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Speaker 1: How about it? A football flashback Thanksgiving Day, nineteen twenty nine,
Speaker 1: Ron wolf Lake about a month remove from the Great
Speaker 1: Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Oh,
Speaker 1: we had a Cardinals Hall of Famer who had himself
Speaker 1: a Feast Hall of Famer, Ernie Nevers. Maybe you've seen
Speaker 1: the name in the Ring of Fame on State Farm Stadium.
Speaker 1: I have seen it okay, So on Thanksgiving Day nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty nine, ninety one years ago, he scored forty total points,
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, and four pats. Don't forget about the bats ball.
Speaker 1: It's critical because it remains the NFL's oldest record and
Speaker 1: the six touchdowns are still tied for the NFL single
Speaker 1: game record. Think about that. That's getting it done ball.
Speaker 1: That is production. So in the face of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: I just thought we'd stay supremely optimistic. How about that?
Speaker 1: For an intro to the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 1: Santan Ford and Gilbert we are Santan Ford, Paul KELVC,
Speaker 1: mister Ron Wolfley, and Mason Cole going to join us
Speaker 1: a little bit later. I mean, you know you talk
Speaker 1: about a feast, right and what it is? Thanksgiving? All
Speaker 1: about a giving thanks be putting on your football feedback.
Speaker 1: Well you got to get an offensive linement on a
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving addition to the Big Red Rage, do you not?
Speaker 1: You absolutely do. I cannot wait to talk to Mason
Speaker 1: Cole and ask him right away, Paulie, what was it
Speaker 1: like to actually miss games? That's what I want to know, Mason?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? This is a guy that has
Speaker 1: played in so many games. Of course, a guy that
Speaker 1: has been so durable throughout his career for the most part,
Speaker 1: can't wait to talk to Mason Cole doing you a
Speaker 1: nice job developing as a center. By the way, a
Speaker 1: little bit later, we're gonna hear a dessertive choice by
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, his go to and what his game plan
Speaker 1: is on Thanksgiving days, So that's coming up a little
Speaker 1: bit later. We'll get into Isaiah Simmons real quick. But
Speaker 1: give me a quick thought here as the Cardinals coming
Speaker 1: off the buy. Yes they're six and four, Yes they
Speaker 1: control their own destiny. They're right there in the thick
Speaker 1: of the playoff race. But now they're a game behind
Speaker 1: both the Seahawks and the Rams. They still have two
Speaker 1: games left with the LA Rams, and they're going to
Speaker 1: New England on Sunday. And we all know about Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: and you know them better than most, is your former
Speaker 1: head coach. Give me a thought on where you think
Speaker 1: the Cards are the state of the Cardinals at this moment, Polly.
Speaker 1: First of all, they're in a good spot, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're in a good position to make a run here.
Speaker 1: And this is an old saying in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: You win games in November to make a run in December. Well,
Speaker 1: right now, they've got to win games. I look at
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots and they've got three pretty impressive wins.
Speaker 1: Now again, the Miami Dolphins. I don't want to make
Speaker 1: them out to be world beaters, but I think we
Speaker 1: got a front row seat to the Miami Dolphins and
Speaker 1: had a good chance of competing with them and possibly
Speaker 1: winning a game. And they ended up beating the Arizona Cardinals. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, honestly, the Patriots beat them. They beat
Speaker 1: they beat the Vegas Raiders as well, and they beat Baltimore. Paul,
Speaker 1: he so you know this is a team that is capable.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton has been all over the place. The defense
Speaker 1: is going to have to play so well in order
Speaker 1: to get a win on the road, but I think
Speaker 1: the offense once again carries the greatest way to ball. Paul,
Speaker 1: you had a chance to actually talk to Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: an interview, your former head coach this morning one SEVENFM
Speaker 1: Arizona Sports, and you're reminded such a genius, and I
Speaker 1: mean think about it, forty six years he has been
Speaker 1: coaching in the NFL, now ye is an assistant and
Speaker 1: as a head coach. It's been nineteen straight winning seasons
Speaker 1: for Bill Belichick. Last time they had six losses it
Speaker 1: was two thousand and nine. Think about that in a season,
Speaker 1: and there's just there's so much beauty in the simplicity
Speaker 1: of what he does. And by that I mean on defense,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try and take away what you do best,
Speaker 1: and when New England's on offense, they're gonna attack what
Speaker 1: they view as your major weakness. Now, how he does
Speaker 1: that can get very complicated and complex, but at its essence,
Speaker 1: that's really what he does as a head coach. That's
Speaker 1: his philosophy, isn't it. There's no doubt about it, Paul.
Speaker 1: He's gonna take away whatever you do well, that's what
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. And he typically doesn't run down situation
Speaker 1: and third and obvious past situations as well. But interviewing
Speaker 1: Bill is not easy. Let me tell you that right now, Paul.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you, you know this, that was a difficult,
Speaker 1: difficult to interview, especially the first few questions when he
Speaker 1: came on. He went full coach Billy Jack, which I
Speaker 1: was a little surprised that I gotta tell you, I
Speaker 1: was a little taken by and you could tell right away.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right that he was in he was in
Speaker 1: regular season mode. Yes, Now you interview him in June
Speaker 1: or July, he's probably a totally different person, a little
Speaker 1: bit different Paul, no doubt. Game week Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: and and he's on the air in the city of
Speaker 1: his opponent. So yes, he was measuring every word and
Speaker 1: then some. By the way, Ron Wolfley, speaking of head coaches,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he saw the news late this
Speaker 1: afternoon news out of Saint Louis that former Cardinals head
Speaker 1: coach Jim Hannafin has passed away at the age of
Speaker 1: eighty seven. I know he was your former head coach
Speaker 1: and saw all the best to the Hannafin family that
Speaker 1: news came down. We continue with a big red rage
Speaker 1: presented by satan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford
Speaker 1: Snapp the Wilson Cardinals bringing to pressure. It's picked up
Speaker 1: Wilson the time of the pocket, now in trouble and
Speaker 1: sacked about four Cardinals in the backfield. But it's Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons of the rookie that gets the Russell Wilson first
Speaker 1: to force a fund shotgun snapped to Wilson, straight drop back,
Speaker 1: steps up in the pocket, takes off running far side
Speaker 1: at the forty and drilled by Simmons at the forty one.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons is balling shotgun statt Wilson, quick throw to
Speaker 1: the left, flat metcalf call at the thirty eight, drop
Speaker 1: by Isaiah Simmons for a loss at the thirty sevent
Speaker 1: yard line. Simmons has played terrific football tonight, the rookie
Speaker 1: really starting to get comfortable out there. About ten tackles
Speaker 1: that was a team high in forty five snaps. His
Speaker 1: first career SAG year the montage there Arizona Cardinals radio
Speaker 1: and day pass. Two tackles for a loss, a quarterback
Speaker 1: hit all at Seattle where truly his initial playmaking prowess
Speaker 1: was seen in this Sunday night game against Seattle when
Speaker 1: he had to pick at overtime. He played only five
Speaker 1: snaps in that game, had the pick, and everything has
Speaker 1: been different ever since. If you listen to his defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: Advanced Joseph, it is a big red rage presented by
Speaker 1: santan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford, Paul kelvc
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley Mason Cole Cardinals starting center right around the corner.
Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on what you saw in Seattle
Speaker 1: of Isaiah Simmons Wolf because then I'll share what Jordan
Speaker 1: Hicks told the media earlier this week. Yeah. I saw
Speaker 1: a downhill player Polly for the most part right here.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is a guy that
Speaker 1: is initiating contact, a guy that was very, very aggressive.
Speaker 1: Not only is Isaiah Simmons, as you well know Polly
Speaker 1: very athletic and can run with the best of them
Speaker 1: all over the field, but also a guy that I
Speaker 1: need to see come downhill and be physical at the
Speaker 1: point of attack. And guess what, that's exactly what he was.
Speaker 1: I loved his physicality. I love the Jagermeister, if you will,
Speaker 1: the man hunter that I think he can possibly be.
Speaker 1: Very much like a Daryl Washington used to be for
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. I see Isaiah Simmons filling that role
Speaker 1: because just because he has a measurables doesn't mean he's
Speaker 1: gonna play like that. You have to see it, don't you.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to see a guy that Okay,
Speaker 1: we know he's fast, but can he play fast, can
Speaker 1: he navigate the mental side of the game. And it's
Speaker 1: been a process, there's no doubt about it. But when
Speaker 1: George Hicks tells the media that when he was watching
Speaker 1: film and he's like, okay, all of us, you don't
Speaker 1: see Isaiah Simmons in the frame, and then he's the
Speaker 1: guy making the tackle a moment later, you just realize
Speaker 1: how quickly he can be a difference maker and get
Speaker 1: to the ball carrier. Yeah, Polly, And what I love is,
Speaker 1: once again, they've pretty much kept him in a few packages.
Speaker 1: Of course, they've used him in different ways, but they
Speaker 1: haven't really overloaded him at all. They've taken their time
Speaker 1: with Isaiah Simmons, and I think it's starting to pay
Speaker 1: off right now because he feels confident, he feels like
Speaker 1: he knows what it is that he's doing. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about this many, many times. This is always going
Speaker 1: to be a work in progress when you talk about
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, because you miss as many snaps as he
Speaker 1: missed in the offseason, and it's going to be quite
Speaker 1: the transition when you move right into regular season games
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, that's quite the transition period
Speaker 1: for a guy that is learning, and every rookie has
Speaker 1: to prove it. But I think there's also a process
Speaker 1: and you tell me Wolf, but every rookie has to
Speaker 1: prove it to themself. Oh yeah, no doubt Paul that that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know he's a Blue Chipper, he's an
Speaker 1: All American, he's a number eight pick overall, he's got
Speaker 1: all the measurables. He's a freak. But and he admitted
Speaker 1: this week that, yeah, you know, that interception went a
Speaker 1: long way for his own self confidence. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: Vance Joseph said, ever since that interception, he's been different,
Speaker 1: his body language, his confidence, He's been more outgoing with
Speaker 1: with other players. It changed his mindset. In the words
Speaker 1: of Ants Joseph, here's Isaiah Simmons talking this week and
Speaker 1: just the wait because there were several games where you
Speaker 1: could count on two hands how many snaps he got
Speaker 1: in the entire game, and that's all changed here recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really hard. I've always been like the star guy,
Speaker 1: so it was rough. And you know, I had a
Speaker 1: lot of outside support from just family and friends and
Speaker 1: even my teammates. You know, my teammates would come in
Speaker 1: like you know, like Zay, don't worry about it, just
Speaker 1: be patient at times when common when it comes, just
Speaker 1: take full advantage of it. And I did that my
Speaker 1: time game. And that was some of the advice from
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick as well. Hassan had shared a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago that you know, he said a number of
Speaker 1: talks his son was right in that same that same spot,
Speaker 1: taken in the top half of the first round and
Speaker 1: expected to play in that linebacker position, and his advice
Speaker 1: to him was, yes, you gotta wait. It's tough, but
Speaker 1: it's when you get your chance that you got to
Speaker 1: make sure you stick, that you keep your job and
Speaker 1: you make a difference. And it was still the point. Well,
Speaker 1: when the media release came out this week, I checked
Speaker 1: the depth chart. Yeah, I wanted to see if Isaiah Simmons, right,
Speaker 1: was actually ahead of Divandre Campbell. Now he's not. And
Speaker 1: we don't know the exact status of Divandra Campbell and
Speaker 1: the calf injury, but you can't tell me he's not
Speaker 1: pushing the veteran. You know, we talk about this all
Speaker 1: the time, Pauli, but don't think for a moment just
Speaker 1: because Isaiah Simmons is an athletic freak, that he was
Speaker 1: beamed down from the mother ship. And that's what we
Speaker 1: think somehow they're different than you and I when they're not.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right. Isaiah Simmons had to prove to himself
Speaker 1: first that he could play. And I don't care what
Speaker 1: you say. You can say, oh, he's so confident, stopped wolf,
Speaker 1: knock it off. I'm telling you right now, as a
Speaker 1: rookie playing in this league, you got to prove it
Speaker 1: to yourself that you can actually survive and thrive on
Speaker 1: the field. And I think he's in the process of
Speaker 1: doing that. And we've seen him an inside outside linebacker
Speaker 1: nicol and it's safety. So we'll see about New England
Speaker 1: Mason Cole starting center next. On the Big Red Rage
Speaker 1: presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert get back the throne,
Speaker 1: flushed out, rolling left, in trouble, slips a tackle, gotta
Speaker 1: launch it. He does left side into the end zone
Speaker 1: jump ball and it is regard regard regard, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: a fun Hopkins God, Yeah, oh my god. And the
Speaker 1: game is over. Click Martin Wal's winning thirty two to thirty.
