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Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're in the trust tree here right up. Knock
Speaker 3: it off. Wolf who says there's no NFL programming on
Speaker 3: this Thursday night. Are you kidding me. We are the
Speaker 3: original Thursday Night Football, and whenever we have a nose
Speaker 3: tackle a fifteen games starter, we're most definitely putting the
Speaker 3: big into Big Red Rage tonight. How about it, everyone, Roy?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there we go. What I'm talking about? Paulie.
Speaker 5: By the way, right now, I'm on vacation, paul as
Speaker 5: you well know, fourteen days of vacation. Yet at the
Speaker 5: same time, I have all these things I have to
Speaker 5: do for the Arizona Cardinals, like Big Red Rage Jeff tonight.
Speaker 5: Yet at the same time, Paulie, you know that these
Speaker 5: fourteen days, I'm putting on about sixteen pounds.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well that's really hard to do, is it not, Roy? Fourteen?
Speaker 1: I mean seasy time?
Speaker 6: Really this time?
Speaker 1: Okay, so this time of the year where you'd.
Speaker 5: Like to go ahead and maybe have a feast from
Speaker 5: time to time or sit down and chow something. What
Speaker 5: is Roy Lopez like to chow the most?
Speaker 6: Well, I'll eat, I'll eat. Uh, I'll throw down some tacos.
Speaker 1: So what kind of tacos I mean?
Speaker 7: You know, well, most likely they're probably my mom's tacos. Okay,
Speaker 7: she tries to keep them healthy, which is nice. So
Speaker 7: I'll eat like ground turkey tacos o ground some shredded
Speaker 7: shredded beef tacos. But I'm clearing ten.
Speaker 3: Okay now, now, Roy, I was gonna say, you said
Speaker 3: some what's the over under a number of tacos?
Speaker 6: I'm clearing ten? Wow?
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, first of all, I love the fact that
Speaker 5: that the man admits it. Right, I'm clearing ten easily.
Speaker 5: That's what I've did. Are you a spice guy? Though
Speaker 5: not too much, not too much.
Speaker 1: Just for the taste, okay, just for the taste, all right,
Speaker 1: I like that right.
Speaker 6: There for me.
Speaker 1: We go food.
Speaker 6: We can go food all day.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, Hop and Arrol loaded up.
Speaker 3: Speaking to mom. All you have to do is look
Speaker 3: into the front row here at Trophy and channel watch
Speaker 3: you name some names because the Lopez family is representing
Speaker 3: here tonight.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: You know so, I think that's one of the beauties
Speaker 7: of me, you know, being from Arizona, is I get
Speaker 7: to do a lot of these things with my family,
Speaker 7: which is pretty cool, you know. So, uh, front Rock,
Speaker 7: I got my mom my dad here, I got my
Speaker 7: my cousin who is also my trainer, Marco's Escerville. I
Speaker 7: got my THEO Larry here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Larry back there, Yeah, Larry.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I see some of these spaces on the road, like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, right, your family members are there like in
Speaker 3: row three a lot of times.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they travel well, man. My family's uh, they got
Speaker 7: the biggest hearts.
Speaker 6: Of the world.
Speaker 7: And I got my cousin Michelle back there, yeah.
Speaker 6: And her family as well, man. So just uh. And
Speaker 6: then I got my other deal coming out later the
Speaker 6: night as well. So this is awesome.
Speaker 5: Here's the really cool thing about right now. Of course,
Speaker 5: your dad is a coach, okay, And how many other
Speaker 5: people in your family work in the game of football.
Speaker 5: In regard to being a coach.
Speaker 7: I don't think there's a man in my family that
Speaker 7: does not do football.
Speaker 1: Are you see everybody?
Speaker 6: He's a high school football coach somehow.
Speaker 1: Oh oh my goodness, whether.
Speaker 7: It's a head coach, O line, d line coach something.
Speaker 7: It's been like that since my whole life.
Speaker 5: See that is that is that blows me away, because
Speaker 5: you know, I grew up in a football family. My
Speaker 5: older brother, Craig, he played twelve years in the NFL.
Speaker 5: My younger brother Dale has passed, but he was better
Speaker 5: than both of us put together. He played a long
Speaker 5: time at college football, and yet at the same time,
Speaker 5: that's nowhere even close to what you've just described. You
Speaker 5: are a football family, Are you.
Speaker 7: Not the hunter for saying I always say that, you know,
Speaker 7: all their journeys, you know, led up to me being
Speaker 7: right here, right, everything that they learned throughout their time.
Speaker 7: And they were all great football players and in every
Speaker 7: sport they played in, really, and so they understood what
Speaker 7: it took to get to where they were at, right
Speaker 7: and so, and then in order for me to take
Speaker 7: the next step, they invested all their love, time, energy
Speaker 7: and effort into me growing up, whether it was in
Speaker 7: junior high, high school, college, and you know, it wasn't
Speaker 7: just me that made it, you know, A to the NFL.
Speaker 6: It's all those man. That's why they always come to everything,
Speaker 6: because it's they deserve it, man, They deserve it. Oh,
Speaker 6: I love it right and.
Speaker 3: A temp native. It's not like anyone needs GPS around here. Okay,
Speaker 3: they know exactly where they're going. And we're gonna get
Speaker 3: into this and do a deep dive a little bit later,
Speaker 3: all right into his upbringing, high school ball here. Maybe
Speaker 3: we'll even get into the fact a year at U
Speaker 3: of A even if former U of A guy saw
Speaker 3: last night that it was targeting against Texas in that game.
Speaker 3: We'll get into that maybe a little bit later. But
Speaker 3: here you are. You have one week left in the
Speaker 3: regular season. Just tell us about the mindset you had
Speaker 3: a division game, right, Nobody likes the stinking forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants the season sweep against San Francisco. Okay, So
Speaker 3: tell us about the vibe in the locker room, the
Speaker 3: mindset going into week eighteen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's the same thing every single week,
Speaker 7: you know, And and we're hungry as ever, you know,
Speaker 7: because because.
Speaker 6: This group of guys, we truly do love each other.
Speaker 7: And I think that's something you can see whether you're
Speaker 7: at the game where you're watching on TV. We'll fight
Speaker 7: tooth and nail for every single yard someone's got to
Speaker 7: get on us and every sing yard we gained, you know,
Speaker 7: and that comes from the top down, from the coaches
Speaker 7: to the leaders on our team.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: JG started the week meeting hot this week, right, just
Speaker 7: coming in fire and yelling, and that's something that you know,
Speaker 7: it doesn't matter that happened week three, you know. So
Speaker 7: we're fifteen and now eighteen weeks, but fifteen week difference
Speaker 7: of this man just fired up every single day, you know.
