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Speaker 3: Oh baby, how's that film?

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Speaker 1: Here's Craig Griolou, Paul Calvic and three time pro bowler

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Speaker 1: Kyle Vandenbosch.

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Speaker 4: Well, welcome to the first show of twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: Of course, the season's not quite done, but the calendar

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Speaker 4: has flipped and perhaps even the Cardinal fortunes based off

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Speaker 4: what we saw to end the calendar year of twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty three, coming off an impressive road wind in Philadelphia

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Speaker 4: thirty five to thirty one in which the Cardinals overcame

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Speaker 4: a fifteen point first half deficit. But first things first, gentlemen,

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Speaker 4: Happy New Year. I'm guessing we all stayed up until Okay,

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Speaker 4: I was in bed before ten, so I didn't even

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Speaker 4: see the ball drop in New York. But did we

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Speaker 4: make it to midnight on December thirty first slash January one?

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Speaker 5: I haven't seen midnight in a couple of years, so absolutely.

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Speaker 6: Not come on now, Kyle. I mean, you know, I

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Speaker 6: came back on Redbird one and still you know, gutted

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Speaker 6: it out to pass midnight and beyond, So you know,

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Speaker 6: you just gotta but you know what, the euphoria that win,

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Speaker 6: you know, boom, you just keep going. You didn't want

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Speaker 6: the day to end after In fact, speaking a gut

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Speaker 6: the headline I was reveling in the headline in the

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Speaker 6: Philadelphia Inquirer, and I quote Jonathan Gannon guts the Eagles

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Speaker 6: and out coaches the free falling Nick Sirianni. So the

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Speaker 6: Philadelphia QUI are going for broke on the game after headline.

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Speaker 4: The Philadelphia Eagles still very much alive for the playoffs

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Speaker 4: and an extended playoff run with eleven wins. Yet it's

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Speaker 4: amazing where that team is headed, and perhaps where the

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Speaker 4: Cardinals are headed more importantly, as we look back at

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Speaker 4: Sunday's game, Kyle, Offense, defense, special teams. Your first real

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Speaker 4: big takeaway from Yeah, the fourth win of the season,

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Speaker 4: but easily the best win and for the head coach,

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Speaker 4: the most satisfying win of the season against his former team.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Once again, just like the Pittsburgh game, the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: out physical, the physical team took it to a good

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Speaker 5: defense imposed there will. You know, it was just you know,

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Speaker 5: I think it's widely regarded as the best offensive production

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Speaker 5: with a number of plays that they ran, and to

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Speaker 5: be as successful as they were, you know, you know,

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Speaker 5: I know we're going to talk about what James Connor did,

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Speaker 5: but you know, hats off to the offensive line just

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Speaker 5: blocking people wide receivers blocking, and I know Brian Baldegger

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Speaker 5: pointed it out Trey McBride in his blocking. You know,

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Speaker 5: in my opinion, that was his best game. You know,

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Speaker 5: he didn't have the numbers receiving, but you look at

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Speaker 5: He has become a complete tight end. And speaking of

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Speaker 5: Trey McBride. Paul will have a chance to speak with

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals. As Woolfley likes to say, stud tight end

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Speaker 5: now Trey McBride this week's guess on the Big Red

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Speaker 5: Rage Live in Trophy on Thursday.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, the numbers not there. But as Gannon likes

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Speaker 4: to say, Paul, it takes all eleven and all eleven

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Speaker 4: on both sides of the wall contributed to that win.

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Speaker 5: No doubt.

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Speaker 6: They got the receivers involved. The tight ends were involved,

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Speaker 6: who was nails in that second half, obviously scoring a

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Speaker 6: you know when you're when you have a ten gallent

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Speaker 6: out physical the opponent. And that's the exact word Sydney

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Speaker 6: Brown used after the game. We got out physical. Their

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Speaker 6: gap scheme killed us, is what he said. Specifically, you

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Speaker 6: heard the same thing coming out of Pittsburgh when TJ.

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Speaker 6: Watt said we got our rears kicked, and then Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 6: So if you can establish this brand of football, this

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Speaker 6: Eagles fans who are all over the Cardinals bench, you

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Speaker 6: not only the scheme but the personnel. He knew where

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Speaker 4: Speaking of the head coach, let's hear from JG post

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Speaker 4: game after beating the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 7: Our guys know, if we play football the right way,

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Speaker 7: we can play with anybody. And I know our record

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Speaker 7: isn't what we want it to be, and that falls

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Speaker 7: what I'm really pleased about is the way they practice

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Speaker 7: the effort, they stay together, their focus, attention to detail.

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Speaker 7: A lot of teams just pack it in right now,

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Speaker 7: that's not our guys in there. So that's just a

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Speaker 4: All week long. Gannon did not want to make this

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Speaker 4: Rolis facing his former boss, his former team, knowing a

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Speaker 4: and yeah, I do think it played a major role

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Speaker 6: Just like the players wanted to get a win for

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Speaker 3: No question about it.

