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Speaker 5: The players refer to it as heavy air. We're talking
Speaker 5: about record Minnesota heat ninety eight degrees, an all time
Speaker 5: record for the date, combined with about a sixty percent
Speaker 5: due point. Basically, take Arizona heat combining with Florida humidity,
Speaker 5: and that's what you have during the joint practices. But
Speaker 5: that's not the only reason the air is heavy here
Speaker 5: in Minnesota, the weight of expectations unfulfilled and the realization
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Speaker 5: soon to be joined by tight End Jeff Swain looking
Speaker 5: forward to that. But wolf we have news times too
Speaker 5: on this fateful Thursday for a couple members of the
Speaker 5: twoenty twenty draft class.
Speaker 1: You know, Paul, you are no allegiances. You've been all
Speaker 1: over this from the very beginning of training talking about
Speaker 1: that no allegiances right now, and I think you're right
Speaker 1: on that. In regard to this new culture that is
Speaker 1: being established here for the Arizona Cardinals. In this new culture,
Speaker 1: I call it PADS, Polly, you know that physicality and
Speaker 1: accountability and discipline and being smart. I think PADS is
Speaker 1: the culture. This is my own new culture that I'm
Speaker 1: observing the Arizona Cardinals, right And they're pulling every player
Speaker 1: through that prism of being accountable, being disciplined, being physical.
Speaker 1: And if you don't fit that culture schematically or culturally,
Speaker 1: you're going to have a hard time here, and I
Speaker 1: think we're seeing that right now.
Speaker 5: The word fit most definitely applies to Isaiah Simmons in
Speaker 5: more than one way, especially when it comes to this scheme.
Speaker 5: Where did he fit? What position is he best at?
Speaker 5: In the NFL?
Speaker 1: An elite?
Speaker 5: At elite, the measurables are off the chart. There was
Speaker 5: a reason to he was the eighth pick overall in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty, but where would he play? Where do you
Speaker 5: best utilize his skill set? There's a reason that his
Speaker 5: fifth year option was not picked up. Earlier this offseason
Speaker 5: and earlier today he was traded to the New York
Speaker 5: Giants for a seventh round pick. And you talk about
Speaker 5: being accountable. Mania Austin Fort, the New GM was right
Speaker 5: there meeting the media and he was asked in particular
Speaker 5: if the Isaiah Simmons trade was performance related.
Speaker 6: Those are all these considerations that come into play. And
Speaker 6: you know, we've had a month of training camp now
Speaker 6: in the two games, and you know, hey, there's everybody
Speaker 6: in our team. There could have been better performances for everybody.
Speaker 6: There could have been you know, some guys did some
Speaker 6: good things, some guys do some bad things. So you know,
Speaker 6: really it just came down to the opportunity, you know,
Speaker 6: and where we were at with the team, we thought
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 1: The right move.
Speaker 5: He went on to say to the media, Manti Austin
Speaker 5: Fort quote, we always tell the team that it doesn't
Speaker 5: matter how you got here, it's about what you do
Speaker 5: for the team now. And then, when he was asked
Speaker 5: about whether this was partially intended to send a message,
Speaker 5: you said, no, that wasn't part of it. But Wolf,
Speaker 5: you spent ten years in a locker room. It definitely
Speaker 5: sends a message, does it not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whether or not he meant to do it, it
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter. I'll guarantee you right now. It sent
Speaker 1: a message inside of that locker room, understanding that this
Speaker 1: was the number eight player overall, number eight player overall
Speaker 1: just a few years ago. So once again, it does
Speaker 1: send a message to that locker room. And again, mantiasin Fort,
Speaker 1: I'm sure didn't mean to send a message to the
Speaker 1: locker room, but everybody inside that locker room understands that. Listen,
Speaker 1: you better play with intent, you better play with physicality,
Speaker 1: and you better be accountable. You better be all of
Speaker 1: those things. And if you're not, you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: brought in here. You gonna You're not gonna go out
Speaker 1: and bring some college kid into your organization that doesn't
Speaker 1: have those quot You're not gonna do it. This is
Speaker 1: the culture that is being established here and dogma is
Speaker 1: what is at the core of it. Belief and you
Speaker 1: can see that with Jag and Mani in the team
Speaker 1: they're building.
Speaker 5: When you talk about building a team. We're gonna get
Speaker 5: into these trades in depth coming up here on the
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Speaker 5: It will take us a moment just to tabulate all
Speaker 5: the draft picks the Cardinals have in the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: four draft. It's stunning at this point because you know what,
Speaker 5: later in the day, they took Josh Jones, a seventh
Speaker 5: round pick, traded him to the Houston Texas, and returned
Speaker 5: for a fifth round pick, yet another member of the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty draft class. And as I mentioned, we'll get
Speaker 5: into all that in depth a little bit later. But
Speaker 5: here we are in Minnesota, two joint practices. Let's just
Speaker 5: say today was better than yesterday. Let's just say, speaking
Speaker 5: of accountability, the players heard about yesterday and now the
Speaker 5: coaches wanted a better effort as a follow up and
Speaker 5: Greg Dorche he was asked about that today.
Speaker 7: Problem coaches got on our ass and we came out
Speaker 7: and re responded, and that's what good teams do, and
Speaker 7: we have to just build off of his practice and
Speaker 7: try to do it again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he wasn't the only one, Zavi and Collins told
Speaker 5: the media afterwards. He said, quote, we were challenged yesterday.
