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Speaker 1: was unacceptable, especially at home. It's Cardinals Cover two, episode

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Speaker 1: four ninety six, and it starts now. Welcome to Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Cover two with Craig Griolou and Mike Jarecki. Cardinals Cover

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Speaker 1: Slash Podcasts. Going for Hopkins one hand to catch at

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Speaker 1: a touchdown? DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig Griolou and Mike Jarecki.

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Speaker 1: It happens. I don't know why it happens, but it

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Speaker 1: happens to every team in the league at least once,

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Speaker 1: and oftentimes more than once. And that's a loss that

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Speaker 1: Weekend and week Outs finally landed on the Cardinals on

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Speaker 1: Sunday thirty four to ten. They lose at home to

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Speaker 1: that's a disappointing thing. You know, everyone's dealing with injuries. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Kylie was playing like an MVP and having your number

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Speaker 1: one wide receiver out there. But again they lost their

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Speaker 1: I thought this team was wired a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think we would have that and one things

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Speaker 1: And it was at twenty three nothing at halftime. I mean,

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Speaker 1: But I think people get fixated on records, so you

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Speaker 1: look at their record and you're like, oh, the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: should win this game. Well, let's go back. They were

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Speaker 1: then the quarterback obviously wasn't playing well. McCaffrey goes down.

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Speaker 1: This is a couple of games, and when I was

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Speaker 1: think we look at records and it's automatic. This is

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Speaker 1: the NFL any given Sunday, and it's happened four times

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Speaker 1: last week, and it happened four times again. We got

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Speaker 1: And we talked about it on our Friday show on

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Covered two presented by Hunday, probably partner of the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. Saint. Don't be that team. Don't join this

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Speaker 1: exclusive club. It's not a club you want to be

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Speaker 1: a part of. Last week Giants, Broncos, Chiefs, Jaguars all

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Speaker 1: It happens, and I don't know, and it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: look it happens, that's fine, that's them, that's not the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and look it's it's only bad depending on what happens

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Speaker 1: that Buddha Baker preaches. It's hard. It's very difficult because

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Speaker 1: but consistently it has not been very good. Nineteenth as

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Speaker 1: far as rushing yards allowed per game, hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 1: thirty first as far as rushing yards per play four

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Speaker 1: point eight, so nearly five yards every time someone gets

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Speaker 1: handed the ball and runs against the Cardinals defense. Okay,

430
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Speaker 1: two of their losses Packers in this game time of

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Speaker 1: possession plays and they had a one two punch with

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Speaker 1: Dylan and Aaron Jones. Again, when you get to December

433
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Speaker 1: and January football, I know people say you gotta have

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Speaker 1: a defensive travel you know, I don't know, you know,

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Speaker 1: depending on the matchup are they're going to play in

436
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Speaker 1: Green Bay, obviously you want to travel and the weather changes,

437
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Speaker 1: so teams can a little more conservative. But this this

438
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Speaker 1: rush defense, I mean, it's got to get better. And

439
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: there's times where it's it's one or two possession during

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Speaker 1: the game and then they'll force a turnover, so it

441
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Speaker 1: kind of gets overlooked. But according to Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals defensive line showed up against the run, fifteen

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Speaker 1: defensive stops combined with six tackle for losses in no game.

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Speaker 1: It was more the Christian McCaffrey in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: But and again Zach Allen had four stops. You know,

446
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: Derek Kennard's playing well, but Devon Knar sorry bless his father,

447
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: but the thing is he's not getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: playing time. And you start looking at these snap count

449
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Speaker 1: and again they know what they're doing. Garlic played ten snaps,

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Speaker 1: Connard played eighteen snaps, Collins twenty three. We had a

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Speaker 1: caller asking why Collins wasn't playing in Tanner Vallejo was

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Speaker 1: playing well. Valajo played twenty six and Collins played twenty three.

