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Speaker 1: Here Tween go. This is it. Caught by Kirk at

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Speaker 1: Mike Jarecki and Bertrand Berry. Though it wasn't a weekend

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Speaker 1: and anybody that loved the game definitely had a good

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Speaker 1: time and was thoroughly in this weekend. Many believe that

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Speaker 1: the divisional round weekend the best weekend of football. We

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Speaker 1: will talk about what happened in the NFC and AFC

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Speaker 1: as we go here on the Cardinals Red Sea Report.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Bird Gang. We join you every Tuesday morning, eleven

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Speaker 1: am year around talking all things NFL and including the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: and we expect, we hope that the Cardinals are in

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Speaker 1: the playoff picture and reached the postseason next year. But

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Speaker 1: for that to happen, here, gentlemen, we need players to

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Speaker 1: step up, whether it's their second year, third year, fourth year,

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Speaker 1: or just stepping up as far as what their role

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Speaker 1: is expected to be. We like what they we saw

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Speaker 1: a year ago. Now in twenty twenty one, who is

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Speaker 1: poised to make that leap and we challenge both of you,

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Speaker 1: Mike Drecky and bertram Berry to come up with an

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Speaker 1: offensive player and a defensive player. And let's just kind

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Speaker 1: that plan to be successful, what player do you see

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Speaker 1: Now I want to see him do it for an

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Speaker 1: Of course, he got caught in the numbers game this

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Speaker 1: of what Isaiah Simmons brings to this defense. To his

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Speaker 1: MJ and I think that was more because of Devandre

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan just that that that doesn't fit well with me.

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Speaker 1: But I don't want to see that because that's just

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Speaker 1: another great quarterback here in the NFC West, and we

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Speaker 1: don't need any more of those. We've We've got plenty,

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Speaker 1: uh as far as as competition. So with these defensive

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Speaker 1: coordinators leaving, Hey, that's great. Uh, those defenses aren't as

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Speaker 1: strong now that they don't have those those brilliant minds, mastermindings,

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Speaker 1: the calls. But I do believe that they know how

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Speaker 1: to hire quality guys. So I don't think people are

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Speaker 1: going to feel too bad for those coordinators and those

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Speaker 1: coaches that lost those coordinators. You know, this offseason, you're

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Speaker 1: starting to see a lot of new names out there,

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Speaker 1: and and the and the Rams are going to benefit

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Speaker 1: because they the Lions hired Brad Holmes and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: get two third round picks, and I think the Niners

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Speaker 1: within with DeMeco Ryan's so you look at it, obviously

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Speaker 1: the league is promoting more minority candidates from a standpoint,

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Speaker 1: at least give him an interview. And now we're starting

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Speaker 1: to see how these teams are getting draft picks from it.

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Speaker 1: So you know, to me, I was, you know, you

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Speaker 1: look at Los Angeles and you're thinking they got Justin Hubert,

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Speaker 1: but they feel like, you know, even though he's a

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Speaker 1: defensive minded guy. Now, when you go in these meetings,

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Speaker 1: you got to go two or three deep on your coordinators.

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Speaker 1: That's what the ownership and the gms want to know.

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Speaker 1: But you hire the best candidate. And Brandon Staley, I

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Speaker 1: mean his stock rose within one year. Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: an impressive rise for Staley. The other team and the division,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks, they're looking for a new offensive coordinator, and

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Speaker 1: depending on how you look at it, Pete Carroll and

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Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer no longer seeing eye to eye. He was fired.

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Speaker 1: There are now citing philosophical differences, a decision that was

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Speaker 1: certainly not endorsed by Russell Wilson. He made that perfectly clear.

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Speaker 1: But this was the head coach's decision. And now in Seattle, MJ.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at what to do at the OC position

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Speaker 1: because Pete Carroll made it very clear at seasons end

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Speaker 1: quote we have to run the ball better, not even better,

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Speaker 1: we have to run it more end quote. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it sounds like Schottenheimer didn't agree with that and that's

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Speaker 1: how they parted ways. Now the roomor out there, they

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Speaker 1: want to interview Anthony Lynn, former head coach. Obviously an

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Speaker 1: offensive mind. He likes to run the football with talent.

