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Speaker 1: is less than one hundred would be the number of
Speaker 1: days until the Cardinals regular season opener at Tennessee Week
Speaker 1: number one. Gott our pace ourselves do not get into
Speaker 1: a three point stance just yet, But man, are we
Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to you know what training camp
Speaker 1: which begets the preseason games, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you're in the regular season and you turn on NFL Network.
Speaker 1: In just this past week, you heard Nate Burilson say
Speaker 1: that if everything goes to plan with Julio Jones and
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans will have quote, one of the greatest offenses
Speaker 1: of all time. Oh good, as Valey, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, I tend to believe that. I really do.
Speaker 1: And you know why, because of the play action pass.
Speaker 1: You can hammer the ball the way the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: will be able to hammer the ball with Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: in between the tackles. They love to go heavy personnel
Speaker 1: as well. They'll go thirteen personnel, They'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: go twenty two pair personnel. They'll put two tight ends
Speaker 1: in there, Paulli, two backs, and they'll hammer the ball.
Speaker 1: And yet they love to throw the ball over the
Speaker 1: middle of the field with Ryan Tannehill. And that is
Speaker 1: Julio Jones time, So boom out of the gates. We're
Speaker 1: already getting into week one. We're just underway here on
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Speaker 1: We are Santan Ford, Paul kelvc Ron Moolfley, the original
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. So the rookies are gonna have to
Speaker 1: get ready for Ryan Tannehill, Derrick, Henry A. J. Brown
Speaker 1: and now Julio Jones. Not just Savan Collins, but our
Speaker 1: special guest tonight. How about Victor Demokge gonna join us?
Speaker 1: Victor de Mucage. First of all, demokg the best name
Speaker 1: you could you could have maybe on the back. It
Speaker 1: just sounds like a football name, does it not. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping here's Cage, Paul, here's our game plan, the Wolf.
Speaker 1: As fun as it is to say Demo Cage. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll earn the right to call him Vic by the
Speaker 1: end of the show. Maybe just maybe warned the right
Speaker 1: because those who know him best, uh, they're afforded the
Speaker 1: ability you just call him Vic. I'm calling him Cage.
Speaker 1: I mean that's Cage. He's doing the opposite wall. Well,
Speaker 1: say right now, this guy, it's it's quick. You can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, Vic, it's his first name. I get it,
Speaker 1: all right, you're shortening Victor to Vic. I understand that, Paul.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about locker room rules here, and that means,
Speaker 1: you know what, Cage, what's up? Cage. We're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy, a graduator from Duke with a degree in
Speaker 1: evolutionary anthropology. So what are you trying to say, Paul?
Speaker 1: So this guy he sucks to two sixty five Paulie,
Speaker 1: I really don't care what he went to school for,
Speaker 1: all right, Just tell me he's not a finance major. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're not playing ball here. We're having a conversation,
Speaker 1: So try and keep up a couple of ham and
Speaker 1: eggers like us, we could look bad pretty quickly. So okay,
Speaker 1: just what I'm saying is okay. So you know, the
Speaker 1: IQ difference will be stark and that'll be coming up.
Speaker 1: But speaking of rookies on defense, did you catch Zavin
Speaker 1: Collins meeting the media this past week? As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I did, PAULI, Yeah, So what your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this? Well, you know, it's interesting because in some
Speaker 1: ways he's the point one percent of the world, right,
Speaker 1: he's six five, he's too sixty, he can run, he
Speaker 1: can play middle linebacker. He's gonna come in as a
Speaker 1: rookie and he's gonna start, and then he's just like
Speaker 1: everyone else. When he can't find a house in this
Speaker 1: red hot real estate market, the young man says, the
Speaker 1: hardest thing he's had to do so far in his
Speaker 1: life is try and find a house in the Phoenix
Speaker 1: metro area in this housing market. Yes, for the real estate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. Honestly, right now I think about it,
Speaker 1: You're you're looking for a house. You're a rookie, Paul.
Speaker 1: You know I'm not listening. He's he's paid very well.
Speaker 1: Would you say he's paid well, Paul? I would say
Speaker 1: that he's paid very well well. As people point out
Speaker 1: on Twitter, the eight million dollars signing bonus should probably
Speaker 1: go a long way towards purchasing sethouse. But it is
Speaker 1: a seller's market. He might want to rent for a year.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's pressure, Wolf, there's pressure to find
Speaker 1: the house. And then we're gonna hear from Zamon Collins here.
Speaker 1: There's pressure to perform immediately. What you have to do, Polly,
Speaker 1: is you have to read Forbes a little bit more Okay,
Speaker 1: Forbes Magazine, I'm falling you, Polly. They're saying they're saying
Speaker 1: that the Phoenix market is going to lead the country
Speaker 1: over the next five years. Now, again, who knows, Polly
Speaker 1: if that's the case. But if if I am Zaven Collins,
Speaker 1: I'm buying a home, Paul, I'm going to buy a
Speaker 1: home and I'm going to sit on it. Okay. When
Speaker 1: we're starting to take financial advice from Ron Wolfley, it's
Speaker 1: officially time to hear from Zaven Collins himself. When I
Speaker 1: say there's pressure, we're talking about the football end right now. Zavin.
Speaker 1: I love pressure. That's a lot of pressure. I love it.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing. It means people expect a lot
Speaker 1: out of you. With you know, being a high draft pick.
Speaker 1: People expect that. You know, it comes with it. You
Speaker 1: can't be a high draft pick and then not do anything,
Speaker 1: you know, So that's something that's that I look forward to, man, Polly.
Speaker 1: I hope he really means that honestly right now, And
Speaker 1: there's no reason to believe that Zaven Collins does not.
Speaker 1: I hope he embraces that, because that's exactly what he's
Speaker 1: got to do. Polly, You've got to expect, you've got
Speaker 1: to embrace the pressure. Right. Tony LaRussa was famous for
Speaker 1: saying this, and it's one of the most cellient things
Speaker 1: I think I've heard in in the last decade. He
Speaker 1: was talking about how you've got to make pressure your friend.
Speaker 1: You have to embrace it. And the guys that are
Speaker 1: good in pressure pack situations, for whatever reason, don't allow
Speaker 1: the outside influences, so to speak, to impact how they play.
Speaker 1: They embrace the pressure and make it their friend. And
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly what Zaven Collins has got to do.
