um let's get to cliff kingsbury he
didn't do any of the tells by touching
his own face
but when he
when he answered the question about how
he feels about hard knocks or whatever i
could just tell by the way he said he
doesn't want to do it nobody wants to do
it and they sell you on it
i could tell
that he had been sold on it because this
is the old nfl films this is the steve
sable argument
back in his day
vince lombardi
would tell the nfl films crews to stand
by the sideline with their cameras even
if they didn't have film in them and act
like they were filming because the guys
perked up and they tried harder when
they thought they were being filmed
right now that was in the 60s where
nobody had cameras today everybody's
watching today there's a camera
everywhere so i don't know that this
idea well nfl films is going to be there
so they're going to be on camera so
they're going to try harder everything's
everything's recorded they record every
practice cameras are everywhere
and when you're in the middle of the
season
if you're stopping to worry about the
cameras
you've already lost and i think
kingsbury's biggest concern is here we
go in season hard knocks
second straight year they're gonna have
a team that fades down the stretch
because every one of my teams since 2013
at texas tech and all the way through
the time with the red raiders and every
year with the cardinals my teams start
off strong to quite strong
and then they fall apart and i really
would not rather have that documented
can we do the first half of the season
can we do that i'm on board with that
second half of the season i'm still
trying to figure out what the hell is
wrong with my team i really don't need
the extra pressure of being scrutinized
by all these cameras as we fall apart
again that that would be my honest
candid blunt assessment if i was cliff
kingsbury and i think it doesn't take a
genius to realize there it is there's
that graphic can't finish sorry cliff
can't finish klingsberry kingsbury okay
that's a good nickname chris berman
cliff can't finish kingsbury look at it
look at look at look at look at this it
is it's quite embarrassing i've seen it
i know it is it's crazy actually it is
in a lot of ways and i mean you make all
the right points i think first off i
mean nfl teams yes to deal with the
camera crew and you know as much as they
try to you know hide in the corner and
not be in your way they are in the way
and you are on camera so then you are
self-conscious about what you're doing
for the players it might not be that bad
there is i think some positive because
you you know i mean you're right you are
used to being film but if it's in your
meeting room you're certainly not going
to want to be like in that lazy position
where maybe your eyes doze you're going
to not want to look like an idiot and
get an answer wrong in front of the
camera crew i think there is value there
but for the head coach i don't see a
whole lot of positives i don't i think
there's one more chance for
really you know kind of what you're
talking about for people to dissect and
pile on a little bit if things don't go
the right way and i think that's what
cliff kingsbury is definitely gonna have
to be a little bit worried about because
that will be the theme of the arizona
cardinals or what everybody's looking
for that what you're talking about oh
it's it's week eight i mean can't you
hear the narrator you know in cliff
kingsbury he's had these great starts
and and that becomes a thing so now he's
answering questions about it and of
course now if they do lose a game you
start to feel like whoa everybody's
going to see this everybody's going to
evaluate what we're doing in here so uh
i think it does add a little more
pressure to the building maybe than
they're than not that's for sure
i've i've i've uh
been a longtime fan of john fasenda that
was nice that was not a good one i know
that was that was that was john phil
simsda that's what that was who is the
guy that gay who is it's not who's the
guy that does the hb he's got a great
voice on uh
schreiber is it still him is he i don't
think so
look it up pete yeah
pete let us know who narrated in season
hard knocks last year was it the same as
the person who did the preseason hard
knocks i just can't remember i know i
can't i don't
i and i i look if i have to choose
between preseason or in season i'll take
in season because i think it's more
revealing we've seen the training camp
hard knocks over and over again it is
live strawberry so
there you go so but it's live not le is
it live or leave l-i-e-v so i don't know
i'm sorry hey you know thoughts by mike
gloria over here listen they're going to
ask the young kids i i don't wait but
you said during the season here's my our
pre-season like what you're talking
about this season if you were a player
or a coach or you talking about what are
you saying there no no i'm just saying
i'm saying as a consumer okay
yeah i i think that in season
you know
the the cameras are stationary it's not
like that like they're like up on the
wall it's not like somebody's in there
up in your face with a camera so
i just think that when you're in the
fight week in and week out it becomes
much easier to forget about it you just
have to forget about it i hear you
there's on the task right it's easier to
be a distraction in training camp
because you're not as locked in as you
are in the season and the cults were
locked in at three and five when they
started with the in-season hard knocks
last year they won six to the next seven
yeah
but but they still fell apart they fell
apart at the end they still lost to the
jaguars and the raiders
jaguars in week 18. when all they had to
do was beat a team that was playing for
nothing with an interim coach which was
an upgrade over their regular coach but
nevertheless all they had to do was beat
the jaguars in jacksonville on a day
when they were showing up with clown
noses on because they were trying to
pressure the owner of the team shot khan
did not make trent balcke the gm that
was all happening at that time and the
jaguars somehow
won that game so
that and that triggered carson wentz
getting thrown overboard and i'm sure
jim irsay thought about firing everybody
at least for a little while after that
debacle and they're still pissed off
about it now so yeah hey look
kingsbury's got his contract extension
so it's not like he's in lame duck
territory
but
we saw the graphic we know the history
his teams fade down the stretch so this
is the year where they're going to
figure it all out
think about that think about that this
is the year i got to get it all figured
out this year all this pressure's on me