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Speaker 1: Adam Gaze is available if he doesn't, you know, sit

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Speaker 1: out a year. So you're going to see some household

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Speaker 1: names and maybe they'll come out of left field with

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Speaker 1: somebody else. But clearly they were not on the same

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Speaker 1: page with the head coach wanted in the offensive coordinator. Well,

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Speaker 1: you look at the Seahawks the first seven games, they

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Speaker 1: ranked third in total offense and third and passing offense.

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Speaker 1: That they've finished seventeenth in total offense and sixteenth and

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Speaker 1: passing offense. Something changed their b trained between the first

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Speaker 1: seven games and the last nine games. And I think

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Speaker 1: we saw it as far as just what we saw

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Speaker 1: that Seahawks team. It was, and they just they didn't

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Speaker 1: hashtag that was so popular, and Russell Wilkins was by

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Speaker 1: far and away wanted to click cut MVP candidates and

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Speaker 1: and he was doing amazing things through the air, and

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Speaker 1: and then for whatever reason, things just really took a turn.

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Speaker 1: And I really believe the Cardinals had a lot to

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Speaker 1: do with that when they had that first matchup, I

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Speaker 1: believe Sunday night here at State Farm Stadium. They never

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Speaker 1: really looked the same after that, And and I don't

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Speaker 1: know you could credit the Cardinals, but I think maybe

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Speaker 1: something internally was going on in Seattle, maybe some injuries.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but you're right, they did not look

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Speaker 1: the same, and down the stretch they looked like the

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Speaker 1: shell of themselves. And it's unfortunate, but that's the way

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Speaker 1: to get goes. It's a war of attrition, and the

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Speaker 1: teams that that get out of it the healthiest are

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Speaker 1: the ones that are going to continue to advance. And

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Speaker 1: for the Seattle the Feedhawks, I think they may have

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Speaker 1: peaked too soon, too early in the season. Shot Nheimer's

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Speaker 1: three seasons as the OC had a top ten scoring

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Speaker 1: offense each of those three seasons. Cardinals certainly looking at

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Speaker 1: their own staff changes as well. According to reports, Tom

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Speaker 1: Clements is due to retire. David Rye is no longer

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Speaker 1: on the staff and reportedly is expected to be filled

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Speaker 1: by Sean Jefferson, the former wide receiver now also a

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Speaker 1: wide receivers coach with the Jets. According to reports, team

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Speaker 1: might be added to the Cardinals staff. More on that

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Speaker 1: when those moves become official and we can dive further

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Speaker 1: in what the Cardinals offensive coaches staff might look like.

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Speaker 1: Look it going into twenty one. Subscribe to Arizona Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Radio network. Buccaneers being three yards, It's over there down

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Speaker 1: three Brady goes under center takes the snap handoff to

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Speaker 1: Fourtet's trade ahead and he stumbles forward. He's got the

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Speaker 1: first down down to the twenty five yard line, and

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Speaker 1: that'll do it. Letter Fourtnette picks up the first down

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Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on their way to

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Speaker 1: the NFC title Game. Bryan Radkey on Westwood won the

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Speaker 1: final score thirty to twenty. Brady Versus Breeze, Part three

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Speaker 1: goes to Tom Brady and Tampa Bay. They were swept

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Speaker 1: in the regular season by New Orleans and come away

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Speaker 1: with the victory in the postseason. As we welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the second half of the Cardinals Red Seat Report

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Speaker 1: here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network, Craig Riolu, Mike Trecky,

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Speaker 1: and bertram Berry. And you look at this Buccaneers Saints contest,

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Speaker 1: b train, I'll say it defense once again, as the

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Speaker 1: Bucks converted three of four Saints turnas into touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: Devin White had a phenomenal game of fumble, recovery and interception.

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Speaker 1: You finished with eleven tackles, a tackle for loss, a

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Speaker 1: quarterback hit, a pass breakup. Yes, the two quarterbacks got

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Speaker 1: a lot of the attention going into that game. But

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Speaker 1: coming out of that ball game, you have to credit

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Speaker 1: Todd Bowles and that Tampa Bay defense. Okay, we're here,

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Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'll do it so you can so

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Speaker 1: back in studio, our producer Jim Amhendro and Coodie Fincher

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Speaker 1: can give it to you three two one defense once again,

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Speaker 1: be trained. Is the story of the ball game. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they are the story of the ball game. And the

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Speaker 1: thing that was so surprising is how poorly both quarterbacks played.

