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Speaker 1: Welcome bird gang. All I know is the Cardinals are

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Speaker 1: two and o on today's show. No, it wasn't pretty,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they had no business winning that game on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: but they did and at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: that's all that matters. The offense for the second straight

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Speaker 1: week reached the four hundred yard thirty point mark. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: it was a tale of two hats. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: it all. It's Cardinals Cover two, episode four sixty nine,

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Speaker 1: and it starts now. Welcome to Cardinals Cover two with

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Speaker 1: Craig Grigolou and Mike Jarecki. Cardinals Cover two is presented

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Speaker 1: by Hyunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, and by

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit acy Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Going for Hopkins one hand to catch in a touchdown

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig Griolou and Mike Jarecki. We'll just

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Speaker 1: glow us over the news that the starting quarterback and

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Speaker 1: my co hosts have not seen any of the Star

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Speaker 1: Wars movies. Although MJ the head coach quote heartbroken to

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Speaker 1: Star Wars movies. So we're gonna lump you two together

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Speaker 1: and get you in a room and just hit play

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Speaker 1: and one movie after another. Yeah, I didn't realize. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of people have watched Star Wars over

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Speaker 1: the years. When Kingsbury said when he was between seven

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Speaker 1: and eleven he wanted to be Luke Skywalker, Luke Skywalker,

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure I got that right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, but Kyler Murray and you basically said I

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Speaker 1: ad minute. Okay, the baby Yoda put. By the way,

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Speaker 1: this has taken on a life of its own, and

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Speaker 1: you can thank Chandler Jones course for this. And earlier

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Speaker 1: on Monday, Chandler said this is going to stick. That's

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Speaker 1: his goal that this. He wants this nickname to stick.

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Speaker 1: But you're gonna score a touchdown after a twelve yard run,

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Speaker 1: and get into a pose and say, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what I was doing there. I look, Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: It might be the rest of the season that something

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Speaker 1: you know when it's coming from Chandler Jones, and it

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Speaker 1: just shows you how much these guys like each other

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Speaker 1: and they can kid around with each other. But it's

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Speaker 1: not like this came up in week sixteen, and you know,

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Speaker 1: when you win ugly. And I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings thirty four thirty three was winning ugly,

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Speaker 1: that was just being lucky. If you will. And as

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Speaker 1: of the season, it doesn't matter how you got there.

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Speaker 1: And clearly they were a different team. But I was

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Speaker 1: number of times but what Kyle the Murray is doing

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00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. MJ looking to throw first, using his

431
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: legs to buy extra time, running when necessary, and trying

432
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 1: to catch a defense off guard. But the throws that

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00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: he is making, and I keep bringing it up, but

434
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 1: as a right handed thrower, you're moving to your left

435
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: and you're not stopping to reset your feet. You're still

436
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 1: throwing on the run. That is difficult to do. Patrick Mahomes,

437
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,920
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson all very good. Kyler Murray is up there

438
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: with them, if not on the same level, and it

439
00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,440
Speaker 1: is one fun to watch, fun to see the reaction

440
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: on social media. And I think at this point, MJ,

441
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: we just need to expect it. It has become the

442
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: norm with him and this offense, even though there are

443
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: very few in the National Football League that can make

444
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,359
Speaker 1: the same kind of play as a quarterback. Yeah, I

445
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: mean the guys you mentioned, I mean I think he's

446
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: in the same category. Obviously, he hasn't been in the

447
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: league as long as Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, but I

448
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 1: think he's one of the most dynamic quarterbacks in football

449
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: right now. It kind of reminds me of Mike Vick.

