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Speaker 1: last six years. That wasn't all. He had a tackle

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Speaker 1: for loss. He had a quarterback hit. Zach Allen is

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Speaker 1: our guest Cardinals defensive lineman on the Big Red Rage,

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Speaker 1: presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert we Are santan Ford

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Speaker 1: Wolf would you care to define greasy action? What exactly

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Speaker 1: does that mean in the context of a D lineman. Well,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, Paula, you're getting a tackle, you're

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Speaker 1: getting a tackle, you're getting a sack, You're you're getting involved,

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Speaker 1: You're you're hitting another human being. You're hitting them hard.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of times, Paul, when you hit another

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Speaker 1: human being hard, stuff flies out of them. It's it's

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Speaker 1: incredible the way that happens. But stuff will fly out

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Speaker 1: of them and fly off of them, and sometimes it

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Speaker 1: gets you a little greasy. I'm just saying, Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank goodness for the ppe here in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: of the few things were thankful for you in twenty twenty, Zach,

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Speaker 1: when you get your first career sack, Like, if you're

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Speaker 1: a receiver, you know your first career touchdown, you keep

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Speaker 1: the ball. If you're on offense, what do you do

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Speaker 1: on defense? Did you keep them a memento or a

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Speaker 1: souvenir of any sort to mark your first career sack? Uh? No,

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Speaker 1: I didn't really keep anything. I don't know. It was just,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm more of the guy like reminiscens when

446
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Speaker 1: it's done, and I don't want to be done yet,

447
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Speaker 1: so hopefully I get a lot more and than when

448
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: the career is over. We can reminisce. But I don't

449
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Speaker 1: know there's some cool pictures. I'm sure my mom she

450
00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: collects everything, so I'm sure she's got, you know, some

451
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Speaker 1: cool stuff on course. Now, I know the game balls,

452
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Speaker 1: you know, or the footballs would be nice to keep,

453
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Speaker 1: but I think you can only do that if you

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Speaker 1: pop it out. So it's true, Zach As you watch

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers and you watch them

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Speaker 1: on tape. Offensively, my goodness, they have been decimated with

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Speaker 1: injuries on not only the offense but the defense as well.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at him offensively, how different is

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Speaker 1: this offense from week one? I wouldn't say it's all

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Speaker 1: that different. I think you know a lot of the

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Speaker 1: key people. I mean, obviously you know you're missing you

462
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Speaker 1: know the quarterback, and you know Jimmy Gum and also

463
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Speaker 1: you know Kittle for all that time is you know

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Speaker 1: that's obviously gonna hurt you. Um. But I think you know,

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Speaker 1: like the fullback, Juice check the offensive line. I think

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Speaker 1: when you have pieces like that, um, you know they

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Speaker 1: kind of run the same stuff, and you know, they're

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Speaker 1: really good at running what they what they do, so, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think it's all that much different. Um. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're very creative and there's always going to

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Speaker 1: be plays that we've never seen before. Um, but I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, for us, if we just play our game, UM,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we should be good. Yeah. That's

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Speaker 1: why I hear guys in the locker room on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the locker room always say about when

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Speaker 1: they play Kyle Shanahan that he keeps the defense honest.

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Speaker 1: What do guys mean by that? What is the challenge

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Speaker 1: of Kyle Shanahan, the guy who's responsible for the offense

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Speaker 1: and the play caller. Yeah, it's it's interesting because it's

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Speaker 1: like you know, other teams that's like you go through oh,

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Speaker 1: like you know when this is when say like this

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Speaker 1: motion or this formation this plays you know one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent or eighty five percent, like that's what it's going

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Speaker 1: to be. And then um, when you watch forty miners,

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Speaker 1: you know it's a lot of fifty fifty stuff. Um,

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Speaker 1: they really keep you honest, So guys can't really you know,

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Speaker 1: like cheated or anything. Like that. So, UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be big for us to just

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Speaker 1: you know, trust our keys and just and play everything true.