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Speaker 1: Of course both leaves quarterbacks or very story and and

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Speaker 1: has a lot of success in the NFL. And the

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Speaker 1: thing that's so crazy about the defense of the Camera

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Speaker 1: Bay fucking years is that they've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: veteran guys, but it's a relatively young defense. They got

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Speaker 1: a lot of young guys playing really well. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that they were able to turn Drew Brees over

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Speaker 1: so many times. You just looked at Drew breesing and

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Speaker 1: I think we started to really show his age unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: And of course we don't know if it was the

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Speaker 1: final game or not, but it definitely looked as if

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Speaker 1: father time has caught up to Drew Brees. And you

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Speaker 1: do give credit to Todd Bowls and that opportunistic defense,

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Speaker 1: and so they were making plays all over the field.

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Speaker 1: They just seemed to be a step quicker than the

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. And with Tom Brady and his play

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Speaker 1: with the Temper Bay Buccaneers, if you were to close

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Speaker 1: your eyes and just listen to that game, it looked

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Speaker 1: him awful lot like what he did in New England.

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Speaker 1: It was, you know, the short passes, you know, really

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Speaker 1: getting the ball out of his hand, not taking a

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Speaker 1: lot of chances downfield. They took the shots, but it

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Speaker 1: looked similar to his success that he had in New England.

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Speaker 1: And I think for Bruce arians to concede that, I

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Speaker 1: thought that was big. But I think it paid dividends

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Speaker 1: because now you're seeing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the

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Speaker 1: game away for Super Bowl fifty off. Yeah, and you

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Speaker 1: talk about Sean Murphy, Bunting and Devin White and you're

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Speaker 1: throwing Carlton Davis. I mean, you're talking about y'all a

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Speaker 1: lot of young players, and then you're throwing Sue and

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Speaker 1: you got JPP and you got some veteran guys there.

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Speaker 1: But we know Todd Bull is going to dial it up.

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Speaker 1: But be Train's right, Brady only threw for one hundred

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Speaker 1: ninety nine yards and then Drew Brees the three interceptions

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Speaker 1: that costs his team. Leonard Fournette let him in receptions,

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Speaker 1: Cameron brad he was second, Godwin Henley. You know, Mike

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Speaker 1: Evans had one catch for three yards, but it was

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. So they find different ways to win. But

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a great matchup between Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers coming up on Sunday. Yeah, one oh

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Speaker 1: five is the kickoff on Fox the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the forecast calls for a high

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Speaker 1: twenty nine degrees with a fifty percent chance snow shower. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: and I found this hard to believe, be train, but

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Speaker 1: this is the first time the Packers will host the

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Speaker 1: NFC Championship game with Aaron Rodgers as the quarterback. They've

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Speaker 1: been here before, but now they've got, as you mentioned

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Speaker 1: earlier in the show, that home field advantage. Yeah, limited

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Speaker 1: number of fans, but one, they're loud, and two if

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Speaker 1: that whether is anything like we're expecting it to be,

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Speaker 1: that that certainly favors the home team. It does favor

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Speaker 1: of the home team. And I'll just say this as

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Speaker 1: a spectator. Now, the twenty nine degrees doesn't really fade me.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm a player, that's pretty dane cold. And

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Speaker 1: if you're talking about implement whether to go along with

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Speaker 1: twenty nine degrees, yeah, I'm definitely thinking about that. But

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Speaker 1: when you have the opportunity to get to a super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: those things really become minor. Now it's all about execution

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Speaker 1: and making sure that everybody's locked into the game plan,

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Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page. There's no there's no stone

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Speaker 1: on turn. You have to make sure that you do

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Speaker 1: every bit of research that you can, all the film work,

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Speaker 1: all the preparation on the practice field, everything has done

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Speaker 1: Chris and done effectively. And so this is exciting times.

