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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang. On today's show, Andy Dalton or Justin Fields,

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Speaker 1: which Bears quarterback with a Cardinals base on Sunday? Who

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Speaker 1: do they want to face on Sunday? Should there even

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Speaker 1: be a preference? Overall? The Bears offense, as it looks

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Speaker 1: on paper is not very good. But first, as the

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Speaker 1: head coach said, what happened a padded practice Thursday? It's

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Cover two, Episode five h three, and it starts now.

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

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit Easy

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Speaker 1: Cardinals dot com, Slash podcasts. Going for Hopkins one hand

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Speaker 1: to catch in a touchdown DeAndre Hopkins. Here's Craig Griolou

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Speaker 1: and Mike Jarecki. Not exactly sure how many padded practices

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Speaker 1: end of the regular season, but I'll say this coming

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Speaker 1: off the bye week, as Cliff Kingsbury mentioned on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the team was in pads on Thursday. I think it

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Speaker 1: you want to make sure these guys obviously they want

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Speaker 1: football's played in pads, and that's how you get ready

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Speaker 1: probably the only week they didn't go in full pads

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Speaker 1: when they played on Thursday Night football. I think you're

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Speaker 1: like they're using them up because every Thursday they're in

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Speaker 1: Thursday was the day Kingsbury wanted to see, specifically Kyla

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Speaker 1: And during the open portion of practice both seem to

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Speaker 1: But I'll say this, as we still have a few

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Speaker 1: That's the phrasing that you like to use, MJ. And

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Speaker 1: I'll agree with you that the anticipation is that we

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Speaker 1: And you know, as for DeAndre Hopkins, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: We'll just have to wait for the final distinction. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: old knock on wood Here on Cardinals Cover two presented

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Speaker 1: player we have not seen on the practice field as

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Speaker 1: And let's hope Bird Gang that Kyler Murray and DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Their left tackle Jason Peters pretty solid, the right tackle

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Speaker 1: Larry Brahm. Now they do have Tevin Jenkins, but he's

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Speaker 1: currently on injured reserve. The second round pick had back surgery,

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Speaker 1: and there's a question on whether even comes back this season.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't quite sound like it, but I do think this

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Speaker 1: is an opportunity for the Cardinals. Again, you went on

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Speaker 1: first down. You do your job on first down. Make

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Speaker 1: it second and long, third and long. You might see

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Speaker 1: more blitzing from this Cardinals defense, but they do blitz

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Speaker 1: a lot already, but especially on the road. Cardinals have

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Speaker 1: had very good success on the road when it comes

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Speaker 1: to a defense and getting after quarterback. Yeah, and the

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Speaker 1: key there is first down. You know, you well documented.

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Speaker 1: You look at the Backers, they are getting up four

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Speaker 1: point five. You look at the Panthers, they were giving

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Speaker 1: up four point six or seven on first down. So

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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, it's a manageable second and six.

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Speaker 1: So if the Cardinals can obviously contain the first and

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Speaker 1: second down, put them in third and long that will

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Speaker 1: play exactly what Advance wants to do. We know when

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Speaker 1: it comes to their nickel and dime packagers are trying

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Speaker 1: to get their playmakers on the field, and I would think,

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Speaker 1: you know, between Jalen Thompson and Buddha Baker and those

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Speaker 1: street corners in Isaiah, they should be able to cover

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Speaker 1: and then obviously the front seven should be at a

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Speaker 1: good pressure on the quarterback. Cardinals blitz have the sixth

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Speaker 1: highest blitz rates according to Next Gen Stats. They blitz

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Speaker 1: nearly thirty three percent of the time. But I think

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Speaker 1: that goes back to what their success rate is on

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Speaker 1: first down and allowing to Chandler Jones, Marcus Golden's Avonkan,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, even maybe even Buddha Baker to get into

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Speaker 1: the backfield get home on either the quarterback or the

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Speaker 1: ball carrier. Yeah, And it's interesting because I want to

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Speaker 1: say last year they were first or second when it

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Speaker 1: came to blitzing, and maybe just because you know, Chandler

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Speaker 1: was out and it kind of had to make shift,

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Speaker 1: even though the end of with forty nine sacks a

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Speaker 1: little bit different. So here they're playing more zone. When

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Speaker 1: you play man to man, sometimes you get beat on

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Speaker 1: the chunkyards zone, you keep everything in front of you.