Speaker 7: So being able to play for a guy like that,
Speaker 7: it's it's easy, you know, to go to work.
Speaker 3: We host his TV show every Monday. Wolf Does that
Speaker 3: surprise you that came in hot? It sounds like him.
Speaker 1: Coming in level studio.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But you know, for the most part too, I know
Speaker 5: what it's like to play on a lot of teams
Speaker 5: where you've been eliminated. Unfortunately for me, I know what
Speaker 5: that's like.
Speaker 1: No, right, okay, being eliminated.
Speaker 5: Yet at the same time, it really taught me what
Speaker 5: the game was all about, right when you were playing
Speaker 5: in a quote unquote meaningless game. There is no such
Speaker 5: thing as a meaningless NFL game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I can agree.
Speaker 7: Man, I've been on the teams that were you know,
Speaker 7: done in November, right, And so yeah, I would say
Speaker 7: it every week to my family, like, oh, that next
Speaker 7: week's a big game, but that next one, next one
Speaker 7: is going to be a really big game. And my
Speaker 7: kind of my deal kind of just told me, like,
Speaker 7: you know, every game from here on now is big.
Speaker 7: So it was one of those It was definitely a
Speaker 7: cool moment in my career to be able to play
Speaker 7: in a game where you know every play matters. You
Speaker 7: know so and every single one does in every game,
Speaker 7: but those ones you can feel it.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: I've got this idea that there's a lot of guys
Speaker 5: in the locker room who play this game and played
Speaker 5: as hard as they possibly can. It's one of the
Speaker 5: reasons why j G and Manti Assen for brought you
Speaker 5: in and a lot of other guys that are built
Speaker 5: like you mentally, to bring you in and say let's
Speaker 5: go and let's ball out and let's do the best
Speaker 5: that we possibly can't. To me, I used to love
Speaker 5: playing in games that were quote unquote meaningless because I'd
Speaker 5: go out there and challenge myself coming out of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do today? What are you gonna
Speaker 1: do today? Now what your team is gonna do today,
Speaker 1: but what are you gonna do today? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: win or lose yourself?
Speaker 5: Do you think there's a lot of guys that come
Speaker 5: out of the locker room and have that mentality.
Speaker 6: One hundred percent?
Speaker 7: I mean, you can take it back to last year
Speaker 7: when we went into Philly, right, it's not much to
Speaker 7: play for. People say, but you're going there and to
Speaker 7: a playoff team and we take them four quarters to
Speaker 7: take them down the wire.
Speaker 6: And end up winning the game. You know.
Speaker 7: So that's the beauty of football. I think the biggest
Speaker 7: thing a lot of guys in this locker room. You know,
Speaker 7: people can say you're playing for money, or you're playing
Speaker 7: for status or whatever, but the biggest thing on this team,
Speaker 7: there's the reason why this team was brought together is
Speaker 7: for respect or a bunch of guys that just are
Speaker 7: dying for respecting the NFL, right, And so we play
Speaker 7: like that in the moment we get recognition, we try
Speaker 7: to bring it as a group because that's throughout this
Speaker 7: whole process.
Speaker 5: So I have to ask you this right here, because
Speaker 5: I expected you guys to come out against Carolina Hot,
Speaker 5: so to speak, and you guys did not. Why do
Speaker 5: you think that might have been Roy Lopez?
Speaker 7: I think, honestly, I think they played a great ball.
Speaker 7: They played a great game too, but played a great game.
Speaker 7: Bryce played a great game, and you know, hats off
Speaker 7: to them. You know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 7: obviously we do got to play better, but they had
Speaker 7: a great game plan. They executed well, their coaches called
Speaker 7: a great game, and you know it's tough we were
Speaker 7: able to pull down on.
Speaker 5: You know, I was thinking, there's there's about thirteen or
Speaker 5: fourteen guys that are year two or under that are
Speaker 5: actually playing in rotations or are starting on this team
Speaker 5: right now. Do you think it's the young guys that
Speaker 5: are still developing that they suddenly brought up to you
Speaker 5: in Carolina?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: I think that's also something that's it never gets you
Speaker 7: never get over that, right, And here I am a
Speaker 7: year four, still improving, still learning. Right, So as far
Speaker 7: as to say it's the young guys you know doing that,
Speaker 7: that's gonna that's gonna be for as long as we
Speaker 7: play football, you know.
Speaker 6: So thankfully we have a great coup of young guys.
Speaker 5: On this And the reason why I keep asking you
Speaker 5: about this, Royd, is because it was so unlike everything
Speaker 5: else I have seen that from you guys all season
Speaker 5: long for the most part.
Speaker 7: Right and right right in the thick of that game,
Speaker 7: you can if anybody were able to see our sidelines,
Speaker 7: you can just see us look at each other and
Speaker 7: lean out like nobody crossed each other, nobody gave up
Speaker 7: on one another. It was Okay, we got eight minutes
Speaker 7: left and it's close, like we just made it a
Speaker 7: game again. And so it's that was the biggest thing,
Speaker 7: is like we need one to stop and it's so hard.
Speaker 1: So hard to do that well.
Speaker 3: And last year you guys did something similar, right, not
Speaker 3: only at Philly, at Pittsburgh, a couple of playoff teams
Speaker 3: you knocked off on the road. Here's Kyler Murray. I'm
Speaker 3: going into the offseason on a high.
Speaker 8: Note, going into last game offseason. You know, I think
Speaker 8: it's big to feel good your last performance, at least
Speaker 8: me personally. I would like to go into the all
Speaker 8: season playing well and have that, you know, on your mind.
Speaker 8: That's the last thing you remember, you know. So that's
Speaker 8: why I think that's what we want to do, is
Speaker 8: go out there and play well, obviously to.
Speaker 6: Win the game.
Speaker 3: If you go back to Week seven, this Cardinals defense,
Speaker 3: ever since Week seven, has allowed the fewest touchdowns in
Speaker 3: the NFL. Let that hang in the air a minute.
Speaker 3: Buda was asked about that earlier today. He said, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, to begin the season, maybe we didn't quite
Speaker 3: have the run fits correct. You know, we're doing a
Speaker 3: better job now of affecting the quarterback. What do you
Speaker 3: think has gone into the improvement in the defense as
Speaker 3: a whole this second half of the season.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's from the top bottom, top to
Speaker 7: the bottom as well. You know JG and Nick Gralis
Speaker 7: man Nicholas is a dog man. He's he's going to
Speaker 7: be a great coach for a long, long time man.
