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Speaker 1: taking over. Here's Paul Calvc. I'm ready. I'm one hundred
Speaker 1: percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready, and Ron will fleep.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far
Speaker 1: with the real King of season openers. Please stand up
Speaker 1: because we have several heavyweight contenders for that full crown
Speaker 1: these days. Ron Wolfley, you realize that the Rams are
Speaker 1: five and oh in season openers under Sean McBay, and
Speaker 1: they're trying to make it six and oz as we speak.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, I did not know that, Paul.
Speaker 1: Thank you for telling me that the Chiefs, as we
Speaker 1: continue to coach you up on the game of football,
Speaker 1: are eight and one in season openers under Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: and they're five and oo on the road in season
Speaker 1: openers with their Chiefs head coach. What are you trying
Speaker 1: to do? Cheer me up here? Paul is at it
Speaker 1: and a reminder about the team you actually cover and
Speaker 1: once played for. The upstart Cardinals have not lost a
Speaker 1: season opener under Cliff Kingsbury and Kyler Murray, and the
Speaker 1: last two wins have both been on the road against
Speaker 1: the NFC champion forty nine Ers at the time and
Speaker 1: then the AFC number one seed last year Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: in an absolute jack stopping. So those are the contenders.
Speaker 1: So we can debate those if you want. But what
Speaker 1: is utterly known for sure, and there is no debate whatsoever,
Speaker 1: who is who's not the king of Week one and
Speaker 1: that would be the Cleveland Browns, another team you once
Speaker 1: played for, who are Paul less. They are winless in
Speaker 1: Week one over their last seventeen season. For last Week
Speaker 1: one win was two thousand and four. You've got Paul
Speaker 1: wa That is incredible. There's no way in the world
Speaker 1: I thought it would have gone over ten years double digits,
Speaker 1: where a team had not one in week one. Never
Speaker 1: in a million years that I think that was possible.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be eighteen seasons in a row because
Speaker 1: they get Hurricane Baker on Sunday. So they're they're so
Speaker 1: host the Cleveland probably you know, no way the Browns
Speaker 1: are looking at that and they're looking their jobs. Now
Speaker 1: there's a possibility right there they're gonna win one. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 1: We are santan Ford. You know what, We're winners already
Speaker 1: because our special guest tonight Jalen Thompson. How's that sound, Brandy?
Speaker 1: Really really good ball. Yes, brand new captain, brand new
Speaker 1: paycheck as they stay in the locker room, new money,
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson. So the new money, that's so good ball.
Speaker 1: We know you come from old money ball, but I
Speaker 1: love the new money man. I come from squandered money.
Speaker 1: That's where I come from. The Wolf. How are you doing,
Speaker 1: By the way, because it's been going around, the injury
Speaker 1: report for week one is getting exceptionally large, How are
Speaker 1: you doing? Because you know they try to take it
Speaker 1: easy on you in the preseason, put you in the
Speaker 1: TV booth. They try to give you know and and
Speaker 1: go go pay you know, soft cupcake for you in
Speaker 1: the preseason. I hope you're okay. Yeah, Paulli, it was
Speaker 1: a little soft up there with Dave. Of course, David
Speaker 1: putting its makeup on and getting ready to actually get
Speaker 1: in front of the camera. Of course I'm breaking the
Speaker 1: camera with my face. But pall, yeah, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, I am ready. Are you jacked up for
Speaker 1: a little bit of football right now? I cannot wait here.
Speaker 1: It is week one, of course, Buffalo already up on
Speaker 1: the rams. I just absolutely love the fact the NFL
Speaker 1: season is here. Man, it's time to ball out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's some marquee matchups across the league, There's there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that, including Cardinals against the Chiefs, the Asy
Speaker 1: against Casey got Mahomes against Kyler Murray. You got Mahomes
Speaker 1: against his former head coach. In fact, if you go
Speaker 1: back to May after the schedule release, here was Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's initial reaction to facing his three years starting quarterback
Speaker 1: from Texas Tech Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, I was really thankful
Speaker 1: to the schedule makers for giving us a young quarterback
Speaker 1: that hadn't quite found his way in the league just yet,
Speaker 1: you know, still trying to figure it out. So no,
Speaker 1: it's it'll be fun. He sent me like the little
Speaker 1: Imoji before it even came out, so he'll be rebbed up.
Speaker 1: Will definitely have some Texas Tech fans tune into that one.
Speaker 1: I'm sure where do you begin when you think of
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, Well, Patrick Mahomes is a really
Speaker 1: good place to start, Paul, especially now more than ever,
Speaker 1: right after they've lost a few players here and there.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes with some new receivers across the board nine
Speaker 1: of ten draft picks made the Chiefs team, a team
Speaker 1: that won will that's gone to the last four AFC
Speaker 1: Championship games and won six straight AFC West title. So
Speaker 1: there's new players, but obviously, if you have the queue,
Speaker 1: he's the guy that makes everything work. Yeah, he is man,
Speaker 1: and you know Apoula, honestly, right now, I'm really really
Speaker 1: curious to see how this Kansas City Chiefs team looks
Speaker 1: without Tyree Hill. We've talked about it all off season.
Speaker 1: Ball I know that, but this is something that is
Speaker 1: a game changer to me, or at least has the
Speaker 1: possibility to be, because Tyree Hill is in a class
Speaker 1: by himself when it comes to a guy that can
Speaker 1: open the can as some coaches like to say, or
Speaker 1: take the top off, or give a lot of receivers
Speaker 1: room back that secondary up. Tyreek Hill is in a
Speaker 1: class by himself that changes a defense. Paul, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much in agreement with you on that, if
Speaker 1: not even maybe more so. Here is my hot take
Speaker 1: not hot take with Darren Urban this week. You're ready. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs losing Tyreek Hill will be more debilitating to
Speaker 1: their offense than the Cardinals losing DeAndre Hopkins the end
Speaker 1: of last season. Wow. See the thing that makes that
Speaker 1: so tough, though, PAULI is Nuke. We know how the
Speaker 1: Cardinals did without Nuke. It was really really bad. We
Speaker 1: don't know how the Kansas City Chiefs are going to
Speaker 1: do without Tyreek Hill. That remains to be seen. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe Patrick Mahomes is about to find out what Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray found out. That guess what, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: when you got an automatic double team being drawn by
Speaker 1: your number one ride receiver, that guess what It's not
Speaker 1: quite as easy to recoverage. And now when an experienced
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense, at least under vanced Joseph's system comes in
Speaker 1: and starts changing things up, and all of a sudden, maybe, Look,
Speaker 1: all I would say is this with new receivers and
Speaker 1: guys like Marcus Valda Scanling missing half the preseason and
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster dealing with injury as well. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: veteran receivers, but not in this system, not with Mahomes.
