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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a show, and Ron will fleep. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than that horn. Unleash the fiard.
Speaker 1: It comes to regular season NFL football games, It doesn't
Speaker 1: get any better than last Sunday in Chicago. For one.
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley, you got that right, Polly. Let us count
Speaker 1: the ways here, Bolf, Okay, you stop me when I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: One the conditions, Yeah, wet Cole Windy, did I mention wet?
Speaker 1: We're going to put that in the plus column. Long
Speaker 1: slick grass right late, erasing a lot of that athleticism,
Speaker 1: as you say, bringing everyone down to the level of
Speaker 1: a wedgebusting fullback. Right, that's exactly right, boy, And never
Speaker 1: forget this the blurt badge, of course, Paul. You know,
Speaker 1: one part blood, two parts dirt. You mix it for
Speaker 1: thirty seconds and let it stand on your jersey. Speaking
Speaker 1: of two number two, you got to watch Jordan Hicks
Speaker 1: do his Dick Bukus, Mike Singletary, Bryan or Lacker impression
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field, your NFC defensive Player of the week.
Speaker 1: Thirteen tackles, two sacks. Two tack was for loss number three.
Speaker 1: And I might be burying the lead here play calling
Speaker 1: thirty five runs versus a paltry fifteen passes. That was
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing right there, Pauly, honestly, right now, are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? We can be whatever we need to
Speaker 1: be to win on that day, That's all I could
Speaker 1: think of. Cliff Kingsbury said, that's the fewest attempted passes
Speaker 1: by any game he's been involved in since flag football
Speaker 1: in sixth grade. And he didn't crack a smile. I
Speaker 1: think he was serious. And then and then, and this
Speaker 1: might be in reverse order of importance, speaking to the
Speaker 1: play caller. There he was when he was dialing up
Speaker 1: all those runs and shunning the pass while, by the way,
Speaker 1: wearing a hat with nineteen twenty on it. How fitting
Speaker 1: was that, because that's where the game plan was circa
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. While he was doing all that in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, he was spitting up blood as he was
Speaker 1: spitting out the play calls. Honestly, right now, Pauly, I
Speaker 1: just think that image right there, it's something I'm not
Speaker 1: going to forget at anytime soon. I know you're not
Speaker 1: going to either. Just the entire reputation of Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: And then you go ahead and you juxtapose exactly what
Speaker 1: you just said right there in this gloomy, rainy, drizzly,
Speaker 1: freezing dirty day in Chicago, Illinois at Soldier Field, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you've got your coach out
Speaker 1: there and he's looking dogged. He's looking like a guy
Speaker 1: that is out there in the rain, he's all wet,
Speaker 1: and he's spitting blood. It doesn't get much better than that, Paul.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, so you can take your marquee Monday
Speaker 1: night football matchup in the bright lights and the prime
Speaker 1: time and the perfect field conditions and the climate control,
Speaker 1: and it won't compare at least for Wolf to last.
Speaker 1: Sunday in Chicago is our point as we start the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage featuring DJ Humphries tonight. How good does
Speaker 1: it sound right when we say DJ Humphries is back
Speaker 1: in the Big Red Rage where he belongs. How about that?
Speaker 1: It's fantastic, Pouli, It really is. He's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite it's in the thing that makes him one of
Speaker 1: my favorites is he plays the game the way that
Speaker 1: it should be played. It doesn't mean he goes out
Speaker 1: and he's perfect. It doesn't mean that he never gets beat.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that he's always doing his job. It
Speaker 1: just means you better believe he's brawling you all the
Speaker 1: way down to the grass. That's what he is. He's
Speaker 1: a dog through and through. One of my favorite players.
Speaker 1: By the way, remind me to ask him. It was
Speaker 1: a moment in the second half and he got dinged
Speaker 1: up a little bit, a little bit, and he was
Speaker 1: slow getting up and he came to the sideline and
Speaker 1: they actually called a time out so he didn't miss
Speaker 1: a snap. And I think that was at the best
Speaker 1: of his quarterback. I don't think Kyler Murray had any
Speaker 1: interest in taking a single snap minus his franchise left
Speaker 1: tackle Dj Humphreys. I'm gonna ask Dj about that right
Speaker 1: after we hear from Kyler Murray on his return and
Speaker 1: what he told Fox Sports on the field after the
Speaker 1: win in Chicago. I was a little rusty, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the weather conditions, you know, didn't really help as much.
Speaker 1: But proud of the team. Nfel good to be back
Speaker 1: with these guys, offensive, defensive, special teams and collective. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll play compl Murry football. And it was, like I said,
Speaker 1: it was going to be back. So we had two
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns, he had two rushing touchdowns. And this is
Speaker 1: the most ridiculous stat to me, eleven completions in his
Speaker 1: fifteen attempts to eight different receivers. Unbelievable. Polly still spreading
Speaker 1: the ball, and that is a common theme. We have
Speaker 1: seen that all season long, that Kyler Murray was going
Speaker 1: to go out and spread the ball. It was something
Speaker 1: we were really talking about early in the season in
Speaker 1: the first half of the season, the way Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: went out and spread the ball even in that cold,
Speaker 1: drizzly day at Soldier Field. To your point, eleven passes
Speaker 1: completed to eight different guys. Man, I listen, you know
Speaker 1: what I also love Polly. Just listen to the tone
Speaker 1: in his voice after the game when talking about the game.
