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Speaker 2: So the fifteen to the ten per He's gonna store touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Cardinals Red Sea Report.

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Speaker 2: Swam to the ground by Budda Baker like a torpedo.

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Speaker 2: He came flying into the backfield Connor to the ten,

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Speaker 2: Here we go, one handed catching a touchdown?

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Speaker 3: Oh baby, how's that fail?

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Speaker 1: Here's Craig Griolu, Danny Sirek, and nine year NFL veteran

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Speaker 1: Rob Frederickson.

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Speaker 4: We begin with two words, and Rob, when I say

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Speaker 4: these two words, I want your unfiltered opinion off season program.

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Speaker 4: As a four former player myself, Danny did not have

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Speaker 4: the experience of being an NFL veteran like yourself.

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Speaker 5: This is the.

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Speaker 4: Time when a lot of players believe the work begins.

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Speaker 4: There's also several players that believe, yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 4: it's voluntary, and I know it's voluntary.

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Speaker 5: I'll see you when I need to be here.

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Speaker 4: But I'll say this the Arizona Cardinals in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 4: that parking lot is full. There are a lot of

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Speaker 4: players here on Monday and still here on Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: First of all, there's there's very few players where voluntary

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Speaker 6: means voluntary. For most of the guys, it's it's valandatory,

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Speaker 6: you know. It's it's it's voluntary and mandatory combined, you know.

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Speaker 6: And and I would even go so far as to

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Speaker 6: a week or two after the season ended, and they've

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Speaker 6: been working out in the facility, so you know, and

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Speaker 6: that and that really speaks to the culture that that

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Speaker 6: Jonathan Gannon has started here and career and the players

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Speaker 6: have embraced it. So off season, uh, it really doesn't apply. Again,

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Speaker 6: It's it's a year round thing. And it's just you're

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Speaker 6: not playing games, but it's you're in it. And and

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Speaker 6: if you're not, other other guys are and and they're

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Speaker 6: gonna they're gonna pass you by.

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Speaker 4: Once upon a time, the off season, maybe even training camp,

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Speaker 4: used to get ready for the regular season. Now, the expectation,

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Speaker 4: rob is for you to be ready now and not

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Speaker 4: wait until those four or five weeks of training camp.

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Speaker 5: Those teams want you ready day one.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the days when training camp was two months long,

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Speaker 6: them enough money, so they had to have an off

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Speaker 6: season job. So they needed a couple of months in

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Speaker 6: training camp to get in shape. But you know, these

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Speaker 6: these are the best athletes in the world. They're they're

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Speaker 6: never out of shape. Probably the worst shape they're ever

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Speaker 6: in is in season. So you know this, this is uh,

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Speaker 6: this is just the way it is in today's NFL,

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Speaker 6: and these guys are ready. And just because today is

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Speaker 6: off season program, it's been going on since the last

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Speaker 4: And walking through the hallways here Danny at the Dignity

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Speaker 4: end of the regular season, when players can scatter, there

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Speaker 5: To be here.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and again I think that goes back to Rob's

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Speaker 8: The big name that's here is quarterback Kyler Murray, which

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Speaker 8: He's healthy enough to be here and go through a

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Speaker 8: He was still rehabing that knee. Even prior, we didn't

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Speaker 4: Your quarterback, if your number one player is your number

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if your quarterback is here all off season, what's

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Speaker 6: he's definitely going to be here. Right if the quarterback

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Speaker 4: Again, it is volunteer, but the offseason strength and conditioning

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Speaker 10: Day off season program. So a lot of juice in there,

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Speaker 10: a lot of energy, some new faces and excited to

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Speaker 5: And going into year two.

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Speaker 4: Danny, the familiarity that a lot of the players have

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Speaker 4: Jag mentioned, they can ask not the coaches, they can

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Speaker 8: When tit end Trey McBride spoke with the media Monday,

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Speaker 4: On that topic, here's more from jg on defining culture

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Speaker 4: and developing culture in that locker room.

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Speaker 10: We've got a bunch of guys that are team first,

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Speaker 10: their games. That's what the culture is. I think. You know,

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Speaker 10: you have to work on that daily because your actions

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Speaker 10: got to be aligned and we got to be on it.

