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Speaker 1: here and very excited about this week's show. For the

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Speaker 1: next hour, Paul, we'll teach us about football. At least

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Speaker 1: that is what I've been told and what I hear

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Speaker 1: whenever Paul calvc is on the air. Not so much you,

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Speaker 1: Craig Grilo. It's Ron Wolfley, all right, that's when we

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Speaker 1: bust out to let me tell you about football because

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Speaker 1: I will tell you I don't need any more stinking

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Speaker 1: just heard, Dave Passion, Ron Wolfley going on about twenty

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Speaker 1: years as a collective voice of the airs on a Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: If I get another stinking picture from Italy of Dave

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Speaker 1: Get your seats in a seat. When we talk defense

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Speaker 1: and specifically defensive line, I'll give you credit. Might want

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Speaker 1: to mark this. Yeah, where's here we go? It was

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Speaker 1: you who I first heard. Now whether you got this

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Speaker 1: and the defensive line, just how valuable a full season's

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Speaker 1: worth of JJ Watt could be devanced Joseph and the

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Speaker 1: entire Arizona Cardinals team in twenty twenty two. It's not

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Speaker 1: just his production, it's not just a former three time

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Speaker 1: mentality and attitude. It is the leadership that JJ Watt

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Speaker 1: end of the mandatory mini camp, Craig. There was head

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Speaker 1: coach Cliff Kingsbury. The whole team gathered round. You know what,

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Speaker 1: next five or six weeks, and JJ Watt was firing

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Speaker 1: guys up and delivering an impassion speech as to what

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Speaker 1: the stats don't look great. But he did produce those

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Speaker 1: everything else for this teammates. It's another player that the

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Speaker 1: a minute, where's ninety nine? Just like where's Buddha Baker?

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Speaker 1: It's the quickest way to a quarterback. It's why Lorenzo

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Speaker 1: Here those numbers that we referred to those last three

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Speaker 1: Lombardi and a Q Shipley said, it was exactly that

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Speaker 1: And I firmly believe if JJ Watt would have been

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Speaker 1: You know that that is what a great defense really needs.

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Speaker 1: You can't overstate that. It really is the one of

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Speaker 1: in a seat rushing up the middle. The quickest distance

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Speaker 1: Daropolo back to pass goes over the middle behind the

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Speaker 1: Alford just selfishly brought back because we know one win

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Speaker 1: healthy and that's been the big question marked during his

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Speaker 1: three year run with the Cardinals. But when healthy, he

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Speaker 1: is a physical corner, not afraid of contact. And he

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Speaker 1: what it made for a sound secondary when he was

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Speaker 1: Up until that game, the Cardinals secondary had given up

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Speaker 1: three plays of forty plus yards all year long, three

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Speaker 1: passing plays of forty plus yards in that game that loss,

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Speaker 1: that one score loss to the Rams. They gave up

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Speaker 1: three forty plus yard passing plays in that game alone.

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Speaker 1: That was the first game without Robert Alford. There was

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Speaker 1: some what of a trickle down effect once he left

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Speaker 1: the secondary. It was never quite the same. It was

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Speaker 1: never as buttoned up and as reliable as when Robert

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Speaker 1: Alford was in there. I'd love to see him back,

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Speaker 1: and I do think whether it's him or someone else,

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Speaker 1: just a Josh Jackson, but another veteran, another body in

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Speaker 1: that cornerback room, because yeah, there are some pieces, but

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Speaker 1: you know what they say, you need help, and you

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Speaker 1: can never have enough cornerbacks. You need at least three

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Speaker 1: viable cornerbacks in today's NFL, and a lot of coaches

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Speaker 1: would tell you four. And so it's an area of concern.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the Cardinals depth chart, you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: are they stacked? Can they compete? We'll find out. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we'll know based on whether Steve Kin makes a move

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals radio network. Garoppolo three steps, drop, steps up, kids,

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Speaker 1: hit and sack back at about the thirteen yards lined

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Speaker 1: by Marcus Golden. When you need a play, forty four

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Speaker 1: is there? Starred Barkin get the Robinson running right and

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Speaker 1: met Bike Cannard, who got off a block and stuff

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Speaker 1: the play, hands it off, nowhere to run between the tackles.

