Speaker 1: Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles on ahead.
Speaker 1: He got jacked.
Speaker 2: This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford
Speaker 2: and Gilbert Terry's gonna score touchdown slim to the ground
Speaker 2: by Buddha Baker.
Speaker 3: Like a torpedo, he keeps flying into the back deal.
Speaker 2: The Rage is brought to you by santan Ford and
Speaker 2: Gilbert right on the price right on the corner of
Speaker 2: the sand Tan two to two Freeway.
Speaker 4: In Valves Wata grab by Tray McBride.
Speaker 2: That was spectacular and by Arizona Cardinals Podcast Visit Azycardinals
Speaker 2: dot Com Slash podcast.
Speaker 3: All Right, Seas Rising Up, jimpit rising Vision, blurry Rage,
Speaker 3: tack it over.
Speaker 2: Here's Paul Calvic.
Speaker 4: I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you
Speaker 4: I'm ready.
Speaker 1: And Ron Wolfley, it doesn't get any better than that
Speaker 1: the fard.
Speaker 4: Alright, here we go, Red say it's real simple, all right,
Speaker 4: no sleep till lambeau. Let's do this all right. As
Speaker 4: the Cardinals went into Silicon Valley, Ron Wolfully, you were there,
Speaker 4: you saw it. Cardinals went into Silicon Valley. What did
Speaker 4: they do to all those techies? They put some malware.
Speaker 4: They put some spyware into the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Did they not great resiliency? Paul that much?
Speaker 4: I know forty nine ers somehow thought maybe the Big
Speaker 4: Heat was gonna be a big deal for the Cardinals
Speaker 4: and the visiting sideline. Hello, they're the Arizona Cardinals. They
Speaker 4: went out and they just like they practiced in a
Speaker 4: buck ten plus, they were the stronger team in the
Speaker 4: second half. They get the win. And here we are
Speaker 4: on the Big Red Rage. And you might have noticed
Speaker 4: on the menu there's no rabbit. That's because the rabbit
Speaker 4: is on stage here at the Big Red Rage, presented
Speaker 4: by tan Ford and Gilbert otherwise known as Daydrian Taylor
Speaker 4: Demerson prefers to be called Rabbit, and we welcome into
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: In fact, you just told Wolf, right, you just told Wolf.
Speaker 4: Don't don't call me Dadrian, right.
Speaker 5: Nah, you call me rabbit. Rabbit, Yeah, no, yeah, I
Speaker 5: really hear my first name. So it's kind of weird
Speaker 5: hearing that, you know, Let's it's coming from somebody like,
Speaker 5: you know, pronouncing it on like during the game or whatever.
Speaker 1: So so, Rabbit, I've got to ask you right now.
Speaker 1: There's some people out here that probably don't know the story.
Speaker 1: Why rabbits? How'd you get that?
Speaker 5: Now? So when I first started playing football, like I
Speaker 5: think like first or second grade, small scrawny kid. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I played a year and a half of my first year,
Speaker 5: and then my mom knew this guy in the military
Speaker 5: named Corey. I go out play for his team. Obviously
Speaker 5: everyone's way older than me. Me and his son are
Speaker 5: the same age, who's still my best friend to this day.
Speaker 5: He gives me the ball first time. I'm not trying
Speaker 5: to get tackled, so I'm just running around trying to
Speaker 5: not get hit. And then we got a bunch of rabbits,
Speaker 5: that one from one of the coaches, Like he's running
Speaker 5: around like one of them bunny rabbits. So then that's
Speaker 5: how I got the name. And then like still crazy
Speaker 5: to me to this day to see like a stick
Speaker 5: because that young you got that now? Yeah, like I
Speaker 5: want to say, like first second grade.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that is truly amazic. Now, what about mom?
Speaker 1: What does mom call you?
Speaker 5: Mom calls me son or dadren. She's not allowed to
Speaker 5: call me rabbit. Yeah, she calls me rabbit like every
Speaker 5: now and then and I'm like, you can't call me.
Speaker 5: That sounds weird. Yeah. Yeah, she's the only one not
Speaker 5: allowed to call me or my dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you Did you play any other sports when
Speaker 1: you were younger or yeah?
Speaker 5: So I played basketball? Crazy story. I almost quit football
Speaker 5: to play basketball, which glad I didn't do that one.
Speaker 5: And then, uh, I'm a big track fan, so I
Speaker 5: ran a track as well in high school.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'm seeing here. I took a quick look. Let's see,
Speaker 4: you were only the Oklahoma five A Player of the
Speaker 4: Year as a running back. Hello. In fact, you played
Speaker 4: running back until what point are your.
Speaker 5: Football career until I got to college. So I got
Speaker 5: a call out of nowhere from Texas Tech. The staff
Speaker 5: who left Utah State where I was going to go
Speaker 5: play running back, they got fired, went to Texas Tech.
Speaker 5: They ended up offering me at safety, and at the
Speaker 5: time it sounded crazy, but it's just it's just like
Speaker 5: one of those things where it's like somebody see something
Speaker 5: they've seen you that you don't see yourself just yet.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of That's kind of how it was.
Speaker 5: So I ended up going to play take place safety
Speaker 5: and it was like, honestly, like one of the best
Speaker 5: like blessings someone could give me in my life, cause
Speaker 5: it ended up going to that university end up making
Speaker 5: me the man I am today, you know, a great teammate,
Speaker 5: great father, and everything else like that. So yeah, real
Speaker 5: blessing to go to as university.
Speaker 4: When they first brought up dB safety, didn't you like
Speaker 4: think it was a mistake.
Speaker 5: Or something or No. I thought it was crazy. I
Speaker 5: could not believe it. But at the same time though,
Speaker 5: like I just said, like, it's a blessing in the skuy.
Speaker 5: So ended up going there my first year. I was
Speaker 5: kind of like went to one of those real structured
Speaker 5: high schools, you know, do things the right way. Had
Speaker 5: a like old military, you know, kind of coaching staff.
Speaker 5: So when I went there, I learned to playbook, you know,
Speaker 5: play hard.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: I was just one of those small town kids just
Speaker 5: looking to play big tom ball. So I was excited
Speaker 5: to be there, Like, you know, I just wasn't caught
Speaker 5: up band like, oh I'm not playing now, Like I
Speaker 5: was just trying to play football, like it's literally the
Speaker 5: only thing I wake up and think about.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so if there's a loose ball and you pick
Speaker 4: up a fumble, you you can still turn into running
Speaker 4: back mode, right, I'm confident you still become a running
Speaker 4: back with a ball in your hands.
Speaker 5: All the interceptions that I've had, like I failed besides
Speaker 5: two of them, and then like but I got tackled
Speaker 5: like right instantly. So I'm hoping I get to get
Speaker 5: one soon and see if I still got it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: cause I don't know.
Speaker 4: That would be good. That would be good, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Rather, but talk to us a little bit about the
Speaker 1: San Francisco game and how did that game go going
Speaker 1: into it? How confident were you guys collectively as a team. Man.