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Speaker 10: And when we get out of alignment, that's okay. You

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Speaker 10: got to get back in alignment quick. So that's what

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Speaker 4: If year one was laying the foundation, then year two

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Speaker 4: is building upon that foundation. I do think rob it

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Speaker 4: began middle of the season because we did hear Kaiser

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Speaker 4: Now it's figuring out the pieces to put into place

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Speaker 4: to get this team from four wins to eight to

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Speaker 6: And I think anytime there's a new coaching change, a

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Speaker 6: that culture is is it's players. It's number one. It

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Speaker 6: And when you have that, you don't have to have

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Speaker 6: that's the situation that you don't want. You want the team,

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Speaker 4: So what's allowed here in this first phase of the

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Speaker 10: Him being healthy one is a huge step forward. He

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Speaker 4: JG also mentioned Danny that Kyler's engaged, He's asking questions

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Speaker 4: because the quarterback in that quarterback room wants to know,

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Speaker 8: That's what you want out of your quarterback. We know

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Speaker 8: how competitive Kyler is I would imagine now that he

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Speaker 8: he's going to have a ton of questions now that

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Speaker 3: Kaiser White just supped the tempo for everybody out on

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Speaker 3: What is that message? David?

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Speaker 3: He has been all over the field and he is

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Speaker 4: He set the tone Week one against the Washington Commanders.

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Speaker 5: It was Kaizer White.

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Speaker 6: Always hard to be put on injured reserve as a player.

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Speaker 6: You never know from team to team, everyone does it differently.

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Speaker 4: Played every single defensive snap up until the injury, and

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Speaker 8: That's what's so crazy is Kaiser said that at first

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Speaker 4: You ever have a injury that you thought might have

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Speaker 5: For a little while. Yes, yes I did.

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Speaker 11: I feel like I was finding my groove and then,

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Speaker 4: And here's how good kuys here was a year ago

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Speaker 8: Absolutely, especially when you do have a defensive line that

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Speaker 8: It seems like he is on pace to be ready

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Speaker 4: It's one thing for us to talk about the value

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Speaker 10: One of our leaders, one of our high performers, you know,

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Speaker 10: his teammates and working out and training with those guys,

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Speaker 10: being in meetings all that. The value added is you

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Speaker 10: can't put a price tag on him.

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Speaker 4: And it's good to have Kaizer White healthy or least

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Speaker 4: on the back end of that rehab. Should be good

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Speaker 4: to go once training camp begins. It's going to be

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Speaker 4: hard to keep Kaizer off the field. I'm sure he'd

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Speaker 4: be wanting to participate more than he is even right now,

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Speaker 4: but it's better to be safe than sorry. Make sure

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Speaker 4: he's healthy come week one. Now, in that inside linebacker room,

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals did resign Chris Barnes. They did add Mac

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Speaker 4: Wilson in free agency, and that's gonna be an intriguing

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Speaker 4: pair Mac and Kayzer. Speaking of Mac Wilson, here he

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Speaker 4: is during his introductory press conference on plane with Kaizer White.

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Speaker 7: Kaizier White, he's he's he's a dog. I watched him,

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Speaker 7: you know, last year before he had this little injury

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Speaker 7: or whatnot. Trying to remind me on myself downhill thumper

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Speaker 7: can do it all. And you know, you put me

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Speaker 7: with a guy like that is you tell me, oh no,

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Speaker 7: we don't see.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be fascinating to see how they use the humility.

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Speaker 5: I've gotta be confident.

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Speaker 6: That's great now, I joke, but I love it. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's you have to be confident. And I love what

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Speaker 6: he said. You know, just reminds me and me, you know,

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Speaker 6: it's perfect.

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Speaker 4: How do you figure to have those two on the

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Speaker 4: field at the same time. The ability to maybe Interchaine

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Speaker 4: do something similar, do some things differently, especially with Mac's

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Speaker 4: ability we saw late last season with the Patriots being

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Speaker 4: able to rush the quarterback, something that Kaizer wasn't really

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Speaker 4: asked to do a lot of.

