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Speaker 1: We all have questions. The entire league wants to know
Speaker 1: Wolf They demand answers, and we're starting to get them slowly,
Speaker 1: but Sureley. Derek Card to the Saints, Geno Smith staying
Speaker 1: with the Seahawks, Aaron Rodgers to the Jets, d Hop
Speaker 1: Traded imminent, Zach Allen Byron Murphy about Kelvin Beach and
Speaker 1: Will Hernandez. What is their future as the key marquee
Speaker 1: Cardinals free agents? These answers are starting. We even just
Speaker 1: got the answer on the compis for the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty three drafts. So all that combined
Speaker 1: with everything we saw at the combine and what's been
Speaker 1: going on in fact, wolf if you don't bring it
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Speaker 1: it'll star Lorenzo Alexander, former Cardinal. If you don't bring
Speaker 1: it in this addition, Ron Wolfley, I'm just gonna start
Speaker 1: reading the combined results from Anthony Richardson because I think
Speaker 1: those are entertaining. When the guy has bigger hands than
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Yes, yes, that is incredible, right there, Paula. Honestly,
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, this is a guy. It's it's combine, it's
Speaker 1: combine time, and this is a guy that I think
Speaker 1: is going to benefit greatly from the combine. I've heard
Speaker 1: some cuts on him that are just laugh out loud
Speaker 1: funny right now, Scouts talking about him, coaches talking about
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, so many of them saying, this guy, his traits,
Speaker 1: his traits, his traits are incredible. But then you watch
Speaker 1: the film and you wonder, you know, and that's the
Speaker 1: combine and that is the conundrum. Hey, rich eisenshow earlier
Speaker 1: this week quoted a rumor that Eisen the chair of
Speaker 1: all the combine coverage in NFL network, where he says
Speaker 1: he's here in scouts saying and personal guys saying they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if Anthony Richardson goes number one overall.
Speaker 1: And you know what, that's good for business if you're
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, because our marketing mantra is AZ needs three.
Speaker 1: You need three quarterbacks up top, Bryce Young, CJ. Stroute,
Speaker 1: hopefully Anthony Richardson. And then the Cardinals have a choice.
Speaker 1: Do they take oh maybe a Will Anderson who would
Speaker 1: still be on the board, or they trade out. We'll
Speaker 1: get into all that right now. Let's talk about where
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are as of this week. As of the
Speaker 1: last couple of days, as Jonathan again and the brand
Speaker 1: new head coach, was introducing his brand new assistance, and
Speaker 1: we do mean brand new. A lot of new names
Speaker 1: and faces and a lot of college experience mixed with
Speaker 1: some NFL experience on this staff. And here's the head
Speaker 1: coach on the makeup of his staff. I felt really
Speaker 1: good about the experience in this room. Guys that have
Speaker 1: done their job at a very high level, Guys that
Speaker 1: were there is no doubt in my mind after talking
Speaker 1: to him for however long I talked to him that
Speaker 1: they were ready to take the next step. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of you know, how I made decisions with the
Speaker 1: staff as I was looking for the right coaches and
Speaker 1: the fit of that altogether. Who are the best coaches
Speaker 1: for the Cardinals? And that's what we did. If a
Speaker 1: team takes on the identity of its head coach, I
Speaker 1: tell you what, this staff takes on the personality of
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon. A lot of energy in that room and
Speaker 1: a lot of youth twelve coaches under the age of
Speaker 1: forty Ron Wolfleywood. What do you make all that? You know,
Speaker 1: it's amazing, Bully. It really is a lot of young
Speaker 1: coaches right now getting the opportunity to come into the
Speaker 1: National Football League, stay in the National Football League, of course,
Speaker 1: and develop. And to me, it's very, very exciting. The
Speaker 1: reason why I say that Polly is because the head
Speaker 1: coach is really important. There's no doubt about it. The
Speaker 1: head coach to a young player has a huge impact
Speaker 1: on him as a pro. But in terms of being
Speaker 1: a better player, your position coach has a bigger impact
Speaker 1: on you than an offensive coordinator, a defensive coordinator, and
Speaker 1: a head coach most of the time, generally speaking, Polly,
Speaker 1: that position coach is going to be so vital in
Speaker 1: the development of a younger player. And that's what I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see here these position coaches, of course,
Speaker 1: that he has assembled, and the impact they're going to
Speaker 1: have on this team. And I would imagine, Paulie, I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I would imagine this team
Speaker 1: is probably going to get younger over the next couple
Speaker 1: of seasons, absolutely, and you know what, this staff will
Speaker 1: reflect that. And this staff shouldn't have any problem relating
Speaker 1: to those younger players because it is the younger staff.
Speaker 1: But they have the benefit of being very experienced at
Speaker 1: the college level, a lot of them. And here's Jonathan
Speaker 1: g In and talking about that. I think that the
Speaker 1: expertise that some college guys have is they've lived in
Speaker 1: that world of how to exploit a defense or how
Speaker 1: to defend certain quarterbacks with certain skill sets like that.
