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Speaker 1: will flee. It doesn't get any better than that, boy,
Speaker 1: unleash the far. I mean, who doesn't like going to
Speaker 1: Vegas and catching a show. Well, if you've been known
Speaker 1: to surprise the Warrior Queen with a Vegas trip here
Speaker 1: and there, have you not no doubt about it? Polly Yeah,
Speaker 1: Little Shania Twain is a matter of fact. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are people right now on the road listening to
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Speaker 1: Vegas for the weekend. Are you kidding me? Google it, Pola,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Channaia Twain, google it, my
Speaker 1: young crugs. Here's the thing. Cardinals didn't catch a show.
Speaker 1: They were the show on Sunday. I mean, forget the
Speaker 1: likes of Shania Twain or Penn and Teller or David
Speaker 1: Copperfield or Blue Man Group. It was the Big Red
Speaker 1: Group of fifty three and their lead magician, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: pulling one out of the hat. I mean that was
Speaker 1: hashtag show stopper, was it not? Cardinals get the win
Speaker 1: despite the fact midway through the fourth quarter of the
Speaker 1: wind probability for the Raiders was ninety eight percent. It
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Speaker 1: we are santane Ford, big, Max Williams straight ahead, Yes,
Speaker 1: Cardinals tight end, one of the best personalities on the team.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to ask him a whole host of questions.
Speaker 1: Paul Calvc here, Ron Wolflee there you know well, Polly, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I still can't believe what it is that actually transpired
Speaker 1: in that stadium in the second half, in particular, especially
Speaker 1: when you juxtapose the first half, the first half to
Speaker 1: the second half, and just how desparate the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: looked from that first half. They came out in that
Speaker 1: second half and they played in all three phases, offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: and in transition as well. They played very, very well,
Speaker 1: the best we've seen this year for sure. How bad
Speaker 1: was it? How good was it? Well? Here to bolster
Speaker 1: your case, Wolf. In the first half, the Cardinals ran
Speaker 1: nineteen plays at poultry, nineteen plays for a measly eighty
Speaker 1: six yards. In the second half, they ran fifty nine
Speaker 1: plays between second half and overtime for three hundred twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards. In his Kyler said after the game, they
Speaker 1: said what was the difference? And he's just like, you
Speaker 1: know what, well, actually, let's hear from Kyler Murray. We
Speaker 1: got this queued up and ready to go. Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: what did change in that second half? And beyond? At
Speaker 1: some point you know enough is enough? It was just again,
Speaker 1: it's not about the toughness and how hard we play.
Speaker 1: That's that's never in question. It's just about executing, playing faster,
Speaker 1: getting you know, gett our tempo going. And I think
Speaker 1: you could tell the difference first half second half. Those guys,
Speaker 1: those guys definitely got tired. They definitely got tired. They
Speaker 1: were winded. Where you're tired, you're not gett passed rushing,
Speaker 1: you're playing his own it's you know, for for us,
Speaker 1: that's you know, as a recipe for success. So it
Speaker 1: was it was ended up, you know, working out think
Speaker 1: about it. In addition to all that, on those final
Speaker 1: two touchdown drives, and by the way, they cashed in
Speaker 1: that last touchdown drive was zeros in the clock and
Speaker 1: then that ridiculous laser beam of a throw where Kyler
Speaker 1: threaded it into the back of the end zone to
Speaker 1: aj Green. Between those two final touchdown drives there were
Speaker 1: six do or die plays between fourth down and or
Speaker 1: two point converts. A half dozen do or die plays
Speaker 1: on those last two touchdown drives. Yeah, Polly, it really
Speaker 1: was a situation where they came up big. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just Kyler Murray. It was so many other guys
Speaker 1: as well. Now, Kyler Murray was right in the middle
Speaker 1: of that maelstrom of going out and playing perfectly and
Speaker 1: having to be perfect going down the stretch, and the
Speaker 1: fact that they were able to orchestrate it and pull
Speaker 1: that thing off. It truly is Polly. I mean, I
Speaker 1: told you this after the game. I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. To be around this game for well over
Speaker 1: three decades in a different capacity, of course, but to
Speaker 1: be around this game as long as I have and
Speaker 1: never see anything like that. I after the game, I
Speaker 1: was talking to Dave and I was just holding my
Speaker 1: head ball the whole time that I was talking to
Speaker 1: Pash because I could not believe what it just transpired.
Speaker 1: You know what I saw in Kyler Murray? Thanks for
Speaker 1: asking Wolf. You know what I saw. I saw a
Speaker 1: comfortable and confident quarterback in his past protection. I saw
Speaker 1: a quick Now did he get harassed and hit at
Speaker 1: times for Max Crosby and Chandler Jones coming, Yes, But
Speaker 1: when he snapped that ball, he wasn't worried about left
Speaker 1: guard being a liability like it was maybe in week one.
Speaker 1: He wasn't worried about right guard being a liability like
Speaker 1: it was most of the last year and especially against
Speaker 1: the upcoming opponent. The Rams will get into that a
Speaker 1: little bit. And to that point, when you hear Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury say that Kyler Murray's decision making was stellar, in
Speaker 1: that you know, he'd hold on, he make his reads
Speaker 1: and whether to throw it or pass it, whether the
Speaker 1: stress of defense with his legs or not. The decision
Speaker 1: making was there, and I think that was there because
Speaker 1: he was comfortable in the pocket. Yeah, no, Paula, You're right,
Speaker 1: this was something that I did not expect. Listen. DJ
Speaker 1: Humphreys did an incredible job on Chandler Jones. As we
Speaker 1: all know right now, we love Chan we all do.
Speaker 1: We are always going to the five years that he
Speaker 1: was wreaking havoc in the NFC. Of course, we respect
Speaker 1: him greatly. DJ Humphries did a great job. When you
Speaker 1: talk about a guy that went out and nullified the
Speaker 1: talent that is Chandler Jones, that's no easy proposition whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And DJ shut him down the dog that he is.
Speaker 1: That was great. On the other side, Max Crosby, he
Speaker 1: impacted the game, There's no doubt he did, not only
Speaker 1: getting to Kyler Murray of course, but also pressuring him
Speaker 1: from time to time. By the way, I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask Cliff Kingsbury and his weekly TV show and I
Speaker 1: stinking forgot about it. I wanted to ask him if
Speaker 1: he was sandbagging about what he told the media that
Speaker 1: he had texted Chandler Jones to start the game week.
Speaker 1: Don't hold it against me, but I'm gonna chip you
Speaker 1: every play because that didn't happen. That did not happen.
