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The Cardinals, with more than ten practices under their belt, prepare for an actual game this Thursday for the first time under LaFleur's watch.

"The guys that do play, it's their first time out there where coaches aren't you know right behind them or giving them a script," LaFleur said earlier this week.

"There is no script. We'll be tight with our plan. What I want to go see is these guys, their play style come to life, and us go operate before the snap. That's it. And then everything else is just those guys going out and letting it loose."

Most teams typically don't play their starters in their first preseason game, though there was intrigue in the desert with it being LaFleur's first season and the Cardinals having a fourth game on their schedule as opposed to the typical three.

"I don't want to overtalk it. It's a game, and again, when you put your body on the line, it's real live bullets out there. You got to mentally get yourself right, and it's not a problem as long as we approach it that way. And so we won't overtalk about it," LaFleur continued.

"It's just hey, 'we got to go play good football. We got to operate the right way, and our play style's got to come to life' and then when the ball snaps, you got to go execute. Sometimes it's going to be clean looks, and sometimes it's going to be a look that you've never seen, particularly in the preseason. Because it's not like we're watching film on Carolina, at all. Like we're not going to watch a snap of them.

"So we're just going to have a tight plan that is all inclusive for whatever they bring at us. Protected plays, if you will. You just want to see these guys come off the rock and go."

The Cardinals and Panthers square off in Canton, OH on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 5:00 PM Arizona time. The game will be broadcast on NBC.