Speaker 1: So there's a reason why pro coaches every spring have
Speaker 1: college staffs come in and they clinic them teach us this,
Speaker 1: so you know, and that goes on pretty regularly. So
Speaker 1: very happy how this staff came together with the different
Speaker 1: types of expertise that we brought in. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1: Only recently have I come to realize the extent at
Speaker 1: which high school football can impact college, and then the
Speaker 1: college game and schemes can impact the NFL. It sort
Speaker 1: of trickles up in a way. Yeah, PAULI very interesting
Speaker 1: cut right there from Jonathan Gannon because I agree with
Speaker 1: what he've said. But I will tell you right now
Speaker 1: that I think over the last couple of seasons, we've
Speaker 1: seen that pendulum swing about as far right to the
Speaker 1: new age, the new offense, the new wage offense, and
Speaker 1: the college offense, and I think it's swinging back more
Speaker 1: towards the middle right now. Polly, this is something I've
Speaker 1: talked to you about. I think there are people that
Speaker 1: are starting to believe that you have to blend the
Speaker 1: old and the new together. It's it's something I've been
Speaker 1: talking about for three years. I think it's what the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals have got to do. It's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why Jonathan Gannon came here and said we got
Speaker 1: to take Kyler Murray and put them more center. That's
Speaker 1: where this offense can evolve the most. And I agree
Speaker 1: with him one hundred percent. So I think that pendulum
Speaker 1: is coming back just a little bit. What's interesting is
Speaker 1: you talk to a lot of these position coaches. In
Speaker 1: some coaches, you know, there's some nons. They have guys
Speaker 1: in the room. Other coaches. If you're the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about who's under contract. DJ Humphrey's, Josh Jones,
Speaker 1: and then the two rookies from a year ago. Listen
Speaker 1: to Smith MARKI says, that's it. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at for example, Patrick Tony, the DB's coach. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: got his two stalwart safeties there in Buddha Baker and
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson, and then you have a Marco Wilson. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be determined for then that defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: So the question of Patrick Tony, the new DBS coach
Speaker 1: and last year was co defensive coordinator at Florida, what
Speaker 1: exactly the coach is doing right now. I think we're
Speaker 1: all catching up on the current personnel on our team. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you gotta know your roster first, doing a good job
Speaker 1: watching the personnel around a league, you know everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to see what everyone's doing in the league,
Speaker 1: studying college prospects to prepare for the draft. And then
Speaker 1: as well as as a defensive staff getting together and
Speaker 1: you know, coming together collaborating on how we're gonna put
Speaker 1: this thing together with coach Rollis, coach Gannon, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's been a lot of fun. And remember, as
Speaker 1: a new staff, you get extra time in the off season,
Speaker 1: So when April gets going, you're going to be out
Speaker 1: on that grass. You're gonna have extra time to work
Speaker 1: with some of the players you free agent acquisitions. And
Speaker 1: I know, Wolf, I mean, what comes to mind you
Speaker 1: think is most critical for this new staff to instill
Speaker 1: once they actually get the players in the building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a great That is a great question, PAULI
Speaker 1: right now, And once again I think Nick Rawlis of
Speaker 1: course and Drew pet Sing, the two coordinators are really
Speaker 1: going to have an awful lot to do with setting
Speaker 1: the tone as to what kind of schemes you want
Speaker 1: to run, what kind of schemes you project players actually
Speaker 1: fitting into and excelling in, what kind of schemes, and
Speaker 1: what kind of player that you're looking for. I think
Speaker 1: they're going to set the tone going forward here. And
Speaker 1: even though the position coaches can have a bigger impact
Speaker 1: on a guy's career, these coordinators right now are going
Speaker 1: to have to find guys that fit into their scheme
Speaker 1: or take that scheme and blend it with the talent
Speaker 1: that you actually have on the roster right now. But
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks will be huge in the
Speaker 1: type of players, of course, that you're going to identify.
Speaker 1: And they've already done this, Paul. They've sat around the
Speaker 1: big rectangle. They know what kind of free agent they're
Speaker 1: going to look for and go after and try to
Speaker 1: actually sign. And when it comes to the draft, a
Speaker 1: lot of these coaches come from the college game, and
Speaker 1: so the personnel guys will go over to the college
Speaker 1: coaches heyd you match up against player X at any
Speaker 1: point in the last two or three years, and so
Speaker 1: they can give benefit there. And then if I'm a
Speaker 1: defensive coach, this is just me thinking out loud, I'm
Speaker 1: spending time watching the Rams offense and the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers offense getting no Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan, and
Speaker 1: then Gino Smith is back in Seattle. So I'm guessing
Speaker 1: you've got to familiarize yourself if you're new to the
Speaker 1: team with the division, right, especially if you're a defensive coach,
Speaker 1: these offenses come in your way. But the biggest thing, though, Pauline,
Speaker 1: you already touched on this is actually these position coaches
Speaker 1: getting to know their guys, the guys that are coming back.
Speaker 1: I think of Clayton Adams, the new offensive line coach.
Speaker 1: You mentioned DJ Humphreys and Josh Jones. You mentioned that
Speaker 1: this is going to be an overhaul on that offensive
Speaker 1: line right now. Boy, that is going to be a
Speaker 1: good thing for Clayton Adams to go out and get
Speaker 1: the type of individual he wants for that offensive line,
Speaker 1: the offensive line he envisions along with Drew Petzing and
Speaker 1: jg Hey. We mentioned the compics. It's official. Cardinals get
Speaker 1: a third round pick for Christian Kirk. They get a
Speaker 1: fifth rounder her Chandler Jones, and a sixth rounder for
Speaker 1: the departure at Chase Edmonds. Lorenzo Alexandra's next on the
Speaker 1: big red rage shotgunset for Matt Ryan Hazard drops the
Speaker 1: pass looks deep. Instead, he is sacked and he goes
Speaker 1: down to the twenty five yard line and Alexander there
Speaker 1: for Arizona. Raford takes throws to the right, patted down incomplete.
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander got a pawn. It knocked it down and
Speaker 1: it was knocked down. Lorenzo Alexander doing a good job
Speaker 1: being alert. That was a smart play by Alexander. Prussia
Speaker 1: in the pocket and Grady goes down. Lorenzo Alexander took
Speaker 1: a sweep at the ball and then came down to
Speaker 1: the second sack of the night. You know, Wolf, if
Speaker 1: only we could talk to a guy who could hit
Speaker 1: on all the headlines, you know what I mean, a
Speaker 1: former Cardinal who's been there and done that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's played for a first year head coach. He's it
Speaker 1: was all about getting pressure on the quarterback. He's gone
Speaker 1: to a Pro Bowl with twelve and a half sacks.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the Cardinal's biggest need. He's been through
Speaker 1: free agency in the draft process, right, I mean, was
Speaker 1: was even teammates with Aaron Rodgers once upon a time
Speaker 1: and you know it might have an opinion or two
Speaker 1: on accountability. You know, the big buzzword this offseason, who
Speaker 1: might Lorenzo Alexander might be the guy who joins us
Speaker 1: now in the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford
Speaker 1: and Gilbert we are, satan Ford, Zoe, what's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm doing a good man. I thank you for having
Speaker 1: me on and uh always happy to talk about with
Speaker 1: you guys. Zo, you also got paid, did you not?
