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Speaker 1: Good morning, Red Sea. Welcome into another episode of The

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Speaker 1: Morning Scramble presented by Rise and Why are this time

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Speaker 1: your host felipa co Junor, joined by the Great Jody

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Speaker 1: Jackson Cardinals inside of Craig Grilou and x Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman at Rolando gone through the Cardinals in Week eighteen,

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Speaker 1: couldn't come out with the victory, losing to the Seattle

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Speaker 1: Seahawks thirty eight to thirty and guys a five game

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Speaker 1: home losing streak to end the season. How are we feeling?

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Speaker 1: I kind of have a sense of how we're feeling,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it's kind of natural for me to ask, Jody,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're feeling a little bit disappointing, maybe a

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Speaker 1: little bit more than a little bit disappointed, But tell

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Speaker 1: me how you feel. Yeah, I really am. I mean

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Speaker 1: one of the things just sitting in the press conference

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Speaker 1: room after the game and Cliff Kingsbrey mentioning, you know,

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Speaker 1: thinks they wanted it more than the Cardinals did. That

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Speaker 1: was frustrating. But that said, I don't think effort was

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Speaker 1: necessarily the problem here. It just looked at times a

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Speaker 1: little chaotic out there for the Cardinals, and you know, look,

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Speaker 1: look at it this way. Guys, think about this because

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Speaker 1: for many years doing postgame shows, we looked at the

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Speaker 1: start of the game, the start of the second half.

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Speaker 1: In particular, this team started out with a Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: strip sack. Zach Allen picks it up for the touchdown

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Speaker 1: to start the game. Then you start up the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: you have a great drive. You're one really long drive.

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Speaker 1: Yard wise, they had a lot of plays and a

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Speaker 1: lot of their drives, the Cardinals, but you know, hit

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk on a big play, which big plays were

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Speaker 1: missing through the air yesterday. And then James Connor scores.

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Speaker 1: Then the Jalen Thompson interception, which happened at the same

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Speaker 1: time that the forty nine ers tied the game against

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Speaker 1: the Rams. So as a fan or a media person,

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Speaker 1: you know, you were able to process all this. The

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Speaker 1: Red Sea was going nuts, Connor goes back in, Cardinals

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Speaker 1: take the lead. It was the other huge chunks of

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Speaker 1: this game, though, that were so disappointing. And you think

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Speaker 1: about that twenty one points that was created in those

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Speaker 1: quick moments, and it just makes you very frustrated about

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Speaker 1: some of the you know, the five sacks for negative

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Speaker 1: three yards and they happen in back to back scenarios

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Speaker 1: in the second quarter, third quarter, and then how in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the Seahawks outscored the Cardinals in

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Speaker 1: this one. I have to look up my notes here

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but fourteen to six. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: wanted them to finish the game. I wanted them to

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Speaker 1: get the win. And I realize they're in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And what the other thing is, Phelipe, if they win

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Speaker 1: Monday night, all will be forgiven. And the same situation

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Speaker 1: with the Cowboys game last week. We were saying, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they beat Dallas, all will be forgiven. With the

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Speaker 1: previous three weeks, I think a lot of the same

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Speaker 1: things apply on Monday. And of course the guys had

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Speaker 1: to turn their attention now to Monday after the game.

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Speaker 1: So it's not a lot of crying over spilt milk

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Speaker 1: at this point. But yes, here on the morning scramble,

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Speaker 1: we can allow our feelings to come out, right, guys,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there you have mine this morning, and Craig,

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Speaker 1: I wanna follow because I know that Cowboys victory kind

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Speaker 1: of you know, brought this offenses, defense, this entire team.

