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Speaker 1: Welcome birt Gang. That's right, it's a victory Monday, the

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Speaker 1: best kind of Monday on today's show. It wasn't pretty,

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Speaker 1: step up. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode four eighty, and

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

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

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Speaker 1: one hand to catch in a touchdown DeAndre Hopkins. Here's

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Speaker 1: Craig Griolou and Mike Jarecki's good teams, fine ways to

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Speaker 1: win and I think MJ this Cardinals team on Sunday

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Speaker 1: found another way to a victory seventeen to ten. They

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Speaker 1: a team that can come away with a win on

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Speaker 1: a Sunday. Well, they don't play their best, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think this was a good Cardinals performance on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It was good enough. I would agree with that. And

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe us and Cardinal fans have been spoiled

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Speaker 1: would transpire in the first four games. You know, putting

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Speaker 1: layups every week, and it's a division game, and you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're it's a division game, they're very familiar with

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Speaker 1: You'll have some exceptions the way they played against the Rams,

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Speaker 1: but this team has faced adversity. In Week two against

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Speaker 1: Those guys get paid too. And I was really telling

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Speaker 1: let's be honest. They have had Kyler Murray's number, says

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Speaker 1: season already. And the fact is, yes, I use I

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Speaker 1: And when we say not good, I think we're with

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Speaker 1: and two outside linebackers. So there was a switch in

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Speaker 1: the first half of that contest, and because of the

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Speaker 1: game plan going in, we saw Isaiah Simmons move around.

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Speaker 1: We saw Zaven Collins not only start, but play the

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Speaker 1: most snaps of his young career thirty four snaps, better

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Speaker 1: than fifty percent of the plays that the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers ran. So that was good to see. But again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that was because, hey, we need

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Speaker 1: to figure out something because our back end is suffering,

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Speaker 1: or hey, this is our game plan for this week

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Speaker 1: because if Trey Lance and the forty niners weren't into tech.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a combination because Chase Whittaker, Robert Alford,

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Speaker 1: and Hamilton those are the three guys, and they would

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Speaker 1: bring in Chase when they wanted to go to their

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Speaker 1: dine package, they would and they would take when they

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Speaker 1: went through the four man rush, they would take out

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Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson. Jalen Thompson was usually out and then sometimes

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Speaker 1: he was close to the line of scrimmage and Buddha

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Speaker 1: Baker was playing deep safety a lot. I mean literally,

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Speaker 1: how would like ten fifteen yards a space around him,

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Speaker 1: just making sure that no one would get behind him.

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Speaker 1: And it's usually Baker that it's up close to the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. But because of Jalen Thompson's coverage skills,

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Speaker 1: when they did spread it out, sometimes he was lined

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Speaker 1: the slot. Yeah, and I really liked what Buddha Baker

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Speaker 1: said about Chase Whittaker after the game last night, just

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Speaker 1: talked about he asked so many questions, he's a student

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Speaker 1: of the game, He's made strides, he said, he's one

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Speaker 1: of our guys. Man. We were rooting for him. But

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Speaker 1: the fact is that, you know, obviously he's undersized, but

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Speaker 1: he's been in the system, he's had a ton of reps.

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Speaker 1: He you know, quite frankly, last year they looked at

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Speaker 1: him as possibly a nickel guy. Now he's on the

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Speaker 1: practice squad and because of injuries, but the fact that

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Speaker 1: he had a ton of reps and he's smart enough

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Speaker 1: to pick up the defense and he's not a liability

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Speaker 1: out there now. He's undersized, and they did target him

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Speaker 1: as soon as he came out there, which you had

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Speaker 1: to expect. Usually they kind of figure out the number,

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Speaker 1: especially bringing a guy off with the practice squad, But

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Speaker 1: I was glad that Buddha said that, you know what,

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Speaker 1: he's worked hard, and he's very smart and he's not

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Speaker 1: going to make a lot of mistakes out there. Credited

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Speaker 1: with three tackles one quarterback hit, nearly had a sack

