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Speaker 1: who joins us here on this edition, fresh off what
Speaker 1: you endured rain at practice and then you had to
Speaker 1: wade through all the hard knocks cameras that are outside
Speaker 1: the studio here. I mean, there's a little something flying
Speaker 1: everywhere at this point of the season, Rondale, how are
Speaker 1: we doing? Good? Man? Appreciate you guys have me excited
Speaker 1: to be on. Yeah, I'm doing great. Yeah, Ron'll thank
Speaker 1: you so much, but I really do appreciate it. Linton,
Speaker 1: you were born in New Albany, Indiana. What was that
Speaker 1: town like, man Um, It's a smaller place pretty much.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows everyone. Whatever business you've got, I'm sure someone
Speaker 1: else close to you knows as well. Very um. Tighten
Speaker 1: it again, everyone knows everyone. So not a big town
Speaker 1: and it was a nice place to grow up. Would
Speaker 1: you pick up first a football or a basketball in Indiana?
Speaker 1: Basketball because you are in a high school state title team, right,
Speaker 1: What was that like, especially in Indiana? Yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: was super dope. Um, I've got some some guys that
Speaker 1: I played with it I'm still really cool with to
Speaker 1: this day. Obviously, Romeo Lankford ended up going like fourteen
Speaker 1: to the Celtics and I think he's with the Spurs now,
Speaker 1: but um, he was on that team so that was
Speaker 1: super cool to see him play and things like that.
Speaker 1: So that was a cool experience. So Rondelle, were you
Speaker 1: were you point Were you the point guard? What position
Speaker 1: did you play on that team? Yeah? Now, I played,
Speaker 1: um point guard. I wasn't really the guy um or
Speaker 1: so just out there, you know, sharing the sharing the
Speaker 1: rock and playing defensive. Be honest, if you guys want
Speaker 1: to stay tuttle, you're probably rock stars at that point, right. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can say that. It was. It was. It was
Speaker 1: pretty cool obviously, the Whining State championship obviously in the
Speaker 1: city of New Albany and come back and then everyone
Speaker 1: just recognizes you simply because you were on that team. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. That's crazy. I still have people who
Speaker 1: recognize me from that team and like have no clue
Speaker 1: like that I transferred and now I played football and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Yeah. Now, I'll go home and
Speaker 1: someone to talk about basketball and just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, kid, can you dunk? Rondelle? Yeah? No, really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How old were you when you first dunked? I mean
Speaker 1: I was older. I was probably like a sophomore in
Speaker 1: high school. Did you ever ripped one off in a game? No?
Speaker 1: I never got one in a game. No. So wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Rondell, you're telling me you're what you're You're
Speaker 1: all five seven? Is that what it is? Eight? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're five eight. I'll give you that, and you can dunk, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, just I'd love to see that. Okay, but
Speaker 1: wait a minute. When you realize his viral video what
Speaker 1: your freshman year produced, sophomore year whatever it was where
Speaker 1: you squatted six hundred pounds. Yeah, then okay it kind
Speaker 1: of makes sense. The leg strength, Yeah, it goes hand
Speaker 1: in hand. I like to say that definitely helps for sure.
Speaker 1: Tell us about by the way, because I remember asking
Speaker 1: you about this before the Eagles game, and Rondale Moore
Speaker 1: is our guest Cardinals receiver. We'll get into the football
Speaker 1: here in a minute, but you gotta tell me that
Speaker 1: story again about how when you were in the squad rack,
Speaker 1: you're gonna try six hundred pounds, and by the time
Speaker 1: you were done, you were saying, I'm never gonna do
Speaker 1: that again. So tell us about the in between, because
Speaker 1: I brought it up because yone hurts do the same
Speaker 1: thing the Eagles quarterback. Yeah, a few things. Obviously, I
Speaker 1: think I did. Like I think your original question was,
Speaker 1: you know, how do you just decide when day you're
Speaker 1: gonna do six hundred pounds? And for me, it was like,
Speaker 1: and in college you max out. Obviously you don't do
Speaker 1: that much in the NFL, but and college you have
Speaker 1: these max out days, whether that be upper body, lower body, whatever.
Speaker 1: So um, we were squatting, of course, and I think
Speaker 1: I was at five hundred. I moved it pretty easy.
Speaker 1: I think I went five to fifty. And at that
Speaker 1: point it's just like you want to go ten pounds
Speaker 1: or you just want to go six hundred. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's just give six hundred a ride. And what I
Speaker 1: was telling you when I when I unwracked it, as
Speaker 1: I'm like backing up, I can just feel my legs
Speaker 1: just like shaking like crazy, and I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta locked this one in, Like I can't keep moving,
Speaker 1: and then I proceeded in squad and it just took
Speaker 1: me lower than I actually wanted to go. So it
Speaker 1: was kind of tough getting out of there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was kind of a backstory on it all. That
Speaker 1: is incredible, Rondel. What about your bench? What's the most
Speaker 1: you ever benched for? Five? Who? Man, that's incredible. Well,
Speaker 1: if we'll have a breakout session later where Rondelle and
Speaker 1: myself can tell you all about weightlifting. Okay, a little
Speaker 1: bit later we'll get into that. We do have a
Speaker 1: football game to talk about at Minnesota, and it was
Speaker 1: let's just first get into the touchdown. Okay, my postgame
Speaker 1: interview with Rondelle was so miserable, Ron Wolfley, how miserable
Speaker 1: was it? How big a fail was it? I don't
Speaker 1: think I even got around your thirty eight yard touchdown?
Speaker 1: So you take us. It isn't often a life you
Speaker 1: get a chance to redeem yourself. So here we go.
