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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang on today's show, Why must they make

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Speaker 1: it so darn interesting? A roller coaster of emotions watching

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Speaker 1: that game in Jacksonville. Bottom line, though another win was secured.

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Speaker 1: That's three and three games, and as AJ Green said

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Speaker 1: post game, that's all that matters. It's Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 1: Episode four seventy three, and it starts now. Welcome to

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

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Speaker 1: catch at a touchdown? DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig Griolou and

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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki. Well, when we last left everyone we talked

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Speaker 1: about wanting to see this team learn from its past

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Speaker 1: knots have history repeat itself start two and O only

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Speaker 1: to lose to a less talented team. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we can definitively say, MJ that this team has

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Speaker 1: quite learned its lesson at least if you just look

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Speaker 1: at the first half and totality. Yes, some adversity actually

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Speaker 1: a lot of adversity. They made that contest on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: For me, MJ just a little bit too interesting for

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Speaker 1: my liking. Considering the opponents, I understand every given Sunday,

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Speaker 1: but for me, thirty one nineteen, that was a close

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Speaker 1: ball game for four quarters. Yeah, and the Cardinals got

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Speaker 1: out to a lead and then the next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: this team makes adjustments, and you'd like to see those

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Speaker 1: adjustments maybe in the first half. And I think once

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Speaker 1: about different things what they see and low. Maybe they

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Speaker 1: but I do like how they recovered in these last

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Speaker 1: two games in the second half, because you know, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals had twenty four points in the second half. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously they had the pick six, but they were able

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Speaker 1: think to a certain extent, and it's human nature, but

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals were a much more talented team and in

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Speaker 1: the end, talent one outs. It just should have won

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Speaker 1: out a lot sooner. We didn't need that kind of

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Speaker 1: emotional roller coaster, if you will, especially between the end

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Speaker 1: get that, I don't think for a full four quarters. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean we talked about this yesterday when we were

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Speaker 1: and if you missed that, sure an hour before kickoff,

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Speaker 1: we're going to give you a great coverage where you

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's tough to win on the road

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Speaker 1: They got to turnaround game this week. But I you know,

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Speaker 1: if you will, and understand that, yes, teams are going

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Speaker 1: Negative plays are going to happen. But how do you

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Speaker 1: in the first three games of a season. Bird Gang

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Speaker 1: that's never been done in the history of the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals franchise. Let me say that again. Three thirty or

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Speaker 1: more points, four hundred or more yards of offense in

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Speaker 1: the first three games to start a season never been

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Speaker 1: done before year three. Keep talking about it all season

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Speaker 1: j year three. The expectation while they are exceeding expectations,

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Speaker 1: small sample size, but through three games, and they have

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Speaker 1: better players, and they have guys that can take the

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Speaker 1: top off the defense. They have running backs now that

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Speaker 1: will hit the hole and get to the second layer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, nothing against David Johnson or Kenyan Drake, but

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Speaker 1: there's a reason why they're not in a roster here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and I was thinking Mike Davis,

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Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde, and they hear they signed James Conner, and

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Speaker 1: you know, Murray threw a ball behind him a little bit,

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Speaker 1: he caught it, was able to get out of great grab.

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Speaker 1: I mean, and even Cliff and even Kyler thought, you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: we know Chase can catch the ball. But I think

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Speaker 1: he's impressed the coaching staff where you don't. He's not

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Speaker 1: a one trick pony when he's in there. It's not

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Speaker 1: just short yardage plus he's a big back. He gets

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Speaker 1: in the open field, those dbs don't want to tackle him.

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Speaker 1: You look at the overall rushing numbers, though thirty carries

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Speaker 1: ninety one yards. It's not great. But the rushing touchdowns, yes,

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Speaker 1: three more rushing touchdowns that is if I remember correctly

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Speaker 1: five total this season. For a while, that'll look like

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Speaker 1: it was only give me Kyler running in the football

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Speaker 1: at end of the end zone. But James Connor got

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Speaker 1: in there twice in the second half, and he is

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Speaker 1: that different running back because he can pound the ball

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Speaker 1: between the tackles. And on that second touchdown, going back

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Speaker 1: to the offensive line, great job by DJ Humphreys with

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Speaker 1: a down block and Darrell Daniels sealing the outside linebacker

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Speaker 1: or the edge rusher, and all of a sudden, James

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Speaker 1: Connor just was able to run through a hole on

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Speaker 1: the left side. Little things like that people pay attention to,

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Speaker 1: especially when things are going well, and right now they

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Speaker 1: are going well for the Arizona Cardinals offensively defensively. MJ.