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Speaker 1: So most of the Collins's snaps, though, were in the

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Speaker 1: second half when the game was already decided and they

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Speaker 1: started pulling guys. But Marcus Golden thirty three snaps forty

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Speaker 1: four percent. I know they get the rotation out there,

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Speaker 1: and then you look at Jordan Hicks and Simmons and

458
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Speaker 1: Murphy and Baker. They're playing over seventy snaps, Chandler Jones

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Speaker 1: fifty snaps, Mark Marco Wilson's sixty five snaps eighty seven percent,

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Speaker 1: It's just interesting when you start looking at these numbers

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Speaker 1: and let's go offensive. Rondo Moore only eighteen snaps, you know,

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Speaker 1: Benjamin because they were trailing fifteen snaps. AJ Green thirty

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Speaker 1: eight snaps. Antoine Wesley had more snaps than AJ Green

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Speaker 1: one time out there, and it could have been just

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Speaker 1: on personal I noticed Dorich Wesley and who is the

466
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Speaker 1: other guy, um Christian Christian Kerr. I was like, Wow,

467
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Speaker 1: where's Rondel Moore, Where's AJ Green? And again it could

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Speaker 1: be based on matchups. So without hop out there and

469
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Speaker 1: we saw it. We saw it in that one game

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Speaker 1: where they weren't getting a lot of separation and Creig

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Speaker 1: the reason why I'm not going to go bonkers today

472
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Speaker 1: is because Kyler Murray was playing like an MVP and

473
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Speaker 1: they miss him. So I'm I'll give I'll give the

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Speaker 1: Panthers all the credit in the world. I know you're

475
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Speaker 1: We talked about what happened last week compared to this week. Well,

476
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Speaker 1: clearly the Panthers had a better game plan, all right,

477
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Speaker 1: So you're missing so many pieces on offense, but you're

478
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Speaker 1: not missing pieces defensively, which comes back to why this

479
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Speaker 1: team can't stop the run and specifically what Christian McCaffrey

480
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Speaker 1: was able to do, whether it was running between the tackles,

481
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 1: there were some wide open lanes. And then in the

482
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Speaker 1: passing game, he had one hundred and sixty one total

483
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Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage. Cardinals as a team had one hundred

484
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Speaker 1: and sixty nine he According to Pro Football Focus, he

485
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: had thirteen carries on in ten targets. He finished with

486
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Speaker 1: ninety five yards on his thirteen carries, forty eight coming

487
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Speaker 1: after contact. The running back star forced five miss tackles,

488
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: ripped off seven explosive runs of ten yards or more.

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Speaker 1: He caught all ten of his targets for sixty six

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Speaker 1: yards forty two coming after catch. Okay, here's the reason why.

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Speaker 1: When you have Kyler Murray, Chase Edmonds, Justin Pugh, and

492
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, they're scoring points. They're getting bogged down. In

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Speaker 1: the Niners game, we talked about the turnover value. You

494
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Speaker 1: win the turnover, Okay, you're gonna get an advantage. Was

495
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Speaker 1: it was a wash yesterday, right correct? Okay, so they're

496
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Speaker 1: not playing complimentary football. They're getting that one possession was

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Speaker 1: less than a minute, right, yeah, late, and the second

498
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Speaker 1: half there was just it was actually who knows in

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Speaker 1: the in the first half. Yeah, they went three and

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Speaker 1: out and it was yeah, give the ball back within

501
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Speaker 1: under sixty seconds. Yeah, that can happen when when you're

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Speaker 1: playing with a backup quarterback. So complimentary football was not there. Yes,

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Speaker 1: give the Panthers, that was complimentary football. They fed off

504
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Speaker 1: the special teams, the kicking, the running. So again, when

505
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Speaker 1: you have Kyler Murray in this offense rolling the defense.

506
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Speaker 1: Now when you get a lead, the defense all of

507
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: a sudden start teeing off. The recipe is run the

508
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Speaker 1: football and keep that Cardinals offense on the sidelines. The

509
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Speaker 1: best rush defense for the Arizona Cardinals is Kyler Murray

510
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: and the offense. That's what has happened this season. And

511
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Speaker 1: when it doesn't happen, when the offense isn't scoring points

512
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Speaker 1: or the defense isn't forcing takeaways, then you're able to

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Speaker 1: run the football. And the Cardinals have not been able

514
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Speaker 1: to stop anyone on the run. Again, they've had their

515
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Speaker 1: moments Derrick Henry week one, but then after that, Dalvin Cook,

516
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: James Robinson, Darryl Henderson, Kareem Hunt, AJ Dillon, now Christian McCaffrey.

517
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Speaker 1: They all had more success than you would like. I

518
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Speaker 1: would think if you're a player or coach watching that film,

519
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: McCaffrey average better than seven yards a touch on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Something's got to give because you do need to have

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Speaker 1: a solid run defense. It doesn't need to be excellent.