Speaker 1: And look, he's not just a rookie. He's not just
Speaker 1: a starter from day one. He's calling the defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got the green dot. He's responsible for lining guys up. Now,
Speaker 1: Van s. Joseph did say he's going to remove some
Speaker 1: of the leadership responsibilities that typically could go with playing
Speaker 1: mic linebacker. He's outsourcing those to JJ Watt and Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker and those kind of guys. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot obviously to process. Thank goodness for his sake,
Speaker 1: there is a preseason, but when it comes to regular season,
Speaker 1: guess what that's gonna be. Unlike anything he's ever played
Speaker 1: that brand of ball, and he talked about that this week.
Speaker 1: You haven't really seen the true speed of the game yet.
Speaker 1: You haven't really seen you know, what guys do, how
Speaker 1: guys are because it's been mostly a lower tempo. Trying
Speaker 1: to understand how all these moving parts work and how
Speaker 1: they benefit us, you know, situationally, as a MIC, Knowing
Speaker 1: that stuff is very important to give you know, alert,
Speaker 1: to give a heads up, tell guys what we're thinking
Speaker 1: right here, especially when I get the call in the
Speaker 1: on the helmet. So that's been kind of the curveball
Speaker 1: for me, is learning that stuff. But it's something that
Speaker 1: I'm getting a grasp on. Paulie, this is going to
Speaker 1: be a tough goal. I'm just saying right now. You
Speaker 1: know last year how I was talking about Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: and the fact that you just can't move him all
Speaker 1: over the field. You just can't do that. I wanted
Speaker 1: to see the Arizona Cardinals slowly move Isaiah Simmons into
Speaker 1: the week side inside linebacker position and let him actually
Speaker 1: get his footing underneath him, and I will knock him
Speaker 1: off that paul I still believe this is a situation
Speaker 1: where Zaven Collins is going to get roughed up. He's
Speaker 1: going to But what I love about this is Zaven
Speaker 1: Collins I think learns he learns from what I'm told.
Speaker 1: He learns quickly. He's got a great brain, and he
Speaker 1: actually learns from doing. And then, paul once you make
Speaker 1: a mistake, it's one of the best lessons you could
Speaker 1: possibly learn out on a football field. It is you
Speaker 1: don't forget it very soon after you get beat and
Speaker 1: suddenly it's a mark on you when you sit there
Speaker 1: and watch it on film and everyone in the room
Speaker 1: is watching. You make a mistake that costs the team. Now,
Speaker 1: it might only be a first town that it costs
Speaker 1: the team, might be a touchdown, whatever it is. But Paulie,
Speaker 1: this is a situation where once again he's gonna get
Speaker 1: rough dump. It's just how quickly he's going to be
Speaker 1: able to assimilate. And he admitted to the media he's
Speaker 1: already messed it up in rookie minicamp and in mandatory
Speaker 1: mini camp he's messed up entire defensive calls and they've
Speaker 1: had to stop the drill and go, you know, in
Speaker 1: seven on seven, And so that's going to be part
Speaker 1: of the process. There's no doubt about that. But you
Speaker 1: know what, when Buddha Baker says on his own, unprompted
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, that the young guy at linebacker knows football,
Speaker 1: that gives you hope when a Buddha Baker brings that up,
Speaker 1: that they can tell already okay, he's got a chance here.
Speaker 1: Vance Joseph was asked about playing the two young guys
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons limited action a year ago no preseason, alongside
Speaker 1: the rookies Avon Collins. Here's a Cardinals defensive coordinator. I
Speaker 1: think as a coach, you have to understand it's going
Speaker 1: to be some bad downs. But also on a flip side,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be played that those two guys can make
Speaker 1: that other guys can't make. It's our job as a
Speaker 1: staff mine, especially to put players first in scheme second,
Speaker 1: you know, and to let those guys unlock those bodies
Speaker 1: and just play. Man. I love that, Polly, I really
Speaker 1: do players first, scheme second, right. It's Paul, never forget that.
Speaker 1: It's it's about the players. It's never about the play
Speaker 1: I should say, nay, I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 1: want to reduce play calling to some ridiculous level. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do that, Polly, but it's about the
Speaker 1: player and players making plays. You've got to let players
Speaker 1: go out there and play fast and make plays. And
Speaker 1: I really think that is what Vance Joseph is going
Speaker 1: to do this year with these two inside guys, these
Speaker 1: guys that are learning, these guys that have huge upside, Polly,
Speaker 1: huge upside, These guys that I think are going to
Speaker 1: make a lot of plays. Billy Davis. I love the
Speaker 1: fact Billy Davis was talking about deflected passes right Polly passes,
Speaker 1: defense and what he expects Zavan Collins at six five
Speaker 1: and Isaiah Simmons at six four to be able to
Speaker 1: get their hands on a lot of balls thrown over
Speaker 1: the middle. This is gonna be really interesting to watch
Speaker 1: early on in the season. How many times have you
Speaker 1: brought up Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman so many times already,
Speaker 1: Wolf that I think it's a drinking game over the
Speaker 1: frat house is at Asu Okay, that's how often you
Speaker 1: brought it up. And Vance Joseph brought it up on
Speaker 1: his own because he was on the Niners staff when
Speaker 1: Patrick Willis and Navarro Bowman got their start together. As
Speaker 1: two young guys, especially Patrick Willis starting right away as
Speaker 1: a rookie, and what do you do. He's simplified it
Speaker 1: so they didn't have to think and they could play fast.
Speaker 1: And that goes for Isaiah Simmons as well. In fact,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons has been asked recently here about his comfort
Speaker 1: level advanced. Joseph ste I would say, I've made very
Speaker 1: large strides with my comfort just being able to learn
Speaker 1: the system more. And this offseason I really focused in on,
Speaker 1: you know, tuning in to the fine details of multiple positions.