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Speaker 1: on that hit. And Jase Whittaker is one of those

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Speaker 1: young players. Last season played four games, but he was

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Speaker 1: protected twelve times. So that automatically going into the offseason

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Speaker 1: told anyone that Jase Whittaker they saw something in him,

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Speaker 1: whether it was going to materialize in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: or twenty twenty two, but they didn't want to lose him,

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Speaker 1: keep him around and someone that they could develop, and

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Speaker 1: he was elevated off the practice squad on Saturday, added

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Speaker 1: the active roster, and I think acquitted himself very very

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Speaker 1: well in the time that he was on the football field,

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Speaker 1: thirty snaps out of the sixty five that the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers ran. And again here's a guy that can

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Speaker 1: do a lot of different things. He also plays on

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Speaker 1: special teams. Yeah, I mean, like I said, it's not

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Speaker 1: was an idea going into that game, but the Niners

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Speaker 1: were aware that you're missing your two top corners the

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Speaker 1: winning when Murphy was playing, and then obviously Marco Wilson

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Speaker 1: his athleticism, he probably would have got a chance to

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Speaker 1: cover Brian Brandon, I Yuk or Samuel just based on size,

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Speaker 1: but I think Murphy would have been the matchup on Samuel.

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Speaker 1: And you look at what the Cardinals did defensively. As

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Speaker 1: far as Trey Lance, the passer fifteen to twenty nine,

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Speaker 1: one hundred ninety two yards, he was sacked twice interception

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Speaker 1: a quarterback rating of fifty eight point four, So it

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Speaker 1: was not a factor at all. As far as throwing

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Speaker 1: the football, it was what Trey Lance did with his legs,

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Speaker 1: not his arm. Yeah, and as you pointed out, he

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Speaker 1: did make some some tight throws and I think that's

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Speaker 1: more arm strength. But once again, I just feel like

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Speaker 1: if if you can get to his feet and pressure him,

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Speaker 1: he's going to overthrow some passes and that would and

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Speaker 1: just like any young quarterback, it's just there they feel

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Speaker 1: like their arm strength can bail him out. Well see NFL.

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Speaker 1: If you overthrow those receivers, a gets going out of

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Speaker 1: bounce or just gonna get picked off. A lot to

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Speaker 1: like defensively, individually and collectively as a group. As we

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Speaker 1: continue discussing the cardinals seventeen to ten win of the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers at State Farm Stadium, it is Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Covered two, presented by Hunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's switch it up and talk about the offense.

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Speaker 1: And keep in mind that, as you'd said, we've been

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Speaker 1: spoiled four straight games, thirty or more points, four hundred

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Speaker 1: plus yards of offense. And what happened on Sunday seventeen points,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and three yards of offense, but the Cardinals won.

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Speaker 1: And finding ways to win when you don't play your best,

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Speaker 1: especially on the offensive end. And this little nugget, the

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Speaker 1: first game the Cardinals have won with Kyler Murray at

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Speaker 1: quarterback when the offense has scored fewer than twenty four points,

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Speaker 1: they scored seventeen and still found a way to win

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Speaker 1: the ball game. Now that's a credit to the defense,

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Speaker 1: but the offense, as we say complimentary football, sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: the offense, sometimes it's the defense. Try to find a

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Speaker 1: nice balance. Sunday it was all about the defense and

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Speaker 1: the offense. Good start, great finish, but in between seven

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Speaker 1: straight possessions in which it just I don't know, you

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Speaker 1: said out of rhythm. I'd even say worse than that,

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Speaker 1: just ugly, not good, not in sync. It's like, what

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Speaker 1: are you guys doing? But I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: that was because of the forty nine Ers defense affront,

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Speaker 1: but also you were on top of this though. When

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Speaker 1: Max Williams went down, the Cardinals off installed. Yeah, not

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Speaker 1: to bring this show to a crashing halt, but as

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Speaker 1: we record this edition, Cardinals covered two presented by Hunday,