Speaker 1: Tell us, Rondale, if you would about the thirty eight
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. From snap to finish, I basically had a
Speaker 1: little snag route. It was zone, sat in the zone,
Speaker 1: caught it tight turn. We do a draw all the
Speaker 1: time in practice that you know involves like balls, security
Speaker 1: and drop step in and things like that. So Hugh
Speaker 1: shout out the fits there. But I kind of did
Speaker 1: that and then I saw like three guys and try
Speaker 1: to just take an angle on the safety to move
Speaker 1: them a little bit, and I, uh, fifty four went
Speaker 1: for the ball. Seven I think, Uh yeah, seven was
Speaker 1: on my right. Patrick Peterson, Yeah, And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I thought I was tackled, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I just kind of tried to keep moving my legs
Speaker 1: and then somehow got out of there and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: ended up in so so Rondelle was last week's game,
Speaker 1: the best game he played as a pro. Uh probably
Speaker 1: the Minnesota game last year. Yeah, because yeah, you had
Speaker 1: eight receptions for one hundred and fourteen and a touchdown
Speaker 1: as well last year. What is it with you in
Speaker 1: the Vikings? That's a great question. I'll take it, though
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know what the question is, why
Speaker 1: don't the Cardinals make that happen more often than just
Speaker 1: the Vikings. In fact, that was the question of Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury about Rondelle. You know, he's dynamic. We gotta find
Speaker 1: ways to get him the ball in space. And he
Speaker 1: has ability to do that on any and every play,
Speaker 1: and so it was good to see. I'm glad he
Speaker 1: got to have some some positive plays. I think that's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, help him moving forward. And the report of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks obviously growing now that they've been on tasks
Speaker 1: together for a couple of straight weeks. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you did miss the first few games right with a hamstring.
Speaker 1: So you tell us how much of a process is
Speaker 1: it getting in sync, getting in rhythm with your quarterback,
Speaker 1: any quarterback? Yeah, it's huge plays a big partum obviously,
Speaker 1: just building that rapport and continuing to have reps and
Speaker 1: just dialogue in between, you know, each and every practice.
Speaker 1: So I think that goes a long way with just
Speaker 1: being able to trust someone know when he's gonna do this,
Speaker 1: when he's gonna do that. How many steps does it
Speaker 1: take him to get flat out of a in, cut
Speaker 1: outbreaking out, whatever it may be. So just kind of
Speaker 1: those certain things play a huge role in just getting
Speaker 1: on the same page with one another. So Rondell here
Speaker 1: it is your second year, of course, or um, how
Speaker 1: is this season going for you personally? Um, it's good man,
Speaker 1: I can't complain. I'm in a great situation and bless man,
Speaker 1: I great staff, great teammates, love coming to work every day.
Speaker 1: Obviously Arizona is a great place to live as well,
Speaker 1: So no complaints on this. And and with d hop back,
Speaker 1: how's it different because you're not that far from him
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Obviously you're in the same huddle.
Speaker 1: I know. I think was Eno Benjamin who told us
Speaker 1: a couple of games ago, it's like having a second
Speaker 1: quarterback in the huddle. Just tell us about the D
Speaker 1: hop factor if you would. Yeah, man, he just he
Speaker 1: just goes out there and as a ball player that
Speaker 1: in layman's terms, like he's just a ball player. Um
Speaker 1: figures it out, gets open and he just I mean
Speaker 1: obviously he dictates coverage. So it makes it a lot
Speaker 1: easier for us when he draws so much attention, just
Speaker 1: makes us able to have a lot more room to
Speaker 1: work certain things. So great to have out there. In fact, Wolf,
Speaker 1: here's here's DeAndre Hopkins right and just talking about you know,
Speaker 1: the production and how he's not surprised, not surprised at all. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I put it into work. I had a great team
Speaker 1: around me during those six weeks to make sure when
Speaker 1: I got back that there wasn't any drop off. It's
Speaker 1: obviously it's hard to go out and and try to
Speaker 1: assimilate a game or or even a practice. But we
Speaker 1: did a good job. First game. I felt good. Second game,
Speaker 1: I felt even better. So hopefully, UM, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: just keep improving. Um as the year going, Rondelle, how
Speaker 1: how much have you learned from DeAndre Hopkins? A ton? Again? UM,
Speaker 1: I tell you this all the time on the field,
Speaker 1: off the field, great great resource to have a great guy,
Speaker 1: whether that be finding someone to cut your grass or
Speaker 1: walk your dog or whatever case, maybe coverage, plays, whatever,
Speaker 1: So um, that guy comes equipped with a lot of
Speaker 1: different skills. So great guy to have on your team.
Speaker 1: He's kind of like Larry in that regard. Larry. Back
Speaker 1: in the day, Cliff Kingsbury liked to say about Larry,
Speaker 1: he just wins at life like he's got lots of
Speaker 1: stuff figured out. He's dialed in, isn't he hop is
Speaker 1: that guy? Isn't he? Yeah? That's a great phrase, A
Speaker 1: great way to explain that sixth way, Rondel, how's the
Speaker 1: body doing right now? How are you feeling? I'm good man,
Speaker 1: I feel great. Um I think our trans staff here
Speaker 1: does does a great job. And then Cliff obviously um
Speaker 1: takes care of us as well. And then everything that
Speaker 1: I do, um by myself or outside the facility is
Speaker 1: paid dividends for me this year. So, um, I've been
Speaker 1: feeling good. You helped Greg Dortch feel better after that muffpunt,
Speaker 1: didn't you. You made a comment to the media that
Speaker 1: it happened to you last season, and just recount that
Speaker 1: if you wouldn't mind and what indeed you did. Maybe
Speaker 1: he had to say to to Greg Dortch after what
Speaker 1: was a pretty decisive and instrumental play, game changing playing
Speaker 1: that loss in Minnesota. Yeah, um, obviously again, like you
Speaker 1: just said, I've been there before last year in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: so I know that feeling. I kind of know. Um,
Speaker 1: you know what you want to hear there and what
Speaker 1: you don't want to hear. So for me, it's just
Speaker 1: like YO, keep being you keep balling, don't try to
Speaker 1: be anyone ext for you. Whatever you do is enough, man,
Speaker 1: and you know we're still riding when you still trust you.
Speaker 1: So and he knows that. Again, he's been in the league.