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Speaker 1: They took a step forward, right, but then closing the

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Speaker 1: season with they won and four record five straight at home,

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Speaker 1: you kind of you know, I saw a tweet I

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Speaker 1: think Jody Jackson tweeted, it looks like they're taking steps backwards, right,

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Speaker 1: especially in that first half. What did you see out there,

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Speaker 1: Craig that you know, really raise your eyebrows, not just

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Speaker 1: good step backwards. All the good that we saw the

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Speaker 1: week prior in Dallas offense, defense, and special teams, we

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Speaker 1: saw bad on Sunday. It started off well, as Jody mentioned,

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Speaker 1: but can't finish. And this team is not finishing the

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Speaker 1: season while losing four out of five. They are limping

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Speaker 1: into the postseason. I agree when on Monday in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles beat the Rams and yeah, it's a success. One game,

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Speaker 1: one game will define this twenty twenty one eros on

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Speaker 1: a Cardinals team. That's not fair, but that's reality. You

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Speaker 1: win eleven games, make the postseason. It's an accomplishment. You

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Speaker 1: can't take that away. But how this season is ending

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Speaker 1: after starting seven to zero and ten and two, you're

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Speaker 1: limping your way into the postseason. We talked about it Philip.

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Speaker 1: But you want to be playing some of your best

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Speaker 1: And the Cardinals right now are a bad football team

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Speaker 1: going into the playoffs. Can they turn it around? That's

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Speaker 1: the question they did last week? Can you do it again?

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Speaker 1: They are capable of being a good football team. We've

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Speaker 1: seen it. That's the frustrating part about what this game

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and Rolando. I don't think anything was more

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Speaker 1: frustrating than the fact that one you needed the forty

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Speaker 1: So the NC West Division title was in the palm

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Speaker 1: of your hands. And just the performance who put on

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Speaker 1: the field in front of your home fans again five

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Speaker 1: in a row at home, that's you know, that's not acceptable.

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Speaker 1: I think the last time they went at home was

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Speaker 1: on October twenty seventh, if I'm not mistaken. But everything

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Speaker 1: just seemed to be out of sync. Offensively, the defense,

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Speaker 1: you know, yeah, they gave up a lot of chunk plays,

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Speaker 1: but the defense put this team in a position to

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Speaker 1: really run away with it. You're talking about the forced

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Speaker 1: fumble recovery for seven by Zach Allen put them ahead seven. Oh,

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Speaker 1: obviously they gave up that touchdown right away, you know,

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Speaker 1: the following possession, and then you're talking about the the

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Speaker 1: interception by Jedllen Thompson, things like that. This defense truly

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Speaker 1: put this offense in a position to really run away

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Speaker 1: with it. But you know, you give up five sacks

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Speaker 1: that offensive line. You were mentioning mentioning it on the

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Speaker 1: Spanish radio broadcast. What was happening with that offensive line

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Speaker 1: because for the first time in a while, they were complete,

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Speaker 1: they had a complete offensive line. What'd you see? Well,

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Speaker 1: let me start off with this. I'm done. I went

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Speaker 1: to last night driving home hearing Craig on his postgame show.

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Speaker 1: I even wanted to call in, was like, where's the

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Speaker 1: jump on, But I'm done with that. Philippe. Listen, there

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Speaker 1: was some old line protection schemes that were just playing.

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Speaker 1: just got They just got battled. I mean they got

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Speaker 1: make sure your protection schemes are there. Give time to Kyler.

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Speaker 1: That's the only way you're going to be able to

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Speaker 1: defense also allowed plenty of rushing yards. Were back to

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Speaker 1: the same things that are kind of getting us behind

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Speaker 1: the scoreboard and playing from behind. That's not a recipe

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Speaker 1: of the Cardinals handle very well this season we are

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Speaker 1: in that is a good part. Yes, I'm bummed because

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Speaker 1: we could have taken this division because even for once

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Speaker 1: we were kind of rooting for the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: That's the only time we'll root for the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers Bird Gang. But they did their job. We didn't

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Speaker 1: or in the playoffs, this happens rarely. It's tough to

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Speaker 1: moving forward the old line, Philippe, Craig and Jody needs

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Speaker 1: give time to Kyler Murray, especially when you're down d

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Speaker 1: As we go, there has to be you know, those

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Speaker 1: we know for a fact that we are still you know,

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Speaker 1: the penalty issues are still there, especially when you're moving

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Speaker 1: most definitely there's things to clean up. They will clean

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Speaker 1: to prepare, you know, your body heals up a little

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Speaker 1: night platform. So for me, it's I'm done with the

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Speaker 1: ventein Philippe, I'm done with with with listening to what

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Speaker 1: we could have done. We didn't do it, guys, but

