love to be a

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Speaker 1: part of So for us to be able to get

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Speaker 1: out there and get out to like that and get

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Speaker 1: grind play bullet ball at jac said a minute, thing

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Speaker 1: was so fun. It's a statement, Kyle, when you're have

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Speaker 1: an offensive line that can go forward and push that

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Speaker 1: defensive front back on its heels and do it consistently

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Speaker 1: even though the defense knows it's going to happen and

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Speaker 1: you still can't stop it. Oh. Absolutely, And it's somebody

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Speaker 1: that loves the history of the game to go and

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Speaker 1: to Soldier Field and play that type of game and

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Speaker 1: really be so effective in the run game against a place,

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Speaker 1: you know, a franchise that has historically had just phenomenal defenses. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I understand. You know a lot of my

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Speaker 1: best friends to this day from when I played your

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen, and these are the type of games they love.

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Speaker 1: Offensive lineman. I mean, it's it's no secret they hate

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Speaker 1: when they have to protect the quarterback fifty times a

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Speaker 1: game and they're gonna get beat, you know, several of

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Speaker 1: those times. So this it's it's like he said, it's bullyball.

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Speaker 1: You're putting your hand in the dirt. You know what

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Speaker 1: your job is, and you get your head and you

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Speaker 1: stick it in his chest and you drive until until

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Speaker 1: you can't drive anymore. Yeah, I'd ask him how much

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Speaker 1: you relish that? And we know that you'd rather go

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Speaker 1: blocking than pass protection. But they've adapted to Kyler knowing

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Speaker 1: when you know, keep blocking until he throws it. But

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Speaker 1: Sean Harlowe, Humphrey and Rodney Hudson played really well in

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Speaker 1: that game. And you know, Beecham had the penalty and

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Speaker 1: he had a couple of pressures from the right side. Again,

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Speaker 1: they have some guysick and rush the passure. But Rodney Hudson,

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Speaker 1: I can't say enough. He hasn't given up. I think

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Speaker 1: he's only given up one pressure the entire season, and

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Speaker 1: so he's been a huge upgrade. Subtle things down and

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Speaker 1: help Kyler Murray when it comes to making the calls,

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Speaker 1: always starts with the offensive line. Can't do anything unless

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Speaker 1: those five guys are doing their job. The Day Pass

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Speaker 1: Podcast Episode nineteen premieres Wednesday, featuring ESPN analysts and Basketball

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Bill Walton catch up on past episodes.

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Speaker 1: We've had halftime here on the Cardinals Red Sea report

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Speaker 1: on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Snapped adults short set

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Speaker 1: as time throws near side, it's high. It's picked off

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Speaker 1: at the thirty yard line by Jalen Thompson. He's run

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Speaker 1: out of bounds. Snapped the Dalton Cardinals rush five. Dalton

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Speaker 1: in the pocket throws right side. It's harton and the

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Speaker 1: ball is loose and it's scooped up out of the

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Speaker 1: air by foot of Baker. He's at the twenty farside

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Speaker 1: thirty forty fifty and the Morty runs right to the

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Speaker 1: fifteen yard line. Play action passed Dalton from the pocket side.

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Speaker 1: Arms had picked off at the forty on the near

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Speaker 1: side by Murphy running back to the left at the

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Speaker 1: thirty five of the thirty and Murphy run out of

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Speaker 1: bounds Byron. Murphy picks off Dalton and the Cardinals will

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Speaker 1: have the ball deep in Bear territory, leading by ten.

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Speaker 1: After throw Dalton as the screen and it's picked off.

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Speaker 1: Allan on the far sides got it into the thirty

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Speaker 1: and the twenty at the fifteen it tackled by Dalton

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Speaker 1: at the eleven yard line. He picks off the screen pass.

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Speaker 1: The fourth interception by Dalton and now the fans start

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Speaker 1: to file out of here. Sure there's a little luck involved,

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Speaker 1: but you have to be able to make the play

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Speaker 1: as well. Four takeaways by the Cardinals defensively on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: all interceptions. The only real clean one though, was the

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Speaker 1: last one by Zach Allen. As we walk me back

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Speaker 1: here the Cardinals Red Tea report Craig Raya, Lukavanibosch and

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Speaker 1: Mike Drecky. Defensively on the road, the Cardinals with nineteen takeaways.

