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Speaker 6: Here's Paul CALVICI I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I'm ready.
Speaker 6: And Ron Wolfley, it doesn't get any better than.
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Speaker 6: Let's just say that I was talking to a key
Speaker 6: Cardinals decision maker recently, and let's just say Ron Wolfley
Speaker 6: that I did what I do best. I asked the
Speaker 6: dumb guy question, Okay, Jason, how competitive will this Cardinals
Speaker 6: camp be? And let's just say this person who would
Speaker 6: know didn't have to say anything because the wide eyes
Speaker 6: said it all. There will be blood, there will be
Speaker 6: Cardinals players snapped up by other teams after final cuts. Right,
Speaker 6: this will be the most competitive Cardinals camp in recent
Speaker 6: memory by design, and we're all about it, and we're
Speaker 6: here to talk about it. The Big Red Rage presented
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Speaker 6: to feature Lorenzo Alexander, the former Cardinal fifteen year vet
Speaker 6: Paul calvic Here Ron Wolfle.
Speaker 1: There you know what's great about what you just said
Speaker 1: as well, Paully, there's no doubt about it. On both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball, offensively and defensively, the Resonner Cardinals
Speaker 1: are going to be a very very physical team. Now
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean, PAULI, you're going to be a great team.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you're gonna be a great team. You gotta
Speaker 1: go win games. You gotta make plays to win games.
Speaker 1: But man, they're gonna be a very very physical team
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. Offensively of course, and
Speaker 1: running the ball the way that they do and defensively.
Speaker 1: So why wouldn't you go into training camp and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: by the way, competition has just been ratcheted up, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some seriously highly contested positions that are
Speaker 1: going to be open for the best man. Man, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be this is going to be one of
Speaker 1: the best camps we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 6: Twenty eight draft picks over the last three years. I mean,
Speaker 6: let the rooks cook and then some every single draft
Speaker 6: pick is still on this roster. That will not be
Speaker 6: the case once you get to the final fifty three.
Speaker 6: And remember what we reported at the end of the
Speaker 6: twenty twenty three season when GM moniasap Fort brought his
Speaker 6: initial rookie class into that room the day after the
Speaker 6: season ended, and you remember what he told them. He
Speaker 6: said to these young guys in that room, in case
Speaker 6: you didn't know, my job as an NFL GM is
Speaker 6: to replace every one of you. Awesome, that is my job.
Speaker 1: Every It's just an awesome way to actually get up
Speaker 1: there in front of the entire team and say that,
Speaker 1: because it's a great reminder, Paul of what this is
Speaker 1: all about, what the NFL is about. It is a
Speaker 1: mercenary league. How many times have you heard me talk
Speaker 1: about this. It is a mercenary league. And your goal
Speaker 1: as a football player should be not to go out
Speaker 1: and win a Super Bowl. Your goal should be I
Speaker 1: want to be able to support my family for as
Speaker 1: long as I possibly can. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and play as hard as I
Speaker 1: possibly can so we can win a Super Bowl. My goal,
Speaker 1: My goal is to support and take care of my family. Period.
Speaker 6: Remember how the B and BA used to stand for
Speaker 6: Blunt and he would say in August, we're not the Cardinals,
Speaker 6: not until you get a job, not until you earn
Speaker 6: a spot on this team, right on this roster. And
Speaker 6: it's a good reminder to the young guys coming out
Speaker 6: of college. There ain't no stinking four year scholarships. There's
Speaker 6: no such thing as job security. You got to earn
Speaker 6: it every single year. And that's what this camp is
Speaker 6: going to be about more than ever so far under
Speaker 6: Monni Austin Ford, the head coach, Jonathan Gannon, in fact,
Speaker 6: who was asked this past week, all right, how excited
Speaker 6: are you to put the pads on?
Speaker 1: Excited? Yeah, excited, that'd be good.
Speaker 7: That was one of the things that we kind of
Speaker 7: tweaked going into camp. And the players know this, have
Speaker 7: a little more friction, you know, what I mean, so
Speaker 7: during camp, so in a safe way, but I want
Speaker 7: to get on the paths a little bit and play football.
Speaker 6: More pads, more friction, more content tacked, more physicality.
Speaker 1: Paulie, I know all of those things right there, especially
Speaker 1: when you're talking about the line of scrimmage and the
Speaker 1: contested line of scrimmage of the Arizona Cardinals, especially in
Speaker 1: training camp when guys are trying to win jobs right now,
Speaker 1: that that friction and that competition and that physicality. I
Speaker 1: wonder if he's changed his opinion on the fight policy,
Speaker 1: paul Something something tells me he has not. Something tells
Speaker 1: me he has not changed the policy on that. That's
Speaker 1: why you threw in to do it safely, of course.
Speaker 6: Well, if you fight in a game, you're gonna get
Speaker 6: penalized and or ejected. You're gonna hurt your team. You
Speaker 6: got to manage your emotions while still remaining physical. Okay,
Speaker 6: Why is that so hard for you to process.
Speaker 1: PAULI everybody knows your dad. They know you never fight
Speaker 1: in the game. You're never gonna do that, you selfish,
Speaker 1: How could you possibly do that? Everyone knows that. Anyways,
Speaker 1: It's the one area I disagree. I love jg Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. You know I am philosophic way aligned with Jag.
Speaker 1: He's a beautiful, beautiful man when it comes to being
Speaker 1: a head coach on an NFL team. I just disagree
Speaker 1: with his fight pome.
Speaker 6: Well, look, I have a theory as to why there's
Speaker 6: going to be more physicality, more time in pads, more friction.
Speaker 6: But first the head coach was asked, all right, what's
Speaker 6: behind that decision.
Speaker 7: For where we're at as a team and where our
Speaker 7: development is and where our health is. Honestly, and that
Speaker 7: can and you have to adapt that as we get
Speaker 7: going in training camp. Honestly, is the best thing to do.
Speaker 7: Get ready to play a week one.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: I have two theories as to why why he's ramping
Speaker 6: up the physical Okay, all right. Number one is are
Speaker 6: you a much more physical team than you were before
Speaker 6: Jonathan Gan and Mantias Spfort took over. Say yes, yes,
Speaker 6: But there was still a couple of games last year
Speaker 6: where you went against some heavyweights. The Lions were very physical.