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys was solo against Chandler Jones most of that game,
Speaker 1: and most of the chips from my eye were reserved
Speaker 1: for the other side and Max Crosby. Yes, yes, Paulie,
Speaker 1: there was and if you watch it once again, that
Speaker 1: was the key to I think the Cardinals comeback was
Speaker 1: the fact they stayed balance on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball in that second half, Pauli. They stayed balance
Speaker 1: and that gave Kyler Murray a little bit of comfort,
Speaker 1: I think, and especially with the interior pocket when they
Speaker 1: did throw the ball, he was able to actually stop up.
Speaker 1: Here's the other guy who really stood up beyond Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys, how about a round of applause for Byron
Speaker 1: Murphy not only the longest fumble return for touchdown in
Speaker 1: overtime in NFL history fifty nine yards, and by the way,
Speaker 1: his jersey is on display in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: along with a signed football from Kyler, who also made
Speaker 1: NFL history in that game, but Byron Murphy holding Davante
Speaker 1: Adams to just two grabs for twelve yards. There was
Speaker 1: a touchdown in there, but for the most part, Davante
Speaker 1: Adams was a non factor and Vance Joseph today was
Speaker 1: asked about the big game for Murph, his progress has
Speaker 1: been awesome, you know. I mean even even from last
Speaker 1: year to this year. Last year he had a hell
Speaker 1: of a first half of a season. You know, he
Speaker 1: got a little nicked up towards the middle. He came
Speaker 1: back to last I thought a month and a half
Speaker 1: and played good again for us. So I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: that he can, you know, cover a number one receiver
Speaker 1: in this league, you know. I mean, he's a guy
Speaker 1: with talent him. He's been with us for I think
Speaker 1: four years now, and that's why he was rating, you know.
Speaker 1: So he's confident. He wanted that challenge a week and
Speaker 1: he played his butt off. I mean, how big would
Speaker 1: that be Wolf if they actually once again had a
Speaker 1: legit number one corner where Vance Joseph could start every
Speaker 1: game week and say, you know what we're taking Byron Murphy.
Speaker 1: We're matching up against the other team's number one receiver check.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a huge luxury if you're a DC, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Poll's absolutely, it's huge, Bud. What's amazing is I went
Speaker 1: back and I looked at the tape and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of a time that Davante Adams beat Byron Murphy,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean like beat him where he was.
Speaker 1: He was wide open and should have got the ball. Um.
Speaker 1: You had to look really close and really hard to
Speaker 1: see that when that was So you watch the film.
Speaker 1: Answer me this, because there's been some discrepancy. Did he
Speaker 1: really travel with him the entire game or he did
Speaker 1: the Cardinals mixed coverages. Yeah, no, Polly, they mixed up
Speaker 1: coverages right there. But he did travel there. He definitely traveled.
Speaker 1: He went when he was in Man, so much of
Speaker 1: the time he did travel. Every time they lined Davantae
Speaker 1: Adams up for the most part, for the most part,
Speaker 1: there were one, maybe two exceptions, but every time they
Speaker 1: lined him up inside in the slot and not on
Speaker 1: the perimeter, that's typically when Byron Murphy would not travel
Speaker 1: with him. So that was and that's where he came from.
Speaker 1: By the way, he came from the slot over Davante
Speaker 1: Adams opposite opposite the wide receiver screen to Renfro to
Speaker 1: pick that ball up and he sprinted all the way over.
Speaker 1: You ought to see it. It's very very cool. Well,
Speaker 1: this week we'll see. We'll see if he gets the
Speaker 1: fourth player ever to lead the NFL in a single
Speaker 1: season in receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions. Because that
Speaker 1: was Cooper Cup a year ago, the Triple Crown winner.
Speaker 1: Remember when the Cardinals beat him week four he had
Speaker 1: a season low five grabs, but when they lost him
Speaker 1: in week fourteen, he had his season high thirteen grabs.
Speaker 1: So he's a definite difference maker. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll get to Max Williams. How about the Cardinals tight end?
Speaker 1: We got tons of questions, what was alike in that
Speaker 1: locker room? And more Max Williams Cardinals tight end going
Speaker 1: to join us when we come back. On the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Satan Ford and Gilbert, we are
Speaker 1: Satan four, second and ten for the Raiders of the
Speaker 1: Cardinal thirty nine four receivers, two right, two left car
Speaker 1: waiting for the shotgun snap. He's got the ball, quick throw,
Speaker 1: left side, brand and brow of the catch and he
Speaker 1: breaks one tackle and put the ball comes out, it's
Speaker 1: close and it picked him by the Cardinals him at film,
Speaker 1: it's picked up by Byron bird by pen the forty
Speaker 1: pen to thirty pen to twenty pen to ten of
Speaker 1: ball game. Byron bird Beet pick up the ball and
Speaker 1: midfield returned to duckdown and the Cardinals with the the flax.
Speaker 1: What an unbelievable Finnish Harry Vegas crazy Carl is here
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals. Isaiah Simmons forced to fumble and
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy picked it up and took it to the
Speaker 1: house to win the game in overtime twenty nine, twenty three.
Speaker 1: What a great finish, What a great call. It went viral.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about leaving Las Vegas. How about
Speaker 1: Bird City beats Sin City. How about the longest overtime
Speaker 1: fumble returned for touchdown in NFL history. By the way,
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy's jersey goes to the Hall of Fame, and
Speaker 1: a Kyler signed football has gone to the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame as well as the first quarterback as I read
Speaker 1: this year with a passing and rushing touchdown and a
Speaker 1: passing and rushing two point conversion. How about that? And
Speaker 1: also Ron Wolfley. I haven't totally verified this yet, but
Speaker 1: I do believe it's the first NFL game ever pitting
Speaker 1: two Maxes against each other who both spell their first
Speaker 1: name with double X, and the original Max joins us
Speaker 1: now Max Williams here on the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert We are santan Ford. That
Speaker 1: is accurate, right? You do claim being the original Max
Speaker 1: double X in the NFL? Do you not? I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't think of anyone else who was performing with
Speaker 1: just two Xes and Max. But Max Crosby coming in
Speaker 1: made all that noise being a superstar, so more powered
Speaker 1: to him. He's got the two xes. I'm gonna claim it.
