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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang. On today's show, Kyler Murray. His name

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Speaker 1: is ats or near the top and just about every

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Speaker 1: league's first quarter MVP. Is such a thing existed. What

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Speaker 1: we want to know though, is can it continue, especially

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Speaker 1: this week against a top ten defense. But first, the

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Speaker 1: run is over, and what a great run it was.

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Speaker 1: It's Cardinals Cover two, episode four seventy seven, and it

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Speaker 1: starts now. Welcome to Cardinals Cover two with Craig Grigolu

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Speaker 1: and Mike Jarecki. Cardinals Cover two is presented by Hyundai,

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Speaker 1: proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Visit Easy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts Going for Hopkins

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Speaker 1: one hand to catchet it muchdown, DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig

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Speaker 1: and Mike Jarecki. So no early morning email announcing the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals have been honored with a Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: Was not really expecting one, MJ. There was no real

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Speaker 1: standout performance on Sunday. A lot of solid performances, but

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Speaker 1: not a single player had one of those breakouts highlight

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Speaker 1: type of plays or performances or games that the league

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Speaker 1: likes to highlight. So the run ends at three three

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Speaker 1: straight weeks of a Cardinals player being singled out for

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Speaker 1: what they did the previous Sunday, and I'm okay with

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Speaker 1: it it just because it showed what Sunday was. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it was the best win of the season, but it

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Speaker 1: took a collective effort. It wasn't just one guy saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: Promised Land. So for our listeners out there, you you

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Speaker 1: that email like five thirty one. Ye, and nothing showed up.

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Speaker 1: Nothing showed up. Well, I wasn't, honestly, I wasn't. I

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Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds just from you know, I know he had

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Speaker 1: if you're looking as far as if the Cardinals had

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Speaker 1: over three hundred passing yards, he no turnovers, correct, and

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Speaker 1: he did have two touchdown passes. Chase Edmonds did have

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Speaker 1: spread the ball around exactly. So Connor had two rushing

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week honor. When you have three hundred

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Speaker 1: ten or more tackles. That's that's what we see typically

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Speaker 1: week ind and week out, and that's what we did see.

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones five sacks, Kyler Murray outstanding week two, and

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Speaker 1: then obviously Byron Murphy a week ago two interceptions included

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Speaker 1: been twelve awards offense, Defense, Special Teams. The NFC West

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones won the award. He got Offensive Player of

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Speaker 1: presented by Honday probably partner of the Arizona Cardinals Real

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Speaker 1: Quick practice on Wednesday during the open portion. Good to

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Speaker 1: see Calvin Beecham and Justin Murray both on the field.

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Speaker 1: we always do on Cardinals Cover two Present to buy Honday,

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Speaker 1: you know you'd like to break down a season into quarters.

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Speaker 1: on every single play inside out. He's made that offensive

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Speaker 1: line better, and now Kyle the Murray, I think, feels

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Speaker 1: more confident to stay in that pocket and wait for

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Speaker 1: his receivers to get open, including deep shots, because there's

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Speaker 1: always that check down, but more times than not, he's

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Speaker 1: airing it out well. Again, he leaves the league and

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Speaker 1: passes twenty five yards or more, and it's only going

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Speaker 1: to get better. The thing is, though, what comes to mind,

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Speaker 1: The game's slowing down for him. Hudson's helping him make

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Speaker 1: the calls, which takes a lot of pressure off of him.

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Speaker 1: He's still got an id different guys, But when when

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Speaker 1: when your center's telling you and talk to Drew Stanton

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Speaker 1: on the red Za Report, Usually the center's are the

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Speaker 1: smartest guys on the team because they got to make

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Speaker 1: sure everything's you know, up up the snuff to where

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Speaker 1: is this play going to work or are we not

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Speaker 1: in the same in the same blocking scheme. So it's

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Speaker 1: game slowing down. He's mastered the offense and he's got

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Speaker 1: better protection and that's why we're seeing these numbers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: everything is up, the completion percentage, the average her attempt.

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Speaker 1: The fact is his numbers last year. I mean last year,

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Speaker 1: I think he threw for like two hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: four yards per game. Maybe it was and it was seventeenth. Now,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's off the charts. He is taking his

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Speaker 1: game to another level which was expected. Okay, through four games,

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Speaker 1: he's averaging three hundred and four passing yards per game.