Speaker 1: This is fourth year, so I mean he's been on
Speaker 1: playing different teams. He saw a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: So on Deutsch a really savvy player, strong headed guy,
Speaker 1: so he knows that, you know, we still trust them,
Speaker 1: still riding with him and got all belief in him.
Speaker 1: So talk to us a little bit if you don't
Speaker 1: mind about the offense generally speaking right now, how do
Speaker 1: you think the offense has performed? Where do you have
Speaker 1: to get better? Yeah, man, I think we've progressed and
Speaker 1: made really big strides. Honestly, Um, I think where we
Speaker 1: just need to get better is obviously not hurting ourselves.
Speaker 1: I think the game plan we put in is great.
Speaker 1: I think we have the talent around us to be
Speaker 1: really good. And again, we're a few plays away from
Speaker 1: from being, you know, one of the most explosive offenses
Speaker 1: in this league. So again, I think it's just the
Speaker 1: things we do to ourselves. So whether that be penalties
Speaker 1: or just like little things and uh, it's things that
Speaker 1: are fixable. And luckily we've got everyone back and we're
Speaker 1: continuing to work through those things and we're getting better.
Speaker 1: So I know, one of the messages and we're on
Speaker 1: board with Rondel Moore Cardinals receiver was about the urgency
Speaker 1: that's needed at this moment, not just being three and five,
Speaker 1: but what you just cited, right, everyone's got to lock in.
Speaker 1: You got eliminate those missed assignments and alignments. But it's
Speaker 1: up to the players, isn't it. Yeah, No, for sure,
Speaker 1: And again we've we've done a good job with just
Speaker 1: communication throughout the week and um, I mean previously to
Speaker 1: this week as well. UM, just just trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out and realizing like it's it's up to us
Speaker 1: to figure this thing out. The coaches can't go out
Speaker 1: there and play for us. They can give us the
Speaker 1: game plan, but you know it's it's it's us as
Speaker 1: a as a collective group to go out there and
Speaker 1: just do our jobs. If we can, If every person
Speaker 1: on the field can do their job for one play
Speaker 1: and continue to do at the whole game, I think
Speaker 1: we've we've got a pretty good shot. It's a big
Speaker 1: game against Seattle. We'll talk about the Seahawks, the first
Speaker 1: place Seahawks when we come back. With Rondale Moore on
Speaker 1: the big red rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert
Speaker 1: snaps to Kyler drops back Fire's left side. It's caught
Speaker 1: for the first down by more at the forty at
Speaker 1: the forty five of the fifty, handled the forty five
Speaker 1: a Minnesota and tackled at the forty three. Murrian shotgun
Speaker 1: takes the snap, drops back to pass, looks right, throws
Speaker 1: hit more, fought at thirty, turns right twenty five, twenty four,
Speaker 1: breaks a tackle to the ten till the five touchdown.
Speaker 1: There's the explosive play, a huge response by Arizona that
Speaker 1: is fantastic right there. I'm about Rondale Moore with its
Speaker 1: twenty seven yard catch thirty eight yard touchdown at Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And here's the question I wanted to ask in the
Speaker 1: last segment. It was we continue with a big red
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Speaker 1: Do you realize that you left Patrick Peterson with a
Speaker 1: handful of fabric that he had the tail end of
Speaker 1: your under shirt? Do you realize that? Uh? Yeah, no, Um.
Speaker 1: I think our Instagram page I posted something. I saw
Speaker 1: a picture obviously during the game. I mean I didn't know,
Speaker 1: but I saw a picture of our Instagram page. I
Speaker 1: posted how angry was Pat p out there Rondelle? I
Speaker 1: mean he was barking at the Cardinals sideline pregame, during
Speaker 1: the game, post game, My goodness, Yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: he's a competitor. Um can't fall. The guy goes out there,
Speaker 1: works his tail off. He's you know, has a ton
Speaker 1: of respect around this league, and he's been a good
Speaker 1: player for a long time. So he's just the ultimate competitor.
Speaker 1: And obviously a little emotions get involved in everything, and
Speaker 1: you know he's just trying to win, just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: So Rondel, what kind of pro are you? Are you
Speaker 1: a guy that likes to hang around the facility building
Speaker 1: and stay there late and do all your film work there?
Speaker 1: Do you like or do you like to go home?
Speaker 1: Do you like to go home, get away a little separation,
Speaker 1: watch a lot of tape at home? Which type of
Speaker 1: pro are you? Somebody likes to hang out in the
Speaker 1: facility building or at home? I think I've kind of
Speaker 1: involved in that aspect. I remember being in college and
Speaker 1: I would enjoy being at the facility all day and
Speaker 1: doing all that kind of stuff. Now it's just like
Speaker 1: I'm a work at work and whatever I need to
Speaker 1: get done here, I'll get done here and then I'll
Speaker 1: go home and pretty much do all the rest of
Speaker 1: my studying and take watching. And I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing that has changed from college until now is just
Speaker 1: the things that I do outside of work. So obviously,
Speaker 1: going home to eat, I've got a I mean I
Speaker 1: hired a chef, and if I have to get a massage,
Speaker 1: my masseus is coming to my home. And then I
Speaker 1: have another person who does my body work that includes
Speaker 1: like faster stretching and things of that sort. I go
Speaker 1: see my chiropractor. So a day is just really busy
Speaker 1: for me as far as just maintenance on my body,
Speaker 1: keeping my mental right. And then I've got two dogs
Speaker 1: at home as well. So what kind of dogs? I've
Speaker 1: got a French bulldog and then exhale American bully. Whoa
Speaker 1: what about names? Man? My frenchie is a saint, and
Speaker 1: then my bully is king. It's pretty good though, I mean,
Speaker 1: year two and you've already instituted all that sort of
Speaker 1: work away from the facility. But then I look here,
Speaker 1: your bionus says you earned a degree in business from
Speaker 1: Purdue and two and a half years. Come on, now
Speaker 1: that's a type all right. No, I got it done quick, man.