Speaker 5: We kind of came out let some outside factors affect
Speaker 5: us that we shouldn't have. Zach Pascal had mentioned, you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: there was an issue with the humidity and the heat,
Speaker 5: there's no doubt about it. But it was all part
Speaker 5: of the plan in some regards because Wolf it's that
Speaker 5: uncomfortab building right that these players are feeling, whether it's
Speaker 5: the heat and the humidity, whether it's their status on
Speaker 5: the roster. These decision makers are trying to get the
Speaker 5: best out of everyone and get them regular season ready.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something tells me that Jag got up in front
Speaker 1: of the team and lit them up. I mean lit
Speaker 1: them up in a big, big way. After Wednesday's practice,
Speaker 1: we saw it out there. There were pre snab penalties
Speaker 1: we have not seen pre snap penalty we have not
Speaker 1: seen a plot the rah of pre snab penalties the
Speaker 1: way that we've seen in the past here and suddenly
Speaker 1: they were all over the place in Wednesday's practice and
Speaker 1: also too just getting whipped at the point of attack,
Speaker 1: physically getting whipped and especially on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. And I really thought the offense came out
Speaker 1: and totally did a one pint eighty. They were physical,
Speaker 1: they came off the ball, they were buttoned up, the
Speaker 1: mental layers were gone. There were no presnat penalties that
Speaker 1: I saw, and they were physical at the point of attack,
Speaker 1: and they had a great practice. Now listen, I will
Speaker 1: tell you, yeah, is a practice, Yes it is. And
Speaker 1: did you have a bad practice on Wednesday in a
Speaker 1: great practice on Thursday? Yes, that is the case. But
Speaker 1: if you are going into a game, that's the way
Speaker 1: I wanted to trend, Polly, where you have a great
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday. Yeah, you kind of choke on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: but had a great one on Thursday. I'll take that
Speaker 1: all day long.
Speaker 5: But at least you showed you're capable of it. It
Speaker 5: wasn't based on a lack of talent. As Josh Woods
Speaker 5: said after practice yesterday, quote, we let the weather dictate
Speaker 5: how we were attacking our work and we're gonna see
Speaker 5: on film that we weren't maximizing our effort. So some
Speaker 5: of the team leaders, a former team captain like Joshua
Speaker 5: was JG got up in front of the team. I'm
Speaker 5: sure that message was clear, because you're right, all the
Speaker 5: pre snap penalties in the first practice there were there
Speaker 5: were Minnesota defenders in the backfield. I mean constantly. There
Speaker 5: was no downfield passing attack by the Cardinals offense in
Speaker 5: that first practice, and going eleven on eleven.
Speaker 1: The point of attack was awful. All that was was
Speaker 1: no point of.
Speaker 5: Attack that was remedy today and then and then look,
Speaker 5: you're gonna get a heck of a test out of
Speaker 5: the Vikings offense as well. You got Kirk Cousins, you
Speaker 5: got justin Jefferson, you have experience offensive linemen, you have
Speaker 5: a system, they're comfortable in Kevin O'Connell from a playoff team.
Speaker 5: So well, it's all about getting ready for Week one.
Speaker 5: And everyone that I talked to read that they got
Speaker 5: a lot more out of these two practices than they
Speaker 5: would have had just practicing against each other once again
Speaker 5: at State parm Stadium.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also to PAULI, they just got to continue.
Speaker 1: They're going to continue to build that culture. And it's
Speaker 1: not just personnel in which you build that culture, of course,
Speaker 1: it is scheme and how you go about your business.
Speaker 1: And this is what I really like, because I saw
Speaker 1: them respond respond today going out and suddenly there was
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel right from the very first team period. There
Speaker 1: was third. Don't tell me, Pauli that was by accident.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that was by accident. I believe they
Speaker 1: got lit up on Wednesday night and suddenly there's Drew Petsing.
Speaker 1: He comes out in thirteen personnel and he's like, here
Speaker 1: we go. We're going to cram the ball vertical and
Speaker 1: we're going to give you the opportunity to show us
Speaker 1: immediately that Thursday is not Wednesday, if you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 5: There's a reason we have a blocking tight end on
Speaker 5: this edition of The Big Red Rage. Jef Swain is
Speaker 5: joining us, coming up a little bit later. Takeaways. Who
Speaker 5: stood out? What stood out? Can I throw this out there?
Speaker 5: Clayton Tune got better over these two practices. Clayton Tune
Speaker 5: created a little bit of a buzz the fifth round,
Speaker 5: Rookie quarterback out of Houston with forty four career starts
Speaker 5: under his belt. Clayton Tune was a guy who looked
Speaker 5: comfortable running the Cardinals offense and doing it against a
Speaker 5: pretty stout Vikings defense that has a really aggressive defensive
Speaker 5: coordinator in Brian Flores. And conversely, not that I'm here
Speaker 5: to fan the flames of any sort of quarterback competition
Speaker 5: or controversy.
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna fan the flames.
Speaker 5: Colt McCoy did not slam the door shut on the
Speaker 5: competition either. I'm really curious where this stands going into
Speaker 5: the final preseason game. As you know, I've created the
Speaker 5: hashtag let the rook cook give them three quarters against
Speaker 5: the Vikings on Saturday and then call the football doctor.
Speaker 1: In the morning. Well, yeah, you're gonna do that. I
Speaker 1: still think that Colt McCoy is going to be the
Speaker 1: starter Week one. That's just me, Paully. But we'll see
Speaker 1: how it all shakes out here. Let me just say,
Speaker 1: who did I think was impressive about there? I really
Speaker 1: like what I'm seeing from Lecky FOTWO. I like a
Speaker 1: photo gap. I like what I'm seeing from Lecky FOTU. LJ.
Speaker 1: Collier as well, Oh my goodness, he flashed bej Ojulari
Speaker 1: with a couple of really nice pass rushes and one
Speaker 1: on one right there. I also thought, too Keyante Ingram,
Speaker 1: you talk about who flashed James Connor had some nice
Speaker 1: runs today, But Keante Ingram once again a guy that
Speaker 1: I think has solidified that position of RB two right now,
Speaker 1: Greg Dorge And oh, by the way, look everyone, it's
Speaker 1: Michael Wilson. This guy continues to show up. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that Polly continues to show up.
Speaker 5: The fact he hasn't played that much in the two
Speaker 5: preseason games, I think tells you everything. They've seen enough
Speaker 5: on Michael Wilson. They already trust him, and going against
Speaker 5: a Byron Murphy, for example, he's physical enough to body
Speaker 5: of Byron Murphy and get between an experienced quarter like
Speaker 5: Murph and the quarterback to make a contested catch, strong
Speaker 5: enough with the hands. But getting back to Lecky Fotwo,
Speaker 5: I completely agree. Arguably the Viking's best offensive lineman is
Speaker 5: their center. Garrett Bradbury and Lecky Fotwo own him repeatedly
Speaker 5: in those one on one drills, whether it was getting through,
Speaker 5: ripping the arm through, or just a flat bull rush
Speaker 5: with three hundred and thirty plus pound ucky PHO two.
