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Speaker 1: We already have bad news from Thursday Night Football Round.
Speaker 1: Wolfley zach Ertz scored early touchdown catch by zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: and the price just went up. You got a fantasy team, Paul, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: there's no fantasy. I'm talking about Steve Kahn. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Steve Kahn making a trade for zach Ertz. And
Speaker 1: you know, the price keeps going up when zach Ertz
Speaker 1: keep making he keeps making plays and getting into the
Speaker 1: end zone for the Philadelphia Eagles. Paul I did not
Speaker 1: hear that story that Steve Khin was all over zach
Speaker 1: ERT's interesting. You just speculating. Okay, there you go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I was doing in August when you know, I
Speaker 1: thought maybe that might go down in August. Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, here in October there might really be a
Speaker 1: reason here on the big Red rage Paul KELVC and
Speaker 1: one birthday, boy, you stop it, please stop it. Wolf.
Speaker 1: I mean your whole Twitter feed is littered with thank
Speaker 1: you bro, happy birthdays here and there. I mean, so
Speaker 1: you know you you've made it very public Wolf with birthday. Paul,
Speaker 1: I did not do anything, and you know it. You know,
Speaker 1: look at me, look at me. How are you doing
Speaker 1: here on your birthday? You know what? Polly, I'm doing
Speaker 1: okay right now, a little hungry as you would imagine, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is the dinner hour right now, and
Speaker 1: it is my birthday, and therefore we will have a
Speaker 1: birthday dinner or when I get done. And Polly, I
Speaker 1: believe there's going to be some gumbo. I believe there's
Speaker 1: going to be some jumbalaya and Polly, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: surprise you, but there's going to be some dirty rice.
Speaker 1: Once upon a time you left the az for Cleveland
Speaker 1: and never came back. The Arizona Cardinals are going to
Speaker 1: Cleveland this weekend, and we'll talk to a guy here
Speaker 1: momentarily who's definitely put down a birthday dinner or three.
Speaker 1: Zach Allen, all two hundred eighty five pounds of him.
Speaker 1: What a game he had against those forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfully, what did you learn about your Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: and that victory against the forty nine ers. I heard
Speaker 1: one network analis say I didn't know the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: could win ugly. Yes, you know what. That was my thought,
Speaker 1: Paul right there, the resiliency that they showed, the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals won a game of toughness. For me right now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you, PAULI, this was my favorite victory
Speaker 1: over the forty nine ers. It was for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. Granted, I mean, I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people are going to look at the Rams and say, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, Wolf, they beat the best team in the
Speaker 1: league at the time. The Rams were considered to be
Speaker 1: the best team in the National Football League, and they
Speaker 1: went out and thrashed them and Sofi Stadium. And for me,
Speaker 1: I will tell you right now, Yeah that was that
Speaker 1: was a great win, no doubt about it. But they
Speaker 1: played so well in all three phases, offensively, defensively, and
Speaker 1: in transition with special teams. To me against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, another division foe, against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: where you didn't play well, how do you how do
Speaker 1: you do? Then do you go out and still find
Speaker 1: a way to win a game? The Cardinals struggled, They
Speaker 1: fought themselves in that game, and yet somehow, some way
Speaker 1: they found just enough enough to make plays and win
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, the Niners, with a rookie quarterback making
Speaker 1: his first ever NFL start, actually had more total yards
Speaker 1: than the Arizona Cardinals. And it's not just us using
Speaker 1: that four letter word. Here's Kyler Murray after the win.
Speaker 1: You're not going to score thirty every weekend, but you know,
Speaker 1: we got to win. You know, it was tough to watch,
Speaker 1: but it's it's, you guess, a good thing. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to look forward to, a lot that
Speaker 1: we could have been better at I don't look at
Speaker 1: as a negative so much. And you know, obviously after
Speaker 1: the gaming feels like that, but when you watch it
Speaker 1: and go back and look at it, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things to be excited about because we can be
Speaker 1: so much better. And he used the word ugly at
Speaker 1: different times in that press conference, and look, you're five
Speaker 1: and over the first time since nineteen seventy four. There's
Speaker 1: nothing ugly about that, we get it. But but well,
Speaker 1: any hallmark of any winning team in any sport, it's
Speaker 1: different names at different times in different ways. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: was a different way to win a game. No longer
Speaker 1: can you shut down the Cardinals for examples, shut down
Speaker 1: a d hop and have no other options. We've seen
Speaker 1: that earlier. In this case, you saw a Cardinals team
Speaker 1: that struggled on offense. But guess what, the defense came
Speaker 1: out and gave up a single touchdown. Do you realize
Speaker 1: that's the first time in over two years the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers seven held to ten points or fewer.
Speaker 1: So for all the backup quarterbacks that Kyle Shannon and
Speaker 1: has used in all the fifth and six string running backs,
Speaker 1: he always finds a way to put a lot of
Speaker 1: points on the board. Yeah against the Cardinals. No, you're
Speaker 1: right about that, Paul, But I have to tell you
Speaker 1: right now to listen. Do you need your best players
Speaker 1: to play their best when it matters the most? And
Speaker 1: I am sorry, I'm going to go back to the
Speaker 1: midway actually halfway through the fourth quarter where the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals took over the ball and suddenly it was the
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray Deondre Hopkin show. Yep, right, PAULI I mean
Speaker 1: these guys, would you say those are big names, Paul
Speaker 1: in the National Football League winning doubt? Just throw it
Speaker 1: up right, exactly right. They started to make plays, Paulie
Speaker 1: when it mattered the most, and suddenly back to back
Speaker 1: plays by Kyler Murray and d hop and suddenly you
Speaker 1: had a critical game winning touchdown. Cardinals get to win,
Speaker 1: but they lose their starting center Rodney Hudson. He exited
Speaker 1: that game in the second half with a rib injury
Speaker 1: and he is going to be out for this week.