Speaker 6: That Washington defensive front, even the Carolina Panthers and the
Speaker 6: right side of that offensive line they ran for over
Speaker 6: two hundred and fifty yards in a key game on
Speaker 6: the road at Carroll. So yes, you can still get
Speaker 6: you still need to get more physical. But beyond that, Wolf,
Speaker 6: how are you gonna make some of these key roster
Speaker 6: decisions without seeing these guys play football? Yes, if you
Speaker 6: want to know who's the best corner, who's the best
Speaker 6: middle linebacker, Who's what's your rotation along the defensive line,
Speaker 6: who's your starting offensive guard right side? How do you
Speaker 6: figure that out unless you're playing real football, full contact,
Speaker 6: full speed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right about that, Paully. But can I
Speaker 1: also say this right now? Training camps going forward in
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals are gonna do it this year as well.
Speaker 1: But training camps going forward, you're gonna see them practicing
Speaker 1: more with teams. Pollie, this is what's gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: honestly believe at some point in time. You know my
Speaker 1: feeling on this. I've talked to you about it. They're
Speaker 1: going to extend. They're gonna add that eighteenth game, That's
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, and add another buy as well, Paulli,
Speaker 1: and I honestly think that preseason games you're gonna have one,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be eliminated they're gonna bring it down to
Speaker 1: one and what they're gonna do instead of those preseason games,
Speaker 1: they're going to practice. They're going to practice man against
Speaker 1: other NFL teams. That's how they're going to replace that
Speaker 1: to get ready for the season.
Speaker 6: And we know Jonathan Gannon is in favor of that.
Speaker 6: Vikings two years ago, Colts last year. This year, it's
Speaker 6: going to be the Broncos a single joint practice before
Speaker 6: the middle preseason game. It's official. Cardinals are going to
Speaker 6: report on July twenty second, That is when Cardinals camp
Speaker 6: will commence. What are some of the biggest questions if
Speaker 6: you had to check them off real quick, and we
Speaker 6: have a month to talk about this, but off the
Speaker 6: top of your head, some of the biggest questions you
Speaker 6: need answered by the end of camp. If you're Jonathan
Speaker 6: Gannon and Manti assen Ford, I would start with Mike linebacker, captain,
Speaker 6: play caller of the defense.
Speaker 1: Why do you say that, PAULI? Why would you start there?
Speaker 6: Because you need to know who's going to be wearing
Speaker 6: that green dot and Kuise you're white not only a
Speaker 6: team captain, but he was an expert at calling the defense,
Speaker 6: getting the defense into the right looks, the right checks
Speaker 6: playing that chess match against the posing quarterback and the
Speaker 6: opposing play caller. Do you have that guy? Who is
Speaker 6: that guy? And he better start to jell with the
Speaker 6: rest of your defense.
Speaker 1: Okay? For me, it's really the interior offensive line. Listen,
Speaker 1: the offensive line and the ability to run the ball,
Speaker 1: lower the plow and hit the gas and run over people,
Speaker 1: especially with James Connor in a different tray Benson and
Speaker 1: more on that a little bit later. But to me,
Speaker 1: they're going to attack the line of scrimmage so much
Speaker 1: more in a North sal fashion than we've seen them
Speaker 1: do before. That means you better be able to run
Speaker 1: the ball up front. You better have offensive linemen that
Speaker 1: are going to come off the ball. And because of that,
Speaker 1: I think of Isaiah Adams getting the opportunity, and I
Speaker 1: think Paul he's going to be fine, but he's got
Speaker 1: to prove that, doesn't he And I think Kevin Brown
Speaker 1: as well. Is he going to be able to hold
Speaker 1: on to that left guard position? Right now? It's going
Speaker 1: to be fascinating to watch the battle the camp battles
Speaker 1: on the interior offensive line at the guard and see
Speaker 1: who wins in the end.
Speaker 6: What did Isaiah Adams tell us last week here in
Speaker 6: the Big Red Rage that all you have to do
Speaker 6: is look into that revamp, new and improved defensive line
Speaker 6: room and realize you're gonna have your hands full in
Speaker 6: the O line D line drills when Isaiah Adams is
Speaker 6: gonna be squaring off against Dalvin Tomlinson, Kaleis Campbell. Look
Speaker 6: at what Darius Robinson appears to be Yeh Walter Nolan,
Speaker 6: the ridiculous lateral quickness, Dante Stills keeps coming. LJ. Collier
Speaker 6: is legit, so you'll know. You'll find out. The other
Speaker 6: position group obviously is corner. I mean, you have four
Speaker 6: guys fighting for two spots at least, so we'll see.
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Speaker 6: years in the league. We have questions. And that's next
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Speaker 4: That Scott to throw pleasure he is Jack Dalvin Tomlinson
Speaker 4: flying through the middle in a sack to store down,
Speaker 4: the pocket collapses and downy girls.
Speaker 1: The ball is out.
Speaker 4: Dalvin Tomlinson with the strip sack pass played for breeze
Speaker 4: and Trouble tumbles the phone.
Speaker 2: It's caught out of the air by Camble and he's
Speaker 2: running free at the thirty. At the twenty, they'll take
Speaker 2: it all the way and into the end zone for
Speaker 2: the cardinal touchdown.
Speaker 1: Kalaius Campbell caught the ball out of the air and
Speaker 1: took it to the house. Had a lot of fun
Speaker 1: playing in the stadium, you know, just hanging with the
Speaker 1: Bird Gang. The energy I fed off it for nine years,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's been quite the pleasure.
Speaker 6: I am seen an event the other night.
Speaker 1: Wolf.
Speaker 6: I just mentioned the name Kalaias Campbell. The Bird Gang
Speaker 6: went crazy. His Q rating is off the hook, and
Speaker 6: rightfully so, Palli, you know the other word on the
Speaker 6: street out there, Wolf. Are you aware that there's a
Speaker 6: fifty ten year NFL veteran Okay pro bowler who's been
Speaker 6: so busy with parenthood and coaching and maybe even a
Speaker 6: little golf. You know, what does that hasn't had as
Speaker 6: much time lately for the gym, and you know, may
Speaker 6: or may not have let himself go. You know, I
Speaker 6: don't know the beer belly, the double chin, the dad bot,
Speaker 6: you know, but I feared we should really ask him
Speaker 6: before we get rolling. So, Lorenzo Alexander, you on their
Speaker 6: Big Red Rage, Yeah, presented by Santane Ford and gohert.
Speaker 6: We are santan Ford. Please tell us you've let yourself
Speaker 6: go at this point? Come on now?