Speaker 1: I know, well, the Hail Murray is so two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: But come on now, no better intro than the real time,
Speaker 1: real life reaction of the guy who started that play
Speaker 1: by snapping the ball and getting that play in motion
Speaker 1: the play of the NFL season. And don't forget three
Speaker 1: players touched the football on that play. In reverse order
Speaker 1: of appearance, there was DeAndre Hopkins, Kyler Murray and our
Speaker 1: guest on the Big Red Rage Knight presented by Santan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert Mason Cole. You're starting center, Mason. Now
Speaker 1: we're doing on the night before Thanksgiving. What's up, guys?
Speaker 1: How you doing do well and doing great? Mason? Really
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us right now. Buddy. How has the
Speaker 1: year been for you so far? Man, it's been it's
Speaker 1: been good. Uh. It's up and down. Obviously, wish we
Speaker 1: could have, you know, won all these games, but it's
Speaker 1: been good so far. We've got a tough stretch coming
Speaker 1: up here, these next next six games and it's either
Speaker 1: all kind of must win for us. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: happy about you know, the first ten games. But there
Speaker 1: was a guy in the past. Now we're just looking forward.
Speaker 1: Our goal right now it's just beat New England and
Speaker 1: we'll go from there was that hail Murray? By the way,
Speaker 1: was that the most unbridled joy you've had on a
Speaker 1: football field since so, I don't know, high school or
Speaker 1: something like that, man, maybe even before that. It's like
Speaker 1: plays like that make you make you realize that this
Speaker 1: game is the same game that we've been playing since
Speaker 1: we were you know, six, seven, five years old, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. Um it brings you back to those moments,
Speaker 1: just like a little kid just excited. Why is that, Mason?
Speaker 1: Why do you say that? Why? What? What was it
Speaker 1: about that play that totally made you realize, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is the same game I was playing when I
Speaker 1: was seven. You know, when you get to this point
Speaker 1: in the game and playing professionally, it's easy to forget that.
Speaker 1: It's easy to forget that it is the same game.
Speaker 1: Whether it be the stress of the season, money, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be, it's easy to forget that this is
Speaker 1: still the same game that we've all played since we
Speaker 1: were growing up. Um. So, so it's little moments like that,
Speaker 1: I guess, not a little moment, a big moment like that,
Speaker 1: but a bunch of other little things too that just
Speaker 1: bring you back to those times and you realize that. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're getting paid a bunch of money to
Speaker 1: play the game that we've been playing since we were
Speaker 1: five years old. I love that, Mason, Man, that is
Speaker 1: so cool, and and I get it. There's all the pressures.
Speaker 1: It's your job, it's a business. There's expectations, there's a
Speaker 1: head coach, there's a position coach. I mean, there's everything,
Speaker 1: no doubt, And I would guess you're probably playing your
Speaker 1: best when you're able to dismiss all that and just
Speaker 1: have fun at the game. Is that an accurate presumption? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's easy to complicate and easy to
Speaker 1: put a lot of pressure on yourself. But when you
Speaker 1: keep things simple, when you play relax, when you play loose,
Speaker 1: that's that's usual when you play the best. Um, So
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's easy to not do that, but
Speaker 1: it's also easy easy to remind yourself like, hey, this
Speaker 1: is this is so the same game. Just go out
Speaker 1: there and um do what you've been doing your whole life. Mason,
Speaker 1: where have you improved for the most? Do you think? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think all over the place. Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can pick one point or another, but all
Speaker 1: across the board, you know, and that's big credit to
Speaker 1: KU's and Daddy in our room. UM. I know I've
Speaker 1: touched that a little bit, and other guys in the
Speaker 1: room affect than that. Um, But those those two, UM,
Speaker 1: I mean there's they're special in the combination of those
Speaker 1: two and how they push us and how they work us,
Speaker 1: how they control that room. UM, I mean it's incredible
Speaker 1: and we've all everyone in that room has made uh
Speaker 1: tremendous progress in their technique the way to play the game. Um,
Speaker 1: since Cou's and Day have gotten in there. It's all
Speaker 1: about you, Mason Cole, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 1: You and the offensive line. And look, Wolf and I
Speaker 1: have been leaning the charge for a good year now
Speaker 1: that this is not the offensive line that at times
Speaker 1: is portrayed by the national media some sort of liability.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just completely false. You guys have have
Speaker 1: doubled down, improved it again this year, spent almost all
Speaker 1: year number one or number two in the ESPN pass
Speaker 1: block and run block win and we can see. But
Speaker 1: but Thursday night at Seattle, you tell me what did
Speaker 1: you make of the offensive lines performance? And maybe more importantly,
Speaker 1: what did your position go to Sean Coogler. Think of
Speaker 1: you guys up front. Yeah, I think the message to
Speaker 1: our room is, uh, after that game is just we
Speaker 1: didn't do our job. Um, as much as we've done
Speaker 1: it earlier in the year, and we played well last Thursday,
Speaker 1: we just we just didn't do that. We rusted the
Speaker 1: ball efficiently. We didn't protect Kyler well enough. UM. That's
Speaker 1: that's not us, each and every one of us in
Speaker 1: that room. UM. And the only way to do the
Speaker 1: only way to fix it is it go out there
Speaker 1: this week and correct it. Um. One thing Coacharball always
Speaker 1: told me about that Michigan told the team is that, Um,
Speaker 1: the only way to get a bad taste out of
Speaker 1: your mouth is to go out and uh. And what's up?
Speaker 1: So um, you know whatever that is. You know we
Speaker 1: we we got the people in to correct it. UM.