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Speaker 1: necessarily done, Vincent, because there's a specific there's a specific

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Speaker 1: three and outs. That deflates this offense. And what's worse

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Speaker 1: then that's when the Andy Leif fumble happened. It didn't

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Speaker 1: seem like this offense necessarily recovered from those two offensive drives. Jody, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's when Calvin Beecham left with the back injury. He

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Speaker 1: really dissect a lot of things here, But I do

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Speaker 1: little bit Phelipe and Rolando, you know, there's plenty of

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Speaker 1: blame to go around. I agree that the defense, you know,

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Speaker 1: of yards on the ground, not just the sixty two

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Speaker 1: yard run, but Penny ran hard all game long. Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson is still unbelievable. Okay, he's a very good player.

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Speaker 1: You kind of that said, you know, you kind of

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Speaker 1: knew once he was and he was under pressure. That's

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Speaker 1: the crazy part. I mean he was under a lot

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Speaker 1: would say most of the time, and yet he still

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Speaker 1: made plays. But yeah, you're right. After that possession, Penny

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Speaker 1: are sort of more controllable than others, right, like nothing's

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Speaker 1: completely controllable, but losing Kevin Peterson early in this game

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Speaker 1: what his status is now that he didn't return. You know,

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Speaker 1: And then Borders had to be put into duty and

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Speaker 1: it just did seem and you know, and he was unlocket,

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Speaker 1: him being put in that position. But then at that

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Speaker 1: gonna have a pretty decent game. You know, any anytime

427
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Speaker 1: you can go back to your hometown and play, you

428
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Speaker 1: see the Kyler Mary's Jalen Thompson had an amazing performance

429
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Speaker 1: in Week four earlier this season when they did play

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Speaker 1: at sulfly, so expect that from JT. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: end it with James Conner, and I kind of want

432
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Speaker 1: to extend a little bit because if you're anyone playing

433
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Speaker 1: any type of sport, you know, the younger generation and whatnot,

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Speaker 1: you want to play with the effort that James Connor plays,

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Speaker 1: regardless of sport, right. You know a lot of these

436
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Speaker 1: plays that he converted, you know, fourth and one was

437
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Speaker 1: due to effort, thirty and eighteen he converted that before

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Speaker 1: you got hurt due to effort. That twenty yard touchdown

439
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,840
Speaker 1: run that he caught on a flat route, he broke

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Speaker 1: two tackles and then he leaped into the end zone.

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Speaker 1: That is all effort. You don't necessarily game plan effort.

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Speaker 1: You don't teach effort. You know. That's something famous that

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Speaker 1: a lot of our coaches growing up always, you know,

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Speaker 1: mentioned to us, you don't teach effort, and I think

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Speaker 1: James Connor is a prime example of that. You know

446
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Speaker 1: his and it's infectious, you know, well, I'm hoping it's

447
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Speaker 1: infectious going into the postseason. But just the mentality he

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Speaker 1: plays with. When I think of a Mamba mentality, I

449
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Speaker 1: always think of someone like James Connor when it comes

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Speaker 1: to this Cardinals team. So that's gonna be my rising

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Speaker 1: shine James Connor. Hopefully he gets healthy enough for the

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Speaker 1: for the wildcard run of the postseason, because if Chase

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Speaker 1: Edmonds can't go, it's gonna be tough going into sulf

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Speaker 1: Fye Stadium with just you know, you know Benjamin as

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Speaker 1: greaty as he played in the fourth quarter, can you

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Speaker 1: truly rely on Eno Benjamin to take that that load

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Speaker 1: at that running back positions. So that'll do it if

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Speaker 1: our rise and shine. Let's get into our bring home

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Speaker 1: the Bacon, Jody. I know we talked about, you know,

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Speaker 1: the losing shriek at home. I know we talked about

461
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Speaker 1: the performance in the last five games of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, the Arizona Cardinals

463
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Speaker 1: are in the playoffs. Come on the floor is yours? Yeah?

464
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Speaker 1: I mean, and the bring from the Bacon here is simple.