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, no, not at all. Man Wolf will understand
Speaker 8: that God built me different. You know, God some different
Speaker 8: things in my life. And I mean quite frankly, and
Speaker 8: I'm being kind of funny, but Kendid. You know, last
Speaker 8: week Wednesday, to be exact, I was in a pre
Speaker 8: significant car crash. Car flipped over, bounced up, and I
Speaker 8: walked out on me with just what some bruising and ribs.
Speaker 8: So I'm definitely blessed to be here, but God feel
Speaker 8: me different. So I'm never gonna let myself go, always
Speaker 8: going to honor him.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh my goodness, that is praise the Lord. Indeed
Speaker 1: that you are okay? So okay, So after saying that,
Speaker 1: talk to me about some of the off season editions,
Speaker 1: of course, that the Arizona Cardinals have made to this team.
Speaker 1: Right now, where do you start. So when you think
Speaker 1: of all the moves they've made.
Speaker 8: It's a defensive line. You know, everybody likes the sexy,
Speaker 8: you know, the outside positions, And obviously we're gonna talk
Speaker 8: about Will Johnson a little bit as far as what
Speaker 8: he's going to bring to that dB room, but it
Speaker 8: starts from the interior, especially when you think about stopping
Speaker 8: the run, which has been an achilles heel of this
Speaker 8: team not being able to do it consistently, and then
Speaker 8: also not having to rely on you know, downing up
Speaker 8: different blitzes on third downs, and I think they're going
Speaker 8: to be able to be able to rush the passer,
Speaker 8: you know, on fourth day or third down with just
Speaker 8: four with the guys that they brought in, you think
Speaker 8: of a guy like a Class Campbell, who had a
Speaker 8: chance to actually play with for a couple of years
Speaker 8: in Agy when I played here, and you know, I
Speaker 8: go way back with class, big Man and great heart.
Speaker 8: And as you said, the Q rating is out the room.
Speaker 8: But you know, I'm old enough to remember when that
Speaker 8: dude's running down on kickoffs and he's earned his way
Speaker 8: in this league as being sustainable as a leader, and
Speaker 8: so I'm really interested to see how just his presence
Speaker 8: elevates the room, not even necessarily his play, but how
Speaker 8: he talks to some of those young guys in there,
Speaker 8: and what is that going to look like as far
Speaker 8: as helping them elevate their game so they've become pros.
Speaker 8: He's gonna do what he needs to do. I'm not
Speaker 8: worried about him one bit in the plays that he gets,
Speaker 8: but how does he elevate their room? And then also
Speaker 8: I think a guy like Josh Wat who's seeing him
Speaker 8: and how he's been dominant throughout his career just really
Speaker 8: consistent as far as rushing the.
Speaker 6: Passer as well former Cardinal, former pro bowler Lorenzo Alexander.
Speaker 6: As our guests, not many guys can come close to
Speaker 6: relating to eighteen years of playing time. And then you
Speaker 6: got the year fifteen. Here's my specific question about Lays
Speaker 6: at this point, because he has started all seventeen games
Speaker 6: each of the last two years. How much is he
Speaker 6: winning with his knowledge versus his physical skill.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll say this too, if I was getting paid
Speaker 8: like a lass, I wouldn't walk away from the game myself,
Speaker 8: you know, if I ever made that type of money.
Speaker 8: But you know, hearing him talk the other day. You know,
Speaker 8: obviously he's selling his body's not even ready right now.
Speaker 8: Mentally he's not ready. He's kind of pacing himself and
Speaker 8: I know exactly where he is as far as just
Speaker 8: at this stage in your in your in your game,
Speaker 8: you know how to kind of have that ramp up
Speaker 8: period so that you're ready to go, and he is
Speaker 8: still you can't. You have to be extremely smart our
Speaker 8: physical to play this game. But he's also winning with
Speaker 8: his mind. Understand the protection, understand the weaknesses of some
Speaker 8: of these younger guards or centers that he's going to face.
Speaker 8: Right we talk about those vet moves that he's doing
Speaker 8: that just getting him off the edge, and then his
Speaker 8: guy giving a billity just to be so long, you
Speaker 8: know whatever. He is six seven sixty eight long tall,
Speaker 8: so he's always going to be impacting the quarterback even
Speaker 8: though he may not be getting that physical pressure. His pressure,
Speaker 8: his presence is enough pressure to make quarterbacks pull down
Speaker 8: the ball or getting a lot of pvus as far
Speaker 8: as baddy balls. So he's doing a little bit of both.
Speaker 8: He still has enough to get out there and run
Speaker 8: around these young fellows and it's always fun. To watch
Speaker 8: an older guy of his caliber be able to do
Speaker 8: it at the high level.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fascinating to watch us. Because I
Speaker 1: believe Nick rawlas of course a defensive coordinator for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: He's gonna line Kalais off in a zero right on
Speaker 1: the head of the center all the way out to
Speaker 1: maybe a five technique. Where do you think he's the
Speaker 1: most effective?
Speaker 8: I mean, at this stage, it's really wherever I think
Speaker 8: when you're when he's in the middle, though, because of
Speaker 8: his presence, because of his lance, he's still able to
Speaker 8: impact quarterback vision and make guys have to maybe put
Speaker 8: a little bit more air on it, because that's where
Speaker 8: I think he's most dangerous at But anytime you can
Speaker 8: and again, when he's gonna be over that center, they're
Speaker 8: gonna probably have that five down seco looked as I
Speaker 8: used to call it, with five deef a the linemen.
Speaker 8: It typically the center is your worst pass protector because
Speaker 8: oftentimes he's the help for helping out that guard right.
Speaker 8: He's also typically a smaller guy and what a man
Speaker 8: like Kalay has kind of eating him up, and with
Speaker 8: the pass rush moves in his lens, he can actually
Speaker 8: have a lot of production with some of the other
Speaker 8: guys that's going to be around him also rushing to
Speaker 8: pass it from the interior side. So I think for
Speaker 8: a couple of reasons, just because the way he's built,
Speaker 8: and also that's typically the O lineman or the center
Speaker 8: is typically the fish, the weaker, the weakest O line
Speaker 8: of the.