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Speaker 1: Devon Knard back to throw Flacco sacked by Gardack. Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, what a move by Dennis Gardak. The barbarian

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Speaker 1: Flaco in the pocket, gonna get hit and sacked. Dennis

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Speaker 1: Gardak got him again. Dennis Gardak got up and did

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Speaker 1: a little barbarian dance around the fire? How many years

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Speaker 1: Paul did? We ask a very simple question with not

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Speaker 1: so simple of an answer. The cornerback opposites Patrick Peters

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Speaker 1: repeatedly season in and season out. While a different take

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Speaker 1: on that question here is we continue on the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: red seat report presented by a sekie get your seats

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Speaker 1: and a seat. The question now is who is the

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Speaker 1: edge rusher opposites Marcus Golden without Chandler Jones. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: have Marcus Golden, but who else does this team have

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Speaker 1: to get after the quarterback? Who's going to be Marcus

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Speaker 1: Golden's hunting buddy? Yeah, because that's all you hear out

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Speaker 1: of Marcus Golden around the sideline. Let's hunt. We gotta

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Speaker 1: go hunt and right, and that's that's the key word.

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Speaker 1: All right. So, Marcus Golden, you're sack leader a year ago. Yes,

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Speaker 1: despite five sacks and the opener against Tennessee, he actually

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Speaker 1: finished with more sacks and Chandler Jones. However, Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: did end up with more quarterback hits and quarterback pressures. So, look,

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Speaker 1: it's a big loss out of you account for that loss? Well,

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Speaker 1: the easy answer is you don't. You just don't. There's

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Speaker 1: just no way he's a Hall of Famer. He has

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Speaker 1: over one hundred career sacks. Just the specter of fifty

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Speaker 1: five alone demands attention from an opposing offensive coordinator and

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Speaker 1: now they're going to set their blocking schemes that week.

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Speaker 1: So okay, But when you look at, for example, what

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Speaker 1: a Dennis Gardeck did when he was fully healthy, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, replacing Chandler Jones in twenty twenty, when

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Speaker 1: Chan went down at the Jets game an empty MetLife stadium.

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Speaker 1: I remember it vividly, and everyone realizes, oh boy, there's

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Speaker 1: a bicept injury, and those typically will sideline a guy

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Speaker 1: for an entire year. That's exactly what happened. And the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals still finishing the top five in sack percentage and

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Speaker 1: sack production that season. So whether it's Guardek, whether it's

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Speaker 1: Devon Canard, whether it's one of the rookies, everyone's gonna

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Speaker 1: be watching Vance Joseph to figure out what does he

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Speaker 1: even mind? There are a number of options when you

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Speaker 1: ask that question, who is that edge rush or opposite

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden something. Devon Canard recently on The Big Red

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Speaker 1: Rage talked about I think it provides a lot of

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Speaker 1: opportunity for everybody in our room. And you know, Marcus

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Speaker 1: Golden obviously is gonna step up in a major way.

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Speaker 1: But we have me and Dennis Gardeck, we got three

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Speaker 1: rookies that we dress drafted, and Victor de mckej from

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Speaker 1: last year. So you know, I'm confident in our room.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a good mix of young guys who

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Speaker 1: are hungry and some veterans who really know what they're doing,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get the job done. I feel like

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Speaker 1: it's going to be, you know, a really explosive room

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Speaker 1: and exciting room, and we're gonna be a big part

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Speaker 1: of why we win. Before we get into the three

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Speaker 1: draft picks, specific Lee, Cameron Thomas, and my J Sanders,

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Speaker 1: I think Cannard is an interesting discussion point because what

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Speaker 1: we've seen from him is he's really good at setting

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Speaker 1: the edge and making sure that those run plays don't

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Speaker 1: become giant run plays. But before arriving with the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: with the Detroit Lions, he was a great pass rusher,