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Speaker 1: probably a partner of the Arizona Cardinals. Nothing official on

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Speaker 1: Max Williams, who in that second quarter had a nice

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Speaker 1: catching run of fifteen yards but then got hit and

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Speaker 1: the right knee by Emmanuel Moseley and immediately grabbed his

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Speaker 1: right knee. Lost the football out of bounds, but he

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Speaker 1: immediately grabbed that knee, and everyone just stopped, and you

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Speaker 1: knew that it was not good. Cliff Kingsbury postgame, asked

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Speaker 1: about injuries, doesn't give anything, yet did add when asked

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Speaker 1: about Max, it didn't look good. So that's an indication

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Speaker 1: that this is not going to be good news at

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Speaker 1: some point, whether that's Monday or Tuesday, and you feel

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Speaker 1: for a guy like Max Williams because he was trending

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Speaker 1: towards a career year in a vital part of this offense,

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Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, it's missing. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's what to your point, when that injury did happen,

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Speaker 1: how much of the game plan revolved around Max Williams

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Speaker 1: to where all of a sudden he's no longer there

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Speaker 1: and you have to adjust, and maybe it takes a

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Speaker 1: little bit of time before you're able to adjust and

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Speaker 1: get back on track, and for the Cardinals, it took

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Speaker 1: a lot of possessions before they were able to get

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Speaker 1: back on track. What I think the importance here is

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Speaker 1: loving personnel. He's your guy. I mean, he can block.

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Speaker 1: What do I always refer to him as a meeting

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Speaker 1: potatoes guy, and they're they're so effected three wide, one tight.

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Speaker 1: He can block, and he can run down the seam,

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Speaker 1: and there's a trust factor between him and Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: So I feel for him because he was going to

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Speaker 1: have a career year and I think he would have

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Speaker 1: been one of those guys and the Cardinals have done

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Speaker 1: a good job in recent years. If a guy you

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Speaker 1: know gets hurt and he's gonna be out, they would

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Speaker 1: have warned him with a contract extension, and in this case,

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Speaker 1: that's the last thing on his mind right now. But um,

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Speaker 1: he's a big part of this e loving personnel and

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if there's a guy in

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Speaker 1: the roster that can replace him. They're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to either, um, you know, make some calls. I

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Speaker 1: guess there's you can look at some street free agents,

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Speaker 1: but this is a difficult offense and a complex offense

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Speaker 1: to learn on the fly. You have Durell Daniels right

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Speaker 1: now on the reserve COVID nineteen lists. He should be

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Speaker 1: able to come back, hopefully knock on wood sooner rather

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Speaker 1: than later. You've got Ross Travis, who is also a

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Speaker 1: tight end and a big targets. But there is just

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Speaker 1: not Demetrious Harris. Yeah, that there's just not a lot

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Speaker 1: out there to your point, you know, do you try

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Speaker 1: to pick up someone off the streets or acquire someone

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Speaker 1: via trade? A lot of different options. But I do

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Speaker 1: think you're right, this team is going to have to

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Speaker 1: look to address the tight end position, and I do

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Speaker 1: think it's worth a more lengthy conversation once we know

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Speaker 1: definitively here on Cardinals Cover two presented by Hunday proud

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Speaker 1: partner of the Arizona Cardinals, to the extent of what

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Speaker 1: the injury is and I know it didn't look good

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Speaker 1: and it's probably not going to be good news. Well,

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Speaker 1: as you said, it almost a pin dropped in the

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Speaker 1: stadium and for the entire team to go over there,

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Speaker 1: because you know, you see a couple of players, you know,

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Speaker 1: they see offensive players and then you see you know,

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Speaker 1: defensive players in the entire team went over there, and

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Speaker 1: then they take them off on a cart. So again

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Speaker 1: we're not speculating or I see what happened, but you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe if they see somebody on somebody else's practice squad. Again,

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Speaker 1: they always have a short list, so it's not like

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Speaker 1: they're sitting there playing darts. They have a list at

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Speaker 1: each position who's the best player out there. And that's

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Speaker 1: the way they bring in guys for tryouts, just to

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Speaker 1: have a ready list. So every team has a ready list.

