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Speaker 2: Here's Paul Calvic. I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you I'm ready. And Ron Woofley. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: Red c I mean Silicon Valley. Are you listening out there?
Speaker 2: You kid me? It's an NFC West game we got
Speaker 2: going here. Cardinals already beat the Rams and beat the
Speaker 2: silicone and the botox out of La. Now it's nor
Speaker 2: Cow Wolf and it's time to pound the chardonnay and
Speaker 2: the semiconductors right out to the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: Who's all about it?
Speaker 1: Come on now, I got no problem with that, Paul,
Speaker 1: if that's what you'd like to do.
Speaker 2: By the way, Jiere the weather forecast it's supposed to
Speaker 2: be the all time hottest game in the history of
Speaker 2: Levi Stadium on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I saw that, Paul. I heard that, and I know
Speaker 1: what your response to that is.
Speaker 2: Well, it's supposed to be like mid to high nineties. Okay,
Speaker 2: today's record because the Cardinals practice in it was a
Speaker 2: record one oh nine. So I know the schedule says
Speaker 2: home game for the forty nine ers, but are we
Speaker 2: sure about that? You sure it's not a home game
Speaker 2: for the Arizona Cardinals. That is a great question to
Speaker 2: start with. The tight end, Elijah Higgins, everyone about it?
Speaker 2: I mean, Elijah, come on now, mid to high nineties.
Speaker 2: You guys don't sweat that literally when you've been practicing
Speaker 2: in one ten plus for like weeks now.
Speaker 5: Correct, Yeah, we're not too worried about it. We're not
Speaker 5: too worried about it. Quick question.
Speaker 6: This is pretty close to my mouth and making sure
Speaker 6: this is a good here's what you do.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go out and I'm going to kill
Speaker 2: that that kills your mic and you go like this.
Speaker 2: You can just sort of adjust it. You can sort
Speaker 2: of yeah, you can sort of bend it out a
Speaker 2: little bit. Yeah, you know that's good. There you go,
Speaker 2: there you go. Well, absolutely, you know we should have
Speaker 2: done that in rehearsal.
Speaker 1: Wolf, that's all. Come on, I was too busy eating ball.
Speaker 1: I had a nice pet burger or something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wolf puts the full in the full back.
Speaker 1: Speaking of here we go, now, I what is your
Speaker 1: weight at again?
Speaker 5: Elija?
Speaker 1: I just want to ask this right now, right off
Speaker 1: the top, because you were a wide receiver at one
Speaker 1: point in time. What's your weight at right now?
Speaker 6: So I weigh two hundred and fifty right now, two
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty pounds right now?
Speaker 1: What kind of difference is that from when you were
Speaker 1: a white receiver?
Speaker 5: It's about fifteen pounds about that was it? So you
Speaker 5: were a big one. Yeah that was a big receiver.
Speaker 5: But you were a big I never thought I was
Speaker 5: going to be two fifty.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're got pounds right now, A lot of
Speaker 1: weight room work. I would imagine, right, Yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 6: Eating, a lot of weight room. I think a lot
Speaker 6: of it too, is just how my body mature.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite thing to do in the weight room?
Speaker 6: You don't I love the weight room? You I love
Speaker 6: the weight Okay, I would say everybody just kind of
Speaker 6: pumping out.
Speaker 1: The upper body. Okay, great, doing some arms, you know,
Speaker 1: curls for the girls. So what you're saying, do.
Speaker 2: You ever go over there and try and compete with like,
Speaker 2: you know, Evan Brown and uh, you know, i mean
Speaker 2: Paris and those guys you know, yelled at because those
Speaker 2: guys are always like competing on there, you know, over there,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, My my favorite guy to work out with in
Speaker 6: the weight room is actually James Connor. He's a He's
Speaker 6: a dude that really pushes it. So it's cool to
Speaker 6: try to keep up with them.
Speaker 1: I'm out to surprise as that James Connor is in
Speaker 1: there throwing it around.
Speaker 2: We've had James on this show a couple of times
Speaker 2: and he's talked about his off season workouts with Aaron Donald.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing those are legit when you're working out with
Speaker 2: Aaron Donald in the off season, So yeah, I'm guess
Speaker 2: seeing he has he has some aptitude in the weight room.
Speaker 2: I'd be my guest on that one, no doubt. All right,
Speaker 2: So tell us about this week, tell us about this
Speaker 2: week of practice, tell us about how the team is
Speaker 2: rebounded so far coming off the loss against Washington, uh,
Speaker 2: and just what do you what do you? How would
Speaker 2: you assess the mood and the vibe here the last
Speaker 2: few days.
Speaker 5: We're excited.
Speaker 6: I think we're excited to uh just play another game,
Speaker 6: obviously another opportunity to get a w on the board
Speaker 6: for ourselves. But I think more excited just to get
Speaker 6: a bounce back win more than anything. I think after
Speaker 6: you know, Sunday Monday, you watch the film, correct things
Speaker 6: you need to correct, and then by the time you're
Speaker 6: practicing Wednesday, everything's behind us. So I think that's what
Speaker 6: the most excited about, is the opportunity that all waits
Speaker 6: us on Sunday.
Speaker 5: You know, just being in the locker room.
Speaker 1: When I was a young man ten years in the NFL,
Speaker 1: of course, and I saw for some really bad losses
Speaker 1: as well. I just want you to know that I'll
Speaker 1: tell you in the break. We have no time to
Speaker 1: go over it right now. But just the way we
Speaker 1: used to process some of the losses that we had
Speaker 1: right there. It was about accountability for the most part,
Speaker 1: being able to look at each other in the eye
Speaker 1: and be very accountable. Was that going on inside this
Speaker 1: locker room this week?
Speaker 5: For sure?
Speaker 6: I Mean, I think that's what all good teams do,
Speaker 6: and I think that's what we have in our locker
Speaker 6: room because have a good team. And that's what it
Speaker 6: takes is for everybody to lock themselves in the mirror
Speaker 6: and fix the things that they need to fix and
Speaker 6: move on to the next game.
Speaker 2: You had a chance after the game to talk with
Speaker 2: Garrett Williams. He had to pick obviously big play and
Speaker 2: a really excellent interview afterwards, just the way he sum
Speaker 2: things up, And here's a Garrett Williams, second year player,
Speaker 2: had to say about how the Cardinals should go about
Speaker 2: correcting things.
Speaker 7: Don't point fingers, be honest with yourself about what you're
Speaker 7: doing well, and more partly, when you're losing, you know
Speaker 7: what you're not doing well and fix it. And I
Speaker 7: feel like if each individual on the team looks at
Speaker 7: themselves and go, Okay, I'm not doing this well, how
Speaker 7: am I going to take the steps to get better
Speaker 7: at that. Think if we all do that and then
Speaker 7: we come together collectively and be like, all right, what
Speaker 7: are we lacking as a team. I think that's where
Speaker 7: change starts to happen. And then, you know, I think
Speaker 7: that's where we just show the type of team that
Speaker 7: we are.
