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| | Sporting News, The: Raising Arizona - Cardinals |
 | | Ryan has retained the nucleus of last year's 7-9 team that won its last three, added major free agents Clyde Simmons and Seth Joyner and given fans legitimate hope that, finally, this inept franchise can make a playoff run. |
 | | At 60, Buddy Ryan - cantankerous, ornery, confrontational, humorous, crude and the biggest self-promoter around - is being asked to rescue a franchise from its deplorable history. |
 | | Everywhere he has been, Buddy has always created, then fed off, a combative "we" against "they" situation, with the "they" being the head coach or the owner or, as we have seen, even an offensive coordinator. |
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