Speaker 1: And Couse told all of us is that he trust
Speaker 1: everyone in our room. UM, so he's not worried about it. Um.
Speaker 1: You know that people have bad games to have bad games,
Speaker 1: and it was just one for us if we didn't
Speaker 1: didn't do our job. Yeah. I think for you, for
Speaker 1: the most part this season, you guys have been fantastic,
Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic here. And that was probably the worst game
Speaker 1: that you guys played against Seattle. What is the best game?
Speaker 1: Is there one game that stands out that you think
Speaker 1: the entire offensive line really balled out. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could pick one game, um, because you know,
Speaker 1: each and every game or something in where we didn't
Speaker 1: do well enough or something we did really well. Um,
Speaker 1: just looking back, you know, you know Dallas rushing for
Speaker 1: I don't really back yard. It was over two hundred yards, um,
Speaker 1: Buffalo we rushed for you know, two hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: yards whatever it was. Um. So we've we've had some
Speaker 1: really good games, and we had some games. We've been
Speaker 1: here and there. But there's things good to take from
Speaker 1: every game and things bad to take every game from
Speaker 1: every game that we need to correct. Yeah, the Sunday
Speaker 1: night game against Seattle, Kyler wasn't sacked, he wasn't hit.
Speaker 1: And then you know, five times under Cliff Kingsbury. And
Speaker 1: I don't think this is another thing the national media
Speaker 1: doesn't realize. Here wasn't a car of rush for two
Speaker 1: hundred and more yards in a season and a half,
Speaker 1: and that happened five times in the previous fifteen years
Speaker 1: of Cardinals football. When you guys are really rolling in
Speaker 1: the ground game like that, what's happening? How? Why does
Speaker 1: that happen? When we guys clips two hundred yards rushing?
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think that has to do
Speaker 1: a lot with the play call and a lot to
Speaker 1: do with us and having confidence in us. You know,
Speaker 1: if we if we early in the game, we can
Speaker 1: get the run game going and get efficient runs and
Speaker 1: also put ourselves in second, medium, third, and short, keep
Speaker 1: us on our third and lungs. You know, those efficient
Speaker 1: runs help you all across the board, helps your pass game,
Speaker 1: helps your play action. So we can do that early
Speaker 1: and establish run game early, I think it really helps
Speaker 1: us throughout the whole game, open everything up. And then
Speaker 1: we start doing play action. You start taking shots down
Speaker 1: the field, and that's only can open the run game
Speaker 1: up even more. And Mason, so talking about starting fast,
Speaker 1: real quick. Here's what Larry Fitzgerald said earlier today on
Speaker 1: something that Cliff Kingsbury is cited as a need to
Speaker 1: get out of the gates and get on the scoreboard
Speaker 1: early in the game. I mean, eventually we get it going,
Speaker 1: you know, every game we play, but It would be
Speaker 1: amazing if we can do it from the first time
Speaker 1: we touched the football, go down and you know, put
Speaker 1: together a great you know, seven to eight play scoring
Speaker 1: drive just to really set the set the game up
Speaker 1: and put it in um. You know, put ourselves in
Speaker 1: the driver's seat early. You know, there's no better time
Speaker 1: to start than than this week. You know, let's go
Speaker 1: out and you know, score points in the first quarter
Speaker 1: and continue to onslaught. That would be great. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: you guys are feeling that urgency right now as an offense. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I think you know, those those first couple of
Speaker 1: drives of the game, I think we struggled with all
Speaker 1: year for for whatever reason. UM. And then kind of
Speaker 1: like Lady said, we let me start, let me start
Speaker 1: to get it going. UM. So that's obviously huge focus
Speaker 1: on us. It started fast, um, especially too with the
Speaker 1: tempo of our offense. If we can start fast and
Speaker 1: not give you to the teams a chance to catch up,
Speaker 1: it's huge because we can score points. UM. And that
Speaker 1: might be one of the more frustrating things the season
Speaker 1: is you know, we're playing really well on offense. We're
Speaker 1: whatever top five, top ten in offense in the league.
Speaker 1: But we need an offense. Know that we're not even
Speaker 1: close to playing as good as as we can. We
Speaker 1: haven't put a complete game together yet, so we know
Speaker 1: that's what we gotta do. We gotta strive to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. The Cardinals right now as
Speaker 1: an offense, number one in total offense wall of total
Speaker 1: yards per game four fourteen, number two in rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game, number one in rushing touchdowns per game, over
Speaker 1: five yards of carry in the run game. Yet just
Speaker 1: like Mason, you have the same opinion, you haven't seen
Speaker 1: that breakout game yet from the Cardinals offense. Haven't. There
Speaker 1: are so many yards that I think they still have
Speaker 1: left on the field. When you look at the drive stalls,
Speaker 1: the penalties that they've had, right it's amazing. And when
Speaker 1: you look at the negative plays they've also had. Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury was talking about that this week. They still lead
Speaker 1: the league in negative plays and that's an amazing thing
Speaker 1: when you consider the fact they're the number one off
Speaker 1: in the National Football League in terms of yards per
Speaker 1: game as far as fast starts. Remember, he told us
Speaker 1: this week on his TV show, he said he's not mentioning.
Speaker 1: This week, he's going opposite reverse psychology. He's not going
Speaker 1: to mention it. Maybe they'll get a fast start. And
Speaker 1: we continue with Mason Cole on the Big Red Rage
Speaker 1: to announce the Arizona Cardinal selection leaves. Welcome from the
Speaker 1: University of Southern California guard Deuce Latui. Oh god, Uncle
Speaker 1: Phil said, the baddest cardinal to represent. Oh wow, there's
Speaker 1: a difference between knowing you can and thinking you can.
Speaker 1: Mason Cole, Welcome to the Cardinals. Now that is a
Speaker 1: singular introduction to the NFL. Mason's own Douce Latoi, former
Speaker 1: second round pick and start guarded the Arizona Cardinals. Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 1: you tell me there's no one quite like Deuce, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it, Pauline, are you kidding me? The intensity?
