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Speaker 1: taking it over. Here's Paul Calvc. Get the popcorn ready.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a show and Ron will fleep. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far years ago,
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley, we gave you a T shirt. It was
Speaker 1: a custom design T shirt just for you and a
Speaker 1: few other select people. And this actually is in addition
Speaker 1: to the prove it Everyday T shirt that you have
Speaker 1: in your closet. This particular T shirt read and I quote,
Speaker 1: effort beats talent if talent doesn't bring the effort. So
Speaker 1: coach kyl VC is here to say that, you know,
Speaker 1: you can throw the word energy in there. Energy beats
Speaker 1: talent if talent doesn't bring the energy, because is that
Speaker 1: not what we saw out there against Carolina. As the
Speaker 1: bad news the bye week arrived two weeks earlier than expected.
Speaker 1: The good news, energy should not be a problem. It's
Speaker 1: never a problem when the Cardinals go to Seattle because boom,
Speaker 1: you go in and it's you against the world. And
Speaker 1: so there's no better game in my opinion, based on
Speaker 1: the last game we saw, than for the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: to go and take on the Seahawks on the road
Speaker 1: right before the bye week. And here we are with
Speaker 1: a big red rage featuring Jalen Thompson tonight, Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 1: are you ready? I'm ready for that ballet? Really, but
Speaker 1: you're so right on it right now. I mean, this
Speaker 1: game is going to be the intensity of the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals versus the desperation of the Seattle Seahawks. That's what
Speaker 1: it's gonna come. Doubt, listen it. It doesn't matter, Paul.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if Kyler plays or doesn't play. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if Dha plays or doesn't play. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if the twelves are there or they're not there.
Speaker 1: None of it matters. If the Arizona Cardinals go out
Speaker 1: with the intensity we saw last week against the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: none of it matters because they'll get destroyed if that
Speaker 1: happens again. It was almost as if the Cardinals took
Speaker 1: a sick day, as in, we're sick of playing football.
Speaker 1: That's what it looked like to a certain degree. And look,
Speaker 1: they have eleven games before the bye, so we'll see
Speaker 1: what it's all about on Sunday. To your point, we
Speaker 1: may or may not see Kyler Murray. And the injury
Speaker 1: report has come out, the long awaited an injury report today. Yes,
Speaker 1: he is listed as limited limited. So there's what you
Speaker 1: read as in the injury report and there it is, okay,
Speaker 1: And then there's what they say and Kyler saying for
Speaker 1: the second straight week that he's making quote crazy progress
Speaker 1: in big strides. Okay, are you going to break something here?
Speaker 1: Are you going to break a story? It's just my
Speaker 1: own observation, Oh, your own observation, okay, literally an observation.
Speaker 1: There's what you see they allow you to see in
Speaker 1: the open part of practice, okay, or talking about practice,
Speaker 1: man and there was Kyler and oh boy, he wasn't
Speaker 1: just throwing a football round Wilfley. He was taking a
Speaker 1: drop and throwing a football. He was moving his feet,
Speaker 1: he was chopping his feet and moving around and throwing
Speaker 1: a football, which is more than he did this time
Speaker 1: a week ago. So maybe, just maybe that is something
Speaker 1: that foreshadows his re emergence on Sunday. Yeah, Polly, honestly,
Speaker 1: right now, I hope you're right about that, because I
Speaker 1: do want to see Kyler Murray. There's no doubt I
Speaker 1: want to see Kyler Murray out there. I think it's
Speaker 1: important that he gets out there. Even though the bye
Speaker 1: is coming, I understand that. I still think it's important
Speaker 1: that he gets out there if he can play. Now. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not a situation where you want to risk Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray for the rest of the season. But we're talking
Speaker 1: about an ankle here. I don't think it is a risk,
Speaker 1: and every player has got to make up his own mind.
Speaker 1: It should be that way, Paulie. Every player has the right, obviously,
Speaker 1: has the choice to determine whether or not he's going
Speaker 1: to play based on the set of circumstances he's been given.
Speaker 1: None of it has anything to do with being a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback or not. It's just a personal decision that
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has to make. Let's hope Paul that he's
Speaker 1: able to play, and I'd love to see that going
Speaker 1: into the bye because we all know what the Cardinal's
Speaker 1: offense looked like minus Kyler Murray against Carolina. They had
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty nine total yards. They got out
Speaker 1: first down, if you will, twenty four to eleven. They
Speaker 1: got out rush one sixty six to sixty five. So
Speaker 1: they were a team that got down seventeen nothing, they
Speaker 1: got down twenty three nothing. So it was glaring and
Speaker 1: apparent what they were missing without not only Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: but d Hop. They're only legitimate number one receiver on
Speaker 1: this roster, and Cliff Kingsbury was asked an obvious but
Speaker 1: very important question about that this week. Those are two
Speaker 1: of the best players in the league. So there's things
Speaker 1: that they have to do to try and account for
Speaker 1: both guys, whether it's Kyler in the quarterback run game
Speaker 1: each and every time he's handling the ball off or Hop,
Speaker 1: you know, any type of one on one situation, and
Speaker 1: so you're gonna get played differently when those two guys
Speaker 1: aren't are out there, that's for sure. What did Chase
Speaker 1: Edmonds told us the first week of his first training
Speaker 1: camp two years ago. This is for Kyler Murray, he said.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's an extra blocker in the run game. Sure,
Speaker 1: because the defense asked to account for him running the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, PAULI. But right there, what Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury said, Make no mistake about it, when DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray are out there. Let's just take d
Speaker 1: Hop by way of example. Right now, what do you
Speaker 1: think defensive coordinators? What do you think they prep for
Speaker 1: all week in regard to playing the Arizona Cardinals. What
Speaker 1: do you think they do? Polly? What's job one when
Speaker 1: it comes to d Hop? Yes? No to the offense?
Speaker 1: Stopping the Arizona Cardinals offense. Well, first of all, you
Speaker 1: don't want Kyler Murray getting loose, right right. I would
Speaker 1: say that's good, But I would say stop DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: He's not going to. I mean, that is job one.