Speaker 5: It was impressive to watch him.
Speaker 1: It's the light bulb going on in the shit. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what.
Speaker 5: There are two guys left from the twenty twenty draft class.
Speaker 5: So if he's motivated, maybe he looked at Josh Jones
Speaker 5: and Isaiah Simmons in his episode sixty one of the
Speaker 5: day Patch podcast. Cardinals defensive coordinator Nick rollis available now
Speaker 5: wherever you get your podcasts. We continue with a Big
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Speaker 3: Big third down for the Cardinals, a minute to go
Speaker 3: here in the third third and five for the Vikings
Speaker 3: on their thirty shotguns naffed.
Speaker 1: The Cousins straight dropped back in trouble hit.
Speaker 3: The ball is pumbled, Isaiah Simmons chopped it out and
Speaker 3: Isaiah Simmons recovers it.
Speaker 8: What a play.
Speaker 4: Two plays by Isaiah Simmons.
Speaker 3: He strips the ball and then he recovers it big
Speaker 3: time by the former top ten pick.
Speaker 4: The X Factor. Isaiah Simmons came out of blitz beat
Speaker 4: his man, got his left palm and knocked the pig
Speaker 4: away from puzzins. A script sack for Isaiah Simmons.
Speaker 5: The big play wasn't the problem. It was the consistency
Speaker 5: play in and play out. Isaiah Simmons, who has all
Speaker 5: the measurables six ' four runs that four three nine forty.
Speaker 5: You see the length, and but it just never materialized
Speaker 5: into a single position where he could excel at And
Speaker 5: because of that, he is no longer a member of
Speaker 5: the Arizona Cardinals. So at least that's one of the
Speaker 5: numerous reasons as Will came back into the Big Red
Speaker 5: Rage presented by Santane Ford in Gilbert. We are santan Ford,
Speaker 5: Paul calvic Ron Wolfley in Minnesota after a couple of
Speaker 5: joint practices against the Vikings, Jeff Swain Cardinals tight end
Speaker 5: going to join us momentarily. But once again, the big
Speaker 5: news earlier today, Isaiah Simmons dealt in the New York
Speaker 5: Giants for a seventh round pick. He was in a
Speaker 5: contract year, his fifth year option was not picked up
Speaker 5: earlier in the offseason. So we'll just gauge your degree
Speaker 5: of surprise when you heard the news.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was pretty shocked, Paul, only from the standpoint
Speaker 1: that it was a seventh round pick. Isaiah Simmons as well.
Speaker 1: We know how up and down he's been from time
Speaker 1: to time. It tells you how inconsistent Isaiah Simmons truly played.
Speaker 1: I think last year when they look at the tape
Speaker 1: and go back and watch it, I think it really
Speaker 1: shows how inconsistent he was. He flashed, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. And we saw the games that he flashed.
Speaker 1: You know, you think of that Raiders game on the
Speaker 1: road where he caused the fumble, picked up the ball
Speaker 1: and suddenly there it is Byron Murphy taking it back
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. As I recall, yep, so you're you're
Speaker 1: you know again, he makes the big play, but it's
Speaker 1: the mundane play that I think you've got to look at,
Speaker 1: and I think that was his undoing.
Speaker 5: PAULI, Well, think about it. He started last season with
Speaker 5: the green dot and his helmet. He was calling the defense,
Speaker 5: but by the fourth quarter against Kansas City, that job
Speaker 5: belonged to Zavin Collins. He didn't start that Raiders game,
Speaker 5: but he finished it, literally finished the game, causing that
Speaker 5: that fumble those return for the game winning touchdown. So
Speaker 5: with all that being said, you had Isaiah Simmons who
Speaker 5: played about a half dozen different positions over the course
Speaker 5: of his Cardinals career. The highest percentage of snaps he
Speaker 5: got last year was actually at slot corner. We know
Speaker 5: he's drafted initially originally to be that weak side inside linebacker,
Speaker 5: but this year had mainly been a deep center field safety.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was Paully, and once again, I think that
Speaker 1: is part of the problem with Isaiah Simmons. You know
Speaker 1: how I feel about this. I've been saying for the
Speaker 1: last few years that I would love to see them
Speaker 1: take Isaiah, stick them at one spot and say this
Speaker 1: is your job description right here. This is what you've
Speaker 1: got to do, A B, C and D. Isaiah, this
Speaker 1: is what you do a B, C and D. This
Speaker 1: is what you have to do. Just let him learn
Speaker 1: one position. Maybe it was a situation where they tried
Speaker 1: them out and they thought they gave him that one
Speaker 1: position spot and yet he wasn't learning it, so then
Speaker 1: they started moving. I have no idea what it was Paully,
Speaker 1: but to me right now, I think ultimately the X
Speaker 1: factor actually ended up hurting Isaiah.
Speaker 5: Simmons originally drafted what advanced Joseph saying he was drafted
Speaker 5: to cover the tight end yet against the Travis Kelcey
Speaker 5: or George Kittle that didn't work out in the cardinals favor.
Speaker 5: So there he was earlier in camp and he was asked,
Speaker 5: all right, so how did gen up playing safety? And
Speaker 5: Isaiah Simmons told the media that he told the coaches
Speaker 5: he didn't want to play linebacker. So if he doesn't
Speaker 5: want to be in the box and he wasn't good
Speaker 5: in space as a deep center field safety, what do
Speaker 5: you do well? Jonathan Gannon was asked by the media
Speaker 5: just about everything involved and how Simmons. You know, he
Speaker 5: was there, but they just didn't necessarily have a place
Speaker 5: for him on the depth chart.
Speaker 9: He did everything that we asked him to do. It's
Speaker 9: just moving forward. We feel like this is the best
Speaker 9: way that how we want to play football against other people.
Speaker 9: So we're going to try to put the best guys
Speaker 9: out there that can function and do a good job
Speaker 9: for us.
Speaker 8: And that's what we felt.
