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Speaker 1: far So. I found something out on our flight home
Speaker 1: from Atlanta that you will not find in the player
Speaker 1: bio or the scoutter report of our very special guest
Speaker 1: tonight on the Big Red Rage, Wolf that when he
Speaker 1: stops in the aisle of the team plane, like when
Speaker 1: you are chopping it up with him right, you know,
Speaker 1: up there, Wolf, and there is no getting around our guest.
Speaker 1: When he is in the aisle, all three hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty plus pounds of him, he is a barrier to
Speaker 1: entry or exit when he is in. Now you have
Speaker 1: to wait till he moves if you want to get
Speaker 1: back to the lavatory or anywhere else on that plane.
Speaker 1: I found that out firsthand right there on the flight home.
Speaker 1: You do that with everybody though, Bo although the Pauly
Speaker 1: pencil neck, you're right, and pretty pretty much everything's a
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Speaker 1: special guest is starting right guard, Will Hernandez here on
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage. Will welcome in and I know
Speaker 1: this is We're going to start right off the top
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk a lot of football. But sometimes
Speaker 1: some things go way beyond the game itself. And we
Speaker 1: saw the Monday night football game, and we saw how
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin, the twenty four year old Bill safety, went
Speaker 1: from the game to critical condition after going into cardiac
Speaker 1: arrest on the field. And you can see the Cardinals
Speaker 1: social media. We've all seen it. All the NFL teams
Speaker 1: have changed the avatars to Hamlet's number three jersey with
Speaker 1: the words pray for Damar. I'm just curious. I think
Speaker 1: everyone's curious our NFL players processing what everyone saw on
Speaker 1: Monday night. Yeah, well, I mean you said it best.
Speaker 1: You know, this goes way beyond the game. You know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a human life, a player, and I
Speaker 1: think that's the most important thing before anything, before you know,
Speaker 1: any competition or anything. It's it's, you know, human life.
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing here in our health. So
Speaker 1: completely heartbreaking to see that. And all I can do
Speaker 1: now is praying and support that he'll be all right.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know that's there's a toll, isn't there.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a physical toll football takes on you,
Speaker 1: but there is the emotional toll, even JJ watt and
Speaker 1: we'll get a lot into JJ wile later he mentioned
Speaker 1: just the how mentally taxing the game can be. Correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course. Um you know, you see some of the
Speaker 1: most competitive players in this league, even you know, um
Speaker 1: have it take a toll on them, but even they
Speaker 1: realize that. You know this, you know, tragedy is more
Speaker 1: important than the competition of the game. And you know,
Speaker 1: just the way the game is played, and so I think, um,
Speaker 1: I think even the most competitive guys in these in
Speaker 1: this league realize that and see the importance will knowing that. Um,
Speaker 1: you're getting ready to play of course this weekend. Do
Speaker 1: you think you'll give it? And he thought, whatsoever? Or
Speaker 1: will you be able to block it out as you play? Um? No,
Speaker 1: there The first thing I've done at any time I
Speaker 1: stepped on a football field for for a game is
Speaker 1: is I've blocked every everything out. You know, I will
Speaker 1: give one hundred percent my support any way I can help,
Speaker 1: any way I can, you know, help with the situation. Um.
Speaker 1: You know once once it's time to play, you know
Speaker 1: I that you have no choice but to block everything
Speaker 1: else out, you know, any problems that you might have personally, anything, Um,
Speaker 1: And that's and that's the only way you can you
Speaker 1: can play this game. You know, you can't go out
Speaker 1: there with with second thoughts or doubts or anything because
Speaker 1: you know, UM, so I got to block it out.
Speaker 1: And it is amazing not only the NFL rallying to
Speaker 1: support tomar Hamlin and his family, the entire country. I
Speaker 1: mean literally he has a foundation. They had a modest
Speaker 1: goal at twenty five hundred dollars or so. That was
Speaker 1: the goal of the objective. It's approaching seven million dollars
Speaker 1: right now. It is remarkable to support that that he
Speaker 1: has received. And Week eighteen is scheduled to be played,
Speaker 1: and that means you're going to the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: and that means you're gonna have to get ready for
Speaker 1: a four quarter game. And you know, you tell us,
Speaker 1: when did you start playing football? And you know, at
Speaker 1: what point did you figure, Okay, you know what, I
Speaker 1: have a future in this game. Yeah. So the very
Speaker 1: first time I ever stopped on football field was my
Speaker 1: freshman year of high school. I had no idea how
Speaker 1: to play the game. I didn't know the rules. I
Speaker 1: never even touched a football before. I simply just went
Speaker 1: tried off for the team after seeing a short practice
Speaker 1: from outside the fence, and I saw, you know, I
Speaker 1: saw everybody getting after it, hitting each other. Because I
Speaker 1: was a songer player before, so seeing the physicality in
Speaker 1: the nature of the game, it's just it excited me
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be a part of it. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it took one time for me to watch
Speaker 1: one of the practices at my high school for me
Speaker 1: to go and try out myself. So will I want
Speaker 1: to get this right? You were born within the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas city limits? Yes, yes, Um, you know the thing
Speaker 1: about Vegas is where a small valley surrounded by mountains.
Speaker 1: So you know, um, there's no really like out of
Speaker 1: Vegas area that you live in. Like everybody lives right
Speaker 1: there in Vegas. It's all pretty much, you know, just
Speaker 1: packed in there. What was it like growing up as
Speaker 1: as a kid man in Las Vegas, Nevada? Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was very fun, but you know, very different also. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up with you know guys people
Speaker 1: asking me questions like, you know, do you have slot
Speaker 1: machines in your garage? Or I didn't know people lived
Speaker 1: in Vegas, you know, I thought it was just a
Speaker 1: party town then. So uh, but no, there's actually a
Speaker 1: lot to Vegas that a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a great city to live in. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a tourist city, so you know, it's very well invested in.