Speaker 2: You know, I heard jg use the word details repeadly.
Speaker 2: When you guys watch that film, how correctible we're things
Speaker 2: that he identified very correctable.
Speaker 6: I think we have the guys in the room that
Speaker 6: can get the job done. And obviously that starts from
Speaker 6: the execution standpoint, being able to make plays and whatnot,
Speaker 6: but it starts at the details. Like I said, we
Speaker 6: have the guys that can make the plays. It's just
Speaker 6: about being in the correct alignment at the right time,
Speaker 6: snap counts and all this sort of stuff. So I
Speaker 6: think we got the guys that can that can do
Speaker 6: it for sure. It's just about fixing those those small
Speaker 6: details and moving forward.
Speaker 2: You know, the Niners just snapped a two game skid.
Speaker 2: They lost in Minnesota, lost at the Rams, and Fred
Speaker 2: Warner talked about practice last week going in a New
Speaker 2: England game, just saying, you know, guys had a little
Speaker 2: extra edge you know, a little chippier. You know we
Speaker 2: had lost a couple in a round. I mean, did
Speaker 2: you sense that at all this week?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I definitely feel it. I feel it,
Speaker 6: and everybody definitely feel myself for sure. Just taking accountability
Speaker 6: for the small things that you you mess up in
Speaker 6: the game, and making the distinctions between doing the right
Speaker 6: thing and doing the wrong thing, and just putting your
Speaker 6: best foot forward and earning that confidence back in practice
Speaker 6: and just working hard.
Speaker 1: So you know, for me Polly too, it's just a
Speaker 1: situation where every player's got to go in there and
Speaker 1: watch the tape. As Elijah is saying right now, you
Speaker 1: got to be truthful in what it is that you're seeing.
Speaker 1: You got to be one hundred percent honest. If you
Speaker 1: truly want to get better, you have to take critique.
Speaker 1: There is the opportunity in a loss to get better
Speaker 1: much better by watching the tape than there is when
Speaker 1: you win. In my opinion, when you lose, oh, you
Speaker 1: feel the same present. Okay. For me, it just was
Speaker 1: a situation. When you lose, man, everyone is on edge
Speaker 1: to begin with. They're going to be a lot more
Speaker 1: critical if you actually absorb it and take it to heart,
Speaker 1: you can actually get better by watching it and telling
Speaker 1: the truth about yourself. Always be honest one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the time. And there are some guys, boy, and
Speaker 1: you know this, Elijah, there's some guys out on the field.
Speaker 1: They'll recount something that happened on the field that did
Speaker 1: not happen on the field, but the tape doesn't lie ePRO.
Speaker 2: How about the opening drive in these games? What is clicking?
Speaker 2: What is going well? Four straight games, four straight opening
Speaker 2: drive touchdowns. Is there anything you can take from the
Speaker 2: beginning of those games and trying to extrapolate going forward.
Speaker 6: I think obviously just the execution of what we're getting
Speaker 6: what we're calling aligneman assignment key techniques with JJ preaches,
Speaker 6: and when you're able to, you know, start a drive
Speaker 6: like that early in the game, that's what it's about.
Speaker 6: It's about doing the right thing, obviously over and over
Speaker 6: because you have a numerous amount of players in that drive,
Speaker 6: but doing the right thing and in and out, and
Speaker 6: that's what happens when you.
Speaker 5: Put a good drive together.
Speaker 2: You had a couple of catches against Washington. I saw
Speaker 2: we have an eleven game catch streak. Now, just tell
Speaker 2: us how you think your own game has come along,
Speaker 2: especially in the last maybe like full season you start
Speaker 2: playing midway through last year, where do you think maybe
Speaker 2: you've grown the most.
Speaker 6: Think it's just embracing my role to be honest, understanding
Speaker 6: ends and out to the tight end game and what
Speaker 6: it means to be a tight end, and just kind
Speaker 6: of sticking my nose in there and just being being
Speaker 6: a physical guy and just doing what the team needs
Speaker 6: for me. I think it's been the biggest part for
Speaker 6: me in understanding that. Obviously, putting a receiver in college,
Speaker 6: making that transition, it wasn't easy. I remember about a
Speaker 6: year ago, I didn't know how to get in a
Speaker 6: three point stance for the longest time.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: And now to see.
Speaker 6: A year later the position I'm in now, the role
Speaker 6: I have on this team, it's been cool. It's been special,
Speaker 6: And I think it's a kudos to the guys that
Speaker 6: we have in the locker room being a teacher or
Speaker 6: helping me learn and being teachers and whatnot, and then
Speaker 6: obviously the coaches and all that stuff and the opportunity
Speaker 6: that they've provided for me.
Speaker 5: So it's been a cool deal to well, I want.
Speaker 1: To tell you this, just watching you play watching you
Speaker 1: on tape, I never knew you had the ability to
Speaker 1: be as physical as you are, and that really that
Speaker 1: was something I did not know.
Speaker 5: Where does where does that come from?
Speaker 1: For you? Personally? Personally enjoy that part. We're going to
Speaker 1: tell you that.
Speaker 6: So personally, I think it's a god to give an ability.
Speaker 6: And then on top of it, I think it's just understanding
Speaker 6: what's going on. I think we have good coaches, great
Speaker 6: coaches to really teach us what to know or what
Speaker 6: to know, and you know, understanding what to do, and
Speaker 6: that's the big in the biggest thing for me in
Speaker 6: terms of being physical is if you can understand what's
Speaker 6: going on, what your job is, you can play fast
Speaker 6: and then when you're playing fast and hitting somebody, it's
Speaker 6: a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: So you just kind of continue to do that and
Speaker 5: you enjoy it.
Speaker 2: So how cool has it been to have a Trey
Speaker 2: McBride back on the practice field this week?
Speaker 6: It's been great, It's been great. I'm excited for him
Speaker 6: to get back and rolling.
Speaker 2: Is there any bigger kid than Trey McBride. Just the
Speaker 2: way he bounces around, I swear he must have the
Speaker 2: same personality when he was like thirteen and Pop Warner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would have loved to know him then. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's a special dude.
Speaker 2: His energy is justial and he was losing his mind
Speaker 2: in the Washington game. You could tell you he was like,
Speaker 2: oh man, I need to get out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So he's ready to be back. Yeah, that's great. We'll
Speaker 2: get into a lot of that. We'll get into where
Speaker 2: you've grown the most. We'll get into your Texas football background.