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Speaker 1: And if we do that, we should be good. Zach.

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Speaker 1: Have the forty nine ers really used six different centers?

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Speaker 1: I mean? Is that? I mean I heard that. I

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Speaker 1: heard some guy actually saying that today. Has that actually happened? Uh?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. If it does, then you know that's impressive.

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be a record. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I know they their opening day starters different, but um,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're just looking at it just this week

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Speaker 1: with who they have and UM, you know who they

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Speaker 1: they're up front, they've been basically the same the past

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Speaker 1: you know, four weeks or so five weeks, so, um,

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Speaker 1: and all the guys they have obviously have experience, um

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Speaker 1: and are great players. So it's gonna be up to

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Speaker 1: us to you know, really, you know, really control it.

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Speaker 1: Here's maybe the flip side of that, Wolf. The Arizona

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Speaker 1: Cardinals have seventeen different players with a sack this year.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. That's number one in the NFL just

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Speaker 1: in terms of number of players. And then the last

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Speaker 1: two games there's been fourteen sacks total by this Cardinals defense.

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Speaker 1: In fact, team captain Jordan Hicks, middle linebacker, was asked

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Speaker 1: about that. It's huge. You know, anytime you can get

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Speaker 1: pressure on a quarterback, it makes everybody's job easier to

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Speaker 1: have guys go out there and to be able to

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Speaker 1: put it together. The pass rush of the way we

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Speaker 1: have the past few games is exceptional. That's a big

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Speaker 1: key to our success. You know, we've got to get

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Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback and you know we've been able

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Speaker 1: to do that. I know some of the Eagles analysts

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Speaker 1: and some of the Eagles media was talking about how

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Speaker 1: often advanced Joseph dialed things up. You tell us how

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Speaker 1: key has that been? And you know, what's the reaction

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Speaker 1: from an offense? So do you have them are they

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Speaker 1: always sort of looking for the next creative Zach Blitz

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Speaker 1: package that's coming. What do you attribute this sack surge

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Speaker 1: too so far? Zach? Honestly, I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: it has come from us doing well in the run

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Speaker 1: the past two weeks. I think, um, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Giants game, in the Eagle game, we did a good

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Speaker 1: job of you know, getting them into some third and

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Speaker 1: long opportunities, which you know give us that opportunity to

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Speaker 1: kind of just go after it. So, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's kind of the saying, you know, you have to

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Speaker 1: earn the right to rush, and you do that by

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Speaker 1: winning first and second down and stuff is stopping to run.

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Speaker 1: So if we keep that up, then you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't see why the SAX numbers should have changed, Zach.

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Speaker 1: How physical is this offense? When I think the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers, I think of Kyle Shanahan, of course,

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Speaker 1: loving twenty one personnel, two backs including a fullback, and

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Speaker 1: Kyle youth Check. I'm not going to say that he's

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Speaker 1: in iso power fullback, but he is a fullback nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: and they like to run the ball in between the tackles.

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Speaker 1: How physical is this forty nine Ers team when you

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Speaker 1: watch him on film? Yeah, they do a little bit

544
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Speaker 1: of everything. I mean, obviously, I think their go to is,

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00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: you know, they're the tosses in the stretch side to side. Um,

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00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: but they've definitely, you know, been running a lot of

547
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, kick and power and stuff like that to

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00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: change it up. So and like I said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, look at the guys they have. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're all really good offensive Linemen. You know, you guys

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00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: a guy probably a future Hall of Famer, and Trent Williams,

552
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Speaker 1: and then it's a really high pick in like McGlinchey

553
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: and the three interior guys, especially Thomason. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: that they can move really well, but also they really

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00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, can get off the ball and um go downhill.

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, they got a really good group.