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Speaker 1: Last year they finished seventeenth overall two forty four eight

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Speaker 1: passing yards per game, So he's definitely trending up. That's

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Speaker 1: what almost six my quarter my Niagara falls math about

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Speaker 1: sixty yards per game over a four year, four game period,

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Speaker 1: that's two hundred and forty yards. And you can look

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Speaker 1: at the addition of aj Gray and Rondel Moore and yes,

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Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson, and it all plays a factor and what

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Speaker 1: we are seeing, and as we've documented here, Kyle the

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Speaker 1: Murray's numbers outstanding, the offense as a whole outstanding. Now,

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Speaker 1: the question is not that it's if it's sustainable. It's

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Speaker 1: sustainable as long as Kyler Murray stays healthy. Question is

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Speaker 1: how long does this run lasts? As we look now

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Speaker 1: to Week five Cardinals and the forty nine Ers coming

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Speaker 1: up at State Farm Stadium. Because this forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: defense has a new defensive coordinator, Damiko Ryans, the linebackers

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Speaker 1: coach the previous three seasons, promoted after Robert Salo was

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Speaker 1: named Jets head coach, and right now it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a depending on what numbers you look at, MJ, this

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Speaker 1: could be one of those matchups you're like, all right,

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Speaker 1: better be careful. Top ten defense in terms of yards

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Speaker 1: per game, number ten against the past, number sixteen against

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Speaker 1: the run. They're very good on third down, very good

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Speaker 1: on fourth down. But they ranked twenty seconds in points allout.

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Speaker 1: So you can look at these numbers any different way

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Speaker 1: you want. Yes, it's going to be another challenge because

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Speaker 1: it's the next game on the schedule and none of

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Speaker 1: these players are going to say anything differently. But you

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Speaker 1: have to be worried about the forty nine Ers defensively

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Speaker 1: because for whatever reason, it's always a defense, and it's

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Speaker 1: within the division, but it's always a defense that has

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Speaker 1: given the Cardinals problems. Yes, and they have Bosa and

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Speaker 1: they have Fred Warner and they have d four. The

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Speaker 1: problem is they only have one interception on the ear,

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Speaker 1: they have zero force fumbles. They're minus five in the turnover,

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Speaker 1: takeaways and giveaways, so you know, sometimes that comes in bunches.

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Speaker 1: But they do have some guys that can get to

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. I'm more and we'll get into the sumarift

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Speaker 1: we hear from VJ Vans Joseph. I'm more concerned about

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Speaker 1: their offense, just the unknown with Trey Lance. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the Niners have won three out of the last four.

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Speaker 1: We know the Cardinals won in Week one last year,

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Speaker 1: got off to a good start and then you know,

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Speaker 1: I lost it Detroit and Carolina. But and you know

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Speaker 1: de Meco Ryans is been there for a while, so

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Speaker 1: it's not like he's coming in out. Everyone has their

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Speaker 1: different fingerprints. You know, maybe Sala played more man to man,

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Speaker 1: they may play more zone. Um. But but again, this

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Speaker 1: game is gonna come down to the trenches. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if the Cardinal's gonna win at the line of scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna open up everything. We just talked about

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Speaker 1: the play action, the running game. Um, you may wanted

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Speaker 1: to spread these guys out and throw the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field. I mean again, they don't. They don't even

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Speaker 1: they have one interception. Well, they have not had a

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Speaker 1: takeaway since week one defensively and since week one, And

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Speaker 1: that's that's something if you're the forty nine ers that

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Speaker 1: that would be concerning to me. But to your point

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Speaker 1: about spreading this forty nine ers defense out, Emanuel Moseley

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Speaker 1: is really the only guy that you need to that

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Speaker 1: is that has been playing well all season compared to

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Speaker 1: what they have now. Drake Kerpatrick got the start last week.