Speaker 1: I I basically got to campus in the summer of
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and sat down with my advisor and sorry, hey,
Speaker 1: this is my plan. I want to be gone in
Speaker 1: three years and I want to get my degree. So
Speaker 1: we kind of scheduled it out and uh, luckily I
Speaker 1: was able to finish and every all the classes aligned
Speaker 1: and I got it done. So Rundown, you're getting ready
Speaker 1: to play obviously the Seattle Seahawks. Um this Sunday at
Speaker 1: State Farm Stadium. Give me your thoughts on the Seahawk quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Um Man, I think they present a lot of different
Speaker 1: talents and things of that sort. Um. They've got some
Speaker 1: longer guys out there. Um. They got a guy that
Speaker 1: Nicko who's patient, he's good. I enjoy going against him,
Speaker 1: A really competitive guy. So I think they do a
Speaker 1: lot of things well. And obviously they play some zone
Speaker 1: um and they'll they'll play man here and there, but
Speaker 1: his own team. So again, they kind of get into
Speaker 1: that Ben don't break defense and try to keep everything
Speaker 1: in front of him. Yeah. DeAndre Hopkins to the media,
Speaker 1: brought up on his own they're round five rookie, the
Speaker 1: six four Tariq Woolen from seven yeah, yeah, and he
Speaker 1: runs a four two six yeah. Former receiver somehow lasted
Speaker 1: until round five and he's legit on film, isn't he?
Speaker 1: And now he's a good player. Um does a good
Speaker 1: job of being patient, using his length and making plays.
Speaker 1: How would you characterize stec Hawks defense? I mean you
Speaker 1: mentioned a little bit the fact they play zone a
Speaker 1: lot more zone than they do man. But are they
Speaker 1: high pressure team that they like to come after you
Speaker 1: at all? They'll do some things. They'll they'll walk some
Speaker 1: guys down in the box and then not a ton,
Speaker 1: but they'll bring a little bit Um. But again they
Speaker 1: stick to you know, zone coverage and again just keep
Speaker 1: everything in front of them. Yeah, and that's the rage,
Speaker 1: right guys, This whole zaw zone too high safety. It's
Speaker 1: not just the Cardinals who are facing everyone gets in
Speaker 1: my homes, Josh Allen, doesn't matter. What's the key as
Speaker 1: an offense, Stay on schedule, Um, keep the ball moving,
Speaker 1: Try not to get in third and long situations. Obviously, Um,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have penalties and things of that
Speaker 1: sort that that move you back that for shoot of
Speaker 1: run plays that you didn't want to run or things
Speaker 1: like that. So again, just staying on schedule, UM. And
Speaker 1: that means trying to stay in short distance down so
Speaker 1: second and three, third and third and two, third and
Speaker 1: four and things of that. Third and manageable or things
Speaker 1: like that. So I just continuing to move the wall
Speaker 1: up the field. So when the first meeting a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, you were targeted ten times, had six
Speaker 1: receptions for forty nine yards. How did the Seahawks play
Speaker 1: you the first time? We' wrong again? Zone? That was that? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we did get a little jam you a little una.
Speaker 1: They were most mostly all yeah, three they said a
Speaker 1: lot of three. I saw a lot of three that
Speaker 1: Nickel would carry quarters now played two. So so you know,
Speaker 1: it was amazing. Your Cliff Kingsbury yesterday and we're on
Speaker 1: board here with Rondale Moore, Cardinals receiver say that so
Speaker 1: far this season that Cardinals have trailed ninety one percent
Speaker 1: of the game time. Who think about that? Who? So
Speaker 1: in Cliff readily admits it takes you out of your
Speaker 1: game plan. It shuts you become one dimensional. If you're
Speaker 1: chasing the game and you're trailing, how how far would
Speaker 1: it go as an offense if you could just get
Speaker 1: that balance, Rondelle, because you weren't able to run the
Speaker 1: ball against Minnesota, and that changes a lot, doesn't it. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: everything you do in this league is predicated off of
Speaker 1: who can run the ball really well and who can't. Um,
Speaker 1: Obviously you want to be able to run the ball,
Speaker 1: so they've got to bring more guys in the box,
Speaker 1: and obviously that's when you get your one on one.
Speaker 1: Then you get coverages that you know you want to
Speaker 1: throw the ball in. So UM, I think we've we've
Speaker 1: been doing a better job of running the ball. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think for us it's just execution and just
Speaker 1: communicating and get it all figure out. I think we've
Speaker 1: got some really good backs who can who can take
Speaker 1: it to the house, and now the ability to do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. So UM, ton of confidence
Speaker 1: in those guys and the guys up front. So would
Speaker 1: you say it is a must that you guys take
Speaker 1: more shots down the field as well? And if so, White, again,
Speaker 1: I think it's just a stand on schedule. Um. I
Speaker 1: think the coaches do do a great job of um
Speaker 1: drawing up schemes and plays that allow us to thrive
Speaker 1: in our different roles. So if a shot presents itself,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Kyler would take it. But again, it's all
Speaker 1: kind of just depending on what they give us. You know,
Speaker 1: they go too high shell and decide to drop aid
Speaker 1: and things like that. Then obviously like there's not too
Speaker 1: many shots you could take there. But so it just
Speaker 1: depends on what the defense gives us. And you know,
Speaker 1: Kyler do a great job of giving and you'll take
Speaker 1: every shot they give you down the field, won't you.
Speaker 1: Because this offseason started with your receiver's coach, Shawn Jefferson
Speaker 1: sitting in that chair right there in late February. First
Speaker 1: we talked about his son winning the Super Bowl. Then
Speaker 1: we talked about the Cardinals and he talked on his
Speaker 1: own just about how they needed to target you more downfield.
Speaker 1: And Wolf gets it on Twitter as the team's color analysts. Right,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times are they gonna run Rondale
Speaker 1: more horizontally? Right? They want to see you downfield as well.