Speaker 5: Like what everybody saw in that Kansas City game. Wolf
Speaker 5: you know, we've seen it in mini camp, we saw
Speaker 5: it in training camp. Yeah, just didn't look natural. It
Speaker 5: didn't seem to have those instincts to play that safety spot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what Paully, and once again they just
Speaker 1: kind of wonder about it. You know, this new regime
Speaker 1: that has come in here, they did not draft Isaiah Simmons,
Speaker 1: they did not coach Isaiah Simmons. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: here they are in their first year trying to do
Speaker 1: that and establish that. It really shows how bad of
Speaker 1: a fit he was from a cultural perspective and also
Speaker 1: schematically from what they wanted schematically. And I think that
Speaker 1: ultimately is what got Isaiah Simmons right there, Just the
Speaker 1: fact that he went out there and especially the inconsistency
Speaker 1: that we have seen from time to time, and then
Speaker 1: against Kansas City in the number two preseason game, which
Speaker 1: has taken on that whole new import of preseason game
Speaker 1: number three. When there used to be four preseason games.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, that preseason game number two
Speaker 1: is a big game. And he went out there and
Speaker 1: he struggled. And it wasn't just on the Bouchelle quarterback
Speaker 1: run for a touchdown. It also was on some other plays.
Speaker 1: You could see where he seemed to show a lack
Speaker 1: of effort on some plays, and I think that is
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why he also is gone because
Speaker 1: after the game there wasn't a lot of accountability there, Paul,
Speaker 1: that's just my take on that. Nobody's told me that.
Speaker 1: That's just me looking from the outside end.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt that in Week one, Washington would have
Speaker 5: targeted him. It's a game of matchups. There's no doubt
Speaker 5: they would have tried to isolate him in certain matchups.
Speaker 5: I've said before, Isaiah Simmons to me, is the nfl
Speaker 5: ink blot test. You look at him, what do you see?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 5: Different personnel evaluators see different positions. I think the one
Speaker 5: lesson is you can't just draft measurables because he checks
Speaker 5: every single box in terms of being an elite athlete.
Speaker 5: But does he have a position?
Speaker 1: You know what? I'm hoping somebody finds him a position
Speaker 1: because I love the kid. I hope he finds success
Speaker 1: in the future somewhere else. But it certainly was not
Speaker 1: happening here.
Speaker 5: And whether the decision makers know it or not, it
Speaker 5: had an impact on the players in that locker room,
Speaker 5: starting with today's practice. Fact after practice, here's what DJ
Speaker 5: Humphreys had to say about the Isaiah Simmons trade.
Speaker 7: Lighting a fire a young guy seeing it has never
Speaker 7: really even seen someone get traded, let alone a first
Speaker 7: round pick, you know what I mean. I think it
Speaker 7: definitely put a fire on a lot of those young
Speaker 7: guys that I got.
Speaker 4: Me.
Speaker 7: That's something that I already knew was a part of
Speaker 7: the business. Obviously, I hate to see my guyasay go.
Speaker 7: I hate to see him leave. I know he'll go
Speaker 7: to New York and figure things out and get a
Speaker 7: roll to for his carrit.
Speaker 5: You know what's amazing, two Wolf is that when he
Speaker 5: was originally drafted, are really our only question at the
Speaker 5: time was was he going to be physical enough? Was
Speaker 5: he capable and willing? Yeah, of tackling that was never
Speaker 5: really a question problem. He was physical, he was agressive.
Speaker 1: He just couldn't do it. He couldn't do it consistently though, Paully,
Speaker 1: that is the one thing about it.
Speaker 8: He just was.
Speaker 1: He was physical. When suddenly it was a high profile play,
Speaker 1: you would see him. He was not afraid. But again,
Speaker 1: the consistency of being able to play that way, that
Speaker 1: is what has been brought into question.
Speaker 5: And when we saw Antonio Hamilton playing a lot of
Speaker 5: nickel corner against Kansas City, you started to wonder because Okay,
Speaker 5: if Antonio Hamilton is on the field, guess what, You're
Speaker 5: not taking Buddha Baker and Jalen Thompson off that field.
Speaker 5: That's coming at the expense of Isaiah Simmons. And if
Speaker 5: Antonio Hamilton, a bigger corner, an experience corner, can handle
Speaker 5: that nickel position that you might have put a JT
Speaker 5: or Buddha into, well, guess what, now, Isaiah becomes that
Speaker 5: much more expendable. So if you read between the lines,
Speaker 5: they were building up to that moment and trying to
Speaker 5: assess what they had. And again one Isaiah wasn't deemed
Speaker 5: capable of covering the elite tight ends. That's originally where
Speaker 5: he was drafted. That was going to be his job description.
Speaker 5: So he had that, and then you had the Josh
Speaker 5: Jonestrait third round pick twenty twenty, same draft as Isaiah Simmons,
Speaker 5: six seven, three ten at all the measurables. Played four
Speaker 5: years as starting left tackle at the University of Houston.
Speaker 5: He was dealt to the Texans along with a seventh
Speaker 5: round pick and return for a fifth round pick. Ostensibly
Speaker 5: lost the swing tackle battle with Calvin Beachum.
Speaker 1: And there it is right there, Calvin Beacham actually coming
Speaker 1: through and it appears as though he is going to
Speaker 1: be that backup swing tackle right now. Not really a
Speaker 1: surprise because you know the way that I feel about
Speaker 1: Calvin Beachum. This guy is a team leader. He is
Speaker 1: a pros pro if ever there was. And the fact
Speaker 1: that you can have this guy on the roster even
Speaker 1: if he's not starting for you, I think is a
Speaker 1: major plus going forward, especially with all the young guys
Speaker 1: that are going to be on this team.
Speaker 5: And honestly, Kelvin Beacham has more positional flexibility than a
Speaker 5: Josh Jones. Josh Jones played those four years of left tackle,
Speaker 5: told the media how much more comfortable he was on
Speaker 5: the left side, combined with the fact he was much
Speaker 5: more of a tackle than a guard. Guard didn't really
Speaker 5: work out a couple of years ago when they needed
Speaker 5: him in a pinch. So if you have Kelvin Beacham,
Speaker 5: who could play either side, he can play either position,
Speaker 5: tackle or guard, he just becomes the more valuable player
Speaker 5: to get you out of a pinch, get you out
Speaker 5: of a game if you're only going to address eight
Speaker 5: offensive lines.