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Speaker 1: So maybe he feels like we can win one on

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Speaker 1: one matchups with our front seven and I don't need

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Speaker 1: to blitz and put our secondary in jeopardy. So that

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. But the numbers speak for

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Speaker 1: himself though. They were much better than they were last

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Speaker 1: year on defense and talking about red zone, talk about

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Speaker 1: third down, getting him off the field, talking about points allowed.

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Speaker 1: So it's really been night and day since Vans arrived

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Speaker 1: three years ago. Yeah, overall, the numbers defensively are outstanding.

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Speaker 1: As far as yards per game, they rank fifth, But

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Speaker 1: you go back to their scoring defense number four in

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Speaker 1: the league. Nineteen takeaways, eleven fumble recoveries, that's the second

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Speaker 1: most in the National Football League. So they are getting

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Speaker 1: home a lot in the secondary. But it goes or

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Speaker 1: I should say, getting home a lot in the backfield.

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Speaker 1: But it goes back to how do you attack a

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Speaker 1: certain possession as far as on first down. And when

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Speaker 1: you look at offensively, this Bears team, they have the

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Speaker 1: worst passing offense in the league, have one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy yards per game, and they are a run first offense,

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Speaker 1: and we can see that just by looking at the numbers.

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Speaker 1: But if you can get this team one dimensional where

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Speaker 1: they are forced even though they're not very good at it.

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Speaker 1: But if you force the Bears to drop back and

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Speaker 1: throw the football more than they want, that means getting

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Speaker 1: out to a big league. That means stopping the Bears

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Speaker 1: on first and second down. I certainly like the Cardinals chances. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and maybe the reason why they haven't been able to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball. Alan Robinson has been one of their

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Speaker 1: best players. And you know, you look at his numbers,

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Speaker 1: thirty catches, three hundred thirty nine yards, he only has

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Speaker 1: one touchdown. He's a guy that can stretch the field.

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Speaker 1: But then they have other guys and they really relying

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Speaker 1: on their tight ends and the fact that Jimmy Graham

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Speaker 1: is his second string tight end. They can go two

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Speaker 1: tight ends, so you can't get to the quarterback. But

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Speaker 1: Alan Robinson and then Marquise goodwins there. He's a fast guy.

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Speaker 1: I mean he only has sixteen catches for two seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: He's got a long of fifty now his average per

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Speaker 1: catches seventeen point three. So he's a guy like kind

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Speaker 1: of like Robert Woods. He can get open, kind of

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Speaker 1: like m Tyler'll Lockett. So that's a guy you make

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Speaker 1: sure you don't let him get around you. But I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming they're going to try to go with a couple

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Speaker 1: of tight ends to kind of slow down on that

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Speaker 1: Cardinals defense. But the key though, is if Alan Robinson

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Speaker 1: can't go, that's an advantage. And then money is hote

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Speaker 1: pronounced mooney, thank you. He's put up really good numbers

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Speaker 1: in the last couple of games. I want to say

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Speaker 1: he's over. I had one hundred yards. He played really

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Speaker 1: well on Thanksgiving Day, one hundred at least one hundred

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Speaker 1: receiving yards in each of his past two games. Ten catches,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty four yards total. In his past

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Speaker 1: two games, he's averaging better than fifteen yards a catch

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Speaker 1: and three receiving touchdowns. The rest of the skilled players

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Speaker 1: five receiving touchdowns. So he is by far their number

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Speaker 1: one option, and I think a lot of that is

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Speaker 1: just because Alan Robinson has missed the past two weeks

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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. Marquis goodwins up for the foot

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Speaker 1: injury last week, so they are banged up as far

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Speaker 1: as the other skilled positions are concerned. As far as

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Speaker 1: pass catchers, Cole Commet, They're tight end is dealing with