Speaker 5: That was probably like one of the like the best
Speaker 5: wins I've had, like my football career, because just coming
Speaker 5: in the building, seeing how everyone prepares, just like just
Speaker 5: as much as I give into the game, they're given
Speaker 5: just that or more. You know, we go out scoring
Speaker 5: the first drive, you know, Kyler's you know being Kyler,
Speaker 5: you know, and then you know, they hit their little
Speaker 5: their little hump in the game, and when like the
Speaker 5: coolest thing was just to like be on the field
Speaker 5: and like be on the sideline, like just like everybody
Speaker 5: on the sideline and see like everyone's still giving there,
Speaker 5: you know, giving there all trying to win this game,
Speaker 5: even though we were down thirteen. I think like going
Speaker 5: into the fourth for like a little bit the end
Speaker 5: of the third quarter. So man, it's crazy, like when
Speaker 5: we uh kicked that field goal and crazy Chad, he
Speaker 5: the guy kicked it. He just got there, right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he literally just got there. And I didn't even know
Speaker 5: that he was kicking. So when he said he was kicking,
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, like, big, you got a big
Speaker 5: job this weekend. Yeah, big, big job. But nah, he
Speaker 5: took care of business, won the game. Yeah, being in
Speaker 5: the locker after that game, I wish you guys could
Speaker 5: get to experience something like that, because winning at this level,
Speaker 5: as you know, it's not easy. You know, it's not easy,
Speaker 5: Yeah he is. Any given week is something's news down
Speaker 5: to happen or the unexpected, like the unknown. So yeah,
Speaker 5: getting the winning this league is definitely different than you know,
Speaker 5: getting a big win in college.
Speaker 1: So JG.
Speaker 4: He shared a lot of that TV show this week,
Speaker 4: saying just how special that scene was in the locker
Speaker 4: room after the game. Guys really enjoyed it, you know,
Speaker 4: a lot more than some of the other victories, maybe
Speaker 4: because it was the opponent. It's a fact you're on
Speaker 4: the road. It's the vision game, right, the extreme heat.
Speaker 4: You guys forge a comeback against a team that was
Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl, you know, I mean really there
Speaker 4: were a lot of analogies from guys after think about
Speaker 4: being a fight and the Cardinals landing a knockout blow
Speaker 4: late in a fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, Paul, it was a situation. Think about it.
Speaker 1: You go ahead, you line up, you're gonna get three points.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go ahead, You're gonna kick a field goal,
Speaker 1: gets blocked, they take it back for a touchdown.
Speaker 4: First time that happened to the Cardinals since the seventies,
Speaker 4: Since the.
Speaker 1: Seventies, PAULI. And then all of a sudden, you get
Speaker 1: the next possession, you get the next you get the ball,
Speaker 1: you drive down the field, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you throw a pick. You throw a pick on their
Speaker 1: twenty four for the most part, right, you're moving the
Speaker 1: ball to Nick Bosa, to Nick Bosa, who just made
Speaker 1: a great play. That's what he did to me, made
Speaker 1: a great play. Didn't rush saw it, read it, fell
Speaker 1: off into the screen, made the pick right there, All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, those are your last two possessions going
Speaker 1: into the half. That's it. You're down twenty three ten
Speaker 1: at the half, and those were your last two possessions.
Speaker 1: You come out and you're making all sorts of vowels
Speaker 1: under moon, sun and sky in that locker room that
Speaker 1: you're gonna come out and you're gonna play hard and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be ready to go. And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you come out, you go three and out offensively, one two, three,
Speaker 1: and you're telling me you come back and win that game.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, that is resiliency. That is toughness.
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals actually showed that kind of toughness.
Speaker 4: And here's here's the comparison Mac Wilson Senior made after
Speaker 4: the game when we had them live on radio.
Speaker 6: It definitely felt like a busting match. You know, they
Speaker 6: had the upper hand the whole game. It felt like,
Speaker 6: you know, second half, we come out, throw some punches
Speaker 6: and we just kept throwing punches and we came out
Speaker 6: on top obviously. And you know, that's just what it
Speaker 6: comes down to, you know, the NFL, you know these
Speaker 6: games be close, so gotta just lock in.
Speaker 4: Look, you know about playing football in the heat Oklahoma
Speaker 4: in Texas. But what was that like on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Shoot?
Speaker 5: Being here, man, it felt like a cool day and
Speaker 5: not going live. Yeah, I think I hadn't already adapted
Speaker 5: to this as much as we outside, and so it
Speaker 5: was definitely still hot. I'm not gonna take it away.
Speaker 5: It was still hot, but it was nothing like you know,
Speaker 5: two weeks practice ago on the on a Wednesday or Thursday,
Speaker 5: like you coming there, you looking this one team one eleven,
Speaker 5: We're like, dang, we have practice right now.
Speaker 4: So so you guys had that confidence because I don't
Speaker 4: know how many other teams could have survived that heat for.
Speaker 5: You know, it's one of those things that we have,
Speaker 5: you know, in our advantage, you know, being being here
Speaker 5: in the valley and you think about the other the
Speaker 5: other teams where it's like like what was the game
Speaker 5: last year, the Chiefs game when everybody's getting frost bite?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you gotta deal with that stuff like playoff
Speaker 4: game Miami had no chance.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So you know, practicing in the heat, you know,
Speaker 5: it prepares you. You know, it makes you a little bit
Speaker 5: tougher because the condition is just like it being cold,
Speaker 5: like it makes you, you know, sink in on back
Speaker 5: like to your training and not worried about, you know,
Speaker 5: the external factors, like, okay, how did it is? I
Speaker 5: remember my college coach last year, Coach McGuire, like, when
Speaker 5: we say, like it's hot outside. When he first got
Speaker 5: in the building, he was like, don't don't look at
Speaker 5: it like that. He was like, just say, it's tropical.
Speaker 5: Cook when you think it's tropical, tropical. When you think
Speaker 5: it's tropical, you know, you think a beach or whatever.
Speaker 4: So you know, a drink with an umbrella and it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I love that. The colder and the nastier the
Speaker 1: weather the better because it brought everyone down to my level,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: I mean I've had to play in some of that,
Speaker 5: so I know what it's like. But I'd rather play
Speaker 5: in the heat. Not gonna lie to you, Yeah I
Speaker 5: could do it.
Speaker 1: I like the nasty and cold, raining, bloody.
Speaker 5: The cold games are fun though, especially like when you
Speaker 5: like when you come out and win, though, like if
Speaker 5: you get you losing the cold, taking the beat, that's
Speaker 5: not fun. But when you win, that kind of game
Speaker 5: is just as special.
Speaker 4: Well, you're gonna cut the high temperature in half. Going
Speaker 4: to Lambeau it's gonna be in the fifties. That's what
Speaker 4: the forecast is on Sundays. So last time Cardinals are
Speaker 4: there twenty eighteen, it was a snow game. Cardinals got
Speaker 4: the winning that one. You remember that one, Wolf two thousand,
Speaker 4: By the way, it was such a big win. Wolf
Speaker 4: got the mohawk. I see you right there. He actually
Speaker 4: got it.