Speaker 1: And I also think too Pauly the offensive line and
Speaker 1: the depth on the offensive line along with the secondary
Speaker 1: as well. I think, come cut down day, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be really interesting the waiver wire. I
Speaker 1: could see many Austin Ford jg work in that waiver wire,
Speaker 1: four or five spots on this roster.
Speaker 5: Speaking of maniasip fort working, he now owns twelve picks
Speaker 5: total in next year's draft, the first three rounds if
Speaker 5: you presume that they're gonna get a compensatory pick for
Speaker 5: Zach Allen. So Cardinals are tracking towards owning the twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four draft at this point. Hey, single game tickets
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Speaker 5: tickets to secure your seats today. All Right, Wolf's favorite
Speaker 5: position group we all know his offensive line, second favorite,
Speaker 5: not fullback, since it's almost distinct. How about blocking tight end?
Speaker 5: Jeff swaym is next in the big red rage.
Speaker 2: Canny Hill, the faith to Henriott, third down to the ends,
Speaker 2: clutch down the tight end, Jeff Flame.
Speaker 9: Jeff's doing an excellent job for us. Good skill set,
Speaker 9: one that's a little bit different from the guys we
Speaker 9: have on the roster.
Speaker 1: Which is cool.
Speaker 9: And you know he's just he's improving his game, learning
Speaker 9: the system, all those things, and producing at a high
Speaker 9: level when his number is called.
Speaker 5: Well the offense this year for the Arizona Cardinals, should
Speaker 5: we go with free the tight then let the tight
Speaker 5: end cook? I mean, what do you think? What should
Speaker 5: we go with? Because it is going to look different
Speaker 5: this year and everyone needs to get themselves ready for
Speaker 5: the re emergence of the tight end.
Speaker 1: Let the tight end cook. Like I like that right there.
Speaker 5: I love the signing to Jeff Swain who joins us. Now,
Speaker 5: this team realized, you know what, we have a need.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go out.
Speaker 5: And Jeff Swain checks that box and he joins us.
Speaker 5: Now on the Big Red Rage presented by sand tan
Speaker 5: Ford in Gilbert, not that far removed from a joint
Speaker 5: practice here in Minnesota, Zach Pascal said he lost twelve
Speaker 5: pounds by the time that practice was done.
Speaker 1: Speaking of cooking, are you a.
Speaker 5: Guy who will sweat off like ten pounds or something
Speaker 5: in one of those ridiculous heat index practices?
Speaker 8: Maybe not ten, But I played my year. I played
Speaker 8: in Jacksonville. I learned if I'm not in the game,
Speaker 8: or if I'm not in practice taking a rep, I
Speaker 8: am just drinking fluid. So I only lost maybe a
Speaker 8: pound and a half two pounds a day, but that
Speaker 8: was just because I spent the whole time drinking when
Speaker 8: I wasn't in there. So, Jeff, you like to get
Speaker 8: bloody knuckles, you know what I mean? You like to
Speaker 8: mix it up. And I played ten years and that's
Speaker 8: what I like to do too. That's what I loved
Speaker 8: listening to jayg right there. It was interesting. He said
Speaker 8: he's got a good skill set. What is your skill set? Yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm a bucking Titan and that's what I'd like to do,
Speaker 8: and it's what I've made a career of doing. So yeah,
Speaker 8: I feel comfortable in that role, and I want to
Speaker 8: be in an offense that allows me to do that
Speaker 8: because it's what I like to do.
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans, I'm thinking of the Tennessee Titans. Man,
Speaker 1: did they love to run the ball? They loved it
Speaker 1: pound the ball. How did you get out of that organization? Jeff?
Speaker 1: If in fact you are, because you're the best blocking
Speaker 1: tight end they had on their roster. Now that's me.
Speaker 1: That's just my assessment of that watching you play and
Speaker 1: you have been four years, So how did that come
Speaker 1: to a close.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I I don't know because I'm not
Speaker 8: in there in those in those meetings. I think just
Speaker 8: with the the when they change offensive coordinators, I think
Speaker 8: they're just they're just going maybe a little bit of
Speaker 8: a different direction.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: Obviously I watch a little tap because they played Minnesota
Speaker 8: last week in their preseason game, so I got to
Speaker 8: watch their offense versus Minnesota's defense. It's just kind of
Speaker 8: as a studying and you know, a lot of the
Speaker 8: same similar concepts. But they just I don't know, if
Speaker 8: I had to guess, just going younger and and uh,
Speaker 8: you know, trying to get a youth movement, so kick
Speaker 8: the old guy out in a new GM.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In Tennessee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the fact there's a new head coach and a
Speaker 5: new GM with the Arizona Cardinals. Count Angrim use the
Speaker 5: word uncomfortable the other day. Just there's sort of that vibe, right,
Speaker 5: No one's quite sure what the decision makers are thinking.
Speaker 5: How would you describe I mean, this is your ninth season.
Speaker 5: What are your takeaways on the vibe in this camp?
Speaker 8: I mean, I I've really enjoyed my time. I've I've
Speaker 8: liked the uh, I've liked the way they've set things up,
Speaker 8: in the scheduling, all that stuff has been great. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm taking care of me, which is it has been good.
Speaker 8: We still get our working though, and and you know,
Speaker 8: I know money from from Tennessee, so you know, I
Speaker 8: have some You know, we didn't spend like a ton
Speaker 8: of time together, but I know him well enough to
Speaker 8: know what he's about, and I like the way he
Speaker 8: goes about his business. Obviously, I'm not real privat in
Speaker 8: those conversations, so I couldn't tell you like necessarily you know,
Speaker 8: how they're running the show. But yeah, we're just all
Speaker 8: getting to know each other.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: It's the same thing. You know, I think first time
Speaker 8: play callers, and it's it's all new, you know. So
Speaker 8: there's a lot of growth that has to that has
Speaker 8: to happen. There's a lot of maturity from a team standpoint,
Speaker 8: just just a lot of things to work on. And
Speaker 8: that's what camp's all about. So I'm not it's not
Speaker 8: a surprise, but yeah, certainly with new staff, everyone's got
Speaker 8: new opportunities. I'm a new guy here. It just it
Speaker 8: all feels kind of like the I guy here was
Speaker 8: like the first day of school.