Speaker 1: You got paid, didn't you? Yeah? I got paid a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Not a true special teamer, though they
Speaker 1: didn't pay you like they should have. It's all relatively speaking,
Speaker 1: you know. I you know, I had a great career,
Speaker 1: blessed multiple times. So no regretsive mine at all. It's
Speaker 1: why he's coaching. It's why he's coaching use sports right
Speaker 1: now by design his own kids, Wolf, you know, it
Speaker 1: gives him that luxury to do it right exactly. It's
Speaker 1: all right. So tell us about the whole dynamic of
Speaker 1: plane for a first year head coach. Let's start with
Speaker 1: that Once upon a time twenty thirteen. You came in
Speaker 1: with Bruce arians Cardinals are starting to do with Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 1: You know, what do you think maybe his biggest challenges
Speaker 1: or what's most critical for Gannon? Let me take it
Speaker 1: a step further, PAULI, I probably placed for four first
Speaker 1: time you know head coaches or first or new head coaches.
Speaker 1: You know about Jim Zorn, I had games on when
Speaker 1: I was in Washington. Obviously my chan hand had done
Speaker 1: it in a long time and and Invert, but he
Speaker 1: was the first time head coach as far as Washington
Speaker 1: I had to do deal with obviously be A being
Speaker 1: the first time head coach, and then Sei McDermot, so
Speaker 1: actually three first time head coaches and had to go
Speaker 1: through the process for a different times. So I'm definitely
Speaker 1: willing in depth as far as the process and what
Speaker 1: that looks like and the biggest thing from a player's perspective,
Speaker 1: it all depends, you know, if you're a young guy,
Speaker 1: you know, a bubble guy, you just your head. Damn,
Speaker 1: he's trying to make an impression as far as what
Speaker 1: you need to do as far as to make the
Speaker 1: football team. You know, you can care about all the
Speaker 1: politics and what the scheme is. You just trying to
Speaker 1: look out for yours and make sure that you have
Speaker 1: a spot at the end of the day when camp
Speaker 1: is over. But as you get older, as you begin
Speaker 1: to grow in his league and right, and you create
Speaker 1: some type of stability. Right and understands this. You know,
Speaker 1: your special team or a low draft guy, you never
Speaker 1: really quite get comfortable. But obviously some guys are more
Speaker 1: comfortable than others. UM, And you're really looking at the
Speaker 1: consistency of the head coach. Right, he talks about UM
Speaker 1: culture people, UM thing he's going to implement, and so
Speaker 1: how does that look like? You know, from top down?
Speaker 1: He holding the best parent team to say what he's
Speaker 1: hold the bubble guys accountable. Right, There is a continuity
Speaker 1: there and we all know that player tree is slightly
Speaker 1: but at the core, if everybody held to the same
Speaker 1: UH standard, Um, how does how is he able to
Speaker 1: UM impact the room when he walks in there and
Speaker 1: gives a speech right or lays down his standard? Are
Speaker 1: people locked in or people taking I'm serious? Or people
Speaker 1: understanding what he's communicating? Right? Because there's a big, big
Speaker 1: gap between you having a vision h you having certain
Speaker 1: principles that you want to implement, and being then able
Speaker 1: to communicate those well so that players receive it. And
Speaker 1: adopt it for their own, you know, well being so
Speaker 1: that they can kind of embody who you are and
Speaker 1: reflect who you are as a head coach, and those
Speaker 1: are partly the top two things that you look for initially.
Speaker 1: And then as a player, you know, how does he
Speaker 1: handle adversity, what happens because coaches always say, hey, become
Speaker 1: you know, you know, never too high, ever too low.
Speaker 1: But when their feet are held to the fire, when
Speaker 1: they make a mistake, how do they respond themselves and
Speaker 1: actually embodies the message that they've been giving off? So um,
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the maybe the top three things.
Speaker 1: And there's obviously a ton of other things that you
Speaker 1: can look at as well, but those are the things
Speaker 1: that I tend to gravitate it too. I want to
Speaker 1: those different transitions from myself, so so Jonathan Gannon of
Speaker 1: course the other his coaching stuff right now. And I
Speaker 1: know that it's different with each player. But from your experience,
Speaker 1: did a head coach have a bigger impact on your
Speaker 1: career or did a position coach have a bigger impact
Speaker 1: on your career? Wow? I would say when I was younger,
Speaker 1: it was definitely a position coach because that's who I
Speaker 1: spent the most time with Yep, that's who impacted me
Speaker 1: every day, Right, That's what was corrected me. Who's really
Speaker 1: got to know maybe be more intimately because obviously he's
Speaker 1: just worried about you know, depend on what room you're in,
Speaker 1: maybe three to two US guys versus the head coach
Speaker 1: is more worried about the collective and obviously and then
Speaker 1: the head coaches tend to gravitate towards the leaders and
Speaker 1: captains of the team. So as I got older, right,
Speaker 1: especially when I ended in Buffalo in my Age Man show,
Speaker 1: were a lot closer. It's more like an older brother
Speaker 1: age gap versus a father's son age gap. So when
Speaker 1: I got to Buffalo, Shan had a much more a
Speaker 1: greater anac just based on who I was and where
Speaker 1: I was in that stage of my life, being able
Speaker 1: to play until I was thirty six thirty seven. But
Speaker 1: to ask you a question, generally, it's the position coaches,
Speaker 1: and so you want to make sure those guys really
Speaker 1: know how to coach ball, really know how to communicate
Speaker 1: your message, and are going to keep guys accountable to
Speaker 1: the standard that you was kind of set forth as
Speaker 1: a head coach. Hey, when Nick Rowlis showed up right
Speaker 1: twenty nine years of asia Cardinals defensive coordinator. He was
Speaker 1: younger than fifteen players who were on the roster at
Speaker 1: that time. Think about that. Lorenzo Alexander is our guest
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Fifteen years in the league, two time Pro Bowlers. So
Speaker 1: I'm putting it to you. I'm just going for the
Speaker 1: jugg lear Right now, Cardinals are sitting there at number three,
Speaker 1: and they're Wayne will Anderson or a big haul from
Speaker 1: a team wanting to trade up and take Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Anthony Richardson, just throw that name out there.