Speaker 7: So he's something that he's someone that learns from himself,
Speaker 7: you know, and being able to step back and watch
Speaker 7: the game tape and study himself as a play caller, right,
Speaker 7: And so that's something that as.
Speaker 6: A player, you'd love to play for somebody like that, Right.
Speaker 7: It's it's something that you have to have humility in
Speaker 7: doing that, you know, and so being able to make
Speaker 7: adjustments where they're at halftime before the game, during the game, right,
Speaker 7: It's it's it's something that we've all grown together.
Speaker 3: Maybe even season to season. As an example, this last game,
Speaker 3: Kien Williams a year ago, he ran for over three
Speaker 3: hundred yards into two games. Both pointed this out on
Speaker 3: the broadcast during the game. Look what you guys did
Speaker 3: against him this year? You guys stuffed him in both games.
Speaker 3: Can you see that as a sign of growth? And
Speaker 3: maybe even the coaches with the game plan right, getting
Speaker 3: ready for Kien Williams from one season to the next.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, I think that's something that it goes
Speaker 7: into mindset, It goes into respect, understanding that you know,
Speaker 7: he probably he had over three hundred yards and both
Speaker 7: times we played him, and so you know, he probably
Speaker 7: went into the game thinking that he's probably gonna do
Speaker 7: it again, you know. So that's just goes into the
Speaker 7: respect aspect of you know, we don't want to be
Speaker 7: that defense that people highlight and say, we want to
Speaker 7: get three hundred yards this game, right, like, so it
Speaker 7: goes into respect.
Speaker 3: All right, We're gonna continue just getting rolling. Starting nos
Speaker 3: Roy Lopez and the Arizona Cardinals. It is the Big
Speaker 3: Red Rage resented by San Stanford and Gilbert Live from
Speaker 3: Trophy and Chandler looking and a Queen Creek rode between
Speaker 3: Price and Dobson moving around in the pocket looking everybody covered.
Speaker 3: Now I want in trouble.
Speaker 4: Second fun of the ball and the Cardinals recovered at
Speaker 4: the twenty nine yard line.
Speaker 3: Roy Lopez gets the sack.
Speaker 1: Roy Lopez with the tomahawk.
Speaker 4: Baby Stevenson, the tailback, gets the carry, running to the
Speaker 4: left and it's gonna be close. I don't think he
Speaker 4: got it, and the Cardinals take over on downs at
Speaker 4: their four yard line.
Speaker 5: Shades of dumpster Dan right there from Roy Lopez.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what an awesome job. At the point
Speaker 1: of attack.
Speaker 4: Darna looking over the middle, dumps it off complete to
Speaker 4: Jones and the balls out and it's recovered by the Cardinals.
Speaker 4: It was punch free and Roy Lopez balls on it.
Speaker 1: My lowped right there. Roy Lopez fell on that ball.
Speaker 1: Man stuck that this belly button.
Speaker 3: There you go, Sean Murphy bunding the force fumble and
Speaker 3: the fumble recovery. I don't know about the belly button. Well,
Speaker 3: you know what, let's just ask Roy Lopez here on
Speaker 3: the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 3: We are santan Ford, Roy, have you or have you
Speaker 3: not ever stuffed a football into your belly?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: No, he's a big met.
Speaker 3: What percentage of plays as a nose tackle for those
Speaker 3: of them, and that's ninety nine point nine percent of
Speaker 3: the world who's never played nose tackle in a football game.
Speaker 3: How would you describe your job? But how often you
Speaker 3: get double teamed?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: Just how dirty and filthy and physical does it get
Speaker 3: down there at the epicenter of humanity.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's uh, it's the real deal man. That's uh.
Speaker 7: When people think, you know, football banging and everything like that,
Speaker 7: that's that's the noseguard position. You know, everything happens so fast.
Speaker 7: You're the first person may contact every single play, you know,
Speaker 7: so you're getting double team, you're getting washed down the
Speaker 7: line of scrim as you to be able to you know,
Speaker 7: anchor the point of contact. And it's something that you know,
Speaker 7: I love to do because you know, not a lot
Speaker 7: of guys get to go against the same guy.
Speaker 6: For sixty minutes.
Speaker 7: Monoi mono, right, And it's something that it comes down
Speaker 7: to off season training, comes down the mindset. It comes
Speaker 7: down to if you really want it or not. You know,
Speaker 7: so anything between the White Lions for sixty minutes, it's on.
Speaker 5: You know, I played with many noseguards and they would
Speaker 5: say often that it's the most paranoid position on the field.
Speaker 5: And the reason being is because typically you line up
Speaker 5: over the center. Of course, if you are playing nose tackle,
Speaker 5: you have the center, you have the right guard, and
Speaker 5: you have the left guard, and you never know which
Speaker 5: way it's actually gonna come from.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that, Roy, would you agree with that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm in I'm in the whole little world in
Speaker 7: there in that little box, you know, like there's so
Speaker 7: much a football you guys, you know, are watching from
Speaker 7: from from the stands or up top, and I got
Speaker 7: my own little center to guards, right. It's it's something
Speaker 7: that you know, I I love it. I appreciate it,
Speaker 7: even you know, I'm taking a double team. I'm probably
Speaker 7: not make the tackle. But you got to find loving
Speaker 7: the little things when he comes to nosegar world, you know,
Speaker 7: so my family has gotten to a joint enjoy the
Speaker 7: enjoy the nose guard life.
Speaker 6: You know, since I've been the lakes.
Speaker 5: You know what else is coming back in the NFL.
Speaker 5: I just thought I've seen us do it. As a
Speaker 5: matter of fact, the wham block.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, oh yeah, man, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: That center is going to look at that nose tackle,
Speaker 5: set him up, and then go away from the wham
Speaker 5: and here comes the tight end. Here's a full back.
Speaker 5: Yeah literally, man.
Speaker 3: I want to know how much your heavyweight wrestling career
Speaker 3: has served you well at the position. But first you
Speaker 3: spoke of the offseason. Here's Nick Rolis, your defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: This is in training camp right going into this season.
Speaker 3: On how he was challenging you to lead more.
Speaker 9: I challenged Roy to become a leader on his defense,
Speaker 9: and I think he's done a great job of that.
Speaker 9: He does a phenomenal job for us. In the run game.
Speaker 9: You want to talk about anchoring a double team, He's
Speaker 9: hard to move in there, and then when he gets
Speaker 9: his shot to go one on one, he'll get knocked back.
Speaker 9: And he does a good job pushing the pocket on
Speaker 9: pass downs.