Speaker 1: You're not taking it upon myself not to only learn
Speaker 1: in my position, but the people around me, just so
Speaker 1: I cannot only be another coach on the field and
Speaker 1: help people out, but as well as it'll help me
Speaker 1: play faster just knowing where everybody else is going to be. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's awesome, ding ning ning ding. We've got a winner
Speaker 1: right there, Paulie with Isaiah Simmons. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: he's actually going to have a full training camp and
Speaker 1: maybe even a preseason. Can you imagine Can you imagine
Speaker 1: we're sitting around talking last year about Isaiah Simmons and
Speaker 1: how they're going to move him around and man, I
Speaker 1: just wanted to see him play weekside inside linebacker. And
Speaker 1: then you don't get preseason games to go out there
Speaker 1: and play that. What a nightmare scenario that was for
Speaker 1: a young inside linebacker. Thank goodness, Zavan Collins is going
Speaker 1: to have a preseason. And what did we learn recently
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Simmons from Bill Davis, the inside linebackers coach
Speaker 1: that wolf Not only was he not just playing weekside
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, he was being coached up at six different
Speaker 1: positions a year ago. Think about that. Think about Isaiah Simmons.
Speaker 1: They used him in six different positions because there was
Speaker 1: a Devondre Campbell who at the time was a better option,
Speaker 1: at least at the starter of the season. So to
Speaker 1: what degree are they going to streamline his job responsibilities
Speaker 1: and he can excel accordingly. We'll see about that. But
Speaker 1: we do know is Victor de Mukage is next the
Speaker 1: Cardinals sixth round pick. The comp is Marcus Golden. We'll
Speaker 1: see what he thinks about that. Next. On the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert we are
Speaker 1: santan Ford. I'm turning they get sacked. DUKGI Victor d
Speaker 1: McGee was another guy that adding a big, six strong
Speaker 1: outside linebacker. I was excited about. He started every single
Speaker 1: game he played in college, and he was forty six
Speaker 1: forty seventh straight games. And Charlie Bullen and I, Quinn
Speaker 1: Harris and I we went to the pro day. The
Speaker 1: coaches start talking about this guy, and you know, they
Speaker 1: just light up the kids, all business. They see the
Speaker 1: alpha the group. I would actually use the word scary
Speaker 1: to describe him. So no one message with the guy.
Speaker 1: See you get that alpha personality with the Duke degree.
Speaker 1: It's kind of rare. Man. What a great scanner report
Speaker 1: from Drew Griggson a few weeks ago, in fact, right
Speaker 1: after the draft here on the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by satan Ford and Gilbert, that's the Cardinals director of
Speaker 1: player personnel talking about the Cardinal's sixth round pick out
Speaker 1: of Duke. A starter as a true freshman, Wolf started
Speaker 1: all forty nine games he played in during his four
Speaker 1: year career. Finished second career most sacks all time in
Speaker 1: Duke history at a three and a half stack game
Speaker 1: against Boston College last year. A semi finalist for the
Speaker 1: Ronnie Lott Impact Trophy given to the college defensive player
Speaker 1: who makes the biggest impact for his team on and
Speaker 1: off the field. You can appreciate that wolf as someone
Speaker 1: who got blowed up by Ronnie Lott more than once.
Speaker 1: And I covered Ronnie Lott, so I have the ultimate respect.
Speaker 1: It is all about you, presented by satan Ford and
Speaker 1: Gilbert and A. That is our intro for Victor Dimukag
Speaker 1: who joins us on the Big Red Rage. Victor, how
Speaker 1: are we doing? I'm doing well. How y'all doing doing great? Victor?
Speaker 1: Really really appreciate you joining us right now. Talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about football, talk a little ball. What does
Speaker 1: football mean to you? Victor? Football means a lot to me.
Speaker 1: I started playing around the eighth grade. Didn't really know
Speaker 1: a lot about the sport when I moved from Nigeria.
Speaker 1: But once I started playing, you know, I fell in
Speaker 1: love with the game. Um you know, I have passion
Speaker 1: for the game, and um you know what it means
Speaker 1: a lot to me. Right now, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: play as long as possible. You moved from Nigeria with
Speaker 1: your family when you were eight. Actually it was kind
Speaker 1: of like a roller coaster. So um, I was born
Speaker 1: in Nigeria. I moved to North Carolina with my family
Speaker 1: around the age of three, went back to Nigeria around
Speaker 1: the age of five, and then me and my family
Speaker 1: moved to Baltimore around the age of eight. So, Victor,
Speaker 1: is there any football in Nigeria? Does anyone play football
Speaker 1: American football in Nigeria when I was there? No? You know,
Speaker 1: I played soccer when I was younger, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about football until I got here. You know,
Speaker 1: there's this stat I just gotta get to this because
Speaker 1: when you were drafted, we were talking about the Cardinals
Speaker 1: draft class and this stood out. You bench pressed two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five pounds thirty two times as a
Speaker 1: high school junior. I mean that's gonna be a typo.
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Victor? Yes? There, Yeah, I was actolutely.
Speaker 1: I actually did more in high school than I did
Speaker 1: Um about Friday, I was. I was pretty strung coming
Speaker 1: out of high school. So Victor tells us, how did
Speaker 1: you get to Duke Um? Yeah, So my freshman year
Speaker 1: I went to Newtown High School, which is a small
Speaker 1: public school in Baltimore County. UM and then like um,
Speaker 1: um boys let in high school and m Baltimore reached
Speaker 1: out to me, which is a private school. Um, a
Speaker 1: procedures private school known for their academics. Um. So I
Speaker 1: spent three years there once I transferred there. You know,
Speaker 1: I had schools like Harvard, Duke, Notre Dame, like all
Speaker 1: the big schools, and also like some of the football schools,
Speaker 1: and the ABC in Big Ten reached out to me. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's really how I ended up at Duke. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: just the academic piece for my high school, UM kind
Speaker 1: of helped me get into Duke. We're just a couple
Speaker 1: of ham and Eggers here, Victor. All right. So so
Speaker 1: when you graduate with a degree in evolutionary anthropology, how
Speaker 1: demanding was that? Oh man, it was tough. Um my
Speaker 1: freshman year, I had to I had to learn quick
Speaker 1: because trying to balance um, you know, academicals to a
Speaker 1: football starting as a true freshman. Um. You know, it
Speaker 1: was definitely tough my freshman year. But um, that time
Speaker 1: went on, you know, I was able to like play faster, um,
Speaker 1: learn how to take care of my time wisely, and
Speaker 1: just know how to balance everything. So Victor, why did
Speaker 1: you choose Duke personally? Um? You know, after talking to
Speaker 1: my family and my mom and dad, you know, they
Speaker 1: made a lot to me, and you know, they kind
Speaker 1: of hasked me to go there. And also, you know,
Speaker 1: I felt like Duke was the best place for me. Um.