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00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: The rest of the defense has been outstanding, but you

523
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Speaker 1: have to be able to stop the run and get

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Speaker 1: teams off a third down. Panthers on Sunday seven to

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Speaker 1: fifteen on third down again, time and possession total place. Okay,

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Speaker 1: some of those games you mentioned, how many points is

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Speaker 1: a Cardinal score thirty? If you look at what takeaway

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota game when you start talking about Henderson, in

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Speaker 1: all these other backs, they were scoring points where yes,

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Speaker 1: we would talk about they give up one big drive

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Speaker 1: every game where they get gash and you know in

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Speaker 1: the Rams game that was a garbage time in that

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but normally they were scoring points. They're not

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Speaker 1: scoring points all right. If you want to take away

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Speaker 1: the Vikings game, Cardinals have allowed five hundred excuse me,

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Speaker 1: five hundred. They seems like five hundred. They've allowed one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty or more yards rushing five times this season,

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Speaker 1: including against the Vikings. In those five games, the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: have won three loss two. They allowed over one hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty yarshing yards to the Jaguars. Cardinals offense scored thirty

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Speaker 1: one points. They allowed over one hundred and fifty yards

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Speaker 1: rushing to the forty nine ers. Cardinals won that game

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Speaker 1: seventeen to ten, one hundred and fifty one to the

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Speaker 1: Packers Cardinals loss, and one hundred and sixty six to

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Speaker 1: the Panthers Cardinals loss. So the offense has, as you said,

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Speaker 1: overshadowed what has been going on with the run defense.

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Speaker 1: We've mentioned it a handful of times here on Cardinals

548
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Speaker 1: Cover two, presented by Hunday Probab, partner of the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: But it's one of those things, Hey, we're nitpicking. You know,

550
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Speaker 1: you just scored thirty points, you're over four hundred yards

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Speaker 1: of offense. Yet here's this little thing that you know

552
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: you might want to work on and correct because you

553
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: don't want it to grow. You need to. You need

554
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on here. Otherwise it's gonna

555
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: fester and all of a sudden it's gonna overtake you.

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Speaker 1: And that's what's happened in two of the last three

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Speaker 1: games for the Cardinals, defense, Packers and now Panthers. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I listened to Buddha Baker last night after the

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Speaker 1: game and he said, you got to do your job,

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Speaker 1: stay in your lane, do your job. So our guys freelancing,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the postgame show is always interesting. And

562
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: you know when they lose, you know they want to

563
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Speaker 1: fire this guy. Nobody ever brought up Hassan Reddick when

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Speaker 1: he signed with the Panthers. We have calls last night

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Speaker 1: that they made a mistake signing J. J. Watt and

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Speaker 1: that first of all, they played two different posis you know,

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Speaker 1: good for Reddick. I'm I'm happy for him, you know,

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Speaker 1: I obviously I wasn't rooting for him yesterday. It's hard

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Speaker 1: for me to root for a guy that's playing against

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals at this point. But I'm happy for his career.

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Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, the Cardinals shouldn't have signed J. J. Watt.

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Speaker 1: They missed J. J. Watt. I don't know what to

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Speaker 1: do as far as or what the plan of attack

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Speaker 1: is to kind of correct what's going on with the

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Speaker 1: run defense, because again, you have everyone there was no

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Speaker 1: one that was inactive on the fifty three man roster

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Speaker 1: defensively that you were missing as far as in the

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Speaker 1: front seven that could have helped stop Christian McCaffrey. Chard Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: I know, okay, he but he's I mean, he's he's

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Speaker 1: on injured reserve, right, But there was no one that

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Speaker 1: was dealing with an injury going into that contest that said,

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Speaker 1: all right, you know he's less than one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying he was a starter in week one. Now,

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Speaker 1: I Corey Peterson me, he's a big body. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they were trying to run at the middle,

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00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: looks like they were trying to run a little bit

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Speaker 1: of his zone read out to the outside. That's where

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00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's obviously effective in the open field. But yeah, I

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00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: mean for shar Lawrence again, he's just he's a rotation guy.

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Speaker 1: But it's bodies. You need bodies in there that you

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Speaker 1: can rotate. And you know, you know Lucky's getting some time.

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Speaker 1: You know, you look at Michael Dogbe Peters. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I really like the way Zach Allen played on. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he he showed some energy and passion. I thought Connor

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Speaker 1: did too. But again, if we're only talking about a

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Speaker 1: couple of guys. That's the reason why they lost. Vants

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Speaker 1: Joseph nearly, maybe not nearly, but kind of foreshadowed a

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Speaker 1: little bit of what we saw on Sunday because when

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Speaker 1: he was asked last Thursday about Christian McCaffrey, he brought

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Speaker 1: up Dalvin Cook. Running backs that aren't big, physical, stocky guys,

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Speaker 1: but have that speed elements, and Dalvin Cook is the

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Speaker 1: one running back that has really gashed this Cardinals deep fence.