Speaker 1: If every team in the NFC West has to play
Speaker 1: the AFC West, I think the Cardinals got a break
Speaker 1: playing Casey in Week one because they're going to be
Speaker 1: trying to get it in sync, especially that passing game. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I think you're right, Paul. I've talked about this an
Speaker 1: awful lot with you as well, not only on the
Speaker 1: air but privately. This is a situation where Tyree Hill
Speaker 1: was one of those guys where he impacted the defense
Speaker 1: when he didn't get the ball. I mean, think of
Speaker 1: how important that is right there, when he didn't get
Speaker 1: the ball, he was impacting defenses and opening up a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff for Travis Kelsey. And now they have
Speaker 1: Juju Smith's shoe store as well. Those two guys are
Speaker 1: going to really be the two guys I think will
Speaker 1: be targeted by Patrick Mahomes. But this game, Paul coming
Speaker 1: up against the Chiefs, it really it's amazing to me.
Speaker 1: The two offenses are very, very explosive. Would you would
Speaker 1: you say the offenses dominate third teams the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Yeah, it could be a shootout, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And not only that, it could be a shootout play,
Speaker 1: but I think the defenses on both sides have an
Speaker 1: awful lot to prove. The Chiefs and the Cardinals, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And you know what, it's going to be there for
Speaker 1: everyone to see because CBS is sent in the A
Speaker 1: team Nance and Romo. It is a marquee matchup obviously
Speaker 1: Kyler and Mahomes. And here's what Kyler Murray said this week.
Speaker 1: Just done the challenge of facing a juggernaut like Kansas
Speaker 1: City to start twenty twenty two. Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: best of the best, You play the best of the best.
Speaker 1: I mean that that shouldn't bring the best out of you.
Speaker 1: Is the NFL every every week? You know, you look
Speaker 1: at our schedule this year, it's probably the toughest that
Speaker 1: you know since since we've been here, every week can
Speaker 1: get a challenge. You got great pass rushers, so I
Speaker 1: mean I got like I got be ready. You've got
Speaker 1: great defenses, great quarterbacks. Of Leaves is getting tougher and tougher.
Speaker 1: Reflect competition is real close. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, like I said, I I like what we're at.
Speaker 1: I like who we got in this locker room. I
Speaker 1: like us, So I'm confident. You gotta be ready, Paul, like,
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready right now. And when you talk
Speaker 1: about being ready, I loved what Kyler said about the readiness,
Speaker 1: But when you talk about it, you gotta start on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball
Speaker 1: right now. The Kansas City Chiefs, their defense ball struggled
Speaker 1: mightily to stop the run last year. Now, a lot
Speaker 1: of that was because they're trying to keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of them. They're trying to keep everything in front
Speaker 1: of them. They're gonna play covered to two safeties, high
Speaker 1: five underneath. They're gonna do that the vast majority of
Speaker 1: the time. They're gonna try to play a lot of zone,
Speaker 1: but keep everything in front of them. They're not going
Speaker 1: to jam up the box unless it's a game in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. They're not going to come after Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray unless it's a situation where, hey, this game is
Speaker 1: up in the air and maybe we better take some
Speaker 1: chances on defense because they're not. They're gonna try to
Speaker 1: keep everything in front of them, and for the most part,
Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals might take the same approach. Right.
Speaker 1: So to your point and what Kyler said there, what
Speaker 1: was good to see. It was good to see Rodney
Speaker 1: Hudson out at practice today. Obviously Marcus Golden was out there.
Speaker 1: The bad news we do not see zach Ertz jj
Speaker 1: Watt while he was on the side Traymon Mullen. We're
Speaker 1: not expecting him to go with that toe injury. And
Speaker 1: then you can add Cody Ford with an ankle to
Speaker 1: the injury list and Rondale Moore with a hamstring. What
Speaker 1: exactly does that mean? Well, stay tuned for the final
Speaker 1: injury report tomorrow, episode forty of the Day Pash Podcast
Speaker 1: with Marcus Spears from ESPN. He can follow on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Pashpod wherever you get your podcasts. So, do the
Speaker 1: Cardinals have the best pair of safeties in the NFL?
Speaker 1: You know what, We're gonna ask one half of that
Speaker 1: equation because the best answer to typically wolfull tackling in
Speaker 1: Week one of an NFL season would be Buddha Baker
Speaker 1: and our special guest Jalen Thompson. He is next. The
Speaker 1: big red rage was in a by Satan four in
Speaker 1: Gilbert Dan pass away over the middle and a diving
Speaker 1: intercepted by Thompson. He gets up at the twenty five,
Speaker 1: runs left of the thirty and knocked down there. Jalen
Speaker 1: Thompson with the pick. Thompson with a big time pick,
Speaker 1: froze near side. It's high and picked off at the
Speaker 1: thirty yard line by Jalen Thompson. He's run out of bounds.
Speaker 1: The ball batted into the air and there was Jalen Thompson.
Speaker 1: Johnny on the spot, dumps it off near side, patted
Speaker 1: picked off in the thirty by Thompson running it back
Speaker 1: to nearside. Went fifteen, ten to five and nine for
Speaker 1: the Byelot. He's out of bounds inside the ten at
Speaker 1: the five yard line. But what a huge play by
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson. Playmaker, difference maker. You know last year Wolf
Speaker 1: there were just five players and only three dbs in
Speaker 1: the NFL that had one under tackles three picks in
Speaker 1: five passes defense during the regular season. A single Cardinals
Speaker 1: defender had one hundred twenty tackles last season. That was
Speaker 1: a team high, and the only dB with more last
Speaker 1: year was a two time All Pro by the name
Speaker 1: of Minka Fitzpatrick. And there is one player, one player
Speaker 1: only on an NFL Final fifty three right now, who
Speaker 1: has acquired via the supplemental draft, and he is our
Speaker 1: guest on the Big Red Rage for the next half hour.
