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Speaker 1: I'm ready.

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Speaker 5: I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready.

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Speaker 4: And Ron Wolfley, it doesn't get any better than that.

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Speaker 5: Wolf I'm gonna need a little help here. I got

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Speaker 5: Because it has been a five year weight you know what?

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Speaker 5: Wolf has some opinions and thoughts I'm not sure I

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Speaker 9: We got a lot of great coaches in house, but

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Speaker 1: That really is incredible though, when you stop and think

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Speaker 5: Hey, just over a week away February twenty first Cardinals

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Speaker 5: climb Wolf is participating He's got a team. Go to

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Speaker 5: cardinalsclimb dot com. How about Dave Pash, Voice of the Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: Oh baby, Carson Palmer doing a whirly bird in the

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Speaker 3: They can win it with a touchdown snap. The Palmer

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Speaker 4: On a shovel pass, of all things, and one of.

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Speaker 3: The craziest games ever knows, winning it overtime twenty six

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Speaker 4: Put your heads in the air, head, step away from

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Speaker 1: What an incredible call.

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Speaker 5: and I mean, look, I literally get chills to some

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Speaker 12: How you doing, Hello, boys, gonna talk to you, how

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Speaker 1: What I gotta say, Polly for myself just listening to it.

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Speaker 5: So Dave, considering you guys were both in your twenties

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Speaker 5: to Larry Fitzgerald had his name announced last week NFL Honors, right,

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Speaker 12: Well, thrilled obviously for fits and what he embodies goes

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Speaker 12: He's one of the greatest receivers to ever play. But again,

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Speaker 12: And that's why Larry Fitzgerald, you know, he's could be

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Speaker 1: You know, I think Paully for the most part, when

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Speaker 1: I make Larry Fitzgerald, his superpower was definitely his humility.

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Speaker 1: This is something that I've talked about in the past

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying he was walking around and he

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Speaker 5: Look really well said by both you guys. I was

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Speaker 5: We just heard, I mean, Dave for everything that Larry did,

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Speaker 12: Well, first of all, there are a lot of things

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Speaker 12: Yes, I think Larry had a running total of everybody

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Speaker 12: You know, he was already pretty accomplished at that point.

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Speaker 1: Those moments, you know. For me, Paully, can I also

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you that was a situation where if BIA

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Speaker 5: All Right, So the guy who's on a first name

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Speaker 5: Dave Pasch is our guest here in the Big Red

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Speaker 5: the voice of the Cardinals. Give us your take, your thoughts.

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Speaker 5: What stood out about the naming of Mike Lafleur is

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Speaker 12: Well, first, Paulie. You look at his resume and he's

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Speaker 12: I loved his press conference. I heard you talk about

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Speaker 1: You know what I love about it as well, David,

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Speaker 1: like to do. And I think that is a benefit

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Speaker 1: for the Cardinals.

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Speaker 5: Hey, last week in the Big Red Rage, we had

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Speaker 5: DeMarco Farr Rams radio analyst. He was really bullish on

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Speaker 5: Mike Lafleur said he is a Sean McVay type in

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Speaker 5: the making, and then saluted him for installing the offense

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Speaker 5: and calling a lot of the game against the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: week fourteen, where the Rams put up forty five and oh,

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Speaker 5: by the way, the last two games of Rams against

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Speaker 5: the Seahawks defense. They put up over four hundred and

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Speaker 5: then five hundred total yards. So to your point, Wolf,

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Speaker 5: it's nice to have that knowledge of the division. And

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Speaker 5: it's always nice to have day Pass join us here

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Speaker 5: on the Big Red Page. Dave enjoyed the offseason thanks

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Speaker 5: to the insight. As always, I know Wolf will call

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Speaker 5: you later and he'll talk about how he didn't get

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Speaker 5: any sleep last night.

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Speaker 12: Okay, all right, fellas, all right, get it doctor.

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Speaker 11: Yeh.

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Speaker 5: There we continue with a Big Red Rage presented by

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Speaker 5: Emergency Aircas.

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Speaker 13: We went through the interview process. The clear winner was

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Speaker 13: Mike Lafleur. He's ready for this. He's innovative, he's smart,

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Speaker 13: he's been training under the brightest offensive coaches in the

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Speaker 13: NFC West and arguably in the NFL, and we're super

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Speaker 13: excited about all the things that he's going to bring.