Speaker 6: Group of five Lorenzo, Alexander our guest on the Big
Speaker 6: Red Rage Presentaboy, Santan Ford and Gilbert all right, So
Speaker 6: talking about that revamp, new and improved defensive front, we
Speaker 6: were asked the other day for some some predictions and
Speaker 6: I said, I don't know how many interceptions the Cardinals
Speaker 6: had last year as a team, but double it. That
Speaker 6: was one of my predictions because of the increased pass rush.
Speaker 6: I mean, is that valid? Do you think that this
Speaker 6: secondary is gonna be able to BALLHWK a lot more?
Speaker 8: Double is a lot. And I don't know how many
Speaker 8: I had last year. I know they were really good
Speaker 8: in the red zone. I don't know if they had
Speaker 8: that many turnovers because teams were getting down there. So
Speaker 8: I could see them definitely getting that increase because they're
Speaker 8: gonna be on in there a lot more. Pressure. Like
Speaker 8: I said, you know, class alone is probably gonna call
Speaker 8: two or three with getting some tits and overthrows where
Speaker 8: a linebacker can come up or maybe even another defensive
Speaker 8: linement off the ball that he's batted up in the
Speaker 8: air to get his hands on. So I definitely see
Speaker 8: an uptick because of that, along with some of those
Speaker 8: other guys that are gonna get some pressure. Right, he
Speaker 8: robbed sweat, So I definitely think it can happen. And
Speaker 8: then when you have that one last guy that's rushing
Speaker 8: or blitzing that you know rollers had to do last year,
Speaker 8: that's one extra body in the back end if they're
Speaker 8: playing like some type of zone blitz or or zone
Speaker 8: pressure I mean, or or zone coverage that can actually
Speaker 8: have their eyes on the ball and actually go get
Speaker 8: it when it's in their.
Speaker 1: So Zoe, go ahead and talk to me about Josh
Speaker 1: Swatt and his impact and what an edge guy, a
Speaker 1: premier edge guy can actually bring to a defense.
Speaker 8: I mean, he's gonna because he's consistent, He's consistently been
Speaker 8: you know, a guy that impacts the quarterback. You know,
Speaker 8: I've kind of got a chance to obviously see him
Speaker 8: kind of develop and grow up as a leader as well,
Speaker 8: and it's going to be another guy that's going to
Speaker 8: impact beyond just what he brings. But he's long, he's strong,
Speaker 8: he's violent, he's physical. You know, he's gonna be able
Speaker 8: to help in the run game in the past, so
Speaker 8: he understands how to play this game. And he's been
Speaker 8: consistent and that's what I really like to see, you know,
Speaker 8: just from year to years of consistency in terms of
Speaker 8: how he plays this game. And it's just only gonna
Speaker 8: help when you add him into that mix with everybody else.
Speaker 8: And when you have a dominant edge guy, you typically
Speaker 8: have to help on the outside, you know, where we
Speaker 8: think about a back half of the chip, maybe keeping
Speaker 8: a tight end, which again helps the back end. That's
Speaker 8: one last guy you have to worry about or if
Speaker 8: he gets out and getting out late and he's more
Speaker 8: of a checkdown versus a vertical threat. So having a
Speaker 8: guy that can rush from the edge is definitely gonna
Speaker 8: help just a defense overall to be able to impact
Speaker 8: the offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if it can have that Chandler Jones effect, you
Speaker 6: go from fifteen guys with one sack till one guy
Speaker 6: with fifteen sacks. And they have to game plan for
Speaker 6: that guy. So look, it's going to be really competitive.
Speaker 6: The edge rushroom, the D line room, the cornerback room
Speaker 6: is really deep. But probably the biggest question I have
Speaker 6: on defense going into camp would be middle linebacker. How
Speaker 6: big a deal is that trying to replace Kaiser White?
Speaker 6: Because I see at least four candidates potentially.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's hard. Anytime you go with a
Speaker 8: guy that's been there for a couple of years, that
Speaker 8: understands the defense, that makes the calls right, he kind
Speaker 8: of becomes he creates an identity within that huddle. People
Speaker 8: you know, typically learn and listen for his voice and
Speaker 8: hear it. And so for someone to step into that
Speaker 8: role who maybe who hasn't done it, who hasn't done
Speaker 8: it here is going to be a little bit of
Speaker 8: a learning curve, you know, hearing the call come in
Speaker 8: on the mic and then be able to make the
Speaker 8: huddle his own. But these guys are professionals, you know,
Speaker 8: you know, so whether it's Mack Wilson or another guy
Speaker 8: that's on MS ROSS, so somebody will step up, take
Speaker 8: the bull by his horns and lead this defense. And
Speaker 8: the great thing is that he has some other great
Speaker 8: players on this team that going to allow him to
Speaker 8: take that role like khalais for example. So if it's
Speaker 8: a young guy or a younger guy that's never done it,
Speaker 8: if he clais hears other people in the huddle talking
Speaker 8: while the mike is trying to talk, I guarantee you
Speaker 8: he's gonna say shut up. Right. You need to have
Speaker 8: that because you know, being in front of a other
Speaker 8: grown men as you're trying to hear the call coming in,
Speaker 8: people talking about what just happened, and now you're trying
Speaker 8: to say something and you've never done it, it can
Speaker 8: be I don't want to say overwhelming. Is just just
Speaker 8: something new that you have to get used to. But
Speaker 8: having advocates in in that on that defense that understand
Speaker 8: the importance of hearing the call and getting the call
Speaker 8: and communicating when we get out here and play fast,
Speaker 8: I think will be key. And they have plenty of
Speaker 8: that so so.
Speaker 1: Will Johnson, of course, was drafted in the second round
Speaker 1: out of Michigan by the Arizona Cardinals. He is a corner.
Speaker 1: He has a long, tall corner. What are your concerns
Speaker 1: if he is starting coming out of training camp and
Speaker 1: I do again it really doesn't matter if he does
Speaker 1: or not. But we love sitting around talking about, man,
Speaker 1: can this kid actually start coming out of training camp?
Speaker 1: I think Will Johnson possibly could having said that, what
Speaker 1: is your concern when starting a rookie corner?
Speaker 8: It's just a confidence. You know, how do they start?
Speaker 8: Because there's been a lot of great corners that get
Speaker 8: drafted high. You know, I could think about Etom that
Speaker 8: was up and Buffalo and just guys like that that
Speaker 8: have a lot of pressure on them. You out on
Speaker 8: the island and then you know most offenses are gonna
Speaker 8: go at you. And if you you know, facing top
Speaker 8: tier receiver week in and week out and you get
Speaker 8: roasted a couple of times, you know you're in a
Speaker 8: new space. You know you can get down on yourself
Speaker 8: because now you know, obviously college has turned to more
Speaker 8: of a business, but the NFL is a whole different animal.