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Speaker 1: So they're not going to be caught with their pants down. Now.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a case of what are they looking for

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Speaker 1: that they can come in and play? All right, So

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Speaker 1: let's go to what you pointed to as far as

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Speaker 1: that really affecting what the Cardinals were able to do

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Speaker 1: against the forty nine ers. That drive was right before

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Speaker 1: the end of the first half of the missfield goal.

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Speaker 1: They didn't have any timehouse in the field goal unit,

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Speaker 1: rushed out onto the field and Matt Prador was wide

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Speaker 1: ride on a sixty one yard attempt. You'd love to

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Speaker 1: have seen him if he had his ability to kind

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Speaker 1: of relax and get sets. He didn't, and the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: really were disjointed from that moment when Max Williams got hit.

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Speaker 1: That rest of that drive, the next three possessions, the

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Speaker 1: next four possessions, excuse me, before that final scoring drive

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Speaker 1: with seven forty nine to go in which the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Kyle Murray to DeAndre Hopkins for a nine yard touchdown.

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Speaker 1: So four plus possessions, the Cardinals ran eighteen plays for

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Speaker 1: a total of fifty yards. And that's the out of

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Speaker 1: sinc algorithm that just jointed offense. Following the Max Williams injury,

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Speaker 1: there were a couple of three and outs, there was

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Speaker 1: the punts and then a Chase Edmonds fumble and it

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Speaker 1: didn't take until the final two drives of that ball

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Speaker 1: game for the offense to kind of get things back

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Speaker 1: in control of what was like that snowball rolling down

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Speaker 1: the hill. They could never kind of get in front

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Speaker 1: of it until that second to last possession. Now we

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Speaker 1: also had to fumble from Chase Edmonds. Can't have how

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Speaker 1: to happen, No, and he's really good with the ball

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Speaker 1: and you gotta They showed the the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: player on the bench and he said, I try to

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Speaker 1: punch it out, you know. He yeah, I can't have

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Speaker 1: that because that that that's a stall drive right there,

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Speaker 1: our turnover, you know. So that that to me played

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Speaker 1: a role on how the offense kind of stalled a

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Speaker 1: little bit. And you wonder how much the shoulder injury

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Speaker 1: might have affected because it was James Connor who finished

641
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: out the game on that last drive. Chase Edmonds was

642
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: not on the field during those final plays, even though

643
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: Chase played more than Connor based on the snap count,

644
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: and maybe that was earlier in the game. Um, let's

645
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: just go back to that before Kyler Murray's got to

646
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: throw the ball away before they had taken the sack. Yeah,

647
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: I mean it again. I understand they had to take

648
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: the time out after the sack. It was first in

649
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: fifteen thirty six and they took a time out there.

650
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: That was a third time out. But he's got to

651
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: throw the ball away and he I mean to me,

652
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: it's funny. He went back to some of his bad

653
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 1: habits yesterday, drifting backwards, drifting backwards, trying to outrun guys

654
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: when they're two hundred and eighty pounds but they're taking

655
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: a different angle and he's trying to, you know, run,

656
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: And again, I'm gonna I live with it because I

657
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: see the upside and he gets out of traffic. So

658
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: it's it's the good and bad. But he's made so much,

659
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: so much strides this year. I don't I don't want

660
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: to say, you know, bad habits, but it reminded me

661
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: of last year or even in his rookie season when

662
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: he plays the teams like the Niners, teams that have

663
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: good front fours that can get to him without him

664
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 1: being able to slide outside the pocket. It was not

665
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: a good day for Kyle the Murray. Yeah, that opening

666
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: drive was outstanding and the finish was great, but he

667
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: dropped two snaps, which I don't know if I've ever

668
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,959
Speaker 1: seen him drop a snap, and they were good snaps

669
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: from either Rodney Hudson or Max Garcia, and then he

670
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 1: missed a wide open DeAndre Hopkins on third and goal.