Speaker 1: A first time team captain with a brand new contract. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to talk about with Jaalen Thompson. Are
Speaker 1: we doing pretty good? Pretty good? Thanks for having me on, guys, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Jalen Man, we appreciated it. So let's talk about that
Speaker 1: contract extension through the twenty twenty five season. I'm going
Speaker 1: to ask you the cheeseball question, but it must be asked.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? It's a big blessing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, something that me and my
Speaker 1: family we've prayed about for a long time and something
Speaker 1: that's finally coming true. So I can't thank anybody but
Speaker 1: the man upstairs. And you celebrated with a big family
Speaker 1: dinner I had. I had a nice little family dinner call,
Speaker 1: call my brothers and you know, shared the whole experience
Speaker 1: with him. So you know they're happy and ecstatic the
Speaker 1: same way I am. Is that one of those deals
Speaker 1: where you say, you know what, order whatever you want? Definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely dinner. It was definitely on me that night. Did
Speaker 1: you where did what did you buy for your dinner
Speaker 1: with your new contract? You definitely got a nice steak
Speaker 1: that night, got it, got a nice stay for me
Speaker 1: and a family in the you know, chilled and talked
Speaker 1: about some stuff. You know how that goes. Remember Darnell
Speaker 1: Dockett back in the day, took a first round rookie
Speaker 1: out to dinner. He had to pay, said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: just ordered the left side of the menu. That was
Speaker 1: That was Doc back in the day. Do you feel
Speaker 1: any pressure because of this contract? Uh? Not really, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I know what I can do. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like my teammates, my coaches, uh, and a
Speaker 1: lot of the people that have been watching me, they
Speaker 1: know what I can do. So it's all about going
Speaker 1: out there and just making the most out of everything
Speaker 1: that I do and just following what the coaches are
Speaker 1: teaching me to do and that's going to put me
Speaker 1: in the right position to make plays. Well. Speaking of
Speaker 1: your coaches, here's your head coach, Cliff Kingsbury. Recently he
Speaker 1: was asked about you, Jalen Thompson. It's incredible. He's everything
Speaker 1: you want in your organization from work ethics standpoint, the
Speaker 1: way he practices. I mean, it's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: percent each and every day, each and every snap, whatever
Speaker 1: drill he's doing, he's going at it. And to be
Speaker 1: drafted in the fifth round of supplemental draft, ended up
Speaker 1: starting that year and just get better and better each year.
Speaker 1: It's just a tremendous story. I mean, I couldn't be
Speaker 1: happier prouder for him. I mean, tell us about the
Speaker 1: supplemental Draft. Yeah, I think a lot of people probably
Speaker 1: are curious because we see the NFL Draft every year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's huge TV ratings. But the supplemental drift is there?
Speaker 1: Even like a designated time you're supposed to be home
Speaker 1: or buy your phone. How does that work? I think
Speaker 1: they told me to like be checking Twitter, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, check Twitter and see like if you
Speaker 1: maybe I've gotten drafted So I was scrolling through Twitter
Speaker 1: and me and my parents just refreshing the page, refreshing
Speaker 1: the page, and I think they said that I was
Speaker 1: going to get drafted by the Colts to start off with.
Speaker 1: And I've seen the Colts around had already passed, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, it might not happen this year. And
Speaker 1: then I got the news from the from the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, parents, me and my parents and
Speaker 1: my brothers were just going crazy about it. Just a
Speaker 1: big experience, you know what I mean. Huge, Jaitlin, if
Speaker 1: you could, you got the Sea man, you got the
Speaker 1: Sea first time team captain. What does that mean to you? Brother?
Speaker 1: It's huge, you know what I mean. It shows that
Speaker 1: my teammates they trust me, and uh, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do everything I can on that football field to
Speaker 1: make sure that that trust stays the same. But it's
Speaker 1: not anything that I'm not I'm not used to, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. This is something I'm very used
Speaker 1: to high school college, I was always captain, so, uh,
Speaker 1: this is something that that's not new to me. You know.
Speaker 1: It was a challenge though, you know, getting to this
Speaker 1: point just based on the fact you really did didn't
Speaker 1: have a traditional off season for what three years in
Speaker 1: a row. First do you arrive on July after the
Speaker 1: supplemental Draft, Then twenty twenty is COVID, Then twenty twenty
Speaker 1: was abbreviated and socially distanced. I mean, did it sort
Speaker 1: of make sense the last year was your breakout year
Speaker 1: just based on that? Um? I mean yeah, But I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of it was just more of
Speaker 1: an experienced thing, you know what I mean, just being
Speaker 1: in the league, seeing different types of plays, different play
Speaker 1: calling from from different coaches, and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: what really helped me in this third year. Also spending
Speaker 1: a lot of time with my dB coach Mark Ray,
Speaker 1: with Buddha, Isaiah Buyering, guys like that, just watching film
Speaker 1: in offseason, making sure that we got everything locked down
Speaker 1: and everything ready to go. Because Buddha was saying today
Speaker 1: that not only do you know the play calls, but
Speaker 1: you know the checks everything, you can call everyone on
Speaker 1: all three levels. That you're even now telling defensive linemen
Speaker 1: out of position and adjust at times. Ze true, definitely,
Speaker 1: And that's just one of the things are coaches, especially
Speaker 1: my dB coachy harps On, we have to be the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the defense and make sure that everybody's aligned right,
Speaker 1: communication is right, technique is right. So that's just one
Speaker 1: of the things I pride my cell phone when I'm
Speaker 1: out there at safety. Janlen, can you describe your leadership
Speaker 1: and how you go about your leadership technique? So really,
Speaker 1: I'm not I mean, obviously I'm vocal on the field,
Speaker 1: but I'm really not the most vocal guy. I feel
Speaker 1: like my leadership style is basically, you know, just go
Speaker 1: out there and perform to the best of my ability
Speaker 1: and go out there and give it one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty percent. Like coach Cliff was saying, I feel like
Speaker 1: guys will follow that when they see that a guy
Speaker 1: is buying in all the way. So that's just one
Speaker 1: of the biggest things for me is to set a
Speaker 1: good example for my teammates. Is the combination of Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker and Jalen Thompson the best tandem of safeties in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I believe so, yes, sir, I believe. So.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're the most versatile um and you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I feel like we can we
Speaker 1: can do it all. We can do it all. We
Speaker 1: can play man coverage, zone coverage, we can play deep
Speaker 1: in the post, play in the bucks, play at nickel,
Speaker 1: play at corner, um, so many different different things that
Speaker 1: Buddha and I can do. So I just feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what makes us the most versatile in the best
Speaker 1: safety due in the league. So, guy's real quick. Here's
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker Wolf just on jailing, you know, the new
Speaker 1: deal being named captain. His reaction earlier today, seeing him
Speaker 1: growing up and seeing him understanding defenses and understanding play calls.