Speaker 1: It's all about the name, right, So Max, I gotta
Speaker 1: jump in here, man right away, Crazy Carl. Do you
Speaker 1: know who crazy Carl is? Do you have you ever
Speaker 1: heard the terminology crazy Carl? I don't think I had. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is what they used to say Max. Back when
Speaker 1: I was playing me. My old coach used to say,
Speaker 1: you know what we need, man, We need Crazy Carl
Speaker 1: to show up for us, like something crazy to happen
Speaker 1: on the field, like the ball goes off, some guy's
Speaker 1: helmet into the year fifteen yards and your guy runs
Speaker 1: underneath it, grabs it and takes it back for a
Speaker 1: touchdown seventy five yards. Something crazy to happen out on
Speaker 1: the field right there, and crazy Carl obviously showed up
Speaker 1: for you guys. What were you thinking when you saw
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy running down that sideline. I think it starts
Speaker 1: with that whole series all went JT almost had the pick,
Speaker 1: yeah fumble to play right after that that we almost recovered,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking in my head, I was disappoint I dang,
Speaker 1: we had our chance. How we needed as a field
Speaker 1: go then and I was right on the sidelines at
Speaker 1: a front row seat. Boom ball is out and all
Speaker 1: sudden everything kind of just froze, and all a sudden,
Speaker 1: Murf came out of nowhere. I was like, someone jump
Speaker 1: on it. Murf also picks it up and is going
Speaker 1: down the sidelines. Crazy moment. I mean, I still get
Speaker 1: I still get goosebumps thinking about it watching it. It
Speaker 1: was such a fun moment. And then that carried into
Speaker 1: the locker room. That's gonna be one. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you're done playing this game, that's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: the most memorable things about the end, right, those locker
Speaker 1: rooms celebrations after like that, I think, I think, especially
Speaker 1: what I'll take from that looking back, reflecting obviously the
Speaker 1: only week three, but I mean that two point conversion.
Speaker 1: First off, Kyler running around for twenty seconds. I'm never
Speaker 1: saying anything like that in my eight years so far.
Speaker 1: Then how the overtime ended. I mean, those are the
Speaker 1: things you get in the locker room. You look at
Speaker 1: each other and you just you just have to be
Speaker 1: happy and have fun and celebrate because those things don't
Speaker 1: happen every day. I mean, we'll remember what Max told
Speaker 1: us a couple of years ago in the Big Red Rache,
Speaker 1: how he was a former running quarterback in high school.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean from one running quarterback to another,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Put that in perspective, the twenty one seconds
Speaker 1: and eighty five yards cover, I'd be two winded. Perhaps
Speaker 1: to Kyler, I would have been running around back. There's quarterback.
Speaker 1: I would have been so gassed. I would have never
Speaker 1: got in like him. He's specially when you watch that,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what shows I mean, it is wow.
Speaker 1: Just sometimes you just gotta say wow watching Kyler play,
Speaker 1: you know, a big guy. We're obviously you're gonna get
Speaker 1: into the details here. We're gonna talk about the Raiders
Speaker 1: an awful out. But before we really dive into this thing,
Speaker 1: I'd love to ask you, how are you feeling? Man?
Speaker 1: How's the body? I feel good? Obviously after last year
Speaker 1: with my knee injury and everything went with that, I
Speaker 1: never knew I was gonna play football again. So it
Speaker 1: kind of started with one of those working back in
Speaker 1: now playing Week three, and I feel great. My knee
Speaker 1: feels awesome, loving being back out there. I mean it
Speaker 1: would I would have been lost without football right now,
Speaker 1: I mean I love it. Still. Still only twenty eight,
Speaker 1: so feeling great, feeling young, just getting excited to go
Speaker 1: play the Rams this week. Where are you in terms
Speaker 1: of being one hundred percent back from that knee? What
Speaker 1: percentage would you give? I mean personally, I would say
Speaker 1: my knee is gonna be what it is for everything
Speaker 1: I did to my right knee and that injury and
Speaker 1: everything that went wrong with it. I think where I'm
Speaker 1: at now for how great I feel, where I can
Speaker 1: go play football, my knee's not hurting, I would say
Speaker 1: I'm feeling great. Yeah, I mean it was a serious
Speaker 1: significant knee injury, right, Yeah, I mean it wasn't good. Well,
Speaker 1: tired a little bit more than just an ACF. Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: all I know is I'm not sure what was shocking
Speaker 1: more shocking in camp the fact that Wolf actually lost
Speaker 1: significant can wait? Okay, or that you were out there
Speaker 1: full go, full contact week two. Did you exceed your
Speaker 1: own expectations? You know, I don't think I ever put
Speaker 1: a time limit out there when I wanted to be back,
Speaker 1: but I think in my own mind, I always said,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna do this, I want to play week one,
Speaker 1: and I was on the pup list and it was
Speaker 1: one of those where I've done so much rehab with
Speaker 1: the trainers and everything else at that point in camp
Speaker 1: it was like, look like I can't make the next
Speaker 1: step to see if I can even play football until
Speaker 1: I come off the pup list and try to play.
Speaker 1: So it's one of those Coach was comfortable with it.
Speaker 1: I was working out great, was feeling good on the field,
Speaker 1: and they said, hey, let's take a try into it
Speaker 1: and worked our way up to do more and more. Yeah. Max,
Speaker 1: So okay, the Raiders game. Of course, you played the
Speaker 1: Chiefs game. You played the Raiders game. How did you
Speaker 1: play personally against the Raiders in your opinion, personally, I
Speaker 1: probably wanted all my players back two of them for
Speaker 1: two of them, which too with all getting too much.
Speaker 1: I first played the game that I was in. I
Speaker 1: think it was like the fourth or fifth actual game.
Speaker 1: I wish I had that playback just based off of
Speaker 1: my job. And then the one pass pro I have
Speaker 1: where me and Beach got our feet tangled up and
Speaker 1: I ended up going backwards like a great pancake. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. Hey, Max on Max Crime, he won that
Speaker 1: That man is a freak, I mean more powered to him.
Speaker 1: He's he's a special player, and it was it was
Speaker 1: fun to play against him. I talked to Steven Anderson
Speaker 1: a little bit because he went against him a lot
Speaker 1: within Chargers said there is nobody in the NFL with
Speaker 1: a motor that eclipses Max Crosby. I think wasn't that
Speaker 1: first week of the season he played like ninety one
Speaker 1: snaps or something, and you watch the film, he never
Speaker 1: slowed down once, and then we play him. That man's
Speaker 1: all over the field, jumping over piles, making plays, and
Speaker 1: then I mean that's what you look forward to in
Speaker 1: the NFL, those special type talents that come out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: And I mean, what is he in his fourth year?