Speaker 1: It's my my hawk. It's what I call it. Hey.
Speaker 4: Single game tickets on sale now. Go to Easycardinals dot
Speaker 4: com slash buy tickets to secure your seats. Today we
Speaker 4: continue with the Rabbit. It is a big red rage
Speaker 4: live from Trophy and Chandler at Price Road in Queen Creek.
Speaker 3: On the first down, another pass play over the middle
Speaker 3: and it's broken up at the twenty eight incomplete. Nice
Speaker 3: play by Rabbit defending Deebo Samuel Adrian Taylor Emerson knocks
Speaker 3: the ball away incomplete.
Speaker 1: Oh that was awesome right there with the left hand,
Speaker 1: come and go over the top. That is excellent play
Speaker 1: by Rabbit.
Speaker 3: Back to pass goes pretty on fourth and twenty three,
Speaker 3: fires across.
Speaker 4: The middle, caught by Kittle. The ball comes out and
Speaker 4: they rule it in complete.
Speaker 3: The Cardinals takeover and downs It's actually a good thing
Speaker 3: because had he caught it, he would have been down
Speaker 3: short of the line to gain at the ten and
Speaker 3: the Cardinals would have been backed up.
Speaker 7: I thought Rabbit went in and played well, you know,
Speaker 7: I know he had a PBu couple tackles. We all
Speaker 7: got some things to clean up those his first you know,
Speaker 7: live real good reps, and he'll he'll take a big jump,
Speaker 7: you know, the next opportunity that he gets.
Speaker 4: He's the head coach Johnath again on fourth round rookie
Speaker 4: Dadrian Taylor, Demerson Rabbit here on the Big Red Rage
Speaker 4: presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford
Speaker 4: at Trophy and Chandler three tackles, two passes defense. That
Speaker 4: one against George Kittle right there, came in with a
Speaker 4: big hit. Jack stomped George Kittle and Wolf when he's
Speaker 4: wearing number forty two, Who does that remind you of?
Speaker 4: Who is that reminiscent of? Yeah, considering there have not
Speaker 4: been any other forty two since Another difference making, playmaking,
Speaker 4: safety and Cardinals history, I know.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Kwame. Kwame laughs absolutely, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: right now, Kwame just saying his name. It fills me
Speaker 1: with a love and an appreciation for a guy who
Speaker 1: was a football player through and through. You talk about
Speaker 1: a guy that would tackle open field, he was an
Speaker 1: excellent open field tackler, a guy that could cover as well,
Speaker 1: a guy that could get his hands on the pig
Speaker 1: an awful lot and bat and defend some passes. Kwame
Speaker 1: was all over the field. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: Can I just say this right now? I think that
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker plays an awful lot like Kwame laughs at
Speaker 1: or it's a great play, and that to me, it
Speaker 1: says everything you need to know about.
Speaker 4: Kwame absolutely to men, hisbrant personality, graz he He was
Speaker 4: the first player host of this show, The Big Red Rage,
Speaker 4: over two decades ago. Think about that and it's a please.
Speaker 1: You know what too, Paly. Can I just say this quickly,
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to golf a few times with Kwame,
Speaker 1: go out and actually play golf with them. Boy could
Speaker 1: he it? Oh my golf ball, crush it right down
Speaker 1: the middle. I uhould just walk off the tee going Kwame, Kwame, Kwame, Kwame, Kwame.
Speaker 4: Well, if I've then seen my share of charity golf tournaments,
Speaker 4: and I'd say eighty percent of those for a stretch,
Speaker 4: there were one by Kwame last I mean, no joke,
Speaker 4: I mean he was unbelievable. And by the way, it
Speaker 4: is a pleasure to be joined by Eric Alassiter here
Speaker 4: tonight with on Kwame and uh Rabbit's gonna get a
Speaker 4: chance to uh to meet Erica after the show. So
Speaker 4: we look forward to seeing all that. And I tell
Speaker 4: you what, that was a game where you got what
Speaker 4: your first significant reps at safety, you got a heck
Speaker 4: of an opponent in brock Purty and all those weapons.
Speaker 4: Just give us your initial takeaways. How do you think
Speaker 4: you played? What was it like being out there? Did
Speaker 4: the game slow down over the course of the game
Speaker 4: would look like on film? Just give us a recap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so obviously, uh, you know, got a big test
Speaker 5: this past weekend. I feel like I did fairly good.
Speaker 5: And you know, obviously, you know, there's good and there's
Speaker 5: bad throughout the game. You know, obviously things as a player,
Speaker 5: you know, just holding myself accountable that I still want
Speaker 5: to continue on to get better, you know, to you know,
Speaker 5: insert myself in the league how I want to. So,
Speaker 5: but uh, yeah, it was it was really interesting, really interesting.
Speaker 5: So you know, just coming from my playing college ball,
Speaker 5: like this was like the first time I was just
Speaker 5: like actually like in my zone and not just going
Speaker 5: in as a team's role, being on and being off quick.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I kind of I kind of got pretty
Speaker 5: comfortable with the game. You know, I was in and out,
Speaker 5: in and out, but I'm still getting to go in
Speaker 5: on some uh some big downs. So that was cool.
Speaker 5: But yeah, looking forward, you know to the next time,
Speaker 5: you know, I get to do it, this game means
Speaker 5: a lot to me, and I prepare, I prepare and
Speaker 5: put everything that I do daily into this game, you know,
Speaker 5: so you know, just to set up myself and uh
Speaker 5: give this game what it gave to me. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's always a blessing to go out there and get
Speaker 5: to play ball.
Speaker 1: So Rabbit, my first NFL game, when I went out
Speaker 1: there and played, it was absolutely out of my mind,
Speaker 1: nervous right for the most part, just absolutely on the
Speaker 1: edge my rookie season. Of course, how about you, where
Speaker 1: were your emotions in regard to doing this A loti.
Speaker 5: I was just ready for him to call my call
Speaker 5: my package. The whole almost sit on the sideline I'm like, bro,
Speaker 5: please call it, please call it like I was ready,
Speaker 5: And then when I got in the game, it's like,
Speaker 5: I mean that's why I was, man. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: was kind of you know, I was kind of comfortable
Speaker 5: and not gonna lie the guys I got, you know,
Speaker 5: behind Buddha, JT and all the other vets in the room.
Speaker 5: They do a really good job, aren't preparing me?
Speaker 1: So and it really helps when you know what it
Speaker 1: is that you're doing. You know what your assignment is,
Speaker 1: doesn't it That really gives you confidence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they do a really good job, you know, letting
Speaker 5: all of us know. Are like how defined our roles are.
Speaker 5: So they came in, told me what they brought me
Speaker 5: in for, told me what my roller was assigned for
Speaker 5: the team, and as a team playof I'm gonna do
Speaker 5: my role, and so I gotta do a different role man.
Speaker 4: So well, here's Buddha Baker. He was asked earlier today,
Speaker 4: how you have grown as a player as a rookie, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, you're it's early October, but here's Buddha's tech.