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Speaker 1: They've only allowed one running back and it was Cook

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Speaker 1: to get over one hundred rushing yards and he had

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty one. Now McCaffrey should have if

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Speaker 1: he if they really wanted to it. Didn't play a

607
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Speaker 1: lot in the second half, and he really wasn't needed.

608
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,760
Speaker 1: The game was over by halftime. But the seed backs

609
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 1: seemed to give this defense more trouble than the downhill

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Speaker 1: between the tackles. I'm going to punch you in the

611
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Speaker 1: mouth and literally run at you. It's the elusive backs

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Speaker 1: that have the latterical quickness that seemed to give the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals more trouble. And two guys come to mind. Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones in the passing game, he had like six catches

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Speaker 1: in that Cardinals game he had seven cats, okay, and

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Speaker 1: then yesterday you went McCaffrey. I mean those guys they're

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Speaker 1: dual threats. I mean, like you said, you know, Derek

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Speaker 1: Hendry's not going to catch a lot of passes out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield. He's a downhill runner. Um you look

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Speaker 1: at Um James Henderson Robinson games, He's not really catching

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Speaker 1: a lot of passes. Dalvin Cook will catch passes. So

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Speaker 1: that's what the NFL is. It's really come down to

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Speaker 1: running backs and tight ends against linebackers and safeties, and

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Speaker 1: they feel like that's a mismatch. And that's where I

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00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: think Chase Edmonds comes in sometimes for the Cardinals because he,

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Speaker 1: like Edmunds, was what the second or third in receptions

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Speaker 1: And now you know again Connor can catch the ball,

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Speaker 1: but Chase is a weapon when he's on the field.

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Speaker 1: They can go four wide with Chase Edmonds and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden they're using the entire field and you're

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Speaker 1: seeing yards after catching and getting to the second layer.

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Speaker 1: They definitely miss Chase Edmonds again, James Connor, I love

633
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Speaker 1: him in short yardage. I think he could be the

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Speaker 1: bell call for a week or two. But you have

635
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Speaker 1: to have that one two punch and they compliment each

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Speaker 1: other so well. No definitive updates as far as cal

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Speaker 1: the Murray, Chase Edmonds, DeAndre Hopkins, Justin Pugh. Those are

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Speaker 1: four huge pieces to the offensive puzzle that the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: have been missing now for nearly two full games. Edmunds

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Speaker 1: played one snap one offensive snap last week, and Justin

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Speaker 1: Pugh was in for two series before he got hurt

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Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers. So those four pieces, you

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Speaker 1: get those back. Is the offense rolling again hopefully, but

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Speaker 1: to me, it's defensively and making sure you shore up

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Speaker 1: what is not working in the event the offense isn't

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Speaker 1: able to score thirty plus points and you look at

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Speaker 1: the rest of the schedule. You do have Darryl Henderson

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Speaker 1: one more time. He did have eighty nine rushing yards

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Speaker 1: in the first meeting against the Cardinals. Jonathan Taylor is

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Speaker 1: coming up on Christmas Day, but there are no huge names.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what Ezekiel Elliott is able to do on

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Speaker 1: January second. But as far as the top running backs,

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Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals have faced all of them and

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Speaker 1: it was early in the season. Jonathan Taylor reminds me

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Speaker 1: of AJ Dillon. I mean, you just can't. That's a problem.

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Speaker 1: Then well they got two though, I mean they got

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Speaker 1: two back. I know, it's just they're the lower torso

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Speaker 1: you can't arm tackle these guys. And if they get

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Speaker 1: through the you know, the first you know line of scrimmage. Man,

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Speaker 1: it's tough to tackle those guys. But we'll worry about

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Speaker 1: that down the road. Okay, eight and two, Craig, eight

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Speaker 1: and two, you're gonna bring it back down to earth

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Speaker 1: and make sure that the sky is not falling out.

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Speaker 1: By the way, did you bird gang If you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it, go toasy Cardinals dot com and props to

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Speaker 1: the players that did address the media postgame. It's not

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Speaker 1: easy win or lose, especially after a loss like that.