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Speaker 6: But I think there was something else that happened to

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Speaker 6: I think it was a reminder that guess what, guys,

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Speaker 6: decided to bring full effort, intensity and urgency. So we're

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Speaker 6: their job. I think at different key flex points in

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Speaker 4: Don't have to worry about that. With James Connor. His

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Speaker 4: it's not secure. He gives it every single day. James

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Speaker 4: Connor postgame talking about what we just discussed. Winning for

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Speaker 8: It was nice, man, you know we wanted to do

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Speaker 8: for jg all of respect for him. You know, he

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Speaker 8: just keeps us together, keeps the message the same, and

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Speaker 8: it's always nice to come back, you know, come back

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Speaker 4: And I do think Kyle, that is big here late

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Speaker 4: just three wins and the first year of a brand

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Speaker 4: new head coach. That message it gets repeated over and over,

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Speaker 4: but you're not seeing the results on game day yet

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Speaker 4: those players, as you heard it, they still bought in.

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Speaker 4: They are bought in to gain and the rest of

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Speaker 4: the coaches to where yeah, they wanted maybe felt a

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Speaker 4: little bit something different. To Paul's point about going into

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, from if you zoom out just looking

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Speaker 5: you have a team that, in theory, is playing for nothing.

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Speaker 5: But again, we already talked about how the Cardinals out

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Speaker 5: physicaled them, they also out hustled them. I mean, just

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Speaker 5: again a team takes on the identity of their head

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Speaker 5: your point, the payoff has been there. The payoff. You know,

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Speaker 5: this team is turning a corner. They can see if

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Speaker 5: they do the things that they're asked to do in practice,

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Speaker 5: if they go out there and execute in games. This

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Speaker 5: carry in the playoffs. You need to be a physical

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Speaker 5: I believe a lot of it. You know, people on

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Speaker 5: league to play for themselves absolutely exists. When you have

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Speaker 5: that falls on the sword after tough losses, after you

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Speaker 5: This team believes in this coach. This team will fight

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Speaker 5: the Cardinals came out with way more energy in this game,

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Speaker 5: even though they shouldn't have. I mean, there's so many

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Speaker 4: And that should carry over into the offseason. There's going

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Speaker 4: to be a ton of changes. It happens every single year.

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Speaker 4: But what won't change, you hope, is that buy in

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Speaker 4: because the message is one consistent and then you're seeing

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Speaker 4: It hasn't been a lot of wins, but you are

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Speaker 5: And that's the belief in the culture. The culture doesn't

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Speaker 5: You know that the week nine, week ten, when your

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Speaker 5: the win loss record, it's not great this season, but

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Speaker 5: the culture has changed. And I think that's obvious to

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Speaker 4: The record doesn't look good, but forget four and twelve,

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Speaker 5: Man, it was a good day.

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Speaker 4: Zero punts, Paul, you and I and Kyle, we all

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Speaker 6: And you know, you're down twenty one to six at

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Speaker 4: The confidence in the coaching staff the players that we

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Speaker 5: Yeah. And offensively, it's the way they won. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Cardinals with one more game this season, a home game

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Speaker 4: The head of the Snake, if you will, of that

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Speaker 4: Cardinals offense, Kyler Murray his best performance of the season.

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Speaker 4: Will discuss that next here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 3: Joe, we have some Murray magic here. The Cardinals will

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Speaker 3: Third touchdown pass of the half.

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Speaker 4: A season best three touchdowns, first three passing touchdown games

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Speaker 3: More importantly, four.

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Speaker 4: Second half touchdown drives orchestrated by one Kyler Murray, helping

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Speaker 4: by SeatGeek Your Ticket to Great Seats and Paul You

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Speaker 4: and I discussed it on Cardinals Cover two on Monday.

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Speaker 4: The definition of a franchise quarterback someone who can lead

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Speaker 6: I mean, they started zero for two in the red zone,

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Speaker 6: the sideline perspective on what Paul saw from Kyler Murray

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I even look at throughout Kyler's career. To me,

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Speaker 7: We talked about going into the game. The situation came

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love it. And again, to me, one of

435
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Speaker 5: the big takeaways was it's just the confidence in Kyler

436
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Speaker 5: and that will serve this team well because Kyler will

437
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Speaker 5: be this quarterback going forward. For the head coach to say, hey,

438
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Speaker 5: I want the ball in his hands and for him

439
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Speaker 5: to deliver like he did. You know, it's going to

440
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Speaker 5: their relationship right now. You know it's going to be

441
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Speaker 5: great going forward, just because of since since Jonathan Gannon

442
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Speaker 5: took this job, I think he's pushed all of the

443
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Speaker 5: right buttons with this team overall, but more specifically with

444
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Speaker 5: Kyler Murray and how he's handled you know, giving trust

445
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Speaker 5: to him and building an offense around what he does well,

446
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Speaker 5: to accentuate his talents, and to give him the freedom

447
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Speaker 5: and the trust like he did late in the game,

448
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Speaker 5: and to put the ball in his hands like Paul

449
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Speaker 5: said on the fourth and four in the two point conversion,

450
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Speaker 5: and even late in the game to say, we want

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Speaker 5: the ball in his hands with an opportunity to either

452
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Speaker 5: tie it or win.