Speaker 1: Is he down in the dumps that he only got
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three yards passing? Is he down
Speaker 1: in the dumps that he only completed eleven passes? Man,
Speaker 1: he's happy, he's content. It's all about winning with Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love and appreciate about the kid.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a guy who right now leads the
Speaker 1: NFL in completion percentage and passer rating well, and you
Speaker 1: still have to worry about his legs. In fact, Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 1: just because Wolf did we not site during the radio broadcast, Like, man,
Speaker 1: he's got some acceleration. Those legs do look fresh. And
Speaker 1: here's what Cliff Kingsbury said about that. When he's feeling
Speaker 1: it like that and using those legs, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think he's the most dangerous weapon in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: we's got to get him back comfortable, get him back
Speaker 1: in a rhythm and get a try and play at
Speaker 1: really high, high level of the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: The most dangerous weapon in the NFL period. That's what
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury told us in the postgame radio interview after
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and the Cardinals went out fifth straight game
Speaker 1: on the road, by the way, no turnovers, Yeah, Polly,
Speaker 1: no turnovers. That is just unthinkable to me. Five straight
Speaker 1: games on the road. You do not turn the ball
Speaker 1: or Polly, You're you're not going to lose a lot
Speaker 1: of games when you've got Kyler Murray, DeAndre Hopkins, when
Speaker 1: you have the talent the Arizona Cardinals have. If you
Speaker 1: had to look at one stat if they don't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over, they're not going to lose a lot
Speaker 1: of games. That's that's not going to happen. And I
Speaker 1: just want to say this about Kyler Murray as well.
Speaker 1: You were talking about the highest completion percentage in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, the highest passer rating quarterback ratings is
Speaker 1: what I call it in the National Football League. But
Speaker 1: you know what else, he's got the best yards per
Speaker 1: attempt in the National Football League. Is that a big deal? Seriously?
Speaker 1: Is that a big deal to you? Yes, it is
Speaker 1: a big deal because he's got the highest completion percentage
Speaker 1: and yet he's throwing the ball. It is yards per attempt.
Speaker 1: It means he's pushing the ball down the field. He's
Speaker 1: not just thinking and dunk in his way. It matters
Speaker 1: to me, Yes, you're right when you pair those two together, Yes,
Speaker 1: that is significant. The highest completion percentage and the highest
Speaker 1: yards per attempt correct, I mean Paulli. It just it
Speaker 1: speaks so much to who Kyle La Murray is. And
Speaker 1: and once again, the development of this young man into
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback where we have seen him beat teams
Speaker 1: with his brain, not just his legs, not just his arm,
Speaker 1: his brain. We've seen it, We've witnessed it, and he's
Speaker 1: only developing and growing and getting better. Don't make me
Speaker 1: say it again. Come for the arms, stay for the legs.
Speaker 1: Fear the mind is where Kyler Murray is right now.
Speaker 1: He met the media today, and you know what, there
Speaker 1: is one box left to check. The Arizona Cardinals are
Speaker 1: ten and two on the season. They are seven and
Speaker 1: o on the road, they are four and oh in
Speaker 1: the division, but they are just three and two at home.
Speaker 1: Here's Kyler. I think that has to be you know
Speaker 1: different than it has been. But you know, you look
Speaker 1: at our record underfield the road, three and two at home.
Speaker 1: Closer games have been at home, starts slow at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things we talked about at home
Speaker 1: that we don't do on the road. So I think we,
Speaker 1: like you said, we got to somehow bring that type
Speaker 1: of energy. It's got to be different because what we've
Speaker 1: been doing hasn't a working. Every player this week has
Speaker 1: brought up the home record and I'm guessing that's because
Speaker 1: the head coach has brought up the home record and
Speaker 1: some lackluster performances. Yeah, we know there's something wrong there.
Speaker 1: We know there's no denying it. You play so much
Speaker 1: better on the road than you play at home. Each
Speaker 1: player's got to look inside of himself and say, why
Speaker 1: is that? For me? Paul, I think it's because they
Speaker 1: have so much talent. They have so much talent on
Speaker 1: this team. I've talked about it many many times, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of times when you're at home,
Speaker 1: it says, man, we're really talented, we're really good. We're
Speaker 1: sitting here at ten and two. All is well, All
Speaker 1: is well. You don't have to go out there and
Speaker 1: be desperate to get away, right, Paul all Is well,
Speaker 1: I think I think again, Roy Green did not have
Speaker 1: to be He did not have to be prepared to
Speaker 1: do his job the way I had to be prepared
Speaker 1: to do my job. Because Roy was so talented. He
Speaker 1: could be laughing at you as he ran by you
Speaker 1: for the third time that day, scoring yet another touchdown.
Speaker 1: That was how good he was. But again, I think
Speaker 1: they have to be intentional about it. And that's why
Speaker 1: I like what Kyler Murray just said. We've got He's
Speaker 1: acknowledging the fact that there's a problem. Now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you have the opportunity to overcome that problem.
Speaker 1: We'll see if DJ Humphreys has a theory, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's very by his own admission, you know, he's great
Speaker 1: at the power of observations. So we'll see if maybe
Speaker 1: he's gleaned something about the Cardinals at home. He is
Speaker 1: up next episode ten of Cardinals Folk Tales, entitled nine
Speaker 1: More available now in the Cardinals YouTube channel YouTube dot com.
Speaker 1: Slash Asy Cardinals the story of former Cardinal safety Rashad
Speaker 1: Johnson losing the tip of his finger during that game
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen while and You can also check out
Speaker 1: the original podcast by searching Cardinals Folk Tales wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcast. We continue with a big red Rage
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys next, brought to you by Santan Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals will go for it four minutes in fourth
Speaker 1: and two on the Bears pointing back. The throw goes.
Speaker 1: Kyler looks right, goes a deep ball right side of
Speaker 1: the end zone pen It's caught, hits a touchdown, touchdown
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins Kyler Murray with the dime on four down.
Speaker 1: Murray takes the shotguns snap straight drop back, flushed out
Speaker 1: of the pocket, rolling right, being chased, he talks. He
Speaker 1: runs at the five and he heads to the corner
Speaker 1: and he's into the end zone. Four the touchdown. Kyler back,
Speaker 1: the'll throw fire's right side, want to catch by more
Speaker 1: at that's twenty, runs right to the ten of the five.
Speaker 1: It's Connor actually into the end zone. Four the touchdown.
Speaker 1: James Connor stabbing a ball that was an errand pass.