Speaker 8: As the days have gone by, training camp and preseason
Speaker 8: and all that type of stuff, all the mistakes that
Speaker 8: he's made, He's corrected them and has done a great
Speaker 8: job of understanding the defense, understanding route concepts and stems
Speaker 8: of receivers and all that type of stuff. So it's
Speaker 8: great to talk to Rabbit and to just have that
Speaker 8: trust in a rookie is definitely something special. He's done
Speaker 8: a great job of understanding the players, understanding the scheme
Speaker 8: and whatever we're playing.
Speaker 4: You know what's amazing Wolf, You know this Buddha's rookie year.
Speaker 4: He did not play much safety. He's a six time
Speaker 4: pro bowler. He's headed to his seventh. I mean, he
Speaker 4: might be All Pro this year. He has twenty seven
Speaker 4: tackles the last two games.
Speaker 5: He's a freak, Like, let me just pa.
Speaker 4: But you know, his rookie year, he sat behind Tyron Matthew.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I literally asked him about his whole storyline when
Speaker 5: I got in, like somebody, you know that I when
Speaker 5: I started playing in the position, you know, started you know,
Speaker 5: looking up to you know, being a smaller guy, modeling
Speaker 5: a little bit of my game, adding what I can't
Speaker 5: do you know that he can do, and then just
Speaker 5: adding his pieces of and then you know, just making
Speaker 5: my whole self complete. So getting to be in a
Speaker 5: room with him, I was telling the guys earlier I
Speaker 5: was getting invited to an interview by in the locker room,
Speaker 5: getting this, Like I wish everybody could be in a room,
Speaker 5: and like him and Jalen Thompson like are like talking
Speaker 5: to each other. I make sure every time we get
Speaker 5: into a meeting, like I'm sitting right there, like I
Speaker 5: sitting there. If I got a question, I ask coach,
Speaker 5: But like just listening to them, that's just that's also
Speaker 5: something I want to add to my game. Like the
Speaker 5: way they talk aball is like the way the way
Speaker 5: you want your players to talk here.
Speaker 1: So wow, have you always spend like that yourself? Have
Speaker 1: you always been a guy that was really really interested
Speaker 1: in being mentored by some guys who might know a
Speaker 1: little bit more than you.
Speaker 5: Know one hundred percent? So that just goes back to me, know,
Speaker 5: me changing positions when I got to college, it was
Speaker 5: definitely a whole new experience to me. I hadn't tooken
Speaker 5: a defense in that since like pee wee football prior
Speaker 5: to that, So definitely just something you know, you got
Speaker 5: to get used to. And then my my freshman year,
Speaker 5: played a little bit just because I knew the playbook.
Speaker 5: And then my second year I didn't really play that much.
Speaker 5: That was called that COVID year, So the whole year
Speaker 5: was weird. And then kind of like the same role
Speaker 5: I had right now back my junior year. Next man
Speaker 5: of can be in the game or the season for
Speaker 5: the rest of this year is in the any moment
Speaker 5: and when we're at Texas, like that's when my number
Speaker 5: was called, like for the first time and me to
Speaker 5: take on a bigger road than what I had. So
Speaker 5: kind of just you know, falling back to that that
Speaker 5: kid right now, you know he was he was very humble.
Speaker 5: Uh he's patient, so just still trying to be that
Speaker 5: same kid.
Speaker 4: So well, here's your defensive coordinator, Nick Rollis. He was
Speaker 4: asked though, what excites him about your game?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 9: He fits the criteria to play here, which is motor
Speaker 9: and violence, and he's extremely smart. He works hard, so
Speaker 9: that you know is gonna build down and he's gonna
Speaker 9: continue to get better as a player.
Speaker 1: But he flies.
Speaker 9: Around, he hits people, he caps things off, he plays away.
Speaker 9: I want defense players to play, right, So there you go.
Speaker 4: You guys have two things in common, right Wolf used
Speaker 4: to fly around on special teams. He went to four
Speaker 4: Pro Bowls. Okay, he used to bust up wedges back
Speaker 4: when those were legal. Okay, Wolf would go after and try.
Speaker 4: Don't have one wolf, wo try and take out three guys.
Speaker 4: Did you ever get three wolves?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: No, no number. I saw one guy get three Hank Power.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Hank Power took out three
Speaker 1: guys in the watch. You'll only get two ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the way is that's I mean, we did that
Speaker 5: in high school. They got me running down there. Three
Speaker 5: big old tight ends is waiting on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It is incredible though, because then they went ahead
Speaker 1: and said, well you can have two guys standing. You
Speaker 1: can't have four, you can have two. And I've said
Speaker 1: to myself, why in the world would you have two?
Speaker 1: Because one of those guys I'm gonna kill on the
Speaker 1: football field, right because that's all you're gonna get. Anyways,
Speaker 1: you stare at one guy down the field sprinting sixty
Speaker 1: yards and when you get about three yards away from you,
Speaker 1: hit the other guy and just blow the other guy up.
Speaker 5: You'll see. I like the new kickoff for right now?
Speaker 1: You like the new one.
Speaker 5: I'm liking it I'm liking it.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you like about it?
Speaker 5: You ain't got to run that foot yard sprint? Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's yeah.
Speaker 1: Like that's what I loved.
Speaker 5: About it because I played kickoff team and college is
Speaker 5: like all four like the whole time. Like it was
Speaker 5: like that's something that you know, they can make a
Speaker 5: break of games. So like I need to be on it,
Speaker 5: you know. And I run down and we had to
Speaker 5: run through the end zone. So I'm running a sixty
Speaker 5: yard dash and I get two post balls and I
Speaker 5: was sitting down and they calling pun I'm right back up.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, you're gassed already. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, if you're wondering why they changed the kickoff roll,
Speaker 4: blame Wolf. Okay, yeah, he's a big reason why. The
Speaker 4: other thing you guys have in common you both went
Speaker 4: in the fourth round. You both went the exact same
Speaker 4: pick in the draft. Yeh four, this is this is crazy.
Speaker 4: Give it and give it to.
Speaker 5: Me now we just figured that that oh.
Speaker 1: Four and one oh four? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: Where were you one O five not to be confused
Speaker 1: with one O five, but one O four.
Speaker 5: Best pick of the draft.
Speaker 4: Where were you when your name was called? Were you
Speaker 4: a family.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was in Lubbock. So after the draft, I
Speaker 5: mean the draft with the Combine. It was back there
Speaker 5: for like the last two months before the draft. Uh,
Speaker 5: spend time with my daughter, had all the fan come out,
Speaker 5: and went to the gym that morning with my friend
Speaker 5: Princeton and came backside down. We're sitting out like maybe
Speaker 5: like maybe like a couple of minutes phone call and
Speaker 5: it's like when I came here on my thirty visit,
Speaker 5: so I trained out here. So I've actually been here
Speaker 5: in Arizona since December. I trained up at Exos up
Speaker 5: North and I think that's like Scott still up North
Speaker 5: or whatever, and then came out my thirty visit, told Minnie,
Speaker 5: I was like, man, this is this is this is
Speaker 5: exactly where I wanted to come play at. Like just
Speaker 5: the circumstance for my position being on this side of
Speaker 5: the being on this side of the states. I love Arizona.