Speaker 1: I liked the defensive scheme and they kind of offered
Speaker 1: the best of both worlds when it comes to academics
Speaker 1: and football. Um, of course football last whatever. So I
Speaker 1: felt like Dude was the best place for me. UM,
Speaker 1: not only thinking about my my NFL career, but also
Speaker 1: like at the football if I chose to go back
Speaker 1: to school, I felt like I wouldn't want that degree
Speaker 1: to do whatever I want to do after playing football.
Speaker 1: So what was it about the defensive scheme that you
Speaker 1: liked so much? Victor? Um? You know, just um talking
Speaker 1: to coach Albert, my defensive line coach. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I just liked how I fit into the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: we were at a tad style defense, you know, get
Speaker 1: off the ball, you know, getting your defense, single care defense,
Speaker 1: and UM, you're not kind of like how I fit
Speaker 1: in that system, and you know they had the good
Speaker 1: plan for me coming in, So I felt like that
Speaker 1: was the best place for me. Let's talk about why
Speaker 1: the Cardinals chose Victor Demo KG and let's go back
Speaker 1: to that conversation we under the Big Red Rage right
Speaker 1: after the draft director of Player Personnel Drew Grigson and
Speaker 1: Wolf you're chopping it up with him. At one point,
Speaker 1: you guys were talking about the Cardinals sixth round pick,
Speaker 1: who's six two two sixty two, Drew Grigson. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be a hard, charging ball and muscle for us. He
Speaker 1: just plays a relentless motor. Reminded me of Marcus Golden
Speaker 1: when I watched him. So I'm excited that he's got
Speaker 1: a great last name. When you think about a dboo KG,
Speaker 1: it just get us out really good, look good on
Speaker 1: the back of in Jersey. Tough to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're first looking at him, me just call him Vic.
Speaker 1: There you go. True. So let me ask you, Vic,
Speaker 1: if we can call you that, uh, Marcus Golden, do
Speaker 1: you agree with that comp? Now that you've seen Marcus Golden,
Speaker 1: at least in the mandatory mini comp mini camps, what
Speaker 1: do you think about the comp? Marcus Golden, He's a
Speaker 1: great player. That's actually one of the guys I've been
Speaker 1: around um through our ots and mini camp. You know,
Speaker 1: I've learned a lot from him. Um, he's a great leader,
Speaker 1: and I actually like knew about him when he was
Speaker 1: coming out of college. Um, I've watched a lot of them,
Speaker 1: and he's a great player. He plays with a lot
Speaker 1: of effort. Um. You know, it's like he's a he's
Speaker 1: a guy that you respect. When you put on the stape,
Speaker 1: you see one hundred percent effort, You see that motor,
Speaker 1: you see a relentlessness, and UM, you know that's that's
Speaker 1: a great comparison because honestly, Um, he's been in the
Speaker 1: league for while, he had some good seasons, and um,
Speaker 1: he saw what he did once he got to the
Speaker 1: car last year. So you know, just learning from him,
Speaker 1: trying to get as much knowledge as I can from him,
Speaker 1: you know, that would take me a long way. Victor,
Speaker 1: you were drafted in the sixth round. Did you expect
Speaker 1: to be drafted in the sixth round? Honestly, Like with
Speaker 1: the draft, I already knew how that went. You know,
Speaker 1: you really never know where when you're gonna get drafted.
Speaker 1: You know, anything can happen. So I knew I was
Speaker 1: gonna get drafted like between four through six somewhere around there.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really try to focus on that I
Speaker 1: just tried to just you know, enjoy the time with
Speaker 1: my family and whenever my name was called, you know,
Speaker 1: just embraced the moment. You mentioned Marcus Golden. What about
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones. Have you had a chance to interact with Chandler?
Speaker 1: I know he wasn't into Mini camp and maybe in
Speaker 1: some of the Zoom meetings or some other meetings around
Speaker 1: the facility. And you know we talked to Zach Allen,
Speaker 1: Cardinal's defensive lineman. In his time at Boston College, he
Speaker 1: would study tape of JJ Watt and now he's sharing
Speaker 1: a position room and getting text messages from JJ Watt.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious to what degree had you studied Chandler
Speaker 1: Jones over the last few years, just as one of
Speaker 1: the premier sprushers in all the land. Well, now that's
Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, I started a lot of talent Jones.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been doing this for years. Um, he
Speaker 1: averages around like ten sacks a year. So I've kept
Speaker 1: up with him. Um, he's one of the best at
Speaker 1: what he does. And UM, I've actually interacted with him
Speaker 1: on Zoom calls and I met a one time in person.
Speaker 1: So UM, just having that guy in the room. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a guy, that's another guy can learn a lot
Speaker 1: from him, you know. Um, you know I could pick
Speaker 1: his brain. Um, And I definitely look up to him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's done a lot in this league, and um,
Speaker 1: you know I hopefully hopefully get doing that. Victor. Do
Speaker 1: you like playing over a tight end? Do you like that?
Speaker 1: Do you prefer the open side or do you like
Speaker 1: playing over a tight end? Honestly, I like doing both. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like I could do both. I could play
Speaker 1: the sam and the will. Um. I've been learning both
Speaker 1: since I got here. So I feel like whenever, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever my number is called, whenever it's time to go in,
Speaker 1: wherever the coaches want me to fit in or want
Speaker 1: me to play, I feel like I'm to play. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like you can hold up at the point
Speaker 1: of attack on the end. Do you feel like you
Speaker 1: can set that edge Victor? Um? Actually, I feel like
Speaker 1: that's one of the things I do really well. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm I'm violent at the point of
Speaker 1: the tech and you know, I'm very you know, I
Speaker 1: have a motor. I know how to send the edge. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it's all about get the ball and having
Speaker 1: great hand placement, and I feel like I do a
Speaker 1: really good job with that. We're on board with Victor Demo,
Speaker 1: KG the Cardinals sixth round pick, and and a guy
Speaker 1: that Charlie Bolling, the outside linebackers coach. He really had
Speaker 1: a big affinity for you. Drew Grigson mentioned that as well.
