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Speaker 2: Here's Paul Calves.
Speaker 4: I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you
Speaker 4: I'm ready.
Speaker 2: And Ron Wilfleep. It doesn't get any better than that.
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Speaker 4: You know what makes this upcoming season just so intriguing, no,
Speaker 4: is that there are way more questions than answers. True,
Speaker 4: where's this season going, what's in store, how's it going
Speaker 4: to play out? And who will beat the players in
Speaker 4: this final fifty three?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: All we know for sure is that the process is underway,
Speaker 4: and I tend to think that day one of training
Speaker 4: camp also becoming the first day we've had of rain
Speaker 4: in more than four months, that somehow those two are
Speaker 4: interconnected and linked, that somehow there was cause and effect. Really,
Speaker 4: that the fact that Cardinals camp was back underway and
Speaker 4: all of a sudden we got rain. Somehow those football
Speaker 4: gods they honored the fact that Cardinals were back on
Speaker 4: the turf here at State Farm Stadium.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Paul. The only other thing I really know for sure
Speaker 4: is that somebody has to pay them selves around here,
Speaker 4: because Wolf, you have been on your feet all day long. Wolf,
Speaker 4: it's a long training camp, it's a long season.
Speaker 1: Paul, I gotta tell you right now, I've never felt
Speaker 1: so energized in my life, I kid you not based
Speaker 1: on what I saw out there in practice today. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen anything that has energized me
Speaker 1: as much on day one, at least for me, this
Speaker 1: is day one for me than what I saw out
Speaker 1: there at an up, fired up ball.
Speaker 4: You and Buddha Baker. Buddha Baker was he was spired up,
Speaker 4: he was out in that field, he was smiling, and
Speaker 4: all of a sudden You're like, Okay, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Just the fact he was out on the field. That's
Speaker 4: the first answer for all the questions we had come
Speaker 4: in into camp. You could argue, Number one, Buddha Baker,
Speaker 4: what's his status? He did not participate on field activities
Speaker 4: in the off season, but getting things underway here. They
Speaker 4: got his deal done, as we found out later. In fact,
Speaker 4: here's the head coach Jonathan Gannon when asked about Buddha
Speaker 4: Baker team captain.
Speaker 7: First and foremost. You know, when you turn on a tape,
Speaker 7: everyone is watching that tape. Who stands out? You know?
Speaker 7: I think Jeff Rogers said it best in his teams meeting.
Speaker 7: You know, he's looking for guys when you turn on
Speaker 7: a tape, It's like who the.
Speaker 2: Is that guy?
Speaker 7: You know? And obviously everyone knows who number three is,
Speaker 7: But those type of plays show up, you know, pretty
Speaker 7: consistently on a tape for him.
Speaker 4: And look, speaking to DB's key troll Clark is, they're
Speaker 4: a very special guest tonight, the rookie sixth round or right.
Speaker 4: He's been falling around Buddha Baker like all.
Speaker 6: The dbs do.
Speaker 4: But Buddha Baker got a deal done before camp started.
Speaker 4: Manti austin Ford ownership. He got a deal done, reportedly
Speaker 4: two point four million in bonuses and incentives added to
Speaker 4: his deal, a three hundred thousand dollars signing bonus, two
Speaker 4: point one million to be had, and incentives and bonuses,
Speaker 4: et cetera. So boom, Okay, we talked about this at length. Well, yes,
Speaker 4: and to me, it's about a best case scenario you
Speaker 4: could end up with.
Speaker 2: I say it's a win win, Paul.
Speaker 4: Both sides got what they wanted and we all know
Speaker 4: you're either part of the problem part of the solution.
Speaker 4: I've called this offseason the latest Purge movie. Buddha Baker
Speaker 4: definitely part of the solution Wolf, and we know it
Speaker 4: not just what he does on film and does on
Speaker 4: the field, but what he does in that locker room.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Bully, it's so critical right now.
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker got paid. He's happy right now. And you
Speaker 1: didn't give him a new contract. You did not do it.
Speaker 1: You didn't tear it up and say this is going
Speaker 1: to be a new extension with Buddha Baker. So you
Speaker 1: still have that in your back pocket if you're maniasin
Speaker 1: for it right now.
Speaker 2: What I love about this Boot is happy. Boot is
Speaker 2: happy boot is happy.
Speaker 1: Now, all of a sudden, you're gonna have coaches that
Speaker 1: are gonna take out their red dot and they're gonna
Speaker 1: stick that red dot on tape. When the tape is
Speaker 1: up on the wall in front of everybody, they're gonna
Speaker 1: stick that red dot on number three and they go, boys,
Speaker 1: look at number three. Watch Buddha right here. There are
Speaker 1: two times in the world whereas a player, you're really
Speaker 1: really worried about.
Speaker 2: That red dot.
Speaker 1: Okay, one of those times, though, could be a good
Speaker 1: time where you actually do something well. The other time
Speaker 1: is typically with the red dot. What are you doing here?
Speaker 1: What is going on here?
Speaker 2: Right? Buddha Baker is the perfect red dot because.
Speaker 1: When they put that red dot on Buddha Baker, it's
Speaker 1: because he's doing something really really special.
Speaker 2: That's who he is.
Speaker 4: And if there's one thing Jonathan Gannon and this staff does,
Speaker 4: it's whole players accountable. It's one big reason he was hired.
Speaker 4: I was identified as an issue coming off the four
Speaker 4: win campaign a year ago, but even the head coach
Speaker 4: admits it's better coming from players than it is from coaches,
Speaker 4: and Zamon Collins talked about that just having Buddha Baker
Speaker 4: back from day one.
Speaker 8: I was standing there and someone punched me in the stomach.
Speaker 8: I was like, who the hell is this? They're Buddha
Speaker 8: but like yeah, and he's like, are you ready?
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm ready to boo. Let's go.
Speaker 8: It's day one to the long season. Let's get after it.
Speaker 8: Buddah always brings a type of energy. Boot will hold
Speaker 8: everyone accountable. You know, it was my rookie season. I
Speaker 8: messed up a simple play, and I mean he was
Speaker 8: on the sideline just you know, getting like telling me
Speaker 8: every name in the book. But like, I mean, I
Speaker 8: remember that day vividly. But it wasn't because he's trying
Speaker 8: to be harsh towards me. It was because he's trying
Speaker 8: to make me better.