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Speaker 1: Let's touch on what we saw, the good and the bad.

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Speaker 1: We'll start with the good here on Cardinals cover two

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Speaker 1: present to buy Hunday probably partner of the Arizona Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and the good is Spyron Murphy, the local kid out

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Speaker 1: of Scottsdale Sarrel High School. His first multi interception game

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Speaker 1: of his career, the seconds and third receptions or interceptions

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Speaker 1: of his career, and the first career pick six, which

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Speaker 1: I think really was the backbreaker, the momentum changer, if

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Speaker 1: you will, in that contest to get that ball into

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Speaker 1: the end zone on a pick six, in which I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, I mean the ball was kind

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Speaker 1: of hanging in the air a little while. I mean

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Speaker 1: we might have been able to get that football, was

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Speaker 1: it Jordan Hicks had forced that No, this was the

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Speaker 1: pick six? Yeah, okay, And well on the pick six

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Speaker 1: credit JJ Watt, which pressure he was able to go

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Speaker 1: and he had to kind of back up, throw off

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Speaker 1: his left foot or throw off his back foot, and

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Speaker 1: that ball was hung in the air for like seemed eternity. Now,

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Speaker 1: I really like when Bayern Murphy was able to break

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Speaker 1: down the flee fliger. Now they ran the ball at

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Speaker 1: eight consecutive times, and usually the defense starts to get

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Speaker 1: sucked in. And you you detailed how well Robinson was

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Speaker 1: getting chunkyards. He said, He looked at the running backs

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Speaker 1: eyes and he can tell he was getting the ball

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Speaker 1: to throw back. He said, I jet it because that's

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Speaker 1: what you're to do, to just get out to the outside.

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Speaker 1: And here he was able to make a play. He

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Speaker 1: could probably could have another one, And I think Marco

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Speaker 1: Wilson should have had one. Robert Alford. Robert Alford could

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Speaker 1: have had one. Isaiah Simmons had early in the game.

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Speaker 1: It was it was a it would have been a

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Speaker 1: difficult catch, but he dove and he had two hands

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Speaker 1: on it. And I think he was upset because one,

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Speaker 1: it would have been an interception. Two it would have

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Speaker 1: been an interception against Trevor Lawrence, which three he would

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Speaker 1: have been able to talk about it for the rest

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Speaker 1: of his life with his good friend from the Clemson Tigers.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, what Byron Murphy did on the fleeflicker is

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Speaker 1: learning from his mistakes. Week one, the Tennessee Titans ran

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Speaker 1: a flee flicker and Murphy got burned. Didn't happen this

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Speaker 1: time around. Once again, the maturity learning your lesson and

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Speaker 1: Murphy and this team understanding that mistakes are going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Don't make the same mistake twice learn from that mistake,

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Speaker 1: get better because of that mistake. And I think Murphy

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Speaker 1: here week three learned and got better because of what

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Speaker 1: happened in Week one. Yeah, you know, I went to

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus today and I know we still have

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Speaker 1: another game today, but they come out with their defensive

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Speaker 1: Team of the Week and they have Isaiah Oliver from

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Speaker 1: the Falcons at corner, Christian Fulton from the Titans, Justin Simmons,

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Speaker 1: and then Chuck Clark from the Ravens. They used Murph

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Speaker 1: as a flux guy. So he made the Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Focus Week three team of all the single players at

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Speaker 1: his position. That's impressive. I want to say clearly, in

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Speaker 1: Week one, Chandeler Jones was on that list, and I

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Speaker 1: think Byron Murphy could have been on that list too, So,

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Speaker 1: you know, his grades, you would think it'd be a

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Speaker 1: little bit higher. But man, when we talked to Vans

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Speaker 1: in the offseason and I was asking about Alford and

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Speaker 1: then you know, obviously they bring in Mark Malcolm Butler,

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Speaker 1: and then you know they draft Marco Wilson. But vance

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Speaker 1: was he was so adamant. Let's talk about Murphy. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about Murphy, and he is a number one corner,

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Speaker 1: I mean again, and Marco Wilson's only going to get

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Speaker 1: better with more time. And Alford, I mean he's physical.