Speaker 1: So those are some big shoes to fill in. Fact,
Speaker 1: here's Cliff Kingsbury talking about Max Garcia. Guess what year up? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really proud of Max stepping in there. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's filesil of Phil Rodney's shoes, He's brings so
Speaker 1: much to the table. But Max, you know, last week
Speaker 1: played great, stepped in this week and really helped us
Speaker 1: win that game. There you go, Cliff Kingsbury after the game.
Speaker 1: If you go to Acy Cardinals dot com, you can
Speaker 1: read a story boy Darren Urban is really insightful and
Speaker 1: just how close Max Scarcia was to quitting the game
Speaker 1: after that torn Aco when he played for Vance Joseph
Speaker 1: in Denver. And but he is back. And I tell
Speaker 1: you what, Wolf, based on how he filled in earlier
Speaker 1: in the season and then what I saw in the
Speaker 1: second happ against the nine Ers, He's not gonna have
Speaker 1: the acumen of a Rodney Hudson or the experience at
Speaker 1: center of a Mandess. He bring an edge, he plays
Speaker 1: with some nasty yeah, and so at least they have
Speaker 1: that up front and with the rest of the old
Speaker 1: line around him. And then Kyler Murray's you know, elusiveness.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes against Cleveland and what is
Speaker 1: a very stout defensive front. Yeah, Paul, it really is.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the strength of this football team,
Speaker 1: that being the Cleveland Browns, their defensive line. Boy, does
Speaker 1: that sound familiar? Does it? It? Based on the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers and just going through the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: game and what the forty nine ers bring to the
Speaker 1: table with that defense, in particular their defensive line, Paully,
Speaker 1: that's the strength of that team and it sets the
Speaker 1: tone for the forty nine ers as well, especially when
Speaker 1: they have a rookie quarterback out there competing. The Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns are exactly the same way. Oh my goodness, Polly,
Speaker 1: you look at this defense and it's very very sore.
Speaker 1: A four three scheme, just like the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. A lot of cover three principles, close the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, play three deep four underneath rush four.
Speaker 1: They don't think, they don't feel like they need to
Speaker 1: bring a ton of guys after you. Very much like
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers. Once again, and it
Speaker 1: will be no surprise to you, Paul, that Joe Woods.
Speaker 1: Joe Woods a defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, coached
Speaker 1: under Robert Sala in twenty nineteen as the dB coach
Speaker 1: and passing game coordinator. Defensive passing game coordinator for the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns under Robert Sell in twenty nineteen. Do you
Speaker 1: think he picked up the phone and actually had a
Speaker 1: conversation with the forty nine Ers coaching staff on what
Speaker 1: they did defensively to Kyler Murray, say yes, Paul, because
Speaker 1: he did trust me on that and we know you'll
Speaker 1: see it till you beat it. So yeah, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of the same principles. And look, it
Speaker 1: was a Cleveland team that led twenty seven thirteen, and
Speaker 1: then they got decimated on defense, especially their cornerback position group,
Speaker 1: go down to their fourth and fifth string corners, and
Speaker 1: they got torched by Justin Herbert and the Chargers in
Speaker 1: that fourth quarter. As it, Chargers put up twenty six
Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter, and the Browns ended up
Speaker 1: losing forty seven forty two, and the first team in
Speaker 1: NFL history, by the way, to lose a game when
Speaker 1: you scored forty plus you had more than five hundred
Speaker 1: total yards of offense zero turnovers. That stat is now
Speaker 1: four hundred one and one. The Browns the first team
Speaker 1: to lose in that fashion. And we'll do yourself a favor,
Speaker 1: don't look at the injury re port for either side
Speaker 1: in this game, because you might lose your appetite for
Speaker 1: your first day dinner. No, you're right about that, Paulie.
Speaker 1: But trust me on this. The best defense for the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals will be their offense. Zach Allen, speaking of defense,
Speaker 1: is next on the big red rage presented by Santan
Speaker 1: Ford in Gilbert fourth and goal on the one eleven
Speaker 1: thirty four to go on a half seven nothing Cardinals
Speaker 1: for now, Lance and the pistol Mitchell behind him. The
Speaker 1: Lance comes under center, takes the snaff roll to the right,
Speaker 1: Lance running being chased by Chandler Jones. Lance hit at
Speaker 1: the goal line and he did not get in. Oh
Speaker 1: what a hit by Isaiah Simmons. A huge collision at
Speaker 1: the goal line. Bodies are everywhere, but the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers aren't in the end zone. The Cardinals take over
Speaker 1: on downs. Again, sometimes you're the pinata, it's sometimes you're
Speaker 1: the stick. And I believe right now Trey Lance is
Speaker 1: leaking candy from his shoulder. Pats. That's a great call
Speaker 1: right there on a great play, maybe the key play
Speaker 1: in that game that Cardinals win seventeen ten against the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, not once, not twice, five different times
Speaker 1: the Niners went for it on four down. They only
Speaker 1: made it once, and that is the first time in
Speaker 1: forty plus years in the NFL that team has generated
Speaker 1: four stops on fourth downs in one game. So when
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury said after the game, I've never seen that before,
Speaker 1: well that's why. And you heard the reaction from Passion
Speaker 1: wolf Ron Wolfiere's truly Paul Kelbc So wol if you
Speaker 1: want to play NFL football and make the big bucks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why those guys get paid that big cash, because
Speaker 1: you know what, sometimes there's a big price to pay
Speaker 1: in playing the game. Yeah, that was awesome right there, Polly,
Speaker 1: especially at fourth and one right there where the rookie
Speaker 1: Tray Lance got lit up. I mean just watching Tanner
Speaker 1: Vallejo and it was really Isaiah Simmons at the bottom
Speaker 1: of it. Tanner Vallejo was definitely right in the mix
Speaker 1: of it, right in the middle of it as well.
Speaker 1: But that collision. I could actually hear that collision up
Speaker 1: in the booth, Paul Wham. It was stunning. But Poli,
Speaker 1: I have to go back to third and one, go
Speaker 1: back to the play that was before that, that fourth
Speaker 1: and one that everyone saw Trey Lance, Isaiah Simmons here,
Speaker 1: huge collision right there. Go back to the play before that.