it's mounting this is year 10 of me as a
head coach and i've got to figure it out
this year i've got to do it what you're
going to have the freaking cameras
what really
i got like i'm really got i really got
to work i've really got to be focused i
don't want anything else on top of this
pile of stress
and you're going to have can you're
going to have hard knocks yeah yeah i
wouldn't i wouldn't want it if i was
cliff kingsbury no i'm definitely not
you know it's a huge year you know as we
know for their football team i mean i
think there's gonna be a microscope on
them for sure and i'm into your to what
you're talking about with the colts i
mean who's to say it didn't wear them
out a little bit it would wear me out i
could say that much as a player i really
would i mean i do think it's one of
those things where coaches want to make
excuses they're not going to say
anything but if they're with their close
friends they're going to go man we had
to deal with that you know inside the
you know hard knock stuff being around
the bill that kind of added to the
circus last year they're never going to
publicly say it or say it to their owner
or anybody like that and then i mean
damn it wear me out like what you want
to come home with me camera crew
no screw off like it's my time now
that would wear me out i wouldn't want
to deal with that and then let alone it
be a year and and like you're talking
about a year where the theme is going to
be
you know second half collapse that's
going to be the story of the cardinals
that's going to be the story of hard
knocks is can they overcome that
probably part of the reason they got
picked there you know so yes that's
that's going to
add pressure
and
take a toll on the team to a degree and
i don't care who you are it's just it's
hard to deal with that around the
building all the time i wouldn't want to
deal with it it does weigh on you you
could say whatever you want and try to
ignore it you know you are and then of
course you're always going to have a lot
of time to oh sit down do whatever and
as we saw last year too mike we did get
a little look in to go you know
do they like carson wentz i know i was
watching towards the end of the year
going i'm not sure if they have
confidence in them and the way wence
talks to them on the sideline and like
tries to get them to get be confident
you know you started to glean certain
things about the relationship to look
farther into it and that's what i would
be worried about if i'm kingsbury and
company like you're talking about i'd be
worried about so many different things
and i want to know more about this whole
end season hard knocks cause it just
kind of fell out of the sky yeah right
last year i remember that they teased
there was some big announcement about
hard knocks and i thought oh maybe it's
finally going away because it should and
no no we're not getting less of it we're
getting more of it how do they pick the
team is there a formula for the training
camp hard knocks there's a formula any
team that has a new head coach has done
in the past decade or had been to the
playoffs
the most recent year
i think it's the most recent year not
the last two years the most recent year
they're eligible to be
to be tapped on the shoulder to do hard
knocks i don't know how they figure out
the in-season hard knocks and i don't
know what the benefit for the cardinals
is what is the actual
benefit what is the perceived
or real benefit is it gonna create more
cardinals fans i don't i don't think so
no yeah
i'm with you i don't know if there is a
benefit no the only benefit is it to the
nfl
selling it entertainment nothing one
more piece of content that we can all
look at you know i did find the colts in
season thing interesting but i think it
i mean this in-season thing started to
started to really pop on right what was
that a few years ago with amazon right
when they started to do a little bit
during all or nothing right all or
nothing excellent right and i feel like
this is kind of like they did that and
then hbo at hard knocks was like well
wait well let's do our in season and it
kind of went from there and i don't know
either but i certainly would not want it
and especially in a year like the
arizona cardinals got a lot of pressure
deandre hopkins dealing with p.e.d
suspension you're going to have to have
your guys talk about that answer that
that's going to be a story but that's
but when is this going to start when is
this going to start yeah from his
suspension you're right it starts in
november right i think you're right
you're right it's all right so you show
that i always
i always wonder about the deeper
broadcast
business relations that go on here
because for amazon for all or nothing
right it was a way to build a bridge to
the nfl sure
they they stopped doing it during the
pandemic and uh they don't do it anymore
and
you know relationship with amazon
cemented via thursday night football hbo
has been the long-standing home of hard
knocks
why expand the relationship with the nfl
what other play is potentially there
between hbo and the nfl i always wonder
about those kinds of things when i see
that relationship expanding because i
look hbo has so much content and there's
so much nfl content out there if i'm hbo
you really got to sell me on why
i want this
like i got a lot of other stuff
and there's a lot of nfl stuff out there
to be different if there was an nfl
network and there wasn't all these
videos breaking down and access to teams
and press conferences and this and the
other thing it's there's really nothing
exclusive about this and it does quickly
and easily fall into the into the cracks
i mean
well it gives it gives fans something on
tuesday and wednesday night
during the latter weeks of football
season that's it that's what i was
that's where i was going to kind of go
you're flipping the channel that's where
i caught me last year with the colts at
least to where yeah it's tuesday
wednesday night i'm flipping the
channels i i am i'm still on directv
right so i'm doing that you pull up the
guide you see hard knocks on the oh let
me see where they're at let me what are
they doing here oh okay this is kind of
interesting and you know there is some
value to that i do you know it is it is
got a little bit of a different
look and feel than the
you know the nfl channel type of stuff
that we see on there hard knocks it
there is a little nostalgia and they've
done it for such a long time that you
know there's a way they do it to where
you go okay it's hard knocks here we go
uh so i did see some value in it but but
i i hear your your point i definitely do
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