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Speaker 1: and he's been a good pass rusher in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. Might the chain be unleashed a little bit

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Speaker 1: for a Devon Kanard this season. You know what, he

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Speaker 1: was semi offended on the Big Red Rage when I

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Speaker 1: asked him whether he was equipped to be a starter

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Speaker 1: this year, and he looked me in the he said,

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Speaker 1: I was a starter my entire career before I got

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Speaker 1: to the Arizona Cardinals. So the easy answer is yes,

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Speaker 1: Pauli Pensilnac, I'm definitely capable of starting. You could tell

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Speaker 1: just based on the manner in which he answered the question.

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Speaker 1: He's very much looking forward to reproving himself as a

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Speaker 1: starting caliber outside linebacker as an edge guy. Now, whether

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Speaker 1: he's going to get to the quarterback, we'll see, it's

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Speaker 1: not always about getting the quarterback down. Do you affect

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Speaker 1: the play? Charlie Bowling talked about that in a recent

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Speaker 1: Big Red Rage, the outside linebackers coach, and it was

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Speaker 1: interesting because he brought it up in context of Dennis

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Speaker 1: Gardek who last year was shut out right, didn't have

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Speaker 1: a single sex. Okay, and obviously he's coming off the

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Speaker 1: ACL he suffered in Week fifteen in that Philly game

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Speaker 1: a season earlier, and Dennis Gardeck has said this offseason

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Speaker 1: he thought he was one hundred percent. Now he realizes

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Speaker 1: that he wasn't one hundred percent, etc. A bot. Charlie

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Speaker 1: Bolling said the reason they gave him three years twelve

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Speaker 1: million dollars this offseason was because when they watched the film,

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Speaker 1: he was affecting the play and he was opening the

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Speaker 1: way for other guys to get to the quarterback. So

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Speaker 1: that is something they need out of Devon Knard, Dennis Gardak,

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Speaker 1: whoever is going to be opposite Marcus Golden. And that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be sometimes a little bit hard to see in

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Speaker 1: real time because when we look at when the stats

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Speaker 1: are passed out at the end of the game, how

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Speaker 1: many sacks did a player get? And that was the

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Speaker 1: big knock on Chandler Jones didn't get enough sex But

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Speaker 1: how many times would is he almost there? Or maybe

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Speaker 1: he was just affecting the quarterback enough get him off

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Speaker 1: his spot, hurry the throw so someone down field could

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Speaker 1: either get a pass deflection or maybe an interception. I

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Speaker 1: think was Zach Allen who said recently, Chandler Jones was

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Speaker 1: you know, and that's one way when you're watching the film. Okay,

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Speaker 1: was there a sack was there an official quarterback pressure,

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Speaker 1: Was there a quarterback hit or did the quarterback just

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Speaker 1: feel the urgency and they need to get rid of

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Speaker 1: the ball quickly. And that's my big fear, Craig, because

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Speaker 1: if the Cardinals can't get to the quarterback. We all

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Speaker 1: know the two priorities in the NFL right now. One

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Speaker 1: you better have a quarterback. Two you better be able

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Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. Because if you give the

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Speaker 1: open receiver, and that means your DBS or having a

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Speaker 1: cover for an extra second or two, that's sort of

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Speaker 1: a kin in baseball to giving the opponent an extra

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Speaker 1: out having a bad defense, right you give them more

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Speaker 1: chances like that, that usually does not bode well for

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Speaker 1: your team. Cardinals did not address edge rusher in free agency.

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Speaker 1: They Chandler Jones go, but in the draft they did,

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Speaker 1: adding three players, two in the third round Cameron Thomas

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Speaker 1: and my j Sanders defensive quarter at advanced Joseph On

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Speaker 1: his two new pass rushers. You can't replace Channel Johnson. Mean,

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Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Fame rusher, you know, so you

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Speaker 1: can't replace that production. But as a group we can

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Speaker 1: you know, I think Monte is going to be fine.