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Speaker 11: Let's be real, I mean, this is a bottom line business, period.

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Speaker 11: This business's cutthroat. It's about wins and losses. The one

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Speaker 11: thing we're not going to talk about is what happens

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Speaker 11: in February and in January and even in December. I'm

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Speaker 11: not even worried about the first game in September right now.

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Speaker 11: I'm worried about getting relationships with these guys, building the

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Speaker 11: best staff we can, improving the roster because we owe

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Speaker 11: it to these guys to do that, and then getting

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Speaker 11: going with them.

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Speaker 5: And there were nearly two dozen Cardinals players in the

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Speaker 5: back of the auditorium for the introductory press conference. Michael

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Speaker 5: Lafleur as introduced by team owner Michael Bidwell. It's the

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Speaker 5: Big Red Rage presented by Emergency Air Special thanks once

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Speaker 5: again to day Pash. We're gonna hear from Michael lafour

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Speaker 5: sit down with our Danny Sirek, Paul calvic, Ron, Wolfley

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Speaker 5: and wolf. He said it it's about winning games, period. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: there is such a thing as winning the press conference.

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Speaker 5: And I'd say that Miche Lafleur's career record right now

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Speaker 5: as a head coaches one to zero. I thought. I

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Speaker 5: thought he did a I mean a spectacular job of

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Speaker 5: just being himself. There was no script. He was honest,

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Speaker 5: he was capable. I think he was earnest. I think

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Speaker 5: it resonated, he was energetic. I know Dave Pash mentioned

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Speaker 5: a lot of the same. I mean, maybe just give

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Speaker 5: us your initial takeaways. You played for a lot of

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Speaker 5: different coaches. You've been in a lot of different coaching

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Speaker 5: press conferences. I don't know what stood out to you

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Speaker 5: the most.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, Paul, it really was the first ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: Did what did Michael Lafleur do the first ten minutes

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Speaker 1: of its press conference? Thanked everybody that has ever poured

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Speaker 1: in to him. True, he even brought up Robert Salad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which it was pretty surprising to me. Yet at the

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Speaker 1: same time, he sat there and he took about ten

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Speaker 1: minutes of that press conference and it was his first

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Speaker 1: remarks and thanked all the people that had allowed him

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Speaker 1: to get to the point that he is at. I just, Paul,

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Speaker 1: a heart of gratitude. There is something about that. It

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Speaker 1: is strength in a human being to be able to

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Speaker 1: have a heart of gratitude and take all of that

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Speaker 1: time to acknowledge everybody else when here he is at

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Speaker 1: a press conference where you know what, coach, this is

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Speaker 1: all about you, This is all about you being the

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Speaker 1: next head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. And he took

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Speaker 1: the first ten minutes of that to talk about everybody else.

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Speaker 5: He's got to do that to me hit me like

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Speaker 5: a ton of bricks, And you know, what to your point.

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Speaker 5: He joked with us on the radio side that he

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Speaker 5: looked down at one point during the press conference in

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Speaker 5: the front row and he saw his wife and kids,

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Speaker 5: he saw his parents, saw his big brother. He's a thought,

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Speaker 5: I felt like I was at my wedding right. So

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Speaker 5: he's got he's got a good sense of humor. You know,

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Speaker 5: he's good in the moment. He also said he had

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Speaker 5: a moment during the Southern California wildfires the playoffs twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty four season when that game was moved to State

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Speaker 5: Farm Stadium, and speaking of gratitude, he thanked the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: and Michael Bidwell for stepping right up and hosting that

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Speaker 5: game on very short notice. And he said he had

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Speaker 5: a premonition walking around the building that he was going

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Speaker 5: to be head coach of the Arizona Cardinals one day

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Speaker 5: that he told his wife just that, So that was

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Speaker 5: very intriguing. And for more, our Danny Sirek sat down

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Speaker 5: with the Cardinals new head coach Mike lafor for a

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Speaker 5: little Q and A.

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Speaker 14: You've had success as an offensive coordinator in New York.