Speaker 1: I asked Drew stan the same question earlier this week,
Speaker 1: former Cardinals quarterback. He said, I'm taking will Anderson every time.
Speaker 1: I don't care about two more first round picks. What
Speaker 1: do you say? Yep, it comes down to him. And
Speaker 1: you know I'm not a college guy. I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: a ton. I hear the names right in Melanderson is
Speaker 1: a big buzz name for everybody around the country. And
Speaker 1: so if you believe that he's in the same elk
Speaker 1: as Don Miller and Aaron Donald and he's a generational
Speaker 1: type players, you take it. I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's there's no way you can make up for those
Speaker 1: type of players with multiple picks. But I also see
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills trade back right and pick up Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and trade Tremaine Evans to high quality six right. They
Speaker 1: were so they weren't seen as generational players, but those
Speaker 1: guys helped establish the Buffalo Bills culture right and have
Speaker 1: made them a perennial playoff team and have contended for
Speaker 1: the last four or five years. So if you're able
Speaker 1: to do something like that, if you don't see Bill
Speaker 1: Anderson at the generational type guy, maybe there's another d
Speaker 1: lineman or maybe a corner that is just act impactful
Speaker 1: but maybe doesn't have the same buzz and you feel
Speaker 1: like you can get him at maybe you know ten
Speaker 1: or eleven, you pick up another first round picking in
Speaker 1: the process. Maybe maybe you do that as well. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's two ways to look at it, But
Speaker 1: it always comes down to how you evaluates a guy
Speaker 1: and if he has headed shoulders better than the rest
Speaker 1: and he's projected to be you know, uh, let's say
Speaker 1: at twelve to sixteen, sack guy here, you got to
Speaker 1: take that guy because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: impacting the QB at a high rate he's with helps defenses,
Speaker 1: especially in his day and age in the NFL. So,
Speaker 1: so as you look at the Arisonta Cardinals getting ready
Speaker 1: to go into free agency, the legal tampering of course
Speaker 1: at looms does it not? It is coming up here quickly.
Speaker 1: Where do you see the result? What's that? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 1: The godbye? You're right, Yeah, that's exactly where it's happening.
Speaker 1: You got that, right, But you know how that goes.
Speaker 1: But you know, as you look at it right now,
Speaker 1: what do you think the general strategy is going to
Speaker 1: be for the Arisonta Cardinals going into this free agent
Speaker 1: period um? You know, looking at where where the coaches
Speaker 1: have been has come from and what they had in
Speaker 1: Philly and even Aaron Kelvin speak yesterday on or the
Speaker 1: other day or on the radio. You know you're looking
Speaker 1: from veteran guys and can obviously that can help you
Speaker 1: establish your culture. But you know I'm looking at interior
Speaker 1: or the interior or the front the lines, right, can
Speaker 1: I be how can I dominate the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball and we look at
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. The reason why they made it to
Speaker 1: the championship getting last years because they were able to
Speaker 1: do that at a high rate better than anybody else
Speaker 1: pretty much other than eighty five. Theres right, it's on
Speaker 1: the defensive side and that big old line with ball
Speaker 1: in folks. So you're trying to identify guys that, I think,
Speaker 1: because that's where it starts. But then you also want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you have pos right Kelvin Beechams,
Speaker 1: you got to get a couple of those guys in
Speaker 1: year to help to help you get your culture to
Speaker 1: where you wanted to be collectively from top from top
Speaker 1: down that are going to really be able to communicate
Speaker 1: in the locker room what you want. And so you'll
Speaker 1: probably see a couple of Eagles. I know. When I'm Buffalo,
Speaker 1: we had it felt like we were the passers of
Speaker 1: the North Right. We had about four or five Panthers,
Speaker 1: and every year they felt like Carolina Panther. But that's
Speaker 1: because Sean knew those guys right. He understood that they
Speaker 1: knew his coach and they knew his way, and they
Speaker 1: helped the assimilation process into this new regime and new
Speaker 1: culture and so if you can add a couple of
Speaker 1: guys like that, obviously guys aroandom league. I remember we
Speaker 1: brought in Micah Hyde, Jordan poy Types and Buffalo right
Speaker 1: that were were probably they weren't household names, but they've
Speaker 1: turned into them. So being able to identify guys like
Speaker 1: that that are on the cusp where other chiems can't
Speaker 1: maybe pay them, but are ready to take that leap,
Speaker 1: but then are also great professional So that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of what they probably looking at right now, and seeing
Speaker 1: anial type of con gostics that they can take advantage
Speaker 1: of being on creating market. Seeing that alleviates I think
Speaker 1: the big fear of free agency. You may not know
Speaker 1: a guy, but if you have a coach who's actually
Speaker 1: familiar with that player and he comes from like that
Speaker 1: coach's former team. You know, the Cardinals took a big
Speaker 1: swing and missed on Jordan Phillips a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago trying to bolster that defensive line. So I mean,
Speaker 1: in general, right, how risky is free agency in your opinion?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's risky to a stand and most
Speaker 1: people know players, right, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: times you win the mistakes vantage because you get enamored
Speaker 1: with the potential of what a guy can do and
Speaker 1: not when he's showed you that who he isn't what
Speaker 1: he's done right. And and sometimes a guy they but
Speaker 1: thrive and they have some character issues because of the
Speaker 1: support system around him. But when Jordan was brought here
Speaker 1: for that example, he was asked to lead, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was spending to do that, right. I