Speaker 3: Your reaction that and and how is this season gone
Speaker 3: in your estimation?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's something that if you watch the
Speaker 7: tape or watch games, you know, that's what he says.
Speaker 7: As far as taking the double team, inching, anchoring the
Speaker 7: double team, and and the moment, you know, I get
Speaker 7: on one on one, I lick my chops, right, It's
Speaker 7: it's something that I wait sixty minutes for one on one,
Speaker 7: you know. So, and as far as the leader, I
Speaker 7: think that just goes into you know, being who I am.
Speaker 7: You know, at the end of the day. Thankfully I
Speaker 7: was growing I grew up with a family that they're
Speaker 7: all leaders.
Speaker 6: In their workplace.
Speaker 7: And you know, so it's signed kind of just being
Speaker 7: second nature of being able to have a voice and
Speaker 7: and but also it comes through actions. You know, it
Speaker 7: comes through Uh you get your reputation through your reps,
Speaker 7: right and and so being able to show up every
Speaker 7: single day early do the little things pop out on
Speaker 7: tape with just effort and UH want to you know,
Speaker 7: I think that's something that when leading a room goes
Speaker 7: a long way.
Speaker 5: You know, Roy, a football player is body, soul, in spirit,
Speaker 5: all three. You've got to have all three to play
Speaker 5: the game correctly. So tell me what a nose tackle
Speaker 5: needs in terms of body, soul, in spirit in order
Speaker 5: to be a good nose tackle right in the NFL.
Speaker 7: I think the body I kind of don't fit the
Speaker 7: normal nose guard description.
Speaker 6: Why do you say that most nose guards are about
Speaker 6: six five three twenty three thirty Yeah, and I'm not. Okay,
Speaker 6: so I'm.
Speaker 7: But the biggest thing for me, which is nice, is
Speaker 7: I'm a little shorter, so I get the embedded pad level.
Speaker 7: I think that's the biggest thing as far as a
Speaker 7: nose guard is pad level, you know, getting your screws
Speaker 7: underneath their screws.
Speaker 6: Low Man wins. Low Man wins.
Speaker 7: You hear that, you know, from the moment you start football,
Speaker 7: you know, so thankfully I'm usually lower than everybody.
Speaker 1: And you got a really good feet too, don't you.
Speaker 7: I think that, Yeah goes back to me growing up
Speaker 7: around football, you know, and I'd get bored and just
Speaker 7: hop on the juiliy ladder. And also my trainer, you know,
Speaker 7: is he's my cousin, but he's pretty mean to me,
Speaker 7: so so.
Speaker 6: He'll make fun of me and say I got slow feet?
Speaker 1: What is your feet? What is your weight at? I
Speaker 1: should say right.
Speaker 7: Now, I range from three h five to three ten okay,
Speaker 7: so throughout the season that's kind of where I go.
Speaker 6: Usually play around three oh eight.
Speaker 5: Okay, I like it about three twenty.
Speaker 3: That makes won't feel better about himself considering all the
Speaker 3: weight he's put it on the holiday season.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's big boy weight right there.
Speaker 3: So to what degree does your wrestling background serve you
Speaker 3: well in the trenches, because for those who don't know,
Speaker 3: you won two state titles in high school? Is a
Speaker 3: heavyweight champion? I mean, how about that? And you let
Speaker 3: it all four years? So how often is that coming
Speaker 3: to play? In this job.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you know, some people reference it all
Speaker 7: the time when watching my tape. Is it looks like
Speaker 7: I'm wrestling right because everything is about inside hand placement,
Speaker 7: pad level low man wins. The moment you lean too much,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna snatch you right in. Being able to attack
Speaker 7: one arm at a time is the biggest saying. I
Speaker 7: do it in off season training, whether it's boxing or wrestling.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Thankfully, my THEO also does a self defense for the
Speaker 7: police academy, so I'm able to go in there and
Speaker 7: train with him, roll around with him. So it's all around.
Speaker 7: It's a It's changed my life for sure. I love
Speaker 7: the game of wrestling.
Speaker 1: So you grew up here and you went to Mesquite
Speaker 1: High School.
Speaker 6: I went to two high schools. Went to Marco's Denisa.
Speaker 6: I transferred to Mesquite.
Speaker 1: Okay, talk to me a little bit. Why did you transfer? Well,
Speaker 1: what's going on with that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my dad was the head coach of Marco's Denisa.
Speaker 7: Okay, So then after my sophomore year he resigned, so
Speaker 7: we kind of, uh, it was kind of crazy. We
Speaker 7: went on to it was like we were doing college visits,
Speaker 7: man to bunts of schools and seeing where we're gonna go.
Speaker 7: And you know, ultimately we chose Mesquite to play both
Speaker 7: ways in high school and uh, they had a good
Speaker 7: wrestling program, you know, so we wanted to you know,
Speaker 7: I wanted to chase the dream of winning more state
Speaker 7: titles than my dad.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 7: So thankfully I was able to do that, you know. So,
Speaker 7: but that was the biggest thing was for me. I
Speaker 7: want to I wanted to wrestle, and I wanted to
Speaker 7: play both ways.
Speaker 3: What's amazing too, is in the course of basically two years,
Speaker 3: you went from New Mexico State to u of A
Speaker 3: to the NFL. What was that like that whole two
Speaker 3: years and think about the competition, right, and how it
Speaker 3: accelerated from New Mexico State and all of a sudden
Speaker 3: you're in Houston, Texan and you're playing an NFL games
Speaker 3: your rookie.
Speaker 6: Year, right.
Speaker 7: I think going to New Mexico State, it kind of
Speaker 7: comes full circle of me standing up here and saying
Speaker 7: that the biggest thing that this team fights for is
Speaker 7: respect and there's a reason why we're all on this team.
Speaker 7: And because you know, a guy like me goes to
Speaker 7: New Mexico State, you know, I feel like I'm a
Speaker 7: great player, you know, So you got to fight for
Speaker 7: respect every single down, you know, in some games when
Speaker 7: at New Mexico State, you're down fifty to six, right
Speaker 7: and so, and I'm still in there in the fourth
Speaker 7: quarter fighting for respect, you know. So it taught me
Speaker 7: a lot. It taught me a lot to come from
Speaker 7: there and then ended up transferring being able to come
Speaker 7: home and play for U of A, you know, and
Speaker 7: that was amazing changed my life, and I made the
Speaker 7: decision to leave from U of A. Only went there
Speaker 7: one year, and there I was getting drafted in front
Speaker 7: of my whole family. It was one of the best
Speaker 7: days of my life. But it was it was a
Speaker 7: humbling moment for sure, once all the phone calls started
Speaker 7: hanging in. And because I never had that right, I
Speaker 7: never was the big recruit, star guy. And so when
Speaker 7: I got to Houston, it was the same thing of
Speaker 7: having to earn respect. And I come here as a
Speaker 7: guy that just got injured. Wave coming off an injury,
Speaker 7: nobody really knows who I am, and they kind of
Speaker 7: just saw me on tape before. And now it's like
Speaker 7: that feeling again of being the new kid at new
Speaker 7: school and the new kid on the team of you know,
Speaker 7: you got to prove yourself every single day, you know,
Speaker 7: and I think that's something that never leaves you as
Speaker 7: long as you're in the league.