Speaker 1: So and we saw that against Minnesota, didn't we. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And again whatever they draw up, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: go out there and execute. And obviously I can do
Speaker 1: a better job at breaking tackles and um just just
Speaker 1: being a guy. So whatever they decide to throw at me,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go try to execute. So do you
Speaker 1: like lining up in the backfield? And if you are
Speaker 1: going to line up in the backfield, do you want
Speaker 1: the ball? Would you run the ball? Yeah? No, I
Speaker 1: mean again whatever, I think. I come with a lot
Speaker 1: of different skills that enable me to do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. And they want me to run in
Speaker 1: between the tackles that they want me to run outside zone. Um,
Speaker 1: if they want me to go play in the slide
Speaker 1: or they want to play outside whatever, And if they're
Speaker 1: going to give me the ball, I'll are you good
Speaker 1: at running the stretch, play the outside zone? Um? I
Speaker 1: mean do you like it? Again? I'm with whatever? Every
Speaker 1: game with me, he'll return punts, which he does, so
Speaker 1: you know what, absolutely, And look, the urgency is such
Speaker 1: right now with three straight division games and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: at three and five. In fact, Kyler was asked just
Speaker 1: about that sense of urgency right here right now, you know,
Speaker 1: since urgency has got to be at all the time high. Um,
Speaker 1: A lot of guys understand that they know what's at stake,
Speaker 1: you know, they know where we can take this thing. Um,
Speaker 1: well we can we can let it, you know, slip away.
Speaker 1: But everything is right there for us, But I mean,
Speaker 1: we're focused on this week, so I can't really look
Speaker 1: too far ahead, but we understand what's you know, what's ahead?
Speaker 1: What do you think so far the week of practice
Speaker 1: including rain today, which is interesting, makes sense it's Seattle week.
Speaker 1: But what do you think? How was a team band
Speaker 1: this week? Great? I think the communication has been really great.
Speaker 1: I think the energy has been really high. We've done
Speaker 1: a good job of executing, done a good job of
Speaker 1: studying the film, talking with each other and getting things right,
Speaker 1: correct in things, and again just being urgent and being
Speaker 1: intentional about being at work and making sure we're working
Speaker 1: at work. If there's one thing you guys are going
Speaker 1: to have to do in order to beat Seattle, what
Speaker 1: would you say? Stay on schedule? And again, just to
Speaker 1: kind of reiterate what that means. It just means, you know,
Speaker 1: not getting in third and long and limiting penalties and
Speaker 1: you know, mental errors and making sure our splits are
Speaker 1: correct and things like like that. So just doing all
Speaker 1: those sort of little things, and that's why they play
Speaker 1: that soft shell right everything in front of them. They
Speaker 1: want the unforced errors right. So how about the hard
Speaker 1: knocks cameras that are everywhere you're looking forward to the
Speaker 1: debut on Wednesday. What are you thinking there? Same thing
Speaker 1: to me, man, just trying to come to work, do
Speaker 1: my job. It doesn't bother me. I think they do
Speaker 1: a good job of kind of standing out the way
Speaker 1: and getting footage however they can so again doesn't bother
Speaker 1: me either way. You know, Wolf keeps angling for a
Speaker 1: lot of camera time. I hope your tea. I hope
Speaker 1: your teammates aren't doing the same, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, just act as you are. Just act natural, right, Rondale,
Speaker 1: Come on, Yeah, for sure. Rondale, thank you man. We
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. I appreciate you guys looking forward to
Speaker 1: this one. This I'm very curious to see what this
Speaker 1: Cardinal's off fence looks like now that they have a
Speaker 1: full compliment of weapons going against Seattle and coming off
Speaker 1: the game. Rondale just heads so we'll see, especially against
Speaker 1: that secondary special. Thanks to Rondale. More, we continue with
Speaker 1: a big red rage was in a by Santan Ford
Speaker 1: in Gilbert pick third down for the Cardinals, a minute
Speaker 1: to go here on the third third and five for
Speaker 1: the Vikings on their thirty shotguns snapped the Cousins straight
Speaker 1: dropped that in trouble hit. The ball is pumbled, Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons chopped it out and Isaiah Simmons recovers it. Well,
Speaker 1: what a play. Two plays by Isaiah Simmons. He strips
Speaker 1: the ball and then he recovers it big time by
Speaker 1: the former top ten pick, the X factor. Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: came out of plitz beat his man, got his left
Speaker 1: palm and knocked a pig away from Cousins, a script
Speaker 1: sack for Isaiah Simmons. The Cardinals would get a field
Speaker 1: goal not long after. It would be twenty eight twenty six,
Speaker 1: and then the faithful fumbling of the football, the muff punt,
Speaker 1: Cardinals turn it over full Viking score and yes, the
Speaker 1: game goes down to the last play, but the Cardinals
Speaker 1: on the short end. Thirty four twenty six. You heard
Speaker 1: Rondale Moore, a very special guest here on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Paul Kelvs
Speaker 1: here Ron Wolfley there and we heard Greg Dortch and
Speaker 1: what he heard from Rondale Moore, right, what Rondamo shared
Speaker 1: with him, and that's good stuff that as second year
Speaker 1: player he was that guy in the Thursday night game
Speaker 1: against Green Bay a year ago, a critical muff punt
Speaker 1: that ended up in a turnover, and so he went
Speaker 1: over he could relate to it, and he was the
Speaker 1: guy who tried to pick up Greg Dortch. Yeah, Paully,
Speaker 1: you know, for me, that really was the story of
Speaker 1: the game right there. Not only the turnovers, of course,
Speaker 1: but the line of scrimmage. The line of scrimmage on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. In particular, I would say
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings in that first half really control the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Poly you go back and you look
Speaker 1: at it. They rushed the ball twelve times and run
Speaker 1: down situation. I'm talking about first and ten second and
Speaker 1: one to six rundown situation where the defense for the
Speaker 1: most part kind of has a suspicion that you're going
Speaker 1: to run the ball. They ran at twelve times and
Speaker 1: run down for one hundred yards. Polly. Now, the second half,
Speaker 1: of course, they did a great job of shutting it down.
