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Speaker 1: it doesn't get any better than that, boy. Unleash the fiards.
Speaker 1: I'm speaking that into existence here off the top of
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage. Doubted you know, Wolf just for that.
Speaker 1: When I graduated college, I swore that not only would
Speaker 1: I never read another word of Shakespeare, but I would
Speaker 1: never be the guy who quotes Shakespeare. Okay until now?
Speaker 1: All right, what are you gonna do? Paul King Lear
Speaker 1: Wolf and the famous quote from King lear and it
Speaker 1: goes like this, and I do quote, nothing will come
Speaker 1: of nothing. If you invest nothing, you will gain nothing.
Speaker 1: And that brings us and I think capsualizes the offseason.
Speaker 1: Invest in nih offseason, NFL, so thou shalt reap a
Speaker 1: bountiful regular season. So the rest of the league doesn't
Speaker 1: say wherefore art thou in the postseason? You went deep
Speaker 1: right there, right off the top. Well, I saw the
Speaker 1: rookie minicamp, which we're going to talk about, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Lucida Smith, that rare sixth rounder
Speaker 1: who might actually make a run of some serious playing time.
Speaker 1: Just saying a little bit of a prediction. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to him. I think you'll be impressed with
Speaker 1: Lucida Smith. We'll go from there. But Wolf, this is
Speaker 1: where you guys put in that time that you hopefully
Speaker 1: right and because once again, nothing will come up nothing
Speaker 1: unless you get your keyster out there and make it happen.
Speaker 1: That's right, Paula. You gotta have something. You got to
Speaker 1: have something, even if it starts with nothing. And that
Speaker 1: really is what the rookies are doing for the most part.
Speaker 1: They're starting with nothing because if you don't know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, Paul, really doesn't matter. All the goodness that
Speaker 1: God has given you, all your physical abilities, your physical talent,
Speaker 1: all of it, Paul, none of it matters if you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're doing, all right, you need that roadmap.
Speaker 1: You need to master the offense. You need to be
Speaker 1: able to master the defense. You need to do that
Speaker 1: before you can actually go out and perform. You know what.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw on Acy Cardinals dot
Speaker 1: com and the YouTube channel right, but there was a
Speaker 1: wired of Trey McBride. We're gonna play a little clip,
Speaker 1: but at the very end of the full piece, Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury says essentially that Wolf, I mean evidence of a
Speaker 1: guy who spent ten years in the NFL locker room.
Speaker 1: Because Cliff Kingsbury's message was, look at how much better
Speaker 1: we were today than yesterday because everybody had that much
Speaker 1: more of a grasp of the playbook and knew what
Speaker 1: they were doing, and we're actually able to see the
Speaker 1: athleticism guys. Guys weren't as much thinking as they were playing.
Speaker 1: And so that is part of the challenge for the
Speaker 1: rookies and Trey McBride, the highest drafted rookie in this
Speaker 1: claft class in this second round. He was miked up
Speaker 1: at Cardinals rookie camp. And here's a clip. Here we go,
Speaker 1: here we go getting this ball. Damn, I got a
Speaker 1: mug in my ear. You just got to tighten it
Speaker 1: down on that on follow if you're number three, just
Speaker 1: because you gotta get over there. Let's go here we
Speaker 1: have ballade. He's the same palm trees football paradise. That's right.
Speaker 1: Come on, we gotta catch that man, catch the ball
Speaker 1: all day. Bring it up, bring up, bring up, hey,
Speaker 1: good job today, man, high energy, keep it up, man,
Speaker 1: keep rolling team on three two three? About it a
Speaker 1: montage from rookie camp, Tray McBride, you hear the football paradise.
Speaker 1: That was a reference to what Cliff Kingsbury told him
Speaker 1: over the phone when they drafted him as a kid
Speaker 1: who was from Colorado, played at Colorado State, first team
Speaker 1: All American. You're John Mackey Award winner, is the top
Speaker 1: tight end in college ball. And there he is leading
Speaker 1: the white little bit of leadership at rookie minicamp. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that, PAULI. Of course, um he is the
Speaker 1: highest pick, of course, in this year's draft day second rounder,
Speaker 1: knowing that to the Arizona Cardlson Steve Come used Marquis
Speaker 1: Brown to actually absorb the twenty third pick overhaul in
Speaker 1: the first round. That was very nice. Um, Trey McBride,
Speaker 1: I am jacked up on Polly, I really am, because
Speaker 1: what is he six four paul, two hundred forty six
Speaker 1: pounds is not what he is right there? Six four two.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because George Kittle six four two fifty. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, Paul, I'm just saying, can you imagine right
Speaker 1: now Trey McBride has a little something something coming out
Speaker 1: of the side of his neck. I think his future
Speaker 1: is not as a move tight end. I think his
Speaker 1: future is as the why now he can play both
Speaker 1: right now, Paully, And that's the great thing about it.
Speaker 1: He can play both. So if you do get Max
Speaker 1: Williams back, and you do have zach Ertz as that
Speaker 1: move tight end guy, now all of a sudden you've
Speaker 1: got a backup for either, or if something happens to
Speaker 1: zach Ertz in a game he gets nicked up, or
Speaker 1: maybe Max Williams. Now, all of a sudden, you got
Speaker 1: a guy that you could plug in and who knows, Polly,
Speaker 1: he may actually start coming out of training camp. Think
Speaker 1: about this. He led d one tight ends with ninety
Speaker 1: catches for over eleven hundred yards receiving right, it's pretty
Speaker 1: good ball. But he told the media, you're gonna like this.
Speaker 1: He told the media that over seventy percent of his
Speaker 1: snaps and his job in college was blocking. Yes, so
Speaker 1: think about the production. Despite the fact that, according to him,
Speaker 1: more than two thirds of their time he's on the field,
Speaker 1: he was required to block. Yes. Now, once again, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to prove it to me, Polly. You know this.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel about this. I was a
Speaker 1: rookie once myself. I was a rookie once myself. I
Speaker 1: came in. Not a lot of fan fair Paul, not
Speaker 1: a lot of fans a fullback, and they didn't throw
Speaker 1: a fourth round fullback. It was not a lot right there,
Speaker 1: even though I was one hundred and fourth overall tasted, Polly,
Speaker 1: there's a flex. I'm just saying. I wasn't. Yeah, I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I came in, but man, I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: many other rookies I've seen come in. Paul is a
Speaker 1: ten year veteran in the National Football League, and man,
Speaker 1: I had scouts telling me watch his kid. Watch this kid.