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Speaker 1: They're all gonna play. You need three or four corners

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Speaker 1: in the Hamilton's really really been a pleasant surprise. It's

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Speaker 1: unbelievable what was said in the offseason about buyer Murphy

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Speaker 1: by advanced Joseph. We are seeing what advanced Joseph knew

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Speaker 1: back in June. Week one, three passes defense, Week three,

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Speaker 1: two interceptions, and you look at the numbers. Five passes

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Speaker 1: defense tied for the most in the NFL, and Murphy

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Speaker 1: the only player in the league with at least five

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Speaker 1: passes defense and two interceptions this season. He was drafted

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Speaker 1: in the second round to be an inside corner at

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Speaker 1: the time. Now he can play both, but he is

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Speaker 1: a true number one cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals. We

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Speaker 1: are seeing him grow from a rookie to now year

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Speaker 1: three once again, that year three, that magical year three,

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Speaker 1: night and day from Byron Murphy as a rookie to

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Speaker 1: now here in twenty twenty one. Yeah, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he would be the first to tell you that. You know,

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Speaker 1: when Patrick got suspended for six games, and Alfred went

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Speaker 1: down before the season started. I mean he was covering

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Speaker 1: Julio Jones and it wasn't a big deal this time around,

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Speaker 1: whether it was Marco Wilson covering A. J. Brown or

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Speaker 1: Bryan and Murphy covering Julio. It was night and day.

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Speaker 1: So he had to go through that, those trials and

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Speaker 1: errors and just you know, you gotta have thick skin,

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Speaker 1: you gotta have a short memory. If you get beat

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Speaker 1: on the ball, you gotta go back out there and

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Speaker 1: challenge the guys. So I think what he went through

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Speaker 1: as a rookie, we're starting to see now the physicality

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Speaker 1: how his football IQ. You could see he knows and

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Speaker 1: sees things out and the prime example would be the

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Speaker 1: flea flicker well, and he plays physical. He's not afraid

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Speaker 1: of the contact. Eleven tackles in addition, so you are

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Speaker 1: seeing someone that is sometimes heading up to the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage to make a play or in the secondary

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Speaker 1: making a play. But it goes back to what we've

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Speaker 1: heard about Robert Alford Marco Wilson being a physical corner.

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Speaker 1: Corners in the NFL don't like to tackle. That's the

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Speaker 1: narrative out there. Well, the Cardinals have three and if

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Speaker 1: you want to throw in a fourth with Antonio Hamilton,

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Speaker 1: who has played well in spurts when needed to, especially

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Speaker 1: when Marco Wilson went down with the ankle injury last

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Speaker 1: week against the Vikings. But buyer Murphy can't say enough

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Speaker 1: about him because it's a homegrown talent, if you will,

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Speaker 1: as far as a draft pick maturing into not only

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Speaker 1: a number one corner, but if we are on this

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Speaker 1: same path, maybe one of the better cornerbacks in the

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Speaker 1: league at the end of the season. And Jayalen Thompson,

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Speaker 1: how much has he improved open field tackling and the

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Speaker 1: big thing with him is just being able to stay healthy. Correct,

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Speaker 1: But I mean, and then when we know Buddha's a

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Speaker 1: heat sick and a missile. Now it's interesting, Craig, because

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Speaker 1: going into the season, we thought until the corner position

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Speaker 1: kind of settles down, and obviously we were surprised as

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Speaker 1: everyone else about Malcolm Butler. But you know, it's a business.

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Speaker 1: Do you have to move on? But I thought the

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Speaker 1: front seven and yes, we'll go back to the Titans

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Speaker 1: game because that's validation for me how well this team

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Speaker 1: can play. But they're given they're ranked twenty ninth right now,

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Speaker 1: given up one hundred and forty yards per game on

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Speaker 1: the ground, and that's the bad when you look at

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Speaker 1: the defense. But it's how are you looking at what

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Speaker 1: they're doing? Because week one, the run defense they shut

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Speaker 1: down Derrick Henry. And I'll say it again. You have

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Speaker 1: JJ Watt walking off the field in Nashville on Mike saying,

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Speaker 1: not a surprise, that was expected, all right, So now

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Speaker 1: we need to see it weeks two, week three, and

