WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Alford Ready To Prove Himself 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.400 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. Oh ahead, 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:10.280 he got Jack. This is the Big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.640 by Santanford in Gilbert. Harry's Gonna score touchdown. Slam to 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.680 the ground by Buddha Baker Like a torpedo, he came 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:23.000 flying into the backfield. The rage is brought to you 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:28.880 by satan Ford in Gilbert or are you Satanford? State Farm? 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.840 Talk to an agent today at eight hundred State Farm, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.680 And by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals dot Com, 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:46.560 Slash Podcasts, The Rods, Rising Guard, Timperatureizing Vision, Flurring, Rage 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.000 taking over. Here's Paul CALVC. Get the popcorn ready. It's 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.000 gonna be a show and Ron will flee. It doesn't 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:59.920 get any better than that. Unleash the far, Ron Wilfley, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.360 you're a man who appreciates the written word, do you not? 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.800 I think we need to write a letter right here 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:12.360 off the top. I'll start. Okay, dear Preseason, we missed you, 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:18.080 and we apologize if we ever dissed you. After twenty 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.160 twenty and the pandemic protocols took you so far away 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.840 from us, Well, you don't know what you have till 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.959 you don't have it, So it is great. It is 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.160 great to have you back preseason. At the same time, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.440 we're also glad you're only three games, nothing personal, but 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.360 you are the preseason unless it's still more. And here 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.680 we go, not only the preseason, kicking things off tomorrow night. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.400 It is the Big Red Rage twas the night before 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.400 the twenty twenty one preseason, all presented by santan Ford 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.760 and Gilbert. We are santan Ford, not just Paul Kelvs 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.280 here Ron Wolfley, there about upcoming Robert Alfred bringing some 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.760 football knowledge and energy and intensee so boom. We are 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:04.880 good to go with the game plan tonight. Polly, I 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.840 am so stoked, there's no doubt about it. Just knowing 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.680 that there is football that is looming. I'm talking about 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.240 football in the silks, baby, where the eye black is 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.840 on and the bloody knuckles come out. Babe. I cannot 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.639 wait to see somebody drill somebody. And Polly, I'll tell 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.720 you this right now. Marcus Golden, that's the guy that 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.000 I think is gonna drill somebody first. There's my bet, 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.239 Marcus Golden. You know, arguably the quota camp so far, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.240 somebody asked him, when was the last time you had 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.400 a low energy day? And he stared straight at the reporter. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.960 He said, probably Juco Junior College. Juco will bring you. So, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.600 you know what, Well, let's see if you're ready for 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.960 the preseason. I'm gonna I'm gonna attempt to earhole you 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.560 right off the top. Are you ready with this following quiz? 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:51.400 You're ready for? Well? You know what, the star did 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.120 make a good target. Go ahead, that's true. The longest 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.560 tenured player on the Arizona Cardinals roster right here, right 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:05.520 now is the longest tenure cardinal Without Patrick Peterson, without 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.720 Larry Fitzgerald, who is the longest tenured cardinal. Wow, Paul, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.560 that's blowing my mind right now. Of guess what there 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.800 is a direct link to the big Red rage the 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:21.280 past few years. Okay, DJ, okay, that how he's gonna 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:25.280 guess that, Paul? Isn't that that's mind blowing? Twenty fifteen? 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.720 Oh that is dull? There you go. I mean if 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.760 Aaron Judge can hit a home run into the corn 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.320 a few moments ago, then DJ Humphreys gonna be the 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.680 longest tenured Cardinal going into this season. Corsett's pending the 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.080 return of Larry Fitzgerald, according to Larry Senior in a 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.040 couple of tweets that went out in the last twenty 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.600 four hours. So who knows what's going on on that front. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.480 Let's talk about the known wolf and what we think 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.880 we know when it comes to tomorrow night, um Kyler 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.240 Murray may or may not play. We're not exactly sure 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:54.920 how that's gonna stack. We'll wait and see. We know 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.040 Dak Prescott is not playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.080 we will see the offensive line, there's no doubt the 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:07.960 starting offensive line featuring Rodney Hudson. And if this was 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.600 the other arguably quote of camp when Justin Peuse said 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.240 the following about the former two time Pro bowler or 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.880 Rodney Hudson going through the offseason, he hanging out and 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.479 just getting the note type of man he is. He's 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.840 he's awesome. We all know what he can do on 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.000 the football field, but the integrity, it's almost like he's 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.960 gonna get mad at me. For a Chris Paul type 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:28.920 of addition, where you're bringing a guy with that veteran 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.680 leadership who knows how to do things right off the field. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.559 It you know, trickles onto the field. Really, wow, really, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.839 you know what, I honestly, Pauli that resonates with me, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.359 and the reason being is because of the position that 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.240 he plays, the center position. Once again, listen, there's no 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.359 doubt about it. Your quarterback that is the most important 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.280 position on your team. And they're called franchise quarterbacks for 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:57.240 a reason. But offensively, when you talk about the point guard, man, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:58.960 if you want to, if you want to, look at 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.800 somebody in point to them and say, no, it's not 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.680 the guard, it's the center. It's the point center in 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.279 the game of football that calls the place and gets 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.920 protections and gets people on the same page. Do you 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.800 know how important that is, Pauli to any offense. It's critical. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.320 So I get exactly what Justin Pugh was saying in 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.240 regard to Rodney Hudson being that point guard if you will, 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.320 or point center in this case. You know, I've heard 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.359 a lot of good stuff about Rodney Hudson, and I 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.599 mean there's some absurd stuff like he hasn't been called 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.400 for a false start since two thy sixteen. Think about that, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.360 stunning didn't have a penalty flag of any sort all 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.080 of last season. Obviously, that's an area of need for 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.840 an Arizona Cardinals team that led the NFL in that category. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.440 But when I hear he's an absolute grinder and he 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.159 devours game film and he just sits in there and 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.760 he grinds on the film and he's really prepared. I mean, Wolf, yes, 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:57.560 you can't tell me that's not going to go a 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.320 long way when he's trying to make sure that your 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.960 quarterback is prepared and into the game plan and into 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.720 the game field and knowing exactly what the opponent is 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.600 going to bring week to week or your spot on 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.040 and that one PAULI ding ding ding ding ding. Somebody 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.719 gives the sideline reporter or a treat because you nailed that, Paul. Listen, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.120 this is why it's so important that you bring not 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.159 only Rodney Hudson in, but the impact that he's going 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.479 to have on everybody else on that offensive line. This 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.960 is why Steve Kim went out and got Rodney Hudson. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.400 How we got Rodney Hudson. Still, I'm still wondering how 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.719 that transpired. Mike Mayock, are you feeling okay? And I 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.440 love Mike Mayock, He's a friend of the family, But 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.440 my goodness, I still can't believe the Arizona Cardinal somehow, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.000 some way, God, Rodney Hudson right now, and Paul, when 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.280 you talk about him grinding, this is what I love 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.880 about Rodney Hudson. What's your excuse if you're not doing this? 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.760 Guy is hot, a ten year veteran in this league. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.480 He's considered to be maybe the best center in the league, 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.599 top three certain and now all of a sudden, he's 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.160 grinding away on film and he's doing all of the 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.680 things he needs to do to be successful, and he's 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.760 putting in the time and you're not. What are you doing? 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.040 So your offensive line to start the game tomorrow night. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.400 Dj Humphreys left tackle, Justin Pugh, left guard, Rodney Hudson, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.720 your center. Josh Jones, a third round pick a year 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.480 ago he didn't play a single preseason game, said he's 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.160 really looking forward to to play in tomorrow night because 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.280 he just hasn't gotten many snaps at all since his 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.920 college days at Houston. He'll be the right guard without 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.800 Brian Winners, without Justin Murray, and then your right tackle 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.960 of course, Kelvin Beacham. Now, we also had news about 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.480 who else won't be around tomorrow night. As reports say 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.240 that there are additions to the COVID list, Andy Isabella 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.360 was already there as of a couple of days ago. Well, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.640 now you can add James Connor, Durrell Daniels the tight end, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.480 Charles Washington, the safety and special team standout Lecky Foe 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.120 to another defensive lineman, Ron Wolfley. The Cardinals will be 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.920 without JJ Watt, Jordan Phillips, Zach Allen, Richard, Lawrence Lecky 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:05.560 Foe to their top five defensive linemen. So, okay, that's 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:07.560 what we know on that front. Now, it's a good 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.160 thing we haven't had cutdowns yet, Paul, Yeah, I mean, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.000 and by the way, that's August thirty. First they have 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.840 to get down to the final fifty three. And then 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.200 there's the head coach who was asked earlier this week 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.760 about the twenty nineteen preseason, and remember what he told 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.720 us on his weekly TV show right where in hindsight, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.120 maybe trying to hide everything in the preseason didn't exactly 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.679 help the Cardinals as much as it hurt them as 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.800 they were trying to confuse the Lions, and maybe they 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.559 confuse themselves. And Cliff king Zario was asked about that, 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.480 you want to give them plays they understand can execute 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.120 at high level, play fast, be aggressive, and really get 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.960 to see the best version of themselves. So that's what 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.080 we're trying to do. The first year, we were really 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.520 trying to keep it all tech to him tie the offense, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.600 and like I said, it was a mistake, and so 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.599 this year we'll be a little bit more open and 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.360 play our game to an extent. What do you think 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.680 that means, Wolf, You know what, the best version of themselves. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.680 That's what I keep focusing in on, Bully. In other words, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.640 it's about the player and not the play, right, Paul, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.160 It's about the player and not the play the best 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.920 version of themselves. We want them to play fast, We 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.840 want them to go out there and be aggressive and 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.240 be physical. By limiting the scope of what it is 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.640 that we're going to do. What that means, I really 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.600 don't know, but I'll tell you what I'd love to 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.480 see in this situation, Paul, is a quarterback under center 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.440 about fifty percent of the time, go twenty five percent 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.800 in the gun, go twenty five percent of the pistol 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.199 fifty percent of the time. Because I do believe a 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:38.320 quarterback under center is where this offense can grow and 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.040 expand the most this season from what we've seen in 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.439 seasons past. It's the quarterback and undercenting. Now, listen, I'm 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.840 not saying you're ever going to run it fifty percent 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.760 of the time in the regular season. They are not 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.520 going to do that. That's not who Cliff Kingsbury is. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.559 It's not who Kyler Murray is. They're gonna put him 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.240 in the gun. That's gonna be the number one quarterback position. 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.000 They're gonna put him in the shotgun and run their offense. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.280 But I do believe if in fact, you're going to 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.760 expand a quarterback under center, Polly Hey, why not in 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.640 the preseason, wrap it out, and wrap it out, and 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.920 wrap it out, because when you put that quarterback under center, 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.400 what you're really saying is, listen, we're not going to 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.840 try to trick you. We're gonna try to truck you 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.439 right here, because everyone knows what kind of plays you're 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.040 gonna run. If you put Kyler Murray under center, and 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.120 you put a you put a running back with his 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.160 toes at seven yards and it's twelve personnel where it's 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.040 eleven personnel, you're gonna run the tackle zone. That like 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.680 everybody else in the league. That's what you're gonna do. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.160 You're gonna run the stretch, You're gonna have a bootleg, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.400 you're gonna have a waggle, you're gonna have a seven 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.880 stop play, seven step play action off of that, You're 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.080 gonna run those set of plays right there, and why 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.800 not you need to wrap them out because sometimes, Polly, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.880 you gotta be able to line up and just be 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.720 better than the guy across from you. You've said it before. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.559 You have to be able to run the ball when 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.200 everybody knows you're going to run the ball. Right There 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.560 was a moment in camp the other day and James 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.160 Conner and run off the field and then he came 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.319 running back on and I happen to have my head 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.079 down and almost got in the way of an almost 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.520 full galloping James Conner, which would have been a critical 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.280 mistake on my part. He's a large dude. You know what, 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.720 your hair would have helped you though. And look, if 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.559 there's one thing I know is standing next to football 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.600 players on the sideline. He is a large dude and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.480 I look forward to seeing his two hundred and thirty 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.440 three plus pounds coming full force, full charging down the 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.880 field at the Tennessee Titans in week one. Whether we 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.920 see him tomorrow or night, I have no idea. Chase Edmonds, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.079 I'm not exactly sure. I figure we're gonna see Zavan 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.200 Collins and Isaiah Simmons for a couple of series, and 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.920 I'm guessing we're gonna see Robert Alfred and the starting 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.920 corners out there. What exactly does that mean? We'll talk 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.199 to the Cardinals Robert Alfred next and the Big Red 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:56.839 Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert Brady gets a 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.679 stamp from Andrew Falcon's trying to get them or snap 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.600 that coming back up the field. It's Robert Alferd, Albert 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:10.120 forty thirty twenty fifteen, ten five and he will walk 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.720 into the end tone on an eighty one yard pick six. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.840 He knows if he's healthy. Man, he's a big party's defense. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.320 And when you're speaking about leaders and guys, that's pushing 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.000 guys man. He is on top of our lists forward leaders, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.800 that is Cardinals de coordinator, Vance, Joseph and Wolf. The 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.120 competition level, the compete level officially just went up in 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.120 a big way on The Big Red Rage based on 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.920 our next guest start barkatball. If I asked you to 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.760 name one player who has stood out each of the 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.199 last three Cardinal camps, right, A guy who's getting you 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.360 fired up, because we're most definitely looking forward to seeing 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.800 come September and beyond. A guy when you're down on 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.400 the field, A guy you here, I mean before you 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.560 even see him, and now we get a chance to 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.320 hear him tonight on the Big Red Rage, our special 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.360 guest corner at Robert Alfred, Robert, how are we doing? 