Speaker 1: This kid is gonna change everything. And suddenly, you know what,
Speaker 1: there was a problem because the scout thought he was
Speaker 1: going to change the way we played football. He just
Speaker 1: couldn't play. That was that was the problem. And I see, Paul,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you see the problem right there. Right. Well, look,
Speaker 1: once upon a time the Cardinals took Troy Nicholas in
Speaker 1: round two. Yes, and that was a specimen six six,
Speaker 1: two fifty plus, get out of my way. And we
Speaker 1: both remember standing there in his rookie camp, right, and
Speaker 1: he was a little banged up to start, which pretty
Speaker 1: much typified his entire career. But when he got healthy
Speaker 1: in the middle of training camp, what did he do
Speaker 1: in his first old line D line drill? He stood
Speaker 1: up Darnell Dockett. Yeah, and we all said, whoa man. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously his career did not materialize. So I'm not making
Speaker 1: any sort of predictions here, but I am going to
Speaker 1: share what Cliff Kingsbury said he likes about his rookie
Speaker 1: tight end, Trey McBride. He's a smooth route runner. You know,
Speaker 1: we won't know until he puts the pads On. We
Speaker 1: watched the film. We love the physicality on tape, but
Speaker 1: this is a different level. But as far as running routes,
Speaker 1: great athlete, you know, three sports star in high school,
Speaker 1: so it really has an ease about the way he
Speaker 1: runs routes and does things. And here's what else the
Speaker 1: head coach likes about Trey McBride. And this is according
Speaker 1: to Trey McBride who shared with the meeting we talked
Speaker 1: about this last week that coach Kingsbury would like to
Speaker 1: disguise the offense a little bit more. And so if
Speaker 1: you have a true duel tight end like a Max Williams,
Speaker 1: a guy who comes in and isn't an automatic tell
Speaker 1: whether you're gonna throw or run the football, well, you
Speaker 1: know what more that more better if you will no
Speaker 1: doubt about it, Pali. That is what is fantastic in
Speaker 1: regard to going to more of two tight ends set.
Speaker 1: And zach Ertz is a willing blocker. He's not a
Speaker 1: why he's not a Max Williams. He's not going to
Speaker 1: come off the ball and remove somebody forcibly against his will.
Speaker 1: But zach Ertz is a guy that will stick his
Speaker 1: face into the fan and now maybe you've got a
Speaker 1: situation where Trey McBride could be that guy, Polly. I
Speaker 1: just think this is the evolution that needs to happen
Speaker 1: with this offense going forward. Do you know my thoughts
Speaker 1: on this. I'm not saying that suddenly it's going to
Speaker 1: look like every other offense in the National Football League
Speaker 1: for the most part, where they really blend the shotgun
Speaker 1: with putting quarterbacks under center. I don't think we're going
Speaker 1: to see that dramatic of a change, but I do
Speaker 1: believe we're going to see a lot more of two
Speaker 1: tight ends, and I think we need to look historically,
Speaker 1: we've seen tight ends after the first round over the
Speaker 1: past decade. The numbers say only nine. Only nine tight
Speaker 1: ends have been selected in the first round over the
Speaker 1: past decade, so that's usually where teams will start drafting
Speaker 1: the tight end. Now, running back, we also know that
Speaker 1: you can find a running back back on day two,
Speaker 1: even day three, which brings us to Keyante Ingram, a
Speaker 1: guy who I think beyond Trey McBride, has the best
Speaker 1: chance to get on the field right away because behind
Speaker 1: James Connor it is wide open. And Cliff Kingsbury was
Speaker 1: asked about a six round running back out of USC.
Speaker 1: Just a work ethic, the character, all those things checked
Speaker 1: all the boxes. I can play special teams, big physical back,
Speaker 1: and we just felt he fit what we do and
Speaker 1: that role. That can be your third fourth guy that
Speaker 1: plays special teams and can come in and played a
Speaker 1: high level on offense as well. Right, So Wolf is
Speaker 1: a guy who spent a decade in a running back room.
Speaker 1: You tell me is a realistic You can think the
Speaker 1: rookie can come in and challenge a Jonathan ward and
Speaker 1: an Eno Benjamin. Yeah, Paully, I do believe that you
Speaker 1: could come in and challenge. Will you actually win the spot?
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, but it was interesting to
Speaker 1: hear Cliff Kingsbury say that third or fourth spot? Was
Speaker 1: it involved? He did say that it was a third
Speaker 1: or Paul, He wasn't in the second spot. It was
Speaker 1: that third or fourth you know what. I like that?
Speaker 1: But is it a deference to the guys to you
Speaker 1: know and Jonathan Warden? Oh, without a shot all of
Speaker 1: a doubt. Yeah, you know what, Hey, listen, rook You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to come in and you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: prove it. That's what I love right there. Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: given the rookie a little sugar, given him some acknowledgement,
Speaker 1: and at the same time letting him know, hey man,
Speaker 1: we're talking about third or fourth here. You know. I
Speaker 1: love that. That's great. That's the way it should be.
Speaker 1: Makeam learn it. By the way, it's prove it every day.
Speaker 1: Well that's always says, prove it, not one time, but
Speaker 1: every day. Just prove it, Polly. That's all we need
Speaker 1: right there, It implies every day. Episode thirty the Dave
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Speaker 1: from jj Watt a little bit later in this edition
Speaker 1: of The Big Red Rage. But this is going to
Speaker 1: star Lacidas Smith. You're sixth rounder out of Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1: We heard what Quentin Harris said about him, called him
Speaker 1: a steel Pro Football Focus called him quote a steal.