Speaker 1: I think fourth and so yeah, and he was already
Speaker 1: making It just gets you excited where the league's going
Speaker 1: and the talent that's in this league. And it's fun
Speaker 1: to play against those type of guys because we're competitive
Speaker 1: in the NFL. We wouldn't be here if we weren't,
Speaker 1: and you want to play against the best guys. He
Speaker 1: looks like he's strong. Max was he was. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's that whole package right now. I mean he's in
Speaker 1: the prime of his career. He's a young guy, and
Speaker 1: it just gets you excited, especially if I played for
Speaker 1: the Raiders, of where his future could go and where
Speaker 1: the ceiling off. Hey, Max Williams is our guest. It's
Speaker 1: all about you, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. So
Speaker 1: you guys were down twenty to nothing at the half,
Speaker 1: and then I'm doing the halftime show and the coaches
Speaker 1: come out, one coach after another and there's no players.
Speaker 1: I don't even sighted on the air. That's a little unusual.
Speaker 1: And and Cliffs said today, actually he was yesterday. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, what he felt a lot better based on
Speaker 1: what the leaders had to say in that locker room,
Speaker 1: and it seemed to be a turning point. Can you
Speaker 1: sort of quantify what happened at half and do you
Speaker 1: agree was that sort of a threshold moment? Yeah? I think.
Speaker 1: I think earlier this week I said that the leaders
Speaker 1: on this team this year and this is my what
Speaker 1: fourth year on the team, it just it just feels
Speaker 1: different with the leaders stepping up. I mean I can
Speaker 1: sing all guys like hump Buddha k one this year,
Speaker 1: everyone just kind of speaking their mind of being that
Speaker 1: leader that we need guys to be to kind of
Speaker 1: come together a team. So at halftime, it was like, look,
Speaker 1: we got together. This is this is six cores of
Speaker 1: football that this is not us, This is not how
Speaker 1: we practice this. Now we play it. We got to
Speaker 1: just do our job. And it was one of those moments.
Speaker 1: And when your leaders are stepping up and calling guys
Speaker 1: out and not really calling guys out more of what's
Speaker 1: the good way I could put it, challenging the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one play at a time, that's all it is. We're
Speaker 1: down twenty points at half. Look, they just scored twenty
Speaker 1: in the first half. Why can't we I can't. I
Speaker 1: just worry about my job, you know, right right? Was
Speaker 1: anybody yelling at halftime? No, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: yelling would be the right word, because because I think
Speaker 1: coach I think Coach Cliff says it the best is
Speaker 1: we weren't playing well because we weren't playing our hard.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the way it say it. It was
Speaker 1: more we just weren't executing, and it was looking at
Speaker 1: the guy to your left and right, trusting them that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do your job, and they're gonna trust you
Speaker 1: that do yours individually and takes eleven guys out there,
Speaker 1: eleven guys doing their job and trusting everyone around him.
Speaker 1: And that's what the message was is we gotta trust
Speaker 1: each other and we gotta go out there and execute.
Speaker 1: And lucky for us, we were fortunate if that things
Speaker 1: went our way and we won the game. And now
Speaker 1: he's got to take that momentum in this week and
Speaker 1: get better each and every day for this game. Was
Speaker 1: there anything that you did Max in the second half
Speaker 1: that you were not doing in the first half. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about you personally, I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: entire team down twenty to nothing at half. You know,
Speaker 1: was there any anything done schematically that was different in
Speaker 1: the second half than what you were doing in the first.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Obviously, I'm not the one calling
Speaker 1: the plays, and I can't speak on defense, but for
Speaker 1: us on offense, it was we just executed better. Everyone
Speaker 1: did their job, and I think the word execute is
Speaker 1: just I think the best way we can say it.
Speaker 1: I don't think anything really changes. You always make a
Speaker 1: little adjustments here and there at half time because you
Speaker 1: have to, because you never really know what the defense
Speaker 1: is going to do till you play him, and then
Speaker 1: you make adjustments. But scheme wise, play call wise, I
Speaker 1: don't think anything came different than what we practice all week.
Speaker 1: Is just we executed. Everyone did their individual job, and
Speaker 1: Kyler did his magic well. It is notable after the
Speaker 1: game they release that NFL Films clip from the locker
Speaker 1: room and DJ Humphreys was shouting at everyone amid the celebration, saying,
Speaker 1: this is our identity that you know, and we were
Speaker 1: talking about that in the broadcast. You know, after you
Speaker 1: guys came back in that second half. Okay, this feels
Speaker 1: like the team and that started seven, and oh started
Speaker 1: ten and two, and then other guys and that Kyle
Speaker 1: Vannibosh told a story this week on The Red Sea
Speaker 1: Report about how you know coaches tell when you have
Speaker 1: a really special quarterback, it's a defense, just keep playing
Speaker 1: because that special quarterback can bring you back. And Kyler
Speaker 1: is becoming that guy, is he not? I agree? I
Speaker 1: think I think you look at Kyler from his rookie
Speaker 1: year to this year. I think it's for everyone that's young.
Speaker 1: I mean, look how specially is right now and where
Speaker 1: can you go from here? And I think when DJ's
Speaker 1: talking about like this is our identity, this is what
Speaker 1: we want to be. We want to be out there.
Speaker 1: We want to execute at a high level. We want
Speaker 1: to be on our terms, and we want to get
Speaker 1: in a rhythm. And I think that's what we showed
Speaker 1: in that second half is when we can get rolling,
Speaker 1: everyone's doing their job, who knows what we can do.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's exciting about our team and
Speaker 1: especially the guys we have, is we don't know where
Speaker 1: we can go and we can't wait to find out
Speaker 1: where it is. And Wolf. Everyone's still talking about the
Speaker 1: two point conversion run by Kyler Murray, including the great
Speaker 1: Frank Caliendo right with the impersonation. So here he is
Speaker 1: as John Madden and Pat Summer. All looks like they're
Speaker 1: going for two, Pat juror does Kyler Murray back to pass?
Speaker 1: I think this place falling apart? Pat, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can see anything. How tall is Kyler Murray? Pat
Speaker 1: five ten? I believe not true? But how tall is
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart maybe six foot Murray directing traffic? Actually he
Speaker 1: was creating a diversion. Pat maybe pointed in a couple
Speaker 1: of places and boom he ran circles round These guys touchdown.
Speaker 1: Kyr knows. Those were some amazing tactics. I don't understand
Speaker 1: how we did it. I guess it's just modern warfare.
Speaker 1: You ever quay call of duty? Pat? So good? So
Speaker 1: a year ago, after your knee injury, you used to
Speaker 1: give out the two the Max award from your living room,
Speaker 1: right yep? With Kyler been the automatic? Or is there
Speaker 1: someone else there that would have warranted consideration that to
Speaker 1: the Max award? If I'm giving the award, I'm week two.