Speaker 2: How many different guys in the locker room come from
Speaker 2: Texas and have made the NFL. We'll talk about Friday
Speaker 2: night Lights. We'll talk about you know your siblings. Man,
Speaker 2: what a track record of athletes you got going. Elijah
Speaker 2: Higgins is our guests. We are live at Trophy and
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Speaker 4: Ford hurry to throwing third and goal up in the pocket,
Speaker 4: backing up, lobbing it left corner. Higgins got it touchdown.
Speaker 4: First career touchdown for Higgins.
Speaker 8: And what a great throw by Kyler Murray pass across
Speaker 8: the middle caught for a first down by Higgins.
Speaker 4: A gain of twenty yards pass over the middle behind Higgins,
Speaker 4: but he makes a great cat to the twenty.
Speaker 8: Five What a catch by Higgins.
Speaker 4: Throws quickly and it's caught for a first down by Higgins,
Speaker 4: powered his way through a tackle. Attempt to get the
Speaker 4: first down.
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray that is right on the knaps.
Speaker 4: Behind snapped to Murray pree step drop looking left now
Speaker 4: in trouble, spins left now steps up running left. Murray
Speaker 4: breaks attackle looking ends on firing left side a sliding
Speaker 4: touch for a touchdown.
Speaker 8: It's Higgins baking the crab.
Speaker 4: Tyler Murray does it again or Murray magic funny to
Speaker 4: nothing cardonals Urry throws another time, all.
Speaker 2: Right, passion wolf on the call. The guy who's on
Speaker 2: the business end, the receiving n Elijah Higgins is our
Speaker 2: guest here in the Big Red Rage presented by Santan
Speaker 2: Forard in Gilbert Well. That last touchdown catch is gonna
Speaker 2: live forever because that was known as the steph Curry.
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray the look away at.
Speaker 5: The very end.
Speaker 2: Has he ever done that in practice before?
Speaker 5: Not sure?
Speaker 6: Maybe man I didn't realize it didn't in the game
Speaker 6: until like I saw it on ESPN or whatever.
Speaker 2: So it was after the game when you realize it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's interesting, all right. So I mean because I mean
Speaker 2: that is epic, right, I mean, now the way to
Speaker 2: flex that, right, he knew it. And at that point,
Speaker 2: I mean, how certain were you you were going to
Speaker 2: catch that? Because that's a sliding grab. What was a
Speaker 2: degree of difficulty on your end?
Speaker 5: Honestly, have no idea.
Speaker 6: When you're in the game like that, you're not thinking
Speaker 6: much and it just kind of happens, and you celebrate
Speaker 6: with the guys and you go back on the film
Speaker 6: and watch watch what happened.
Speaker 5: You're like, oh, I did that, So it was cool.
Speaker 6: Obviously I didn't get to see what Kyle was doing
Speaker 6: back there when you're running the route. So when I
Speaker 6: got to see the review, the review review on that,
Speaker 6: it was pretty special.
Speaker 1: So Higgy, can I call you Higgy? Is that okay?
Speaker 1: I you know, I mean, you're fine with that right there?
Speaker 1: I know the Higgy bear and we're going to get
Speaker 1: into that momentarily. But it's okay if I call you Higgy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's fine right there. I would imagine your
Speaker 1: hands have always been good, correct, I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: strength of your game. Right now, did you like playing
Speaker 1: wide receiver better than you like playing tight end?
Speaker 5: No? No, I thought I was going to.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for the transition, tell us why.
Speaker 6: I just think you're just you're way more involved in
Speaker 6: the game as a tied end. As a receiver. You're
Speaker 6: not as as involved. You like as much responsibility the
Speaker 6: blocking game as playing it, right.
Speaker 5: You like being in the box where the fur flies. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I enjoy it.
Speaker 6: A look at you, like a lot of people. Look
Speaker 6: on your face right now, man, especially when you get
Speaker 6: it figured out. When you when you don't know what's
Speaker 6: going on, it's not that's that's right. Do you get
Speaker 6: it figured out a little bit, It's it's a lot
Speaker 6: of fun.
Speaker 5: Oh. I like that.
Speaker 1: I could see it on your face, man. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I can see it in the way that
Speaker 1: you play as well, in between the white lines, the
Speaker 1: physicality we're talking about.
Speaker 5: Once it's growing. Hey, I appreciate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm actually half amazed. I really am,
Speaker 2: because I mean, how many receivers, let's just say, end
Speaker 2: up in the coach's doghouse because they're not blocking, right,
Speaker 2: the old adage no lock, no rock, and usually if
Speaker 2: you're a receiver, you know, past or president, it's not
Speaker 2: necessarily you know something you want to do by choice.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me that you're standing there and you're
Speaker 2: in the three point and you're up against six foot
Speaker 2: seven eight in Hutchinson, and you're enjoying that at that moment,
Speaker 2: because a lot of reformer receivers would dread that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's it's a good time you enjoy
Speaker 6: I enjoyed just the physicality. It's it's, uh, you get
Speaker 6: to compete every play. I feel like you don't really
Speaker 6: get that.
Speaker 5: At receiver.
Speaker 6: You're not always running outes versus another man in coverage,
Speaker 6: you're not always blocking somebody. Obviously, in the league is
Speaker 6: a little bit different. Receivers are a lot more involved
Speaker 6: in the run game. But at the college level it's not.
Speaker 6: You're not competing as much every play and play out.
Speaker 1: So Higgy, tell me where you from? Where do you
Speaker 1: say that you are from? And I say that because
Speaker 1: a lot of guys differently, we might move all over
Speaker 1: the country, you know, and actually have a lot of
Speaker 1: different homes. Where do you identify with? Where was where
Speaker 1: were you born and raised?
Speaker 6: I was born in Florida, my dad's in the military,
Speaker 6: so he moved to Texas. Boy going into middle school.
Speaker 6: So I like to say I'm from Florida and Texas
Speaker 6: because it was kind of split in half of all
Speaker 6: kay good, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's all You're Florida and Florida, Texas all town.
Speaker 1: Did you grow up in Texas? So I grew up
Speaker 1: in Austin. Okay, Texas.
Speaker 2: Oh that was bare Yeah, okay, it was Bowie High School.
Speaker 2: There were you guys any good?
Speaker 5: We were pretty good.
Speaker 2: Do you remember Kyler Murray? I do remember as a
Speaker 2: high school legend in Texas, because every guy that's going
Speaker 2: through Texas remembers Kylie. Did you used to watch his
Speaker 2: highlight reels?
Speaker 5: I don't know if I did or not.
Speaker 6: I probably have seen him before, but I didn't really understand,
Speaker 6: like recognize that it was him or not when I
Speaker 6: was younger.
Speaker 5: But I'm sure I saw them at some point.
Speaker 1: Okay, Friday night lights, I mean in Texas as big
Speaker 1: as everyone says it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a big deal.
Speaker 6: It is a big deal when you when you see
Speaker 6: other high school football teams in other places, it's not nowhere.