Speaker 5: You know, what's amazing about your story as well. I
Speaker 5: grew up in Orchard Park, New York, where the Buffalo
Speaker 5: Bills played, right They play right there, and I grew
Speaker 5: up there, born and raised there, and I always wondered
Speaker 5: what that would be like to actually go and play,
Speaker 5: to play for the Buffalo Bills in I never had
Speaker 5: that opportunity to do it, and loved my time of
Speaker 5: course with a Cardinals organization for seven years. But talk
Speaker 5: to me about what it's like to actually play here. Yeah,
Speaker 5: where you grew up with your family, and there seems
Speaker 5: like there could be a lot of distractions, and at
Speaker 5: the same time, it feels like there could be a
Speaker 5: lot of good things that come from that.
Speaker 7: And so I'll start off with the you know, as
Speaker 7: far as distraction goes everything that I do. My family,
Speaker 7: you know, thankfully, is very understanding and they allowed me
Speaker 7: to to focus on my career because they've been through
Speaker 7: the whole part.
Speaker 6: You know with me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they know my they know my my daily routine
Speaker 7: and so they don't ever really budge and they're kind
Speaker 7: of really patient with me.
Speaker 6: If I can go to things, I can go to things.
Speaker 7: But I think the coolest thing for me playing here was,
Speaker 7: you know, being able to throw my youth camps in
Speaker 7: the off season and say an Arizona Cardinal right, and
Speaker 7: for the kids to see, oh, he's from here any
Speaker 7: place record like it's it's insane to say out loud.
Speaker 7: And then but also doing my foundation events as far
Speaker 7: as being able to meet people throughout the state and
Speaker 7: say I'm also from here. You know, the kid's eyes
Speaker 7: or or or men's eyes and women's eyes is kind
Speaker 7: of light up the moment I say it and tell.
Speaker 6: Them where I'm from.
Speaker 7: And uh, I think that's been the coolest thing, you know,
Speaker 7: playing here and the Arizona across your chest and means
Speaker 7: something to me, you know, and I got it tattooed
Speaker 7: on me, and uh, it's it's truly a blessing that
Speaker 7: I know. Not a lot of people get to do
Speaker 7: that players in the NFL. So I played here as
Speaker 7: an away team. Houston played here my rookie year and
Speaker 7: we cleared over one hundred people.
Speaker 6: In that game. It was. It was insane, you know,
Speaker 6: so speaking of right right, right.
Speaker 7: So it's been, uh, it's been a ride, man, and thankfully,
Speaker 7: you know, God blessed me to be able to play
Speaker 7: here for the home home States.
Speaker 3: By the way, the fourth annual Roy Lopez Football Camp
Speaker 3: gonna be April of this coming year. Now, this is
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, the Roy Lopez Foundation dot org. How
Speaker 3: about that, we're we got this all down here, Roy
Speaker 3: in fact awesome. Here's Jonathan Gann and this is back
Speaker 3: in training camp, just talking about how he'd love a
Speaker 3: bunch of Roys on his roster.
Speaker 10: If you had ninety roys, you'd be good to go.
Speaker 10: He keeps a good attitude, He's always working on his game.
Speaker 10: He's team first. He's willing to do whatever you tell
Speaker 10: him to do. He's got a smile on his face
Speaker 10: like he's a phenomenal human being. He enjoys coming to
Speaker 10: work and he gets better at his game. So yeah,
Speaker 10: I'd love a bunch of Roys.
Speaker 3: And having grown up here, did you take a moment
Speaker 3: the first time he went into the Cardinals locker room
Speaker 3: and there was a Cardinals jersey and helmet in your
Speaker 3: locker Was that a moment for you.
Speaker 6: I take that moment every day. Man.
Speaker 7: Literally, I sit there and I just kind of take
Speaker 7: a deep breath and realize where I'm at at that moment,
Speaker 7: you know. And not a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 7: people always say I wish I was new I was
Speaker 7: in the good moment when I was in it, you know.
Speaker 6: So I always just kind.
Speaker 7: Of breathe and look around, Like every game day, especially
Speaker 7: every home game, man, I look around like I'm really
Speaker 7: here right now, you know. Okay, lock it right, like,
Speaker 7: but yeah, the first day I showed up and I
Speaker 7: had a shirt in my locker and had Lopez number
Speaker 7: ninety eight and my theold war number ninety eight at
Speaker 7: Illinois State. He was my d line coach growing up.
Speaker 7: So I sent a picture to him and told him
Speaker 7: I was gonna wear ninety eight and told him I
Speaker 7: wore better, you know.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, So and then there's Week one and
Speaker 3: you get the sack and the fumble forced against Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: How about that right out of the gates, by the way,
Speaker 3: three career sacks. Are you a guy who remembers every
Speaker 3: single quarterback or does it all bleed together?
Speaker 6: Every single one?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: So let's test you because you had one year rookie
Speaker 3: year you had you won your second year, who are
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: Do you remember?
Speaker 6: Uh Brissett?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 7: Year set My second year was Malik willis correct, Yeah,
Speaker 7: this year was Josh Allen.
Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, Josh Allen's a big dude, was it? I
Speaker 3: mean there's a degree of difficulty in getting him to
Speaker 3: the ground, isn't there?
Speaker 7: Right after the play, you know, celebrated everything that uh
Speaker 7: my mom, my dad and my thee were there, and
Speaker 7: I kind of looked up at the stands.
Speaker 6: And they're all crying, right.
Speaker 7: Just just completely bawling their eyes out right, and so.
Speaker 6: And I look at um, like what just happened? And
Speaker 6: they're like, I don't know, but I don't know.
Speaker 7: And so I'm just like I'm like pacing back on
Speaker 7: the sideline, trying to just lock in and remember that
Speaker 7: I got to play a scoop block coming up, but
Speaker 7: you know, I got a couple.
Speaker 6: Of double teams come my way.