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Speaker 1: He'd just signed that last season with the Cardinals, they

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Speaker 1: added Josh Norman. He was inactive last week because of

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Speaker 1: a chest injury. There's not a lot of depth at

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Speaker 1: the cornerback position when it comes to the talent on

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Speaker 1: the football field. Jimmy Warren is a safety. So that

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Speaker 1: cornerback room right now, if you're the Cardinals, it might

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Speaker 1: be something that this team can exploit, provided the offensive

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Speaker 1: line does its job and keeps Nick Bosa d Ford

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Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Yeah, and it's one of those

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Speaker 1: scenarios where you know, if the Cardinals feel like and

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Speaker 1: again I don't know if they'll be able to run

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Speaker 1: the ball forty times. Obviously it's going to be based

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Speaker 1: on down in distance and what the score is. But

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Speaker 1: I do think they can run on this defense. I do,

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Speaker 1: and that's going to open up the play action and

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Speaker 1: then you can take some shots down the field. Now

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Speaker 1: you know, be patient, don't try to you know, hit

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Speaker 1: a home run. You know, every every possession, take it

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Speaker 1: to the d defense gives you. And that's one thing

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Speaker 1: that he hasn't done Kyler. He hasn't forced things. Now

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Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't say forced, but he is sometimes

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Speaker 1: a little bit too aggressive for my liking. But that's

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Speaker 1: just his nature. If you're hey, if you're going to

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Speaker 1: accept all these other numbers number one, number two, top ten,

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Speaker 1: as far as his individual numbers and the offense as

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Speaker 1: a whole, then you have to accept that sometimes he'll

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Speaker 1: throw the ball either not seeing a linebacker dropping coverage,

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Speaker 1: or he's going to try to force that ball or

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Speaker 1: get that ball in a tight window. And those were

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Speaker 1: two of the interceptions that he's thrown trying to get

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Speaker 1: the ball to Christian Kirk. Yeah, and again we have

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Speaker 1: to live with those plays. And the good news is

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Speaker 1: it really hasn't come back to haunt the Cardinals. You

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Speaker 1: don't want to have any pick sixes. But the interception

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville that was on the goal line. Okay, Now

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Speaker 1: it's not just you know, Bosa and Warner and d Ford,

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Speaker 1: Eric Armstead twenty fifteen first round pick, Javan kill Law,

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Speaker 1: who we liked coming out in the draft. It just

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Speaker 1: you know, the hockey stick arms. He was a first

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Speaker 1: round pick in twenty and then you look at Nick Bosa,

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Speaker 1: he was a first round pick, and then d Ford

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Speaker 1: was a free agent pickup. So I mean they have

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Speaker 1: and Jimmy Ward was a first round pick. Mosley was

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Speaker 1: a free agent. But for the most part, they've invested

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Speaker 1: a lot of their high draft picks on that defensive line.

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Speaker 1: And that was kind of John Lynch. Let's build from

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Speaker 1: the inside out, and that's that's what they've done. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, again, I like the Cardinals offensive line against

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Speaker 1: this front seven, and I definitely liked the Cardinals skill

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Speaker 1: position players against their secondary. Well you look at some

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Speaker 1: of the numbers again, Nick Bosa four sacks, give me

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Speaker 1: four sacks, tied for the fourth most, and d Ford

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Speaker 1: three sacks two last week Russell Wilson, So they have

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Speaker 1: the ability to get to the quarterback. And anytime Nick

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Speaker 1: Bosa is on the football field, remember what he did

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen as a defensive Rookie of the Year,

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Speaker 1: last year tearing that ACL in week two and now

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Speaker 1: and is it going to be this season or is

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Speaker 1: it twenty twenty two the year after you return in

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Speaker 1: which you get that explosiveness back. But Nick Bosa, pay

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Speaker 1: attention to where number ninety seven is on the football field.

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Speaker 1: Is he lined up next to DJ Humphreys, Is he

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Speaker 1: lined up over Calvin Beecham or Josh Jones depending on

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Speaker 1: who starts at right tackle. But that's a matchup to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to because much like in Aaron Donald, nick

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Speaker 1: Bosa not quite there yet. But he does have the

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Speaker 1: ability to wreck an offense for a quarter, for a half.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about an entire game, but he does

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Speaker 1: have that skill set. Yeah, no, he can wreck have it.

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Speaker 1: The good news though, just since we're talking about the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals offense versus the forty nine Ers defense, Calvin Beecham

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Speaker 1: was he looked like he was ready to practice. We'll

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Speaker 1: get the injury report again, we'll know more on a Friday.

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Speaker 1: But that's good news because he hasn't been able to play,

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Speaker 1: and then Josh Jones can go back and play right guard.

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Speaker 1: And I think you got you're starting five that you

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Speaker 1: started the season with. So that's good news. If Beacham

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Speaker 1: can go, obviously you're gonna have to have eight guys dress.