671
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: There was no one anywhere close to d hop and

672
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: when he finally threw the ball, he threw it low

673
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: and Hopkins couldn't get his hands underneath it. Yeah, And

674
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: and to me, he was upsettling himself on that play,

675
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: and the defender came in. He kind of signed on it,

676
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: but he in the end zone and he was upset,

677
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: and I was hoping he'd come back after that next drive,

678
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen. Did Did he get points out

679
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: of that in the next drive on the next drive

680
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: after the mist Yeah, though that was the drive that

681
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: ended with the missfield goal right before. He was stewing

682
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: about that for a long he was, you could tell

683
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: him the bench he was not happy about that. So yeah,

684
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: it's like I said, I we've talked about him running

685
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: out of bounds and he you know, taking a sack.

686
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: He does so much. I mean, he's he's human and

687
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: he wants to be perfect, and you can strive fort

688
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: and be great, but he does a lot of great things.

689
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: So you know, again he's trying to get out of traffic,

690
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: and unfortunately there's eleven other guys chasing him. The negative plays,

691
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: the penalties, false start holding calls, this team put themselves

692
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: behind the sticks more times than not three of ten

693
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 1: on third down, but MJ they were z of five

694
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: on third and ten plus and that isn't good. So

695
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: half of your third downs you were looking at having

696
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: to gain ten or more yards to converts, and they

697
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: failed on all five of those. In fact, they failed

698
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: to convert on their last five third downs. They didn't

699
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: have a third down conversion of the entire second half.

700
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: So the offense made it a lot more difficult on themselves.

701
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: Yet at the same time, I do think at forty

702
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: nine ers defense, including able to get pressure with just

703
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: four guys, made it more difficult for Kyler Murray than

704
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: he's had to deal with all season long. Yeah, and

705
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: guard see, I thought he did a nice job coming in,

706
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: But when you lose your top offensive lineman, the guy

707
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: that makes the calls, and Max Garcia has been a

708
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: veteran and he's earned the right to be that guy.

709
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: It's just that, you know, like I said, I when

710
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: I look at the offensive line, I still think it's

711
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: the strength of this team, and they're gonna go as

712
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: far as Kylie Murray will take him. And the protection

713
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: and I think the run blocking and past protection some

714
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: weeks it's better than others. And then they get when

715
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: they can run the ball, like for two hundred and

716
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: sixteen yards against the Rams, they're winning the line of scrimmage.

717
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if they won the line of scrimmage yesterday.

718
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: Hudson dealing with rib injuries. Kyler Murray, though, sounded a

719
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: little bit optimistic that Hudson will be okay. My guess

720
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: is he'll be day to day. And this is like

721
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: a Kelvin Beacham thing. How do you feel during the

722
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,280
Speaker 1: course of the week, you wake up on Sunday morning,

723
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: can you go or not? Beacham did return Sunday after

724
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: missing the previous two weeks, and hopefully Rodney Hudson is good.

725
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: Remember Justin Murray placed on injured reserve on Friday, so

726
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 1: he's got to miss at least two more games, so

727
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: he's not available. And if Hudson's out then that it

728
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 1: does hurt your depth. And I do hope that again,

729
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: we're talking about short term injuries with respect of the

730
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: offensive line and not a long term injury. One are

731
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: the two injuries is here, We're hearing a lot about

732
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: calf and rib ribs. Yeah, it's it's odd, very strange,

733
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: especially rib injuries. Well, I mean, yeah, I mean having

734
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: the shoulder pads, but guys do punch you in the ribs.

735
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and then even with the rib injury, it

736
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: becomes difficult to well, it's it's it's also the cartilage,

737
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: they say. I mean, you can have a I mean,

738
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: you know, fractured ribs. I mean, it's hard to breathe.