Speaker 1: Every defensive coordinator has got to account for the fact. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's Kyler Murray. I understand that Kyler Murray and Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray running the ball, although he doesn't run the ball
Speaker 1: nearly as much this year, and thank goodness that he
Speaker 1: does not as we've seen in years past. Having said that,
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator comes in and says, we gotta stop
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins and that simplifies. That simplifies the defense for
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury when he knows that's what it defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: is trying to do. It provides order when DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: is out there. It gives order to the Arizona Cardinals offense.
Speaker 1: And not only that, it gives order to the defense
Speaker 1: and what the defense is going to do because they're
Speaker 1: not just going to single up somebody on d Hop
Speaker 1: play after play after play. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: So that brings a little predictability to Cliff Kingsbury in
Speaker 1: the offense. Do you remember the last MVP in this town?
Speaker 1: I don't Paul the guy. Guy by the name, well,
Speaker 1: you can just call him two times Steve Nash. Remember
Speaker 1: Steve Nash? I do remember Steve Nash. Do you remember
Speaker 1: the moment when he clinched the MVP award? It's when
Speaker 1: he was missing in mid January of that NBA season,
Speaker 1: when you saw what the Suns looked like without Steve Nash.
Speaker 1: I see, that's when you realize and appreciated the value.
Speaker 1: Hence the Most Valuable Player Award to Steve Nash based
Speaker 1: on what we saw last week. Kyler Murray, if he
Speaker 1: truly is a leading contender for the MVP award, if
Speaker 1: he comes back this weekend, when he comes back, and
Speaker 1: if he's able to just pick up where he left off,
Speaker 1: to me, that fortifies and strengthens his case to be
Speaker 1: NFL MVP. It's a good argument, Paully, it really is.
Speaker 1: But Kyler Murray. I like what I'm hearing from Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray right now. I like the fact it's going to
Speaker 1: be his decision. I think we're gonna see Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: on Sunday. This is just a gut feeling that I have, Paul.
Speaker 1: Nobody has told me this. I'm not playing reading the cards,
Speaker 1: so to speak, Polly, I'm not doing that. I will
Speaker 1: tell you right now. It's just a gut feeling that
Speaker 1: I have that Kyler Murray's gonna play, and I hope
Speaker 1: he does. My gut feeling is the Cardinals will play
Speaker 1: well on the road because that has been the norm
Speaker 1: this year. They are five and oho, the only team
Speaker 1: to score thirty plus points and allow twenty points or
Speaker 1: fewer in every single road game. And Kyler himself was
Speaker 1: asked about, Man, what is behind the Cardinals road success.
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, the maturity in the locker
Speaker 1: room and guys understand, you know what we're getting on
Speaker 1: the plane to go do. And you know we've been challenged.
Speaker 1: You know, we've heard all the talk all the year,
Speaker 1: you know, before the season. I think the guys just
Speaker 1: you know, have taken care of business and you know
Speaker 1: they've been playing with a chip on our shoulder. There's
Speaker 1: just something about the Cardinals on the road. Whether it's
Speaker 1: going to Tennessee and the challenge is stopping Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: whether it's going to the Rams and eight no Sean
Speaker 1: McVay against the Cardinals everybody now, whether it's going to
Speaker 1: Cleveland without their head coach or going against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers without their quarterback, there's something about this team.
Speaker 1: They're at their best. When you tell them, you know
Speaker 1: what their best isn't going to be good enough in
Speaker 1: some of these road challenges. That's when we have seen
Speaker 1: their best football Yeah. You know what's interesting about it
Speaker 1: as well, Paulie. So much of the time talent talent
Speaker 1: in the Arizona Cardinals are very very talented offensively and
Speaker 1: defensively as well. But talent and intensity at home sometime
Speaker 1: isn't as acute as talent and intensity on the road.
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're going into a strange village, Paul, You're going
Speaker 1: into somebody else's encampment, so to speak, by the river,
Speaker 1: and you're coming get it, You're taking over their village.
Speaker 1: You love it. It is a challenge. You know, everybody,
Speaker 1: the entire world is against you. You're going into foreign property,
Speaker 1: foreign land, a foreign kingdom and taking their king Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll come down. Well, okay, not nearly as dramatic a dance.
Speaker 1: Joseph today saying that home games have been a struggle.
Speaker 1: We got to figure out. My point, Paul is, when
Speaker 1: you're on the road, man, the hair on the back
Speaker 1: of your next stands off, especially in Seattle. There's a
Speaker 1: reason they've won four the last six in Seattle. Jail
Speaker 1: and Thompson is next. The Open Field Tackling edition of
Speaker 1: The Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 1: Third Down on eleven on the arrows on a forty
Speaker 1: one Walker in the gun, A Kathin in the backfield
Speaker 1: with him, takes the shotguns that blitz coming pass away
Speaker 1: over the middle, and a diving intercept him by Tom
Speaker 1: said he gets up of the twenty five runs left
Speaker 1: to the thirty and knocked down there. Jaalen Thompson with
Speaker 1: the pick all Math's Joseph point ahead and put seven
Speaker 1: guys on the line of scrimmage and bailed three of
Speaker 1: them on the snap trying to confuse PJ. Walker. The
Speaker 1: balls sailed on Walker and Thompson with a big time pick.
Speaker 1: No doubt as Jalen Thompson Wolf. If you go ahead
Speaker 1: and you check your stats, the second leading tackler on
Speaker 1: the team. You talk to some of his teammates, they'll
Speaker 1: tell you he's one of the best open field tacklers
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And talk to some of the coaches,
Speaker 1: they'd say the same, Bubby yeah, and he talked to
Speaker 1: some of those same guys will also tell you, and
Speaker 1: we've heard this from a few guys unprompted by the way,
Speaker 1: that he's maybe the most underrated defender in the league
Speaker 1: as well. You just heard his second career interception. Jalen
Speaker 1: Thompson joins us on the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 1: Santan Ford in Gilbert. Jalen, how you doing a number two?