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Speaker 1: They are plus seventeen on the road compared to minus

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Speaker 1: five at home. More on that in a moment. But

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Speaker 1: defensively allowing less than seventeen points a game, Kyle, this

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Speaker 1: team defensively likes playing away from Arizona, right and and honestly,

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Speaker 1: that's the number you can point to as to why

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Speaker 1: they're undefeated on the road is the plus seventeen and

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Speaker 1: the turnovers that's huge. Um, you know, if it's flipped

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Speaker 1: or even even you know, getting turnovers, it's tough to overcome,

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Speaker 1: especially on the road to get the crowd, you know,

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Speaker 1: fired up, and this team is just shown over and

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Speaker 1: over and over that they are or this defense specifically,

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Speaker 1: they're a big play defense. I mean they can you know,

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Speaker 1: shut you down, hold you and make you punt. But

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Speaker 1: games like Sunday, the defense was the story of the

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Speaker 1: game because of the interceptions and how they gave the

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Speaker 1: offense unbelievable field position for a lot of their drives.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals after those turnovers. M J started at the

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Speaker 1: Bears twenty eight Bears fifteen Bears twenty eight Bears twelve

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Speaker 1: four turnovers directly led to twenty three total points. Now

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Speaker 1: that's why they only had fifty one total plays. And

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Speaker 1: so you ran the ball thirty five times and threw

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Speaker 1: you got eleven for fifteen. Yeah, it's it's you know,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you this, Kyle, because we know this year,

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Speaker 1: you would think with the fans back, you would have

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Speaker 1: more home field advantage. It seems like it's even I

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Speaker 1: don't have the number. It could be there's maybe a

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Speaker 1: few on the home team, but this is this is

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Speaker 1: historical what they're doing. The only two teams have done this,

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Speaker 1: and when the season started they had nine road games.

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Speaker 1: I mean just I think it's more they take it

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Speaker 1: like a business trip. You know that, you know, you

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Speaker 1: stay at the team hotel, you may go home the

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Speaker 1: next morning and everything else. But we'll get into that.

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Speaker 1: They have to play better at home. But how is

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Speaker 1: this happening? I mean, to me, it's historical what's going on?

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Speaker 1: And it's not I mean they're winning by double digits. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it's just the mentality. Once

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Speaker 1: you get on a role and you play well on

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Speaker 1: the road, it becomes an expectation. You know, there's so

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Speaker 1: much about how you take the field and what you

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Speaker 1: feel and what your expectations are that day. And when

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Speaker 1: you show up at somebody else's house and you expect

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Speaker 1: to go in there and get a win, regardless of

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Speaker 1: the opponent, that says so much about how the game

646
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 1: is going to end up. Instead of hope, you expect

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Speaker 1: it to happen. You are we seeing more silent count

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Speaker 1: with teams on the road, or just because of the

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Speaker 1: crowd noise. Now the Bears fans are pulling by halftime,

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Speaker 1: so it's probably gonna I'm just trying to figure out,

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Speaker 1: you know, seven and oh you I mean as a player.

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Speaker 1: Usually you want to scratch out you know, sixteen game schedule,

653
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Speaker 1: seven or eight home games, six or seven, right, and

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Speaker 1: then you want to scratch out four or five, and

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Speaker 1: then you get to ten or eleven wins. This is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: It is, it is, and it's a it's a credit

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Speaker 1: to Cliff and what he does to get this team

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Speaker 1: ready to travel and to play well on the road.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not easy. It's I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: it's it's the the with what the team is doing

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Speaker 1: is an anonymally non help me out, an anomaly there,

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Speaker 1: you guy, I was gonna put an extra syllable in there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm done using big words for the rest of the day. Um.

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Speaker 1: But really, across the league, I mean it's I don't

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Speaker 1: really have any explanation for it. When when road teams

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Speaker 1: seem to be winning more than home teams do first

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00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: Cardinals team ever to win each of their first seven

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Speaker 1: road games and a CEZ in a season and defensively again,

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Speaker 1: it began and ended with them. We heard the play call,

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Speaker 1: let's hear the person Zach Allen with his first career.

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Speaker 1: I NT sue, I know, I got to start working

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Speaker 1: on my speed. I gotta learn how turn that corner shoot.

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Speaker 1: But now it's definitely a special moment. And especially you

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Speaker 1: know it's like in a game like today and just

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Speaker 1: with everything, everybody playing well, so you know, it's definitely

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Speaker 1: a cool experience I'll have forever. Yeah, never get caught

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Speaker 1: from behind as a defensive player. I e. Buddha Baker,

678
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: who has now been caught from behind twice by opposing quarterbacks.

679
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: That's never a good thing when you go back into

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Speaker 1: the locker room. But specifically on Zach Allen, we forget Kyle.

