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Speaker 1: It is a Football Friday, Week one edition, the regular

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Speaker 1: season opener. Welcome Bird Gang. On today's show, Zach Gershman

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Speaker 1: joins me. Cardinals find themselves on the road for the

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Speaker 1: second straight year to begin the season. We've got our

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the matchup against the Bills, plus the thoughts

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Speaker 1: of Katherine Fitzgerald of the Buffalo News as we head

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Speaker 1: into enemy territory. It's Cardinals Cover two, Episode seven ninety one,

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Speaker 1: and it starts now.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Cardinals Cover two.

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Speaker 3: Buda Baker, What Heart? What rent? This guy's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: He's at the ten half of five. He's it again.

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Speaker 3: Some more Hurry magic.

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Speaker 2: Whow Here's Craigcriolo.

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Speaker 1: So the word of the day is exciting or exciting,

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Speaker 1: super excited, any variation of the word, because for the

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Speaker 1: last what super excited as two words, not if you

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Speaker 1: put the hyphen in between. So that's what I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Obviously not an English.

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Speaker 3: Major, definitely not that.

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Speaker 1: But the number of times I've heard that word or

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Speaker 1: again some variation of the word, even hyphenated coaches players.

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Speaker 1: It certainly seems I can't remember this much excitement going

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Speaker 1: into last season Week one. There was more of an

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Speaker 1: unknown last year. To a certain extent, there's still an

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Speaker 1: unknown going into this Week one game at the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: But just everyone, even Friday, Jonathan Gannon walking into his

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Speaker 1: press conference a good eight minutes early than the scheduled time,

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Speaker 1: which is always great for those that arrive on time,

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Speaker 1: or which on time means arriving early. You could just

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Speaker 1: see how excited he is and everyone else is about this.

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Speaker 1: The start of the season.

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Speaker 4: You could hear the door fling open, and you could

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Speaker 4: hear him start clapping his hands from a mile away,

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Speaker 4: and JG was pumped. And this this entire team has

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Speaker 4: been very excited heading into Week one. There's been a

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Speaker 4: lot of optimism around this team, whether it's through the

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Speaker 4: draft or through free agency. Last year, I felt there

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Speaker 4: was a lot of intrigue, be going back to the

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Speaker 4: point of not knowing truly what you're going to get

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Speaker 4: out of it, and you don't know what Marvin Harrison

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Speaker 4: Junior is going to bring to the table in an

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Speaker 4: NFL game. You have your expectations as you anticipate Week

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Speaker 4: one against Buffalo, but that stuff does take time. It

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Speaker 4: might not happen in Week one, but they're the term excited.

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Speaker 4: If we or the variations of it, if we had

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Speaker 4: an over under, the over would have smacked yes easily.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's no question about it. A year ago, without

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, you didn't quite know what to expect, especially

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Speaker 1: with a brand new head coach and an offensive and

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator. Now fast forward a year. It's okay,

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Speaker 1: Kyler's healthy. You added MHJ. Second year under the same

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Speaker 1: offensive and defensive schemes should be a lot better. Looks

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Speaker 1: a lot better on paper. Now forget the talk. We

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Speaker 1: actually get to see it in action. On Sunday, ten

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Speaker 1: am is the kickoff. Five thirty am. Pregame coverage begins

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Speaker 1: on the Arizona Cardinals Radio network. And I do expect

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Speaker 1: Zach you to be up at five thirty am to

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Speaker 1: listen to Early Bird.

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Speaker 4: What else what I do on Sunday morning? Then listen

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Speaker 4: to Early Bird at five thirty in the morning. I

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Speaker 4: am the early Bird.

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Speaker 3: Oh really you are that clip? Okay, that's gonna be

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Speaker 3: that will.

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Speaker 1: Be clipped and I might actually have to pick up

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Speaker 1: the phone and give you a call at five thirty

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Speaker 1: on Sunday morning.

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Speaker 4: Okay, if we need you know, we need a listeners

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Speaker 4: that turn into callers.