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry in weeks two and three has been running

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Speaker 1: over the opposition. So the Cardinals shut down Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't the case Dalvin Cook until the second half. They

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Speaker 1: did a much better job. James Robinson, however, one scoring

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Speaker 1: drive he did about eighty percent of his damage. Six

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Speaker 1: carries sixty six yards. The rest of the game nine

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Speaker 1: carries twenty eight yards, so or I should say nine

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Speaker 1: carries twenty two yards. So it's you're asking this defense

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Speaker 1: to be perfect, and they want to be perfect. They

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Speaker 1: want to be better. I don't like the fact that

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Speaker 1: they are giving up better than five yards almost five

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Speaker 1: and a half yards every time a running back or

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Speaker 1: someone carries the football on them. Yet it's the bulk

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Speaker 1: of those yards are coming on one drive or two drives.

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Speaker 1: It's not spread out during the course of the entire game.

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Speaker 1: The Cardinals defense only allowed two touchdowns. You allow fourteen points,

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Speaker 1: or you want to say, twelve points plus the pats

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Speaker 1: or in the case of Jacksonville, they can't make a pat.

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Speaker 1: But twelve points. If that's what you are allowing per game,

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Speaker 1: you're going to win a lot of games. Twelve points

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Speaker 1: should not be enough to beat you. So this Cardinals defense,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's finding some consistency through four quarters. We're

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Speaker 1: seeing some good, seeing some bad, and also seeing a

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Speaker 1: little ugly as well. It's just now a matter of

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Speaker 1: putting everything together. They did in Week one, Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know j J. Watton, Chandler Jones. They earned a seventy

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Speaker 1: plus pass rushing grave on the edge, they combined for

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Speaker 1: eleven pressures, including five quarterback hits. What ended up with

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Speaker 1: a strip sack on Trevor Lawrence to finish it. And

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Speaker 1: then Jordan Hicks. We don't talk about this guy enough.

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Speaker 1: He had a ninety two one, ninety one point two

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Speaker 1: pass rushing grade, was headed for a sack and six pressures.

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Speaker 1: He also recorded five tackles, including one for Laws So

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Speaker 1: and Byron Murphy. He earned a ninety point two coverage grade,

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Speaker 1: snagging two interception, allowing just forty five yards on five catches.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because we thought the strength going in would

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Speaker 1: be the front seven, but that secondary they're coming together.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're I mean the team there. When you

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Speaker 1: can force those turnos like they did on Sunday, that's

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Speaker 1: impressive and so maybe you are going to have to

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Speaker 1: give up a little bit more on the ground, but

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Speaker 1: that's got to that's got to improve. Again. You're never

642
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: gonna shut a team down, you know, I think the

643
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: Patriots ran the ball, are through the ball fifty five times.

644
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: But if you get a team that has a lead

645
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: like the Rams or nine Ers or even the Browns,

646
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 1: and the Browns ran for over two hundred, two hundred

647
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: and fifteen yards yesterday, So you just don't want them

648
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: to be in third and short where they're starting they

649
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: where it's not just a pass down. You want to

650
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: make sure that, like Vans always talks about first and

651
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: second down, kind of limit that and then get him

652
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: in third and long and that's where these guys can

653
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: tee off well, make your opponent one dimensional, and I

654
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: don't think the Cardinals defense did that against the Jaguars

655
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: until it was thirty one nineteen. But at that point

656
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: you've got less than seven minutes to go in the

657
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 1: ball game. Five and a half yards a carry is

658
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: what the Jaguars running backs, and that includes Trevor Lawrence

659
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: who scampered six times for twenty seven yards. But you

660
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: can't allow that kind of a number per carry. And

661
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: I understand I just mentioned that much of that number

662
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: is inflated because of one scoring drive. Yet at the

663
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: end of the day, if you're Brentson Buckner, if you're

664
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: Coach Davis or coach Bulling, all of a sudden, you're

665
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: pointing to that number. So we can't let this happen.

666
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: Whether that's we're doing well in the first half and

667
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden we have a slip up

668
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 1: in the third quarter on a scoring drive that it

669
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: doesn't look good, and then all of a sudden, it's

670
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: it's what we're seeing versus what the numbers are showing us. Yeah,

671
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: you're not going to be plus three every game in

672
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: the turnover ratio. So to me, there's a little bit,

673
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: you know, to where if you're forcing turnovers, you can

674
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: afford to give out that one possession where he obviously

675
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: had a twelve yard run eighteen five six. I want

676
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: to say the touchdown with six yards, but yeah, and

677
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 1: you look at James Connor he had in the second half.