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Speaker 14: Garrett Wilson had one thousand yards receiving as a rookie

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Speaker 14: most recently in LA, you led the most prolific offense

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Speaker 14: in the NFL, averaging neiling four hundred yards and thirty

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Speaker 14: points a game. What elements as a coach are transferable

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Speaker 14: to Arizona regardless of personnel.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well we got players here, There's no doubt.

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Speaker 15: I mean again, I've been in this division for seven years.

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Speaker 11: Obviously roster's changed a year and a year out, but

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Speaker 11: playing this team this year, just talking about the offense,

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Speaker 11: there's players there, you know, and well, there's foundational aspects

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Speaker 11: of what we'll do offensively that are very similar to

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Speaker 11: New York, that are very similar to LA. But it'll

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Speaker 11: be fit around these guys. You know, you talk about Marvin,

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Speaker 11: Michael and obviously Trey you know, I mean, people die

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Speaker 11: to be able to work with those guys, and we'll

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Speaker 11: continue to elevate this roster and put them in his

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Speaker 11: position to be successful.

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Speaker 14: You've coached a handful of playmakers and Matt Ryan one

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Speaker 14: MVP when you were in Atlanta, Matthew Stafford, George Kittle.

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Speaker 14: You mentioned your three headed monster and Trey McBride, Michael Wilson,

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Speaker 14: and Marvin Harrison Junior. Let's turn in in that offensive

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Speaker 14: mine of yours. When thinking about your new g oh,

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Speaker 14: I just.

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Speaker 11: Want to get working with them, you know, because they

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Speaker 11: are I mean, they're and then they're good dudes.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 11: When I came here for the interview, I walk right

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Speaker 11: through that front door, right into the cafeteria, and the

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Speaker 11: first three people that were there were those three, And

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Speaker 11: I said, this is a great omen right here, because

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Speaker 11: they're in here in the off season.

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Speaker 6: It's February, let alone April, and they.

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Speaker 11: Were the three getting breakfast, hanging out together, getting ready

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Speaker 11: to go to work.

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Speaker 15: So it's gonna be fun. We're gonna get thin, you know,

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Speaker 15: this staff together. We're going to evaluate this roster and

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Speaker 15: figure out.

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Speaker 6: How we can add even more pieces to it.

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Speaker 14: Well, qualities in a quarnerback best fit your scheme.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Guys that can process and rip through you know, progressions.

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Speaker 11: But more importantly than that, just toughness. I mean to

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Speaker 11: be able to sit back there. Not everyone's going to

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Speaker 11: throw the same. You want what we call natural throwers.

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Speaker 11: What does that mean? Does it look right right? Does

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Speaker 11: it come out you know, on time? And all that

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Speaker 11: ripping through the progressions, like I said, But ultimately they

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Speaker 11: play in the pocket.

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Speaker 6: They got to be tough.

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Speaker 11: And you know, the guys that you just talked about,

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Speaker 11: Matt Ryan and Matthew Stafford, two the best really to

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Speaker 11: ever do it.

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Speaker 14: We've learned from two of the most creative minds coaching

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Speaker 14: football today. And Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan. What have

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Speaker 14: those two taught you about what it takes to win?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 11: I mean there's that'd be countless, you know, and we

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Speaker 11: could go on for hours on that. But the thing

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Speaker 11: that stands out to me with both of those guys

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Speaker 11: that I really took right right off the rip in

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Speaker 11: twenty fourteen with Kyle as an offensive coordinator in Cleveland,

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Speaker 11: it's just daily urgency, like like we to go.

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Speaker 6: This league doesn't wait for anyone.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 15: We're gonna thoroughly and thoughtfully, you know.

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Speaker 6: Do what we got to do.

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Speaker 11: But it's got to get done, and we got to move,

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Speaker 11: you know, and we got to have a bounce in.

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Speaker 6: Our step when we go. And when we do that, man,

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Speaker 6: the players file suit with it, you know.

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Speaker 11: So again, this league doesn't wait. The fan bases don't

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Speaker 11: want to wait. We understand that that's the league we

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Speaker 11: signed up for. That's what makes it so cool.