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Speaker 6: That's the interesting thing is his ability to come off

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Speaker 6: the edge, obviously, something that's important in this league and

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Speaker 6: something the Cardinals really struggled at last year. So that's

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Speaker 6: that's going to be an area of emphasis, I think

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Speaker 6: in the draft. But also having Mac Wilson and having

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Speaker 6: that ability to do that and do it well, that

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Speaker 6: it's going to afford the Cardinals defensively to do some

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Speaker 6: different things and create some different personnel packages, which you know,

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Speaker 6: I'm excited to see.

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Speaker 4: It's two inside linebackers, though I think Mac views himself

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Speaker 4: maybe a little bit more of a well rounded linebacker,

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Speaker 4: maybe even Kaizer a little bit to a certain extent

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Speaker 4: as well.

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Speaker 8: When I got a chance to talk to Mac when

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Speaker 8: he signed here with the Cardinals in free agency a

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Speaker 8: couple of weeks ago, and did an interview with him

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Speaker 8: in the studio, and he just said, you know, I'm

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Speaker 8: just a football player because he played all over and

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Speaker 8: he has experience on offense, he has experience on special teams.

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Speaker 8: So he just said, you know what, you could just

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Speaker 8: call me a football player.

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Speaker 4: That's what I Well, he was a football player last

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Speaker 4: season with the Patriots, played every single game, only had

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Speaker 4: one start. And I do think the expectation, and you

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Speaker 4: could hear it in his voice that the expectation is

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Speaker 4: that Cardinals brought him in here for a reason. And

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Speaker 4: he is going to start. He is going to play

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Speaker 4: a lot more than he did a year ago. And

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Speaker 4: now it's on him to make the Cardinals that move

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Speaker 4: mean something and not just the thirty seven tackles and

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Speaker 4: three and a half sacks he had last year, but

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Speaker 4: be a factor in this revamped defense. You talked about

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Speaker 4: the defensive line editions, Now you got one at inside

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Speaker 4: linebacker as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but nothing's given, right, you know, he's not anointed,

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Speaker 6: and he may start the season started, but you know,

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Speaker 6: you got to earn things around here, and and so

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Speaker 6: you know, you go through the offseason program, you go

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Speaker 6: through mini camps, go through training camp and preseason games,

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Speaker 6: you know, and that's it's it's for me. You hear

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Speaker 6: a player say this feels like the first day of school, Well,

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Speaker 6: that's the way you should feel. You should have that

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Speaker 6: that excited nervous energy because yeah, you know, your job

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Speaker 6: is on the line and you wanna, you want to

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Speaker 6: do the best you can and and nothing is taken

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Speaker 6: for granted, nothing is given. And and I'm not I'm

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Speaker 6: not suggesting that that mac Wilson thinks that, but you

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Speaker 6: know it's, uh, there's uh, there's competition here and that

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Speaker 6: that's part of the culture and that's exciting to see.

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Speaker 4: And now is when the time for Nick rowlsis to

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Speaker 4: figure out, Okay, how do we pair these two together.

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Speaker 5: On the field.

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Speaker 4: A year ago, Mac played almost as many pass rush

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Speaker 4: snaps as coverage snaps with the Patriots, and that dynamic

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Speaker 4: to figure out the best way to fit those pieces

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Speaker 4: together defensively.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's it's gonna be interesting to see

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Speaker 6: how they piece it together. But it's a welcome edition.

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Speaker 6: I'll say that Mac Wilson having him and having the

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Speaker 6: ability to be so versatile is something that is going

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Speaker 6: to be really good for Nick Rolis.

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Speaker 4: year three with the Arizona Cardinals. This is the Arizona

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Speaker 4: Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 2: Trey McBride has been one of the best receiving tight

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Speaker 2: ends in football.

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Speaker 3: Tray McBride gross long grasshopper near sight.

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Speaker 9: It is under frond fo minutes at the ten yard

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Speaker 9: line by McBride.

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Speaker 2: First Cardinal tight end in thirty four years with a

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Speaker 2: one hundred yard receiving game.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Trey McBride, have a day, baby.

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Speaker 2: McBride fighting for the first down at the two. He's

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Speaker 2: still pushing the pile and he pushes.

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Speaker 9: It into the end zone for the leftown trade.