Speaker 1: They take care of the roads, take care of the
Speaker 1: streets clean and uh, you know, it's easy to get around.
Speaker 1: It's grid like roads and you you can have your
Speaker 1: your water sport guy, you know, outdoors men. You know,
Speaker 1: there's it's it's surrounded by mountains, so there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot to do. We also have like meat about thirty
Speaker 1: minutes out. You want snow forty five minutes out. Mount
Speaker 1: Charleston gets no every year. So there's actually a lot
Speaker 1: to do, and it's a great city to live in.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, as long as you don't uh,
Speaker 1: you know, head over to those poby tables too much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just hated to ask you this as well, Will
Speaker 1: because you're you're saying that you were a soccer player
Speaker 1: until you were a freshman in high school? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: when did you When did you know you were an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman? How old were you when you realize, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, man, I'm gonna be an offensive lineman. Well,
Speaker 1: I started playing soccer when I was five years old,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, my pop's got me into it.
Speaker 1: He was my coach. Actually for a while. I stopped
Speaker 1: playing soccer about twelve thirteen years old, and that was
Speaker 1: because I was twice as wide as almost every kid
Speaker 1: on that field. So that's when I really knew, you know,
Speaker 1: soccer wasn't for me and I needed a p see
Speaker 1: other options and Like I said, football was very, very attractive,
Speaker 1: and by the time you were done with high school,
Speaker 1: you had yourself a scholarship. So there by the way,
Speaker 1: speaking of your high school, Will her Nandez, this is
Speaker 1: your life. Are you aware Chaparral High School in Vegas?
Speaker 1: There is one in Scottsdale that notable alums include Mark Slaughter,
Speaker 1: frontman of the glam metal group Slaughter, I think one
Speaker 1: of Wolf's favorites. I think he added on his mixed
Speaker 1: cassette before he used to play games back in the day.
Speaker 1: Stop it. Did you know that that that the frontman
Speaker 1: for Slaughter, the glam metal group, actually went to your
Speaker 1: high school. I did not, but I'm pumped to hear
Speaker 1: that makes me just a little bit prouder to be
Speaker 1: a Chaparral alumni. You're not a battle guy, are you idea?
Speaker 1: Do you like that? I mean I listen to everything,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, uh, just a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything for sure. I mean back in the day, I
Speaker 1: mean more spandex, more makeup, the better for Wolf. You know,
Speaker 1: he loved all those back spy colling and everything. Stop it,
Speaker 1: it's good. How has your season gone? Personally? Will? How's
Speaker 1: it gone? Evaluate yourself for us. Um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard for me to do that because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I've always been I've always been very tough on myself,
Speaker 1: very tough on you know what I do, and I've
Speaker 1: could have done better and I should have done better.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's it's hard for me to
Speaker 1: sit here and tell you, oh, yeah, I did good here,
Speaker 1: and like I've always said to myself, you could have
Speaker 1: done better here, you could have done better there, And
Speaker 1: that's just that's just been the story of my life.
Speaker 1: And so you know, especially after missing some games. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's just something that's never happened to me before.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I got back trying to make
Speaker 1: it up for it, and uh but yeah, that that's
Speaker 1: the that's the facts there that I did miss some time.
Speaker 1: So just by that, you know, could have done better there.
Speaker 1: I vividly remember you saying when we had you in
Speaker 1: the off season after you signed with the Cardinals that
Speaker 1: some of your rookie year film with some of your
Speaker 1: best work with the Giants. When you watch your film now,
Speaker 1: have you recaptured some of that because that was sort
Speaker 1: of your objective going into this year if I remember right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I got back to a lot
Speaker 1: of what I did I started. You know, I had
Speaker 1: like a whole sit down with myself. I did watch
Speaker 1: actually a lot of the film for my first couple
Speaker 1: of years, you know, just kind of remember those details
Speaker 1: of what I was doing right and what I was
Speaker 1: doing wrong then, and you know, people saying I was
Speaker 1: having a good season, But okay, let gonna go back
Speaker 1: and check to see why exactly it is that I
Speaker 1: was doing and why people were saying I was having
Speaker 1: a good season. And so you know, I took a
Speaker 1: lot of those things, refreshed my memory, applied him this
Speaker 1: year and then also along with things that I've learned
Speaker 1: this year, because you know, every year you learn and
Speaker 1: learn and learn, so you know, it was kind of
Speaker 1: a combo of both, and definitely would say I, you know,
Speaker 1: I went back and incorporated some of those things back
Speaker 1: again to my play this year. So Steve Hayden, of
Speaker 1: course has taken over the offensive line room for the
Speaker 1: most part. Um anything changed schematically with Steve Hyden in
Speaker 1: the room, not too much, you know, he you know,
Speaker 1: he did such a great job of going in there
Speaker 1: and you know, working with us making it a team.
Speaker 1: You know, we do. We do have a lot of
Speaker 1: vets in the room, even though some of them aren't
Speaker 1: necessarily playing, but they still chime in, they still are
Speaker 1: there and uh, you know, putting in their two cents.
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, he did such a great
Speaker 1: job working as a team with us and not just
Speaker 1: making it about what he thinks or what he wants
Speaker 1: to do. So a lot of the things remain the same,
Speaker 1: and there are small details in there that you know
Speaker 1: did change before the better. And this was a collective,
Speaker 1: collective group. So the Arizona Cardinals zole line has started
Speaker 1: ten different offensive line combinations this year, but at least
Speaker 1: the last three games since your return, it's been the
Speaker 1: same starting five the last three games. Kelvin Beacham earlier
Speaker 1: today was asked just about old line chemistry. It is
Speaker 1: a chemistry deal. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you have to have time on task and we hadn't
Speaker 1: always had that at different points in the year, But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's what you call
Speaker 1: to do. You call it to play the game, you
Speaker 1: call to plug and play and the next man up
Speaker 1: is a mentality that you have to have in a
Speaker 1: national football league, and when there's an opportunity to be successful,
Speaker 1: in an opportunity to leave a good impression, you got
Speaker 1: to find a way to get it down. So will Hernandez.