678
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: He had two huge rushing scores that helped them obviously

679
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: break the game. He had thirty rushing yards after contact.

680
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: He had four first down runs in two fours miss tackles,

681
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: So that doesn't show up in the stat sheet. You

682
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: look at his average per carry, it's not what you

683
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: think it is, but it's it's more the volume when

684
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: he's in there. I mean the fact that again two touchdowns,

685
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: thirty yards rushing after contact, and he had ended up

686
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: with four first down runs. That's what you need. There

687
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: is a lot to like through three games, a lot

688
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: to like from what we saw in Week three, and

689
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: a lot that needs to be cleaned up that we

690
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: continue to talk about two weeks in a row the

691
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: run defense, and for two weeks in a row, how

692
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 1: about third down offense, something Kingsbury brought up as well

693
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: on Monday. If you're looking to where this offense can

694
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: get better, and I laugh because you're still thirty points

695
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: four hundred yards of offense, and we're saying, how do

696
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: you get better? And because you're leaving points on the

697
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: field and DeAndre Hopkins went missing again for a second

698
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: straight week, and you're still able to put up a

699
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: lot of points and a lot of yards. But on

700
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: Sunday one of nine on third down the week prior

701
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: against the Vikings two of ten, excuse me, three of ten,

702
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: So four of nineteen over the past two weeks. Compare

703
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: that to seven to thirteen in week one. Yeah, they're

704
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: eleven for thirty one right now, thirty five percent. I'll

705
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: say this though, red zone ten of thirteen seventy seven percent.

706
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: I do like that and really like that. And that's

707
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: where Kyl there has had a couple walk in touchdowns

708
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,479
Speaker 1: that we saw James Connor get two touchdowns. So I'll

709
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: take that. I mean, yeah, you want to. You know,

710
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 1: we'll obviously break down the Rams this week because they're

711
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: really good on third down. I mean, they don't know,

712
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times they face it. I

713
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: mean I haven't in front of me. They're nineteen for

714
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 1: thirty five, fifty four percent, So that's going to be

715
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: an issue. Get Matthew Stafford off the field and don't

716
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: let him throw the ball down the field. They have

717
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: plenty of time to get into that. Always nice to

718
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: nitpick and point towards even after a win, because at

719
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: the end of the day, as we say, and we've

720
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: been saying it now for three consecutive weeks on a Monday,

721
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: much easier to make corrections following a win than it

722
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: is a loss. And I do think these coaches have

723
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: enough on film to point to is, Hey, don't get

724
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 1: too high. You guys haven't done anything yet. Look at X,

725
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: Y and Z. You very easily could have lost to

726
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: the Vikings, very easily could have lost to the Jaguars.

727
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: So this team is far from perfect. But when you're

728
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: one of five that still can say that are undefeated,

729
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: I think you're in pretty good company. Yeah, and one

730
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: of five that's scoring over thirty points a game, and

731
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: that's going to go a long way. Especially this team

732
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: can get in his shootout. Now, clearly you don't want

733
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: to depend on that because then you know you can't

734
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. You'll probably pass them more than

735
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: you want to with the utilizing the play action, but

736
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 1: also defensively they're gonna have to make some STPs, but

737
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,959
Speaker 1: I was more encouraged what I saw in the second half,

738
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: just kind of staying in their gaps. I do think

739
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: some guys are freelancing, and these guys that you know,

740
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: I think that our fleet to lancing. You probably won't

741
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: we probably don't notice it with a naked eye because

742
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: they can recover in a heartbeat. So sometimes you're supposed

743
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: to stay in your gap, but if you feel like

744
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: I can split the double team, I'm going up the

745
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,640
Speaker 1: field that that allows somebody like Zach Allen or Chandler

746
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: Jones to come off to the edge. So you still

747
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: want to stay in the frame of the defense. But

748
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: they have a couple of venting guys that they like

749
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: the freelance a little bit, but they also could recover

750
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: to where you know, you're not going to give up

751
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: a twenty yard run because he was freelancing. Cardinals Cover

752
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: two presented by Hunday probab partner of the Arizona Cardinals.

