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Speaker 1: They have the right mindset. Welcome bird Gang. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: Danny Surrek joins me. After two days off a reward

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Speaker 1: for their win at Miami, the Cardinals were back at

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Speaker 1: work on Wednesday. Yeah, we'll get to who was and

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Speaker 1: who wasn't at practice, but more importantly what was said.

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Speaker 1: This team is pleased with where they're at, but not satisfied.

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Speaker 1: Plus Sunday is a big day for James Connor, and

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Speaker 1: we give props to the offensive line. It's Cardinals Cover two,

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Speaker 1: episode eight thirteen, and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 1: Bud to Baker, What Heart? What rent? This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: He's at the ten half of five. He's it again

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Speaker 1: some more Hurry magic.

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Speaker 2: Whow Here's Craig Griola.

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Speaker 1: Felt really nice in the sun in the shade, not

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Speaker 1: too much, but again another Wednesday. That's two in a

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Speaker 1: row now, Danny which out during the open portion of practice.

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Speaker 1: This is why we live in Arizona. Here we can

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Speaker 1: celebrate these days in late October.

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Speaker 3: Did feel really nice out of practice? Happy about that?

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Speaker 1: Yes, very happy. Now we'll get into more happy news.

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Speaker 1: But how about we just get this out of the

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Speaker 1: and we will continue to wait in order to see

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Speaker 1: Darius Robinson on the football field. Yes, he is on

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Speaker 1: Here's my thought, and without any knowledge whatsoever, that you

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Speaker 1: Williams joked when he addressed reporters after practice that a

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Speaker 1: The offensive line. You brought it up three straight games

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Speaker 3: That process has started much longer than these last four weeks.

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Speaker 3: In that sense, they've done a nice job mentally staying

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Speaker 1: Winning late, winning close games, coming back in which you're

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Speaker 1: All of that matters. Yet to Kyler's point, as far

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Speaker 1: As far as Okay, this is what we know it takes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and no. To have the drop off that you're

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Speaker 1: I think it's much more mature Kyler Murray in that

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Speaker 3: That team's not at this point. Because they're four and four.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you want to continue to build that confidence and

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Speaker 3: A tough Bears defense to score points on. They're allowing

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Speaker 1: Field shrinks when you get inside the twenty yard line,

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Speaker 3: tall task at hand for Arizona's defense.

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Speaker 1: The Bears are one play away. We all know the play,

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Speaker 1: but they are one play away from walking in here.

439
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Speaker 1: Five and two versus four and three and five and

440
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Speaker 1: two not only sounds a lot better, it looks a

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Speaker 1: lot better, but you have a very angry Bears team

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Speaker 1: coming into town, which again you could really take advantage of.

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Speaker 1: I think if you come out in that first drive

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Speaker 1: in that first quarter, put some points on the board

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Speaker 1: to where that all of a sudden, they're thinking about

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Speaker 1: what happened, not only moments ago because you just scored,

447
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Speaker 1: but also the previous week, and now all of a sudden,

448
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Speaker 1: it becomes a mental game. Are they strong enough mentally

449
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Speaker 1: to where that loss doesn't become two losses? Because you

450
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Speaker 1: hear that with players, the play doesn't beat you the

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Speaker 1: next play.

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Speaker 3: As well, right, But the same way we've been talking

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Speaker 3: about the mental strength of this Cardinals team. You would

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Speaker 3: expect that the other thirty one teams are prioritizing that

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Speaker 3: as well, to not to not get lost in the

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Speaker 3: game prior and let that get in the way of

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Speaker 3: your preparation for the next game.

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Speaker 1: You'd hope. But Kyler Murray and you're six, Caleb Williams

459
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Speaker 1: now and just game number eight, again, what he's experiencing

460
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Speaker 1: versus what Kyler has experienced, perhaps there might be a

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Speaker 1: little bit of an edge. Who knows, I mean, there

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Speaker 1: could be. I brought up James Connor for a good

463
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Speaker 1: reason because Sunday marks his one hundredth career regular season game,

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Speaker 1: fiftieth with the Arizona Cardinals. Numbers that I was not

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Speaker 1: aware of or aware that they were approaching. But you

466
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Speaker 1: look at his numbers, Danny, as far as what he

467
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Speaker 1: was able to accomplish with the Steelers versus the Cardinals.