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Speaker 2: McBride all muscle fires laugh in the end zone.

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Speaker 9: It is caught by McBride.

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Speaker 3: Hey, it's a touchdown, big time play by Trey McBride.

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Speaker 2: That was an elite catch. That was spectacular. What a

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Speaker 2: beautiful grand by mccride. Nice catch by Trey McBride. McBride

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Speaker 2: with that catch sets the Cardinals single season record for

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Speaker 2: most receptions by a tight end. His second NFL season

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Speaker 2: has been phenomenal and it continued.

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Speaker 4: No question, a breakout season for then a second year

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Speaker 4: tied end by the name of Trey McBride. As we say,

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Speaker 4: welcome back, it is the Cardinals red seat reports Craig reylu,

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Speaker 4: Danny Sirek, and Rob Frederickson.

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Speaker 5: We are with you Tuesday's.

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Speaker 4: Year Round eleven AM here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network,

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Speaker 4: and we hear all those highlights Danny about McBride giving

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Speaker 4: an opportunity after the one, the injury to Zach Ertz

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Speaker 4: and then the release of Ertz, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: McBride said, all right, I'll be your number one playmaker,

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Speaker 4: Kyler Murray, and all of a sudden, you had your

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Speaker 4: number one receiver, regardless of running back, wide receiver, a

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Speaker 4: tight end.

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Speaker 8: It seems like Trey McBride just needed a chance, needed

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Speaker 8: to get those reps, to get a feel and get

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Speaker 8: some confidence in what he can and can't do. The

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Speaker 8: fact that we saw the connection with McBride and Kyler

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Speaker 8: skyrocket the way it did once Kyler returned gives me

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Speaker 8: high hopes for the two of them being together in

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Speaker 8: the off season program right now, working together off campus

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Speaker 8: on throws, just building that chemistry, that connection. McBride was saying,

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Speaker 8: there's still plays he thinks about. Really that Atlanta game,

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Speaker 8: which was Kyler's first game back. On a pass where

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Speaker 8: Trey continued the run and Kyler wanted him to sit

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Speaker 8: and and the pass was intercepted. McBride saying I still

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Speaker 8: think about those on things I want to work on,

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Speaker 8: and McBride saying he watches film from his rookie season

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Speaker 8: and he looks like a deer at headlights. I mean,

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Speaker 8: you can, Rob, you can see the confidence not just now,

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Speaker 8: but at the end of last season that he had

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Speaker 8: in himself because he was getting the reps and he

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Speaker 8: was getting the opportunity and proving to himself that Okay,

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Speaker 8: I belong out here. I know what I'm doing. I

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Speaker 8: can handle this.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Eighty one receptions in essentially eight games. That's that's unreal.

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Speaker 6: Those are Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if he can

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Speaker 6: if he can replicate that from what he did was

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Speaker 6: able to do last season and going forward, which you

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Speaker 6: know we fully expect this. You know, that's a great

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Speaker 6: tandem of Kyler and McBride. I just I look for

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Speaker 6: that to continue to grow. He's such a good runner

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Speaker 6: number one after he catches the ball, great hands. Just

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Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think it's a stretch to say

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Speaker 6: top five tight end in this league right now with

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Speaker 6: hat basically half a season only under his belt. So

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Speaker 6: he's that kind of generational talent I think at a

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Speaker 6: tight end position and something that this offense can be

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Speaker 6: built around.

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Speaker 4: He put up numbers last season to where he was

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Speaker 4: top five in receptions, top ten in receiving yards among

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Speaker 4: the tight ends. And we always hear rob that the

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Speaker 4: quarterback's best friend a lot of the times is the

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Speaker 4: tight end because wide receivers spread the field and that

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Speaker 4: middle is wide open. And I think depending on what

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Speaker 4: happens a week from Thursday, you add another wide receiver

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Speaker 4: to this offense, McBride's numbers might not be as high,

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Speaker 4: but they might be more effective as far as receiving

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Speaker 4: yards and maybe total touchdowns.