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Speaker 1: a groin injury. He didn't practice on Wednesday. So they

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Speaker 1: are seemed to be, you know, regardless of quarterback, they

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Speaker 1: seem to be one one running back, one wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: As far as weapons, when you look and try to

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Speaker 1: scout and figure out what do we need to do

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Speaker 1: in order to get the w yeah, I mean this

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Speaker 1: team only has nine rushing touchdowns. I mean they're averaging

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Speaker 1: four point four and really it's Montgomery, he's averaging four

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Speaker 1: two and then they got Williams. But they only have

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Speaker 1: nine rushing touchdowns now they are opponents only have ten

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Speaker 1: against them. So that got to give their credit to

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Speaker 1: their front seven there. And as you pointed out, for

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Speaker 1: the wide receivers, they only have eight As a team

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Speaker 1: that could be tight ends running back receptions and they've

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Speaker 1: given up eighteen to opponents. So the numbers just, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's not the Bears. You would think at this point

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Speaker 1: in the year would be able to run the football,

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Speaker 1: play action and open up the passing him. They just

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to do that. One other note, as

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Speaker 1: far as wide receivers are concerned. To me or Bird,

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Speaker 1: the former Cardinal last week in that win of the Lions,

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Speaker 1: a couple of big third down catches on the final drive.

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Speaker 1: So he has stepped up because Robinson has been hurt.

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Speaker 1: Goodwin got hurt last week, so to me or Bird

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Speaker 1: another name to keep an eye on. But really it's

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Speaker 1: about David Montgomery. They're running back and what he has

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Speaker 1: been able to do. Now last week the Lions did

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Speaker 1: a good job of shutting him down. He averaged less

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Speaker 1: than three yards a carry. But if he can get

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Speaker 1: on a roll, and we know we've chronicled it here

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Speaker 1: on Cardinals Cover two, presented by Hunda, proud partner of

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, the difficulty consistently stopping the run regardless

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Speaker 1: of who it is. But David Montgomery can be very,

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Speaker 1: very dangerous to this Cardinals defense and someone that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to lose sight of and then get out

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Speaker 1: of your own gaps and try to do too much,

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Speaker 1: especially if he has early success. Well, he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's built like a fire hydrant. He's like five two

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Speaker 1: twenty five, so he gets low gravity there. He's only

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Speaker 1: twenty four years old, and it seems like they want

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Speaker 1: to go with him. And then the other guy is Williams,

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Speaker 1: the Adamian Williams. Amon Williams kind of a one two punch,

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Speaker 1: but he clearly he's their bell call. You start looking

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Speaker 1: at their numbers. I mean, he leads a team in

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Speaker 1: rushing average per carry. But he's a guy that if

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Speaker 1: he gets hot, he he can run the football. It's

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Speaker 1: but again, no armtown here. You've got to game tackle

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Speaker 1: this guy because once he gets to that second layer,

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Speaker 1: you got to tackle little size against only five ten

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Speaker 1: but two twenty five that's really good size. You look

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Speaker 1: at James Conner, He's six two, two thirty three. This

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Speaker 1: guy almost has the same weight, but not the same height.

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Speaker 1: And Montgomery has played better since coming back from the

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Speaker 1: knee injury in Week nine, better than seventy seven yards

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Speaker 1: per game, which is the fifth highest total in the

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Speaker 1: NFC amongst running backs, plus three rushing touchdowns. But we

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Speaker 1: chronicled last week did not have a great game against

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Speaker 1: the Lions. But this bears offense when they are rolling,

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Speaker 1: when they've had success and they've won four games, it's

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Speaker 1: because of that rushing offense. Yeah, I'm looking at his

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Speaker 1: game top logs. He has rushed for over two hundred

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Speaker 1: yards against the Lions on October third, and then on

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Speaker 1: September twelfth, he had sixteen carries for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eight yards average six point eight against the Ramps. Now

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Speaker 1: he did have a rushing and a receiving touchdown. He's

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Speaker 1: only caught twelve passes, you know, out of the backfield,

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Speaker 1: so here's not a huge weapon there. But you know,

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Speaker 1: pedestrian numbers just I think because they're falling behind. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned seventeen carries forty six less than two seven against

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, fourteen for fifty eight Steelers, thirteen for sixty three.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's got one game ten for thirty four yards.