Speaker 8: You know, you at the top, there is no transfer
Speaker 8: portal you you know, there is no hiding. You can't
Speaker 8: get away from it. So that's what you worry about
Speaker 8: with a young corner. You know, can he have success early?
Speaker 8: And then how does he handle the adversity that he
Speaker 8: is going to face because offensive coordinators are going to
Speaker 8: attack him until they make him go somewhere else. And
Speaker 8: so the great ones are able to figure that out,
Speaker 8: understand become students of the game, watching their film, watching
Speaker 8: other guys. How do the other guys attack this receiver?
Speaker 8: And I think the quicker he learns that and becomes
Speaker 8: a professional. You'll you'll see him have the consistency from
Speaker 8: weekend to week out, because we all know that he
Speaker 8: should have been a number one or as far as
Speaker 8: first rounder. He just dropped because of some injury and
Speaker 8: people not being quite sure what that's gonna look like.
Speaker 8: So he has the ability to do it now. It's
Speaker 8: about putting this together and I think a lot of
Speaker 8: times being a second round picking in his regard, he's
Speaker 8: gonna have a chip on the shoulder to be able
Speaker 8: to go out there and put it in the work
Speaker 8: that's going to be needed for him to showcase.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, even minus SMB, that is going to be an
Speaker 6: ultra competitive position. Group twenty eight draft picks last three years,
Speaker 6: seven of them corners by Mani os Ford and Jonathan
Speaker 6: Gannon Zoe. We appreciate the time even better news that
Speaker 6: you survived the car crash.
Speaker 1: You rolled over.
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, none of this fast and furious
Speaker 6: driving the rest of the summer. Okay, no more of
Speaker 6: that though, all right, I wouldn't drive it, okay, all right.
Speaker 8: And we hit a d here, so it's just whoa goodness?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 6: Wolf wanted to know if you put the video on YouTube,
Speaker 6: Stop a wolf. Don't ask him about that.
Speaker 1: You know what. Not surprise the dog that you are
Speaker 1: that you walked away from that man. Not surprised?
Speaker 6: All right, thanks, Zoe was the next day. There you go,
Speaker 6: appreciate it. We'll come back. We'll talk about two rby
Speaker 6: ones Kramit vertical times two. As we continue on the
Speaker 6: big red rage presented by Santan forward in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Connor.
Speaker 4: Thelone back, Furry take skip the Connor this time and
Speaker 4: easily straight ahead for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: You give me three dirt liquors and a ground pounder,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna break the plane every time.
Speaker 4: Urry, barking out the call, takes the snap, hands it off.
Speaker 4: Benson running left, dives into the end zone.
Speaker 1: First first touchdown. Give it to Tray Benson. Let him
Speaker 1: get a little pay dirt, a little grease for Trey Benson.
Speaker 4: Breaking tree is Steve Kada with the forty Dear Site
Speaker 4: thirty twenty ten to five touchdown.
Speaker 5: Forget about the hell Mary about the hell Lamary.
Speaker 4: Team Erkada want a handoff runs fifty three yards for
Speaker 4: a touchdown.
Speaker 6: You talk about wearing down a defense. Cardinals have done
Speaker 6: plenty of that via the run game in two years
Speaker 6: under Jonathan Gann and Drew Petsing the offensive coordinator and
Speaker 6: that running back room. It is loaded once again. In fact,
Speaker 6: the Cardinals stood pat with what they had. They're bringing
Speaker 6: it back in twenty twenty five. We are back in
Speaker 6: the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 6: We are santan Ford, all the best. The Lorenzo Alexander Man,
Speaker 6: He's had an eventful offseason at this point, but it
Speaker 6: was great to get his knowledge and his insight and
Speaker 6: as someone who was stout against the run, guess what,
Speaker 6: That's exactly what the Cardinals want to do this year.
Speaker 6: And Wolf, I think the most intriguing aspect of this look.
Speaker 6: We know all about James Connor and what he's capable of,
Speaker 6: but if you add a Ray Benson to this mix,
Speaker 6: we know. I'm Mari Dear Mercado in spots and is
Speaker 6: your third down pass pro back. But you tell us
Speaker 6: what you saw from Trey Benson before his season? Is
Speaker 6: rookie year ended prematurely with that ankle?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I saw Trey Benson go through a
Speaker 1: paradigm shift, if you will, in regard to how you
Speaker 1: run the ball. I think early on in the season, PAULI,
Speaker 1: you could see Troy Benson. He was all about, man,
Speaker 1: watch me how shifty I am, and watch me explode
Speaker 1: and just outrun you and use my speed and my quickness.
Speaker 1: And I think being in the room with James Connor
Speaker 1: and watching James Connor run the ball, because Trey Benson
Speaker 1: is a big man as well. And I think watching
Speaker 1: James Connor run the ball and being more decisive picking
Speaker 1: his shoulder and trying to run through the tackle. I
Speaker 1: think Trey Benson learned a lesson and how to run
Speaker 1: the ball. In the National Football League. There is a
Speaker 1: time and a place for your speed, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But it's after you break a tackle and
Speaker 1: then get to the second level and now you're into
Speaker 1: the secondary. That's when you want to hit the jets.
Speaker 1: Not all the time. Do you want to try to
Speaker 1: run the ball and hit the big one. Paully, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's what Troy Benson wants to do this year.
Speaker 1: I think he wants to be a little bit more decisive.
Speaker 1: And I stand and applaud.
Speaker 6: Him, and you know what he's on that. You're absolutely right,
Speaker 6: he said, you know what, I was thinking too much,
Speaker 6: trying to hit the home run every time. And he
Speaker 6: said he said to the media recently that James Connor
Speaker 6: took him aside and said, look, take what they give you.
Speaker 6: It kind of reminds me back in the day. I
Speaker 6: recently had a chance to interview David Johnson and he
Speaker 6: reiterated how valuable Chris Johnson was one of the fastest
Speaker 6: dudes in the history of the NFL. But you know
Speaker 6: what he taught him patience, Yeah, your blocks develop, you know,
Speaker 6: just wait until the hole decrease is there and then
Speaker 6: stoke it. Don't get ahead of your blocking scheme. And
Speaker 6: so it's interest out these younger backs learn from established guys.