450
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: And then when he's in the open fielding reminds me

451
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: of Devin Hester. He really does. I mean, he's just

452
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: he could stop on a dime change direction. He had

453
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: five carries for thirty one yards six point two as

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00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: long was twelve. He had a rushing touchdown. As a team,

455
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 1: they rushed the ball twenty one times for one hundred

456
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 1: and three yards four point nine, but he did. His

457
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 1: completion percentage was great, twenty nine to thirty six, four

458
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 1: hundred yards. As you mentioned, he was sacked three times,

459
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, two interceptions, but his quarterback rating was one

460
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: seventeen six. You would think with those two interceptions that

461
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: number would be a lot lower. He has gotten better

462
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: as a thrower as far as the accuracy is, and

463
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,480
Speaker 1: that's deep balls, that's the shorter passes and especially over

464
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,560
Speaker 1: the middle as well with Max Williams, which I want

465
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: to get into in a moment. But Kyler Murray continues

466
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 1: to rewrite record books, not just cardinal record books, but

467
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: NFL record books. He is the first player in NFL

468
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: history with at least three passing touchdowns and a rushing

469
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 1: touchdown in each of the first two games of a season.

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00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 1: He has nine total touchdowns, seven passing two rushing Tom

471
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 1: Brady also with nine total touchdowns all passing. Kyler Murray

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00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: in just thirty four career games has become the number

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00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: one Cardinals quarterback in franchise history. When it comes to

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00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: having a passing and rushing touchdown twelve career games, Jim

475
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 1: Hart had eleven. He needed one hundred and ninety nine

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00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 1: games over eighteen seasons accomplish that mark. Plus Kyle Murray

477
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: is the franchise leader among quarterbacks when it comes to

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00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. So it's again, this is your three. This

479
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 1: is what we anticipated, the step forward as a quarterback,

480
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 1: but still not losing what has made him so special,

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00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 1: and that is his ability to make something out of

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00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 1: nothing because of his ability with his legs. Yeah, and

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00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: another thing yards after catch, And it's not just I mean,

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00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: I guess it could fluctuate with the numbers because of

485
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: rondel Moore his yards after catch and also when you

486
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,240
Speaker 1: look at his all purpose yards from kick returner returner.

487
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,480
Speaker 1: But I mean rondel Moore, I mean, you know, I've

488
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: been asking around, like Larry and his heyday would make

489
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: those kind of catches, but he didn't have that kind

490
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 1: of speed an Kuombolden didn't have that speed. This guy.

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00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 1: I just it's crazy. That not crazy, I guess it's

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00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think because he was injured and he played,

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00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, the twenty eighteen season where he put up

494
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: big numbers. You know, maybe some teams thought, you know, what,

495
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: can he survived a seventeen game schedule in the NFL. Well,

496
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,159
Speaker 1: I mean, he takes care of his body. Looks like

497
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: that's just part of what he had to go through.

498
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: But maybe teams said, oh, we'll put a second round

499
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: grade on him. But it's amazing that, you know, at

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00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 1: the end of the year. And I know Kingsbury was

501
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: asked about rookie of the Air and it's this way

502
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: too early, but the fact is that he'll be in

503
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: the conversation based on his all purpose yards and if

504
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: he gets in the end zone a few times, I

505
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 1: just think, man, you start looking at the Kyler Murray, pick,

506
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker, rondel Moore, hopefully Marco Wilson. I mean, this

507
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: is this is the core moving forward for the Arizona Cardinals.

508
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: You've got something here as far as in what you

509
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 1: can build and move forward. And rondel Moore leads the

510
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,719
Speaker 1: team with one hundred and eighty two receiving yards, and

511
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: those receiving yards through two games is second most in

512
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: franchise history behind what an Kwon Bolden did back in

513
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: two thousand and three. And then you remember that wide

514
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: receiver class, and if you want to throw in Kyle

515
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: Pitts as well, even though he's listed as a tied end.

516
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: But when you when we talked about the wide receivers,

517
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: and we knew the Cardinals they were looking for a

518
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: wide receiver. They needed someone else to compliment DeAndre Hopkins,

519
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: even after acquiring AJ Green, was something that they wanted

520
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: to address. Well. Jamar Chase, Jalen Waddle, Davante Smith. Those

521
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: were the three and then there was supposedly a big

522
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: drop off who was going to be that fourth wide

523
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: receiver And right now rondel Moore is ahead of that

524
00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: entire list by a lot. Jamar Chase has one hundred

525
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: and fifty five receiving yards, Jaalen Waddle hundred and nine,

526
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts one oh four, and Davante Smith eighty seven.