Speaker 1: And he brought it on Gay Day as well, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. Oh yeah. Let's just say, um he went
Speaker 1: next level in the physicality and uh yeah, he was
Speaker 1: a throwback and a lot of he was to his
Speaker 1: era what Conrad Dobler might have been to offensive guards
Speaker 1: back in the seventies. Let's just put I don't know
Speaker 1: if i'd go bad fire. Polly Conrad was pretty nasty.
Speaker 1: Mason Cole is our guest. That was his Uh that
Speaker 1: was draft day for Mason realized. Are you aware only
Speaker 1: two University of Michigan offensive linemen have ever been drafted
Speaker 1: by the Cardinals Hall of Famer Dan Dierdorf nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: one and then Mason Cole twenty and eighteen. Have you
Speaker 1: ever met Deosla Tooey Mason? I have not. No, I'd
Speaker 1: loved you though, you'd love him, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: That's that's the first thing I thought when when they
Speaker 1: saw him across the stage during the draft this day,
Speaker 1: I gotta beat this guy one day. Oh yeah, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh. So you look, um, we can go into
Speaker 1: throwback machine and Wolf thumps upon a time play for
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and we cited some of the stats earlier.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going against the new England team and
Speaker 1: the New England defense. That think about the last two weeks, guys,
Speaker 1: they've gone against Lamar Jackson, They've gone against DeShawn Watson.
Speaker 1: So what have you seen on film against those dual
Speaker 1: threat quarterbacks? And what do you think it's going to
Speaker 1: carry over to Sunday? Mason, you know, I think one
Speaker 1: thing with with this Stefens and with Belichick is you
Speaker 1: know they're going to have some plan for us um
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Um. I think throughout watching their games
Speaker 1: throughout the year, Uh, they've just they've had a different
Speaker 1: plan each each week or whoever they're facing. So whatever
Speaker 1: whatever plan that might be for us, UM, we gotta
Speaker 1: be ready for it. So it's it's a little different
Speaker 1: because you're preparing for multiple things because you don't know
Speaker 1: exactly how they're gonna play it, so they can play
Speaker 1: its multiple different ways. Um. And that's that's part of
Speaker 1: that defensive thing. That's what they do and that's why
Speaker 1: they they've been so successful. Well, it really is, mate,
Speaker 1: And it's so difficult to get some type of gage
Speaker 1: as to what Bill Belichick and the Patriots are gonna
Speaker 1: do because he's liable to do anything. Really, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that wants to be a chameleon.
Speaker 1: He wants to be capable of doing anything. And I
Speaker 1: cannot tell you how many times in the middle of
Speaker 1: the first quarter he would bring everybody over, the defense over,
Speaker 1: bring the offense over, and he'd say, okay, listen, everything
Speaker 1: we practiced all week long, forget about it. Here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. And he great it up right. You know,
Speaker 1: whether he was talking to the defense or the offense,
Speaker 1: it really didn't matter. He would just say, here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. You got to be able to make
Speaker 1: adjustments on the fly because he's not going to give
Speaker 1: you just one thing. He's going to give you multiple looks.
Speaker 1: Is he not? Absolutely? Absolutely. I know it's my first
Speaker 1: time playing the Patriots, it's my first time really seeing that,
Speaker 1: and they can do so much within their defense. They
Speaker 1: can play a whole game many different ways. So well,
Speaker 1: we just don't know exactly how they're gonna play us,
Speaker 1: but so we gotta be ready for everything. You know,
Speaker 1: it said that he'll attack what he perceives as a weakness.
Speaker 1: And so when when you think he looks at that
Speaker 1: film right on Thursday night against Seattle, is there something
Speaker 1: you guys need to correct first and foremost? When as
Speaker 1: an offense or either as an offensive line, was there
Speaker 1: anything that really stood out in that game that you
Speaker 1: guys have to remedy immediately? Yeah, I think early as
Speaker 1: an offensive line, you know, I think we're gonna be tested. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we were tested with probably some pressures, um,
Speaker 1: different different looks up front. UM, some games and twists um.
Speaker 1: And the only way to stop that is to shut
Speaker 1: down those games and twists and pressures um. Because if you,
Speaker 1: just like any other team, if you do you show
Speaker 1: any kind of weakness and pressures or twists early in
Speaker 1: the game, they're just gonna keep doing it. UM. So
Speaker 1: I think we'll probably be tested early. I know, I
Speaker 1: know I would if I was another defensive coordinator. UM.
Speaker 1: So we'll be tested for sure. UM. But you know,
Speaker 1: we know what we did wrong last week and we
Speaker 1: know what we had to correct. And guys, listen to
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, what do you expects Bell Belichick to do defensively?
Speaker 1: From an offensive perspective? I think you know Bill is
Speaker 1: going to do a treminish job of kind of taking
Speaker 1: away what you do. Well. Yeah, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the focus is going to be on us just
Speaker 1: eliminating those negative plays. If we have the same number
Speaker 1: of negative plays and penalties as we did last week,
Speaker 1: we won't have a lot of success up there, and
Speaker 1: our guys know that. So a lot of the focuses
Speaker 1: on us improving in those areas and making sure we're
Speaker 1: playing downhill more. Hey, that's a good start. When it
Speaker 1: comes to penalties, I'm sure you're aware. Coaches have made
Speaker 1: it known, Mason. The Arizona Cardinals lead the league in
Speaker 1: penalties seventy nine guests. Who has the fewest penalties the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots with thirty six. How far would that
Speaker 1: go if you guys are able to resolve that matter? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's an issue we've been we've been
Speaker 1: trying to correct all year. Um and just goes actually
Speaker 1: goes back to saying, this offense is nowhere near what
Speaker 1: it can be at its max with or fire all cylinders.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a huge thing for us, is stopping
Speaker 1: those negative plays and those penalties, because those right now
Speaker 1: are the players that are killing us. They're they're they're
Speaker 1: stalling out drives and they're they're not giving us a chance.
