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Speaker 1: starring the two twenty two NFL schedule. That is the
Speaker 1: very special guest tonight. And don't say that the schedule
Speaker 1: is hot off the presses. Here in two twenty two, Wolf,
Speaker 1: we say it just dropped. The NFL schedule dropped an
Speaker 1: hour ago. And so many questions that need an answer.
Speaker 1: When is the buy? Are there any cold weather games?
Speaker 1: How many primetime games? Any primetime games on the road.
Speaker 1: So you're playing late at night and you get back
Speaker 1: in the middle of the morning. Are you opening a
Speaker 1: home or on the road? How does a division stack up?
Speaker 1: And what about those first six games minus d Hoop?
Speaker 1: Well we now have answers, and the only question left,
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley is whether you can handle the truth. Paully,
Speaker 1: what I want to know right now? What is the
Speaker 1: very first thing when the schedule drops? What is the
Speaker 1: very first thing you're looking at, Paul? What is it?
Speaker 1: It's it's a little self serving as the sideline pencil
Speaker 1: neck guy, the guy who doesn't have who's not afforded
Speaker 1: the luxury of a climate controlled booth like you and Pash.
Speaker 1: So I do look at the potential cold weather games.
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one, Ronda Fleet, who looks at that.
Speaker 1: A little bit later you're going to hear from a
Speaker 1: former Cardinals quarterback who has the same approach. Actually, and
Speaker 1: so I'm not the only one in that category. So yes,
Speaker 1: I do look at what exactly it's going to mean
Speaker 1: in terms of packing and whether I'm packing the galoshes,
Speaker 1: the boots. You know, how many layers am I wearing
Speaker 1: and taking a quick glance. I'm gonna tell you right now,
Speaker 1: really the only one that stands out in that regard
Speaker 1: would be Week fifteen at Denver. But because we remember
Speaker 1: back when they recruited Peyton Manning away from the Cardinals
Speaker 1: and other teams, they told Peyton Manning it never snows
Speaker 1: in Denver on a on a Bronco Sunday, you know,
Speaker 1: in the last forty years. So I'm gonna hold John
Speaker 1: Elway to that. Well, you know what, honestly, PAULI the
Speaker 1: very first thing I look at, Thanks for asking, Paul.
Speaker 1: The very first thing I look at is where's the bye?
Speaker 1: That is number one. That's my first observation. When the
Speaker 1: schedule drops, it's like, oh my goodness, where is the bye?
Speaker 1: And there it is, it's week thirteen. Now we're going
Speaker 1: to talk more about this, of course, but that's the
Speaker 1: very very first thing I look at. Where is the bye?
Speaker 1: That's my first observation. By my second one is we
Speaker 1: could actually get this on your forehead. We could actually
Speaker 1: print this on your forehead. As big as the schedule is,
Speaker 1: it would still be able to be printed on your forehead.
Speaker 1: Ball That's observation number two. You know, what's seventeen games? Now,
Speaker 1: I think it is too big even for my forehead,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna stay with that. Now. You certainly
Speaker 1: can't print all two hundred and seventy two games, because
Speaker 1: that's the NFL schedule that dropped just over an hour ago.
Speaker 1: And how about it, I mean, before we get into
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, how about the NFL opener Bills at the Rams.
Speaker 1: That'll be on Thursday night of Week one, so they
Speaker 1: come out swinging bills boy at the Rams. The NFL
Speaker 1: opener and Week one also include Tammy Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers going to Dallas. And then how about the
Speaker 1: first Monday night game. I mean, the NFL didn't waste
Speaker 1: anytime sending Russell Wilson and the Broncos to Seattle in
Speaker 1: the first Monday night game. My goodness, Paul, is that affix?
Speaker 1: I mean, it is the fix, of course it is,
Speaker 1: and it's okay to actually fix it that way. That
Speaker 1: is pretty stunning, right there. Cannot wait for that first
Speaker 1: Thursday night game though, Paul. Speaking of that, there are
Speaker 1: four primetime games on the Arizona Cardinal schedule. Let that
Speaker 1: wash over you Ron Willfully. A year ago Dallas in
Speaker 1: Kansas City set a single season record at least since
Speaker 1: the merger, with a half dozen primetime games apiece. So
Speaker 1: you know how the schedule makers you get your first
Speaker 1: sense of what the NFL thinks of you based on
Speaker 1: how many time slots you get in primetime. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: get four. Your reaction, yeah, you know, I'm honestly right now,
Speaker 1: there is a bit of a dispute going on. But
Speaker 1: I think, PAULI that the max is seven. I think
Speaker 1: that the max right there that you can actually be
Speaker 1: scheduled for a nationally televised broadcast. The Cardinals got four.
Speaker 1: I know that's much better than what they had last year,
Speaker 1: that much. I do know. They got four this year.
Speaker 1: Five typically is really a good number, I think for
Speaker 1: the most part. But we'll take our four and run
Speaker 1: because you can always get one flexed as well. And
Speaker 1: you know what else, He'll take three at home and
Speaker 1: then the fourth one in Mexico City. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Thursday night, Week seven at home against the Saints,
Speaker 1: Monday night, Week fourteen against the Patriots at home Christmas
Speaker 1: Night for the second year in a row, this time
Speaker 1: against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers Sunday Night football. And
Speaker 1: then of course the Monday night game Week eleven in
Speaker 1: Mexico City against the forty nine ers. So there's that
Speaker 1: blew me away Polly right there too. The Christmas Day
Speaker 1: game once again Paully against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home.
Speaker 1: That right there, that's that's nice. Cardinals Colts game, by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm Christmas Night a year ago was one
Speaker 1: of the highest rated NFL regular season games all year.