Speaker 7: So I think that was the biggest thing, was just
Speaker 7: being able to enjoy the quick ten seconds of it
Speaker 7: and then all right, like it's it's we're still in it.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: That was the first quarter, right, so you say out
Speaker 7: another three quarters to go? So so your dad, he
Speaker 7: and I. This guy is a coach.
Speaker 5: This guy knows what he's talking about and regarded the
Speaker 5: game of football.
Speaker 1: Does he coach you? Does he say, boy, you gotta
Speaker 1: do this?
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think a lot of things that they do say
Speaker 7: in between him and my theos and my grandpa is
Speaker 7: everything that they say is more pointers right, being able
Speaker 7: to be there for me mentally right and whether that's
Speaker 7: just breathe, calm down, next play, if it was a
Speaker 7: good play or a bad play right, and being able
Speaker 7: to a pad level, keep.
Speaker 6: Your feet hot, keep right.
Speaker 1: I suppose.
Speaker 6: So I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 7: And then the off season we get to it and uh,
Speaker 7: and that's when we really lock in on.
Speaker 6: You know, being harsh on me. You know, but I
Speaker 6: need that, man, I need it hard cool, I need
Speaker 6: it all Right.
Speaker 1: We roll on.
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Speaker 4: Jet Sweet near side McBride Stiff Arming touchdown Fray McBride
Speaker 4: on the handoff McBride.
Speaker 1: It's so good running the football.
Speaker 4: Cardinals rush Byve and Trouvil Smith steps up. Sack by
Speaker 4: Fooda Baker. Hot by McBride, wrapped up, broken tackle though,
Speaker 4: and then he hurdles a defender at the forty.
Speaker 3: That was gronk esque.
Speaker 1: You can't control Trey McBride.
Speaker 3: Blitz coming Rodgers has no chance. Sack by Fooda Baker.
Speaker 3: It's Tray McBride on a quick, tight end screen and
Speaker 3: into the end zone. Trey McBride who finds paydirt.
Speaker 5: Budda Baker came off the edge clean and Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 5: got his.
Speaker 3: Backwax between four jets. The ball is caught by Trey McBride.
Speaker 1: Trey McBride, you are.
Speaker 6: A bad, bad man.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: We could spend the rest of the show just going
Speaker 3: through the stats and the accomplishments from the two Pro bowlers.
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals official today. How about a Trey McBride and
Speaker 3: Fooda Baker going to the Pro Bowl twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: It is a big red rage presented by Santane Ford
Speaker 3: and Gilbert. We are Santan Ford, Roy Lopez is our
Speaker 3: guest here on the Big Show and the I mean,
Speaker 3: think about Buddha Baker number two in the NFL and
Speaker 3: tackles the top twenties, like nineteen linebackers and Buddha, right,
Speaker 3: and then you got Trey McBride who's had three he
Speaker 3: count him three twelve catch games. Nobody's done that in
Speaker 3: NFL history in one season. If he has another one,
Speaker 3: he ties zach Ertz for the all time single season
Speaker 3: catch record by a tight end one sixteen, which was
Speaker 3: back in twenty eighteen or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: put into perspective what you've been able to see out
Speaker 3: of those two guys this year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, you know, starting with Buddha, you know,
Speaker 7: he's he's the greatest player I ever played with. Man,
Speaker 7: he's every single day he literally doesn't change, you know,
Speaker 7: And so as a fan, trust me, you guys know
Speaker 7: who Buddha is like, he's he doesn't ever change since
Speaker 7: the guy is you know, on the field, off the field,
Speaker 7: he's a he's a leader. It's it's it's amazing to
Speaker 7: watch him on tape the way he plays like I
Speaker 7: always say, he has that clip from a couple of
Speaker 7: years ago and against Seattle or he's like the guy
Speaker 7: asked him, like, how'd you make that play? And he
Speaker 7: was like, fearless, fearless right, Like yeah, it's it's exactly
Speaker 7: what he's thinking. He's fearless man.
Speaker 6: He's Uh. It's been a blessing to be able to
Speaker 6: play with him because I've got to see him play
Speaker 6: on TV.
Speaker 3: You know, so yeah, when you're young, I'm sure he
Speaker 3: loves hearing that. When you were younger, used to watch.
Speaker 1: Him right and go on to college.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he came up to be after you heard that,
Speaker 7: he started dying laughing. He was like, hey, man, you'll
Speaker 7: be saying that, you know, but it was funny.
Speaker 6: It's uh. And then to go on the tray that
Speaker 6: is easy. The most exciting tight end to watch in
Speaker 6: the league. He's uh.
Speaker 7: Every time he touches the wall, you think he's gonna
Speaker 7: do something right, like yeah, and then whether it's Hurtle,
Speaker 7: somebody run somebody over. But he's a he's a he's
Speaker 7: a fun guy to watch. He's he's amazing. And to
Speaker 7: know that this is your three for him, right, that's yes.
Speaker 7: Could you imagine what he's gonna do the next ten
Speaker 7: fifteen years forever long, he's gonna play like he's gonna
Speaker 7: be insane, you know, And then to say he's already
Speaker 7: on pace or trying to beat the tight end record,
Speaker 7: like who knows how many tight end records he's gonna
Speaker 7: go for, you know.
Speaker 5: So yeah, for me, you know, Trey McBride is a
Speaker 5: guy that I continue to want to see him develop
Speaker 5: as a blocker at the point of attack, and he's
Speaker 5: done a great job of that. Now, we had a
Speaker 5: couple of games where there was a little bit of
Speaker 5: a speed bump in there, and and Trey would be
Speaker 5: the first guy to admit that.
Speaker 6: But that's what I love about the kid.
Speaker 1: He wants to be good.
Speaker 5: He wants to be a true tight end, a true
Speaker 5: stud tight end, and that's the reason why. So he's
Speaker 5: developed to speak on that.
Speaker 7: So on the plane rides me and him, or we
Speaker 7: sit right next to each other on the playing rights
Speaker 7: for away games, and so after the game, you know,
Speaker 7: I'll sit there and watch the defensive tape, and he
Speaker 7: SAIDs here, what's offense tape?
Speaker 6: You know, And and we watched all his blocking tapes.
Speaker 7: He's like, ah, getting on that, or he's like, what's
Speaker 7: like he loves it, man, he loves the game of football.
Speaker 7: And then I always tell people, when you're around a
Speaker 7: bunch of people that love the game of football, you're
Speaker 7: able to thrive, right. But if you're that person that
Speaker 7: doesn't love football around everybody that loves football, you'll stick
Speaker 7: out like a sore throw man, because because oh yeah,
Speaker 7: he loves it, man, he loves football through and through.
