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Speaker 1: Here's Craig Griolu, Mike Jarecki and three time pro bowler

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Speaker 1: Kyle Van Deenbosch. Four games, four walkoffs. It will go

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Speaker 1: down as the greatest weekend in the NFL, But it

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Speaker 1: lacked something, gentlemen. It lacked the er was on the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: So many what ifs. Kyle looking back, although it's only

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Speaker 1: been one week since the loss the Rams, yet it

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Speaker 1: feels so so much longer. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's just because the four games that we watched on

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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday respectively. But one week one week ago,

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Speaker 1: last night, Cardinals lose the Rams in the wild card. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does. We were just talking about that off the

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Speaker 1: air about it. It It seems like that was a month ago.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean the games this weekend were incredible.

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Speaker 1: I think as as somebody that studied this team during

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Speaker 1: the season and somebody that's a huge Arizona Cardinals fan,

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Speaker 1: I think the frustrating part was, for the majority of

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Speaker 1: this season, I only did the Cardinals look like a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl team. They were by far the best team

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Speaker 1: in the division. And we're staring at two teams in

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Speaker 1: frustrating part is, you know, you felt like we had

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Speaker 1: and at the very least, we were the best team

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Speaker 1: in you know what a lot of people consider the

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Speaker 1: best division in football, and here we're staring at an

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Speaker 1: Michael Bidwall said on Monday at a press conference held

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Speaker 1: by the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, quote, anytime you

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Speaker 1: see your direct competitors in the playoffs. It should bother

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Speaker 1: any football fan, and it certainly bothers this one end quotes.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into the NFC Championship Game and AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: Game and the second half of this edition of the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals read Sea Report. But MJ. It's it's time though

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Speaker 1: to look forward and what it's going to take to

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to figure it out. And if teams

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Speaker 1: a lot of it's going to come on the coaches,

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Speaker 1: but also really, at the end of the day, it's

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Speaker 1: and let it never happen again. Well, the roster construction

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Speaker 1: head coach Cliff Kingsbury said the day after that loss

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Speaker 1: and you look at the number of unrestricted free agents

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Speaker 1: You got, what maybe one more snap left in year,

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Speaker 1: I think an important signing will be Dennis Gardeck. I

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Speaker 1: And then as far as filling you know the pass

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Speaker 1: and all those things. But we definitely improved dramatically in

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have to leave the field, and that's what

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Speaker 1: you want with your running back is to be able

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Speaker 1: to do both run and catch the ball. And how

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Speaker 1: many checkdowns to James Connor went for twenty yards or

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Speaker 1: were big gainers because he's not just a guy that

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Speaker 1: has good hands and he's gonna get tackled. I mean

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Speaker 1: he is once he catches the ball in the open field.

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Speaker 1: It's just he runs the same way with the ball

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Speaker 1: in the open field and runs through contact the way

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Speaker 1: he does on a short yards and goal line plays.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he really was not just you know, not

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Speaker 1: just another option. He was a weapon on offense. And

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Speaker 1: he take a look at when Colt McCoy won two

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Speaker 1: out of three games on the road against San Francisco

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Speaker 1: and the Seahawks. He was able to de bait the

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Speaker 1: linemen and then the screen game was working. And again

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Speaker 1: that's something Kyler was gonna have to learn. Take what's there.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you'd like to get some chunk plays, but I

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Speaker 1: thought when Colt was in there, they ran. He ran

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Speaker 1: the offense the way they wanted. From that standpoint, obviously,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't have the same skill set as Kyler, Murray,

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Speaker 1: Will Connor and Edmonds. Both or one or the other

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Speaker 1: or maybe neither both are unrestricted free agents come mid March.

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Speaker 1: Here's head coach Cliff Kingsbury. Huge fans of both those guys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't ask for two guys that work harder,

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Speaker 1: do things the right way. You know, they're they're dialed

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Speaker 1: in each and every day, and they both earned good deals.