Speaker 1: So he's doing a very great job. Of course outside
Speaker 1: of football. That's my bro And uh, definitely life changing
Speaker 1: for him, very excited for him. And also with that
Speaker 1: sea on his chest, that's definitely so excited him, so excited.
Speaker 1: We both have that see and uh, we're just going
Speaker 1: to continue to get better. He's going to continue to
Speaker 1: get better. And sky's the limit for that guy. WHOA
Speaker 1: that is so cool right there. Who's your closest friend
Speaker 1: on the team. Uh, it's definitely definitely out of Buddha
Speaker 1: and uh dt um you got guys Byron Isaiah pretty
Speaker 1: much the dbs, you know what I mean? Those are
Speaker 1: my friends and the closest friends on the team. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And uh yeah, we hang
Speaker 1: out outside of this all football stuff. We go hang
Speaker 1: out at each other's cribs and you know, just laugh
Speaker 1: it up, talking, you know, have a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you do you talk to any offensive players? I remember, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, back when I played, of course
Speaker 1: a long long time ago, Jaylen, it was a long
Speaker 1: time ago. But back when I played, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you you pretty much hung with the guys on your
Speaker 1: side of the ball, the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I was a full back, but I did from time
Speaker 1: to time get the opportunity to know some of the
Speaker 1: defensive guys, but it wasn't as close. What's it like
Speaker 1: for you? For me, it's it's one of those things
Speaker 1: whereas obviously, defensive guys are gonna go with defensive guys
Speaker 1: and offensive guys are gonna go offensive guys. But I, um,
Speaker 1: I you know, I go against those guys every single day.
Speaker 1: We're all a family out here on the team, so
Speaker 1: um yeah. I talked to the receivers a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how I can build my game.
Speaker 1: You know, they talk to me to figure out what
Speaker 1: they could have done better. I talked to Kyler. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I talked to jac It's I
Speaker 1: talked to everybody on the team. It's pretty uh you know.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we're all a family on the team
Speaker 1: and we all love each other. So Jalen Thompson is
Speaker 1: our guest on The Big Red Rage, presented by Santan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert. All Right, so, is there one thing
Speaker 1: that you really admire about Buddha's game? One thing you'd
Speaker 1: like to borrow from his skill set? And if we
Speaker 1: ask Buddha that question, what do you think he'd like
Speaker 1: to take from your game? Um? Oh, that's a tough one. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like the most the best thing I like
Speaker 1: about Buddha's game is how he flies around one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten percent every single play. Now, crazy thing about that.
Speaker 1: The first time I've seen Buddha play was my freshman
Speaker 1: year in college. He came down to he came to
Speaker 1: our school at Wazoo, and I had been hearing a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff about him, like, you know, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a top safety going into the league
Speaker 1: in the previous I mean, the next year's coming up.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to sit there on the sideline
Speaker 1: and actually watch him and this guy was flying around
Speaker 1: and he knows the story. He was flying sideline the sideline,
Speaker 1: flying around, getting sex picks, all of that, and I
Speaker 1: was just like, Wow, this is the guy I need
Speaker 1: to imitate my game after and try to, you know,
Speaker 1: try to play like because he's NFL rady. So I
Speaker 1: got I came here to the Cardinals and you know,
Speaker 1: obviously got that first firsthand look at him, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is how I need to be playing
Speaker 1: at all times. And you know, to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: I kind of tried to mimic my game after him
Speaker 1: because I feel like that's, uh, one of the top
Speaker 1: safeties in the league, if not the top safety in
Speaker 1: the league. One of the things you really have in
Speaker 1: common with him as well. I think you're one of
Speaker 1: the best open field tacklers Jay Len, I have ever seen.
Speaker 1: Appreciate It's what makes you guys, Yeah, what's it's what
Speaker 1: makes you guys, I think the best safety tandem in
Speaker 1: the league. You guys are both very good open field tacklers.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, my friend, what makes a good
Speaker 1: open field tackler? Um? Yeah, have you guys ever heard
Speaker 1: Buddha say no fear? Yeah? Exactly, exactly. That's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for us. And you know we're not the biggest guys,
Speaker 1: we're not the strongest guys. Um, so we got to
Speaker 1: go in there and fly and have bad intentions when
Speaker 1: we're doing it, you know what I mean. But Wolf,
Speaker 1: how many times we're calling the game have we all
Speaker 1: said on air thank goodness for Jalen Thompson and or
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker on that play because that could have been
Speaker 1: a home run for a reason exactly. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: Buddha had the one year under Tyron Matthew, Yeah, which
Speaker 1: is similar exactly, and we talk about that all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyring showed him a lot of the stuff,
Speaker 1: and you know it just gets passed down year after year.
Speaker 1: So um, that's what we're doing with the young guys
Speaker 1: as well as passing it down and making sure that
Speaker 1: when they're when they're vets, they they're on the same wave,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. When we come back, Wolf,
Speaker 1: we're gonna ask Jalen Thompson if he's figures something out
Speaker 1: when it comes to interceptions, because he has three picks
Speaker 1: in his last eight games, does he have a cheat code?