Speaker 1: Where is the football? Do you just save interception number two?
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, of course definitely. I got him
Speaker 1: all stacked up in the house right now. Jalen, Man,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Really do appreciate it. Talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about your season. How is your season going?
Speaker 1: How are you feeling about it personally? I'm feeling really
Speaker 1: well about it. Obviously I got some things I need
Speaker 1: to work on, but for the most part, I'm feeling
Speaker 1: feeling real good about the season and feeling like I
Speaker 1: need to finish strong. If we ask fans, heck, if
Speaker 1: we just ask you, we got you. Where have you
Speaker 1: made the most growth? You think this year or maybe
Speaker 1: the last couple of years? Um, I feel like this
Speaker 1: year personally, I made the most squirrels. Just being confident
Speaker 1: going out there playing fast. I know what my job
Speaker 1: and I know what I'm supposed to be doing. So um,
Speaker 1: just me being intentional every day and going on the
Speaker 1: right I know I'd be fine. So pretty much, just
Speaker 1: the confidence, I'll say, coming into this season. Did you
Speaker 1: have a specific goal in mind and would you be
Speaker 1: willing to share it with us if in fact you did. Definitely, Um,
Speaker 1: biggest goal for me this off season was just to
Speaker 1: get strong. UM. I feel like I needed to get
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot stronger, put on a couple of pounds, UM,
Speaker 1: so I can be able to play in the box
Speaker 1: a little more and do some of those things. UM.
Speaker 1: Also helped with my tackling, as you guys mentioned. So, UM,
Speaker 1: that was just the biggest focus for me this offseason.
Speaker 1: And how did that go? Jalyn, Like, how much weight
Speaker 1: did you put on? If Anny, Um, I came in
Speaker 1: the season, probably I think I gained probably around like
Speaker 1: ten pounds, around around eight to ten pounds UM. And
Speaker 1: it's been going well so far. I can see it
Speaker 1: translating on the sale on game day, so that's always
Speaker 1: a plus. So you've actually gotten stronger as well in
Speaker 1: the weight room. Oh, definitely, definitely this offseason was was
Speaker 1: a was huge for me. I feel like, um, just
Speaker 1: going in there every single day some uh sometimes even
Speaker 1: more than you know what I mean, two to three
Speaker 1: times a day and just going in there and do
Speaker 1: what I have to do, get stronger for this season.
Speaker 1: You know, he had Zach Allen on what last month,
Speaker 1: right Wolf, and he said in his offseason because dance
Speaker 1: Joseph talked about that today, how much stronger Zach Allen
Speaker 1: is in his third year and how much of a
Speaker 1: difference that has made. And Zach Allen was kind of
Speaker 1: uncalled for, really, Jellen, to be honest with you, Okay,
Speaker 1: he put on some really good weight and then he
Speaker 1: reduced his body fat percentage. You know nobody, but he
Speaker 1: said a big thing for him was hot yoga. Did
Speaker 1: you do any hot yoga this offseason? Man? Any hot yoga?
Speaker 1: But that's definitely something I can see Zach doing. Is
Speaker 1: that za exactly? That's great? It's do you have any
Speaker 1: unique training methods? I mean, is everything in the weight
Speaker 1: room you know, nutrition or do you do anything out
Speaker 1: of the norm? Uh? Pretty much not anything out of
Speaker 1: the norm. Um, definitely not any high yoga going there
Speaker 1: every day. I mean, just just the basic stuff. Nutrition
Speaker 1: was also a big thing this uh this offseason as well.
Speaker 1: It's just um helping my weight get it up and
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, getting stronger and everything. So
Speaker 1: how much right now, Jollen, would you say you're absorbing
Speaker 1: this defense or has have totally absorbed this defense? How
Speaker 1: much do you feel super comfortable in this defense right now? Definitely,
Speaker 1: definitely the probably the most comfortable I felt in my
Speaker 1: football career. UM and a defense. So, I mean, I
Speaker 1: know the ins and outs of it. I've been getting
Speaker 1: some extra working with my DV coaches to make sure
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on top of everything. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: that's just the biggest part is just um being attentional
Speaker 1: and knowing the little things so I can go in
Speaker 1: there and play fast. Who's making the calls in the secondary?
Speaker 1: Who is that? Is that Buddha making the calls or
Speaker 1: are you helping him make the call? Who makes the
Speaker 1: call in the secondary? Um, it's definitely both of us. Um.
Speaker 1: Whatever we see, whatever check we need to make, we
Speaker 1: both echo it out and we both call it. And
Speaker 1: that's just the biggest thing. I feel like that's special
Speaker 1: with our defense this year is just the communication part.
Speaker 1: Guys are echoing calls and just you know, we're all
Speaker 1: on the same page for the most part. Imptant, you know,
Speaker 1: And we shouldn't point out that also part of the
Speaker 1: injury re port, we were talking a lot about Kyler
Speaker 1: and de Hop. Obviously, Buddha Baker was downgraded today. He
Speaker 1: did not practice with what's listed as a heel injury.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't go in Seattle, And I know they'd
Speaker 1: be a big ball for Buddha because that's where he's
Speaker 1: from and in college you actually trained with some of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks dbs and how much he looks forward to
Speaker 1: playing that game and he's always phenomenal on the road
Speaker 1: at Seattle. But how does it impact your job if
Speaker 1: Buddha isn't in there jailin Um? I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like it doesn't impact my job too much. Obviously I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to step up if he is down and
Speaker 1: and maybe you know what I mean, echo the calls
Speaker 1: a little bit uh more often than I would usually
Speaker 1: have to. But UM, I just feel like that's another
Speaker 1: part that's special about this team is that we got
Speaker 1: guys people are really really good, um and guys that
Speaker 1: are you know, that's just the biggest thing our coach
Speaker 1: is talking about is just no drop off, next person
Speaker 1: up if that's the case. So I feel like we're
Speaker 1: we're all good and that in that in that way
Speaker 1: as a team. When when he says when Jalen says
Speaker 1: that he's now absorbed the defense and he can react
Speaker 1: right away. Right, it makes sense because he was a
Speaker 1: supplemental pick. He came in right before camp, didn't have
Speaker 1: a normal off season as a rookie, and then his
Speaker 1: second year was COVID. He didn't have any offseason last year.