Speaker 1: They did. As a matter of fact, the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: ran it ten times and run down situation in the
Speaker 1: second half for only twenty seven yards, So great adjustments.
Speaker 1: Of course, at the half, but man, it was too late.
Speaker 1: At that point in time. The Arizona Cardinals could not
Speaker 1: run the ball, they couldn't control the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: on either side, and they turned the ball over way
Speaker 1: too much. Not totally unlike the Week two game against
Speaker 1: Minnesota a year ago where Minnesota ran all over the
Speaker 1: Cardinals until halftime and the mother of all adjustments and
Speaker 1: then they shut it down in the second half. Good
Speaker 1: point in the first half this game, eight point four
Speaker 1: yards of care area as a team. That Cardinals did
Speaker 1: better as a rush defense in the second half, but
Speaker 1: still wolf when you get out rushed overall in the
Speaker 1: game one seventy three to seventy eight. You're Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: talk about that after the game tolder yards were almost even.
Speaker 1: But when the other offense is balanced and you're not, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it tends to shut down what's available on
Speaker 1: the playsheet. You're Rondell Moore talk about that, and and
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury has mentioned that numerous times. And we sighted
Speaker 1: the stat where the Cardinals have trailed ninety one percent
Speaker 1: of the play time this year, and all of that combined,
Speaker 1: it just feels like, you know, you know, and I
Speaker 1: know Cliff doesn't want to come on and say it,
Speaker 1: but in those situations you have to be handcuffed as
Speaker 1: a play caller. Yeah no, yeah, you are, Polly and Boy.
Speaker 1: That really is the difference I would say this year
Speaker 1: as opposed to what we were seeing last year. Would
Speaker 1: it shock you, Polly if I told you that going
Speaker 1: into December. I'm talking about at the end of November,
Speaker 1: going into December Week one of December. Would it shock
Speaker 1: you to know the Arizona Cardinals were number five and
Speaker 1: run rate in the National Football League last year? I
Speaker 1: mean they going into December. They were still number five
Speaker 1: all season long, in September and October and even well
Speaker 1: into November, they were like top three in terms of
Speaker 1: running the ball. I'm talking about how many times they
Speaker 1: ran the ball and it wasn't because Kyler Murray was
Speaker 1: pulling the ball down and running it. He was not
Speaker 1: doing that. It's a matter of fact, right, So they
Speaker 1: need to get back to being able to run the
Speaker 1: ball the way that they were when their offense was
Speaker 1: really humming in the first ten twelve weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, I remember that stat. Now you know why
Speaker 1: because on his TV show, you brought that up Kingsbury
Speaker 1: and he made one of those Gallos humor type jokes.
Speaker 1: He said, what was this comedy? Said, Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do something about that. We gotta change that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not like that. He doesn't want to be
Speaker 1: known as the guy who runs, but he does. We'll
Speaker 1: do with Paulie. And that's the thing about Cliff that
Speaker 1: not enough people, I think understand He's not dogmatic. Man.
Speaker 1: This is no Chip Kelly situation where it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the air raid. It's gonna be my way, or it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the highway. I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: change the game of football or you know what time
Speaker 1: Just like, No, that is not that is not who
Speaker 1: he is. He's gonna do what he needs to do
Speaker 1: to put his team in in the best chance of
Speaker 1: winning games. Now. I know there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: right now that are really really angry, that are really upset.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you the answer is in the
Speaker 1: next three games and through the NFC West door. And look,
Speaker 1: Cardinal's got to figure out a way to run the
Speaker 1: ball when Kyler Murray is your leading rusher, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's not having a hundred yard rushing game. Then
Speaker 1: guess what that is a problem. And yes, you had
Speaker 1: three backups on that offensive line. I get it. You're
Speaker 1: on your third center, you're on your third left guard,
Speaker 1: you have Josh Jones instead of your franchise left tackle
Speaker 1: DJ Humphrey's And that might be the case. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to figure this out. But otherwise you're
Speaker 1: gonna end up taking yet another l And like Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons said, so well, he made a couple of big plays,
Speaker 1: but once again, the entire team lost in Minnesota thirty
Speaker 1: four to twenty six. Here's Isaiah personally, I just I
Speaker 1: hate losing. I hate losing more than I like winning.
Speaker 1: You know. For me, I just feel like there's definitely
Speaker 1: things that need to be addressed, things that we need
Speaker 1: to clean up. No need to point fingers at anything.
Speaker 1: These are we're competing, we're in the games, but we
Speaker 1: just gotta take it to another level. Look, they won't
Speaker 1: point fingers, but but I will. I will. Here we go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when the two safeties are the two leading tacklers, that's
Speaker 1: a problem. Ye When Buddha Baker and Jail and Thompson,
Speaker 1: when JT is right up there with Buddha and there
Speaker 1: you're leading tacklers. When Kirk Cousins is getting loose for
Speaker 1: a seventeen yard touchdown run, and even his head coach
Speaker 1: and play caller Kevin O'Connell and NFL Films that released
Speaker 1: the clip, even he was like, whoa, that's a no
Speaker 1: compress didn't expect that to happen because too often the
Speaker 1: Cardinals were busting the edge they didn't have to run support,
Speaker 1: and then near the goal line they were able to
Speaker 1: run up the middle. There's a lot to fix on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball if you ask me. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: you know, in the defense, as we all know, has
Speaker 1: really gotten better over the course of this season. We
Speaker 1: all know how they started against Kansas City and really
Speaker 1: I would say the first two quarters of course against
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas writers as well, But this defense has
Speaker 1: really surprised over delivered for the most part until the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings game. In my opinion, totally agree. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know, Isaiah Simmons, they know they got to get
Speaker 1: this right. He was talking to the media this week,
Speaker 1: just the importance of a division game against the division
Speaker 1: leading Seattle Seahawks year two games below five hundred. Again,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, you know this is definitely the most important game,
Speaker 1: really just because it's the mixed game, but just understanding that,
Speaker 1: you know, we still can write our destiny. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody understands what the importance of this game
Speaker 1: is and what it can do for us. There you go, Look,
Speaker 1: we set it off the top the gauntlet. You have
Speaker 1: three straight division games. These teams know each other very well.