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Speaker 1: So he's capable of doing it. But I think they

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Speaker 1: can't fall behind to where they want to run the

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Speaker 1: football and then put pressure on your defense and they

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Speaker 1: feel like you know, again, I don't know if there's

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Speaker 1: just a game plan, but let's keep Kyler Murray in

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Speaker 1: that offense on the sideline. So he's capable of it.

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Speaker 1: But right now his numbers have been really up and down.

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Speaker 1: Eighth best rushing offense, they average four point four yards

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Speaker 1: per carry. Those are the numbers the Bears overall this season,

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Speaker 1: so they can move the ball on the ground. Overall,

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Speaker 1: only the Seahawks and Texans have gained fewer total yards

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Speaker 1: per contests, and they don't score a ton of points,

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Speaker 1: only seventeen offensive touchdowns. That's the fewest mark and the

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Speaker 1: league by comparison, Cardinals have thirty seven offensive touchdowns, so

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Speaker 1: twenty more. And that's why the Bears ranked twenty ninth

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Speaker 1: and scoring and why the Cardinals come in with the

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Speaker 1: fifth best scoring offense. Yeah, and that's why they're four

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Speaker 1: and seven basically. And again, the whole idea is when

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Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't have made that claim because they didn't

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Speaker 1: get justin fields. You know, the fan base loves the

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Speaker 1: backup quarter especially especially her first round pick, and you

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Speaker 1: got a chance to see him play at Ohio State

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know they're losing

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Speaker 1: and they got to put him in there because they

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Speaker 1: feel the pressure. So it's not the ideal thing, but

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Speaker 1: you just wonder if Andy Dalton was a starter where

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Speaker 1: they have a better record four and seven going into

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Speaker 1: this because you mentioned contests, they're still they're still only

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Speaker 1: a game out. Yeah, but you mentioned he started to

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Speaker 1: interrupt you. You mentioned he's two and six as a

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Speaker 1: starter though, Yeah, and I just think you know, offensive line,

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Speaker 1: skilled position players that banged up defense. It's as a

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Speaker 1: quarterback can only control so much. And yeah, you get

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Speaker 1: the win loss based off what happened on the outcome

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Speaker 1: of the game. But it's been a difficult season and

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Speaker 1: the Bears, though, are coming off a high beating in

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Speaker 1: the Lions on Thursday on Thanksgiving, So we'll see what

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field six thirty am. Pregame coverage begins here on

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals Radio network. As we continue Cardinals Covered two,

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Speaker 1: presented by Honday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals, mentioned

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Speaker 1: Von Konard a couple of times when we talk about

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Speaker 1: rushing the quarterback. Marcus Golden and Chandler Jones get a

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Speaker 1: lot of the attention. But we had a chance to

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Speaker 1: hear from Knard earlier on Thursday, and I really like

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Speaker 1: his frame of mind and how he's approaching each and

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Speaker 1: every week because there was an expectation when he was

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Speaker 1: signed in the offseason after getting released by the Lions.

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Speaker 1: The hometown kid comes back, plays for the hometown team

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Speaker 1: right down the streets, and it was a struggle and

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Speaker 1: according to him his words Burgang quote, last year was

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Speaker 1: a challenge for me end quote. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much that was because he was playing at home,

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Speaker 1: how much it was because of injuries and COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 1: the entire pandemic. He just he was he could never

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Speaker 1: really find his spot, his role, if you will. A

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Speaker 1: last year, different story this year, even though he's not

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Speaker 1: playing as much as he probably would like. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a combination of obviously having the injuries going

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Speaker 1: through COVID, but he wasn't getting a lot of playing time.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you this for a fact, he

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Speaker 1: worked out as much as anybody else. He was at

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Speaker 1: the facility. I was told every single day. And he

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Speaker 1: knew that Chandler was coming back, He knew that Marcus

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Speaker 1: had resigned. They also had tender Dennis Gardick, so he

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Speaker 1: knew what was on the law. They say they wanted

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Speaker 1: to get a more playing time. But to me, he's

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Speaker 1: done a great job set in the edge. Okay, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's a great locker room guy. He's a depth guy,

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Speaker 1: and you know he's earned more playing time. But again,

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Speaker 1: who you taken off the field? I mean under NASCAR package,

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Speaker 1: you got Dennis Gardeck, he's dressing on special teams, you're

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Speaker 1: based defense, you have Chandler and you have Marcus Golden.