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Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, I hope that we can

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Speaker 1: afford both guys because they both had fantastic seasons and

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Speaker 1: they deserve to get nice contracts. But I would love

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Speaker 1: to have them both back. I think they compliment each

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Speaker 1: other really well. It's funny listening to Kingsbury when you're

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Speaker 1: the head coach, MJ. It's just, you know, I want

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Speaker 1: this guy, I want that guy, and it becomes a

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Speaker 1: shopping spring and then all of a sudden, down the

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Speaker 1: hall and Kingsbury's reference this as well. Down the hall

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Speaker 1: you have the general manager and your cap guy going well, no,

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Speaker 1: we can't do that. That's okay, we know that can happen.

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Speaker 1: So you have all these pieces, yet you have to

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Speaker 1: kind of limit or you know, narrow focus. All right,

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Speaker 1: what can we do? Well? The thing is they got

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Speaker 1: Connor and Colt McCoy on sweet deals. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: want to say total, it probably made three and a

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Speaker 1: half four million. I don't know about the incentives, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: which teams have Craig is a positional spending at each position.

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Speaker 1: So you know, when obviously Hops numbers going to twenty

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Speaker 1: five million, can they afford you know, number two? But

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Speaker 1: when you look at the running back position, they don't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of money invest in there unless they

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Speaker 1: sign them one of these two guys to a long

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Speaker 1: term contract. So it's like this, they have this pie

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Speaker 1: and you got to slice it up, and you gotta

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Speaker 1: hope you come up with the best fifty three players

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Speaker 1: going into the season. Of course, it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: Connor or Edmunds do running or receiving. If there's not

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Speaker 1: holes for them to run through, or if there is

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Speaker 1: not protection for the quarterback to throw them the football,

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Speaker 1: that becomes to the offensive line. I think you're pretty

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Speaker 1: solid there, Kyle, But we do know that they're right

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Speaker 1: now with Backscarcia scheduled to become an unrestricted pree agent,

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Speaker 1: there's a hole right now at right guard. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: you know when when Aaron Donald's in your division. That's

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Speaker 1: that's an important spot to fill. It can't just be

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Speaker 1: a guy. I think you need to be really strong, um,

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Speaker 1: at both center and both guard positions. I think it's important,

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Speaker 1: you know. I think that was the offensive line to

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Speaker 1: me was kind of um you know, the story one

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Speaker 1: of the stories of if when this season started to

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Speaker 1: go south, because this line was one of the most dependable, reliable,

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Speaker 1: and productive units through the first part of the season.

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Speaker 1: For whatever reason. Um, you know, there was games where

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Speaker 1: they gave up too many pressures, pressure too quickly, and

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Speaker 1: we're unable to open some of the holes that they're

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Speaker 1: able to open up early in the season. So it's

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's something, um, you know, not just the

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Speaker 1: guard position. UM, I think you need to continue to

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Speaker 1: always look to upgrade the depth. And saying that with

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Speaker 1: the running back position as well, whichever one you choose,

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Speaker 1: you're going to need that second guy. We saw it

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Speaker 1: late in the season with the running backs going in

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Speaker 1: and out of the lineup. You need depth, you need

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Speaker 1: somebody reliable, and so um, you know, it didn't it

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Speaker 1: on paper, it doesn't seem like much adding that extra game,

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Speaker 1: but it is so hard to manage even a sixteen

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Speaker 1: game season and keep everybody healthy and not go through

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Speaker 1: position groups that are just devastated by injury. So um

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Speaker 1: depth is always going to be huge, and I think

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Speaker 1: it'll be important too, especially the offensive line, to continue

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Speaker 1: to have that depth. No listen, I give Max Garcia

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Speaker 1: a ton of credit that he was playing out a position.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know he was learning on the fly,

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Speaker 1: and you know he he's to me, he's a backup. Though.

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Speaker 1: They got to get something out of Murray or Josh Jones.

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Speaker 1: And again it's on the players. Justus Murray had kind

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Speaker 1: of forgotten this year. He could play four different positions.