Speaker 1: On third and one, the forty nine ers got into
Speaker 1: the I formation and they tried to run the sprint
Speaker 1: pass to the left of what was now listen, it
Speaker 1: was ninety nine, but they tried to run the sprint
Speaker 1: pass to the left where the full back goes out
Speaker 1: in the flat. Kyle Uscheck runs at the end man
Speaker 1: in the line of scrimmage, who was Marcus Golden, and
Speaker 1: then tries to slip by him and get the flat.
Speaker 1: The tight end runs the corner. I'm telling you right
Speaker 1: now it was Marcus Golden who foiled the third and
Speaker 1: one because he cammered Kyle Uscheck, totally hammered him, and
Speaker 1: then suddenly he was out in the flat and that's
Speaker 1: where JJ Watt actually got the pressure on him. It
Speaker 1: was the third and one that set up the fourth
Speaker 1: and one. Paul Well, that was an unbelievable sequence for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. D if Trey lance headn't had his Welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL moment yet, that was definitely it. As
Speaker 1: we say welcome to the Big Red rage to Zach
Speaker 1: Allen who joins us out and h Zach, you tell us.
Speaker 1: Where were you on that fourth down stop, Isaiah Simmons, Tanner,
Speaker 1: Valley Hill, Chandler Jones coming in there all to clean up,
Speaker 1: and deny Trey Lance at the goal line? Were actually
Speaker 1: on the field or do you have a front row
Speaker 1: seat on the white stripe? No, I was, I had
Speaker 1: a front row seat. I was we were in goal line,
Speaker 1: U personnel and h the minute that play happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: you definitely could feel the whole energy of the game
Speaker 1: change on the sideline, on the field, and it really
Speaker 1: was a special play, Zach. That's the great thing about
Speaker 1: the game of football, isn't it. You can feel momentum
Speaker 1: and that was a huge momentum shift right there. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's no question about it. I mean, that
Speaker 1: whole game it was you know, I think once it
Speaker 1: always seemed like that play kind of, you know, gave
Speaker 1: us this like, you know, belief that no matter what,
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna we can hold our own and
Speaker 1: especially when you can do that against a division rival's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's huge for just that game, but I
Speaker 1: think for the rest of the season, you know, I
Speaker 1: asked your defensive coordinator, Vanced Joseph today about the Niners
Speaker 1: going forward on fourth down five times. He said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I wasn't really surprised. I wasn't shocked, but
Speaker 1: he was adamant that he has the advantage in those
Speaker 1: situations that, in his words, he can do more on
Speaker 1: his play sheet to stop it than opposing offenses can
Speaker 1: do to execute it and get those short yardage situations.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? And you could tell
Speaker 1: he sort of stood up in his seat a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, when a team's going forward on fourth down,
Speaker 1: you guys take that all personal, don't you. On defense? Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially from you know, a fourth and one, fourth and two,
Speaker 1: you kind of understand. And you know, also I think
Speaker 1: they were running those more kind of midfielder in the
Speaker 1: red zone area. But when you're doing a fourth and five, yeah,
Speaker 1: you definitely take that personally. And I don't care what
Speaker 1: the analytics said. You know, as a defense, you know,
Speaker 1: it's we expect to win those, and yeah, luckily we did.
Speaker 1: Zach talked to us about how the Sea Reason is
Speaker 1: going for you personally, not talking about the team, of course,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you personally. How's this season going? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, obviously not being injured for
Speaker 1: the preseason games it didn't help. Uh So I feel
Speaker 1: like I kind of use those first three games as
Speaker 1: kind of kind of like my preseason hum you know,
Speaker 1: Tennessee kind of got my feet under me. And obviously
Speaker 1: it's it's you're lucky to get your feet under you
Speaker 1: when you're when you go three, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: not like, you know, you're losing games and trying to
Speaker 1: you know, scramble figure it out. Um. And then uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it really started to kind of click. And
Speaker 1: Jacksonville made a couple of plays but a little inconsistent,
Speaker 1: and then I think it clicked with the rams. I mean,
Speaker 1: statistically it doesn't look so I felt from like a
Speaker 1: technique standpoint and just uh, you know, like my pass
Speaker 1: rushes I was I was definitely doing you know, good
Speaker 1: things and you know the run that was going away
Speaker 1: from me, but I felt like, you know, I was
Speaker 1: playing the blocks and know those scoop blogs are probably
Speaker 1: the hardest for a three technique. I was playing them
Speaker 1: as well as you know I ever have and as
Speaker 1: well as you can really. But I felt like after
Speaker 1: that game, I was like, Okay, now that I got
Speaker 1: you know, I figured it out. I want to definitely,
Speaker 1: you know, work on finishing. So that was a big
Speaker 1: emphasis of mine last week, and I think it kind
Speaker 1: of obviously this pass game versus the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I approved on that, but I
Speaker 1: still think there's a still more table. And obviously when
Speaker 1: you played with great players like J. J. Chandler, Marcus Corey,
Speaker 1: Rashard Lecky, you know it's uh, you're going to have
Speaker 1: opportunities to have one on ones and it's your job
Speaker 1: to win those. So well, you ended up with a sack,
Speaker 1: five tackles, two tackles for loss, a quarterback hit. Of course,
Speaker 1: we all remember your game against Eagles Week fifteen a
Speaker 1: year ago where you had a lemon tackles six solo,
Speaker 1: a sack, one and a half tackles for loss of
Speaker 1: QB hit the past defense, How do those two rank,
Speaker 1: I mean in your power poll of NFL performances, those
Speaker 1: have to be one two, right, Yeah? I think statistically definitely, yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely was. You know, those are probably two of
Speaker 1: the ones that I remember. And I think also this one,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's pretty special for me just
Speaker 1: because it's against a division opponent and going against a
Speaker 1: great player like Trent Williams. You know, I think that
Speaker 1: that definitely, you know, gave me some more confidence that
Speaker 1: you know, I've blogged in this league and you know, uh,
Speaker 1: knock on what I can do it for a long time.