Speaker 1: It looked like it was going to go over his head.
Speaker 1: He grabbed it with his left hand and then he
Speaker 1: ran down the right sideline into the end zone for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. And the Cardinals lead at twenty to seven.
Speaker 1: Snap to Murray, he keeps it again, runs right, he's
Speaker 1: at the five, and he walks into the end zone
Speaker 1: four his second rushing touchdown, and the Cardinals just put
Speaker 1: the Bears away. You know what's complimentary football, Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 1: when your defense has four takeaways and that results in
Speaker 1: three touchdowns and a field goal. And it gets even
Speaker 1: better because if you take those drives and the three
Speaker 1: touchdowns in a field goal, it was a total yardage
Speaker 1: of seventy six yards to go ahead and accomplish the
Speaker 1: three touchdowns and the field goal by a Cardinals offense,
Speaker 1: though right now, is the number three scoring offense in
Speaker 1: the NFL Top ten and total offense top ten and
Speaker 1: rushing and number two in rushing touchdowns. And I know
Speaker 1: someone who likes the sound of that stat The longest
Speaker 1: tenured Arizona Cardinal on this roster and the former player
Speaker 1: host of The Big Red Rage None then DJ Humphreys
Speaker 1: joint us Dach how are we doing, hey man, I'm
Speaker 1: doing good man. I appreciate that having me back. Man,
Speaker 1: it's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. DJ
Speaker 1: No dona at that man, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. Really to appreciate that, my goodness, tennant two
Speaker 1: brother ten two has got to feel so right. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels good, man. I'll be lying if I said it, Dude.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like, if you've been a fan,
Speaker 1: or if you've been around for a while, we deserve
Speaker 1: we deserve this one. What's most gratifying about it When
Speaker 1: you say been around a while, do you go back
Speaker 1: to some of those early years, you know, your first
Speaker 1: few years in the league. Is that what you think
Speaker 1: of automatically? Yeah, I think I think of when I
Speaker 1: came into the league, you know, going to the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship as a rookie and not playing. It made me
Speaker 1: feel like, yeah, this is like what you do. Like
Speaker 1: you can just go to the playoffs and like every
Speaker 1: year you have a chance to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So like I was fooled to think that that's just
Speaker 1: what happens and it doesn't take hard work and it
Speaker 1: doesn't take building and stuff like that. So to be
Speaker 1: here at this point where where we have we're two
Speaker 1: to two and we have so much, you know, then
Speaker 1: we have everything that we want is right in front
Speaker 1: of us. It feels good to be have been here
Speaker 1: over the last few years and seeing what things, how
Speaker 1: we evolved in what we are now. DJ, you got
Speaker 1: bumped up, nicked up a little bit. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: got nicked up before earlier in the season. You're never
Speaker 1: feeling like you're one hundred percent at this point of
Speaker 1: the season. But how does the body feel overall here
Speaker 1: in December? You know, it's funny, my body feels really good.
Speaker 1: I joke around. I took you a lot of times that, man,
Speaker 1: I really see twenty seven. Now, how old are you? Well,
Speaker 1: so you feel that was that? Now I'm a football player.
Speaker 1: You know we had a dog year, So that's a
Speaker 1: good point. It's right now. You know, hey, when you
Speaker 1: got when you were a little slow to get up
Speaker 1: and you came to the sideline, Cliff Kingsbury called a
Speaker 1: time out. And this is just my observation. Now, you're
Speaker 1: the expert at the power of observation, Dee, and you
Speaker 1: talk about your powers are going to Walmart and so forth,
Speaker 1: and people watching, But but this is just me. It
Speaker 1: didn't look like your quarterback wanted any part of the
Speaker 1: even a single snap without his franchise left tackle. That
Speaker 1: was my take. What do you think, hey, you said that,
Speaker 1: not me. Remember remember that Polly said that it wasn't
Speaker 1: me that said that. Which part are you talking about?
Speaker 1: The Walmart part or the part of my bag the quarterback?
Speaker 1: But the Walmart was all me I take. By the way,
Speaker 1: speaking of shopping, uh, you know we buried the lead here.
Speaker 1: What do the kids want? I mean, come on, what
Speaker 1: do the kids want? What are you shopping for? What's
Speaker 1: the big item for the kids this holiday season? They're
Speaker 1: both getting cold, both of them getting cold, But not
Speaker 1: because that not because they've been bad. Just sold them
Speaker 1: because I'm not getting them anything for Christmas. There they
Speaker 1: just they need. I may take them somewhere and we
Speaker 1: give back to something for Christmas. No, I'm kidding now,
Speaker 1: I'll probably get them something. I know. My daughter and
Speaker 1: my son both they've been they've been on my head
Speaker 1: about a place set they want to play. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: something that you could join in on right home plat
Speaker 1: maybe a little break out. I don't know. Does it
Speaker 1: does it support a three hundred pounder? Yeah? Yeah, better.
Speaker 1: That's the only way I can get in my backyard.
Speaker 1: If it's supports, if it's old live friendly, that's only
Speaker 1: way I can make it in my backyard. Listen, guy's
Speaker 1: got to be able to turning out the slide team. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk to me about your season personally. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: not the team, not the unit. I'm talking about you
Speaker 1: personally right now. How is the season going for you?
Speaker 1: How are you developing, how are you growing? How are
Speaker 1: you getting better? I feel like it's it's been, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's been going pretty good for mans. I feel like
Speaker 1: I had some els and flows earlier on, just kind
Speaker 1: of trying to get my foot in under myself and
Speaker 1: trying to feel things out. But none of the things
Speaker 1: I've been kind of going on, I feel like I've
Speaker 1: been getting better and better every week. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've been getting better and better every week and every
Speaker 1: week and finding something my technique is is sinking in
Speaker 1: and it's feeling it's feeling like myself more and more
Speaker 1: every week. And I feel like that's a good feeling
Speaker 1: with the jiujectory that we're going at, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Still being able to go out to get
Speaker 1: these wins and play and play well and still feel
Speaker 1: like I can approve, I can improve and there's more
Speaker 1: that I can be doing and I can be doing better.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a good that's a good sign
Speaker 1: for for what we're going as a team. I mean,
Speaker 1: there have been eight different starting old line combinations, but
Speaker 1: you have been the rock. You have been the constant.