Speaker 1: You know I mentioned that. So you know, with Drew
Speaker 1: Petzing as the offensive coordinator on this team and knowing
Speaker 1: how much he loves twelve personnel and thirteen personnel as well,
Speaker 1: was that something was appealing to you when you came
Speaker 1: here or or is it just something that you said, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to be given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: let me play.
Speaker 8: It was a little bit of both. You know, like
Speaker 8: you need a job, so you you need a job, right,
Speaker 8: But no, I've I knew his background in Cleveland, and
Speaker 8: I knew kind of how they they ran the ball.
Speaker 8: And when I spent my years in Tennessee, you know,
Speaker 8: Cleveland didn't get a lot of like National Median, you know, attention,
Speaker 8: but they ran the ball, man, that's what they did.
Speaker 8: And obviously I played with Austin Hooper last year in
Speaker 8: Tennessee and he had been in that offense, so I
Speaker 8: kind of I kind of knew their style of ball
Speaker 8: and I thought it would be a good fit. And
Speaker 8: I saw an opportunity to like kind of define a
Speaker 8: role here that would have be that would be in
Speaker 8: my wheelhouse. So you know, I jumped at it.
Speaker 5: I think your head coach will probably agree with you
Speaker 5: on that front, In fact, leads me to this question,
Speaker 5: what's coming.
Speaker 1: What sort of.
Speaker 5: Commitment to the run game do you think we can
Speaker 5: expect this season?
Speaker 8: Jeff, Well, there's some way to be seen.
Speaker 1: You know, Like.
Speaker 8: Throughout camp we've been just you know, trying different stuff
Speaker 8: and working on our game and just trying to nail
Speaker 8: the details of each specific scheme because you can. You
Speaker 8: can throw a lot of things on the war on
Speaker 8: the Wall and drop a lot of different schemes, but
Speaker 8: you have to put in reps. You have to put
Speaker 8: in the time to get good at what you what
Speaker 8: you're doing. And I think that's something that will develop
Speaker 8: as the season goes on. You know, I don't know
Speaker 8: how Drew looks at it, but just the identity of
Speaker 8: the team, the identity of the run game, the identity
Speaker 8: of everything develops as you progress. It's not something that
Speaker 8: you just outline and that's it sticks. Like, yeah, you
Speaker 8: have your objectives and you have your goals and the
Speaker 8: way you're going to run your team and your offense.
Speaker 8: All those things you know stay. But what you get
Speaker 8: good at and what you turn into as an offense
Speaker 8: that comes from playing games. And so we can talk
Speaker 8: all we want in the an offseason. We can talk
Speaker 8: in training camp and we can run a myriad of
Speaker 8: different things, but it's going to be what we put
Speaker 8: on the field, you know, and that it's gonna be
Speaker 8: from week one. You know, week ten you should obviously
Speaker 8: know who you are by then, but you know what
Speaker 8: I mean, like, it's gonna grow from week one to then.
Speaker 1: So job here we are joint practices with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: How's it going? And by the way, do you enjoy
Speaker 1: joint practices? I do more now.
Speaker 8: I was joking around someone the other day when I
Speaker 8: was I think it was my rookie year, I was
Speaker 8: spending with the Cowboys and we had a joint practice
Speaker 8: with then Saint Louis Rams and I remember it was
Speaker 8: like one of my first days out there, and I
Speaker 8: was going we were doing like an inside run drill,
Speaker 8: and I kept just going against Chris Long and he
Speaker 8: had this low four point stance. He was super low
Speaker 8: to the ground, and I just there was nothing I
Speaker 8: could do to like block him. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 8: And I was just every time i'd get back in
Speaker 8: the back of the line before I had to go again.
Speaker 8: I had like three or four plays before I had
Speaker 8: to go back in. I was just sitting there like,
Speaker 8: there's nothing I can do about this, and I was
Speaker 8: so I remember just being like so like overwhelmed, not
Speaker 8: knowing how to do this. But those things were really
Speaker 8: instrumental in teaching me how to block. Obviously I came
Speaker 8: in as a blocker, but learning how to block kind
Speaker 8: of through going against some of the better defenders. Yeah,
Speaker 8: kind of set me up to be forced to grow.
Speaker 8: And so now I look at the joint practices unless
Speaker 8: they're not like this, Like when you're young, it can
Speaker 8: kind of be a big moment, you know, But as
Speaker 8: I get older, now it's just an opportunity to test
Speaker 8: myself against guys that are obviously good players and they've
Speaker 8: got a they've got a really good front and a
Speaker 8: good defense, and so for me, it's I look at
Speaker 8: it more like I can attack.
Speaker 1: Do you talk to some of the young guys about
Speaker 1: this stuff? To you? Are you one of these guys
Speaker 1: you like to share your wisdom with some of these
Speaker 1: young guys. Yeah, I mean I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much i'd call it wisdom, you know. I
Speaker 1: I I want to make sure that I don't overstep,
Speaker 1: and a young guy who's learning an offense, I'd also
Speaker 1: don't want to overwhelm them with too much because that's
Speaker 1: not helpful, and not trying to do show him what
Speaker 1: I'm doing to make him a version of me. It's like,
Speaker 1: what does he do well? What does he need to
Speaker 1: hear so that he can develop? Because everyone's body positioning
Speaker 1: and the way they're built is different, and so you
Speaker 1: can't just one size fit all approach. And so I'm
Speaker 1: trying to learn. I'm trying to listen more than a talk,
Speaker 1: and I do find myself talking frequently though I say
Speaker 1: that how.
Speaker 5: Much did you learn from Jason Witten? Jeff Swain is
Speaker 5: our guest. So you started your career, as you mentioned.
Speaker 8: With Dallas. Yeah, yeah, So I got to I got
Speaker 8: to Dallas in twenty fifteen, and and I've been watching
Speaker 8: with since I was like a kid, you know. And
Speaker 8: so him and Jeremy Shockey and these guys that I
Speaker 8: had been watching, you know, coming up, and my position
Speaker 8: coach who got me drafted, and he was Shocky's coach
Speaker 8: as well, So there's this connection there. And then I
Speaker 8: got to learn through Wit. But you know, he taught
Speaker 8: me a ton, man, He really did. He taught me
Speaker 8: a ton, but it wasn't as much like what he
Speaker 8: was saying. It was like the same thing with kids,
Speaker 8: like they they watched him, they do what you do,
Speaker 8: you know. And so he was a good example of
Speaker 8: how to practice the right way, how to how to learn.