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Speaker 4: Kyler's numbers twenty five of thirty one for two hundred

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Speaker 4: and thirty two yards, three touchdowns. Yes, there was that interception,

455
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Speaker 4: but in the second half, darn near perfect thirteen of

456
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Speaker 4: fourteen for one hundred and thirty three yards and three touchdowns.

457
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Speaker 4: Kyler Murray on what was working for him and the

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Speaker 4: quarters three and four.

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Speaker 9: Man, just getting in a groove, you know, focusing on

460
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Speaker 9: the play that was, you know, in the moment, just

461
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Speaker 9: being in the moment, focusing on that play, understanding concepts

462
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Speaker 9: and what we're trying to accomplish and executing, not worrying

463
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Speaker 9: about anything before or after letting it go. And also, man,

464
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Speaker 9: just like I said, hitting a groove, getting these reps

465
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Speaker 9: in and continue to play football. That's kind of you know,

466
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Speaker 9: this is what I don't know what game this is,

467
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Speaker 9: but you know, it's feeling good now.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, seven games for Kyle theer Murray with the eighth

469
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Speaker 4: coming up on Sunday, and just diving into those numbers

470
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Speaker 4: just a little bit more into what he did in

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Speaker 4: the second half. Of those thirteen completions, ten resulted in

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Speaker 4: a first down or a touchdown. Everything that he was

473
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Speaker 4: doing was moving that football and bottom line, getting that

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Speaker 4: football into the end zone.

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Speaker 6: It was interesting after the game too, because he got

476
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Speaker 6: the receivers involved, something that had not happened a whole

477
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Speaker 6: bunch the previous three games, and it was interesting near

478
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Speaker 6: Michael Wilson tell the media pretty much exactly what Rondell

479
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Speaker 6: Moore said at his locker a week and a half earlier, quote,

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Speaker 6: We've been hearing a lot about all the wide receivers

481
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Speaker 6: can't get open. I would just encourage you to watch

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Speaker 6: the tape and formulate your own opinion. In other words,

483
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Speaker 6: the receivers were winning enough one on ones, yet weren't

484
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Speaker 6: on the receiving end of enough passes and completions. So

485
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Speaker 6: was it a matter of time and just reps together. Perhaps,

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Speaker 6: But at the same time, Cardinals had up been maximizing

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Speaker 6: that aspect of the pass game, and you saw that

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Speaker 6: come to fruition. Now minus Darius Slay, I get it.

489
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Speaker 6: They were undermanned a little bit, but that's still a

490
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Speaker 6: pretty solid Philadelphia defense, and to do it on the road,

491
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Speaker 6: and to do it with the silent count most of

492
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Speaker 6: the game. And Kyler only got sacked once and he

493
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Speaker 6: really didn't cut touched on that one. It was more

494
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Speaker 6: of the turf monster for my recro election watching it

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Speaker 6: on the sideline. So you know, there were certain things

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Speaker 6: that they wanted to improve in this game, and they

497
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Speaker 6: did it as a collective offense.

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Speaker 4: And Kyler mentioned postgame that quote, we had to switch

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Speaker 4: some stuff up regarding trying to get those receivers more involved.

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Speaker 4: He wasn't very specific, but did credit Drew Petsing for

501
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Speaker 4: calling a great game. So there were some things done

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Speaker 4: differently on Sunday than had been done the previous games.

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Speaker 4: But again it goes back to that second half performance,

504
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Speaker 4: the rally from a twenty one to six halftime deficit.

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Speaker 4: James Connor on what he saw from K one.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he was just he was operating. He was operating

507
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Speaker 8: Will and just Marsians downfield. We had a lot of

508
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Speaker 8: long play drives and uh yeah, he was his dison

509
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Speaker 8: back there again this Guinness lined up guin us, organized

510
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Speaker 8: and just making a shake for us, and so needed

511
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Speaker 8: him today they went for us.

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Speaker 4: And again it wasn't all Kyler Murray. Will touch more

513
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Speaker 4: on what James Connor and the run game was able

514
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Speaker 4: to do, and also the offensive line, but this is

515
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Speaker 4: specifically about Kyler Murray and his performance and it's not

516
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Speaker 4: It's not going out on a limb Kyle to say

517
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Speaker 4: that this is Kyler Murray's best performance of the season.

518
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Speaker 4: And maybe if you want to argue within this offense,

519
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Speaker 4: which is a much different offense than he has experienced

520
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Speaker 4: the previous four seasons, let alone, maybe is an entire

521
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Speaker 4: football career, but an NFL offense that doesn't require him

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Speaker 4: to do everything which maybe was asked of him to

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Speaker 4: do in his first four years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, again, you know, to put Kyler in a balanced offense,

525
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Speaker 5: something he probably has never really had, where you have

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Speaker 5: a real run threat and where the defense is constantly

527
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Speaker 5: left guessing. You know, to me, this offense just the

528
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Speaker 5: operation is just so smooth. You know, you come out

529
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Speaker 5: of this game with only twenty five yards and penalties.