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Speaker 1: Beach him is under contract next year, Humps under contract,

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Speaker 1: Hudson's under contract, so we'll see what join Murray. But again,

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Speaker 1: when you're picking twenty three, you can take a guy

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Speaker 1: in the trenches. You're you're picking in the second round,

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Speaker 1: you know, late second round, and you can take a

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Speaker 1: guy in the trenches, because that's where they got to

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Speaker 1: get better in this division, in the trenches. The loss

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Speaker 1: of Justin Murray, he was I think counted on and

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Speaker 1: then suffered a back injury, designated to return, tried to practice,

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Speaker 1: had a setback, ended up having back surgery. According to Kingsbury,

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Speaker 1: expected to be cleared at the end of February and

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Speaker 1: then it should be good to go. So if you

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Speaker 1: can have him back, that would solve a lot of questions.

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Speaker 1: And remember with Guardsia mj he was he was your

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Speaker 1: backup center and was only moved to the guard spot

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Speaker 1: left or right because of injuries and in COVID issues

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Speaker 1: during training camp. Yeah, like I said, I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: a good depth guy, but I stilln't think if you're

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Speaker 1: lining up the top five, I don't think you know

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Speaker 1: based on and again he's going against these really good

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Speaker 1: fronts in the NFC West. But you got to get

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Speaker 1: better in the interior. Catch up on past episodes of

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Speaker 1: The Day Pash podcast via your preferred podcast provider. Get

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Speaker 1: the latest updates via Twitter at hash pod. We've had

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Speaker 1: halftime here on the Cardinals Red Sea reports. When we

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Speaker 1: come back, how about we look ahead even further coming

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Speaker 1: up this weekend championship Sunday the AFC and NFC, and

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Speaker 1: already hinted at our thoughts on the NFC title game,

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Speaker 1: but we'll break down Bengals Chiefs forty nine Ers Rams.

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Speaker 1: That's all straight ahead here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio network,

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Speaker 1: Evan McPherson for the Bengals win from fifty two. Vic

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Speaker 1: Pierson eyes the uprights, looks down, tell Us Helm he's

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Speaker 1: running the snap ball down. McPherson's kick is on the

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Speaker 1: way and it is good and the Bengals win. The

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals are going to be AFC Title Game. Kevin

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Speaker 1: McPherson with the walk off winner from fifty two at

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Speaker 1: the Bengals dream season continues. First and goal at the eight.

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Speaker 1: Mall Holmes gets the shotgun snapped, pumps throws from the

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Speaker 1: zone to Kelsey, but justusting takes the catch. Tous Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey with a touchdown in the back right corner of

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Speaker 1: the zong. Kansas City wins it forty two thirty six

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Speaker 1: and over time and the Cheeks full hosta forty straight

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Speaker 1: AFC Championship game, first in NFL history, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Bengals first title game appearance since nineteen eighty eight. The

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Speaker 1: AFC down to two teamsles at the Chiefs one oh

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Speaker 1: five Sunday afternoon on CBS, Ryan Radkey Kevin Coogler on

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Speaker 1: Westwood One with the final calls. Bengals upset the Titans.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs rally passed the Bills and overtime before we get

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Speaker 1: into this matchup, which is a rematch of a contest

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Speaker 1: in week seventeen. I gotta get your thoughts, Kyle on

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Speaker 1: watching that Chiefs Bills game, in which the quarterbacks combined

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Speaker 1: for over seven hundred passing yards and seven touchdowns. As

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Speaker 1: a defensive guy, do you enjoy that? Were you on

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Speaker 1: the edge of your seats or are you throwing things

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Speaker 1: at the tv? Going someone get a stop? As a

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Speaker 1: also avid fantasy football play, I enjoyed those type of games.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed those. No, that was I mean, Mike and

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Speaker 1: I were talking about it earlier. I feel like that's

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Speaker 1: the best two teams right now in the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: you feel like if those two teams played, you know,

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Speaker 1: ten times, it might be five and five between the

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Speaker 1: two of them. And you know, those two quarterbacks just

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Speaker 1: for comino games, and you know the future is bright

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Speaker 1: because they're both both young quarterbacks. But Man's that was

