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Speaker 1: All Right, Seats, Rising Uard, jump you, Rising Vision, Flurry Rage,

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Speaker 1: take it over.

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Speaker 3: Here's Paul Calvic.

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Speaker 5: I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: And Ron Wolfley, it doesn't get any better than that.

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Speaker 5: Here we go, burg Gang, Come on now, let the

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Speaker 5: twelve Syria kidding me? Can I point out off the

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Speaker 5: top here? Breaking news earlier today? Wolf did you see

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Speaker 5: what happened? No, Paul, magnitude seven point zero earthquake.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, Yeah, coincidence, I think not. It's a precursor to

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Speaker 1: Where you're going with that one right there, especially if

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Speaker 1: Of course, Oh no, you're not gonna tell that story, gut. Actually,

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Speaker 5: It's the big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and

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Speaker 5: Gilbert Ron Wolf. Were there, Paul Kelby c here, But

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Speaker 5: this show, the star of the show, no doubt, is

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Speaker 5: the guy who rocks that in his name, Starling Thomas everywhere.

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Speaker 6: So what's up y'all?

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Speaker 5: By the way, what does it take for us to

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Speaker 6: Star go by Star?

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Speaker 7: Man, I'm gonna starting to make him Man is in

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Speaker 7: It has to, right, I get I can't be the

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Speaker 5: We like to say we're the original Thursday night football. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 5: Star Thomas is our guest here on The Big Red

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Speaker 5: Rage live from Trophy and Chandler located on Queen Creek

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Speaker 5: Road between Price and Dobson, and what you're hearing right

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Speaker 8: We get another opportunity to kind of rewrite the wrongs

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Speaker 5: Well, if you mentioned confidence, right, I mean Star when

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Speaker 1: This team is loaded with young players. I'm talking about

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Speaker 7: It's seen shows that hard work made a big paid off,

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Speaker 1: Man, I talk about it all the time. James Connor

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Speaker 5: Do you ever sit on the bench and you watch

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Speaker 5: And look this team, this Cardinals team went into Minnesota

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Let me just say this. Against Minnesota, they handed the

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Speaker 2: That's getting it done.

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Speaker 5: He also said this week we got to come out

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Speaker 5: here on the Big Red Rage. Star Thomas is our guest,

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Speaker 5: all presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan

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Speaker 5: Ford live from Trophy and Chandler on Queen Creek Road

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Speaker 4: Be right back, yeah, to the off side of the

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Speaker 1: It's one on one on the outside and that is

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Speaker 4: Piers right sideline, Thomas docks it down. Good play by

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Speaker 1: Excellent coverage right there by Starling Thomas.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, they have some really talented young players and they're

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Speaker 4: What a jump by star Thomas in cover John Gibson

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Speaker 5: He turned around to defend the ball and drunk up

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Speaker 1: That is just so heads one by Thomas. This young

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Speaker 5: Star Thomas. The star is short for Starling. The star

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Speaker 5: is short for starter. I like that about all twelve

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Speaker 5: santan Ford and Gilbert. Let's just go there. Let's talk

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Speaker 5: about your background. You have less than two years in

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Speaker 7: It was a quick turnaround. Once I got released by

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Speaker 6: The next day.

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Speaker 7: I was practicing. The next day, I was practicing in Arizona.

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Speaker 7: Them set for five weeks, I would say, to learn

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Speaker 2: So it's amazing. That is amazing story, right, there stars.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people that have actually compared

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Speaker 7: So do you see that? I definitely can see it.

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Speaker 7: We play a form of bullyball. We out physical opponents,

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Speaker 5: And look, Dan Campbell and Jonathan Ganner are different guy's,

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Speaker 6: Is there? Is there? Their energy is top notch.

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Speaker 7: You know, if you're feeling down in team me, as

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Speaker 7: up ready to play for him. The pregame speeches for

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Speaker 6: So I love playing for him.

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Speaker 5: What's it like in the team meetings when you know

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Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, all you hear is everybody rumbling through

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Speaker 1: So that rookie season of yours, you played twelve games.

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Speaker 1: You played in twelve games, Yeah, seven starts. You're a

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Speaker 7: Ah man, There's a lot of ups and downs being

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Speaker 6: Being able to run with the best athletes backwards, it

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Speaker 5: The fact that you had five years at UAB and

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Speaker 6: I felt like it was prepared me. Well.

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Speaker 7: I went in with all the companies in the world

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Speaker 7: Can I go Tennessee and every game, every game that

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Speaker 2: So what says here that you went to Ramsey High School?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Where is that is?

