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Speaker 1: question is when is bad good? And the answer I'll
Speaker 1: save you is when number ninety nine is in a
Speaker 1: bad mood that hopefully is bad for the La Rams,
Speaker 1: which is good for the Arizona Cardinals, And I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about the other ninety nine who's going to be
Speaker 1: on that field on Sunday. In fact, that might be
Speaker 1: part of the reason why ninety nine and Red was
Speaker 1: in a bit of a bad mood today with the
Speaker 1: media a little surly little bit, and hopefully that's tracking
Speaker 1: and trending well for Dame Day. Yeah. I was wondering
Speaker 1: about who you were talking about when you were talking
Speaker 1: about that ninety nine Paul JJ Watt of course, or
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald lookout abandon all hope he who went her here?
Speaker 1: In fact, you know what, here's an impromptu edition right
Speaker 1: off the top of one of my favorite segments here
Speaker 1: in the Big Red Rage featuring aj Green tonight. By
Speaker 1: the way, okay, TikTok, we call this let me tell
Speaker 1: you about football. Really. The year was two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley. Do you remember a guy by the name
Speaker 1: of Bertrand Barry. I do, as a matter of fact, Paul, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I consider him to be a good friend. Yes, you
Speaker 1: sat next to him on this show for five plus years.
Speaker 1: He's all right, let's remember the B train coming off
Speaker 1: his Pro Bowl season, fourteen and a half sacks season
Speaker 1: opener two thousand and five into New York, New York
Speaker 1: to play the Giants, and there was B Train with
Speaker 1: a sack and he comes through the sideline, and of
Speaker 1: course there's the mouthy Giants fans and they're yelling at
Speaker 1: the Cardinals bench and B Train start tugging at his
Speaker 1: jersey and pointing at his number and saying, this is
Speaker 1: the real ninety two. Because who was the premier passed
Speaker 1: rusher in the game? Now a Hall of Famer and
Speaker 1: doing a little bit of Network Morning TV these days,
Speaker 1: who played for the Giants at that time? Who was
Speaker 1: that ball? Michael Strahan and so Ba Train wanted to
Speaker 1: be known in the Big Apple that, you know what,
Speaker 1: he was the big deal, that he was the real
Speaker 1: ninety two. So maybe, just maybe Cardinals might get a
Speaker 1: career game in red from JJ Watt. I know it's
Speaker 1: a long way to go on that, but I just
Speaker 1: thought i'd share that with you. Yeah, thank you, Paul.
Speaker 1: We appreciate that. Honestly, I can tell you right now
Speaker 1: this is a huge game. Is a non poly this
Speaker 1: is you can feel the weight of this game right now.
Speaker 1: Would just say the Arizona Cardinals have received an awful
Speaker 1: lot of hype over the last three weeks. Right, a
Speaker 1: lot of people talking about the Arizona Cardinals. The only
Speaker 1: team getting more hype maybe would be the Rams. Yeah
Speaker 1: you win it, Paul, I mean it took the words
Speaker 1: right out of my mouth. That's exactly where I'm going
Speaker 1: on that one. I mean, if the Arizona Cardinals somehow,
Speaker 1: some way can actually beat the Rams at Sofi Stadium
Speaker 1: in La on Sunday, Maybe not La, it's actually Englewood
Speaker 1: is a non poly. I can tell you that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be the super Bowl favorite. Many people will consider
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals would be the super Bowl favorite. A
Speaker 1: weighty game, Baul. Yeah, after the Rams beat the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champions, the tam Bay Buccaneers, And I know the
Speaker 1: respect you have for Todd Bowles defense, and yeah, that
Speaker 1: secondary was depleted, but they scored on six straight possessions
Speaker 1: and so they throttled Tampa for a lot of that game. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals come off a win. They are three and ozho.
Speaker 1: In fact, do you realize they have won two consecutive
Speaker 1: ten am kickoffs on the East Coast for just the
Speaker 1: second time since nineteen eighty eight, and both of those
Speaker 1: have been under Cliff Kingsbury. Ye, think about that. And
Speaker 1: although it wasn't easy because we were talking to Cliff
Speaker 1: right after the game, you were doing the postgame show Wolf,
Speaker 1: and you heard him when we asked him about just
Speaker 1: the circumstances of coming from nineteen ten down and securing
Speaker 1: a win in javill we'd like to make it interesting.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt the end of the first half, you
Speaker 1: don't face many moments of momentum change as great as that.
Speaker 1: And I thought the guys did a tremendous shop at halftime,
Speaker 1: really settling in, having good conversation about where we need
Speaker 1: to do in the second half, and coming out and
Speaker 1: executing a high level. I can only imagine what the
Speaker 1: halftime locker room was like after they kick six. But
Speaker 1: then it was Buyer Murphy's pick six that changed the
Speaker 1: game for good. Yeah, there's no doll, Paul. They really rallied.
Speaker 1: They played very very well when they absolutely had to
Speaker 1: because basically, for three quarters, and I think you would
Speaker 1: agree with this, they were outplayed. They were flat out outplayed.
Speaker 1: I thought to buy Jacksonville for almost three quarters and
Speaker 1: then Man, the tide turned at the end of that
Speaker 1: third quarter right there, and then the fourth quarter as well.