681
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Speaker 1: This is also his third year. We talk about year

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Speaker 1: three for Kyler Murray, about year three four Zach Allen

683
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Speaker 1: and what he has shown defensively this season. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: he's really stepped up and he's playing well. Really seems

685
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Speaker 1: like he's playing better every week. He's just consistent and

686
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Speaker 1: what you saw with the play he made. It comes

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Speaker 1: with experience, It comes with playing, It comes with getting reps.

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Speaker 1: You know, you you instead of being out there thinking,

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Speaker 1: you feel when an offensive line is trying to throw

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Speaker 1: you up the field and into the screen, and you

691
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Speaker 1: you know because it's happened to you before. I got

692
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Speaker 1: to find the running back because it's a screen and

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Speaker 1: it was just a great read, a great play. I

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00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: mean it's for a big man. It was incredibly athletic

695
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Speaker 1: to to grab that ball with his left hand. And

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Speaker 1: I will say that, you know a little advice to

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Speaker 1: Chicago when Justin's Justin Fields comes back, you should put

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton a linebacker because he had two touchdown saving tackles.

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Speaker 1: I mean he looks like a linebacker at there. Yes

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Speaker 1: he did that. Alan interception, though, did set up the

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Speaker 1: final score for the Arizona Cardinals. Kyle Murray a three

702
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: yard touchdown and run. We talked about it. Four interceptions

703
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: led to twenty three points. You want the definition a complimentary,

704
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Speaker 1: complimentary football? I got Kyle enter the problem here, Jordan

705
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: Hicks on the defense setting up the offense. When you

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Speaker 1: play complimentary, when you can get turnovers and take care

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Speaker 1: of the ball and um, you know, score off the turnovers,

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00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: that's huge. And put us spot of his fourteen points

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Speaker 1: right there, first couple of drives. So it's huge. Man's

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Speaker 1: that's what this game is. Final way to win. You know,

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Speaker 1: it might always not always be pretty, it might not

712
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Speaker 1: always be the way you thought it's going to go.

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00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: But find a way to win in this league. And

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Speaker 1: that's that's what's most important. Cardinals were out gained, They

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Speaker 1: had twelve fewer first downs, ran twenty fewer plays. Yet again,

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Speaker 1: one by eleven scored thirty three points in a win

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Speaker 1: on the road against the Chicago Bears. Yet at the

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Speaker 1: end of the game, you heard players, you heard the

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Speaker 1: head coach talk about, hey, we can be better. In fact,

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Speaker 1: here is Zach Ellen just on that it's hard not

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00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: to have confidence, especially when you're on the field and

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Speaker 1: you look at the guys that you're playing with. I

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Speaker 1: mean across every single position. You have you know, pro

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Speaker 1: bowled caliber studs, all pros, whatever it is, future Hall

725
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: of famers. So, I mean, this is definitely the most

726
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Speaker 1: fun I've had. I know for a lot of guys.

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00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: You'll get that same answer. So, you know, the cool

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Speaker 1: thing is that we can be so much better. I think.

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Speaker 1: So we still have yet to play a complete perfect game,

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Speaker 1: and you know that's what we're striving for, and I

731
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Speaker 1: think you know we're not too too far away from that.

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Speaker 1: And you can point to the run defense. I think

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Speaker 1: that is what everyone in that locker room. Defensively, MJ

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Speaker 1: would say, where we can get better because other than that,

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Speaker 1: I mean scoring defense, your top five red zone defense,

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Speaker 1: you're right there in the middle of the pack. You're

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Speaker 1: great against the pass. It's against the run in which

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Speaker 1: this team has. It's one big issue if you want

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Speaker 1: to call that. Yeah, And I'm sure if we had

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Speaker 1: some truth sermon, Cliff Does mentioned it and Kyler mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: After every game they left points on the board. And Kyle,

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Speaker 1: let me just ask you this, When you've got twenty

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Speaker 1: two guys chasing each other, leving on both sides of

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00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: the ball, can you ever have a perfect game? No,

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Speaker 1: it's never happened. Trust me. I haven't even come close

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Speaker 1: to a perfect game. But no, it's a I mean

747
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: you're striving for it. I mean cut down on the

748
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: mental mistakes. They don't beat themselves. They play complimentary football.