Speaker 1: Now you'll hear from the sixth rounder yourself, right, A
Speaker 1: big guy with a nasty attitude. So that's a good start,
Speaker 1: and he is next Lucida Smith on the Big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Jaw not selected
Speaker 1: all right, So that was the Cardinals pick live from
Speaker 1: Mexico City, Yes, international. It was being back to Las Vegas, where,
Speaker 1: of course the draft was being conducted after the decision
Speaker 1: was made from the Cardinals war room and phoned in
Speaker 1: from Tempe, which is where we are now, Dignity Health
Speaker 1: Training Center, the Arizona Cardinals, and right in front of
Speaker 1: us in person is Licitas Smith, all six foot three,
Speaker 1: fourteen pounds of him, and right off the top. Did
Speaker 1: you ever think your pick would come from the south
Speaker 1: of the border, No, sir, I actually did not think
Speaker 1: it was gonna happen like that. But I'm very glad
Speaker 1: he did. And I'm very glad I'm here, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad they got your name right now. I am pronouncing
Speaker 1: it right correctly. Yeah, so you are, because he is
Speaker 1: a guy whose last name is seven letters, and it
Speaker 1: gets butchered all the time. You know, how often do
Speaker 1: people screw up laciitis all the time? And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what I get the most anxiety when you know,
Speaker 1: I was in grade school and we have a substitute teacher,
Speaker 1: because I know that teacher does not know how to
Speaker 1: pronounce it and likely is gonna say it wrong. And
Speaker 1: then now I got the whole classmaking jokes and stuff.
Speaker 1: So what's the most common mispronunciation over the years. I
Speaker 1: think lositissitis or no lectis. I give that a good
Speaker 1: bit that sounds biblical almost lectis, Like, you know, that's
Speaker 1: so so okay. It's been like, I mean, you've been
Speaker 1: in the NFL now ever since your name was called right,
Speaker 1: two three weeks, right, what sort of whirlwind has your
Speaker 1: life been like? It's actually been very very cool. Um,
Speaker 1: it's been an eye opening experience. You know, being on
Speaker 1: the outside of the NFL, it just kind of seems like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's this huge uproar within the NFL from fans and
Speaker 1: stuff like that when a draft comes around, and then
Speaker 1: next thing you know, boom, it's time to play preseason
Speaker 1: games and it's time for the season. But I'm actually
Speaker 1: being a part of it. You get I get to
Speaker 1: see day by day when our professional athletes have to
Speaker 1: go through as far as you know, being in a
Speaker 1: playbook all the time, making sure you're where you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be when you're supposed to be there making sure
Speaker 1: you're doing all the right things, making all the right
Speaker 1: calls and the right checks, you know. So it's actually
Speaker 1: really cool to be um behind the scenes and see
Speaker 1: how everything works. Like I said, glad to be here.
Speaker 1: By the way, take us behind the scenes on draft day.
Speaker 1: What was the phone call like on your end? We
Speaker 1: heard the call in Cardinal's flight plan and you were
Speaker 1: adamant when you were talking to the GM Steve Kime,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking to the quote here you were saying,
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent and ready. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I'm ready, quote unquote. So what was it like
Speaker 1: on your end? It was, Actually it was. It was
Speaker 1: very cool once I actually got the call, because trust me,
Speaker 1: once that sixth round came around and I'm sitting back
Speaker 1: and I see some you know, guys going ahead of me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I may go undrafted. Like
Speaker 1: I was sitting and I'm like, oh man, how is
Speaker 1: this gonna happen? This is so crazy. But um, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it did happen, and when
Speaker 1: it did, I was really at shock. Um. I did
Speaker 1: not think it was gonna be Arizona like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm very glad it was. I'm happy to be here
Speaker 1: and being coached by coach Coogler, you know some of
Speaker 1: those other coaches, even the special teams coaches. But like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm glad it happened. I'm glad it happened here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was. It was definitely shocked. It was shocked.
Speaker 1: Our guests, Lucida Smith, Cardinal's sixth round pick of Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1: What are you most curious to find out about the NFL.
Speaker 1: I'm actually curious about what it's like when camp comes
Speaker 1: around and now you actually get on the field with
Speaker 1: the big dogs. Because we've had Ricky Mine Camp, which
Speaker 1: is a three day camp for US younger guys. The
Speaker 1: older guys weren't even in town, and now we have
Speaker 1: some of the older guys, but the OG veterans aren't
Speaker 1: even here yet. So you still have guys like Beecham
Speaker 1: and and Kyler Murray and just guys you know who
Speaker 1: you know still aren't here yet who I have yet
Speaker 1: to meet. So when when those guys get into town,
Speaker 1: I know it's it's on. Take me to Cardinals training camp.
Speaker 1: Have you had the thought there's gonna be an old
Speaker 1: line D line drill, full pads, full contact, and there's
Speaker 1: a chance that i could line up in a three
Speaker 1: point stance and I'm staring straight across at ninety nine
Speaker 1: J J. Watt. That's gonna be a welcome to the
Speaker 1: NFL moment, won't it? Yes? I think it will be.
Speaker 1: I'm anna pray that it won't. I'm an pray that
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't teach me a lesson right there
Speaker 1: and you know, right after that point. But um, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna definitely try to hold my own. I mean, the
Speaker 1: guy is definitely a legend, undoubted Leah Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I hope he can teach me a
Speaker 1: thing and two from that rep or those reps I'll
Speaker 1: take against him. But it's definitely like I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: staying across looking like, oh my god, I'm about to
Speaker 1: take a rep from JJ Wise. It's gonna be crazy, hey, J. Look.