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Speaker 1: a great way to cap off an incredible football weekend.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five points, three lead changes over the final two

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Speaker 1: minutes of regulations. Chiefs move on. They'll host the Bengals

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Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. The Bengals again, they've adopted that mantra,

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Speaker 1: MJ about you know why not us? I mean, they

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Speaker 1: weren't favored last week, go in upset the Titans. They're

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Speaker 1: certainly not going to be favored coming up this weekend. Yet,

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Speaker 1: don't count out Joe Burrow even though he's still very,

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Speaker 1: very young in this game. If I'm not mistaken. Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: beat Kansas City this year, so they got that to

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Speaker 1: you know, go back to but you look at Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow sixteen hundred and fifty four passing yards to Jamar Chase.

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Speaker 1: The duo was younger than twenty five years old entering

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Speaker 1: the conference championship game. The other guys who did it

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Speaker 1: was Dante Colepepper and Randy Moss, and then Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill. But right now under twenty five years old.

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Speaker 1: They and then you got Joe Mixon. You gotta give

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Speaker 1: Zach Taylor a lot of credit. He looked like a

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Speaker 1: deer in the headlights his first year. Duke Tobin his

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Speaker 1: father's Bill Tobin, the uncle of Vince Tobin. He's done

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Speaker 1: a really good job at that roster. They went out

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Speaker 1: and signed some good free agents Trey Henderson. Henderson and

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Speaker 1: a couple other guys they brought in. But clearly he's

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Speaker 1: took in a lot of hits. When you when you

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Speaker 1: get sacked nine times, but Tannehill, he starts the game

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Speaker 1: with a pick and then he throws two picks in

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Speaker 1: the second half. That was really the difference in the game.

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Speaker 1: Nine sacks and you win the ball game. It's do

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Speaker 1: you talk about taking a hit and getting back up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You can't say enough about his toughness, especially the way

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Speaker 1: he was injured last year. I mean, you would think

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Speaker 1: he would be, you know, trying to get rid of

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Speaker 1: the ball as quick as he could, but he stands

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Speaker 1: in there, gets the ball down the field and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm I don't know what the stats are, but I

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine a team getting sacked nine times, one

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Speaker 1: just never works out that way. But yeah, he's showed

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Speaker 1: tremendous toughness and he's got you know, his future is

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Speaker 1: definitely bright because he knows where he's going with the

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Speaker 1: ball and he can deliver it, put it anywhere on

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Speaker 1: the football field. It's got a good command for the offense.

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Speaker 1: You know, you expect him to have a tremendous career

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Speaker 1: just based upon what he's done thus far. But he

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Speaker 1: needs offensive line help because he's now gonna last at

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Speaker 1: this rate. Well, there was that decision not too long ago.

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Speaker 1: What do you do if you're the Cincinnati Bengals. Do

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Speaker 1: you draft an offensive tackle or do you go wide receiver?

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Speaker 1: They went wide receiver Jamar Chase, pairing him up with

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Speaker 1: his LSU teammate Joe Burrow. And all Chase is done

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Speaker 1: is rewrite the record books when it comes to wide receivers,

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Speaker 1: rookie wide receivers in terms of yards, catches, and touchdowns. Yea,

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Speaker 1: and they got three good wide receiver. You look at

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Speaker 1: Higgins and you know, Boyd, I mean they and they

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Speaker 1: got a good running back and Joe Mixon. I mean again,

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Speaker 1: you gotta give him a lot of credit just you

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Speaker 1: know he you know, Burrow's twenty five years old, where

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Speaker 1: you got some younger guys like Kyler Murray's younger than him,

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Speaker 1: and I think game maybe Josh Allen's can be twenty five.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean he's he's a mature guy. And

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Speaker 1: the funny thing is he goes to Ohio State, and

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00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: then if Greg Schiano got the Tennessee job, he was

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Speaker 1: going to go there. He didn't get the job, so

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Speaker 1: he goes to Lshoe and he wins a national championship.

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Speaker 1: And then, yeah, I'll tell you what, guys, the AFC.