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty impressive, right, I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: have a deep old line room. When you've been able
Speaker 1: to change parts out and boom, this team is still
Speaker 1: ten and two. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's unlike
Speaker 1: anything I've ever been a part of UM. I think
Speaker 1: anybody that's a fan out of the Cardinals or a a
Speaker 1: better part of this organization. You know, Historically, when we
Speaker 1: lose key pieces of our offensive line, that's usually the
Speaker 1: turning point of our season. And that's been the case
Speaker 1: every year that I've been here. I would say I
Speaker 1: think that every year where we've had major injuries go on,
Speaker 1: or guys miss a lot of time up front, or
Speaker 1: even even key players aside from the offensive line, we've
Speaker 1: we've that's been kind of the turning point in our season.
Speaker 1: And for us to have that go on so many
Speaker 1: different times and so many different ways and wrinkles and
Speaker 1: still be able to be on this side of to
Speaker 1: be on this side of the standing in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's definitely a testament to what's been going on. And
Speaker 1: I did hump you are the number two run rate
Speaker 1: team in the National Football League. I just by the way,
Speaker 1: wolf one, I confirm that. I didn't believe you. So
Speaker 1: I actually confirm that with Cardinals media relations that the
Speaker 1: run rate percentage for the Arizona Cardinals is number two
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That's just a mind blow. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that day? Would I say that, man,
Speaker 1: you're number two? So much for the pretty boy football.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was just about to say. I
Speaker 1: was saying, many ball right, Yeah, but did you take
Speaker 1: that to heart? Did you guys take that to heart?
Speaker 1: How proud are you on the offensive line, man, that
Speaker 1: you are the number two run rate team in the
Speaker 1: NFL coming off the ball with a dark heart? I
Speaker 1: have to take take that. I think that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: That's something that's very important to me. Uh, running that ball, man,
Speaker 1: it changes the game. It's something that I didn't really
Speaker 1: understand as young player, like you know, and just kind
Speaker 1: of like just called the plays and we just run
Speaker 1: the plays. You know, That's how it was like now
Speaker 1: kind of learning the game and learning how players change
Speaker 1: and how how running the ball and deter guys from
Speaker 1: one to even be involved in the game. Like, it's crazy,
Speaker 1: how how big of a difference maker it is what
Speaker 1: we're doing it, and we're doing it high efficiency. So, uh,
Speaker 1: to even hear those numbers again is news? Tobody Well
Speaker 1: speaking a run game and difference maker and numbers. How
Speaker 1: about James Connor fourteen total touchdowns, a dozen rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: what he calls bowling ball. I know what, you guys
Speaker 1: embrace up front and and then you had to catching
Speaker 1: the run, the one ended grab and uh. We asked
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury about that after the game, and here's what
Speaker 1: he said about James Connor. That's got to be Sports
Speaker 1: Center Player of the Week, right, that was unbelievable. Catches
Speaker 1: in one hand, he breaks a tack on then goes
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Me and I had to run down
Speaker 1: there and get my hug because I'm like, that is insane.
Speaker 1: You know, a third down too. So he's been just
Speaker 1: a god send for us, especially with Chase out being
Speaker 1: able to shoulder the load like he has offensively. He
Speaker 1: just continues to get better and better. We see James Connor,
Speaker 1: what don't we see what don't we hear in the
Speaker 1: huddle and on the sideline, Because I mean he said,
Speaker 1: you know what, if my mindset is contagious, so be it.
Speaker 1: But from what I could tell, guys really feed off him. Man,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's one of those things that it's hard
Speaker 1: not to feed off of. Like he gets in this
Speaker 1: mold where he gets just looks on his face and
Speaker 1: you could tell he just wants to just just run
Speaker 1: his face into somebody else's Like it's the craziest thing.
Speaker 1: But it's one of those things that, like you said,
Speaker 1: like it's in Faci's in the hoddle. Like when I
Speaker 1: see him get like that, like it turns it gets
Speaker 1: me so turned up. And I can see it happened
Speaker 1: to everybody else. I've seen Kyla. He's still on the
Speaker 1: he's still on the guard of the sideline. I just
Speaker 1: seen Kyla like get like like like bustle up on.
Speaker 1: I guess he's dropping into the line. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is like, this is what ball is about.
Speaker 1: This is you running the ball so hard you get
Speaker 1: you get your quarterback involved, and you get him excited.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal. You know. So James has been man,
Speaker 1: he's been a load for us. Man that I watched
Speaker 1: that joker still for him, a guy so hard. And
Speaker 1: then I looked up and I started He was a
Speaker 1: sixty five or two hundred and sixty pounds a end
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is this isn't normal? Set
Speaker 1: were running the middle back? Does it listen? Does it
Speaker 1: do anything to you? Guys on the offensive line? We've
Speaker 1: talked about this in the past, but I mean, to
Speaker 1: what degree does it get you even more locked in,
Speaker 1: even more focused, even more ferocious coming off the ball
Speaker 1: when you got James Connor behind you? Doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: to you? Add all? Or is that just gonna be
Speaker 1: the way you're always approaching? Yeah? You know, you know me,
Speaker 1: I pretty much I get I run that ball. Every
Speaker 1: time we running the ball. I get out there and
Speaker 1: now I feel like, you know, the ball coming behind me.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if I'm on the backside or not.
Speaker 1: So I'm going crazy. But when you're getting a play,
Speaker 1: when you get a guy like James and you run,
Speaker 1: I run a toss with him, or I should say
Speaker 1: a power pretty much a tackle power with him, and
Speaker 1: he's I could feel him grabbing the back of my jersey.