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Speaker 5: You weren't consistently behind the sticks you didn't have mistakes

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Speaker 5: from this offense that were you know, putting Kyler in

532
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Speaker 5: third and extremely long, and this offense was able to,

533
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Speaker 5: you know, go down the field and execute over and

534
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Speaker 5: over and over and again. That's a tremendous credit to

535
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Speaker 5: Drew Petsing, a tremendous credit to this entire offense for

536
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Speaker 5: going out there executing, not making critical mistakes and critical

537
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Speaker 5: moments and and you know that's you know, from Jonathan

538
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Speaker 5: Gannon's introductory press conference, he said that he wanted this

539
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Speaker 5: team to be smart, to be adaptive, and to be violent.

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Speaker 5: And all three of those characteristics were on display in

541
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Speaker 5: the game on Sunday. They were smart, they didn't beat themselves.

542
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Speaker 5: You know, they were violent, They out physicaled the team.

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Speaker 5: And you know it again, the offense only works if

544
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Speaker 5: Kyler's bought in, if he is improving week to week,

545
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Speaker 5: if you get results, and all those things happen this week.

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Speaker 4: Cardinals since day one when Jonathan Gannon was hired, has

547
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Speaker 4: been Kyle the Murray's number one fan and that has

548
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 4: not changed at all here at the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: In fact, coming up on Friday, the final Cardinals game

550
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 4: plan in which Paul and Ron Woofley get a chance

551
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Speaker 4: to sit down with the head coach on his weekly

552
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Speaker 4: TV show, talked more about his admiration for the Cardinals

553
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Speaker 4: franchise quarterback.

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Speaker 10: It comes from a really a love and respect for

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Speaker 10: the player, and that's how I kind of approach it

556
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Speaker 10: with him, because that's I do. I love the guy

557
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Speaker 10: and I respect the guy the competitor that he is.

558
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Speaker 10: And I don't know if there's a person in this

559
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Speaker 10: building that has the will to win, I would say,

560
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Speaker 10: like me, that's not being humorous, but I expect myself

561
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Speaker 10: to have that will. He has that will.

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Speaker 4: Full conversation with the head coach coming up on Friday

563
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Speaker 4: at six point thirty on twelve News the season finale

564
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Speaker 4: of Cardinals Game.

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Speaker 6: Plan, And that was just part of a very fascinating

566
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Speaker 6: answer by Jonathan Gannon to the question by Wolf does

567
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Speaker 6: your relationship with a quarterback need to be different than

568
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Speaker 6: the offensive coordinators relationship with the quarterback? And he went

569
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Speaker 6: into a whole explanation how the quarterback ideally is an

570
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Speaker 6: extension of the head coach and there are certain things

571
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Speaker 6: he'll trust and empower Kylo with that he won't do

572
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Speaker 6: with any other player. And he believes in that as

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Speaker 6: part of the process because you need that guy out

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Speaker 6: between the white lines where he obviously can't go as

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Speaker 6: the coach. So it's really interesting and Gannon really opened

576
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Speaker 6: up on a lot of different aspects of that win

577
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Speaker 6: in this season, and that'll be Friday at six thirty

578
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Speaker 6: on twelve News.

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Speaker 4: That relationship between head coach and quarterback, regardless of what

580
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Speaker 4: kind of offense you're running, or whether it's a head coach

581
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Speaker 4: that comes from an offensive background or a defensive background,

582
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Speaker 4: you need to have that relationship as tight and as

583
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Speaker 4: close as it can possibly be.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely if there needs to be trust in the relationship.

585
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Speaker 5: In order to do that, you have to be able

586
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Speaker 5: to talk about things, talk about you know, what things

587
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 5: do you like, what things do you not like? What

588
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 5: things does this team need to do better? And you

589
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 5: need to be open and honest with the quarterback. It

590
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Speaker 5: can't be a coach telling a player or particularly the quarterback,

591
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Speaker 5: what to do. You need to have this back and

592
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Speaker 5: forth about what can we do because they're in this together.

593
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Speaker 5: I mean, Jonathan Gannon will only go as far as

594
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Speaker 5: Kyler goes and vice versa. And you know, by all indications,

595
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Speaker 5: it is a great relationship, and I would think a

596
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Speaker 5: game like this would only build that relationship, make it

597
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Speaker 5: stronger going forward.

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Speaker 4: The head coach is the leader of the team, your

599
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Speaker 4: quarterback the leader in that locker room to where you

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Speaker 4: better buy in and followed. I think that was a

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Speaker 4: big question, Paul, were guys following Kyler Murray? I think

602
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Speaker 4: that question has been answered.