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Speaker 6: Especially this kind of offense right where it's run first run,

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Speaker 6: heavy play action coming off of that, so you'll have

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Speaker 6: a lot of waggles, a lot of boots action from Kyler,

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Speaker 6: and that really kind of lends itself to tight ends

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Speaker 6: coming on drag routes across the field. And so this

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Speaker 6: offense I think as Taylor made for Trey McBride and

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Speaker 6: for Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 4: Going into his third season, second season under Jonathan Gannon

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Speaker 4: Andrew Petsing. Here is the head coach JG talking about

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Speaker 4: his young tight.

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Speaker 10: End, Sky's the Limit. You know, obviously had a really

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Speaker 10: good year last year, he's got a really good improvement

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Speaker 10: plan for himself moving forward. I think we're gonna be

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Speaker 10: able to help him with that and just being consistent

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Speaker 10: with what he's doing with all the techniques.

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Speaker 5: What he's asked.

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Speaker 10: But he'll be a premier player for us, there's no

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Speaker 10: rout about that.

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Speaker 4: The final numbers for McBride last season eighty one catches,

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Speaker 4: eight hundred and twenty five receiving yards, three touchdowns, yets.

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Speaker 4: For McBride, who discussed things with the media on Monday,

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Speaker 4: it's not so much those numbers. He knows he has

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Speaker 4: still a lot to work on.

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Speaker 12: I want to be a better run blocking tight end.

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Speaker 12: I want to be an all around guy. And there's

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Speaker 12: a lot of plays that I left out there. You know,

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Speaker 12: obviously I had a good year last year, but there's

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Speaker 12: so much more on the table that I left out there.

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Speaker 12: There's a lot of plays I could have made that

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Speaker 12: I didn't make, or there's things that I need to

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Speaker 12: get better at. So going back watching the film, looking

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Speaker 12: at the mistakes I made, how can I improve, how

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Speaker 12: can I see defenses better? And ultimately I'm just excited

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Speaker 12: to have a full year with Kyler to build that chemistry.

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Speaker 4: You hear those comments, Danny, and it should excite you

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Speaker 4: if you're a Cardinals fan, because all great athletes, it's

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Speaker 4: the ones that they missed on, the wins, the losses,

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Speaker 4: the catches, the incompletions. It's what they didn't accomplish as

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Speaker 4: opposed to what they did accomplish.

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Speaker 8: The chip on your shoulder, what you want to improve on.

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Speaker 8: McBride was saying growing up, he had a coach that

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Speaker 8: told him as a tight end, if you can excel

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Speaker 8: in the run blocking game, you will get rewarded in

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Speaker 8: the past game. And so to hear him say that

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Speaker 8: and understand how play action can benefit him and if

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Speaker 8: he can match up the routes of what he's doing

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Speaker 8: in disguise that better that he can be even a

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Speaker 8: better target, a more reliable target for his quarterback. And

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Speaker 8: I think just what we saw from him and you're

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Speaker 8: in what is a small glimpse, considering the fact that

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Speaker 8: he was behind Zach Ertz for the start of the

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Speaker 8: season and the quarterback carousel until Kyler came back. I

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Speaker 8: just I feel like this guy really is the limit

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Speaker 8: for McBride. There are question marks on the depth chart

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Speaker 8: behind McBride moving forward, because Jeff Swayin was the main

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Speaker 8: blocking tight end who got hurt late last year is

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Speaker 8: still a free agent. And as you go down the list,

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Speaker 8: Elijah Higgins looked good in the eleven games he played.

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Speaker 8: He had one hundred and sixty three receiving yards and

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Speaker 8: a touchdown. I'm not sure that that's a true number

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Speaker 8: two tight end as your reliable pass catcher or your blocker.

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Speaker 8: And then below Higgins is Travis Vocolec and Blake Whiteheart,

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Speaker 8: who each were acted for just two games no stats.

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Speaker 8: When you consider rob how often this offense likes to

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Speaker 8: be in twelve or thirteen personnel, which was thirty two

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Speaker 8: percent of the time last year, fifth most in the league,

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Speaker 8: I think there's still a sneaky need for a tight end.

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Speaker 8: Not to surpass McBride as a number one tight end,

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Speaker 8: but still a need that needs to be addressed.