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Speaker 1: Cam's a big, strong, physical rusher. They're young, but they

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Speaker 1: can rush, and you know, rushing is obviously a learned behavior,

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Speaker 1: the debilities who rush. So hopefully those guys can help us,

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Speaker 1: and we can obviously scheme some things up to help

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Speaker 1: us also. But end today, you know, we gotta rush

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Speaker 1: four and win one on one. So Sky should help

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Speaker 1: us win. Thomas six four two sixty seven, Sanders six

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Speaker 1: five two forty eight. Maybe we'll be even a little

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Speaker 1: bit bigger when you get closer to the regular season.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you have options, but you also have vance

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Speaker 1: Joseph and scheming it up. But how many times can

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Speaker 1: you go to that well during the regular season, because

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Speaker 1: as coach just mentioned, you got to be able to

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Speaker 1: win your one on one matchups. It can't just be

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Speaker 1: on the scheme and you can't be a liability in

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Speaker 1: the run game if you're one of those two third

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Speaker 1: round rookies. Here's the thing. If there's a position group,

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Speaker 1: I'd say there's three position groups where rookies can be

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Speaker 1: plug and play running back, an outside cornerback where you

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Speaker 1: just say you know what, you're just to have man

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Speaker 1: coverage against that receiver, Go get them, and I would

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Speaker 1: say edge rush or in an obvious passing situation. So

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Speaker 1: if am J. Sanders or a Cameron Thomas is deemed

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Speaker 1: ready and equipped by advanced Joseph, I figured you could

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Speaker 1: if you get a variety of different pass rushers, different

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Speaker 1: that makes it pretty darned difficult for a tackle. So

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Speaker 1: tackle will get a variety of a Devon Canard, a

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Speaker 1: Dennis Gardeck who's more like a pit bull at six

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Speaker 1: feet my J. Sanders's almost six foot five, a long,

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Speaker 1: lean order Chandler Jones type, a Cameron Thomas at six

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Speaker 1: four two seventy more of a power guy like a

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt. You're changing the look constantly for the tackle.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Cardinals can get some production that way. Maybe

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Speaker 1: Victor D. Mukage is another name to mention, did not

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Speaker 1: game day. He was part of that special team's core.

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Speaker 1: And for a young draft pick, if you're Thomas and Sanders,

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Speaker 1: in order to be available on defense, you might have

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Speaker 1: to show up on special teams in order to dress.

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Speaker 1: And you know what you need on the special teams

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Speaker 1: is that motor, right, And that's one thing all those

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Speaker 1: guys you just named are known for, whether it's Steve Kime,

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Speaker 1: whether it's their position coaches Cameron Thomas, I asked him

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Speaker 1: And when Kyle Vannibosch was in recently and we were

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Speaker 1: talking to him just about Okay, as a great pass

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Speaker 1: rusher of your time and a three time Pro bowler,

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Speaker 1: you know how far could a motor go? He said absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I predicated my whole career. I'm just never giving up

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Speaker 1: on the play. Now. He's humble, he's a big guy

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Speaker 1: with a lot of athleticism. But if you have that

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Speaker 1: relentless pass rushing attitude, it is amazing o productive you

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Speaker 1: can be. And I firmly believe that's one of the

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Speaker 1: big reasons those guys are Arizona Cardinals, because then they

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Speaker 1: watch the film it whether it was my j Sanders,

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Speaker 1: camera Thomas a Victor de mckage. They were relentless. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's one reason they've got the biggest effort guy in

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Speaker 1: that room in Marcus Golder. He was one of the

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Speaker 1: not the one of the originals, but it's it's the

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Speaker 1: effort that he gives even on the practice field that

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Speaker 1: maybe and all of a sudden, you got these younger

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Speaker 1: players to look and say, all right, yes it can work.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you don't have that skill set or that toolbox

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Speaker 1: worth of moves like a Chandler Jones, but the effort.

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Speaker 1: You don't get him in the first quarter, but when

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Speaker 1: the game matters, fourth quarter, two minutes to go, you're

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Speaker 1: getting to the quarterback and at the same time advanced.