527
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: So rondel Moore has certainly shown why the Cardinals invested

528
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: a Day two pick in him. And if it weren't

529
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: for the injuries he suffered in college, maybe he would

530
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: have been and probably should have been a Day one selection. Yeah,

531
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: and you can make the case like he's our DK

532
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: Metcalf and this draft I mean second round pick, right, yes,

533
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: the wide receiver from the red skin Washington football team,

534
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: Terry McLaren McLaren second round pick. I mean, so yeah,

535
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: it's it's just fascinating. Again. I know it's early, but

536
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: we got a chance to see him in offseason workouts

537
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 1: and yes, he looks small. And then you get a

538
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: chance to see him in camp and honestly, the first

539
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: couple of days they cannot cover him or A. J. Green,

540
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: and you're like, Okay, let's just see what he does

541
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: in a preseason. And here we are two weeks in

542
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: and I want to say he's probably been the most

543
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: targeted wide receiver. Now. I think it's him and Green

544
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: have twelve, Hop has eleven. We'll get into, you know,

545
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,239
Speaker 1: Hop when it came to the second half. But I

546
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: guess I know it's early, but you could just see

547
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: the upside. Again. All these guys just need to stay

548
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: healthy and we'll see how their careers unfold. He won

549
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: has very good hands, he's making the catch cleanly, he's

550
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: catching the ball on the run, and then the ability

551
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: to make defenders miss his lateral quickness, the ability to

552
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: stop change direction without losing any of that speed. And

553
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: it's the one dynamic that when you looked at the

554
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: wide receivers from a year ago, Yeah, they're all getting

555
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: open and making the catch, but then they were getting

556
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: tackled immediately. There was very little yards after contact, yards

557
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: after catch. Rondel Moore is averaging better than fourteen yards

558
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 1: after the catch through the first two games, and he

559
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: has the most yards the catch than anyone else in

560
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And we've also seen DeAndre Hopkins

561
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: with some yack yards, if you will, Guys who are

562
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,400
Speaker 1: breaking tackles, but then not so much eluding or breaking

563
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: the tackle, but just getting enough separation to where no

564
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: one is able to catch up to them. And I

565
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: think that is the next step in this offense to

566
00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: make that wide receiver that passing game just more just

567
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: that much more dangerous. Yeah. So he's got thirteen targets,

568
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: eleven catches for one hundred and eighty two yards, averaging

569
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: sixteen five in a touchdown gyack one fifty one. Hopkins

570
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: targeted twelve times, ten catches one thirty seven, averaging thirteen seven,

571
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, thirty eight yards after catch. What's interesting about

572
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: all four receivers more Hopkins, Kirk and Green. They're averaging

573
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: somewhere between thirteen eight and sixteen five per catch. Pretty impressive.

574
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: That's the explosiveness in this offense to where some of

575
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: that quick strikeability and then you have shorter drives. Now,

576
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: I think we'd all like to see a little bit

577
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: more consistent in the run game. But it's hard to

578
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: be excellent in every single phase. There's always going to

579
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: be areas in which you can improve upon. And right now,

580
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: this passing game, this passing game MJ is clicking with

581
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray getting time or buying time himself with that scrambling,

582
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: and we saw on Sunday AJ Green come around. It's

583
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: it's sometimes takes a little while. I think we all

584
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: had high expectations for Graham, just like we did with

585
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: Ron del Moore, and he was maybe factored into the

586
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 1: into this game plan this week a little bit more

587
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: and featured and we saw the numbers go up. But

588
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: I do like what's happening here and don't forget about

589
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk as well. He didn't have a lots of catches,

590
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: but his three catches, two of them were huge. Second quarter,

591
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: a third and sixteen and he catches a nineteen yard

592
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: pass in traffic for a first down. And then in

593
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter that fourth and five. For the second

594
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: straight week, we see Kyle Murray back pedal, throw off

595
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: his back foot because the recognition of the all out

596
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: blitz and throwing it up in the air, and Kirk

597
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: Hall is in a thirty five yard reception down to

598
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: the Viking six yard line to set up a field goal.