Speaker 1: All of a sudden and what does he think about
Speaker 1: the word underrated and is that going to change by
Speaker 1: the end of this year? Jalen Thompson as our guests,
Speaker 1: as we continue with a Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 1: satan Ford and Gilbert we are. Satan Ford first to
Speaker 1: roll the eight Ma Holmes gets the shotgun snapped. Paulson
Speaker 1: throws for the end zone to Kelsey, but justusting bikes
Speaker 1: the catch, touchdown the Travis Kelsey with a touchdown in
Speaker 1: the back right corner of the insol Kansas City wins
Speaker 1: it forty two thirty six and over time and the
Speaker 1: Cheeks will post their fourth straight a FC championship game.
Speaker 1: It's a remarkable run, no doubt about it. They've won
Speaker 1: six straight division titles. Heck, Andy Reid is eight and
Speaker 1: one in regular season openers. As the Chiefs head coach,
Speaker 1: think about that, think about their quarterback, all the weapons
Speaker 1: they have, think about KC versus a Z. Week one
Speaker 1: is upon us. It is the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert, Paul KELBC, Ron Wolfley, and
Speaker 1: our very special guest, Jalen Thompson, whose middle name recently
Speaker 1: has been the word underrated. Now that's nationally I mean
Speaker 1: wolf around the team. Obviously, we know the value of
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson. He got the contract to validate that, he
Speaker 1: got the c and his chest to validate that. But
Speaker 1: I mean, do you feel underrated nationally? Jalen? Uh? You
Speaker 1: know sometimes I do. Last year I felt, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit underrated. But this is nothing new. This
Speaker 1: is you know, I feel like I've been underrated my
Speaker 1: whole life, from college offers to you know, coming out
Speaker 1: of college and you know, figuring out every thing. I
Speaker 1: just always felt like I've been the underrated player. And
Speaker 1: you know that kind of keeps the chip on my shoulder,
Speaker 1: you know, Jaylen, where you want to get into the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs here and especially the offense of the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. But I gotta ask you this, what
Speaker 1: do you do? You got Let's say you got a
Speaker 1: little free time. What is Jaylen Thompson going to do
Speaker 1: in his free time? I'm definitely gonna be listening to music, um,
Speaker 1: definitely gonna be playing video games, probably with some of
Speaker 1: the some of my teammates. What video games? Could I
Speaker 1: ask you that I'm a fortnight Are you gonna say fortnite?
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I'm a big Fortnite player. Two K just
Speaker 1: dropped today as well NBA two K, So okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll probably be on there a little bit. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I recently just started playing with Marco a little bit
Speaker 1: in Fortnite, so it's been, you know, pretty fun, pretty fun.
Speaker 1: Who's the locker room DJ these days? Is it still
Speaker 1: guardeck Um that he's like game day? He's on the
Speaker 1: game day. It's probably like Eno Eno or maybe Murphys,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Anybody who don't let anywhere
Speaker 1: near the ox court? Anybody you just how does that work?
Speaker 1: He's the guy you need to be afraid of, you know.
Speaker 1: Zavin maybe fires up the country music with all the
Speaker 1: cowboy boots and hat. You don't know, it's really crazy.
Speaker 1: They um, they kind of don't let me on there
Speaker 1: because the only thing I'm gonna play is a young boy?
Speaker 1: Why be so? Alright? So, Jalen, before we get into
Speaker 1: the Chiefs again specifically, can I just ask you a
Speaker 1: general question, who's the best quarterback you've played against so far?
Speaker 1: I'm best quarterback I've played against so far in my
Speaker 1: game in my opinion. I'm gonna give you guys too
Speaker 1: The first one is, uh, Drew Brees. Drew Brees my
Speaker 1: rookie year. I thought he was great, he knew exactly
Speaker 1: what we were in. Um. And then I thought Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers last year was extremely extremely good, extremely good. Let's
Speaker 1: see those are two Hall of Fame Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so what separates Mahomes? What is different about Homes? Obviously
Speaker 1: the first thing you think about are the arm angles,
Speaker 1: right yeah. I remember a couple of years ago Patrick Peterson,
Speaker 1: it was Kyler's rookie year. Actually is one of the
Speaker 1: first big practices, and Pat pe came to his locker.
Speaker 1: He said, these baseball qbs are killing me. Between Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson and now Kyler or the arm angles.
Speaker 1: I mean that isn't just for show. That really is
Speaker 1: an advantage. They can get different throws off from different platforms,
Speaker 1: right yeah. Um, and really, just another big thing about
Speaker 1: him is he can he can scramble really really well.
Speaker 1: He's a nightmare for defenses. Um, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We have to definitely be sound. He can make any
Speaker 1: throw that any quarterback in the league can make. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we have to be on our toes. And
Speaker 1: when we go against him. So when you look at
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs as an offense overall, describe what
Speaker 1: you're seeing on tape. Um, It's it's a fast offense.
Speaker 1: They got, they got guys who can do it all.
Speaker 1: They got obviously Kelsey Finesse player UM. And you know
Speaker 1: it's an Andy Reid offense. He's usually not changing too much,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean because the stuff that he
Speaker 1: does usually work. So you know it's a fast paced offense.
Speaker 1: But guys know what they're doing and they know that
Speaker 1: that offense really will UM. So it's just one of
Speaker 1: those things. We gotta, like I said, we gotta be
Speaker 1: ready to go. Jayleen Thompson our guest Cardinals safety Extraordinaire
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and
Speaker 1: Gilbert You know who else knows the Kansas City offense?
Speaker 1: Darryl Williams, Cardinals running back. How helpful has he been?
Speaker 1: I actually talked to Ben Nieman a little bit today.
Speaker 1: Four years as a Kansas City linebacker. I mean, how
Speaker 1: much can you glean from those former Chiefs players? Us?