Speaker 4: Zaveon Collins there, Wolf. You know, look we go hit
Speaker 4: rewind over the last twenty years, the Carson Palmers, the
Speaker 4: Larry FitzGeralds, the Kurt Warners. Yeah, holding teammates accountable, Yes,
Speaker 4: it just seems to go that much farther when you're
Speaker 4: hearing it from a team leader.
Speaker 1: No, Paully, there's no doubt about that. It's so critical
Speaker 1: right now, You've heard me talk about it many many times,
Speaker 1: there is culture and then there is modeling that culture.
Speaker 1: And Buddha Baker. You've heard me talk about this, he
Speaker 1: doesn't just model the culture that they want here, Paul.
Speaker 1: He is the culture that they want here. A smart
Speaker 1: guy who's going to go about his business in a
Speaker 1: very professional kind of way, who's going to give you
Speaker 1: everything that he's got on the field and off. He
Speaker 1: is the exact kind of culture that the coaching staff
Speaker 1: wants here. And that's the reason why Buddha Baker is
Speaker 1: so valuable going forward Schematically. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how they use him. What are they going to do
Speaker 1: with Buddha Baker? Where's he going to be? Are we
Speaker 1: going to see three safeties? Because I saw it in
Speaker 1: practice today. Very interesting to see what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: with Buddha Baker and where he's gonna line up.
Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon was asked what he respects about a Buddha Baker,
Speaker 4: two time All Pro, and he said, you know what,
Speaker 4: simply put, he plays the game, in my opinion, Saigan,
Speaker 4: in the way the game should be played. Let that
Speaker 4: hang for a minute, and well, if he was that guy,
Speaker 4: whos a rookie when the Pro Bowl is a special teamer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he was that guy. He's the guy. Mike Tomlin when
Speaker 4: he was miked up man was raving about Buddha Baker
Speaker 4: just flying all over the field. So so look, if
Speaker 4: there's one guy you're gonna model your behavior, that winning behavior, Yes,
Speaker 4: said Jonathan Bannon talks about Absolutely, it is Buddha Baker.
Speaker 1: It's Buddha Baker, Pauline. Not only that too. There are
Speaker 1: two things when you watch Buddha Baker on tape. And
Speaker 1: it's interesting because this is what we started this beautiful
Speaker 1: part of the program with.
Speaker 2: It's watching Buddha on tape.
Speaker 1: When you watch him on tape, and jayg knows exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about right now, there are two things
Speaker 1: that overwhelm you when you watch Buddha Baker on tape.
Speaker 1: Two things. Number one, absolutely fearless. Fearless, Paul You can
Speaker 1: see a player that plays the game in a very
Speaker 1: fearless kind of way. You can see it. There's no
Speaker 1: hesitation whatsoever. He's fearless. That's number one. Number two, he
Speaker 1: never gives up out of play. You never see him
Speaker 1: loafit on a play. You put those two things together
Speaker 1: right there, that is the culture that you want other
Speaker 1: guys to actually model. Buddha is the culture you can
Speaker 1: have other guys model it.
Speaker 4: You know, when you say that, you know, I think
Speaker 4: of the end of the playoff loss at the La
Speaker 4: Rams Games, totally out of hand, Buddha Baker chasing down
Speaker 4: cam Akers touchdown, saving catch that's right, and then had
Speaker 4: to leave on a stretcher.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: That's Buddha Baker literally laying it all the line at
Speaker 4: the end of a game that had long been decided.
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Speaker 4: The first open practice today for fans out here. The
Speaker 4: first padded practice is going to be July thirty. First, well,
Speaker 4: just give me a couple of impressions of what you
Speaker 4: saw out there.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. First of all, I just want to
Speaker 1: talk since we're talking about Buddha Baker, the free safety
Speaker 1: defense that I actually saw out on the field with
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons out there and Jalen Thompson out there as well.
Speaker 1: Very interesting that Isaiah Simmons a lot of the time
Speaker 1: was lined up in the middle of the field. Cover
Speaker 1: three is a massive coverage in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's been around forever, but it really has taken off
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years. Cover three is a
Speaker 1: favorite right here, three deep four underneath rush four. I
Speaker 1: think you're going to see an awful lot of that.
Speaker 1: I think you're also going to see man free where
Speaker 1: there's man across the board and then a free safety
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. To me, that Cover three, though,
Speaker 1: you'll rotate a safety up into the box, and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if you're gonna stick Isaiah Simmons in the middle
Speaker 1: of a field, you're gonna have Jalen Thompson and booting
Speaker 1: in the box.
Speaker 2: Very interesting.
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Speaker 4: by Santan Ford in Gilbert What a crime engineered by
Speaker 4: Cole McCoy.
Speaker 2: Cole McCoy just dropped up bed with thimble.
Speaker 5: You know, last year was just really tough.
Speaker 9: Some of my best friends and people that I love
Speaker 9: and care about and you know, are close with get fired.
Speaker 5: You know. Then you know you have a little off.
Speaker 9: Season surgery and like its just those things just add
Speaker 9: up emotionally, and I think when the off season started,
Speaker 9: I just I wasn't in a great place.
Speaker 5: Because I was physically I was getting.
Speaker 9: Better and better each day and I felt better, but.
Speaker 5: Emotionally I just was still.
Speaker 9: I don't know what the word would be, Probably just
Speaker 9: like sad, you know, like you're like in a fog,
Speaker 9: just just a little bit of a funk, a little
Speaker 9: bit of a funk, a little bit of a fog,
Speaker 9: Like you work so hard to make something happen, you know,
Speaker 9: you're just you're sad when it doesn't work out.
Speaker 4: Just one of many memorable moments from the Dave Pash
Speaker 4: Podcast featuring Colet McCoy in his fourteenth NFL season. A
Speaker 4: legend in Texas, soon to be thirty seven years of age,
Speaker 4: he has seen and done it all in the NFL.
Speaker 4: It's just a great listen the Pash Pod wherever you
Speaker 4: get your podcast. That's all you need to do. Just
Speaker 4: search Dave Pash Podcast and Colt McCoy the starting quarterback
Speaker 4: for now and for how long we don't know, but
Speaker 4: wolf just simply put you watch Cole McCoy, especially in
Speaker 4: this offense, and don't worry, we're gonna get into the offense. Sorry, right,
Speaker 4: but we're gonna get into the offense. We're gonna get
Speaker 4: in the physicality of this camp. But when I see
Speaker 4: Cole McCoy running this offense, I'm reassured. I mean, there's
Speaker 4: a certain confidence level just because he's been there and
Speaker 4: done that in this sort of scheme.