Speaker 1: You know, you guys are number six and points allowed,
Speaker 1: number six, giving up nineteen points a game. Talk to
Speaker 1: me a little bit about your defense and what you
Speaker 1: guys are doing well as a defense right now? What
Speaker 1: are the common denominators in these five games that you
Speaker 1: guys have played. Where are you playing well? Zach? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think the big thing for us defensively is you know,
Speaker 1: this is year three with under Vance and then for
Speaker 1: a lot of us, I mean obviously you know there's
Speaker 1: been you know, when you get a guy like j. J. Watt,
Speaker 1: but he's really I mean, if you look defensively besides
Speaker 1: him and hang on here, we might have lost him.
Speaker 1: Might have lost him hanging right on it bar. You
Speaker 1: know what though, that's something we don't site enough. This
Speaker 1: is year three under vanced Joseph, and yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: there are some newcomers, but there are also some young
Speaker 1: guys who are in year two of the system. Who
Speaker 1: are definitely part of the rotation. So there's no longer
Speaker 1: a learning curve. I mean JJ Watt, who was in
Speaker 1: a very similar system with Vance Joseph in Houston, he's
Speaker 1: able to come right in. I mean he's j J
Speaker 1: Watt for Pete's sake. But Zach, like you were saying,
Speaker 1: there's no longer that learning curve, right, I mean, guys
Speaker 1: are just fully immersed in Vj's system. Yeah, and also too,
Speaker 1: I think that we've all been around each other. There's
Speaker 1: definitely a big time accountability factor where I think guys
Speaker 1: aren't afraid to call people out for messing up or
Speaker 1: making mistakes. It's you know, we have a job to
Speaker 1: do and we're going to do it to the highest ability.
Speaker 1: And you know, we were saying from the beginning of
Speaker 1: OTA's you know, super Bowl or buzz and I think
Speaker 1: guys genuinely believe that, especially when you looked at the
Speaker 1: guys that were in that meeting room, and it hasn't wavered.
Speaker 1: And you know, even though we are doing well and
Speaker 1: we've won all of our games, you know, I think
Speaker 1: we've done a great job of focusing on the next week.
Speaker 1: But last year and my rookie year, it seemed like
Speaker 1: when we won games, it was like the end all
Speaker 1: be all, like, you know, like it was as if
Speaker 1: we won the super Bowl, because we weren't used to
Speaker 1: used to that position. But now there definitely is a
Speaker 1: different standard and different expectations and very it's really business like.
Speaker 1: But also, I mean, this is the most fun that
Speaker 1: I met you. If you ask anybody on our defense
Speaker 1: that these guys have had playing playing defense, I mean
Speaker 1: it's we have a great group of guys and the
Speaker 1: camaraderies as close as it can be, so um, it
Speaker 1: really is a special thing, Zach. For me, just listening
Speaker 1: to you talk, you use the a word accountability, And
Speaker 1: I know that there are people that are listening right
Speaker 1: now and they hear they hear that word thrown around
Speaker 1: a lot. Accountability. You know, it's part of your culture,
Speaker 1: end and accountability. Can you put into words what that
Speaker 1: really looks like and what that really means for people
Speaker 1: that are listening right now, what that accountability means, and
Speaker 1: just how important it truly is inside that locker room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, you know, the way I knew that
Speaker 1: we had accountability and the way that I knew that
Speaker 1: we were going to be special? Is where at seeing
Speaker 1: by guys say they you know it was. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like I'm playing football, you know, for money or to
Speaker 1: get these great stats. It was, you know, our defensive linement.
Speaker 1: We're playing because I want, you know, to keep offensive
Speaker 1: linement off my linebackers. If you know Jordan Hicks doesn't
Speaker 1: get touched by an offensive linement today, that's I know
Speaker 1: I did my job well and if I mess up,
Speaker 1: I expect not to just get you that by Jordan,
Speaker 1: but I want to hold you a lot like you
Speaker 1: should be. Its almost as like you know, you're ashamed
Speaker 1: and you're disappointed in yourself. Yes, I think we do
Speaker 1: a guys definitely understand what the standard is and we
Speaker 1: want to hold it. Doesn't matter, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: a starter or not. You want to definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: just keep it going. And I think that's what's been great.
Speaker 1: You know. I think we have a lot of depths
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys who understand that, and that's
Speaker 1: why we can play so many different people and so
Speaker 1: many different paths. So it definitely is a very special group.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. We heard it after the win in Tennessee
Speaker 1: when Christian Kirk said, yeah, we're not letting stuff slide
Speaker 1: this year. We're policing that internally in the locker room.
Speaker 1: We've heard it every single week. We just heard it
Speaker 1: from you. We heard it from DJ Humphreys two days
Speaker 1: ago when he said, you know what, this team reminds
Speaker 1: me of my rookie year twenty fifteen, the team that
Speaker 1: went to the NFC Championship where guys weren't afraid to
Speaker 1: walk up on each other and tell him, look, you're
Speaker 1: doing this wrong. We need more out of you here.
Speaker 1: It's that ability of the locker room to take care
Speaker 1: of itself. So that is astounding to keep hearing that.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt that's definitely rippling behind the scenes stuff
Speaker 1: we don't see. What we do see, Zach, is the
Speaker 1: fact that Cleveland Browns lead the NFL on the following
Speaker 1: categories total rush yards yards per game, rushing yards per carry,
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, rushing first downs, and explulsive runs as well.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's Vance Joseph on that Cleveland run game.
Speaker 1: To beat this team is to contain the run game.
Speaker 1: I think their first, you know, with one eighty five
Speaker 1: a game, their first and carries their first in attempts
Speaker 1: their first and explosive runs. They first in every run
Speaker 1: category in the league right now, and it's it's fun
Speaker 1: to watch because it's it's it's old school football. Burns
Speaker 1: the clock and officer with our offense, his goals should
Speaker 1: be to burn the clock and keep Kyler off the field.