Speaker 1: And now you're gonna have Tom Brady in against Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and the Cardinals. So you know, Belichick against Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: So well, I take that back. I'm sorry Buccaneers and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady there on Christmas Night. I'm looking at the fact.
Speaker 1: It's a triple header, by the way, on Christmas. So
Speaker 1: guess what, NBA, you have competition from the NFL. Now,
Speaker 1: how about that? And then of course you have the opener.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just go right off the top here.
Speaker 1: If you want a marquee matchup, how about Kansas City
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes against Kyler Murray. Patrick Mahomes against his former
Speaker 1: head coach in Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah, Paully that was the
Speaker 1: other thing that I noticed too. Where is the blood bath?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's what you I look for
Speaker 1: the buy first, and then where is the blood bath?
Speaker 1: And the blood bath? It's a three or four game,
Speaker 1: scratch three or four games. It doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 1: home away, it doesn't matter. Where is the tough part
Speaker 1: of your edual. There's a couple of tough scheduling points
Speaker 1: of the season, but right off the bat Kansas City
Speaker 1: at the Raiders and then the Ramps. I think that
Speaker 1: is a pretty tough way to actually start a season.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The Cardinals, at least under Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: and at State Farm Stadium since it opened, they have
Speaker 1: been really successful. In week one. There are eleven and
Speaker 1: five in home openers all time at State Farm Stadium. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that going for you. And then in week two, you're
Speaker 1: going to Vegas, You're going to take on another playoff team.
Speaker 1: You're making your first ever visit to Allegiance Stadium. Right,
Speaker 1: you're eleventh all time meeting with the Raiders. And then
Speaker 1: of course, hello Chandler Jones in that game, Yes, Chandler Jones.
Speaker 1: Was that an accident? Paul? Was that an accident of
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals are going to play the Raiders that
Speaker 1: early in the season. I really don't think that was
Speaker 1: at all, PAULI. And once again the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: this is can I. Lets go back to week one, Paul,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Week one, the home open
Speaker 1: or September eleventh. Of course, the AFC West and the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. This is gonna be the first game
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs are gonna play in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two without Tyreek Hill. Ye, that and that, Polly. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what that does to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Are they're really going to go out and
Speaker 1: try to run the exact same offense. I think that
Speaker 1: they are. They have some guys they think are run
Speaker 1: by guys, they have some speed that they like. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt. How is this going to change the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chief's offense. That's what I've been waiting to see,
Speaker 1: because nobody is going to be able to convince me
Speaker 1: that it's gonna look the same. I want to know
Speaker 1: if they think it's gonna look the same, because Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: there's one. Tyreek Hill, there's one, and Tyreek Hill impacts
Speaker 1: a defense, Polly, as we know, when he doesn't get
Speaker 1: the ball, he's impacting entire defensive game plans when he
Speaker 1: doesn't get the ball, let alone when he does run
Speaker 1: by somebody and gets the ball. So, how are the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs gonna play? Well, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they've got an idea, they say, at least Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: if you believe Andy Reid. Andy Reid says, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna change us at all. We're gonna go out, We're
Speaker 1: gonna run our offense. Well, that's gonna be really interesting,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's not a bad opportunity for the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals to possibly jump a Kansas City Chiefs team that's
Speaker 1: gonna be trying to find itself, if you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And if they haven't fixed that defense that
Speaker 1: struggled El Grande in the playoffs, that could be a barnburner.
Speaker 1: There could be a lot of points on the board. Exactly.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the first week though, of course, no
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins yep. And so you know, in fact, you
Speaker 1: look at if he hit zoom out those first six games.
Speaker 1: So you got Kansas City in Vegas, you got two
Speaker 1: playoff teams. There, you got the Super Bowl champion Rams
Speaker 1: in week three. See, I was hoping to play the
Speaker 1: last place Seahawk twice in the first six weeks. That
Speaker 1: only happened once though. As the Seahawks come in in
Speaker 1: weeks six, you're going to Seattle. But how about week
Speaker 1: three you get the Rams. Don't get the Rams at home?
Speaker 1: And guess what, you have a Rams team that a
Speaker 1: year ago. In Week four you throttled. And then, of
Speaker 1: course we know what happened in the playoffs. So if
Speaker 1: you want a barometer of where you stand, especially in
Speaker 1: your division, obviously here comes Sean McVay, Matthew Stafford and
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champions. Yeah, the defending Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's gonna be a great test right there.
Speaker 1: I think the offensive line is going to be improved.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be more physical this year.
Speaker 1: I really do believe that. Let's hope everyone is going
Speaker 1: to remain healthy. But Will Hernandez as your right guard,
Speaker 1: this is a brawler. This is a guy that's going
Speaker 1: to come off the ball. He's gonna fight. Now again,
Speaker 1: you may worry about pass protection from time to time.
Speaker 1: With Will Hernandez. It's what he does struggle with if
Speaker 1: he struggles, but the one thing he is good at
Speaker 1: is coming off the ball. Let him eat, Paul That's one, right,
Speaker 1: Can I just say that right now? Week three, let
Speaker 1: will Hernandez eat? And then week four at Carolina? And
Speaker 1: remember that Cardinals have lost six in a row to
Speaker 1: the Panthers and they are owing two against Matt rule.