Speaker 1: This is a good football team that is trying to
Speaker 1: become a great football team. And the only way you're
Speaker 1: going to be able to be that great football team
Speaker 1: is if you can play great on a consistent basis, Paul,
Speaker 1: And that's what I think they're looking for. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: They got down nineteen ten in that game, and what
Speaker 1: was a touchdown drive by Jacksonville Eight plays, all runs
Speaker 1: James Robinson six carries, sixty six yards. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie at that point. Yeah, I was a little bit
Speaker 1: concerned before the tide turn. Cardinals are just one to
Speaker 1: nine on third down, although they continue to be nails
Speaker 1: in the red zone. But if you're talking about consistent play,
Speaker 1: are you not talking about the quarterback Kyler Murray at
Speaker 1: a very high level right now? The guy is off
Speaker 1: the charts right now, Paal, he really is. We all
Speaker 1: know he can beat you with his arm, we all
Speaker 1: know he can beat you with his legs. But Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray right now, the thing that's gotten me the most
Speaker 1: excited is he's beating teams with his brain. And man,
Speaker 1: that is the evolution of a franchise quarterback. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what a franchise quarterback has got to develop into, where
Speaker 1: he's just as dangerous on the field in between the
Speaker 1: white lines with his brain than he is his legs
Speaker 1: and arm. So for the second straight game, a career
Speaker 1: high and completion percentage better than eighty two percent against Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: He's the first quarterback in team history and that goes
Speaker 1: back more than one hundred years to complete at least
Speaker 1: eighty percent of his passes in two straight games. It's
Speaker 1: hard to believe. And now he gets as defense that
Speaker 1: last year was number one overall in total d and Kyler,
Speaker 1: of course asked about a Rams team that owns eight
Speaker 1: straight wins against the Cardinals. As far as defense goes,
Speaker 1: they're one of the best in the league. If not so,
Speaker 1: that in its own right is exciting. If you don't,
Speaker 1: if you don't got that in you, then this game
Speaker 1: is not for you, especially this one that we're about
Speaker 1: to play in this division. You know, it's it's there's
Speaker 1: no shine away from it. If you shy away from
Speaker 1: you're gonna get eaten alive. And that's just how it is.
Speaker 1: So that's how I see it. There's some more of
Speaker 1: that mentality. Well, if we're talking about with J. J. Watton,
Speaker 1: and here's what I've been talking about all week, Well,
Speaker 1: arguably the best team in the NFL get the best
Speaker 1: out of the Arizona Cardinals. We saw it in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: We saw it when they went in here. We're well
Speaker 1: aware the Titans were talking about themselves, dare I say,
Speaker 1: feeling themselves as a Super Bowl contender, and they came
Speaker 1: out and played accordingly. Now against Minnesota and Jacksonville, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can argue they might have played down to the
Speaker 1: level of competition at the time, but now, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, minnesot to win into Seattle, that win looks
Speaker 1: even better. I'm just very intrigued about you know, all
Speaker 1: this talk about the Rams and what they look like
Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford. Now say, no, I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: what the Cardinals look like, considering the stakes and this
Speaker 1: team facing this sort of challenge. Yeah, no, Polly, it's
Speaker 1: a good point. It really is a valid point. What's
Speaker 1: interesting about this fascinating to me. We all know the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals offense is playing at an extremely high level.
Speaker 1: We all know the kind of defense the Rams have.
Speaker 1: Yet you look at the tape and man, you see it.
Speaker 1: You see Aaron Donald. Low boy, he is good, Pollies,
Speaker 1: he is good out there. That's Aaron Donald. It's a bad,
Speaker 1: bad man, Paul, Stay away from him. And then you've
Speaker 1: got Jalen Ramsey of course, and Darius Williams at corner.
Speaker 1: Those are to me the three best players I think
Speaker 1: for the Rams, and they stick out like sore thumbs.
Speaker 1: But what's interesting is collectively this defense isn't nearly as
Speaker 1: as prolific as they were last year, not yet, Paul.
Speaker 1: Would it surprise you if I say they were? They
Speaker 1: were twentieth in the NFL in total yards allowed? Would
Speaker 1: that surprise you, Paul? It would even though they lost
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator and they lost some other parts to
Speaker 1: go from one to the bottom third in the league, Paul,
Speaker 1: would I would it surprise you that they're twenty seventh
Speaker 1: in terms of allowing first downs seven defense? Paul, it's
Speaker 1: really surprising to me. They're not getting the kind of
Speaker 1: production on the field that they are in the red zone.
Speaker 1: The red zone, they're doing a good job. They're number
Speaker 1: nine and points alot and the Rams are saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we played three playoff teams. No, you haven't. The Bears
Speaker 1: aren't a playoff team this year. The Colts are not
Speaker 1: a playoff team this year. You played and beat the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: and you know they put some numbers up there with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and company. There's no doubt about it. You
Speaker 1: want numbers. I want a guy who started his career
Speaker 1: first receiver ever to begin a career with seven consecutive
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl selections. AJ Green is next on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan four in. Gilbert rows at
Speaker 1: Dan Ball right inside down the sideline out a man.
Speaker 1: It's caught by A J. Greeny. J Green just stabbed
Speaker 1: it out of the air, out of the den turn fright,
Speaker 1: stiff arming pen of five Penno diving into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Hey J Green with his first cardinal touched down, Go
Speaker 1: go datchet stiff arm for a J. Green. Hurry with time,
Speaker 1: looking deep, airing it out the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: It's underthrown. It's caught anyway though by AJ Green at
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line. That big body of AJ Green
Speaker 1: too much to handle. Man six four two good? What's
Speaker 1: the old axiom? If he's single cover, he's open. Throw
Speaker 1: it to him. That's AJ Green. That was from the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville win where he had five grabs for a game.