Speaker 1: He's definitely all over this kind of offense that the
Speaker 1: original Cardinals are getting ready to unferl But let me
Speaker 1: just say this right now, Polly, when I hear that cut,
Speaker 1: the very first thing I think of is, never forget
Speaker 1: the game of football and professional football players. It's played
Speaker 1: by human beings, you know what I mean. It just
Speaker 1: it really the humanity of what he just said right there,
Speaker 1: it really reminds me.
Speaker 2: It hits home.
Speaker 1: You know, so much of the time, Paul, I think
Speaker 1: we put these players on a pedestal like they're being
Speaker 1: down from the mothership, and yet we need a good
Speaker 1: reminder that they are human just like everybody else.
Speaker 2: They're human beings.
Speaker 1: And Colt McCoy right there relaying just how upset he
Speaker 1: has been in regard to losing a lot of his friends,
Speaker 1: not only coaches that he's worked with, teammates, of course obviously,
Speaker 1: but even front office personnel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and just how much he cares, it's obvious. It's
Speaker 4: palpable in that cut. A lot of guys in the NFL,
Speaker 4: you know, they're playing for the next contract. They're hired mercenaries.
Speaker 4: Colt's one of those guys that cares about everyone. His
Speaker 4: dad was a high school coach. It's in his dear
Speaker 4: the game itself. And so when it comes to being
Speaker 4: the Cardinals starting quarterback to begin this season, which is
Speaker 4: what we presume, that's not something that is lost on
Speaker 4: a Colt McCoy's He shared with day Pash.
Speaker 9: It's a cool feeling, like I don't take it lightly
Speaker 9: that there's only thirty two guys to get to do this.
Speaker 9: For me, it's very similar to the role I've been
Speaker 9: in the last two years. It's like always being ready,
Speaker 9: always studying, always learning, always prepairing, always asking questions. A
Speaker 9: ton of my closest friends are gone. They're They're just gone.
Speaker 9: That's a hard process to go through emotionally and mentally.
Speaker 9: And now I feel like through this break, I'm in
Speaker 9: a way better place and I'm ready to go back
Speaker 9: and play football.
Speaker 4: You know what else is gone? Yeah, the previous way
Speaker 4: the Arizona Cardinals approached the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: It's I mean, oh yeah, well, just simple things that
Speaker 4: you take for granted. Team is now going to huddle. Yes,
Speaker 4: this team is now going to be under center. This
Speaker 4: team is now going to require different mechanics and footwork
Speaker 4: from their quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not just different play calling and scheming.
Speaker 4: It's just a radically different way to approach moving the football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paul, you know you mentioned huddle right there. I
Speaker 1: got to jump on that right now. This is a
Speaker 1: huge thing. You know what a big believer in the
Speaker 1: huddle that I am, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: teams have found this out and discovered it, maybe the
Speaker 1: hard way, right because they didn't have it. So of course,
Speaker 1: you know, the last four or five years, I would say,
Speaker 1: the new age coming in and man, you were going
Speaker 1: to go no huddle and it's up tempo. It's all
Speaker 1: about get on the ball, and yep, it's up tempo.
Speaker 1: Get on the ball. What are you doing right now?
Speaker 1: What got lost in all of that is the accountability
Speaker 1: that actually happens inside a huddle. I'm talking about. Are
Speaker 1: you looking at me? Because I'm looking at you right now.
Speaker 1: Don't leave me hanging out to dry like you did
Speaker 1: on the last third and eight. Don't the last time
Speaker 1: we ran this production this protection. Don't me hang it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what I mean, PAULI like those
Speaker 1: conversations actually happened inside a huddle when the quarterback stepped
Speaker 1: out getting the play. It's it's not only accountability, it's
Speaker 1: also tips that are passed along. Hey, guys, remember the
Speaker 1: last third and ten what they did to us on
Speaker 1: the last one. Remember they brought that strong safety fire.
Speaker 1: We could see it again right here. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Times Kurt Warner and Carson Palmer were miked up, they
Speaker 4: break the huddle and he would grab one of the
Speaker 4: receivers and say, look, you're the key to this play.
Speaker 1: Yes, remember this, PAULI. It's it's critical that you actually huddle.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: There are gonna be times you want to go up tempo,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. There are gonna be times I'm
Speaker 1: all four jumping into the how the no huddle even
Speaker 1: on a series, Paul, just doing it out of nowhere
Speaker 1: to surprise your opponent.
Speaker 2: I got no problem with that.
Speaker 1: But when you say this is what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the time. We're always gonna do it
Speaker 1: this way. Man, I got all sorts of problems with DoD.
Speaker 4: I tell you, it's really interesting what's coming on offense.
Speaker 4: Kyleannabash busted out some numbers. Wolf. How about this, the
Speaker 4: same Kyle Vanibosch that ripped you down on the field
Speaker 4: earlier today, that dirt bag. Okay, he came up with
Speaker 4: some numbers. And it goes something like this. Cleveland's offense
Speaker 4: last year was top five and twelve personnel. They were
Speaker 4: a number one in thirteen personnel. Do you know who
Speaker 4: is number one in twelve personnel? The Philadelphia Eagles. So
Speaker 4: between Drew Petsen and Cleveland and Jonathan Gannon in Philadelphia, Yeah,
Speaker 4: guess what it is going to look and play a
Speaker 4: lot different this year.
Speaker 1: Paully, There's no doubt about that. One of the biggest
Speaker 1: signing of the off seasons just happened. One of the
Speaker 1: biggest signing of the off season just happened. Jeff Swain. Okay,
Speaker 1: the veteran title veteran tight end Jeff Swain from the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 4: Right now, Pedestrian pass catching numbers.
Speaker 1: So forget about the pass catching. Okay, Paully, well you did.
Speaker 1: This is a true stud tight end. This is the
Speaker 1: first true stud tight end who's actually played in the
Speaker 1: National Football League that is going to line up on
Speaker 1: the end of the line of scrimmage and actually come
Speaker 1: off the ball and remove somebody. He did it for
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans for a long time. He was a
Speaker 1: seventh round pick, Pauly, if I'm not mistaken, right now,
Speaker 1: he made himself into a tight end where he was
Speaker 1: a starter. He was the best blocking tight end the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans had for Derrick Henry. Would you say, Paully,
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans ran the ball, especially in a north
Speaker 1: south kind of way. Yes, yes, Pauli. And now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've got him. You know what, I'm
Speaker 1: so happy for zach Ertz Zach you you don't have
Speaker 1: to try to be that guy anymore. We got that
Speaker 1: stud tight end right there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Trey McBride can actually back up both spots, the why
Speaker 1: the stud tight end and the age he can develop
Speaker 1: he can grow. He doesn't have to be out there
Speaker 1: and learn with his hair on fire right now. He
Speaker 1: doesn't because they got a true stud tight end, and
Speaker 1: now zach Ertz is going to be your move tight end.
