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		<title>Monday Night Football showed how far away the Cardinals are, but how quickly they can close the gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; You ever try to make your favorite dish from your favorite restaurant at home? You can use all the same ingredients, the chef might tell you exactly how to prepare it, but it never tastes the same. Because in a professional kitchen, people with years of cooking wisdom make the correct adjustments, use the best equipment and use restaurant-grade ingredients to make that dish. The San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks put out a restaurant-quality product last night. They have the chef, equipment, ingredients and presentation. Right now in Arizona, it still feels like we&#8217;re being served home-cooking. Last night could be discouraging, but it could be just as encouraging when you look at how quickly the Seahawks and 49ers rose to prominence Once upon a time, the Seahawks had no chef, worked with mediocre ingredients and nobody really cared about their restaurant. Just last year, the 49ers didn&#8217;t know if Kyle Shanahan was the right chef, they dropped their most important ingredient on the floor (Jimmy Garappolo) and they weren&#8217;t bringing in a profit. I&#8217;ll stop with the restaurant stuff, but you get the point. Everybody in the NFC West, including the Super Bowl-attending Rams last year, made [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should the Cardinals use Kyler Murray like the Ravens use Lamar Jackson?</title>
		<link>https://outsidetheleague.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/should-the-cardinals-use-kyler-murray-like-the-ravens-use-lamar-jackson/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Jarecki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Wow! 37-20 over the defending Super Bowl champs! This MUST be the new formula for winning with a mobile quarterback, right? We&#8217;ve never seen anything like this before, right? After a performance like that, the Cardinals should re-think the way they&#8217;re using Kyler Murray, right? In this NFL Red Zone world, stand-alone games distort our realities. It&#8217;s the &#8220;hot&#8221; coworker effect. They started out as a moderately attractive, nice-enough human being. But, now the two of you have been staying late to work on this project for two weeks in a row, and just by circumstance alone you&#8217;re closer to them than anyone else in your life. Next thing you know, you&#8217;re Google searching &#8220;5 Rules for Dating a Coworker.&#8221; In reality, that person is just your only social option because you&#8217;re working so damn much. There&#8217;s better options on Tinder. Don&#8217;t become a prisoner of the Sunday Night Football moment. We&#8217;ve seen the Ravens before, they were just called the 49ers. Different Harbaugh, different quarterback, same offense. The 2012-13 49ers were built on &#8220;pistol&#8221; formations, the tight end play of Vernon Davis and Delanie Walker, and Colin Kaepernick&#8217;s ability to break a defense with his legs. Similarly, the [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why the Kenyan Drake trade was good, and what it could mean</title>
		<link>https://outsidetheleague.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/why-the-kenyan-drake-trade-was-good-and-what-it-could-mean/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Jarecki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Today the Arizona Cardinals traded a 6th round pick for Kenyan Drake. That pick, according to Ian Rapaport, could become a 5th rounder conditionally. Drake&#8217;s 25 years old, holds a career average 4.6 yards per carry, and most importantly, we know he can play. I&#8217;ll always take a certainty over a maybe. The #AZCardinals have traded for #Dolphins RB Kenyan Drake, handing Miami a conditional 6th round pick in 2020 that can become a 5th rounder, source said. Given injuries to David Johnson and Chase Edmonds, AZ jumped in this morning. &#8212; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 28, 2019 We don&#8217;t keep good enough track of draft &#8220;hit rates&#8221; in the NFL, but in 2015 Forbes tried. They tracked all players selected in the 2010 NFL draft for five seasons. Of all players to start at least 80 games (qualifying them as a &#8220;starter&#8221;) only 4.4% were from the 5th round, and just 1.9% were from the 6th round. For perspective, 67% were from the 1st round. So, the 6th and 5th rounds are a total crapshoot. I&#8217;d rather spend either of those picks on a 25-year-old player that&#8217;s proven themself in the league already. But, why did Keim make this move in [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>So far, Kingsbury is just a Twitter influencer</title>