Speaker 1: I one hundred twelve yards receiving more than twenty two
Speaker 1: yards per grab the Minnesota touchdown. There and no better
Speaker 1: evidence that AJ Green is and Arizona Cardinal if you
Speaker 1: don't believe it as of yet, the Bengals are playing
Speaker 1: tonight on Thursday Night Football, but the original Thursday Night Football,
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage, is now with AJ Green, and
Speaker 1: we welcome it in. And AJ, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean, after a decade in the Natty, how you
Speaker 1: liking life here in the AZ I'm loving it. The
Speaker 1: weather is great, um, so I can't complain. Hey, J
Speaker 1: how is the season going for you right now? I
Speaker 1: realize it's only three games, and man, you've been around
Speaker 1: for a long time, but how do you think the
Speaker 1: season is going for you right now? I think it's
Speaker 1: going It's going pretty well. Um you know. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting more uncomfortable with the offense and the guys,
Speaker 1: so I'm having fun. Man, I just said it. The
Speaker 1: best thing for me. Man, playing so long that that's
Speaker 1: on the spot that you know, I'm having fun again,
Speaker 1: and we're winning and we have a great team, and
Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: And that's not just you saying it. Did you mention
Speaker 1: last week that your family called and had that same
Speaker 1: observation just watching you on TV? Oh yeah, yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of my my family back home back in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: It cause like, man, you're just smiling, You're having fun again.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I am, Um, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: winning brains. I'm happiness though. Is it just the winning
Speaker 1: a j I bean? It is it? Just everything I
Speaker 1: would imagine is new to you. I remember I played
Speaker 1: seven years with the Cardinals and I went to the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns and suddenly walking into that locker room for
Speaker 1: the first time, everything was new, Everything was different, and
Speaker 1: I felt re energized. Is is that something that happened
Speaker 1: to you? Yeah? You know, you know, I love my
Speaker 1: time and Cincinnati would never trade it for anything. And
Speaker 1: you know I made some lifelong friends there in Cincinnati. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, everything, every good thing comes to an
Speaker 1: end to where you know, I came here and you know,
Speaker 1: the new spot, the new atmosphere just gave me another
Speaker 1: you know, another boost. Man. I just you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people said I couldn't play again or I'm
Speaker 1: losing the step. But you know, I know the work
Speaker 1: that I put in each every year, and I still
Speaker 1: have a lot of lesson to taking. I'm glad Arizona
Speaker 1: gaming this opportunity. AJ Green is our guest. How's the fit?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a weird question, but you know,
Speaker 1: you go somewhere new and maybe you think you know,
Speaker 1: but you don't know for certain. I mean, how has
Speaker 1: the fit been? Both the lifestyle, the locker room and
Speaker 1: the offense. It's been great. It's been great, man, Um,
Speaker 1: I get the player on the side of hop see Kurt,
Speaker 1: the fitth been great. Man. We push each other every day. UM.
Speaker 1: I think one thing about our receive a room. Man,
Speaker 1: there's no egos in that room. Um. We all feed
Speaker 1: off each other energy. We all compete at a high
Speaker 1: level and try to make each other better. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, in that room and we like we're like brothers,
Speaker 1: Like we communicate when we got to eat. Um, we
Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff together. You know. I love
Speaker 1: that AJ to hear that because it does remind me
Speaker 1: of any football teams that I have been on and
Speaker 1: some of the more talented position rooms that I've I've
Speaker 1: been around, and the guys really had to communicate. I
Speaker 1: was so glad to hear you use that word communicate
Speaker 1: because you have to be able to talk about it, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you guys actually sit down and discuss Hey, listen, guys,
Speaker 1: we understand there's one football here and we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of talented guys in this room. Do you talk
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah, of course. Um, you know, we know
Speaker 1: that that we have a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, guys that can make plays on the ball.
Speaker 1: So you know this is you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough at some at some points its manly have one ball.
Speaker 1: But you know, we just we just stayed the course.
Speaker 1: Like I said, we know that sometimes we're not gonna
Speaker 1: get you know, it might be my day, it might
Speaker 1: be hop day, um, but majority of the balls, you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be spread around. Um and we go as
Speaker 1: you know, hop going Hop as a guy that's gonna
Speaker 1: demand a lot of coverage and make it easy for us.
Speaker 1: So you know, you know they bracting him double NM.
Speaker 1: We have to eat to loosen up the coverage for him. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you know what, You've been asked the dep questions
Speaker 1: so many times and for two guys like us, we
Speaker 1: talk Cardinals every single day. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: You cited I think last week that the two of
Speaker 1: you have a very similar personality. Expand on that, and
Speaker 1: does that have something to do with the fact you're
Speaker 1: both from South Carolina? Perhaps? I think we just approached
Speaker 1: the game like how we apposed the game. How he's
Speaker 1: you know, we calm, you know, we don't don't get
Speaker 1: too high on so we don't get too low on us.
Speaker 1: So we go out there and play the game, and
Speaker 1: we relax, and you know, we let our works before ourselves,
Speaker 1: you know. And I didn't know that about how until
Speaker 1: I got here. And how how smart he is, and
Speaker 1: the guy can recoverage this. He's telling me, Hey, you
Speaker 1: need to do this, or you need to you see this,
Speaker 1: you can break this off a little bit. Um. He's
Speaker 1: a very very smart guy. UM. So you know, if
Speaker 1: he's that's my end, that's how I am. So um.
Speaker 1: You know, I just go about my miss let my
Speaker 1: you know, my play, UM do the talking and and
Speaker 1: we let it rest there. AJ you said it beautifully
Speaker 1: right at the end of your last answer, you were
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that if you guys start getting
Speaker 1: the rock, if you guys start getting the balls thrown
Speaker 1: your way, that that's gonna eventually free up DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: Could you expand on that a little bit for people
Speaker 1: that are listening right now, what exactly you meant by that,
Speaker 1: because you're dead on it's the only way out really
Speaker 1: for D hup. Yeah, you know, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: we know everybody know WHATD have to do. Many in
Speaker 1: Italy for a while played at a high level and
Speaker 1: we know that defense is Cordinez is for him, is
Speaker 1: going to take try to take him out the game,
Speaker 1: and for us, we just gotta win out matchups. So
Speaker 1: you know they have they can play as honest in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: you were that guy for a decade. How is it
Speaker 1: now that you have you have less traffic. I don't
Speaker 1: know how the highways are and the commutes are between
Speaker 1: Phoenix and Cincinnati traffic, But you're seeing less traffic in
Speaker 1: the secondary, aren't you. Oh yeah, of course, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: like you know, not much double not you know, rolland coverage.
Speaker 1: Everything's pretty honest, man, And I haven't seen it in
Speaker 1: a long time, so it's pretty nice, a J. Do
Speaker 1: you know what the hoodie who is? Do you know
Speaker 1: what the hoodie who is? No? No, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. Any sane person doesn't know. Polly, be quiet, AJ.