Speaker 8: You know, he'd be having me for five minutes an
Speaker 8: hour after meetings were done. We'd be in the film
Speaker 8: room and he would just be grilling me about something,
Speaker 8: and not like in a harsh way, but just like
Speaker 8: he was really passionate about football and about being detailed
Speaker 8: and approaching it with the correct mindset, like with the
Speaker 8: attention that it deserves and needs and requires. And so
Speaker 8: I really gravitated to that. Because I was a detailed
Speaker 8: guy and not being the strongest guy in the world,
Speaker 8: I had to learn how to use technique and he
Speaker 8: was really really good at that. And so I learned
Speaker 8: a ton from him, man, I really did. And but
Speaker 8: most of it was just how to approach the game
Speaker 8: the right way, how to approach your studying, and how
Speaker 8: to how to just be a pro.
Speaker 1: You know, Jeff, how long do you want to play?
Speaker 1: As long as you let me? So? Ok, We're totally
Speaker 1: adopting an old school mentality on this. Basically, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to rip the jersey off my bag?
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? I used to have.
Speaker 8: I used to get asked that, And even in the past,
Speaker 8: like I only arrived with a conclusion maybe six months ago,
Speaker 8: you know, i'd have all these I don't know, we'll see,
Speaker 8: you know. But then the truth is, man, like I
Speaker 8: love playing football. I can't think of of a cooler
Speaker 8: thing to do, and I enjoy I enjoy it so
Speaker 8: much more now, and so yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 8: pursue it as long as I can. You know, I
Speaker 8: don't want to be out there gimping around, not able
Speaker 8: to play. But I I had that sneaky feeling that
Speaker 8: I'll never get to that point. They'll kick me out
Speaker 8: long before I get that old you know. So I'm
Speaker 8: just gonna I'm gonna ride it till it will fall off.
Speaker 5: As we wrap up with Jeff swam is a mere
Speaker 5: does this team have four distinctly different tight ends? Zach
Speaker 5: Ertz is different than you versus a Trey McBride versus
Speaker 5: ANATANGI I yep, I mean, those are all the you
Speaker 5: guys all have really different skill sets even though you're
Speaker 5: all technically tight ends.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, and I think that's I don't know
Speaker 8: that I've been in a room that's had so much
Speaker 8: diversity and skill set. I've been in a lot of
Speaker 8: you know, a few other tight end rooms, and I
Speaker 8: played with some some pretty good tight ends, and I've
Speaker 8: learned a lot from tons of different perspectives. But yeah,
Speaker 8: it's a it's a it's kind of an odd thing
Speaker 8: to walk in the room and like ask how to
Speaker 8: see how Zach plays the game, and then watch Tray's
Speaker 8: ability to move in spaces is pretty cool, and then
Speaker 8: like watching Noah in the fluidity with which he plays
Speaker 8: the game. You know, I take a ton away from
Speaker 8: those guys. And that's what I'm saying about the listening
Speaker 8: part of it. Like this, I do talk a ton,
Speaker 8: but I do watch, like watch how they play, and
Speaker 8: it is cool to see the difference in their skill sets.
Speaker 5: By the way, the Cowboys get so much media coverage,
Speaker 5: and I remember all those epic joint practice fights they
Speaker 5: had over the years. Were ever involved in one of
Speaker 5: those melees?
Speaker 8: Well you remember this, The Rams one about eight years ago,
Speaker 8: you were involved in that. I was there. I went involved. Well,
Speaker 8: it was on the other side of the field and
Speaker 8: I had run like one hundred and twenty yars to
Speaker 8: get there, and I was like, oh, you guys got it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang ou over here.
Speaker 5: But you're here in Jacksonville. This heat and humidity is
Speaker 5: nothing compared to Jacksonville, right, So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. Jeff enjoyed man, appreciate you guys. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Cardinals study and Jeff swaying from Cardinal's joint practice here
Speaker 5: on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford.
Speaker 10: In Gilbert touchdown, Tyler Simmons Dobbs just got rid of
Speaker 10: it and Simmons got his head around and the ball was.
Speaker 1: Waiting for him.
Speaker 5: Was that old saying wolf? These things happened in threes.
Speaker 5: So if the day started with Isaiah Simmons being traded
Speaker 5: to the Giants for a seventh rounder, and then midday
Speaker 5: towards the end of this second joint practice, Josh Jones
Speaker 5: was dealt to Houston along with a seventh round pick
Speaker 5: for a fifth rounder, let's see what would happen at
Speaker 5: the end of today.
Speaker 1: I don't know Paul some type of trade, possibly.
Speaker 5: Reports out of the NFL network that the Cardinals have
Speaker 5: traded for Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 1: Josh Josh Dobbs the backup quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 5: With connections to the Titans because his first two starts
Speaker 5: of his career were late last year, the final two
Speaker 5: games for the Titans after they lost Ryan Tannehill, Malik
Speaker 5: Willis struggling, Manti asin Ford, and that front office in
Speaker 5: Tennessee brought in Josh Dobbs after he was released from
Speaker 5: Cleveland because Deshaun Watson had come back and Jacoby Brissett
Speaker 5: at the time was the backup. You're following the musical quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Trying to follow it, Yes, Paul, how about you right now?
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs. I don't know too much about Josh Dobbs
Speaker 1: other than the fact that he's six ' three and
Speaker 1: he's two hundred and twenty pounds. He's got some pretty
Speaker 1: good size to him right now. And this is a
Speaker 1: guy that was drafted what in the fourth round by
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. As a matter of fact, he's played
Speaker 1: eight games in the National Football League and started too, PAULI,
Speaker 1: and he was up and down in those two affairs.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Tennessee had a very poor supporting cast around him in
Speaker 5: those last two games. I think we can all agree
Speaker 5: with that. It's one of the reasons why Mania Sport
Speaker 5: has done deals with the Titans. I think maybe has
Speaker 5: some inherent knowledgists. Is just me thinking out less that
Speaker 5: the Titans might not be very good this year and
Speaker 5: there's a chance between Houston and Tennessee struggling that the
Speaker 5: Cardinals could have three picks in the first seventy five
Speaker 5: or next year. Think about that, just because of all
Speaker 5: the trades.
