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Speaker 1: score touchdown, Welcome to the Cardinals Red Sea Report. Slim

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

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

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Speaker 1: baby field, Here's Craig Griolou, Mike Jarecki and three time

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Speaker 1: Pro bowler Kyle Vandenbosch. All right, quick, wellness, check off

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Speaker 1: the top. How did everyone handle the first Sunday without

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Speaker 1: football in about seven months? And between the three of us,

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Speaker 1: I'm most worried about you, mj on how you dealt

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Speaker 1: with the first Sunday without any football whatsoever. Well, I

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Speaker 1: did watch a couple of games on the NFL network.

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Speaker 1: There we go, there's always football somewhere. Actually, they were

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Speaker 1: replaying the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Rams game and they're showing

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals are three and o at that time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is this is encouraging. And of course you know

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Speaker 1: the Rams were able to win that game and everything else.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, and I did watch a Super Bowl again.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, every time you watch it, you figure

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Speaker 1: something else out, even though they score doesn't change. That's true.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you can't. You can watch these games all over again,

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Speaker 1: but the outcome and what you remember is still right

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Speaker 1: there for you. And I'm guessing for you, Kyle, there

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Speaker 1: was plenty to do without football in your life. You've

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Speaker 1: got a house full of kids and a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun stuff that was going on over the weekend. You

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Speaker 1: were telling us, Yeah, I took the kids skiing up

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Speaker 1: a lot of carrying around supplies. I was basically the

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Speaker 1: like the Super Bowl was a month ago already. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean this is as as a diehard football fan now,

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Speaker 1: told Craig whoever made the NFL calendar, he needs a

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Speaker 1: then free agency and then obviously offseason workouts. So you know,

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Speaker 1: obviously when you get to June, middle of June into

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Speaker 1: the end of July, that's really the only time they're off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not only the schedule. The NFL does a fantastic

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Speaker 1: You know, all of these offseason events like the Combine

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Speaker 1: people's first opportunity to really get a good look at

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Speaker 1: right now, the thinking and talking about still remains what happened?

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Speaker 1: What happened to the Arizona Cardinals in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: ahead not only the free agency but the draft prospects

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Speaker 1: as well. Last week, first opportunity to hear outside of

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Speaker 1: Red Rage, and of course the question had to be asked,

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Speaker 1: And you know, our quarterback went down. Ud hop was

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Speaker 1: But that can't happen again. Now. Was an anomaly this

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Speaker 1: But I think it's really important to the Cardinals find

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Speaker 1: what now happens for this Cardinals offense and defense as well. Kyle.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at this offense and maybe more

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Speaker 1: just you know, nothing can replace quality reps, and you know,

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Speaker 1: help Kyler Murray. I think you're going to see another

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Speaker 1: build off of what they did, especially at the beginning

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Speaker 1: two receiver, because once you try to get that number

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Speaker 1: two and free agency, typically it's going to cost you

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. Tebow Samuel six feet two fifteen

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit bigger, but I think Christian Kirk

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Speaker 1: took took a lot of those targets away from Ron

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Speaker 1: del Moore. He was targeted one hundred and three times

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Speaker 1: seventy seven on one hundred and three seventy five, he

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Speaker 1: probably should have had over a thousand yards. He had

437
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Speaker 1: a few drops there, and he played in all seventeen games,

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Speaker 1: and that was the big difference from the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years. And obviously he's a free agent, so there's

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Speaker 1: no guarantee you're gonna be able to bring him back.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't have an AJ Green, you don't

442
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Speaker 1: have a Christian Kirk, there will be someone added, whether

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Speaker 1: that's in free agency or the draft. The question is

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Speaker 1: are you spending a lot of money or is that

445
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Speaker 1: money spents better set some other position. And as you said, Kyle,

446
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Speaker 1: you develop from within. You get rondel Moore the ability

447
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Speaker 1: to where he can be utilized in a number of