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Speaker 1: It's just look, we've seen the two previous games this

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Speaker 1: season against the Rams. I'm going to forget about the

467
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Speaker 1: previous eight, okay, even though they do exist. But you

468
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Speaker 1: know what we didn't see in that second game was

469
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Speaker 1: the ability to finish like we did in that first one,

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Speaker 1: and I think that that has to be the key here.

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Speaker 1: This team has to be a second half team. No matter.

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Speaker 1: You have to be in the game, but you have

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Speaker 1: to be ready to play obviously, and I think they

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Speaker 1: will be. Look, we've all talked about the fact that

475
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray really shines in the in games like this,

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Speaker 1: the Dallas game. You know, Look, he can't do it

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Speaker 1: all himself, but he's gonna have to shoulder a big

478
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Speaker 1: load in this one. It's the playoffs. It's his first

479
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Speaker 1: chance to shine in that on that stage. It's another

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Speaker 1: primetime game, which really has been you know, horrible this

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Speaker 1: year for the Cardinals. I can't sugarcoat it in any

482
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Speaker 1: possible way. They have not done well on Sunday Night

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Speaker 1: Monday night football in these primetime situations. But again, they

484
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Speaker 1: have a chance to rectify this. They don't know if

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Speaker 1: James Connor is going to be healthy. Obviously, it's just Monday.

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Speaker 1: As Rolando said, they have all week long though, So

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Speaker 1: this is where coaching comes in, and we've seen these

488
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Speaker 1: coaches put together masterful plans throughout the season. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: always work. There are times where things don't go the

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Speaker 1: way that you plan. Or the guys don't execute it.

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Speaker 1: But I think there's a fair amount of confidence in

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Speaker 1: this and I think it will be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: if the coaching is a little different. Like Philippe, I

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Speaker 1: have to you mentioned something that got me thinking about

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Speaker 1: the heart attack almost had on fourth and one from

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Speaker 1: the Cardinal's own twenty on the first drive of the game,

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Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, you know, are they gonna do that

498
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Speaker 1: type of thing in the playoffs? I would think maybe no. Again,

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Speaker 1: I think it goes with the strategy of they really

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Speaker 1: wanted to step on the Seahawks early and unfortunately, you know,

501
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, like I said, he changed the momentum there.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, James Connor has that physicality you need. But

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Speaker 1: Eno showed me a lot, you know, Craig, I mean

504
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Speaker 1: he really did. You talked about it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: they will have to come up with other options. Greg

506
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Speaker 1: Dortch is on the roster as well. They'll have to

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Speaker 1: get more creative offensively, which Cliff Kingsbury. Look, that's a strength.

508
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Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons why Cliff Kingsbury was hired

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Speaker 1: to offensively out coach and out skiing the opponent in

510
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Speaker 1: a hopefully a playoff game, and you know here they

511
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Speaker 1: are first playoff game in six years, So I think

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Speaker 1: we're all excited about it. You have to leave the

513
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Speaker 1: past behind, but you have to learn from it, and

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Speaker 1: so I think these guys are all going to look

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Speaker 1: in the mirror this week, and especially the coaches, like

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Speaker 1: how can they help this team, which is I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully they're not suffering from a lack of confidence guys,

518
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Speaker 1: because they've done it. It's just they haven't done it

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Speaker 1: at home. But they're not at home, and they did

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Speaker 1: do it on the road at so far earlier this season.

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Speaker 1: So I think that they have confidence. They can dig

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Speaker 1: deep and say, look, there are games this year where

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Speaker 1: we have really out executed the opponent, and so they

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Speaker 1: can do it. But are they suffering a little bit

525
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Speaker 1: injury wise? Yes they are, so you know, again you

526
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Speaker 1: have to lean on other ways to get it done.

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Speaker 1: A lot of that does come down to coaching and

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Speaker 1: come down to the individuals that will have to stop

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Speaker 1: up in this game. But I think again it comes

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Speaker 1: back to what we talked about before the Dallas game.

