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Visit Azycardinals dot Com Slash podcast. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:49.160 All Right, Seats, Rising Up, jimp you, Rising Vision, Flurry Rage, 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:50.240 tack it over. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.080 Here's Paul Calvic. I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.520 I'm telling you I'm ready. And Ron Woofley. It doesn't 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:03.480 get any better than that. All Right, here we go, 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.920 Red c I mean Silicon Valley. Are you listening out there? 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.040 You kid me? It's an NFC West game we got 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:14.440 going here. Cardinals already beat the Rams and beat the 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.920 silicone and the botox out of La. Now it's nor 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.319 Cow Wolf and it's time to pound the chardonnay and 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.640 the semiconductors right out to the San Francisco forty nine ers. 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:24.399 Who's all about it? 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.360 Come on now, I got no problem with that, Paul, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:27.560 if that's what you'd like to do. 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.000 By the way, Jiere the weather forecast it's supposed to 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.360 be the all time hottest game in the history of 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.000 Levi Stadium on Sunday. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.440 I saw that, Paul. I heard that, and I know 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:39.959 what your response to that is. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.919 Well, it's supposed to be like mid to high nineties. Okay, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.560 today's record because the Cardinals practice in it was a 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.920 record one oh nine. So I know the schedule says 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.760 home game for the forty nine ers, but are we 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.080 sure about that? You sure it's not a home game 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.160 for the Arizona Cardinals. That is a great question to 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.360 start with. The tight end, Elijah Higgins, everyone about it? 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.840 I mean, Elijah, come on now, mid to high nineties. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.079 You guys don't sweat that literally when you've been practicing 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.560 in one ten plus for like weeks now. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.920 Correct, Yeah, we're not too worried about it. We're not 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.480 too worried about it. Quick question. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.560 This is pretty close to my mouth and making sure 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.280 this is a good here's what you do. 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.359 I'm going to go out and I'm going to kill 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:23.720 that that kills your mic and you go like this. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.320 You can just sort of adjust it. You can sort 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:26.679 of yeah, you can sort of bend it out a 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.200 little bit. Yeah, you know that's good. There you go, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.920 there you go. Well, absolutely, you know we should have 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:32.680 done that in rehearsal. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.600 Wolf, that's all. Come on, I was too busy eating ball. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.880 I had a nice pet burger or something like that. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:39.200 Yeah. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:40.960 Yeah, Wolf puts the full in the full back. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.600 Speaking of here we go, now, I what is your 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:45.320 weight at again? 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:45.760 Elija? 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.239 I just want to ask this right now, right off 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.880 the top, because you were a wide receiver at one 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.799 point in time. What's your weight at right now? 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.760 So I weigh two hundred and fifty right now, two 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.480 hundred and fifty pounds right now? 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.640 What kind of difference is that from when you were 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:00.520 a white receiver? 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.120 It's about fifteen pounds about that was it? So you 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:05.560 were a big one. Yeah that was a big receiver. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:06.960 But you were a big I never thought I was 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:07.799 going to be two fifty. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.040 Okay, so you're got pounds right now, A lot of 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.880 weight room work. I would imagine, right, Yeah, a lot of. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.120 Eating, a lot of weight room. I think a lot 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:17.560 of it too, is just how my body mature. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:22.160 What's your favorite thing to do in the weight room? 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.160 You don't I love the weight room? You I love 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.320 the weight Okay, I would say everybody just kind of 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:27.960 pumping out. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.320 The upper body. Okay, great, doing some arms, you know, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.800 curls for the girls. So what you're saying, do. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.520 You ever go over there and try and compete with like, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.040 you know, Evan Brown and uh, you know, i mean 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.400 Paris and those guys you know, yelled at because those 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.880 guys are always like competing on there, you know, over there, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:42.040 you know. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.880 Yeah, My my favorite guy to work out with in 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.640 the weight room is actually James Connor. He's a He's 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.840 a dude that really pushes it. So it's cool to 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:49.680 try to keep up with them. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.320 I'm out to surprise as that James Connor is in 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:53.360 there throwing it around. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.720 We've had James on this show a couple of times 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.480 and he's talked about his off season workouts with Aaron Donald. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.240 I'm guessing those are legit when you're working out with 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.680 Aaron Donald in the off season, So yeah, I'm guess 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.400 seeing he has he has some aptitude in the weight room. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.360 I'd be my guest on that one, no doubt. All right, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.920 So tell us about this week, tell us about this 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:13.960 week of practice, tell us about how the team is 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.040 rebounded so far coming off the loss against Washington, uh, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.520 and just what do you what do you? How would 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.200 you assess the mood and the vibe here the last 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:22.839 few days. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:23.840 We're excited. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.360 I think we're excited to uh just play another game, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.839 obviously another opportunity to get a w on the board 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.800 for ourselves. But I think more excited just to get 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.799 a bounce back win more than anything. I think after 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.760 you know, Sunday Monday, you watch the film, correct things 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.600 you need to correct, and then by the time you're 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.719 practicing Wednesday, everything's behind us. So I think that's what 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.760 the most excited about, is the opportunity that all waits 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:51.800 us on Sunday. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.800 You know, just being in the locker room. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.760 When I was a young man ten years in the NFL, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.480 of course, and I saw for some really bad losses 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.640 as well. I just want you to know that I'll 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.400 tell you in the break. We have no time to 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.839 go over it right now. But just the way we 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.479 used to process some of the losses that we had 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.120 right there. It was about accountability for the most part, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.160 being able to look at each other in the eye 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.599 and be very accountable. Was that going on inside this 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:20.839 locker room this week? 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:21.640 For sure? 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.280 I Mean, I think that's what all good teams do, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:24.520 and I think that's what we have in our locker 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.080 room because have a good team. And that's what it 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.960 takes is for everybody to lock themselves in the mirror 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.800 and fix the things that they need to fix and 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:31.119 move on to the next game. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.240 You had a chance after the game to talk with 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.160 Garrett Williams. He had to pick obviously big play and 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.200 a really excellent interview afterwards, just the way he sum 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.159 things up, And here's a Garrett Williams, second year player, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.520 had to say about how the Cardinals should go about 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:45.600 correcting things. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.120 Don't point fingers, be honest with yourself about what you're 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.400 doing well, and more partly, when you're losing, you know 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.240 what you're not doing well and fix it. And I 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.680 feel like if each individual on the team looks at 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.040 themselves and go, Okay, I'm not doing this well, how 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.479 am I going to take the steps to get better 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.600 at that. Think if we all do that and then 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.320 we come together collectively and be like, all right, what 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.880 are we lacking as a team. I think that's where 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.960 change starts to happen. And then, you know, I think 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.880 that's where we just show the type of team that 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:10.320 we are. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.000 You know, I heard jg use the word details repeadly. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.359 When you guys watch that film, how correctible we're things 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.680 that he identified very correctable. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.200 I think we have the guys in the room that 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.760 can get the job done. And obviously that starts from 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.680 the execution standpoint, being able to make plays and whatnot, 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.800 but it starts at the details. Like I said, we 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.320 have the guys that can make the plays. It's just 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.800 about being in the correct alignment at the right time, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.320 snap counts and all this sort of stuff. So I 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:36.880 think we got the guys that can that can do 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.719 it for sure. It's just about fixing those those small 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.440 details and moving forward. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.479 You know, the Niners just snapped a two game skid. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.159 They lost in Minnesota, lost at the Rams, and Fred 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.360 Warner talked about practice last week going in a New 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.440 England game, just saying, you know, guys had a little 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.800 extra edge you know, a little chippier. You know we 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.479 had lost a couple in a round. I mean, did 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:54.680 you sense that at all this week? 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.480 Yeah, I mean I definitely feel it. I feel it, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.680 and everybody definitely feel myself for sure. Just taking accountability 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.440 for the small things that you you mess up in 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.400 the game, and making the distinctions between doing the right 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.320 thing and doing the wrong thing, and just putting your 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.040 best foot forward and earning that confidence back in practice 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:12.800 and just working hard. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.000 So you know, for me Polly too, it's just a 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.360 situation where every player's got to go in there and 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.840 watch the tape. As Elijah is saying right now, you 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.160 got to be truthful in what it is that you're seeing. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.680 You got to be one hundred percent honest. If you 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.960 truly want to get better, you have to take critique. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.600 There is the opportunity in a loss to get better 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.640 much better by watching the tape than there is when 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.440 you win. In my opinion, when you lose, oh, you 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.280 feel the same present. Okay. For me, it just was 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.040 a situation. When you lose, man, everyone is on edge 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:44.920 to begin with. They're going to be a lot more 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.160 critical if you actually absorb it and take it to heart, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.440 you can actually get better by watching it and telling 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.800 the truth about yourself. Always be honest one hundred percent 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.120 of the time. And there are some guys, boy, and 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.720 you know this, Elijah, there's some guys out on the field. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.480 They'll recount something that happened on the field that did 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:09.080 not happen on the field, but the tape doesn't lie ePRO. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.720 How about the opening drive in these games? What is clicking? 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.520 What is going well? Four straight games, four straight opening 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.840 drive touchdowns. Is there anything you can take from the 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.680 beginning of those games and trying to extrapolate going forward. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.760 I think obviously just the execution of what we're getting 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.800 what we're calling aligneman assignment key techniques with JJ preaches, 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.200 and when you're able to, you know, start a drive 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.800 like that early in the game, that's what it's about. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.520 It's about doing the right thing, obviously over and over 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.640 because you have a numerous amount of players in that drive, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.880 but doing the right thing and in and out, and 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.120 that's what happens when you. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:45.120 Put a good drive together. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.720 You had a couple of catches against Washington. I saw 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.640 we have an eleven game catch streak. Now, just tell 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.920 us how you think your own game has come along, 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.400 especially in the last maybe like full season you start 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.960 playing midway through last year, where do you think maybe 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:58.839 you've grown the most. 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.319 Think it's just embracing my role to be honest, understanding 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.800 ends and out to the tight end game and what 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.040 it means to be a tight end, and just kind 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.680 of sticking my nose in there and just being being 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.360 a physical guy and just doing what the team needs 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.200 for me. I think it's been the biggest part for 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.199 me in understanding that. Obviously, putting a receiver in college, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.360 making that transition, it wasn't easy. I remember about a 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:21.840 year ago, I didn't know how to get in a 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.280 three point stance for the longest time. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:23.679 Wow. 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:25.800 And now to see. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.720 A year later the position I'm in now, the role 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.640 I have on this team, it's been cool. It's been special, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.679 And I think it's a kudos to the guys that 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.920 we have in the locker room being a teacher or 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.480 helping me learn and being teachers and whatnot, and then 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.480 obviously the coaches and all that stuff and the opportunity 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:41.520 that they've provided for me. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.079 So it's been a cool deal to well, I want. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.720 To tell you this, just watching you play watching you 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.280 on tape, I never knew you had the ability to 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.600 be as physical as you are, and that really that 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.920 was something I did not know. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.640 Where does where does that come from? 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.959 For you? Personally? Personally enjoy that part. We're going to 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:01.360 tell you that. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.280 So personally, I think it's a god to give an ability. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.480 And then on top of it, I think it's just understanding 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.199 what's going on. I think we have good coaches, great 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.120 coaches to really teach us what to know or what 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.200 to know, and you know, understanding what to do, and 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.920 that's the big in the biggest thing for me in 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.160 terms of being physical is if you can understand what's 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.160 going on, what your job is, you can play fast 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.160 and then when you're playing fast and hitting somebody, it's 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:25.600 a lot of fun. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.400 So you just kind of continue to do that and 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:28.360 you enjoy it. 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.679 So how cool has it been to have a Trey 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.560 McBride back on the practice field this week? 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.679 It's been great, It's been great. I'm excited for him 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:35.440 to get back and rolling. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.000 Is there any bigger kid than Trey McBride. Just the 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.960 way he bounces around, I swear he must have the 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.720 same personality when he was like thirteen and Pop Warner. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:46.880 Yeah, I would have loved to know him then. Yeah, 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.280 he's a special dude. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.000 His energy is justial and he was losing his mind 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.800 in the Washington game. You could tell you he was like, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.520 oh man, I need to get out there. 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:56.000 Yeah. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.079 So he's ready to be back. Yeah, that's great. We'll 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.079 get into a lot of that. We'll get into where 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.679 you've grown the most. We'll get into your Texas football background. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.120 How many different guys in the locker room come from 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.880 Texas and have made the NFL. We'll talk about Friday 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.320 night Lights. We'll talk about you know your siblings. Man, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.920 what a track record of athletes you got going. Elijah 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.520 Higgins is our guests. We are live at Trophy and 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.079 Chandler at the corner of Price Road in Queen Creek. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.920 It's a big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.440 We are santan. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:32.320 Ford hurry to throwing third and goal up in the pocket, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.760 backing up, lobbing it left corner. Higgins got it touchdown. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.120 First career touchdown for Higgins. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.000 And what a great throw by Kyler Murray pass across 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.840 the middle caught for a first down by Higgins. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.200 A gain of twenty yards pass over the middle behind Higgins, 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.160 but he makes a great cat to the twenty. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.760 Five What a catch by Higgins. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.640 Throws quickly and it's caught for a first down by Higgins, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.440 powered his way through a tackle. Attempt to get the 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:57.199 first down. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.920 Kyler Murray that is right on the knaps. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.959 Behind snapped to Murray pree step drop looking left now 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.640 in trouble, spins left now steps up running left. Murray 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.040 breaks attackle looking ends on firing left side a sliding 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.280 touch for a touchdown. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.199 It's Higgins baking the crab. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:22.000 Tyler Murray does it again or Murray magic funny to 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:26.800 nothing cardonals Urry throws another time, all. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.320 Right, passion wolf on the call. The guy who's on 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.360 the business end, the receiving n Elijah Higgins is our 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.920 guest here in the Big Red Rage presented by Santan 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.120 Forard in Gilbert Well. That last touchdown catch is gonna 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.640 live forever because that was known as the steph Curry. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.520 Kyler Murray the look away at. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:43.880 The very end. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.480 Has he ever done that in practice before? 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:48.600 Not sure? 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.000 Maybe man I didn't realize it didn't in the game 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.280 until like I saw it on ESPN or whatever. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.920 So it was after the game when you realize it. Yeah, 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.679 it's interesting, all right. So I mean because I mean 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.160 that is epic, right, I mean, now the way to 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.720 flex that, right, he knew it. And at that point, 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.360 I mean, how certain were you you were going to 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.680 catch that? Because that's a sliding grab. What was a 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.160 degree of difficulty on your end? 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.000 Honestly, have no idea. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.600 When you're in the game like that, you're not thinking 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.400 much and it just kind of happens, and you celebrate 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.080 with the guys and you go back on the film 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.040 and watch watch what happened. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.160 You're like, oh, I did that, So it was cool. 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.880 Obviously I didn't get to see what Kyle was doing 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.360 back there when you're running the route. So when I 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.200 got to see the review, the review review on that, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.559 it was pretty special. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.439 So Higgy, can I call you Higgy? Is that okay? 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.360 I you know, I mean, you're fine with that right there? 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.280 I know the Higgy bear and we're going to get 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.559 into that momentarily. But it's okay if I call you Higgy, right, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.000 I mean, that's fine right there. I would imagine your 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.200 hands have always been good, correct, I mean, that's the 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.600 strength of your game. Right now, did you like playing 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.000 wide receiver better than you like playing tight end? 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.720 No? No, I thought I was going to. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.280 Okay, So for the transition, tell us why. 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.120 I just think you're just you're way more involved in 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.840 the game as a tied end. As a receiver. You're 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.680 not as as involved. You like as much responsibility the 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.720 blocking game as playing it, right. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.840 You like being in the box where the fur flies. Yeah, 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:17.679 I enjoy it. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.680 A look at you, like a lot of people. Look 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.880 on your face right now, man, especially when you get 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.360 it figured out. When you when you don't know what's 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.840 going on, it's not that's that's right. Do you get 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.280 it figured out a little bit, It's it's a lot 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:28.560 of fun. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:29.280 Oh. I like that. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.320 I could see it on your face, man. And you 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:32.880 know what, I can see it in the way that 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.720 you play as well, in between the white lines, the 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.800 physicality we're talking about. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.000 Once it's growing. Hey, I appreciate. 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.640 Yeah, I mean I'm actually half amazed. I really am, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.280 because I mean, how many receivers, let's just say, end 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.880 up in the coach's doghouse because they're not blocking, right, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.320 the old adage no lock, no rock, and usually if 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.080 you're a receiver, you know, past or president, it's not 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.680 necessarily you know something you want to do by choice. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.120 So you're telling me that you're standing there and you're 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:02.960 in the three point and you're up against six foot 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.280 seven eight in Hutchinson, and you're enjoying that at that moment, 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.520 because a lot of reformer receivers would dread that. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.280 Yeah, I mean it's it's a good time you enjoy 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.920 I enjoyed just the physicality. It's it's, uh, you get 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.480 to compete every play. I feel like you don't really 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:17.720 get that. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:18.080 At receiver. 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.920 You're not always running outes versus another man in coverage, 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.840 you're not always blocking somebody. Obviously, in the league is 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.000 a little bit different. Receivers are a lot more involved 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.520 in the run game. But at the college level it's not. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.880 You're not competing as much every play and play out. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.040 So Higgy, tell me where you from? Where do you 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.280 say that you are from? And I say that because 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.800 a lot of guys differently, we might move all over 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:41.760 the country, you know, and actually have a lot of 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.920 different homes. Where do you identify with? Where was where 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.040 were you born and raised? 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.480 I was born in Florida, my dad's in the military, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.040 so he moved to Texas. Boy going into middle school. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.800 So I like to say I'm from Florida and Texas 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:55.160 because it was kind of split in half of all 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.640 kay good, yeah. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:00.480 Okay, so that's all You're Florida and Florida, Texas all town. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.280 Did you grow up in Texas? So I grew up 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:03.680 in Austin. Okay, Texas. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.240 Oh that was bare Yeah, okay, it was Bowie High School. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:09.640 There were you guys any good? 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:10.640 We were pretty good. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.720 Do you remember Kyler Murray? I do remember as a 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.400 high school legend in Texas, because every guy that's going 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.920 through Texas remembers Kylie. Did you used to watch his 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:20.880 highlight reels? 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.080 I don't know if I did or not. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.680 I probably have seen him before, but I didn't really understand, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.360 like recognize that it was him or not when I 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:27.840 was younger. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.120 But I'm sure I saw them at some point. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.800 Okay, Friday night lights, I mean in Texas as big 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.000 as everyone says it is. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:36.920