448
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Speaker 1: different ways. He's not just the outside receiver, but maybe

449
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Speaker 1: on this particular drive we see him in the backfield,

450
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Speaker 1: or on the next drive it's in the slot, or

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Speaker 1: on that same drive he's bouncing around. If he's capable

452
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Speaker 1: as far as the football IQ and when we hear

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Speaker 1: from him, well spoken individual, loves the game, always looking

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Speaker 1: at film and breaking down film and wanting to do more.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there is an opportunity him for him to maybe

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Speaker 1: be that guy all over the field. Yeah, I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, we talked about and we've seen the dangers

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Speaker 1: of putting too much on a rookie's plate, right, So

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, while for a good part of

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Speaker 1: the season, a lot of us are wondering, why aren't

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Speaker 1: they working the ball down the field, why isn't he

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Speaker 1: running a go route or a seven route or an

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Speaker 1: eight route and getting the ball down the field, because

464
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Speaker 1: he has that type of speed. But you know, to

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Speaker 1: a degree, I credit the coaches for not asking too

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Speaker 1: much because he already did a lot having to learn,

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Speaker 1: you know, how to run the ball, how to read blocks,

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Speaker 1: how to all of the gadget plays that he had. Now,

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Speaker 1: with a full offseason, you can add some of that

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Speaker 1: to his plate. And that's exactly what coach Jefferson was

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Speaker 1: talking about, was, you know, we're gonna he's gonna run

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Speaker 1: every route on the field. He's gonna learn it, and

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Speaker 1: he's going to develop into a more complete receiver because

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Speaker 1: now you have that time, you have the full off season,

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Speaker 1: and I think you're going to see a huge jump

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Speaker 1: from year one to year two with him. And I

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Speaker 1: guess we'll just have to wait and see what the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals do in free agency, because all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it's a really deep drafted wide receiver. Now we know

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Speaker 1: that they you know, try to hit on a couple

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Speaker 1: of those guys and hasn't panned out. Hopefully more is

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Speaker 1: at Mark Quez Valve's scandaling to me, he's a really

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Speaker 1: good player. Obviously he had Aaron Rodgers only twenty seven

484
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Speaker 1: years old. Zay Jones is twenty six. So these guys

485
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Speaker 1: are more affordable than the top guys. Rondel Moore listed

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Speaker 1: at five seven, one eighty. But you heard from coach Jefferson,

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Speaker 1: runs good routes, and you run a good route, beat

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Speaker 1: your defender. Then all of a sudden you gain that

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Speaker 1: at separation with a quarterback to get you the football.

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Speaker 1: And you don't need to be six two six three

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Speaker 1: high point to football because you have that separation and

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Speaker 1: Kyle the Murray can get rondel Moore the football. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens coming up here in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: We've hit halftime here on the Cardinals. Red Sea reports

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Speaker 1: more we'll hear from coach Van Jefferson. Excuse me, Coach

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Speaker 1: Sean Jefferson. As we continue here on the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Right doing network, Damie Hill takes makes the run in trouble,

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Speaker 1: gets d Taylor Jones cors was a fumball. It's picked

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Speaker 1: up by Corey Peter, hit from behind by Jones and sack.

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Speaker 1: They cannot flock fifty five. Here comes Chandler Jones. Another sack.

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones is abliterating Taylor Lawan and hit by Jones,

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Speaker 1: fumbles the ball hitch loose and recovered by the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Another sack. Chandler Jones is sport tying a career high hand.

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Speaker 1: Hill on fourth down, hit and sacked. Chandler Jones. Five

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Speaker 1: sacks on the day for fifty five. Right now, you

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Speaker 1: could not find one hair on Ryan Tanner Hill's back

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Speaker 1: because it has been thoroughly waxed by the professor who's

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Speaker 1: got the PhD in backwax and Chandler Jones with his

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Speaker 1: fifth sack. Impressive to say the least. Five sacks in

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Speaker 1: Week one Chandler Jones, however, which is five and a half.