Speaker 5: My best friend moved out here a long time ago,
Speaker 5: and my first time coming out here was during COVID
Speaker 5: and then coming back since then, you know, just fell
Speaker 5: in love to the place like I could. And then
Speaker 5: I get to go into the draft. So it's like
Speaker 5: like I love I want to be there. I could
Speaker 5: play there. And then just the guys, you know, getting
Speaker 5: to going with a guy like Mude Baker, Jayleen Thompson,
Speaker 5: you know, the quarterbacks, Kyler Murray, you know, like new
Speaker 5: staff and just the knowing them prior to where they've
Speaker 5: been on how they do things. You know, it's kind
Speaker 5: of like a staff staff. I want to play for it.
Speaker 5: So end up getting that phone call. It was like
Speaker 5: it was kind of like I've seen a ghost when
Speaker 5: I got the call, because like my body got cold.
Speaker 5: I started shivering for a second, and like I want
Speaker 5: to say, I answered it right away, but it was
Speaker 5: it was like ringing for like seven seconds, like I
Speaker 5: couldn't believe. I was trying to swipe. I couldn't swipe it.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I didn't get the phone call. And then
Speaker 5: before I left my thirty I told Money like, hey,
Speaker 5: you got a bunch of picks, like like I don't
Speaker 5: want to go into West but here. So when he
Speaker 5: called me, he was like remember you told me you
Speaker 5: want to be a cardinal, And I'm like hell, yeah, man,
Speaker 5: oh man, yeah.
Speaker 4: That's great, that is great. I mean, and well if
Speaker 4: you know this MANI and JG talk about they want
Speaker 4: the person before the player. Yeah, doesn't it make sense
Speaker 4: his personality, how he plays the game. Yes, how seriously
Speaker 4: used as a rookie the Advanced Football IQ.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Just can't you see them saying, Okay, this guy, now,
Speaker 4: let's check out his film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it. It is the
Speaker 1: price of admission, as JG like, yes, say right there,
Speaker 1: the price of admission, and you definitely have that price.
Speaker 1: You've paid that price. But watching you play as well, man,
Speaker 1: I love how you play. You go ahead, man, right
Speaker 1: to the wall. Yeah, I appreciate it, And that's something
Speaker 1: I appreciate a lot about you.
Speaker 4: Hey, a reminder you can learn more about Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 4: single game tickets, the Premium seating, the new luxury field
Speaker 4: seating for all the infoco at Azycardinals dot Com slash tickets,
Speaker 4: Asycardinals dot Com slash tickets. We continue with Rabbit. It
Speaker 4: is the Big Red Rage presented by sandtan Ford and
Speaker 4: Gilbert Live at Trophy and Chandler at Price Road in
Speaker 4: Queen Pree.
Speaker 3: I was trying to get to the line quickly one
Speaker 3: in counting to your receivers left one right, with one fifteen.
Speaker 3: First down snapped to Party straight through I in trouble
Speaker 3: hit and the ball flutter's far side. He and Tysier
Speaker 3: White with a diving interception to win the game.
Speaker 4: At midfield.
Speaker 3: Party got hit, the ball fluttered and Kaiser White caught
Speaker 3: up to it, pulled it in and the Cardinals are
Speaker 3: gonna get one in San France.
Speaker 1: Bap the pig into the air and Kaiser White comes
Speaker 1: down with it.
Speaker 3: It was Jalen Thompson that got pressure on Rock Party
Speaker 3: and Kaiser White with the pick.
Speaker 1: I'm getting the mohawk.
Speaker 4: Baby. See we're not making that up right. Yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 4: And you know what, Wolf had a viable out because
Speaker 4: both the GM and the head coach at different times
Speaker 4: came up to Wolf and they really they were borderline
Speaker 4: pleading with don't do it. You don't have to do it,
Speaker 4: you don't have to get the mohawk. But you know,
Speaker 4: low key, I think Wolf really wanted one. I think, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Know you're right about that. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: actually bring it down a little bit more too on
Speaker 1: the side. That's what I thank you. Stuff it in,
Speaker 1: you know, proof it all up on top, all fan
Speaker 1: it out like Punk Rock, You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. All right, here we go big red rage
Speaker 4: and a big win against the Niners. And before we
Speaker 4: move on to the Packers, would you like the most
Speaker 4: about a defensive shutout of Rock Perty in the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers? That second half Rabbit, I mean, that's the
Speaker 4: lowest passer rating he's had all year. He had the
Speaker 4: two picks, there were one for six in the red zone.
Speaker 4: What did you like the most about how the Cardinals
Speaker 4: played in that second half? Defensively?
Speaker 5: Man, just coming in making the adjustments. You know, we
Speaker 5: knew that offense is going to come back out and
Speaker 5: should we didn't character score us, they don't score again,
Speaker 5: and we scored. We went and we scored a couple
Speaker 5: of times. We win the game. So that was kind
Speaker 5: of like the mindset, come out, we know what we
Speaker 5: gotta do. We knew what kind of game we expeced
Speaker 5: it to be. Got out a little hand right before
Speaker 5: the have, but we knew what kind of game we
Speaker 5: were gonna have to go in and play. So just
Speaker 5: like max A is a boxing mas like, it's a
Speaker 5: physical game. Like I played literally almost like almost half
Speaker 5: the game, and I felt just like I played the
Speaker 5: whole game. So yeah, it's definitely a difference from you know,
Speaker 5: the games I'm used to playing.
Speaker 1: So you know, rabbits they had the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: had four possessions in the second half. All of them
Speaker 1: were turnovers on downs. Was one of them two picks
Speaker 1: in a fumble? Yeah, that's how those possessions ended.
Speaker 5: I think I just speak to our team, man, like
Speaker 5: how so yeah, just showing like how resilient we are,
Speaker 5: you know, coming in It's like I said, we knew
Speaker 5: what kind of game it was gonna be. So just
Speaker 5: the preparation and the heart that we laid out in
Speaker 5: the second half, like you con genually, like when we
Speaker 5: got into the locker room, it was like everyone was
Speaker 5: so like so exhausted, but it was a great time,
Speaker 5: like big, big win on the roads. So it was
Speaker 5: it was a party. But after that game we were like, yeah,
Speaker 5: we felt that, but it was good to come out
Speaker 5: you know, on the on the good side.
Speaker 4: So now you get the Green Bay Packers, Right, it's
Speaker 4: the NFL's second oldest rivalry Cardinals. Packers goes back to
Speaker 4: nineteen twenty one. Man, tons of history, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: where do you see the stadium, Lambeau Field. It's epic, Kyler.
Speaker 5: I've been hearing all about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Kyler said, even he's looking forward, you know,
Speaker 4: just seeing it. What have you been hearing? And how
Speaker 4: excited are you just to make the road trip itself
Speaker 4: and see Lambeau Yeah.