Speaker 1: think in Buffalo he Williams in that room and myself,
Speaker 1: we have some other guys where he can just be
Speaker 1: himself and do what he can do. So you have
Speaker 1: to make sure if you're asking a guy to change
Speaker 1: his role from a leadership standpoint, if he has some
Speaker 1: you know, some football character issues, um, if he ready
Speaker 1: to be a nine now right. I think oftentimes we
Speaker 1: bring in guys and we ask them to be something
Speaker 1: that necessarily not ready four or having grown into and
Speaker 1: so that is always I think the biggest thing when
Speaker 1: you look at the three agents that typically don't work out,
Speaker 1: are you using the same way or do you have
Speaker 1: a different vision? And then if you're ready to be
Speaker 1: the leader that you need to be um, And then
Speaker 1: there's just sometimes you should never bring in just because
Speaker 1: of of of you know, past history of batting happening
Speaker 1: or injuries happening. But you said, well, I'm a great coach,
Speaker 1: I can fix it. I'm probably not if it's been
Speaker 1: an issue anywhere that player has been so so um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a producer question right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: the good news is for the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: good news is they can sign all four of the
Speaker 1: next guys that I'm telling you about. But a producer
Speaker 1: is gonna say, if you could have one that you
Speaker 1: would want some who would it be Zach Allen, Kelvin Beecham,
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy, or Will Hernandez just one Zoe. I might
Speaker 1: have to go with man Man you always and and
Speaker 1: And I'm stuck between Zach Allen and Kelvin. That was
Speaker 1: my guy. I know what type of impact he has
Speaker 1: on that team, and I don't quite know what type
Speaker 1: of leaders that's Allen is so but he's younger. You
Speaker 1: gotta go with Zach Allene. I'm not. I'm seeing because
Speaker 1: I'm fired too because I wanted that guy just because
Speaker 1: the guy's younger. But you're thinking about production on the field. Ye,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about how does how does the um A
Speaker 1: team work? Inly, you move a Kelvin Beecham from off
Speaker 1: that team and you open up several different holes that
Speaker 1: you want the call before. But all you worried about
Speaker 1: us he's gonna be backing the quarterback on on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But that may not even matter because there's a lack
Speaker 1: of leadership in the locker room and your four innth
Speaker 1: wel right, and so it's not if easier clear cut?
Speaker 1: Is that so? We? I think? You know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you build a team, can't always go with who's younger,
Speaker 1: who's gonna the most production, especially when you're doing what
Speaker 1: a guy like calling beach and in the league for
Speaker 1: I don't know for three years now. Um as A
Speaker 1: is a is a strongholder as a left tackle, right
Speaker 1: tackle play played. Its gonna lead other guys. Who's gonna
Speaker 1: help these other guys on board to play above himself?
Speaker 1: That stuff matters. And then you'd be like, damn, we
Speaker 1: got tackle, Yeah, what's going on? Why of our team
Speaker 1: the way it is? Oh, you are the best man.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let you go because you gotta call your
Speaker 1: former team at Aaron Rodgers telling to make a decision
Speaker 1: because the whole league year is hinging on Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: He's the domino where everything's gonna fall. So Zo, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for the time. We'll talk to you.
Speaker 1: Down the road is the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 1: santan Ford and Gilbert we Are. Santan Ford, I want
Speaker 1: a good job at a point of attack right there
Speaker 1: and say like DJ Humphries, got a nice block, huge hole.
Speaker 1: Great job by d J Humphreys at the part who
Speaker 1: has that looking there? I have no back down? You know,
Speaker 1: that's the dust the part I think I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to most when that fighter flat comes. Who's gonna swing,
Speaker 1: who's gonna run? You know what I mean? I want
Speaker 1: a bunch of swingers. So I missed it. That's sound
Speaker 1: the weird. I'm sorry that was stretch. That was so strange.
Speaker 1: I want I want a bunch of fighters. I should
Speaker 1: have said I want a bunch of fighters. So this,
Speaker 1: like I said, though, that's the part I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to most, not the swinging part that was That was
Speaker 1: a little strange. I'm sorry. I guess we leaped that out.
Speaker 1: He wants fighters, not swingers. He wants to specify that
Speaker 1: former player host of the Big Red Rage DJ Humphries.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't need the media or the either one
Speaker 1: of us, really. I mean, he just sort of his
Speaker 1: personality sort of carries things on its own. As you
Speaker 1: saw right there. I love the percussion and the deep
Speaker 1: bass because that kind of kind of sums up DJ Humphries.
Speaker 1: Game over there, left tackle, does it not? Ron Wolfley?
Speaker 1: I mean yes, especially this beautiful part of the program.
Speaker 1: To Polly, we're some base man, yep, talking old line.
Speaker 1: You're talking Djambrey Special. Thanks Lorenzo Alexander. And what sort
Speaker 1: of teammate would you like? Because I tell you what,
Speaker 1: it's fill in the blanks from left or right. You
Speaker 1: got your left tackle and a lot of undecided, undetermined
Speaker 1: positions and names right now. What do you think maniasa
Speaker 1: boor Jonathan Gannon? What sort of offensive line are the
Speaker 1: Eine boy? That is? Paul? It is so interesting to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I know that they
Speaker 1: obviously have an idea as to what the offense is
Speaker 1: going to look like, and that means they have an
Speaker 1: idea as to what the schemes are going to look
Speaker 1: like as well. I think of the Cleveland Browns. I
Speaker 1: think of Drew Petson coming from the Cleveland Browns, Paul,
Speaker 1: and I think of their offense and their offensive line specifically.