Speaker 1: You know, Mason, talk to me about the Patriots defensive
Speaker 1: line in particular, what do you see on film? What
Speaker 1: do you say on their front as to whether or
Speaker 1: not this is a blitzing front, this is a high
Speaker 1: pressure front, or is this just a physical front? What
Speaker 1: do they play? What kind of gap, what kind of scheme.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about their front, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: like I said, Uh, either they've been they've been all
Speaker 1: over the board. Um, and what they do schematically they
Speaker 1: can they can come out and be solid with five
Speaker 1: five line across the board. Um, they can go odd,
Speaker 1: which which is kind of their bread and butter and
Speaker 1: with you know Bill Belichick has always done. Um, they
Speaker 1: can play four down, you know, they can play anyway
Speaker 1: they want. Yeah. But uh, you know, just as do
Speaker 1: you expect from a Belichick defense is did these guys
Speaker 1: play hard? Um? They play within their defense and they
Speaker 1: know where to be and how you get there. Who
Speaker 1: do you think is going to be over your mass?
Speaker 1: Who do you think is going to be over you
Speaker 1: the majority of the time? Uh? Again, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It could be multiple people. It just
Speaker 1: depends on how they want to want to play us.
Speaker 1: I remember back in the day, right when the Cardinals
Speaker 1: traded for Chandler, Jones and Chandler talked about how often
Speaker 1: they would use him inside, They throw him in the
Speaker 1: A gap. You know, Belichick would dial that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff out there. I always find that intriguing, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. Let me ask you this he's obviously focusing
Speaker 1: on Kyler Murray. Coach Belichick, and he's been talking a
Speaker 1: lot about Kyler Murray and the dual threat and the
Speaker 1: running ability, and what's it like to block for Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: especially when he pulls it and runs it. I mean
Speaker 1: in the run game, it's uh, it's fun, man, because
Speaker 1: you'll be blocking a zone player or something and and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the balls thirty yards down, feeling
Speaker 1: you know, you don't even know what the heck happened.
Speaker 1: He look down, you look over, you see see Kyler
Speaker 1: running with it. Um. But in protection, it's huge if
Speaker 1: he gets us out of a lot of trouble. And
Speaker 1: I know we've done a decent job protecting him this year. Um,
Speaker 1: and we've we've improved there, but a lot of that
Speaker 1: on him, how he's maneuvered in the pocket. Um this year,
Speaker 1: it has really helped us and he gotten us out
Speaker 1: of a lot of trouble. Mason, do you guys lobby
Speaker 1: for running the ball more? Do you do that? Or
Speaker 1: I mean, do you go up to coops and say, Coogs,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta go talk to Cliff, we gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball more? Do you guys do that at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, we play off in the line
Speaker 1: and there's no lobbying. Why does it help you? Tell
Speaker 1: people why that helps you? Coops is the same way though,
Speaker 1: so there's we don't have to live in the coupe.
Speaker 1: You know, he wants to run the ball too. It
Speaker 1: helps you do your job right the it hopes it
Speaker 1: helps you in your totality when it comes to pass protection. Correct, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I think the one thing about this room is
Speaker 1: we know we run the ball successful in a game, Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna end up well for the team. Yeah. Um So,
Speaker 1: so we liked that idea, and we like we'd like
Speaker 1: the idea of having having the game in our hands
Speaker 1: and be able to determine how well that's offen it's
Speaker 1: going to be. And hey, between you and the mindset
Speaker 1: of a j R. Sweezy and a DJ Humphreys, And
Speaker 1: I know Justin Pugh wants to run the ball. He
Speaker 1: much rather do that. We've had Kelvin Beecham on the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. I mean, will if you tell me,
Speaker 1: these are all guys with the mentality they want to
Speaker 1: come off the ball and attack. And if you want
Speaker 1: to set a tone early and get off to that
Speaker 1: fast start. It's never a bad idea to bring a
Speaker 1: little physicality to start a game, right, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, Polly, I honestly wonder if, in fact what
Speaker 1: Seattle did and playing the Edges, playing Kyler first is
Speaker 1: going to be something the Patriots are going to try
Speaker 1: to mimic. And if that is the case, you gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball, and you gotta run it in a
Speaker 1: Northsop way. And once again, five times in Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: season af they run for more than two hundred yards
Speaker 1: in a game. We'll see what's in store on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. Let's talk Thanksgiving holiday. He's an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: after all, right, this is his holiday. Him and the
Speaker 1: guys next and the big Red Rage presented by santan
Speaker 1: Ford in Gilbert had Not Household is all about versatility.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do to me, My wife is gonna do
Speaker 1: all the sides. We ain't got two boxes of Jeffy
Speaker 1: us today for the dressing. Jeffy Jeffy corn bread means
Speaker 1: for the dressing, Jim, what is Jeffy Jeffy corn You
Speaker 1: eat corn bread? Oh yeah, okay, Jeffrey corn bread. I
Speaker 1: cannot believe you guys don't know what Jeffy is not
Speaker 1: us Oh god, it's I mean, I grew up on Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Where's the Jeffy? You know, we need we need some
Speaker 1: Jeffy corn bread and we need to get it popping asap.
Speaker 1: That's an all time moment from the history of the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. Now twenty years plus. Adrian Wilson, the
Speaker 1: host of the time, Rex had not the guest offensive
Speaker 1: linemen and our Jim One Hunter. I know, we was
Speaker 1: playing the straight manner. It was just the heavy and
Speaker 1: then it carried over to the show walf and we
Speaker 1: all got to beat down from Adrian Wilson and Rex
Speaker 1: had not because we weren't up apparently on the particulars
Speaker 1: of Jeffy. Yeah, and how you know it's necessary and
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving holiday in particular to get it quote popping asap, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Rex was incensed by that by
Speaker 1: the White baul. So our guest here is an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: Mason Coles, starting center. Now, Mason, it says here they
Speaker 1: list you at six five three zero seven, So you know,
Speaker 1: come on now, I you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and typecast, But how many plates can you
Speaker 1: throw down? You're an offensive lineman after all, in your prime,
Speaker 1: and I think you're profiling there. I think you're profiling. No,
Speaker 1: there's no thinking about it. Thanksgiving's huge, man, that's what
Speaker 1: that's that's our holiday. That's offensive lineman holidays. We love it? Uh? Did?
Speaker 1: There will be at least two And I say two plates?