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Speaker 3: I will turn into that caller. I will. I will

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Speaker 3: do it for the team team above you, Craig.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that is true. Cardinals and Bills is this week

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Speaker 1: one matchup? A little bit later on, we'll here from

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Speaker 1: Catherine Fitzgerald, a good friend who used to cover the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals with the Arizona Republic, now works with the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo News covers the Bills. We'll get her thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the matchup, but quickly the injury report, and again let's

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Speaker 3: But just this.

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Speaker 4: Person that writes and put them together, please, I love

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Speaker 1: Accardinals dot Com for the latest injury news. But wide

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Speaker 1: receivers Zaver Weaver ruled out of this game. He has

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Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, hey, right now, you're what

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Speaker 1: the fifth, sixth receiver to six on the roster, get healthy,

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Speaker 1: Concentrate on that, and then let's see what you can

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Speaker 4: Look, it's worth noting right now that whether it's Darius

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Speaker 4: the injury the rookies have sustained a handful of different injuries,

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Speaker 4: and majority of those have come through games or practice

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Speaker 4: it's true that it takes a lot to go from

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Speaker 4: So it does take a lot, but they're they're learning

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Speaker 4: So the story will just have to unfold in front

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Speaker 4: on the fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the phrase that JG used trending for next week,

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Speaker 1: and that's a word that JG likes to use a lot.

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Speaker 1: Trending in the right direction or trending as far as

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Speaker 1: Tip Ryanman dealing with an ankle issue should be good

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Speaker 1: to go. Joey Blunt popped up on the injury report

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Speaker 1: we'll see who gets elevated off the practice squad. Is

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Speaker 4: And that's when it hurts when you don't have a

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Speaker 3: But now we.

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Speaker 4: Talked a lot when the I guess you could say

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Speaker 4: There will definitely be some changes as the weeks go on,

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Speaker 4: but for the most part, the dust has settled. Now

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Speaker 4: it's interesting when a guy with Michael Carter, who's on

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Speaker 4: the elevations will be interesting to see who gets brought

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Speaker 1: So again, Cardinals and Bill's coming up on Sunday at

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: Pregame coverage begins at five thirty am with Cardinals early

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Speaker 1: coming up at ten o'clock with Dave past Ron, Wolfley

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Speaker 1: together again. Speaking of the gang, one of our former

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Speaker 1: gang members so to speak, Catherine Fitzgerald. Earlier this week

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Speaker 1: we had the chance to speak with her again. Mentioned

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Speaker 1: she covered the Arizona Cardinals when she was here with

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Speaker 1: this is pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Zach.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that the last time the Cardinals and

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Speaker 1: Bills met the hell Murray, the person we were about

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Speaker 1: Yes, now now Catherine, you're on the bad side apparently

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Speaker 5: No, it's really fun to see these two teams face

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Speaker 5: each other. It's you know, a long time since I've

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Speaker 5: I'm really excited for this matchup.

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Speaker 1: It's a good first week test, I think for both teams.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to start here before before we get

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Speaker 1: to I think what many people want to talk about,

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, and I think it's a tremendous story. You

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's kind of two factors to it.

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Speaker 5: There's just the emotional story where you know, I've been

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Speaker 5: I mean even for before that night, seeing him work

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Speaker 5: so it's really cool to see him get rewarded. But

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Speaker 5: then there's also just the football aspect. Safety was a

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Speaker 5: where they were losing their long standing duo of Jordan

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Speaker 5: All of last year was about taking those first steps,

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Speaker 1: Before we get to Josh Allen. One more on the defense,

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Speaker 4: Definitely one when you have a quarterback like Kyler Murray

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're really gonna mix it up week

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Speaker 1: When Joe Brady did take over play calling duties, I mean,

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Speaker 5: It's a good question because of the turnover on the roster,

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Speaker 1: It always begins with the quarterback. And as successful as

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there's more pressure on the defense from

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Speaker 5: They've got a quick turnaround too. They play week two

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Speaker 1: Well, the good news here for the Cardinals is that

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Speaker 5: Yes, I feel for you all. This is the time

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Speaker 3: Catherine.

