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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave

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Speaker 1: Pash Podcast. I'm your host Arizona Cardinals and ESPN broadcaster

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Speaker 1: Dave Pash. Our guest this week is Cardinals tight end

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Speaker 1: Zach Ertz. Zach and his wife Julie recently announced that

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Speaker 1: they are bringing a baby boy into this world. We're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about fatherhood with Zach, what he expects

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Speaker 1: that to be like, and how that might impact him

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Speaker 1: as a football player. We'll also talk about donut Gate,

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Speaker 1: a current controversy in the locker room with both zach

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Speaker 1: Ertz and J. J. Watt. Zach's new contract with the

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Speaker 1: team were some of the reasons he decided to stay

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Speaker 1: here in Arizona with the Cardinals. His thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: What the offense might look like without DeAndre Hopkins the

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Speaker 1: football gold Trey McBride, the rookie tight end out of

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Speaker 1: our guest for this week's edition of the Dave Pash Podcast,

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Speaker 1: Cardinals tight End, Zach Ertz. Zach, appreciate you doing this.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the news of the last month, and

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Speaker 1: that's you're going to be a dad. Yeah. How's that feel? Man? Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing. We're so excited. Julie and I are just

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Speaker 1: ecstatic to be parents. Obviously, it's a different season of life,

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Speaker 1: something that we've never done before, this being our first one,

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Speaker 1: so we're extremely excited. Getting everything set up, getting the

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Speaker 1: not prepared for, but I feel like we got a

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Speaker 1: lot of great people to lean on and can't wait

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Speaker 1: for them to come. Do we know the gender? It

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Speaker 1: is a boy? Congratulations? Man, congratulations, I've got one myself.

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Speaker 1: He's now sixteen, trying to figure out how to drive.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah. I don't look forward to to him

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Speaker 1: do you think being a dad will impact you as

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Speaker 1: a football player. I think it will put a lot

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Speaker 1: of things in perspective. I mean I'm excited about that.

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Speaker 1: You know, no matter how the day goes here at work,

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Speaker 1: I know I'm coming home to not only my wife

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Speaker 1: dissipate when I see them. But the way I approached

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Speaker 1: don't think we'll change. I can't answer that definitively, but

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Speaker 1: as of now, I'm just excited. I know it's a

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Speaker 1: don't take lightly. So I'll take the same attitude I

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Speaker 1: It's probably more of a change for your wife because

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Speaker 1: she's a professional athlete as well. Do you think that

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Speaker 1: The whole process was a process. I guess there were

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Speaker 1: so we'll always have help near. But we love Arizona.

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Speaker 1: And the team's been great about you know, allow me

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Speaker 1: maybe this year, maybe in a couple of years. But

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00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,440
Speaker 1: he's definitely Everyone wants to point his lack of leadership

431
00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. I just don't think that's true.

432
00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 1: And I don't even know that it's lack of leadership.

433
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: I think it's just maturity. It's growing, it's realizing. I mean,

434
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,639
Speaker 1: I think about Larry Fitzgerald when he got here and

435
00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,880
Speaker 1: how it took Larry some time. Larry was twenty years

436
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,639
Speaker 1: old when he came to the NFL. It took Larry

437
00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,400
Speaker 1: some time to understand the demands of being a superstar

438
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,160
Speaker 1: player and what the media expects, what the public expects,

439
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 1: I mean, what your teammates expect. There's a lot that

440
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:57,960
Speaker 1: goes into that we saw Kobe Bryant over the years grow.

441
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 1: People tell stories that Michael Jorge and would he come

442
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,320
Speaker 1: in for a finals game. The first thing you do

443
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: would go sit down with TV, we go write in

444
00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,119
Speaker 1: answer all the questions, get up, go on to the

445
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 1: next thing. Because he understood there's all these peripheral things

446
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,199
Speaker 1: you've got to do as part of being a superstar player.