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Speaker 1: In Birmingham, Alabama, Ramsey High School, the Ramsey Rams Is Okay,

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Speaker 7: I was all over played quarterback, running back, receiver, quarterback,

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Speaker 7: Yeah good. Sometimes sometimes you play long snappers, so I

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you know it. But Wolf played

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Speaker 5: Do you know the name because he's a Birmingham native.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, definitely, no name, our girl. Going to his

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Speaker 1: So you know what you gotta do next time you

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Speaker 2: Lows Dirty.

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Speaker 5: It's one of the most terrible nicknames. I just don't

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Speaker 5: Okay, let's talk about Budda Baker. But first let's hear

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Speaker 10: and just being able to, you know, stay glued on

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00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,800
Speaker 10: a receiver. Definitely done a great job. And the zone

443
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 10: techniques and all the techniques. I honestly say, nine and

444
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,720
Speaker 10: day he's done a great job. And he's going to

445
00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,800
Speaker 10: continue to do a great job. You know, just take

446
00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:29,280
Speaker 10: it one by tell him all the time, taking one

447
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,880
Speaker 10: play at a time. When the balls in the air

448
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:31,359
Speaker 10: go get it.

449
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,000
Speaker 5: That's one thing we should ask him about.

450
00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:33,359
Speaker 2: Time.

451
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Speaker 10: One thing to ask him about, ask him about what

452
00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:37,560
Speaker 10: music he likes.

453
00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:42,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so we're asking why did

454
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:43,960
Speaker 5: music come up with Buddha.

455
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,119
Speaker 7: Because I always trying to make him listen to a

456
00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,000
Speaker 7: little country music me and from.

457
00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,040
Speaker 2: So that's awesome.

458
00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,080
Speaker 7: Yes, today I had the OSCO so I had all

459
00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:56,280
Speaker 7: of them listening to Tennessee Whiskey.

460
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Speaker 5: Well, Chris, I love it.

461
00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:01,160
Speaker 2: That's good.

462
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 5: You know, it's good for Buddha. You know, he's a

463
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,240
Speaker 5: Seattle guy. You know, it's too much grunge. Probably he's

464
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 5: listening to from back.

465
00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 2: In the day. It's good.

466
00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:07,520
Speaker 6: He needs it.

467
00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 7: He always piped up. I gotta kill him out a

468
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:10,840
Speaker 7: little bit sometimes.

469
00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:11,520
Speaker 2: That's good.

470
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Speaker 1: Talk to me about that because when I was young,

471
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 1: of course in the NFL. Boy, how many years ago

472
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 1: that really was? There were a lot of guys that

473
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:24,040
Speaker 1: would mentor these young guys in the league, right, rookies

474
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:24,439
Speaker 1: like me.

475
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,240
Speaker 2: How about you, man, you got mentors?

476
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,240
Speaker 7: Yeah, Buddha, Buddha, he took me under his wing. Man,

477
00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:31,560
Speaker 7: I can't think of that God enough.

478
00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:31,679
Speaker 2: Man.

479
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,159
Speaker 7: I really loved that guy when I first got here

480
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 7: last season. A lot of people don't know that. So

481
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,159
Speaker 7: I was out here by myself. Man, he invited me

482
00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,600
Speaker 7: over for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving with him and his family, and

483
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:45,399
Speaker 7: me and him has been glued to the hip ever since.

484
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 6: You can't let me.

485
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,639
Speaker 7: I sitting next to him in meetings, everything, our lockers

486
00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,600
Speaker 7: are next to each other. Man just been together ever

487
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,880
Speaker 7: since this summer. I trained with him all summer from

488
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,560
Speaker 7: the off season, and it shows on the field when

489
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,360
Speaker 7: we use it on the same side together. So man,

490
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,800
Speaker 7: so man, you know that that all feel connection to

491
00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,440
Speaker 7: me and him have his man's a brotherhood.

492
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 6: Man, I love it.

493
00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,320
Speaker 2: Guy. That is awesome.

494
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 6: Now.

495
00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 5: So if you want to make your way in the NFL,

496
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 5: that's a pretty smart strategy. Attach yourself to Buddha bakery. Yeah,

497
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,159
Speaker 5: not bad right as a mentor, and it makes a

498
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 5: lot of sense.

499
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,360
Speaker 2: Can I also say too, though this is just man.

500
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 1: You could ask Buddha. But I'm sure Buddha saw something

501
00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,880
Speaker 1: in Star too. I'm sure that he saw something in you.