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Speaker 5: You know, that's the most popular question, obviously to Michael Laflores,

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Speaker 5: What have you learned the most from McVeigh and Shanahan

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Speaker 5: And rightfully so. And he uses that word urgency now

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Speaker 5: he has elaborated on that a little bit. Wolf to say,

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Speaker 5: it means you have to have the urgency to make

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Speaker 5: sure you're staying ahead, staying ahead schematically, staying ahead in

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Speaker 5: your physical conditioning, big picture in the off season, make

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Speaker 5: sure you're evolving, you know, to your players, and evolving

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Speaker 5: with the rest of the league. And if you don't,

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Speaker 5: if you don't have that urgency to evolve and stay ahead,

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Speaker 5: as he calls it, it's over, you know, because the

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Speaker 5: NFL will define you and they will defend you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul, I like that as well. Daily urgency, you know,

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Speaker 1: take care of business right now, get better now. I

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Speaker 1: like that. But my favorite, I have to tell you

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Speaker 1: what qualities of a quarterback do you want in your scheme?

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Speaker 1: Toughness is what he said. I mean, Palie, you've got

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Speaker 1: to be kidding me right now. Toughness when I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think of a quarterback and I don't

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Speaker 1: think toughness immediately. There was one guy. I will tell

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Speaker 1: you one Arizona Cardinal quarterback that I did think, Wow,

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Speaker 1: he's a lot tougher than I've ever thought. Carson palmer

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Speaker 1: d was that guy, PAULI, he was that guy. Carson

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Speaker 1: was tough. What qualities of a quarterback do you want

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Speaker 1: coach in your scheme? And he said toughness? And you

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Speaker 1: know what, honestly, I just didn't think I'd ever hear

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the or a head coach in the

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Speaker 1: year twenty twenty five or twenty twenty six ever point

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Speaker 1: to toughness as the first quality he needs in a quarterback.

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Speaker 5: And he cited Matthew Stafford, who will hang in the pocket,

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Speaker 5: no doubt, a Matt Ryan who would hang.

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Speaker 6: In the pocket.

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Speaker 5: You know, Kurt Warner would definitely hang in the pocket

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Speaker 5: waiting for.

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Speaker 1: That extra split in the pocket.

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Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, Wolf, how many times, Jacoby said, I

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Speaker 5: don't know if the TV cameras caught how many times

635
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Speaker 5: he came over to the sideline just seething in pain,

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Speaker 5: and like trainers are like you good, and they're ready

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Speaker 5: to get up Keaton Slovas and he's like no, He

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Speaker 5: shook it off, and he was out there for the

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Speaker 5: next procession. So the other thing about Michae Lafleur and

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Speaker 5: I found this out asking the question of the press

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Speaker 5: conference just how much he's looking forward to calling plays?

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Speaker 6: I missed it.

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Speaker 11: There's something about calling plays like you're just kind of

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Speaker 11: in it, you know, and there's a tone at which

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Speaker 11: you talk of that quarterback as well. I really believe that,

646
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Speaker 11: you know, like what they're hearing in that moment. It

647
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Speaker 11: is so hard to play quarterback in this league. And

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Speaker 11: you know, obviously he has the harder job as the

649
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Speaker 11: quarterback compared to the play caller, but you are in

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Speaker 11: it with him, and it's a it's a aspect of

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Speaker 11: football that I missed.

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Speaker 5: You could just hear the competitive juice is percolating inside him,

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Speaker 5: can you not?

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Speaker 1: Yes? So, Paul, Okay, So he says the number one

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Speaker 1: quality wants from his quarterback is toughness, and then he

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Speaker 1: talks about tone, tone in calling place. Paul, would you

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Speaker 1: ever have thought stuff like that? Honestly, your tone really

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Speaker 1: matters when you call a play. I never even thought

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Speaker 1: about stuff like that. Yet, at the same time, the

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Speaker 1: emotional up and down that a quarterback is riding the

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Speaker 1: vast majority of time in an NFL game. It's pretty incredible.

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Speaker 1: It makes a ton of sense.

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Speaker 5: How many times have the Cardinals played the Rams And

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Speaker 5: we cited Sean McVeigh trailing the line of scrimmage on

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Speaker 5: the Rams sideline by a good twenty to thirty yards,

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Speaker 5: so he can get that angle of the defense. He

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Speaker 5: wants to see what sort of scheme. And yeah, especially

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Speaker 5: in the young days of Jared Goff, McVeigh would get

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Speaker 5: him up there right away and you would tell him, Okay,

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Speaker 5: you're looking at you're looking at man, you're looking at zone.