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Speaker 1: Fun to catch up, enjoy this season and continued success

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Speaker 5: Thank you guys, thanks for having me and enjoy this

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Speaker 1: Really good to catch up with Catherine. Appreciate her giving

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Speaker 4: High motor and violence, that's what this defense preaches on

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Speaker 4: Josh Allen is not as mobile as a Jalen Hurds

439
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Speaker 4: or Justin Field, who the Cardinals saw last season towards

440
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Speaker 4: the latter half of the year. However, he does have

441
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Speaker 4: the ability to break free from that pocket and isn't

442
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Speaker 4: afraid to lay the shoulder down and he's tough to tackle.

443
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Speaker 4: He's like a running back out there, as Buddha Baker said,

444
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Speaker 4: So they're aware of that play extension ability, and that's

445
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Speaker 4: something that I think when you look at Josh Allen,

446
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Speaker 4: you see the arm strength, you know how he has

447
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Speaker 4: the capabilities of throwing down field. But the question now arises,

448
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Speaker 4: as we talked with Catherine about what about at that

449
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Speaker 4: wide receiver position. You don't have the ability to just

450
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Speaker 4: throw it up and hope Stefan Diggs comes down with

451
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Speaker 4: it anymore. Now you have a rookie wide out out

452
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Speaker 4: there and Keon Coleman, so you have to be a

453
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Speaker 4: little bit more on your p's and q's when it

454
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Speaker 4: comes to stopping a guy like Josh Allen, because if

455
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Speaker 4: the pocket starts to close, he's going to try to

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Speaker 4: get out of there.

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Speaker 1: Last season, Josh Allen running the football fifteen rushing touchdowns

458
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Speaker 1: and that is something that again that's a high number,

459
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Speaker 1: blows his career high by six, but something that probably

460
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Speaker 1: more early in the season because they relied on his

461
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Speaker 1: legs and him throwing to Stefan Diggs. It was the

462
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Speaker 1: back half of the season where was more James Cook

463
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Speaker 1: leaning on his running ability and then kind of opening

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Speaker 1: up the offense to everyone else. So there is a

465
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Speaker 1: little bit of a blueprint on what to expect from

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Speaker 1: the Bills. But you brought it up as far as

467
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Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, Shaquille, I'm sorry. Khalil Shakiir is

468
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Speaker 1: the only wide receiver on the roster that has caught

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Speaker 1: a pass from Josh Allen going into this season. That's

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Speaker 1: how much has changed within this wide receiver room for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 4: And Josh Allen, like most other starting quarterbacks in the league,

473
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Speaker 4: did not play much in the preseason. I'm pretty sure

474
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Speaker 4: he only played four and a half minutes. I heard

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Speaker 4: somebody say during his press conference to him, and the

476
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Speaker 4: question was posed about, well, do you feel like that

477
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Speaker 4: was enough time to develop chemistry with some of these

478
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Speaker 4: players in the preseason, and he said that it's all

479
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Speaker 4: things considered when you look at those preseason games, the

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Speaker 4: off campus workouts that we talked to Catherine about, all

481
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Speaker 4: these different types of things where Josh Allen has been

482
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Speaker 4: able to develop that chemistry, similarly to Kyler with going

483
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Speaker 4: to LA with Tip Briman and Marvin Harrison Junior and

484
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Speaker 4: Trey Benson and the rookies that he went with to

485
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Speaker 4: go along with Michae Wilson at Greg Deorge and all

486
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Speaker 4: of his other big time playmakers. So it's going to

487
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Speaker 4: be very fascinating to see how does that chemistry develop

488
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Speaker 4: between Josh Allen and his Whiteouts because there's a lot

489
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Speaker 4: of pressure surrounding Josh Allen's They go into the season

490
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Speaker 4: with Super Bowl expectations and it does start in Week one,

491
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Speaker 4: and it's not a secret that the national media is

492
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Speaker 4: going to view this game in a very lopside and

493
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Speaker 4: manner and say, Okay, the Bills are the heavy favorites

494
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Speaker 4: going into this one, but there are a lot of

495
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Speaker 4: things that come into play that could allow the Cardinals

496
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Speaker 4: to leave at Orchard Park with a victory.