Speaker 1: I mean they're full plates overflown of food tomorrow for sure. Mason,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite? What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Well, so
Speaker 1: my mom has always made these, uh, these cheesy potatoes
Speaker 1: with corn flakes. Oh so now so now my wife's
Speaker 1: making them. So that's that's always been my favorite sport.
Speaker 1: That was a little Now did you ask for that?
Speaker 1: Did you have to sort of adroitly ask that you know?
Speaker 1: Or did your wife just pick up on it inherently?
Speaker 1: Was it? You know? It was that kind of an
Speaker 1: awkward moment when you made the request. How'd that go? Oh? No, No,
Speaker 1: she knew because she loves them too. So there are
Speaker 1: those secrets in this household. Is there a name for him?
Speaker 1: Or they called something Mason? They're just they're just they're
Speaker 1: cheese with teatoes. I don't know where she got the recipe,
Speaker 1: but ever since I remember, she's making them. What about
Speaker 1: for dessert? Former Big Red Rache host Klais Campbell always
Speaker 1: look forward to, you know, speaking to mom. Mom had
Speaker 1: the ice box pie. Remember that Wolf there the chocolate,
Speaker 1: the peanut butter, and the bananas. We're not gonna ask
Speaker 1: Wolf about pumpkin pie. We don't need that three hour
Speaker 1: rant right now. I know nobody needs that. Nobody needs
Speaker 1: and Wolf's disdained for squash. But for you, what's the
Speaker 1: go to dessert? Mason coll We got actually, we got
Speaker 1: two pies cooking our house right now. We got a
Speaker 1: Peekam pie cooking and we got Apple pie is cooking.
Speaker 1: So uh, that's my go to pie. See there you
Speaker 1: go right there. I mean you can't go wrong Apple
Speaker 1: and Peak Gone. I'm yeah, I'm not. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not huge in the pumpkin. It's it's a weird texture
Speaker 1: thing from me, Na, That's what it is for me.
Speaker 1: It's the texture of it all. What it's weird? What
Speaker 1: are you doing if I'm gonna have If I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have a pie, it's not gonna be a pump let
Speaker 1: me tell you. Open up a pumpkin, go ahead and
Speaker 1: look inside of it and say, man, we're gonna make
Speaker 1: this dirt out of that. I mean exactly exactly. You know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know I'd go down in a big way.
Speaker 1: But PAULI Pilgrim over here, I gotta step up as
Speaker 1: an American and defend pumpkin pie against you. Come on, now,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? Yeah, I'm not saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't like pumpkin pie, but if I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a pie, it's not gonna be Okay, Mason, how about this?
Speaker 1: Do you have any Thanksgiving Day traditions in your family? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: not really. You know when I when I was little,
Speaker 1: we would always have a little a little turkey football
Speaker 1: game with some some close family friends and and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But um, now since we've been out here
Speaker 1: and with my wife and now baby on the way,
Speaker 1: we you know, we're getting in that end of that
Speaker 1: time where we gotta make our own traditions. Now, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's so. So you have the apple pie the pecan pie,
Speaker 1: and they're baking as we speak. I'm guessing you didn't
Speaker 1: make either pie. And I'll just move on and pose
Speaker 1: the question which which member of the old line room
Speaker 1: or maybe your old line coach, could whip up the
Speaker 1: best Thanksgiving meal? Because you know, DJ Humphrey's always growing,
Speaker 1: He's posting photos on Instagram. Justin Pugh does the same.
Speaker 1: Cougs told us that that he and his wife are foodie.
Speaker 1: So who do you think is the best chef in
Speaker 1: that old line room? I would put I would put
Speaker 1: Cougu's wife up there. I don't know if Cougs is cooking,
Speaker 1: but I would put Coog the wlafe up there. Out
Speaker 1: of all the guys, man, I'd have to go beach. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know he's a country technist, dude, He's he's got it.
Speaker 1: He's got it right. Oh my goodness. So are you
Speaker 1: gonna watch all the games when you get the opportunity?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna sit there? Are you gonna watch games?
Speaker 1: What is your schedule gonna be like on thanks? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What it's gonna What is it gonna be like tomorrow? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Of course I want to watch the games? What else?
Speaker 1: You guys? They're Mason. There used to be a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that I'll tell you right now. All he
Speaker 1: did his watch film right on our upcoming opponent, watch film,
Speaker 1: watch film. The last thing a lot of guys wanted
Speaker 1: to do was watch a football game. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: watch it, huh Yeah. But you know, when you're sitting
Speaker 1: down and having having a piece of pecan pie or
Speaker 1: apple pie, watching a football game, it's a little different
Speaker 1: than watching films. So there would be a nice, nice
Speaker 1: mental break from from the film, from the film for
Speaker 1: the day. It's the peak and pie that puts you
Speaker 1: in a good mood right sitting there, and you're saying,
Speaker 1: better them than me, that's what you're saying exactly. Here's
Speaker 1: here's Larry Fitzgerald. I mean he's in his seventeen season,
Speaker 1: for Pete's sake, and I think he's still watching football fits.
Speaker 1: What are your plans? Pick up the turkey? You know,
Speaker 1: I'll probably stop over my brother's house, see his family,
Speaker 1: and then you know, call grandma and you know, check
Speaker 1: in with the family, and then get home, you know,
Speaker 1: have something to eat and you know, watch the games
Speaker 1: and fall asleep on the count. You know usually asked
Speaker 1: about the routine, and then wake up, you know, after
Speaker 1: that meal, and then do it all over again. Made
Speaker 1: me another plate, Get some compeach, cobbler, a little ice cream,
Speaker 1: now that I'm excited about her anything like that, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's usually what happens. Still, no pumpkin, Larry's going
Speaker 1: for peach cobbler all the mode, my goodness. Okay. By
Speaker 1: the way, Buddha, Buddha says. Buddha says he doesn't like turkey.
Speaker 1: He opts for ham. Yeah, and mint chocolate. Also, I
Speaker 1: also agree with that. I think I think turkey's little.
Speaker 1: There's the reason why turkey do only eat once a year.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, waiting, Okay, somebody. I mean Thanksgiving, though,
Speaker 1: you gotta do the traditional turkey Dad, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go and have him. I'm gonna have him turkey.