Speaker 1: Do you remember when Kyler Murray looked out and saw
Speaker 1: you were You were guarded by a guy that was
Speaker 1: much smaller than you were, and he was ten yards
Speaker 1: off and suddenly Kyler threw you the ball immediately and
Speaker 1: you stiff from the guy and you scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: I know you remember that play right there? That was
Speaker 1: that was you, and that was you and Kyler being
Speaker 1: on the same page. Correct, Yeah, yeah, of course there's
Speaker 1: just another you know communication. You know, I always keep
Speaker 1: my eyes on him. Um, and I'm saying on like
Speaker 1: that is like soft soft coverage. So see back AJ,
Speaker 1: when when I used to play dudes, you used to stand,
Speaker 1: They used to stand out, slot right or split out?
Speaker 1: Why do like you were and go? Who do you who?
Speaker 1: Trying to get the quarterbacks in touch and throwing the ball? Well,
Speaker 1: that's because there was no one in Sundevil Stadium and
Speaker 1: you can hear each other. That's why. So Hey, speaking
Speaker 1: of AJ Green is our guest here on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage and a former Cardinal and a former Bengals
Speaker 1: teammate of yours. Frosty Rucker was our guest a few
Speaker 1: months packed during the off season. Okay, this is right
Speaker 1: after you sign in the line that has dotted and
Speaker 1: we're like, okay, AJ Green, what's he all about? And
Speaker 1: the question to Frosty Rucker was from us was Okay,
Speaker 1: how much does eighteen have left? Well? I think A J.
Speaker 1: Green have a lot left. I think his time was
Speaker 1: just up in Cincinnati, playing on turf, practicing on turf
Speaker 1: and you know, subjo temperatures, and it was his time
Speaker 1: to break loose of that. He's pro ball player, top
Speaker 1: of the game, a guy that could really go up
Speaker 1: and get the ball, great teammate, never hear anything bad
Speaker 1: had about him. The receiver group is just getting stronger,
Speaker 1: and if AJ gets enough football this year, he may
Speaker 1: just be comeback player of the year. How much truth
Speaker 1: is there in that whole comment from Frosty Rucker? A
Speaker 1: lot a lot of truth. Um. Like you said, man,
Speaker 1: every every great thing um comes to end. And like
Speaker 1: I said, you know, my time in Cincinnati were just up,
Speaker 1: no hard feelings against anybody. Had a great conversation with
Speaker 1: mister Brown. You know, I'd be a beingerful life man
Speaker 1: that best. There will always be a special place in
Speaker 1: my heart that you know. I became d AJ Green
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, so it's like it's always gonna be a
Speaker 1: you know, special place for me personally. But um, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: I just gotta gott an opportunity somewhere else man. And
Speaker 1: I came here man, Like I said, I want to
Speaker 1: think you know, the big Will family and Steve that
Speaker 1: it gave me opportunity, um, just to come here and
Speaker 1: and still play. And I still do have a lot
Speaker 1: less in the tank. If you talk to anybody that
Speaker 1: knows me, you know how I work, how I train
Speaker 1: and uh you know I let that speak for ourselves.
Speaker 1: Aj are you still learning this offense right now? Or
Speaker 1: do you feel like you you've got it pretty much? Master?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm far from masters. Every week. It's
Speaker 1: a learning process. Um. Um just trying to get on
Speaker 1: the same page as Kyler. Um you know how how
Speaker 1: place on one stuff run and um some stuff that
Speaker 1: you know like him detailing about what I need to
Speaker 1: do better or what I what I see, UM in
Speaker 1: this route? How I need to change it? So we
Speaker 1: always communicating and my receiver coach cliffs Whip. UM, we're
Speaker 1: always communicating like a you might need to do this
Speaker 1: or how you like this? Or do you need to
Speaker 1: change anything? UM? So every week man is learning. M
Speaker 1: I feel like you don't ever master anything because I
Speaker 1: don't you know, I don't believe in that. UM. I
Speaker 1: think if you're trying to, uh, you know, be great,
Speaker 1: there's always something you can learn. You know, we can
Speaker 1: see the arm obviously, we can see the legs on Kyler.
Speaker 1: You know what can't we see? What are you your takeaways?
Speaker 1: And I'll give an example of the growth I think
Speaker 1: we saw. And because he talked about and de Hop
Speaker 1: talked about and Rondel Moore it was in Tennessee and
Speaker 1: both guys made mental errors and Kyler held him accountable
Speaker 1: and you know he's pretty stern in doing so. You know,
Speaker 1: just tell us, because you're used to playing with veteran quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: what do you think of Kyler in that role as
Speaker 1: a leader and sort of a coach in the huddle. UM?
Speaker 1: I think you know for him is you know, being
Speaker 1: that that vocal leader. Um, because this is his team. UM,
Speaker 1: so we go as ego. I think he can see
Speaker 1: the steps that he's taking already this year. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we go out to dinner, We do dinners together at
Speaker 1: the games during the week. You know, we had we
Speaker 1: go quarterback. We see group meetings and he's running the meetings. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's a big step from what I'm hearing
Speaker 1: from last year. And you know how he's just taking
Speaker 1: command of this you know, this team and his this
Speaker 1: is his offense. Um. And I think this guy, you know,
Speaker 1: he has his talentness through the roof. Um. Definitely he's
Speaker 1: gonna be an a p candidate. He's gonna do all that. Um.
Speaker 1: So I'm very excited about about his growth. I mean,
Speaker 1: so ay j if you're gonna go eat, where do
Speaker 1: you guys go? I mean what kind of food do
Speaker 1: you like to go? I think last week, last two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, we went to Ocean forty four. Um, so cefood,
Speaker 1: Toco madero. We do we do a couple of spots.
Speaker 1: Do you bring the first round rookies Aavon Collins so
Speaker 1: you can stick up with the bill. No, we do that.