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is going to be a huge catalyst in

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Speaker 1: this situation because it's gonna beat Matthew Stafford. It's kind

533
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Speaker 1: of like when you watch a television broadcast, right and

534
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: they come on the air, it's it's really about the

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Speaker 1: quarterback in a lot of ways, and it's Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford. And we all know Matthew Stafford, while

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Speaker 1: he can sling it, has been throwing it to the

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Speaker 1: other team quite a bit and some of those balls

539
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: haven't tipped and whatnot. But you know, if you can

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Speaker 1: get pressure on him, and if you can hold up

541
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Speaker 1: in the secondary, this Cardinals team, Felipe, they can. They

542
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: can absolutely come away with this win. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of fans yesterday, Craig, you heard them. They weren't

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Speaker 1: feeling real confident about a matchup with the Rams. Don't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, Dallas. It could have been Dallas. It could

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Speaker 1: have been the home game, which would have been optimal,

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00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: would have been awesome. But you know, beating Dallas is

548
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: not easy either. Again, after you just beat them, to

549
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: have to go back and beat them again. So none

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Speaker 1: of this is easy in the playoffs, we all know that.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's a time where the Cardinals have

552
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Speaker 1: to seize the moment, something that they didn't do yesterday,

553
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: but we've seen them bounce back. Phillipine Craig Grenny quick

554
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: final thoughts before we wrap it up. I'll touch on

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Speaker 1: Utralanda two. I think Matthew Stafford's good for at least

556
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: one or two more interceptions. He's got eight since the

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00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: last since the Cardinals last played him, and he had

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Speaker 1: zero interceptions in that game. So the Rams have been

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Speaker 1: winning in spite of Matthew Stafford yesterday, notwithstanding in the

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Speaker 1: loss to the forty nine ers. But this defense, they

561
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: got a rally, got to get a couple of takeaways.

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to go back to what we all

563
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Speaker 1: agree upon. It's it's Kyler Murray in this offense, score

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Speaker 1: points and rely on that ground game whomever is running

565
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Speaker 1: the football, and then aj Green, Christian Kirk, Antoine Wesley.

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Speaker 1: You gotta get open eight catches between those three on Sunday,

567
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Speaker 1: and that's that can't happen. You can't rely on the

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Speaker 1: tight end of the running backs to do all the

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Speaker 1: catching in the aerial attacks. So more deep shots and

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Speaker 1: just a better performance so we can wipe away what

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Speaker 1: we've had here over the last month and a half.

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Speaker 1: Orlando Well said Jody with bringing home the bacon excellent. Craig,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna add this, there's no tomorrow, guys, So

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Speaker 1: get healthy, make sure you're doing everything right if you're

575
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Speaker 1: at eighty percent, and make sure you're active for the game,

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Speaker 1: because you know it's gonna need we're gonna need a

577
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Speaker 1: team after. We're gonna have to put the best players

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Speaker 1: on the field in order for us to kind of,

579
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Speaker 1: you know, push forward and get this road victory. Let

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00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: me remind the Bird Gang and the Red Sea we

581
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: are a good team on the road, guys. Our record

582
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: states that, so going to so far is not a

583
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: bad thing. I think, you know, with what we saw yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we have to move forward and just this team's gonna

585
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: be super focused, laser focused for the Rams, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's gonna it's gonna take a team effort. If

587
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: JJ's there, they'll be motivation, they'll be you know, the

588
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: leader's gonna be there, the Captain's gonna be there, they'll

589
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: be inspiration. They did you have to do it, Philip

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Speaker 1: So I think most definitely the guys that are having

591
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Speaker 1: you know, a couple of bumps and bruises, you just

592
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Speaker 1: have to step up. Well, Super wild Card weekend is

593
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Speaker 1: almost here. Monday night football the Arizona Cardinals visiting the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams. Kickoff is that six fifteen. Hey, it's

595
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: win or go home. And then the following day, hopefully

596
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Speaker 1: we're having a victory. Tuesday here on the Morning Scramble

597
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: presented at five rising wireless at ten am. You don't

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00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: want to miss it. And if you can travel to La,

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00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: it's only like a five hour drive. Man, it's like

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Speaker 1: a forty five minute flight. We hope to see the

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00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 1: bird gag in La. We saw the outcome at Cowboys Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we get some of that at Sofi Stadi. But

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Speaker 1: that'll do it for us. San Felippo Coura Junior joined

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Speaker 1: by Jody Jackson, Craig Relieu and Rolando Cantu. We are

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Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. We'll catch you guys later