Speaker 5: So we're leaving early, so hopefully the area we're in,
Speaker 5: you know, trying to find the good food spots, you know,
Speaker 5: that's kind of what I go establishing. But yeah, they're
Speaker 5: a good football team. We have our upsides and downsides
Speaker 5: on them. So you know, just going in playing another
Speaker 5: complete game, this is a good opportunity. You know, coming
Speaker 5: off and win last week, you know, teams got a
Speaker 5: little juice and everything, and then going to another back
Speaker 5: to back road wins. That'd be huge for the season
Speaker 5: right there.
Speaker 1: So okay, I just got to ask you this quickly
Speaker 1: before we let Paul do his thing right here. But
Speaker 1: I'm you a foodie. Did you like food?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love food?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What what's your favorite? So?
Speaker 5: If I had to go, like one thing on the planet,
Speaker 5: it's like, but like if it's I like gravy, so
Speaker 5: like chicken fried steak? Oh yeah, chicken fries steak. I
Speaker 5: could do that almost almost every day.
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, I had that in Buffalo. Well, Wolf,
Speaker 4: Wolf actually took us out to dinner in Buffalo. Boom.
Speaker 4: I got the chicken fried steak. You know, I'm not
Speaker 4: sure why. In Buffalo, I probably should have got the
Speaker 4: white fish. But anyway, I'm with you on that rabbit.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like, well, big barbecue guy, Okay, there you go,
Speaker 1: big barbecue.
Speaker 8: Like.
Speaker 5: I'm really like, I really like.
Speaker 1: They learned that. I love carriage.
Speaker 5: I like awful.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: See I just started eating oysters not too long ago.
Speaker 5: I like him. Yea, yeah, I could do it. Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 5: I could do him.
Speaker 4: This is a this is a tough time here for Wolf, though,
Speaker 4: because he has this irrational aversion to squash and pumpkins.
Speaker 4: I like squash, yeah, man, yeah, so you can get
Speaker 4: some therapy on that, kind.
Speaker 5: Of like pumpkin. I'm not too big on the pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: We also have this aversion to Jordan Love and the
Speaker 4: Green Bay offense, with which leads the NFL and explosive plays.
Speaker 4: In fact, here's the head coach Jonathan Gannon on the
Speaker 4: Green Bay.
Speaker 7: Oh, they throw the ball at people's heads and they
Speaker 7: got explosive players, the run games good. Jacobs is a
Speaker 7: really good player. The scheme is really good. But what
Speaker 7: jumps out on the tape to me is they can
Speaker 7: throw it over your head. So we got to be
Speaker 7: on the details of that. You know, they're one of
Speaker 7: the top teams in the lead and explosive plays and
Speaker 7: that's how they score points.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they beat the Rams last week. They had a
Speaker 4: sixty six yarder, they had a fifty three yarder, So
Speaker 4: I'm guessing that's been a point of emphasis this week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I mean, you know we're capable
Speaker 5: of we know what they're capable of. So at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, it's just us going in, you know,
Speaker 5: getting into another battle one. You know, a great day
Speaker 5: to play football. You know it's going to be good weather,
Speaker 5: iconic stadium for me, so you know, just going in
Speaker 5: getting winning that that always be a memory. So really
Speaker 5: looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: So what do you see of Jordan Lof of course
Speaker 1: the Packers quarter back on tape and what are your thoughts?
Speaker 5: So he's a dude, not gonna lie. He's a good player.
Speaker 5: He's actually my host when I went on my official
Speaker 5: visit to Vintall State. Yeah, yeah, he probably doesn't even
Speaker 5: remember me, but yeah, he was my host when I
Speaker 5: went in there on my visit, so and only that
Speaker 5: was like really the only my first official I went on.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that was pretty cool. So it's kind of cool,
Speaker 5: like I've always watched him, you know, watching him grow
Speaker 5: and he's become a good player. You know, I was
Speaker 5: always room for im, permit for everybody, but nothing, are
Speaker 5: you going to.
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 5: I was gonna beat him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you should go talk to Chris Barnes, Cardinals linebacker,
Speaker 4: because they grew up together. He's known Jordan Love since
Speaker 4: they were eight. They played in high school together.
Speaker 5: Oh that's what's up.
Speaker 4: And so then there were roommates in Green Bay because
Speaker 4: they were both the same rookie year or one year apart.
Speaker 4: So that's pretty crazy. Here's Brude Baker on Jordan Love.
Speaker 8: Was able to see him throw the ball a little
Speaker 8: bit in the off season. You know, the spind reminds me,
Speaker 8: of course of Aaron Rodgers. But you know, just a
Speaker 8: real great guy, real great player, makes his reachs, can
Speaker 8: throw the ball inside the pocket, outside of the pocket.
Speaker 8: You know, I've never played against him personally, so definitely
Speaker 8: excited to play the Packers play Jordan Love.
Speaker 5: He's a great QB.
Speaker 4: Here's the crazy thing. He leads the NFL on average
Speaker 4: touchdown passes per game. No, he missed two games per game.
Speaker 4: He also leads the NFL in interceptions per game. Sounds
Speaker 4: like he's I've never seen him in person. Sounds like
Speaker 4: he's a risk taker like me, and he does. He's
Speaker 4: aggressive and he'll go downfield, so there might be opportunities maybe.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So I see it this way, man, and I
Speaker 5: see it the same way for offense. And I'm gonna
Speaker 5: speak for them. When you got a good team, you
Speaker 5: got good players, you know you got you gotta put
Speaker 5: the ball in the area to give it to him,
Speaker 5: you know, that's what makes That's what makes especially like
Speaker 5: those offensive players, like those receivers, like that's what make
Speaker 5: them them, Like you know, thinking about like the Megatrons
Speaker 5: and all the other Julio just throwing the ball, so like,
Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like that's what he's doing. He trusts,
Speaker 5: He trusts his players just how just as much kind
Speaker 5: of trust is our guys, Like you know, our guys
Speaker 5: are better than those guys. So that's why we throw
Speaker 5: marve the ball. That's why, George, that's why we hand
Speaker 5: the ball off the jay. See. So it's kind of
Speaker 5: like a part of that factor. You know, you can't
Speaker 5: go in there and see it as okay. He leads
Speaker 5: the leads an intertestion because you know, we go in
Speaker 5: and do our job. He can have a perfect game
Speaker 5: and then we we don't add a factor to that.
Speaker 5: So you know, it just goes into you know what
Speaker 5: we can fall back on when we get there.
Speaker 4: So the way they're using you, now, are you more
Speaker 4: comfortable in the box or is it deep center field
Speaker 4: type safety?
Speaker 5: I think I'm just comfortable on the field, man, like
Speaker 5: a lot of Yeah. I love you know what they
Speaker 5: seeing me and the roles that I get to play,
Speaker 5: you know, drop down, get to play a little bit
Speaker 5: of a little bit of everywhere on the field, you know.