		<link>https://outsidetheleague.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/kingsbury-so-far-is-just-a-twitter-influencer/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Jarecki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2019 20:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Living for social media &#8220;likes&#8221; is the 2019 version of going into credit card debt. It used to be that we&#8217;d buy things we couldn&#8217;t afford to keep up with those annoying neighbors who also bought things they couldn&#8217;t afford. Now we posture for social media to make our boring lives look less boring than the lives of our also boring friends. Did you even experience it if it didn&#8217;t get 100 &#8220;likes&#8221;? We&#8217;re wrapped up in this. We&#8217;re addicted. And it&#8217;s one thing to order avocado toast you don&#8217;t even like because it makes for a good Instagram post. It&#8217;s another to make life-altering, or franchise-changing decisions to please a sea of mostly high-schoolers on social media. Too often, that&#8217;s how it feels like Kliff Kingsbury approaches play calling for the Arizona Cardinals. You know what makes for a perfect 30-second Twitter or Instagram clip? That trick play Kingsbury pulled out to start today&#8217;s game against the Saints. Awesome! You know who never makes the feed? The New England Patriots, whose death-by-a-million-cuts offensive approach has led to six Super Bowl wins. Social media obsesses over things that catch the eye. Explosive. Tricky. Cute. Progressive. All staples of Kliff [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deandre Ayton talks like a franchise cornerstone, plays like one, now can he act like one?</title>
		<link>https://outsidetheleague.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/deandre-ayton-talks-like-a-franchise-cornerstone-plays-like-one-now-can-he-act-like-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; You&#8217;ve heard the news. Deandre Ayton is suspended 25 games for testing positive for a diuretic, usually a sign that a player is trying to flush a banned substance out of their system. He won&#8217;t return until December. So, the Phoenix Suns had just 24-hours of real, substantive momentum after their imposing victory of the Kings on Wednesday night. That&#8217;s on Ayton. He talks like a star, he plays like a star, now it&#8217;s time to start acting like one. What I love about landmark events like these is that they help us frame all of the little moments that&#8217;ve happened in between. Think about your own life. The first time you landed that big job, that was a culmination of the dozens of calls you made to prospective employers, the work you did on a Saturday night when you could&#8217;ve been out with your friends, and the extra five minutes you spent putting the finishing touches on your resume. You didn&#8217;t just get the job. You got the job because you&#8217;re a go-getter. We need to build stories around these things. We need to characterize them. It&#8217;s how we understand the world. Think about Deandre Ayton&#8217;s little moments, [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Suns look like the team they&#8217;ll need to be to keep Devin Booker around</title>
		<link>https://outsidetheleague.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/the-suns-look-like-the-team-theyll-need-to-be-to-keep-devin-booker-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Devin Booker is signed to an NBA maximum contract worth $158 million that should keep him a Sun through 2024. Anthony Davis had one that should&#8217;ve kept him a Pelican. Paul George had one that should&#8217;ve kept him in Oklahoma City. Kawhi Leonard had one of those too &#8211; he was supposed to be a Spur for life. Before that, Kyrie and LeBron were supposed to run the league from Cleveland for the next half-decade. No matter the personality type, no matter the loyalty, championship or no championship, it is not just a trend for players to force their way out. It&#8217;s become a status symbol. The ultimate mark of prestige in the NBA is having the power to hold an entire organization hostage. You better keep your guy happy, because most are itching to flex their command. That&#8217;s why last night&#8217;s season opener was so important for the Phoenix Suns. They soundly defeated a young, talented Sacramento Kings squad. More importantly, it looked like there was room to get better. That&#8217;s what this season, and the foreseeable future should be all about in Phoenix. Creating legitimacy, building infrastructure and hitting the knees every night to pray that Devin [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The case for trading David Johnson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Jarecki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m fascinated by this thing local media and fanbases do when it comes to players or coaches they deem sacred, untouchable or misunderstood. If an idea they don&#8217;t like pops up, say for example, the Cardinals trading David Johnson, they shout, &#8220;Hot take!