Speaker 1: Guy to my block in high school. Again, it definitely
Speaker 1: does something like it definitely gets you, gets your skin,
Speaker 1: the skin rolls in a little bit and gets you,
Speaker 1: gets you fired up. So that's what that's what I
Speaker 1: said about about that guy. It's like, I'm using one
Speaker 1: of those guys as a self starter and he gets
Speaker 1: me fired up. Yes, hump. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: one thing I gotta tell you, honestly, because I was
Speaker 1: I was in the NFL only because I was able
Speaker 1: to manufacture desperation, right yeah, and yet I blocked for
Speaker 1: Jerome Battis I blocked for Jerome Battis Man, And when
Speaker 1: I knew Jerome was in the eye behind me, it
Speaker 1: focused me even more, even more than I thought I
Speaker 1: could be focused. For that very reason, I can tell
Speaker 1: you they say selling you know, and we're on board
Speaker 1: with DJ Humphreys here. It's all about you, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Santan Ford. You mentioned that at some points
Speaker 1: in some games, defensive fronts were like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm done, you know we're and think about it. There
Speaker 1: have been games where you guys have finished off with
Speaker 1: long drives put where you've held time and possession and
Speaker 1: you've run the ball primarily, So without naming names, there's
Speaker 1: definitely been some defenses have been like you know enough
Speaker 1: no Moss. Yeah, there's definitely it's definitely been some guys
Speaker 1: that are hunt it up a lot, a lot, And
Speaker 1: it's it's something that I that we kind of hang
Speaker 1: our head on it. We really we really enjoy it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, seeing guys come out of
Speaker 1: being being who they are, who they are portrayed to
Speaker 1: be to start the game and then Washington end and
Speaker 1: the game, seeing them not wanting to possible we're trying
Speaker 1: to put out there, Well, think about it. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: are trying to sweep in La Rams team they dismantled
Speaker 1: in week four, thirty seven twenty. It wasn't even that close.
Speaker 1: And Wolf, we all remember that game ceiling drive, a
Speaker 1: dozen plays, eleven runs and a Matt Prater field goal.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, in fact us right here, twelve plays,
Speaker 1: ninety four yards, eleven runs and then the field goal.
Speaker 1: It took eight and a half minutes off the clock.
Speaker 1: And that is not the first and probably won't be
Speaker 1: the last time the Cardinals have done that this year.
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Speaker 1: Humphreys Franchise Left Tackle on the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by satan Ford and Gilbert. We are Satan four. Let's
Speaker 1: start that off as Bruce arians at. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: that at Murray and shotgun snapped the collar at a
Speaker 1: ton a little short set. See I did that. It
Speaker 1: sent a little bit now throwing deep fireside and has
Speaker 1: pulled in into five yard All right, hold on, I
Speaker 1: gotta grab myself a crown royal here. I have a
Speaker 1: little sipping, little sipping Dippydos new NIPPERU finished the callege,
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson, AJ Green just too strong, too big, too athletic.
Speaker 1: To Tracy Morgan, I what a great read by Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray to throw the ball. Say it is, Morgan Freeman,
Speaker 1: what a great read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: You've got a scarecrow on a stick. Put it out there,
Speaker 1: let him go get it. Thanks exactly what J. Green did.
Speaker 1: Can you do it? As Liam Neeson on a great
Speaker 1: read by Kyler Murray to throw the ball. You've got
Speaker 1: a scarecrow on a stick, put it out there, let
Speaker 1: him go get it. That's exactly what a J. Green did.
Speaker 1: Is that your line, by the way, will scarecrow on
Speaker 1: a stick is a ball? Yeah? I tell you why,
Speaker 1: Frank's it's so much better. Yeah, the Cooper talented Frank
Speaker 1: Calli and I tell you want a good time, just
Speaker 1: go to the Daypash podcast and dial up the Frank
Speaker 1: Caliendo audition. That's just NonStop laughs. I honestly, this season,
Speaker 1: the only people having a better time is Cardinals postgame
Speaker 1: locker room. I mean DJ Humprey's is with us here
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage a reunion show of sorts,
Speaker 1: but especially on the road, DJ. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the music's pumping and you could just hear. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've heard chance of Undefeated from the Cardinal's visiting locker
Speaker 1: room after games. I mean, just take us inside and
Speaker 1: what the chemistry is like on this team, Man's the
Speaker 1: chemistry is okay, is unmatched. Man, I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. The chemistry on this team is unmatched. The
Speaker 1: locker room is so much fun, man, especially after that
Speaker 1: winning is it almost turns into a club in there. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like the hop gives on the music man, you know,
Speaker 1: getting them music, one of them guys, and then it
Speaker 1: goes all the way from from us being turned up
Speaker 1: right out of the game to old school right before
Speaker 1: we head out to the buses. Man's it's a fun time.
Speaker 1: I can't even sit here in a lot to you, like,
Speaker 1: it's not. We have so much fun on that bus,
Speaker 1: you know what. Sorry, d I'd like to ask you personally.
Speaker 1: I'd like to ask you personally if if you feel
Speaker 1: the outside noise, And I'd also like to ask you
Speaker 1: collectively if you guys are aware of the outside noise
Speaker 1: one way or the other, good or bad. How much
Speaker 1: are you guys listening to that. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you. I'm a big Netflix guy, So I always
Speaker 1: missed the like news people talking about us on TV. Okay,
Speaker 1: so always because I'm pretty much I'm only on like
Speaker 1: Netflix and Amazon and stuff like that. Most part I'm
Speaker 1: not watching cable, so I usually miss it. So it
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter to you personally, Yeah, it really don't.