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Speaker 1: Joseph said this to the media is one and only

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Speaker 1: media session with the media in the offseason. There are

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Speaker 1: times in the game where you gotta rush for and

668
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Speaker 1: still beat your man. It can't always be bringing numbers,

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Speaker 1: bringing exotic schemes, bringing something advanced and crazy that I's

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Speaker 1: gonna try. You can't always try and fool an offensive

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Speaker 1: line in the past protection. Sometimes you gotta go out

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Speaker 1: and just flat beat your man. So we'll find out

673
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Speaker 1: early in camp, what do these guys look like when

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Speaker 1: they're going in the one on one offensive lineman defensive

675
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Speaker 1: lineman drills. How doesn't my J. Sanders stack up against

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Speaker 1: a DJ Humphreys because DJ mpres has been used to

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Speaker 1: going against Chandler Jones Monoemano at Cardinals camp for the

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Speaker 1: last five years. All Right, can my J. Sanders hold

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Speaker 1: his own? And if Thomas San Sanders get on the field,

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Speaker 1: then they will help if you get into third and

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Speaker 1: long situations to where to your point, Hey, one thing

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Speaker 1: to do. Beat your man, get to the quarterback, get

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Speaker 1: into the backfield. But you gotta be able to win

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Speaker 1: on first and second down in order to set that

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Speaker 1: up on third Downum. Once again, I firmly believe it's

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Speaker 1: been proven over time that's something a rookie can do.

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Speaker 1: Running backs, cornerbacks and edge rushers. Well, if you want

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Speaker 1: to see Cameron Thomas and my J. Sanders in action

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Speaker 1: Right Doo Network trips Right single receiver left shotgun staff

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Speaker 1: to McCoy, hands off Benjamin off the left side of

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Speaker 1: the fiftieth. He trucks a dB and walks in the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Is first touched out. Eno Benjamin just ran

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Speaker 1: over former Cardinal Drake Kirkpatrick and maybe put this one

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Speaker 1: out of reach. Thirty to seven midway through the third,

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Speaker 1: Eno Benjamin's a little filthy man for the first one

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Speaker 1: to two. First first Sachtown, I was awesome, incredible to seats.

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Speaker 1: You see no hesitation, you know for the contact, and

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Speaker 1: you know he picked his legs a running out of it.

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Speaker 1: So a special back, no question. A highlights of Eno

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Speaker 1: Benjamin's brief early but I highlight overall of the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: twenty one regular season. Eno Benjamin with his first rushing

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Speaker 1: touchdown against the San Francisco forty nine ers. Here James

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Speaker 1: Conner talk about it and something that the visual of

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Speaker 1: Eno Benjamin lowering this pad level as Wolfley likes to say,

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Speaker 1: and Dray Kirkpatrick going backwards three or four yards. Who

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Speaker 1: was it was down? Goes Drake Kirkpatrick, the former cardinal,

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Speaker 1: And I cannot tell you how the Cardinal's sideline reacted.

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00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: Everybody vaulted off the bench, the defensive guys getting a gatorade.

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00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: Everyone went bananas. You could hear the crack of the pads,

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Speaker 1: sort of like when somebody hits a Titanic home run.

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Speaker 1: You can hear the crack of the bat. You could

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Speaker 1: hear him just plowing straight through Drake Kirkpatrick. And there's

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Speaker 1: nothing that will fire up a sideline more than running

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Speaker 1: back just laying the lumber. And that's exactly what Eno did.

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Speaker 1: He has put in the work, he has put in

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Speaker 1: the time talking about Eno, Benjamin obviously Cardinal's familiar with

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00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: him just down the street at Arizona States. But making

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Speaker 1: a name for himself within that running back room. And

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Speaker 1: you look at the depth and the numbers in the

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Speaker 1: running back room, we know it's James Connor. But then

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Speaker 1: number two, do you want another James Connor talking about

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Speaker 1: Darryl Williams Or do you want that Chase Edmonds type

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Speaker 1: who has the ability to run and also catch out

728
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Speaker 1: of the backfield? Right, So do you see Chase Edmonds?