Speaker 6: In fact, Jonathan Gannon was asked recently on just why
Speaker 6: James Connor, we know, three time Cardinals team captain, two
Speaker 6: time Pro bowler, why he's such a premier player.
Speaker 7: We have some different variety in the run game, and
Speaker 7: he can really do it all. He can run wide zone,
Speaker 7: he can run inside zone, he can run gap schemes,
Speaker 7: he can do it from gone, from under, from pistol
Speaker 7: so and then obviously his style of running. He's a
Speaker 7: premiere player. You know, he hits it. He's got good vision,
Speaker 7: he's got good balance, he's hard to bring down, he's
Speaker 7: got juice.
Speaker 6: And he's one of the leaders in the NFL when
Speaker 6: it comes to breaking tackles. And when I asked Trey
Speaker 6: Benson about that, he said he has asked James Connor
Speaker 6: about that. He's like, okay, how what's the key, what's
Speaker 6: the secret sauce? Because he said, you know what, James
Speaker 6: Connor is definitely one of the best I've ever seen.
Speaker 6: And he said the media doesn't give him enough credit.
Speaker 6: This is Trey Benson now for his ability to break
Speaker 6: tackles and get those extra dirty yards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no out Pauly, and that's what Tray Benson.
Speaker 1: This is where he's got to grow the most. It's
Speaker 1: not just about hitting the hole. So much of the
Speaker 1: time college running backs coming out, you talk about the
Speaker 1: patients and the fact that he had to learn. Patients
Speaker 1: man college running backs, they want to hit the hole.
Speaker 1: They think hitting the hole as hard as you possibly
Speaker 1: can is what you've got to do. Where the zone scheme,
Speaker 1: especially the tackle zone, the wide zone, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it. Right now, the zone scheme, you really
Speaker 1: have got to wait. You have to bide your time,
Speaker 1: stay on course, stay on your track. And at the
Speaker 1: same time, that play could hit in the C gap,
Speaker 1: it could hit in the B gap, it could hit
Speaker 1: in the A it could hit in the backside a gap.
Speaker 1: You got to be very, very patient. And I think
Speaker 1: this is what Tray Benson is learning right now, and
Speaker 1: it's the reason why Paully I think Trey Benson is
Speaker 1: going to get a lot more reps this season.
Speaker 6: He says he is seven pounds heavier than his rookie year,
Speaker 6: except in his words, I am way mo more explosive
Speaker 6: quote end quote. Here's a guy who ran a four
Speaker 6: to three to nine at the combine and was disappointing
Speaker 6: at that time. Thought he should have run much closer
Speaker 6: to a four to three flat. So if you do
Speaker 6: the math, he's over two hundred and twenty pounds, close
Speaker 6: to to twenty five and he told the media, I
Speaker 6: want to be a bruising back, except with speed. Okay,
Speaker 6: we're all on board for that right In fact, in
Speaker 6: an ideal scenario, Trey Benson saying he thinks the Cardinals
Speaker 6: can have a pair of RB one's.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I feel like I'm gonna get more opportunities,
Speaker 9: you know, help James out a lamar. I feel like
Speaker 9: we can have two RB one's on this team. And
Speaker 9: that's my mindset. This is two RB one's, you know,
Speaker 9: be able to help James out because he's the who's
Speaker 9: the work load for us last year and he set
Speaker 9: the tone for me and you know, set the tongue
Speaker 9: for the whole running back room. So being able to
Speaker 9: help him out a little bit more this year, well
Speaker 9: a lot more this year is to go.
Speaker 6: Two years in a row. The air is on the
Speaker 6: Cardinals rushing offense has finished number two in the NFL
Speaker 6: in yards per carry. Think abou how many times the
Speaker 6: Cardinals have worn down a defense in the second half?
Speaker 6: How much more if they do have two RB ones.
Speaker 1: Paully, it's oh man, that would be a dream, that
Speaker 1: really would be a nightmare for everyone else in the
Speaker 1: NFC West. Okay, but it'd be a dream for the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals to have two rb ones. Number one is
Speaker 1: because it would give James Connor a spot, it would
Speaker 1: rest him. And you know, James Connor runs the ball
Speaker 1: in a very physical, very in your face, very hard way,
Speaker 1: and because of that, he takes a lot of hits.
Speaker 1: And you worry about James wearing down over the course
Speaker 1: of a season, Paul, You're getting injured from time to time,
Speaker 1: even though he's done a great job staying healthy for
Speaker 1: the most part. James Connor, to me, runs the ball
Speaker 1: in such a physical way, So I think it's awesome
Speaker 1: to have another guy that you could look at and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: our offense doesn't need to change at all when Trey
Speaker 1: Benson comes into the game. So yeah, we do have
Speaker 1: two rb ones and he can spot. He can spot
Speaker 1: James Connor and give him a blow when he needs
Speaker 1: it so that maybe he can play in a lot
Speaker 1: more games and a lot more reps throughout the end
Speaker 1: higher season. That's number one, Polly. But it's also the competition.
Speaker 1: It's it's competing. Trey Benson's going to be competing against
Speaker 1: James Connor for who can gain the most yards, who
Speaker 1: can score the most touchdowns. And anytime you've got that
Speaker 1: kind of competition, friendly competition, but competition in a room,
Speaker 1: it's good for the team.
Speaker 6: There's no doubt for everything the Cardinals offense did to
Speaker 6: stay the same in terms of personnel, I think they
Speaker 6: really are going to evolve this year. And that's not
Speaker 6: just us. It's Trey McBride saying that in the offseason
Speaker 6: there's been a lot more motion, that extra sauce right
Speaker 6: into the Cardinals offense. We've heard Kyler and Drew Petsen
Speaker 6: talking about Kate Kyler out of the pocket a little
Speaker 6: bit more, sometimes by design. Sometimes when he's flushed out,
Speaker 6: you need to be more effective and make a defense
Speaker 6: pay when he's on the move. Kyler talking about how
Speaker 6: he was a big fan of Lamar Jackson and Josh
Speaker 6: Allen watching them in the AFC playoffs. What does that mean?
Speaker 6: Don't forget Kyler ran for over eight hundred yards in
Speaker 6: his second year in the NFL, So yes, is that coming?
Speaker 6: And then the other thing, I do wonder, and you
Speaker 6: tell me wolf of them off base on this what
Speaker 6: are the odds that go with split backs two backs
Speaker 6: at the same time.