447
00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,440
Speaker 1: I just think that's something Kyler's learning. He's always had

448
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,960
Speaker 1: the attention on him. But look at Oklahoma. You know

449
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 1: they're trying to protect him. They're trying to make it

450
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 1: easy on him. In the NFL, you can't do that

451
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: because the demands are there. It's part of the collective

452
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,480
Speaker 1: bargaining agreement. You have to do those things. Yeah, I

453
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 1: mean it's the access to players has probably never been easier,

454
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,359
Speaker 1: and the demands as a player probably never been harder.

455
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 1: Just with social media, no matter where you go, everyone

456
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 1: is has their phone out. People can record you doing whatever,

457
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: and you're just always on and sometimes you just want

458
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 1: to be off. Sometimes you just want to go somewhere

459
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: and don't want to deal with anything. And and Philly,

460
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 1: for me, it was heightened out here. It's not as

461
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 1: bad as it was in Philly. But a guy like Kyler,

462
00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,119
Speaker 1: he's on every TV each and every day, and so

463
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 1: for him, he's gonna grow into it. He's gonna get

464
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable and more and more confident in that.

465
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 1: And I mean, the sky's a limit for him. I'm

466
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: just gonna throw that. You're right, Yeah, you're right. The

467
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: kid is incredibly talented, and obviously all of us here

468
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: I want to see him played his potential because if

469
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: he does, they're gonna be some championships there. All right,

470
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: a couple more, we'll get you out of here. Tell

471
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Speaker 1: me about Trey McBride, which you think so far? Yeah,

472
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:27,160
Speaker 1: Trey is obviously very talented. He's got really really good hands,

473
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 1: you know. I think when you watch him run around

474
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: catch football, you can tell it's super supernatural for him

475
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:37,400
Speaker 1: to make plays with the football. Obviously, coming in young

476
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 1: player from a smaller school, got a lot to work on.

477
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,640
Speaker 1: But I think he can be a guy that can

478
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:46,400
Speaker 1: help us this year, and I would expect him to

479
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,159
Speaker 1: find a role for sure. Obviously we got a lot

480
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 1: of playmakers in this offense. So even if he has

481
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Speaker 1: I think my rookie year I had about thirty six

482
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Speaker 1: forty catches something like that, And so even if he

483
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Speaker 1: has that, or even if he has less than that,

484
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: he can still have a great impact act on this team.

485
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,639
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to find a role in the blocking

486
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: game obviously, as being a tight end, you have to

487
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: do that. And so I'm excited to see him in pads.

488
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: It's so tough to tell right now. We're kind of

489
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: playing grass basketball, sure, and then when the Pats come on,

490
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: I would say, in training, can't you find more about

491
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,280
Speaker 1: especially tight ends and linemen, running backs and pass protection.

492
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: But he's definitely a good athlete and got really good hands.

493
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: I remember doing a game, an Oklahoma game at ESPN

494
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: the year Kyler won the Heisman, and it was very

495
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,240
Speaker 1: clear that he and Hollywood had chemistry. There was they

496
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: played a game in Iowa State. We did him. He

497
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: was like week three and he had a a fifty

498
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: sixty yard pass to Hollywood, got behind the defense and

499
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: he just took the top off the defense and every

500
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 1: the rest of the game they were just concerned about Hollywood.

501
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 1: Is it pretty easy, even though, like you said, you're

502
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 1: not doing a whole lot to see that there is

503
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 1: some chemistry. I mean Kyler hasn't been here that often,

504
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: but based on conversations with Kyler or conversations with Hollywood,

505
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: if there's something that's already there intrinsically between the two, yeah,

506
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you can definitely tell they're very

507
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 1: close friends. Yeah, they hang out a lot together. But

508
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: on the field, Hollywood is a guy that is extremely

509
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: extremely fast. I mean the first thing you see him

510
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 1: doing his role in when he's out there at receiver,

511
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: and I think it's a great addition for us because

512
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: he's very different than the other receivers and tight ends

513
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: we have on this team. He's a guy that the

514
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: safeties have to back up. And you know, de Hop

515
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: and I are guys that make a lot of contested catches.

