WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Offseason Business Ahead 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.360 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles ahead. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:10.240 He got Jack. This is the Big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.600 by Santanford in Gilbert. Mary's gonna score touchdown, that's up 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.239 for bets, goes up and begs the game. When it 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:22.720 catch flurry, Luncheon does it again. The Rage is brought 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:27.520 to you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Or are you Satanford? 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.320 State Farm? Talk to an agent today at eight hundred 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:37.040 State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts. Visit Acy Cardinals 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:45.839 dot Com, Slash podcasts, The Rods Rising Guard, Temperaturizing vision, flurring, 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.640 Rage taking over. Here's Paul CALVC. Get the popcorn ready, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.360 It's gonna be a show and Ron will fleep. It 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:59.760 doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far Wolf. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.760 As we all know, Ron Wolfley is much more shall 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:10.399 we say, civilized domesticated than he was during his playing days. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.160 Appreciate Honestly, that's a great thing for society at large, 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:16.480 and it's a very good thing for you, Ron Wolfley, 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.800 or you'd be behind bars. Yes, probably so so. Honestly, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.319 I mean the guy really who's best equipped if it 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.480 comes to this, Because you never know each edition of 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.080 The Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.360 is its own and you never quite know, you know, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.520 what sort of challenges around the next quarter, what sort 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.720 of opponent is waiting. But if there's somebody here really 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.800 equipped at this point too, I don't know, bite a kneecap, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.400 or maybe bite the other kneecap, or you know, kick 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.800 you in the teeth or take a hunk audio, as 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.880 one NFL head coach said today at his introductory press 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.640 Scott and we were that for ourselves coming up a 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.040 little bit later in the show. I'm just thinking, you know, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.760 if there's one guy who is equipped to do that 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.320 at this point, I might have to step up into 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.240 that role. You know what, Paul was so funny because 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.560 as I was listening Dan Gambell and I know we're 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.520 going to talk about Dan Gambell and what he said 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.960 a little bit later in this broadcast, but as I 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.160 was listening to him, he was basically describing my career. Okay, 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.959 my career. Now listen. Here's the one thing about that though, Paul, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.960 you know a little foreshadowing here. That's great. You're gonna 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.480 have a great special teams unit. There's no doubt about that. 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.799 But you know what, you have to get talented players 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.280 as well to go out that are good and you 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.799 could actually win games with you get. You gotta get 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.400 talented and tough ball. For all the things that Ron 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.600 Lfley did in his career that he's not proud of 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.280 then has set him to a Sunday confession. Forgive me, father, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.519 for I have sinned on a weekly basis. We will 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.400 find out a little bit later whether he's ever quote 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.280 been somebody else's kneecap. So save that for later. Wolf 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:48.120 were much easier targets Paul then than Kneecap. Never forget that. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.760 What we need to know is I've been informed by 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.639 the source that's better than Elias, better than any of 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.040 the analytics services or on Craig GRIGELU inform me earlier 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:05.720 today that the fact checker exactly mister information and mister historian, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.720 that one year ago, last Friday, Larry Fitzgerald announced his 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.160 intentions for the twenty twenty season. Two years ago this 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.840 Saturday he made his intentions clear, and the two years 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.720 before that he went into February. So Wolf as a 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.120 guy who has been tackled by Larry twice if you're 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.240 scoring at home twice. Do you have any inside info 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.280 on which way Larry's leaning know it, whether there might 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.240 be a year eighteen? You know, I know nothing, Okay, 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.800 nobody talks to me, Paul. I don't ask questions, and 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.560 nobody talks to me. I have no idea. I've been 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.240 saying Larry Fitzgerald is going to retire over the last 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.960 three years, and every time he has come back. So 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.360 as I've said before, and I'm going to continue to 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.840 this Mantrapaul, He's going to retire. This is it for 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.960 Larry Fitzgerald. It's all sudden on fancy. We know that, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:04:01.280 and hopefully he'll come back once again. Well, reportedly he 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.160 has a new receivers coach. I don't know if that 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.480 makes a difference, but Sean Jefferson is a gay Sea 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.720 Jefferson for a dozen years. He's coached it just the 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.920 wide receiver position for a dozen years. So he's more 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.240 than qualified. We know that. And i'd tell you, well, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.480 I watched some of these guys in year three ball out, 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.560 like Josh Allen this year and Baker Mayfield and the 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.600 steps they made in year three. Yeah, and I think 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.920 about Kyler Murray. What Larry might be thinking in that regard. Yeah, 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.279 we were thinking the same thing about Kyler Murray in 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.279 year two in the MVP. Well, he made a Pro Bowl. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.680 This kid, this kid in two years offensive Rookie of 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.400 the Year and Pro Bowler. Not bad. He was named 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.400 Most Valuable Cardinal by the Cardinals media. You're offensive player, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.480 a Newcomer of the Year d Hop, Defensive Player of 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.719 the Year Buddha Baker, and you're beyond the box score 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.360 player of the Year Dennis Gardak. That is all at 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.200 easy Cardinals dot com where Shan Johnson is going to 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.320 join us. Coming up the former Cardinals safety on this 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:02.560 edition of the Big Red Rage. This could be the game. 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.400 Fourth down in one handoff Height Tower running right and 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.600 get to the outside and he's got the first own 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.920 of the forty five and pushed out of bounds Rose 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.000 a slant of fits caught at the thirty inside the 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.200 twenty five and down of the twenty three. It's a 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.040 game of about eighteen and the first down for the Cardinals. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.880 Thirry Fitzgerald is literally trying to will this team to 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.479 victory right now. Humps right those back to the left. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.359 Height Tower caught at the ten cuts left of the 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:29.000 five height tower to the goal like he pick down, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.880 Hey the Cardinals great take the leave for two fifty 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.800 three to go pick up by docket ducket inside the 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.640 ten shots in. The Cardinals have shot the world straight 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.600 and true. The Cards have done it. They're showing the 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:50.919 Super Bowl forty It's a forty five second montage the 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.880 voice of the Arizona Cardinals day pass Ron Wolfley, and 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.720 it's still Hills. I mean, honestly, you hear it every time. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.000 I still get maybe because we were there, wolf we 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.240 witnessed it, but to hear you guys or Jim Olmonro 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.440 putting that together with a crescendo at the very end. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.200 We've heard Bertrand Berry say it repeatedly, the best moment 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.360 of his NFL career. It's the Big Red Rage presented 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.040 by santan Ford and Gilbert. And they played to win 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.440 the game, Polly, They played to win the game, and 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.840 they came cover zero against the Eagles on that play 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.039 was unbelievable. Send everybody huns over the wall and you 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.640 still remember the coverage, You still remember the play? Yes, yes, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.720 incredible man across the board. Here we go flat top 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:38.080 send everybody, fourth down, it was over. You just looked around, right, everybody, Polly, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.560 do you remember the way that felt? You looked around like, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.159 did that just happen? That happen? Did that just do really? 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.440 Because that meant the Cardinals actually we're gonna win that game. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.240 I think I was still in disbelief until the confetti 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.200 started falling from the rafters. That's when I realized it 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.640 was real and the Cardinals were going to Tampa for 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.200 a Super Bowl forty three. Think about it, that was 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.080 twelve years ago. At this time, the stakes are the 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.000 same this Sunday, a trip to Tampa and the Super 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.200 Bowl is on the line. We'll get into Championship Sunday 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.960 and those games a little bit later. Right around the 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.840 corner with Sean Johnson, the former Cardinals safety, he will 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.400 join us, and well, you remember that team, especially in 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.120 the postseason. What was the mantra shock the world? Yes, right, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.960 that's why David just said it, all right, Dave Pass shocked. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.680 They have shocked the world, because that was the mantra 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.640 in that locker room, and Kurt Warner was one of 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.040 the guys actually saying it, and so that team personified 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.280 that and I bring that up because earlier today, when 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.680 a new head coach takes the podium, you know for 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.680 sure you're gonna get that question. You're gonna get the 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.559 identity question right, what's gonna be the DNA of your team? 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.440 And we got a singular answer today from Dan Campbell, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.720 the new Lions head coach, rolling We're gonna kick you 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.760 in the teeth, and when you punch us back, we're 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.760 gonna smile at you. And when you knock us down, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.560 we're gonna get up. And on the way up, we're 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.920 gonna buy a kneecap off and we're gonna stand up, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.960 and then it's gonna take two more shots to knock 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.800 us down. And on the way up, we're gonna take 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.880 your other kneecap and we're gonna get up, and then 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.920 it's gonna take three shots to get us down, and 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.800 when we do, we're gonna take another honk out of you. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.160 Before long, we're there going to be the last one standing. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.400 That's gonna be the mentality. So it's just wait, it's awesome, 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.320 sound is it not, Paul? I mean, this is this 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.200 is what you want when you're downtrodden, when you're a 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.680 little down in the mouth. This is exactly the way 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.080 you want your coach to sound. And I think he's 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.000 speaking more to fans than he is players. And he 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.640 played for the Lions once upon a time, so he 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.200 knows the identity of this city that he's coaching it. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.880 He knows the turmoil and the travails of Lions fans 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.199 who haven't won anything since nineteen fifty seven in Bobby Lane, right, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.400 So he knows all that. But but Wolf is he 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.160 kind of setting himself up. Well, remember when Rex Ryan 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.960 got up there and said, you know what, if you're 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.920 a Jets fan, punch someone in the nose for it, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.120 or Lane Kiffin, I will bring a high powered offense 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.559 to the Raiders. Remember Buddy Ryan, and back in ninety 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.640 four you got a winner in town. Yes, No, you 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.800 got to be careful on this stuff, Polly. There's no 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.160 doubt about that. The sound is so fun and it's 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.120 so right on the money. Everything he's saying. I loved, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.880 I absolutely loved Dan Campbell. Agree with everything he just said. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.400 But now you have to go find players, Paul, that 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.240 are talented and tough, players that you can win games with, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.320 that are talented and feel the same way Dan Campbell, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.960 there's one problem with that, Paully. That's what the rest 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.600 of the league is looking for for the most part, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.280 you know. And the other question I would have with 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.760 Dan is how much control does he have over the 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.240 fifty three man roster at some point in time? Is 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:43.920 he the one drafting? Is he going to be the 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.679 guy drafting all the draft picks because you've got to 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.360 bring the right person in. This is something Bill Belichick 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.960 has been doing for decades. He's the guy that is 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.040 bringing in the talent, whether it's free agent talent he's 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.679 bringing in, undrafted free agent talent or draft picks that 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.080 he's bringing in. Hey, they all better fit the mentality 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.840 that Bill Belichick wants see. That gives him a huge advantage. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.200 The fact that he's got full control over the roster 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.000 and is the coach that head is exactly what you 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.240 need if you want to be able to build this 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.760 kind of culture, because sometimes you're gonna get somebody who 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.200 drafted a guy who isn't like this, who isn't like 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.880 the way Dan Campbell wants him to be, and he 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.440 might try to make him that player. Bud Paul, you 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.840 know what, he just can't do it. Sometimes I'm guessing 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.520 every opponent on the Lions schedule, the Cardinals included on 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.760 Saturday night before the game, that's getting played in the 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:42.640 team meeting. Oh yeah, that SoundBite is getting played before 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.240 every single Lions game. This coming here. So to what 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.400 degree do you just put a bull's eye on the 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.080 Honolulu Blu and silver. We'll see about that. But speaking 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.480 of drafting the players. In the Lions front office, they 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.400 have a new GM and he comes from the Rams. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.440 His name is Brad Holmes, an executive there. Speaking of 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.840 the Rams, they have a brand new defensive coordinator, Raheem 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:06.480 Morris replacing Brandon Staley, and then Robert Sala leaves as 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.200 de coordinator of the Niners Bolt then Damiko Ryan's the 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.800 new DC soul. There's been some change, some high profile 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.160 change in the division. Yeah, Brandon Staley was a surprise 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.680 to me. That was really a surprise. After one year 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.480 of coordinating in what I think it's four years in 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.920 the National Football League. That was a surprise to me. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:28.400 Robert Sala was not and you know what fairthee Well, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:33.280 Robert get out of here. Five years ago, Brandon Staley 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.600 was coaching Division three football. Think about that it's almost 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.560 like a chip Kelly you right in a way that's 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.160 so yeah. You have to wonder about that one. Paul, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.880 we raised the football IQ. Next, Rashaw Johnson, now currently 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.160 with Alabama. Longtime Cardinal safety joins us. Next on the 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:56.680 Big Red Ray presented by Satan Ford in Gilbert dot 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.480 Gum snapps to Murray drops back the throw byer's left 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.800 side hog can DeAndre Hopkins puts his hands up and 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.360 he catches it and it's a touchdown. I have no 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:10.400 idea how he caught that ball. DeAndre Hopkins hands are 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.400 as good as we've ever seen. What a great catch 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:19.440 by DeAndre Hopkins. The harvester of Sorrows. Cardinals blitz back 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.839 to throw. Dalton gets hit hand slam to the ground 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.920 by Buda Baker. Dalton never saw Baker like a torpedo. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.560 He came flying into the backfield and smoked Andy Dalton. 