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Speaker 1: The next fourteen games he played finished with double digit

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Speaker 1: sacks for the fifth time in six seasons with the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. Question is, well, there'll be a seventh or

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Speaker 1: eighth season with the Arizona Cardinals. As we walk me

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Speaker 1: back here to the Cardinals Red Seat report present to

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Speaker 1: buy a seat, geek, get your seats in a seat.

517
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Speaker 1: Craig Rio, Luka Vanibosh, and Mike Drecki. Yes, Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: one of the many free agents for this Arizona Cardinals team.

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Speaker 1: An unrestricted free agent free agency begins mid March, although today,

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Speaker 1: beginning today through March eighth, teams have the ability to

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Speaker 1: tag players, place that franchise tag on a player and

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Speaker 1: then not allow them to move or test free agency.

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Speaker 1: A lot of big names out there. DeVante Adams or

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Speaker 1: of the Green Bay Packers, the wide receiver one of

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Speaker 1: those players that might see that franchise tag. The question

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Speaker 1: is if you do not have a Chandler Jones Mike Drecky,

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Speaker 1: what do you have as far as a pass rush

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Speaker 1: for this Cardinals team? Well, I mean that's what the

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Speaker 1: offseason is going to become. I mean, you got Marcus Golden,

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Speaker 1: you have, We'll shoot with a tender Dennis Cardick. You know,

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Speaker 1: Canard's on the roster, but obviously look at his production,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's not going to be here. So you know,

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Speaker 1: in free agency, it's gonna cost you a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Probably in the draft, Cardinals will pick in twenty third overall. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna be hard to replace. But you know,

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Speaker 1: after you know, five sacks in Week one, he kind

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Speaker 1: of disappeared. Now, he did lead the team in pressures, tackles,

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Speaker 1: are hits, forced fumbles, But again, I think the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: wanted more. If he would have put up numbers like

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Speaker 1: he did, not five sacks in one game, if he

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Speaker 1: would have been more consistent fifteen to seventeen sacks, I

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Speaker 1: think we're having a different conversation right now. It's always

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Speaker 1: how did you get to that number? I how did

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Speaker 1: you get to eleven wins? How did you get to

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Speaker 1: ten and a half sacks? When five of those happened

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Speaker 1: in Week one? Kyle, all of a sudden, Yeah, MJ's right,

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Speaker 1: you want more. The bar is raised. There's a level

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Speaker 1: of expectation ten and a half sacks that's tremendous. But

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Speaker 1: if it was one here, two here, three here, and

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Speaker 1: then then maybe some quiet period and then what kind

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Speaker 1: of sacks are they? Where they impact sacks, strip sacks

552
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Speaker 1: balls and you're getting that ball back to your offense. Yeah, Look,

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Speaker 1: nobody knows Chandler Jones better than the people in this building,

554
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Speaker 1: the people in the front office, in the in the coaches,

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Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, you know, he wasn't the typical

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones where you know, a typical Chandler Jones season,

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Speaker 1: it's a half a sack, it's a sack and a half,

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Speaker 1: it's a two sack, it's almost you know, it's almost

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Speaker 1: a sack every game, and this season didn't look like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, Chandler did get COVID in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the season, and you know, that's one of the things

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't really understand on the outside is

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00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: did that have an effect? Did it affect him missing time,

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Speaker 1: being away from the team, getting out of his routine,

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Speaker 1: those type of things. I'm assuming the coaches in the

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Speaker 1: front office have some of those answers. You know, you

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Speaker 1: talk about trying to replace his production, that's gonna be difficult.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be difficult to find somebody in free agency

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Speaker 1: to do that. It's gonna be difficult to draft somebody

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Speaker 1: to have the type of impact that Chandler Jones historically

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Speaker 1: has had and has the ability to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: pass rushers don't grow on trees, and Chandler Jones is

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Speaker 1: a special, special type of pass rusher. When he is going,

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Speaker 1: he's not. Look, I was a one move guy, and

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Speaker 1: if my move didn't work, I wasn't getting a sack.