Speaker 1: Did you play any other sports in high school track
Speaker 1: in basketball? Do you ran track?
Speaker 5: Ran track?
Speaker 6: Okay? Discus? Or I did shot put, trouble jump a
Speaker 6: lot of jump Yeah, okay, did a lot of different stuff.
Speaker 2: Here's here's a question. What was better Friday Night Lights?
Speaker 2: The movie or the TV series? Didn't see either? You
Speaker 2: lived it, though guys like me are watching it. You
Speaker 2: lived it. You know what, I'm gonna have to watch it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save myself. I'm gonna bring in Drew Patsy
Speaker 2: and Jonathan Gannon talking about this is from late last
Speaker 2: year when you started to blossom right as a rookie.
Speaker 2: Here's what they had to say about Elijah Higgins. It's
Speaker 2: a big transition.
Speaker 1: I think he's done a really nice job of leaning
Speaker 1: on the guys in that room. Ben Steel's done a
Speaker 1: great job kind of preparing him and teaching the technique
Speaker 1: and helping him make that transition.
Speaker 8: And I think he's done a really nice job.
Speaker 9: Higgy Bear has done a great job with asy Calm.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 8: I think he's probably mad at me, but you know
Speaker 8: we obviously you see we have confidence in him and
Speaker 8: he can play.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into it. Wolf you're gonna ask the question,
Speaker 2: Am I gonna ask the question? Higgy Bear? The nickname, yeah,
Speaker 2: presumably comes from the TV show from the seventies Starsky
Speaker 2: and Hutch Huggy Bear Wolf. You know, Wolf kind of
Speaker 2: looked like Huggy Bear when he went to his prom
Speaker 2: Just google that up later, Elijah. Okay, I've seen the pictures.
Speaker 2: Stop it. You know, he thought he was the man.
Speaker 2: So your reaction to the head coach nickname? Was that
Speaker 2: his nickname or did you come into the Cardinals with
Speaker 2: that nickname? Higgy Bear?
Speaker 5: That was his nickname.
Speaker 6: At first, I didn't know where it was from, so
Speaker 6: I was I was a little bit confused.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it was he brought her up.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you're all about it, You're good.
Speaker 5: I like it from him. At first. It was cool.
Speaker 6: As a rookie is cool, but I think going to
Speaker 6: my second year, I prefer other things from j G.
Speaker 6: I love it for him, but I prefer other things
Speaker 6: from other people.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, listen, PAULI likes to sip soup.
Speaker 5: And eat salad.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what he likes to do for the most part,
Speaker 1: right here, but being from Texas part at least half
Speaker 1: of the time in Texas. You must know Texas barbecue.
Speaker 1: You know, barbecue pretty familiar. Do you like barbecue first
Speaker 1: of all?
Speaker 5: I do? Okay, Yeah, what's your favorite play brisket?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, see the brisket right there. What about sauce? What
Speaker 1: do you like for sauce?
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess there's just barbecue sauce, right, Is
Speaker 5: that wrong?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: No, no, see, I mean this is interesting because some
Speaker 1: you know a little spicy barbecue, like you know.
Speaker 6: I sweet spicy, okay, sweat sweet baby raised. I don't
Speaker 6: know if that's necessarily Texas Barbie, okay, but I have
Speaker 6: no idea.
Speaker 1: Are they a sponsor on the show right now?
Speaker 2: You never really get Wolf's full attention on the show
Speaker 2: until we start talking food. Now, now, Wolve's completely and
Speaker 2: that's that's how that works over there.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: So it's interesting. So how many different scholarship offers did
Speaker 2: you have coming out of high school? Too many to
Speaker 2: remember anywhere on forty Oh no, are you serious? So
Speaker 2: how did you decide on Stamford?
Speaker 5: That's tough.
Speaker 6: I mean obviously, like the academic side of it was huge.
Speaker 5: That was a big part of it.
Speaker 6: Kind of made Stanford stand out, and then when I
Speaker 6: went to visit the campus was beautiful. But I think
Speaker 6: the biggest reason I went there was actually to get
Speaker 6: away from football, get away from walking around the campus,
Speaker 6: people bugging you, people praising you.
Speaker 5: As an athlete.
Speaker 6: I kind of wanted to be a regular student, be
Speaker 6: a regular person, and just kind of camoufage my way
Speaker 6: through through college, be treated as a regular person, not
Speaker 6: really be put on a pedestal. Did any degree. So
Speaker 6: I really enjoyed Stanford for that reason. It was a
Speaker 6: cool place to go.
Speaker 1: It's a great answer for that is blowing my mind,
Speaker 1: a really good answer, honestly.
Speaker 5: It really is. You know that that's rare, right.
Speaker 1: You don't see a lot of guys walking around saying
Speaker 1: that I went there because I just wanted to go
Speaker 1: to school and be left alone. I didn't want people
Speaker 1: praising me. You know what, there's a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of younger guys. I mean, you were talking
Speaker 1: about how old were you seventeen eighteen?
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably about seventeen eighteen, seventeen eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of seventeen or eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: who would say that. Would you agree with that? Have
Speaker 1: you always been different. Have you always been?
Speaker 5: Yes, I guess. I mean, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 5: this is pretty normal for me. I don't know how
Speaker 5: different it is.
Speaker 1: When you were in high school, what was your favorite
Speaker 1: subject of study? What did you love?
Speaker 6: I enjoyed math for the longest, and then once I
Speaker 6: got accepted into Stanford and finished my math, I just
Speaker 6: school was kind of done for me. I wanted to
Speaker 6: take a break for my senior year, so I started
Speaker 6: doing some easy stuff. But up until my junior year
Speaker 6: was math. Okay, what is easy stuff? What would you
Speaker 6: say is easy?
Speaker 5: Don't know?
Speaker 1: I mean I just go to cal Berkeley.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, wait a minute. Who's who has ESPN College
Speaker 2: Game Day coming to their campus system? This guy? Here
Speaker 2: we go, Here we go. Yeah, they're playing Miami. They're
Speaker 2: playing the Oh that's that's why they're going. Okay, we
Speaker 2: played Oregon number three and they came, so I figured
Speaker 2: that's the only reason they came to us, So they
Speaker 2: a good Actually, as the story goes, they're coming for
Speaker 2: the Calgarithm, which is all the social media that has
Speaker 2: taken over. So you know, ESPN is trying to go
Speaker 2: ahead and you know what their beak on all the
Speaker 2: social media sensation that is cal football. We should have
Speaker 2: blown the Pack twelve one hundred plus years ago, really
Speaker 2: because we were stuck on the Pack twelve network. Now
Speaker 2: we're in primetime in ESPN. So there you go, all right,
Speaker 2: So then you come into the NFL. So you got
Speaker 2: drafted by Miami. Okay, so and then what was your
Speaker 2: month or that half a year like with the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: and because you have the Dolphins coming up here in
Speaker 2: a few weeks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my birthday, actually, I don't know. Being there was
Speaker 6: it was tough. Obviously, that was the first taste of
Speaker 6: playing tight end and I had no idea what I
Speaker 6: was doing for the longest time, so it was tough.