599
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: It should have been a touchdown, but able to capitalize

600
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: on that particular play. But once again, it's Kyler Murray

601
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: doing amazing things and then his receivers that trust factor

602
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: with whomever he's throwing the football too. They are going

603
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: to catch it and then they're gonna do something with it.

604
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: I'll say this about Kirk and the first thing people

605
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, he needs to stay healthy. True, just

606
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: like any player, But he's catching balls in traffic. It's

607
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: not like the Derek Carr play on Monday Night where

608
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: Zay Jones was wide open. Kirk. Whether it's you know,

609
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: it's not so much, you know, the one he throws

610
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: up when it's zero coverage. But look at a lot

611
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: of his catches so far. He's been in traffic and

612
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: he's you know, we looked at the preseason game and

613
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: it would have been a difficult catch, but he did

614
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: drop it against the Chiefs. But I like the way

615
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: he's running his routes. We all know he's playing that

616
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: natural position, and Kingsbury keeps talking about playing inside and

617
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: that's where his natural position is. We're starting to see

618
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: the upside there. One other thing I like is average

619
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: per play. Right now, the Cardinals seven yards per play,

620
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: the opponent high point four. Now, I'm sure that again

621
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: a little it inflated just because of Week one and

622
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: week two. But Kyler Murray ten point one yards per attempt.

623
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: That's really good. I mean, I know there's eleven and

624
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: twelve probably from Sky some guys that have passed more,

625
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: and he's completing seventy four percent of his passes. Last

626
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: year yards per attempts, Kyler Murray was at seven point one.

627
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: That ranked twenty second. Deshaun Watson was number one in

628
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: the league at almost eight point nine. You wanted to

629
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: see that number increase go up, and it has again

630
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: small stample size, but through two games it has and

631
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 1: I think that's why we see the average per catch

632
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: and yes, the ability. Now all of a sudden, it's

633
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: the ball's ten yards in the air as opposed to

634
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: the shorter three to four yard throw and leaving up

635
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: to these wide receivers to do the work. Kyler Murray

636
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: is helping. He's throwing these guys open and understanding that

637
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 1: they don't need to turn around and wait for the football.

638
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: But that timing, and that's what's happening here. You're two

639
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: with Hopkins, year three with Kirk even before that, considering

640
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,479
Speaker 1: that they kind of grew up around each other as

641
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: far as making the tours on college. So yeah, it's

642
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: it's been fun through two games. Now you're just gonna

643
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: make sure it stays that way. All right, Before we

644
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: get into some of the other stuff, let's talk about

645
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: Max Williams, because you and I are big fans, not

646
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: only have just Max the football player, but the person.

647
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: And really, you know he's a guy that Cliff Study's unselfish.

648
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: He doesn't ask for the ball. There's never questioned why

649
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: you guys going with ten personnel and an eleven personnel

650
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: where he's involved in an eleven personnel, but twelve personnel

651
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: is two tight ends, and we got a chance to

652
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: see something, you know, some of the tight ends on Sunday,

653
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: But this is what's going to happen. And one thing

654
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: we probably need to point out is how much Kyler

655
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: is spreading the ball around two different It's not just

656
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: one guy. It's not the same too. In this case.