Speaker 1: Here comes twelve personnel baby.
Speaker 4: All right, so look, Cole McCoy is your starter. Layton
Speaker 4: tune has been running number two two days in the camp.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 4: You know what's interesting about the Clayton Tunes of the world.
Speaker 4: He spent five years at Houston. He never huddled in college.
Speaker 4: He's had to learn the huddle. Kyler Murray, to my knowledge,
Speaker 4: has never formally huddled. So it's gonna be a transition
Speaker 4: of sorts for the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 2: Oh, Paul, you're gonna have to call plays.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be different. So maybe maybe in some ways
Speaker 4: a small way, Cole McCoy taking the reins to start
Speaker 4: this scheme from the very beginning might be beneficial in
Speaker 4: a lot of different ways. Lets you comment on that.
Speaker 4: Right after we hear from Cole McCoy just talking about
Speaker 4: the Kyler Murray outlook on the Day Pash podcast.
Speaker 9: Kyler is he's the ultimate competitor, So I mean, I
Speaker 9: think he's attacking his rehab.
Speaker 5: He wants to be out on the field. He's good
Speaker 5: in meetings.
Speaker 9: You know, there are some things that are gonna be different,
Speaker 9: Like we are gonna huddle, we are gonna call plays
Speaker 9: in the huddle. We're gonna use like a lot of
Speaker 9: different mechanics than what we did last year, right, I mean,
Speaker 9: just from the very beginning, there's a lot of things
Speaker 9: to learn. But Kyler has jumped right in. He's doing
Speaker 9: the things that he can do without actually being out
Speaker 9: there and calling the plays and running the place. Right,
Speaker 9: But I bet he's out there sooner than later.
Speaker 4: It would be my guess, Well, luxury never afford to
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray. He was never able to sit be on
Speaker 4: a veteran quarterback, yes, and just learn and absorb. He
Speaker 4: was never able to do that. He was the guy
Speaker 4: from day one. So maybe there might ultimately be some
Speaker 4: benefit to this arrangement.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Bally, Right now, I think
Speaker 1: this can be a positive. You know how tight Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and Colt McCoy are, and the fact that now
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy can actually show him, he can model exactly
Speaker 1: how you need to work your feet in this offense,
Speaker 1: putting him under center.
Speaker 2: Of course, you need.
Speaker 1: To run to that matchpoint right there and then be
Speaker 1: able to either bootleg it out of there, or set
Speaker 1: up in the pocket.
Speaker 2: Set up there. You've got to look at Colt.
Speaker 1: McCoy and his feet and Kyler can then go ahead
Speaker 1: do the exact same thing, buddie Colt McCoy on tape
Speaker 1: and then use that to obviously go out and replicate.
Speaker 4: And I to tell you what, Cole McCoy had a
Speaker 4: couple of dimes today. He hit Rondel Moore on a
Speaker 4: couple of passes. Money throws eleven on eleven. Uh, there
Speaker 4: were some throws to Hollywood Brown where he's right, I mean,
Speaker 4: so far looks good. And then of course we all
Speaker 4: know a quarterback's best friend is the run game. And
Speaker 4: one of the best quotes so far. Two days into camp,
Speaker 4: somebody was asking jg of just about the Cardinals new
Speaker 4: offense and featuring James Connor, and he said, I'm just
Speaker 4: excited to watch number six run the ball as we
Speaker 4: cram it vertical. That was the verbage us by the
Speaker 4: head coach.
Speaker 2: I love that, Paul.
Speaker 1: We got to put that on a car to sign somewhere. Hey, JJ,
Speaker 1: kram it vertical.
Speaker 4: You know else loves it. All the offensive linemen love
Speaker 4: it so raving about it already. There was a moment
Speaker 4: today where James Connor ran the zone the stretch play. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and he got some so he got some room off
Speaker 4: the edge and he just housed it. He just ran
Speaker 4: a neck. They were going the whistle. He kept going
Speaker 4: another sixty yards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he kept going right.
Speaker 1: Now, there's a new mentality, man, This is a this
Speaker 1: is a football mentality.
Speaker 2: It is a beautiful thing to actually watch.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: They got to grow at Paul.
Speaker 4: So you're a rookie draft pick right in your first
Speaker 4: impression when the new decision makers is, hey, coach, can
Speaker 4: I miss rookie mini camp? Key Troll Clark had a
Speaker 4: really good reason and he's has a really good chance
Speaker 4: to make a lot of noise in this camp as
Speaker 4: a corner. We have seen it all ready.
Speaker 2: I've seen a little bit of that.
Speaker 4: Well, hear from him next, Key Troll Clark on the
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Speaker 10: For some reason, every time would be of one on
Speaker 10: one situations. I was always matched up with Key Trail Clark,
Speaker 10: but we had some good battles back and forth, and
Speaker 10: I think he's gonna be a guy that's gonna play
Speaker 10: for a while because he controls all the control bulls.
Speaker 6: He's high no.
Speaker 10: Matter what, like high high energy guy, no matter what.
Speaker 10: And I have a lot of respect for how he
Speaker 10: prepares himself on the day to day. He told me
Speaker 10: today two pages of notes on me. Okay, this is
Speaker 10: what Mike does on this release, on this release, on.
Speaker 5: This round, on this round.
Speaker 10: I'm like, Bro's that's crazy. And so I love going
Speaker 10: against guys that truly love the game. And you know,
Speaker 10: Key Trail is one of those guys. I think he's
Speaker 10: going to be really, really special and he's got a
Speaker 10: special personality. I think he's one of the most special
Speaker 10: personalities I've probably come across in my lifetime in football.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 4: That's the keeper of a statement and eye opening statement
Speaker 4: from rookie receiver Michael Wilson on rookie corner Key Trell Clark.
Speaker 4: Until you realize the value placed on study and the
Speaker 4: importance of education from someone who asks for permission to
Speaker 4: miss rookie Mini Caamp to attend his college graduation. And
Speaker 4: we're gonna get into all that as we welcome a
Speaker 4: player and the big personality, Key Troll Clark did the
Speaker 4: big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Early
Speaker 4: in camp, your first NFL training camp, just us, how
Speaker 4: you doing, how you're feeling? I mean, how's how's the
Speaker 4: whole experience washing over you at this point?