Speaker 5: It was difficult.
Speaker 6: It was definitely a learning curve, challenge, uphill battle for me.
Speaker 6: And then once I got here things sort of smoothed
Speaker 6: out a little bit. But yeah, it was it was.
Speaker 6: It was challenging.
Speaker 1: Leijah. When did they tell you that they were going
Speaker 1: to move you to tight end or was that where
Speaker 1: they Senier Bowl?
Speaker 6: Actually at the Senior Bowl and then at the combine
Speaker 6: as well, the interviews and whatnot, it's kind of started
Speaker 6: to get a feeling all the teams wanted me to
Speaker 6: make that transition.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you to make that transition and you were
Speaker 1: okay with that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was fine with it. I was excited.
Speaker 1: Yes, Miami very very physical scheme. Is they do Yes,
Speaker 1: they do well.
Speaker 2: Speaking of in the off season, we talked to your
Speaker 2: position coach, Ben Steele, and he commented on you and
Speaker 2: you're blocking and the evolution from the tight end position.
Speaker 2: Here's Ben Steele.
Speaker 10: The best part about him as a former receiver. He
Speaker 10: doesn't have any bad habits as far as footwork and
Speaker 10: inline blocking as a tight end, and so he takes
Speaker 10: on the coaching and does exactly what I tell him
Speaker 10: to do, and it's it's awesome because he really works
Speaker 10: at it and he's willing and able to stick his
Speaker 10: nose in there.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: I mean you came in and you were like a
Speaker 2: I know you know mold you like Clay from the
Speaker 2: very beginning.
Speaker 5: I mean, I had no idea.
Speaker 6: You could tell me to do the complete wrong thing
Speaker 6: and I'd probably do it because I had no idea
Speaker 6: at all. Like I said earlier, I didn't know how
Speaker 6: to get at three points stance. For the longest time,
Speaker 6: I didn't know the difference between a nine tech and
Speaker 6: a six technique and I didn't I mean, I didn't
Speaker 6: know anything.
Speaker 2: So how about when you got to some of the
Speaker 2: blocking drolls one on one against outside linebackers where there's
Speaker 2: some rough moments in the big Yeah.
Speaker 5: For sure. Yeah it was rough for a very long time.
Speaker 6: I think it was rough up until I figured out
Speaker 6: that it was all about technique and not about you know,
Speaker 6: just trying to hit them because usually that doesn't work well.
Speaker 6: Usually oftentimes the guys are twenty pounds bigger than you.
Speaker 6: So that's when I this off season really try to
Speaker 6: hone in on the technique of things and understand it
Speaker 6: a little bit better.
Speaker 1: So where you are right now in your revolution, what
Speaker 1: do you think you need to do to get better?
Speaker 6: Continue to be critical with myself for one, great answer,
Speaker 6: I think for two is just continue to learn the game,
Speaker 6: because I think there's a lot of things that technique
Speaker 6: can fix, but also understand the game can fix as well.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think I think I'm going in
Speaker 5: the right direction.
Speaker 6: I think it's just doing the things I continue to
Speaker 6: do is being critical by myself and continue to learn
Speaker 6: and ask questions and just play fast.
Speaker 5: I think That's what it comes down to. You know
Speaker 5: your job and just play fast.
Speaker 6: So just continue to do those things and develop a
Speaker 6: better understanding of the game. And in the position, the
Speaker 6: fact you played multiple sports growing up, you know the fact,
Speaker 6: I mean you come from an athletic family, right, your
Speaker 6: brother went to Cols. Now it's Sack State, right, your
Speaker 6: sister is beach volleyball player at Florida State.
Speaker 2: If I'm seeing this correct, that your mom played hoops,
Speaker 2: I mean, how much does that help you and your
Speaker 2: ability to transition to a new position.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it definitely helps, just having that background
Speaker 6: of doing a lot of different things. And then I
Speaker 6: think just always being involved in sports is obviously come
Speaker 6: to fruition now because that's all I do. But yeah,
Speaker 6: every week, every weekend was baseball or basketball, football, And
Speaker 6: if it wasn't my tournament, it was my brothers. If
Speaker 6: it wasn't my brothers, it was my sister. So we
Speaker 6: always had sports going on, and I mean we still
Speaker 6: do it now. They're all playing and my parents are
Speaker 6: always traveling, so we're very grateful for that. But it's
Speaker 6: always been sports and hopefully it's that for.
Speaker 1: At what age always going to be about sports in regard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know how much you loved playing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's just once it's a thing of
Speaker 6: what you do and how you identify It's it's hard
Speaker 6: to know anything else. So I don't know if I
Speaker 6: made that distinction at any age. It was just kind
Speaker 6: of normal. So that's just what we did and what
Speaker 6: we continue to do.
Speaker 2: Did you ever meet any famous alums at Stanford when
Speaker 2: you're there, like you know Elon Moss or Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, there's yeah, Connor Leeza Rice was there often. We
Speaker 6: saw her like at least once a week, to be honest,
Speaker 6: coming from the she would go lift at like five
Speaker 6: am in our weight room. Uh C Mac would come
Speaker 6: by a few times. Andrew Luck actually took classes with
Speaker 6: my girlfriend. He's a really nice dude, down to earth.
Speaker 6: I think he's still going to school there.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, That makes total sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: One of the things that's cool is I'm sure Andrew
Speaker 6: Luck could ride around with this helmet on and nobody
Speaker 6: would know who he is at the stay for campus.
Speaker 6: That's pretty special. I'm pretty sure he's another guy that
Speaker 6: that enjoys that. That that's very cool.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 2: I love the stories when Tiger Woods went there. He
Speaker 2: used to putt on the basketball court because it would
Speaker 2: replicate the fast greens at Augusta. That was always good stuff. Hey,
Speaker 2: we continue Elijah Higgins here on the Big Red Rage
Speaker 2: presented by santan Ford and Gilbert at Trophy in shader.
Speaker 4: Free wide receiver set on fourth down and one at
Speaker 4: the two, and they're not gonna put Murray under center.
Speaker 8: He's in shotgun here.
Speaker 4: Murray waiting now the shotgun snap, He's gonna throw a
Speaker 4: faite left side of the end zone. Harrison pulls it
Speaker 4: in a touchdown. Cardinals, there's the fad. It worked on
Speaker 4: fourth down and it looked like they were stealing.
Speaker 1: Oh, Kyler Murray just dropped the little spam in a can.