Speaker 1: Just watching those dudes work every day, you could tell
Speaker 1: why the Chiefs have a good organization, you know, what
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys come to work. Um, they're always
Speaker 1: putting an extra time and they're always doing the little
Speaker 1: things correctly, you know what I mean. So you could
Speaker 1: tell why the Chiefs are are a great team. And
Speaker 1: how about the xs and ohs though, how about the
Speaker 1: playbook and maybe getting understanding what they might go with? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they they've came in and kind of
Speaker 1: helped us out a little bit. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: more towards our coach's side a little bit, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. They antually came personally to us. But
Speaker 1: whatever our coaches have cooked up in the game plan,
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna roll with, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: What do you think, Jaylen, when it comes to the
Speaker 1: game plan right now, how do you think the best
Speaker 1: way it is to go about your business and stop
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs offense or at least low him down? Um? Really,
Speaker 1: the main thing we got to get to the QB.
Speaker 1: We have to get to my homes. If he can
Speaker 1: stay back there and uh, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: dance around and make any throw like I said that
Speaker 1: he can make, then it's gonna be a long tough
Speaker 1: game for us. So that's the biggest thing, I think,
Speaker 1: just getting to the quarterback. So you wore the speaker
Speaker 1: in your helmet y much a camp, right, Yes, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons is going to wear the green down in the game,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be new. Yeah, tell us about that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously, you know Isaiah has a big,
Speaker 1: strong voice. That's Van's Joseph saying you know what he speaks. Clearly,
Speaker 1: everyone gonna be able to hear him. But that's a
Speaker 1: big deal, isn't it. Definitely definitely And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: that's one of those guys on our team that's very,
Speaker 1: very versatile and h He's gonna be all over the field,
Speaker 1: so I don't think he'll be even be coming off
Speaker 1: the field, So that would be huge for us, um especially,
Speaker 1: and just making sure everybody has the calls. Like you said,
Speaker 1: he's loud. He's very very vocal, so just a it
Speaker 1: won't hurt us, you know what I mean. It's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be a plus having him as the play caller.
Speaker 1: You know, you're a guy that I see Vans Joseph
Speaker 1: being able to move around as well. Um, where do
Speaker 1: you like to be on the field for the most part.
Speaker 1: I definitely like to I mean, I like to do
Speaker 1: it all. I like to be in a box, but
Speaker 1: I like to be in the post as well. It's
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. Yes, he has definitely
Speaker 1: like to be in the post. Like to see everything
Speaker 1: in front of me. And I'm starting to like Nicol
Speaker 1: a little bit as well, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: kind of played it a little bit in in college.
Speaker 1: But yeah, starting to starting to take it back to
Speaker 1: those nickel roots a little bit. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: with a depth situation in the corner, I mean, you
Speaker 1: and Buddha might have to be really versatile and be
Speaker 1: in the slot of times, right Heck, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: here and there, here and there. We'll have times where
Speaker 1: we come down and play in the slot. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, um, you know, I'm being in my
Speaker 1: usual safety position, doing my normal thing. And uh, we'll
Speaker 1: have some times where I come down and play play
Speaker 1: a little nickel, play a little corner, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, just play all over the field, and that's uh,
Speaker 1: that's only going to help us as a defense. Another
Speaker 1: guy that the Cardinals were considering to wear the green
Speaker 1: dot was Zaven Collins. He's not doing that, of course,
Speaker 1: but talk to us about the progress of Zaven Collins. Um. Actually,
Speaker 1: with Zaven, we've been meeting every morning at like around
Speaker 1: six six thirty, you know what I mean, making sure
Speaker 1: we got the plays down, making sure that we're on board,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, uh, if we do those little things,
Speaker 1: Zaven is gonna take off this year. Is it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a real great year for him. He's already very
Speaker 1: vocal as a middle linebacker. He's he's leading the team
Speaker 1: and he's uh making sure everybody's in the right place
Speaker 1: because there's no doubt he has the measurables right. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 1: I mean hit zoom out on this defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of forecasts that there's going to be
Speaker 1: some serious regression by the Cardinals defense in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: A lot of metrics analytics say, so, what do you
Speaker 1: say to that, UM, I say, We'll We'll have to
Speaker 1: wait and see, because I feel like we'll definitely be
Speaker 1: uh be on our be doing our job. We got
Speaker 1: the right coach and staff, We got the right coaches,
Speaker 1: the right players for it. UM. A lot of returning
Speaker 1: guys coming back to the defense, so it should be
Speaker 1: it should definitely be a good year for us. Definitely
Speaker 1: be a good year for us. Jellen, do you think
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs rushing attack is underrated one one
Speaker 1: hundred percent just because of all the other guys around it?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. They got Kelsey Um, Mikole Hardman,
Speaker 1: mahomes Uh. You know, they got a whole bunch of guys,
Speaker 1: so um. I feel like that definitely goes underlooked. But
Speaker 1: they can definitely run the ball, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: They definitely can run that rock. All right. You want
Speaker 1: to know about a receiver, ask a defensive back. Tell
Speaker 1: us about Hollywood Brown and what sort of impact you
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have on the Cardinals offense this year.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be real good for us. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. His speed is is is crazy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I feel like he'll be a good,
Speaker 1: great receiver for Kylie. They have that connection already, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, playing in college together. And like
Speaker 1: I said, once again, he's fast, so hopefully he can
Speaker 1: get over top of the defenses in the make some
Speaker 1: stuff you speaking of This is a ridiculous stat I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this wolf, but in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: Kyler's Heisman year. He threw eleven touchdown passes to Hollywood
Speaker 1: Brown that season at Oklahoma, they average fifty one yards
Speaker 1: per touchdown. Really, really, what can you what is realistic?
Speaker 1: Do you think go in the NFL? We know how
Speaker 1: good a deep ball Kyler throws, right, and you know
Speaker 1: how fast Hollywood Brown is. Yeah, I mean what is
Speaker 1: possible this season? You think, Oh, the sky is the
Speaker 1: limit for those two guys in that offense. The sky
Speaker 1: is definitely the limit, you know, Like I say, he
Speaker 1: can go over top and get behind any DB's in
Speaker 1: the league. So um and we see it at practice
Speaker 1: all the time, you know what I mean, He's so
Speaker 1: super super fast. So it's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 1: real good for us, real good. Jaylen, can you talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about that, Like what kind of impact
Speaker 1: does that have on a secondary when you know you
Speaker 1: got a guy out there that's running afore nothing is
Speaker 1: it is? You know, you hear guys talking about you
Speaker 1: know what backs you up and it creates room underneath.