Speaker 1: When we win, it's got to go to Kylier, just
Speaker 1: though I mean murf Murf a runner up, but K
Speaker 1: one we're not in that situation where Murph is getting
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do that. If K one's not doing
Speaker 1: his magic. Well he did in the fourth quarter especially,
Speaker 1: so I think you'll go to K one in that situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, especially Max two. When I think of that
Speaker 1: second two point conversion, the throw to AJ Cream, if
Speaker 1: you really watched that, that was such a beautiful throw.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that, Max, seriously, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: that's every day. I think today at practice he made
Speaker 1: a throw to AJ Green on our sidelines that we
Speaker 1: literally stopped meetings. We're like, Wow, what a throw it.
Speaker 1: So it's it's almost like you're not surprised, kind of
Speaker 1: like when d Hop makes one of those plays. Now
Speaker 1: I might play with them long enough, it's like it happens.
Speaker 1: Now K one makes some of these throws. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's normal. Yeah, yeah, you know, I see that every day.
Speaker 1: You're right, some of the catches de Hot made in
Speaker 1: the receiver line in camp, you're like, what what do
Speaker 1: the same sort of thing Larry used to do, Fits
Speaker 1: used to do in practice all the time. Some of
Speaker 1: the greatest stuff that never saw the light of day.
Speaker 1: And that's every day at practice. Fortunate enough playing with
Speaker 1: Larry now de hopping all these guys, the things you
Speaker 1: can see at practice, it just makes this game fun.
Speaker 1: You've gone from the mustache to the beard. Do explain
Speaker 1: what was wrong with just the mustache. I'm a mustache guy.
Speaker 1: Come on, it's every year for camp. The mustache. That's work.
Speaker 1: And I had a twirled I had that thing. It
Speaker 1: was nice. It just takes too much to take care of.
Speaker 1: It's camp and you gett get it with the guys.
Speaker 1: We're all living in a hotel. It's one of those.
Speaker 1: It's a good time with the friends. But as soon
Speaker 1: as as soon as camp's over, can get rid of
Speaker 1: the mustache again. There we go. All right, he's letting
Speaker 1: the hair grow out to COVID style. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's sands the haircut. So we'll continue. In fact,
Speaker 1: there might be another Frank Caliendo calling your touchdown last
Speaker 1: year against the Rams in Week four Cardinals season tickets
Speaker 1: at Acy Cardinals dot com slash season. The big red
Speaker 1: rain fact. Right after this step to Kyle, the Murray
Speaker 1: three step drop blops at deep middle of the Zoe
Speaker 1: Max Williams hangs on as he's head tucked down. Williams
Speaker 1: off in the middle, got pop and Tyler Murray with
Speaker 1: a beautiful touch grow and the Cardinals are back in front.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do when Max Williams runs the
Speaker 1: seam on you? What a great read by Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: about it? That was last year? Week four, Cardinals went
Speaker 1: to La jack Stump the Rams thirty seven towny ran
Speaker 1: for more than two hundred yards. Kyler was outstanding and
Speaker 1: big Max Williams on the business end of that touchdown
Speaker 1: catch right there. He is our special guest in the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. We
Speaker 1: are santan Ford. Are we in the midst of the
Speaker 1: age of the tight end? Think about it? I mean,
Speaker 1: you have Max Williams and Zach Ertz the Cardinals leading
Speaker 1: receiver in the win over the Raiders. Week one it
Speaker 1: was Dravis Kelsey, Week two was Darren Waller. You get
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee this week on the opponent. George Kittle is
Speaker 1: coming up in the division twice a year. I mean,
Speaker 1: Max Williams will in educate Ron Wolfley then not Everything
Speaker 1: that was best about the NFL was during his era,
Speaker 1: his decade in the NFL. It's all us about just
Speaker 1: the state of the tight end position these days. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's exciting. I mean you can even see
Speaker 1: our young guy with Trey even watching him I would practice,
Speaker 1: and the way tight ends played now, it's so it's
Speaker 1: so exciting to watch. You got guys like kid who
Speaker 1: who are gonna be blocking and still making crazy plays,
Speaker 1: Guys like Waller, Mark Andrews, Shoot, Kelsey, Yea, everyone out
Speaker 1: there making plays like their star receivers. It's it's such
Speaker 1: a versatile position and it's fun to watch all the
Speaker 1: younger guys coming in because everyone does something so different.
Speaker 1: And I think when I think of blocking tight ends,
Speaker 1: I always think Nick Boyle. I thought he was the
Speaker 1: best in the league at the time when I got
Speaker 1: drafted with him. And that's what's fun to watch as
Speaker 1: you see that you can have guys like Nick Boyle,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, Darren Waller, Mark Andrews Shoot. You can even
Speaker 1: throw like pat riccard On there came in as a
Speaker 1: d line in fullback tight end. So much different now
Speaker 1: in the NFL and game, and I love it. You
Speaker 1: know what's amazing Max In terms of first and ten
Speaker 1: and average yards gained. Twelve personnel is our best grouping.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew that or not, but
Speaker 1: twelve personnel is actually our best grouping in terms of
Speaker 1: average yards gained on first and ten. Oh, that's number
Speaker 1: ten is a matter of fact, in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and yards per gained out of that
Speaker 1: personnel group. Why do you think that? Is not a
Speaker 1: stats guy, but I would you know, I love twelve personnel.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna hear me complain about being what is now?
Speaker 1: I know you're out there, of course in twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: but why do you think it's so effective? You know,
Speaker 1: if I would say, well, what my opinion? I guess
Speaker 1: I'm not a coach or anything else, but I would
Speaker 1: say we're harder to play then because you got a
Speaker 1: guy like zach Ertz when we're in twelve personnel, Well,
Speaker 1: you can't treat him like a normal tight end, right.
Speaker 1: But if I'm in the game where they think and
Speaker 1: probably run, so Nowson, we're both on the field, what
Speaker 1: is it? That's the way I look at it, and
Speaker 1: that's why I love about Like I said earlier, personal
Speaker 1: tight ends I mean, you can do so much with
Speaker 1: the tight ends in your offense, and I think Cliff's
Speaker 1: been great about that since I got here in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: being created with it. Well, guys, what did Cliffs say
Speaker 1: in the off season? We want to try and disguise
Speaker 1: the offense a little bit more. Hence maybe the emphasis
Speaker 1: on tight ends this year. Hence the second round draft
Speaker 1: pick of a Trey McBride. By the way, we have
Speaker 1: not seen Trey McBride. Obviously you have and you see
Speaker 1: him every day. What can you tell us about the rookie?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's gonna be special young guy
Speaker 1: coming in. He's athletic, he can block. It's crazy people
Speaker 1: see him, they saying, Oh, he's gonna be this receiving
Speaker 1: tight end. He's gonna get down and dirty in those strenches.