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior ran the corner fade and Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: put it out in front of him in Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior snagged it and stabbed it.
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray, with his one hundredth career touchdown pass at
Speaker 4: ties it with Kurt Warner for fifth on the franchise
Speaker 4: list for career passing touchdowns.
Speaker 8: So congratulations to Kyler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's outstanding. In fact, there's a century mark for
Speaker 2: Buddha Baker. We'll get to a little bit later, but
Speaker 2: there was Marvin Harrison Junior as we are visiting with
Speaker 2: Elijah Higgins Cardinals tight end here on the Big Red
Speaker 2: Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert At Trophy in
Speaker 2: Chandler Price Road and Queen Creek. So tell us about
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior and what you've seen from day one
Speaker 2: to now. He actually is currently tied for the NFL
Speaker 2: leading touchdown catches with four forgod rookies. He's tied with
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson four touchdown catches, and we know a lot
Speaker 2: of that is come in the first quarter, right, So,
Speaker 2: I mean he's had a I mean four rookie and
Speaker 2: out of the gates, he has definitely been productive. What
Speaker 2: have you seen from the fourth pickoverall?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a special talent. He's an even better person.
Speaker 6: I think he's extremely humble, maybe to a fault. I mean,
Speaker 6: the things that he can do on the football field
Speaker 6: or are awesome to watch, and I think just the
Speaker 6: type of person is off the field is even cooler.
Speaker 6: I think we've all seen him kind of come into
Speaker 6: himself obviously as a rookie, is always challenging those first
Speaker 6: few games, just you know, finding your confidence and whatnot.
Speaker 6: But I think it's always been there and it's always
Speaker 6: it's going to continue to grow for him, and it's
Speaker 6: it's been cool to see him do his thing, and
Speaker 6: it's always cool to see him smile because he's more quiet. Dude,
Speaker 6: I'm not in the receiver room, so we don't interact
Speaker 6: as much as I wish we did. But it's cool to,
Speaker 6: you know, see guys have success and be excited about
Speaker 6: especially when they're good dudes.
Speaker 1: So higgy when you watch the tape, is there a
Speaker 1: comedy denominator as to what teams are trying to do
Speaker 1: to Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean trying to double him more often than not.
Speaker 6: I mean that's that's what happens when you have you know,
Speaker 6: you're a good talent, and I mean it's good for
Speaker 6: the rest of us ride. It opens up some opportunities
Speaker 6: indors for the rest of the guys on the field.
Speaker 6: But obviously, if that's what happens, that's what happens. If not,
Speaker 6: then be single, then he'll do his thing.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, and that's part of the addition A
Speaker 2: wide receiver one, right, what it can do for your offense.
Speaker 2: Now you know whether he's producing or he's get doubled,
Speaker 2: and how it trickles down. And what if you would
Speaker 2: have given him some advice on the night he got drafted,
Speaker 2: since you had just gone through your rookie year, what
Speaker 2: would you have told him? What was key, I know
Speaker 2: making that transition to the league.
Speaker 6: I would say, just be patient with the process, be diligent,
Speaker 6: be patient, work hard, just all the all the you know,
Speaker 6: all the basic cliche things that people usually I'll say
Speaker 6: to you, and but those are usually the most true things, right,
Speaker 6: the cliche thing.
Speaker 2: So, and he's made a point to your earlier point
Speaker 2: that you know he came in, he realized a lot
Speaker 2: of fanfare. He said, the heisman, you know, ceremony right
Speaker 2: with Jayden Daniels, right, I mean he's a household name.
Speaker 2: The moment he gets drafted and being number four, he
Speaker 2: made a point just sort of okay, I'm gonna know
Speaker 2: my role, my place as a rookie, and from what
Speaker 2: I can tell in that locker room, that's earned him
Speaker 2: some immediate respect. If he didn't have it already, he
Speaker 2: certainly did. Just the way he carries himself.
Speaker 5: Would you agree with that, Yeah, agreed completely.
Speaker 6: Like I said before, I mean, he's a great, a
Speaker 6: great human being, very humble, and I think that's one
Speaker 6: of the things that are most respected, you know, by
Speaker 6: athletes in general, is just being a humble guy and
Speaker 6: being down to earth and that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: So it's cool to see.
Speaker 1: So when you think of the opponent this weekend, the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers, what is the first thing
Speaker 1: that comes to mind for you? Personally?
Speaker 6: Good weather, being in the Bay, good websited for the
Speaker 6: nice weather. But it's gonna be hot.
Speaker 1: It's going to be hot. Yeah right, I mean you
Speaker 1: guys are going to be used to that. Do you
Speaker 1: think that is going to be an advantage? I think
Speaker 1: JG said it best.
Speaker 6: It's going to be an advantage of the team that
Speaker 6: uses it as an advantage who you know, whenever the
Speaker 6: weather's rough, whatever team you know makes a point to
Speaker 6: for being rough as usually team that doesn't do as well.
Speaker 6: So just embracing it, I think is the biggest thing.
Speaker 6: And I think we were more than capable of doing that.
Speaker 2: Wait, come on, it was one o nine today. I
Speaker 2: drove over here with my windows down. Okay, so my goodness,
Speaker 2: you know, forty nine ers, you better get mentally talk. Okay,
Speaker 2: here's Kyler Murray. I'm facing that forty nine ers defense.
Speaker 9: It is year six for me, and they've been great
Speaker 9: ever since I've been in the league. Got a lot
Speaker 9: of great players. Obviously, Fred and Nick you know, two
Speaker 9: of the guys that you know make it go, but
Speaker 9: a lot of great players surrounding them.
Speaker 5: For sure.
Speaker 9: I'm excited for the opportunity. You know, it's always fun.
Speaker 9: We gotta have a great week of practice and be
Speaker 9: ready for them.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: So two weeks ago you got ninety seven eight in Hutchinson.
Speaker 2: This week you get ninety seven Nick Bosa, and we
Speaker 2: know that can be a team effort, right, trying to
Speaker 2: slow down one of the premier pass rushers in the league.
Speaker 2: So tell us about that challenge.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're excited and we're ready to embrace the challenge.
Speaker 6: And I think we'vet we got a really good plan
Speaker 6: for him, and then it just comes down to executing
Speaker 6: that plan.
Speaker 1: So tell me, Richards seeing from Fred Warner to the
Speaker 1: line table, he's one of my favorite.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's to watch. He is awesome to watch. He
Speaker 6: flies around, he has a lot of fun playing the game.
Speaker 6: You can see and that's something that as a young
Speaker 6: player I'm still a little bit envious of because I
Speaker 6: feel like I'm still learning how to play at that
Speaker 6: speed and enjoy it that much. But it's cool to
Speaker 6: see a guy with hit like him, with experience and
Speaker 6: just out there having fun making plays flying around. I mean,
Speaker 6: he's he decided to see for sure.