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys has been there many times going against Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals starting left tackle, and he's told us in
Speaker 1: this very show how much better Chandler Jones made him
Speaker 1: as a young guy, and he knew if he could
Speaker 1: hold his own against Chandler Jones. He was ready to
Speaker 1: go for the regular season. He was ready to go
Speaker 1: for the rest of the schedule. And look, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you're not capable. I mean there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of praise when it comes to you in your career
Speaker 1: at Virginia Tech. In fact, the VP of Player Personnel,
Speaker 1: Quentin Harris, was on the Passpod recently and he was asked,
Speaker 1: okay by Dave, you know, give us a guy from
Speaker 1: day two or day three in this Cardinal's draft class
Speaker 1: that stands out to you. I really like Lucida Smith,
Speaker 1: our guard we took out of Virginia Tech. This guy
Speaker 1: is athletic, he's an excellent pooler. He's tough, he's physical,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times, you know, you watch NFL
Speaker 1: lineman and you're like, ah, he's tough, he's strong, but
Speaker 1: he's slow footed. This guy is everything. He was a
Speaker 1: still in my opinion for us. He went on to
Speaker 1: say that he also likes your temperament. And when I
Speaker 1: looked at one of the Scotter reports on you, I
Speaker 1: think it was NFL dot Com. One of the things
Speaker 1: they listed first, what's plays with an attitude? True or false?
Speaker 1: Very true, very true. And what does that mean? Translate that?
Speaker 1: The way I think about it is, you know, once
Speaker 1: it's time to step in between those white lines, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm biting down on my mouthpiece and I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. Where this a run play? Hopefully it's
Speaker 1: a run play. You know, offensive lineman love run plays.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's a run play. And like I said, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go. Whether it's a double team or I'm
Speaker 1: working alone against a three technique or whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: it'll be me against that other guy and me trying
Speaker 1: to finish him, and not only to do my job,
Speaker 1: but do it very well to the point where I
Speaker 1: finish him. He can't affect to play whatsoever. That's just
Speaker 1: kind of the mentality I have at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. Just make sure my man does not affect
Speaker 1: the play. And I think that if every you know,
Speaker 1: all five guys up front had that mentality, we can
Speaker 1: definitely run for a lot of yards, which I mean
Speaker 1: the Cardinals do that every year anyway, so I won't
Speaker 1: be nothing new for them. And if you finish that play,
Speaker 1: are you vocal about it or your trash talker? You
Speaker 1: know what? Surprisingly, No, some people may think I am,
Speaker 1: especially with the nastiness I play with. But no, and
Speaker 1: that's for two reasons. For one, I'm not a very
Speaker 1: good trash talker. For two, it usually backfires. So I
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, get to mouthing off at
Speaker 1: a guy and that he makes a play and I'm like,
Speaker 1: dake it. I should have never said what I just said,
Speaker 1: Like you know. So those are really the two reasons
Speaker 1: that I don't. You know, I may get really I
Speaker 1: guess into it or filled with a journalist where I
Speaker 1: finish a guy and I get up and I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm grunting, I'm feeling it. But nine times out of
Speaker 1: and I don't really go off at a guy. I
Speaker 1: don't get to mount an at a guy. We're on
Speaker 1: board with Lucida Smith Cardinals, rookie old lineman out of
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. All right, So this is what I find
Speaker 1: interesting is that Steve Kim talked about how powerful you
Speaker 1: are as a run blocker, said you're a great pulling
Speaker 1: guard plane in space as well. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: in a moment. But in the same sky report a
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com it said that you're better in pass
Speaker 1: protection than as a run blocker. But when you were
Speaker 1: asked for your strength with the media, you said, I
Speaker 1: pack a punch in the run game, and I come
Speaker 1: off the ball with a lot of power. So were
Speaker 1: there skyter reports out there that you sort of shook
Speaker 1: your head at during the process? They wait, a minute,
Speaker 1: where are they getting this? Or do you feel like
Speaker 1: you have to dispel anything that was out there pre draft? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: crazy enough. I did see at one point that are
Speaker 1: heard at one point that some teams are concerned with
Speaker 1: my weight, that I may have a weight problem. I
Speaker 1: never had a weight problem. Ever, as a former tight end,
Speaker 1: I find that surprising that you'd have a weight problem
Speaker 1: exactly you play at three fourteen or so. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't know where they get that from. What's
Speaker 1: funny is even going into my last season at Virginia Tech,
Speaker 1: my fifth year of Virginia Tech, I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of articles that stated that I was pretty good in
Speaker 1: the run game, but talking about my lack of I
Speaker 1: guess ability in the passing game. So that was something
Speaker 1: I focused on that last season at Virginia Tech, and
Speaker 1: that's why I think coming out there were a few
Speaker 1: teams that touched on or just a few reports that
Speaker 1: touched on the fact that, you know, I looked pretty
Speaker 1: good in the passing game. That was something I really
Speaker 1: wanted to get better at, so people didn't think I
Speaker 1: was a guy. I was just gonna be really good
Speaker 1: in the run scheme and a problem in the passing game.
Speaker 1: How much weight did you have to gain to go
Speaker 1: from tight end to old line? I think I put
Speaker 1: on about fifty five to sixty pounds because I was
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty pounds and I ended up at
Speaker 1: three fifteen. How would you do that? You know, when
Speaker 1: I first got the Virginia Tech. When I first got
Speaker 1: there was a tight end. They kind of gave me
Speaker 1: that option to you know, they tried me out a
Speaker 1: tight end and they were going to see how it
Speaker 1: worked out. So I was on a treadmill every day
Speaker 1: even after workout, was getting extra runs, and just you know,
Speaker 1: when we go to the Dinah Hall and I'm going
Speaker 1: with you know, my class, the class that I came
Speaker 1: in with some of the guys. We go there and
Speaker 1: I'm eating a salad. Everybody else has chicken and other things,
Speaker 1: and I'm eating the salad. So when that switch actually happened.
Speaker 1: I was pretty happy about it. I embraced it, so
Speaker 1: you know, I was able to sit at the table
Speaker 1: with the offensive line and with the big dogs and
Speaker 1: eat steak and shrimp and the whole nine, and you know,
Speaker 1: didn't have to feel bad about it. I was able
Speaker 1: to get that weight up it. It wasn't very hard
Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, it sounds like you enjoyed it, sir,
Speaker 1: Well Ceter Smith, our guest Cardinals rookie offensive lineman, you
Speaker 1: still have the hands, by the way, as a former
Speaker 1: tight end, I mean, could you be like a goal
Speaker 1: line option and sort of a you know, a jumbo
Speaker 1: package without a doubt, without the simeon any route I'm
Speaker 1: routing anybody up. The hands are still there. See that's
Speaker 1: how your team up with jj wat because he was
Speaker 1: part of the mega Watt package last year and a
Speaker 1: goal ie deal. And you think he has three touchdown
Speaker 1: catches in his career. So the two of you might
Speaker 1: be a good combo this year. Let's see this on
Speaker 1: how about off the field? Give us a Scott report
Speaker 1: because speaking of eating, uh, your rumored to have a
Speaker 1: YouTube cooking show. Yes, sir, I do. Me and my
Speaker 1: girlfriend heaven m so we actually started the channel during COVID.