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Speaker 1: But Calvin Beecham walked into the press room and before

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Speaker 1: a question was even asked, he's got a smile on

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Speaker 1: his face, puts his arms up and goes, look, and

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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing a little bit, Look, sky's not falling. We're

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Speaker 1: going to be okay. So this is Mike Jarecki right

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Speaker 1: now here on Cardinals cover two presented by Hyundai, probably

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals, telling everyone that look, the

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Speaker 1: sky is not falling. Everything's going to be okay. Again.

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Speaker 1: You got to clean some stuff up. You cannot put

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Speaker 1: that film out out there, which would happen on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying it's the NFL, and don't look

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Speaker 1: at the records any given Sunday. I mean, like I said,

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Speaker 1: the Bucks Tom Brady and the Bucks Todd Bulls defense

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Speaker 1: give up a nineteen yard play drive almost eleven ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: and if they lost to Trevor Simeon and Taylor Heineke,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's the NFL. Yeah, nobody knew about PJ. Walker,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm just saying they're eight and two. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's not perfect, but get some of these

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Speaker 1: starters back on offense and they'll compliment the defense where

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Speaker 1: they're not in the field for half the game and

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Speaker 1: in the total yards and total plays. I mean, and really,

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Speaker 1: we know this team just like any other team in football.

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Speaker 1: The San Francisco game was a prime example. Get to

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Speaker 1: get out with the lead, and that's where Vans Joseph

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Speaker 1: and started dialing stuff up. You can't be trailing twenty

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Speaker 1: three nothing at halftime. So, like I said, no excuses

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Speaker 1: every team deals with it, but I'm telling you, Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray's playing like an MVP as a number one wide

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Speaker 1: receiver on this roster. He opens things up. Chase Emmons

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Speaker 1: is a good complimentary back with James Kny. They missed

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Speaker 1: those guys in Justin Pugh. Everyone's dealing with injuries, but

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Speaker 1: we're talking about key positions on offense. And that's why

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Speaker 1: we didn't see the production we've seen all year yesterday,

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Speaker 1: but we did see it the week prior. But as

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, it's something that you can't sustain. You can't

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Speaker 1: have that many pieces missing and expect the offense to

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Speaker 1: continue rolling. Now we all got caught up in it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: as far as what Colt McCoy and James Connor and

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Speaker 1: everyone else was doing, we came in here on Monday

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Speaker 1: and said, wow, that was impressive and just plug and play,

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Speaker 1: you know, next man up. But the thing is great,

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Speaker 1: but it's not always the it's not always accurate. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not sustainable. Now, Coulte McCoy's on film for a

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Speaker 1: week now. True, I mean a little bit different, and

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Speaker 1: the game plan was different, and again they need more

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Speaker 1: from besides Christian Kirk. If you know if you're behind

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Speaker 1: the sticks and you know you're gonna tee off. But

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Speaker 1: like you said, he come out and threw the ball

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Speaker 1: three consecutive times. You would like to see in regardless

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Speaker 1: of what happened in that first possession. I gotta think,

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Speaker 1: you know, based on the script, that's what the plan was.

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Speaker 1: But kind of slow the game down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not yelling fire in a theater. I believe

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Speaker 1: in this team. You know, it's what they do from

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Speaker 1: this point out. But they got to get their horses

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Speaker 1: back and that thinks things will settle down. And I

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Speaker 1: knows everyone's gonna say, well, every team has injuries. Are

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Speaker 1: you telling me a team that's missing their starting quarterback

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Speaker 1: they're one of their top running backs and one of

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Speaker 1: their top wide receivers. Let me know, because if you

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Speaker 1: take Tom Brady off the bus, how good are they?

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Speaker 1: You take Aaron Rodgers off, you take Patrick Mahomes off.

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Speaker 1: And again, these are excuses, it's facts. Kylin Murray is

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Speaker 1: playing like an MVP. And once there's a reason why

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Speaker 1: Colpe McCoy's a backup quarterback, that's it. That's how it works.

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Speaker 1: He can do it for one week, A couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks to do it, and we'll see what happens again

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Speaker 1: this week and maybe hey, maybe the flip the script

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Speaker 1: gets flipped, and one week from today we're talking about Wow.

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Speaker 1: Coote McCoy is two and one as the star of

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Speaker 1: this team, has got nine wins heading into the buy

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Speaker 1: and everything is right. Let's hope that is the discussion.

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Speaker 1: But we can only discuss and react and feel based

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Speaker 1: off what is the most recent performance of this team.