Speaker 1: Wolf would love it. He's gonna be excited too. So
Speaker 1: for me, every one of the fans, I wondering about Trey,
Speaker 1: you ain't gotta worry about Trey. Trey's gonna be special
Speaker 1: here in my opinion, and I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. I'm all in his corner. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do the best they can to help him.
Speaker 1: Me and Zach and I love the kid man. He's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's sad, so so much love you, Max, it really does.
Speaker 1: But anyways, does any of what you did in the
Speaker 1: second half against the Raiders carry over to the Rams game?
Speaker 1: I would say more just the energy of it. We
Speaker 1: gotta come out and we got we gotta feel like
Speaker 1: we can win the game every time. We gotta be
Speaker 1: going out there on the offense saying we're gonna score
Speaker 1: every time we get the ball. And I think that
Speaker 1: second half against the Raiders, getting their momentum, getting that energy,
Speaker 1: getting a rhythm of it. Take that to practice this week,
Speaker 1: applied to the game plan for the Rams, and go
Speaker 1: out there and do the best we can execute it
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Before we get to the Rams on Sunday,
Speaker 1: let's go back to last year almost at this time,
Speaker 1: Week four, because we heard the call from Dave Passion
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley right in the Arizona Cardinals radio network. But
Speaker 1: how about when Frank Caliendo, master of voices on the
Speaker 1: passpod last year, he took a stab at your touchdown
Speaker 1: against the Rams in twenty twenty one. Max Williams fourteen
Speaker 1: yard touchdown catch. Let's start doing that as mel Kiper
Speaker 1: talk about tremendous snap snapped, Kyler Murray kind of little
Speaker 1: athletic ability. Free step drop them adding things because I
Speaker 1: get back to the copyright here. Free step drop the
Speaker 1: tiny little step. That's tiny, little Kyler Murray taking a
Speaker 1: little steps to the place over hold on, we're doing
Speaker 1: this a slow motion. Actually this what's going on inside
Speaker 1: my head? Three step drop, lobs it deep through the
Speaker 1: middle of the end his own Max Williams double accident
Speaker 1: on the EXCX single ass on the Williams hangs it.
Speaker 1: He's a hit touchdown Williams over the middle, got pop.
Speaker 1: But Kyler Murray with a beautiful touchdown throwing at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, the Cardinals are back in front. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's do John Madden, I mean, I mean, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do when when Max Williams runs the seam
Speaker 1: on you want a great read by Kyler Murray. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's Kyler Murray just being Kyler Murray right there. He
Speaker 1: saw what do you need to do and boom, he
Speaker 1: just made it happen about bella check. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do when Max Williams runs the seam on you.
Speaker 1: I want a great read by Kyler Murray. I'm ecstatic
Speaker 1: right now. Is I'm just blowing my toms. Can we
Speaker 1: do Nance and Roma on one of these? Jim's gonna coach? Jim?
Speaker 1: What's going on here? It's incredible? What are you gonna
Speaker 1: do it? Max Williams runs a seam on you? What
Speaker 1: a great read? But Kyler Parich coming in here's gonna
Speaker 1: be te Here we go jump Tony, but a great
Speaker 1: Frank Alliano, do you have a favorite in their Max?
Speaker 1: Which one'd you like the most? John Madden? John John Man,
Speaker 1: the old school? That's good. That's good, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: as good as that is, as much as we dislike
Speaker 1: the Rams. Okay, Sean McVay is ten and one against
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. That's against three different head coaches. So
Speaker 1: what has to happen on Sunday to beat LA? I mean,
Speaker 1: first off ninety nine on their defense and game change.
Speaker 1: I think everyone got to see that for the last
Speaker 1: one nine years. But for us, it's we got to
Speaker 1: execute and we have to play like we know we can,
Speaker 1: like the second half against the Raiders, and we can't
Speaker 1: go out there and be flat I can only speak
Speaker 1: for offense and obviously in my room and myself, but
Speaker 1: if we go out there and we're confident and we're
Speaker 1: getting in rhythm, knows what can happen on Sunday? So Max,
Speaker 1: can I can I ask you a couple of down
Speaker 1: in distance questions right now based on your tape study
Speaker 1: of the Rams? Can I is that? Okay? If I
Speaker 1: do that, I mean, yeah, don't be afraid to tell me.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll give you what I can. It's not
Speaker 1: right exactly. It's not like you're going to reveal our
Speaker 1: game plan. I want to know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: If it's first intend what coverage do you think they're
Speaker 1: going to be in? Again, I'm gonna say in general,
Speaker 1: have you watched tape on the Rams? They're not a
Speaker 1: big man team. Okay, that's no secret to anyone else. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: So you don't you don't want to go into first
Speaker 1: in ten? You don't want to do that? Well, I
Speaker 1: told you the coverage again, it's gonna be zoned three
Speaker 1: or four. You never know, it depends. They had some
Speaker 1: injuries last week, so you got to figure out who's
Speaker 1: playing nickel form. They are really banged up that corner.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna say corners. So yeah, it's one of
Speaker 1: those I think that's what you say. You go in
Speaker 1: first and ten, you're expecting this, But that's what the
Speaker 1: halftime are justin's for. You gotta go out there and
Speaker 1: see because they're game planning us, just like we're game
Speaker 1: planning them. They're gonna have something for us that we're
Speaker 1: not expecting. And that's how it is each and every week.
Speaker 1: You got to apply your rules and go for it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only other thing I'm going to ask you is
Speaker 1: third and obvious? What third and obvious after you? Obvious
Speaker 1: meaning third and eight? Pay Um. They're not a big
Speaker 1: blitz team, I'll put it that way. I mean they
Speaker 1: got a great front seven, and when you have that
Speaker 1: and you got guys in the back end playing zone,
Speaker 1: this is not one of those teams that's gonna light
Speaker 1: you up with ninety percent pressures. Now everyone's got the
Speaker 1: special dialed up pressures and blitzes for third and must
Speaker 1: have situations, but Rams are one of those teams. They've
Speaker 1: had the confidence in their D line with nine nine
Speaker 1: leading it, you got fifty four on the edge that
Speaker 1: von Miller last year. So they're a team that's going
Speaker 1: to come after you, try to cover it and make
Speaker 1: you make the mistakes. They're definitely a team that want
Speaker 1: you to make the mistake and they capitalize on it.