Speaker 1: So I mean you were sort of behind the eight ball, right, Jial.
Speaker 1: This is the first semi regular year you've had of
Speaker 1: your career, correct, Yes, sir, Yes, sir. And that's just
Speaker 1: uh And I have my hatstops and my coaches for
Speaker 1: you know, sticking around and helping me out, you know,
Speaker 1: the after practice and you know, just getting some extra
Speaker 1: work in. And that's been a big, big help for me,
Speaker 1: I feel like, in learning his defense and just feeling
Speaker 1: comfortable in it. What have you learned from Buddha baker Man,
Speaker 1: Buddha's taught me a lot of things. Mainly he's been
Speaker 1: with the focusing just on the little things, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, the stuff that's gonna take me from
Speaker 1: a great player to an elite player like him. So
Speaker 1: I felt like just those little things that he's teaching
Speaker 1: me to help me definitely, and I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: trying to do those things. How about open field tackling,
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are both so good. I mean
Speaker 1: in the ninety nine percentile of the NFL and open
Speaker 1: field tackling. Is that just something you happen to have
Speaker 1: in common or is that something you guys work on.
Speaker 1: Did you pick up a few things from Buddha or
Speaker 1: vice versa. I feel like that's just something that we
Speaker 1: naturally just kind of have just in that to just
Speaker 1: get the football down. But definitely me seeing Buddha all
Speaker 1: these years, these couple of years I've been with the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: UM has definitely changed my look on how I needed
Speaker 1: to play and how I needed to go about things.
Speaker 1: So I just seeing him and seeing how he does
Speaker 1: certain things on the field and is tackling UM, I
Speaker 1: know I got to step up and I got to
Speaker 1: make those exact same plays when they come my way.
Speaker 1: So that's just the biggest thing for me, is just
Speaker 1: uh looking at him and seeing how he plays and
Speaker 1: how hard he plays, and I know I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta play just as hard. Jay Len, I I think
Speaker 1: you could be a pro bowler. I mean, at some
Speaker 1: point in your career, I think you've got the talent.
Speaker 1: I think you've got the ability to be a pro bowler. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you think is your strength?
Speaker 1: If you had to pick one thing, what do you
Speaker 1: think is your strength of the game in regard to
Speaker 1: playing safety. Um, I feel like I'm just an instinctual
Speaker 1: type of player, and I feel like that's something Buddha
Speaker 1: has as well. UM diagnosed exactly, We diagnosed the plays
Speaker 1: and we can and we can see girls something that
Speaker 1: we can see and just react to it really fast,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I feel like that's
Speaker 1: I feel like that's really one of the biggest strengths
Speaker 1: for me. And like you said, open field tackling and
Speaker 1: doing stuff like that, I feel like that's also a
Speaker 1: big part of my strengths as well. Byron Murphy had
Speaker 1: something to say about y'all get to that in a moment,
Speaker 1: open field tackle. Take us through an open field tackle.
Speaker 1: It's Sunday. Tyler Lockett catches a quick swing pass. Right,
Speaker 1: there's open space between you and Tyler Lockett mcgi is
Speaker 1: lightning quick. What are you telling yourself? Well, how do
Speaker 1: you what enables you to make that tackle in space? Um? Really,
Speaker 1: just what we do in practice, And like I said,
Speaker 1: I know I keep bringing it up, but it's just
Speaker 1: the fact of being intention intentional with everything that we do.
Speaker 1: So when we're in practice, we practice on tagging off
Speaker 1: on the hip every single day and that's just focusing
Speaker 1: on his hip and making sure that we got the
Speaker 1: right angle to make that tackle so that when we
Speaker 1: get in game day, it's just it's just you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's no thinking about it. We just react,
Speaker 1: like I said, So, Um, that's just the biggest thing
Speaker 1: is I feel like it starts in practice. Jaylen, talk
Speaker 1: to me about what you think happened last week against
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. What do you think happened last week defensively? Um, God,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of It was a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that happened. Um. Obviously, we didn't start fast enough
Speaker 1: like we wanted to. Um. And that's just all our
Speaker 1: coaches teach to start off fast and and and in
Speaker 1: fast and in that same way. So I felt like
Speaker 1: we didn't start as fast as we wanted to. But
Speaker 1: I feel like we definitely play hard all the way
Speaker 1: to the end. So UM, credit to our defense for that.
Speaker 1: All Right, Well, we'll see how the Cardinals respond in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Here's a Byron Murphy sees in you in your game
Speaker 1: and the growth overall. Because Byron Murphy was asked about
Speaker 1: Jalen Thompson today. He's funny because like sometimes when we're
Speaker 1: in the film room, we will watch a play like
Speaker 1: just can I get a call? Can I get a call?
Speaker 1: And we're just like j T, come on, bro, We're
Speaker 1: just all laughing about it. But yeah, he's growing. It's just,
Speaker 1: you know, just saying those type of questions in the
Speaker 1: film room make you really think like he's actually trying
Speaker 1: to see what the other sex he's doing, so they're
Speaker 1: on the same page and all those little detailed things
Speaker 1: that we got to run in our defense. So it
Speaker 1: sounds like you're thorough in the film room. Is that
Speaker 1: what I'm taking away from that? Definitely intentional, intentional with
Speaker 1: everything that I do, Like what sort of question would
Speaker 1: you ask? Like if we like, what sort of question
Speaker 1: would you be prone to ask in a film room session? Um,
Speaker 1: it's always different types of questions I'll ask kind of
Speaker 1: just playing playing around with the calls a little bit.
Speaker 1: It may be a guy that motioned I may at
Speaker 1: the room what do we do right here? Uh, just
Speaker 1: so that everyone's on the same page, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, the communicate his own That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like if we're if we're all wrong, we're
Speaker 1: all right, even if we do mess up the call,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, Um, that's just the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is making sure they're all on the same page.