Speaker 1: Tell us about how YouTube connected and did you get
Speaker 1: a sense in the evaluation process that you know, what,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna go anywhere, the Cardinals might be one
Speaker 1: of those teams just based on Charlie Bolling and how
Speaker 1: bullsh she was on you. Um. Yeah, the Cardinals is
Speaker 1: actually one of the first teams I actually met with, like, um,
Speaker 1: most of the coaching staff. UM. I think this was
Speaker 1: around January, and then I really didn't like keep on
Speaker 1: contact or we didn't really talk as much until Pro day. UM.
Speaker 1: So when coach Bulling showed up the pro day, we
Speaker 1: had at me end the day after Pro Day, and
Speaker 1: like I didn't really know that, you know, I was,
Speaker 1: I was on their radar, So I really didn't know
Speaker 1: a lot about Arizona. UM. And then just when I
Speaker 1: got the call, I was ecstatic because you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't really know that Arizona, like Arizona was
Speaker 1: actually looking at me. I didn't know what they suspect.
Speaker 1: So once I saw that Phoenix number on my phone,
Speaker 1: you know, I was so excited, um, because I know
Speaker 1: coach Bling is a great coach, you know, just them
Speaker 1: zoom calls I had with them and just the interactions
Speaker 1: I had with them at Pro Day. You know, I
Speaker 1: was excited to, you know, just play for a coach
Speaker 1: like that. Victor. Where do you think you can actually contribute?
Speaker 1: Where can you play on special teams? Um? I feel
Speaker 1: like I could play all four? You know, Um, as
Speaker 1: a rookie, you want to come in and make an
Speaker 1: impact however possible on the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: or you know, punt, punt return, kickoff, kickoff return. I
Speaker 1: feel like I have to. I have to, you know,
Speaker 1: put in some work and get out at a special
Speaker 1: teams possible, and I feel like I could help him
Speaker 1: an all four. Yeah, I'm sorry, Victor. How much how
Speaker 1: much did you play in transition on special teams at Duke? Um?
Speaker 1: I played kickoff. I played a lot of kickoff um
Speaker 1: and kickoff return, and then UM my senior year, I
Speaker 1: played more like punt and punt return more like more
Speaker 1: punt return like blocking and rushing the punter. Um. You
Speaker 1: know that was more of my role senior year, but
Speaker 1: earlier in my career I played more of like the kickoffs,
Speaker 1: kickoff return side. Yeah, you totally have experience playing on
Speaker 1: special teams, Yes, sir, Yeah, that's good man. That's gonna
Speaker 1: help you big time. Bro. How about J. J. Watt?
Speaker 1: Give us some first impressions. What you see in your
Speaker 1: takeaways from number ninety nine. Oh yeah, he's he's different.
Speaker 1: You know, you see, um, you see how he works.
Speaker 1: You see how he's different when he walks in the building.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a well he's aware of respected guy.
Speaker 1: You know he puts in the extra work. Um in
Speaker 1: the training room, you know, um in the weight room.
Speaker 1: He just he's he's a pro. He Um, he's a
Speaker 1: definition of a pro. He does everything the right way.
Speaker 1: And UM, you know I actually got some actually work
Speaker 1: with him after one of the mini cam days. You know,
Speaker 1: I would just able to learn pick his brain, to
Speaker 1: learn some stuff from him. You're doing different drills and
Speaker 1: I'm just seeing like what he does to like or
Speaker 1: like what he did to like get him to the
Speaker 1: position he's at today, and you know, just being around him,
Speaker 1: you know, makes me better. And you know, that's another
Speaker 1: guy on this team that you know, I have to
Speaker 1: get to know and like be around because I hopefully
Speaker 1: wants to be as good as done one day. And
Speaker 1: you know he wears ninety nine. Obviously you wear ninety two.
Speaker 1: For wolfing myself on this show for five years, our
Speaker 1: player host was Bertrand Berry, who wore number ninety two
Speaker 1: at a Pro Bowl season two thousand and four fourteen
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, and he's now one of our
Speaker 1: Cardinals broadcasters. He was on the Red Sea Report and
Speaker 1: Victory was asked about you wearing number ninety two. Bertrand
Speaker 1: Berry b train, if you're going to wear that number,
Speaker 1: you better be able to get after quarterback In the years,
Speaker 1: I don't want people riding the pine with the number
Speaker 1: ninety two. That number is not to be on the
Speaker 1: sideline and soaking up gatorade and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's meant to be out there on the field, getting
Speaker 1: after quarterbacks and making big plays. It's associated with greatness
Speaker 1: and handsomeness. So if you're going to wear that number,
Speaker 1: you better be good at what you do, and you
Speaker 1: better be a good looking stud. So so there you go.
Speaker 1: There's your if you're wondering what your goals are this
Speaker 1: this year, your rookie season, Okay, you gotta play good,
Speaker 1: you gotta look good. According to Bertrand Berry, I feel
Speaker 1: like I got the good looks already. That's good. See
Speaker 1: you're you're already halfway there. You know, you got that
Speaker 1: self confidence that you know you looked apart, like just
Speaker 1: like beat Train always knew he looked apart, right, it
Speaker 1: was it was the cleaner, fresh look, right Wolf, that's
Speaker 1: always used to say, right about that? So Victor, have
Speaker 1: they told you how they're planning on using you? Van's Joseph?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it just gonna be edge edge edge
Speaker 1: all the time? Um? Honestly, Um, you know, I really,
Speaker 1: I really, I'm not really sure right now. Like once
Speaker 1: I got here, we just started learning plays um learning
Speaker 1: about the same and the will position is um learning
Speaker 1: stuff on special teams, so like right, no, they just
Speaker 1: want me to learn to playbook and then after training
Speaker 1: camp Bussey from there. Are you still in Phoenix? By
Speaker 1: the way, are you still in Arizona? Yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 1: in Chandler, right now, yes, nice. So what'd you think
Speaker 1: of one hundred and eighteen degrees today? How you handling
Speaker 1: the big heat? Dude is way different? You know, I
Speaker 1: have to drink more water. I'm trying to get you
Speaker 1: through it. I haven't been around anything like this before.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's a great weather though, so I
Speaker 1: can't complain. Victor. We look forward to meeting you in person,
Speaker 1: big guy. Thank you for joining us. Really appreciated. Thanks, Victor,
Speaker 1: Yester appreciate you. Guys him there you go. You know
Speaker 1: something tells me just at first reaction, first takeaway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a complex defense. But considering his academic credentials in
Speaker 1: that conversation, I'm guessing he's picking up the defense pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: He's all and if he's playing able to play special teams,
Speaker 1: guess what he will see the field. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. We continue with a big red rage presented
Speaker 1: by Santan Ford in Gilbert hurry back to throw, flushed out,
Speaker 1: rolling left in trouble, slips a tackle, Gotta launch it.