Speaker 1: Give it to us from your perspective, I feel that
Speaker 1: same way as well. It definitely creates a room underneath. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like the run game will be open a
Speaker 1: lot more because of that um And you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, They're just gonna have to respect him. You know,
Speaker 1: that's that's one of the biggest things. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to respect his speed, and no, we have to keep
Speaker 1: somebody over top at all the times against him. And
Speaker 1: that's going only gonna open up other things for other players.
Speaker 1: And you know what I mean, just open up all
Speaker 1: the little stuff. A lot of guys, He's say joke
Speaker 1: that they can take him in a race, but nobody
Speaker 1: wants to race him. Hollywood says he has a standing
Speaker 1: offer with everyone. No one's actually taking him up on it.
Speaker 1: That was his joke to the to the media. All right,
Speaker 1: as we wrap this up with Jaillen Thompson, there's a
Speaker 1: real contrast out on that field Sunday and that none
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals regulars played a single snap in the preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kansas City played a lot of snaps in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Now we know what you guys did. Come on out
Speaker 1: of the gate last year at Tennessee. Jack stopped the
Speaker 1: Titans on the road. So why doesn't it necessarily matter
Speaker 1: that the starters for the Cardinals got reps in these
Speaker 1: preseason games. I mean, well, in my opinion, if you
Speaker 1: just look at our practices and how we practice, m
Speaker 1: guys are flying around and taking those rips like their
Speaker 1: game time rips. Um. You know where we're out there
Speaker 1: trying to get better each and every day and we're
Speaker 1: out there trying to make plays. And uh, I just
Speaker 1: felt like it's one of those things we really didn't
Speaker 1: need to show what we could do, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody already knows and um, our coaches know
Speaker 1: what we can do. Are as players, we know what
Speaker 1: we can do. So it's about just putting it all together,
Speaker 1: focusing on Kansas City this upcoming weekend and making sure
Speaker 1: that we were sound on everything that they're that they're
Speaker 1: doing all right as we say, goodbout a Jaalen Thompson.
Speaker 1: You got the captainship, you got the contract. You're gonna
Speaker 1: splurge on anything? Come on now, you can afford it. Now,
Speaker 1: you can afford it now, Jail, what are you gonna
Speaker 1: splurge on? What do you have a weakness for? You
Speaker 1: think if you went out shopping, maybe you're online, you're
Speaker 1: clicking around. I mean, is there anything that's tempting out there.
Speaker 1: Definitely get some clothes, some clothes, and definitely get you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a new car, maybe a new car. Car. There
Speaker 1: you go, somebody called tim Obick here because yes Rocky
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and gild Jail and man best to
Speaker 1: luck this season. Really look forward to watching a play ball. Yes,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. It's amazing how many times we
Speaker 1: call his name Wolf over the course of a broadcast.
Speaker 1: All right, we continue the Big Red Race presented by
Speaker 1: santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan forward once again.
Speaker 1: Jaalen Thompson was our very special guests back right after this, Ki,
Speaker 1: you are ridiculous. Murray Magick seventy seven yard and touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: I think obviously started fast. No one wants to start
Speaker 1: the season off, you know, feeling bad about the performance
Speaker 1: or anything like death. So focus. Just go out there
Speaker 1: and play well. Start the season off strong, start shooting fast,
Speaker 1: and lead with a good foot so for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. So I think that's the focus. Certainly
Speaker 1: what the Cardinals did a year ago in Nashville, four
Speaker 1: touchdown passes for Kyler. He ran for a fifth passer
Speaker 1: rating in one twenty one Cardinals ran for a buck
Speaker 1: thirty six that came out there and just dominated physically,
Speaker 1: absolutely mauled Derrick Henry. He was a complete non factor.
Speaker 1: So now can you do that again? Can you do
Speaker 1: it against another AFC power in Kansas City? That is
Speaker 1: the question week one on Sunday at State Farm Stadium,
Speaker 1: Paul KALBC Ron Wolfley, and how about that interview with
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson there, Wolf it was what stood out to you.
Speaker 1: I liked your question about the best quarterback he's gone against.
Speaker 1: He immediately said Drew Brees and then Aaron Rodgers last year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what really stood out to me as just
Speaker 1: his intelligence and his humility. Those two things right there.
Speaker 1: You know, he wasn't all about himself, Polly. And it's
Speaker 1: not a surprise when you watch him play. He sacrifices
Speaker 1: himself many many times. He has no fear, plays an
Speaker 1: awful lot like Buddha Baker. I do believe these two
Speaker 1: guys at this point in time, they're right there. When
Speaker 1: you talk about the best safety tandems in the league,
Speaker 1: you got to talk about the Arizona Cardinals. So impressed
Speaker 1: with him, How about you, Polly, and I loved his
Speaker 1: story about Buddha where he watched him as a freshman
Speaker 1: I Wazoo when Buddha was one of the top safeties
Speaker 1: in the country at you Dub and when his team
Speaker 1: was on offense, he just walked up to the white
Speaker 1: stripe and he watched Buddha play the whole game and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I need to play like that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to be all over the field just like Buddha.
Speaker 1: Baker and then it's destiny. After the interview, I asked
Speaker 1: him with the commercial break, I said, it sounds like
Speaker 1: destiny you end up with the Cardinals. He he said yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: he said because because then I even learned more from Buddha.
Speaker 1: And then he confirmed how Buddha was taught by Tyrn Matthews.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting legacy. No, it certainly is. And speaking
Speaker 1: of that coming up on this Sunday, of course, a
Speaker 1: shootout I expected to be a shootout. Pol I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a high scoring affair. But the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals offense, if in fact they're gonna move the
Speaker 1: ball to the degree in which we think they should.