Speaker 2: When you play these Division games, and I get it,
Speaker 2: you know, you're you're one year in, and but I mean,
Speaker 2: to what degree do you go in kind of knowing
Speaker 2: the challenge just because you played him twice last year?
Speaker 2: Is that familiarity you know? Or do you expect them
Speaker 2: to change things up for the sake of change because
Speaker 2: you play him twice a year.
Speaker 6: That's a tough question. I'm not sure. To be honest,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure. One game at a time, then I'll
Speaker 6: say that I'll say this answer. It's probably easier On offense.
Speaker 6: Kyle Shananan has a track record.
Speaker 2: I've always thrown in a few wrinkles every year, a
Speaker 2: little something, especially early in the season that he innovated.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's got a he's got a very creative offense,
Speaker 6: and it's probably tougher on defense and his offense, you know,
Speaker 6: with those changes and whatnot.
Speaker 1: You know, it's so interesting when I look at the
Speaker 1: metrics of the forty nine ers defense right here. A
Speaker 1: lot of top ten stuff in major metrics like yards
Speaker 1: per game allowed. Of course they have sacks per attempt
Speaker 1: at number four first downs? How many first downs they
Speaker 1: allowed their number four of course, number ten in points.
Speaker 1: These are big metrics right here. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I get to third down defense and they're number twenty
Speaker 1: six in the National Football League. That doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: make sense to me because they've got such a good
Speaker 1: pass rush. What are you seeing I'm third down with
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just taking advantage opportunities, to be honest,
Speaker 6: and I'm not going to speak down to anybody or
Speaker 6: about anybody, but I think, like I said, it's just
Speaker 6: about those matchups and usually it's man.
Speaker 5: Coverage and just winning those one on ones. And we
Speaker 5: got the guys to do that.
Speaker 6: And obviously they play teams that also had the guys
Speaker 6: to do that or us it wouldn't happen. So I'm
Speaker 6: excited for the opportunity for the guys that you know.
Speaker 5: Make it happen.
Speaker 1: I think third down is going to be a big,
Speaker 1: a big area of concern for Hoss offensively and defensively. Right,
Speaker 1: third down is going to be maybe a decider at
Speaker 1: this game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they're down always, is right? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean think about it. The Cardinals on
Speaker 2: offense led the NFL after two weeks, and third down
Speaker 2: conversion rate in the last two weeks not so much, right,
Speaker 2: and then the deep pass was there in two of
Speaker 2: the games, hasn't been there in two of the other games.
Speaker 2: So these are some of the things that these games
Speaker 2: always come down to, and whether the Cardinals can get
Speaker 2: it clicking and get it rolling. You've seen it in
Speaker 2: some games. You didn't see it last week. So we'll
Speaker 2: see what happens on Sunday. We'll talk more about the
Speaker 2: Niners than we come back and how Ted Lasso figures
Speaker 2: in all to the recent pass of Elijah Higgins. First
Speaker 2: or a reminder, you can learn more about Cardinals single
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Speaker 6: Hi I'm Christophernandez and I'm Colo Bikini, and we're from
Speaker 6: Ted Lasso, and we know I think or two about football. No,
Speaker 6: this is American football, right, So we have no idea
Speaker 6: what we're doing here, but we're having.
Speaker 2: Lots of fun.
Speaker 9: I moved the hundred and nine seventh pick in the
Speaker 9: two pousand and twenty three NFL Draft.
Speaker 5: In Miami Dolphins select Elijah Higgins tight end.
Speaker 8: Stanford's football is line.
Speaker 4: He's here, he's there, He's every freaking where.
Speaker 5: Elijah Higgins, Elijah Higgins.
Speaker 2: That is one of the most unique draft selections in
Speaker 2: the history of the NFL draft. And we have that
Speaker 2: guy alongside Elijah Higgins, Cardinals tight end here on the
Speaker 2: Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Live
Speaker 2: at Trophy and Chandler at Price Road in Queen Creek.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that location here in a moment, but
Speaker 2: first let's talk about Ted last. So, Elijah, did you
Speaker 2: ever think in a million years that somehow your draft
Speaker 2: pick would be tied into that TV show?
Speaker 5: I had no idea what was going on when that happened.
Speaker 6: To be honest, they they played on the screen, the
Speaker 6: people were on the screen. They were in like a stadium,
Speaker 6: and they had said something about Ted Lasso, and I
Speaker 6: had no idea what was going I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 6: I never heard of Ted Lasso. I didn't know what
Speaker 6: it was. I still don't know what.
Speaker 1: Cal Berkeley they loved Todd last Okay, Stanford doesn't know
Speaker 1: anything about Ted la By the way, it's cal Berkeley.
Speaker 1: They they love cal. I just got love. I just
Speaker 1: got it.
Speaker 2: I just got a text from Lorenzo Alexander cal Alum
Speaker 2: telling me, Hey, you're now rocking with Stanford Cats. You're
Speaker 2: being way too nice, says so and so I got
Speaker 2: to avoid him in the near future. Note to self
Speaker 2: on that one. So have you since watched Ted Lasso?
Speaker 6: No, I haven't known about I don't know the premise that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well I've been watching either.
Speaker 2: So I've struck out him over three Friday night lights
Speaker 2: of the movie, the TV show, now Ted Lasso, I'm
Speaker 2: over for three. So it's let's talk about Buddha Baker. Okay,
Speaker 2: And here's what he had to say. Kyler threw his
Speaker 2: one hundredth career touchdown pass. Booter will make his one
Speaker 2: hundredth career start on Sunday against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 2: and here's what he had to say about that. In
Speaker 2: the Niners quarterback.
Speaker 11: It doesn't feel like it, of course, you know, you
Speaker 11: see one hundred plus tackles a season. Some people might
Speaker 11: say it does feel like it. But you know, I'm
Speaker 11: blessed and I have the opportunity to, you know, take
Speaker 11: care of my body and do all the appropriate things
Speaker 11: to make sure that I'm one hundred percent each and
Speaker 11: every week. So yeah, shout out rock parity. Hope you
Speaker 11: throw it to me a couple of times.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Buddha Baker there. And it's worth noting
Speaker 2: that Brock Party was the twenty seventeen Arizona Cardinals High
Speaker 2: School Player of the Year when he started at Gilbert
Speaker 2: Perry High School, which our Jim ol Monro points out
Speaker 2: is exactly eight miles east of here. It is exactly
Speaker 2: down Queen Creek Road, eight miles east of Trophy here
Speaker 2: and Chandler. And how often do you ever watch the
Speaker 2: other team's offense?
Speaker 5: Do you ever? You know?