753
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: You want to get into the kick six because you

754
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: and I have different views on what happened and what

755
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: didn't happen, But at the end of the day, it

756
00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,320
Speaker 1: did not cost this team. It very well could have,

757
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: but let's go over it. Right before the end of

758
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: the first half, Cardinals with the ball, twenty one seconds left,

759
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: three timeouts, and they start from their own twenty five

760
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: yard line. The decision to attempt a sixty eight yard

761
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: record breaking kick in Jacksonville outdoors Sea level comes up short.

762
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: I went back. I haven't seen a good view, a

763
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: good replay of how short? But it was not well short?

764
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: For too many people say that it wasn't four or

765
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: five yards short. You know why. I know that because

766
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: it was a one hundred and nine yard return. If

767
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have one hundred and nine yard return

768
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: if you're five yards shorts of the crossbar, do the math.

769
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: So this was a yard maybe two yards short, So

770
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: it would have been good from sixty six maybe sixty seven.

771
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,879
Speaker 1: That's what I thought when I watched a short cut

772
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 1: today and I backed it up. I thought it was

773
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: two yards short, all right, So I had no problem

774
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: with the decision. I understand hindsight. But you before the

775
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: kick weren't in favor of it. No, just be well,

776
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: let's go back to the play call. I mean that

777
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: that drive right there you have in front of I

778
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: can look at it right now. So it's first and

779
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: twenty five, Murray nine yards, Okay, Murray's left pushed out

780
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: out of bounce for nine yards, then Chase Edmonds up

781
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: the middle for four yards. Cardinals call a timeout. It's

782
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: first and ten at to thirty eight. They get Chase

783
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: Edmonds on a twelve yard Now, Jacksonville calls a timeout

784
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: and Kingsbury has all three timeouts left. Correct at that point,

785
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: he would add two left because he burned one with

786
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: ten seconds to ten seconds ago. To me, I don't

787
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: know if they would have done the hell Mary or

788
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: just got all your bigs out there, because that would

789
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: have been a sixty five yard pass. Yeah, I mean,

790
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: depending on how far. And I'm not saying Kyl, they're

791
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: back up. I'm not saying he can't throw that. But

792
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: at that point, I'm just taking a knee and I'm

793
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: going in and a half. That was all my point.

794
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: I listen, I don't and we need to make sure

795
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: we clarify this before every game. Matt Prattor goes out

796
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: there and he kicks on both sides and he'll let

797
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: the special team's coordinator Assistant head coach Jeff Rogers know

798
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,399
Speaker 1: what he's good at this end and that end. Those

799
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: conversations take place before the game. Now, if it's windy

800
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: in this case, maybe the humanity was close to fifty percent,

801
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 1: but he had practiced that. Now, to me, we look

802
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: at Justin Tucker. That was indoors. This was outdoors. Again,

803
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: it's hindsight because I just figured if he misses it,

804
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,760
Speaker 1: half sober. But we've seen this in college, it's happened.

805
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: So that was my only thing. But again, he can

806
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: make that kick. I mean, he just made it. I mean,

807
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: I know it's a long kick, and when you see

808
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: him line up, you're like, oh, wow, that's those uprights.

809
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: Seems so far while you're lining up on the other

810
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,280
Speaker 1: side of the fifty yard line. It takes some getting

811
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: used to seeing it's it's it's a weird adjustment because

812
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, really, this is happening. But they it's not

813
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: like it was like, oh, let's just try to get

814
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,360
Speaker 1: some more points here. I mean, they actually studied this

815
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: before the game. And he tells both and then Rogers

816
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: will tell Kingsbury this is where he's good from. So

817
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: Cliff thought, hey, let's just get some points. Get the

818
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: ball in the second half, and obviously you know that

819
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 1: first possession and the second half to in go their way.