Speaker 1: And the last time you played Seattle, guess what you
Speaker 1: did not score a touchdown on offense. Yes, so and Pouli.
Speaker 1: They're playing better defensively now than when the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: met him in week six. Yeah, they have more personnel
Speaker 1: al woods there, big interior defensive lineman didn't play in
Speaker 1: that game. You know. Talking to guys in the locker
Speaker 1: room today, you know they're gonna come in there. They're
Speaker 1: gonna put five along that defensive front, which they weren't
Speaker 1: necessarily doing back in Week six. They're gonna use those
Speaker 1: three big interior defensive lineman. They're gonna stuff the run
Speaker 1: on the interior, and then they're gonna play that soft
Speaker 1: shell zone with some really talented young cornerbacks, including Tarique Woolen.
Speaker 1: We brought it up with rondel Moore because DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: brought them up. When you get a shout out unsolicited
Speaker 1: from d hop as a fifth round rookie who has
Speaker 1: four or se options, And if you're trying to remember
Speaker 1: who that guy was, twenty seven was a guy who
Speaker 1: picked off the ball at the end against Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: when Hollywood Brown went down with a foot and ankle injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the guy who had just made Hollywood and
Speaker 1: Kyler his four straight game with a pick. Yeah, you know, Paul,
Speaker 1: this is what Seattle's gonna do. They did it, and
Speaker 1: it worked the first time they played. But I would
Speaker 1: expect them to be a little bit more aggressive in
Speaker 1: terms of third down, especially early on, because they really weren't.
Speaker 1: They're known as a team that's gonna play a ton
Speaker 1: of zone. Rondel Moore, of course talking to us about
Speaker 1: that very thing. They're gonna play an awful lot of zone.
Speaker 1: They're gonna rush four, they're gonna drop seven, they're gonna
Speaker 1: rush five every now and then. I would not be surprised, though,
Speaker 1: to see them drop a blitz, especially early on, just
Speaker 1: to try to get inside of Kyler's head, just to
Speaker 1: try to get inside of the play caller Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 1: just to try to get inside the protection schemes of
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and let them know, Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you think we're just gonna rush for and drop seven
Speaker 1: and play his own. No, that's not going to be
Speaker 1: the case. We're also going to come with a little chicaganery.
Speaker 1: Because Wolf, if there's one thing you could have proven
Speaker 1: offense right now, wouldn't it be third down? Your third
Speaker 1: down percentage? You are four of eleven against Minnesota. That's
Speaker 1: been really problematic. And just like Cliff Kingsbury doesn't like
Speaker 1: to admit that he likes to run the ball, Ron
Speaker 1: Wolfley doesn't like to admit that he has all the numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean, Wolf, what is the Cardinals percentage on third
Speaker 1: down this season? I know you know you know what
Speaker 1: I don't know, Polly. I do know their number twenty
Speaker 1: seven in the league. Okay, I don't know the back number,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you math and me. It doesn't
Speaker 1: go together. Well, Paul, you know that it doesn't end well.
Speaker 1: They are number twenty seven in third down? Think about
Speaker 1: that Matt that is that's big. They've got to get
Speaker 1: up into the top half of the league. Hey, Episode
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Speaker 1: coach Bobby Hurley, and is a good one. I heard
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Speaker 1: big red rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert snapped
Speaker 1: a Murray short set throws lopside of the end zone,
Speaker 1: plum handed catch for a touchdown by DeAndre Hopkins. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, he stabbed that out of the air with
Speaker 1: his left hand, pulled it in prey. Huge cardinal scorn.
Speaker 1: Fantastic chemistry between Kyler Murray, that DeAndre Hopkins and you
Speaker 1: talk about those daggers, those stealing knives. Stabbed the pig
Speaker 1: with his lopt hand out of the air. That's right, Wolf,
Speaker 1: You and Pash called it. He never even used the
Speaker 1: right hand except when he put his finger to his mouth.
Speaker 1: The crowd in Minnesota, That's that's why he wanted to
Speaker 1: have one hand free. He's cold, bully, He's cold man.
Speaker 1: Twelve catches on thirteen targets of Buck fifty nine a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I know he is at about the one they did
Speaker 1: not connect on. It sort of looked like maybe he
Speaker 1: got his head around late or the passes a little early.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure, but you know it look and
Speaker 1: I asked him this week, wolf and it's the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Paul kelvc
Speaker 1: Run Wolfley in the return of DeAndre Hopkins, who's just
Speaker 1: been phenomenal in his two appearances and so productive. And
Speaker 1: it's been a different use of DeAndre Hopkins. You can
Speaker 1: just watch it and you can see how much more
Speaker 1: they're moving him around from different starting spots. The next
Speaker 1: gen stats verify it, and hop you know, we talked
Speaker 1: to him about it this week and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, that wasn't offseason point of emphasis,
Speaker 1: and it just gives him a little bit of an
Speaker 1: advantage of other teams can't lock in on his starting
Speaker 1: spot because you know they're coming in hell bet on
Speaker 1: stopping DeAndre Hopkins at least two games in. They can't. Yeah, PAULA,
Speaker 1: listen all last year of course, they took DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: and ninety nine point nine percent of the time, he
Speaker 1: was going to be lined up to the loft and
Speaker 1: he was going to be the split, the wide, the
Speaker 1: number one receiver to the left man. So far, we've
Speaker 1: seen it all and he's been back in two games
Speaker 1: and they've moved him the left over to the right.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's a number one receiver, meaning he's the
Speaker 1: widest receiver on either the right side or the left side.