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys and we're with Max Williams here on the
Speaker 1: Big Red Rage. DJ used to be the host of
Speaker 1: this show is as you know, and he was very
Speaker 1: honest about the first time he played against Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: and he said he walked out on the field, looked
Speaker 1: across the line of scrimmers, said this dude's tiny. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna smash ninety nine. Right. That was DJ talking. Of
Speaker 1: course he's six five six six, and then not so much.
Speaker 1: The game started one enables him to be maybe the
Speaker 1: best defensive player ever in the history of the game.
Speaker 1: I think he's got everything. I mean he's fast, he's quick,
Speaker 1: he's mean, he's strong, and he's a special player. You
Speaker 1: gotta give the guy credit. I mean, he's a once
Speaker 1: in a lifetime talent and you can put him with
Speaker 1: the names as the best defense player of all time.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's too many people that know
Speaker 1: football they are gonna argue on that. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been special since the day he's gotten there, and he's
Speaker 1: still gonna be special, and he showed it. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the Super Bowl. He last played the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: The dude makes the play out of nowhere, and I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone was shocked that. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if something was gonna happen, they're gonna win the game.
Speaker 1: Who was gonna make the play on defense? Well, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be Aaron Donald. And you gotta give him
Speaker 1: that respect. He's earned it. I mean, when you're that
Speaker 1: kind of talent, you deserve your respect. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what everyone does now is you have to know
Speaker 1: where ninety nine is on the field at all times.
Speaker 1: You know what's amazing about that too, Max, is Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald was having a quiet game and then suddenly the
Speaker 1: Bengals kind of poked him in the eye. The offensive
Speaker 1: lineman got after him a little bit on one player.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that, but man, some
Speaker 1: players you gotta you gotta leave them alone at some
Speaker 1: point at time. Aaron Down's one of those guys that
Speaker 1: any moment, just like Kyler and those guys, they just
Speaker 1: have something special. Well it happens. Lookie last year right
Speaker 1: Cardinals ran for two sixteen in the first matchup, and
Speaker 1: he was pretty quiet, and I think he heard about it.
Speaker 1: And then what happened in the Week fourteen rematch. He
Speaker 1: had fourteen quarterback pressures in a single game. I mean
Speaker 1: it was astounding. So what else have you learned though?
Speaker 1: About the Rams? It's not just Daron Donald. Now they
Speaker 1: have two other Hall of famers at each level of
Speaker 1: the defense. Bobby Wagner Jalen Ramsey. What do you think
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner does for that, d Well? I mean, Bobby
Speaker 1: Wagner is one of those linebackers that he's gonna go
Speaker 1: down as one of the best linebackers in the game too.
Speaker 1: He's so smart, he's physical, he's quick, and I mean
Speaker 1: he's getting older and he still hasn't slowed down. And
Speaker 1: I think losing Von Miller els when you're bringing Bobby Wagner,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do they lose? They went from one
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer to another. Jannon Ramsey on the back end,
Speaker 1: I mean almost all of last year he was playing
Speaker 1: in the box almost as a nickel, playing the run game.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy can do it all. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: it's one of those I mean, the Rams are a
Speaker 1: great team, and why you beat a great team is
Speaker 1: you got to be a fundamentally sound Everyone's got to
Speaker 1: do their job and you gotta be playing as eleven
Speaker 1: because if you're not doing your job, they're talented enough
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be exposed and stuff's not gonna be good.
Speaker 1: You know, so much of the time, you have to
Speaker 1: believe you can actually go out and do your job
Speaker 1: and be successful. Of course, and the Rams have done
Speaker 1: a great job in terms of every time they've played us,
Speaker 1: They've really done a good job of winning those games.
Speaker 1: Right there. Do you guys believe Max? Do you believe
Speaker 1: that you can take down the Rams? I think we
Speaker 1: believe we can beat everyone each and every week. I
Speaker 1: don't think we'd be here in this situation or still
Speaker 1: on this team if we didn't think we had a
Speaker 1: chance to be special. And this week, Week three, it's
Speaker 1: the Rams. We're gonna put everything we have into the
Speaker 1: Rams to go out there and play our best game,
Speaker 1: and whatever happens on Sundays happens. I mean, we're not
Speaker 1: out there trying to lose, and we're out there trying
Speaker 1: to win. Everyone is and they're just as competitive as us.
Speaker 1: So that's what makes this game fun is we're a
Speaker 1: bunch of grown men, got wives, got kids. We have
Speaker 1: families out there playing a kids game on Sundays for
Speaker 1: the world to watch, and we're just having fun. And
Speaker 1: that's what I love about is each and every week,
Speaker 1: anything can happen. I'm guessing as we wrap this up,
Speaker 1: you're sick of hearing about the Rams. You probably sick
Speaker 1: it from guys like me, hearing about the whole home
Speaker 1: losing skid two right, six in a row. You probably
Speaker 1: sing what else to change there? That is confounded? Got
Speaker 1: to win, We gotta win. There's no we have to
Speaker 1: win at home. You have to be winning at home
Speaker 1: if you want to be a great team. And that's
Speaker 1: the message this week again is hey, spend six in
Speaker 1: a row. This is our home field. We gotta win.
Speaker 1: Bringing that Heckler from Vegas who was behind the bench,
Speaker 1: that guy you just never shut up. And then Justin
Speaker 1: Pugh gave him a what four at the after the win.
Speaker 1: He went over there a game and what everyone was
Speaker 1: running right to celebrate, Q was going left right? Oh man, Max,
Speaker 1: thank you thanks for having me. Guys. You know I
Speaker 1: love coming on there you go. Max Williams, Cardinals tight
Speaker 1: end and always a great guest here on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage. We continue more about the Rams. Maybe if
Speaker 1: Wolf's nice to me, I'll tell them the story that
Speaker 1: James Connor told me earlier about Aaron Donald from their
Speaker 1: pit days. When we come back. In the Big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert thirty one, twenty
Speaker 1: five Rams with the lead trying to protect it on defense,
Speaker 1: third down thirteen from the twenty four of the Rams
Speaker 1: with Palkils, Mariota has a knee high snaps Ram sent five.
Speaker 1: They hit Mariota pro goes up. They didn't intercepted, have
Speaker 1: to go on. Jalen Ramsey out to the twenty and
Speaker 1: out of bound to the Ram defence. Jalen Paul's game
Speaker 1: in Week two to the Rams jab Long on the
Speaker 1: Rams Radio network. They were up three scores against the
Speaker 1: Lanta at home and needed that pick by Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1: They all produce seal a win against the Falcons. So
Speaker 1: let's see the Rams just like the Cardinals, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and forty nine Ers are all one and one going
Speaker 1: into Week three. It is the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by Santan Ford in Gilbert Paul calvec Ron Wolfley's Special
Speaker 1: Thanks to Big tight End Max Williams always a great guest.