Speaker 2: And what do you Because brock Purty the final pick
Speaker 2: of the draft three years ago, and he was the
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl starter a year ago. I mean, it's remarkable
Speaker 2: what he's been able to do from when you've can
Speaker 2: glean so far. What makes a really good quarterback in
Speaker 2: the NFL? What are the two or three qualities you
Speaker 2: must have? Is a guy who catches passes from quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: Decision making, leadership, and then just the factor of getting
Speaker 6: it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta have the physical talent, you gotta have
Speaker 1: the ability to do it, and you have to do that.
Speaker 1: But man, the decision making, that's what I love. It's
Speaker 1: it's inside the gray matter. You look at something, what
Speaker 1: are your eyes telling you? Are your eyes lying to
Speaker 1: you right? And you've got to make that decision like this,
Speaker 1: whether it's pulling the ball down to run or whether
Speaker 1: it's reading the coverage, whatever it may be. It is
Speaker 1: incredible decision making. When I think of Brock Purty and
Speaker 1: I think Paul of his greatest attribute, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: He makes really really good decisions. And I don't care
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. Everything he does is about making
Speaker 1: a good decision. Doesn't have the arm talent that a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks have out there, doesn't have the physical ability.
Speaker 1: What he does have is a great brain in terms
Speaker 1: of making decisions, and he makes the right one more
Speaker 1: times than not.
Speaker 2: Last week, he averaged over nineteen yards of completion. Think
Speaker 2: about that. They ran the ball and they threw deep
Speaker 2: shots and that's how they beat New England.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me just ask Buddha Baker. Okay, your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Buddha Baker as a football player and what it
Speaker 1: is you see.
Speaker 6: He loves the game. I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 6: He flies around, he loves the game. He takes care
Speaker 6: of himself off the field.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just think he loves the game. I think that's
Speaker 6: the biggest quality that makes me the player that he is.
Speaker 1: You know, I watch him as a former player. Of course,
Speaker 1: I watch him play and I immediately am challenged by
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker. Here, I am Elijah. I'm sixty one years old.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I'm sixty one years old, and
Speaker 1: yet I watch Buddha Baker play the game, and I'm
Speaker 1: challenged because of how he plays the game. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about everything that he has and he doesn't play after
Speaker 1: play after play. It's unbelievable to watch him on tape.
Speaker 1: Do it? Is it a challenge to some of the
Speaker 1: other guys inside that locker room. I know I've heard
Speaker 1: coaches and Mike Tomlin is famous for doing this, but
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin will yell out to his players, do you
Speaker 1: see that guy?
Speaker 5: Do you see the way this guy's playing? He's done
Speaker 5: this before.
Speaker 1: They actually have a mic on him saying that Buddha Baker,
Speaker 1: that Buddha Baker is a football player.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: He gets the attention of everybody on the field, whether
Speaker 1: it's your guys or whether it's their guys watching him.
Speaker 1: He challenges you as a man as to whether or
Speaker 1: not you're going to play the game the way that
Speaker 1: he's going to play the game. That's pretty incredible if
Speaker 1: you ask me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there are a few guys who play with that zeal, right.
Speaker 2: I mean we mentioned earlier Trey McBride like a big kid.
Speaker 2: Here's Kyler Murray this week. Just on having eighty five
Speaker 2: back as a target against the Niners. That's huge.
Speaker 9: I think you know, alwa say we missed him last week. Move,
Speaker 9: I think we missed him last week. You know, just
Speaker 9: having him out there, another playmaker, another guy that gets
Speaker 9: a job done no matter what, and you know his
Speaker 9: confidence is going to continue to grow. So I'm definitely
Speaker 9: excited to have him back out there.
Speaker 2: And you know what, had a really big game at
Speaker 2: the Niners last year week for Michael Wilson, two touchdown catches,
Speaker 2: had a huge game. You know him better than anyone did.
Speaker 2: All four years line up together, you and him at Stanford.
Speaker 5: It was a year he was there a year before me,
Speaker 5: So he's a year older than me.
Speaker 2: Okay, but you guys are in the same position room
Speaker 2: all those years, right, Okay, So how about how cool
Speaker 2: has that been and how much does that help your
Speaker 2: assimilation to Arizona?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he helped a lot.
Speaker 6: I mean always, you know, having something familiar with a
Speaker 6: new place is always helpful.
Speaker 5: Definitely miss seeing him as much as I used to
Speaker 5: in college.
Speaker 6: We're always in different rooms and whatnot, with him in
Speaker 6: the receiver room, me in the tight end room.
Speaker 5: But it definitely helped out a lot, for sure.
Speaker 1: So when you guys get together, I mean, at some
Speaker 1: point in time, you know, you're you're not always in
Speaker 1: meeting rooms. You're in the locker room with the other guys.
Speaker 1: You and Michael Flexing because of Stanford, are you and
Speaker 1: Michael Flexing got everyone else?
Speaker 6: Because maybe they went to pitt We don't flex on anybody.
Speaker 6: But people have to make fun of us for going
Speaker 6: to Stanford. I think it's an inferiority thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we're going to Stanford.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, it doesn't make sense, right.
Speaker 2: See, the only downside of going to Stanford is if
Speaker 2: you ever make a mistake, then someone says you went
Speaker 2: to Stanford.
Speaker 6: I get that allot from my sister, my younger sister.
Speaker 6: That's funny.
Speaker 2: So, by the way, he got engaged in the off season, right,
Speaker 2: you know, Sophia Smith.
Speaker 5: I was no, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Oh Michael Wilson. Michael Wilson got engaged and okay, so
Speaker 2: what's the deal? Are you have? You shop for a
Speaker 2: way gift? Yet, what do you get a guy like
Speaker 2: Mike Michael Wilson? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: It's tough. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I haven't give him that much that Actually, that's that's
Speaker 6: something I need to think about because that is going
Speaker 6: to be a typical decision.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is, so, Elijah, were you ever recruited by
Speaker 1: Pitt No?
Speaker 2: No, yeah, would you have gone to put that?
Speaker 5: Probably not.
Speaker 2: See if Larry Fitzgerald was here right now, you would
Speaker 2: take exception wollfed Larry Fitzgerald have a long running for
Speaker 2: few because Wall went to West Virginia and so the
Speaker 2: whole thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well if you don't say anything about West Virginia. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're talking about Pitt right now. Pitt, and you heard
Speaker 1: it by it. He would not have gone to Pitt,
Speaker 1: by the way, just for the record, FO you have
Speaker 1: gone to Stanford if.
Speaker 2: I could afford it, I would have. I didn't get
Speaker 2: a scholarship like you did, Elijah.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's great.
Speaker 2: You got a future in this you want you won
Speaker 2: in life. You got a scholarship to Stanford. You have
Speaker 2: to pay a dime Stichel Thanks Jim, I'm on Hunter,
Speaker 2: Cody Fincherwald Ellis Lawrence, Elis Allen Eriny for Elijah Higgins.
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