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Speaker 1: I was. I was. I would get some with effort,

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Speaker 1: but I had one move. Chandler Jones has every single

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Speaker 1: pass rushing move you can imagine. You know. He can

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Speaker 1: power rush, he can speed rush, he can beat you

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Speaker 1: with hands, he can come inside, you know, And we

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Speaker 1: did talk about even through the games where Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: didn't necessarily show up on the stat sheet, he was

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Speaker 1: getting holding calls, he was affecting plays, so his impact

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Speaker 1: was more than even his double digit sack season. He

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Speaker 1: does have an impact, and he hasn't you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot like we talked about with DeAndre Hopkins, how the

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Speaker 1: defense they become predictable an offensive line and how they're

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Speaker 1: going to block a Chandler Jones also becomes predictable. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna need a tight end on him to give a

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Speaker 1: tackle helper. You're gonna need a running back chip to

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Speaker 1: his side, and that opens things up for everybody else

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Speaker 1: on that defensive front because they're more than likely gonna

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Speaker 1: get one on ones across that front. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of tough decisions, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: it comes down to what does this team think they

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Speaker 1: can do in free agency and what positions do they

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Speaker 1: value the most in upgrading because you know, look, if

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Speaker 1: they decide not to franchise Chandler Jones, they don't have

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Speaker 1: a shot at him in free agency. Somebody's gonna pay

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Speaker 1: him a lot of money and get him the multi

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Speaker 1: year contract. He's at the point in his career where

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Speaker 1: he doesn't want these one or two year contracts. He

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Speaker 1: wants that one last big payday on his way out

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Speaker 1: because I mean, I'm I'm not saying this is the

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Speaker 1: end of his career, but it's closer to the end

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Speaker 1: than it is the beginning. Yeah, thirty two years old. Now,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe because the Cardinals were trailing in those

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Speaker 1: last five games, you only had one sack in the

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Speaker 1: last five or six games in Marcus Gold, and he

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Speaker 1: had the only sack in the Rams game, and he

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Speaker 1: only had four down the stretch. So obviously, when you're

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Speaker 1: playing with the lead, he can tee off. But I

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Speaker 1: do agree with you. He may not see the stab sheet,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't get some holding penalties. But I couldn't

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Speaker 1: agree more. Somebody's gonna pay him. You know, you've seen

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00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 1: Dwight Ferny and John Abraham and even guys like Justin Houston.

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Speaker 1: They're up there in age, but they are more productive

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Speaker 1: and he's really a three down backer versus just coming

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Speaker 1: in a situational situation. The financial implications for Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: and the Arizona Cardinals if Jones is tagged, and an

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Speaker 1: assist here from Joe Corey, former agent who works for

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Speaker 1: CBS Sports. It's twenty five million dollars if Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: is tagged, because it would be the second time the

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Speaker 1: team tagged him, which means they would pay a premium

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty percent of his cap number from

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Speaker 1: last season. His cap number was over twenty. Minutely he

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Speaker 1: made fifteen and a half. That was his salary, So

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Speaker 1: that is the decision that is being made, or maybe

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Speaker 1: it already has been made. If you choose to go

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Speaker 1: that route with Chandler Jones as far as tagging him,

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Speaker 1: you're going to pay him an additional ten million, then

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Speaker 1: you paid him this past season. Can that money be

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Speaker 1: spent somewhere else? Again, you only have so much and

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00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: you can't bring everyone back. Well, we're waiting for these

635
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: franti taggers to come out. What happens with Hassan Reddick.

