WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - O-Line Excited To Get Back On Field 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.400 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. Ahead 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:10.320 he got Jack. This is the big red Rain presented 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.440 by Santanford in Gilbert. Harry's gonna score touchdown. Then so 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.320 for Bets goes up and begs the game. When it 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:22.799 cast flurry Luncheon does it again. The rage is brought 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.600 to you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Or are you Satanford? 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.320 State Farm Talk to an agent today at eight hundred 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:37.120 State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts, Visit Acy Cardinals 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:45.919 dot Com, Slash podcasts, The Rods rising, ard, temperatureizing, vision, flurring, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.560 rage taking over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the popcorn ready, 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.440 It's gonna be a show and Ron will flip. It 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.880 doesn't get any better than that. Hors unleash the far 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:06.480 How about it? A football flashback Thanksgiving Day, nineteen twenty nine, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.679 Ron wolf Lake about a month remove from the Great 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.000 Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. Oh, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.319 we had a Cardinals Hall of Famer who had himself 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.240 a Feast Hall of Famer, Ernie Nevers. Maybe you've seen 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.880 the name in the Ring of Fame on State Farm Stadium. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.880 I have seen it okay, So on Thanksgiving Day nineteen 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:37.480 twenty nine, ninety one years ago, he scored forty total points, 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:42.080 six touchdowns, and four pats. Don't forget about the bats ball. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:48.520 It's critical because it remains the NFL's oldest record and 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.560 the six touchdowns are still tied for the NFL single 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.400 game record. Think about that. That's getting it done ball. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.200 That is production. So in the face of twenty twenty, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.440 I just thought we'd stay supremely optimistic. How about that? 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.680 For an intro to the Big Red Rage presented by 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.760 Santan Ford and Gilbert we are Santan Ford, Paul KELVC, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.120 mister Ron Wolfley, and Mason Cole going to join us 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.000 a little bit later. I mean, you know you talk 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.960 about a feast, right and what it is? Thanksgiving? All 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.440 about a giving thanks be putting on your football feedback. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.320 Well you got to get an offensive linement on a 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.600 Thanksgiving addition to the Big Red Rage, do you not? 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.600 You absolutely do. I cannot wait to talk to Mason 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:29.840 Cole and ask him right away, Paulie, what was it 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.080 like to actually miss games? That's what I want to know, Mason? 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.000 Are you kidding me? This is a guy that has 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.720 played in so many games. Of course, a guy that 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.040 has been so durable throughout his career for the most part, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.160 can't wait to talk to Mason Cole doing you a 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.160 nice job developing as a center. By the way, a 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.720 little bit later, we're gonna hear a dessertive choice by 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.959 Larry Fitzgerald, his go to and what his game plan 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.600 is on Thanksgiving days, So that's coming up a little 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.640 bit later. We'll get into Isaiah Simmons real quick. But 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.399 give me a quick thought here as the Cardinals coming 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.880 off the buy. Yes they're six and four, Yes they 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.399 control their own destiny. They're right there in the thick 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.680 of the playoff race. But now they're a game behind 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.919 both the Seahawks and the Rams. They still have two 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.079 games left with the LA Rams, and they're going to 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.160 New England on Sunday. And we all know about Bill Belichick, 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.360 and you know them better than most, is your former 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.000 head coach. Give me a thought on where you think 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.040 the Cards are the state of the Cardinals at this moment, Polly. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.560 First of all, they're in a good spot, right, I mean, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.799 they're in a good position to make a run here. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.600 And this is an old saying in the National Football League. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.960 You win games in November to make a run in December. Well, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.400 right now, they've got to win games. I look at 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.680 the New England Patriots and they've got three pretty impressive wins. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.720 Now again, the Miami Dolphins. I don't want to make 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.920 them out to be world beaters, but I think we 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.000 got a front row seat to the Miami Dolphins and 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.600 had a good chance of competing with them and possibly 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.880 winning a game. And they ended up beating the Arizona Cardinals. Well, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.480 you know what, honestly, the Patriots beat them. They beat 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.000 they beat the Vegas Raiders as well, and they beat Baltimore. Paul, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.440 he so you know this is a team that is capable. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.560 Cam Newton has been all over the place. The defense 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.920 is going to have to play so well in order 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.400 to get a win on the road, but I think 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.640 the offense once again carries the greatest way to ball. Paul, 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.919 you had a chance to actually talk to Bill Belichick 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.560 an interview, your former head coach this morning one SEVENFM 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.919 Arizona Sports, and you're reminded such a genius, and I 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.120 mean think about it, forty six years he has been 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.839 coaching in the NFL, now ye is an assistant and 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.839 as a head coach. It's been nineteen straight winning seasons 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.279 for Bill Belichick. Last time they had six losses it 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.280 was two thousand and nine. Think about that in a season, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.640 and there's just there's so much beauty in the simplicity 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.400 of what he does. And by that I mean on defense, 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.799 they're gonna try and take away what you do best, 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.680 and when New England's on offense, they're gonna attack what 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.560 they view as your major weakness. Now, how he does 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.960 that can get very complicated and complex, but at its essence, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.800 that's really what he does as a head coach. That's 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.240 his philosophy, isn't it. There's no doubt about it, Paul. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.200 He's gonna take away whatever you do well, that's what 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.200 he's gonna do. And he typically doesn't run down situation 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:23.160 and third and obvious past situations as well. But interviewing 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.680 Bill is not easy. Let me tell you that right now, Paul. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.240 I'm just saying you, you know this, that was a difficult, 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.159 difficult to interview, especially the first few questions when he 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.080 came on. He went full coach Billy Jack, which I 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:38.720 was a little surprised that I gotta tell you, I 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.680 was a little taken by and you could tell right away. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.800 You're absolutely right that he was in he was in 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.119 regular season mode. Yes, Now you interview him in June 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.920 or July, he's probably a totally different person, a little 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.960 bit different Paul, no doubt. Game week Yeah, and and 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.640 and and he's on the air in the city of 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.520 his opponent. So yes, he was measuring every word and 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.159 then some. By the way, Ron Wolfley, speaking of head coaches, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.839 I don't know if he saw the news late this 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.920 afternoon news out of Saint Louis that former Cardinals head 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.919 coach Jim Hannafin has passed away at the age of 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.560 eighty seven. I know he was your former head coach 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:21.200 and saw all the best to the Hannafin family that 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.280 news came down. We continue with a big red rage 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.600 presented by satan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.120 Snapp the Wilson Cardinals bringing to pressure. It's picked up 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.040 Wilson the time of the pocket, now in trouble and 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.839 sacked about four Cardinals in the backfield. But it's Isaiah 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.359 Simmons of the rookie that gets the Russell Wilson first 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.640 to force a fund shotgun snapped to Wilson, straight drop back, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.599 steps up in the pocket, takes off running far side 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.880 at the forty and drilled by Simmons at the forty one. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.680 Isaiah Simmons is balling shotgun statt Wilson, quick throw to 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.559 the left, flat metcalf call at the thirty eight, drop 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.760 by Isaiah Simmons for a loss at the thirty sevent 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.080 yard line. Simmons has played terrific football tonight, the rookie 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.240 really starting to get comfortable out there. About ten tackles 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.280 that was a team high in forty five snaps. His 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.440 first career SAG year the montage there Arizona Cardinals radio 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.640 and day pass. Two tackles for a loss, a quarterback 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:30.480 hit all at Seattle where truly his initial playmaking prowess 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.480 was seen in this Sunday night game against Seattle when 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.440 he had to pick at overtime. He played only five 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.000 snaps in that game, had the pick, and everything has 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.400 been different ever since. If you listen to his defensive coordinator, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.920 Advanced Joseph, it is a big red rage presented by 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.360 santan Ford and Gilbert. We are satan Ford, Paul kelvc 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.120 Ron Wolfley Mason Cole Cardinals starting center right around the corner. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.160 Give me your thoughts on what you saw in Seattle 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.520 of Isaiah Simmons Wolf because then I'll share what Jordan 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.920 Hicks told the media earlier this week. Yeah. I saw 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.120 a downhill player Polly for the most part right here. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.760 And what I mean by that is a guy that 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.000 is initiating contact, a guy that was very, very aggressive. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.559 Not only is Isaiah Simmons, as you well know Polly 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.440 very athletic and can run with the best of them 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.600 all over the field, but also a guy that I 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.040 need to see come downhill and be physical at the 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.000 point of attack. And guess what, that's exactly what he was. 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:28.880 I loved his physicality. I love the Jagermeister, if you will, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.600 the man hunter that I think he can possibly be. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.240 Very much like a Daryl Washington used to be for 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.720 the Arizona Cardinals. I see Isaiah Simmons filling that role 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.360 because just because he has a measurables doesn't mean he's 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.800 gonna play like that. You have to see it, don't you. 