Speaker 1: You would not be surprised to learn that Paul pencil
Speaker 1: Neck has never played offensive line. Okay, So with that
Speaker 1: in mind, how ill portant is that chemistry? Just having
Speaker 1: the same five guys when you're trying to execute the
Speaker 1: game plan? Yeah? I mean ideally that's exactly what you want.
Speaker 1: You want five guys that know each other and know
Speaker 1: each other well played before you know, I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps. You know, That's that's great, That's like
Speaker 1: the perfect scenario. It doesn't always happen like that. Cardinals
Speaker 1: have been a perfect example of that. But I think
Speaker 1: more than that, I think the second most important thing
Speaker 1: to having an offensive linemen is, yeah, being able to
Speaker 1: have that chemistry, but also being able to adapt quickly
Speaker 1: and in a way force that chemistry when things out
Speaker 1: of your control happened, like you lose a guy or
Speaker 1: a new guy comes in. And if you're able to
Speaker 1: do that as an offensive lineman, I think that's what
Speaker 1: really separates you because you know, everybody can play well
Speaker 1: when you're working with a guy that you know, when
Speaker 1: you're working with a guy that you've worked with for
Speaker 1: a long time. But how good can you be when
Speaker 1: a new guys steps into that you've never seen before,
Speaker 1: you never played before, and how quickly can you guys
Speaker 1: adapt to each other and make it work? So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, as good as as having chemistry is, I
Speaker 1: think it's just as important to be able to adapt quickly.
Speaker 1: Will I was so impressed schematically with the offense against
Speaker 1: the Falcons and how balanced it was from a play call,
Speaker 1: personnel grouping, and quarterback placement perspective. When you watch the tape,
Speaker 1: But what did you think of your quarterback? I think,
Speaker 1: you know, David a great job. You know, just exactly
Speaker 1: what we were just talking about, being able to adapt quickly.
Speaker 1: And you know, he didn't have much time to get
Speaker 1: in there and you know, really have a comfortable amount
Speaker 1: of time to study and and and get the reps
Speaker 1: he wants and be able to see all the looks
Speaker 1: he wants to see. He just kind of got thrown
Speaker 1: in there with limited reps, and you know, I think
Speaker 1: he did a good job adjusting to a lot of
Speaker 1: the things. And he was in there commanding the huddle,
Speaker 1: you know, putting ease out of in our heads, talking
Speaker 1: to us, motivating, you know, everything the quarterback should do.
Speaker 1: And I think he did a great job. I saw
Speaker 1: him interact with you guys quite a bit on the
Speaker 1: bench right in between series. Yeah, you know, he had
Speaker 1: enough to worry about it in his head, just schematically,
Speaker 1: and you know what he has to do out there.
Speaker 1: So for him to come out and you know, have
Speaker 1: that part of like talking to us and motivating and
Speaker 1: you know, being able to have that leadership, I think
Speaker 1: says a lot about him. And I really like that
Speaker 1: about him. It's pretty remarkable. I mean, Dave a blow.
Speaker 1: It was the fourth difference starting quarterback for the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals in four weeks. That's the second time that has
Speaker 1: happened to a team since nineteen fifty flow. Even Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury sort of shook his head when we relayed that
Speaker 1: statue him on his TV show this week. And think
Speaker 1: about a blow had basically Friday practice. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: reps in a Friday practice. Then go letter rip. He
Speaker 1: threw at forty times in that game. Of course, you
Speaker 1: guys ran it in that game as well. James Connor
Speaker 1: four point nine yards of carry. That's coming off the
Speaker 1: Tampa game where James Conner had five point three yards
Speaker 1: of carry. Remember we asked Billy Price recently wolf about
Speaker 1: what's one of the first stats he'll look at when
Speaker 1: he grabs the old stat sheet for an old lineman
Speaker 1: after the game. That's it yards per carry. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of that in the Cardinals ground game, especially
Speaker 1: going against the Niners team because they are known for
Speaker 1: the rushing attack and they're known for a number one
Speaker 1: ranked defense. We continue with Will Hernandez on the big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. It's a
Speaker 1: run play up the middle, Connor down to the five,
Speaker 1: pushing his way to the two, diving to the one
Speaker 1: and close to the end zone. When they call it somesdown,
Speaker 1: they do water run by James Connor. That is a
Speaker 1: statement run by James Connor. Takes the peg and bust
Speaker 1: it into pay dirt gift to Connor. Looking Laft runs
Speaker 1: off the left side twenty ten, races inside the five
Speaker 1: and into the end zone. James Connor houses it from
Speaker 1: twenty two yards out. That's the Cardinals run game, wearing
Speaker 1: down the defense in the fourth quarter. Twelve personnel, one back,
Speaker 1: two tight ends run the ball, and James Connor houses in.
Speaker 1: He has seventy five yards rushing at four the last
Speaker 1: five games. Over the last seven games, he's averaging four
Speaker 1: point four yards to carry and has six touchdowns. The
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl running back from a year ago back into
Speaker 1: that Pro Bowl form, Let's see if he's going to
Speaker 1: be available for the season finale. After he left the
Speaker 1: game in Atlanta, Will Hernandez starting right guard as our
Speaker 1: special guest in the Big Red Rage presented by Santan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert. So we'll pick up where we left off.
Speaker 1: You know, to what degree do you look at that
Speaker 1: stat when you get done with the game? Yards per carry?
Speaker 1: How important is that to an offensive lineman? Oh? Very important,
Speaker 1: you know. We we pride ourselves on that. You know,
Speaker 1: if we can have all the passing yards and score
Speaker 1: can be whatever it is, and if that yards per
Speaker 1: carry is is low, where we're disappointed we had a
Speaker 1: bad game. So you know, that's what sets everything up
Speaker 1: in our minds, So very important to us. So Will
Speaker 1: has this season taught you anything? And if so, what
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah, I think more than anything. You know,
Speaker 1: we hear a lot of control you can control, and
Speaker 1: you know, let whatever else happens around you just happen.