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Speaker 1: He's only twenty seven years old and he's done it

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00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: him back to back years now, clearly you know he's

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00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: got Brian Burns there. You wonder about Matt Rules. Shoot,

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00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: you're there just based on them trying to find a quarterback.

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00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: But Reddick's only twenty seven and you know, I know

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals alloted to him to go test free agency

642
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Speaker 1: and he did it two years in a row. So

643
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Speaker 1: we'll just have to wait and see. But there are

644
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Speaker 1: some guys out there in Melvin Ingram thirty two, Harold

645
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Speaker 1: Landry's twenty five, that's kind of probably more twenty five,

646
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty seven year old guys. They're getting more

647
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: money more than the guys are thirty plus Again the

648
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: windows tag players is now through March eighth, and then

649
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: free agency begins the following week. AJ Green Christian Kirk

650
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: also free agents. As we look at the number that

651
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: the Cardinals have, how many of those players come back

652
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: or at this point to those players want to see

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Speaker 1: what their market value is come March fifteenth. Sean Jefferson

654
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: last week on The Big Red Rage talks about the

655
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Speaker 1: number of unknowns when it comes to free agency and

656
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: the number of Cardinals free agents to be. You know,

657
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: we have some of guys that's coming up on free

658
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: agency and everything, and that scares me, you know what

659
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. As you know this free agay thing. You know,

660
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of knows in the free agency. And

661
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: of course, you know, Christian Kirk's one of our main contributors.

662
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: He's he's there. You know, we got Chase, we got

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00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys. So um. But m I have

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Speaker 1: confidence in our GM and our owner and the whole

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Speaker 1: scouting department, in our head coach. I'm pretty sure that

666
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: you know, we're not just gonna let players walk. We're not.

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00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna fight like hell for him. And I'm pretty

668
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: sure I got a lot of confidence and those guys

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Speaker 1: will get it right. Interesting to hear coach say it

670
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: scares me because this is the difference between a coach

671
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: and then the front office, because the front office knows

672
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: they have so much to spend, and the coach says, well,

673
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: I can't let good players walk out the door. I

674
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: need good players to perform so we have a chance

675
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: on Sundays. And I'm sure Coach Jefferson when he looks

676
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: at his wide receiver room, I've got plans, I've got options.

677
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, aj Green, Deandra Hopkins and then tap on

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Speaker 1: the shoulder. Yeah, Kirk went to somewhere else and aj

679
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: Green went somewhere else on us. All right, I gotta

680
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: go back to all right, let's figure it out all

681
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: over again. Yeah, that's potentially a lot of production that

682
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: could be walking out the door, you know the way

683
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: I see it. You know, a team, a front office

684
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 1: identifies who are our core players, who are the guys

685
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: we can't move on without. And a lot of those

686
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: decisions for contract extensions come prior to last season or

687
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: even during last season. At this point, you know, I

688
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: would think anybody that is a free agent, even if

689
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Speaker 1: they intend to come back to the Cardinal. They're going

690
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: to wait and see what their value is. You know

691
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: you're not going to more than likely, you're not going

692
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: to decrease your value hitting free agency and having you know,

693
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: thirty one other teams bid for your services. So you

694
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 1: know it'd be difficult to imagine in the next you know,

695
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Speaker 1: before free agency starts, that we do resign Christian Kirk,

696
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: or we do resign Aj Green, even if they do

697
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: want to come back. I think that they test the

698
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: waters and see what free agency has to offer. Your

699
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: top two running backs, your number two and number three

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00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: wide receivers, your top two tight ends. Six players who

701
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: accounted for sixty five percent of the rushing yards and

702
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: seventy one percent of the passing yards. Those six players

703
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: all free agents. Yeah, and again, you can't resign everyone did.

704
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: They have to make a choice as a James Conner

705
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: or as a Chase Emmons. They have to make a decision.