Speaker 1: How different is this going to be versus a Sean
Speaker 1: McVeigh and a Kyle Shanahan. This old school football that
Speaker 1: Advance calls it. Yeah, I think it's old school just
Speaker 1: in the sense that the like the personnels I think
Speaker 1: they do. They do a lot of like three tight
Speaker 1: ends on the field or two tight ends too, like
Speaker 1: two backs, um, which and then you know they're they
Speaker 1: got there's they're tight ends and their backs. There's such
Speaker 1: great athletes that you can make it look like you know,
Speaker 1: a ten personnel or eleven personnel look. So I think
Speaker 1: that's going to definitely be a challenge. I think, Um,
Speaker 1: the run game, honestly, it all kind of it seems
Speaker 1: like a lot of the NFL run game kind of
Speaker 1: comes from the Shanahan coaching trees. So, um, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of similar to what we have seen obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, every team's got different things, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we've we've got a really good plan. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we've had a really good week of practice
Speaker 1: and guys are definitely coming in and working hard and
Speaker 1: understanding it. And it's I'm excited to get get to work.
Speaker 1: And you know, I hope that you know, it's pouring
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. I hope it's cold. I hope you know
Speaker 1: the wind off the rivers. You know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: you know, I need a good old fashioned you know,
Speaker 1: gritty gritty. You know, there's West Coast. You know. I
Speaker 1: love the weather, but I definitely getting spoiled because I'm
Speaker 1: wearing sweatshirts and degrees out here and I'm from Connecticut
Speaker 1: in Boston. So yeah, Zach, I sure you can handle it.
Speaker 1: You better be careful what you wish for. I mean,
Speaker 1: your blood's much thinner when and when you were at
Speaker 1: Boston College. Now, Zach, you sure about this? Yeah, Luckily
Speaker 1: practiced at like seven thirty in the morning when it's
Speaker 1: the coldest, and so we'll be getting a little bit
Speaker 1: of work in. But I doubt it's, you know, anything
Speaker 1: like what it could be. There so many more questions
Speaker 1: for you, Zach, thank you for hanging around. We really
Speaker 1: do appreciate it right there. But Paula, I will tell
Speaker 1: you right now one of those questions is just how
Speaker 1: often Baker Mayfield is under center? And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: We will get a question and answer on the sack
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Speaker 1: can't believe I forgot to ask J. J. Watt how
Speaker 1: a sack dance i'm me received in the d line
Speaker 1: room today. So we as Zach Allen next on the
Speaker 1: big red rage presented by Santan four in Gilbert second
Speaker 1: down in sixteen on the Arizona forty three receiver set
Speaker 1: two to the right, Sean Gun snap lands to throw
Speaker 1: from the pocket. Now steps up, gets hit by Zack
Speaker 1: Gallen and sack at the forty six yard line. Big
Speaker 1: number ninety four has made a couple of plays here today,
Speaker 1: the loss of them on six. Well, I have no
Speaker 1: idea what kind of sack dance it was doing right there,
Speaker 1: but I really don't care. Zach Allen comes inside underneath
Speaker 1: the Glitchia get the sack sack dance? Does it have
Speaker 1: a name? Was it premeditated? Was it in the moment?
Speaker 1: How spontaneous was it? Please explain? Now, I'm a white boy,
Speaker 1: so I gotta keep it within the frame. So for me,
Speaker 1: you know, I just try to do that. I've been
Speaker 1: doing that since BC. You know where that got a
Speaker 1: beautiful girlfriend. So I'm gonna keep on doing it all right,
Speaker 1: there you go. That was moments after the game after
Speaker 1: Zach Gallen's big game in the big win against the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Zach Allen is our guest wolf here
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage and by satan Ford and
Speaker 1: Gilbert see, Wolf is your sideline reporter. I'm a full
Speaker 1: service guy, you wondered on the air. So we asked
Speaker 1: after the game, Zach Allen's here in person if you
Speaker 1: want to ask him about it, like, for example, how
Speaker 1: is your sack dance received in the defensive meeting rooms? Like,
Speaker 1: uh say, compared to like Dennis Gardak and a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of sack dances he busted out last
Speaker 1: year that had us all wondering what exactly we were
Speaker 1: looking at. Yeah, I mean it's it's got mixed reactions.
Speaker 1: I'll say it's like fifty to fifty. Like I know,
Speaker 1: like Isaiah Simmons and uh Byron Murphy they absolutely love it,
Speaker 1: so obviously you know, I got there there in my corner.
Speaker 1: But uh JJ and uh coach Bucky, they are strongly
Speaker 1: against it and they're not afraid to what that opinion. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of like that Will Ferrell quote.
Speaker 1: You know, it keeps the people going, it's provocative, so
Speaker 1: um you know, I think I think I'm gonna ride
Speaker 1: with it. I don't know, we'll see what happened. I'm
Speaker 1: just more focused on getting the sacks and then uh
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what happens in the heat of
Speaker 1: the moment. You know, Zack, maybe it's that old saint.
Speaker 1: If it's too loud, you're too old. So see the
Speaker 1: younger guys dig it. It's the older guys who don't
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, I know. I've been reminding JJ every
Speaker 1: single day that you know, he's uh, he's closer to
Speaker 1: forty than he is to twenty. So um yeah, I think,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with Murph and
Speaker 1: uh and Isaiah on that one I had. I just
Speaker 1: cracked up when you said you had to keep it
Speaker 1: in the frame. Man, I love that. Um. Listen, what
Speaker 1: why do you think think about the Cleveland Brons right now?
Speaker 1: Think about their offense. Why do you think they put
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield under center and run down situations as much
Speaker 1: as they do well. I think anytime you can put
Speaker 1: the quarterback under center, I mean it always there's always
Speaker 1: a level of uncertainty. I think when a quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: shotgun on the ball, you know, if they're going to
Speaker 1: run the ball, you can only really go one way.
Speaker 1: It can really only go, you know, opposite of the
Speaker 1: running back. So I think defense is now become smart
Speaker 1: and they start to play for that. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: only so much same side running out of shotgun that
Speaker 1: you can do. But when the your quarterbacks in their center,
Speaker 1: I mean it's a lot of teams. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at like a tendency chart, it's pretty much
Speaker 1: fifty fifty. You know left, right, or you know wherever
Speaker 1: it's going to go. So it definitely is an effective tool.