Speaker 1: We leave that for Rondel he doesn't like spending forty dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean he still loves he still holds Jerry Sullivan
Speaker 1: forty bucks A j that's tough. My goodness, were I
Speaker 1: remember where we we've made him by by snacks for
Speaker 1: the group, and he bought like forty forty dollars from
Speaker 1: Sully's all right. We continue with Ajre Green when we
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Speaker 1: with aj Green continues right after this. Kirk has split left.
Speaker 1: Under center is Murray honor the deep beat second and
Speaker 1: goal on the lawn. Murray takes play action, rolling to
Speaker 1: the left, and Murray will walk into the end zone,
Speaker 1: pour the touchdown, and then he sits down dent does
Speaker 1: baby Yoda, even if he denies it. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: that was lethal right there, head dirty. I might add
Speaker 1: to go ahead and run that play bag to James
Speaker 1: Connor and then just keep it and this time roll
Speaker 1: out to the left. That was philthy And he can
Speaker 1: say he's never watched Star Wars, but this is grogu.
Speaker 1: If you've seen the Mandalorian. It's grog, all right. Dave
Speaker 1: Pash there over his skis a little bit with a
Speaker 1: little movie thing. I know. Whatever day he sits around
Speaker 1: with his son Zeke and they break it down. I know,
Speaker 1: I get it. But you know, for the record, Kyler
Speaker 1: does deny any connection, knowledge, or inspiration thereof from Star
Speaker 1: Wars and Mandalorian, especially Baby Yoda, any and all the above.
Speaker 1: But for an outside opinion and a ruling, we go
Speaker 1: back to AJ Green here on the big Red rage.
Speaker 1: So AJ is the locker room buying Kyler's denial or not?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. I have no clue. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. Are you a Star Wars guy
Speaker 1: when he did that? Did you think yoga? Or did
Speaker 1: you think Baby Yoda? I'm not a Star Wars thing.
Speaker 1: So I don't. I really know any babe, but I'm
Speaker 1: thinking yoga. I was thinking yoga. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that does not surprised me at all that you're not
Speaker 1: a Star Wars guy. I'm with you on that one. J.
Speaker 1: What about you? Do you have a touchdown celebration? Do
Speaker 1: you have a go to for yourself? I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't have anything. Every time I scored my whole career,
Speaker 1: you know, my everybody, my family, my friends, They're like,
Speaker 1: you need to come up with a celebration. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's too late for that now. What I love that
Speaker 1: right there? Act like you've been there before. Correct, That's
Speaker 1: what I tell the young guys. Yeah, but didn't you
Speaker 1: bust out? Didn't you make your own touchdown signal against
Speaker 1: the Vikings. It's a very proper you were you were,
Speaker 1: you know, like Clive Blakeman, you're like an actual official. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody got me, gave me crab about that, and
Speaker 1: so there's look an old man celebression. So that's good.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Well, look you heard what Kyler's like, especially
Speaker 1: in the red zone. AJ. You know, when we were
Speaker 1: early in camp, Wolf and I were talking and Wolf
Speaker 1: always takes notes and some of the football knowledge I
Speaker 1: gave him, and I sighted a Wolf. I said, look
Speaker 1: at the personnel. When you have a j Green and
Speaker 1: now Rondel Moore and James Connor the big back, and
Speaker 1: then obviously Kyler with the wheels, this team is going
Speaker 1: to be a force in the red zone. And guess what.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals are ten of twelve in the red
Speaker 1: zone through three games. What do you attribute that to? Um?
Speaker 1: For one, this Tyler be able to make plays when
Speaker 1: when the players break down, because you know a lot
Speaker 1: of plays in the NFL scorings off. You know, not
Speaker 1: the routine plays is all something getting break down. So
Speaker 1: for us, we just gotta stay alive and Kyler gets
Speaker 1: out of that pocket. So because he's so dynamic, and
Speaker 1: then this guy is just making plays to hop At,
Speaker 1: I think he has three touchdowns to the way, he
Speaker 1: just three eights and gets open. And you know that's
Speaker 1: who we got to do. We just got to get
Speaker 1: open when the pockets breakdown on the play breaks down.
Speaker 1: So way, Jay, as you're watching tape on the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams and in particular, of course, I would say
Speaker 1: that defense right there, I'm sure that's what you're looking at.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about what you're seeing on tape from
Speaker 1: those defense? How do they like to play? You know,
Speaker 1: they don't give up the big place. You know, they
Speaker 1: got to one of the best player in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now, and there's Aaron Donalds and top five player
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now, Jen and Ramsey, and you
Speaker 1: know they've got a lot of other guys that you know,
Speaker 1: they play a great defense. So for us, we just
Speaker 1: gotta stay song and just take what they get of us.
Speaker 1: How familiar are you with Jalen Ramsey maybe from your
Speaker 1: AFC days? How often have you gone against him? They're
Speaker 1: only win against him one time, but everybody knows. So
Speaker 1: he's a great player, a great corner. Um, he's probably
Speaker 1: one of those physical corners I went against the tackles
Speaker 1: him and Marlin Humpies. I think I've one of the best.
Speaker 1: The two best corners you know, playing a run uh
Speaker 1: you know him and uh covering receivers. You know, they
Speaker 1: have the complete package. AJ was so weird because you
Speaker 1: watch the tape of the Rams, of course, and you
Speaker 1: see Aaron Donald and you see the Jalen Ramsey and
Speaker 1: Darius Williams. You know they've got good players on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Yet their numbers, they're twentieth
Speaker 1: in yards per game allowed, they're twenty fifth, and passing
Speaker 1: yards per game allowed, they're twenty seventh, and first downs allowed,
Speaker 1: they're twenty fourth one on third down defense, I mean
Speaker 1: it goes on and on. Yet when you get to
Speaker 1: the red zone, they're top ten they're top ten red
Speaker 1: zone defense and they're number nine and points allowed and
Speaker 1: as you know, that's really all that matters. Right there
Speaker 1: are they playing a ben but don't break philosophy, right
Speaker 1: and you not think, you know, the defense is something
Speaker 1: like the Mike Zimbers when he wasn't in Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: when he had the great defense and when the vikings
Speaker 1: um to break, I mean being but don't break. And
Speaker 1: that's scoring points. So have you keep teams from scoring points?