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.720 I mean you have to see a guy that Okay, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.880 we know he's fast, but can he play fast, can 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.360 he navigate the mental side of the game. And it's 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.959 been a process, there's no doubt about it. But when 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.000 George Hicks tells the media that when he was watching 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.520 film and he's like, okay, all of us, you don't 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.200 see Isaiah Simmons in the frame, and then he's the 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.600 guy making the tackle a moment later, you just realize 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.520 how quickly he can be a difference maker and get 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.560 to the ball carrier. Yeah, Polly, And what I love is, 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.320 once again, they've pretty much kept him in a few packages. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.840 Of course, they've used him in different ways, but they 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.559 haven't really overloaded him at all. They've taken their time 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.280 with Isaiah Simmons, and I think it's starting to pay 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.120 off right now because he feels confident, he feels like 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.040 he knows what it is that he's doing. And we've 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.679 talked about this many, many times. This is always going 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.160 to be a work in progress when you talk about 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.600 Isaiah Simmons, because you miss as many snaps as he 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.559 missed in the offseason, and it's going to be quite 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.320 the transition when you move right into regular season games 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.000 in the National Football League, that's quite the transition period 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.520 for a guy that is learning, and every rookie has 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.120 to prove it. But I think there's also a process 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.120 and you tell me Wolf, but every rookie has to 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.440 prove it to themself. Oh yeah, no doubt Paul that that. 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:05.360 I mean, we know he's a Blue Chipper, he's an 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.280 All American, he's a number eight pick overall, he's got 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.800 all the measurables. He's a freak. But and he admitted 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.560 this week that, yeah, you know, that interception went a 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.480 long way for his own self confidence. Oh yeah, and 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.120 Vance Joseph said, ever since that interception, he's been different, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.839 his body language, his confidence, He's been more outgoing with 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.440 with other players. It changed his mindset. In the words 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.720 of Ants Joseph, here's Isaiah Simmons talking this week and 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.560 just the wait because there were several games where you 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.480 could count on two hands how many snaps he got 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.600 in the entire game, and that's all changed here recently. Yeah, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.320 it was really hard. I've always been like the star guy, 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:46.280 so it was rough. And you know, I had a 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.640 lot of outside support from just family and friends and 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.800 even my teammates. You know, my teammates would come in 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.840 like you know, like Zay, don't worry about it, just 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.240 be patient at times when common when it comes, just 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.120 take full advantage of it. And I did that my 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.600 time game. And that was some of the advice from 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.280 Hassan Reddick as well. Hassan had shared a couple of 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.280 weeks ago that you know, he said a number of 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.360 talks his son was right in that same that same spot, 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.440 taken in the top half of the first round and 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.800 expected to play in that linebacker position, and his advice 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:18.840 to him was, yes, you gotta wait. It's tough, but 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.400 it's when you get your chance that you got to 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.280 make sure you stick, that you keep your job and 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.640 you make a difference. And it was still the point. Well, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.199 when the media release came out this week, I checked 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.360 the depth chart. Yeah, I wanted to see if Isaiah Simmons, right, 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.280 was actually ahead of Divandre Campbell. Now he's not. And 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.520 we don't know the exact status of Divandra Campbell and 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.280 the calf injury, but you can't tell me he's not 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.520 pushing the veteran. You know, we talk about this all 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.160 the time, Pauli, but don't think for a moment just 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.400 because Isaiah Simmons is an athletic freak, that he was 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.880 beamed down from the mother ship. And that's what we 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.959 think somehow they're different than you and I when they're not. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.680 You're exactly right. Isaiah Simmons had to prove to himself 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.320 first that he could play. And I don't care what 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.880 you say. You can say, oh, he's so confident, stopped wolf, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.160 knock it off. I'm telling you right now, as a 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.760 rookie playing in this league, you got to prove it 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.280 to yourself that you can actually survive and thrive on 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.480 the field. And I think he's in the process of 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.600 doing that. And we've seen him an inside outside linebacker 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.880 nicol and it's safety. So we'll see about New England 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.959 Mason Cole starting center next. On the Big Red Rage 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:30.720 presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert get back the throne, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.280 flushed out, rolling left, in trouble, slips a tackle, gotta 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.000 launch it. He does left side into the end zone 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:44.280 jump ball and it is regard regard regard, Oh my goodness, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:52.439 a fun Hopkins God, Yeah, oh my god. And the 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.959 game is over. Click Martin Wal's winning thirty two to thirty. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.040 I know, well, the Hail Murray is so two weeks ago. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.600 But come on now, no better intro than the real time, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.400 real life reaction of the guy who started that play 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.960 by snapping the ball and getting that play in motion 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.800 the play of the NFL season. And don't forget three 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.800 players touched the football on that play. In reverse order 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.600 of appearance, there was DeAndre Hopkins, Kyler Murray and our 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.760 guest on the Big Red Rage Knight presented by Santan 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:30.240 Ford and Gilbert Mason Cole. You're starting center, Mason. Now 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.960 we're doing on the night before Thanksgiving. What's up, guys? 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.439 How you doing do well and doing great? Mason? Really 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.040 appreciate you joining us right now. Buddy. How has the 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.839 year been for you so far? Man, it's been it's 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.840 been good. Uh. It's up and down. Obviously, wish we 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.480 could have, you know, won all these games, but it's 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.840 been good so far. We've got a tough stretch coming 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.200 up here, these next next six games and it's either 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.200 all kind of must win for us. So uh, you know, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:00.120 happy about you know, the first ten games. But there 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.960 was a guy in the past. Now we're just looking forward. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.320 Our goal right now it's just beat New England and 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.640 we'll go from there was that hail Murray? By the way, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.840 was that the most unbridled joy you've had on a 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.040 football field since so, I don't know, high school or 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.200 something like that, man, maybe even before that. It's like 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.920 plays like that make you make you realize that this 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.080 game is the same game that we've been playing since 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.840 we were you know, six, seven, five years old, whatever 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.760 it might be. Um it brings you back to those moments, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.960 just like a little kid just excited. Why is that, Mason? 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.480 Why do you say that? Why? What? What was it 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.000 about that play that totally made you realize, you know what, 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.240 this is the same game I was playing when I 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.600 was seven. You know, when you get to this point 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.560 in the game and playing professionally, it's easy to forget that. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.000 It's easy to forget that it is the same game. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.920 Whether it be the stress of the season, money, whatever 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.080 it might be, it's easy to forget that this is 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.640 still the same game that we've all played since we 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.680 were growing up. Um. So, so it's little moments like that, 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.640 I guess, not a little moment, a big moment like that, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.600 but a bunch of other little things too that just 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.080 bring you back to those times and you realize that. Uh, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.560 you know, we're getting paid a bunch of money to 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.520 play the game that we've been playing since we were 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.160 five years old. I love that, Mason, Man, that is 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.320 so cool, and and I get it. There's all the pressures. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.480 It's your job, it's a business. There's expectations, there's a 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.600 head coach, there's a position coach. I mean, there's everything, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.640 no doubt, And I would guess you're probably playing your 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.400 best when you're able to dismiss all that and just 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.800 have fun at the game. Is that an accurate presumption? Absolutely? 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.800 You know. It's it's easy to complicate and easy to 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.880 put a lot of pressure on yourself. But when you 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.840 keep things simple, when you play relax, when you play loose, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.560 that's that's usual when you play the best. Um, So 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.000 it's you know, it's easy to not do that, but 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.680 it's also easy easy to remind yourself like, hey, this 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.320 is this is so the same game. Just go out 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.920 there and um do what you've been doing your whole life. Mason, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:04.160 where have you improved for the most? Do you think? Honestly, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.280 I think all over the place. Um, I don't know 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.440 if I can pick one point or another, but all 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.800 across the board, you know, and that's big credit to 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.600 KU's and Daddy in our room. UM. I know I've 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.000 touched that a little bit, and other guys in the 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.480 room affect than that. Um, But those those two, UM, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.400 I mean there's they're special in the combination of those 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.920 two and how they push us and how they work us, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.040 how they control that room. UM, I mean it's incredible 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.360 and we've all everyone in that room has made uh 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.280 tremendous progress in their technique the way to play the game. Um, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.120 since Cou's and Day have gotten in there. It's all 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.960 about you, Mason Cole, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.040 You and the offensive line. And look, Wolf and I 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.280 have been leaning the charge for a good year now 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.840 that this is not the offensive line that at times 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.720 is portrayed by the national media some sort of liability. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.240 I mean, it's just completely false. You guys have have 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.960 doubled down, improved it again this year, spent almost all 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.720 year number one or number two in the ESPN pass 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.800 block and run block win and we can see. But 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.159 but Thursday night at Seattle, you tell me what did 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.919 you make of the offensive lines performance? And maybe more importantly, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.119 what did your position go to Sean Coogler. Think of 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.080 you guys up front. Yeah, I think the message to 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.920 our room is, uh, after that game is just we 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.520 didn't do our job. Um, as much as we've done 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.520 it earlier in the year, and we played well last Thursday, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.560 we just we just didn't do that. We rusted the 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.480 ball efficiently. We didn't protect Kyler well enough. UM. That's 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.720 that's not us, each and every one of us in 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.840 that room. UM. And the only way to do the 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:33.359 only way to fix it is it go out there 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.840 this week and correct it. Um. One thing Coacharball always 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:40.280 told me about that Michigan told the team is that, Um, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:41.600 the only way to get a bad taste out of 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.800 your mouth is to go out and uh. And what's up? 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.200 So um, you know whatever that is. You know we 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.440 we we got the people in to correct it. UM. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.560 And Couse told all of us is that he trust 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.680 everyone in our room. UM, so he's not worried about it. Um. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.760 You know that people have bad games to have bad games, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.600 and it was just one for us if we didn't 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.359 didn't do our job. Yeah. I think for you, for 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.639 the most part this season, you guys have been fantastic, 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.760 absolutely fantastic here. And that was probably the worst game 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.400 that you guys played against Seattle. What is the best game? 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.760 Is there one game that stands out that you think 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:22.840 the entire offensive line really balled out. I don't know 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.959 if I could pick one game, um, because you know, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:26.880 each and every game or something in where we didn't 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.600 do well enough or something we did really well. Um, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.399 just looking back, you know, you know Dallas rushing for 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.320 I don't really back yard. It was over two hundred yards, um, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.879 Buffalo we rushed for you know, two hundred and fifteen 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.879 yards whatever it was. Um. So we've we've had some 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:43.600 really good games, and we had some games. We've been 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.680 here and there. But there's things good to take from 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.760 every game and things bad to take every game from 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.879 every game that we need to correct. Yeah, the Sunday 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.680 night game against Seattle, Kyler wasn't sacked, he wasn't hit. 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.080 And then you know, five times under Cliff Kingsbury. And 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:58.760 I don't think this is another thing the national media 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.880 doesn't realize. Here wasn't a car of rush for two 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:02.840 hundred and more yards in a season and a half, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.800 and that happened five times in the previous fifteen years 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.960 of Cardinals football. When you guys are really rolling in 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.520 the ground game like that, what's happening? How? Why does 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.280 that happen? When we guys clips two hundred yards rushing? 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:17.920 You know, I think I think that has to do 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.199 a lot with the play call and a lot to 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.080 do with us and having confidence in us. You know, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:23.679 if we if we early in the game, we can 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:28.159 get the run game going and get efficient runs and 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.600 also put ourselves in second, medium, third, and short, keep 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.800 us on our third and lungs. You know, those efficient 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.959 runs help you all across the board, helps your pass game, 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.840 helps your play action. So we can do that early 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.639 and establish run game early, I think it really helps 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.640 us throughout the whole game, open everything up. And then 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.959 we start doing play action. You start taking shots down 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.960 the field, and that's only can open the run game 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.160 up even more. And Mason, so talking about starting fast, 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.080 real quick. Here's what Larry Fitzgerald said earlier today on 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.480 something that Cliff Kingsbury is cited as a need to 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.000 get out of the gates and get on the scoreboard 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.960 early in the game. I mean, eventually we get it going, 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.240 you know, every game we play, but It would be 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:09.680 amazing if we can do it from the first time 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.440 we touched the football, go down and you know, put 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.359 together a great you know, seven to eight play scoring 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.840 drive just to really set the set the game up 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:19.720 and put it in um. You know, put ourselves in 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:21.800 the driver's seat early. You know, there's no better time 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.159 to start than than this week. You know, let's go 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.639 out and you know, score points in the first quarter 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.160 and continue to onslaught. That would be great. I'm guessing 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:33.080 you guys are feeling that urgency right now as an offense. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:34.920 And I think you know, those those first couple of 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:36.800 drives of the game, I think we struggled with all 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.359 year for for whatever reason. UM. And then kind of 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.240 like Lady said, we let me start, let me start 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.560 to get it going. UM. So that's obviously huge focus 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.119 on us. It started fast, um, especially too with the 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.240 tempo of our offense. If we can start fast and 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.840