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Speaker 1: You know we had Brady in Manning and Roethlispringer for

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Speaker 1: all these years. This AFC is fascinating. Mahomes, Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. We'll see what happens when Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they are loaded with guys under twenty seven

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Speaker 1: years old. In the AFC, it was Burrow getting the

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Speaker 1: best of Mahomes. In Week seventeen, thirty four thirty one,

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Speaker 1: Evan mcpherrison kicked a twenty yard field goal as time expired.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't that long ago, Kyle. It was not Week

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Speaker 1: three or Week seven, Week seventeen. How much does that

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Speaker 1: factor into game planning for an AFC Championship game? I

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Speaker 1: would say quite a bit. Actually, I mean it's it

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Speaker 1: doesn't it Not much has changed. I mean it's not

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Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes a game this season you have

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Speaker 1: almost a pletely different personnel. The second time around, it

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Speaker 1: was so recent so. But one of the things I love,

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Speaker 1: especially with a team like Kansas City in their offense,

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Speaker 1: is they're just so unpredictable. They come up with so

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Speaker 1: many creative ways to beat you, and what they do

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Speaker 1: on offense one week, they will give you a completely

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Speaker 1: different look the next week. And it's it's you know,

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Speaker 1: they really confuse and keep defenses on their heels with

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Speaker 1: all of their pre snap shifts and motions and things

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Speaker 1: they do after the snaps. So you know, I would

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Speaker 1: think probably the bigger advantages to Kansas City with a

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Speaker 1: you know a little bit more of a conventional offense

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Speaker 1: like they have in Cincinnati. Man, Tyreek Hill when he

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Speaker 1: puts his foot in the ground, Wow, I mean now,

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00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: Tyrone math he wasn't out there and he's in cutching protocol.

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00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: Looks good that he will return, But man, he put

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Speaker 1: his foot and then the cutch by Kelsey and the

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Speaker 1: end zone I mean two feet in I mean Mahomes

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Speaker 1: just yeah, he does a lot of things. You just

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Speaker 1: shake your head and you're like no, and then yes,

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Speaker 1: But I'm just it's I think they're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: hard time stopping them, unless they get into a shootout.

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Speaker 1: Because the Bills fans think if they won the coin toss,

688
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Speaker 1: they win the game. They couldn't stop Josh Allen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all came down to a coin toss in the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: We talked a lot about playoff experience for the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: going into their first playoff matchup in Wildcard weekend. And

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Speaker 1: now you look at playoff experience here and the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: as we heard on the final call, four straight years

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Speaker 1: hosting this game, not just playing, but hosting this game.

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Speaker 1: And the Bengals, who the little team upstart that now

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Speaker 1: is kind of re emerging from the darkness coming in.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know how if they're phased at all

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Speaker 1: by any of this, from the head coach on down

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Speaker 1: to the players. Right, I don't know who has the

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Speaker 1: advantage there, because you're right, experience, particularly playoff experience, it

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Speaker 1: is a big deal. You know, you've been through the routine.

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Speaker 1: You don't get too emotional, but now saying that a

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Speaker 1: team like the Bengals that nobody expected to be here

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Speaker 1: and is playing like they deserve to be there. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: what you don't what you don't know is good, right,

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Speaker 1: You don't know that you should be overwhelmed. You don't

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Speaker 1: know that, Hey, we don't stand a chance against an

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Speaker 1: offensive juggernaut like the Chiefs. You just go in and

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Speaker 1: you're like, well, you know, nobody expected us to be

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Speaker 1: here anyway, so let's go out there and give it

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Speaker 1: our best shot. So it's it's a really intriguing matchup. Well,

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Speaker 1: looking at the division, I mean, Pittsburgh is trying to

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Speaker 1: find their next quarterback. You know, we'll see if Rogers,

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Speaker 1: I know he likes Mike Tomlin, and then you look

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Speaker 1: at Baker Mayfield, what's going on there? And then Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson just hasn't been able to stay healthy. So I

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Speaker 1: gotta think the team to beat in the future is Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see because now all of a sudden, they're

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Speaker 1: not going to surprise anybody there. They're gonna be the

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Speaker 1: the hunted versus the hunter and it changes. But they

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Speaker 1: got a good roster and if they can continue to build,

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Speaker 1: they'll be the team to beat in that division. We

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Speaker 1: keep talking about like the Chiefs are this old team.