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Speaker 1: And you know, Benjamin, I'll be honest with the wolf,

730
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Speaker 1: and I have debated this for almost three years now.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily see a ton of Chase Edmonds, And

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Speaker 1: you know, Benjamin little bit Wolf is adamant that the

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Speaker 1: moment he saw you know, Benjamin, he thought of Chase Edmonds.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's an astute observation to bring up

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Speaker 1: the question itself, because could that be his role? Could

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Speaker 1: he be that third down back? Could he be the

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Speaker 1: back who was almost guaranteed of making the first guy miss,

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Speaker 1: which Chase Edmonds was so good at right, Put him

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Speaker 1: out on a linebacker and it's an automatic mismatch just

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Speaker 1: based on the athleticism alone. I hope that's where it's trending,

741
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Speaker 1: and I hope that's what Eno Benjamin gives the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: this year. But I'm not so confident that's exactly the

743
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Speaker 1: cop I would use. Forno. What about you? Is he

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00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: talking about? You know, Benjamin? Is he as elusive as

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Speaker 1: a runner as Chase Edmonds? I don't think we've seen

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Speaker 1: it as of yet. Can he be that guy who

747
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: makes a defender miss in open space? That I think

748
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: he has to prove himself. What he has proven is

749
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Speaker 1: his pass catching ability and his pass protection, the latter

750
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Speaker 1: more so opening up eyes for coaches because you need

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Speaker 1: that protector, especially if you're in on third down, and

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Speaker 1: the question is how much will we see him this year?

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Speaker 1: Has he earned the trust of a Cliff Kingsbury who

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Speaker 1: unprompted has brought up Eno Benjamin's name two, three, four times.

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Speaker 1: You might need two hands at this point to count

756
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Speaker 1: all the times that Cliff Kingsbury has name dropped Eno

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Speaker 1: Benjamin with the media, to the point where I've actually

758
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Speaker 1: had a conspiracy theory that wait a minute, do they

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Speaker 1: have too many running backs? And are they trying to

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Speaker 1: move an Eno Benjamin off? A team suffers an injury

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Speaker 1: in training camp, but they're trying to pump up an

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Speaker 1: Edo Benjamin because he's in the last year of his deal.

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Speaker 1: Maybe get something in return. Now, since I came with

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Speaker 1: that maybe irresponsible conspiracy theory, I've come to learn the

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Speaker 1: know the coaches do think it is legit. He's about

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Speaker 1: as improved as anyone on this roster. Well, it's not

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Speaker 1: that the coaches. His teammates offensive players. Justin Pugh recently

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Speaker 1: on the Day Pass podcast praising once again unprompted Eno Benjamin.

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Speaker 1: I think James kind of keeps that that same role.

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Speaker 1: We'll go out there be short yardage. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: was getting out in the passing game, doing screens, doing

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Speaker 1: all those things. He was unbelievable. I think a guy

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Speaker 1: to look for. As you know, Benjamin, he looked great

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Speaker 1: in mini camps so far. He's probably been our best

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Speaker 1: outside zone running back that we've had on the roster,

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Speaker 1: even last year, and he had to learn how to

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Speaker 1: pass protect and that was really the only thing. You

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Speaker 1: can't trust the guy to be in the game if

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Speaker 1: you can't trust him to pick up pass protection. And

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Speaker 1: he's gone night and day from last year to this year.

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Speaker 1: So I think he's going to have a big jump again.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing for the head coach, a position coach

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Speaker 1: to bring up a player unprompted. Different when it's a teammate.

