WEBVTT - The Dave Pasch Podcast - Scott Hanson 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.240 Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.760 Pash Podcast. I'm Dave Pash, voice of the Arizona Cardinals 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.600 and ESPN play by play broadcaster. We are sponsored by 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.320 bet MGM, the official sports betting partner of the Arizona 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.919 Cardinals and Hila River Hotels and Casinos. Man, what a 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.200 win on Sunday. First of all, it was phenomenal just 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.840 to be back in the stadium with fans. I'll never 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.320 take for granted again being in a stadium live after 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.199 calling the Cardinal games last year off of a monitor 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.320 because of the COVID nineteen pandemic. And how about the dominance. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.960 A complete game, not a perfect game, but a complete game. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:49.159 And if Kyler Murray plays like that, I've said this 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.680 all along, the sky's the limit. He's that good. The 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.880 Cardinals can be a championship team if Kyler Murray continues 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:57.960 to play like that. Now, he's not going to account 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.640 for five touchdowns every week. But it wasn't just what 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.520 he did on the field. It was his leadership. It 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.360 was the intensity that we saw several times with him 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.520 motioning and talking to his own guys on the sideline. 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.080 Clearly the Cardinals have surrounded Kyler with weapons on offense, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.400 and I believe that Rodney Hudson might beat their best 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.040 offensive weapon. You watched the tape. They didn't even get 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.520 into the backfield against Rodney Hudson, in my opinion, the 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:26.760 best center in the National Football League Chandler Jones. Is 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.960 there anything else that really needs to be said? Five 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.280 sacks at a game, three in the first half. He 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.560 completely controlled the game, and I'm really encouraged with what 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.640 I saw from Isaiah Simmons played a great first game 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.000 and the young corners looked like vets in particular Marco Wilson. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.120 Lock it up, Julio Jones. This week it's the Vikings. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.280 You went from Derrick Henry, the leading rusher in the 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.640 National Football League each of the last two years, to 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.920 the second leading rusher in twenty twenty, Dalvin Cook, who 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:55.960 had a big fumble in Week one that led to 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.640 a loss against the Bengals at overtime. Let's see if 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.600 the Cardinals can go too. And oh and it would 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.400 be great to have the red seed back at State 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.360 Farm Stadium. As for our guest today, it is Scott Hansen, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.239 host of NFL Red Zone, and he also is a 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.600 multidimensional broadcaster for NFL Network. He joined the network in 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.280 two thousand and six, and since two thousand and nine, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:21.519 he's hosted every single episode of NFL Red Zone. That's 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.320 well more than two hundred episodes, and he goes all 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.639 day long without a bathroom break. Maybe the most impressive 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.680 part of Scott's job. We'll ask him about that and 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:37.000 much more on the Dave Pash Podcast. Scott, you've been 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:41.040 doing this for a long time. I was reading up 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.760 on the broadcasting history since you joined the NFL Network 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.280 and I didn't realize that NFL Red Zone debut in 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:52.760 two thousand and nine, you've been doing over two hundred episodes. 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.000 That means that's two hundred Sundays that you don't go 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:00.560 to the bathroom at all. That's pretty impressive. Man. We're 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:06.079 starting with the bladder integrity portion of my career. Hey, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.840 you know what day it is the thing, for better 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:13.000 or for worse, that I have become known for. I 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.320 don't want to say famous or infamous. People can make 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:19.120 their own determination there, but everyone thinks they're the first 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.120 person that's asked me about the bathroom thing. And I 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.840 think it's because everyone can relate to it. People sit 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.480 home and they watch an NFL Red Zone for seven hours, 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.080 and they got their snacks and their beverages, and invariably 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.399 nature calls that they get up, and they don't want 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.280 to get up from the TV because not doing any commercials, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:42.280 the next great touchdown could be five seconds away, and 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.960 so they don't want to go. But you know, invariably 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.280 the biological needs went out, they go to the restroom. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.960 They come back and I'm still talking and they go, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.040 wait a minute, when does Hampson go to the bathroom? 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.840 And yeah, the answer is I don't. And thankfully the 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.360 streak is alive, and here we are in season thirteen 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.120 of NFL Red Zone. Well, I want to get back 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:07.640 into broadcasting and your job. But since we're on the subject, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.800 because first of all, I don't know how you do 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.000 it as somebody. I know you're one year older than me, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.880 so I got a year ago before I hit fifty. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.960 But I can't go sometimes seven minutes without going to 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.880 the bathroom. So how you do it for seven So 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.919 do you not drink coffee or anything? You have like 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.000 a period of time leading up to the show where 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:30.520 you have no liquids whatsoever. One hundred percent. It is 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:35.479 about managing, you know, without getting too descriptive. Input equals output, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.800 so it's managing my morning on Sunday morning leading up 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.000 to the show. I don't drink coffee. I don't know 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.760 if you remember that. For those who are listening right now, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.359 Dave and I go back, Oh goodness, I mean we 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.520 go back to college back in the early nineties. I 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.680 know it's when I was thirty years by one or 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:58.200 ninety two something like that. Yeah, but yeah, I don't 0:04:58.200 --> 0:04:59.760 know if you knew that about me. I don't drink. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.680 I don't need that caffeine to get me going. I'm 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.719 naturally energetic and fired up, and I love my job, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.360 so the coffee issue isn't isn't there for me? But 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:14.280 I cut off all my liquids about what would it be. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.560 I eat breakfast at six forty five am on the 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:23.280 Dot every Sunday morning during the football season, and that's 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.320 the last bit of liquids that I have. The show 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:30.480 begins at ten ten am Pacific, and sixty five to 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.920 seven seven am would be the only time I would 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.960 have anything. So three hours before the show, I cut 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.800 off everything. I use the men's room twice in the 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.719 last hour leading up to the show, and then it's 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.760 it's the willpower of a ninja after that straight hours, Man, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.360 I'm telling you every halftime football, basketball game doesn't matter. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.599 I am sprinting for that restroom. So I don't know 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.200 how you do it. I can't make it an hour. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.640 You're making it seven Bro's. That's impressive, all right. Another 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.520 thing is, as you know this as a broadcaster, is 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.800 keeping your your whistle wet, so to speak. You know 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.320 a lot of people will drink because they feel like 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.360 to get the best out of their voice, they need 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.480 to constantly have liquids, you know, and whatnot. And that's 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.599 the balance. For me, it's not so much Oh my gosh, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.040 I gotta go, I gotta go. It's not that it's 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:23.000 being able to project and broadcast while my mouth is 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.479 quite dry. But I've just learned to live with it 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.080 and hopefully the hopefully it doesn't show up too bad 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.440 on air. Do you do anything to warm up your 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.160 voice or to protect your voice? I sometimes take the 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.839 singer spray. I stopped doing it recently, but I've used 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.920 that before, or just you know, a lot of water. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.560 I don't know if there was any specific that you did. No, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.200 I don't you have a fantastic voice. I've always been 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.480 been not jealous of your voice, but but admirer of 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.520 your voice. You've got great pipes to use them so well. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.880 You're the type of broadcaster who I say, the really 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.240 really good ones can hit the notes when when DeAndre 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.840 Hopkins pulls down the Harold Mary Passy, you are on 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.160 your game. And a lot of people sound awkward when 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.040 they're doing that, when their emotions lead to that. But 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:14.120 your your instrument is so strong. I'm pretty blessed too. 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.720 My dad had a great voice, and I inherited that 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.640 from him. But there's no real exercises or training I do. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.280 I avoid really really cold liquids because that'll constrict the 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.280 vocal cords a little bit. Um. You know, later in 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.840 the season in December, if you're dealing with a cold 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.600 or the flu or something like that, maybe some hot 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.280 tea with honey and lemon. But other than that, it's just, Hey, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:39.840 this is me and this is how I talk, and 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.240 hopefully it projects well. Last one on the bladder and 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.960 then we'll get to the serious stuff. Okay, is there 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.040 a backup plan, like if you get a stomach ache 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.640 or you have to go and you I mean, besides, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.560 like a water bottle under the table. Is there a 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.000 backup plan? Is there another announcer standing by? There is 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.200 no other announcers by for bladder considerations. If you really 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.240 want the inside scoop, we do have people that are 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:11.080 standing by at NFL Films Headquarters. Now I broadcast out 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.560 of NFL Network or NFL Los Angeles they call it 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.560 in LA. We have a brand new facility at Sofi 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.480 Stadium where the Rams and Chargers play, So that's where 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.920 I broadcast out of. But Lord forbid. But if we 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.640 had an earthquake and electricity was knocked out in Los 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.640 Angeles or whatever disaster or something that knocked us off 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.440 the air, there is a crew standing by in New 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.480 Jersey suburban New Jersey outside of Philadelphia is where NFL 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:48.280 Films Headquarters is located, and there is a pseudo backup 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.839 team that is that is ready to go on should 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.079 we get knocked off the air. But no for bathroom breaks. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:54.600 If I had to take one, and it's not like 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.560 I'm trying to be a hero, if I had to 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.959 take one, they could they could say, look at Scott, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.160 We'll find at whatever. The buccanteers are on a drive 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.480 right now. We think Tom Brady's gonna get some first downs. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.840 You got two minutes, go ahead, turn off your microphone, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.400 run down the hall, do your thing. I could do 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.040 that if I had to. It's just that I don't 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.840 want to because I don't want to miss the next 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.280 great touchdown. So yeah, so that's how. That's how we 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.439 manage things. And we've got a good system. And my 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.440 infamous or famous streak, depending on your perspective, is still 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.160 alive here. Who knew that back then, when we were 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.040 idiots at Syracuse drinking all that beer, that it was 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.880 just practice. The drinking and passing out was practice to 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.720 hold it in over an extended period of time. All right, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.040 Let's let's get serious here, because I do want to 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.480 get into your history because it's it's I don't know 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.520 that a lot of people realize how you got into 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.520 this business, what you were doing before you got into broadcasting, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.120 and then the multiple stops that you had, it's pretty amazing. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.199 And I've had a close up view of it being 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.480 friends with you for three decades. So I do want 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.640 to get into that. But give me your thoughts on 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.440 Week one. What stood out to you about the game 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.520 Sunday the Arizona Cardinals, and I'm not picking the low 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.520 hanging fruit, just being with you right now, but the 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:16.400 Arizona Cardinals statement, road wind in the early window as well, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:18.880 you know, the whole time change. I'm a believer in 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:24.480 that that some Pacific time teams have a hard time playing, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.839 and that ten am body clock window. But all the 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.079 things involved and what we expect out of the Tennessee 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.640 Titans this year, Arizona statement, and then of course the 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.280 New Orleans Saints pounding. I'll put actually i'll put that 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.040 surprise in two categories, the New Orleans Saints looking as 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:45.840 good as they did and the Green Bay Packers looking 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.360 as bad as they did, because I don't think it 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.080 was one hundred percent. New Orleans was just a steamroller 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.000 and we weren't aware of that. And they're going to 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.040 do this other teams. I don't think that's necessarily the 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.360 case yet, although I thought New Orleans looked better than 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.840 what almost everyone anticipated. But the Green Bay Packers fell apart. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.840 They were just spitting up on themselves all throughout the game. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.360 That was a shock that Aaron Rodgers couldn't write the 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.520 ship and you know, couldn't even get in the end zone. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.640 So that was a surprise. The NFC West that I 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.320 and everybody else predicted was going to be the strongest 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.240 division in football this year. Who looks like that is 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.760 going to be the case. Yeah, And other than that, 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.000 it was just great to be back. The crowd noise 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.560 was fantastic at all these stadiums, and the feel of 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.400 real football being back for the first time, and it 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.240 was over two hundred and fifty days since the last 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.800 full NFL Sunday, not non playoff NFL Sunday. Just felt 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.240 good to be back. So do you have a producer 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.839 in your ear constantly telling you Arizona, Tennessee Red Zone? 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.640 New Orleans, Green Bay? Is somebody consistently giving you direction 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:56.240 when you need to switch to another game? Yeah? Yes 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.079 and no. It's a little bit like the coach to 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.360 quarterback communication system how we operate on NFL Red Zone, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.960 except it's more of a two way street. Because my producer, 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:12.640 Brian Nettles is in the control room watching all nine 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.720 games in the early window, I'm standing in the studio 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.040 four feet away from a wall of monitors watching all 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.480 nine games and we bounce things off of each other. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.760 We're like, okay, hey, we're on this Cardinals drive right now. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.200 It's third and eight and they're on the fifty yard line. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.360 If they don't get the first down, they're gonna punt. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.680 So we'll get away and we'll go to a different game. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.240 You know, Dallas is close to the red zone right now, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:36.920 they're on the twenty six yard line. Maybe we'll go 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.560 to Dallas, but keep an eye on Seattle because they're 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.800 in commercial break. And remember they're first in goal from 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.280 the eight when they come out of the two minute 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.240 warning time out. So we'll discuss all these things and 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.200 then whatever happens. Okay, the Cardinals didn't get the first down, Jeff, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.360 Cardinals are punting. You know what, Let's go to Dallas. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.199 They're close to the red zone. Wait, wait, wait, they 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.480 just came out and break in Seattle. Let's go there 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.600 right now. Russell Wilson first and goal from the eight. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.400 So we roll with it. It's like my produce will 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.800 call plays in my ear, multiple plays, and then based 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.880 on what I see what we have on the air, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.040 will audible and go to wherever the action is hottest. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.880 It's absolutely fly by the seat of your pants, unscripted. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.880 We're reacting to what's going on in the NFL and 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.080 trying to trying to spin as many plates and make 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.520 it seem flawless or seamless, at least to the best 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.880 of our ability. It's a it's a thrill ride, Dave. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.480 If you weren't busy on every NFL Sunday, I would 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:30.920 have to have you out to the studio to see 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.440 how we rock and roll. It's it's different than any 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.080 other sportscasting than I've ever been around. Yeah, I'd love 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.480 to see it. I mean, obviously, doing you know, play 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.400 by play is entirely different doing studio work or hosting 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.000 a radio show or podcast. It's just the job you 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.080 have is is so incredibly unique. So you're sitting there 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.280 watching all these games on Sunday and I assume the 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.200 cardinal game keeps catching your eye, like when do you 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:01.440 make the determination? Okay man like Jones gets the force fumble, 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.040 Corey Peters recovers it, it's a touchdown, but then it's 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.320 overturned and now you're in the red zone. It's first 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.520 in goal. So how do you guys handle that, believe 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.160 it or not? That one got us. As a matter 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.520 of fact, that one caught us because we're trying to 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.720 go bang bang bang from stadium to stadium so quick. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.520 When you get something that looks like something at face 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.240 value and then all of a sudden, whether it's a 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.280 coach of challenge or an automatic boots review that overturns it, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.200 we're like, wait a second, wait a second. And what 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:32.040 we'll do in those instances If we thought we saw 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.800 a touchdown, like let's say a defensive touchdown in a game, 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.160 but then the offense is back on the field, We're like, okay, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.760 wait a minute, you know what, let's just go to 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:44.440 what's happening lies and we will take whatever the first 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.120 down play is. And then during that play, we're looking 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.600 back at the video. Our folks in the replay area 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.800 at NFL Red Zone, we'll be looking back at it 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.800 and say, okay, yeah, you know what, it was a 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.000 strip sack fumble with a recovery, but they didn't give 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.000 him the touchdown. That's why the offense is on the field. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.920 And then before the forty second play clock runs out 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.800 before second down for the Cardinals in this instance, then 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.520 I'll interject and go, hey, here's how the Cardinals got 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.960 the ball originally. Okay, challenge Jones, strip sack, fumble, recovery 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.600 touchdown originally, but they reviewed it down by contact and 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.080 so this is why we're at second down for the Cardinals. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.400 It's I hope it sounds reasonable the people that are 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.080 listening it. Listening to it right now, I think it 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:31.520 flows well when you have the audible. When I'm giving 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.800 audible instructions or recap of what's going on coupled with 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:42.120 the visuals, it's hopefully it's more coherent than what I 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.920 just made it sound right there, because people are you know, 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.680 we've got to sophisticated football audience too, and people understand that, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.040 oh okay, things might look one way at first blush, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.240 but yeah, replay overturned it or I saw that he 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.360 was down by contact. So I understand where we're at. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.600 But we want to catch ups. I've as possible. Eighty 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.160 ninety percent of the stuff that we do is live. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.520 But when we can't catch something immediately, we have very 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.960 very skilled replay folks, and our production crew is the 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.200 best in sports television for my money, and we can 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.880 get something back and just say hey, here's the context. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.760 Of why this team has the ball at this point 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.760 right now, you've seen every great quarterback that's coming to 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.120 the NFL the last two decades. And look, you played 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.760 football at Syracuse. We'll get into that a little bit later. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.240 Not many people know that that you were on the 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.040 football team, so you're around good quarterback. Syracuse was actually 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.240 very good back then. Every year they were good. Back then. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.080 They had first round picks all over the place. Although 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.880 Chandler Jones, you know, even though it was you know, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.800 almost a decade ago, right was a first round pick 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.240 out of Syracuse. But where does Kyler Murray do you 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.240 think right now rank? If you had Patrick Mahomes and 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.360 Tom Brady, most people are going to say one, two 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.800 is Kyler Murray? Is he climbing the list in your mind? 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.600 As he top five, as he still have work to 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.920 do to depend on the team's success, How do you 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.119 think you would rate him right now? Yeah? Right now now. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.000 I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.160 and say, hey, a five total touchdown performance game out 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:19.080 of Kyler stamps him as top three, top five. Just yet. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.560 This will be the season that we get to see 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.639 him blossom into everything that people had hoped for. He 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.560 had a nice season last year, and if people had 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.080 already known about his physical gifts in terms of being 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.800 able to evade rushers like very very few quarterbacks on 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.480 a design pass play, I would still say Lamar Jackson's 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.480 the best running quarterback in the NFL. But being able 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.359 to evade pass rushers, I say it like this. I 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.560 don't know how you describe it. He looks like a 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.800 punt returner scooting back and forth. You remember Dante Hall, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.760 spectacular punt returner back in the day for the Kansas 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.600 City Chiefs. He reminds me of Dante Hall. When the 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.880 pocket collapses and he just just tries to well scoot left, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.480 scoot right, step up, step back, roll out this way, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.880 roll out that way, jukes, somebody either run or throw. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.880 Guys can't get there that Not only can't they sack him, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.320 they can't get a hand on him, and maybe because 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.280 of his stature too. I think it looks like a 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.639 guy who just caught a punt where the gunners and 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.920 the coverage team is trying to converge on him and 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.040 nobody can touch him because he's that much quicker with 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.960 everyone else. But the great thing about Kyler is and 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.399 he'll grow even this year. I believe he was already 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.560 very good at doing this, but I think he'll grow 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.480 in this aspect of this game is being able to 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:39.919 do that while keeping his eyes downfield and not losing 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.960 sight of his eligible receivers. That makes him lethal, lethal 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.000 with his decision making. If he could evade pass rushers 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:51.879 know that, oh it's third and eight, I could probably 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.000 run for this first down with my speed and the 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.080 angles that I see. But I can also still pick 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.600 up d Hop or somebody else downfield twenty yards downfield 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.280 and just it's like stopping to try trying to stop 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.520 water with your fingers. At that point, forget about it. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.959 And it would not surprise me at all if by 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.800 the end of the year we are talking and universally 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.560 talking about Kyler as a top five, top three quarterback 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.360 in the NFL. The area that he needs to grow 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.879 the most, and he's talked about this is leadership and 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.680 being consistent. Last year, he had games like Week one 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.520 and in the middle of the season, after the Hail 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.800 Mary against Buffalo, the Cardinals are six and three, everybody's 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.000 talking about Kyler as an MVP candidate, and then he 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.040 doesn't play as well, the team doesn't play as well. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.840 They missed the playoffs, So obviously being consistent is key. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.679 And look, he does things, Patrick Mahomes Scott, Patrick Mahomes, 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:52.040 I don't know how you feel. He's the greatest football 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.000 player I've ever seen. I've never seen anybody that can 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.280 do the things that Patrick Mahomes can do. Now, there 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.639 are some things that La Murray can do that Mahomes can't. 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:06.639 You talked about the quickness, the quick feat he's a 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.119 better runner. Now will he ever? If he gets to 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:11.800 that point, the Cardinals are going to be a Super 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.280 Bowl contender every year? Do you think? And you talk, Look, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:17.399 you work for NFL network, You're talking to former players 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:22.280 all the time, You're watching NFL games every week. The 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:25.440 weapons that the Cardinals have surrounded him with, do you 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:30.560 feel like it's enough for him to help take that 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.040 next step and get them to the playoffs? Yeah, yeah, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.560 I do. I like probably a lot of Cardinal fans 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.639 would say, show me the running game. Show me the 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:43.080 running game as a legitimate running game, not just as like, 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.720 oh yeah, we gotta balance Tyler taking a shotgun snap 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:51.520 and doing what Kyler does with a legitimate first and 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.359 ten run for five yards to get you ahead of 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.960 the sticks against the defense. Show me that aspect of 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.720 the game. And then a complimentary defense where that defense 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.000 playing with the lead. And I'm not saying it's just 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.600 about playing with the lead. Of defense had to be 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.320 good whether it's zero zero or thirty five, nothing but 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.919 playing with the lead where the other team feels stress 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:15.879 on offense. Oh, that's some complimentary football. And you know, 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.760 we gotta see it when the NFC West schedule takes 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.600 into the city, because I could I could be talking 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:27.760 to you know, a Rams or a Seahawks or the 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.560 Niners fan base, and everyone has reason to think we 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.520 are the team to beat in the division. I mean, 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:37.280 look at it, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Mathematically, 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.080 we got to see how it could end up. All 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:41.000