Speaker 1: And I think that was the biggest adjustment for me
Speaker 1: and coming from college. Who's in college. Everything's from shotgun
Speaker 1: because everybody wants to either air it out or run
Speaker 1: the read option. But in the NFL, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a completely different run game. So I think for young
Speaker 1: d linement, it definitely takes you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: years to truly understand it compared to you know, you see,
Speaker 1: you know, skill players that kind of hit hit the
Speaker 1: ground running more often compared to you know, offensive and
Speaker 1: defensive alignement. Interesting speaking alignment, they are really banged up
Speaker 1: on their offensive line. They're likely to be missing their
Speaker 1: two starting tackles. They're starting center. JC Tredder hasn't practice all.
Speaker 1: That's sort of the norm. He tends to play even
Speaker 1: without practicing. What does that mean for you guys if
Speaker 1: you're seeing a whole collection of backups? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it really you kind of treat it the same way. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean we look more at the scheme. I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, you know, all offensive linemen in
Speaker 1: this in this league, there's a reason why you know
Speaker 1: they're they're in the NFL. They can you know, they
Speaker 1: they can block. So for us, we're more looking at
Speaker 1: the scheme and we're going to give them the respect.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, if you look at the numbers. As
Speaker 1: you mentioned before, I mean, the rushing attack is very
Speaker 1: dangerous and it doesn't really matter who's there. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we we got to respect them and we got to
Speaker 1: play very focused or else you know, they can embarrass us.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the mindset that we're taking right now.
Speaker 1: I know that Nick Chubb did not play practice today,
Speaker 1: and I know that Kareem Hunt did not practice today either.
Speaker 1: But I'll ask you this, what's harder to tackle Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb or a fire hydrant? Uh? You know you could.
Speaker 1: There's a good case to make for a fire hydrant
Speaker 1: or for Nick Chubb. So you know, he uh, we
Speaker 1: were there's times when you're watching the tape and you
Speaker 1: know you're just seeing him just carry three four people
Speaker 1: and you're just you know, you're dying laugh and because
Speaker 1: it's just like, you know, that's just you know, that's
Speaker 1: just a special gift that you know he has. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's you really can't coach that. So um, there's a
Speaker 1: reason why, you know, I think people consider him a
Speaker 1: top three, top five back in the NFL, and Dream
Speaker 1: Hunts right up there with him. So um, the fact
Speaker 1: that they have two guys of that of that caliber
Speaker 1: is is ridiculous. Um, it's definitely going to be a challenge,
Speaker 1: but yeah, they they both are, you know, terrific backs. Well,
Speaker 1: look when this game came out, everyone circled a Buddha,
Speaker 1: you know, uh Buddha Baker was talking about with us
Speaker 1: on the schedule release show here on the Big Red Rage, right,
Speaker 1: and and there's a game within the game the two
Speaker 1: Heisman winners who used to share a quarterback room in Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: of course, Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield. And uh, here
Speaker 1: was Buddha when the schedule came out earlier this offseason.
Speaker 1: And what he had to say here on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage. Yeah, Baker Mayfield a guy who's definitely has
Speaker 1: showed up and showed who Baker Mayfield can be. And
Speaker 1: he's a great qbad I'm definitely excited to go against
Speaker 1: him too. I never played in Cleveland, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank goodness it's mid October. I actually played there two
Speaker 1: years ninety three, Okay, but before I was born, your
Speaker 1: brutal kist. Yeah, I'm not gonna take the blame on
Speaker 1: that wall. If our producer Jim Alma Hunter felt the
Speaker 1: need on your birthday to bust out that cut. By
Speaker 1: the way, no foolan, just why don't you have a
Speaker 1: sumo wrestler kick me right in a cradle? But tell
Speaker 1: us about Baker and what he looks like and what
Speaker 1: you have to worry about what Baker mayfield, because he
Speaker 1: will pull it and run it if needed. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely a dual threat. Um. I think you know,
Speaker 1: some people, if you watch the tape, I don't think
Speaker 1: people really give him enough to do. But he definitely
Speaker 1: is a good athlete. Um, definitely. You know, has a
Speaker 1: very strong arm, and you know, he really kind of
Speaker 1: gets that whole offense going. You can tell that they
Speaker 1: rally behind him. You know, obviously Heisman winner. He has
Speaker 1: this just confidence and whoever plays with him, uh, you know, definitely, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know they kind of feed off of that too.
Speaker 1: I remember even just watching him in college and the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's like the you definitely want him on
Speaker 1: your team, like he's like the perfect teammate. But like
Speaker 1: for like an opponent, like they just hate they're just like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's just the way he rallies the troops.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely gonna be difficult to play him, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think you know, we're we're excited for
Speaker 1: the challenge. And yeah, I didn't even you know, put
Speaker 1: two and two together when we were playing it to
Speaker 1: two Heisman's from Oklahoma back to back years because I
Speaker 1: kept on walking into the meal room. I was looking
Speaker 1: on the TV. I'm like, Wow, they're really talking a
Speaker 1: lot about this Cardinals Browns game. I'm like, you know
Speaker 1: what the you know on ESPN, NFL network, It's all
Speaker 1: over the place. And I was like, oh, when I
Speaker 1: think Tyler was a teas in a Baker, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I get it. Now there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of drama in the Heisman house if you've seen the commercial, right,
Speaker 1: because Kyler and Baker were rooming together because Barry Sanders
Speaker 1: wanted out of Baker's room, the whole thing, you know,
Speaker 1: and look, don't forget for real though, for real in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, obviously there was a matchup. Obviously Kyler beat Baker,
Speaker 1: So you gotta figures he's seething and has been looking
Speaker 1: forward to the rematch because this is what went down
Speaker 1: after the Cardinal's victory out on the field. Go yeah,
Speaker 1: give me that one. You're gonna You're not gonna got
Speaker 1: to hand it. You're gonna have to do it. You
Speaker 1: gotta eat this one. It's all good. Braggar eyes. Bro.