Speaker 1: What kind of confidence do you think you have inside
Speaker 1: that locker room right now? Um, I mean I have
Speaker 1: could have a lot of confidence, and I know the
Speaker 1: guys have a lot of confidence in me to get
Speaker 1: my job done as well. And that's just the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: Everybody being thorough every single day and trusting the guys
Speaker 1: next to them to be able to get that job. Now,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about Seattle when we come back. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about what has gone well against those
Speaker 1: two Pro Bowl caliber receivers, what has not gone so
Speaker 1: well when they face Seattle. We know overall the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have done real well at Seattle, having won four of
Speaker 1: their last six. Speaking of DBS, episode eight of Cardinals
Speaker 1: Folk Tales entitled Money Mike's Redemption available now in the
Speaker 1: Cardinals YouTube channel that's YouTube dot com slash Azy Cardinals
Speaker 1: look back at the crazy two thousand and nine Wildcard
Speaker 1: game and now the smallest guy in the field made
Speaker 1: the biggest play. And you can check out the original
Speaker 1: audio podcast as well wherever you get your podcasts. We
Speaker 1: continue with a big red rage the roppolo back to
Speaker 1: pass rows over the middle behind the attendive receiver, and
Speaker 1: a diving interception at the five yard line. It's Jalen
Speaker 1: Thompson with a pick. I think Jayalen Thompson is just
Speaker 1: scratching the surface of what he could possibly become. Quick
Speaker 1: bro over the middle. It's broken up at the forty
Speaker 1: yard line, incomplete by Jalen Thompson. Made a good play
Speaker 1: breaking on the receiver. You watched Jalen Thompson right there
Speaker 1: lined up in the slot. That was just what a
Speaker 1: quarter would typically do. The way you broke on that slam.
Speaker 1: You know, if you said it earlier, a potential future
Speaker 1: pro bowler. And if you've watched every snap of every
Speaker 1: game this season, you not people know exactly what you're
Speaker 1: talking about. Jalen Thompson, And think about it. He missed
Speaker 1: so much of last year with injury. It's really his
Speaker 1: second year in so many ways, and just look at
Speaker 1: the playmaker he is and what a plus he's been
Speaker 1: for Vance Joseph and Jalen Thompson is our guest and
Speaker 1: the big red rage bit of a career montage right there.
Speaker 1: But you know what, you never took us through your
Speaker 1: interception against Carolina. I think it was third and eleven,
Speaker 1: as Wolf said, it was sort of a blitz bay
Speaker 1: all and three or four guys Rush seven or eight
Speaker 1: went into coverage and take it from there. Jayalen, and
Speaker 1: how the interception came to be against Carolina, Man, Um,
Speaker 1: like you said, Uh, we're showing a pressure. Look guys
Speaker 1: bailed out. Um looking at the quarterback up eyes the
Speaker 1: whole time and seeing the ball come out. I just
Speaker 1: made a made a good play on it. But I
Speaker 1: felt like it started in practice this whole week. Um.
Speaker 1: I stayed after it was on the jug a little bit, um,
Speaker 1: making sure that my hands were good because I knew
Speaker 1: I kind of felt like one was going to come
Speaker 1: this week and it came, so um blessed to have
Speaker 1: to have a second interception infl Jalen, how about this
Speaker 1: middle of the field or box? Which would you prefer?
Speaker 1: Oh Man, Um, I like being in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, but definitely the box you see a little
Speaker 1: bit more action. So um, I mean it's it's it's
Speaker 1: tough for me. I like playing both. I like playing both. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're glad you don't have to choose right exactly? How
Speaker 1: often are you reading the quarterback's eyes? It may be
Speaker 1: a simpleton one on one question, but can you get
Speaker 1: away with that when it's a Russell Wilson or an
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Not too much with those guys. Those guys
Speaker 1: are really, really, really good quarterbacks. But those guys you
Speaker 1: gotta stay plastered on your man. You know, they can
Speaker 1: make some stuff happen with their feet as well. So
Speaker 1: with those types of guys, you there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of room to do that with. You know, Jaylen, I
Speaker 1: don't have to tell you this, but as you know,
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks are going to be a desperate team
Speaker 1: three and six right now. It's almost like, especially in
Speaker 1: the NFC, you can't afford to go to three and seven.
Speaker 1: There's a big difference between being four and six on
Speaker 1: the season and three and seven right now. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get the Seattle Seahawks best, are you? Guys? Talking about
Speaker 1: that amongst yourselves. Oh, definitely are coaches that definitely made
Speaker 1: that have been known, Um that we are going to
Speaker 1: get their best and that from here on out, the
Speaker 1: weeks are not going to get any easier. So, UM,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to take a day by day and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, come out with that mentality that that we're
Speaker 1: going to get their best shot. So we got to
Speaker 1: bring our best shot as well on game day. First
Speaker 1: shutout of Russell Wilson's career, that's seventeen nothing loss at
Speaker 1: Green Bay. Oh, give us a quick step. What are
Speaker 1: you telling Marco Wilson, for example, about Russell Wilson. He's
Speaker 1: a rookie, his first encounter with a Pro Bowl quarterback. Um,
Speaker 1: like I said, just stay stay plastered on your men,
Speaker 1: just do your job. For the most part, quarterbacks like
Speaker 1: like him and you know Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, guys
Speaker 1: like that. Uh, there's no room for error. So we
Speaker 1: have to be, uh, be on our job and do
Speaker 1: our job, and I think we'll be okay. You've been
Speaker 1: watching tape obviously of Russell Wilson for the last few
Speaker 1: days here, talk to me about what you're seeing in
Speaker 1: terms of him pulling the ball down and running. Is
Speaker 1: he doing it as often as we've seen him doing
Speaker 1: the past? Um? I mean, I feel like he's still
Speaker 1: doing it a little bit. Um. But he has playmakers.