820
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: It was not a spur of the moment decision, and

821
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,280
Speaker 1: that I think gets lost because fans see the results

822
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 1: is like, what are you doing. It's a discussion that

823
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: happened during the week pregame, and I am going to

824
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: lean on my special teams coordinator who's been in the

825
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: league for a number of years, and I'm going to

826
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: lean on my veteran kicker who had before Justin Tucker

827
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: the longest field goal in NFL history. Yeah, and that

828
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: was indoors and obviously what he did in Denver, and

829
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: that's why I brought up Tucker. I got again. I

830
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: was sitting there watching it with Kyle Vandenbach and as

831
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,080
Speaker 1: soon as he lines up, he goes, well, if he

832
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: misses this, and they showed the guy agu Jamal Agnew Agnew, Yeah,

833
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: they showed him, you know, waiting just to see. And

834
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: the first thing Kyle said to me, if he catches this,

835
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: matter of fact, if he misses and he catches it

836
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: on the fly, We're not going to have the bodies

837
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: out there to chase this guy down. And initially I

838
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: think it was Aaron Brewer because you can't have a

839
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: guy across from him, so he gets down the field

840
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: pretty quick. And then I think it was eighty six mirrors.

841
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: Demetrius Harris had the best chance at Agnew at the

842
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 1: thirty five yard line and completely whiffts. It almost looked

843
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: like he dove and tried to be Superman to try

844
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: to get Agnew's legs where if he Again, this is me,

845
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: not the football player, but just watching it from my couch,

846
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: so to speak, that if you just kept your full

847
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: beat ahead, maybe you would have been able to hit

848
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 1: him or slow him down for someone else. But Max

849
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 1: Garcia miss to tackle. Max Williams was double teamed on

850
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: the play, and it was Demetrius Harris eighty six who

851
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: I thought if he had just kept his head up

852
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: and went running straight ahead, Now that's one angle that

853
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: I was watching. But that was the error here, and

854
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Speaker 1: it's look, there's a risk reward for me. You know,

855
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Speaker 1: the odds of making that kick without doing the analytics

856
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: I thought were higher than the odds of Agnew returning

857
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: that kick one hundred and nine yards. Too much needed

858
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: to happen for Agnew versus what needed to happen for

859
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: Matt Prator to make the kick. According to the next

860
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: Gen Stats that that was a ten percent win rate

861
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: if you kick it now. Somebody called him so, I

862
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: wonder what the hundred and nine was. I'm get ahead

863
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: to be less. I mean, that's a long ways to

864
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 1: go and dodging a number of different defenders. And Prador

865
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: actually after he misses it, you know, he's kind of

866
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: set up a little bit. He gets caught in the scrum.

867
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Speaker 1: But he did a nice job running trying to run

868
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: down and Aaron Brewer was down there also, but at

869
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: that point you're not going to catch the guy. Plus

870
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: he had returned a kickoff return one hundred and two

871
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: yards a week before. Let me give you this quote,

872
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: We're going to be aggressive. Matt felt good about it

873
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: in pregame, and it fortunately worked out the way it did.

874
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Speaker 1: End quotes the start of that quote, we're going to

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00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: be aggressive. Let's head coach Cliff Kingsbury. The one thing

876
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: that everyone can agree upon. Outside of maybe those first

877
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: four games in twenty nineteen, Kingsbury has been aggressive with

878
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: his decisions offense, defense, leaning on Vance Joseph and special teams.

879
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: If you like the fact that Cliff goes forward on

880
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: fourth down, then you have to kind of be aware that, Look,

881
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: if you're aggressive, you're aggressive. You can't be one foot in,

882
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: one foot out. And you mentioned stat. Was Mike helm

883
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: putting this little nugget in our Monday More. He notes

884
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: that when it comes to fourth down success, the Cardinals

885
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: have an NFL high almost sixty nine percent success rate

886
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: on fourth down attempts underhead coach Cliff Kingsbury. So he's

887
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: proven that he knows when to do it. You're not

888
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: going to be perfect all the time. But if you're

889
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: going to be aggressive on your play calling and in

890
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: your decision making on fourth down, then you're going to

891
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: be aggressive in every other phase of the game. So

892
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 1: he's not going outside his comfort zone. He's not going

893
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: outside the norm, and this is who he is as

894
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: a coach. Like it or not right now? You better

895
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: like it because they're three and oh well, I think

896
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: people in life want consistency, and he's consistent when it

897
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: comes to that. I mean thirty three or forty eight

898
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: since he's been here, your cubicles across from me, I'm like, wow,

899
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: forty eight times they've gone for that was the number

900
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: that you focused on forty eight times over two and

901
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: in two seasons, in three games, and they're closest seventy

902
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 1: percent sixty eight point eight percent complete conversion. I was like, wow,

903
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 1: that he's gone for that many times. But hey, he's

904
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: consistent with it. And I do like the fact that

905
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: with this offense, in the way that Murray has performed

906
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: thus far, they need to be aggressive. Don't put the

907
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: handcuffs on him, let him do his thing. And yes

908
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 1: there's gonna be times he's gonna throw Il's touchdown Lesta.

