WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Green Happy To Be In Red 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.520 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles ahead. 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:10.440 He got Jack. This is the Big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.760 by Santanford in Gilbert Harry's Gonna score Touchdown. Slim to 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:17.800 the Ground by Buddha Baker Like a torpedo, he came 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:23.119 flying into the backfield. The Rage is brought to you 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.000 by satan Ford in Gilbert Are You Satanford? State Farm? 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.960 Talk to an agent today at eight hundred State Farm, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:37.840 And by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts Visit Acy Cardinals dot Com, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:46.680 Slash Podcasts, The Rods, Rising Guard, Temperatureizing Vision, Flurring, Rage, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.680 taking it over. Here's Paul kelvc. Get the popcorn ready, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.639 It's gonna be a show, and Ron will flip. It 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.960 doesn't get any better than that horn. Unleash the far 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.120 Women is bad good? I don't mean to get all 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.120 metaphysical philosophical here on a Thursday Night, the original Thursday 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.080 Night Football, The Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.440 and Gilbert. We are santan Ford but Ron Wolfley. The 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:20.039 question is when is bad good? And the answer I'll 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.039 save you is when number ninety nine is in a 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.280 bad mood that hopefully is bad for the La Rams, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.400 which is good for the Arizona Cardinals, And I'm not 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.399 talking about the other ninety nine who's going to be 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.160 on that field on Sunday. In fact, that might be 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.319 part of the reason why ninety nine and Red was 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.000 in a bit of a bad mood today with the 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.000 media a little surly little bit, and hopefully that's tracking 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.040 and trending well for Dame Day. Yeah. I was wondering 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.360 about who you were talking about when you were talking 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.440 about that ninety nine Paul JJ Watt of course, or 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.480 Aaron Donald lookout abandon all hope he who went her here? 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.480 In fact, you know what, here's an impromptu edition right 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.560 off the top of one of my favorite segments here 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.920 in the Big Red Rage featuring aj Green tonight. By 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:08.840 the way, okay, TikTok, we call this let me tell 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.720 you about football. Really. The year was two thousand and five. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.520 Ron Wolfley. Do you remember a guy by the name 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.160 of Bertrand Barry. I do, as a matter of fact, Paul, Yeah, 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.280 I consider him to be a good friend. Yes, you 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.880 sat next to him on this show for five plus years. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.560 He's all right, let's remember the B train coming off 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.919 his Pro Bowl season, fourteen and a half sacks season 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.959 opener two thousand and five into New York, New York 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.800 to play the Giants, and there was B Train with 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.880 a sack and he comes through the sideline, and of 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.880 course there's the mouthy Giants fans and they're yelling at 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.320 the Cardinals bench and B Train start tugging at his 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.200 jersey and pointing at his number and saying, this is 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.800 the real ninety two. Because who was the premier passed 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.560 rusher in the game? Now a Hall of Famer and 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.799 doing a little bit of Network Morning TV these days, 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.760 who played for the Giants at that time? Who was 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.560 that ball? Michael Strahan and so Ba Train wanted to 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.280 be known in the Big Apple that, you know what, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.800 he was the big deal, that he was the real 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.160 ninety two. So maybe, just maybe Cardinals might get a 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.840 career game in red from JJ Watt. I know it's 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:11.120 a long way to go on that, but I just 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:12.840 thought i'd share that with you. Yeah, thank you, Paul. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.600 We appreciate that. Honestly, I can tell you right now 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.920 this is a huge game. Is a non poly this 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.280 is you can feel the weight of this game right now. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.959 Would just say the Arizona Cardinals have received an awful 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.000 lot of hype over the last three weeks. Right, a 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.440 lot of people talking about the Arizona Cardinals. The only 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.799 team getting more hype maybe would be the Rams. Yeah 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.560 you win it, Paul, I mean it took the words 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.960 right out of my mouth. That's exactly where I'm going 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.000 on that one. I mean, if the Arizona Cardinals somehow, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.280 some way can actually beat the Rams at Sofi Stadium 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.720 in La on Sunday, Maybe not La, it's actually Englewood 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.440 is a non poly. I can tell you that they're 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.200 gonna be the super Bowl favorite. Many people will consider 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.800 the Arizona Cardinals would be the super Bowl favorite. A 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.720 weighty game, Baul. Yeah, after the Rams beat the Super 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.080 Bowl champions, the tam Bay Buccaneers, And I know the 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.280 respect you have for Todd Bowles defense, and yeah, that 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.360 secondary was depleted, but they scored on six straight possessions 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.840 and so they throttled Tampa for a lot of that game. Meanwhile, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.920 the Cardinals come off a win. They are three and ozho. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.200 In fact, do you realize they have won two consecutive 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.760 ten am kickoffs on the East Coast for just the 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.799 second time since nineteen eighty eight, and both of those 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.080 have been under Cliff Kingsbury. Ye, think about that. And 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.400 although it wasn't easy because we were talking to Cliff 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.839 right after the game, you were doing the postgame show Wolf, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.920 and you heard him when we asked him about just 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.360 the circumstances of coming from nineteen ten down and securing 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.440 a win in javill we'd like to make it interesting. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.520 There's no doubt the end of the first half, you 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.919 don't face many moments of momentum change as great as that. 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.320 And I thought the guys did a tremendous shop at halftime, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.440 really settling in, having good conversation about where we need 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.160 to do in the second half, and coming out and 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.440 executing a high level. I can only imagine what the 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.880 halftime locker room was like after they kick six. But 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.560 then it was Buyer Murphy's pick six that changed the 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.440 game for good. Yeah, there's no doll, Paul. They really rallied. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.640 They played very very well when they absolutely had to 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.719 because basically, for three quarters, and I think you would 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.960 agree with this, they were outplayed. They were flat out outplayed. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.320 I thought to buy Jacksonville for almost three quarters and 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.360 then Man, the tide turned at the end of that 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.479 third quarter right there, and then the fourth quarter as well. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.200 This is a good football team that is trying to 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.160 become a great football team. And the only way you're 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.520 going to be able to be that great football team 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.520 is if you can play great on a consistent basis, Paul, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.680 And that's what I think they're looking for. Yeah, you're right. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.120 They got down nineteen ten in that game, and what 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.920 was a touchdown drive by Jacksonville Eight plays, all runs 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.760 James Robinson six carries, sixty six yards. I'm not gonna 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.920 lie at that point. Yeah, I was a little bit 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.560 concerned before the tide turn. Cardinals are just one to 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.920 nine on third down, although they continue to be nails 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.839 in the red zone. But if you're talking about consistent play, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.680 are you not talking about the quarterback Kyler Murray at 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.760 a very high level right now? The guy is off 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.200 the charts right now, Paal, he really is. We all 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.039 know he can beat you with his arm, we all 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.760 know he can beat you with his legs. But Kyler 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.159 Murray right now, the thing that's gotten me the most 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.960 excited is he's beating teams with his brain. And man, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.039 that is the evolution of a franchise quarterback. That's exactly 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.640 what a franchise quarterback has got to develop into, where 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.479 he's just as dangerous on the field in between the 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.320 white lines with his brain than he is his legs 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.560 and arm. So for the second straight game, a career 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:48.440 high and completion percentage better than eighty two percent against Jacksonville. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.360 He's the first quarterback in team history and that goes 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.200 back more than one hundred years to complete at least 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.880 eighty percent of his passes in two straight games. It's 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.680 hard to believe. And now he gets as defense that 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.239 last year was number one overall in total d and Kyler, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.560 of course asked about a Rams team that owns eight 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.520 straight wins against the Cardinals. As far as defense goes, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.320 they're one of the best in the league. If not so, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.880 that in its own right is exciting. If you don't, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.080 if you don't got that in you, then this game 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.560 is not for you, especially this one that we're about 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.200 to play in this division. You know, it's it's there's 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:25.880 no shine away from it. If you shy away from 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.680 you're gonna get eaten alive. And that's just how it is. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.600 So that's how I see it. There's some more of 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.440 that mentality. Well, if we're talking about with J. J. Watton, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.240 and here's what I've been talking about all week, Well, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.640 arguably the best team in the NFL get the best 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.920 out of the Arizona Cardinals. We saw it in Tennessee. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:44.920 We saw it when they went in here. We're well 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.360 aware the Titans were talking about themselves, dare I say, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.760 feeling themselves as a Super Bowl contender, and they came 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.480 out and played accordingly. Now against Minnesota and Jacksonville, Okay, 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.360 we can argue they might have played down to the 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.360 level of competition at the time, but now, all of 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.440 a sudden, minnesot to win into Seattle, that win looks 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.320 even better. I'm just very intrigued about you know, all 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.000 this talk about the Rams and what they look like 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.640 with Matthew Stafford. Now say, no, I'm curious to see 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:14.280 what the Cardinals look like, considering the stakes and this 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.360 team facing this sort of challenge. Yeah, no, Polly, it's 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.920 a good point. It really is a valid point. What's 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.320 interesting about this fascinating to me. We all know the 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.160 Arizona Cardinals offense is playing at an extremely high level. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.640 We all know the kind of defense the Rams have. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.360 Yet you look at the tape and man, you see it. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.320 You see Aaron Donald. Low boy, he is good, Pollies, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.480 he is good out there. That's Aaron Donald. It's a bad, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.480 bad man, Paul, Stay away from him. And then you've 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.720 got Jalen Ramsey of course, and Darius Williams at corner. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.600 Those are to me the three best players I think 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.560 for the Rams, and they stick out like sore thumbs. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.880 But what's interesting is collectively this defense isn't nearly as 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.400 as prolific as they were last year, not yet, Paul. 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:00.959 Would it surprise you if I say they were? They 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.840 were twentieth in the NFL in total yards allowed? Would 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.040 that surprise you, Paul? It would even though they lost 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.680 their defensive coordinator and they lost some other parts to 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.840 go from one to the bottom third in the league, Paul, 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.520 would I would it surprise you that they're twenty seventh 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:22.880 in terms of allowing first downs seven defense? Paul, it's 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.760 really surprising to me. They're not getting the kind of 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.480 production on the field that they are in the red zone. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.600 The red zone, they're doing a good job. They're number 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.520 nine and points alot and the Rams are saying, hey, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.040 we played three playoff teams. No, you haven't. The Bears 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.160 aren't a playoff team this year. The Colts are not 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.000 a playoff team this year. You played and beat the Buccaneers, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.440 and you know they put some numbers up there with 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.040 Tom Brady and company. There's no doubt about it. You 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.920 want numbers. I want a guy who started his career 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.160 first receiver ever to begin a career with seven consecutive 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.640 Pro Bowl selections. AJ Green is next on the Big 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:02.640 Red Rage presented by Santan four in. Gilbert rows at 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.720 Dan Ball right inside down the sideline out a man. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.319 It's caught by A J. Greeny. J Green just stabbed 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.680 it out of the air, out of the den turn fright, 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.160 stiff arming pen of five Penno diving into the end zone. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.959 Hey J Green with his first cardinal touched down, Go 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.680 go datchet stiff arm for a J. Green. Hurry with time, 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.720 looking deep, airing it out the middle of the field. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.199 It's underthrown. It's caught anyway though by AJ Green at 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.400 the fifteen yard line. That big body of AJ Green 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:40.760 too much to handle. Man six four two good? What's 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.920 the old axiom? If he's single cover, he's open. Throw 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.719 it to him. That's AJ Green. That was from the 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.480 Jacksonville win where he had five grabs for a game. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.559 I one hundred twelve yards receiving more than twenty two 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.000 yards per grab the Minnesota touchdown. There and no better 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.120 evidence that AJ Green is and Arizona Cardinal if you 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.320 don't believe it as of yet, the Bengals are playing 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.680 tonight on Thursday Night Football, but the original Thursday Night Football, 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.959 the Big Red Rage, is now with AJ Green, and 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.120 we welcome it in. And AJ, how are you doing? 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.319 I mean, after a decade in the Natty, how you 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:18.000 liking life here in the AZ I'm loving it. The 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.319 weather is great, um, so I can't complain. Hey, J 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.839 how is the season going for you right now? I 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.439 realize it's only three games, and man, you've been around 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.000 for a long time, but how do you think the 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.839 season is going for you right now? I think it's 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.880 going It's going pretty well. Um you know. You know, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.079 I'm getting more uncomfortable with the offense and the guys, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.400 so I'm having fun. Man, I just said it. The 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.959 best thing for me. Man, playing so long that that's 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.440 on the spot that you know, I'm having fun again, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.679 and we're winning and we have a great team, and 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.400 I'm just looking forward to the rest of the season. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.200 And that's not just you saying it. Did you mention 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.600 last week that your family called and had that same 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.079 observation just watching you on TV? Oh yeah, yeah, a 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.559 lot of my my family back home back in South Carolina. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.000 It cause like, man, you're just smiling, You're having fun again. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.760 I'm like, yeah, I am, Um, you know, just you know, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.920 winning brains. I'm happiness though. Is it just the winning 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.280 a j I bean? It is it? Just everything I 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.040 would imagine is new to you. I remember I played 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.880 seven years with the Cardinals and I went to the 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.839 Cleveland Browns and suddenly walking into that locker room for 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:32.959 the first time, everything was new, Everything was different, and 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.000 I felt re energized. Is is that something that happened 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.880 to you? Yeah? You know, you know, I love my 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.319 time and Cincinnati would never trade it for anything. And 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.640 you know I made some lifelong friends there in Cincinnati. Um, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.800 but you know, everything, every good thing comes to an 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:54.559 end to where you know, I came here and you know, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.079 the new spot, the new atmosphere just gave me another 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.679 you know, another boost. Man. I just you know, a 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.760 lot of people said I couldn't play again or I'm 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.200 losing the step. But you know, I know the work 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.240 that I put in each every year, and I still 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.439 have a lot of lesson to taking. I'm glad Arizona 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.120 gaming this opportunity. AJ Green is our guest. How's the fit? 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.079 I don't know if that's a weird question, but you know, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.679 you go somewhere new and maybe you think you know, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.000 but you don't know for certain. I mean, how has 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.079 the fit been? Both the lifestyle, the locker room and 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.840 the offense. It's been great. It's been great, man, Um, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.920 I get the player on the side of hop see Kurt, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.440 the fitth been great. Man. We push each other every day. UM. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.720 I think one thing about our receive a room. Man, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.080 there's no egos in that room. Um. We all feed 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.200 off each other energy. We all compete at a high 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.800 level and try to make each other better. And I think, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.600 you know, in that room and we like we're like brothers, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.319 Like we communicate when we got to eat. Um, we 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.440 do a lot of stuff together. You know. I love 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.040 that AJ to hear that because it does remind me 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.880 of any football teams that I have been on and 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.760 some of the more talented position rooms that I've I've 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.760 been around, and the guys really had to communicate. I 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.359 was so glad to hear you use that word communicate 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.360 because you have to be able to talk about it, right, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.760 I mean, do you guys actually sit down and discuss Hey, listen, guys, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.080 we understand there's one football here and we've got a 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:24.200 lot of talented guys in this room. Do you talk 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.920 about that? Yeah, of course. Um, you know, we know 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.200 that that we have a lot of a lot of 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.640 you know, guys that can make plays on the ball. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.440 So you know this is you know, it's gonna be 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.120 tough at some at some points its manly have one ball. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.240 But you know, we just we just stayed the course. 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.560 Like I said, we know that sometimes we're not gonna 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.360 get you know, it might be my day, it might 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.600 be hop day, um, but majority of the balls, you know, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.800 it's gonna be spread around. Um and we go as 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.600 you know, hop going Hop as a guy that's gonna 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.560 demand a lot of coverage and make it easy for us. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.800 So you know, you know they bracting him double NM. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.640 We have to eat to loosen up the coverage for him. Yes, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.600 and you know what, You've been asked the dep questions 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.400 so many times and for two guys like us, we 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.240 talk Cardinals every single day. Let me ask you this. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.360 You cited I think last week that the two of 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.360 you have a very similar personality. Expand on that, and 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.200 does that have something to do with the fact you're 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.120 both from South Carolina? Perhaps? I think we just approached 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.120 the game like how we apposed the game. How he's 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.640 you know, we calm, you know, we don't don't get 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.400 too high on so we don't get too low on us. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:30.800 So we go out there and play the game, and 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.360 we relax, and you know, we let our works before ourselves, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.400 you know. And I didn't know that about how until 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.320 I got here. And how how smart he is, and 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.040 the guy can recoverage this. He's telling me, Hey, you 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.120 need to do this, or you need to you see this, 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.360 you can break this off a little bit. Um. He's 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.360 a very very smart guy. UM. So you know, if 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.280 he's that's my end, that's how I am. So um. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.520 You know, I just go about my miss let my 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.840 you know, my play, UM do the talking and and 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.880 we let it rest there. AJ you said it beautifully 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.360 right at the end of your last answer, you were 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.520 talking about the fact that if you guys start getting 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.840 the rock, if you guys start getting the balls thrown 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.560 your way, that that's gonna eventually free up DeAndre Hopkins. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.840 Could you expand on that a little bit for people 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.000 that are listening right now, what exactly you meant by that, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.840 because you're dead on it's the only way out really 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.840 for D hup. Yeah, you know, of course, you know, 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.680 we know everybody know WHATD have to do. Many in 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.360 Italy for a while played at a high level and 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.920 we know that defense is Cordinez is for him, is 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:38.480 going to take try to take him out the game, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.440 and for us, we just gotta win out matchups. So 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.920 you know they have they can play as honest in Cincinnati, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.400 you were that guy for a decade. How is it 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.600 now that you have you have less traffic. I don't 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.440 know how the highways are and the commutes are between 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.160 Phoenix and Cincinnati traffic, But you're seeing less traffic in 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.640 the secondary, aren't you. Oh yeah, of course, Um, you know, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:03.320 like you know, not much double not you know, rolland coverage. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.359 Everything's pretty honest, man, And I haven't seen it in 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.080 a long time, so it's pretty nice, a J. Do 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.440 you know what the hoodie who is? Do you know 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:14.600 what the hoodie who is? No? No, I don't. I 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:20.520 don't know what. Any sane person doesn't know. Polly, be quiet, AJ. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.960 Do you remember when Kyler Murray looked out and saw 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.080 you were You were guarded by a guy that was 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.280 much smaller than you were, and he was ten yards 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.800 off and suddenly Kyler threw you the ball immediately and 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.520 you stiff from the guy and you scored a touchdown. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.359 I know you remember that play right there? That was 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.080 that was you, and that was you and Kyler being 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.640 on the same page. Correct, Yeah, yeah, of course there's 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.000 just another you know communication. You know, I always keep 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.440 my eyes on him. Um, and I'm saying on like 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.639 that is like soft soft coverage. So see back AJ, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.840 when when I used to play dudes, you used to stand, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.320 They used to stand out, slot right or split out? 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:04.360 Why do like you were and go? Who do you who? 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:10.400 Trying to get the quarterbacks in touch and throwing the ball? Well, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.320 that's because there was no one in Sundevil Stadium and 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.800 you can hear each other. That's why. So Hey, speaking 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.240 of AJ Green is our guest here on the Big 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.760 Red Rage and a former Cardinal and a former Bengals 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.360 teammate of yours. Frosty Rucker was our guest a few 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.719 months packed during the off season. Okay, this is right 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.840 after you sign in the line that has dotted and 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.000 we're like, okay, AJ Green, what's he all about? And 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.320 the question to Frosty Rucker was from us was Okay, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.200 how much does eighteen have left? Well? I think A J. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.280 Green have a lot left. I think his time was 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.720 just up in Cincinnati, playing on turf, practicing on turf 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.000 and you know, subjo temperatures, and it was his time 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.280 to break loose of that. He's pro ball player, top 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.359 of the game, a guy that could really go up 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.960 and get the ball, great teammate, never hear anything bad 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.200 had about him. The receiver group is just getting stronger, 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.760 and if AJ gets enough football this year, he may 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.560 just be comeback player of the year. How much truth 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.359 is there in that whole comment from Frosty Rucker? A 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.919 lot a lot of truth. Um. Like you said, man, 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.960 every every great thing um comes to end. And like 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.600 I said, you know, my time in Cincinnati were just up, 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.480 no hard feelings against anybody. Had a great conversation with 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.000 mister Brown. You know, I'd be a beingerful life man 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.159 that best. There will always be a special place in 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.680 my heart that you know. I became d AJ Green 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.399 in Cincinnati, so it's like it's always gonna be a 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:40.600 you know, special place for me personally. But um, you know, UM, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.480 I just gotta gott an opportunity somewhere else man. And 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.920 I came here man, Like I said, I want to 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.080 think you know, the big Will family and Steve that 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.000 it gave me opportunity, um, just to come here and 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.639 and still play. And I still do have a lot 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.240 less in the tank. If you talk to anybody that 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.640 knows me, you know how I work, how I train 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.479 and uh you know I let that speak for ourselves. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.159 Aj are you still learning this offense right now? Or 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.720 do you feel like you you've got it pretty much? Master? 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.320 I don't know. I'm far from masters. Every week. It's 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.240 a learning process. Um. Um just trying to get on 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.960 the same page as Kyler. Um you know how how 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.800 place on one stuff run and um some stuff that 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:26.440 you know like him detailing about what I need to 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.680 do better or what I what I see, UM in 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.359 this route? How I need to change it? So we 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.680 always communicating and my receiver coach cliffs Whip. UM, we're 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.600 always communicating like a you might need to do this 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.760 or how you like this? Or do you need to 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.320 change anything? UM? So every week man is learning. M 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.960 I feel like you don't ever master anything because I 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.480