Speaker 1: I think this is just my opinion. I think the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns offense of line is the best offensive line
Speaker 1: in the AFC. I think overall, I'd say the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles offensive line is the best in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: to me, in the AFC, I would say that the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns had the best offensive line. And that is
Speaker 1: fascinating to me because Paully that offense plended the old
Speaker 1: and the new, and they did it as well as
Speaker 1: anybody in the National Football League. Is that what they're
Speaker 1: going to try to reproduce here, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: tell you the importance of the old line has never
Speaker 1: been greater or maybe more evident than this last season.
Speaker 1: Think about it. Philadelphia is in the Super Bowl, Kansas City.
Speaker 1: What do they do from the loss in the AFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game to their Super Bowl victory. They fixed the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Obviously, quarterback and they get to the quarterback
Speaker 1: I know with Kansas City, but they fixed the offensive line.
Speaker 1: That was a liability. You look at a team like
Speaker 1: the Cold strapping right behind the Cardinals. What's the difference
Speaker 1: between the Colts team this past season and like two
Speaker 1: years ago, the offensive line went from one of the
Speaker 1: best to one of the worst. And so DJ Humphreys
Speaker 1: obviously is the answer right now the franchise left tackle.
Speaker 1: In fact, Jonathan Ginn and new on the job, already
Speaker 1: knows enough to say as much about DJ Humphreys. I
Speaker 1: have a very high opinion of DJ. I know Clayton
Speaker 1: and Chris are ready to work with him. He's been
Speaker 1: a really good player for a long time. Had to
Speaker 1: go against them a couple of different times, and he's
Speaker 1: a tough matchup for outside edge players in the pass
Speaker 1: and run game. And he's got phenomenal football character. And
Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy I've already leaned on since
Speaker 1: I've been in the job to gain some information and
Speaker 1: pick his brain a little bit, and he's been great
Speaker 1: with me. So excited that he's on the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: We've seen some of the all access video of the
Speaker 1: new head coach, Jonathan Gann and talking with DJ Humprees
Speaker 1: on Cardinals flight plan. You can check it out in
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. Here's the other thing to me, This
Speaker 1: is just me the underrated position. If you're gonna target
Speaker 1: someone or something in free agency and go big, I
Speaker 1: would look at center wolf. Did we not get a
Speaker 1: renewed value and what an elite center does for a
Speaker 1: team in that one year, the first year of Rodney Hudson,
Speaker 1: he really just elevated the entire offense. Did he not? No,
Speaker 1: he did, Bolli, there's no done. Yeah, you're right about that,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the reasons why. And we've talked
Speaker 1: about this name, but Ethic the center for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: He's a free agent, Ethan Posic. It's interesting because Nick
Speaker 1: Harris was their starting center, but he got hurt in
Speaker 1: the first preseason game I believe. Don't hold me to that,
Speaker 1: but I think it was the first preseason game, got hurt,
Speaker 1: and then Ethan took over a guy that had been
Speaker 1: in the league of five years that this was his
Speaker 1: six year this past season, of course, but he had
Speaker 1: been in the league five years with a Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: He actually took over as center and did an outstanding
Speaker 1: job at center. Right now, I know the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: won him back, but that's a guy right there. If
Speaker 1: you were gonna say, we're gonna go out and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get a pros pro. Maybe not a big name,
Speaker 1: maybe not a guy that is going to break the bank,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna get a pro. We're gonna get a
Speaker 1: guy that won't get our quarterback killed, that's gonna go
Speaker 1: out there and do the job and know what to
Speaker 1: do and be prepared. Ethan Posic would be that center
Speaker 1: to meet Paul, and he's in his prime. He's a
Speaker 1: former second round pick twenty seventeen, and he has a
Speaker 1: connection to the new offensive coordinator Drew pet Scene right, yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: And you know what also to Paul, I want to
Speaker 1: say this because we were talking about it momentarily and
Speaker 1: the last beautiful part of the program actually was the
Speaker 1: first beautiful part of the program. But Clayton Adams. Clayton
Speaker 1: Adams is the offensive line coach for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: In what's so interesting about this, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: would you say there's open spots on the offensive line, Paulli,
Speaker 1: it's almost it's almost fun. It's like five card pickup,
Speaker 1: maybe making four card pickup. I mean, Paulli are going
Speaker 1: to rebuild this offensive line and Clayton Adams can actually
Speaker 1: try to have some say on the types of individuals
Speaker 1: he wants to coach and the types of players he
Speaker 1: wants to bring in. Because he wants to run this
Speaker 1: kind of scheme, whatever scheme that may be, he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to kind of mold that offensive line.
Speaker 1: And I think that's really a rarity for a position coach. Well,
Speaker 1: Jonathan gain and the head coach has been asked, what
Speaker 1: type of offensive linement are you looking for? We have
Speaker 1: a skill set that we're looking for from all you know,
Speaker 1: the inside guys and the outside guys. And I know this.
Speaker 1: We want high football character, guys that love to play football,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be tough guys, and we want guys
Speaker 1: that finish people, move people. And probably the number one job,
Speaker 1: as I learned, better keep that quarterback up right, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Well, I know what the Eagles they had
Speaker 1: to say, and it went something like this, you passed
Speaker 1: to score points, you run it to win. And so yes,
Speaker 1: if that's the mentality, they're gonna need the physicality up front. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Paul, just think about what you just said right there.
Speaker 1: You just described the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You just described it right there what it was there doing.
Speaker 1: But don't get me sidetracked. Okay, Paul, don't do that,
Speaker 1: because once again, going back to Drew Petzing, who's coming
Speaker 1: here is as the offensive coordinator coming from Cleveland, that
Speaker 1: Cleveland offensive line, Paul, they ran a very physical scheme
Speaker 1: with Nick Chubb. Now, Paul, I'm just saying Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: is is maybe the best running back in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. You could build You could build, yes, poly elite.