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: First, I'll just say thank you for having me on
Speaker 6: this on this show today.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: It's it's an honor truly. Like you said, Man, it
Speaker 6: all started, you know, right after the season last year
Speaker 6: out of college, you know, started the combine prepping. Next thing,
Speaker 6: you know, onto the draft. And in my time, you know,
Speaker 6: letting coach jg and and everybody know like, look, I
Speaker 6: gotta go graduate, man, and when y'all draft me, that's
Speaker 6: what I gotta go do. Can y'all accept that? And
Speaker 6: you know they was, they was willing to that, and
Speaker 6: I was very appreciative, and you know, came in uh
Speaker 6: and too mini camp and gave it my all. And
Speaker 6: that's why you hear guys like Michael Wilson speak high
Speaker 6: praises of me, man, because because I really take this
Speaker 6: game to heart. Is more a lifestyle to me.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what did it mean when the decision makers embraced
Speaker 4: your request when theyheartedly said absolutely go out to college graduation,
Speaker 4: because that was quite the experience, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: It was? I just felt like it was an honor,
Speaker 6: like I said, for the head coach of an organization,
Speaker 6: the club to be able to grant me that opportunity
Speaker 6: to do so, man, And it just showed them, showed
Speaker 6: me that they value me as a person and a
Speaker 6: player as well. So I was just truly appreciative of that. Man.
Speaker 4: So studying is what you do, key Trot Clarker is
Speaker 4: our guests? Is that true? Are you really formulating notes
Speaker 4: on your own teammates and receivers you go against in practice?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, is no question about it. Because these are the
Speaker 6: guys that I compete against every single day. These are
Speaker 6: the guys I'm going to go against all year. You
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. They're going to make me better,
Speaker 6: you know, so I want to make them better as well,
Speaker 6: you know. So I want to learn those learn the
Speaker 6: tools that they have in their toolbox, and then maybe
Speaker 6: change some tools in my toolbox. And they may see
Speaker 6: some things that they haven't seen from me. And that's
Speaker 6: how me and Michael we pretty much go at it.
Speaker 6: I might see him do something new and I'd be
Speaker 6: like huom that was new, bro, I ain't see that one,
Speaker 6: and then I'll change something up and we just keep
Speaker 6: going back and forth.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 6: So studying has always been a part of my repertoire
Speaker 6: and it's all the little details of things for me. Man,
Speaker 6: it can be something as little as the smallest of
Speaker 6: tiniest detail, and I'm gonna make sure that I know
Speaker 6: the ins and out of it, because I don't like
Speaker 6: not knowing something.
Speaker 4: What have you learned so far about the NFL? You
Speaker 4: obviously have a lot to learn, correct But like Kyle Soley,
Speaker 4: we had on recently, right fellow rookie, and he said, Man,
Speaker 4: I've learned you've got to be on your toes at
Speaker 4: all time because this head coach, this staff is liable
Speaker 4: to hold you accountable definitely at any moment.
Speaker 6: Definitely definitely. And one thing I love about this coaching
Speaker 6: staff is they love adaptability and change. At the end
Speaker 6: of the day, they understand that it's not a my
Speaker 6: way or the highway type of concept. It's what can
Speaker 6: we do to help you to put you in the
Speaker 6: best position possible to be able to go out and
Speaker 6: execute the way that we would like it. And that's
Speaker 6: the main thing. One thing that I truly learned about
Speaker 6: about the NFL man is special teams. Hey, you gotta
Speaker 6: really harp on the small details in everything, but special
Speaker 6: teams is one that you really have to provide the
Speaker 6: value and be able to know the details of every
Speaker 6: position to be able to get on the field as well.
Speaker 4: Well, I look at your SKYT report coming out of Louisville,
Speaker 4: and you're known as a feisty, aggressive corner. So does
Speaker 4: special teams sort of suit you in terms of the
Speaker 4: mentality needed?
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, for sure. I feel like on special
Speaker 6: teams you gotta be feisty, you gotta be tenacious. You
Speaker 6: gotta go down the field and be able to really
Speaker 6: take somebody head off at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: so or be on kickoff returning and get ready for
Speaker 6: somebody two hundred and fifty pounds to run at you. So, Man,
Speaker 6: special teams, you just gotta have that killing mindset at
Speaker 6: the end of the day. And that's something that I possess.
Speaker 4: What was your mindset going to the Sweat Shrine game?
Speaker 4: Because from everything I can tell, that was critical for
Speaker 4: sure to your NFL future. Right, you're in a four
Speaker 4: to four two, but you really competed at the Shrine Game.
Speaker 6: For sure. My twenty twenty one season, I tore my
Speaker 6: ACL and my MCL, so I was coming back in
Speaker 6: the twenty twenty two season off of injury. So you know,
Speaker 6: it takes about a year for you to truly feel
Speaker 6: like yourself again. So the first half of the season,
Speaker 6: I felt like I didn't play my best.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: So going into the end of the season, you know,
Speaker 6: I played a lot better. And then I got the
Speaker 6: invite to the East West stron Bow and that gave
Speaker 6: me a lot of confidence at the end of the
Speaker 6: day too, because I knew when I went there, regardless
Speaker 6: of what happened in my past, I knew that I
Speaker 6: was going to go to the East West s tron
Speaker 6: Bow and be the best corner there and overwall person
Speaker 6: and player. So and I felt like I went there
Speaker 6: and I did exactly what I was supposed to do.
Speaker 6: And I feel like that played a big, big, big
Speaker 6: portion and part of how I'm in these seats today.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 4: Keith Trell Clark is our guests round six rookie out
Speaker 4: of Louisville. I mean, already you've had to contend with
Speaker 4: so many different type of receivers in this roster, right,
Speaker 4: you have the size of Michael Wilson, you have the
Speaker 4: strength of the Zach Pascal, you have the explosion and
Speaker 4: the speed of a Hollywood Brown Rondell Moore. How challenging
Speaker 4: is it just to play the position itself? Cornerback?
Speaker 6: Besides quarterback, I say, cornerback is probably the position right
Speaker 6: behind it. At the end of the day, you don't
Speaker 6: know where the wide receiver is going. They know they're route,
Speaker 6: you don't know it, and you're going backwards. I feel
Speaker 6: like your God and somebody running full speed at you backwards.