Speaker 1: Yes, Polly, what does this make you think of right now? Well,
Speaker 1: and what does this Port ten do? You go out
Speaker 1: and these reports that are out there right now, you
Speaker 1: go out and acquire Josh Dobbs and bring him in.
Speaker 1: What do you think that port tend's Paul.
Speaker 5: Well, let's see, you're gonna have to fill a certain
Speaker 5: amount of games until Kyler Murray returns. Yes, if he
Speaker 5: is not on the fifty three on Tuesday, that means
Speaker 5: he is staying on Pop. That means he's going to
Speaker 5: miss at least the first four games of the year. Yes,
Speaker 5: So now you have the decision to make what did
Speaker 5: I say to start this edition of the Big Red Rage,
Speaker 5: brought you by santan Ford and Gilbert We are santan
Speaker 5: Ford that to me, the QB competition as it was
Speaker 5: was still ongoing, because not only is Clayton Tune slowly
Speaker 5: but steadily improved, only did he make plays against that
Speaker 5: Vikings defense. Not only did he run with the ones
Speaker 5: quite a bit the last two days here in Minnesota,
Speaker 5: But Colt McCoy had not slammed the door shut with
Speaker 5: his own performance.
Speaker 1: Yes, I would agree with that, Polly right now, But
Speaker 1: you know you've got David Blaugh on the roster right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe this does not Maybe this is not a good
Speaker 1: thing for David Blough that you go out and get
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs. The one thing we know is Josh Dobbs
Speaker 1: is going to be on the fifty three man roster.
Speaker 1: That much we do know. We know Clayton Tune is
Speaker 1: going to be on the fifty three man roster, and
Speaker 1: I believe that Colt McCoy will be on the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster as well as your starter going forward.
Speaker 1: But once again, the quarterback combination, in the fact that
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs has actually worked, I believe with Drew Petsing.
Speaker 1: I think that goes a long way.
Speaker 5: Quite a bit in Cleveland. So Drew pets And has
Speaker 5: an intimate knowledge of Josh Dobbs in the skill set
Speaker 5: and what he would bring to the Cardinals offense. Maybe
Speaker 5: at this point they've seen enough to think, you know what,
Speaker 5: Josh Dobbs might be a better fit than one of
Speaker 5: the aforementioned names you just threw out there. Maybe Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 5: who had yet to start a single NFL game until
Speaker 5: those last two games last year, has some potential that
Speaker 5: he's never been able to show.
Speaker 1: Boy. That is going to be really interesting too, because
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs is going to be familiar with a lot
Speaker 1: of the terminology of the Arizona Cardinals, And because of that,
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, is it possible that Josh
Speaker 1: Dobbs could get a little look on Saturday as well?
Speaker 1: I think it's entirely possible.
Speaker 5: He comes in, they give him a small chapter of
Speaker 5: the playbook, a playbook he's already very familiar with, and
Speaker 5: he's out there getting a look against the Vikings backups
Speaker 5: to get his feet and guess what if he's throwing
Speaker 5: to the right spot and making the right decisions, and
Speaker 5: he has the rest of the offense in sync. Once again,
Speaker 5: these are real time decisions and evaluations that are being
Speaker 5: made by a new set of eyes. Yes, new decision
Speaker 5: makers who have come in to a large degree, Drew
Speaker 5: Petzing probably knows Josh Dobbs a lot better, and he
Speaker 5: knows Clayton Tune or Cole McCoy combined, so he might
Speaker 5: could you don't know what the OC is thinking or
Speaker 5: his comfortability factor with a Josh Dobbs versus the two
Speaker 5: he currently has in the quarterback room.
Speaker 1: Very interesting right now. But oh my goodness, when we
Speaker 1: talk about what are you going to be watching? What
Speaker 1: are you going to be watching against the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 1: when Saturday rolls around, Paul Calvic, where are your eyes
Speaker 1: going to be? For me? Right now? I'm going to
Speaker 1: be watching who's playing quarterback, who is playing quarterback, who's
Speaker 1: out there actually taking these reps right now? And by
Speaker 1: the way, how are they doing? This is me? This
Speaker 1: is amazing the fluidity of what has transpired in the
Speaker 1: last forty eight hours for the Arizona Cardinals and their roster.
Speaker 5: If the forty nine Ers can trade away Trey Lance
Speaker 5: because of the final pick in the draft, Brock Purty,
Speaker 5: And at least those are the reports Trey Lance is
Speaker 5: done with the Niners. If Washington against the Cardinals can
Speaker 5: run out there a fifth rounder from last year's draft
Speaker 5: who got all of one start last year and Sam Howe,
Speaker 5: nothing precludes the Cardinals from doing any or all the
Speaker 5: above that we just talked about. No, So, my eyes
Speaker 5: are most definitely in the quarterback position. There's no doubt
Speaker 5: about that. Beyond that corner, the corner position, key Trell Clark,
Speaker 5: he's been running with the ones. I think he outplayed
Speaker 5: Christian Matthew decisively in preseason game number two. Does Christian
Speaker 5: Matthew have a bounceback game?
Speaker 1: If there is one guy that I'm actually gonna be
Speaker 1: eyebowling one guy, it's gonna be bj Ojalai. Ooh good one. Bjo.
Speaker 1: Happened to watch him out there today of course, going
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings. A little one on one Paul
Speaker 1: is what they call it. Bjol Jalai with a couple
Speaker 1: of really nice pass rushes in one on one. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm really gonna be watching Bjojelaarr because I would imagine
Speaker 1: if if I were Nick Rawless and I were Jonathan Gannon,
Speaker 1: I want to get this guy as many reps as
Speaker 1: I possibly could. He could play a lot on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Guess what Dennis Gardek did not practice against the Vikings,
Speaker 5: saving Collins making the position switch. Right, So if a
Speaker 5: bja Ojalai goes out there and balls out and puts
Speaker 5: some good play on film, once again we come full circle.
Speaker 5: Hashtag no allegiances Right, he was drafted high second round.
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