Speaker 1: That was the jersey swap between its former teammates out
Speaker 1: of Midfield Wolf. That was great right there. It really
Speaker 1: was to see that. I mean, it just shows you
Speaker 1: the affection these guys have for each other. When you
Speaker 1: say that still hate you, you know, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: what that is is I love you. Of course, That's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. It's so cool. It's one
Speaker 1: of the best things about the locker room and what
Speaker 1: the locker room is all about. And Zach you know
Speaker 1: all about that. Oh yeah. I mean, I think my
Speaker 1: favorite matchups this year when I get to go against
Speaker 1: old college teammates and you know, I've already was able
Speaker 1: to play against Harold Landry, who is one of my
Speaker 1: good friends in Tennessee. And the fact that we won
Speaker 1: and won the way we did. Uh definitely, Uh, you
Speaker 1: know I can. I'm gonna use that every time I
Speaker 1: see him. By the way, I was gonna say, Corey
Speaker 1: Peters Kentucky team is six and ozho and like the
Speaker 1: highest ranking in like a hundred years. Is he insufferable
Speaker 1: in the d line room right now? How much are
Speaker 1: you hearing about his alma mater, Corey Peters in Kentucky. Oh,
Speaker 1: we we've been hyping up Kentucky just to get Richard
Speaker 1: Laurens angry, especially after last week, and uh yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know whenever Rochard gets angry and see it because
Speaker 1: he was talking about, oh, we're gonna go ten and three,
Speaker 1: you know, da done, and they're like, Okay, yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys might not win a game the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: and you know, for UK to embarrass them, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're we're trying to get Richard to wear that Kentucky
Speaker 1: blue sometime this week. So it's it's going to happen,
Speaker 1: I think, so expect the picture relatively soon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they got a tough one against Georgia this week, so
Speaker 1: I don't know how well that's gonna go, but we'll see. Yeah, Polly,
Speaker 1: never forget the law of the locker rope, Paully, the
Speaker 1: guys that you love, you just rip them every day
Speaker 1: all day. You can't rip them enough. The guys that
Speaker 1: thought that you love, the guys that you don't really
Speaker 1: get along with, just kind of leave them alone. Paul. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, J. J. Watt's been in a bad
Speaker 1: mood for like two or three weeks. And it's a
Speaker 1: good thing, this bad mood, I believe, Zach, because man,
Speaker 1: it's even unstoppable. So you know what, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to him keeping that up, having that edge. That's been good.
Speaker 1: The two of you are quite a tandem against the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and yeah, you're gonna have your hands
Speaker 1: full in Cleveland based on this top rank rushing attack.
Speaker 1: So all the best, and Zach, we always love having
Speaker 1: you on. Thanks for the time. Yeah, of course, thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. Thank you, Zach. All the best
Speaker 1: of the dog as well. I know the dog's looking
Speaker 1: forward to when you know, you get home every evening.
Speaker 1: So there you go, and we continue with the Big
Speaker 1: Grace presented by Santan bord In. Gilbert hurry back to
Speaker 1: throw on second and nine in trouble, moves to his left,
Speaker 1: being chased by Bosa, now throws it deep across the
Speaker 1: field near side sho falling fu by Hopkins at the
Speaker 1: tent and tackled at the nine yard line. Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: threw that ball outside the numbers on the far side
Speaker 1: to the near sideline. Five twenty to go, Cardinals lead
Speaker 1: ten to seven. Can they put them away? Can they
Speaker 1: get a touchdown? Snap the kyler, he throws a fade
Speaker 1: left side in the end zone and in his conferd
Speaker 1: up down by de hop Dee hop hought it with
Speaker 1: Josh Norman draped all over him trying to pull the
Speaker 1: ball away. What a great church by the Andrey Hopkins
Speaker 1: broke the sickles out on the fade and stamped the
Speaker 1: pig up the air and brought it in man. At
Speaker 1: some point, when you got dudes who are just better
Speaker 1: than the other team, that's enough. Yeah, the D and
Speaker 1: D hop standing for dominant and in that case, deciding
Speaker 1: touchdown that was the winning margin. Seventeen ten Cardinals get
Speaker 1: to win against the forty nine ers. What Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: say after the game, there's sometimes where you just throw
Speaker 1: away the playsheet and the best play is just your
Speaker 1: quarterback to your best player on offense, and that would
Speaker 1: be DeAndre Hopkins in that sequence right there, the big
Speaker 1: jump ball catch and then the back shoulder were wrestled
Speaker 1: it away from Josh Norman and six grabs eighty seven
Speaker 1: yards and he passes Larry fits Joel by the way
Speaker 1: for most receptions ever in NFL history by a player
Speaker 1: before the age of thirty. DeAndre Hopkins. Wow, yeah, how
Speaker 1: about that. As we were talking earlier, Paul, he was
Speaker 1: a great thing to actually see those two guys, in particular,
Speaker 1: those two offensive players, Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins take
Speaker 1: this game over and just start making plays, plays that matter,
Speaker 1: plays that actually allowed them to win the game. And
Speaker 1: think about it, they took over the ball. Then after
Speaker 1: that touchdown, with four minutes and twelve seconds to play,
Speaker 1: they ended up with two first downs. They ended the
Speaker 1: game that four minute offense. Kyler twenty two at thirty one.
Speaker 1: He leads the NFL right now in completion percentage seventy
Speaker 1: five plus. And he's just doing those little things, you know,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it. And then this week on
Speaker 1: the Pash Pod, did you catch GM Steve Kim talking
Speaker 1: to Dave Pash about where he's seen the most growth
Speaker 1: from Kyler Murray. He's done a fantastic job, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: growing in a lot of different areas. Two things pre
Speaker 1: snap and post snap. The things he can do with
Speaker 1: his eyes. You start to see him manipulating safeties and
Speaker 1: defenders where he can look off and locate secondary and
Speaker 1: third options, whereas before it might have been one, two
Speaker 1: and in run about that. That's from episode twelve of
Speaker 1: The Day Pash Podcast featuring the Cardinals GM Steve Kim.