Speaker 7: So just being able to talk about him, Buddha and
Speaker 7: everybody else and on that, on that.
Speaker 5: Note right there, when I think of Buddha Baker and
Speaker 5: you watch him on tape, it is truly incredible to
Speaker 5: see him man play fearlessly on every play, play after
Speaker 5: play after play. It's it really, And he's the smallest
Speaker 5: guy on the field. He doesn't play after play after play.
Speaker 7: You see all the pictures and stuff of me playing,
Speaker 7: or I'm going through all my pictures and you can
Speaker 7: see Buddha just back there just like tiny man, but
Speaker 7: like it looks like he's just ready to pounce.
Speaker 6: Man, he's a beast.
Speaker 5: But tell people what that's like to watch a guy
Speaker 5: play like that when he's the smallest guy on the field.
Speaker 7: Right, you're able to really back to practice though, you're
Speaker 7: able to relay it back to OTA's and then you
Speaker 7: go on to training camp and he's he's the one
Speaker 7: flying around on tape and you understand why this is
Speaker 7: the seventh Pro Bowl. You know he's selected to you
Speaker 7: understand why he's a there's nobody like him.
Speaker 6: Man. He's uh, he's truly one of the great greatest
Speaker 6: safeties've ever played.
Speaker 3: Again, well, it's a great segue because here's Buddha Baker today.
Speaker 3: I'm being named to his seventh Pro Bowl.
Speaker 11: It's just, you know, head down, take one day at
Speaker 11: a time. That's how I truly feel. And these accolades
Speaker 11: are definitely a blessing. And some people don't make a
Speaker 11: Pro Bowl, you know, one time in their career. So
Speaker 11: for me to get seven, that's definitely special. And you know,
Speaker 11: I'm gonna continue to try to stay consistent, continue to
Speaker 11: be the best teammate I can be, to of course
Speaker 11: the best player I can be on the field, and
Speaker 11: you know, ultimately get to winning games.
Speaker 3: And you talked about Nick rawlis right in the adjustments
Speaker 3: and how this defense is of all, I probably couldn't
Speaker 3: explain it. I couldn't sit here with the ex's and
Speaker 3: o's and break it down. Maybe I'll leave that, you know,
Speaker 3: to your dad and your uncle. But they have unlocked
Speaker 3: Buddha Baker and your two of this ski, have they not?
Speaker 1: For sure?
Speaker 3: There's no I mean it used to be teams would
Speaker 3: run to the opposite side or run away from him
Speaker 3: throw it. But no, there is no escaping Budda Baker
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 7: I think the biggest thing is, you know, if you're
Speaker 7: a pitcher, you're gonna throw your best pitch right, and
Speaker 7: so you might as well just send that bullet flying.
Speaker 6: Every single play, you know.
Speaker 7: So, Uh, he's ready to go whenever you call his number,
Speaker 7: you know, So it doesn't matter if you call it once, twice,
Speaker 7: thirty times a game.
Speaker 6: He's shooting it right. So he's Uh, he's awesome.
Speaker 3: By the way, we had Trey McBride on not too
Speaker 3: long ago, and he dubbed Wolf the Quality Control run
Speaker 3: game blocking Coordinator is what he called Wolf, because we'll
Speaker 3: spend the majority of the show talking about his run block, right, Trey,
Speaker 3: He's like, come on, man, let's you know.
Speaker 5: I'm glad you did that, but you know what I mean, honestly, Roy,
Speaker 5: I want this guy to be a true stud tight end,
Speaker 5: because if you can go eleven personnel in the NFL,
Speaker 5: one back, one tight end, three wide receivers in rundown
Speaker 5: situation first and ten second and one to six, if
Speaker 5: you can go ahead and be balanced running the ball
Speaker 5: and throwing it out of that personnel group, oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: It is such an advantage. It's one of the huge
Speaker 5: advantages that a lot of teams have when they've got
Speaker 5: that true stud tight end who can be a blocker
Speaker 5: at the point of attack and yet still produce in
Speaker 5: the past.
Speaker 7: Especially especially with a back like James Connor. So that's
Speaker 7: that's another thing is is that's another dog right there.
Speaker 3: Well, the team you're playing on Sunday, right, George Kittle,
Speaker 3: they've been able to do that for years.
Speaker 7: Correct, You're you're able to hide your you know, past
Speaker 7: run keys when you're tight end can catch in and block.
Speaker 6: So that's the biggest thing here.
Speaker 3: You go, Trey mcplay, Trey Mcpro Bowl now being named
Speaker 3: to his first Pro.
Speaker 12: Bowl something you dream about as a little kid. You know,
Speaker 12: obviously you want to make it to the pros and
Speaker 12: then you want to be the best. This is just
Speaker 12: one step, you know, into that right direction. This is
Speaker 12: a huge honor for me. Proud just to bring this
Speaker 12: back home where I'm from. Just a huge honor for
Speaker 12: not only me, my community, my family, and obviously this
Speaker 12: organization you know, hasn't been done by a tight end
Speaker 12: in a very long time. So this is it's a
Speaker 12: huge on it for not only me, but this organization
Speaker 12: and everybody.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's got the best hands on the team.
Speaker 3: He's a tight end, he really does. I mean, he
Speaker 3: had this stretch of three games in a row with
Speaker 3: a hurdle and then on the sideline, he's really hard
Speaker 3: on himself, Like he could catch ten out of eleven
Speaker 3: and he is seething he didn't get that eleventh catch.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's really competitive his name.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's you know, being a great player.
Speaker 6: That's part of it, you know.
Speaker 7: And you look at the you know, the leaders on
Speaker 7: our team, they're the hardest on themselves man and truthfully,
Speaker 7: and so it's it's great to see him, you know,
Speaker 7: in year three, because you know down the road, you know,
Speaker 7: I'll be able to get to watch him and be
Speaker 7: like I leave, man, this guy's still doing it, you know.
Speaker 7: So because I understand how much he loves the game
Speaker 7: of football, how much he puts into it, he bleeds
Speaker 7: for it, and so it's a blessing to watch him.
Speaker 1: I think you had an excellent year this year.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: How how do you feel about your season?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think thankfully.
Speaker 7: You know, I know who I am, I know what
Speaker 7: I bring to the team, and uh, you know, every
Speaker 7: single week I kind of tell my family I felt
Speaker 7: like I played great, you know So I think that's
Speaker 7: the biggest thing is.
Speaker 6: Being happy the way I played. I enjoy it.
Speaker 7: I get double teamed a lot, and I live for those, man.