Speaker 1: But you can always, you know, do things the way
Speaker 1: you want to do them, and you know you can
Speaker 1: fight through anything even though there's chaosk going on around you. Well, look,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals up front of played twelve different offensive linemen
Speaker 1: this year, So that's part of what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Just you got you know, and we've nicknamed it, you know,
Speaker 1: beach and the backups. You know, before your return, that
Speaker 1: was it because the other four guys were bad. It
Speaker 1: was like so like a fifties band, you know. And
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury was asked, i think by our Jim Almahandro
Speaker 1: just about the recent continuity up front. The more you
Speaker 1: can play together as a unit, the greater rapport you have,
Speaker 1: and the more comfortab you get with each other, and
Speaker 1: then we know exactly what we're good at and what
Speaker 1: to major in. And so hopefully that can continue to
Speaker 1: be a tough test this week against that defensive line.
Speaker 1: But they've made big strikes last few weeks. All right
Speaker 1: there you there, you heard it right, Nick Bosa and
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers defensive front. So what do you
Speaker 1: think of when you think of that challenge? They're only
Speaker 1: ranked the number one defense in the NFL. Will, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean for a good reason. You know, they got
Speaker 1: great players up front, a good front seven pretty much linebackers,
Speaker 1: so you know, they got good players, they got you know,
Speaker 1: captains there. But you know the thing is that they
Speaker 1: got to bring it every week. You know, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't play your next game really well because of
Speaker 1: what you've done in the past or because of you know,
Speaker 1: you have to bring it every single week. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly you know why what we're going to go do
Speaker 1: out there, just bring it. Will Do you think this
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers front seven is the best in the
Speaker 1: National Football League? I have to tell you. I I
Speaker 1: watch it and looking at it, I think they're the
Speaker 1: best rush defense and the National Football League, and I
Speaker 1: think they do a great job of actually getting pressure
Speaker 1: as well on an opposing quarterback. I think it's the
Speaker 1: best front seven about you. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Um,
Speaker 1: you know I've played these guys too also when I
Speaker 1: was back with the Giants, so you know, I know
Speaker 1: them pretty well and I've seen them a lot in
Speaker 1: my years, and so you know, I know what they bring.
Speaker 1: And also, you know we talked about before. You know,
Speaker 1: these guys learn and get better every year, so yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to expect that and we got to bring
Speaker 1: it and just just as much. And they have the
Speaker 1: NFL sack leader in Nick Bosa's seventeen and a half sacks.
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury told us on his TV show that Nick
Speaker 1: Bosa still holds it against him, sort of half seriously
Speaker 1: joking around a little bit, a little bit that the
Speaker 1: Cardinals didn't take him number one overall. Of course they
Speaker 1: took Kyler Murray instead. Okay, So so Cliffs said, well,
Speaker 1: in response, if you're gonna hold it against us, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna chip you all game. So that's the back
Speaker 1: and forth that the two of them have right there.
Speaker 1: But you tell us about Bosa and where are your ranks?
Speaker 1: What makes them a great pass rusher and what's the
Speaker 1: challenge for the Cardinals old line there? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Boza is a great player, and I think if you
Speaker 1: look at every player that you know is even in
Speaker 1: the running for having the most sacks in the NFL
Speaker 1: every season because they're not one dimensional, you know, they're
Speaker 1: not just gonna you know, put the moves on you
Speaker 1: and get around you, or they're not just gonna blow
Speaker 1: rush you the entire time and get to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys normally do it all. You never
Speaker 1: know when it's coming. They could switch it up, you know,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So you know he could do it all.
Speaker 1: You gotta be ready for every and uh yeah, you
Speaker 1: got to be able to uh you know, to not
Speaker 1: only expect it from them, but shut it down. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, game plan for him, and you know there's
Speaker 1: there's ways to to stop it and uh who you
Speaker 1: got to get it done? Who is the who is
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers best defensive tackle? He might not
Speaker 1: want to give credit there, You're like, you know he's
Speaker 1: got a game, he's got the game face on. I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure. Let me say this, let me let
Speaker 1: me rephrase the question. If you don't mind, Um, who's
Speaker 1: the best forty nine ers run stopper? Do you think? Um?
Speaker 1: I would say, uh, probably green Law. You know he's
Speaker 1: been he's been uh you know, very stout in there,
Speaker 1: and he has a good push pull. You know, he's
Speaker 1: able to get off blocks. Uh and be able to
Speaker 1: hold his ground early and get off shed off blocks
Speaker 1: and be able to be in the hole almost from
Speaker 1: the two to the sixth hole pretty much. You know
Speaker 1: he he gets in there, and so I would probably
Speaker 1: say you know him Cardinals starting guard Will Hernandez our
Speaker 1: guest in the Big Red Rage. Look, JJ Watt has
Speaker 1: been that guy most of his career. When you think
Speaker 1: of JJ and his final game on Sunday, what do
Speaker 1: you think, what are you gonna tell your grandkids about
Speaker 1: playing with number ninety nine? Um? Yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: first thing you can expect from what is he's gonna
Speaker 1: just emptied the tank completely. So I'm excited to see that. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm gonna tell my kids, you know,
Speaker 1: I you know, we I get, I get along with
Speaker 1: what but you know, hey, you guys, see that guy.