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Speaker 6: You can always use more tight ends, and you're right

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Speaker 6: in this kind of offense because they are in so

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Speaker 6: many multiple tight end sets. Offensively, it's important and you know,

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Speaker 6: obviously you'd like to have somebody there that is a

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Speaker 6: stud blocking tight end, somebody that's going to really have

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Speaker 6: that playside blocking responsibility, and allow Trade to have maybe

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Speaker 6: the backside cleanup and get the play action down the field,

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Speaker 6: which he's so good at. But you know, yeah, I

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Speaker 6: get it he wants to improve his blocking. But I'm

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Speaker 6: okay with him not being a great blocker. I'm okay

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Speaker 6: with him not even blocking honestly, as long as he

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Speaker 6: can put up numbers like he did in the second half.

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Speaker 8: Least just get open.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But the willingness to want to get better, because

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of the blocking is just a

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Speaker 4: want to and some players want to. Others don't want

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Speaker 4: to because they want to get the ball. But if Trey,

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Speaker 4: if you have a player that's willing to say, all right,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to sacrifice myself for this particular drive, this

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Speaker 4: particular quarter, and then I'll benefit on the back end

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Speaker 4: later on. I think that's what this offense and we

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Speaker 4: know that's what JG that team first mentality.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and look, he's never going to be I think

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Speaker 6: of a think of a stud blocking Titan, Mark Bovaro

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Speaker 6: or something. I'm really dating myself here, but he's never

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Speaker 6: going to be that. But he's always going to be

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Speaker 6: a top five receiving talent in terms of tight ends.

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Speaker 6: In this league, and you know, he arguably could be

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Speaker 6: a wide receiver one almost but you know, Cardinals still

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Speaker 6: need that position to be solidified. But Trey McBride is

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Speaker 6: certainly a really generational talent in my opinion.

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Speaker 4: By the way, Trey was asked about the Cardinals need

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Speaker 4: for a wide receiver and what would happen his thoughts

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Speaker 4: on if the Cardinals did decide to draft a wide

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Speaker 4: out early next Thursday.

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Speaker 12: I have no idea what we're going to do in

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Speaker 12: the draft. You know, what the media says is not,

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Speaker 12: you know, necessarily always true. So it's it's going to

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Speaker 12: be exciting. I trust in Monty, I trust in the

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Speaker 12: guys up there that that's their job is to get

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Speaker 12: this team right to draft the players that we need,

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Speaker 12: and I trust in their decision fully, and I'm super

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Speaker 12: excited for the talent that they're going to bring in.

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Speaker 4: There's no question if you have a wide receiver, maybe

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Speaker 4: one of the top three that's everyone believes is going

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Speaker 4: to be drafted in the top ten and the Cardinals

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Speaker 4: stick and pick. You have Michael Wilson on one side,

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Speaker 4: you have Marvin Harrison, Junior Malik Neighbors, or a Madoonsey.

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Speaker 4: On the other if you're a Tree McBride, you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: that opens up everything else for me.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, you love that. If you're a Trade McBride, you

739
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Speaker 6: love to have some talent on the outsides that to

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Speaker 6: take some attention from those safeties and free yourself up

741
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Speaker 6: to one on one coverage. So Trade, Look, Trey McBride

742
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Speaker 6: is tough for a linebacker to cover, for a safety

743
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Speaker 6: to cover, so he's almost, you know, at the point

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Speaker 6: in his ascension where he's going to draw some double

745
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Speaker 6: teams at times, and you know, I can think of

746
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Speaker 6: very few tight ends that that happens, but Trey McBride

747
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 6: is quickly kind of escalating into that position. And so

748
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Speaker 6: to have the talent on the outsides to take that away,

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Speaker 6: to take that attention away, is vital.

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Speaker 4: Targeted one hundred and six times eighty one catches.

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Speaker 5: We lose the.

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Speaker 4: Site sometimes on just how well he catches the ball first,

753
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Speaker 4: because you have to catch it before he can start

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Speaker 4: to run. And just a number of those one handed grabs,

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Speaker 4: sideline catches, making sure both feet were inbound that I

756
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Speaker 4: think sometimes we lose sight of. But that's what Trey

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Speaker 4: has done since day one.