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Speaker 1: A lot of pressure on this Buffalo Bills team. They

498
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Speaker 1: have lost in the divisional round in each of the

499
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Speaker 1: past three seasons. A very successful team in the regular season.

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Speaker 1: The postseason, though, has been the question mark that they

501
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Speaker 1: haven't been able to answer so far under head coach

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot, at least recently. Now for the Arizona Cardinals, yes,

503
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Speaker 1: the goal is to get back into the postseason, and

504
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Speaker 1: that is something that you work towards Week one and

505
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Speaker 1: seeing Kyler Murray, Marvin Harrison Junior and everyone else and

506
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Speaker 1: what that offense might look like in real time. It

507
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Speaker 1: could be something similar to what we saw several years

508
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Speaker 1: ago at the Tennessee Titans, where Kyler Murray and DeAndre

509
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Speaker 1: Hopkins just lit up the Titans and surprise a lot

510
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Speaker 1: of people. Or it could be something that takes a

511
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Speaker 1: little bit of time. You hope, even though we saw

512
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Speaker 1: none of those players in the preseason outside of MHJA

513
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Speaker 1: for three snaps, that all the offseason work, whether here

514
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Speaker 1: at the facility or away at a high school field

515
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Speaker 1: or in LA that that means maybe this offense is

516
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Speaker 1: able to hit the ground running and be a little

517
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Speaker 1: bit more efficient and not have to take a couple

518
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Speaker 1: of games to get everything settled.

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Speaker 4: Of course, this is when you hope to see the

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Speaker 4: off scripted plays start to come to fruition. We keep

521
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Speaker 4: going back, and it's funny because I think in I think,

522
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Speaker 4: except for the most recent press conference, Trey McBride has

523
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Speaker 4: talked about that game against the Atlanta Falcons where he

524
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Speaker 4: and Kyler Murray were on the same page because Kyler

525
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Speaker 4: thought he was gonna sit and Trey whined it to

526
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Speaker 4: go a little bit further down the going to go

527
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Speaker 4: for a couple extra yards down the field to try

528
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Speaker 4: to break free for some more space, and Kyra ended

529
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Speaker 4: up throwing that interception. That play has really seemed to

530
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Speaker 4: hunt Trey McBride because he knows what it takes to

531
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Speaker 4: have trust and to gain that trust from your franchise quarterback.

532
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Speaker 4: When you go to do all these workouts together with

533
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Speaker 4: one another, and it's both in the facility out of

534
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Speaker 4: the facility. You want to get into the mind of

535
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Speaker 4: your playmakers, into your quarterback, into the scheme itself. It's

536
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Speaker 4: your offensive coordinator, what are we thinking here, so that

537
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Speaker 4: if we need to sit down on this route here,

538
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Speaker 4: even though it might not be the route that's on

539
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Speaker 4: the police sheet, they are on there in sync and

540
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Speaker 4: they have same chemistry with one another. And that's when

541
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Speaker 4: you hope to see this off field stuff start to

542
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Speaker 4: start to come through fruition once again. Will it happen

543
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Speaker 4: Week one? Potentially? Probably unlikely because you don't know until

544
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Speaker 4: you actually see it happen. You don't know what the

545
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Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills are gonna present you from a defensive stand.

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Speaker 1: Ten am is the kickoff on Sunday if there's a

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Speaker 1: key or keys or a particular matchup that you're paying

548
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Speaker 1: attention to, Zach in this one, not that it swings

549
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Speaker 1: the pendulum one way or the other in favor or

550
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Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, but something in which, all right, this

551
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Speaker 1: needs to happen for the Cardinals to be in the

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Speaker 1: game and perhaps come away with a road victory.