516
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 1: We play over the middle of the field, and so

517
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: you need a guy that defenses are worried about. So

518
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: if they're so keyed in in the middle of the

519
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: field or DeAndre at the outside, you need a guy

520
00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: on the other side that can just run by someone

521
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: for sixty yards. And it's hard to have fifteen sixteen

522
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Speaker 1: twenty play drives in the NFL consistently, but with a

523
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: guy like Hollywood Rondale, some of these guys that are

524
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: so fast that can make a play that they make

525
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: your offensive jobs easier, not only when they touch the ball,

526
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,920
Speaker 1: but just for the fact that defenses have to account

527
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: for them. And so I'm excited to play with him.

528
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever played with the receiver that

529
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,679
Speaker 1: fast since Deshaun the first time. The second time he

530
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot of football together, unfortunately, but the

531
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Speaker 1: first time, my rookie year, he was unbelievable, and so

532
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 1: hopefully it's kind of the same thing with him. I

533
00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 1: want to ask you about Hurts Family Foundation, some of

534
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: your charity work, but a couple of those silly questions. First,

535
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: donut Gate, how did it start? Where is donut Gate

536
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: right now? With you and JJ Man. First of all,

537
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: I'm the good guy here. It was five fifteen wake

538
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: up or whatever I say. Hey, the night before I'm

539
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: gonna go get the strength coach donuts, So it wasn't

540
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 1: about JJ. First of all, does Buddy Morris eat donuts?

541
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: I thought the guy eats steel. Bunny Morris is the goat.

542
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: Let's just we're just gonna say that. I don't know

543
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: what he eats, but he who loves these bosta donuts

544
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: out here. So I was like, hey, buddy, you're doing

545
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: a great job. You've been coming in for JJ, and

546
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: I early, I'm gonna get you. Get buddy some donuts.

547
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna surprise him with some donuts. JJ, I'm going

548
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: to Bosas. Do you want any donuts? He said, yeah,

549
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: that sounds awesome. I would love some donuts in the morning.

550
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 1: Pink or strawberry. I don't even know what they're called,

551
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: was his response, and Maple I said, okay, I'll see,

552
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,160
Speaker 1: I'll see what I can do. So I go online.

553
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: It's so early, I don't want to call. I don't

554
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: feel like talking on the phone. I just order on

555
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: the little app. They don't have strawberry, they don't have pink.

556
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: The only thing that is close enough to that is cherry.

557
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, no one really wants a cherry donut, so

558
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: it can't be that. And then at that point I

559
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: was a little flustered. So I was like, I'm just

560
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: gonna order one of everything else. And apparently Maple wasn't

561
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: on the one of everything else, and JJ was disappointed.

562
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 1: But I got thirteen donuts or fourteen donuts, I were

563
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 1: many donuts. I got six of them were for the

564
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: strength coach perfectly ordered, and then for JJ's they weren't there. Unfortunately. However,

565
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: I think as a Cardinals player and a Cardinals fan,

566
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: everyone should be on my side because I'm looking out

567
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: for the best. JJ does not need donuts. He was

568
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: looking a little chubby on that Thursday, and I said, hey,

569
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: do you want to donuts? I know you really don't

570
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: need him. I'm not gonna get your donuts. Has it

571
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: been pretty cool too? You didn't get a chance to

572
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: play together a lot because of his injury, but hasn't

573
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: been cool to be around him. Both your wives are

574
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,520
Speaker 1: pregnant at the same time. I don't know conception was

575
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 1: the same time. No, they'll do a little after us.

576
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: But it has been good. We only played one game

577
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: together unfortunately, my first game, but we've trained together all

578
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: off seasons, essentially been the two of us here in

579
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: Arizona in the off season. There's no need to leave

580
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: this building, so both of us would train here. It's

581
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: been good to get to know you know. Oftentimes, when

582
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,919
Speaker 1: I was in Philly or an off season, I wouldn't

583
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: have someone that was willing to do what I would do,

584
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: not to make myself sound like I was doing something crazy,

585
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 1: but just the demands, I'd be there for a long

586
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: time or trained for a long time. And JJ's the

587
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: guy that is in there just as long as I am.