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Speaker 1: It's just we keep hearing this and this is the

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Speaker 1: time when you want to hit that accelerator. This is

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Speaker 1: the time you want to start. Hey, we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: putting our foot on the gas pedal and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: continue to win games and have a you know, some

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Speaker 1: momentum going into the playoffs. Well, Kingsbury used the word

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Speaker 1: play cleaner that was his description ahead of the bye week.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at how clean or not clean

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Speaker 1: it was on Sunday, eight penalties. Five of those were

758
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: really really costly. He kept protection of the football. Yet

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Speaker 1: at the same time, you know you're ten and two,

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Speaker 1: seven to o on the road, first place in the division,

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Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC, and we're looking

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Speaker 1: for areas in which this team can get better, which

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Speaker 1: I think is a good thing for everyone here in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Cardinal players. Certainly everyone contributing get your

765
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: favorite Cardinal player, but you helped send them to the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Votes early and often go to NFL dot

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Speaker 1: com slash Pro Bowl votes. Again, that's NFL dot com

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Speaker 1: slash Pro Bowl votes. As we continue here on the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Red Sea Reports, we look ahead Week fourteen, Monday

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Speaker 1: night football matchup at State Farm Stadium against the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. That's straight ahead here on the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Radio Network. Oh, y'all looking for his finger, just check

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Speaker 1: the trash. I think it's in his club. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: a finger injury, it was a lost finger. It's twenty thirteen,

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Speaker 1: Week three headed in the New Orleans. You dream about

776
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Speaker 1: playing in that play Superdome, Sean Payton, Drew Brees, Michael Colston.

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Speaker 1: Big challenge for our secondary the domes rocking. We're in

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Speaker 1: a back and forth game with the Saints. Hunt the

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Speaker 1: ball down and I'm going to cover it. Bol My

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Speaker 1: head happened. My hand was just thriving. I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: shake it off. There's a lot of injuries that you

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Speaker 1: see over the years that are bad. This is just

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Speaker 1: different because you never expected to see it. And before

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Speaker 1: I know it, I could feel my heartbeat in my hand.

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Speaker 1: It's like my hand is beating at the same rhythm

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Speaker 1: as my heart. You know, we knew he had left

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Speaker 1: the game, but we didn't really understand the gravity of

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Speaker 1: the situation. I think the injury reports something long. Ones

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Speaker 1: of guys. The Cardinals were losing this game, but it

790
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Speaker 1: looks like Rashaw Johnson has lost something else. The next

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Speaker 1: episode of Cardinals Folk Tales, entitled nine More, premiers on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday on the Cardinals YouTube channel. Go to YouTube dot

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Speaker 1: com slash as Cardinals All look back at former Cardinals

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Speaker 1: safety Rashad Johnston losing the tip of his finger during

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Speaker 1: a game against the Saints in twenty thirteen. Again YouTube

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Speaker 1: dot com slash Azy Cardinals for all episodes of Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Folk Tales. As we continue here on the Cardinals read

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Speaker 1: sewer Port Craig Rayo, Lukavanibosh, and Mike Drecky as we

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Speaker 1: turn the page from Chicago to Los Angeles and the

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Speaker 1: Rams coming to town on Monday Nights six to fifteen

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Speaker 1: is the kickoff two thirty in the afternoon. The pregame

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Speaker 1: coverage begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Second meeting

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Speaker 1: against the Rams beat the Grams in week four. Have

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Speaker 1: not swept the Rams since twenty fourteen in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: But it is a home game, and we know the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals have not played as well at home as they

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Speaker 1: have on the road. They are three and two at home.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they've lost their last two games at State

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Speaker 1: Farm Stadium, Packers and Panthers. Here is head coach Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody keeps asking I wish I knew because we'd bottle

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Speaker 1: it up. We haven't been nearly as good at home, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: But that that's gonna be the message this week. How

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Speaker 1: do we get the juice the focus. Let's bring that

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Speaker 1: when we're back in front of the Red Sea as well.

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Speaker 1: Now that was post game on Sunday. Kingsbury addressed the

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Speaker 1: media on Monday and was asked several different times about

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Speaker 1: the lack of success at home compared to the road. Now, again,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about a ten win team, but seven and

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Speaker 1: oh versus three and two, that is glaring, Especially Kyle,

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Speaker 1: if you want a home playoff game, you'll get that

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Speaker 1: if you win the division, and you'll be home throughout

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Speaker 1: the postseason if you have the number one seed. But

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Speaker 1: that does you nothing if you're not successful at home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you could ask questions like this as

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Speaker 1: a player and as a coach and you just don't know.

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Speaker 1: And I can promise you you know, one of the

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Speaker 1: things that Cliff and his staff have shown is the

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Speaker 1: ability to learn from mistakes, make adjustments and adapt. And

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Speaker 1: so I'm sure that they're looking at everything from how

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Speaker 1: they warm up at home to pregame meals to you know,

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Speaker 1: the uniform combination, because it is something and honestly, it's

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Speaker 1: it's great to take pride in being road warriors and

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Speaker 1: playing well in the road, but there is nothing better

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Speaker 1: as a player than winning at home in front of

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Speaker 1: your home crowd. When they're all fired up and the

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Speaker 1: crowd will be fired up on Monday Night football against

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Speaker 1: the Rams. I mean, it's it's I'm so excited about

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Speaker 1: this matchup, and I'm sure every other fan is as well.