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is not that old. He's still maybe he's twenty six.

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Speaker 1: He can play based off what other quarterbacks said donal league,

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Speaker 1: he can play for another twenty years if he wants

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Speaker 1: to now he probably won't. He's got enough money already

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Speaker 1: in the bank not to play. But you know he's

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere in that conference, no, right, and again,

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Speaker 1: watching him, the things he can do with the football

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Speaker 1: is still pretty incredible. The way he changes his arm,

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Speaker 1: angles can throw back all the way across the field,

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Speaker 1: and the way he can I mean, he can still

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Speaker 1: stick his foot in the ground and gain yardage in

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Speaker 1: a hurry too. So you know, he's still just a

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Speaker 1: tremendous player to watch Bengals at the Chiefs AFC Championship

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Speaker 1: Game coming up on Sunday afternoon kickoff one oh five

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Speaker 1: on CBS. Check out season one of our Cardinals Folktales

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Speaker 1: on our official YouTube channel. Visit YouTube dot com slash

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Speaker 1: Asy Cardinals to get the story behind the stories from

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Speaker 1: When we come back the NFC Championship game, yes, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk about forty nine Ers Rams Part three here on

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Speaker 1: the Arizona cartin Oals Radio Network. Four seconds to play,

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Speaker 1: tied a ten, and here comes Robbie gold Is, seventeen

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Speaker 1: year veteran. This is in the snow, This is in

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Speaker 1: the wind, This is in Lambeau. Forty five yard field

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Speaker 1: goal on the snowy grass. We're snow stee will hold

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Speaker 1: copper of the snap, high, stamp, put down, kick is

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Speaker 1: and the kick is god. He got a clock at zero.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco is one. San Francisco is stunt Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: Nobody has a time out. Four seconds to go. In regulation,

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Speaker 1: Mat gay On to win it for the Rams. Snap

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Speaker 1: ball down, the kick is up, and the kick he's god.

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Speaker 1: The Rams are going to the NFC Championship Game. And

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Speaker 1: have we seen the last on the most decorated four

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Speaker 1: back in NFL history, Tom Brady? Is he done? The

760
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: Rams looked like they were done the way the Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: came back, but they still went it in regulation thirty

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Speaker 1: to twenty seven. They'll host the forty nine Ers at

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Speaker 1: SOFI Stadium next Sunday for the right to go to

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl third time. The NFC West Division rivals

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Speaker 1: will meet forty nine Ers at the Rams on Sunday

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Speaker 1: for forty in the afternoon on Fox Kevin Harvel and

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Speaker 1: Dave Pash Westwood one. Yes, the voice of the Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals day passion a little extra work. Sure it was

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Speaker 1: awkward more than anything else calling a Rams victory like that,

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Speaker 1: but he does a solid job. But he is ours

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Speaker 1: as we welcome you back here to the Cardinals, Red

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Speaker 1: seare Port, Craig Rio, Lukavanibosch, and Mike Direcky before we

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Speaker 1: discuss Part three forty nine Ers at the Rams. This

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Speaker 1: little bit of news around the nation, you know, Football

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Speaker 1: League NFL Networks Ian Rappaport the first two reports citing sources,

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton has informed the Saints that he is stepping

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Speaker 1: away Cardinals and Jay hosts the Saints next season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we'll see what they happens at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback spot. I think if Sean Payton was there

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, that could have been an option for him.

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Speaker 1: They do have Dennis Allen as a defensive coordinator. He

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Speaker 1: was a head coaching league with the Raiders. I want

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Speaker 1: to say so obviously you got to go through the

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Speaker 1: running role. But based on Tony Romo and some of

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Speaker 1: these other guys, they're giving like ten fifteen million a

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Speaker 1: year to be a broadcaster. No stress, show up on

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Speaker 1: you know Friday or Saturday, get home Sunday night. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe Drew Brees and Sean Payton can be reunited in

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Speaker 1: the broadcast booth. Peyton or Breeze already working for NBC.