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.120 Buddha Baker is a dog doo double g wow. He 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.400 goes one hundred miles an hour. Last year in the offseason, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.920 Steve Kim got the hardware for winning the offseason. So 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.160 far into the offseason, the hardware has gone to Buddha 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.480 Baker first Team All Pro and the Pro Bowl. DeAndre 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.640 Hopkins Second Team All Pro, one hundred fifteen catches over 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.840 fourteen hundred yards receiving him by the way, Budda had 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.560 one hundred and eighteen tackles, and then Kyler Murray Corse 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.080 going to the Pro Bowl as well. Wolf As we 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.200 welcome everyone back here to the Big Red Rage presented 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:05.000 by Santanford and Gilbert. You know your big time when 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.960 you're on a radio call and you heard a little 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.320 radio montage there from Arizona Cardinals radio win. It's time 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.480 for the college football playoffs and you go to one 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.920 of the ESPN TV platforms, one of the channels, and 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:22.319 it's devoted to the Alabama radio call. Did you see that? Yes, yes, Polly. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.360 There's the regular broadcast and then there's broadcast for Bama 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.960 Nation and it featured, among others on the radio call, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.840 Rashad Johnson who joins us now on the Big Red Rage. Shot, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:37.120 How you doing doing? Wor about yourself? Run? Aw youre doing? 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.960 We're doing great, shot Man. I really appreciate you joining us. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.320 We appreciate you joining us. Man. Talking a little bit 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.840 of ball coming up, because we all know championship Sunday 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.000 one of the better days for football fans, right yeah, Man, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.800 an awesome day to be a part of it. Can't 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.400 wait to watch it this Sunday for really good teams. Man, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.199 I could go in anyway, you know, one player way. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.640 So yeah, really exciting for sure. This is just me, 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.840 but I'm sure other people share this opinion. When you 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.920 saw the Bears in the playoff, it was especially vexing 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.079 because you're like, man, the Cardinals should have been there, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.160 especially instead of the Bears. When you followed the Cardinals, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.480 I know from Afar this year, and you saw the 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.960 progress of a Kyler Murray, but then you saw things 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.920 get sideways in the second half of the season, the 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.360 way they ended the season. How do you think the 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.680 Cardinals going to the off season, what if they're feeling 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.800 like and how much change do you think needs to 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.880 be made big picture? Yeah, you know, when you look 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.440 at it, I mean really home fire, you know, winning 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.520 five of the first seven games, but when they came 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:43.880 in said like what happened? Because when you win a 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.240 couple of games, you're going to your buy you think 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:52.160 you the tenue to win games? I think we love right, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.160 I'll tell you what speaking to drop. I think the 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.240 line dropped a little bit. Maybe we can try and 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.440 reconnect here and hear from Rashaw Johnson, because I mean, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.880 here's a guy who knows firsthand from experience. Here's the 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.400 guy who walked on in Alabama and was a two 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:11.200 time team captain, two time captain, which that doesn't happen 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.120 in Alabama. It does not. In fact, I think it 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.920 was a first, wasn't it yea program Moodily that Paul 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.560 Rashad Johnson was one of these guys as you well know, 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.520 that was really like a coach on the field. This 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:24.920 is one of the reasons, this is one of my 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.880 favorite conversations PAULI that we have almost every year. It's 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.840 with Rashaan Johnson because of the player that he was, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.240 not only physically on the field and the plays that 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.640 he would make, but mentally on the field and the 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.640 way you get everyone else lined up. It's one of 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.360 the best conversations you're ever gonna have if you want 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.280 to talk ball. So, talking again with john pick up 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.000 with the end of this season and those two disappointing 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.880 losses with the playoffs hanging in the balance, does that 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.800 tell you anything? Does that change anything going into this offseason, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:16:00.240 just the way the season ended. You know, I was say, 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.600 you know, it changes anything, because you know, one of 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.480 those games was lost with arguably you know, you're your 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.640 best player not playing in that game with Kyler, you know, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.920 getting hurt early in that game. Uh, it's hard to 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.400 replace the guy that superstar status. You know, not know 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.400 this against the backup or anybody like that, but we 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.760 understand the talent that he has. Number one overall pick, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.280 you know, drafted in the first round base in baseball. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.800 He's the league and a lot of different areas than 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.560 a lot of different people. He's like the one percent 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.280 of the one percenter. So when you lose a guy 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.200 like that, it hurts. So I don't think, you know, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.640 necessarily going into the off season. You know, you're like, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.800 oh man, we dropped the ball. We lost our best players. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.440 Hopefully we wish we could have stepped up defensively to 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.920 get that win and get us in. But you know, 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.680 we know we have an opportunity to where it's left 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.000 up to us. Honestly, you know, we we have to decide, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.440 you know, right now with our group, you know, with 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:50.840 the guys that we have, and I think we have 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.800 a collectively a good group of young guys. DeAndre Hopkins 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.720 one of the best receivers in the league. Great move 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.520 by Steve com Buddha Baker, young safety. You know you 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:00.960 built around those guys, Isaiah said, you know these guys 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.360 first round picks. So I think you build off of 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.439 it and you continue to push one game away. It 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:07.119 isn't like you were five, So isn't a lot of 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:08.800 a lot of change that needs to be made. Only 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.040 a few pieces need to be added to continue to 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.639 push that fire and try and stay healthy. Man, Shot, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.240 you were a safety in the National Football League for 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.560 a long time and a guy that was a coach 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:20.879 on the field. It was something we were talking about. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.119 Something I appreciated the most about you, Shot was the 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.119 fact that you loved the chess match. You love the 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.400 mental side of it, You love scheme, and you went 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.960 out there and made sure other guys knew exactly what 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.880 it was that you're gonna do. As you watch Buddha 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:41.080 Baker through that safety lens, just how I mean, tell 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.560 us what you see from a safety to a safety. Yeah, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.320 you know, I see a guy that you know has 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:52.240 fearless mentality. For number one, the way he comes down. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.720 He doesn't know what breaks are and you know, I 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.240 hopefully doesn't drive because I'm kind of scared of it. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.840 Is he running red light? Stop side? He just goes 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.439 man and I love that about him. He's fast paced 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.120 and he's also smart. You watch him when he blitzes 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.160 a lot of times that he's he's disguising and then 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.880 he's he's getting the blitz on the right timing. He's 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.320 hitting that line right when the ball is snapped, you know, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.919 and it's not you know, a coincidence that he's doing that. 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.480 That comes from film study, a lot of preparation understanding. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.520 You know, the line count is the guard, the guy 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.240 that taps the center to let him know that the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.600 snap the ball is about to be snapped. Are that 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.919 the quarterbacks you know, clapping his hands that makes the 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.800 ball snap. There's a lot of different factors when you 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.399 watch enough tape to understand that, and he does a 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.239 great job of doing that as a blitzer man, so 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.639 just as a safety to another safety man, I'm highly impressed. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.080 You know, I just love to watch him play and 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.200 I think, you know, he has tremendous upside here with 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.919 the Cardinals, like he said, all pro deserved every bit 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.119 of that. Congrats man, Um, He's a great guy to 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.439 build around. Man, So y'all got a fearless competitor and 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.440 the mentality. If the rest of the defense and team 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.800 can build with him, you're gonna be tough to beat. Sure. 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.800 Advanced Joseph the d defensive coordinator had the best quote 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.920 I've ever heard about Buddha Baker. He said, he'll run. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.080 He'll run into the darkness, right split, I know, right 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.800 for Sean, doesn't that sound so cool? I mean, it 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.720 was just full speed sprint into the darkness. That's Buddha Baker. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.680 And you know, I just listening to you talk about him, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:24.080 the way he comes down from that secondary man and 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.560 plays with abandon, It's just I appreciate that. That's some 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:32.320 old school stuff. Shot. Yeah, and as the yes, as 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.240 the highest paid safety in the game, he can definitely 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.120 afford a fast ride. Put it that way. I don't 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.040 know what he drives, but he can definitely afford it. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.719 Let me ask you. In the secondary. Rashad Johnson our 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.760 guest here in the Big Read. Rachel, former Cardinals safety, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.760 had nine picks between two fourteen twenty fifteen. One of 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.879 the biggest decisions facing the Cardinals. A guy you're really 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.720 tight with Patrick Peterson, but it could be a big 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.800 money ticket. He's beyond that magic number of thirty needs 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.920 and wants. We know how important it is to have 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.080 a cover corner. How to you says that decision the 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.879 Cardinals have to make on Patrick p Yeah, you know, 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.600 I mean we all understand the game and how it 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:09.800 works and the business side of it. It's all going 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.280 to come down to, you know, the value that they 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.040 see that that Patrick still holds within the organization as 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.679 a as a you know, a lockdown corner, and you 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.160 know the number and what they're looking at. So it's 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:21.720 all going to come down to a number game at 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.080 the end of the day, and can they can they 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.200 agree upon that? You know? Uh, Patrick, you know has 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.040 has played you know well this season. We all saw 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.639 some ups and downs through it all. Um. I think that, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.719 you know, he's a guy that is solid though, man, 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.840 I mean he's been solid in his career here, has 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.800 been solid you know, in his time out into the 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.480 public as well and just building younger guys up. So 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:42.960