Speaker 5: So yeah, man, just keep staying ready.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. If you want a good listen
Speaker 4: this week, check out the day Patch podcast featuring Fox
Speaker 4: Sports broadcaster Tom Ornaldi. Here's on the sidelines. Great stories
Speaker 4: from that game that Cardinals win at the forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: some real insight into James Connor. He goes back to
Speaker 4: the pit days when James Conner beat cancer. Those guys
Speaker 4: are really tight and there's some great stories from Tom
Speaker 4: or Noldy and it's just a great listen wherever you
Speaker 4: get your podcast. The Day Pash Podcast. This week we
Speaker 4: continue with Rabbit Cardinals Safety presented by Santan Fordy and Gilbert.
Speaker 4: It's the Big Red rage at Trophy in Chandler.
Speaker 3: Snap to Murray and he's gonna keep him running to
Speaker 3: the right. He's got river at the forty five forties.
Speaker 3: He points to the sky as he takes off at
Speaker 3: the thirty at the twenty the ten to five touchdown
Speaker 3: a design run for Tyler Murray. It goes for fifty yards.
Speaker 3: He's barking at the crowd in the end zone. In
Speaker 3: less than two minutes in the Cardinals have the first
Speaker 3: score of the game.
Speaker 4: Murray under center, trying to make it a two point game.
Speaker 3: Murray takes handoff counter up the middle, gets handed at
Speaker 3: the goal line and powers in second effort. James Connor
Speaker 3: gets two points and it's a two point game. The
Speaker 3: Cardinals are very much in this game. At the eleven
Speaker 3: twenty five.
Speaker 1: Mark, all is fair in love war and driving somebody
Speaker 1: into the ground isn't that right?
Speaker 4: James Connor cram that vertical San Francisco? How about it?
Speaker 4: As James Connor, by the way, on those last two
Speaker 4: scoring drives by the Cardinals ran it twelve times for
Speaker 4: seventy two yards. Yes, I mean well, true or false?
Speaker 4: The Cardinals offense is at its best when mister James
Speaker 4: Conner right is the point man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pay, there's no doubt about it. Once again he
Speaker 1: sets the table I think for everybody else, just attacking
Speaker 1: it in a very vertical kind of way. And what
Speaker 1: I love, I love to see eleven personnel, twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, a lot of different personnel groups instill cramming
Speaker 1: it vertical and attacking it. And I thought what we did,
Speaker 1: especially in that second half against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: has really attacked the A gaps as well. And James
Speaker 1: Connor running the ball is a joy to watch. It
Speaker 1: just is. It's the game of football. You're trying to
Speaker 1: run as hard as you can and try to bury
Speaker 1: somebody else and sometimes you got the ball in your
Speaker 1: hand and that's what jac does. Yeah.
Speaker 4: By the way, when Kyler ripped off that fifty yard
Speaker 4: touchdown run, not only was that the fastest run by
Speaker 4: a quarterback in over eight years, twenty one point three
Speaker 4: miles per hour. But that was thirteen personnel. All three
Speaker 4: tight ends got their blocks in, so that was really
Speaker 4: well executed by the way. Rabbit is our guest, and
Speaker 4: I'm curious, what have you found out about Kyler the
Speaker 4: athlete just being on the same field with Kyler and
Speaker 4: has that been sort of a different experience to have
Speaker 4: one of the fastest dudes on the field be the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it's insane. Obviously, he's going back to his
Speaker 5: high school days. Like, I mean, everybody knew who Kyler
Speaker 5: Murray was, but I've never seen him play in person before.
Speaker 5: Like I've always seen like, you know, clips, maybe watch
Speaker 5: a little bit of a game, but like being with
Speaker 5: him every single day, like it was different. Just the
Speaker 5: way he like runs the ball. It's like a little
Speaker 5: video game character. Yeah no, yeah, no, He's he's something else, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Paul Everything. Think. One of the challenges I think
Speaker 1: for Drew Petson going forward is going to be not
Speaker 1: to get carried away and give too many scheduled runs
Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray, too many called runs for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: I think once again, they're going to have to be
Speaker 1: very judicial in how they delineate the carries. For Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: I want to see him do more of a scheduled
Speaker 1: run from time to time, maybe two to three, maybe four,
Speaker 1: get a little crazy four called runs where you give
Speaker 1: it to him bump. But also I want to see
Speaker 1: him take that ball and pull it down a little
Speaker 1: bit more, a little off schedule, some of the off
Speaker 1: schedule runs. That's how I'd like to see him run,
Speaker 1: because I think it's where he's the most effective, and
Speaker 1: he can move the chains as well. Well.
Speaker 4: You know, Green Bays Defense has something in their plan.
Speaker 4: You know, they're very aware as the Cardinals going to
Speaker 4: Lambeau and we're going there, you realize, Okay, let's see
Speaker 4: what do they do well the Friday fish fries, you know,
Speaker 4: and beer and brats and cheese curds, and then at
Speaker 4: Lambo they do a really good job of pregame flyovers.
Speaker 4: Here's two thousand and six.
Speaker 3: Oh no, welcome back to landbou.
Speaker 4: Man. I wish i'd have known that was coming. Whoa,
Speaker 4: whoa did you know that was coming? I had no idea.
Speaker 1: I looked up and all of a sudden a couple
Speaker 1: of F eighteen hornets right over the stadium.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised you're still alive after that.
Speaker 4: WHOA, Hello, get a doctor in here. I had no
Speaker 4: idea that was coming.
Speaker 1: I believe that's buzzing the tower.
Speaker 4: That was a live on air moment right before kickoff.
Speaker 4: Not Rabbit, that really Wolf, did you go? Did you
Speaker 4: go down to it?
Speaker 1: Very shaved? Was actually down. I mean I did kind
Speaker 1: of like throw my arms off. But David went underneath
Speaker 1: the counter, did he? Not Holmes, that's he did. He
Speaker 1: went underneath the counter. A couple of F eighteen's just
Speaker 1: buzzing right over the top, and they were, oh they
Speaker 1: were no doubt.
Speaker 4: All right. So look, I don't know what's planned for
Speaker 4: a Sunday, but I do know that Kyler Murray is
Speaker 4: very excited to go to Lambeau. Here's the quarterback.
Speaker 10: It's gonna be a good challenge for a school on
Speaker 10: the road. Place I haven't played before. Personally, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm really excited to go up there first time. Great environment,
Speaker 10: really historic place, A lot of great players that play
Speaker 10: in that stadium, so I'm excited about it.
Speaker 4: Now, Rabbit, you have a lot in common with Ron Wolfley. Okay,
Speaker 4: you know the draft pick all I get. Don't do
Speaker 4: what Wolf does. Every time he goes to Lambeau. He
Speaker 4: goes down on the field, and really, Wolf, I mean
Speaker 4: I might have to make a citizens arrest this time.
Speaker 1: I know I'm throwing it, Paul.
Speaker 4: No, Wolf walks down there and he gets well, he
Speaker 4: helps himself to some turf, to some grab it.
Speaker 1: It's not a big deal. Just walk out. It's Lambeau Field.
Speaker 1: I mean it's Lambbau. So there there. Grass is always
Speaker 1: a little longer.
Speaker 5: There's no time already.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you know this. It's thicker and it's longer.