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Speaker 4: I feel like it's, you know, it's a cliche to

554
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Speaker 4: say you want to, you know, generate a lot of pressure,

555
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Speaker 4: you want to, you know, you want to disrupt Josh Allen.

556
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Speaker 4: That that would be the that'd be the cop out answer.

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Speaker 4: What I'm most interested in seeing going back to the

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Speaker 4: wide receiver position, and it was one of my three

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Speaker 4: big things for our three Big Things article that will

560
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 4: be out on Easycardinals dot Com. Is lining up against

561
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Speaker 4: the wide receivers that you mentioned or are an unknown

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Speaker 4: When you line up against the key on Coleman, who

563
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Speaker 4: you use a second round pick with first pick in

564
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Speaker 4: the second round and he comes in, you don't really

565
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Speaker 4: have much tape against on him outside of a handful

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Speaker 4: of preseason snaps that he took. What does his release

567
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Speaker 4: look like? How is his chemistry with Josh Allen, similar

568
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Speaker 4: to how we were talking about with Trey mcbriden and

569
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Speaker 4: Kyler Murray. Making sure that you guys are on the

570
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Speaker 4: same page. So when you're lining up, especially as a

571
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Speaker 4: young cornerback room as a whole outside of Sean Murphy Bunting,

572
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Speaker 4: who still is you know, a young guy out there,

573
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Speaker 4: it's the unknown of what's his release going to look like?

574
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Speaker 4: How do you line up against him? The cornerback room

575
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Speaker 4: was a was an area of need throughout the offseason.

576
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Speaker 4: They addressed it in the draft by bringing in a

577
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Speaker 4: Max Melton and Elijah Jones. Shawn Murphy Bunting a free

578
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Speaker 4: agency now you want to see how they're able to

579
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Speaker 4: line up against guys that are not wearing the Cardinal

580
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Speaker 4: logo in the side of their helmet.

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Speaker 1: Cardinals have six cornerbacks listed on their depth chart, although

582
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Speaker 1: Darren Hall has been playing more safety than corners. So

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Speaker 1: if you look between Starling Thomas, Max Melton, Sewn Murphy Bunting,

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Speaker 1: keyth Treill Clark, Garrett Williams, Sean Murphy, Bunten is the

585
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Speaker 1: only one with.

586
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Speaker 3: Real experience more than two years.

587
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Speaker 1: Melton a rookie, Key, Treill Clark going into your Garrett

588
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Speaker 1: Williams going into year two. You have expectations for those players,

589
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Speaker 1: But who has the advantage the young cornerback or is

590
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Speaker 1: it the wide receiver Keon Coleman, who you have no

591
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Speaker 1: film of unless you go back to his days at

592
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Speaker 1: Florida State or maybe been the year of Trey Benson

593
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Speaker 1: to figure out what he likes to do. But that's

594
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Speaker 1: one of those matchups that I talked about it earlier

595
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: with Danny Sirek on Cardinals Cover two on Wednesday Show.

596
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Speaker 1: That's where the game could till one way or the other.

597
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: That's where that pendulum could swing in the direction of

598
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals or the Bills, because who has the advantage

599
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Speaker 1: in that room when you have a young cornerbacks room

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Speaker 1: and then a wide receiver group that has almost zero

601
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Speaker 1: experience catching balls from Josh Allen.

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Speaker 3: Very fair.

603
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Speaker 4: And I was talking to Max Mountain in the locker

604
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Speaker 4: room about this specifically because I asked him about lining

605
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Speaker 4: up across from Keon Coleman because there'll definitely be instances

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Speaker 4: when he does in the game on Sunday. And he

607
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Speaker 4: said to me, look the beauty of playing in the

608
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Speaker 4: Big Ten and Rutgers because he's always he's a very

609
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Speaker 4: proud of Rutgers man, from what we've been able to

610
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Speaker 4: gather every single.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, do you blame us the way?