739
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: But it's the cartilage that has to heal before the

740
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: ribs gonna heal. I mean, it's it's I actually was

741
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: playing basketball in the story time to we were up

742
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: in Flagstaff and you know, the Cardinals had training camp

743
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: up there, and when we get the meeting together and

744
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,919
Speaker 1: play some basketball and of course you had the eld

745
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: tout and so well, you know, I was playing basketball

746
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: and Kent Summers, um uh he turned around in the

747
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: elbow in my uh my rib cage and he broke

748
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 1: my ribs. Ken Summers assaulted you. That's the headline out

749
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: of this edition of Cardinals Covered two Present. Well, you know,

750
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: I'm like a skeleton. So it didn't take a whole

751
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: lot of hit, but it man, I felt it for

752
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: four days and I kept pushing my ribs and I

753
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: can tell they were broken. You didn't do anything. It

754
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: just you know, I did. I went to the doctor

755
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: and they gave you this this thing. You gotta let

756
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,399
Speaker 1: make sure your lungs. Your lungs don't get filled up. Now,

757
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: somebody mentioned in the press box to me, do you

758
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: feel like the Cardinals are losing? So when you're watching

759
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: this game, like at some point, like, did you feel

760
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: like they were down in the game. No, I just

761
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: figured that the talent would win out and I think

762
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the day it did with the

763
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins touchdown in the way that you were able

764
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: to assault away the last four to twelve. So you

765
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: never felt like Schames, I mean get away or he

766
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: never felt like. Now you get a little nervous when

767
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: it's ten seven and it's you know, like, look, guys,

768
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: I mean, we know you're better than this talking about

769
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: the offense and let's not let's not you know, be

770
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: Debbie Downers with respect of the offensive. I want to

771
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: I want to close this edition of the show on

772
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: a positive note and focus on two players in particular,

773
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins and Rondel Moore. D hop more involved, and

774
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: he was I think outstanding and what we have seen

775
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: for the previous what sixteen seventeen years, when quarterbacks come

776
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: into the building and you realize that you got number eleven,

777
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, I'm open, throw me the ball, and it

778
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: takes some time. That trust. I think we're seeing now

779
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: in year two, that trust between Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins,

780
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: D hop is the new Larry Fitzgerald. When it comes

781
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 1: to we need to play, it's third down, it's third

782
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,760
Speaker 1: and long, it's late in the game, we need to convert.

783
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: We need someone to say, throw the ball to me.

784
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: And number ten has become number eleven here in twenty

785
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: twenty one because it was the throw across the field,

786
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: which quarterbacks are not supposed to do. Yet Kyle Murray

787
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: did it that went for thirty yards and then the

788
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 1: throw for the touchdown with Josh Norman. I don't know

789
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 1: what more he could have done as far as blanket coverage,

790
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: and Hopkins still came up with the catch and as

791
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: he said post game, better catch by iye. So he

792
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: went back to the well on that as he did

793
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 1: on the Hill Murray a year ago. Okay, I jumped

794
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: a gun a little bit earlier. How about let's end

795
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: with this though, four minutes and twelve seconds left in

796
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, outstanding Cardinals. Basically, the Niners used their

797
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 1: timeouts and the Cardinals possessed the ball four minutes and

798
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: twelve seconds and they went in the victory formation. I

799
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: want to say, just below the two minute warning, that's

800
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: how you finished games. And the play that you referenced

801
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: or brought up earlier in the show, maybe better than

802
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: that thirty yard catch, better than the touchdown. DeAndre Hopkins

803
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: catching the ball for eleven yards, realizing he's close to

804
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: the sideline, doesn't want to get pushed out of bounds,

805
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: literally takes a seat, takes a seat to stay in bounds,

806
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 1: to keep that clock moving. Smartest play of the game.

807
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. And when you listen to Hopkins, he's

808
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: a student of the game. He knows the history of

809
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: the game. He knows he stands in different but again,

810
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, he wants to win.