Speaker 1: You know, keeping the field goals and your offense can
Speaker 1: put up a lot of points like they can is
Speaker 1: you know, the numbers could be deceiving. A J. Green
Speaker 1: is our guest on the Big Red Rage. So the
Speaker 1: way they're playing defense, is there still room for the
Speaker 1: scramble drill? Is there still room for that second phase
Speaker 1: of a play? Does that work potentially against any defense? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's hard of stuff that that defense, I mean,
Speaker 1: that offense when you just got guys just playing back.
Speaker 1: Yeah football, Um, so we you know, we might have
Speaker 1: have to do that in some playing not gonna be
Speaker 1: how he jorde up of practice or we saw it
Speaker 1: on film or something like that. We just gonna have
Speaker 1: to you know, just get open one Tyler bridge that pocket.
Speaker 1: So when you watch them, what what coverage would you
Speaker 1: say right now is their favorite coverage? What do you
Speaker 1: expect to see? Um? You know what? It makes it up? Um.
Speaker 1: I think they basically get his own team. Um. They
Speaker 1: don't like to give up the big, the big, the
Speaker 1: big place. Um to keep everything in front of him
Speaker 1: and they wait for you to make some mistake. And
Speaker 1: how does ninety nine impact any game plan, any game
Speaker 1: just period? I know Sean Coogler was talking today how
Speaker 1: they move him around. He could be on the nose
Speaker 1: three technique, he could be on the edge. Just talk
Speaker 1: about the guy you called probably the best player in
Speaker 1: the game. Um, I think you know that guy. He
Speaker 1: just a he just a beast man. You know, I
Speaker 1: played with a guy like that and Wincin Eddie and
Speaker 1: Gino Atkins and I've seen what he did to you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of defenses and with Aaron Donald right down.
Speaker 1: This is like unreal. Uh. Um. He has to be
Speaker 1: a ton of for him every play because he can
Speaker 1: rip the game. Steve kaim Aj, he made a concerted
Speaker 1: effort to go out and get leaders and bring leaders
Speaker 1: into that locker room. I know you've been asked this before,
Speaker 1: but I haven't had the opportunity to ask you myself.
Speaker 1: What kind of leader do you think you are? Um?
Speaker 1: I think for me, I leave by example. UM. I
Speaker 1: think I I you know, I go out there and
Speaker 1: work my tail off, um every week, you know, in practice,
Speaker 1: meeting rooms, everything not try I leave by example. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, if I need to talk, or I
Speaker 1: need to you know, talk to some young guys, or
Speaker 1: you know, just keep that calm presence of you know,
Speaker 1: when you know this this game as a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Everything's not gonna be perfect. Um. I think I can
Speaker 1: step up, you know, and in calm you know, everyone
Speaker 1: down and when I talk, everybody would listen. Um. Uh.
Speaker 1: But for me, I leave example. Yeah, on that note
Speaker 1: right there, AJ, I mean, is it your job to
Speaker 1: talk to Christian Kirk? Is it your job to talk
Speaker 1: to Rondale Moore, to talk to these guys and try
Speaker 1: to develop them and mentor them. Um. I think for me,
Speaker 1: I just you know, the young guys. I think, if
Speaker 1: you're coming in with a mindset, if you want to
Speaker 1: be great, Um, you just watched the older players. I
Speaker 1: don't think I have to talk to Rondale. I don't
Speaker 1: think I have to park to see Kirk. To see
Speaker 1: Kirk is a guy that's that's unbelievable hum and having
Speaker 1: an unbelievable season. Um. So for me, like I said,
Speaker 1: I just try to lead, lead by example. For Rondelle,
Speaker 1: I'm showing them great practice adverts, habits, and how I
Speaker 1: go about you know, studying outside outside, you know, outside
Speaker 1: the stadium, outside the facility. As you wrap it up
Speaker 1: here with AJ Green, you mentioned Kirk. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think of this game, guys, and I think of the
Speaker 1: receiving talent on the field, just AJ and d Hop
Speaker 1: and Christian Kirk and Rondale Moore and then Cooper was
Speaker 1: leading in the NFL and most receiving categories, Robert Woods,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, who's still running that go rowdy at a
Speaker 1: seventy five yarder last week. How equipped is the Cardinals
Speaker 1: secondary and some of these young corners we know Byron
Speaker 1: Murphy is your NFC Defensive Player of the Week, But
Speaker 1: you know the Marco Wilson's of the world, who he
Speaker 1: seemingly hasn't blinked yet. He he hasn't had a welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL moment, I'm just curious. How equipped do
Speaker 1: you think the Cardinals corners are to face this Rams offense?
Speaker 1: Stafford and McVeigh. I think you know they they they're great. Man.
Speaker 1: We had a big test coming up week one with
Speaker 1: those two good receivers. Um, I think they're ready. I
Speaker 1: know from from day one Marco, we said that Marco
Speaker 1: is going to be a starting corner in this lady man,
Speaker 1: He's unbelieva was how he approached his game, how Communes
Speaker 1: is out there, he doesn't get too rattle. One of
Speaker 1: the stuff not going right the way he practices. And
Speaker 1: Marphy's he's playing out his mind. And I come in
Speaker 1: Mark because going to scout team, Murf's going going. He's
Speaker 1: gonna hop up on scout team and goal gets me
Speaker 1: just to get releases. So I know, you know he
Speaker 1: wants to be great. Um, he just wants to get
Speaker 1: extra work. And I think, you know, I do think
Speaker 1: with JJ chans A Jordan, we got a very talented defense.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's gonna take to walk out
Speaker 1: of there with a win, Like I said, Mary, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna take you know, anything crazy. We just gotta
Speaker 1: go play our game. We'll be fine. You know, I
Speaker 1: look at Marco just real quick and a fop on
Speaker 1: that I think of you. I think of you as
Speaker 1: an SEC Freshman of the Year, first Team All SEC
Speaker 1: as a freshman. And here's a cue who walked in
Speaker 1: and just started from day one at Florida was a
Speaker 1: four year starter from a true freshman on. Just how
Speaker 1: much does that equip you to be an NFL player
Speaker 1: when you have that sort of experience from day one
Speaker 1: in the SEC. I think it keeps you calm, man,
Speaker 1: It keeps you the game never gets too big for you.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a lot of young guys come
Speaker 1: in and to get a little shot. How fast you
Speaker 1: guys are. But playing as you see, you see that
Speaker 1: every week and you go against that every week in practice.