Speaker 1: You got to know the Kansas City Chiefs they use
Speaker 1: a cover two shell Poulli. They try to keep everything
Speaker 1: in front of them. They're the classic ben but don't
Speaker 1: break defense. And when you got the offense the Chiefs do,
Speaker 1: why would you be anything else? Right, right, You're gonna
Speaker 1: You're gonna make an opposing offense prove they can move
Speaker 1: the ball down the field against you without turning it over,
Speaker 1: without having to punt it. They're gonna prove that you
Speaker 1: can actually score and keep up with their offense. They
Speaker 1: play off their offense, Paul. It's incredible and that sort
Speaker 1: of defense of coverage has given the Cardinals fits in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years at times. But now they
Speaker 1: have the speed factor in a Hollywood Brown. You saw
Speaker 1: Greg Dort, you saw any Isabella, their standout preseasons and
Speaker 1: now the injury to Rondel Moore, wouldn't be surprised to
Speaker 1: see either one of those guys have a big role
Speaker 1: on Sunday. In fact, Cliff Kingsbury has asked just about
Speaker 1: the speed factor in his wide receiver room. We gotta
Speaker 1: find a way to use it. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: playmakers in there. There's no doubt even with hops. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the all time Greats being out first part
Speaker 1: of the season, I'm excited to watch some of those
Speaker 1: young guys get their opportunity. Aj looks great, has been
Speaker 1: back and healthy and gives us some size out there.
Speaker 1: And then those those little guys can all really run.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have a good plan, find a way
Speaker 1: to maximize all their talents and excited to see how
Speaker 1: we can stretch the field with him. Cannot wait to
Speaker 1: see what Hollywood Brown is going to be capable of doing.
Speaker 1: And where are they're gonna play him as well, Paul,
Speaker 1: I wonder if they're gonna play him on the strong
Speaker 1: side of the formation as the Z. Are they gonna
Speaker 1: move him as the age in the slot? Are they
Speaker 1: going to put him at the act by himself. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting to see where they use Hollywood.
Speaker 1: If I could bet, I would go, Polly prop bet,
Speaker 1: Here's what I'd wager on. You're ready for this Wolf? Yes,
Speaker 1: whatever the overunder is on Catches by Hollywood Brown, I'd
Speaker 1: go the over. Just the chemistry between those two guys,
Speaker 1: and if no Rondel more on Sunday, I think back
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty and the debut of DeAndre Hopkins at
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers when he had a single game
Speaker 1: record for the Cardinals fourteen catches. Now, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fourteen, but I think it'll be significant.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's Hollywood Brown yesterday stand in front of
Speaker 1: his locker talking to the media and he was asked
Speaker 1: just about the Cardinals offense and the weapons. Yeah, here,
Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean, we're gonna go toe to
Speaker 1: toe with any offense in the league. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like we got one of the better groups and
Speaker 1: they're gonna look forward to showcasing it. Yeah, they gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball, Polly as well Man. Seriously, they can
Speaker 1: go toe to toe with anybody, but the Chiefs they're
Speaker 1: gonna let you do that. Paul. They were twenty first
Speaker 1: and rushing yards per game allowed in thirty first and
Speaker 1: rushing yards per attempt. Wow, loud, thirty first. They're gonna
Speaker 1: give you the ability to run the ball because for
Speaker 1: the most part they're playing with a fourteen point lead.
Speaker 1: You know, it's something that they do on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals need to run the ball and
Speaker 1: be very balanced because that will help Kyler in the end.
Speaker 1: And you know, James Conner talking to the media today,
Speaker 1: he already at his game face on. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't have time for these interviews, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was cordial and he was professional, but you could
Speaker 1: tell he's starting to get really locked in and with
Speaker 1: that running back room and just the guys we'd ever
Speaker 1: saw in the preseason that we're just dying to see
Speaker 1: a James Connor and AJ Green for example, looks so
Speaker 1: good at different times at Cardinals camping, and then we
Speaker 1: found out, you know, the end of last season he
Speaker 1: never truly recovered from COVID, according to head coach Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: So I think AJ Green is a bit of a
Speaker 1: sleeper this year, but you never know until Week one.
Speaker 1: I know, man, that's gonna be so interesting. Where does
Speaker 1: AJ Green get his majority of reps? To me? I
Speaker 1: thought he was going to go to the X. I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna play where DeAndre Hopkins played. I
Speaker 1: thought they were there were guys that had similar speed
Speaker 1: for the most part. I mean, d hop is not
Speaker 1: a guy that's just gonna run by out there. I
Speaker 1: don't think AJ Green at this point is a run
Speaker 1: by guy either. I think he's more about being a
Speaker 1: scarecrow on a stag ball. It's a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: Roll them up. They're both guys that catch the ball
Speaker 1: when they're covered fifty fifty balls. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought aj Green would get the vast majority of reps
Speaker 1: as the X, and then you would leave Hollywood as
Speaker 1: the Z to the strong side of the formation. And
Speaker 1: then just how physical the Cardinals are when you're going
Speaker 1: against the Kansas City team that got so many reps
Speaker 1: in preseason games. Andy Reid beyond that, he ran a
Speaker 1: really tough camp. He ran more of an old school camp.
Speaker 1: They did three weeks on a college campus. Guy sleeping
Speaker 1: in dorms, practicing outdoors in the late afternoons. So I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: So I always will. And look, the Cardinals on the
Speaker 1: team right now deal with many more injuries than the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Don't get me started on that. I looked at the
Speaker 1: Chiefs injury list right for guys, and they're all practicing
Speaker 1: full that's it. But none of that matters until what
Speaker 1: we see on Sunday. And so we said all a
Speaker 1: lot of these similar things about going into Tennessee last
Speaker 1: year and look at the results did so you just
Speaker 1: don't know you have done, no idea how this is
Speaker 1: gonna be playing. You know, just win and I'm in okay, Paul,
Speaker 1: Just win, baby all right? Special thanks as always Jim Almandro,
Speaker 1: Cody Fincher, and Zach Larson. Very special thanks to Jayalen Thompson.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel a lot better about the wolf
Speaker 1: of week one tackling around the NFL when you have
Speaker 1: Jayalen Thompson and Buddha Baker back there as your safeties.
Speaker 1: But Ron Wolfley, Paul KELBC, We're gonna find out who's
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