811
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: He knows he's going to be a guy that's going

812
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: to be in the Hall of Fame where he's training

813
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: in that direction. But he's been in the league long

814
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: enough and he knows when he gets to the postseason,

815
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: that's your coming out party. And he's been there before,

816
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: but it's been short lived by getting knocked out in

817
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: the first round. Hopkins targeted nine times, six catches, eighty

818
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: seven yards and a touchdown. The other wide receiver slash

819
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: running back. How about Rondel Moore leading the team in

820
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: rushing and had the second most receive yards. We detailed

821
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: this on Cardinal Talk. If you include what he did

822
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: on special teams, he touched the ball nine times for

823
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine yards. Much more involvement from number

824
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: four than we had seen it in previous weeks. Yeah,

825
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: and then Christian Kirk, you know he was targeted. You know,

826
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,959
Speaker 1: each week you're going to have a guy that may's

827
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: only had one catching that would have been aj Green yesterday.

828
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: The previous week it was Christian Kirk. So that's the

829
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: beauty about spurning the ball around because every week somebody

830
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: else is going to step up. And you know, we

831
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: talked about it when we did the live looking from

832
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: the sidelines. You know, that was a game where you know,

833
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 1: based on their secondary I wanted to see Hopkins more involved,

834
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: and I thought I get him involved early in the

835
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: game to keep him engaged. Not saying he's not engaged,

836
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: but when you start feeding the guy at the ball,

837
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: you know he's going to try to, you know, get

838
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: open even more to him a standpoint of hey, I'm open,

839
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: and you don't have to tell him, he just show me.

840
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: And Kylo Worth throw the ball to him. Second quarter

841
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: and there was a third and seven and Kyle Murray

842
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,760
Speaker 1: throw the ball to DeAndre Hopkins for twenty three yards

843
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: and he was interfered with on that play when they

844
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: were backed up at their own one yard line. But

845
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,439
Speaker 1: early on the passes to aj Green to Christian Kirk

846
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: to try to maybe open things up for DeAndre Hopkins

847
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: because of a Kirk, a More and a Green are

848
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: going well. Then all of a sudden, the defense naturally

849
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: is gonna have to slide and get their eyes towards

850
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: that side of the field, and all of a sudden,

851
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: that means more room, more space for DeAndre Hopkins to

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Speaker 1: where he can in the fourth quarter have that thirty

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Speaker 1: yard catch and then the confidence from the quarterback to

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Speaker 1: throw it to a covered DeAndre Hopkins in the end

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Speaker 1: zone for six. Yeah, and I don't want to bring

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Speaker 1: this up, but Max Williams helps a lot of those

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Speaker 1: guys out there because you know, again he's the perfect

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Speaker 1: eleven personnel tight end. I mean he can do a

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Speaker 1: lot of different things. And you talk about the middle

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Speaker 1: of the field, and that's somewhere Kyler's jeffitely improve eleven

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Speaker 1: and nineteen yards. That was an area where you would

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Speaker 1: have thought his percentage would be a lot higher. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, just having the tight end

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Speaker 1: down the middle of the field opens things up on

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Speaker 1: the outside. And then when when Rondo Moore and Kirk

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Speaker 1: at the ball in their hands, they can make plays

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Speaker 1: yards after catch. And you might see now the adjustment

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Speaker 1: from Kingsbury to utilize Kirk and more down the middle

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Speaker 1: to try to hopefully you're not going to replace a

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Speaker 1: Max Williams, but kind of utilize that area of the

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Speaker 1: field with two smaller receivers who do have the speed

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Speaker 1: once they catch it to get some yards after get

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Speaker 1: some yacht yards. Can we see more ten personnel? You can't,

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Speaker 1: lit I mean, you can't do it every down, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they have the players to do it. And then

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Speaker 1: if you want to go five wide, and they showed that,

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Speaker 1: they showed five wide like a lot, a lot with

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Speaker 1: the tight end as sometimes the slot receiver or chase

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00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: Edments in the backfield and then he would go in motion.