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Speaker 5: And then you know, they would have tells and he's

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Speaker 5: talking to the quarterback right up to the fifteen second cutoff.

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Speaker 5: And in that McVeigh relationship with the Q, it sounds

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Speaker 5: like that's something that Mike Lafore believes in wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Paulie, not only that too, the three headed monster.

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Speaker 1: You're telling me the first three people he saw were

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Speaker 1: Trey McBride, Michael Wilson at, Barvin Harrison Junior at That's

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Speaker 1: what are the odds of that?

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Speaker 5: And then you had Elijah Higgins and Trey McBride at

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Speaker 5: the Phoenix Open talking about Yes, they took notice of

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Speaker 5: how many thirteen personnel snaps. The Rams ran this past

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Speaker 5: year that the red zone no doubt. So hey a reminder.

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Speaker 5: Learn more about Cardinals ticket options go to Hazycardinals dot

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Speaker 5: presented by Emergency. Here we'll talk about this Super Bowl

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Speaker 5: and a reminder in regards to the Cardinals. Next, it's

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Speaker 5: third and one.

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Speaker 10: Here's the shot bench Champ de Mayon of Sidearm Delivery

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Speaker 10: got it to his running back. Henders entertains a minefield

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Speaker 10: goalmantor Sideline forty Dominator Sideline thirty five Chaplin of the thirty.

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Speaker 1: The clock is tigging two one, and that's it.

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Speaker 13: MF.

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Speaker 10: Seattle Seahawks have won Super Bowl sixty in pretty dominating

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Speaker 10: fashion twenty nine thirteen. Then win their second Vince Combardi

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Speaker 10: Trophy and he'll win over the New England Patriots and

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Speaker 10: Mike mcconnald, the Seahawks head coach, becomes the third youngest

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Speaker 10: head coach to ever win a Super Bowl, and tonight

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Speaker 10: with the confetti flying wins Super Bowl sixty. Here in

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Speaker 10: Santa Clara.

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Speaker 5: The Great Kevin Harland on Westwood One. Speaking of Santa Clara,

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Speaker 5: you might have seen the Holy can only stat Wolf

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Speaker 5: that the Seahawks defense had more sacks and takeaways in

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Speaker 5: two games at Levi Stadium this season than the Niners

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Speaker 5: did in their eight home games combined. The Seahawks had

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Speaker 5: nine sacks they had four takeaways in two games at

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Speaker 5: Levi's this year, while the Niners banged up defense minus

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Speaker 5: Nick Moosa most of the year, Fred Warner and company

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Speaker 5: in their eight home games had seven sacks and three takeaways.

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Speaker 5: Oh is that Seahawks defense that good?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I believe that they are that good, Paully, I

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Speaker 1: really do you know. Let me just say this right now,

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Speaker 1: when you think of rush four drop seven, if you

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Speaker 1: ever heard that, Polly, you ever heard rush four drop seven?

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Speaker 1: Right when you think of rush four drop seven, I

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Speaker 1: want you to think of Super Bowl sixty, Okay, because

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Speaker 1: that ultimately in a gross simplification of the truth. There

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Speaker 1: were a lot of plays and a lot of players

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Speaker 1: who made plays in this game. But that was the

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Speaker 1: reason why, in my opinion, the Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: They were able to rush for drop seven, play an

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Speaker 1: awful lot of zone, get pressure on Drake May and

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Speaker 1: win the game because they were able to dominate that

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Speaker 1: part of the game.

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Speaker 5: And guess what it wasn't just a young Drake May,

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Speaker 5: who by the way, led the NFL and completion percentage

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Speaker 5: during the regular season. It's not just Drake May that

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Speaker 5: struggles against that sort of pressure on the quarterback, when

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Speaker 5: you're getting hit and harassed, when your left tackle is

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Speaker 5: given up fourteen pressures in a single game. Oh, Will

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Speaker 5: Campbell just astounding. But we'll think about it. Think about

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Speaker 5: the New York Giants rushing for dropping seven and beating

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Speaker 5: an undefeated New England Patriots team back in the day, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, Polly, it is, you know, and even

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Speaker 1: last year. You can go back to last year it

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Speaker 1: was the same thing. But man, I also want to

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Speaker 1: say this quickly, Paul. You mentioned Will Campbell, the left

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Speaker 1: tackle for the New England. It felt so bad for

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Speaker 1: him in the game I did as a former player.