Speaker 1: I fought that guy one day. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case in camp this year, there was
Speaker 1: a little Okay, now that the season pretty much over,
Speaker 1: tell us about the dust up with JJ Watt in
Speaker 1: the dog days of camp. Oh no, man, Um, there's
Speaker 1: there's no bad blood there. He's complete professional and you know,
Speaker 1: if you could even call that a fight. You know,
Speaker 1: I would say it was a pillow fight on my endum,
Speaker 1: but no, he I've been learning from j j Y
Speaker 1: ever since I got here. You know, we talk a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, we we we're all in the hot tub
Speaker 1: together before practice every day, so we get to we
Speaker 1: get to talk in a lot. And he's taught me
Speaker 1: so much just about his experiences and what he's gone
Speaker 1: through throughout his years, and I just apply it to
Speaker 1: my own career and to my own life. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a little nuggets here there you could take, even
Speaker 1: though he's a completely different position. Um, but no, Jesu
Speaker 1: Wat's a you know, a great leader, a great teammate,
Speaker 1: and he's definitely taught me a lot. So from your perspective,
Speaker 1: how difficult has it been to be a player on
Speaker 1: a four and twelve team? And what do you focus
Speaker 1: on to get motivated for this last game off of
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, you know, so when you're talking about
Speaker 1: four and twelve, you know, you every everything's out of
Speaker 1: the picture for you. You know at this point, the
Speaker 1: way I see as you're playing for your for your character,
Speaker 1: for your pride, You're you're playing just to basically show everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, what kind of mentality you have and what
Speaker 1: kind of person you are, and it shows through a
Speaker 1: football game, you know, and it shows how you go
Speaker 1: out there and you're still playing, like if you're you know,
Speaker 1: trying to make the playoffs or if you're already eating
Speaker 1: the playoffs but you're trying to get the first year
Speaker 1: or whatever. And so it's it's all about, you know,
Speaker 1: the mindset, the pride and just having respect for yourself
Speaker 1: to go out there and you know, not just laid
Speaker 1: down for anybody, especially when you have a guy across
Speaker 1: from you that's going to try to take your head
Speaker 1: off either way, like he doesn't feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, going out there playing just as hard
Speaker 1: as out I would if it was any other game,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, ended with on a good note
Speaker 1: for whatever, for whatever that means. Well, if I know
Speaker 1: you love Will's mentality. It's similar to James Connor. James
Speaker 1: Connors ask a couple of weeks ago, what are you
Speaker 1: playing for? What are you hoping to gain at this
Speaker 1: point between now and the end of the season out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, and his answer was some respect. So
Speaker 1: you know, I like that answer, and I know it's
Speaker 1: a it's a four win season. But someday you're gonna
Speaker 1: look back at this season, and I'm guessing you're gonna
Speaker 1: remember really fondly your trip to Mexico City. Your grandparents
Speaker 1: hailed from Mexico City. Before we get into it a
Speaker 1: little bit, um the grasshoppers that you had hard Knocks
Speaker 1: documented at dinner that one night. Um, you know, tell
Speaker 1: us what is for those of us who have not
Speaker 1: experienced grasshoppers is part of a meal? What does it
Speaker 1: taste like? Can you compare it to anything? Yes? First
Speaker 1: of all, for all my health health heads out there, Uh,
Speaker 1: they're very rich in protein, so you know you don't
Speaker 1: even have to eat many of them to get a
Speaker 1: good protein source. But you know, it's just the thing
Speaker 1: out there, especially in Mexico City. They're big, they've been
Speaker 1: around forever, and you know it's just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: part of you know, who I am, my parents, where
Speaker 1: we came from. So um, you know that was actually
Speaker 1: my second time ever ever eating them, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they they do it right. They put the you know,
Speaker 1: the chili the line on them. They don't just give
Speaker 1: him to your rout. So they're they're pretty good. So
Speaker 1: will I want to make up for asking you the
Speaker 1: tough question of who the past forty nine ers defensive
Speaker 1: tackle is. Okay, so now I want to lob you
Speaker 1: a big softball. It's Fred Warner. Good. Yes, yes, for sure.
Speaker 1: You know. Actually Fred, Fred and Knight train together before
Speaker 1: the combine and uh, you know we were we signed
Speaker 1: with the same agency, and uh, you know, we trained
Speaker 1: together all throughout the process before the draft, and so
Speaker 1: I got to know him very well. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: honestly doesn't surprise me to see him where he's at
Speaker 1: because I've seen his mindset, you know since uh since
Speaker 1: before he was even ever in the NFL, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to see it, you know,
Speaker 1: personally and be able to train with that guy every day, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I it's no surprise. Is he a talker?
Speaker 1: Does Does he yell out your name at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage? You guys trade a little back and forth?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a little bit of that everywhere. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, no, man, we we uh friends. Not not
Speaker 1: much of a talker, or at least since since I
Speaker 1: remember him. But you know, he will, you know, if
Speaker 1: he feels like he needs to or or whatever, but um,
Speaker 1: you know we we we get along pretty good, but
Speaker 1: we won't we won't be getting along during those three
Speaker 1: hours on Sunday. Well, well, once upon a time, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell this story. Once upon a
Speaker 1: time I saw Will Hernandez and J. J. Watt square
Speaker 1: off there camp practice. No, I get it. Here was great.
Speaker 1: But it's good to hear you guys, are you know,
Speaker 1: sitting in the hotel before practice and so forth. That's good.
Speaker 1: We uh, we enjoyed it. We've enjoyed you. And I
Speaker 1: know you're one of the what the thirty plus pending
Speaker 1: free agents. So man, I know, Wolf and I both
Speaker 1: hope in your back next season. All the best on
Speaker 1: Sunday in this offseason. We hope to talk to you soon. Okay,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, guys, Thanks for having me. There you go,
Speaker 1: Will Hernandez on the Big Red Rage presented by santan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert back right after this. Alright, goals are
Speaker 1: now four and twelve. It's another loss, but they played
Speaker 1: well today, in particular the quarterback David Blow. But another
Speaker 1: defeat twenty to nineteenth. Just heartbreaking right now for the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. They play well. David Blow plays extremely well.
Speaker 1: David will start last week. He didn't get the full process,
Speaker 1: you know, he just really practice Friday. So I want
Speaker 1: to see what he can do the full process and
Speaker 1: see kind of how he plays against really good defense.