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Speaker 1: It's one of your own in that locker room. Now,

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Speaker 1: how much can you learn? How much of a jump

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Speaker 1: can you make when you're practicing in shorts and helmets

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Speaker 1: the pads on. Yet you're just going on fifty percent

788
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Speaker 1: or less as far as your speed. But maybe we

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Speaker 1: do have someone in eno Benjamin that has taken that

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Speaker 1: next step and raising his hand and say hey, don't

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Speaker 1: forget about me. And there's a reason why a lot

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Speaker 1: of his teammates sighting not only is a very likable

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Speaker 1: guy and fans love him the ASU lineage, but he's

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Speaker 1: been running scout team running back for a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: He's made a lot of Cardinals defenders look bad in practice.

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Speaker 1: He's that guy in practice, that's his game, and he

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Speaker 1: comes out and he brings it when he gets his

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Speaker 1: one and only big full pad practice of the week.

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Speaker 1: And so when he goes out into a game and

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Speaker 1: he excels, the sideline reacts. His teammates react because they've

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Speaker 1: seen it firsthand. And here's a guy finally getting his chance,

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Speaker 1: and then he's being productive in a game situation. So

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Speaker 1: there's nothing more that a locker room loves about a

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Speaker 1: guy who earned it. And so far Eno has And

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Speaker 1: he talked about being patient. Maybe things that haven't happened

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Speaker 1: as quickly as he had hoped after he was drafted

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Speaker 1: in the seventh round, but he is stuck with it,

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Speaker 1: figured out what he needed to get better at, worked

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Speaker 1: on it, and now all of a sudden, we're talking

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Speaker 1: about him potentially being that number two running back, being

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Speaker 1: that Chase Edmonds equivalent as far as running between the

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Speaker 1: tackles and also catching the ball out of the backfield.

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Speaker 1: And you look now as far as Kingsbury's on record

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Speaker 1: saying he thinks they're going to keep four running backs, Paul,

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Speaker 1: but right now, don't forget about Jonathan Ward, special teams guy,

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Speaker 1: and then your sixth round draft pick this year in

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Speaker 1: Keyanta Ingram. And they're high on Kyanta Ingram. They love

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Speaker 1: everything they've seen about him. He has the size, he

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Speaker 1: has the pedigree. Could you get him to the practice

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Speaker 1: squad if he's the odd man out? He was the

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Speaker 1: nineteenth running back drafted, and we know it's not exactly

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Speaker 1: the most valued position group in the NFL these days.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you get away with sending Ingram to the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: But all these guys not named James Connor and Darryl

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Speaker 1: Williams are going to get plenty of snaps and plenty

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Speaker 1: of carries in the preseason. There's no doubt in my

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Speaker 1: mind that by the end of August, the Cardinals will know.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals will know, okay, who deserves a spot on

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Speaker 1: the fifty three and who does not. While and we've

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Speaker 1: even seen Jonathan Ward a limited amount of offense, and

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Speaker 1: he's performed when his name has been called upon. We

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Speaker 1: go back talking about special teams. The only reason we're

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Speaker 1: talking about Jonathan Ward on offense is because he's active

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Speaker 1: on game day and he has the trust of Jeff

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Speaker 1: Rogers saying no, he needs to be up in order

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Speaker 1: for us to do what we need to do on

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Speaker 1: special teams. And then if there's an issue finding another

838
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: ball carrier, now you've got him. Hey, if this was

839
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Speaker 1: the same numbers game a year ago, there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: in my mind Eno Benjamin would be cut. But what

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Speaker 1: he's done over the last year to earn Cliff Kingsbury's

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Speaker 1: trust to maybe even get out of Cliff Kingsbury's doghouse.

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Speaker 1: If he will to improve his pass protection, you've got

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Speaker 1: to be able to trust that running back and pass protection,

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Speaker 1: you can't risk getting your friends quarterback heard. And he's

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Speaker 1: got to know the playbook. Those are the two areas

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Speaker 1: he has improved and earned the trust of his head coach,

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Speaker 1: and worked on special teams as well. We've seen him

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Speaker 1: on coverage units and return units as well, maybe even

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Speaker 1: as a kick returner. That's a potential for Innovenumer coming

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Speaker 1: up this season. Again, a lot of questions here as

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Speaker 1: we talk at the end of June. Questions that won't

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