Speaker 1: We were stuck in the house like everybody was, didn't
Speaker 1: have much to do, couldn't really get out like we
Speaker 1: want to m So after, you know, I wake up
Speaker 1: every morning, of course I get my workout there. We'd
Speaker 1: probably do some cardio, going to hike us something, and
Speaker 1: then after that we're just back at the house. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, she kind of came up with the idea,
Speaker 1: what if we start a YouTube channel, So it kind
Speaker 1: of started off with funny just a little funny VIDs
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But yes, I do love to cook. Um.
Speaker 1: I believe we did upload a cooking video on there.
Speaker 1: She actually wanted to do one before I left to
Speaker 1: come here because she's back in Blacksburg, but we didn't
Speaker 1: get around of that, but we will soon. Do you
Speaker 1: have a specialty because the Old Line has an annual
Speaker 1: cook off led by the head coach or the Old
Speaker 1: Line coach Sean Coogler, right, and and he fashions himself
Speaker 1: as a foodie and also the owner, Michael Bidwell has
Speaker 1: been caused come in as a judge. And I think
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys is a reigning champion. By the way, the
Speaker 1: left tackle. But if you were to give him a run,
Speaker 1: what dish would you prepare? Um, I think I have
Speaker 1: a pretty good recipe for pork chops, so I'd definitely
Speaker 1: do pork chops with a side of with a side
Speaker 1: of white rice. I may go with either baked broccoli
Speaker 1: or baked asparagus, one of the two. But it's really
Speaker 1: really good, by the way, as you might guess, I've
Speaker 1: never played offensive line over here. Okay, Paul Pencilnick, Okay,
Speaker 1: So what is the best thing and the worst thing
Speaker 1: about being a big guy? All you guys in the
Speaker 1: old line room, right, and you're in the ninety nine
Speaker 1: percentile all the world in terms of size. What's something
Speaker 1: that's really good about being big? And what is something
Speaker 1: that just stinks about being a big guy? Am I
Speaker 1: putting you on the spot with that question, Lasidas, No,
Speaker 1: not exactly. But something ain't good about being a big
Speaker 1: guy is especially playing football. I mean, you're usually rolling
Speaker 1: guys off the ball. You're a guy that went it's
Speaker 1: time to lift. You don't have to go on the
Speaker 1: rack with the smaller guys and the scale guys, and
Speaker 1: you know, do the little weights. You get to lift
Speaker 1: with the big guys or the big dogs. Um, something
Speaker 1: that sucks plane travel like a coach ticket. That's got
Speaker 1: to be a travel Oh my goodness, that's a great one.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even thinking that. That's the really outside the
Speaker 1: box one that's see. For me, every seat is a
Speaker 1: first class seat. That's great, you know, because I had
Speaker 1: plenty of room. But a guy like you, that man,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be misery, right, yes, sir, it is all right.
Speaker 1: So last thing for Lucida Smith here is wrap it
Speaker 1: up on the big red rage. You heard the words steel.
Speaker 1: That was Quinn Harris. Pro Football Focus had you as
Speaker 1: the eighth best interior old lineman in the entire draft.
Speaker 1: They called you, quote a steel for Arizona. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you're a steel for this team? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's something I never really thought about. Um, I do
Speaker 1: feel like pretty good at what I do. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's kind of weird to say, only
Speaker 1: because all I've done was at the college level, So
Speaker 1: I can't say I'm good at what I did at
Speaker 1: the college levels. All I'm trying to say having made
Speaker 1: my mark, having did a thing in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: I can't sit up here and say, oh, I'm this
Speaker 1: and that guard or you know, interior office of lineman
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and I'm this and that. Good I
Speaker 1: can't speak on that. What I can't say is I'll
Speaker 1: go out here every single day with my guys or
Speaker 1: my teammates, gained their trust and give them all every
Speaker 1: single practice and strive to be the best player I
Speaker 1: can be. So as far as it steal some I
Speaker 1: never really thought about, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I do want to be the very best I can be.
Speaker 1: It's a great answer. We appreciated everything here. Thank you,
Speaker 1: and good luck going forward here. Thank you very much. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. Lucida Smith will come back and continue
Speaker 1: with a big red rage presented by Santan four and Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Give him to Henry. Hitting the backfield by J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt who got off a block and drags it down.
Speaker 1: Knocked down and complete. It's j J Watt got his
Speaker 1: hands up, he bumbles them all. It's Lows on the
Speaker 1: far side another takeaway. J J. Watt force the fumble
Speaker 1: leveled in the backfield by JJ Watt. J J. Watt
Speaker 1: gets the penetration white at the point of attack. Hitting
Speaker 1: the backfield and down he goes for a loss. Jj
Speaker 1: Watts snailed him in the eighteen yard line. Mitchell running
Speaker 1: straight ahead gets dropped for a loss. Jj Watt in
Speaker 1: the backfield with the takedown penetration on the backside. That
Speaker 1: is jj Watt baby tip then complete. It was Tim
Speaker 1: and it was jj Watt who got it and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals stopped him on forchdown again. When healthy, jj Watt
Speaker 1: was a playmaker. He was a difference maker over the
Speaker 1: first half of last season for the Arizona Cardinals, and
Speaker 1: not only on the field but on the sideline as well.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. It is a big
Speaker 1: red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert will get
Speaker 1: to jj Wat some of his comments to day pass
Speaker 1: on the Pash podcast. But we brought up jj Watt
Speaker 1: with Lucida Smith Wolf, the six round rookie offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, that's gonna be a welcome to the
Speaker 1: NFL moment if he has to square off against ninety
Speaker 1: nine and no line D line drill in training camp.