Speaker 1: That was Cliff Kingsbury earlier today naming David Blow the
Speaker 1: starter here for the season finale, Week eighteen Cardinals at
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. It is the Big Red Rage
Speaker 1: presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford,
Speaker 1: Paul kelvc Ron Wolfley's special thanks again to Will Hernandez,
Speaker 1: a starting right guard blocking for David Blow, who threw
Speaker 1: it forty times in the game. He had a Friday
Speaker 1: practice Wolf He came out slinging it from the get go.
Speaker 1: There was that third and four team on the opening possession. Boom,
Speaker 1: he it's Hollywood Brown for sixteen. Everyone in the sidelines
Speaker 1: sort of like, whoa, Okay, wait a minute, maybe we
Speaker 1: have something here. And there were enough instances where he
Speaker 1: was going to the right place at the right time,
Speaker 1: and what he told the media after the game, that
Speaker 1: was exactly his main objective, that he could make the
Speaker 1: right decisions and prove he knew what he was looking at,
Speaker 1: and at times it looked like he was even going
Speaker 1: through his progressions a second, third, even fourth read when
Speaker 1: he had time in that pocket. Now, you're right, Pauline,
Speaker 1: no doubt he ran the offense like it wasn't his
Speaker 1: first rodeo, and guess what it wasn't. He protected the
Speaker 1: ball above all else. He made some great throws, some
Speaker 1: great reads as well, for a guy that didn't get
Speaker 1: serious practice raps on Friday, you know, or until Friday,
Speaker 1: I should say, I don't know what more you could
Speaker 1: have asked of David Blow he went out there. Paul
Speaker 1: I think I could count how many bad players I
Speaker 1: thought he had on one hand. Yeah, I really do.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about bad reads, I'm talking about bad throws.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about physically mentally bad plays, bad decisions. You
Speaker 1: know what, you could count him on one hand. I
Speaker 1: mean there was one on a key third down late
Speaker 1: in the game where Greg Dortch tripped right out of
Speaker 1: the turf Monster got him. I'm not exactly sure to
Speaker 1: have maybe his feet got caught up with the dB,
Speaker 1: but that ball was right on the money for a
Speaker 1: first down. There was another one down the seam to
Speaker 1: Tray McBride. He didn't get turned around in time. Maybe
Speaker 1: the ball could have been in a better place, but
Speaker 1: they were Yeah, when he missed, he didn't miss by much.
Speaker 1: And again for a guy who'd been in the building
Speaker 1: for less than three weeks, just the operation, that's what
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury said at halftime, not only ball security. To
Speaker 1: your point, that was a number one. Number two was
Speaker 1: just the operation of the offense. Will Hernandez talked about
Speaker 1: how I will he was able to communicate and calm
Speaker 1: everyone in the huddle. How many times have you said that, Well,
Speaker 1: if that's the first challenge, right, if a backup quarter
Speaker 1: back you can get the rest of the team to
Speaker 1: trust him and believe in him. And it looked like
Speaker 1: David Blau did just that. Yeah, No, there's there's no doubt, Paul,
Speaker 1: that's what he did. And especially talking to Will Hernandez,
Speaker 1: who backed that up right there. You know what I loved.
Speaker 1: I loved the impact that it had on Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: because Cliff Kingsbury as the play caller of course, and
Speaker 1: as the guy that was coming up with the game plan,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury really had one of the more balanced attacks
Speaker 1: of the season. And I'm I'm talking about schematically, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about from a quarterback placement perspective. We saw David
Speaker 1: Blow take snaps from under center. We saw it. It It
Speaker 1: was into the teens, fifteen sixteen snaps from under center.
Speaker 1: We saw him in the gun, of course, we saw
Speaker 1: him in the pistol. We saw twelve personnel. We saw
Speaker 1: a mix of personnel groups out on the field as well.
Speaker 1: Paul I absolutely love that. We aw James Connor putting
Speaker 1: his toes at six and a half seven yards and
Speaker 1: running the tackle zone. We saw David Blow running the
Speaker 1: boot and the waggle and play action off of that
Speaker 1: seven step drop and being able to throw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field because of it. PAULI. I was so
Speaker 1: impressed with the offense. And it just goes to show
Speaker 1: you that Cliff Kingsbury is not dogmatic. It's not about
Speaker 1: saying this is going to be my offense and it's
Speaker 1: going to be this way or it's no way, it's
Speaker 1: the highway. No, that's not what Cliff is all about.
Speaker 1: And he tailored a game plan that I thought was
Speaker 1: built for David Blow. And I loved what I saw
Speaker 1: schematically and You're right, the balance was there. They ran
Speaker 1: at twenty seven times for a buck twenty six nearly
Speaker 1: five yards of carry, James Connor five yards of carry.
Speaker 1: So and now now they get a nine ers defense
Speaker 1: that is ranked number one in most metrics. Now the
Speaker 1: Falcons were had the second few of sacks coming into
Speaker 1: the game, nineteen as a team. Nick Bosa himself has
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half. So it's gonna be a different challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's Cliff Kingsbury and the opportunity at the Niners for
Speaker 1: David Blow. Anytime you're in his position and you know
Speaker 1: you get a chance to go in real games and
Speaker 1: show what you can do, it's it's huge, and particularly
Speaker 1: against you know, the best team in the NFC, in
Speaker 1: the best defense in the league. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great challenge. But yeah, I'm excited for him to see,
Speaker 1: you know, how he handles that. But it's it's a
Speaker 1: tall task ess for sure, and we talked about it
Speaker 1: going into the game. They know what they have in
Speaker 1: Cole McCoy, they know what they have in Trace McSorley.
Speaker 1: David Blow definitely has a chance to earn himself a
Speaker 1: spot at least a chance to compete next season, don't
Speaker 1: you think I would think so, I mean, PAULI, especially
Speaker 1: based on how he played last week, I would think so.
