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Speaker 1: It is now time for the head coach of America's team,

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Every Friday live at six thirty here with

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Speaker 1: Sean and RJ. Cowboys Cardinals Monday Night football on this

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Speaker 1: radio station with Brad Sham and Babe Laffenberg. Good morning, coach.

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Speaker 1: How are you I'm doing well, Sean and RJ. How

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Speaker 1: are you guys doing today? Doing pretty well? Coach. We

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Speaker 1: were reminiscing about Kyler Murray. He's obviously a standout local

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Speaker 1: high school players they ever saw in person. Yeah, who

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Speaker 1: player that you ever saw a person? Well? I was

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Speaker 1: Absolutely did What did you think of Kyler coming out?

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Speaker 1: of of of Kyler's college tape and him as an

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Speaker 1: NFL prospect? Well, I thought it was dynamic. I mean,

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Speaker 1: So and I think just the way you know, the

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Speaker 1: he was a custom fit for the wide open player

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Speaker 1: to me on dynamic he is, and he has a

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Speaker 1: very unique skill setting. You know, it's clearly the focal

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Speaker 1: point for us this week. Well, speaking of this week, coach,

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Speaker 1: anything there's UM, you have you have your preparation on

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Speaker 1: conceptionally how you want to attack their defense, and and

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Speaker 1: and you suit it towards you know, which which you're

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Speaker 1: calling your quarterbacks you know most comfortable with. You know,

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Speaker 1: Andy is Uh obviously has tremendous amount of experience, so

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, we're we're going we're going into

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Speaker 1: we are talking about Super Bowl aspirations. You said it yourself.

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Speaker 1: the window and the season is not just gone. You know, really,

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Speaker 1: really you just you correct everything. Yeah, you pour everything

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Speaker 1: ever just go home. We're going to Jerry's office and

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Speaker 1: covid off season. This this is my return to coaching. Damn, Like,

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Speaker 1: can I can I catch a break? I'm not. I'm

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Speaker 1: here one oh five through the fan. Uh. Last week,

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Speaker 1: Esh back for Monday night. Well, he practiced yesterday, and

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Speaker 1: when he when he comes in tomorrow, see how he seals.

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Speaker 1: Why was Everson Griffin missing your practice? Just just a

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Speaker 1: you're understanding that you also miss games if you have

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. UM, I don't know they specific

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Speaker 1: answer to that. UM. I know that you know when

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Speaker 1: and that's uh, they're they're written by lawyers, so there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of pages to them. UM, and that's not

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Speaker 1: under my direct uh responsibility now. Mean I'm just we

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Speaker 1: have people that in the building that do a great job, um,

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Speaker 1: going through each and every detail of that. So UM,

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Speaker 1: we just we I focus more on how it's applied

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Speaker 1: you know, it's something that we talk on probably once

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Speaker 1: you go about stopping DeAndre Hopkins? Well, a great question. UM,

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Speaker 1: you know I think this like anything, you know, you

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Speaker 1: really just studied his tendencies and the components of what

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Speaker 1: there's a you know, you look at the players weren't

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Speaker 1: win the balls in here? How they three want to

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Speaker 1: go get the football? You know Michael Gallups, you know,

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Speaker 1: that ball when you go up for those it's fifty

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Speaker 1: But he has a tremendously strong hands, good a route runner,

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Speaker 1: he's definitely the classic number one receiver that he looked identified.

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Speaker 1: But you know what what you're you're talking about a

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Speaker 1: big challenge for us. Mike, we uh, we always talk

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Speaker 1: and we know that that's pretty high. Would you say, uh,

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Speaker 1: and do you judge how much does football IQ vary

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Speaker 1: with all of your teams every year? And where's this

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Speaker 1: team's football IQ? It was some of the penalties that

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Speaker 1: don't really do comparables. I think it's you know, I

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Speaker 1: there's definitely you know, physical talent across the board. But

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Speaker 1: because you know there is still a newness to our

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Speaker 1: football team. Last question, what did you get Jerry for

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Speaker 1: his birthday? Oh? You forgot it, didn't you? No? No,

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Speaker 1: actually didn't. I just go his birthday, and then actually

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Speaker 1: Will mcclay's birthdays the same day, and then my daughter

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Speaker 1: Alex you know, it was just her twenty ninth birthday

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Speaker 1: October birthdays. So I got my two, my twelve year

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Speaker 1: in October, so I wish them every birthday. But did

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Speaker 1: the wife does she get all the gifts ahead of

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Speaker 1: time or do you actually kill We're out of time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, coach on Monday Night football, coach, you know

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Speaker 1: the answer that question. You guys have a good week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks can you imagine? And Mike McCarthy goes, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: on Amazon and uh have any people we're not coaching?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, good luck, good luck. Monday Night