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Speaker 1: I get the impression it's a point of emphasis this week.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't push the envelope, but you realize,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna host some playoff games, you

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Speaker 1: want to have a home field advantage. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the Rams between September and October, they

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Speaker 1: were seven and one. They went winless in November and three,

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Speaker 1: and then they got they beat the Jaguars last week.

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's obviously just going to come down

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Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray and Matthew Stafford and you know, who's

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Speaker 1: able to run the football, who's able to force turnovers.

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Speaker 1: But clearly this is a desperate Rams team. I mean

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Speaker 1: there you look at their their their record in the

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Speaker 1: divisions one and two, so I mean tiebreakers and everything else.

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Speaker 1: Conference wins. I mean they are four and two at

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Speaker 1: can win on the road. Cardinals looking to do something,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned that they have not done since twenty

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Speaker 1: fourteen and that has sweeped the regular season series from

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Speaker 1: the Rams. But yes, you gotta be better at home,

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Speaker 1: but you also want to be playing well here in December,

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Speaker 1: going into January and hopefully going into February. Here's Jordan

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Speaker 1: Hicks on that, it's it's details, it's work, it's the

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Speaker 1: mindset that we have, it's it's holding our edge right.

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Speaker 1: So there's always something to improve on and we got

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Speaker 1: to make sure we're continuing to focus on that. You

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Speaker 1: can also look at just taking care of the football.

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Speaker 1: The turnover differential at home minus five on how many

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Speaker 1: times they give the football away three times against the Packers,

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Speaker 1: twice against the Panthers. That plays a large part in

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Speaker 1: this as well. And then of course you don't want

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Speaker 1: to trail in games as they did against the Panthers

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Speaker 1: or excuse Panthers, but in against the Texans that was

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Speaker 1: another home game in which they did not score at

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Speaker 1: all in the first quarter at State Farm Stadium. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think the focus is going to be an

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Speaker 1: issue this week with the Rams coming into town, and

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Speaker 1: it'll buy the way Kyle. The Cardinals win and they're

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Speaker 1: in they clinch a playoff spot with the victory of

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Speaker 1: the Rams, and that would be fitting considering the lack

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Speaker 1: of success in recent years against the Rams. It would

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Speaker 1: be And I mean we talked about how the bye

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Speaker 1: week came at the exact right time, you know, having

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Speaker 1: it that late in the season, everybody gets a boost.

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Speaker 1: You know, we want to focus on Kyler and de Hop,

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Speaker 1: but everybody's got bumps and bruises and is nicked up.

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Speaker 1: And to have that extra time late in the season

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Speaker 1: and the opportunity to get a late, late self scout, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you self scout yourself early in the season,

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Speaker 1: five weeks down the road, you got to try to

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Speaker 1: do it again during a game week because everything has

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Speaker 1: completely changed. Weaknesses and your strengths have changed. But to

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Speaker 1: have that opportunity to get get a late self scout,

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Speaker 1: figure out what can we adjust, how can we make

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Speaker 1: ourselves better just last week, I mean, that's that's going

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Speaker 1: to serve huge for this team. And just to you know,

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Speaker 1: let everyone know that if you beat the Rams, you

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Speaker 1: clinch a playoff berth. If you beat the Lions, you

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Speaker 1: win the division. So when your next two there's a

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Speaker 1: lot at stake right here. Over the next couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks one at home and one on the road. Six

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Speaker 1: to fifteen. Again is the kickoff on Monday Night Football

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Speaker 1: two thirty pm. Pregame coverage begins, and then we'll have

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Speaker 1: the Quick turnaround one week from today to talk about

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Speaker 1: a week fourteen matchup Cardinals and the Rams special thanks

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Speaker 1: to those behind the scenes, Senior broadcast Manager and producer

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Speaker 1: Jim amahund Technical director Cody Fincher. Again, it is the

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Speaker 1: next game. It is the next important game, and each

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Speaker 1: game gets more more important as the season progresses. But

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals know that they clinch a playoff spot with

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Speaker 1: a vic Tree. There's some other scenarios, but bottom line,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals control their own destiny. For Kyle Vanibash, Mike Jarecki,

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Speaker 1: I'm Craig Riel Lou. Thanks for listening to the Cardinals

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