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.520 I'm doing good? How you guys doing? Man, really appreciate 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.120 you joining us right now, Robert. I have to start 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.360 with this. What is Hammond, Louisiana? Like? Oh, man, it's 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:17.199 a little small country town, man, really, Yeah, everybody knows everybody, man. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.240 Pretty much, everybody that that's from there is pretty much 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.600 in some sort of way kin to each other. So 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.280 that's just telling you just how small it is. You know. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.640 So you went to Southeast Louisiana. Look at you in 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.280 your NFL career, Malcolm Butler went to West Alabama. Look 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.400 it this NFL career. Is there something that ingrained in 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.559 the two of you? Is that? I mean? Is there 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.000 something you guys share and is there a trait between 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.679 the two of you that led to each of you 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.439 having successful NFL careers and defining the odds. Oh yeah, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.400 most definitely. Man being from a small school, I think 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.559 Malcolm Um started off at a at a junior college, 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.920 just speaking with him and just getting to know him. 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.240 But most definitely though it come from a small school, man, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.040 you always gonna have a chip on your shoulder because 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:05.560 both of us we felt like we could have win 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.560 D one and and just not being able to go 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.160 D one made a bigger chip upon our shoulder. So 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.120 for us to have Um the career that we have, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:15.760 I think he going into his eight year. I'm going 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.480 into my ninth year. Man, Um, it's real big for us. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.400 Like I said, we came from a small school, was 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.560 pretty much like overlooked and Um I always had to 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.000 prove ourselves during our football career. So yeah, that was 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.280 That's that's major. Robert, you already talked about it. You 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.760 touched on it, the fact that you missed the last 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.640 two training camps coming into this training camp here, What 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.480 did that teach you? If anything? The last two years. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.280 I'm just telling me just to um take it day 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.800 by day. And never um like never never regret um 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.720 like never that look over a day. You know what 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:56.720 I'm saying, Like always um be like take advantage of 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.440 each day that you're out there on the field. Like 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.520 you said, I was out for two years. Man, that 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.240 was that was very tough for me, man, just um 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.520 coming from being released by by Atlanta and then that 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.160 offseason just busting my butt to UM to prove myself 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.000 and then just went down with a leg injury and 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.960 then come back off the leg in drafted, grinding again 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.120 another offseason and then tearing my pick. Man was was 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.840 um it taught me a lot, man, It really like 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.400 taught me like patience and and and just like I said, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.360 not to regret like no days, man like, take advantage 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.600 of each and every day that God has blessed me 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.720 to um to play this game. So here you are now, Robert, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.280 You're thirty two years old. You're in this training camp. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.040 How's the body holding up right now? I mean I'm 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.400 thirty two. I feel like I'm twenty five. So that 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.560 tells you a lot. But um nah, I've done a 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.800 lot of things man this offseason. Like you said, I 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.920 came from those two two injured these past years. On 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.800 my wife, she's um got me on the um some pills. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.640 Um that that helped with recovery, tumor rick and things 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.920 like that, casting um pills. So um she done her job. 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:11.200 And um we added in polides this offseason. So it 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.920 was more so like stretching, um, getting nobody ready for training. Kevin, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.520 I think those things helped me a lot. Hey, Robert 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.040 Alfred is our guest Cardinals cornerback here on the big 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.080 Red Rage present of a Santan Ford in Gilbert. I 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.080 mean you're right. I mean you have little miles the 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.440 last couple of years, right, so so you're probably feeling 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.360 good in a lot of ways. But it was important, 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.400 if I remember right, well, you told the media to 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.720 start camp, to stay in Arizona and talk about this 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.600 to prove that the Cardinals that you're still the player 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.680 they signed three years ago. Correct, correct, Man? That was 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.080 that was the main thing for me, Man, to to 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.320 get back what they what they blessed me with. Like 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.520 I said, I was released after the twenty eighteen season 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.480 from Atlanta, and they blessed me to come here just 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.960 to show my talents and to prove myself that I 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.200 was still UM that that good carnerback, that great cornerback 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.720 in the league. And UM, like I said I did, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.520 was UM hinder and got hurt the past two years. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.360 And my main thing was, like I told my agent, man, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.440 I had the return here. I had to UM give 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.920 them back what they what they blessed me with UM 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.240 these past two years. And I just wanted to prove 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.119 myself and the show my show my skills UM this 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.359 year to them and show them that I am the 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:26.159 player that UM that they bought from Atlanta. Robert. That 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.160 is so cool. I gotta tell you. It's a guy 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.399 that played ten years in the National Football League. To 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:35.200 hear you say you felt like you owed something to that, dude, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.119 I gotta tell you, man, props to you right right. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.199 Appreciate it. And I see how you got through the 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.240 last two years. I know you mentioned your faith and 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.520 your stepfather is a pastor and that you know that 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.960 helped you that mental strength. So so does that help 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.000 you when you're lined up? Oh, I don't know. Over 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.159 DeAndre Hopkins one of the best in the game. And 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.880 then because you guys have had some legendary one on 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.040 one so far, haven't you. Oh yeah, oh yeah, Man, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.919 it's it's it's good to go against the petition plus 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.080 UM to have a receiver on the team that's UM. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.280 If not the best, he's definitely in the top three 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.480 UM in the league for sure. And being able to 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.840 practice practice against him and ask questions, UM, what he 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.280 see that I can improve on vice versa and UM. Yeah, man, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.159 we've been going there to each and every day, man, 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.240 And it's great competition. UM. I've been knowing hop since 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.960 we since we enter into the NFL. We trained together 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.960 at IMG, so pretty much we already knew about each other, 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.199 knew knew each other high mental was and I mean, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.080 it's it's great competition to be able just to practice 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.440 UM against him each and every day. Roberts, everybody tells 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.320 me what a dog you are, and I don't have 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.760 to be told. I can watch you practice and you 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.120 go about your business. Over these last two training camps, 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.560 there's no doubt about it. You got all dog in 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.840 you right now. Let me ask you this, do you 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:55.919 engage in trash talking? And if so, why UM? And 0:18:56.040 --> 0:19:00.159 some yeah, yeah, yeah, I love the trash talk UM 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.480 most of the time. UM. I pretty much like when 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.480 the receivers or whoever, um to start talking to me first, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.720 because once they talk to me, that makes me real. 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:10.960 You know what I'm saying. That made me real competitive. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.640 I really like turn on the switch. So I love 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.160 when when someone talks to me. But if I feel 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.960 like the receiver isn't talking, I just thought when him 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.200 just so he can start talking, you know what I'm saying, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.320 And it makes me. It fires me up at the 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.639 end of the day, because that what drives me. You 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.200 know what. It's so funny, Robert, because I remember being 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:31.760 a player, and sometimes I would challenge myself. I didn't 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:33.840 feel like I was good, I didn't feel like I 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:37.040 was ready to go, so I'd start talking trash because 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.520 I knew if I if I was talking trash, you 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.760 better be through it. Do you ever do that to 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.879 get yourself going? Um? Sometimes I do. But most of 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.760 the times, Um, I'm already like eager than and ready 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.000 to to start. I'm already liked comfany and and my 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.280 film studied during that week, and comfany and the coach 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.440 is gonna put us in the right position. So pretty 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:00.640 much I already be like be empty up. Of course, 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.360 like if if I feel like I need a little edge. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.280 I'm definitely gonna start a trash talking to make him 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.399 say something. You know. That was Richard Sherman back in 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.639 the day. He used to complain he tried to talk 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.880 trash talk Larry, and then Larry would be complimentary. He'd 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.760 be like, you know, hey, you're looking good, Richard. Your 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.000 film's good, You're in good shape. How's the family? And 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.400 Richard Sherman's like, I'm trying to trash talk right right. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.080 That doesn't work. So I don't know if that was 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.280 like reverse psychology. How about de Hoop though, he's come 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:28.240 over to the defensive sideline a few times and he's 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.720 made some noise. He sparked a little, hasn't he Yeah, Yeah, 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.160 I mean that's hot man hop hop gonna trash talk 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.960 to Um. I mean that's just him. I mean he 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.200 has that dog in He just on the offensive side, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.600 you know what I'm saying. But um, like I said, 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.400 man like, he's he's a he's a big competitor. He's 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.840 a big competitor. So as my own myself, you are 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.080 a huge competitor. It's one of the things I love 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.560 watching you practice. Just go about your business. May ask 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.320