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Speaker 6: And you know what, everyone formulates so many opinions based

604
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Speaker 6: on a three second cutaway shot from the sideline. Right,

605
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Speaker 6: They've been doing it for years. On Kyler, I can

606
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Speaker 6: just tell you as a guy who's down there in

607
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Speaker 6: the entirety of the game, he was working the entire

608
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Speaker 6: sideline most of the game, going up to his offensive lineman,

609
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Speaker 6: the running backs receivers after talking with Drew Petsen and

610
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Speaker 6: his quarterbacks coach, and then going over and trying to

611
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Speaker 6: implore the defense to get him the ball back. And

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Speaker 6: so you're seeing this evolution, and I think you're seeing

613
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Speaker 6: a comfort level in the offense. You're seeing a comfort

614
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Speaker 6: level being under center. It looks much more fluid and

615
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Speaker 6: he's able to not worry about some of the mechanics,

616
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Speaker 6: and I think that's why he's seeing the field better now. Too,

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Speaker 6: because he's able to vote hundred percent of its tense

618
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Speaker 6: attention and effort into just what the opposing eleven are

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Speaker 6: doing instead of what he has to do.

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Speaker 4: Kyler Murray the face of the offense, the heartbeat of

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Speaker 4: the offense, though, that is James Connor what number six

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Speaker 4: did on Sunday and has been doing all season long.

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Speaker 4: We'll discuss that next here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: Cardinals run the ball straight ahead, Connor across the thirty

625
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Speaker 2: plus it to the outside, gets the first down. Connor

626
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Speaker 2: trying to run left side, gotta crease at the forty,

627
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Speaker 2: breaks a tackle at the and out of bounds inside

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Speaker 2: the Eagle forty five at the forty four yard line.

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Speaker 2: That's a great run and it is his third one

630
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Speaker 2: hundred yard rushing game of the year and thirteenth of

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Speaker 2: his career. Connor up the guy, got the first down

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Speaker 2: inside the ten.

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Speaker 5: Just a straight right hand to the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 3: That's why they call it the blood Sport. Floats it

635
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Speaker 3: left side into the end zone.

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Speaker 2: One handed catch for a touchdown by James Connor.

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Speaker 3: What a grab by Connor.

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Speaker 2: Quick snap handoff Connor straight ahead, geeze to the goal

639
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Speaker 2: line and across for the go ahead touchdown. James Connor

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Speaker 2: punches it in and the Cards take the lead thirty

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Speaker 2: four to thirty one with thirty two seconds to go

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Speaker 2: in the game.

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Speaker 4: First time in twenty four games, and Eagles defense allowed

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Speaker 4: a one hundred yard rusher and James Connor finished with

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Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty eight yards on a season best

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Speaker 4: twenty six carries in what was a Cardinals thirty five

647
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Speaker 4: thirty one win over the Philadelphia Eagles. As we discussed

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Speaker 4: that here on the Cardinals Red Sea Report presented by

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Speaker 4: seat Geek, Your Ticket's great seats, Craig Rayolup, Paul Calvic,

650
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Speaker 4: and Kyle Vannenbosch. And I'll turn this conversation over to you, Kyle.

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Speaker 4: As a defensive player trying to stop slow down a

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Speaker 4: James Connor, A lot of teams have tried this season,

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Speaker 4: A lot of teams have failed.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely. Look, he is just so strong, so physical, really

655
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Speaker 5: almost seeks out defenders to try to get contact on plays.

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Speaker 5: And I was looking at trying to break down some

657
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Speaker 5: of his stats. How many yards rushiing does he have?

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Speaker 5: Nine hundred? Just over nine hundred this year?

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Speaker 3: He needs?

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Speaker 4: What was it I think.

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Speaker 6: One ten to get to a thousand for the first

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Speaker 6: time in his career.

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Speaker 5: All right, So of that eight to ninety, he has

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Speaker 5: six hundred and three yards after contact. This season, his

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Speaker 5: yards after contact is it's three point three, which is

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Speaker 5: up significantly from his career high of two point seven.

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Speaker 5: And then you break down because we all know you've

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Speaker 5: got to feed him, and as a game goes, he

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Speaker 5: gets stronger. And you know, to your point, Craig, I've

670
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Speaker 5: been in this situation this point in the season. My

671
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Speaker 5: wrists hurt, my elbows hurt, my shoulders hurt. It's not

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Speaker 5: that I necessarily want to turn down tackles. I just

673
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Speaker 5: can't tackle like I used to. And you add to that,

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Speaker 5: throughout the course of a game, how it's much more

675
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Speaker 5: difficult to bring down a big, physical runner like James Connor,

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Speaker 5: particularly when he seems to gain steam and get stronger

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Speaker 5: throughout the course of a ballgame. And you look at

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Speaker 5: his that there's a website that breaks down his carries

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Speaker 5: by quarter. Through this season, he's had sixty two carries

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Speaker 5: in the first quarter, six in the second, thirty six

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Speaker 5: in the third, and seventy seven carries in the fourth

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Speaker 5: quarter and two hundred and seventy eight of those six

683
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Speaker 5: hundred and three yards after contact or in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 5: So he is making hay and punishing people and fighting

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Speaker 5: for extra yardage in the fourth quarter, and this team

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Speaker 5: leans on him in those situations.