Speaker 1: If he goes out there and he he repeats that
Speaker 1: performance the consistency thereof, and goes out and makes good decisions,
Speaker 1: makes good reads and good throws, I have no idea
Speaker 1: why in the world you would not be bringing him
Speaker 1: back going into training camp next year. That is, if,
Speaker 1: in fact, he goes out and he plays well again
Speaker 1: in this game coming up here, Hey, Paul, there there
Speaker 1: might be another team that is looking at David Blaw saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, there might be a little something something
Speaker 1: right there with this Blow guy. So listen, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a tough challenge. We know at the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers Paul lights out, especially inside that front seven,
Speaker 1: and especially when they're playing for something. They have a shot.
Speaker 1: With a win, they wrap up the number two seed,
Speaker 1: and if some things work out in their favor, namely
Speaker 1: Philly losing, then guess what, they can end up the
Speaker 1: number one seed with a buy. So there's plenty on
Speaker 1: the line for the forty nine ers, So we'll see
Speaker 1: how that goes. We know last season Colt McCoy and
Speaker 1: company went up there, gotta win at Levi Stadium. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals are six and two all time in Santa Clara. Okay,
Speaker 1: much different Niners team, much different Cardinals team at this point,
Speaker 1: and we know that Kyler Murray once again will not
Speaker 1: be there at the Niners. He had acl reconstruction to
Speaker 1: start this week. In fact, if you saw the picture
Speaker 1: he tweeted out from his hospital bed with the words successful.
Speaker 1: So there you go. And Cliff Kingsbury was asked about
Speaker 1: whether he had contacted and communicated with Kyler Murray. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it takes from yesterday went well and so now starts three.
Speaker 1: Having though, he was excited to get it done and
Speaker 1: get moving forward. And by the way, the NFL network
Speaker 1: said they also quote stitched up the meniscus in his knees,
Speaker 1: so that might push his return back a little bit
Speaker 1: more based on some of the medical opinions out there.
Speaker 1: In any case, it's uncertain as to exactly what the
Speaker 1: timetable is. That's right, Paula. You know, once again I
Speaker 1: said this before, it's pure speculation. There is no guaranteed
Speaker 1: timetable right now, there is none, But as a ballpark,
Speaker 1: I think you can use nine months. You can look
Speaker 1: at that and say nine months is a ballpark picture
Speaker 1: right now, and that means typically you're going to be
Speaker 1: in September before you're reaping it a start evaluating as
Speaker 1: to whether or not Kyler Murray's gonna go or not.
Speaker 1: I just don't see him playing before that, Paul, That's
Speaker 1: just me. He could, but we'll see. And it's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons Cliff Kingsbury today talked about holding Colt
Speaker 1: McCoy out not only just coming off a concussion. Want
Speaker 1: to air on the side of being cautious with anyone's
Speaker 1: health and well being, but you're talking about a Colt
Speaker 1: McCoy who could be your starting quarterback for a good
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Speaker 1: More on the Niners. More thoughts from Wolf on what
Speaker 1: the challenge is gonna be. We'll talk about that next
Speaker 1: than the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford. In
Speaker 1: Gilbert Garoppolo waiting for the shotgun snap, he's got it
Speaker 1: back to pass and in trouble steps up lobs a
Speaker 1: deep right side cut by Kindle, the fifteen things left
Speaker 1: to the ten to the buckown. Great play by Garoppolo
Speaker 1: steps up and then he stepped up. They lost Kittle
Speaker 1: on the back end. It's a thirty nine yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: Here's a pitch the Samuel on an end around far
Speaker 1: side of the forty thirty five cuts right thirty twenty
Speaker 1: five twenty far side, fifteen ten five touchdown. Great execution, Baba,
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. They ran it, They ran it, They
Speaker 1: ran it. There comes this direction up play action and
Speaker 1: deebo Samuel on the end of rum. Here's play action.
Speaker 1: Garoppolo throws to Kittle up side cut at the thirty
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen ten five touchdown sorts. Kittle puts it away
Speaker 1: thirty seven to ten with ten minutes to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that last play right there was as easy as it
Speaker 1: sounded from the voice of the Cardinals, Dave Pass. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of tackling. Not a lot of want to
Speaker 1: on that one. That's where it starts with the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. They're gonna make a tackle. And look, I
Speaker 1: can bust out all the stats we want from that
Speaker 1: first meeting in Mexico City, Wolf, but we know everything
Speaker 1: changed at halftime when the Niners came out to start
Speaker 1: that second half. And what exactly did they do? They
Speaker 1: basically put the plow down, did they done. No, that's
Speaker 1: what they did, Polly, no doubt. They came out and
Speaker 1: they said, we're going to run the ball and you're
Speaker 1: going to have to stop us right now. And that's
Speaker 1: what they did. They lined up and they ran the ball.
Speaker 1: You know what this is the San Francisco forty nine Ers,
Speaker 1: though it really is in particular under Kyle Shanahan and
Speaker 1: John Lynch. These guys believe in the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and building your strength on the line of scrimmage. You
Speaker 1: got to think about it right now, Pally. This is
Speaker 1: a team that isn't the top ten in rushing defense
Speaker 1: in terms of rushing yards per game allowed and rushing
Speaker 1: yards per play allowed. They're in the top ten in
Speaker 1: rush offense in terms of rushing yards per game and
Speaker 1: rushing yards per play, Polly, there's very few teams. I
Speaker 1: think there's one other team that actually can claim that
Speaker 1: they have that, that their defense and their offense is
Speaker 1: in the top ten in the National Football League and
Speaker 1: rushing stats. Yeah, they have a seventh round rookie brock Purty,
Speaker 1: last pick in the draft, and their offense hasn't missed
Speaker 1: a beat. I mean, whether it's the run game, whether
Speaker 1: it's the scheme, whether it's brock Purty himself. He just
Speaker 1: joined Kurt Warner as the only QB since nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: to win their first three starts while they're owing multiple
Speaker 1: touchdown passes in every game. He's been sharp. There's no doubt.