Speaker 1: But what I'll struck you about the interview with Lucidas, Boy, Polly,
Speaker 1: that is a great question because honestly, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's a square dude. And when I say a
Speaker 1: square dude, I mean literally square, and I also think
Speaker 1: he's squared away. He is a square dude. Ball six three,
Speaker 1: three hundred fourteen pounds. Man, you look at him, his shoulders,
Speaker 1: his hips, his but everything lines up where he is
Speaker 1: a square guy. But also, Polly, I have to tell you, man,
Speaker 1: the articulation, how articulate he was. Intelligent? Yeah, confident man.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Polly. He sounds like one of
Speaker 1: those classic offensive line But his temperament is something that
Speaker 1: really is something that is very intriguing as well, because
Speaker 1: I want to see him brawl. And when I say braul,
Speaker 1: I don't mean get into a fight. I mean go
Speaker 1: out there and try to forcibly remove somebody from the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, because according to Lucidis, that's what he
Speaker 1: does and that's who he is. In fact, his answer,
Speaker 1: I said, you know these scatter reports say you play
Speaker 1: with an attitude, true or false? He said, true, very true,
Speaker 1: very true. If you know, if you go on YouTube
Speaker 1: and you look for some of the micd up Virginia
Speaker 1: tech stuff, you'll get a sense of just how intense
Speaker 1: he is as articulate and thoughtful as he was in
Speaker 1: that interview. Man, he does flip a switch between the
Speaker 1: white lines. And what I loved about that, Pauli was
Speaker 1: just the fact he said he wasn't a good trash talker.
Speaker 1: He wasn't good, so he doesn't do it. You know that, Man,
Speaker 1: that is an offensive alignment. For the most part, that
Speaker 1: is a wise thing to do. You can have that temperament,
Speaker 1: just don't open your mouth. There's nothing wrong with wanting
Speaker 1: to drive somebody into the ground and lay on top
Speaker 1: of him and slime block him after the play is over.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with doing that. Just don't anger your opponent,
Speaker 1: don't trash talk him. A lot of offensive lineman, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, paul I would say maybe ten percent, ten
Speaker 1: percent of the offensive linemen I've played with in ten
Speaker 1: years were trash talkers. The vast majority they stay silent. Well, look,
Speaker 1: he's also smart enough to know that as a rookie,
Speaker 1: you don't know what you don't know. So he wasn't
Speaker 1: making any proclamations. In fact, he said it. He said
Speaker 1: he'll know it's it's on when the big dogs come
Speaker 1: into camp, when the veterans, when the JJ Watts the
Speaker 1: Kelvin Beach Hims, the DJ Humphreys, when those guys show up.
Speaker 1: Although he did say went about his hands, he said,
Speaker 1: I still have the hands as a former tight end.
Speaker 1: So that was the only post we really got out
Speaker 1: of him was on the hands. So I thought that
Speaker 1: was great too. Probably that's funny, but anyway, speaking to J. J. Watt,
Speaker 1: you want great, just queue up the Day Pash podcast.
Speaker 1: Take a listen, and you talk about young guys, the
Speaker 1: last two first round picks for the Eros on our Cardinals,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, Zaven Collins. We know how key and central
Speaker 1: they are to the Cardinals defense and the Cardinal's success
Speaker 1: overall this year. And JJ Watt was asked, just okay,
Speaker 1: how can they excel? I think it's all about time
Speaker 1: you put in, and I think it's about repetition and
Speaker 1: just consistency. I think that the more time that you're
Speaker 1: able to commit to the job and that you're able
Speaker 1: to learn and grow, and the more time that you
Speaker 1: have to learn the playbook and the plays and see
Speaker 1: as many looks as possible, whether it's walk throughs, whether
Speaker 1: it's practice, whether it's offseason program, training camp, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be, and being able to do those things over
Speaker 1: and over and over again, that's when you really get good.
Speaker 1: I think that having an off season program is going
Speaker 1: to help them a lot, because we haven't had one
Speaker 1: true offseason program for a few years, especially since they've
Speaker 1: been in the league. It is a legitimate question, though,
Speaker 1: isn't it Well, especially as Collins is concerned, is that
Speaker 1: mic linebacker replacing Jordan Hicks. Yeah. No, it's a huge,
Speaker 1: huge issue. I would say going into training camp, one
Speaker 1: of the things that we're going to be watching very
Speaker 1: very closely the development of Zaven Collins. But you heard
Speaker 1: JJ Watt right at the M PAULI he's exactly on
Speaker 1: top of this thing. It's not a surprise because having
Speaker 1: an off season where you've got Isaiah Simmons now who
Speaker 1: can actually get out on the field and go through
Speaker 1: his reps and get his reps and go through the
Speaker 1: playbook and totally continue to grow in Zaven Collins, in
Speaker 1: particular as a MIC linebacker, a guy that is probably
Speaker 1: going to be wearing the green dot. I would imagine
Speaker 1: this to me is imperative. This offseason is just as
Speaker 1: important as the season Zaven Collins just went through for
Speaker 1: his development. And then there's Kyler Murray, and of course
Speaker 1: JJ Watt was asked about the development of the Cardinals
Speaker 1: franchise orderback and how he takes the next step. Here's
Speaker 1: j J. Watt with Dave Pash. He's done it, He's
Speaker 1: played at extremely high level. I think it's just obviously
Speaker 1: we need to finish out of season better. I think
Speaker 1: that's not just him, and that's on all of us.
Speaker 1: I think that it's being able to take us to
Speaker 1: where we need to go from a playoff standpoint and
Speaker 1: to go win a super Bowl. And every year in
Speaker 1: the league, you get better, you mature, you have you
Speaker 1: learn the game, you played differently a year to year
Speaker 1: because you have more knowledge base, you have more experience,
Speaker 1: you're a year mature and wiser. So I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing his progress and looking forward to seeing the
Speaker 1: step that he takes this season. That's what I want
Speaker 1: to continue to see from Kyler Murray. Polly. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but I think we'd all agree that
Speaker 1: his rookie year to his second year, he got better.