Speaker 1: It really don't catch me. It really don't catch me much, honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: I know it's just something I never my dad like
Speaker 1: kind of treating me into that when I was young
Speaker 1: and they coming up started playing sports. I just never
Speaker 1: really like watched it, like would paid attention to what
Speaker 1: they were saying about us or anything that. Like, I
Speaker 1: just never even watched it, So I never really got
Speaker 1: into doing it or even sitting down watching it. I'm
Speaker 1: one of the guys that don't sit down and watch
Speaker 1: ESPN all day. I'm not even gonna sit there a
Speaker 1: lot like I do. How about how watch the TV
Speaker 1: show though in a heartbeat? And I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: you know what, you're probably better off for that, just
Speaker 1: your own mental health. There's no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: and you know what, there's a lot of shall we say,
Speaker 1: misinformation slash ignorance. I think about this team still in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. We don't get into all of it,
Speaker 1: but I think it's important because on Monday night, everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna go to look for the second time. The last
Speaker 1: time they saw the Arizona Cardinals the only time in
Speaker 1: national TV, was against Green Bay and it didn't go
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals way. So now it's Monday night, and
Speaker 1: and you know, Kyler said today that something has to
Speaker 1: change when it comes to home games. How would you
Speaker 1: diagnose the three and two home record? And more importantly,
Speaker 1: when Cliff Kingsbury says, you know what, the energy isn't
Speaker 1: quite the same at home like it's been on the road,
Speaker 1: I think he's not. He's not. He's not saying it wrong.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fact. It's not the same. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that that's we're actively trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the that's a big thing getting
Speaker 1: started fast and getting that same vibe recreated in that
Speaker 1: locker room. It's kind of what we're trying to We're
Speaker 1: trying to find that that sweet spot for us, and
Speaker 1: I think we're going to We just have to keep
Speaker 1: what you have to see. We don't have a choice. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you got to keep focused on and figuring out that
Speaker 1: way to get it done because they're gonna keep coming.
Speaker 1: Do you think other guys in that locker room collectively,
Speaker 1: do you think they're paying a lot of attention to it?
Speaker 1: To you guys talk about it, what people are saying.
Speaker 1: I don't about you. You don't think so. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: honestly don't think so. Um. I just don't get that vibe.
Speaker 1: And we have a young, a younger team, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's not as old as it was fifteen I
Speaker 1: would say, um, And I still feel like guys are
Speaker 1: not as dialed into the outside world as as I
Speaker 1: thought they would be. Well after the game, Zach Allen
Speaker 1: after his unbelievable one handed interception, right, and he's been
Speaker 1: playing some ball man the last six games and afterwards.
Speaker 1: IM right, Just in terms of your own team, your
Speaker 1: own locker room, and the confidence level, where does it
Speaker 1: stand right now? Zach? It's hard not to have confidence,
Speaker 1: especially when you're on the field and you look at
Speaker 1: the guys that you're playing with, I mean across every
Speaker 1: single position you have, you know, pro bowled caliber studs,
Speaker 1: all pros, whatever it is, future Hall of famers. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is definitely the most fun I've had.
Speaker 1: I know for a lot of guys, you'll get that
Speaker 1: same answer. So, you know, the cool thing is that
Speaker 1: we can be so much better. I think. So we
Speaker 1: still have yet to play a complete perfect game, and
Speaker 1: you know that's what we're striving for and I think
Speaker 1: you know, we're not too too far away from that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you guys are chasing, right, I mean that
Speaker 1: self motivation is a team DJ. Right. You guys are
Speaker 1: still searching that complete game from start to finish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's that's the exact hitting right
Speaker 1: on the head. It's like, it's it's one of those
Speaker 1: things that makes me so optimistic because we the win
Speaker 1: games that we do all the stuff that people are
Speaker 1: excited about it, and we're watching the film with our
Speaker 1: head down because it's like, hey, we left this out there,
Speaker 1: we left this arder, we could have hit this, and
Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's like, we still haven't played the
Speaker 1: game that we want to play yet, and we looked
Speaker 1: up when we're still tended too. So it's it's we
Speaker 1: just got to keep that same mentality of trying to
Speaker 1: get a week better and trying to be better than
Speaker 1: we would today before and just staying focused in that light.
Speaker 1: And I think it's it's gonna be nothing but but
Speaker 1: greatness for us if we can do that hump. When
Speaker 1: I watched tape of the Rams, that box has really
Speaker 1: tightened up, that front seven has really tightened up an
Speaker 1: awful lot in regard to the run earlier in the year. Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, they were not as good as as they
Speaker 1: have been in the past, certainly not as good as
Speaker 1: they were in twenty twenty. But now when I juxtaposed
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season to what I'm seeing now,
Speaker 1: it really has tightened up a lot. Would you agree
Speaker 1: with that and what else has changed with this, dude? Definitely, definitely,
Speaker 1: I would definitely agree that a lot. Uh uh. When
Speaker 1: you when you watch that, it's definitely not the same
Speaker 1: deference that we played that first that first go around,
Speaker 1: and we can't walk out there thinking that that's that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna get because it's definitely a It definitely
Speaker 1: looks a lot different when you watching more film. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they've added a few pieces since they fitted
Speaker 1: two guys to add a few pieces since the last
Speaker 1: time we played, and you can definitely see it coming
Speaker 1: to life for them. But we, just, like I said,
Speaker 1: thank god, daring and playoff stole the ball and trying
Speaker 1: to nutralize all that the first time around. When you
Speaker 1: guys went to LA and won thirty seven twenty Aaron
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald ended up with the worst pass rushing grade
Speaker 1: of his career for a single game. What was the
Speaker 1: formula there and can you replicate that on Monday night? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I think uh. I think it was uh
Speaker 1: and went with it and and made it hard for
Speaker 1: those guys. I think that's what we just got to
Speaker 1: do the same thing again and to replicate that same thing,
Speaker 1: because you know it doesn't happen after so we animation,
Speaker 1: We got out there and do the same day hump.
Speaker 1: Do you think that James Connor has changed Cliff Kingsbury's philosophy?
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think that James Connor has
Speaker 1: maybe opened the eyes of Cliff Kingsbury a little bit?