Speaker 1: So before you chalk that up as an automatic w
Speaker 1: in fact, may I say the Cardinal's best chance to
Speaker 1: win is if Sam Donald place, unlike a year ago,
Speaker 1: right when Sam Donald did not play and you ended
Speaker 1: up losing a Cam Newton who came in for a
Speaker 1: couple of those touchdown runs in the game. But so
Speaker 1: you get Carolina, that'll be in week four on the road,
Speaker 1: and then you get Philadelphia at home. The Eagles come in,
Speaker 1: yet another playoff team in the first part of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's boy, how about that right there? Who's our quarterback
Speaker 1: going to be a winder Carolina as well? There's a
Speaker 1: lot of there's a lot of water that still can
Speaker 1: go onto the bridge right here. It's it's a year
Speaker 1: to year proposition. I say it every year, Paulie. It
Speaker 1: really is what what looks like. Man, this might be
Speaker 1: a really tough stretch, might not be that tough based
Speaker 1: on what happens in training camp. Who goes down, who
Speaker 1: gets hurt, who's lost for the season, who gets suspended? Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we know that very well, So to me, there's still
Speaker 1: an awful lot of unknowns. And how many times do
Speaker 1: you see it, Paul? You see the worst to first, right,
Speaker 1: and the first to worse. You see that happen In
Speaker 1: the National Football League, it's a year to year proposition,
Speaker 1: So it's always a little dicey making conclusions based on
Speaker 1: this schedule. Yeah, by the way, you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: j Brown, the new Eagles receiver. You're gonna get Jordan Davis,
Speaker 1: all three hundred forty plus pounds of him, that rookie
Speaker 1: defensive tackle out of Georgia who went to the Eagles.
Speaker 1: So you have that. And then in weeks six, Wolf
Speaker 1: you get the Cardinals earliest visit to Seattle since twenty eleven. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're always accustomed to playing him in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season, if not the last two games of
Speaker 1: the season at Seattle. So you get your first Divisional
Speaker 1: road game six at the last place Seahawks. Well, Paul,
Speaker 1: that right there, that's gonna be a weird situation, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Because you always, I I imagine you immediately in the
Speaker 1: wet suit. Of course in Seattle, you're always it's up
Speaker 1: there and it's nasty and it's rainy, and it's drizzly
Speaker 1: and it's wet. And now all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: telling me October sixteenth is when they're going up there.
Speaker 1: That is wild. That's the earliest since when Paul two eleven,
Speaker 1: WHOA three? Write this stuff down? Paul, do you know
Speaker 1: two eleven? I may or may not be have a
Speaker 1: note on that one, and right in front of me,
Speaker 1: maybe I have it too, I just didn't read it.
Speaker 1: I will say this though, I do know this one.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have won five of the last seven games
Speaker 1: at Seattle. So I'm sorry Seahawk fans, twelves. I'm going
Speaker 1: to mark that down as a home game actually for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Seattle. Now, why I kick somebody when they're down, Paul, Hey, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: the at Seattle game thrown in as a bonus home game.
Speaker 1: We'll see about that. But look, Wolf, getting back to
Speaker 1: your point about no d hop. You know up teams
Speaker 1: that start O and two to begin a season, and
Speaker 1: you got the Chiefs and Raiders out of the gate.
Speaker 1: Less than ten percent of the teams that start O
Speaker 1: and two make the playoffs. That's the stat in recent
Speaker 1: NFL history. So the Cardinals are gonna need everything they
Speaker 1: can do to come out of the gates like they
Speaker 1: have the last couple of years, especially last year under
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury. And by the way, the Cardinals, speaking of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, at least they don't travel as many miles
Speaker 1: as a Seahawks. They're going to travel nearly thirty thousand
Speaker 1: miles this year and change time zones thirty four times
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. The Steelers are just going to travel about
Speaker 1: sixty five hundred miles and aren't even gonna leave the
Speaker 1: Eastern time zone. We're just getting rolling on a big
Speaker 1: red rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert threw a
Speaker 1: shot into the end zone here Johnson and the lead
Speaker 1: of the last Bowl of the Fitzgeralder right time at
Speaker 1: Ajeel back to help protect Josh mccount than one of
Speaker 1: the seventeen and count back to twelve and along in
Speaker 1: the end zone far side, Fitzjoel goes up to forty
Speaker 1: summer Larry Fitzgerald for the second of the year. Dave
Speaker 1: Pash sprung that one on us. Did he not? Ron Wolf?
Speaker 1: He caught you by surprise and earhold you with the
Speaker 1: rolling of the RS two thousand and five in Mexico City,
Speaker 1: did he not? It's not the first time, Paul, and
Speaker 1: it won't be the last. Man, I tell you, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that trip. I really am. I still
Speaker 1: consider that a top three road trip we've ever done
Speaker 1: in our nearly two decades, right as part of the
Speaker 1: Cardinals broadcast team. I'm looking forward to going back. And
Speaker 1: it's just a great scene of great fibe, the energy
Speaker 1: of one hundred thousand plus fans in that stadium, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a division game against the forty nine ers. Yes, no,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be huge, PAULI seriously, the energy in that stadium,
Speaker 1: it was something shold to behold and it's going to
Speaker 1: be great going back. And so there you go. We're
Speaker 1: going through the Cardinal schedule. It dropped just over an
Speaker 1: hour ago, and the Cardinals. We went through the first
Speaker 1: six games, Kansas City at home to open the season
Speaker 1: at the Raiders, Week three back at home against the Rams,
Speaker 1: and at Carolina home against the Eagles. In Week five
Speaker 1: at Seattle, the earliest in over a decade. You're going
Speaker 1: to Seattle in week six, and then week seven Wolf
Speaker 1: New Orleans comes to town, and you know, you think
Speaker 1: of the Saints. You're thinking of a team that had
Speaker 1: made the playoffs four straight years until last year started
Speaker 1: five and two last year minus Drew Brees, Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1: Winston had them rolling and then he suffered the knee
Speaker 1: injury in Game seven. They lost four straight. With Trevor Simeon,
Speaker 1: they ended up using four different quarterbacks. Boom, they were
Speaker 1: bounced out of the playoffs in the final week. Yeah, Paully,
Speaker 1: you know, looking at week seven on first of all,
Speaker 1: I love the fact that starting week seven that is
Speaker 1: the Thursday night game. Of course, yep, that's the mini bye, Paul.