909
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: This one was in the end zone. They were able

910
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: to make the tackle. You don't want to give up

911
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: pick six, etc. But he's always been aggressive. But I

912
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: was shocked today when I saw that forty eight. I

913
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,319
Speaker 1: was like, we sat there for forty eight times, Where

914
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: is he gonna go for this or not? To the

915
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: point now where we just expect him whenever it's fourth down,

916
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: just to go for it, even regardless wherever you're on

917
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: the football field, even inside your own forty yard line.

918
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: There was a stretch last year, it was two years

919
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 1: ago where he was consistently doing an inside his own

920
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: forty onside thirty five. I was just to get the

921
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: offense going because things were going so bad, partly in

922
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: that first scene, a lot of times they were behind

923
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: the sticks. Yeah, so usually if you get like it

924
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: was third and twelve, they get eleven yards. Now you

925
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: kind of have to go for it at that point

926
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: because you feel like you have some momentum. Hopefully the

927
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: Cardinals aren't facing any fourth down decisions this coming week

928
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: when they take on the Rams, and we'll have plenty

929
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: of opportunity to discuss that matchups. It might be the

930
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: nut might be it is the game of the week.

931
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: It's not the storyline of the week. There's a distinction

932
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 1: because you're not going to get top billing over Tom

933
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: Brady going back to Foxborough to play the New England Patriots.

934
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: But as far as matchup on the field, two teams

935
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: three and oh versus three and zero, I'm looking forward

936
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: to what happens this week. Yeah. And you know, you know,

937
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: based down the Rams and you know how they played

938
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: against a very good Buccaneers team, some people think that

939
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 1: the top team it varies. Again. These next three weeks

940
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: are going to be very important for the Cardinals. You

941
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: got to take care of business, you know. I think

942
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: hopefully we can shorten the leash when it comes to

943
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,439
Speaker 1: playing the Rams based on the last couple of years,

944
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: starting with Arians later in his career, and then Wilkes

945
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: and then Cliff Now and again we know who they have,

946
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, Leonard Floyd, Jalen Ramsey. You know, Stafford is

947
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: definitely he's much better down the field thrower than Jerikoff was,

948
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: so that's going to be an issue. And then you've

949
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: got to Sean Jackson. He missed them on a deep ball,

950
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: but he end up catching a seventy five yard or

951
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: Robert Woods kind of hit and miss at times. And

952
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: then you throw in Cooper Cup. Is one guy's benefited

953
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: from Matthew Stafford. It's Cooper Cup. Yeah, and that's what's

954
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are facing this week. It is a big week,

955
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: first division matchup of the season for the Arizona Cardinals.

956
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: But we'll have time to discuss that as we move forward. Yeah.

957
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: Rich Eising, now, the NFL network has a brand new

958
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: facility right next to SOFI Stadium, and he said, this

959
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: is the best home field advantage of Rams have ever had. Okay, well,

960
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: they were in the coliseum or a number of years

961
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: going back to Saint Louis Okay to show on turf.

962
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 1: I mean, there they were, they had some their hay Dame.

963
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: But he just thinks that's a bold statement. Yeah, And

964
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: I think it's just because it's kind of like a nightclub.

965
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the Jerrydome, and in the lighting

966
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. Now it's not retractable or anything like that,

967
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: but there is windows and panels like you see a

968
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: Chase field where you do get some sunlight in there.

969
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll have to do some research. Maybe

970
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: we need to send Mike Jarecki on a road trip

971
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,320
Speaker 1: and do some scouting for us. It's for a SOFI

972
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: stadium home of the Super Bowl, that's for season, so

973
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 1: we'll scout that week when we're there. On that note,

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Speaker 1: let's put a lid on this edition of Cardinals Covered two,

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Speaker 1: presented by Day, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As always,

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Speaker 1: special thanks to our executive producer, Jim I'm a hundred

977
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Speaker 1: for Mike Jarecki. I'm Craig Riel Loup. We'll talk to

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