657
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: You know, we'll talk about hop what happened in the

658
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: first half or a second half, but to me, there's

659
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: there's a trust factor when it comes to Cliff and

660
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray throwing to Max Williams. There is that ability

661
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: and we touched on it in the offseason if you

662
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: could find a tight end, and I think they have

663
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: one in Max Williams. It was always he needs to

664
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: be on the field, he needs to be healthy. That's

665
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 1: why everyone kept bringing up the tight end position. Do

666
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: you can you go out there and find one, draft one,

667
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: acquire one, or sign one. And I do think that

668
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were always looking, but at the end of

669
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: the day, they always came back and said, well, there's

670
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: no one better than Max Williams. A healthy Max Williams

671
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 1: because he can sit there and line up in a

672
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: three point stance block and then release or which we

673
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: saw a lot of on Sunday. He can split wide

674
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: or in the slot. Now, when you look at the

675
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: personnel groupings, that will still consider eleven personnel, not ten personnel,

676
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: even though there's no other player on the field that's

677
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: lined up as a tight end. But Max Williams had

678
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: a career day on Sunday against his hometown team, the

679
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. Good to see, happy for him and his family.

680
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: Seven catches for ninety four yards, and it's the catches

681
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: down the middle of the field between the hash marks

682
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: his ability to get open secure the catch because you

683
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: know you're gonna get hit. You don't want to lose

684
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: the football. But that is an area of the field

685
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: that this Cardinal's offense can exploit this season. Because Hopkins

686
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: is going to take attention away on the left side,

687
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: AJ Green's gonna garner attention on the right side, and

688
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: then you've got Christian Kirk and Rondel Moore as your

689
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: slot receivers. There is an opportunity here for Max Williams

690
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: to have a huge impact. Maybe not a lot of catches,

691
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: not a lot of yards, but when is he making

692
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: those catches key points of a ballgame, key drives, key downs,

693
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: getting that first down extending drives, And we started to

694
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: see that on Sunday, if I'm not mistaken, if I recall,

695
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: I think maybe three different times he was able to

696
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: get first downs on his catches. And he's targeted seven times.

697
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: Seven catches for ninety four yards averaged thirteen four a

698
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: catch and his longest thirty four yards. But I do

699
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 1: think some of his receptions led to some first downs.

700
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: He had a second and ten that was the thirty

701
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: four yard catch. He had a second and four for

702
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: nine excuse me, for twenty five yards, So there's two

703
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: first downs. There's a third one on second and nine

704
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: he had the seventeen yard catch. So yeah, three first

705
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: before just these are just the top ten plays overall, right, Yeah,

706
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: but there could have been four that he was involved.

707
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: And again it's going to be different. But I like

708
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: the fact that you know thereness not because again, they

709
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: could run a lot of four and five wide. They

710
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: can run four wide receivers. Andy Isabella's active, but he's

711
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: basically regulated to special teams right now. But if you

712
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: want to go four wide and chase Edmonds all of

713
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: a sudden, You've got a lot of speed on the field.

714
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: So but Cliffs still eleven and twelve personnel with the

715
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: mixture and again a lot of its dictator. And you know,

716
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: we talked about it all last week. What are we

717
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: going to see from the from the Vikings? What do

718
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: we say? Cover two? That's what they play. You hear

719
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: the guys after the game, Kyler Murray said, they you

720
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: know they're gonna play that cover two shell, and you

721
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: have to, you know, you gotta take what you give him.

722
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 1: And one thing I looked at for Pro Football Focus,

723
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: here's Murray's target death behind a line of scrimmage. He

724
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: was eight for eight thirty four yards short one to nine.

725
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: He was eleven for thirteen ninety one yards medium ten

726
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: to nineteen, five for six ninety five yards long twenty

727
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: or more. He was five for six one hundred and

728
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: eighty one yards and two touchdowns, and the big deep

729
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 1: ball to Ron Delmore for seventy seven yards. Gonna skew

730
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: that a little bit, but yeah, the ten to nineteen,

731
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: that's what we discussed in the offseason. Get better six,

732
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,280
Speaker 1: get better in that area. Now they I wouldn't say negative,

733
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: but and you've brought it up a little bit. But

734
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins and his ability to be the number one

735
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: weapon offensively for the Cardinals, and then obviously on the

736
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: scattering report, he's the guy that everyone wants to shut

737
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: down from the opposing side. He had all of his

738
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,720
Speaker 1: catches in the first quarter. He basically disappeared after those

739
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: first fifteen minutes. Now, Kingsbury took responsibility, and rightfully so.