588
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 1: We're doing the same trainings each and every day, and

589
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: so it's been fun to get to know him. Our

590
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: wives are actually on like the youth national team since

591
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: they were seventeen or something like that together, so they've

592
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: known each other forever. But it's been good to get

593
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: to know him. And by asking these two questions, now

594
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 1: you have passed JJ's time. I think that he spent

595
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: on this podcast, so you can actually perfect I know

596
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: that that'll be a big point of conversation between the

597
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: two of you. The hair, it's the second time I

598
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: think in your career you showed up with blonde hair.

599
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: You did it in Philly once. Is here to stay

600
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,199
Speaker 1: or is this I don't know. It's kind of an

601
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: off season thing. Sometimes you just give board. Um, I

602
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: feel like you're gonna change it up. Julie likes it,

603
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: so every now and then I'll do it. Hey, yeah,

604
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sticking to do the same thing

605
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: with my hair. I don't know. I think I don't know.

606
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: I usually have brows. I usually have the beard in

607
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: season and then because again on TV they this that way,

608
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: they don't stare at your head. They see the beard.

609
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: But in the off season, you know you're not on,

610
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: so it doesn't at all. Right, tell me about the

611
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: years Family Foundation, Tell me about all the charity work

612
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: that you're doing. Yeah, So years ago I went to

613
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: Haiti with Carson Wentz. We stayed at a place called

614
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: Mission of Hope, which was a mission backed by Faith.

615
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: And at the time when I first got into the NFL,

616
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: having a charity was always on my heart. I didn't

617
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: exactly know what I wanted to do, what Julie and

618
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And so I'll go down to

619
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: Haiti see all the amazing work they're doing, and then

620
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: I come home and I'm like, Julia, I don't know

621
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, but having a charity back to

622
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: buy our faith and the hope in Jesus is what

623
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: we want to do. And so we started it in

624
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and we for a long time or a

625
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: grant making organization in Philly. People would apply for money

626
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: for their charities, for their small nonprofits and through the

627
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: money that we were able to raise and through kind

628
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: of charity events, whether it be at the Link we

629
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: did one, whether it be at a golf tournament in

630
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. We would use the as funds and

631
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: kind of just be a grant making an organization. And

632
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: then when COVID hit, everything kind of changed with the

633
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: demands in Philly. Schools were shut down for a long

634
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: long time, the mask mandates were there for a long time,

635
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: and these kids. The homicide rates in Philly were skyrocket

636
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: and kids were getting killed every other day. It was

637
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: just terrible. Your heart would break, and it got to

638
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: the point that we said we need to do something,

639
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,479
Speaker 1: and so Julie and my mom, we were in season.

640
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: They started just having a football program. We actually partnered

641
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: with an organization called Timoteo, which is a faith based

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Speaker 1: kind of flag football ministry outreach program, and so we

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Speaker 1: would kind of host after school football practice for kids

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Speaker 1: we would start to reach out and be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: what do you guys want? What are your goals. It

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Speaker 1: ended up culminating in a football camp with the Watter

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Speaker 1: Camp kind of organization where we had I think thirty

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Speaker 1: colleges come out and kind of like a mock combine

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Speaker 1: because there wasn't any football being played that fall. So

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Speaker 1: it was like, how can we replicate that? How can

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Speaker 1: we still give kids opportunities? And I don't know the

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Speaker 1: final number of who got scholarships or who got the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to continue from that, but that is leading us

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Speaker 1: to we are starting this thing called the House of Hope,

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Speaker 1: which is in Kensington and Philadelphia. It was a million

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Speaker 1: dollar raise for this house and it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: safe place Wi Fi cafe for these kids to go

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Speaker 1: after school. It's going to be a church on Sundays,

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Speaker 1: and then it's gonna have tutoring. It's gonna have hopefully

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Speaker 1: financial literacy for the communities there, and it's just something

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Speaker 1: to help these kids have a place to go out

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Speaker 1: after school because when we were growing up, sports was

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Speaker 1: obviously paramount for us. My mom and we had it.