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Speaker 1: We'll so we'll see b Yeah, that's I was not

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Speaker 1: expecting that coaching move this offseason, Kyle. That's but that's

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Speaker 1: just me without reading a bunch of tea leaves. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had heard whispers about that something may happen, and

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Speaker 1: really over the last twenty four hours. And um, it's

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Speaker 1: it's surprising. I mean, I have to imagine he's one

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Speaker 1: of the you know, two or three longest tenured head

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00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: coaches with the team he's at, and um, he's had

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Speaker 1: tremendous success there, and um he's done great things in

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Speaker 1: the in the New Orleans community as well. So UM,

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Speaker 1: it is a bit of a surprise. But um, like

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Speaker 1: you said, I'm sure he's got plenty of opportunities to

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Speaker 1: go make money elsewhere. And and the thing is, um,

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Speaker 1: when when you look at it from you know, um,

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton's the tweet is he's stepping aside. So if

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Speaker 1: you're Jerry Jones, if he's stepping aside, that means he's

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Speaker 1: not coaching and they would probably be able to get

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Speaker 1: draft picks. But stepping aside is different because Jerry Jones,

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Speaker 1: I think he's dating Mike McCarthy, but he's not married

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Speaker 1: to him. Well, he is talking about Sean Payton leaving

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Speaker 1: contract years and a lot of money on the table

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Speaker 1: with this decision, if we're to believe Ian Robert Borton,

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Speaker 1: no reason not to believe him. But let's focus back

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Speaker 1: again on the NFC Championship game. Forty nine Ers and Rams.

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Speaker 1: They met twice in the regular season. Forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: won both meetings, thirty one to ten in Week ten,

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Speaker 1: which really turned their season around. And then to end

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Speaker 1: the regular season Week eighteen, twenty seven, twenty four to

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Speaker 1: get the forty nine Ers in to the postseason, they

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Speaker 1: rallied from a seventeen nothing first half deficit. But you look,

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Speaker 1: it's hard enough, Kyle to beat a team twice in

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Speaker 1: one season. Now you're gonna have to do it three times.

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Speaker 1: But we say all this, and we know the history

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Speaker 1: between these two teams. Forty nine. Ers are beating the

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Speaker 1: Rams six straight times, including three times at SOFI Stadium. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this division is so weird. How how teams have success

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Speaker 1: against other teams? Yeah? And that that last game they

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Speaker 1: played that went into overtime, what that was another epic game.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I love? There's good things I

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Speaker 1: like about both teams. I really like the Niners toughness

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Speaker 1: when you have when your best players are you know,

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Speaker 1: deep Samuel and George Kittle, and you see them. Watched

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Speaker 1: them last week hobbling around on one leg and Deebo

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Speaker 1: picking up a big first down the given opportunity to

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Speaker 1: up as well out there, has a big catch at

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Speaker 1: the end of the game. Those are the type of leaders.

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Speaker 1: When your leaders are your hardest workers and your toughest players,

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Speaker 1: they inspire the entire team. And you can see just

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Speaker 1: a different level of excitement really from both the Niners

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Speaker 1: and the Rams. Then, you know, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: keep bringing up then you saw with the Cardinals last

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Speaker 1: Monday night. I'll say this though, Matthew Stafford, I mean

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Speaker 1: he's quieting the critics in Todd Bowls. Whether he was

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Speaker 1: going to blitz or not. Stafford versus the Blitz this

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Speaker 1: year one hundred and thirty two five passing first, seventy

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Speaker 1: five percent, completion percentage, first, fifteen, touchdown second. So it's

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Speaker 1: not so much getting him off a spot, but he's

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Speaker 1: protecting the ball. Beckham has been a huge edition Von

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Speaker 1: it is going to be awkward watching this one. On

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Speaker 1: Sunday forty nine. Ers at the Rams again kickoff at

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