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Speaker 8: And McBride is hard to bring down. That's another I

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Speaker 8: think underrated part of his game is he is not

760
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Speaker 8: tackled on that first contact, so once he gets the ball,

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Speaker 8: it is almost guaranteed he's getting you a good out

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Speaker 8: of extra yards after the catch, and that's that's important too.

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Speaker 8: I like the fact that you know McBride is open

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Speaker 8: to the idea of a wide receiver. Again, it's not

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Speaker 8: necessarily his call, but being open to that because that

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Speaker 8: is the team first mentality of if that's what's best

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Speaker 8: for the team, and I think it will benefit him

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Speaker 8: in the long run of you know, at some point

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Speaker 8: the defense is going to have to pick someone to cover,

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Speaker 8: and if they're going to focus on a wide receiver, well,

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Speaker 8: Trey McBride's going to find a way to get open.

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Speaker 8: Because in more times than not, he was Kyler's top

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Speaker 8: targeted receiver. So we know that he's reliable.

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Speaker 4: Just two seasons in the league and already media savvy

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Speaker 4: praising his general manager. I trust in Monty.

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Speaker 8: Trace, a smart man.

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Speaker 6: I love how Jonathan Gannon says Trey McBride has a

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Speaker 6: really good improvement plan for himself, like like like he's

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Speaker 6: a sales manager coming out of a Q two quarterly

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Speaker 6: review of Trey McBride.

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Speaker 5: I love it, fans.

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Speaker 4: Cardinals Red Sea Reports Cornerback, how much of a need

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Speaker 4: is that? When we talk about the draft that's next

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Speaker 4: Here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio.

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Speaker 2: Network, Shotgun Snap Smith moves to his left, rolling that way.

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Speaker 9: Hump fake now throws.

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Speaker 2: Our side picked off at the one yard line, It's

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Speaker 2: intercepted by the rookie Williams out of Syracuse's first game

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Speaker 2: after missing the last twelve months to an injury suffered

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Speaker 2: at Syracuse in the middle of the season.

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Speaker 9: He makes a huge play picking off Geno Smith in

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Speaker 9: the red zone.

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Speaker 13: You knows what I mean, Garra Williams Lisp sent that

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Speaker 13: Welcome to the NFL Williams.

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Speaker 4: Game number one for Garrett Williams, the interception in Seattle,

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Speaker 4: Dave Pash on the broadcast, Luis Hernandez with the Spanish broadcasts,

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Speaker 4: and of course tip of the captive patch mentioning where

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Speaker 4: Garrett Williams went to college, because that always needs to

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Speaker 4: be mentioned when you talk about Syracuse.

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Speaker 8: Does it does?

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Speaker 5: We'll see if there's any Missouri alums.

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Speaker 14: That get drafted from Thursday or Michigan States as we

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Speaker 14: cover all bases here on the Cardinals Regilt Later later

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Speaker 14: in the draft, Garrett Williams was a I wouldn't say

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Speaker 14: pleasant surprise.

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Speaker 4: You drafted him on day two for a reason, Rob

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Speaker 4: Yet you had to wait as he continued to rehab

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Speaker 4: from that ACL injury. But when he was on the field,

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Speaker 4: he stayed on the football field, playing a lot of

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Speaker 4: slot corner, probably where he's going to stay. We'll see

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Speaker 4: if he ever moves to the outside permanently. But someone

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Speaker 4: that came in as a rookie, given an opportunity and

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Speaker 4: a large part, excelled in his role.

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Speaker 6: I think, uh yeah. Look, a lot of a lot

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Speaker 6: of the young guys played early and often because not

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Speaker 6: just necessarily given an opportunity, but that there was no

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Speaker 6: other choice, right right. We talked about the rash of

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Speaker 6: injuries and some guys had to step up and play

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Speaker 6: some significant down. So you look at Kittrell Clark, and

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Speaker 6: Starling Thomas, and and and and Gary Williams. You know,

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Speaker 6: so that this is a young group of cornerbacks that

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Speaker 6: you know, there's a there's a lot to be hopeful

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Speaker 6: for and excited about going forward in the future. And

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Speaker 6: then you know, you bring in a guy like Sean

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Speaker 6: Murphy Bunting. They could bring a little stability, bring a

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Speaker 6: little leadership and a veteran presence into the mix. Maybe

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Speaker 6: get some guys, a couple of guys and free excuse me,

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Speaker 6: in the draft. All of a sudden, now which was

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Speaker 6: once a position of of you know, perceived weakness is

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Speaker 6: now potential strength.