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Speaker 1: But I think we got a good game plan, so hopefully, um,

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00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: you know, it works in our favor. And they've been

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Speaker 1: here all month, so there there's another part of home

560
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Speaker 1: field advantage that does not exist in twenty twenty. What's

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Speaker 1: it been like playing in these empty stat especially on

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Speaker 1: the road, like in New York MetLife Stadium eighty thousand

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Speaker 1: seats and completely empty and you can hear sound just

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Speaker 1: reverberate off these empty seats. What's that been like as

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Speaker 1: a player in these empty stadiums. It's definitely been weird.

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Speaker 1: I mean when the first game was obviously the weirdest

567
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Speaker 1: because you could hear so much. But honestly, I think

568
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: it gives an advantage to the offenses because they can

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Speaker 1: do so much, you know, hardcount stuff like that, and

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Speaker 1: they can communicate because you know, there's nothing really blocking

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Speaker 1: it out. So for us of the defense, you know

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Speaker 1: the fact that I don't even know how many outside

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Speaker 1: cone of these you know, I don't think we have

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Speaker 1: that many. Though that we've done. You know, we've been

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Speaker 1: able to kind of hold their water and you know,

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Speaker 1: not jump and give away three yards has been big

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Speaker 1: for us. But yeah, there's definitely some moments, you know,

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Speaker 1: when they cut the sound off on you know, an

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Speaker 1: injury or if there's like a commercial break or something

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Speaker 1: that it's it's pretty pretty eerie and pretty weird, especially

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Speaker 1: in New York, you know, for how busy it is.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it was, Yeah, you kind of get used

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00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: to it now. So hopefully next year we can have

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Speaker 1: people in the stands. It's probably going to be you know,

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Speaker 1: say there's you know, only like sixty thousand compared to

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Speaker 1: you know, like one hundred thousand person stadium, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be like we can't hear anything, you know, I mean,

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00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: think about it, Well, the old line hasn't had to

589
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: prepare for silent count all season, right, and defensive lines

590
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: thrive on that. From my understanding, right, a defensive lineman

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Speaker 1: can live off that in a home game, and they

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00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: feed off those fans, and just that little bit of

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Speaker 1: a jump because of a silent count can be the difference,

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Speaker 1: can it? Oh? No, Dotto Pauli, And you stop and

595
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: think about it till a great pass rusher third and eight,

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00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: third and obvious pass situation right now, all of a sudden,

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00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: it's a big point in the fourth quarter. Maybe you're

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00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: down three points or maybe you're up three points. You

599
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: gotta get off the field and now you have a

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Speaker 1: chance to go at make a play in sack at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the rush when that crowd is out

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Speaker 1: of its mind. It's huge ball. Another guy who's been

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Speaker 1: huge Dennis Gardek. We need answers next on the Big

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Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert, Shotgun Snap

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Speaker 1: hurts a short set, steps up, being chased bar side

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Speaker 1: by Guardek sacks up at the forty one yard line.

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Speaker 1: Dennis Gardeck has become the sack machine. Shotgun Snap hurts

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Speaker 1: with a short set in trouble, steps up, gets hit

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Speaker 1: and sacked. Dennis Gardek was there first. Somebody hit the

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Speaker 1: stroll baby Guard Deckie Dodd, Deckie gard Deckie is Kyler,

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Speaker 1: on twelve News six thirty Saturday night, and you're going

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Speaker 1: to get a great insight all access look at Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: including that moment right there. Because as we say, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Big Red Race, presented by Satan Ford

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Speaker 1: and Gilbert Paul kelvc Ron Wolfley, and special guests Zach Allen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, guys, there really are only two kinds of

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals players right now, those who have hit the

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Speaker 1: strobe and those who have not. And Zach, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: let's just straight out sources tell us there was a

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Speaker 1: moment in that game where you did hit the strobe?