Speaker 1: He was the twenty seventeen Arizona Cardinals High School Player
Speaker 1: of the Year from Perry High School in Gilbert and
Speaker 1: then Wolf. They have the number one ranked defense in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So, and you made the point with Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: They're not exactly going to dial it up, Damiko. Ryan's
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator. He's more app to rush three or four,
Speaker 1: isn't he. No No dial Paulie, That's what they do
Speaker 1: right there. They don't have to bring five to get pressure.
Speaker 1: Five is a pressure package, and that really is in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, that is the scheme a lot
Speaker 1: of the time on third down, they're gonna bring five.
Speaker 1: You just don't know which five are actually gonna come.
Speaker 1: A lot of people like to play blitz bail. The
Speaker 1: defensive coordinators, they'll play that blitz bail. They'll line six
Speaker 1: guys up on the line and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: bail one on the snap or vice or whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. They're going to try to do things to
Speaker 1: confuse your protection schemes. The forty nine ers don't have
Speaker 1: to do any of that. They have to line their
Speaker 1: four guys up. I talk about this all the time,
Speaker 1: but there are basically three ways you can generate pressure
Speaker 1: on a quarterback, and the forty nine ers do that
Speaker 1: via the better than and that is just we got
Speaker 1: four guys that are better than your five guys that
Speaker 1: are trying to block us. Are four are better than
Speaker 1: and that's what they have. They rush for and they
Speaker 1: drop seven and that is who the forty nine ers are.
Speaker 1: But it all starts with stuffing you in a pine
Speaker 1: box metaphorically speaking, and rundown situation. Yeah, they've won nine
Speaker 1: in a row. The first eight wins in that streak,
Speaker 1: they allowed twenty or fewer points in every game. Now
Speaker 1: the Raiders somehow and Jared stood him, hit him for
Speaker 1: thirty four and he had three touchdown passes. The only
Speaker 1: other quarterback to do that against the Niners defense all
Speaker 1: year was Patrick Mahomes. So you have that Niners of
Speaker 1: the division champ Cardinals. That's huelor chasing in the off season.
Speaker 1: And Cliff Kingsbury was asked about this four win campaign
Speaker 1: so far, it's a year you learn from. You know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those deals where perspective wise, it's like
Speaker 1: things either happen four year or two you and I
Speaker 1: choose to see him as happening for us and lessons
Speaker 1: that we got to learn and be better moving forward.
Speaker 1: And sometimes you have to face adversity and you have
Speaker 1: to have a season like this to find the things
Speaker 1: you really got to get face and get corrected. And
Speaker 1: so I think organizationally we have a chance to get
Speaker 1: it right and move forward and try to be better.
Speaker 1: Look Ever, since the Cardinals were ten and two last year, Wolf,
Speaker 1: they've lost seventeen to twenty two. So whether that was
Speaker 1: losing their eye on the fastball at the end of
Speaker 1: last season and not, you know, concerned as much about
Speaker 1: the details, whether it's been all the injuries this season.
Speaker 1: They need to assess the situation and implement some solutions, right,
Speaker 1: They need to put solution into New Year's resolution. And
Speaker 1: for a league where once again, every year since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety there have been at least four different playoff teams,
Speaker 1: you can ascend or you can descend every single year.
Speaker 1: It can happen quickly, but it can go either direction. Yeah, Poly,
Speaker 1: you know again, I agree with what Cliff is saying
Speaker 1: right now. It is you can learn from it. This
Speaker 1: is where you find out who's really tough. This is
Speaker 1: where you find that out. And I'm not just talking
Speaker 1: about players. I'm talking about people when you go through
Speaker 1: a season like this. I've been through a lot of
Speaker 1: four and twelve seasons, Paul. Okay, maybe not a lot
Speaker 1: more than one. Let's put it that way. Four and
Speaker 1: twelve season, five and eleven season. I've been there. I've
Speaker 1: been through that, and you've got to walk through it, Polly.
Speaker 1: This is something I've been talking about a lot this week,
Speaker 1: but it's the truth. There's an old saying in football
Speaker 1: just walk through it. That's what you do. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what comes your way. Walk through it. Don't lose
Speaker 1: your mind. You don't have to run through it. You
Speaker 1: don't have to swing your way through it. You have
Speaker 1: to walk through it. You have to be consistent. You
Speaker 1: have to have the eyes down and the chin squared
Speaker 1: and the shoulders back, and you have to walk through it,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And if you'll look, if you'll look around,
Speaker 1: you you can learn more when you're walking through a
Speaker 1: dark period then you'll ever learn when you're walking in
Speaker 1: the sunlight metaphorically speeding. There will be change. Look, we
Speaker 1: know that much. It might start Monday for all we know.
Speaker 1: Nobody truly knows. But there's thirty two plus pending free
Speaker 1: agents on this roster. We don't exactly know where the
Speaker 1: quarterback situation stands going into next year. Look, you know
Speaker 1: there's going to be a top five draft pick. You
Speaker 1: would think Cardinals can still pick US two. They can
Speaker 1: fall as low as six. Right now, they're currently slotted forth.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot and who exactly is making some
Speaker 1: of those personnel decisions in the off season. So this
Speaker 1: is going to be a very proactive offseason. If There's
Speaker 1: one thing we've learned about this team is that they
Speaker 1: go about trying to correct whatever issues they just went through.
Speaker 1: We saw it after twenty eighteen. They were ultra aggressive.
Speaker 1: I fully expect that sort of offseason again this year. Yeah, Paula,
Speaker 1: you talked about the over thirty free agents that are
Speaker 1: actually going to be free agents in the free agent
Speaker 1: period coming up. Man, that is a mass exodus, so
Speaker 1: to spaying now. Of course they're going to bring a
Speaker 1: lot of them back, and let's hope they too. But
Speaker 1: a lot of change is coming towards the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and I think they need to rebuild from a personnel
Speaker 1: perspective on the line of scrimmage offensively and defensively. Totally agree.
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