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00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: I think Aj Green to me, I think Antoine Wesley,

707
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: even though it could be a four or five, I

708
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 1: think he could take his role. And then Christian Kirk,

709
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Speaker 1: I mean his first time he's going to be a

710
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: free agent. I mean, so again, I'm sure they have

711
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: a plan, and normally when you get to the NFL combined,

712
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: that's when you kind of plant the seed and find

713
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: out what they're worth. And then they have that seventy

714
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: two hour negotiating period. And so these guys are going

715
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: up in our understanding where they stand in how much

716
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: you're able to spend at certain positions. Yeah, that Monday,

717
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: second week of March, you can have discussions, I think

718
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: can become official until that Wednesday, the new league year

719
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: begins and free agency begins one o'clock Arizona time on

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Speaker 1: that March fifteenth or sixteenth, to believe it's a Wednesday,

721
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: the fifteenth. But yeah, and we'll find out. Until then,

722
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Speaker 1: a lot of speculation, a lot of talk, which we'll

723
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Speaker 1: Cardinals Red sep Report here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 1: In the Victory Formation, Stafford gets the swamp and those

734
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: doing me the benches are gonna empty and the Rams

735
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: are gonna win. It rip the script right out of Hollywood.

736
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Speaker 1: The star started in Los Angeles Rams. All right, yet

737
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: they have won Super Bowl fifty six and traumatic coming

738
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Speaker 1: from behind facing Wow, I'm still not happy about it,

739
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: but hey, that's just me. Kevin Harland on Westwood One. Yes,

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00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams wins super Bowl fifty six. They

741
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Speaker 1: are world champions. As we continue here on the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Red Seat Report, presented by a seat geek, get your seats,

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Speaker 1: any seats now. This is our first opportunity to hear

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00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: from Kyle Van and Bosch post Super Bowl. And for

745
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: those that follow us here every Tuesday at eleven am

746
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network, you'll remember that Kyle's

747
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: got a connection or has a connection with both Matthew

748
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: Stafford and Joe Burrow. So after the results of the

749
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I believe that people remember the story correctly

750
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: and right, you just didn't hold Joe Burrow long enough

751
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: back yet when you were in college and obviously got

752
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: him to the super Bowl, but not quite over the hump, right, right, Yeah, No,

753
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: it was a great game. You know, both offenses sputtered

754
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: at times and didn't look good. But what the Rams

755
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: were able to do so a lot of people talk about, well,

756
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: is this the new blueprint? Right you go all in

757
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:01,399
Speaker 1: for star players and try to win it. Um, it's

758
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: not just any star player. These are you know, potentially

759
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: the guys on this team, Their stars are you know,

760
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 1: potential Hall of Fame type players. And when you reach

761
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: that level, and we've talked about this with the Cardinals

762
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: in in these types of games, your best players have

763
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: to play the best football. Your your big time players

764
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: have to have their biggest games in these moments. And

765
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: that's what the Rams did in the end. I mean

766
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: you look at their stars, especially late in that fourth

767
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: quarter of the way Aaron Donald took over, the way

768
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford executed, in the way Cooper Cup took over

769
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: the game. Um, that's you know, that was the difference

770
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: in the game. And that's the type of players they

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00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: had and you don't find those type of players typically available.

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00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: Um And as far as blueprints go, m you know,

773
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: blueprint is a blueprint, but so much of it comes

774
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,359
Speaker 1: down to fortune. Had Odell Beckham Junior, you know, tour

775
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: his ACL two games prior. You don't see the rams

776
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl head, you know. And that's again

777
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: we just circling back to what we talked about in

778
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Speaker 1: the first segment. You know, injuries, who they happened to

779
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: and when they happen throughout the season determined so much

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00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: about how the season ends, and your success late in

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00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: the seasons and success in the playoffs. Well it's interesting though,

782
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: you know two of their best players in that game

783
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 1: were draft picks, Aaron Donald and Cooper Cup. Now they

784
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: invested draft picks to Matthew Stafford. You know, I don't

785
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: think anybody had more pressure on him going into the playoffs.