Speaker 1: That's nice to have right there. Week seven, the mini bye,
Speaker 1: and then of course week thirteen, six weeks later, you
Speaker 1: get the actual buy. I kind of like that, Paulie.
Speaker 1: There's a little breathing room there, it is. You're right.
Speaker 1: The locker room will view it that way. They'll view
Speaker 1: it as almost a pair of bye weekends. And so
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. And the Thursday night, especially when you
Speaker 1: have it at home. Yes, And I can't remember knock
Speaker 1: on Wood the last Thursday night road game the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have played. So they're gonna get Dennis Allen in a
Speaker 1: new head coach, their former defensive coordinator. Five brand new
Speaker 1: head coaches on the Cardinals schedule this year. Think about that.
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls, Dennis Allen, Nathaniel Hackett, Josh McDaniels, and Kevin O'Connell. Now,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls and Josh McDaniels obviously have been head coaches before,
Speaker 1: but you know, you get some of these teams earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, maybe they still don't have that familiarity.
Speaker 1: So there you go. It's gonna be the Saints at
Speaker 1: home in Week seven, and then you're going two Minnesota
Speaker 1: week eight to take on the Vikings and Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 1: as their new head coach. Yeah, paul, you know, it's
Speaker 1: interesting because when you look at the first six weeks,
Speaker 1: of course, and then you look at the next six weeks,
Speaker 1: and then we'll look at the last six weeks up in, Polly,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the most difficult six week
Speaker 1: stretch for the Cardinals when you look at it, Because
Speaker 1: I think this the second part, starting with the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints on Thursday nights, I think this might be
Speaker 1: the easiest stretch of the season. I'm not listen, nothing
Speaker 1: is easy, and you know what I'm saying, Polly, and
Speaker 1: you can't bank on anything because you know it's a
Speaker 1: year to year proposition. But as we look at it
Speaker 1: right now this day, it looks like to me the
Speaker 1: middle six weeks might be the easiest stretch they have.
Speaker 1: It might be in terms of degree of difficulty, but
Speaker 1: in terms of importance. You're going to get DeAndre Hopkins back, obviously,
Speaker 1: starting with that Thursday night game against the New Orleans Saints,
Speaker 1: and then to go out this second stretch of six games,
Speaker 1: you have three straight division opponents, right well, you have Seattle,
Speaker 1: the ram San Francisco, and then you get the Chargers
Speaker 1: after that, and the Chargers and they look to be
Speaker 1: high powered. So I mean it's one of the reasons.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have this second most difficult strength of schedule,
Speaker 1: and I know how that works. Ye year, half the
Speaker 1: playoff teams are brand new, and so a lot of
Speaker 1: times that metric doesn't hold water. But when you're in
Speaker 1: the NFC West and you're playing the AFC West, and
Speaker 1: then you're playing teams outside the division who made the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year, like the Eagles who got a lot
Speaker 1: better in the offseason, and a Patriots team that is
Speaker 1: always prepared. You know that better than anyone. With your
Speaker 1: former head coach Bill Belichicks, you know, yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a tough schedule and it is, Paul, But
Speaker 1: I you know, once again, the middle stretch here, they
Speaker 1: have four of their six games at home. Not no,
Speaker 1: I know. Oh boy, they were a great road team
Speaker 1: last year, and they didn't really play that well at home.
Speaker 1: As a matter in fact, there were some five hundred
Speaker 1: at home Wolf, And I understand that, Paul. I don't
Speaker 1: expect that to be the norm. I just don't. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at that as though that was an anomaly last year.
Speaker 1: Most teams. It's something that has proven over and over
Speaker 1: and over most teams in the NFL. They play better
Speaker 1: at home than they do on the rug. Would you
Speaker 1: agree with that statement, Paul yep okay, So, having said
Speaker 1: that four of those games are home games Thursday night
Speaker 1: in New Orleans Saints, then you host Seattle, then you
Speaker 1: have San Francisco, and then the Chargers, and that's going
Speaker 1: to be a tough one right there, no doubt. And
Speaker 1: you know what, the only early Eastern time zone game
Speaker 1: on this schedule is at Atlanta, but that's Week seventeen,
Speaker 1: so there's only a two hour time difference at that point.
Speaker 1: So you don't have the dreaded ten am Eastern kickoff
Speaker 1: on this schedule this year, although that hasn't been nearly
Speaker 1: as much a factor with Cliff Kingsbury because we know
Speaker 1: he's an early riser and a lot of what the
Speaker 1: Cardinals do is early in the morning, and they seemingly
Speaker 1: have been prepared the last three years under coach Cliff.
Speaker 1: In that regard Week eight at Minnesota, we know last
Speaker 1: year's game went down to the wire, eight lead changes,
Speaker 1: Cardinals won thirty four thirty three, and the missfield goal
Speaker 1: nearly nine hundred total yards in that game. And keep
Speaker 1: in mind the home team in this series, Wolf, I'm
Speaker 1: looking to this stat has won eight in a row
Speaker 1: in this series Cardinals and Vikings. So the Cardinal's gonna
Speaker 1: try and obviously break that trend. Yeah, no, Polly, I
Speaker 1: know that's It's also two kind of weird when you
Speaker 1: look at the schedule in its totality, Polly, because they
Speaker 1: only have what two East Coast games? They only have
Speaker 1: two at Carolina and at the Atlanta Falcons as well.