Speaker 1: He does left side into the end zone jump ball
Speaker 1: and it is Is it caught? Is it caught? Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, it's hot. He caught dockdown with one second
Speaker 1: leapt I can't believe it. You gotta be joking me.
Speaker 1: Hopkins reaches off with three defenders around him. Head polls
Speaker 1: it in head. The Cardinals lead at thirty two to three.
Speaker 1: Quit a second left, cand cover Duke, You're not gonna
Speaker 1: be the cover room. Throw the ball off. Multiple headlines,
Speaker 1: screamed play of the NFL season, the play of the
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Speaker 1: for best Play the twenty twenty one SPS ESPN dot
Speaker 1: com slash SPS to cast your vote. The game winning
Speaker 1: forty three yard touchdown with two seconds to play against
Speaker 1: three Buffalo defenders. Upgoes of football, down comes DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: That's how it sounded, Wolf and Dave Pash on the
Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio Network. This is the Big Red Rage, presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert and special thanks to Victor
Speaker 1: Demo KG. Think about it, Wolf, The biggest moment to
Speaker 1: start camp is always when they go full contact, full
Speaker 1: pads and here we go, oh line against de line?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Yeah, Paul, No, you're right about that. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Let the fur fly. And think about some of the matchups, right,
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys against Chandler Jones, JJ Watt against Justin Pure
Speaker 1: Brian Winners, A Lecky Foe too against Rodney Hudson making
Speaker 1: his debut. You got a Victor dmu kg, Marcus Golden
Speaker 1: going against Kelvin Beecham. Think of some of the heavyweight
Speaker 1: battles and the match up you're gonna get when they
Speaker 1: finally put on the pass. This is one of the
Speaker 1: things that I'm really looking forward to, Paully. Obviously, a
Speaker 1: training camp, won't that be nice? Paul? A training camp
Speaker 1: where we can actually watch these guys go out and
Speaker 1: ball out right, We actually can walk around and watch
Speaker 1: some practice once again and just absorb the physicality of
Speaker 1: training camp. And Victor de Mukg is a guy that
Speaker 1: I'm very, very interested in. I loved our conversation with him.
Speaker 1: But PAULI here's a guy who's six two. He's really
Speaker 1: not six two, he's just under six to Paully, Okay,
Speaker 1: but you're six two and you're two sixty five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a ball of muscle. Indeed, I mean wolf when you
Speaker 1: asked him if he can set the edge, I mean
Speaker 1: I wanted to blurt out, he's six two two sixty five.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a rhetorical question. Wolf. Of course he
Speaker 1: can set the edge. Steve, this is exactly why you're
Speaker 1: on the sideline ball and you're not in the booth,
Speaker 1: all right, because you listen, PAULI just because you're six
Speaker 1: two two sixty five, you could have a heart of butter.
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, there's just because you're a big guy.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many big guys I've seen
Speaker 1: out on the field. Soft is butter. And by the way,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, when you ran into one of those guys,
Speaker 1: you tormented him the entire game. Well look, this guy
Speaker 1: is not soft, this butter. That's my point. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals have upgraded. I think we would agree in the
Speaker 1: trenches and that was definitely an area of improvement that
Speaker 1: Steve Kim targeted, whether it's a Rodney Hudson or a
Speaker 1: JJ Watt, etc. But the question we debated recently was
Speaker 1: which position group is poised for the biggest improvement from
Speaker 1: last year to this season? And you know what I
Speaker 1: threw out there, Wolf would wide receiver. Wide receiver, because
Speaker 1: unless your name was DeAndre Hopkins, when it came to
Speaker 1: yards after catch, your first name was Jack and your
Speaker 1: last name was squat. They got a lot of nothing
Speaker 1: out of anybody not named DeAndre Hopkins. And so now
Speaker 1: if you're putting aj Green out there, and he's outside,
Speaker 1: and that sends Christian Kirk back inside, and now Rondel
Speaker 1: Moore is being addited. Right, So you have all these guys,
Speaker 1: and a number of these guys are improved deals last
Speaker 1: year of their contracts. I just think you're poised to
Speaker 1: get a lot more production out of that receiver room.
Speaker 1: Agree or disagree, No, Polly, I listen. I think you're
Speaker 1: right on that. I do. I would say cornerback. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at cornerback and I'm looking at wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: think you're right on the wide receiver thing, if in
Speaker 1: fact you're talking about an upgrade. But a lot of
Speaker 1: that is because I still believe Christian Kirk. Something happened
Speaker 1: at Christian Kirk last year. We've talked about it all offseason, Polly,
Speaker 1: but something happened to him. If you go back and
Speaker 1: you look at the first eight games of twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: go back and look at it, Paul. It was completely
Speaker 1: different than the last eight games, and I want to
Speaker 1: know why that is. He had a six game stretch
Speaker 1: where cumulative totally had one hundred and forty five yards receiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just he disappeared. Disappeared, Polly, exactly right. I expect
Speaker 1: bounce back, all right, What do we expect out of
Speaker 1: a jan I think that's one of the big questions.
Speaker 1: There was a national football guy who stole my take
Speaker 1: that AJ Green is poised to become the NFL comeback
Speaker 1: Player of the Year, which of course I stole from
Speaker 1: former Cardinal and his former Bengals teammate Frosty Rucker. In fact,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the Big Red Rage earlier this offseason.
Speaker 1: Here's Frosty on AJ Green. Well, I think AJ Green
Speaker 1: has a lot left. I think his time was just
Speaker 1: up in Cincinnati, playing on turf, practicing on turf, and
Speaker 1: you know, subzero temperatures and December and things like that.
Speaker 1: I think it was his time to break loose of that.
Speaker 1: He's Pro Bowl player, top of the game, a guy
Speaker 1: that could really go up and get the ball. Great teammate,
Speaker 1: never anything bad about him. The receiver group is just
Speaker 1: getting stronger, and if AJ gets enough footballs, this year.