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Speaker 1: But there's a spot for him, and I give him

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Speaker 1: a ton of credit because when you come home, yes,

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Speaker 1: the families. Here is his father and his entire family

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Speaker 1: is here, and you're expected to go out there and play.

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Speaker 1: And to me, he's on everything they've asked him to do.

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Speaker 1: So it's not on him so to speak. It's just

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Speaker 1: the guys in front of him. But he can never

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Speaker 1: have enough good depth, and he's got the right attitude.

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Speaker 1: I really like his demeanor. And there was toc Craig

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Speaker 1: in the off season. Why don't you get rid of

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Speaker 1: this guy? Look at his cap number and I don't

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Speaker 1: know all the details. Obviously they felt like, you know,

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Speaker 1: if somebody goes down, we need Knar because he has

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Speaker 1: his experience. He played in Detroit, he played in New York,

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Speaker 1: and he played at USC so he's played a lot

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Speaker 1: of football in his life. It was a three year

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Speaker 1: twenty million cons twenty million dollar contract. Bass salary of

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Speaker 1: just over six million this year six point seven five

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Speaker 1: next year. Yet you look at the expectation when you

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Speaker 1: have that kind of a contract and you're making that

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Speaker 1: kind of money. Yet last year he only played thirty

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Speaker 1: five percent of the defensive snaps once over the final

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Speaker 1: eight games. He just could never find his way out

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Speaker 1: on the football field. Still having some difficulty getting on

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Speaker 1: the field. But when he is on the field, we're

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Speaker 1: seeing a lot better production, whether it is setting the

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Speaker 1: edge to your point and allowing someone else to make

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Speaker 1: the play or getting into the backfield. There was the

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Speaker 1: big play a Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 1: He batted down that fourth down pass on Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: to allow the offense and Kyle the Murray trying to

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Speaker 1: gorge down field for a game winning score, and it

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Speaker 1: was this close to converting that and a great outcome

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Speaker 1: for everyone, but devonk or not. He's mentioned that he

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Speaker 1: has the right mindset and quote trying to be a

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Speaker 1: star in my role end quotes. And when you have success,

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Speaker 1: it's easier to have that mindset as far as winning

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Speaker 1: on Sundays as a team. But I'm sure it's not

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Speaker 1: easy when you have an expectation or a desire to

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Speaker 1: play more and you're told not right now or not yet.

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Speaker 1: We've got two guys in Golden and Jones that are

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Speaker 1: playing just a little bit better be ready when your

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Speaker 1: name is called, when your number is called, and I

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Speaker 1: think Devon Knard, while maybe not overly happy about it,

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Speaker 1: certainly is accepting of it and has done his best

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Speaker 1: to be ready each and every day. Yeah. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's all you can do is put the work in

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Speaker 1: in practice, and he practices just as hard as anyone

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Speaker 1: out there because he knows he's trying to get some time.

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Speaker 1: And when your number is called, you gotta be ready. Again,

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Speaker 1: the only can put eleven on the field. And I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at this year now he's playing close to eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of snaps on special teams. So again, you got

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Speaker 1: your starters and then you got your course so teams player,

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Speaker 1: obviously you know. I'm sorry he hasn't. I was looking

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Speaker 1: at something else, will scratch that, but about thirty three

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Speaker 1: percent three he's played three hundred and sixty two snaps

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Speaker 1: this year, so that's kind of where they were last year.