Speaker 1: Because I listened to Cliff talk about James Connor and
Speaker 1: he talks about James Connor as if man he really
Speaker 1: was an eye open or not only the fact that
Speaker 1: he would pound the ball, of course, but a guy
Speaker 1: that could come out of the backfield and make great
Speaker 1: plays and great catches. Do you think James Connor has
Speaker 1: brought a little bit of that physicality to life for
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury? I definitely hope. So, I definitely think that
Speaker 1: when you when you see him his eagerness, when James
Speaker 1: was in that mode as seems like Cliff can tell
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I definitely definitely they're
Speaker 1: feeding off each other and it's something that it's something
Speaker 1: awesome to watch because I'm on the I'm on the
Speaker 1: positive end of that. I get the b get the
Speaker 1: run block, and I really enjoy that. So you guys
Speaker 1: talked about how the Rams defense is different from Game
Speaker 1: one Week four. One big difference the addition of von Miller.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean for your offensive line when
Speaker 1: you get a Hall of Famer like that added mid
Speaker 1: season to the Rams? Yeah, man, it's it's it's definitely. Uh,
Speaker 1: I guess I see what teams go through when they
Speaker 1: deal with us, trying to figure out how they who
Speaker 1: they're gonna double d hyper aj. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: kind of that, it's kind of that say that that
Speaker 1: would go the flip side for me. But it's definitely
Speaker 1: those guys give you a hapeful chance. Like you said,
Speaker 1: both of those guys are too you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: we know we're gonna be Hall of famers and them
Speaker 1: being on the saye, I saw one flip of them
Speaker 1: like Aaron Donald at the four and and and Vaughan
Speaker 1: at the outside linebacker spot. I was like, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: that's something that's something that you would normally see in
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl. And that's yeah, that's their base BA
Speaker 1: Here's you know, you guys don't talk an awful lot
Speaker 1: about the number one seat, do you. It's it's more
Speaker 1: like the next game, you guys. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've ever been around a team that seems so hyper
Speaker 1: focused as you guys are. Would you agree with that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would, And that's I think that's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things about our team is like everybody's focused on
Speaker 1: right now. Nobody's really got their their eyes set on
Speaker 1: the future or what's gonna happen though, or what's what's
Speaker 1: gonna go. It's all about right now, this play, this
Speaker 1: and that's that. Seems like that's all that anybody's focused on.
Speaker 1: And that's that's that's one of my favorite things about
Speaker 1: our team. Everybody's right now. We're at practice, we're focused
Speaker 1: on practice, when we're in the game, focusing the game,
Speaker 1: we're not looking at all. When I looking back, it
Speaker 1: is right now. And that's that I love that about
Speaker 1: our team. Well, if you go on to know on Monday.
Speaker 1: You win, You're in to the playoffs. How does that sound?
Speaker 1: That sounds awesome. That sounds awesome just to be my
Speaker 1: first opportunity to to to It will be my first
Speaker 1: time going and playing in the playoffs. So I'm excited. Man.
Speaker 1: This is this is every day hopeful. You know what
Speaker 1: it sounds like to me? A bunch of dogs sparking,
Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like to me. DA thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us, Buddy, loo it man. I
Speaker 1: appreciate y'all, haven't it. Man. It's been a while, and
Speaker 1: hey appreciate it. DJ. We always love spending time with
Speaker 1: you and getting the insight and chopping it up and
Speaker 1: all the best. You know, Happy holidays to the kids.
Speaker 1: You got to work on that play set for the backyard,
Speaker 1: so we'll let you go. You gotta get out there
Speaker 1: and place that order there. So that's good. It's uh
Speaker 1: great to have DJ Humphreys on. We'll continue with the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. We'll get into the Rams in depth
Speaker 1: when we come back. All brought to you by santan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford. You came into
Speaker 1: LA today and you dominated the Rams. The Cardinals slay
Speaker 1: the Dragon. Sean McVay finally goes down again in Arizona
Speaker 1: after an eight and o record, The Cardinals beat the
Speaker 1: Rams and beat them soundly in Los Angeles by the
Speaker 1: final score of thirty seven to twenty behind an MVP
Speaker 1: caliber performance by their franchise quarterback Kyler Murray back the
Speaker 1: Red Sea was in LA, and as he left the field,
Speaker 1: they started channing MVP MVP, just like they did in
Speaker 1: other games this year, including the most recent game at
Speaker 1: Chicago red Z representing and channing MVP is Kyler left
Speaker 1: in that Rams game about four hundred and sixty four
Speaker 1: total yards, Cardinals ran at forty times for two hundred
Speaker 1: sixteen yards, that's five four yards a toad, and after
Speaker 1: the opening punt they scored on seven of their next
Speaker 1: eight possessions. Cardinals won big at LA, trying to sweep
Speaker 1: the Rams just like they did the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: We were wrapping up this edition of The Big Red Rage,
Speaker 1: presented by Santan and Ford and Gilbert Yours, Truley, Paul
Speaker 1: Kell VC, and Ron Wolfley. You know, for me, Polly, honestly,
Speaker 1: coming up this Monday night, it would you say this
Speaker 1: is a big game Paul, would you say it's a
Speaker 1: big game because I think it is the biggest game
Speaker 1: of the season. Now, They're all going to start getting
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger as we continue to push towards that
Speaker 1: number one seed. But I think this is the biggest
Speaker 1: game in the season here, Paul, you could argue, you
Speaker 1: could argue Week four was the biggest game. You could
Speaker 1: argue Week one, in my opinion, was the biggest game
Speaker 1: in the tone you said and what you established out
Speaker 1: of the gates and how many doubters are we're going
Speaker 1: in to Tennessee. But yeah, considering this is on national TV,
Speaker 1: you have a chance to clinch a playoff spot, you
Speaker 1: haven't done it since twenty fifteen and sweep a RAMS
Speaker 1: team that had been eight and oh against you under
Speaker 1: Sean McVay until this season. Yes, go five and oz
Speaker 1: in the division, Polly, and not only that too. Once again,
Speaker 1: we all know you're three and two at home, you're
Speaker 1: seven and ozo on the road, and you're three and
Speaker 1: two at home. You got to do something about your
Speaker 1: home field in the home field advantage right here. I
Speaker 1: just there's so many variables that come into play. Why
Speaker 1: this is a big game coming up here. So I'm
Speaker 1: not really worried about Kyler Murray. I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 1: I think big games are in his DNA. Now he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to go prove it, Paul, He's gonna have
Speaker 1: to go prove it by playing well. But I'm not
Speaker 1: really worried about Kyler Murray. I think he's gonna play
Speaker 1: very very well. If I were a RAM, though, I
Speaker 1: might be looking at Matthew Stafford and wondering if Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford is in fact that guy, is he really going
Speaker 1: to get us over the hump? Now? Matthew Stafford has
Speaker 1: had a very very good season. Of course, early in
Speaker 1: the season, I think he was an MVP candidate. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, I think he was the MVP candidate.