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Speaker 6: Will Hernandez told us on the Big Red Rage a

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Speaker 6: few weeks ago that in that fourth quarter, it's true

689
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Speaker 6: defenders don't want any piece of James Connor, especially if

690
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Speaker 6: the game's already decided. They're like, they're taking mysterious angles

691
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Speaker 6: to the football and not really engaging number six. And

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Speaker 6: I would say base and just what he does. I've

693
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Speaker 6: talked about this before, not just the player, it's the mentality,

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Speaker 6: it's the mindset. It's him coming off the field after

695
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Speaker 6: a scoring drive and stalking the sideline, mean mugging everyone.

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Speaker 6: It's just this, the mentality and what pours out of him,

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Speaker 6: that guy's feed off, and then the way the sideline

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Speaker 6: reacts to him. I'd say the top three reactions from

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Speaker 6: the sideline in that game, the game winning touchdown plunge

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Speaker 6: from two yards out, the one handed touchdown catch, guys

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Speaker 6: went bananas, and then Michael Carter breaking the ankles of

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Speaker 6: the Eagles dB in space. Guys love that as well,

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Speaker 6: and it just fires everyone up. They're off the bench

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Speaker 6: and engaged. And Connor never makes it about himself. He

705
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Speaker 6: has a big game, he always deflects the praise to

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Speaker 6: everyone around him. In fact, let's hear from James Connor

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Speaker 6: postgame Sunday.

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Speaker 8: Total team effort. You know, the receivers and tight ends.

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Speaker 8: They were blocking down field well but also making plays,

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Speaker 8: you know, to keep the chains moving. And an offensive

711
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 8: line showed up all day. You know, they were sitting

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Speaker 8: a tone throughout the week of practice and they carried

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Speaker 8: over today and so you know, you can't go fur

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Speaker 8: Yard without them.

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Speaker 4: And let's discuss the offensive line, because it wasn't just

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Speaker 4: five guys. There were seven different offensive linemen who played.

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Speaker 4: Kelvin Beacham came in when DJ Humphreys left with a

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Speaker 4: knee injury. No updates as of this taping or recording

719
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Speaker 4: or show of the Cardinals Red Sea Report. What that

720
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Speaker 4: means moving forward? Who knows? And then Tristan Cologne came

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Speaker 4: in for a couple of snaps spelling Elijah Wilkinson at

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Speaker 4: left guard. But that offensive line, Kyle has been stellar

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Speaker 4: pretty much all season long. There's been a little bit

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Speaker 4: of a rotation at left guard, but other than that,

725
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Speaker 4: it's been pretty solid the entire way. And mentioned this before,

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Speaker 4: that's not a bunch of pro bowlers or all pros,

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Speaker 4: but collectively as a unit, one of the better ones

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Speaker 4: in the league.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I don't think they get enough credit for

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Speaker 5: what they're doing, because you know, when we used to

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Speaker 5: scout teams, we would chart, Okay, here's their favorite run,

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Speaker 5: and it became a bit predictable, like, Okay, this guard

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Speaker 5: is the athletic one, he's the poller up. So the

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Speaker 5: Cardinals go into this game and it's it's almost a

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Speaker 5: fifty to fifty mix of zone blocking and man blocking,

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Speaker 5: and so A you can't prepare for one run. But

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Speaker 5: b even their they're man blocking where they talk about

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Speaker 5: it on the broadcast as the Penn and poll you're

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Speaker 5: blocking down on the front side, you're pulling somebody from

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Speaker 5: the backside. It's somebody different every time Yell the fro

741
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Speaker 5: Holt was pulling, the guards were pulling, Trey McBride was pulling.

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Speaker 5: And so you don't have keys, you don't you know,

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Speaker 5: we talk about keeping a defense on their heels and

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Speaker 5: keeping them guessing between run pass. It's also keeping them

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Speaker 5: guessing in the run game. There is no you can't

746
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Speaker 5: go into this Cardinals game and say, if we stop

747
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Speaker 5: their zone runs, they've got no chance. If we stop

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Speaker 5: their man blocking, they've got no chance. They do such

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Speaker 5: a good job of mixing it up. And if you're

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Speaker 5: going to do that, you have to have extremely smart

751
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Speaker 5: offensive liignment, extremely physical offensive lineman, but really athletic to

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Speaker 5: have a center snap the ball and be able to

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Speaker 5: pull and kick somebody out. There's not a lot of

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Speaker 5: centers in this league that can do that. And you know, again,

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Speaker 5: across the board, they're getting it done. They're asking guard

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Speaker 5: tackle the poll, they're asking different guys to do it

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Speaker 5: on different plays, and it becomes extremely difficult for a

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Speaker 5: defense to stop that type of run attack.