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Speaker 1: Max Garcia did a really nice job at right guard

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Speaker 1: last week. So it's interview, but having your starters back

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Speaker 1: out there that should be able to help protect the

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Speaker 1: edges when it comes to their pass rushers. D four

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Speaker 1: and Nick Bosa. Cardinals Cover two presented by Hunday, proud

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals, as we begin to look

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Speaker 1: ahead to Week five Cardinals and the forty nine Ers,

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Speaker 1: kicking off at one twenty five from State Farm Stadium

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Speaker 1: eight thirty am. Pregame coverage begins on the Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Radio Network. I know a lots of the focus of

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers and their coaching staff and their

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Speaker 1: fan base is the offense and what happens with Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo at Trey Letts. We'll get into that later this

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Speaker 1: week as we kind of dissect this game in parts. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's the Cardinals offense looking at the forty nine Ers defense.

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Speaker 1: It's not that everyone's ignoring the defense, but as we know,

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Speaker 1: offense sells tickets and defense winch ball games. Right now,

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, they're two and two m J. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And if you've listened to the show and we appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: This is how we break it down during this season.

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Speaker 1: Monday we usually recap. On Tuesday we do the Red

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Speaker 1: Sea Report kind of recap, and then the last seven

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Speaker 1: look ahead on Wednesdays we take a look at the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals offense against the team like the forty nine Ers defense,

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Speaker 1: and then tomorrow we'll flip it. So as you look

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Speaker 1: at this defense and what the forty nine ers were

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Speaker 1: able to do last week, Russell Wilson's numbers. Now, the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks won. It wasn't a blowout, but it was a

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Speaker 1: close game twenty eight twenty one. But offensively, Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: threw for a season low one hundred forty nine yards,

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Speaker 1: held the Seahawks overall to just two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: four yards of total offense. But the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: made mistakes and that's what the Seahawks were able to

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Speaker 1: capitalize on. So it is going to be tough sledding

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Speaker 1: and maybe even tougher than we anticipate going into this

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Speaker 1: matchup from an offensive standpoint. Of course, we said that

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Speaker 1: a week ago talking about the Rams defense, and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals literally picked them apart running the boot up ball

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Speaker 1: literally running the ball up and down the field and

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball literally up and down the field. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna err on the side of caution and not

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Speaker 1: try to get too ahead of myselves here on MJ

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Speaker 1: because I am aware of what the Cardinals have accomplished,

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Speaker 1: and I am aware of how far this team still

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Speaker 1: has to go. Yeah, and we'll get into it more tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But they did run the ball twenty nine times for

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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty three yards. The forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: on the Seahawks and Trey Lance had seven carries for

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Speaker 1: forty one yards. Of course, Trey Sermons a big back

641
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Speaker 1: nineteen for eighty nine and then Deebo Samuel also had

642
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Speaker 1: his hand in the pile there. But you know, Russell Wilson,

643
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, very pedestrium sixteen for twenty three one

644
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Speaker 1: forty nine sacks, times had a couple of touchdowns, and

645
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Speaker 1: they ran the ball twenty eight times for one hundred

646
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Speaker 1: and five yards less than four four yards of carry,

647
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Speaker 1: but they did have two rushing touchdowns Seahawks, so that's

648
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: maybe when you get down there, that's probably the better option.

649
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: Because those pass rushers can't rush. They got to become

650
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Speaker 1: more run blockers in this case, run tacklers. Well, you

651
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: brought up earlier in the show on how well the

652
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Speaker 1: Cardinals performed on third down last week, and the one

653
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Speaker 1: note about the forty nine Ers is how well they

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Speaker 1: are on third down. And this note from the forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers game notes. Over the past two weeks, forty

656
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Speaker 1: nine Ers defense has forced eleven three and outs, most

657
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Speaker 1: in the NFC, third most in the NFL. So they

658
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: are very good at getting you off the field on

659
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Speaker 1: third down overall, and sometimes it's quicker than you want

660
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Speaker 1: to get off the field. And I think the ability,

661
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: hopefully the Cardinals offensively have turned the corner as far

662
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Speaker 1: as converting on third down, because between weeks two and

663
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: three was not good at all. But if you're able

664
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Speaker 1: to move the chains or better yet MJ just not

665
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Speaker 1: get to a third down, convert on first down, convert

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Speaker 1: on second down, make it second and manageable. As defensively,