468
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Speaker 1: Now he's been given more opportunities with the Cardinals as

469
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Speaker 1: far as snaps, touches, but every one of his individual

470
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Speaker 1: numbers are much better in a Cardinals uniform than a

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Speaker 1: Steelers number. A Steelers uniform. Talking total touchdowns, scrimmage yards,

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Speaker 1: rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, runs of ten or twenty or

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Speaker 1: more yards, receiving yards receiving touchdowns. That that's one player,

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers do a great job. And that might

475
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Speaker 1: be one player that they regret letting go, Letting walk

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Speaker 1: out of the building, and the Cardinals are very glad

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Speaker 1: that they did, because he has been a godsend to

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Speaker 1: this offense as far as being the heart and soul,

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Speaker 1: if you will, and running behind James Connor this offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got Kyler Murray and everything, but if James Connor's

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Speaker 1: on his game, then you know the Cardinals are on

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Speaker 1: their game as well.

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Speaker 3: Connor is just so impressive in the way that he

484
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Speaker 3: carries himself, the way that he gives his absolute all

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Speaker 3: every single play, whether he is running, receiving, blocking, whatever

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Speaker 3: is being asked if him, he will give it his

487
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Speaker 3: entire heart and soul that he has. That's contagious. He

488
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Speaker 3: leads by example when needed, He will lead with his

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Speaker 3: words as a giving, impassionate speechest in the locker room

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Speaker 3: doing what needs to be done. He is a player

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Speaker 3: you would want to build an organization around the fact

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Speaker 3: that when you were talking about those numbers and how

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Speaker 3: impressive he's been in Arizona. I'm thinking, dang, and first

494
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Speaker 3: couple of years he was here, this wasn't even a

495
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Speaker 3: true run first offense or the Cardinals like to run

496
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Speaker 3: the ball early for the first half, and then they

497
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Speaker 3: really prioritize the passing game in the second half of

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Speaker 3: the season. And he's still pulling up those numbers. Very impressive,

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Speaker 3: kind of cool. It's split down the middle, fifty to

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Speaker 3: fifty Pittsburgh Arizona.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Connor ranks third all time on the

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Speaker 1: franchise list, tied for third on the all time franchise

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Speaker 1: list in rushing touchdowns. He is tenth as far as

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Speaker 1: rushing yards are concerned with the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: And that has also been without full seasons in the past.

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Speaker 3: It really is so impressive the way he continues to

507
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Speaker 3: put this team on his back and just be a

508
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Speaker 3: menace out there with the ball.

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Speaker 1: By the way, what we saw on Sunday when he

510
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Speaker 1: only had what was it, fifty three rushing yards, that's

511
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Speaker 1: been a rarity for this Cardinals team with him in uniform,

512
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Speaker 1: at least in recent seasons. As far as winning without him,

513
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Speaker 1: kind of being the lead horse, if you will, on

514
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Speaker 1: the ground. I went back and did a little research,

515
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Speaker 1: but that Sunday's game was the first time a Cardinals

516
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Speaker 1: team had won with less than fifty five rushing yards

517
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Speaker 1: from James since Week two at the Raiders in twenty

518
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Speaker 1: twenty two, and that was a Kyler Murray game in

519
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Speaker 1: which he ran all over the Raiders. But Connor only

520
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Speaker 1: had twenty five yards on that game. And you look

521
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Speaker 1: at the last three wins or the previous three, fix

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Speaker 1: me the first three wins this season, Connor finished with

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two eighty six and one oh

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Speaker 1: one rushing yards, and then on Sunday he finishes with

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Speaker 1: fifty three. Now, can you win consistently like that? Probably not.

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Speaker 1: I would think you'd have a little bit more balance.

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Speaker 2: Ye.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, Denny, when is James getting those yards?