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Speaker 6: I mentioned the quote from Sydney Brown, who had the

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Speaker 6: ninety nine yard pick six, but was also part of

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Speaker 6: a defense that got gash for over two hundred rushing

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Speaker 6: yards for the first time in forty nine games in

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Speaker 6: Eagles history. Think about what the Cardinals did and what

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Speaker 6: the Eagles had not allowed in so many games. But

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Speaker 6: he mentioned the pin and poll. He mentioned the Cardinals'

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Speaker 6: ability to get to the perimeter and then get upfield

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Speaker 6: for Connor to get out to the numbers and then

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Speaker 6: get north and south. I mean, think about it. The

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Speaker 6: Cardinals run game is number six in the NFL right

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Speaker 6: now in yards per game, number two in yards per carry,

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Speaker 6: and James Connor's number seven overall in terms of runners

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Speaker 6: in the NFL in yards per carry, so to Kyle's point,

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Speaker 6: and explosive runs, Cardinals are second only to the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 6: So to Kyle's point, this old line has been underrated

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Speaker 6: all year.

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Speaker 4: Long, and this week going up against a Seahawks' defense

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Speaker 4: that is thirtieth against the run. What do you think

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Speaker 4: is the game plan for the Week eighteen season finale

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Speaker 4: for the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 6: What was the epiphany after the Pittsburgh game when Jonathan

781
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Speaker 6: Gannon shared with us that he told Drew Petsing, don't

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Speaker 6: be afraid to repeat plays. This is like the old

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Speaker 6: badas here's twenty two and twenty three double thirty times

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Speaker 6: against the Seahawks. Cardinals are gonna come out and just

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Speaker 6: run it and run it until they can stop it.

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Speaker 4: We'll look ahead to Sunday's matchup. Two twenty five is

787
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Speaker 4: the kickoff on Sunday. This is the Cardinals Red Seat Report,

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Speaker 4: presented by Seageek Your Ticket to Great Seats. Can the

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Speaker 4: Cardinals spoil the Seahawks' postseason plans. We'll get into that

790
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Speaker 4: next here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio network.

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Speaker 2: Tyler Murray has been magical in the second half and

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Speaker 2: the ball will be in his hands.

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Speaker 3: This is what your franchise quarterback does. Steep dropper Murray

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Speaker 3: sends a passing in your sideline. Caught again.

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Speaker 2: Torch broke a tackle thirty right side, twenty cuts back

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Speaker 2: to the left of the ten, another broken tackle, and

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Speaker 2: finally gobbled up with the six.

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Speaker 5: But it will be.

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Speaker 3: First in goal.

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Speaker 2: Quick snap hand off Connor straight ahead, GE's to the

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Speaker 2: goal line.

802
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Speaker 3: Hand across, but the go ahead touchdown.

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Speaker 2: James Connor punches it in and the Cards take the

804
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Speaker 2: lead thirty four to thirty one with thirty two seconds

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Speaker 2: to go in the game. This will be the final play.

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Speaker 2: Hurts takes a shot deep middle of the end zone

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Speaker 2: and it is intercepted in the back of the end

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Speaker 2: zone and the Arizona Cardinals give Jonathan Gannon a signature

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Speaker 2: victory in his first season at the Red Burns.

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Speaker 4: And really it was not because of Kyler Marie. It

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Speaker 4: was not because of James Connor. As you heard on

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Speaker 4: that final drive, the voice of Dave Hash Greg Dorsch,

813
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Speaker 4: ten yard catch, thirty six yard catch. Anything to say

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Speaker 4: about Greg dortshow over there.

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Speaker 5: Kyle, feed him, keep playing him. I mean, every time

816
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Speaker 5: he gets the ball in his hands, it seems like

817
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Speaker 5: he does something special. And to me, I mean even

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Speaker 5: the catch on that first drive where he completely laid

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Speaker 5: out to catch that ball early in the game. You know,

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Speaker 5: he doesn't drop the ball. He seems to get separation,

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Speaker 5: mixed guys missing space. He's proven to be a valuable

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Speaker 5: contributor to this ball club.

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Speaker 4: Also a thirty three yard kickoff return over one hundred

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Speaker 4: and eighty yards all purpose for Greg Dortch.

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Speaker 6: His confidence level is through the roof. He'll just look

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Speaker 6: in the eye. I'll make you miss in a phone booth.

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Speaker 6: He's confident. And we've set up before as a guy

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Speaker 6: was cut six times, played on five different teams over

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Speaker 6: his first three years. Live on the edge of an

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Speaker 6: NFL roster. You play with an edge, and that's what

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Speaker 6: he does out there. And then I think Pastor was

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Speaker 6: especially fired up because he had to spend four hours

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Speaker 6: calling the Cotton Bowl a couple days earlier, where they're

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Speaker 6: like forty punts in that game. So Dave was really

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Speaker 6: fired up because he had a lot of action to

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Speaker 6: call there in the second half.

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Speaker 4: Cardinals and Seahawks is your Week eighteen finale, State Farm Stadium.