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Speaker 1: we always say, went on first down, Well, the same

668
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: works offensively. If you're gaining six or seven yards on

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Speaker 1: first down, then the entire playbook opens up for you

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Speaker 1: on second down and third down. It doesn't become an

671
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Speaker 1: automatic passing down, especially on third down, which means the

672
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Speaker 1: defense doesn't know what you're going to do. And right now,

673
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: for the most part, no defense has been able to

674
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Speaker 1: figure out what the Cardinals are going to do. And

675
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: that's a credit going back to Cliff Kingsbury and Kyler

676
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: Murray on the number of different weapons and the creativity

677
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: that this offensive coaching staff has shown. Whether it's that

678
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Speaker 1: much different than it was a year ago, at least

679
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 1: it looks a lot more different. Yeah, those are good

680
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 1: nuggets you brought up about the three and ounce Now

681
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: as as as a team, their opponents are sixteen for

682
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Speaker 1: forty eight thirty percent. Now offensively they're eighteen from forty

683
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Speaker 1: eight about thirty seven percent, So it's kind of but yeah,

684
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Speaker 1: that's interesting. Three and out, three and out that well, there,

685
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Speaker 1: it's hard to get momentum and you got to get

686
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Speaker 1: in a rhythm and then all of a sudden your

687
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 1: defense is on the fuel a little bit longer based

688
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: on time of possession, and that was the issue going

689
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Speaker 1: back to year one, that with the quote unquote air

690
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Speaker 1: raid narrative that if the offense goes three and out,

691
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: then how much time has taken off the clock thirty seconds,

692
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Speaker 1: forty six seconds, and all of a sudden, the defense

693
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Speaker 1: has to go back out and defend another political rise.

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Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, They had a twenty four second

695
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Speaker 1: drive this year, correct, That was so at the Minnesota game.

696
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Speaker 1: That was the Minnesota game. Yeah, where they were trying

697
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Speaker 1: to run out the clock and did not. And that

698
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: was another drive in which a penalty factored in and

699
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: then Kyle Murray taking a sack or running the ball

700
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: running out of bounds, so which goes as a sack.

701
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Speaker 1: So yeah, if the Cardinals offensively, we don't need another

702
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: twelve play ninety four yards scoring drive. I just that's

703
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Speaker 1: not what we would expect coming out of the gate

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter. Try to

705
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Speaker 1: solve the game away. Absolutely, But as we've said, you

706
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: pass for a lead and then you run out the clock.

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Speaker 1: I mean they punted twice, they scored what six different times?

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Speaker 1: They scored on seven of their eight posesven after the

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Speaker 1: three and out to open the game. Okay, yep, that

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00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: makes total sense. It looks like the Packers have signed

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00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: Ralesouel Douglas from the Cardinals practice squad. So it's a

712
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: guy that we were intrigued with. Antonio Hamilton beat him out,

713
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Speaker 1: and according to Darren Urban, that's why the Cardinals added

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Speaker 1: Greg Maybon to the practice squad today. Who has NFL experience.

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Speaker 1: By the way, how much way huge left turn here

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Speaker 1: on Cardinals Covered two presented by Hunda, partner of the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. But how much time to we spend talking

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Speaker 1: about Russell Douglas, not the player, but the uniform number.

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Speaker 1: We were finally going to get number twenty four on

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Speaker 1: the football field in a regular season game, not practice,

721
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Speaker 1: not preseason, but in a regular season game and kind

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Speaker 1: of make not make fun of, but at least acknowledge that, yes,

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Speaker 1: twenty four is available, is available. It's not out of

724
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Speaker 1: the rotation. Sorry, Adrian Wilson. It's not like number eleven.

725
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 1: It's no different than number thirteen or number three. So

726
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Speaker 1: are you thinking that a dub sabotage this guy? Well,

727
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: he wasn't elevated that week that we discussed things nobody's

728
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: ever gonna wear Hamilton, so we thought maybe a dab

729
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: had a hand in that. Now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: he's not even on the roster. Okay, well, at least

731
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Speaker 1: it gave us something to talk about this day, because

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Speaker 1: you know, I had a check with a dub and

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Speaker 1: he's a team player. I'm all good. And because we

734
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Speaker 1: noticed they don't give it out in training camp. I

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00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: mean they'll they'll have two forty three's and ones on offensive,

736
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Speaker 1: ones on defense. And I'm being tongue in cheekabuzz, sabotage.