Speaker 1: He's in the slot on both sides. Paul, they've actually
Speaker 1: put him in motion as well. I mean, we've seen
Speaker 1: it all with DeAndre Hopkins, and you know what that
Speaker 1: feels like an evolution to me. You know, that feels
Speaker 1: like a next step for me. Keeping him on one side,
Speaker 1: I think that did a lot to help Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: clear it up the read for Kyler Murray. But now
Speaker 1: they're moving him around, and maybe Kyler is taking that
Speaker 1: next step as well as to how to read coverage
Speaker 1: based on where he is, whether he's in motion, whether
Speaker 1: he's in the slot, whether he's lined up as a
Speaker 1: number one. Maybe this is the next step here and
Speaker 1: after that, Paul, I would say, show me how Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray spreads the ball. Now that they're moving de Hoop around,
Speaker 1: that's the next step. Yeah, and now can they cash
Speaker 1: it in? Can they be better on third die? Can
Speaker 1: they be better in the red zone? Can they turn
Speaker 1: some of these drives into touchdowns? And DeAndre Hopkins talking
Speaker 1: to the media once again, one of the questions is
Speaker 1: just about the offensive struggles at times and how it's
Speaker 1: Wayne if it's Wayne on anyone. Now, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's Wain on anyone. It's a long season. The division
Speaker 1: is stilled off of grabs, and so for us, it
Speaker 1: is thinking about the things that we did right, trying
Speaker 1: to trying to improve those and things obviously that we
Speaker 1: didn't do right. Definitely working on nose in practice. But
Speaker 1: for us, we don't panic. Now they get a Seahawks
Speaker 1: defense wolf that has been balling basically ever since the
Speaker 1: Cardinals game in Week six. They have turned it around
Speaker 1: big time. They forced fourteen fumbles in eight games. They
Speaker 1: just held Sequon Barkley to a season low fifty three
Speaker 1: yards rushing two point seven yards a carry. Hello, remember
Speaker 1: the Giant Center with a number two rushing offense in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They hold the Chargers to fifty three yards rushing.
Speaker 1: In between those two games, the Cardinals and the Giants
Speaker 1: They've added thirty five year old Bruce Irvin who had
Speaker 1: forty seven snaps last week. He just missed two sacks.
Speaker 1: He's been dynamic. And then the secondary has been revamped.
Speaker 1: There you go, and Tariq Wolan and company. They have
Speaker 1: looked really good, absolutely, Polly. And listen, you know what
Speaker 1: a big fan I am of the quarterback rating. Okay,
Speaker 1: not the QBR. I'm talking about the passer rating. The
Speaker 1: quarterback rating in the NFL. More times than nods over
Speaker 1: the course of an entire season. You look at who's
Speaker 1: in the top ten in quarterback rating and guess what,
Speaker 1: it's the usual names, Polly. It is the best quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league that have a high quarterback rating. That
Speaker 1: tells me, Paul, there must be something to that metric, right,
Speaker 1: there's something to that. Well, now, flip that quarterback metric
Speaker 1: over for a defense. It's called the defensive quarterback rating. Okay,
Speaker 1: In other words, how do you play against the pass defensively? Well,
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, they were high nineties. The first time
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals played him. They were not rated it
Speaker 1: well at all. Now over the last three games they
Speaker 1: have lowered that to seventy six point zero Paul, seventy six,
Speaker 1: which is not a good day for a quarterback. For
Speaker 1: the most part, seventy six point zero. They have brought
Speaker 1: it down in three games this scoring. Defensively, they were
Speaker 1: allowing thirty points over thirty points a game when the
Speaker 1: Cardinals played him the first time in three weeks. Three
Speaker 1: weeks later, now all of a sudden, they're allowing fifteen
Speaker 1: points a game over that stretch, Paul. So they are
Speaker 1: playing very very well defensively. And what's so maddening about it,
Speaker 1: what I just want to gouge my eyes out about
Speaker 1: is the fact that this is the way it's been
Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks the last three years. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: they struggled in the first half of the season defensively,
Speaker 1: and then for whatever reason Pete Carroll, it got fixed
Speaker 1: in the second half. We've seen that three consecutive years.
Speaker 1: I think now, if you want to go ahead and say, hey,
Speaker 1: Week six was really the start of this renaissance they've
Speaker 1: experienced defensively, Yeah, it's a great point because remember four,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals played him in Week six. They were coming
Speaker 1: off a loss to the Saints, and Pete Carroll's comment was,
Speaker 1: they ran it down our throat. That was unacceptable because
Speaker 1: New Orleans had run for two thirty five and it
Speaker 1: was the fourth straight opponent to rush for one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five yards or more. So they've dialed down
Speaker 1: the rush defense, and then everything has followed. They've become
Speaker 1: a really sound defense, and they become opportunistic. And look
Speaker 1: who even what happened in that Cardinals game at Seattle
Speaker 1: on a sunny day. The Cardinals started four or five
Speaker 1: on third down and then went oh for eleven the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. They were one for five on
Speaker 1: fourth down. Remember, they were impelled to go for on
Speaker 1: four town because they didn't have Matt Prators, so they
Speaker 1: didn't go for field goal attempts at thirty eight, forty five,
Speaker 1: and forty one yards. So it was a different game
Speaker 1: without Prador and the Cardinals were held in check big
Speaker 1: time over the last three quarters by the Seahawks. Holyeah,
Speaker 1: I just honestly, I think I want to bring it
Speaker 1: back to the line of scrimmage. Man, who this game
Speaker 1: is going to be won or lost on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. You gotta be able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to protect Kyler Murray. Put him
Speaker 1: in a balanced offense. It's going to start and end
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. Billy Price your center, Cody Ford,
Speaker 1: your left guard, Josh Jones your left tackle. Indeed, that's
Speaker 1: what happens. Then guess what you know You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pull it off with backups on three fists or
Speaker 1: your offensive lot within ball. Special Thanks Ron Dale Moore.
Speaker 1: Great to have the young receiver. He had a great game.
Speaker 1: Look for more that, maybe even some Robbie Anderson this week.
Speaker 1: Jim Alma hundred. Thank you, Cody Fincher, Thanks as well
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