Speaker 1: It's available now wherever you get your podcasts. Philis updates
Speaker 1: on The Day Pash podcast fall along on Twitter at
Speaker 1: pash pod. Your Reaction Wolf. You know, Paula. Obviously, we've
Speaker 1: been talking about Kyler Murray in the development of Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and how he's beating teams with his brain now,
Speaker 1: and that really is what Steve Kim is talking about.
Speaker 1: I believe right there. But I will tell you right now,
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals offense, the best defense the Cardinals might
Speaker 1: have is their offense this week in Cleveland, because Polly,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, the Cleveland Browns are gonna
Speaker 1: line up number one rushing offense in terms of everything
Speaker 1: you could possibly imagine everything Bali in terms of running
Speaker 1: the football. Their number one in rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: and number one in rushing yards per play, and a
Speaker 1: whole lot more than that. And if you put the
Speaker 1: tape on and watch him. This is the best offensive
Speaker 1: line in my opinion, they're run blocking offensive line, the
Speaker 1: best run blocking offensive line in the league. They're gonna
Speaker 1: line up and they're gonna hammer the ball. The Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals have really struggled at times to stop the run.
Speaker 1: Now I realize in the first game of the season
Speaker 1: against the Titans and Derrick Henry, they rose up to
Speaker 1: the challenge and shut them down. But listen, the best
Speaker 1: thing that Cardinals can do is score points. Score points,
Speaker 1: Paully with that offense right now, get a two possession
Speaker 1: lead in the second half, and try to force the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns to be one dimensional where they throw the ball.
Speaker 1: With Baker Mayfield, you stick him in a three dimensional
Speaker 1: offense where you can run it, throw it, and use
Speaker 1: play action. Now, all of a sudden, they're a different offense, Paul.
Speaker 1: So to me, if the Arizona Cardinals offense can somehow
Speaker 1: some way post some points on this very good Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns defense man, that would go a long way to
Speaker 1: actually helping out the Arizona Cardinals defense. Defend the Browns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the Browns passing game, it is nothing to write
Speaker 1: home about. Obj their number one receiver Odell Beckham Junior
Speaker 1: has nine catches on nineteen targets. That chemistry just doesn't
Speaker 1: exist between the quarterback and the number one receivers. So
Speaker 1: think about it. If you're Cleveland's offense, just flip it.
Speaker 1: What's the best thing you want to do. You want
Speaker 1: to run the ball, you want to control the clock,
Speaker 1: you want to keep Kyler Murray off the field. Yes,
Speaker 1: so you can flip that. Now, let me ask you
Speaker 1: this question when it comes to the Cardinals defense, because
Speaker 1: you're right, the Browns are number one in every single
Speaker 1: rushing category. Don't make me list them again because there's
Speaker 1: at least a half dozen of us just brutal. So
Speaker 1: think about this, though. The Cardinals defensively twenty eighth overall
Speaker 1: in rushing yards allowed, Yes, thirty first in yards per
Speaker 1: carry allowed. Yes, Yet they're surviving on their third down
Speaker 1: fourth down percentage, which is around thirty one percent. All right,
Speaker 1: They've been stellar in those money situations. They're number three
Speaker 1: in the NFL in takeaways and force fumbles their number one.
Speaker 1: So what is this sustainable? A Cardinals defense that's the
Speaker 1: number six scoring defense despite being lackluster against the run. Yes,
Speaker 1: Polly I do believe that it is as long as
Speaker 1: the offense continues to score points the way that it
Speaker 1: is now. I know you could go back to the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers game and say the most recent game
Speaker 1: they played right there, the Cardinals only scored seventeen points
Speaker 1: and somehow, some way they found a way to win
Speaker 1: the game. And they did, and their defense played very
Speaker 1: very well in critical situations. But having said that, you're
Speaker 1: not going to face a rookie quarterback every week making
Speaker 1: his first start, and that's what Trey Lance was doing.
Speaker 1: He was starting for the very first time in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and I think the Cardinals benefited from that. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, this is a situation where Baker Mayfield in
Speaker 1: the right offense, can definitely hurt you. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a bigger challenge for them, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But Paul, the way they run the ball,
Speaker 1: it is amazing. Rundown situations first and ten, second and
Speaker 1: one to six, they put Baker Mayfield under center the
Speaker 1: vast majority of the time he's under center, and that's
Speaker 1: because they want Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt running down
Speaker 1: own hill towards that line of scrimmage. The Cardinals box
Speaker 1: has got to be at its best. It's very, very
Speaker 1: similar to what they saw against the Titans, and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm kind of encouraged about this, even though they're
Speaker 1: facing the best offensive line I think they've seen all
Speaker 1: year long, and the two best running backs they've seen
Speaker 1: all year long. To me, I think it's really gonna
Speaker 1: be okay because they've already faced Derrick Henry in the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, and Zaven Collins and Isaiah Simmons, with that experience,
Speaker 1: playing a lot more downhill, Paul Well, it's not nearly
Speaker 1: as complex as going against McVeigh and Shanahan. Fans Joseph
Speaker 1: talked about that today that every single call had two
Speaker 1: or three subcalls underneath it that they had to be
Speaker 1: ready to check into, and that's why Jordan Hicks got
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the snaps. Now, it's not nearly
Speaker 1: as complicated against this Brown's offense, although it was interesting
Speaker 1: to hear Zach Allen say that when the backs under center,
Speaker 1: it's more of a guessing game by the defensive front,
Speaker 1: where if you're trying to run the ball out a
Speaker 1: shotgun that really you only have one way to go
Speaker 1: if you're the running back that's opposite of the side
Speaker 1: you're lined up on. So that was interesting to hear
Speaker 1: as well. No, ding ding Dinghy's right on it as well,
Speaker 1: and it's the reason why this is the area the
Speaker 1: Cardinals offense can expand the most. Kyler Murray under center.
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