Speaker 6: And it takes the elite few to be able to
Speaker 6: do so. So man, I just say every single day
Speaker 6: that I step on the field, that's where it goes
Speaker 6: into your film study and to just studying the game.
Speaker 6: So it can make it easier for yourself when you
Speaker 6: step out there and all of the tributes that I have,
Speaker 6: as far as my speed and my strength and my
Speaker 6: explosion be able to be right there as well.
Speaker 4: Speaking to quarterbacks, it's hard not to notice you were
Speaker 4: number thirteen. Kurt Warner's name is on the Ring of Honor.
Speaker 4: It is at stay from Steve. How familiar are you
Speaker 4: with the quarterback Kurt Warner.
Speaker 6: I know here OG. I called him OG's, I know
Speaker 6: he has OG. I'm not gonna die too much into it,
Speaker 6: but I know I got some big shoes to feel.
Speaker 4: So I asked my Jay Sanders this time last year.
Speaker 4: I said, Okay, you're coming into the league. Which quarterback
Speaker 4: would you like to sack the most? He immediately said,
Speaker 4: Tom Brady.
Speaker 6: You can't do that no more.
Speaker 4: Which quarterback would you like to intercept the most in
Speaker 4: the NFL?
Speaker 6: Mm?
Speaker 4: Or is the receiver that you really would look forward
Speaker 4: to matching up against?
Speaker 6: Which quarterback? I'm gonna start with quarterback first, I say,
Speaker 6: I say Pat mahons for sure, he the best. You
Speaker 6: gotta go out to the best Pat Mahonmes. And then
Speaker 6: just guarding a wide receiver, can't wait to go against
Speaker 6: guys like Justin Jefferson Dotson over there at Washington.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 6: And sure, it's a long list of great wide receivers
Speaker 6: in this league.
Speaker 4: So what if coaches told you about your role Because
Speaker 4: in some regards, that cornerback room is wide open by
Speaker 4: all counts. And I've seen a lot of different guys
Speaker 4: running first team, including you. So when you get those
Speaker 4: sort of reps with the first team. I mean, how
Speaker 4: meaningful is that to you? And where do you think
Speaker 4: it might be tracking if you play the kind of
Speaker 4: ball you want to play.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my main thing is always controlling what I can't control.
Speaker 6: So as I talk to my coaches, they tell me,
Speaker 6: control what you can control and go out there and
Speaker 6: compete every single day, and at the end of training
Speaker 6: camp we'll see what the cars may lay. So it's
Speaker 6: nothing the pinpoint. Just know, if I'm out there and
Speaker 6: I'm competing and and I'm not giving up any explosive
Speaker 6: plays and I'm making plays, you know where that leads too.
Speaker 4: So so tell me about your battles with Michael Wilson,
Speaker 4: Key Troll Clark, is our guests here in the Big
Speaker 4: Red Rage, and or anyone else who I mean, who's
Speaker 4: keeping you honest out there when you go against the receivers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure it's Michael Wilson, of course. You know
Speaker 6: it's a rookie class. We came in together and we battle. Also,
Speaker 6: you know guys like ZP. Pascal, great wide receiver going
Speaker 6: against Rondelle, going against Hollywood, Greg Dertsch, the whole receiving core. Man,
Speaker 6: I feel like, they all make me better every time
Speaker 6: I line up against them because their whole work ethic
Speaker 6: and everything that they do off the field translates to
Speaker 6: on the field, and that makes me stay on top
Speaker 6: of my game and on my toes as well well.
Speaker 4: And this team is going to Minnesota for joint practices
Speaker 4: with the Vikings, so you'll see Justin Jefferson fouts out
Speaker 4: there in about three weeks or so, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: All Right, Look we can measure your forty. You ran
Speaker 4: a four to four two. Look, you have the athleticism,
Speaker 4: there's no doubt. But when it comes to playing corner
Speaker 4: how about the mental side of it? Just the confidence,
Speaker 4: the fortitude, just the mental strength because every corner gets
Speaker 4: beat at some point exactly, So what do you tell yourself?
Speaker 4: How how critical is that to be in a successful cornerback?
Speaker 4: Just that mental fortitude.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So one thing that me and my pops will
Speaker 6: always talk about is the next play mentality. We talk
Speaker 6: about that for the game of football itself, and we
Speaker 6: talk about that for life. At the end of the day,
Speaker 6: it's just a next play mentality. If you give up
Speaker 6: a play, so what how you're gonna finish the game?
Speaker 6: That's really gonna matter. Okay, So that's that's the things
Speaker 6: that I when I go into the game. Of course,
Speaker 6: I hate to give up anything. I could give up
Speaker 6: a five yard route and be pissed. That's just the
Speaker 6: type of person I am, because I'm a competitor at
Speaker 6: the end of the day. But you got to focus
Speaker 6: on the next play. You're not gonna make every single play.
Speaker 6: There's no perfect player on that field. Even even the
Speaker 6: greats like Tom Brady has made mistakes. Even he has
Speaker 6: thrown interceptions, but he has also won Super Bowls too
Speaker 6: as well. In the same game he may have thrown
Speaker 6: an interception, you know. So it's not how you start,
Speaker 6: it's how you finish. And if you allow one play
Speaker 6: at the corner position to dictate how you're going to
Speaker 6: finish the game, then do you in the wrong position
Speaker 6: and you on the wrong field, and you ain't gonna
Speaker 6: win in life.
Speaker 4: Down the stretch, come with key Trot Clark, rookie Corner
Speaker 4: football is more than a job to you, isn't it. It?
Speaker 4: Get the sense I mean, you're really passionate about the sport.
Speaker 6: Definitely, Definitely, that's a game that I've been playing since
Speaker 6: I was six years old. I take heave to this,
Speaker 6: this game. It's my livelihood. Every single day that I
Speaker 6: walk in the building, I keep my energy high. I'm
Speaker 6: just excited to just be here. This is a blessing
Speaker 6: at the end of the day, so I take it.
Speaker 6: I don't never take advantage of it as well.
Speaker 4: You know, you've already separated yourself in one regard. We're
Speaker 4: not aware of any other NFL player who has his
Speaker 4: own photo gallery on an NFL team site. You were
Speaker 4: downtown and you help yourself to the camera with Caitlyn,
Speaker 4: the team photographer. Right, tell us about your photo gallery.