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Speaker 4: You can never have enough cornerbacks, especially in the NFL,

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Speaker 4: and how much the ball is thrown, and you do

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Speaker 4: have I would say a hole as far as the

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Speaker 4: other cornerback is concerned right now, whether that comes in

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Speaker 4: the draft or post draft, in free agency, but at

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Speaker 4: least you have two of your potential three starters to

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Speaker 4: begin with with Murphy Bunting and.

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Speaker 8: Williams absolutely, And I think you also have to give

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Speaker 8: credit for the way Williams performed in his rookie year

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Speaker 8: when he came back to a certain extent to the

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Speaker 8: veterans around him, and not just the cornerbacks but in

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Speaker 8: the safety room out of the field where he was

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Speaker 8: with Jalen Thompson and Buddha Baker. And that makes a

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Speaker 8: difference when you have veterans of that caliber around you

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Speaker 8: and helping you Russian coverage go together. So it'll be

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Speaker 8: interesting how the Cardinals addressed that need with the dbs

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Speaker 8: in the draft of Okay, we saw a little bit

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Speaker 8: in free agency, we saw a lot of free agency.

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Speaker 8: When it comes to the DA, something that hasn't really

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Speaker 8: been addressed has been the pass rush. So is that

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Speaker 8: something that is going to be addressed more so in

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Speaker 8: the draft or the Cardinal's going to take an approach

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Speaker 8: over really going to focus on the d line and

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Speaker 8: the cornerbacks and try and get things going there before

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Speaker 8: we address pass rush. And maybe that's something that plays

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Speaker 8: a bigger role in next offseason. But those are still

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Speaker 8: areas that this defense needs to fill the holes on

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Speaker 8: and Sean Murphy bunching does help that veteran presidence. He's

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Speaker 8: won a super Bowl getting in that room. It's still

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Speaker 8: not enough. Despite the good things you saw from Garrett Williams,

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Speaker 8: which again had a good rookie year from the games

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Speaker 8: he played, you still need more.

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Speaker 4: It was a good start for Garrett Williams. His head coach,

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Speaker 4: I has to say his position, coach Ryan Smith guests

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Speaker 4: recently on the Big Red Rage. What coach Smith saw

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Speaker 4: out of the young cornerback.

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Speaker 15: Oh, Garrett is a pros pro and that was evident

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Speaker 15: through the draft process last year. That was evident him

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Speaker 15: showing up as a rookie. Mentality, his mindset, his determination.

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Speaker 15: You know, he's going to be successful in whatever he does.

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Speaker 15: I'm so excited for the future. He's putting so much work,

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Speaker 15: you know, and then coming off the injury that he

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Speaker 15: had in college, getting incorporated into the NFL game mid

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Speaker 15: season there and then having a full off season of

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Speaker 15: being in good health is you know, I think the

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Speaker 15: sky is the limit for Garrett Williams.

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Speaker 5: A full offseason. We talk about it. With Kyler Murray

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Speaker 5: Reh having an injury.

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Speaker 4: Now here, you've got Garrett Williams Rob full offseason, just

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Speaker 4: worrying about the x's and o's.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, just getting the reps, not worrying about any past injuries, lingering.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's such a benefit, especially for a guy

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Speaker 6: that went through the rookie season, but you know it's

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Speaker 6: a big year. Typically that sophomore season is when you

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Speaker 6: really see a noticeable improvement from guys.

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Speaker 4: Now, the question is, well, there'll be any more additions

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Speaker 4: to that room one week from Thursday, or does it

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Speaker 4: come post draft or maybe a little bit of both

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Speaker 4: cornerbacks certainly a need for the Cardinals this offseason special.

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Speaker 4: Thanks everyone behind the scenes here on this edition of

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Speaker 4: The Cardinals Red Sea Report. Our executive producer Jim Mamhundra,

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Speaker 4: Danny Sirek, Rob Friderckson, I'm Craig Real Lou. We'll talk

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