Speaker 1: But it's not like the most That's not what I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to. I Thanksgiving. It's not the turkey. I
Speaker 1: mean the Ham, of course is Christmas. We all know
Speaker 1: that the Ham and Christmas. And it's tomorrow, tomorrow, so
Speaker 1: you're having ham. I mean, if you're gonna get together,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have any type of holiday, you're having ham.
Speaker 1: I mean a big old ham. Yeah. Yes, okay, you
Speaker 1: guys are breaking all the rules. I mean a couple
Speaker 1: of Philistines around here. What's going on. You gotta get
Speaker 1: you guys coached up on the traditions of Thanksgiving. You know,
Speaker 1: I he this needs to going like to the Old
Speaker 1: Line podcast. The Old Line Room needs a podcast. This
Speaker 1: needs to be discussed in depth. That's what I would say. Podcast.
Speaker 1: You gotta talk to PU for that. He'd beat the
Speaker 1: podcast guy. You know, he's oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: going right to network with Michael Strahan. That's what he
Speaker 1: was doing. That's that's my guess. So and let the
Speaker 1: record reflect, Mason. We didn't bring up Michigan football, although
Speaker 1: you guys did get past Rutgers, so you know that's
Speaker 1: that's you brought up, Jim Harball. We didn't bring up
Speaker 1: the Wolverines though, in the state of the program right now.
Speaker 1: So okay, that's well. I got the first win this year.
Speaker 1: Mason Man, thank you so much for your time. God
Speaker 1: bless you, and Happy Thanksgiving. Appreciate you guys. Have a
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Mason, right back at you. We'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll wrap up this edition to the Big
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Speaker 1: starting center Mason Cole, Paul Kalvic, Ron Wolfley and and
Speaker 1: and you heard the reverence for coach Belichick. You correct
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, But there's seems like some genuine uncertainty
Speaker 1: as to what Belichick is gonna game plan against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals offense. What is the defensive front gonna look like?
Speaker 1: How aggressive will they be? And to listen to Mason Cole,
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, that's the norm. He changes
Speaker 1: it up week to week depending on them. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's fascinating to me. We don't know what he's
Speaker 1: gonna do. But they the Cardinals need to run the
Speaker 1: ball that much. I do know, Paul. They need to
Speaker 1: run the ball and do it in a North South fashion.
Speaker 1: I know I've been saying this over and over and
Speaker 1: over again, but it's a must this week in my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's my question real quick. If Kyler can't run
Speaker 1: the ball, or they're reluctant to run Kyler because of
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury, which is what happened, and Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: confirmed as much to a certain degree on his weekly
Speaker 1: TV show game Plan. He only had five carries for
Speaker 1: fifteen yards Kyler Murray. So now what can you get
Speaker 1: that effective ground game going? Because you like to talk
Speaker 1: about now it's a three headed monster, Well what if
Speaker 1: it's just Kenny Drake and Chase Edmonds. Yeah, absolutely, PAULI
Speaker 1: this is going to be the thing right here. I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots are going to go into this game thinking, Okay, Kyler,
Speaker 1: you can run the ball. You can do that. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna play the edges just the way the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks really played those edges, and play Kyler first. And
Speaker 1: then if in fact he's not running the ball and
Speaker 1: he's handing the ball off, then I think they might
Speaker 1: actually change up what it is they're gonna do. Like
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, they played Kyler Murray first. Remember Kyler after
Speaker 1: the game, he said, many they were playing me heavy, right,
Speaker 1: they were playing me heavy. I'm paraphrasing what he was saying.
Speaker 1: But they wanted the ball out of Kyler Murray's hand.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Bill Belichick is gonna want
Speaker 1: as well, the ball out of his hands. And then
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds said after the game that when the Cardinals
Speaker 1: showed some run personnel looks, the Seahawks automatically checked in
Speaker 1: five defensive linemen. And that was their other response that so,
Speaker 1: so can the Cardinals run the ball? How often will
Speaker 1: they run the ball? And then how about a Patriots
Speaker 1: team that entered that loss against the Texans with more
Speaker 1: rushing attempts than any team in the league. Yet somehow
Speaker 1: the Texas NFL worst run defense held the Patriots to
Speaker 1: just eighty six yards rushing. They came in averaging a
Speaker 1: buck sixty one. Yeah, they didn't play well up front
Speaker 1: right there, if you look at that Tay PAULI they
Speaker 1: did not block well at the point of attack at all.
Speaker 1: But to me, again, the Patriots are going to get
Speaker 1: into twenty one personnel. This is what they do. Two backs,
Speaker 1: including a fullback Paul. They get into twenty one personnel
Speaker 1: and that is their number one personnel group and run
Speaker 1: down situations, and they're gonna run the ball. One hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty four snaps on first and ten, ninety eight
Speaker 1: of them were runs Paul ninety eight. That is what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. That's their number one personnel group. They're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and hammer the ball. They're number four
Speaker 1: in rushing yards per game and number eight and rushing
Speaker 1: yards per play. They're gonna line up and they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to run the ball. And I gotta believe a
Speaker 1: lot of it is going to do with the fact
Speaker 1: that Kyler Murray once again will be on the sideline,
Speaker 1: very much like the Seattle Seahawks who ran at thirty
Speaker 1: one times for over one hundred and sixty yards five
Speaker 1: point three yards per carry. And it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: was Russell Wilson. He only had forty two yards rushing
Speaker 1: on ten carries. They handed the ball off to running backs.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball against the Cardinals. That's what the
Speaker 1: Patriots are going to try to do offensively. They're using
Speaker 1: backup Damian Harris. He's averaging more than five yards to
Speaker 1: carry there without Rex Burkhead the rest of this Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna hurt. He was carted off of that knee injury.
Speaker 1: He's done and they're left tackle is a win left
Speaker 1: that Houston game. He has not practiced this week, so
Speaker 1: that's a big injury question for the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: But remember what Mason Cole said, But Jim Harbaugh used
Speaker 1: to say, the only way to get a bad taste
Speaker 1: out of your mouth to beer an offensive lineman is
Speaker 1: to go out and whoop someone. So we'll see which
Speaker 1: offensive line rit deems itself on Sunday in New England.
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