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Speaker 1: I know both of these quarterbacks are looking for football immortality.

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Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady's already got it. But if you're

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Speaker 1: you're Aaron Rodgers and he's able to get to another

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Speaker 1: super Bowl, this puts him in yet another class as

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Speaker 1: far as all time greats. And so there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different storylines here in this game. And remember this

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Speaker 1: was also a Week six rematch where the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers really put it onto Green Bay Packers. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: the Packers are up ten nothing in that game. Here

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers scored twenty eight points in the second quarter,

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Speaker 1: ten and the third. And you go back to Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about blitz and he went three for twelve,

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Speaker 1: two interceptions against the Blitz in Week six against Todd Bulls. So,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's and you're talking about a warm weather

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Speaker 1: team going obviously to Lambeau. So curious to see how

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Speaker 1: they're going to work that out. I'm sure Aaron's is

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Speaker 1: going to say it has nothing to do with the weather.

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Speaker 1: Oh of course, Now you can't use it as an excuse.

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Speaker 1: And I know Brady is going to get asked about

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Speaker 1: it a lot. He joked that his blood is thinned

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Speaker 1: out now that he's moved down to Florida. But if

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Speaker 1: there's anyone, and there's a California kid, if there's anyone

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Speaker 1: MJ that can that can deal with that inclement, whether

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Speaker 1: it goes to Michigan, then excels in New England. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this would be just like any other game, postseason game

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Speaker 1: for Tom Brady. Correct, this is his fourteens Conference Champs game.

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Speaker 1: It's fourteen, you know, vice as many as Joe. Yes. Seven. Now,

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Speaker 1: Mantena was obviously, you know, very successful in Super Bowls,

644
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: didn't really turn the ball over. But fourteen, how many

645
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: did you reach Batrain? I reached one and I didn't

646
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Speaker 1: even play fourteen years. So that that kind of let

647
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Speaker 1: you know just how remarkable this Stan career has been.

648
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: So that's two more years than I actually played in

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Speaker 1: my career. So that that that should give you some

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00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: sort of indication just how I'm presidented. Tom Brady's career

651
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Speaker 1: has been and it's just truly remarkable, and I feel

652
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Speaker 1: privileged to be able to enjoy everything the snaps of

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Speaker 1: it this far. That is a great way to put

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Speaker 1: things in perspective be Trained, because yes, he has been

655
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Speaker 1: to more championship games than be Trained played seasons in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. That's amazing. Yeah, I assume he's

657
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: going to play again next year, right, haven't heard anything else?

658
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: And listen, it's never happened. The team hosting the Super

659
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: Bowl has never had the home team playing there. They're

660
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: sixty minutes away from hosting the Super Bowl in Tampa.

661
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: It would be incredible. Course, what's that be Train? No,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that's just crazy and the things

663
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Speaker 1: that he had to go to the cold weather in

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Speaker 1: order to have a shot to get back home to

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Speaker 1: do something else that nobody else has done. I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, just no more. We get it. You're the best,

667
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: We get it. Put it this way. They will have

668
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: traveled off the road the entire postseason until the last game,

669
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Speaker 1: which is supposed to be on a neutral site. It

670
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: has been forever until this year. Put eventually, that is,

671
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Speaker 1: if the Buccaneers can get by the Packers again. The

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00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game coming up, that is Sunday, the first game.

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Speaker 1: The second game, the AFC Championship Game Bills at Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: We'll touch on that next here as we continue. H's

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals Red Sea report on the Arizona Cardinals rightio network,

676
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: Alan Jackson E And that'll do it. The Buffalo Bills,

677
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,439
Speaker 1: for the first time since nineteen ninety four, are going

678
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Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship Game. This magic ride for Josh

679
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: Allen and the rest of the Bills will continue for

680
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,479
Speaker 1: at least one more week. The benches into the talk

681
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: is at twelve seconds in chicking. This one is over

682
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs are going to the AFC Championship game

683
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: for the third consecutive year. But what is the status

684
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: of Patrick Mahomes. He has the clear concussion protocol. It's

685
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: a good question. Still waiting on that. We'll be probably

686
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: waiting for a few more days as we continue here

687
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: on the Cardinals Red Sea Reports. As we talk about

688
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game Bills at the Chiefs four forty

689
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and that game televised on CBS. You heard

690
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Speaker 1: the Bills final call of Tom McCarthy and then Kevin

691
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: Harland and Trent Green. Westwood won the final call on

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00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: the Chiefs eliminating the Brown twenty two seventeen. But Patrick

693
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: Mahomes third quarter, he got knocked down and it didn't

694
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: really you couldn't really tell if he hit his head,

695
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,760
Speaker 1: but something snapped and he was not in his right mind.