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Speaker 1: My heart went out to this guy. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if there was something wrong with him. We haven't heard anything.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything in regard to whether he was

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Speaker 1: hurt or there was some type of injury. But fourteen pressures, Paul, I,

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Speaker 1: I remember saying out loud as I'm watching Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: sixty on the couch by myself. I remember saying, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I don't think i've ever seen an offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman destroy a team's chances of winning such an important

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Speaker 1: game before in my life. You know what, it was

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Speaker 1: stunning to watch that.

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Speaker 5: The only example I'll cite, and you'll remember this because

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Speaker 5: you called the game. Now, it wasn't nearly the same magnitude.

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Speaker 5: It was a season opener of twenty twenty one. Taylor

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Speaker 5: Luwan gave up five sacks to Chandler Jones. That's okay

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Speaker 5: in Nashville. Did I remember when Chandler Jones went for

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Speaker 5: five and JJ Watt was in the sideline going, are

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Speaker 5: you serious?

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Speaker 1: Yes? First of all, it wasn't the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: And that's what I'm saying. It wasn't. It wasn't nice, yes,

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Speaker 5: but look.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't that. And not only that, I don't think

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Speaker 1: fourteen pressures were allowed counting those sacks. Fourteen I've never

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Speaker 1: even heard that stat Paul.

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Speaker 5: So look, that might Mike McDonald's scheme. And it wasn't

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Speaker 5: just you know, it wasn't just one guy either. It

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Speaker 5: wasn't just Chandler Jones having a career game. I mean,

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Speaker 5: think of the depth Y had Derek Hall and some

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Speaker 5: fifth round rookie named Riley Mills and Byron Murphy the

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Speaker 5: second and Yu Chenna Nwosu with a forty five yard

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Speaker 5: pick six and aj Barner, an unknown tight end for

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Speaker 5: the most part in the NFL, with a touchdown catch.

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Speaker 5: I mean that Seattle team is really deep. On the

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Speaker 5: other hand, here's my other takeaway from the twenty nine

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Speaker 5: to thirteen domination by the Seahawks. This was the only

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Speaker 5: the sixth Super Bowl ever featuring two teams that missed

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Speaker 5: the playoffs the previous season. And I bring that up

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Speaker 5: for a league that gives you hope every single year. Well,

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Speaker 5: if I want to take you back to the end

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Speaker 5: of the twenty twenty four season when the New England

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Speaker 5: Patriots came to town, you were calling the game with passion.

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Speaker 5: I'm down on the sideline. We had a moment. I

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Speaker 5: think it was a commercial break. We all concurred. This

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Speaker 5: New England Patriots roster is awful. They have Christian Gonzales,

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Speaker 5: they have a nice up and coming rookie quarterback by

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Speaker 5: the name of Drake May and a bunch of other

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Speaker 5: guys first named jack last name squat, and they turned

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Speaker 5: it around in one offseason. They nailed the head coach

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Speaker 5: and Mike Rabel. They nailed the quarterback with the guy

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Speaker 5: who finished second in the MVP voting in Drake May.

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Speaker 5: But with some free agency and a really good draft,

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Speaker 5: they changed around their fortunes and went from four wins

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Speaker 5: to fourteen wins in one year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Polly, I mean, there's no lot about it. You

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Speaker 1: think of the Jacksonville Jaguars as well. Yeah, when the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals played the Jaguars, where you're thinking to yourself,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is a this is an awesome

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Speaker 1: football team. I really wasn't thinking that, Paully for the

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Speaker 1: most part. And they took out. They took off after

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals played, and Trevor Lawrence as well took off.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's just a situation where it is

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Speaker 1: a work in progress and teams can develop at a

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Speaker 1: different rate depending on where they are. But man, they mesh.

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Speaker 1: We see it year after year after year, Paully. We

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Speaker 1: see teams go from worse to first and first to worse.