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Speaker 1: We played every sport in high school. I played football,

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Speaker 1: basketball in high school. I did track in the spring,

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Speaker 1: and then when that was my freshman year, and then

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Speaker 1: after that kind of more seven on seven stuff, But

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Speaker 1: that was always a thing that from three to seven,

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Speaker 1: three to six I was always doing something. My mom

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Speaker 1: wanted me always doing something, so I'll stay out of trouble.

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Speaker 1: And we want to give these kids the same opportunities.

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Speaker 1: If they don't play sports, whatever they're doing to hey,

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Speaker 1: we'll go to this place and hang out, stay out

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Speaker 1: of trouble, and just get some guidance in your life.

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Speaker 1: And so that we actually I think construction started officially

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Speaker 1: last week. Awesome, so we're really proud of that. And

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Speaker 1: then we're also now that we're hearing in Arizona. Obviously

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Speaker 1: we want to do something big here. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what it's going to be. Last year we did the meals,

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Speaker 1: so I think it was for every touchdown the offense scored.

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Speaker 1: I think we donated five thousand meals to some of

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Speaker 1: the local food banks. So we don't know exactly. And Philly,

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Speaker 1: we were there for a long time, so we understood

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Speaker 1: the needs of the community. Here we're still trying to

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Speaker 1: learn exactly what the needs of this community are. It's

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Speaker 1: a much different demographic, it's a much different landscape. Just

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Speaker 1: Philly was so small of a city. Phoenix is obviously

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Speaker 1: much bigger city in terms of mass mileage. So we

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Speaker 1: would love to talk to people. I would love to

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Speaker 1: talk to people about how we can make a difference

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Speaker 1: here because it is important to Julie and I to

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Speaker 1: continue our Earth's Family Foundation out here. I think just

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Speaker 1: the fact that you want to be involved is great,

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Speaker 1: and that you want to make a difference and you

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Speaker 1: want your faith to be on display because you know,

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Speaker 1: as a Christian, people are watching you. They want to hear,

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Speaker 1: they want to see. They don't want to just hear,

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Speaker 1: they want to see your works and not just hear

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Speaker 1: what you have to say and hear you talk about it.

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Speaker 1: So the fact you want to get involved and the

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Speaker 1: fact you're already doing stuff here is pretty uh pretty cool. Man.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for your time, appreciate your sharing everything about

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Speaker 1: your family situation. Congratulations again man, and look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing you this fall. Awesome, Thank you appreciate it. You

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Speaker 1: can just tell listening to Zach that he's a very

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Speaker 1: thoughtful guy. Great hearing about his heart for the community,

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Speaker 1: the Earth's Family Foundation, all the great things that he

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Speaker 1: and his wife Julie are doing in Philadelphia, some of

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Speaker 1: the things they started to do here in Arizona and

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Speaker 1: want to continue here in Arizona. We talked about the

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Speaker 1: blonde hair. Is it here to stay or is it

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Speaker 1: just a passing fad, something to do in the summer.

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Speaker 1: We got into the donut gate a little bit, his

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Speaker 1: rivalry with the donuts with J. J. Watt, But more importantly,

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Speaker 1: Zach had some great thoughts on the offense and what

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Speaker 1: his role might look like and how it could change

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Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe in the first six weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season for twenty twenty two without DeAndre Hopkins, but

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Speaker 1: great to catch up with Zach. Look forward to hearing

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Speaker 1: from him and hopefully he has a great season in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Was a very reliable pass catcher for

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals after coming over in a trade midseason. We

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Speaker 1: are presented by bet MGM, the official sports betting partner

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Speaker 1: of the Arizona Cardinals, and by Hila River Hotels and Casinos.

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Speaker 1: You can follow us on Twitter at pash Pot. Thanks

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Speaker 1: again to Zach Ertz. I'm Dave Pash. Thanks for listening

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