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Speaker 1: And there are some games Craig where he was only

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Speaker 1: playing seven to nine snaps. I would like to see

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Speaker 1: that in the teens. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting when you look at the lineman.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if a coach stands on the sidelines

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Speaker 1: goal he's at twenty right here, because it's really even

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Speaker 1: when it comes to some of those snaps for the

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman. So again, he earned, he's earned the right

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Speaker 1: to get more playing time. But at the same time, though,

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Speaker 1: who you taking off the field. There's a great rotation

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Speaker 1: defensive line, and how do you get a rotation as

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Speaker 1: an outside linebacker? Roll defensive line there's three sometimes four

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Speaker 1: at one time. Outside linebacker there's two maybe three. But

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Speaker 1: you have the factor in Isaiah Simmons as well in

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Speaker 1: his role as far as rushing the quarterback. Yet you

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Speaker 1: don't want to take Chandler Jones off the field, don't

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Speaker 1: want to take Marcus Golden off the field because they

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Speaker 1: are so good at what they do. Is there a

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Speaker 1: way you can get all three on the field. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it's something that's been discussed and I think we've

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Speaker 1: seen it a time War two. But it becomes more

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Speaker 1: difficult when it's a specialty as far as rushing the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know when you're looking at those three linebackers, Golden, Jones,

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Speaker 1: and Cannard, I mean, if you're gonna say, all right,

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Speaker 1: rush the quarterback, Don Canard is the odd man out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just based off what he does and what

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Speaker 1: he's successful at compared to Marcus Golden and Channeler Jones. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you want to do a D five. In Week one,

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Speaker 1: he played thirty four snaps, fifty five percent. Week two,

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Speaker 1: forty two snaps, Week three, thirty nine, Week four sixty one,

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Speaker 1: and then fifty seven and then it's gone down to

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Speaker 1: eleven nineteen, eleven, twenty four, fourteen seven, And he played

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Speaker 1: seventeen snaps last week, which would have been equivalent to

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Speaker 1: thirty percent because you didn't have a ton of snaps

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Speaker 1: from the Seahawks. So maybe more playing time times the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals time of possession, and obviously they're getting teams off

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Speaker 1: the field. But again there's only so many snaps can

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Speaker 1: go around. But initially he was getting, you know, close

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Speaker 1: to thirty five to forty fifty snaps. Now it's down

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Speaker 1: to you know, last couple of games, he's thirty five

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Speaker 1: and thirty again. He can never have enough depth and

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Speaker 1: you're not relying on a rookie to come in and play.

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Speaker 1: It's a good problem to have that the Cardinals have

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Speaker 1: as far as the depth, everyone wants to play. Everyone

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Speaker 1: is playing well because overall the defense is playing well.

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Speaker 1: What this means for Canard in the future, who knows.

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Speaker 1: Yet you always have to be ready, and I think

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Speaker 1: Devon Canard is in a much better position. He admitted

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Speaker 1: it himself on Thursday as far as what is being

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Speaker 1: asked of him, as far as what was the expectation,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes there can be an expectation then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden it's like, oh, that's what you need me

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Speaker 1: to do, and that can be difficult. But I'll give

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Speaker 1: Canard credit. He's been around the league for a long

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Speaker 1: long time. He understands that he's seeing it. He's been

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Speaker 1: really he's been out of the rotation. He's been the guy,

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Speaker 1: and I do think being home also kind of factors

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Speaker 1: in that as well. You got family and friends and attendance.

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Speaker 1: They're watching and they want to see you, and we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen a lot of him, but when he has

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Speaker 1: been out there. I'll repeat it he's been very, very good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: last year they didn't they didn't make the trade for

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden. Correct, so they lose fifth season mid season.