696
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: Did not finish the ball game. Props to Chad Henny

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Speaker 1: about what he was able to do. But the Chiefs

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00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: now with a big question mark. They're at home but

699
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 1: playing a very good Bills team, perhaps without Patrick Mahomes. Yeah,

700
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,959
Speaker 1: you know, I think over the last twenty four hours

701
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: they're describing maybe as a neck injurio whiplash, But again

702
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: he was in concussion protocol. There are five different steps

703
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 1: that he's going to have to go through, you know,

704
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: the player's test until signs of symptoms return to baseline status.

705
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: So they've been interviewed or interviewed before, and he's got

706
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,479
Speaker 1: to make sure his memories there than the second step

707
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: is cardio exercise, than they increase more on field workouts

708
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 1: were not with the team, So there's five different layers

709
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: that he would have to get approve if it is

710
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: a concussion. I agree with ba Train. I have a

711
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Speaker 1: hard time thinking on a Tuesday, he's going to miss

712
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, and just the way he exited that

713
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: ball game as well, running down the tunnel to the

714
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: locker room and then tweeting at the end of the

715
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: ball game. So knock on wood. He is available to

716
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: play as the Chiefs will host the AFC Championship game

717
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: for the third straight season. Never been done before in

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Speaker 1: the AFC, even going back to the Bill's run the

719
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: Patriots run, they have never had a team host that

720
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: title game three straight years in the AFC, but now

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00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: you have it with the Chiefs again. They'll into the

722
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: Browns twenty two seventeen and the Bills beat the Ravens

723
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 1: seventeen to three. Not a great game offensively for Buffalo

724
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Speaker 1: b Train. Once again, I'll say it, mark it down

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00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 1: eleven fifty one here on Tuesday, January nineteenth. The defense

726
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: the story be trained for the Bills to get by.

727
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: The Ravens. Defense wins championships, and the Buffalo Bills are

728
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: the epitome of a really stingy defense. We saw them

729
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: shut down the Baltimore Ravens, and I think the Baltimore

730
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: Ravens kind of shut themselves down. When you become one

731
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,439
Speaker 1: dimensional and you don't really have a plan b all

732
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: our passing game that that makes it very difficult to

733
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: win and even come from behind. We saw them do

734
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: it in the first playoff game, and kudos to Lamar

735
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: Jackson and the Ravens coaching staffing team. But you just

736
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: can't be that consistently. You have to be able to

737
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: throw the ball in the air and be able to

738
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: have a passing game of some sort in order to

739
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: keep up, especially when you start talking about a Kansas

740
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: City Chiefs teams that's so prolific that will have Patrick

741
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: Mahomes under center. So this Buffalo Bills team is is

742
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: old school the way to see built. They're built and

743
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is playing as well as any other quarterback

744
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So this is going to be a

745
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: matchup of two great teams total teams offense and defense.

746
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: And both of these coaches are are are very well

747
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: equipped as far as getting their teams to play hard.

748
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: And for Andy Reids, uh, this seems to be old hat.

749
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: You talked about that third straight in the AFC. Well,

750
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: the only other time that happened in the NFC was

751
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: Andy Reeves Philadelphia Eagles. So he knows a little bit

752
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: about getting that home fill advantage and hosting NSC or

753
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: hosting conference championships. So, uh, he's just a great coach

754
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 1: and I know that, Uh, he will will get this done.