Speaker 1: He may just be comeback Player of the Year. Your reaction, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, Paul. Honestly, Aj Green, I think a
Speaker 1: change of scenery is going to do him so much good.
Speaker 1: I really do. A change is here's a guy, Paul,
Speaker 1: he's a seven time pro bowler. Paul, would you say
Speaker 1: that is the consummate professional right there? Do you think
Speaker 1: he was sick and tired of practicing outside? They don't
Speaker 1: have an indoor practice bubble in Cincinnati, so they practice
Speaker 1: on the turf and the subzero temperatures for like two
Speaker 1: months of the year, right, Paully, And again, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that will be It'll be nice for him coming
Speaker 1: out here and actually playing in a little bit of
Speaker 1: heat maybe and actually doing it on natural grass, practicing
Speaker 1: on absolutely all of that. But I think more than anything,
Speaker 1: just a change of scenery is going to up the
Speaker 1: intensity level. It's going to reintroduce the game, so to
Speaker 1: speak to him, because here's a guy that has just
Speaker 1: been the consummate pro. He's been a seven time pro
Speaker 1: bowler once again, a guy that I think is a
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he's got everything's gonna be new to him, Paul, Everything
Speaker 1: is gonna be new. The entire day is going to
Speaker 1: be different for him, and that can really hit the
Speaker 1: reef rush button for a lot of veterans. Plus think
Speaker 1: about it, he had the lowest percentage of catchable passes
Speaker 1: thrown his way last year from three different Bengals quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna have the accuracy of Kyler Murray. He's
Speaker 1: also gonna be two years removed from the foot injury,
Speaker 1: and maybe most importantly, he's not going to be the
Speaker 1: number one focus of secondaries because DeAndre Hopkins is going
Speaker 1: to be the guy drawn the double team. To what
Speaker 1: degree does that free up and aj Green? And then
Speaker 1: if you add a Rondelle Moore as a guy who's
Speaker 1: really reeking havoc. In fact, Cliff Kingsbury was asked about
Speaker 1: his second round rookie. He did a lot of it
Speaker 1: in college. You can look at the film and I thought,
Speaker 1: coach problem there produted a tremendous job getting on the
Speaker 1: ball and all sorts of different creative ways, and that
Speaker 1: was certainly one of them. But he's very good in
Speaker 1: the open field and making the first guy miss. He
Speaker 1: has a knack at you know, some of those plays.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, he's gonna be a guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to try and draw stuff up for
Speaker 1: and see how many times we can get it to him.
Speaker 1: And the specific question Wolf was on him being are
Speaker 1: with jet motions, some of the jets sweeps and really
Speaker 1: being that I candy to distract defenses. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: is going to distract defenses. There's no doubt about that. Look, everybody,
Speaker 1: it's five to seven. Here, it comes, it's five to seven. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, four two nine is what this guy
Speaker 1: can run. And yeah, there's no doubt. I think that
Speaker 1: it's going to have an impact on this offense in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. But Polly, more than anything, it's not
Speaker 1: the horizontal to me, and I've talked to you about this.
Speaker 1: It is the vertical to me. If you tell me
Speaker 1: that rondel Moore can run by people and attack a
Speaker 1: defense downfield vertically and that's going to open everything else
Speaker 1: up horizontally, that is to me going to be the
Speaker 1: key to Rondelle Moore and his success. Attack vertically, I agree,
Speaker 1: But if you can get the ball to him in space, yes,
Speaker 1: his rep is that he's gonna make you miss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a stat out there that nobody made the first
Speaker 1: tackler miss more in college football in the past decade
Speaker 1: then Rondelle or in twenty eighteen when he had his
Speaker 1: only full healthy season at for doing, by the way,
Speaker 1: was a consensus all American as a true freshman. Right,
Speaker 1: But if he's gonna run by it, that's gonna make you,
Speaker 1: as a dB back off shut and when you back up,
Speaker 1: now the horizontal stuff comes into plood. All right, we
Speaker 1: continue with the big red rage presented by satan Ford
Speaker 1: and Gilbert. We are satan Ford pass over the middle
Speaker 1: by Sims at the forty five and dumped immediately by Murphy.
Speaker 1: Job right there by Murphy and mand cover. Iron Murphy
Speaker 1: really growing throws it end zone near side, broken up
Speaker 1: by Murphy. Was there against Taylor if Iron Murphy one
Speaker 1: on one in the back of the end zone made
Speaker 1: a play on the ball. Here it is fourth and
Speaker 1: five of the nine ers on the sixteen of the
Speaker 1: Cardinals Garoppolo. The pass throws to the right side and complete.
Speaker 1: Murphy steps in front of the receiver and knocks the
Speaker 1: ball down. The Cardinals takeover on downs with thirty three
Speaker 1: seconds ago Byron Murphy makes a play on the pig.
Speaker 1: All that is big time. What a play by Byron Murphy.
Speaker 1: It's number seven now. By the way, wolf when you
Speaker 1: watch Byron Murphy out of the field, you gotta tell yourself, okay,
Speaker 1: Buddhist number three, Isaiah Simmons is number nine. There's James
Speaker 1: Connery's number six, Chase Edmonds number two. Call him deuce.
Speaker 1: He likes that. So there you go, number seven Byron Murphy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: paul Ay, that is gonna be really really different man
Speaker 1: that we're definitely gonna need a roster when we walk
Speaker 1: around training GAMP. That's right. I better have a spotting
Speaker 1: board ready to go for the preseason games just for
Speaker 1: the Cardinal's own players. The way they've changed numbers, it
Speaker 1: is a big red rage presented by Santan Ford in
Speaker 1: Gilbert Paul KELBC, Ron Wolfley and a Cardinal's secondary. That's intriguing.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's the potential of what could be. There's
Speaker 1: also a lot of unknowns. I'll make one definitive statement,
Speaker 1: are you ready for this? Ron Wolfley? Not relieve, but
Speaker 1: go ahead? Byron Murphy. I think we would agree, and
Speaker 1: we agree on very little in life and football, but
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy will hit you, will he not? Yes, he will.
Speaker 1: He cannot afraid to tackle, and he's very good at it.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler had over one hundred tackles last year for
Speaker 1: Tennessee Al football. Yeah. I mean you talk to guys
Speaker 1: about Malcolm Butler like, oh, he'll fight you now, Okay.