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Speaker 1: So he played, He played fifty five snaps in the

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Speaker 1: first game, sixty four fifty nine, and then he was

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Speaker 1: in acting, must have had the injury. And then he

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Speaker 1: played sixty nine sixty and then he had COVID and

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Speaker 1: it went down big time. And then that's when they

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Speaker 1: made the trade. So you could see what they thought

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Speaker 1: of him in free agency. And then when you get

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden, a guy that and he doesn't play every snap,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Golden, but you just don't take pass rushers off

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Speaker 1: the field that are winning one on one matchups. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's out to a standing star. So if

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Speaker 1: you look what they decided, Okay, we're gonna give him

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Speaker 1: this three year deal. He was playing a ton the snaps,

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Speaker 1: but after COVID and went down big time because they

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Speaker 1: made the trade. And it's what you do when you're

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Speaker 1: on the field, and that's what Marcus Golden, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: that's what Devon Kannard has done better than most on

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Speaker 1: that defense, has taken advantage of the reps. He is

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Speaker 1: getting as we continue here on Cardinals Cover two presented

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Speaker 1: by Honday, proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals again will

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Speaker 1: favorite Cardinals players to the Pro Bowl. Hopefully they're not

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Speaker 1: playing because they'll be in the Super Bowl. But again,

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Speaker 1: Week thirteen Cardinals at the Bears eleven am kickoff six

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Speaker 1: thirty am. Pregame coverage begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network,

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Speaker 1: And as we discussed on Wednesday, Bears Week meaning the

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Speaker 1: episode nine Cardinals Flight Excuse Me Cardinals Folk Tales Thanks

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Speaker 1: Coach is available as we speak at debuted Wednesday Night,

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Speaker 1: the Monday Night Meltdown the behind the scenes what led

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Speaker 1: up to that, the aftermath of Dennis Green's epic rant

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Speaker 1: following the Cardinals loss the Chicago Bears. On Monday Night Football,

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Speaker 1: asy cardinals dot com or search Cardinals folk Tales at

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Speaker 1: your favorite podcast provider. One of the more fun episodes.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not if it was immediately afterwards, but as time passes,

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Speaker 1: you have a better appreciation for certain moments that you

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Speaker 1: see or are part of, And obviously Dennis Green's epic

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Speaker 1: rant is one of those moments that will never be forgotten,

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Speaker 1: not only in Cardinals history but National Football League. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and at the time you're covering the the visitor's locker room,

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Speaker 1: but I was sitting there and that's probably one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest meltdowns that I've been around. And then of

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Speaker 1: course Bob Ferguson put me on notice one time. So

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Speaker 1: those are my those I recall where I didn't get

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Speaker 1: called up by Denny Green, but I could did get

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Speaker 1: called up by Bob Ferguson. Hey, you could be called

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Speaker 1: out by lesser people. But I think we should do

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Speaker 1: folk tales on that. We need to find video audio

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Speaker 1: of all that. Well, we got we got the video,

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Speaker 1: We got the audio and video from Fergie spoke like

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Speaker 1: that day. We'd have to have like um some animation

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Speaker 1: of Simeon going down the ramp and me coming up

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Speaker 1: and him having this conversation where he'd just talked down

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Speaker 1: to me and I'm not coming back, and then Fergie

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Speaker 1: having his press conference, and then Fergie calling me from

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Speaker 1: the airport the next morning telling me this guy caps

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Speaker 1: are high fiving him. He did the right thing, so

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a long folk tale. But just to

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Speaker 1: see Fergie neck his vein and his neck was just

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Speaker 1: sticking out and he pounds the table and I'm just

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Speaker 1: sitting there going, really, how am I? And you get

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Speaker 1: dragged into something that, yeah, you want to be honestly,

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Speaker 1: you should never be the story. Correct, Never as a

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Speaker 1: member of the media. Never. You don't want to be

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Speaker 1: the story. And what was the guy's name to ask

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Speaker 1: the question? Mark Brown? Mark Brown, who was freelance work

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Speaker 1: for the Chicago Sun Times. It was his question, a

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Speaker 1: very innocent question, not even answered by Dennis Green. But

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Speaker 1: Coach has something to get off his chests and he

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Speaker 1: did and you can relive it on folk Tales Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Absolutely involved in that. And don't forget the original audio podcast.

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Speaker 1: tell you what a folk tale we can do well.

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Speaker 1: When we got to the combine after they you know,

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Speaker 1: hired Kingsbury and and I are thinking, oh, Nick post Hill.