Speaker 1: Okay, I bet Drew Petsig will do it from time
Speaker 1: to time, but I don't think it's it's going to
Speaker 1: be a common thing. Can I just say that, would
Speaker 1: I be surprised if he didn't do it from time
Speaker 1: to time, Yes, I would, But I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be specific to whatever opponent they're playing. Having said
Speaker 1: that too, PAULI, I just want to talk about Trey
Speaker 1: Benson's ability to come out of the backfield and catch
Speaker 1: the ball. That's something that I think is really important
Speaker 1: as well. And not only not only that, but being
Speaker 1: able to hold up in protection. James Connor is very
Speaker 1: very good in terms of protection, and we know that
Speaker 1: rundown situation, play action of course, and throwing the ball
Speaker 1: deep down the field to Marvin Harrison Junior, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a big part of what the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals are going to try to do offensively. That means
Speaker 1: you need running backs who can hold up in protection,
Speaker 1: and this is where Trey Benson needs to improve the most,
Speaker 1: no doubt.
Speaker 6: And do not forget how much importance the coach is
Speaker 6: attached to just that thou shall protect quarterback. And last year,
Speaker 6: when we realized it was a crowded running back room.
Speaker 6: I automatically assumed to Mario de Mercato would be the guy,
Speaker 6: the odd man out. Nope, it was Michael Carter who
Speaker 6: ended up going to the practice squad because they needed
Speaker 6: They wanted to mari de Mercado on third down in
Speaker 6: pass protection because that is where he excels. Hey get
Speaker 6: ready for the twenty twenty five season. With the latest
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Speaker 6: list out and this one snubbed. Larry the Legend. All
Speaker 6: that is next on the big red Rage.
Speaker 4: Open one of the thirty five mob he's hair, he's
Speaker 4: in the morning. At the fifth he turns up field
Speaker 4: of the forty.
Speaker 2: Five hurt the morning thirty five step COM's thirty twenty
Speaker 2: five twenty fits to the near side ten to the five.
Speaker 5: Tackle There amay course of bomber saw Larry Fitzgerald on
Speaker 5: the other side of the field and threw it while
Speaker 5: moving on the run, and then Larry Fitzgerald the Legend
Speaker 5: took over and did the rest.
Speaker 10: I told Wolf I actually phoned up to the to
Speaker 10: the box right when overtime was starting. I told him, listen,
Speaker 10: I'm gonna go to the left. I'm gonna break a
Speaker 10: few tanglers. I'm gonna get tackler to five. So get
Speaker 10: what you're gonna say. Prepare so you so.
Speaker 8: You look good.
Speaker 10: And it sounds like to live on forever.
Speaker 1: And you took the advice hitting ran with.
Speaker 4: It snapped the palmer rolls up.
Speaker 2: He is a pitch to fence Runnicks right ahead, head
Speaker 2: of the hands on the shovel pass. Then it touchdown
Speaker 2: of the wind the Cardinals and dance to the NFC
Speaker 2: Championship game on a shovel pass, of all things, and
Speaker 2: one of the craziest games ever fits.
Speaker 4: On the shovel pass, stores Ken the Cardinals winning it
Speaker 4: overtime twenty six to twenty.
Speaker 6: Let that memory hang in the air.
Speaker 1: Great call.
Speaker 6: Dave fash Ron Wolfley in the booth is Larry's cider.
Speaker 6: Larry had a handle on everything going on everywhere in
Speaker 6: the stadium at all times. And by the way, they
Speaker 6: were sitting in that shovel pass play for about two years,
Speaker 6: every single Friday they would practice it and then finally
Speaker 6: in that very moment to beat Green Bay in Round
Speaker 6: one of the playoffs. There was fits after the hail,
Speaker 6: Larry seventy five yards. I still love more than anything,
Speaker 6: maybe in his entire career. I still love the Nolak
Speaker 6: stiff arm boom out.
Speaker 1: Of nowhere, look stiff arm.
Speaker 6: Yes, oh man, all right, sorry, I'm getting carried away.
Speaker 6: It is the Big Red Rage, presented by Santane Ford
Speaker 6: and Gilbert. We are santan Ford, Paul calvic, Ron, Wolfley
Speaker 6: and wolf You know'tis the season four lists the off season.
Speaker 6: I mean we could spend a whole hour talking about
Speaker 6: I mean, right in front of me. I've been keeping
Speaker 6: track of a few that came out in the last
Speaker 6: month or so. Top ten breakout candidates entering year two.
Speaker 6: Number three, Marvin Harrison Junior, Top eight Bandwagons to jump
Speaker 6: on number three, Arizona Cardinals, six off season champions Cardinals
Speaker 6: on that list of the top six, I mean sixteen
Speaker 6: day three picks who could compete to start Number three
Speaker 6: Cody Simon, Cardinals linebacker. I could go on ten perfect
Speaker 6: team fits. Number four Will Johnson.
Speaker 1: You're right, Paulyly, it is wish list season. It is
Speaker 1: list season. Right now. So many people love doing this.
Speaker 1: It drives me crazy, it really does. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a producer question where you have to answer the
Speaker 1: question one way or the other. You can have both.
Speaker 1: How about we do have both? But not during list season.
Speaker 6: You can, because it can always get worse.
Speaker 1: It did.
Speaker 6: This week. The ESPN All Quarter Century Team build a
Speaker 6: fifty three man roster just based on the two thousands
Speaker 6: ever since the turn of the century, and they put
Speaker 6: out at each position group those who made the team.
Speaker 6: And then there was a practice squad. So there were
Speaker 6: let's count him here, six six receivers who made the
Speaker 6: All quarter Century Team. Yes, men dot Com? You ready, yeah?
Speaker 6: Randy Moss okay, Julio Jones, Marvin Harrison, Calvin Johnson, Megatron, Wow,
Speaker 6: Terrell Owens, Justin Jefferson. Okay, Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson. And
Speaker 6: then the practice squad consists of Antonio Brown and Andre Johnson.
Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness, Larry Fitzgerald did not make this list.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying? He did not make this roster.
Speaker 5: He's not on the list.
Speaker 1: Oh he's going goodness? Okay, Okay, this is funny because
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, all those names. It's Justin Jefferson that I
Speaker 1: have a problem with Paully, and it's not because he's
Speaker 1: not a great player. Oh my goodness, he is a
Speaker 1: great wide receiver. There's no denying that he's only been
Speaker 1: in the league for five years. Paul, he's only been
Speaker 1: in the league for five years. I understand you might
Speaker 1: want to be a little controversial when you make this list.