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Speaker 1: And it was not good. No, That's where I'm at

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Speaker 1: right now here on Monday. No, and I loved your

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Speaker 1: pass on the postgame show because you're right, Um, it

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Speaker 1: was a home game. They know what was at stake,

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Speaker 1: they got they got a division game coming up. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they overlooked the Carolina Panthers based on what

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Speaker 1: happened last year. I don't believe that is you can give.

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Speaker 1: I tell you that Cam Newton signing brought a whole

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Speaker 1: lot of energy to that sidelines and he only played

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Speaker 1: nine snaps and he had two touchdowns. All losses are

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Speaker 1: not created equal. Every loss is unacceptable, but losing at

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Speaker 1: home to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers when

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Speaker 1: he didn't play well but still have an opportunity to win.

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Speaker 1: That's a little bit easier to digest. Sunday more difficult,

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Speaker 1: and heartburn whatever else you want to talk about. But

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Speaker 1: that was just does not sit well and it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: sit well with anybody. Yeah, and I know better. I

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Speaker 1: know better to say there's a game that every year

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Speaker 1: you don't see it coming and it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just like it's a dud. And I couldn't have predicted this.

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Speaker 1: I just thought this team was wired differently than previous years.

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Speaker 1: And that's what that's what sort of surprised me. One

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Speaker 1: thing is to lose by a field goal towards the end.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't even close, and I was disappointed just from

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Speaker 1: a standpoint up. You're at home, you know, as a

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Speaker 1: pro Cardinal crowd, people were jacked up. You're the only

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Speaker 1: team in the league that had only one loss. You know,

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Speaker 1: build off of this. Now the key is avoid losing streaks,

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Speaker 1: get back in the winter circle. But I understand, but

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Speaker 1: it's a long season. We talked about this all along,

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Speaker 1: and if Kyler Murray would have played and he got

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Speaker 1: if he had a setback and now he's out for

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Speaker 1: four weeks, then you know what, we're gonna start weaving

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Speaker 1: the flag. That's not the case. They want him to

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Speaker 1: get healthy so they can make a run here in

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Speaker 1: the final part of the season. All right, before we

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Speaker 1: close up shop here on Cardinals Cover two presented by Honday,

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Speaker 1: proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, things are not that

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Speaker 1: bleak they were on Sunday, but overall ten games in

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Speaker 1: Cardinals still lead the NFC West. Cardinals are eight and two,

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Speaker 1: the Rams at seven and two, forty nine Ers three

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Speaker 1: and five, Seahawks three and six. Now Cardinals will be

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Speaker 1: watching Monday Night Football and rooting for the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers to beat the Rams later on here on Monday.

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Speaker 1: And then you look at the conference overall, Yes, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals once again trail the Packers. They are the one

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Speaker 1: seed talking about Green Bay, then the Cardinals, Cowboys, Buccaneers, Rams,

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Speaker 1: Saints Panthers. That rounds out your seven playoff teams with

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Speaker 1: the Packers, Cardinals, Cowboys, and Buccaneers leading their respected divisions.

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Speaker 1: And right now it looks really bad as far as

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Speaker 1: the NFC West because you don't win that division, you

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Speaker 1: drop to a five seed and have to go on

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Speaker 1: the road as opposed to winning the division and hosting

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Speaker 1: a playoff game. Those things are still tight in the NFC,

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Speaker 1: and the one seed is still very much attainable. As

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Speaker 1: much as will root for the forty nine ers here

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Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football. Next Sunday, we're rooting for the Rams.

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Speaker 1: They play the Packers. You know what, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: root for the Packers next Sunday, because winning the division

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Speaker 1: supersedes anything else. That's every team's goal going into the season.

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Speaker 1: You win your division, you host a playoff game, and Craig,

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Speaker 1: when you start getting at those five and six and

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Speaker 1: seven seeds normally like they're playing good football down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals, they built up enough equity to where there's

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Speaker 1: winnable games on the schedules. Still one game at a time, one,

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Speaker 1: you know, but again, clean some things up. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not ready to sit here and say, oh man, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be Cliff Kingsbury in the second half

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Speaker 1: of this season like the first two years. I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that. Well, the next opportunity for this Cardinals team,

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Speaker 1: after we could practice at Seattle on November twenty one,

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Speaker 1: the first meeting of the season against Russell Wilson, and

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks and will dive into that matchup beginning on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: On that note, we will put a lid on this

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Speaker 1: edition of Cardinals Cover two, presented by Hunday, partner of

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. As always, special thanks to our executive

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Speaker 1: producer Jim ma'mahundro or Mike Jarecki. I'm Greg Riel Lou.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time here on Cardinals Cover

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