Speaker 1: You could build an argument that says he is one
Speaker 1: of the best, if not the best running back in
Speaker 1: the league. You know what, James Connor is also a
Speaker 1: big dude who can run downhill. And I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: they're not going to go out and try to get
Speaker 1: guys like Whyatt Teller and Joel Bitonio. I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: they're not going to go out and try to get
Speaker 1: some guys who are very good in terms of the
Speaker 1: tackle zone and coming off the ball and taking their
Speaker 1: guts and sticking it all over some guy and moving
Speaker 1: the gut with their butt. Paul, That to me is
Speaker 1: what I'm waiting to see. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: the fingerprint of Manti Asenfort is going to be all
Speaker 1: over this team based on how he builds that offensive
Speaker 1: line in the defensive line, and then that will dictate
Speaker 1: the scheme. At least that was the answer from Jonathan
Speaker 1: gin And when he was asked about what sort of
Speaker 1: offense and Cardinals might run. Yeah, as we're going through
Speaker 1: scheme meetings, you know, you start putting up a blueprint
Speaker 1: of how you want to play, and the people that
Speaker 1: we know are going to be here you start taking
Speaker 1: to that in account. But that takes some time. That's
Speaker 1: a process out on the grass in the meeting room.
Speaker 1: You know, we have some ways that we want to
Speaker 1: play offensive, defense and teams, but that will apt when
Speaker 1: at the dust settles and we see who's lining up
Speaker 1: in a Cardinals jersey. So we will taylor fit our
Speaker 1: schemes and how we play on all three phases to
Speaker 1: the people that we have. And there's no doubt it'll
Speaker 1: be a learning process. There's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: new players, it's a new staff. But at the same time, well,
Speaker 1: there has to be things that you do well, that's
Speaker 1: your identity, right, I mean, there's going to be a
Speaker 1: base defense there's got to be a go to on offense, right,
Speaker 1: those base set of place where you're like, look, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you know what's coming or not, we're
Speaker 1: going to run these and execute them. Yes, Polly, I
Speaker 1: think just listening to JG right there, he's so right
Speaker 1: on the money, he's right. Especially in that first year
Speaker 1: when you come in, Paul, You've got to find out
Speaker 1: what you have, What do we have under contract? This
Speaker 1: guy is a good football player. Okay, maybe he's not
Speaker 1: the perfect right guard for the kind of scheme we'd
Speaker 1: like to run, but this guy's a good football player,
Speaker 1: So we'll go ahead and will run schemes that he
Speaker 1: does well. Right, And then as you start to get
Speaker 1: into the next year, you start looking for guys that
Speaker 1: will run the schemes you feel most comfortable with. So
Speaker 1: I think early on you're trying to say, hey, we're
Speaker 1: going to run the scheme that our players can execute.
Speaker 1: But as you develop a team, I think you're starting
Speaker 1: to look for guys that can run the schemes you like.
Speaker 1: And if you remember the first year for Nick Sirianni
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon when they showed up in Philadelphia, that team
Speaker 1: started in twenty twenty one, it was a four win team.
Speaker 1: They started out two and five, two and six, and
Speaker 1: then they made a big run over the last two
Speaker 1: months of the season ended up into the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: there's that transition and transformation period. Hey joined the season
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Speaker 1: throws complete Hollywood Brow the hazard at the thirty lg
Speaker 1: rates in the end zone. They won't catch him. Touchdown
Speaker 1: Ravens down the middle of the field, looking for Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 1: He's caught up Tompins thirty leg race twenty and he's
Speaker 1: gonna score Pollywood Brown deep down the middle. He's got
Speaker 1: to see to the end zone. Touchdown Willie Sneed on
Speaker 1: the receiving end. If Jackson backs up SLINKs at the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone, he's got Myles Boykin. Touchdown Ravens.
Speaker 1: Jackson on the plate. Fate drows to Grecardo the coal
Speaker 1: line and a fullback is in from a touchdown. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: He throws his fifth touchdown of the after doo about
Speaker 1: Ravens Radio Jerry Sandusky right there, one of a trio
Speaker 1: of five touchdown games in his two thousand nineteen MVP campaign.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson one of six players who got the franchise
Speaker 1: tag this year, Ron Wolfley, Deron Payne, Tony Pollard, Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: sae Quon Barkley, Evan Ingram, and Lamar Jackson, who gets
Speaker 1: the non exclusive franchise tag, meaning effective next Wednesday, some
Speaker 1: t can come in potentially get a deal done with
Speaker 1: him two first round picks, and if the Ravens don't match,
Speaker 1: then boom, a former MVP quarterback in his prime might
Speaker 1: change teams by this time next week. Your thoughts on that, yeah, Polly, Now,
Speaker 1: let me just go back to the people that actually
Speaker 1: got tagged. Six guys, three of them running backs, Paul, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Would you ever have expected that three running backs got
Speaker 1: the franchise tag? They just don't know how to value them.
Speaker 1: It's so hard do you want to pay a running
Speaker 1: back long term? The shelf life is so short. Seemingly,
Speaker 1: it's so easy to get another one in the draft,
Speaker 1: But then you value the one you have. I think
Speaker 1: there's just confusion on what to do about a running
Speaker 1: back long term, so they end up with a short
Speaker 1: term deal. Yeah. Not only that, Polly, I also think
Speaker 1: too because the cost of a franchise running back isn't
Speaker 1: prohibitive in any way, shape or form. And because of
Speaker 1: that it I think it's like this guy is really
Speaker 1: really Let's keep him. Let's put the tag on him
Speaker 1: because it's not gonna kill us. Now with Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: very very interesting that he doesn't get the exclusive tag.