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Speaker 1: True or false? Yeah, I definitely have to cele with

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Speaker 1: my guy, Zat. Do you have your own I mean honestly, yeah,

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Speaker 1: do you have your own sack dance? Something you're developing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I always afraid that I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get a penalty or something, but I'm definitely gonna get

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Speaker 1: something worsen. I'll work with the guys on it, because

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Speaker 1: you know, so far, I haven't hasn't been too hot

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Speaker 1: so far what I've done, But yeah, I'll work with

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Speaker 1: Shannon and Dennis on it. You know, the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: I guess recently has had freestyle Friday, where you know,

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Speaker 1: guys are beat boxing and rapping in the whole thing now, um,

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Speaker 1: one of us okay, it's Wolf. Wolf has been known

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00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: to freestyle on the air at times regrettably, and in fact,

635
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: I think I think he was threatened with termination because

636
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: we haven't heard it in a while. Zach, You're not

637
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: one of those guys who goes over there and joins

638
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: the old line with a freestyle Friday, are you. No.

639
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: I can barely speak the English language, so I'm not

640
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: going to be going off like that, all right, Zach.

641
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: You're you're a young guy, and you're developing, and that

642
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: defense has got a lot of young guys that are

643
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: developing right now. How do you get better personally? Zach?

644
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: Where do you think you need to improve? I think,

645
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, consistency is a big thing, um. And

646
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: then obviously I mean, like you could just go get

647
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: down the line. I mean, I really just want to

648
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: get better at everything. I want to become, you know,

649
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: more transistent in the past rush. I want to have,

650
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 1: you know, a real signature move that you know, even

651
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: if they know it's coming that they can't stop in

652
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: the run game, you know, I think definitely, you know,

653
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: double teams, I gotta, you know, just keep working on.

654
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: I think I've been making improvements, but you can always

655
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: be better. And then just you know, learning the game more.

656
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: Why you know, offensives do certain things and how to

657
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: anticipate it. Um, you know, I think that's why it's

658
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: so important to just get those reps in game and

659
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 1: then also in practice. So um, you know, I knocking

660
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: on what I stay healthy, I can get those reps

661
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,720
Speaker 1: and just keep on working at it. Well, you mentioned

662
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: the word improved. That's the operative word for vance. Joseph,

663
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: We've seen it especial the last couple of weeks. We

664
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: cited the stat fourteen sacks the last couple of weeks.

665
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: And he was asked about the defense today in general,

666
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: and he cited guys like Zach who was in his

667
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: second year. Here's your defensive coordinator. I told our staff

668
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: and our defense a couple of months ago, I say,

669
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: when when Zach Allen and Lucky and Rashod Lawrence and

670
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: Dennis Gardeck and those young players start playing well for us,

671
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: this defense will go to the next level. You know,

672
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: and it's it's happening because those young guys are taking

673
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: bigger roles and they're playing very well. For us. Those

674
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: guys are really really, really getting better as players, each becoming.

675
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: Zach had its best game, you know, with eleven tackles

676
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: in one sack, and there were times where you were

677
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: out there were the two rookies, right, Lucky Foe two

678
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: and Richard Lawrence and it was a three you guys

679
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 1: in the trenches. Yeah, I know, we definitely, I think

680
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: we take pride in being young guys. Um. You know, definitely,

681
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people probably doubt us or

682
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: you know how questions about us, and you know, being

683
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: a young guy, you definitely, you know you want to

684
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: keep make sure that excuse that oh he's young, you

685
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: know he can't do it. Yet you want to get

686
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: rid of that excuse. So I think, you know, for us,

687
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: we take great pride in doing it the right way.

688
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: And you know, I think all three of us are

689
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: really excited to see kind of paying off a little

690
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: bit right now, Zach, what do you think you guys

691
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: need to do in order to beat the four nine

692
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: ers and their offense? What do you think defensively you

693
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 1: guys need to focus on whether you're a young guy,

694
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: old guy, whatever it may be, keys to beating the

695
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: forty nine ers offense. What do you think I think

696
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: for us, you know, we have a saying, uh, know

697
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 1: your job and do your job, and that's really just

698
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: in our key to victory the past few weeks. And

699
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I think we need to do because

700
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: you know, if everyone is just on point, does their

701
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: job right, you know, is in the right gap, in

702
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: the right coverage, doing it all right. I think you know,

703
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: then it just becomes you know, one on one matchups

704
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: and you know that's just that that's why you get

705
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: paid to play football as the windows. So h we're

706
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,399
Speaker 1: really excited for it. And I think you know when

707
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: you keep it simple like that and uh like, lets

708
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: guys play fast, and you know, our coaches do a

709
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: great job of getting us ready for the game, so um,

710
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, all the credit goes to them. And yeah,

711
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: and we come full sole here. And I got to

712
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: go back to Dennis Gardeck. I need an explanation here, Zach.