Speaker 1: Among other things, wolf I liked what he said about
Speaker 1: Trey McBride because we don't know hardly anything about where
Speaker 1: Trey McBride is tracking, but man, he was effusive in
Speaker 1: his praise and an outlook for Trey McBride. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, honestly too, I am this is something I
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier, and then it was good to
Speaker 1: hear Max actually back it up in regard to Trey McBride,
Speaker 1: the fact that he sees him as a why as
Speaker 1: a stud tight end, a tight end you can line
Speaker 1: up on the tackles hip and let him come off
Speaker 1: the ball at the point of attack, and a guy
Speaker 1: that is equal blocker as receiver. And that's what a
Speaker 1: stud tight end is. And I hope that's what Trey
Speaker 1: McBride is gonna if evolve into. All right, every game
Speaker 1: plan against the Rams Cardinals, no better than anyone they're
Speaker 1: in the division, starts with trying to have a plan
Speaker 1: for ninety nine. Aaron Donald and yes, Cliff Kingsbury was
Speaker 1: asked about that this week. Donald nobody has a plan
Speaker 1: for that. But I like the group we have. Those
Speaker 1: guys Rodney and Hugh and DJ on that left side
Speaker 1: really communicate well and play with a calm when they're
Speaker 1: out there together. And Beach and Rodney have really helped
Speaker 1: Will him being right in the middle to communicate and
Speaker 1: help him play and not think so much being new
Speaker 1: in our system. So well, we'll do our best on Donald,
Speaker 1: just like everybody else. But but he's kind of an
Speaker 1: unstoppable force, and you got to make sure he doesn't
Speaker 1: just completely right the game. Yeah, they move him up
Speaker 1: and down the line, he won't just be over Will Hernandez.
Speaker 1: So I asked James Connor, as we know Wolf, we've
Speaker 1: had him on the Big Red Rage or teammates at pit.
Speaker 1: No one knows ninety nine better than James Connor. I
Speaker 1: asked him for something we don't know about Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: and he sort of smiled and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a game pit against Duke and he actually
Speaker 1: simultaneously tackled the quarterback and running back together at the
Speaker 1: mesh point during the handoff. He busted through so fast
Speaker 1: and got through the offensive line so quickly that he
Speaker 1: tackled both the running back and the quarterback at the
Speaker 1: handoff and took him down. Yeah, that'd be legendary right there.
Speaker 1: What no, Polly, And he's pretty good at swinging helmets
Speaker 1: as well. So what do you do? I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: what do you do if your cliff about Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: and then all the other problems that the RAMS present. Paul?
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you asked me this question
Speaker 1: right here, because I'd like to call it, Paul, the
Speaker 1: hexagon of victory. Are you ready, Paul, the the hexagon
Speaker 1: of victory? I got six points right here. Number one, Paul,
Speaker 1: I'd say, believe you can beat Aaron Donald in the Rams.
Speaker 1: That's number one? Are you good with that, Paully, believe
Speaker 1: believe you can actually do it? Yes? Number two block
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, all right, Paul. That's number two. Number three
Speaker 1: is stay balanced by running the ball, and run the
Speaker 1: ball in particular at Aaron Donald. Paul, that day is
Speaker 1: going to be huge, right there. I saw the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals run a version last week, of course, against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: In that second half. I saw them run their version
Speaker 1: of twenty two and twenty three double and Paul, I
Speaker 1: kid you not, it was double. It was the power
Speaker 1: without the poll. I'd love to see that make another
Speaker 1: appearance against Aaron Donald. Number number four, Get the ball
Speaker 1: out quickly to slow Aaron Donald down. Paul, all right,
Speaker 1: throw the ball, get it out quickly of the pocket.
Speaker 1: Number five, stay out a third and obvious pass situations
Speaker 1: so you can avoid sacks and pressures from Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: That's number five. Number six, the hexagon of victory once again, Paul,
Speaker 1: pick and choose when you go up tempo in this game,
Speaker 1: and when you run wide receiver screens, and when you
Speaker 1: run middle screens to the running back to exhaust Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: There you go, Paul, You're a hexagon of victory. Okay.
Speaker 1: So there were six there, hence the hexagon, and five
Speaker 1: of them had to do directly with Aaron Donald. Actually
Speaker 1: all of them. Paul. Okay, you forgot about the first one,
Speaker 1: which is prepare yourself to beat them, believe you can
Speaker 1: actually win. Oh okay, I thought that was just a
Speaker 1: general believe you can beat the Rams because they have
Speaker 1: lost ten of the last eleven against Sean mcvagh and
Speaker 1: the Rams. Man. I know, Paul, and it really is.
Speaker 1: It's tough. The one good thing about it is, of course,
Speaker 1: at least that one victory has occurred in the Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury era right in it. It's not distant memory either.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go all the way back to
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. You have to look just to twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one last year and the fact that they beat the
Speaker 1: Rams and beat them soundly in La. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know you remember the headline after that Week four win
Speaker 1: in La Empty Cup. So I'm gonna take your hexagon,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it an octagon, and I'm gonna add
Speaker 1: two more bullet points. Both have to do with Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: mister triple Crown or receiving and delivering. My points would
Speaker 1: be Buddha Baker who was asked about Cup and Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford together. A lot of formations look the same. You know,
Speaker 1: they're really good with you know, knowing when it's man,
Speaker 1: knowing when it's zone. And Cooper Cup's really good. Him
Speaker 1: and Stafford have a great connection with even if it's
Speaker 1: a maybe a ten yard end, he might sit it
Speaker 1: or he might even break out. And that's all goes
Speaker 1: with the connection that those two have together. There you go,
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker on that combination, which was lethal in year one.
Speaker 1: So now with another offseason, what are they gonna be like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ronald Doll, Polly Man, the Rams offense has really been
Speaker 1: up and down. They have really really struggled as well.
Speaker 1: And from time to time even the Rams defense looks
Speaker 1: a little disheveled, which is weird to see that because
Speaker 1: typically we're used to sing an Aaron Donald and Company
Speaker 1: run over. But man, I will tell you, Polly, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals got a shop, but they're gonna have to execute.
Speaker 1: Just like Max said, Well, don't forget about Tyler Higby.
Speaker 1: He has twenty targets in two games, so you gotta
Speaker 1: figure that out. Is Isaiah Simmons gonna in the tight
Speaker 1: end or not? Because you saw Darren Waller catch a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass against see Turner for example. So hey, Cardinals
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