&#8221;, and hide behind the notion that nobody understands their team quite like they do. So, it&#8217;s now outlandish to suggest Steve Keim should follow the formula that&#8217;s elevated the Patriots to &#8220;best-franchise-of-all-time&#8221; status? If we&#8217;re honest, that&#8217;s what trading David Johnson before the October 29 trade deadline would be. Getting value for a player that is clearly being paid more than he&#8217;s worth, while the league still has a starry-eyed view of him. By the way, nobody should be more aware of Johnson&#8217;s value imbalance than the people that&#8217;ve watched every game. David Johnson has a cap hit of $9 million this year, $14 million next year and $12 million in 2021. He missed all but one game in 2017, he was bottom ten in yards per rush in 2018 (3.6) and he&#8217;s only averaging 12 rushing attempts per game this year. To be fair, he&#8217;s had a very productive pass-catching season, averaging 50 receiving yards per [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fools-gold winning streak for the Cardinals? Not for Kingsbury.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The winless Bengals? The hapless Falcons? The directionless Giants? Who cares, right? That&#8217;s an understandable takeaway as the Cardinals ride a three-game winning streak out of the Meadowlands and into New Orleans as 9.5-point underdogs. But for rookie head coach Kliff Kingsbury, those three wins could have provided the edification he needs, as he tries to prove to the NFL, and his locker room, that he belongs. Sunday&#8217;s game was served up on a platter for the &#8220;Kliff and Kyler can&#8217;t win long-term&#8221; crowd. The Giants had Saquan Barkley back, the Cardinals were without David Johnson. It was raining, which was supposed to mean that the lumbering 6&#8217;5&#8243; Daniel Jones had the advantage over the vertically-ambiguous Kyler Murray. It was the experienced, seen-everything Pat Shurmur against the new school, losing-record-at-Texas Tech Kliff Kingsbury. But ultimately, Sunday turned out to be the Cardinals&#8217; most impressive win of the season, and a complete narrative changer for their rookie head coach. The Cardinals jumped on the Giants quickly. Instead of forcing the air-raid concepts Kingsbury&#8217;s known for, they featured Chase Edmunds for 27 rushing attempts as rain poured down. Instead of collapsing in the second half after giving up 14 points in the [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Steve Keim was man enough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Jarecki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In life and in football, acting out of ego creates short-term wins. You won that argument with your girlfriend? Feels great now, but she&#8217;ll resent you later. You flipped that guy off in traffic? You look tough now, you&#8217;ll need therapy later. You convinced the NFL world your mediocre quarterback has a high ceiling? You&#8217;ll keep your job for now, you&#8217;ll be canned later. Cardinals general manager Steve Keim may have avoided that scenario. Keim admitted his mistake. Head coach Steve Wilks was incompetent, quarterback Josh Rosen couldn&#8217;t play, and it was clear by mid season. Keim, of course, orchestrated that pairing after veteran head coach Bruce Arians stepped down after the 2017 season. The chain of events that happened after Arians left were as follows: Wilks was hired, Rosen was drafted, Keim was jailed and suspended for extreme DUI and the Cardinals went 3-13 en rout to attaining the number one overall pick in the 2019 NFL draft. Which makes what happened next all the more impressive. Keim admitted his mistakes. He fired Wilks, traded Rosen, hired Kliff Kingsbury and drafted Kyler Murray with the first overall selection. How many NFL general managers would&#8217;ve been man enough? Not many. We all [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Rams have a problem the Cardinals would love to have</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As the 3-3 Rams scramble to rearrange their team just a season removed from a Super Bowl appearance, it would be easy for Cardinals fans and staffers to laugh in the face of a team most of us thought would rule the NFC West for years. LA&#8217;s recent moves tell us they think a rebuild is necessary, and their recent on-field struggles suggest the same. Having to rebuild after a two-year championship window, though, is a problem the Cardinals would love to have. The Rams put the training wheels on Jared Goff during his rookie deal, as they should have, and now they&#8217;re stripping them off. The Cardinals should follow suit. Yesterday, Los Angeles traded for Browns backup offensive lineman Austin Corbett, swapped Pro Bowl cornerback Marcus Peters for Ravens linebacker Kenny Young and ended the day by giving the Jaguars two first-round picks for Jalen Ramsey. They won&#8217;t have a first-round draft pick until 2022, and a large percentage of their cap space is dedicated to just four players. Ramsey is locked into his rookie deal until 2021. Even if the cap goes up to $200 mil in 2020. The Rams will spend 47% of their cap (95.3 million)on [...]]]></description>
		
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