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00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: So they'll have to come up with something. But obviously

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to address that position. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: each team has a ready list, and so I'm sure

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Speaker 1: they're already working the phones. Hopefully the Cardinals welcome back

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Speaker 1: Byron Murphy and Marco Wilson this week. Hopefully the news

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00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: is good on Rodney Hudson and then we will wait

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Speaker 1: to see with respects to Max Williams, but he is

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Speaker 1: going to miss time. And heck, by the time you

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Speaker 1: listen to this episode of Cardinals Cover two, he might

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Speaker 1: have been already placed on injured reserve and ruled out

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Speaker 1: for this season. But again it did not look good.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss this further. And now the questions become,

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Speaker 1: what do you do but this team? Bottom line, MJ.

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Speaker 1: You look at the standings in the NFC West, Cardinals

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Speaker 1: five and oh two and o in the Division, one

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Speaker 1: game better than the Rams, three games clear of the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers and Seahawks. Who would have thought this.

897
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Speaker 1: I mean, everyone talked about, you know, could three teams

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Speaker 1: come out of this division? And I'm not gonna you know,

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Speaker 1: Seattle's in batsys suation when I say that, just because

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Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson. They show Jimmy Garoppolo working out before

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Speaker 1: the game, like tosses and stuff like that. So is

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00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan trying to win games or is he trying

903
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: to develop a quarterback? So I think the Niners, you know,

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Speaker 1: they still have some weapons and if they get George kittleback,

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Speaker 1: they could they could be a spoiler. And unfortunately for them,

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Speaker 1: they just can't afford to, you know, more and more losses.

907
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Speaker 1: And if they want to go with the rookie quarterback,

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Speaker 1: then you're playing for next year. But they don't have

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Speaker 1: any draft picks. Cardinals in the lead through five games,

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Speaker 1: and as we did last Monday, all end with Brentson

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Speaker 1: Buckner move on Monday. We enjoy a victory Monday, but

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Speaker 1: it is a move on Monday because Cardinals once again

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Speaker 1: one to Ozero for the first five weeks of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. And I love the mindset from the from

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff to the players and you hear. I

916
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Speaker 1: mean you hear that. Listen to the press conference. One

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Speaker 1: game at a time, one day at a time. Let's

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Speaker 1: get better on the practice field. And actually the way

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Speaker 1: they practice translate to how they play. This team is

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Speaker 1: so competitive in practice and you can just see the

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Speaker 1: unity on this roster. They trust each other. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is a team right here. There's there's not any individuals. Now.

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Speaker 1: My only concern would be the veterans have to police

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Speaker 1: these young guys because they think they're five and oh

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Speaker 1: they arrived. No, this is a long haul. This is

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Speaker 1: seventeen game schedule, and I trust the leadership in that

927
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Speaker 1: locker room to keep these guys focused and keep your

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Speaker 1: head down and don't be reading the headlines. As Brentson

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Speaker 1: Buckner tweeted, all that they have accomplished and a paraphrase

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Speaker 1: in here a little bit, but all that they've accomplished

931
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Speaker 1: is that the Cardinals in twenty twenty one cannot go

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Speaker 1: four and thirteen. That's it. He's the must follow after

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Speaker 1: a game. I love. It's the best and it's real simple.

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Speaker 1: It's like in his wisdom and we know how much

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Speaker 1: he means to that d line and how much respect

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Speaker 1: he has for his players, and you know, he knows,

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Speaker 1: he knows they got to do a better job, and

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Speaker 1: that's why they work hard in practice. He should be

939
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Speaker 1: very proud of what that defensive line did on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against Trey Lance and the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: A lot to get into, but for right now, we'll

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Speaker 1: just focus on this forty nine ers contest. We'll turn

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Speaker 1: the page later on this week, and on that note,

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

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Speaker 1: Cover two, presented by a Hunday proud partner of the

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

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Speaker 1: Jim I'm a Hundre for Mike Jarecki. I'm Greig Riel Loup.

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