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons. My goodness, that right there, Paul, seems
Speaker 1: very genuous as well generous. I should say, all right, Seattle,
Speaker 1: you get the Seahawks at home, and that's gonna be
Speaker 1: in week nine, and we know what the Cardinals have
Speaker 1: done to the Seahawks in Seattle. The Seahawks have done
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals in the a Z, including the season
Speaker 1: finale in the regular season last year. Bad. It's their
Speaker 1: first year, first time in a decade without Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if anybody really fears Drew Locke
Speaker 1: or Gino Smith. But you have Seattle coming to town
Speaker 1: and then week ten at the Rams Wolf car So well,
Speaker 1: that's going to be rough right there. That that is
Speaker 1: going to be rough. You'll imagine that's going to be
Speaker 1: a very very tough situation. You never know who's going
Speaker 1: to be healthy. Once again, you never know how the
Speaker 1: Rams season is going. But as we look at it today,
Speaker 1: that one looks like that's going to be a very
Speaker 1: very difficult game. It's interesting because do you think the
Speaker 1: Saints are going to roll? As we look at this
Speaker 1: middle part of the season, do you think the Saints
Speaker 1: are going to roll? I think that's a winnable game.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings, I think that's a winnable game. The
Speaker 1: Seattlecahawks at home. I think that's winnable. Here is the
Speaker 1: monster to me, the November thirteenth on the road, so
Speaker 1: FI game. As you said, against the Rams, that's difficult.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's going to happen with the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers this year. I don't expect the forty nine ers, PAULI,
Speaker 1: to be as good. I just don't. At some point
Speaker 1: in time, they have to play Trey Lance. They have
Speaker 1: to play him, and at some point that's going to happen. Correct,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to at some point throw him out there,
Speaker 1: whether you think he's ready or not. And I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be more not. Yeah, Niners are about
Speaker 1: to take a big step back. They might not know
Speaker 1: it yet, they might not realize it themselves yet, but
Speaker 1: I agree with you, they're about to take a big
Speaker 1: step back. And so you have those three straight NFC
Speaker 1: West games, and you have a better chance than not
Speaker 1: of getting wins in two of those three. And then
Speaker 1: you come home and from Mexico City and you get
Speaker 1: the La Chargers to I mean, Kyler Murray against Justin Herbert. Hello,
Speaker 1: there gonna be a lot of fireworks in that one.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be I really think the Chargers are going
Speaker 1: to be a team that will I don't even want
Speaker 1: to say surprise because I don't think that's accurate. I
Speaker 1: think that is a team that is going to take
Speaker 1: a big step forward in the AFC, the Chargers. And
Speaker 1: it's because of Herbert and how well he played last year.
Speaker 1: Just watching him grow as a quarterback, a franchise quarterback,
Speaker 1: it was truly impressive. It's interesting. I saw an interview
Speaker 1: recently with Brandon Staley, their second year head coach. He's
Speaker 1: known as an analytics guy, right, and he's the guy
Speaker 1: who went for it on fourth down, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But Wolf he said, and I quote I
Speaker 1: want to be known as a rugged, tough football team
Speaker 1: that can beat you any way, imaginable offense, defense, kicking game.
Speaker 1: He said. I think we're a lot closer to that
Speaker 1: because remember they went out and got Khalil Mack in
Speaker 1: the trade. They signed J. C. Jackson, the standout corner.
Speaker 1: They got Kyle van Noy also from the Patriots. They
Speaker 1: brought him Bryce Callahan, an experienced corner from Denver. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this. And then they went after Zion Johnson,
Speaker 1: number seventeen overall. Right, that maller and brawler of a
Speaker 1: guard out of Boston College. And of course they hit
Speaker 1: it big. Rashaun Slater last year as a rookie was
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl left tackle. So they are building in
Speaker 1: the trenches for everything else they do. And with Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: they come in and they try and beat you up
Speaker 1: as well. Polly, that is a great observation, it really is.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I love the Chargers
Speaker 1: too as a team. They are a team that is
Speaker 1: blending the old and the new. They're blending it together.
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley would just say he's a young crunk coach.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. He's one of those young
Speaker 1: crunks right there. Brandon Staley, do you remember the big
Speaker 1: Red rage where I actually brought up what he was
Speaker 1: saying about twelve personnel paul one back, two tight ends.
Speaker 1: He was saying, how difficult that is to actually defend
Speaker 1: when you do it right, when you attack the gaps,
Speaker 1: when you attack the line of scrimmage, you have multiple
Speaker 1: tight ends guys that are capable of blocking, and then
Speaker 1: you use play action to throw the ball. Again, it's
Speaker 1: a blending of the two. It's something that Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: do very well, it's something Chargers do very well, and
Speaker 1: it's something that I'm really hoping the Arizona Cardinals will
Speaker 1: do too. Polly, by the way, Wolf, did you not
Speaker 1: interview four rookies today, including Tray McBride. I did, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that I like that McBride kid.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he told you what he told
Speaker 1: the media, but he said to the media, and I'm
Speaker 1: loosely quoting that Cliff Kingsbury wants to disguise the offense
Speaker 1: more this season. For a minute, try get over here.
Speaker 1: Let that hang for a minute, And I think it's
Speaker 1: further evidence as to why they went after Tray McBride
Speaker 1: in round two because they really covet these tight ends
Speaker 1: that aren't a tell that can be part of the
Speaker 1: run game and the pass game. Oh Polly, it is.
Speaker 1: It is. It's something that's been around for a long
Speaker 1: long time. When you watch the Tennessee Titans. One of
Speaker 1: the reasons why the people people felt like the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans going into last year that we're going to be
Speaker 1: rock solid maybe the best offense in the league was
Speaker 1: how they blend three wide receiver sets with of course
Speaker 1: two tight end sets. Eleven personnel and twelve personnel. That's
Speaker 1: what they blend. They've got a back that you line
Speaker 1: his toes up at seven and he attacks the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage downhill and then they use play action. Then
Speaker 1: they'll jump into a shotgun. They'll jump at a shotgun
Speaker 1: and here we go. Oh, it's the zone read with
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry. Guess what. That's exactly what
Speaker 1: I could see the Arizona Cardinals and Kyler Murray doing.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Cardinals are going to Tennessee. Will
Speaker 1: get you the full preseason schedule at the end of
Speaker 1: this edition. To the Big Red Rage. But they are
Speaker 1: going to Tennessee. It'll be the preseason finale Week three.