Speaker 1: He has playmakers at receiver everywhere, obviously Tyler Lockett, obviously
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and uh good tight ends. Um. So they
Speaker 1: have playmakers everywhere. So he sometimes doesn't even have to
Speaker 1: do that for the most part, but definitely when they need,
Speaker 1: when they need a big player, I know he will.
Speaker 1: He will do that. So, um, we have to be
Speaker 1: alert for that and have to be ready for that
Speaker 1: as well. Well. Here's Vans Joseph asked today about what
Speaker 1: he expects from the Seahawks offense. Watching him last week,
Speaker 1: they threw forty passes that they had thirteen runs. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's not their formula, you know, So I'm expecting heavy run,
Speaker 1: you know, a heavy dose of Obviously Russell in in
Speaker 1: fourteen and sixteen and with Chris Carson back, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a tough big back. Tell you. Whatever
Speaker 1: Green Bay did defensively, it worked. Tyler Lockett and DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf had five catches combined on six sixteen targets. Think
Speaker 1: about that guys, and then DK Metcalf at the end
Speaker 1: lost his mind, he got ejected, he tried to get
Speaker 1: back on the field. And but you don't have Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson this year, who has been very effective against DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf the last couple of years. You look at the
Speaker 1: last four games DK Metcalf against the Cardinals, he only
Speaker 1: has six catches on fifteen targets. So how do you
Speaker 1: account for the absence of Patrick Peterson? And you know,
Speaker 1: Bayern Murphy talked about it today, but it's obviously a
Speaker 1: big question on Sunday, right Jalen definitely, I mean Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson was definitely a guy that a great player to
Speaker 1: have on our team, and he did all the right stuff.
Speaker 1: But this year, I mean, we we have we have
Speaker 1: guys in our team that can get the job done
Speaker 1: as well. Marco Wilson very confident cornering in going into
Speaker 1: this season and I'm looking forward to see what he
Speaker 1: can do this week as well. Byron Murphy, you know,
Speaker 1: he's been having a great season. So um, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be a good matchup, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good test, But I feel like if we do
Speaker 1: the right stuff, it shouldn't be a problem man. Watching
Speaker 1: those two receivers on tape, I can't imagine. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are guys who canna run, right do you? Who
Speaker 1: do you think is faster? Jay? Is Tyler Lockett faster?
Speaker 1: Or d K back at? I gotta go to I
Speaker 1: gotta go with DK. I mean he ran that track
Speaker 1: meet and I think he ran like what ten ten
Speaker 1: four or something like that. I don't know. That's a
Speaker 1: big man running yard Jayalen, Yeah, year super Fa. Well,
Speaker 1: remember what Buddha said after last year's game. Buddha said,
Speaker 1: That's the first time in my life I've ever been
Speaker 1: caught from behind. So you don't But but other than that,
Speaker 1: he really hasn't done much. Now. Tyler Lockett just the
Speaker 1: opposite Jalen. Uh. Those two games last year, Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: had four touchdown passes and he had twenty four catches.
Speaker 1: So what has to change against Tyler Lockett this year?
Speaker 1: We just gotta lock in lock into our jobsism And
Speaker 1: obviously a guy like that is really hard to stop.
Speaker 1: So he's he's definitely gonna get his catches. But um,
Speaker 1: we just gotta we gotta try to make as best
Speaker 1: as we can to try to just do our jobs
Speaker 1: so that best are of our ability. Jayleen's obviously you
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen on Sunday here, But
Speaker 1: what do you think they're gonna try to do to
Speaker 1: you guys? Defensively? What do you think they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to do? I mean, well, like like coach VJ said,
Speaker 1: I mean they threw for they threw forty passes last
Speaker 1: week and ran the ball with thirteen to fifteen times.
Speaker 1: I could see them trying to come out there and
Speaker 1: do heavy, heavy, random plays, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But obviously we don't know what they had played, so,
Speaker 1: you know, but that's our job. We got to be
Speaker 1: ready for anything that they do. So I feel like
Speaker 1: we're well, we will be ready. You know. Maybe the
Speaker 1: only guy on the Seahawks roster who had a really
Speaker 1: good game against Green Bay was their star safety Jamal Adams.
Speaker 1: He had eleven tackles, he had a pick. I know
Speaker 1: he'd love to have his contract. Who wouldn't. How often
Speaker 1: do you study other safeties in the league, and maybe
Speaker 1: do you follow Jamal Adams? I mean I look at
Speaker 1: safeties all the time. I look at just football all
Speaker 1: the time, and a lot of the safeties are really good.
Speaker 1: But it's like I said, it's good having a vet
Speaker 1: safety in the room right next to me in Buddha
Speaker 1: and a guy that's a all pro pro bowler and
Speaker 1: just you know what I mean, just top see one
Speaker 1: of the top safeties in the league right now. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll follow other guys and not seeing how
Speaker 1: they're playing the game as well. But really, when you
Speaker 1: got a guy like that sitting right next to you,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, that's really the guy I look
Speaker 1: at for the most part. So talk to me about
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks in terms of how they run the ball.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing on tape right now? Because I
Speaker 1: agree with you, I think the Seattle Seahawks are gonna
Speaker 1: try even though they've got DK back half, even though
Speaker 1: they've got Tyler Lockett. I don't think they're gonna throw
Speaker 1: the ball forty times in this game. That's just me.