786
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Speaker 1: And he took him thirteen years win a playoff game,

787
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: and so and just the connection with the head coach

788
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: and the wide receivers, and they didn't have Robert Woods,

789
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: so you gotta give him a ton of credit. And

790
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: that was the goal to go in and playing their

791
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,399
Speaker 1: own Super Bowl. And hopefully that's the case for US

792
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: calling up in twenty twenty one, twenty two. Hopefully for

793
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: the third straight year, the host team that plays in

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00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: that stadium will be Super Bowl champions. We've seen the Buccaneers,

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Speaker 1: the Rams, and now hopefully the Airs on a Cardinal

796
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,959
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl fifty seven. Cardinals, like all thirty two

797
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 1: teams and all include the Rams, they want to get

798
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: to that final game. The Bengals had a tremendous run.

799
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: No one gave them a second thought, even a first

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00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: thought back in August and September. But now what do

801
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: the Cardinals have to do to make a Bengals size

802
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: leap forward? Eleven wins, yes, but not so many of

803
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: the win total, but an extended postseason run. Can the

804
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: Cardinals do what the Bengals just did? Ladanian Tomlinson of

805
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: the NFL Network believes the Cardinals do have that capability

806
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: in them. I'm looking at the Arizona Cardinals and here's why.

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00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: This is a team that at the beginning of last

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00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: year was one of the better teams in the National

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00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: Football League, not only you know, in their own conference,

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00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: had one of the best records in the conference. Then

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Speaker 1: what happened? Injuries? They lost DeAndre Hopkins. They lost a

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Speaker 1: lot of guys on the defensive side of the ball,

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00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts on that side of the

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00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: ball in the night of the lineup. They actually regress

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Speaker 1: as the season went on because of injuries. But if

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00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: we think about what they did at the beginning of

817
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: the season, this was a team that was hot. You know,

818
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: they were seeing better than the Rams at times. You know,

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00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 1: they seem like the best team in their division. So

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00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: I look at that and I say, this is a

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Speaker 1: team that can easily, if they stay healthy, can make

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl run as surprises, just like the Cincinnati

823
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: Bengals did this season. Goes back to what you were saying, Kyle,

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Speaker 1: what happens if a JJ Watt does not get hurt

825
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: when he did in Week seven? What happens if DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Hopkins does not get hurt twice and that second time

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00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: lost for the duration of the regular season and postseason.

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Speaker 1: Those are two five star players that were playing very,

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Speaker 1: very well at the time of their injuries. Yep, you know.

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Speaker 1: To me, that's the story of the season. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the stories. My confidence in this team is, particularly

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00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: with Kingsbury, is you know, he's shown tremendous humility. He

833
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: was hired, didn't have him or didn't have any pro experience,

834
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: and was able to learn on the job, and he has.

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Speaker 1: You know, our offense this year looks different than when

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00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: he first got here, and he made those type of adjustments.

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Speaker 1: You know, we beat the Rams this year, we won

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00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: after the bye, we became a phenomenal road team. And

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Speaker 1: so I think he's constantly examining what's working, what's not working,

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00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: and making the appropriate changes. And you know, I give

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00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: I give the front office credit for giving Cliff the

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00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: time to make those adjustments. And you've seen, in spite

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00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 1: of how this season ended, you've seen the progression in wins.

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00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: You've seen this team get better every single year. So

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Speaker 1: I'm confident that the appropriate adjustments will be made. They'll

846
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: take a good, hard, hard self examination and make the

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00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: appropriate adjustments, and this team will be able to take

848
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: that next step to not only get to the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but win in the playoffs and make a run. Cardinals

850
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,479
Speaker 1: answered a lot of questions this past season, winning after

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00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 1: the bye, winning on the road, doing well in the

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00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: Vision four and two is outstanding. It's the best record

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