Speaker 1: So you know you're playing the floor with one hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: hundred thousand fans in there, and you come to the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know a moment's not too big for you. Well, Aj,
Speaker 1: I know you picked up golf recently. You haven't run
Speaker 1: into fits on a golf course nearby, have you recently?
Speaker 1: I haven't. I have. I think the last time we
Speaker 1: played with Kurt, and I see Kurt, we played camell
Speaker 1: battle like two weeks ago. Um, but that was last
Speaker 1: time we played. Okay, all right, well you know, if
Speaker 1: you have any breaking Larry News, let us know. And
Speaker 1: don't let Larry sandbag you out there on the course either, okay,
Speaker 1: AJ all right, right right, definitely, Hey J so much
Speaker 1: respect man, and love for you and your game, buddy. Seriously,
Speaker 1: you're a pros pro and I respect that. God bless
Speaker 1: you man. All right, man, thank you so much. All right, A. J. Green,
Speaker 1: thank you. What a pleasure. I thoroughly enjoyed it. That
Speaker 1: was great stuff here on the Big Red Rage. We'll
Speaker 1: come back. We'll talk more about the Rams game. And
Speaker 1: someone with AJ Green told us some of the most
Speaker 1: pointed comments there. It is the Arizona Cardinals Big Red Rage,
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Speaker 1: got gun stepped Lawrence three step drop open in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: picked off by Byron Murphy. Lawrence takes turns, gives to hide.
Speaker 1: It's a police flicker, pitching it back to Lawrence. Season
Speaker 1: Crumbill jump off past picked off nearside by Murphy at
Speaker 1: the thirty running it back to the left of the
Speaker 1: twenty tenth five cut down Byron Murphy after a horrible
Speaker 1: mistake by the rookie with a pick six, and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are back in front twenty three to nineteen Byron
Speaker 1: Murphy was all over that that's a great read by
Speaker 1: a young guy coming of age about it. The NFC
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Week Byron Murphy at the two
Speaker 1: picks and man, he's off to an ubelievable start. AJ
Speaker 1: Green sited his work in Game one going against AJ
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Speaker 1: For the latest updates on the Dave Pash Pod, follow
Speaker 1: along on Twitter at Pash Pod, Paul KALBC, Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 1: and want a pleasure to visit with AJ Green. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a guy wolf who began his career
Speaker 1: was seven consecutive Pro Bowl selections and you heard him.
Speaker 1: He said it again. I still feel like I have
Speaker 1: a lot left in the tank. It makes me think
Speaker 1: of two thousand and eight when the Arizona Cardinals. That's
Speaker 1: the last team to have three individual receivers with a
Speaker 1: thousand yards receiving a piece back when it was fits An,
Speaker 1: Quan Bolden and Steve Breston. If you're looking at d
Speaker 1: hop aj Green and Christian Kirk, especially in seventeen games,
Speaker 1: and the way Kyler Murray is dealing right now. Hello,
Speaker 1: Now you're right about that ballie, It's going to be very,
Speaker 1: very interesting because the rams and how the rams match
Speaker 1: up right now is basically the way every defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: is going to start defending Kyler Murray and this offense.
Speaker 1: Yea hush four, rush five whatever, play zone behind that
Speaker 1: right there and hope that somehow, some way you can
Speaker 1: actually keep Kyler Murray in the pocket, get pressure on
Speaker 1: him and he might throw you the ball. Hence, and
Speaker 1: you tell me it's so critical that now in year three,
Speaker 1: he's able to go through his reads and progressions like
Speaker 1: never before. Yes, they're making him think, are they not?
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury he told us on his weekly TV show.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, Jacksonville had shown a lot of exotic
Speaker 1: blitz is in the first two games not against the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: They did not see a lot of that. Matt just
Speaker 1: has incredible arm talent. Some of the throws he's able
Speaker 1: to make and cut lowis like a mortal man wouldn't
Speaker 1: even attempt, you know, but he can. He can do it.
Speaker 1: He's always had that gun slamm in talent where he's
Speaker 1: gonna take his shots and push the bat downfield and
Speaker 1: he can really drive the football. So it's us and
Speaker 1: to watch it, you know, it's kind of the perfect
Speaker 1: storm when you get a play carlier la mcveay and
Speaker 1: a guy like that who's played at such a high
Speaker 1: level for so long. He's tough, he's a great leader.
Speaker 1: So they really got it going. Actually, Kyler's had better
Speaker 1: communication with his receivers than I just exhibited right there.
Speaker 1: That was us talking a little bit later about the Rams.
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about Cliff Kingsbury and what he saw
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville and your point that that might be the
Speaker 1: norm until the Cardinals do something to make defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: change their mind. Did they not see that the last
Speaker 1: two months of last season as well? Yeah, Poulli, for
Speaker 1: the most part, right there, they did to some degree,
Speaker 1: of course, and this is what's going to happen. I
Speaker 1: think in this game against the Rams, now they will
Speaker 1: mix it up. They're gonna do that because nobody wants
Speaker 1: to be predictable. But it's a fascinating, fascinating game to me.