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Speaker 4: The Cardinals and Seahawks will kick off at two twenty

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Speaker 4: five nine to thirty. Pre game coverage begins on the

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Speaker 4: Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Cardinals with nothing to play for

841
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Speaker 4: except to spoil the Seahawks, who are still alive despite

842
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Speaker 4: losing last week at home to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Their

843
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 4: playoff hopes though by a thread. They need to win

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Speaker 4: and a Green Bay loss to the Bears, who have

845
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Speaker 4: won four of their last five. There's some other scenarios

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Speaker 4: involving ties, but that's unlikely, but again, the Seahawks not

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Speaker 4: in control of their playoff destiny. And how big of

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Speaker 4: a deal Kyle when you talk about the role of

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Speaker 4: spoilers something that us in the media like to talk about,

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Speaker 4: but players at the end of a season, when your

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Speaker 4: season ends, you know you're not going to be playing

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Speaker 4: anything past Week eighteen, But much like last week the Phillydela.

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Speaker 4: The Eagles dropped to a five seed on that loss. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they're in the playoffs, but now they're gonna probably have

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Speaker 4: to go on the road for most of their playoff run,

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Speaker 4: and now here the Seahawks trying to get in the

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Speaker 4: door into that playoff picture, and the Seahawks or the

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Speaker 4: Cardinals can say, yeah, now not this year.

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Speaker 5: It's huge and the way they have an opportunity to

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Speaker 5: do it, the way they're playing a physical brand of

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Speaker 5: football against a team that can't seem to tackle anybody.

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Speaker 5: And you know, look, they whether Jonathan Gannon sane it

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Speaker 5: or not, it meant a lot to him. It meant

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Speaker 5: a lot to the players to give that gift to him.

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Speaker 5: This would be a tremendous New Year's gift to Paul Calvc,

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Speaker 5: who is not the biggest Pete Carroll fan, to go

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Speaker 5: out there and beat the Seahawks. And I'm sure that's

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Speaker 5: what they're talking about in meetings today.

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Speaker 4: I think it's more admiration that Paul has for Double

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Speaker 4: Rainbow more than discuss or dislike. And just don't forget

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Speaker 4: he's older than Bill Belichick and the energy level. I

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Speaker 4: do respect the energy level, but nobody respects the twelves.

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Speaker 4: So you know, if you really want to go out

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Speaker 4: on a high note, you wreck the Seahawks holiday. You know,

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Speaker 4: they got lucky last year. They got that win in

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Speaker 4: the season finale, and that got help when Green Bay

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Speaker 4: lost to Detroit, and that's how the Seahawks backed in

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Speaker 4: last year. You can't have that happen two years in

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Speaker 4: a row. They didn't earn it last year, and they

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Speaker 4: certainly don't look like a playoff team this year.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 4: They have lost talking about the Seahawks, five of their

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Speaker 4: last seven, and again a costly home loss to the

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers thirty to twenty three. And we kind of

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Speaker 4: already discussed what that run defense has looked like of

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Speaker 4: the Seahawks. It is not very good overall, the defense

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Speaker 4: number twenty four in scoring. But remember it wasn't actually

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Speaker 4: it was a long time ago. If you think about

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Speaker 4: the first meeting between these two teams all the way

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Speaker 4: back in Week seven, Cardinals lost twenty to ten, but

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Speaker 4: they forced three turnovers and only scored three points and lost.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you win the turnover battle re nothing and you

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Speaker 6: lose the game. That's a real anomaly and a lot

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Speaker 6: of that had to do with the fact that Josh

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Speaker 6: Dobbs had a really poor game in terms of accuracy.

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Speaker 6: That was so now, guess what you get the real

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Speaker 6: Cardinals with their real quarterback, and let's see how this

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Speaker 6: thing turns out.

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Speaker 4: And James Connor missed that first meeting as well in

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Speaker 4: Week seven, So a vastly different Cardinals team that the

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Speaker 4: Seahawks will see on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, they're going to see a team playing with a

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Speaker 5: lot of confidence, a team that should be feeling really

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Speaker 5: high right now and want to go out and finish

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Speaker 5: this season on a high note. You know, look, I

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Speaker 5: already mentioned it. The defense is struggling. They played a

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Speaker 5: horrible game, couldn't tackle anybody against Pittsburgh. It's a real

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Speaker 5: opportunity to go out kind of cut and paste a

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Speaker 5: bit of an offensive game plan and do some of

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Speaker 5: the same things they did last week.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Devin Witherspoon after the game said they came

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Speaker 6: out and they ran the football down our throat. Well,

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Speaker 6: I'm guessing the Cardinals are going to do the same

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Speaker 6: thing until the Seahawks prove they can stop it.

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Speaker 4: We'll see what happens. Two twenty five is the kickoff

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Speaker 4: on Sunday nine thirty. Pre game coverage begins, and then

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Speaker 4: we'll all reconvene one week from today and talk about

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Speaker 4: the week eighteenth finale right here on The Cardinals Red

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Speaker 3: It is caught by McBride.

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Speaker 2: Hey, it's a touchdown boot a Baker with the sacked strip.

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Speaker 2: The ball, Hurry's gonna score touchdown?

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Speaker 6: Oh baby.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown Cardinals Whim.

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