737
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: The coaching staff decides, you know, who's going to start

738
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Speaker 1: and everything else. Obviously the front office job is to

739
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Speaker 1: get the players so they can coach him up and

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Speaker 1: everything else. But hey, look good for him because you

741
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: know what, earlier today on Wednesday, the Packers were rumored

742
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: that maybe be the favorite for Stephan Gilmore, and now

743
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: they went out and got Douglas. So clearly that was

744
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: a need for them. And I you know, just since

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Speaker 1: we're talking about Gilmore and what goes to Carolina, I

746
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,320
Speaker 1: don't think Belichick wanted him to go to Kansas City

747
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Speaker 1: or Baltimore within the division or within the AFC. Just

748
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: a conference, not saying that, you know, you may have

749
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Speaker 1: to play him in the postseason. But Carolina based on

750
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: their corners, Craig, I mean they're loading up for the Falcons,

751
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: the Bucks and the Saints wide receivers, and then if

752
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: they get to the postseason, well, don't forget about the

753
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: Cardinals on the fourteen, yes November, but a little bit

754
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: for the denial who put the Rams and Cardinals received

755
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: in that same category maybe after Tampa so that you

756
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: could see what they're doing. And you know, Phil Snow

757
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: has done a nice job with that defense coming off

758
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: their first loss. But we'll see them down the road

759
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: and it's going to be an interesting matchup of Sam.

760
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: Darnold's playing a lot better. And I know that Stefan

761
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: Gilmore news caught a lot of people by surprise the

762
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 1: fact that he at one point was going to be released,

763
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: and then they kind of pulled a Rodney Hudson and

764
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders like, oh well, maybe let's just

765
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: float this out there, let's get a trade. But you know,

766
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: everyone speculates, and I there had better have been thirty

767
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: one teams that picked up the phone and called the Patriots,

768
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: because one he is that good of a player? Talking

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Speaker 1: about Gilmore? He is still on pup and won't be

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Speaker 1: available until later on this season for the Panthers. But

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00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: that's someone that you at least call and ask. And

772
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: I'm even including the cardinalsburg ganging. But at that point,

773
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Speaker 1: it's how much is it going to cost to acquire

774
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,839
Speaker 1: or if he is released, how much is it going

775
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: to cost to sign? And then you're coming in here

776
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: talking specifically about the Cardinals. You're not coming in as

777
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 1: a number one corner. You might not even be coming

778
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: in as a number two corner because how well Byron

779
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 1: Murphy and Marco Wilson played. And then obviously, how does

780
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: a step on Gilmore fit within the Cardinals defensive scheme? Yeah,

781
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: well questions that. For about an hour and a half

782
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 1: two hours earlier on Wednesday, everyone was asking, and then

783
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: quickly the door was slammed shut as Gilmore gets dealt

784
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Speaker 1: to the Panthers. Yeah, and that's Belichick because he put

785
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Speaker 1: out a statement, you know, thanking him for his services.

786
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Speaker 1: And then of course he had his press conference like

787
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: five minutes later, and he wouldn't talk about it. And

788
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: then once the press conference and they figured out a

789
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: trade so yeah, I don't think he'll be ready for

790
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 1: about three weeks. He's got to get into football shape.

791
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: He hasn't played since Week eleven of last year. So there,

792
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 1: they've been prepared for this, and they've done a good

793
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: job with that secondary. If there's one thing about the

794
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: Patriots right now, their secondary has been their strength, and

795
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: now they're just waiting kind of for that. They did

796
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: a nice job holding the Bucks down and was raining,

797
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: but they did a nice job when they give up

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Speaker 1: twenty points. So yeah, I mean it's you know what's

799
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: really interesting, Craig is I think you know, when Malcolm

800
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Speaker 1: Butler left camp, we started looking, okays, Marco Wilson ready

801
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: for this off? Can he say healthy? We know, murphs

802
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,840
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you, around the league, you're lucky to

803
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: have three or four corners. I mean, it seems like

804
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: the teams have that number one corner and then they

805
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: got another guy and you're hoping somebody can play in

806
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: the slot. That is a position, and we see how

807
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: many corners get trafted every single year, and then you

808
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,319
Speaker 1: look at them and the guys who are on the street,

809
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: Josh Norman, Richard Sherman, I mean, household names. So I