Speaker 1: And then Robert Alfred, would you say he's a physical
Speaker 1: corner might be the biggest dog on the team. Okay,
Speaker 1: just saying, okay, saying nobody's gonna believe me. Oh he
Speaker 1: has a played wolf in two years? Right, Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you watch Robert Alfred in training camp, and you tell
Speaker 1: me who's a dog. So here's what I'm saying. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals have the hardest hitting group of cornerbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I see where you're going, The nastiest, most physical group
Speaker 1: of cornerbacks in the n about. My question to you
Speaker 1: is how much does that get you? That in a
Speaker 1: corner gets you a cup of coffee? I mean, how
Speaker 1: how valuable, how imperative is it to have corners so
Speaker 1: you can hit and tackle and willing run force, et cetera.
Speaker 1: When you've got guys like Chandler Jones and JJ wat Paul.
Speaker 1: You know what, honestly, I love that because you can
Speaker 1: take those corners, you can walk up, you play press man,
Speaker 1: you can jam, play press man. Try to try to
Speaker 1: jump these wide receivers right from the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and then hope that your defensive line and your box players,
Speaker 1: of course, will be able to get home and get
Speaker 1: that pressure on a quarterback. If you can jam a
Speaker 1: receiver and not allow him to get off the line
Speaker 1: quickly and get a clean release, now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: PAULI that pass rush becomes that much more effective. As
Speaker 1: I tell you, you watched the corners Malcolm Butler. Obviously
Speaker 1: he's proven. Robert Alford, Buddha Baker said, and this is
Speaker 1: a loose quote. He said that Robert Alford has been
Speaker 1: out here locking stuff up. And so I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: so I've been a surprise to you. Though, no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all. We don't see him man, if he
Speaker 1: can only stay healthy. And I know everyone's tired of
Speaker 1: hearing that, but it's the truth. And it's not like
Speaker 1: he's coming off some horrendous knee injury like a Tyrn Matthew.
Speaker 1: He had a torn peck. Yes in the year before that,
Speaker 1: he had a fractured leg. So I mean, these are
Speaker 1: these are injuries you can easily come back from and
Speaker 1: it won't impact your game theoretically. Now he's a little
Speaker 1: bit older obviously, and it hasn't played a full season
Speaker 1: and since twenty seventeen, so you have that. Yeah, Malcolm Butler,
Speaker 1: but those aren't the guys that Vance Joseph started with.
Speaker 1: When he was asked about his cornerback room, I think
Speaker 1: it starts with Murphy, you know. I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: the main stay for three years, but he's played a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps and you can see it's growth. He's
Speaker 1: so much more comfortable. He's going into his body, he's working,
Speaker 1: he knows the system. He can be a special player
Speaker 1: for us, and he can be one of our better
Speaker 1: players on defense. Right when I heard Vance Joseph say that, Paul,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I was jacked off. I was.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, Byron Murphy is where he started. You
Speaker 1: got a couple of dogs and Malcolm Butler and Robert
Speaker 1: Alford guys at once again. Yeah, I know they're a
Speaker 1: little long in the tooth. I understand that. To Malcolm
Speaker 1: Butler last year didn't have the kind of Malcolm Butler
Speaker 1: year until maybe the last six games of the season.
Speaker 1: But still Malcolm Butler when you take his body of work,
Speaker 1: when you take Robert Alfred's body of work before the
Speaker 1: last two years, I mean, these guys are good starting
Speaker 1: corners in the National Football League. And he starts with
Speaker 1: Byron Murphy. So once again it's just you don't know
Speaker 1: exactly where you're gonna get in that corner room. That
Speaker 1: potential is there, but there's a big question mark on
Speaker 1: Robert Alfred Malcolm Butler. Which guy is he based on
Speaker 1: last year? You're right, it was an inconsistent season for him.
Speaker 1: If you talk to folks, you know Byron Murphy, if
Speaker 1: he's ready to take that next step, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: And then you watch the two rookies and I tell
Speaker 1: just the visual of a nearly six foot one Marco
Speaker 1: Wilson with all that athleticism, who's able to play inside
Speaker 1: and outside. Advance Joseph Race about a guy who started
Speaker 1: from day one as a true freshman at Florida and
Speaker 1: he's gone against SEC receivers for four years and he
Speaker 1: knows all these different schemes. And then Tay Gallen who's
Speaker 1: over six one as a corner, just the size and
Speaker 1: the athleticism. If you hit on one of those two
Speaker 1: rookie corners, then you know what, that's no longer an
Speaker 1: area of concern your secondary. Yeah, now you're right, Pauli.
Speaker 1: It's the rookies overaull that I find fascinating as well. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Zaven Collins is going to play and hold onto your butts.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say right now. And that's
Speaker 1: not an attack on Zaven Collins at all. It's just
Speaker 1: an acknowledgement of how difficult it is to come in
Speaker 1: from the college level into the National Football League and
Speaker 1: master a defense, master defensive schemes, and master calling defenses
Speaker 1: and going out and playing when you're a mic linebacker.
Speaker 1: It's a difficult proposition. Having said that, once again, it's
Speaker 1: going to be fascinating to watch Zaven Collins. Rondel Moore
Speaker 1: is going to play a lot. I would imagine Marco
Speaker 1: Wilson to your point, and maybe Tay Gowan. I think
Speaker 1: Victor de Mucagee, the guy we talked to tonight. It's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see where he falls on
Speaker 1: this team, and if in fact he can make the
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, bully, and if he does, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to play special teams. All right. So, as
Speaker 1: you wrap up this edition of the biggerd Rage, Wolf,
Speaker 1: I know you count on me to bring you two
Speaker 1: areas you need, one a prop bet and too a
Speaker 1: power poll. I'm out of here, Paul prop bet right now,
Speaker 1: the most popular bet for twenty twenty one NFL MVP
Speaker 1: is Baker Mayfield the most. The highest percentage of cash
Speaker 1: being put on a single player to win NFL MVP
Speaker 1: is being wagered on Baker Mayfield. Okay. And then you
Speaker 1: had from next Gens stats, which NFL offensive line was
Speaker 1: the best and the worst at limiting pressure in two
Speaker 1: twenty Number one in the NFL at limiting pressure preventing
Speaker 1: hurries the Arizona Cardinals. How about that? Oh we all
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