Speaker 1: Remember there's only three preseason games. Now. My understanding is
Speaker 1: the Cardinals will be in Nashville for a full five
Speaker 1: or six days. Ron Wilfley, Oh, let the round the
Speaker 1: queue begin. I mean, well, if you better start losing
Speaker 1: weight now to compensate that you're going to add in
Speaker 1: late August. I'm just saying that right now, you better
Speaker 1: bring the flex of pants. That's that's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: This home schedule absolutely loaded. We just went through the Saints,
Speaker 1: the Vikings, the Seahawks, the Rams, and the Niners, and
Speaker 1: the Chargers will get to the final stretch of this
Speaker 1: schedule when we come back on the Big Red Rage
Speaker 1: presented by satan Ford in gilbert A, Seattle. We gotta do.
Speaker 1: Go Hawks, Go Hawks. I'm gonna see y'all in the morning.
Speaker 1: You can go to see the morning. Russell Wilson SIRA,
Speaker 1: by the way, Wolf have already made themselves at home
Speaker 1: in Denver in a twenty five million dollar mansion that
Speaker 1: is a whopping twenty thousand square feet plus none but
Speaker 1: twenty five million. So Russell Wilson once again, he is
Speaker 1: firmly entrenched already in Denver, in the Mile High City,
Speaker 1: and his challenge now is after leading the Seahawks to
Speaker 1: the playoffs eight of ten seasons, he now has to
Speaker 1: do something about the Broncos nasty skid of missing the
Speaker 1: playoffs six straight years ever since Peyton Manning retired after
Speaker 1: winning Super Bowl fifty and they're coming off their fifth
Speaker 1: straight losing season overall. So Russell Wilson up in Denver,
Speaker 1: and that's where the Cardinals are going after the buy
Speaker 1: in Week fifteen. I really think the Denver Broncos have
Speaker 1: a chance of winning the AFC Ball really, I yes,
Speaker 1: I do. I think they have a chance of doing it,
Speaker 1: especially with their defense. I love the combination of that
Speaker 1: defense and Russell Wilson. I think that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: winning combination. We shall see, Paulie, but I like it.
Speaker 1: You don't think they're gonna be good, No, they'll be good.
Speaker 1: They're obviously in the most brutal division I'm not real
Speaker 1: fond of having a rookie head coach, a forty two
Speaker 1: year old rookie head coach, Nathaniel Hackett. We'll see, you know, boy,
Speaker 1: here it comes the Green Bay Packers offense, Paul, Yeah,
Speaker 1: here it comes, you know, and look, you know they
Speaker 1: they are loaded from all accounts. I mean, they really
Speaker 1: don't have many weaknesses, if any. And so with Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: and you know when you're going to Denver and by
Speaker 1: the way, that is that's the one that stands out
Speaker 1: on the old schedule when you're the sideline reporter right
Speaker 1: December eighteenth in Denver, ru. Yeah. In fact, here's Drew Stanton.
Speaker 1: Check this out. It's not just me Wolf. On the
Speaker 1: Red Sea Report, Drew Stanton was asked by Craig Griolu,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, when you look at a schedule, and
Speaker 1: remember he's not speaking Median as you like to say,
Speaker 1: here Wolf, Okay, he's in the trust tree and so
Speaker 1: he gives he gives an all access look and how
Speaker 1: a player really looks at the schedule. Drew Stanton as
Speaker 1: fast as I could, especially when we were here, I
Speaker 1: was like, do we have any gold games? No? I
Speaker 1: think you what you look at right, first of all
Speaker 1: is primetime games who it's against division opponents, and then
Speaker 1: December football. Those division games are so important and those
Speaker 1: are vital right on top of the primetime because the
Speaker 1: primetime games throws you on your schedule. When's the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game? Do we have a Sunday night game? Are
Speaker 1: you on the road Sunday night? Because that stinks. It
Speaker 1: throws your whole week for a loop. Yeah for me, Polly,
Speaker 1: you know again, I'm gonna I look immediately where the
Speaker 1: bye week is. That's what I do. I look where
Speaker 1: the bye week is. Bye week is the December fourth,
Speaker 1: the thirteenth week of the season. That's where I start.
Speaker 1: After that, I look for where the blood bath is.
Speaker 1: Where is the blood bath? Listen? You could look at
Speaker 1: week one, two, and three, and you could build a
Speaker 1: case where there's a three or four week period where
Speaker 1: you're gonna play four or three really really good teams.
Speaker 1: I think the first three weeks of the season Kansas City,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and the Rams. That's going to be difficult,
Speaker 1: very very physical as well. You're playing two of those
Speaker 1: games at home. I think starting in week thirteen minus
Speaker 1: the bye of course, you got the Patriots, you got
Speaker 1: the Broncos, you got the Buccaneers, the Falcons, and the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. I think the four weeks from week twelve,
Speaker 1: that being the Chargers Paul to Tampa Bay. That's a
Speaker 1: four week period, four team period. Even though the buy
Speaker 1: is in there, that that's going to be brutal, and
Speaker 1: it includes coming out of the buy with the money
Speaker 1: Night game against New England. Yes, Cliff Kingsbury going against
Speaker 1: the team and the head coach that drafted him once
Speaker 1: upon a time in the sixth round where he's in
Speaker 1: the same quarterback room with Tom Brady. Now you're gonna
Speaker 1: get Mac Jones and you're gonna get that New England team.