529
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Speaker 1: When is he getting his touches? And we saw on

530
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Speaker 1: Sunday didn't really matter what it was doing first, second,

531
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Speaker 1: third quarters. It was the fourth quarter where they relied

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Speaker 1: on him to get those third down runs, those long runs,

533
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Speaker 1: and then Kyler Murray as well. So maybe it's not

534
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Speaker 1: so much, maybe not so much the total yards, but

535
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Speaker 1: when those yards are coming in games with James Connor

536
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Speaker 1: earlier in.

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Speaker 3: The season, when there's been a game where the run

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Speaker 3: game has just not been there, whether that's what the

539
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Speaker 3: defense is showing, not creating big gaps, whatever the reason

540
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Speaker 3: might be, the big critique was, if the run game's

541
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Speaker 3: not there, the pass game really has to step up.

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Speaker 3: I can't sit here and make that same critique because

543
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Speaker 3: just because the run game wasn't there, well, the passing

544
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Speaker 3: game was there in Miami, and that's what you need. Ideally,

545
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Speaker 3: you would like to be balanced. You would like to

546
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Speaker 3: be able to keep defenses on their toes. The fact

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Speaker 3: that the run game was getting stuffed a little bit

548
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Speaker 3: in Miami, okay, Well, the Cardinals were able to adjust

549
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Speaker 3: and they were able to rely on the pass game

550
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Speaker 3: and the receivers showed up big time. Your quarterback showed

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Speaker 3: up big time, and that's what you really need in

552
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Speaker 3: those situations. I like the fact that even though the

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Speaker 3: Cardinals were not running the ball as proficiently as they

554
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Speaker 3: have majority of the season, they did not steer clear

555
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Speaker 3: of running the ball. When you are playing from behind

556
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Speaker 3: and you're on that game winning drive, yes you are

557
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Speaker 3: going to pass the ball more than you're going to

558
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Speaker 3: run it. I like that the Cardinals have not. They

559
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Speaker 3: have not steered away from their identity, even if it's

560
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Speaker 3: been tough to run the ball. And I like that

561
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Speaker 3: we finally saw, Okay, if the run game isn't really

562
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Speaker 3: going to click and really going to move the chains,

563
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Speaker 3: the passing game did.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen that from Drew Petsing even late last season,

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Speaker 1: down a possession, maybe down two scores, still sticking with

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Speaker 1: the ground game in the second half, even early in

567
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Now you get inside seven to eight

568
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Speaker 1: minutes of the game and you're down a couple of scores, well,

569
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Speaker 1: then you're gonna throw the football. But you keep that

570
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Speaker 1: entire playbook open and you don't panic. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's the big thing that we saw on Sunday. Despite

572
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Speaker 1: this team not leading at all until when the game

573
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Speaker 1: was over with, there was no panic on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Might have been some panic from fans watching at home,

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Speaker 1: but there has been no panic on that sideline with

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Speaker 1: this Cardinals offense. Because they saw things, they felt things,

577
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Speaker 1: even though maybe it wasn't clicking in the first half,

578
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Speaker 1: they realized that, Okay, if we just keep doing this,

579
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Speaker 1: something's gonna break, and eventually it did in the third

580
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Speaker 1: quarter and then ultimately in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was impressive the way they were able to

582
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Speaker 3: come back from behind and adjust and find a way

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Speaker 3: to get the win.

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Speaker 1: Now, the question is can the Cardinals get three straight

585
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Speaker 1: wins with a dates with the Chicago Bears coming up

586
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. By the way, sideline exchange this week, who

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Speaker 1: was it? Jesse Lukesh Jesse Luketta Okay, conversation was what

588
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Speaker 1: about the Penn State Ohio State game on Saturday?

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Speaker 3: Or no? No?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Good?

592
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Speaker 1: No good? What was the conversation? Give us a tease

593
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Speaker 1: for what's going to appear soon on easycards dot.

594
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Speaker 3: Com talking about some of his passions outside of football,

595
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 3: really big into music and talking a little bit about

596
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Speaker 3: that about his style and tying in his Canadian and

597
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 3: African heritages and his style and will know him a

598
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Speaker 3: little bit more.