Speaker 1: But if I'm right on that, give me a little
Speaker 1: scouting report on what you're seeing in regard to the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and how they try to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, great offensive line. M guys are getting pushed
Speaker 1: pushed back. They're pushing back defensive line. And you know,
Speaker 1: great backs, great physical backs. They run hard and they
Speaker 1: can make anybody miss. So we just got to come
Speaker 1: in there and just do our job. Carson will be
Speaker 1: back this week. Great physical back as well, runs hard,
Speaker 1: So you gotta come in this week and really focused
Speaker 1: on getting him getting him on the ground. After the
Speaker 1: Carolina game, and we're on board with Jail and Thompson,
Speaker 1: by the way, Cardinals stand out safety and number of
Speaker 1: Cardinals players talked about how the team was flat against Carolina,
Speaker 1: and I opened the show Jail and by saying, you
Speaker 1: know what, if you need a remedy for that, a
Speaker 1: road trip to Seattle is what the football doctor ordered,
Speaker 1: because you guys go in there and you know, just
Speaker 1: tell folks who've never been there, A visiting team just
Speaker 1: gets amped up, do they now with all the noise
Speaker 1: and the twalls and just the atmosphere. Oh hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: that atmosphere is jumping all the time. I've been to
Speaker 1: a couple of games, a couple of Seattle game when
Speaker 1: I was in college at Washington State over there, so um,
Speaker 1: you know, they're always jumping over there. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a hostile environment. It's gonna be a jumping crowd, So
Speaker 1: we just got to come out there and and lock in.
Speaker 1: How does that work with you going to Washington State
Speaker 1: and Buddha being from Washington and Byron Murphy from you?
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, what do you do you talk back
Speaker 1: to each other the entire day or what? Man? I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't really talk to mcbie. We hadn't been an
Speaker 1: end and I don't know how many years, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's always my fun rivalry. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing those guys actually got to play against him when
Speaker 1: I was at Wazoo and just you know, seeing a
Speaker 1: way Buddha was playing when he was at you Dub
Speaker 1: was just insane, you know what I mean. Byron was
Speaker 1: playing insane against this as well. So, um, for those
Speaker 1: guys to be on my team now, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool, you know what I mean. Uh, the
Speaker 1: rivalry part of it kind of died down, but you
Speaker 1: know when that week, that rivalry week Wazoo and you
Speaker 1: do come up, you know we'll be right back at
Speaker 1: So did the Twelves cut you some slack because you
Speaker 1: know you're a Washington guy, or you the rival because
Speaker 1: you went to Washington State I mean lie down a
Speaker 1: little bit, definitely die down. All right, Well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what you can get your revenge through the Heckler
Speaker 1: guy behind the Cardinals bench with all the signs. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll sick him on on Buddha and Byron Murphy. Now,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jail. We appreciate it, Ti Man. Yes, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for having me on right on, brother,
Speaker 1: thank you man. Great to having time. Oh my goodness, great, great,
Speaker 1: great guy to visit with, great guy to watch. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a pleasure to watch him play ball this year.
Speaker 1: Correct just getting better and better and better. And he's
Speaker 1: not done getting better. He's continuing to grow. That's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I see Pool Bowl in the future.
Speaker 1: As Van shows have said, no Buddha, no jail in
Speaker 1: those six yard runs become twenty six. Right after this,
Speaker 1: Murray and Shotgun has the football short set, throws a
Speaker 1: deep ball left side, single coverage and it is pulled
Speaker 1: in by DeAndre Hopkins and he's got a touchdown. Just
Speaker 1: want to throw by Tyler Murray. I want a catch
Speaker 1: by Nuke to put the Cardinals on the board. With
Speaker 1: two thirty nine to go on the first Duke was
Speaker 1: one on one great throw by Kyler Murray, but an
Speaker 1: even better read touchdown. We said it's gonna be Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson or Kyler Murray, whoever plays better, That's who's gonna
Speaker 1: win this game. Snaps to Murray and he keeps it himself,
Speaker 1: running left, got a defender with him at the five
Speaker 1: breaks it tackle, dives, ball comes out, but he crossed
Speaker 1: the plane. Touchdown. Kyler Murray. Somehow subway found a way
Speaker 1: to get that pig across Peter Big time play Kyler Murray. Well.
Speaker 1: They split the season series a year ago, and fittingly
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and Seahawks. They seem to do that almost
Speaker 1: every year, although typically it's the road team winning at
Speaker 1: the other team's venue, as the Cardinals won four of
Speaker 1: their last six at Seattle. Seattle has won six of
Speaker 1: us last eight in the a Z. Kyler Murray going
Speaker 1: against Seattle. If he goes for the fifth time, would
Speaker 1: you believe Ron Wolfee? This will be the nineteenth time
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals have faced Russell Wilson since he came
Speaker 1: into the league, and since he came into the league,
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks after a loss have the best win
Speaker 1: percentage in the NFL. So with Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: they rebound. Now, that has not been the case so
Speaker 1: far this year. They lost two straight, they lost three straight.
Speaker 1: They're one and three at home. But you just saw
Speaker 1: a forty nine ers team that the Cardinals left oh
Speaker 1: and four at home. And what they do they rebounded
Speaker 1: by Jack stopping the Rams the other night. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know you're right about that, Paul. I really do under
Speaker 1: what we're going to see up in Seattle. I know this, Paul.
Speaker 1: I know that they are going to be a desperate
Speaker 1: team and there's no denying it. I mean, think about
Speaker 1: it right now, Paul, just say it out loud. Three
Speaker 1: and seven, four and six, three and seven, four and six.
Speaker 1: It just the difference is palpable, and especially when you're
Speaker 1: talking about going up in front of the twelves. Here's
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. You're desperate. You know that the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: are coming in here on top of the NFC West.
Speaker 1: This might be your season, This might be your best
Speaker 1: chance to turn your season around. I think it's good.