Speaker 1: And look, even when they're not that talented two years
Speaker 1: ago when the Cardinals went to New England and somehow
Speaker 1: lost to Cam Newton and his passer rating of like
Speaker 1: thirty three, it's just amazing how we'll prepare those Belichick
Speaker 1: teams are and how many different ways they can potentially
Speaker 1: beat you if you're going out there with unforeced errors
Speaker 1: in your own game. Yeah, bully, and once again there's
Speaker 1: no doubt he will exploit any weakness that you have
Speaker 1: he will exploit it. He will find it, and he
Speaker 1: will exploit it. It's what he does. That's going to
Speaker 1: be an excellent test on a Monday night right there,
Speaker 1: and then again following that up on the short week
Speaker 1: playing at Denver, that's going to be very difficult. And
Speaker 1: as you said, that could be a cold weather game.
Speaker 1: How about the fact that over the last six weeks
Speaker 1: of the season you only have one division game. Think
Speaker 1: about that, only one NSCUS game over the last month
Speaker 1: and a half of this season, and three or your
Speaker 1: last four or on the road. So guess what the
Speaker 1: Cardinals right now, and we said it before, their true
Speaker 1: test this season is going to be what happens with
Speaker 1: December football forward, and and they're gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of games on the road. And guess what, They're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of opponents they're not necessarily that familiar with.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's an advantage or a disadvantage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And also Pauli too, I think that bye, it's it's
Speaker 1: precariously placed Week thirteen right there, that bye, because we
Speaker 1: all know the Arizona Cardinals, after playing twelve weeks of football,
Speaker 1: they were ten and two and they were ten and two, Paul,
Speaker 1: that happened. Ten and two was real, and that happened.
Speaker 1: So the bye suddenly is right there, and you know, everybody,
Speaker 1: even if the Arizona Cardinals somehow, some way got to
Speaker 1: ten and two going into the bye, you know what,
Speaker 1: there'd be a lot of people out there saying a
Speaker 1: lot of analysts would be out there saying, well, let's
Speaker 1: see if this is gonna be the collapse. Let see
Speaker 1: if they collapse like they have the last two years
Speaker 1: in this six week period. So you got the buying week, thirteam,
Speaker 1: you come out with a Monday night game, so you're
Speaker 1: gonna have an extra day, you have New England at home. Then,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, the short week, you're going to Denver
Speaker 1: potential cold weather game, and then you're getting into Christmas
Speaker 1: Week and on Christmas Night for the second straight year,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals will be in primetime Sunday night football against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Not only Tom Brady obviously he's gonna be
Speaker 1: playing in his twenty third season hashtag no comprendo on
Speaker 1: that one, but Todd Bowls as the head coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if every team somehow is a representation of the
Speaker 1: personality of the head coach. How do you expect the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers to maybe evolved this year under Todd? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't really think there's gonna be a lot of evolving, Paul,
Speaker 1: I don't. Todd is going to run the defense that
Speaker 1: he's gonna run, and he's going to run the defense
Speaker 1: he ran under Bruce Arians and Bruce Arians offense I
Speaker 1: think is very, very similar to what Tom Brady does.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why they actually won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It's because of the attack the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: the bashion bomb offense of Bruce Arians. That's who Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is. It's who he's always been, attack the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and use play action. He's got some of
Speaker 1: the best play action mechanics in the history of the game,
Speaker 1: the history of the game, Tom Brady. So you know what,
Speaker 1: why would you change any of that? I just don't
Speaker 1: see it, Paul, No, it's a great observation. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm looking here to quote from Jason light the GM right,
Speaker 1: former assistant to Steve Kaim, and he said, quote, We've
Speaker 1: got the ultimate cheat code with Tom, so we're going
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it while we have it. Says
Speaker 1: Jason Light And by the way, Tom Brady making his
Speaker 1: regular season debut at State Farm Stadium. Remember he's played
Speaker 1: in two Super Bowls there, but he hasn't played the
Speaker 1: Cardinals in their home stadium in the regular season. So
Speaker 1: you have that in week sixteen, and then weeks seventeen
Speaker 1: you go to it La and you take on a
Speaker 1: rebuilding Falcons team and whether it's going to be Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota or Desmond Ritter, the rookie third round Rookieota Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: who knows at that point Week seventeen. Yeah, Paul, it's
Speaker 1: really interesting, especially the last two opponents of the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals two away games of course, the Atlanta Falcons as
Speaker 1: you said, and then the forty nine Ers in week eighteen,
Speaker 1: January eighth. Those two teams right there, they have recently,
Speaker 1: and I would say Kyle Shanahan when they drafted Trey Lance,
Speaker 1: recently they have tried to blend the old and the new,
Speaker 1: PAULI they haven't had a ton of success. The forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers haven't. The Atlanta Falcons they had Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: as their quarterback for how many years, Paul, They have
Speaker 1: not really been able to tap into the whole zone
Speaker 1: read RPO New Age era. We're gonna throw the ball
Speaker 1: here it comes. They haven't been able to scratch that itch,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Now all of a sudden with Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. Paul, You know what I always
Speaker 1: think of with Matt Ryan, his rookie year was the
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight season, because that's when the Cardinals
Speaker 1: beat the Falcons and round one of the playoffs en
Speaker 1: route two super Bowl forty three. He was rookie, yes
Speaker 1: that season. So and by the way, at Atlanta, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be on New Year's Day, Wolf, So you'll be
Speaker 1: in the atl on New Year's Eve, just to let
Speaker 1: you know you can plan. According to my goodness, I
Speaker 1: didn't even think about that right there. Yeah, okay, thank you,
Speaker 1: Paul Man. And then why don't you just give me
Speaker 1: the protective cop before you actually say that ball? You know,
Speaker 1: if only this was like a fake video. Did you
Speaker 1: see what the Seahawks what they did on the video
Speaker 1: and they faked out their own players and it was
Speaker 1: it was a fake schedule release, and it had all
Speaker 1: the worst of the worst possible games and dates and
Speaker 1: holidays and all the possible worst possible road trips, and
Speaker 1: then the locker rooms start freaking out and then they
Speaker 1: let them know that it was just a prank and
Speaker 1: it was a fake schedule. So but no, well this
Speaker 1: this this is reality, you know, another reality. And here's
Speaker 1: another home game you're gonna mark down for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: People forget that at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals have won six of their eight all time games
Speaker 1: at the forty nine ers new home stadium, Scalmas. No,
Speaker 1: I know exactly. So they're gonna go in And by
Speaker 1: the way, to your point about the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan, I had this out with Darren Urban
Speaker 1: on Cardinals Underground this week. Oh, is that the underrated
Speaker 1: concern for the Cardinals this year, at least to me,
Speaker 1: is you got to fix the inconsistent run defense, because
Speaker 1: especially now in this division, do you think the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are gonna come out and they're gonna try and run
Speaker 1: the ball. They're gonna try to turn it back, Paul.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just drafted two tackles right in the
Speaker 1: first and third round, and in the second round they
Speaker 1: went after a running back. They're gonna try and run
Speaker 1: the ball. Does Kyle Shanahan test you and make you
Speaker 1: stop the run before he does anything else in the playbook?