755
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: And uh, it's going to be very very interesting to

756
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: see these styles and how they match up on you

757
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: decide the ball. And you know, we look at what

758
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: the Cardinals accomplished making the trade for DeAndre Hopkins, Well

759
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: you could say the same about Stefan Diggs. And looks

760
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: like Brian Dable is not going to be in the

761
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: hiring circle this year. But they've been together for three

762
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: years now. The Bills, they only ran the ball sixteen

763
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: times for thirty two yards. Of course, they did get

764
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: that one hundred and one yard touchdown. And we talk

765
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: about the postseason special teams plays and defensive turnovers or

766
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: pick sixes or in this case for a touchdown. They

767
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: get magnified even more in the postseason. But you know,

768
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen's playing with a lot of confidence

769
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: right now and it's going to be an interesting matchup.

770
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Speaker 1: This thing, I don't know because we've looked at their

771
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: last week and a lot of high scoring games, but

772
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: potential on paper, who has the ball in the fourth quarter,

773
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: who has lost on a turnovers, probably gonna win the game. Yeah,

774
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: I could see first team to thirty five, maybe the

775
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: first team to forty. This could very well be a

776
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: high scoring game. And I've been very impressed by the

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00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: Bills team. They have not lost m J since the

778
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: Hell Murray against the Cardinals at stave Farms Stadium. They

779
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: are on a roll and they are here in the

780
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game again for the first time since nineteen

781
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 1: ninety three, doing it with a young quarterback. The Chiefs

782
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: with a young quarterback as well. As you look at

783
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: this matchup, and I know you're a little bit biased

784
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: from upstate New York. What do you see as far

785
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: as the team coming away to win the AFC Championship. Well,

786
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: we know the Chiefs aren't blowing teams out this year.

787
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: I think they have six or seven wins by one score.

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00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Tony Dungee kind of put the

789
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: recipe out there where maybe you rush three or four

790
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: and then you drop seven into coverage where he's got

791
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: a throw in tight windows. We know he can make

792
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 1: throws on the run. You know, I like the Ravens.

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00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: In the last game, I thought that the Ravens will

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00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: be able to run the football and keep Josh Allen

795
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, and that wasn't the case until Lamar

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00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: got hurt. So, you know, I just I just think that,

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00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: you know, Buffalo's got a lot of momentum right now.

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00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: They're confident that the town's going nuts. You know, even

799
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: though they had six thousand fans, it sounded like fifty thousand.

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00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: We're there. I'm sure people are going to send them

801
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: off from they go to the airport. But this is

802
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: you know, you got to give them credit. They made

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00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: a head coaching change. Part in Sean McDermott and Leslie

804
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: Frasier needs more credit. I think Luslie Frasier should be

805
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: getting interviews right now because what he was able to

806
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: do that Ravens defense was pretty impressive. We talked about

807
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: snow perhaps being a factor in the NFC Championship game.

808
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: Rain could be a factor in the AFC Championship Game.

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00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 1: Kansas City forecast temperatures in the mid to upper thirties

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Speaker 1: and a forty percent chance of the wet stuff be trained.

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Speaker 1: Who do you like coming out and representing the AFC

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00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. If Pastor Mahomes is the quarterback,

813
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: I don't see anybody slowing down to Kansas City Chiefs.

814
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: They just have too many weapons and they've got the

815
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: ultimate midmatch in Tyreek Hill. I know the Buffalo Bills

816
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: and had a great run and all the credit goes

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00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: to the coaching staff and the team, But to me,

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00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: it just seems like it's meant to be for the

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs to make another appearance, and I got

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Speaker 1: them going up against the Green Bay package in All

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Speaker 1: State Farm Super Bowl. Though it should be fun, I

822
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Speaker 1: was gonna say, there's what three former Cardinals playing in

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00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: that game? Tyrant Matthew Andre Robertson, John Brown. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: then if you look at the entire Tampa Bay coaching staff,

825
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: it's all former Cardinals. He used to be Philadelphia Pittsburgh Geese.

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Speaker 1: Now it's Tampa South. We will talk about who will

827
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Speaker 1: be playing in the Super Bowl next week when we

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Speaker 1: rejoin you here on the Cardinals Red Sea Reports. On

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Speaker 1: that note special thanks for those behind the scenes. Senior

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Speaker 1: broadcast Manager producer Jim MOMHNDRO Technical Director Cody Fincher, For

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