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Speaker 1: It happens in the NFL, and I think it's one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons why. Michael Bidwell actually pointed to that

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Speaker 1: in his press conference and said, you know what, that's

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Speaker 1: the expectation. Well, now they got to go make it happen.

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Speaker 5: To your point, the Cardinals can point to the bye

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Speaker 5: week twenty twenty four, a year and a half ago,

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Speaker 5: and where were the Cardinals in first place? They lost

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Speaker 5: five out of seven down the stretch after the bye.

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Speaker 5: They were two and zero to start this season. They

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Speaker 5: obviously a traumatic loss against Tennessee, but it was all

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Speaker 5: part of losing three in a row on walk off

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Speaker 5: field goals. You lost seven games by four points or fewer.

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Speaker 5: These are all things cited by Mike Lafloor and taking

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Speaker 5: the job. So do you reside in the NFL's toughest division. Yes,

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Speaker 5: you do, there's no doubt. But if you can make

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Speaker 5: some improvements in the off season and then, oh, I

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Speaker 5: don't know, you know, maybe your competition, you know, they

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Speaker 5: suffer some losses and all of a sudden, maybe that

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Speaker 5: gap isn't as vast as you thought. Don't forget in

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Speaker 5: weeks three and four, the Cardinals lost on walk off

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Speaker 5: field goals to the Seahawks and forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: This year, Yeah, Paully So what would you say is

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Speaker 1: job one for Mike Lafloor. What do you think it is?

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Speaker 5: I think we're gonna agree, we don't agree much. I

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Speaker 5: think it's O line and I think you concur with that,

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Speaker 5: do you not? Offensive line?

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Speaker 1: I would say the offensive line, Yes, there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. But at the same time, I think you

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Speaker 1: have to figure out who your quarterback is going to

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Speaker 1: be put out ye quarterback is or who he needs

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Speaker 1: to be, and then you need to pursue that. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: offensive line, I'm with you. You've got to fix the

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Speaker 1: offensive line and a lot of that is many Austin

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Speaker 1: for it as well.

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Speaker 5: All right, so what sort of headache getting back to

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Speaker 5: the Super Bowl? The NFC Western quarterback? Is Sam Darnold

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Speaker 5: going forward? You gotta worry about Matthew Stafford, who says

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Speaker 5: he's coming back. Brock Perty got the big money, you know,

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Speaker 5: and we know he's really clutch. Sam Darnold, you pointed

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Speaker 5: this out. Wolf went from leading the NFL in turnovers

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Speaker 5: in the regular season and how many turnovers did he

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Speaker 5: have in the postseason? Zero staggerant. It's amazing, No.

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Speaker 1: It really is. He did an incredible job. But what

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Speaker 1: is also amazing is Super Bowl sixty. When you think

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Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks in Super Bowl sixty, Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: did Drake May struggle poly Tank And especially in that

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Speaker 1: first half he looked. He looked like he was a

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Speaker 1: young quarterback year two in the league, just making his way.

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Speaker 1: He really did. And yet at the same time, he

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Speaker 1: actually finished the game with a higher quarterback rating than

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald, who did not. And again, Sam Darnald did

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Speaker 1: not turn the ball over. He managed He managed Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl sixty well. And that's the reason why the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: also won Super Bowl sixty is because he protected the

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Speaker 1: ball more than anything. But man, yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 1: it just didn't unfold the way that I thought it

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Speaker 1: was going to for Drake May. He really struggled in

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Speaker 1: that first half, brought it up in the second half,

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Speaker 1: but ultimately in the end, Sam Donald played better because

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Speaker 1: he didn't turn it over.

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Speaker 5: So Drake May had three turnovers, they punted on their

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Speaker 5: first eight drives. Sam Darnald at zero turnovers, and Drake

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Speaker 5: May finished with a higher passer rating. I did not

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Speaker 5: the formula here in the offseason. On that one special

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Speaker 5: Banks says Always. Executive producer Jim A. Mohundro, Associate producer

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Speaker 5: Cody Fincher, Technical director Ali Narini for the great Dave

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Speaker 5: Pash who joined us. Special thanks Todave for Ron Wolfley

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Speaker 5: on Paul Calvic. This has been the Big Red Rage

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Speaker 5: presented by Emergency Air.

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Speaker 3: Harrison dies for the en zone.

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Speaker 5: He's in touchdown.

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