Speaker 1: Ye have no doubt. His second year to his third
Speaker 1: year he got better. Yeah, I want to see him continue.
Speaker 1: You know, you're talking about a guy that has been
Speaker 1: to two Pro Bowls. But I still believe he can
Speaker 1: be better. He's not a finished product. He's nowhere near it.
Speaker 1: He can be better with the intangibles. He can get
Speaker 1: better as a leader, he can get better in terms
Speaker 1: of preparing to go out and play a game, even
Speaker 1: though he's got this wild talent, this incredible talent. The
Speaker 1: most improvement right now for Kyler Murray comes in between
Speaker 1: the years. You know on Cardinals Underground the podcast this week,
Speaker 1: well if I throw out a comparison, I said, you
Speaker 1: know what the Cincinnati Bengals culture was in making a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl run? It was Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow was
Speaker 1: the culture. And to me, that's the next step for Kyler. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a tall task, but if you're going to be
Speaker 1: a forty million dollars a year quarterback, guess what it's
Speaker 1: uni your job description. Yeah, you have to be the culture,
Speaker 1: the guy who leads all the other guys who are
Speaker 1: not the franchise quarterback and that and you know what,
Speaker 1: you might be missing your marquee wide receiver in DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hockkmins like you were the last half of last season,
Speaker 1: and like you're going to miss him for the first
Speaker 1: six games of this season, and you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: figure that out, because you know what, the Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: of the world, they make no name receivers into playmakers
Speaker 1: and that's how you win games. And so Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: for the first time when it comes to DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: meeting the media after the draft and after the rookie minicamp,
Speaker 1: and he was asked, Okay, your plans on offense dealing
Speaker 1: with d hop and his suspension, Marquis will help. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a dynamic playmaker and we just had to play
Speaker 1: better as an offense. It's unfortunate that he won't be available,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited when we get him back. We struggled
Speaker 1: the second half of the season, and you know, when
Speaker 1: we get him back, I think that'll be a real
Speaker 1: shot in the arm for that back half and I
Speaker 1: know we'll get his best. How scared are you? Simply put,
Speaker 1: the last we saw the Cardinals offense minus d hop
Speaker 1: it wasn't a lot to write home about. It was
Speaker 1: a much different offense. What's your expectation the first six
Speaker 1: games of this season? Yeah, you know what, paul I
Speaker 1: should be scared. I should, but I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: In the reason being is because I believe there's going
Speaker 1: to be a paradigm shift once again undown situation. I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be more two tight ends. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be Listen, if the Cardinals suddenly start
Speaker 1: trying to run more wide receivers onto the field after
Speaker 1: losing their best wide receiver, I think you've got an issue.
Speaker 1: But if they go ahead, Paulie and start running out
Speaker 1: some two tight ends, a little bit more two tight
Speaker 1: ends in rundown situation which is first and ten, second
Speaker 1: and one to six, I really think this is going
Speaker 1: to help them develop their base offense so that when
Speaker 1: you get d hop coming back, he can just go
Speaker 1: ahead and improve it, and you'll get him back there
Speaker 1: in week seven. You'll get him on a short week
Speaker 1: Thursday Night football against the Saints, So he's not even
Speaker 1: gonna have a real practice man to go through. Although
Speaker 1: if there's any player in NFL history who can excel
Speaker 1: without practice, it's got to be DeAndre Hopkins, right, so
Speaker 1: go the end. Look, maybe we'll find out during training
Speaker 1: camp because he's eligible all the way through the month
Speaker 1: August and the preseason, we'll figure out what plan he has.
Speaker 1: If you remember, Patrick Peterson would simulate game days. Every
Speaker 1: Sunday those first six that he missed, he'd go out
Speaker 1: and do his own three hour workout and simulate a
Speaker 1: game day. So we'll see. And speaking of game days,
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinal season tickets available now at asy cardinals dot
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Speaker 1: we'll continue in fact, speaking of that schedule, what's ahead,
Speaker 1: And there was announcement today regarding the Cardinals schedule. All
Speaker 1: that and more. Next The Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 1: satan Ford and Gilbert. We are Santanford. Here's a little
Speaker 1: story about Patrick Mahomes. I did his first game that
Speaker 1: he started. We do that production mean, I'm talking to
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and he says, the thing that surprised me
Speaker 1: the most is that Patrick Mahomes has a photographic memory,
Speaker 1: Like I can tell him something, you know, in training
Speaker 1: camp week one, and he'll remember it in week fifteen,
Speaker 1: you know. And when you combine his athletic ability, his
Speaker 1: ability to throw the ball, how pretty that ball is,
Speaker 1: his ability to escape and throw at different angles. And
Speaker 1: then you combine that with this mind that can have
Speaker 1: this recall like a Tom Brady. Now you know why
Speaker 1: he can be so good, and you think about the
Speaker 1: future and what he could do. That was two years ago.
Speaker 1: That's Jay Feeley, former Cardinals kicker now CBS Network analyst
Speaker 1: on Patrick Mahomes in his conversation with Andy Reid, reminds
Speaker 1: you Andrew luck who supposedly that Stamford big brain had
Speaker 1: photographic memory as well. And that is app that little
Speaker 1: clip right there, Ron Wolfley. As we continue and wrap
Speaker 1: up this edition to the Big Red Rage brought to
Speaker 1: you by santan Ford and Gilbert because the Earlson our
Speaker 1: Cardinals open with Patrick Mahomes in the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: In fact, let's just get right to a cliff. Kingsbarrow
Speaker 1: was asked about Week one against his former Texas Tech quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was really thankful to the schedule makers for given
Speaker 1: us a young quarterback that hadn't quite found his way
Speaker 1: in the league just yet, you know, still trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out. So no, it's it'll be fun. He
Speaker 1: sent me like the little Imoji before it even came out,
Speaker 1: so he'll be rebbed up. Will definitely have some Texas
Speaker 1: Tech fans tune into that one. I'm sure. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: former you know that Patrick Mahomes guy, former Super Bowl champion,
Speaker 1: former MVP. You know the team that's hosted the last
Speaker 1: four AFC Championship games, those Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, PAULI is going to be really interesting though,
Speaker 1: If in fact, I had my brothers, if you told me, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna play the Kansas City Chiefs, well, when would
Speaker 1: you like to play the Kansas City Chiefs? I'd say
Speaker 1: week one of the NFL season, really, week one, yes, indeed, Paul.