Speaker 1: He got the non exclusive tag, of course, but it's
Speaker 1: a tag nonetheless, and it's something that we may not
Speaker 1: see the end of yet. With Lamar Jackson, that's only
Speaker 1: one season. Who knows what else he could have. And
Speaker 1: then you have the quarterback taken after Kyler Murray in
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen draft, Daniel Jones win number six overall
Speaker 1: and at a stellar campaign last season, he gets four years,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty million, at least according to the agent.
Speaker 1: In terms of the real guaranteed cash, it might be
Speaker 1: more like according to a lease the sports business people,
Speaker 1: it's going to be far less than that. But he
Speaker 1: got paid. Daniel Jones, Gino Smith stays in Seattle, Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll saying, oh, that doesn't preclude us from taking a
Speaker 1: quarterback at number five. But Gino Smith got paid as
Speaker 1: well Ron Wolfley, So the Cardinals will see Gino Smith
Speaker 1: twice a year for the next couple of years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really interesting to me Geno Smith being back. That
Speaker 1: is amazing. If you look at the last five games
Speaker 1: that he played, he was really up and down in
Speaker 1: those five games, yet at the same time he had
Speaker 1: a great year. I don't want to diminish him in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form, but I thought they did
Speaker 1: give him an awful lot, especially in guarantees where you're
Speaker 1: talking about forty fifty million somewhere in there. Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: I was really really surprised they put the franchise tag
Speaker 1: on him. They couldn't get something done with him. But
Speaker 1: the big one of all the quarterbacks right now, I
Speaker 1: can't believe Aaron Rodgers might actually take the Brett Farve
Speaker 1: path and go to New York, just as Brett Farve did.
Speaker 1: What are the odds of that, Paul? That blows me away. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of odds, I think I saw a stat where
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the favorite in states that you
Speaker 1: can legally wager the Jets all of a sudden the
Speaker 1: new Super Bowl favorite by fans, at least by betting
Speaker 1: handle by where people are putting their money. So they
Speaker 1: fully expect Aaron Rodgers to go to the Jets. And
Speaker 1: you know what, that is a loaded roster, is it not? Yes?
Speaker 1: And we talked about this before once about a time
Speaker 1: when Brett Farve went to the Jets, allow this same
Speaker 1: scenario and the Cardinals played and lost badly to Brett
Speaker 1: Farb and the Jets. That year, that team was really good.
Speaker 1: They started like nine to three and then Brett Farb
Speaker 1: got heard and the bottom fell out. But man, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers goes to the Jets. Look out, Yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 1: with you on that. It's just amazing. That is a
Speaker 1: roster that I think is ready to win right now
Speaker 1: if they were to get the likes up an Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: But can I also go back to Derek Carr, Paul
Speaker 1: Derek Carr as well going to New Orleans. This to
Speaker 1: me is very interesting because I see Dennis Allen as
Speaker 1: the head coach of the New Orleans Saints, and to me,
Speaker 1: I see a guy that wants to get back to
Speaker 1: a little bit more of what Sean Payton was doing
Speaker 1: with the Saints. I'm talking about Sean Payton before he
Speaker 1: walked away from the Saints, going back to something a
Speaker 1: little bit more traditional. I think that's the offense Dennis
Speaker 1: Allen wants to get back to, and I think Derek
Speaker 1: Carr is the guy that can do that. And I
Speaker 1: think they're going to give the keys to the offense
Speaker 1: to Derek Carr. What we hear in Vegas, especially that
Speaker 1: Week two game where the Raiders led twenty to nothing,
Speaker 1: that Josh McDaniels didn't give Derek Carr a lot of
Speaker 1: room to operate and make decisions at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and change plays. At least David Carr's brother an
Speaker 1: NFL network has said as much. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: is Derek Carr at thirty one years of age and
Speaker 1: four Pro Bowls under his belt, what can he do
Speaker 1: for that Saints offense. And what's also interesting is you're
Speaker 1: now hearing trade rumors out of LA and the Rams
Speaker 1: that the Rams are thinking about actually trading Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: to which the gm less sneed stepped in today and said, no,
Speaker 1: we're not trading Matthew Stafford. These reports were trading Cooper
Speaker 1: cup and or Aaron Donald. Not gonna happen. Okay, of
Speaker 1: course he's not saying anything about the other reports where
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd, Jalen Rams or Alan Robinson might get dealt
Speaker 1: from France because because they're in cap hell right now,
Speaker 1: they are way over the cap. Yeah, they're way over
Speaker 1: the cap and they have no picks whatsoever. Think about that, Paul, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how does that make you feel? You know, but in
Speaker 1: a top spot. But you know, speaking the division? Getting
Speaker 1: back to get back to Geno Smith for a minute.
Speaker 1: You know, you're right, the last half dozen games it
Speaker 1: was uneven. But on the season, he had thirty touchdowns,
Speaker 1: he had eleven picks, He led the league with a
Speaker 1: seventy percent completion percentage. He was a pro bowler. So now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, between the Niners and that Rams team,
Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford coming back and then Geno Smith, he
Speaker 1: the NFC West is as formidable as it's ever been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now you're right, PAULI Geno Smith. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of Geno Smith. I really am. Who doesn't love to
Speaker 1: see a comeback story, and that's exactly what he did,
Speaker 1: coming back, of course, and playing the way that he
Speaker 1: did that he had an opportunity earlier in his career.
Speaker 1: He's been a lifelong backup for the most part, and
Speaker 1: then he got the opportunity to do it again, to
Speaker 1: start again, and he made the most of it. And
Speaker 1: I love it, Paul, because you know it's West virgian Yah.
Speaker 1: It's West virgan yaw there. Just for that, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the rumor Michael Silver through out there and
Speaker 1: a few others have as well, that brock Purty you
Speaker 1: hasn't had surgery yet on the elbow if he's not
Speaker 1: back in time. And they don't like Trey Lance and
Speaker 1: the way it's tracking that some expect the Niners to
Speaker 1: place a call to Tom Brady. How about that for
Speaker 1: the NFC West by the way, don't do it, Tommy,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Check out Flight Plan episode two. It's
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