740
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: If you're a number one wide receiver, you've got to

741
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: be able to find a way to get him the football.

742
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: Yet at the same time, if they are doubling bringing

743
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: the safety over for DeAndre Hopkins, then that's going to

744
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: leave one on one coverage or they're going to forget

745
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: about someone else. So as much as perhaps the numbers

746
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Hopkins don't look great, at the end of

747
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: the day, three catches or excuse me, four catches for

748
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: fifty four yards one, the Cardinals won and that the day,

749
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 1: that's all that matters. Hopkins has gone on record saying that,

750
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: And if you watched the game, anyone that made a

751
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: catch or scored a touchdown among the first out there

752
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: to celebrate and congratulate was number ten. But we would

753
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: like to see him be a part of the overall

754
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: game plan and not disappear, and that falls on Kingsbury

755
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: to game plan and then also the quarterback as well.

756
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: But hey, we want Kyle L. Murray to make the

757
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 1: right decisions and force it. If your first read is

758
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: Hopkins and you see two different colored uniforms near him

759
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: close to him, then all right, well I'm gonna go

760
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: the other way. But there is there are ways to

761
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: scheme Hopkins open because he is moving around a lot more.

762
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: He's playing in the slot. He is lining up on

763
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,879
Speaker 1: the right side as well, and I do think we'll

764
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: see more of that because of the amount of attention

765
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: that he is going to get well. But I also think,

766
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: you know, on the other side of this, Kyler has

767
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: learned the game slowing down according to him. According to Kingsbury,

768
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 1: we know he's mastered the offense. He's going through his

769
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: progressions now, whether it's one, two, or three. Obviously hop

770
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: was first. Now you got the second, third one, and

771
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: then he can improvise getting outside the pocket. So you

772
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: kind of can't have it both ways. And I don't

773
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: think you know, Max Williams is going to get seven

774
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: catches for eighty three yards? Is that? What ys ninety

775
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: four yards? Yeah, I don't want to short change him.

776
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to happen every week,

777
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, you know, and I liked

778
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: how they moved Aj Green around. I was you and

779
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: I are sitting next to each other in a press

780
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: box and when name when AJ Green went to the

781
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: left motion, all of a sudden, Hopkins is almost like

782
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: two guys were worried about Hopkins and Green really was

783
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: a decoy and it worked. So I like that. Usually

784
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 1: you want to see hot come in motion, but Aj

785
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,959
Speaker 1: Green lined up on the right side, he went left

786
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: in motion and as they're getting ready to snap the ball,

787
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: literally two guys there were three guys and they didn't

788
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: know who to take, And I thought that opened up

789
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,919
Speaker 1: a pass for Hopkins. Again, it's great problems to have

790
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: if you're the Cardinals on offense, especially if you're winning.

791
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals are winning here in twenty twenty one

792
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: and MJ, what a difference a kicker makes for the

793
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. We're seeing it across the league as far

794
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: as Miss Pat's miss field goals. But Matt Prader, the

795
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: other player who received a game ball, not just because

796
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: of his sixty two yard field goal, but he is

797
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: making all of the kicks and his kickoffs I have

798
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: been outstanding. There have been a couple of that have

799
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: gone short, but I think that's by design. I do

800
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: think there are points in a ballgame in which the

801
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 1: direction from Jeff Rogers's coffin kick it, kick it short,

802
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: so it can be pulled back or run back, and

803
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,439
Speaker 1: let's see our coverage units stop him inside the twenty

804
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: yard line. But when you have the leg of a

805
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: Matt Prador, and once again, no one has more fifty

806
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: plus yard field goal makes in NFL history than Matt Praydor,

807
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: why the Lions decided to let him go? I know

808
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: it was a down year in twenty twenty, but when

809
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: you have someone with a history and a resume of

810
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: a Matt Prador, you keep them for as long as possible. Well,

811
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: I think if you listen to cards cover two over

812
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: a period of time, you know how much I you know,

813
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: like Sean Coogler, and respect the coaching staff like Vans Joseph.