Speaker 1: And whether or not the Cardinals are going to be
Speaker 1: able to capitalize once they get in the red zone,
Speaker 1: that to me is the question. Red zone is going
Speaker 1: to be huge in this game. You heard aj Green
Speaker 1: right there talking about the philosophy of the Rams defense
Speaker 1: and how they go about their business, and man, that
Speaker 1: shows up the fact they're giving up yards out on
Speaker 1: the field. But once you get into the red zone,
Speaker 1: now you've got to score touchdowns. That's where the game
Speaker 1: is won in loss so much of the time, Paul,
Speaker 1: So think about it. There's on a Cardinals are ten
Speaker 1: to twelve in the red zone here in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: It's so good the Rams are top ten. But what
Speaker 1: about third down? Are you concerned at all? I heard
Speaker 1: someone say that Cardinals have been good on third down
Speaker 1: earlier today. No, yeah, you couldn't be more incorrect. That's erroneous.
Speaker 1: They are one of nine on third down in the
Speaker 1: week before against the Vikings. They are three of nine
Speaker 1: on third down. That has not been going well. Yes,
Speaker 1: it has not been going well for them. They've got
Speaker 1: to improve that. But can I flip it over, Paully
Speaker 1: and just look at the Rams offense here momentarily, because
Speaker 1: it's a fascinating study. Because the first two games of
Speaker 1: the season against the Bears, of course, and then on
Speaker 1: the road at the Colts, Paul, you know what it
Speaker 1: looked like. It looked like the Rams offense was Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: the same offense with Jared Goff, except it was Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford that was actually running that offense. They put him
Speaker 1: under center a lot, They rolled them out to the
Speaker 1: strength of the formation a bootleg, they rolled them out
Speaker 1: to the weak side of the formation a waggle. They
Speaker 1: used a lot of play action to throw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field as well. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: in that third game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Paul,
Speaker 1: they just came out and they spread the field and
Speaker 1: they said, we're gonna throw this ball. We're gonna throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Because the Buccaneers are having all sorts of
Speaker 1: problems getting pressure on an opposing quarterback that in their
Speaker 1: secondary is a complete mess as well, Richard Sherman. Of
Speaker 1: course they went out and got him, brought him in,
Speaker 1: signed him. This is that, this is what the Rams
Speaker 1: are capable of, Paul. They can do anything. They can
Speaker 1: run an offense that's more traditional, or they can go ahead,
Speaker 1: get in that shotgun and run a bunch of eye
Speaker 1: candy by you and throw the ball out of eleven personnel.
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna see. Would you say, though? And
Speaker 1: this is the feedback over done the Rams that Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford he throws the ball downfield a lot more than
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, who was tagged with the captain checkdown moniker,
Speaker 1: especially his last season. That he's more willing to take risk,
Speaker 1: he's more willing to take chances. There's a lot more
Speaker 1: chunk plays. I think the status they have a dozen
Speaker 1: pass plays of twenty yards or more. Yes, and so
Speaker 1: they're really a downfield almost not unlike a Bruce arians
Speaker 1: productivity when it comes to the chunk pass. Paul, there,
Speaker 1: you just nailed it right there. That statement. You could
Speaker 1: not have said anything that is more true. That's what
Speaker 1: they're doing and guess what they're doing it out of
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford under center and they're running play action, and
Speaker 1: that's where these chunk throws. This is where this actually
Speaker 1: is happening, even on some rollouts. Remember I talked to
Speaker 1: you about this very thing. I said, Man, I don't
Speaker 1: see Matthew Stafford being a good fit for the Sean
Speaker 1: McVay offense with Jared Goff rolling out and and putting
Speaker 1: him out on the I didn't see that as a
Speaker 1: good fit. Paul Man was I long about Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: He is capable of getting out. He is a much
Speaker 1: better athlete than I gave him credit for. Well, think
Speaker 1: about it. Cooper Cup now les the NFL and receptions
Speaker 1: yards receiving touchdown receptions to saw Jackson. By the way,
Speaker 1: Deshaun Jackson is doing for that Rams offense what Rondelle
Speaker 1: Moore is doing for the Cardinals offense in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. He had his ninth touchdown his career of
Speaker 1: seventy five yards or more, and then Sean McVeigh was
Speaker 1: so fired up he ran across the end zone into
Speaker 1: the tunnel to hug DeShawn Jackson. So I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know why, PAULI because he knew the kind of
Speaker 1: impact that was going to have. On his offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: even when DeShawn Jackson is not getting the ball. Between
Speaker 1: all the you know, exuberant energy from from Sean McVay
Speaker 1: these days and the eight no record against the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: he might replace coach Double Rainbow number one in the
Speaker 1: power poll or the most annoying NFC West opposing head coach.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, well this point, Paul, have you ever
Speaker 1: heard a sound bite from them? Paul? Have you ever?
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy just just buzzes right through whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I don't need to sound much. I'm sick
Speaker 1: of his soup commercials as well. Okay, so I get
Speaker 1: enough in the soup commercials in the motivation speech. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. He is a good coach, No, he is,
Speaker 1: he is, and I absolutely respect him. And Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the week after. Those are the two guys,
Speaker 1: more than anyone on the cardinal schedule, who can just
Speaker 1: flat dial it up and they can keep a defense honest.
Speaker 1: And here's the hole he can only stat for you.
Speaker 1: You realize the Rams are number one in the NFL
Speaker 1: on percentage of scores on their drives. They are scoring
Speaker 1: on fifty eight point six percent of their drives. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. I mean, that is so efficient. They have
Speaker 1: on fifty eight point six percent of their drives they
Speaker 1: are scoring the la rams. That shows you how high
Speaker 1: powered with a brand new quarterback who's still get his
Speaker 1: feet wedding the system. You know, it's amazing about that.
Speaker 1: Pauli is their number three in points scored per game.
Speaker 1: Guess who's number one? The Cardinals and the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers tied. So it comes full circle to what I
Speaker 1: want to see. And if you hit zoom out, like
Speaker 1: I've been saying all week, well, arguably the best team
Speaker 1: in the NFL, at least the team that's number one
Speaker 1: in all the power polls, get the best out of
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. That's what I want to know. By
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