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Speaker 1: That's good. That's going to come up on Asycardinals dot com.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the Big Red Rage guest this week,

601
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Speaker 1: Zavon Collins, coming up on Thursday six pm at Trophy

602
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: and Chandler. You can also listen on Arizona Sports ninety

603
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Speaker 1: eighty seven FM so Jesse Luketta, Zavon Collins given the

604
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Speaker 1: decent some love. I think maybe outside of Buddha Baker

605
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Speaker 1: on Sunday who had twelve tackles Jalen Thompson at eleven.

606
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: That defense got the once big stop that they needed

607
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Speaker 1: on Sunday to get the offense back on the field

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Speaker 1: with five to oho one to play. But that is

609
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Speaker 1: a defense that won. They've been under the gun is

610
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Speaker 1: as injuries are concerned, and next man up, next man up,

611
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: next man up. But they've done just enough through eight

612
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Speaker 1: games to either win it or at least give the

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Speaker 1: a offense the opportunity to win the ballgame.

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Speaker 3: They also had some forced fumbles in that first drive.

615
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Speaker 3: They weren't able to come up with their recovery there. However,

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Speaker 3: I liked that they didn't let that get in the

617
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Speaker 3: way of walking away with a win. That wasn't something

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Speaker 3: that was the absolute game changer because the offense was

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Speaker 3: able to do what they did. The Cardinals defense made

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Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle for two of the most

621
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Speaker 3: impressive receivers in the league, not non factors because Hill

622
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Speaker 3: had more than seventy receiving yards. No big time plays.

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Speaker 3: Neither of them found the end zone. They forced Miami

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Speaker 3: to run the ball. They did a nice job with

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Speaker 3: their game plan, which was to prioritize taking out Hill.

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Speaker 1: And Waddle and that's what Budda Baker said postgame. They

627
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Speaker 1: targeted seventeen and ten. That was the focus and your

628
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Speaker 1: point keeping them out of the end zone. The biggest

629
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Speaker 1: part the defensively that they were able to do outside

630
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Speaker 1: of that last third down stop. Now they need to

631
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Speaker 1: get better on third down. I get that eleven to fifteen.

632
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: That's just way too much because you make it more

633
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: difficult on yourself as a defense to try to get

634
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Speaker 1: off the football field. Here at the same time, get

635
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Speaker 1: the ball back in the hands of Kyler Murray and

636
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Speaker 1: let Kyler Murray do Kyler Murray things.

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Speaker 3: The fact that after the first quarter the Cardinals had

638
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 3: just more than two minutes of time of possession, you

639
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 3: not great. You got to get your defense off the field.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not a fun first fifteen minutes. But again,

641
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, all that matters is

642
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: were you the winner or the loser, and the Cardinals

643
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: were winners. They were by the way, since I will

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Speaker 1: not see you or at least speak to you before

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Speaker 1: our next I'll see you beforehand. But as far as

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Speaker 1: a tease here as we speak the day before the

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Speaker 1: last day of October Halloween plans. Yes, no, no, no, okay.

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Speaker 3: It's a work day, right, it's a work day.

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Speaker 1: It's a work day. Okay. Favorite Halloween costing when you're

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Speaker 1: a kid.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, I don't know. If the top of my head,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's never really into like scary things

653
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: or anything. I don't think I ever dressed up like that.

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Speaker 3: I think I did Dorothy a couple times.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I can't even remember the last time I dressed

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Speaker 1: up on Halloween. But I hope everyone out there has

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Speaker 1: a happy and safe Halloween. Remember Cardinals and Bears coming

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Speaker 1: up on Sunday. That is a two Toho five kickoff.

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Speaker 1: Nine thirty coverage begins on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if the Cardinals can't make it three straight wins,

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Speaker 1: improved to five and four on the season. And on

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Speaker 1: that note, we'll put a lid on This edition of Cardinals.

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

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

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Speaker 1: jim Mo Mohundro, our associate producer Cuddy Fincher For Danny Serek,

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Speaker 1: I'm Craig Rayal Lou. We'll talk to you next time

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Speaker 1: here on Cardinals Cover two,