Speaker 1: I understand you might want to be a little relevant
Speaker 1: as well, and not just talk about guys that played
Speaker 1: over a decade ago. I understand that you want some
Speaker 1: relevance to today. But man, I would have a problem
Speaker 1: with Justin Jefferson, even though he's had five great seasons
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings, Larry had seventeen with the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 6: See, I would start with Tarrell Owens. Too had more
Speaker 6: drops in one game than Larry had in his entire career.
Speaker 6: I happen to see almost every single game of Too's career.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you so I respect his game. He's definitely
Speaker 6: a Hall of Famer. He's not more deserving than Larry
Speaker 6: fi Gerald. Let me also throw this out, Calvin Johnson, unbelievable.
Speaker 6: You know it's the NFL, as your friendly neighborhood Pencils
Speaker 6: sideline reporter, when Megatron would break the huddle and come
Speaker 6: to the Cardinals sideline and right across from as Patrick Peterson,
Speaker 6: you talk about an epic all time battle, and I
Speaker 6: mean they were ten feet away from me and it
Speaker 6: might as well have been another planet. The athleticism on
Speaker 6: display right there. But did Calvin Johnson ever even play
Speaker 6: in a single postseason game? Think of Larry's prowess in
Speaker 6: his production in the playoffs compared to someone like Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 6: I get it's not necessarily his fault. The Lions were
Speaker 6: woeful at the time, but think of everything Larry did
Speaker 6: in the playoffs and how he built that reputation a
Speaker 6: national brand basically both based on the postseason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right. Well, when you throw in Larry
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald his seventeen years of course in the league, the
Speaker 1: fact that fits. How many yards did he have passing yards?
Speaker 1: Seventeen thousand, four hundred and ninety two receiving yards. Think
Speaker 1: about that for a minute, the production that this guy
Speaker 1: put up, and Polly I think also you have to
Speaker 1: consider how many great quarterbacks did Larry Fitzgerald have how
Speaker 1: many great quarterbacks? Man, I mean to go.
Speaker 6: From Kurt Warner to Carson Palmer and then two years
Speaker 6: with Kyler, but one was his rookie year and the
Speaker 6: second year was Covid. So yes, I get your point.
Speaker 6: So maybe we're on the same Patriot because when I
Speaker 6: look at Marvin Harrison, and I'm gonna take anything away
Speaker 6: from Marvin Harrison, but if you put Larry Fitzgerald with
Speaker 6: Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have twenty seven thousand yards receiving.
Speaker 6: He'd have better numbers than Jerry Rice. He's number two
Speaker 6: to Jerry Rice in virtually every category all time. And
Speaker 6: he doesn't make the Quarter Century Team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I've got a little bit of
Speaker 1: a problem with this quarter Century team. There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. I do. And I think it starts with
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. Again, a great wide receiver, a great he's
Speaker 1: played five years in a league.
Speaker 6: Man, come on, yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you.
Speaker 6: And look, Julio Jones played a lot of the same
Speaker 6: years that Larry did. And Julio Jones is legit all pro.
Speaker 6: He wasn't better than Larry Fitzgerald. I just read my
Speaker 6: opinion on that, so okay, you know, but they need
Speaker 6: to stir it up, right, They take out the big
Speaker 6: soup spoon. They stir it up. They make sure there's
Speaker 6: a little controversy. So what happens Guys like us are
Speaker 6: talking about it. They get airtime, they get publicity across promotion.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 1: You know what is interesting, though, Paully, Kaleis Campbell, and
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, you were on the.
Speaker 6: List, yes, and deservedly so, I mean yes, you know
Speaker 6: what we forget is Kaleis Campbell made the All Decade
Speaker 6: Team in the twenty tens. Think about just how good
Speaker 6: he was. He's in Europe team right now. So he's
Speaker 6: a six time pro bowler, Kalaeis Campbell who has still
Speaker 6: started every game of the last two years, and he's
Speaker 6: aged thirty eight. And then Pat P Look Pat P
Speaker 6: in his prime. Those all pro teams there or I mean,
Speaker 6: other than Darrell Reeves, there really was no one better
Speaker 6: in his era, and there aren't many corners in this
Speaker 6: day and age. I don't know if there's a single
Speaker 6: corner left in the NFL that will travel. We'll go
Speaker 6: with one premiere wide receiver wherever he goes all over
Speaker 6: the field, and that was Pat Pe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right, Pape. I just thinking of some
Speaker 1: of the plays he made on some incredible throws, just
Speaker 1: some of the plays he made. Pat Pe was one
Speaker 1: of these guys who got a lot of passes defensed
Speaker 1: as well for a corner. He was a guy that
Speaker 1: could play in his own room very very well, but
Speaker 1: also a guy that, as we know, could walk up
Speaker 1: and play press man cover. But even when he played
Speaker 1: press cover, and he played that a lot, pap Pe
Speaker 1: was still so good in regard to playing press man
Speaker 1: that he could still get his hands on a lot
Speaker 1: of pigs and knock the ball away. That's a pass
Speaker 1: defense and he did it very very well.
Speaker 6: And so as we come full circle on this ESPN
Speaker 6: All quarter Century team that left Larry Fitzgerald off the team.
Speaker 6: To your point, he had two long term, really good quarterbacks,
Speaker 6: and Kurt Warner and Carson Palmer, and then in between man,
Speaker 6: think of the turnover, Think of the different guys he
Speaker 6: had to try and vibe with right to get chemistry with.
Speaker 6: Think of the evolving door and the turnstile was of quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: And yet Larry was productive every single season, regardless of
Speaker 6: who threw him the football.
Speaker 1: Yes, so to me to leave him off of that
Speaker 1: list outrageous.
Speaker 6: Yeah so.
Speaker 1: And by the way, even though we did go to pitt.
Speaker 6: By the way, he's up for a gold jacket. So
Speaker 6: wolf get ready, get ready? Tis the year. This is
Speaker 6: year five after he called it a career, Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 6: gonna be heading to Canton. I mean right, yeah, of
Speaker 6: course it was up to ESPN All quarter century Team.
Speaker 6: Maybe he wouldn't be going to Canadon as a first
Speaker 6: ballot wide receiver. Hey, be part of the Red Sierra
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