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00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: We entered that week Bird Gang in Indianapolis thinking oh,

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00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: they got the quarterback, find a defensive player. We exited

881
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: Indianapolis going wow, they might be drafting a quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the second straight year in the first round. And that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what I mean. They had the great audio. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to pick a scab. But when he

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Speaker 1: said Josh is our guy right now, yeah, or there

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Speaker 1: was a right now for now? Whatever was that those

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Speaker 1: two words at the end of it, like, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: here we go. He used that the other day about

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Speaker 1: talking about oh Colho. We got all the audio and

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Speaker 1: Peter Schrager and Good Morning Football they were all over it,

891
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: and we got a chance to talk to Kyler. It

892
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: was great. It's a lot of fun covering a professional

893
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: sports team because you never know what's around. That was

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00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: the time when I got a chance to talk to

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Speaker 1: John Gruden and they had three first round pickwere we

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00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: were trying to orchestra because I again, let's you got

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Speaker 1: more Ny, more than just Nick Bolster, Quentin Williams and

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Speaker 1: Grudens had kid called me he had three first round

899
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Speaker 1: picks and he never called him. Good thing you didn't

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00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: call him exactly. Cardinals are much better off with the

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00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: drafting of Kyler Murray nine and two year three. This

902
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: is the year that everything is coming to fruition. We'll

903
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: see if that Cardinals can't get to double digit wins

904
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So that leads us to what Mike Drek

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Speaker 1: you will be doing later on Thursday, and that is

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00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: getting ready for his three keys to victory, the X

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00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: factor and the intangible. As we do a deeper dive

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Speaker 1: on the Week thirteen matchup Cardinals and Bears. All right,

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Speaker 1: before we get out of here, I didn't know this,

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Speaker 1: and it varies because in the offseason to tell you

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Speaker 1: strength the schedule based on team's record from a year ago,

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Speaker 1: tell our listeners where the Cardinals are when it comes

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Speaker 1: and we know they're playing the Bears in Alliance, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we know that, and the Seahawks. So that's three teams

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Speaker 1: that are still trying to find traction lines. Are trying

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Speaker 1: to first first win. So when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: final six games, what is the strength of the schedule

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Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals. According to the league, the Cardinals

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00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: have the second easiest remaining strength of schedule as far

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00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: as the opponent record current record, Titans have the easiest.

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Speaker 1: The issue is the Packers have the third easiest, so

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Speaker 1: it goes Packers, Cardinals, Titans. As far as easiest remaining

923
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Speaker 1: strength of schedule, Cardinals only had two teams with winning

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00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: records left, the Rams and the Cowboys. I put the

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Speaker 1: Colts in there as well, but they're a five hundred team,

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Speaker 1: but still a very dangerous five hundred team. Yeah. I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to pay a lot of attention that, but

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Speaker 1: it's just interesting when you look at the six games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a very Seattle's very winnable, Bears are

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00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: very winnable, and you're throwing the Lions very winnable. But

931
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Speaker 1: you gotta go out there and play and then find

932
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Speaker 1: out where you are. You know, obviously against the Rams,

933
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Speaker 1: it's a home game, it's gonna be a huge game

934
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Speaker 1: of Monday night football, and then you know, clearly you

935
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 1: got to play the Colts on Christmas and then you

936
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Speaker 1: got to play the Cowboys. But you know they should win.

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Speaker 1: They should win at least three games here, Craig. Now,

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Speaker 1: if they win the next three, they clinch to the

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Speaker 1: division title. But when you talk to them, it's this week, yes,

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Speaker 1: Chicago exactly. And it's fun to discuss spur Gang and

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Speaker 1: we'll continue to follow it along right here on Cardinals

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Speaker 1: cover two. And on that note, we will put a

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Speaker 1: lid on this edition of Cardinals Cover two presented by Hunday,

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Speaker 1: proud partner of the Arizona Cardinals. As always, special thanks

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Speaker 1: to our executive producer Jim Almandro for Mike Drecky, I'm

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Speaker 1: Creig Rio Lou. We'll talk to you next time you're

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Speaker 1: on Cardinals cover two