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Speaker 6: I mean, like, how can you not be but Keon

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Speaker 6: Coleman before he went to the to the ACC you

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Speaker 6: know that conference out there, Uh, you have familiarity with

615
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Speaker 6: that one. I guess, just making just making sure Syracuse

616
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Speaker 6: is on the feed at.

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Speaker 1: The moment, right, Hey, We're gonna work with that for

618
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Speaker 1: as long as it takes. Run the tape AM on

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Speaker 1: Saturday is the next kickoff one and over. Well, we're

620
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Speaker 1: run defeated for now.

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Speaker 3: Run the table that That's how I like it.

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Speaker 4: But before Keon Coleman went to Florida State, he was

623
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Speaker 4: in the Big Ten at Michigan State. So I was

624
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Speaker 4: talking to Maximellan about it and he said to me, well,

625
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Speaker 4: I have experience lining up against him, so I kind

626
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Speaker 4: of have an idea because of how much I study

627
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Speaker 4: this stuff is ingrained in my head. I know what

628
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Speaker 4: it's like to line up across from from from Keon Coleman.

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Speaker 4: So he said that he does still go back to

630
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Speaker 4: watch some of that college tape. John Thangannon alluded to

631
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Speaker 4: that as well. When you have the unknown of what

632
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Speaker 4: a rookie wide receiver is going to bring to the table,

633
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Speaker 4: but there is some It's gonna be a different world

634
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Speaker 4: though in the NFL, you know, the the bright lights

635
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 4: are a little bit brighter.

636
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Speaker 3: In a game like this.

637
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Speaker 4: You're not playing on Saturdays anymore. You're playing on Sundays,

638
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Speaker 4: and everybody knows that the games are going on on Sunday.

639
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 4: So it's a It's gonna be an exciting matchup and

640
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Speaker 4: I think the key to the game is truthfully, for

641
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Speaker 4: the Cardinal is going to be the running game, but

642
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Speaker 4: I think the X factor is going to be how

643
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Speaker 4: they line up against wide receivers like Kean Coleman and

644
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Speaker 4: Khalis Shakir.

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Speaker 3: You brought this full circle. You said, it's exciting.

646
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Speaker 4: Look at Nan, I see what falling for falling for

647
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Speaker 4: the hype. I don't even think I'm falling for it.

648
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 4: I feel it. It's legit, the it's tangible in this facility.

649
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Speaker 4: These guys are really locked in. And I've asked about

650
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Speaker 4: players playing with the chip on their shoulder and Kyler

651
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 4: said he doesn't really look at it like that. But

652
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Speaker 4: then you talk to other guys like Owen Papo or

653
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 4: Kayzier White, especially the guys on the defensive side of

654
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Speaker 4: the ball, they really feel like that there's a chip

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Speaker 4: on their shoulder because they hear the noise. And right

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Speaker 4: now the noise is loud, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: questions surrounding the Arizona Cardinals defense. But those guys seem

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Speaker 4: to be really locked in and really ready to go.

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Speaker 1: We begin to get answers on Sunday ten am as

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Speaker 1: the kickoff bird, Gang and Zach make sure you set

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Speaker 1: your alarms because pregame coverage begins at five thirty. A

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Speaker 1: wake up with the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, Week one.

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Speaker 3: There's no excuse not to no excuse, no excuse, no excuse,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to sit an alarm just to pick

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Speaker 1: up the phone to call you to make sure you're

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Speaker 1: up and listening.

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Speaker 3: If I'm like, what, don't question?

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Speaker 1: All right, bird gang, it is here. We have finally

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Speaker 1: arrived Week one Cardinals and the Bills should be a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. Should be exciting as we all see

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Speaker 1: what he's been there. On that note, we'll put a

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Speaker 1: lit on. This edition of Cardinals. Cover two, presented by Hyundai,

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

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Speaker 1: to our executive producer Jim Momahundra, our associate producer Cody

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Speaker 1: Fincher for Zach Gershman, I'm Craig realdu talk to you

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Speaker 1: next time you're on Cardinals. Cover two.

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