Speaker 1: Right now, I think that arc that arrow has become declivitous.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's an MVP candidate the way that
Speaker 1: he was, of course, But I'm gonna be watching Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford very closely to see how he plays in this
Speaker 1: big game. Well, they had a three game losing streak
Speaker 1: and he threw a pick six in every single game. Yes,
Speaker 1: so three straight games of the pick six. Whereas, for example,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has thrown three pick sixes in his entire career,
Speaker 1: so that has dogged Matthew Stafford his ability to win
Speaker 1: big games. Yes, and this obviously is a big game.
Speaker 1: In the last four games, they have turned the ball
Speaker 1: over seven times the Rams, and Stafford has been involved
Speaker 1: in six of those turnovers right there. So yes, I honestly,
Speaker 1: I believe there are guys that are looking at him
Speaker 1: inside the locker room because no offense to Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: He's got all the ability in the world. I have
Speaker 1: so much respect for him and the player that he is.
Speaker 1: But when you want to get down to it and
Speaker 1: what people say about Matthew Stafford, the one question mark
Speaker 1: they had is could he win big games? Was he
Speaker 1: tough enough? And I'm not talking about physically tough, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about toughen his soul. Was he tough enough to
Speaker 1: withstand the the pressure of a big game? And we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out. I'm very interested to see how he plays. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: he's going against a top five scoring defense in the NFL,
Speaker 1: while Kyler Murray is going against Aaron Donald and company.
Speaker 1: The new addition Von Miller, Jalen Ramsey obviously top corner
Speaker 1: in the league. Here's Kyler on that challenge. No, that's just, uh,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you you know, I didn't sign
Speaker 1: up for it, but that's you know, that's you know,
Speaker 1: you get drafted areas on a cardinal somebody. The first
Speaker 1: thing you think about his damn well, you already know
Speaker 1: you gotta go against he's talking about ninety nine in particular,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald right there. Yeah, you know. So look, here's
Speaker 1: the thing that was interesting about their win against the
Speaker 1: Jacks and yeah they beat him thirty seven to seven.
Speaker 1: Forget the final score, forget the opponent. It was all
Speaker 1: about what the Rams did. They came out and on
Speaker 1: their first possession, their first snap, they went into a
Speaker 1: jumbo set. They had an extra offensive lineman out there,
Speaker 1: and they started running the ball straight ahead. They started
Speaker 1: changing up their personnel groups. Until that Jacksonville game last week,
Speaker 1: they had run more three wide receiver sets as a
Speaker 1: percentage of plays than any team in the league. They
Speaker 1: basically went back to the Todd Gurley days. Yes, and
Speaker 1: so they're taking a page maybe Sean McVay for everybody
Speaker 1: who said when the Cardinals hired Cliff Kingsbury, Oh, they're
Speaker 1: trying to duplicate the Sean. No, maybe it's the other
Speaker 1: way around right now. Or you know what, Sean mcvay's
Speaker 1: looking over the block wall into the Cardinals backyard and
Speaker 1: taking a look what a Cliff Kingsbury's doing. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, they have the highest quarterback rating in the
Speaker 1: league right now, and again I think it's an excellent
Speaker 1: measurement of how a human being is actually playing the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Kyler Murray has the highest quarterback rating in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. The Rams defensive quarterback rating, which
Speaker 1: is very very important. It takes into account your coverage,
Speaker 1: how buttoned up you are in the back end, how
Speaker 1: will you tackle, and how well you pressured quarterbacks as well.
Speaker 1: Their number seven in defensive quarterback rating. But the matchup
Speaker 1: to me is the quarterback rating number three Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Rams number three in the National
Speaker 1: Football League to number five hit the Arizona Cardinals are
Speaker 1: number five defensive quarterback rating. That to me, Pauli is
Speaker 1: going to be the matchup of this game. So can
Speaker 1: they make him one dimensional? Can they shut down the
Speaker 1: Rams ability to run the ball and make Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: one dimensional, because right now, over the last three games
Speaker 1: that the Rams run rate has been thirty one percent, Yes,
Speaker 1: thirty one percent, Paul, where they actually run the ball
Speaker 1: over the last three games, and sixty nine percent they're
Speaker 1: throwing it. And don't forget the first time the Cardinals
Speaker 1: played the Rams, the headline screamed empty Cup. We're talking
Speaker 1: about Cooper Cup who led the league in every single
Speaker 1: receiving category and was a complete non factor in Week
Speaker 1: four five catchers for sixty four yards on thirteen targets. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he comes in leading the league and receiving touchdowns
Speaker 1: and receiving yards. So we'll see how he fares in
Speaker 1: the rematch. That's going to be the matchup right there.
Speaker 1: If they can make Matthew Stafford one dimensional, shut the
Speaker 1: Rams down from running the ball, and then here we
Speaker 1: go Matthew Stafford versus that defensive quarterback rating. Hey the
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