814
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: So when you look at it from that standpoint, I mean,

815
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: it's they. Jeff Rogers is another voice of reason here.

816
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: He's assistant head coach, and the fact that this is

817
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: what happens. Kingsbury will go to Rogers and say, where

818
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: do you need me to get? What? Forty eight yard line?

819
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,360
Speaker 1: The fifty yard line? And obviously they're out there practicing

820
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: in warmups here indoors, so you don't really don't have

821
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: to wear about the weather. Maybe one end if you're outside,

822
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 1: is a little bit different than the other end. So

823
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: the fact that Rogers has that wherewithal and it happens

824
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,720
Speaker 1: with every head coach, but he's got he's the assistant

825
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: head coach and really there's about eight to ten guys

826
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:30,919
Speaker 1: on the team because of special teams, and he gets

827
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 1: them ready each week. So that was it was interesting.

828
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: And again where we sit, I know it went there,

829
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: no problem, but they were thinking it could have been

830
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: sixty eight or seventy yards. That's what Kingsbury mentioned. Now

831
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was trying to watch the end zone

832
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: view earlier this morning. I don't know where the football landed,

833
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: but it was dead center and it was well struck,

834
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: so it might have been able to go sixty seven

835
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,919
Speaker 1: sixty eight yards, and the guy's been here for two

836
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 1: games and has the now. Jay Feeley had the previous

837
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: record sixty one correct, that was against the Bills back

838
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, so sixty one yards. Jay Feeley's record

839
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: is gone. Almost lasted ten years for Jay, so good

840
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: for him. But this is what you need to know

841
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: about Matt Prator because I find this fascinating. Prador owns

842
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: the franchise record for longest field goal with three different franchises.

843
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: Obviously the franchise record with the Denver Broncos, and that's

844
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: an NFL record sixty four yards, Cardinals sixty two, and

845
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions fifty nine yards, which he did twice.

846
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: So even though he's not the biggest, he's not the tallest,

847
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: he has perhaps the best long leg, if you will,

848
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: as far as being able to kick distance field goals. Yeah,

849
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 1: we always you know, you and I right probably after

850
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, you know, the first and second wave of

851
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: free agency, and we try to figure out, Okay, who's

852
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: who was the unsung signing or who's an underrated signing.

853
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: And I think we've definitely mentioned Rodney Hudson. Is probably

854
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: nothing against J. J. Watt and some of these other guys.

855
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Speaker 1: But you know, Rodney Hudson really has been a huge upgrade.

856
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: Watt will be an upgrade, just you know, a different position.

857
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,280
Speaker 1: But then you look at some of the other upgrades

858
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: on the team and you're like, I mean, quote McCoy,

859
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: we know how much he's meant to Kyler Murray. Yeah

860
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: he didn't play yesterday, but we know that he's helped

861
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: him watch film. And then you just look at some

862
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: of these others. But Matt Prater, I mean, that could

863
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: be one of the better signings in the offseason, just

864
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: because how many times did the Cardinals lose games in

865
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: the last couple of years because of field goals? Well,

866
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 1: just last season they lost three games by three points

867
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: Week three to player on the Lions saying Gonzalez missed

868
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: short on a game time field goal against the Dolphins

869
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: and then miss wright on a go ahead forty five

870
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: yard attempt at the Patriots. And those three games, when

871
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: you're one game away from making the postseason, that sticks

872
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: in the in the back of the head of a

873
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: general manager, as it did Steve Time to where all right,

874
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,720
Speaker 1: we need to find someone that's can make those kicks,

875
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: not just the long kicks, but be able to make

876
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: those fourth quarter inside two minutes overtime, those kind of

877
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: kicks to whether they are just like a normal kick. Yeah,

878
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure. When the press release came out they signed

879
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: Matt Prador and you're like, oh, he had similar numbers

880
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: to Zane Gonzales last year, from fourty to forty nine.

881
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: But then you peel the curtains back and he's probably

882
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,760
Speaker 1: the best, if not the most clutch kicker in NFL history.