Speaker 6: Yeah, man, that was amazing. So me and Caitlyn we
Speaker 6: connected when I first got here. You know how all
Speaker 6: the rookies come in and we just do our regular
Speaker 6: photos and our nice polo and you know, I came
Speaker 6: in the room with my great energy and I was
Speaker 6: just excited to be there, and they was like, man,
Speaker 6: out of everybody, you you were so excited to take
Speaker 6: these pictures. And I'm just like, man, I'm just happy
Speaker 6: to be here. And then next thing, you know, I
Speaker 6: just kept on coming around. I would go in their
Speaker 6: office and stuff and just dip them up and shake
Speaker 6: their hand, say how y'all doing today? And then it
Speaker 6: was like, you know what, I want to do something
Speaker 6: with you. I know that you like the camera. Let's
Speaker 6: go downtown and you know, kind of explore and I'll
Speaker 6: just teach you how to work the camera a little
Speaker 6: bit and you can get some great shots and I
Speaker 6: can put it in my little photo gallery and shoot.
Speaker 6: That was another great opportunity because you know, that's I'm
Speaker 6: gonna end up being a photographer one day. Maybe maybe
Speaker 6: on the side, just on the side while I'm still
Speaker 6: playing ball, I might still do it.
Speaker 4: That's great stuff. Key Troll Clark our guest here on
Speaker 4: the Big Red Rage. Let me ask you, because I've
Speaker 4: asked every player, rookie or vat has this coaching staff
Speaker 4: held you accountable yet?
Speaker 2: Have you had that moment?
Speaker 4: Zavin Collins said he was put on blast the first
Speaker 4: team meeting because he's breakfast. Kyle solely said yes, he
Speaker 4: has been called on in team meetings. He kind of
Speaker 4: got half the answer, didn't get the entire answer. How
Speaker 4: about you. Have you had that moment?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: And one thing on this staff is, like you said,
Speaker 6: they're gonna hold every player, every coach accountable, So at
Speaker 6: the end of the day. You gotta know it, know it.
Speaker 6: That's what JG always talked about. You don't just know what,
Speaker 6: you gotta know it, know it. So one day we
Speaker 6: was on special teams. Actually it was my first day
Speaker 6: out there, my first day out there, and I had
Speaker 6: ended up turning the wrong way. Coach JG comes out
Speaker 6: the blue key trail, turned the right freaking way. Man,
Speaker 6: he doesn't miss much, does it. Nah, he does not
Speaker 6: miss it. He does not miss it. And then after
Speaker 6: I turned the wrong way, I kind of jogged off.
Speaker 6: He was like, man, run back, run back. So I
Speaker 6: was like, ever since then, I just make sure that
Speaker 6: I'm on my p's and q's every time I step
Speaker 6: on the field, because somebody's watching head coach GM body
Speaker 6: is watching you when you step on that field, so
Speaker 6: you better make sure you know everything and correctly well.
Speaker 4: And we'll be watching as well from the radio booth
Speaker 4: and looking forward to every moment that you're just getting rolling.
Speaker 4: The most important thing to us is guys like you
Speaker 4: and Michael Wilson are money interviews. That's what the media loves. Okay,
Speaker 4: not only players, but great draft picks. When it comes
Speaker 4: to the media session, so that's just as valuable as anything.
Speaker 6: Anytime you need me, I'll be right here to interview
Speaker 6: with you. Whatever the fans want, any questions they got,
Speaker 6: I'm here.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 4: We continue, Key Troll Clark was our guest as Yes,
Speaker 4: we continue with a big red raid presented by Santan
Speaker 4: Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: What a good job at the point of attack right
Speaker 1: there and say like DJ Humphrey's got a nice block.
Speaker 2: DJ Humfrey's pumping his chest and his fist.
Speaker 11: It's been a culture shock. It ain't even benished. No
Speaker 11: graduate shift is shocked. You'd get with it to get
Speaker 11: go JG. Yeah, that's it. You know, you know you
Speaker 11: met him. It's either you're gonna be like that or
Speaker 11: you're gonna go home. It's that simple. It's that's that's
Speaker 11: really the mentality. Yeah, that's the mentality of it. So
Speaker 11: it's it makes it easy. And especially when you got
Speaker 11: older guys that me all the Buddha, all those guys
Speaker 11: that's buying into the system.
Speaker 2: You know what I meant, when you have your leaders
Speaker 2: that are.
Speaker 11: Falling into that mode, there's nobody that's behind you that's
Speaker 11: going to buck the system.
Speaker 2: When they see guys that me.
Speaker 11: Guys at Kwan Buddha that are falling into place and
Speaker 11: doing everything right, they're gonna they're gonna do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Get with it or get gone. Yep, it's part of
Speaker 4: hout d J. Jeffries described the new culture not a
Speaker 4: culture shipped, but a culture shot. What that hang for
Speaker 4: a minute? That really describes and summarises what's going on
Speaker 4: here at Cardinals Camp. As we wrap up this edition
Speaker 4: of The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert,
Speaker 4: we are Santan Ford, Paul Calvic, Ron Wolfley Special thanks
Speaker 4: again to Key Troll Clark. I tell you what, every
Speaker 4: one of these guys we run into who have been
Speaker 4: brought in in the off season, almost every one of
Speaker 4: them has like the ninety ninth percentile when it comes
Speaker 4: to passion for the game. Key Troll Clark is one
Speaker 4: of those guys.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: The zach Pascals, the Kaizer Whites, all these guys were
Speaker 4: brought in for a re wolf and you just see, Okay,
Speaker 4: they fit what this new staff is trying to establish.
Speaker 2: Pollie, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: What I saw out there today, I could not have
Speaker 1: drawn it out any better.
Speaker 2: If I had designed practice. Okay, there were selmer coms.
Speaker 1: Could I just tell you that they were working in
Speaker 1: rundown situation eighteen period where you've got eleven on eleven
Speaker 1: of course, and you're working rundown situation. Rundown is first
Speaker 1: and ten, second and one to six. Traditionally that's what rundown,
Speaker 1: classic rundown situation is in the National Football League, First
Speaker 1: and ten, Paully, second and one to six. What did
Speaker 1: they work on out there today? First and ten, second
Speaker 1: and one to six? And guess what when you get
Speaker 1: into the rundown situation that defines who you are as
Speaker 1: an offense. It does everybody throws the ball, paul When
Speaker 1: it's second in ten, everybody throws the ball. When it's
Speaker 1: third and eight, everybody throws the ball, Paulie. We all
Speaker 1: understand that, right. What about rundown situation that defines who
Speaker 1: you are as a team? Where's your quarterback? Number one?
Speaker 1: And when I say where's your quarterback? Is he under center?