Speaker 1: We were talking to Jayalen Thompson. He was telling us
Speaker 1: that these guys are talking to each other, meaning the
Speaker 1: players in the locker room are talking to each other
Speaker 1: in regard to this game and what you expect to
Speaker 1: see from the Seahawks. They're gonna come out swinging Paul
Speaker 1: in all three phases because to me, they know this
Speaker 1: is their season. Pete Carroll has already started down this road, Paul,
Speaker 1: with some of the things he's been saying about the officials,
Speaker 1: in the officiating in the last game that they played,
Speaker 1: I think he's already trying to plow the road for
Speaker 1: this game. You know. It's amazing. At three and six,
Speaker 1: they're only a game and a half out of the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: so they're right there for that seventh and final playoffs spot,
Speaker 1: and now they go in. Here's the thing. But seven
Speaker 1: is three and seven, Bulls, that's a hard That is
Speaker 1: a hard road to hoe right there to get back
Speaker 1: in it. Absolutely. And the Seattle defense, okay, since Week
Speaker 1: four they ranked fourth in scoring d their top five
Speaker 1: and third down defense. Okay, Bobby Wagner is still among
Speaker 1: the league's leaders and tackles. But this Seattle offense, especially
Speaker 1: in Green Bay Wolf, I mean, it was horrendous. The
Speaker 1: first shutout of Russell Wilson's career. He can talk all
Speaker 1: he wants about that finger and come out the surgery,
Speaker 1: but the stats are not kind as to how inaccurate
Speaker 1: he was, how he was overthrowing receivers and and they
Speaker 1: just got nothing going. Dk metcalf after the game saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, we got to get the ball to
Speaker 1: the playmakers more. Well, you threw it forty times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were only eleven rushing attempts by running backs, which
Speaker 1: typically has not in Seattle's offense. Yeah. No, you're right
Speaker 1: about that, Pauli. And that a lot of that, I
Speaker 1: think has got to do with the fact they don't
Speaker 1: they're not in love with their running backs that they
Speaker 1: have back to there and Chris Carson. Of course you
Speaker 1: had to Pete Carroll talking about the possibility of him
Speaker 1: returning this a day ago. He was actually talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that it doesn't look good now Chris Carson,
Speaker 1: and that really is a big blow to them because
Speaker 1: they don't have a back like Chris Carson. Paul So
Speaker 1: that Mike linebacker Jordan Hicks here was his take when
Speaker 1: asked about going against Seattle and Russell Wilson. We're expecting
Speaker 1: a dog fight. You know, anytime Russell's a quarterback, they
Speaker 1: always have a shot. They're getting Carson backs, so you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna probably trying to run the rock. So
Speaker 1: you know, we're expecting especially defense, Lea, we're expecting it off.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter who you play. If you come
Speaker 1: out like you did against Carolina and you have turnover
Speaker 1: gets cashed in, another turnover gets cashed in, you fail
Speaker 1: on a fourth down and essentially another turnover, and you're
Speaker 1: down three scores by the end of the first quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: look out, And you know better than anyone Wolf how
Speaker 1: that momentum can build in a can steam roll if
Speaker 1: you let the Twelves get into the game and the
Speaker 1: Seahawks give a little momentum, little confidence, something they haven't had,
Speaker 1: especially coming off the first shutout loss in a decade.
Speaker 1: It could get ugly. No, it could get ugly, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it, Paulie. But once again, you have to
Speaker 1: remember too, stop and think about it. The Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers ran the ball. They beat the Arizona Cardinals, first
Speaker 1: loss of the season for the Arizona Cardinals. And then,
Speaker 1: of course they watched the film of the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers game. Okay, the forty nine Ers ran the ball
Speaker 1: eleven times, maybe, in my opinion, made a huge mistake
Speaker 1: not trying to run the wall. Guess what they lost
Speaker 1: the game, the forty nine ers. And then of course
Speaker 1: the Cardinals played the Carolina Panthers. They ran the ball.
Speaker 1: Guess what they won the game. So to me, when
Speaker 1: you look back at the last three games the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals have played, and that really typically is what any
Speaker 1: NFL team or opponent would do. Look at your last
Speaker 1: three games in particular, they're gonna see run the ball win,
Speaker 1: don't run the ball lose, Run the ball win. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be an easy decision. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to try. Even with DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett, they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to run the ball in my opinion. All right,
Speaker 1: you may have just answered the question I was going
Speaker 1: to pose because Vance Joseph said something today that was
Speaker 1: sort of cryptic, and he said, and I'm quoting loosely,
Speaker 1: we've figured out our formula as coaches to win. We've
Speaker 1: lost two, and both of those losses look very similar.
Speaker 1: As a coaching staff, we know what works well and
Speaker 1: what beats us. And again those two losses look very similar.
Speaker 1: That's advanced. Joseph said, Yes, what do you think their
Speaker 1: takeaway should be as a coaching staff, what do you
Speaker 1: think the common denominator is in those two losses, man, Polly, honestly,
Speaker 1: the inability to stop the run? Yep, that right, Paul
Speaker 1: I would agree, that's what I think. It's got to
Speaker 1: be what he's talking about right there, just the inability
Speaker 1: to stop the run. And I was really discouraged too
Speaker 1: when I saw a couple of forty fours out there,
Speaker 1: and you know the way I laugh when I see
Speaker 1: the four linebackers against thirteen personnel, one back, three tight ends,
Speaker 1: and to see that eight man box get gashed on
Speaker 1: a couple of those runs by Christian McCaffrey, that was heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: You weren't the only one, Zach Allen told the media
Speaker 1: after the game. He said, that was especially disappointing that
Speaker 1: we were in run defenses, We had run stopping fronts
Speaker 1: out there, and they still got to the second level untouched. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he cited in particular a trap play that Carolina
Speaker 1: showed for the first time all year that they had
Speaker 1: not seen on film, and Zach Allen followed it up
Speaker 1: by saying we're gonna see that again. You don't see
Speaker 1: a lot of traps nowadays, Paul, so put that in
Speaker 1: to coach Double Rainbow put it in a trap play
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, I believe Paul to answer your question.
Speaker 1: You know what, more than anything else, Paully, it's got
Speaker 1: to be their intensity level. They gotta be ready, they
Speaker 1: gotta come out, They've got to know what it is
Speaker 1: they're gonna face. It's gonna be a dawn fight. And well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else is gonna happen in the game,
Speaker 1: but I feel pretty darn good after seventeen years going
Speaker 1: to Seattle and being on that Cardinal sideline. It is alive.
Speaker 1: As jail and Thomps said, it is popping on that
Speaker 1: Cardinals sideline when you go to Seattle, just the atmosphere alone.
Speaker 1: So I don't expect energy to be a problem, Paully.
Speaker 1: This could be just what they need right now. Yea
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