Speaker 1: So you know what, I just grab a handful of it,
Speaker 1: put in the just boom, No, he's sick him my pocket.
Speaker 1: This matter of fact, I stick at in my pocket,
Speaker 1: bat and it's there the whole broadcast. Just stick it
Speaker 1: in the pocket and all of a sudden, every now
Speaker 1: and then you pull a blade of grass up. Look,
Speaker 1: I got Lambeau right, nice, so cool.
Speaker 4: We talked about the receivers. We talked about the quarterback.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about Josh Jacobs right five to ten, two
Speaker 4: twenty five plus runs really hard. You talk about James Connor.
Speaker 4: He sort of has a similar mentality, doesn't he.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's uh, he's an Oklahoma guy too, so looking
Speaker 5: for you know, you get to play against him definitely.
Speaker 5: I mean don't know him, but uh just know you
Speaker 5: know the guys that make it out of Oklahoma and
Speaker 5: you know there's some players, you know, so not too
Speaker 5: many of us. NIC's a good guy, a real explosive,
Speaker 5: patient guy. You know, runs well behind his pads. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be it's gonna be a test. You know,
Speaker 5: he's only they're like, what did he say? There's only
Speaker 5: some things you can do? The like they're look like
Speaker 5: those guys like you just slow him down a little bit.
Speaker 5: You know, they're gonna do their thing, you know, but
Speaker 5: we got a good plan, you know, to go, you know,
Speaker 5: shut him down a little bit.
Speaker 1: He is so thick when you watch him on tape,
Speaker 1: I mean you know, he is so thick.
Speaker 5: No, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And how he runs, I.
Speaker 5: Mean watching that, watching that Bamilely.
Speaker 1: Yeuh yeah, I think he's He's really an in between
Speaker 1: the tackles type guy. That's where I think he shines.
Speaker 1: Some guys they kind of like getting out on the edge.
Speaker 1: Some guys can do both, right. I think he's more
Speaker 1: of an in between the tackles type runner. It's not
Speaker 1: that he can't get outside, but he doesn't have blazing speed.
Speaker 1: He's just got super power. It's just hard to tackle
Speaker 1: and knock off his feet.
Speaker 5: He's disclosure though. When he hits that hole though, like
Speaker 5: when it's on to go, he can get you a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 1: But he got a burst.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: When you when you went to safety from running back
Speaker 4: and you made that transition to college, how hard was
Speaker 4: it for you to learn the art of tackling and
Speaker 4: was that Yeah, what was the degree? Was that one
Speaker 4: of the toughest aspects of making the transition?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I really didn't know how to Im not
Speaker 5: gonna lie me. I obviously like played bass, so like
Speaker 5: I'm known about, like I never had to do it,
Speaker 5: like literally in high school when we had like defensive piers,
Speaker 5: like me and the quarterback, we sitting on a city
Speaker 5: skidos right hanging out kicking it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So yeah, when I got to switch it over to defense, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was definitely like defins shit was like a big
Speaker 5: like learning period, Like yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, speaking of tackling. One of the most entertaining
Speaker 4: things that can happen on football field is when a
Speaker 4: big man picks up a fumball or maybe there's a deflection.
Speaker 4: You saw it with the Kansas City or right they
Speaker 4: who were they playing? It was Kaelin Saunders right and
Speaker 4: he had the interception and the rated calling stuff. So
Speaker 4: the question wrong, Jimal Mahunter to Paris Johnson Junior. We
Speaker 4: want you to think about this as well. Which big
Speaker 4: guy in the Cardinals roster would you want to see
Speaker 4: with the ball in his hands rolling?
Speaker 1: I think Beach.
Speaker 11: I think if Beach took it all, I think I
Speaker 11: would absolutely lose it. Do all the non negotiables, take
Speaker 11: my helmet off, absolutely just launch.
Speaker 1: It like I would lose. You You would think I scored.
Speaker 11: If I saw Beach pick up the ball and take
Speaker 11: off like stef Farm, somebody hurt or died for the pylon,
Speaker 11: I would start dying laughing like it would be the best,
Speaker 11: It would be the best thing ever.
Speaker 4: Thirteen year veteran right tackle Kelvin Beachum, what what would
Speaker 4: be your choice?
Speaker 1: Rappit?
Speaker 4: Who would be your choice?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: He got a good one. Man, Yeah, yeah, If tarry
Speaker 5: one doesn't know beach Beach is like seventeen year vet
Speaker 5: old line like he is he is an old cat. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so honestly if I've seen that too, I don't know
Speaker 5: about breaking an one Theghostia boos because I'm not Paris,
Speaker 5: you know not. Yeah, but uh, i'd be lit to
Speaker 5: but I probably have to say, like d rov Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about how about Roy Lopez? That wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 5: That would be bad. It makes it like, it makes
Speaker 5: it like real, like you know, like funny because like
Speaker 5: all the big guys, you don't never see him like
Speaker 5: open up for real. So like the running mechanics might
Speaker 5: be a little funny, like you might. You might have
Speaker 5: didn't know he ran like that sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yelled de fro Holt right. We call
Speaker 4: him for fro Holt, right, the world's strongest man. He's
Speaker 4: a special dude, that would be he's just lower on someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why do you say that he's a special thoud
Speaker 1: about yoga?
Speaker 5: He's a man. He's like one of those dudes. You
Speaker 5: look at him like you probably be terrified you didn't know,
Speaker 5: but like he is, like he's a cool dude, Like
Speaker 5: he's there every he walks in probably about five ten
Speaker 5: minutes after I get to the building every single morning,
Speaker 5: or he might be there before me some days.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, he's just so you're there early.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I get there. I get to get the
Speaker 5: build early.
Speaker 1: I get warmed up.
Speaker 5: Man, yeah, I gotta get warmed up. But yeah, no Froze,
Speaker 5: cool guy. And he's big protein guy. I remember one
Speaker 5: day we coached, let him break out practice, and I'm
Speaker 5: just like, I'm just like a little tired. You know,
Speaker 5: he's got out of little practice. He's like protein protein
Speaker 5: on three.
Speaker 4: I know, it's awesome, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: For fun.
Speaker 4: In his downtime, he goes into his gym and he
Speaker 4: throws around Atlas stones. I mean, he's yeah, some rabbit.
Speaker 4: We really enjoyed it. REALLYCT you guys have me as
Speaker 4: always special.
Speaker 1: Thanks Jim E.
Speaker 4: Monro, Cody fitcherwald Ellis, Lawrence Ellis, Matt Lazarus. For rabbit,
Speaker 4: I'll Paul calvic Ron Wolfley. That'll do it. For The
Speaker 4: Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert Kwame.
Speaker 2: You've been listening to The Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 2: santan Ford and Gilbert right on the price right on
Speaker 2: the corner of the Santan two to two Freeway in Valvista.
Speaker 2: The Rage is brought to you by Arizona Cardinals Podcast.
Speaker 2: Visit Azycardinals dot com slash podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see a little, big red rage football right here.
Speaker 2: This has been an exclusive presentation of the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 2: Football Club.