Speaker 1: Is he in the shotgun, is he in the pistol,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, where's your quarterback? Well, the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals had their quarterback under center. I would say eighty
Speaker 1: five to ninety percent of the time that this happened. Yes,
Speaker 1: this team period. What what personnel groups are you in?
Speaker 1: That defines who you are as well? Well, you know
Speaker 1: what did the Arizona Cardinals. We're in a lot of
Speaker 1: twelve dare I say even thirteen personnel? So twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: one back, two tight ends. That seemed to be their mainstay,
Speaker 1: that was their base. And then they went one back,
Speaker 1: three tight ends, thirteen personnel often. Now did they put
Speaker 1: the quarterback into the gun from time to time? Yes,
Speaker 1: they did, of course they did. Did they go with
Speaker 1: eleven personnel and run down situation from time to time? Yes,
Speaker 1: they did that. Eleven personnel, one back, one tight end,
Speaker 1: three wide receivers. They did it all but eighty five
Speaker 1: percent one of the time they had that quarterback under center,
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the time they were in twelve
Speaker 1: personnel in rundown situation. PAULI, what plays are you running?
Speaker 1: You're running the stretch. Of course, the outside play the
Speaker 1: tackle zone is what I call it, with a bootleg
Speaker 1: coming off of it, a waggle to the weak side
Speaker 1: coming off of it, of course, a straight setup in
Speaker 1: the pocket play action coming off of it, a seven
Speaker 1: step drop throwing the ball, attacking the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: You know what they were doing in run down situation.
Speaker 1: You want all of this to come together because what
Speaker 1: is the purpose of your scheme? Why are you doing
Speaker 1: it in run down situation? What is the purpose? The
Speaker 1: purpose is to attack the line of scrimmage and then
Speaker 1: use play action to throw the ball. You're gonna do
Speaker 1: one of those two things right there. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I saw the Arizona Cardinals working at nauseum on
Speaker 1: out there today. Paulie, this is a beautiful thing because
Speaker 1: it's one thing, as we all know, to sit there
Speaker 1: and give it lip service. We all knew this was coming.
Speaker 1: JG was talking about this. This is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be in the shotgun, I can tell
Speaker 1: you that much all the time. He's gonna be under
Speaker 1: center from time to time. Drew Petsing saying, don't tell
Speaker 1: people he's gonna be under center from time to that.
Speaker 1: Right well, listen, you're not gonna trick anybody. This is
Speaker 1: the great thing about it. You're gonna x out execute people.
Speaker 1: That's what you're gonna do right there. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: run this scheme, They're gonna have to guess that second
Speaker 1: level of the linebackers.
Speaker 2: Did he hand it off? Did he not hand it off?
Speaker 2: Who does he have the ball? Does he not?
Speaker 1: And Man, I'm telling you what, you got him right
Speaker 1: where you want him at that point in time. What
Speaker 1: I saw out there today was the beginning of a
Speaker 1: very physical culture shock that is gonna happen to this offense.
Speaker 4: You know what else we saw, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 4: Saw play action and you saw play action hit home. Yes,
Speaker 4: against the Cardinals defense eleven on eleven. You saw Rondell
Speaker 4: Moore twice, big strike, saw play action, Pascal downfield, Yes,
Speaker 4: Hollywood Brown had a nice catch. They were targeting the
Speaker 4: tight ends. It's amazing how much more effective the downfield
Speaker 4: pass game is when the defense has to respect the run.
Speaker 4: And DJ Humphrey's doumbing it down for US media types.
Speaker 4: When asked about the offense, he said, you know what,
Speaker 4: We're just doing a lot better job in this scheme
Speaker 4: of keeping defenses. Honest.
Speaker 1: Yes, PAULI the very worst team in the National Football
Speaker 1: League in yards per attempt last year throwing the ball
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals. They did not throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field, and this is where they have to improve
Speaker 1: the most. And this is what running the ball and
Speaker 1: attacking the line of scrimmage in a north south kind
Speaker 1: of way, this is what's going to allow Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: eventually and allow their quarterback whoever it is, Colt McCoy
Speaker 1: going forward to take shots down the field. It opens
Speaker 1: up an awful lot on that play action stuff, especially Pauli, across.
Speaker 2: The middle of the field.
Speaker 1: And you look today how many times a completed pass
Speaker 1: using play action across the middle of the field. Because
Speaker 1: guess what, that's where those two inside linebackers line up.
Speaker 1: They suck up to the line of scrimmage because they
Speaker 1: think you're running the ball. Now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that secondary has got a problem because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of room behind those guys, a lot of room over
Speaker 1: the middle of the field to throw the ball.
Speaker 4: And look, that's the way this team is going to
Speaker 4: compete this year. Not only do I think it's the
Speaker 4: DNA and it's the scheme period, but I think gives
Speaker 4: them the best chance to compete this year. Because if
Speaker 4: you're gonna be talent deficient, yes, then guess what, you
Speaker 4: better be physical? You better keep these defenses honest, you
Speaker 4: better have a ball control offense that's going to keep
Speaker 4: the other offense off the field. To me, this is
Speaker 4: their best chance to compete. So when Jonathan Gannon says repeatedly,
Speaker 4: what are the three words adapt or die, Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it's currently constructed. This is their best chance to
Speaker 4: compete right here, right now.
Speaker 1: Paully, It's all going to be on the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage right now. And that's why my biggest concern going forward.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this many times, but it's on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, the defensive line and being
Speaker 1: able to stop the other team from lining up and
Speaker 1: just running the ball. That is going to be That
Speaker 1: is going to be job number one for this defense
Speaker 1: going forward. Job number one is going to be stopping
Speaker 1: the run. You absolutely have got to do it. It's
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage still. This rebuild is on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage for the Arizona Cardinals offensively and defensively.
Speaker 4: Paul, Look, it was one hundred and fifteen degrees again
Speaker 4: today we just set a new record for a total
Speaker 4: number of days in a year, one fifteen or more.
Speaker 4: So you know what, you need to do. You need
Speaker 4: to come out to Cardinals camp. You really do. You
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Speaker 4: free access, coming out to back together weekend on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Enjoy the ac in a little football.
Speaker 1: Not only that too, bully enjoy. I don't know people
Speaker 1: yelling on a football field. What a beautiful thing that
Speaker 1: is right there, not only players, but of course coaches yelling,
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're yelling at each other, and sometimes they're
Speaker 1: yelling at players, and sometimes players are yelling at players.
Speaker 2: It's a great thing.
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