713
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a phenomenal ninety three snaps on

714
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: defense all year, ninety three snaps he has seven sacks,

715
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: seven tackles for loss, ten quarterback hits, eleven tackles, a

716
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: fumble recovery. I mean, what in the sam name of

717
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: extreme production is going on here? Please tell me how

718
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,759
Speaker 1: Dennis Gardeck is getting this done with such phenomenal efficiency.

719
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: I think he's just you know, he's one of the

720
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: hardest working guys I've ever met in my life, and

721
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 1: it's just really good to see a payoff because you know,

722
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,800
Speaker 1: just from the offseason also in practice. I mean, he

723
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: really won't see a guy push himself harder. And you

724
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: know he's he really is. I mean, it's just the

725
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: one word to describe. He's an absolute stud and you

726
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: know everything he does, so you know, I'm just really

727
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: glad to call him a friend and you know, to

728
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: be able to work with him and see see how

729
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: he approaches every single day and I know it definitely

730
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: doesn't just rub off on me, but a lot of

731
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: other guys. And there's a reason why he's one of

732
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: our captains. When you look at guys like Lucky Foe

733
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: two and Richard Lawrence PAULI mentioned them already right now,

734
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: I mean, where do you think they have improved in

735
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: their game? As you watch them on tape, where do

736
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: you think they've improved? I think definitely, um, you know,

737
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: just technique and stuff, because you know, they've all most

738
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: guys are blessed with size. Um I think you know,

739
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 1: you see them playing really fast now, they definitely have

740
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: that confidence using their hands really well. So um, you know,

741
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be really scary to see them when

742
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: they you know, they really start getting me, and it's

743
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun, um, you know, to

744
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: play with them. Zach, you're enjoying this Arizona weather here

745
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: in December, you know, hailing from Connecticut and then going

746
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: to BC. You enjoying the Arizona weather these days? Okay, yeah,

747
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: I don't have to warm up my car white box

748
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: snow or scrape bop bites. Um. You know, I could

749
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: just wake up and go in and you know, we

750
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 1: still get the practice outside. And now it's been it's

751
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: been awesome. I've been loving it out year. Um. You know,

752
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: it's definitely a change of pace. And I always thought,

753
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: you know, oh, I'm a Northeast guy. You know, I

754
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: need my cold, I need my seasons. But you know,

755
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: Arizona is definitely turning me and you know when we

756
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: played in New England and New York, you know, we

757
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: were pretty blessed with you know, being fifty fifty degree

758
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: weather and that was over there, you know, and what

759
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: the heck has happened and the usually being shorts and

760
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: this stuff. So well, Hey, we've enjoyed having you here tonight.

761
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the time. Thank you, Zach

762
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: And yeah, thank you guys. How going yep, good luck

763
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: against the Niners. Back to wrap up the Big Red

764
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: Ray presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert. DeAndre Hopkins is

765
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: a game changer physically. You bring so many tools to

766
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: the table. It's going to be a massive help to

767
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Wide receiver screen to the laft caught by

768
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: Hopkins at the twenty five hoof the chains. Baby, you're

769
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: gonna catch a lot of passes this year. Throw as

770
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: far aside of the sideline caught by Hopkins. A first

771
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: down I even catch made by Hopkins. Grows a deep

772
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: all far sideline and on target. DeAndre Hopkins with a

773
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: first down catch swite open Hopkins caught at the twenty

774
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: fart sight ten five and he's hit at the one.