Speaker 1: Yes he does, Yes he does, Yes he does. You
Speaker 1: had me though with a Seattle Seahawks. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that the Cardinals are gonna have and and Sean
Speaker 1: McVay has gone back to a more balanced offense. That
Speaker 1: will the adjustment he made after losing Robert Woods last
Speaker 1: year and losing three in a row, including that Cardinals
Speaker 1: beat down and four. So you know, I know we
Speaker 1: can argue that as a passing league. And you know,
Speaker 1: five times last year the Cardinals gave up one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty rushing yards or more. And if you're some
Speaker 1: of these lesser teams can pull out a win and
Speaker 1: control the game by running the football. And so to me,
Speaker 1: that is something I'm going to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: from the get go with this Cardinals team twenty total,
Speaker 1: the pendulum was swinging towards the New Age offense. It
Speaker 1: really has for the last five years. Now it's swinging
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinal schedule passes through a football gauntlet, the familiar
Speaker 1: faces and new places, a date with a goat, and
Speaker 1: the toughest divisions in both commons. But when did anything
Speaker 1: ever come easy for us? Here's a thing, no matter
Speaker 1: where the map takes us home is the finish line,
Speaker 1: because this season all roads lead back to bird City.
Speaker 1: Nine games against playoff teams from a year ago, eight
Speaker 1: against teams that had ten or more wins a year ago,
Speaker 1: four primetime games. Once again, you have a Thursday Night
Speaker 1: at home against the Saints, so you have Monday Night
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen at home against the Patriots. You have
Speaker 1: Christmas Night on Sunday Night football against saw Me in
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and then of course you have Monday Night
Speaker 1: in Mexico City against the forty nine ers in week eleven.
Speaker 1: It is the twenty twenty two Arizona Cardinals schedule, and
Speaker 1: you know what tickets are available right now? As they
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Speaker 1: foisted this on you with with no fore warning whatsoever,
Speaker 1: what is the game you are looking forward to the most?
Speaker 1: What is the best, the biggest tilt on this schedule?
Speaker 1: What is the one that you know what, you looked
Speaker 1: at the schedule on since you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about the weather any of the kind of stuff up
Speaker 1: there in your booth, you just circled and said, you
Speaker 1: know what, that one? You're putting that atop my power rankings.
Speaker 1: So for me, Paul, it's got to be the Sunday
Speaker 1: night game. It has to be the Sunday night game
Speaker 1: there Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That could be a battle provided
Speaker 1: how well the Arizona Cardinals are playing. How well are
Speaker 1: they a playoff caliber team coming out of the bye week?
Speaker 1: Of course, and your December now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: December twenty fifth, on Christmas Day, you're playing the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Could you see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers being
Speaker 1: a team that could possibly be in the running for
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the NFC. I could see
Speaker 1: that with Tom Brady, of course, a Sunday night game
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, if I had to pick one, Balie,
Speaker 1: it would definitely be the Buccaneers game. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what though, the Chiefs at home against Patrick Mahomes. That's
Speaker 1: a start. It's a you know, if it wasn't Week one,
Speaker 1: I'd probably make that number one. Just what a great
Speaker 1: way to come out of the gate, and just everything
Speaker 1: that's gonna be surrounding that game, and just the fact
Speaker 1: it is at home. I mean, think about it, and
Speaker 1: you know this better than anyone, Wolf because it was
Speaker 1: your era when you played for the Arizona Cardinals in
Speaker 1: eighteen seasons at sun Double Stadium. The Cardinals never played
Speaker 1: at home in Week one. Yeah, think about that, and
Speaker 1: now this is gonna be a ten time since two
Speaker 1: thousand and six when that stadium opens. So you have
Speaker 1: that it's gonna go. Yeah, I can tell you right now,
Speaker 1: nobody was crying about the fact that we weren't playing
Speaker 1: at home. Let me just say this quickly, is as well, Paul,
Speaker 1: the by coming late I like as well for the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: especially if you're a good team. If they're a good team,
Speaker 1: I love the fact that By is late. And look,
Speaker 1: three of the last four on the road and once
Speaker 1: again the four primetime games Thursday night against New Orleans
Speaker 1: at home, Monday night in Mexico City against the Niners
Speaker 1: at the New England game you and Monday night as well,
Speaker 1: and then of course Tampa on Christmas Night, and that
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