Speaker 7: I live for the double teams, being able to split it,
Speaker 7: being able to anchor it, and like I said, when
Speaker 7: I get a single block, I lick my chops, you know. So,
Speaker 7: I think the film will speak for itself. And I'm
Speaker 7: happy with what I've done the season.
Speaker 1: And you take your face and turn it into a
Speaker 1: flat shovel, which I happened to.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Hey.
Speaker 3: We continue with Roy Lopez, our special guest here on
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Speaker 1: First and ten.
Speaker 4: I'm the Sanfred twenty four snapped a purty standing in
Speaker 4: the bucket all day to throw out passes, tipped and
Speaker 4: it's intercepted. It was tipped by Lopez and picked off
Speaker 4: by mac Wilson at the twenty five. The Cardinals get
Speaker 4: a huge takeaway early in the third Rock.
Speaker 5: Perty in the pocket working to his left, comes back
Speaker 5: to his right, throws the ball. It's batted into the
Speaker 5: air by Roy Lopez and mac Wilson Senior comes.
Speaker 1: Down with the ball.
Speaker 3: When you tip it and another guy gets a takeaway,
Speaker 3: does like he owe you something of any sort? How
Speaker 3: does that work?
Speaker 7: Just a high five, That's all I asked. But no,
Speaker 7: it's it's something that we get to laugh and share
Speaker 7: the moment about. But yeah, it was a great play
Speaker 7: by mac.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what, that was a great second
Speaker 3: half by the Cardinals defense. They had four possessions, three
Speaker 3: takeaways by the Cardinals in a turnover on downs and
Speaker 3: you guys came from thirteen down and a half ten
Speaker 3: down to start the fourth quarter got out of there
Speaker 3: with that one point win. It was also about a
Speaker 3: buck eleven on that field. I mean that was hotter
Speaker 3: than Arizona. Yeah, you baye that you.
Speaker 7: Know, Like I keep saying, from the top to the bottom, man,
Speaker 7: it's all about respect. In that halftime, I rememb I'm
Speaker 7: in the locker room, man, everybody's fired up because it
Speaker 7: was there was something that you know, I knew, we
Speaker 7: knew we got thirty minutes to go get respect, you know,
Speaker 7: And so that was the difference of I don't get
Speaker 7: me wrong, I think we were two and four at
Speaker 7: the time, right, trying to remember was week five.
Speaker 3: So you were yeah, well no, you're two and two.
Speaker 3: Maybe yeah, maybe one and three something.
Speaker 6: But I know the record could have went way different
Speaker 6: if we lost that game.
Speaker 3: That was a turning point because that was the first
Speaker 3: of the four straight wins to get to six and
Speaker 3: four at the buy. Yeah, that was all part of that.
Speaker 1: So when you watch tape right now of the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, what are you seeing on tape?
Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing is that they have so
Speaker 6: many weapons.
Speaker 7: I think that's every single time, right, And even with
Speaker 7: losing some weapons, they still have so many weapons. That's
Speaker 7: a deep roster, you know, and so they played great
Speaker 7: team ball. So I think that's the biggest thing. Is
Speaker 7: you know, as a defense, we got to outperform their defense,
Speaker 7: you know, and they have a great defense.
Speaker 5: So brock Party has been ruled out. It's that he's
Speaker 5: been ruled out for this game of course. Mc Christian, McCaffrey,
Speaker 5: Brandon Ayuk, Trent Williams. These guys are all on I
Speaker 5: R right now. So they've been decimated by injuries. Of course,
Speaker 5: tell me what you're seeing scheme wise, what kind of
Speaker 5: schemes are they still running?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: We're expecting Josh Dobbs, you know, to to play, yes,
Speaker 7: you know, so you know, thankfully.
Speaker 1: He was here, you know, so so you here kind
Speaker 1: of familiar with right talent.
Speaker 7: Right, so being able to you know, prep for him
Speaker 7: and and he's great with his legs as well, you know,
Speaker 7: so he's also a great runner. So that's something that
Speaker 7: we got to prepare, you know, on film, you know,
Speaker 7: when watching tape san Fran understanding that you know they
Speaker 7: are going to be a great offense.
Speaker 6: You know, I got a great one of the great
Speaker 6: play callers in this league, you know.
Speaker 7: So but then also understand that you know, uh, Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 7: the guy that can extend a play, you know, with
Speaker 7: some of the best quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: In the league.
Speaker 1: Really is a different type of quarterback from Brock Purty,
Speaker 1: is he not?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's I know, he's confident in running the ball
Speaker 7: as well, you know, so whether that's you know, rushing
Speaker 7: to get yards or just to extend the play and
Speaker 7: make it make it throw. He's a guy who's played
Speaker 7: a lot of games in this league, you know. So
Speaker 7: you know, I know they're not going to really you know,
Speaker 7: hold back, hold him back too much here to give
Speaker 7: him the reins to run the offense.
Speaker 3: And so I'll tell you what he can really run.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's not just mobile like he I think
Speaker 3: the sideline was like, wow, he can really run. Last
Speaker 3: year he took off a few times. Here's the other
Speaker 3: thing before he before Kyler came back, I asked him,
Speaker 3: as a NASA intern and a guy with an aerospace
Speaker 3: engineering degree, right, I asked him, do you believe in
Speaker 3: UFOs and aliens? He said no, So, just just so
Speaker 3: you're aware of that, he does not believe in UFOs
Speaker 3: and aliens astronaut right aster or not?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, hey, Roy, every member, well many members of your
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Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
Speaker 12: Oh?
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Speaker 1: How about that.
Speaker 5: About that Hall of Famer right there, Johnny, oh of course,
Speaker 5: said how many times I've actually seen him kneeling over
Speaker 5: me as I was laying on my back. Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 3: Take his helmet before he goes back into the game.
Speaker 3: Oh man, all right, So what you got anything lined
Speaker 3: up for the off season? How are you gonna get
Speaker 3: some mental health after this last game? What do you
Speaker 3: do for fun in the off season before you start
Speaker 3: training again.
Speaker 7: I hang out with my family and we sing a
Speaker 7: lot of country music and we laugh a lot.
Speaker 6: I just picked up golf, which I'm terrible at. Oh man,
Speaker 6: that's pretty fun. So yeah, we'll do that. We'll go
Speaker 6: to country concerts around the nation and entertain ourselves.
Speaker 1: Do you play anything any instrument? Do you play it?
Speaker 6: Or no? You just I'm a great, sham, I'm a
Speaker 6: great Are you serious? Like in the car?
Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 3: It didn't didn't work out, So well that does you
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