775
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Valley. Now about fourteen catches in his

776
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: Cardinals debut that was Week one at San Francisco, a

777
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: career high fourteen catches, one hundred fifty one yards receiving.

778
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 1: That's how you make a first impression. Now the Cardinals

779
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: come back and play the Niners at State Farm Stadium

780
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: Saturday at two thirty or wrapping up this edition to

781
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert

782
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 1: We are, santan Ford a pleasure to have Zach Allen.

783
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: He was outstanding. He was as good on the air

784
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: as he has been on the field. And we brought

785
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: up the weather at the end there Wolf, just because

786
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 1: when the Cardinals left New England three days later, there

787
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: was snow within the Boston area, and then as soon

788
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: as the Cardinals left the New York Giants game, where

789
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: temperatures were also in the fifties, there was this massive

790
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: northeastern that blew through New York and left like forty

791
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: inches of snow on parts of New York State that

792
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: you know all too well being from Buffalo. So I

793
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: was curious how Zach is adapted to the A Z

794
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: and this time of year, He's gotta love it. I presume. Oh, Paula,

795
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. I mean, for a kid

796
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,399
Speaker 1: that comes from the Northeast and that's where I was from,

797
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: I can tell you when I came out here, it's

798
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 1: like what planet are way on right now? Because this

799
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: is something I do not understand. You know how it

800
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: gets here? The beautiful weather, when you've got that cool

801
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: sunshine in December on your skin, there's not a sensation

802
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: like it. And so d Hop has been singular in

803
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: so many ways right now. He's leading the NFL and

804
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: receiving yards over thirteen hundred, he has one hundred and

805
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: three catches, he's number two in that department, and he's

806
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: seemingly you tell me, listen to what Kyler Murray as

807
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: I say, he's seemingly getting better when all of a sudden,

808
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: him and Kyler are connected. Even though d Hop would

809
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: be technically covered, he's still open. And Kyler was asked

810
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: about his trust level these days. I like him versus anybody,

811
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 1: and uh, I like me to put the ball where

812
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: it needs to be. So I guess ninety nine point

813
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: nine are what have you said? It is beautiful evolved

814
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: between these two guys. Yeah, paul that is beautiful. That's

815
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: exactly what you want to see right here. Is one

816
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: of the things I was talking to you about in

817
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: the earlier part of the Beautiful program was just the

818
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: fact that Kyler Murray was making the decision to throw

819
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: the ball up to DeAndre Hopkins even though he was covered,

820
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: even though he looked like he was covered, Throw it

821
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: up to him, Larry Fitzgerald that touchdown in the back

822
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Throw it up to Larry Fitzgerald.

823
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 1: When you've got receivers that are playmakers, and that's exactly

824
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: what DeAndre Hopkins is, and that's what Larry Fitzgerald is.

825
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: When you've got receivers that have some of the best

826
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: hands in the history of the National Football League, that

827
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 1: are playmakers, throw the ball at them, even when they're covered,

828
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: they're not covered, even when they're covered, they're open, Throw

829
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: the ball to them. And that's a hard thing to

830
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,359
Speaker 1: teach a quarterback. Paul stop and think about it. They're

831
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: always looking, well, who's open, where's the open guy? And

832
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: then you look out there and you see a guy

833
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: running stride for stride with DeAndre Hopkins or Larry Fitzgerald.

834
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: It's a hard thing to say throw the ball to

835
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: him because you're always looking for the guy that is open.

836
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: But I think Kyler Murray is starting to learn it.

837
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: Paul starting to learn to throw the ball to these

838
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: guys even when it's going to be a contested catch,

839
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: and that might be the best development of this offense

840
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: going forward. Right, you know what, You're safe because DeAndre

841
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: hopkins grandfather listens. He said that today is his grandfather

842
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: listens to everything and reads everything in this market. So

843
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: you know, if there's any haters or any critics or negativity,

844
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,759
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