810
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: think the Cardinals have benefited from this secondary and a

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Speaker 1: lot of it has to do with Buddha Baker and

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Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson, but they can hold their own and so

813
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting. But it's just amazing that position.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have two or three guys, you're gonna

815
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: get picked on bottom line, the best news about all

816
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Speaker 1: of this is that Gilmore did not up within the

817
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: division because on paper, the rams you imagined him opposite

818
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Speaker 1: of Ramsey. The Diners they need helping their secondary, and

819
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: the Seahawks need helping their secondary. And again he's going

820
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: to and he's from that area, so maybe again, I

821
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Speaker 1: don't think Belichick wanted to play him have a team

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Speaker 1: in the AFC because really he's going to be on,

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00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,720
Speaker 1: you know, a seven week contract, and if he excels

824
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, he's a fifteen million dollar guy next year,

825
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: so we can get four years sixty million now. So

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Speaker 1: Belichick's thinking, I don't want him deal with this guy

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Speaker 1: for the next three or four years, so I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: send him there now. If he plays well, we know

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Speaker 1: Dave Tempers. Temper is willing to spend money, so I

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Speaker 1: gotta think if you're Carolina, you're looking at this from

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Speaker 1: a long term possibility. With JC Horn, I mean that

832
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: you want two good corners J. C. Horne. They're hoping

833
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: he gets back in December. Good sidebar here, m J. Yeah, Craig,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting just to peel the curtains back

835
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Speaker 1: before we get out of here today. Is you know,

836
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Speaker 1: throughout the last year and a half or so, we

837
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: have this team called Debate This and usually when the Cardinals,

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00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: you know, if they're five and two or six and three,

839
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: you can kind of nitpick you and I have to

840
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: we have to come up with three, and we already have.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's interesting because yes it's not perfect, and

842
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: they'll tell you they left points on the board. I mean,

843
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: the defense will say there's still got to get better

844
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 1: against the run. But it's hard to find something where

845
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: I feel this strong about something. It's a good problem

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Speaker 1: to have. And that episode of Debate This will be

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Speaker 1: posted a little bit later on this week on Easy

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Speaker 1: Cardinals dot com and obviously on the Arizona Cardinals official

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel as Cardinals or say YouTube dot com slash

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Speaker 1: as Cardinals. Speaking of the Arizona Cardinals official YouTube page.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, October sixth, Episode three of Cardinals Folk Tales

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Speaker 1: presented by seventy two so old Day use. It is

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Speaker 1: One Time in Mexico, a look back at two thousand

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Speaker 1: and five and a game between the Cardinals and forty

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Speaker 1: nine Ers in Mexico City, and it's a game that

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Speaker 1: I remember. I was not there, but I was there.

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Speaker 1: It was the first NFL regular season game played on

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Speaker 1: foreign soil, and the Cardinals that day MJ beat the

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, And it is the subject of episode

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Speaker 1: three folk Tales presented by seventy two sold Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: you could see the trailer and Robert Griffith, he was

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Speaker 1: the guy that ran out of the tunnel with the flag,

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Speaker 1: and then you got Rolando Cant just talking about the

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Speaker 1: importance of that going there and selling the game. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals are going to go back there

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Speaker 1: as long as they can. You know, obviously the COVID situation,

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Speaker 1: but I do think they're going to go back there.

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Speaker 1: But that that was an interesting game, and I'll never

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Speaker 1: forget him running out of the tunnel carrying that flag.

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Speaker 1: Episode three Folk Tales present to buy seventy two Soul

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Speaker 1: titled One Time in Mexico, debuts on Wednesday, October sixth. Again,

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Speaker 1: go to the Arizona Cardinals official YouTube channel YouTube dot

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Speaker 1: com slash ac Cardinals and make sure you catch up

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Speaker 1: on the previous episodes. Folk Tales present to buy seventy

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Speaker 1: two soul legendary locker The Night the Goalposts Vanished, all

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Speaker 1: great stuff, looking back at some of the high points

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Speaker 1: of Arizona Cardinals history here in Arizona. On that note

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Speaker 1: that will put a lid on this edition of Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Cover two presented by Honday, proud partner the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: As always, special thanks to our executive producer Jim Momahundro

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Speaker 1: for Mike Drecky, I'm Craig Rayel Loup. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you next time here on Cardinals Cover two.