Speaker 1: And the reason being is, especially when you're dealing with
Speaker 1: an offense that is going to be trying to find
Speaker 1: itself without Tyreek Hill, I will say week one, please,
Speaker 1: because I really do believe without Tyreek Hill they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to find a different way to play football offensively.
Speaker 1: Even with Patrick Mahomes, I think Tyreek Hill is one
Speaker 1: of these rare, rare individuals Paulli that impacts the defense
Speaker 1: on every play that he's in the game, every play,
Speaker 1: even when he doesn't have the ball. That's a big deal.
Speaker 1: And you've got to learn how to play differently without
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. I'm not going to disagree with that. A
Speaker 1: few years ago, when the Cardinals went to Kansas City,
Speaker 1: every time Tyreek Hill would go in motion, the entire defense,
Speaker 1: the front seven and beyond would lose their mind. Everyone
Speaker 1: would start pointing at him. Okay, and everything would change accordingly.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right on that. My hesitation or apprehension is
Speaker 1: that the Cardinals offense will be trying to find itself
Speaker 1: minus d hop in Week one, So it's a daunting challenge.
Speaker 1: That's a possibility, Paully. But go back and start looking
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years at some of the
Speaker 1: upsets that happen in Week one of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: Why is that? I think, listen, if you're gonna jump
Speaker 1: up a team, if you're gonna surprise a team, that's
Speaker 1: the best time to actually do it. And you know what,
Speaker 1: that's a great point because maybe the best example was
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Week one jack stomping at Tennessee last year.
Speaker 1: There it is, Poli Hamedy. People gave the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: a chance of going in and beating the Tennessee Titans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the good news. The bad news is you open
Speaker 1: with Kansas City, then you go to the playoff Raiders,
Speaker 1: who now have Davante Adams and Chandler Jones, and then
Speaker 1: you have the Super Bowl champion Rams at home. Those
Speaker 1: are your first three games. And remember the recent historic
Speaker 1: stat the teams that start oh and two make the
Speaker 1: playoffs less than ten percent of the time. Can you
Speaker 1: feel that body? Huh? Now? Right now? As as for
Speaker 1: prime time, the Cardinals have four four games in prime
Speaker 1: time and you know three of them are at home.
Speaker 1: The fourth one is technically a home game. It's in
Speaker 1: Mexico City against the forty nine ers. Cliff Kingsbury asked
Speaker 1: about the prime time slate, It's awesome. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't ask for to me a better set up when
Speaker 1: you look at some of those games. First one, get
Speaker 1: a team like the Chiefs to see where you're at,
Speaker 1: play Bill Bellijack on Monday night, play Tom Radio. And Christmas.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some some big time games to go
Speaker 1: to Mexico City, play Arrival. I mean it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And AFC West, you know, lining
Speaker 1: up with them this year with getting wrestle is a challenge,
Speaker 1: but anytime you look at a NFL schedule, it's it's
Speaker 1: not like you can go down and take up a
Speaker 1: bunch of wins. You know, they're all tough and everybody's
Speaker 1: facing kind of the same deal. See. And the good
Speaker 1: news to me, Wolf is those are all home games
Speaker 1: except Mexico City, and so you don't have the dreaded
Speaker 1: You play at night and then you get home in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, and then it checks up
Speaker 1: the next week's schedule those games, especially that Thursday night
Speaker 1: game at home. That's something JJ Watts cited. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's really really cool the way that it
Speaker 1: sets up for the Arizona Cardinals. Now again, you know,
Speaker 1: and I don't care how many nationally televised games they play.
Speaker 1: I really don't. It doesn't impact us, I don't think
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. But I love the
Speaker 1: fact that Week seven they have that mini bye against
Speaker 1: New Orleans on Thursday night and they're doing it at home.
Speaker 1: That's a big deal to have that mini bye after
Speaker 1: the first third of the season, roughly third of the season,
Speaker 1: and then two thirds of this season through at least
Speaker 1: you get the bye week at week thirteen. That to me,
Speaker 1: Paulie that's another good break right there. Listen, if the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are good, you're gonna love the fact they have
Speaker 1: the bye that late in the season. If they're good,
Speaker 1: and that's the hope, they're gonna be good because hopefully
Speaker 1: that'll give them a little boost getting ready to make
Speaker 1: that playoff run. By the way, the Saints at home
Speaker 1: on Thursday night, that's the first primetime game the game
Speaker 1: you said it there. How are the Saints signing anybody?
Speaker 1: Didn't We start this off season with the Saints being
Speaker 1: seventy million plus over the cap, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they're signing Tyron Matthew to big money, Jarvis Landry
Speaker 1: to big money. I just you know, Sean Payton, I
Speaker 1: thought left because they were in cap hell, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Saints are making it happen. So
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the NFL should investigate, but somebody's cooking
Speaker 1: the books down there, the big easy. Yeah. Not only that, Paul,
Speaker 1: I mean they haven't made all their cuts yet either,
Speaker 1: So hold on to that because I'm sure there's going
Speaker 1: to be some type of justification coming to that roster.
Speaker 1: By the way, Cardinals signal game tickets available now, Easy
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Speaker 1: and the preseason slate was finalized today. Go toasy Cardinals
Speaker 1: dot com and you can see the dates and times.
Speaker 1: I'll just sum it up for you. You have Game
Speaker 1: one in Game three on the road at Cincinnati at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Both those are gonna be on twelve News. In other words,
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley will go viral. Okay, the rest of the
Speaker 1: nation will be like, who's the guy with all the
Speaker 1: energy and the wrestling voice. So that's what will happen there.
Speaker 1: And then the Baltimore home game, the middle preseason game
Speaker 1: is actually gonna be on Fox nationally televised. How about that? Wow?
Speaker 1: So all right for Jim Almandro and Cody Fincher for
Speaker 1: Lcidas Smith our Special and Ron Wolfley Paul LVC. This
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