883
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: And then he's got franchise records with three different teams. Yeah,

884
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: so you're like, okay, great, it's got to be an upgrade. Okay,

885
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: now we're seeing the fruits of the laborer. And then

886
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: you know Culte McCoy. He's just a backup quarterback and

887
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: hopefully it doesn't see the field, but he's been a

888
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: great influence in Kylin Murray. So these other signings that

889
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: don't get talked about. You know the JJ Watts, and

890
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: you know, obviously at the time, Elcolm Butler, and then

891
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: you know Rodney Hudson, et cetera. But AJ Green we

892
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: put him in that same conversation. But some of these

893
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: under the radar signings are really starting to show they're

894
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 1: worth and it's helped improve the Cardinals not only from

895
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: a roster standpoint, but helped this team start two and

896
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: oh for the second straight season. And now they'll go

897
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: on the road at Jacksonville. Plenty of time to get

898
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: into what they will be waiting for them in Jacksonville

899
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: and a Jaguars team that right now is really really struggling,

900
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: but a perfect opportunity for the Cardinals again this week

901
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: to work on what was wrong on Sunday and then

902
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: take those corrections into Jacksonville and hopefully come away with

903
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 1: the victory and start three and oh. We'll get more

904
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: into what we anticipate from the Jaguars a little bit

905
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,919
Speaker 1: later on this week, but before we head on out

906
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: of here, need to remind folks this is a new week,

907
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: and it is a week in which the second episode

908
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 1: of Cardinals folk tales The Night the Goalposts Vanished that

909
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: comes up on September twenty seconds, and if you have

910
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: not seen the first episode, just go to the official

911
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals YouTube channel, that YouTube dot com slash Azy

912
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 1: Cardinals of course legendary locker about Pat Tillman, but this

913
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 1: one is about a week two contests. That still boggles

914
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,320
Speaker 1: the mind that this was Week two, September eighth, nineteen

915
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: ninety seven. The Cardinals, from fifteen points down beat the

916
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys in overtime twenty five twenty two. Kevin Butler's twenty

917
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: yard field gold which banked in off the left upright,

918
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: was the game winner. And because it was such a

919
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: huge win, snapping a thirteen game losing streak in the series,

920
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: fans stormed the field at Sundevil Stadium, brought down the

921
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: golf posts and carry them out of Sundevil Stadium. Yeah. Two,

922
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 1: Week two now the last game of the regular season

923
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: to get into the postseason. This was a Week two win. Yeah,

924
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: And just watching the trailer, I think it was Jake

925
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: Plummer talking about his brothers there. They were maybeing down

926
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,760
Speaker 1: in Tempe or Mill Avenue at that time of the evening.

927
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: So it's just fascinating to hear all the stories. And

928
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: obviously it was you know, the fact that they were

929
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: able to get the goal post down and some guys

930
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: didn't know about it until a matter of fact, it

931
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: was Jimmy's father one hundred and he said that mister

932
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: b Walctoner, he said, you know what they're doing. I'm paraphrasing,

933
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: he said, they're tearing a goal post on it, and

934
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: he loved it. All the coaches and players game ins.

935
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: You're heading to the locker room, and I said that

936
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: walk and you maybe see what's going to happen behind you?

937
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: Is like, well, I didn't you get out of here?

938
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden words started to reach

939
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: everyone that what was going on on the football field.

940
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: So I fascinating look at what happened on that night.

941
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: September eight, nineteen ninety seven Folk Tales episode two, The

942
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: Night the Goalposts Vanished September twenty second, is when it

943
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: debuts on the Arizona Cardinals official YouTube channel. Go to

944
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash Azy Cardinals And on that note,

945
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: let's put a lid on this edition of Cardinals Covered two,

946
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 1: presented by Hunday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, has

947
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: always special thanks to our executive producer Jim almahundred for

948
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 1: Mike Drecky, I'm preg Ria Loup. We'll talk to you

949
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 1: next time here on Knowles Scuppered two h