502
00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,159
Speaker 1: This kid has got a chance and probably like the

503
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 1: fact you came from some humble beginnings in terms of

504
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 1: how you got into the NFL as well. Yeah, that

505
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: probably appealed to a guy like Buddha, didn't Man.

506
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 7: I think so, Man, because me and him kind of

507
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 7: played with the same aggression on the field. We love

508
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 7: a game of football, Man, Me and him play with

509
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 7: both a passion. Man, that's no match, Like we compete

510
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,959
Speaker 7: in everything we do. So Man just had that connection

511
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,600
Speaker 7: to it. It's like there's no other I can't even

512
00:21:58,640 --> 00:21:59,680
Speaker 7: explain it right now.

513
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,240
Speaker 5: You guys were also sprinters in high school. He won

514
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 5: state titles in Washington and uh and you ran tell

515
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 5: us about your forty because you didn't go to the combine. Yeah,

516
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,240
Speaker 5: but I'm guessing one of the reasons the Cardinals jumped

517
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 5: on you was just your speed.

518
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, Man, speed demon guy. Man.

519
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 7: I was a four two eight guy coming out of

520
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 7: college man for eight Yeah, four two eight man?

521
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 6: It was it was official. All thirty two teams is there?

522
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 2: Man? That is amazing. So what was it a pro

523
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:28,359
Speaker 2: day or something?

524
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,640
Speaker 7: You were and my pro day? I had a pro day,

525
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 7: All thirty two teams came there. I had ran a

526
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 7: four two eight man and it kind of skyrocketed my

527
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:36,960
Speaker 7: draft stock at that moment.

528
00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 2: Absolutely unbelievable right there. But yet you didn't get drafted.

529
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 5: Correct, No, man, you ran four eight and you.

530
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:46,360
Speaker 2: Did not get drafted.

531
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Speaker 6: It it was pretty socking to me. It was pretty

532
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 6: socking to me.

533
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 7: I'm going into it thinking maybe it'd be a Day

534
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 7: three guy, early Day three, got late Day two guy.

535
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,919
Speaker 7: From what I put on the film and from what

536
00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,679
Speaker 7: I did at the All Star Games and what I

537
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,360
Speaker 7: ran at my Pro day, I was thinking it would

538
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:02,919
Speaker 7: be a day two, Day three guy, and it just

539
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 7: didn't happen that way. I had other plans for me.

540
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 5: So I saw a quote this week for those who

541
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 5: don't know, it's my cause, my cleats, and this is

542
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 5: a player's chance to showcase causes and charities that are

543
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 5: important to them. I saw a quote recent story Zach

544
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 5: Gershman accardinals dot Com where you said my mom helps

545
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 5: me run fast. Explain that to everyone in the story

546
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 5: because she lost your mom.

547
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, my mom passed away in my freshman year of college.

548
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 7: She was a fighter. She got diagnosed with breast cancer

549
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 7: my senior year of high school. They gave her only

550
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 7: six months to live, which is crazy, but she ended

551
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,639
Speaker 7: up living a whole another year and a half and

552
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 7: was able to see me play football in college for

553
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 7: six games. So I always say, I write her name

554
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,280
Speaker 7: on every pair of cleats that I have, So I

555
00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 7: always say she helps me run fast, jump high, and

556
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 7: play football.

557
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 6: Real good?

558
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 2: Did you bring those?

559
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:57,640
Speaker 6: Yeah?

560
00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 7: I actually brought them in great bread right all right, man,

561
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 7: they did pretty.

562
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 6: Good with these. Man, I love them. Manna have to

563
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:06,880
Speaker 6: frame these.

564
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 5: It is really well done.

565
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 6: We have to frame these right here. That's uh.

566
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 5: And so, so cancer awareness is your cause obviously, and

567
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 5: then the organization is Virtue.

568
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 7: Virtue, Yes, it's a company, nonprofit organization back home and Burmingham.

569
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 7: So just being able to go back home and give

570
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 7: back to my community and do something that I care about,

571
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 7: you know, being able to try to help find a

572
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 7: cure for whatever kid may be out there so they

573
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Speaker 7: don't have to go through what I went through.

574
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Speaker 1: Man, that is truly incredible. Star, It really is. What

575
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,240
Speaker 1: do you think you take from.

576
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 7: Your mom being able to just persevere through anything, you know,

577
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,879
Speaker 7: whatever life throws that you, just being able to withstanding

578
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 7: oning that is a better side at the other side.

579
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 7: So just being able to see her fight, Just knowing

580
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,959
Speaker 7: that I can't give up whatever I'm doing, even though

581
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 7: it's gonna be.

582
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 6: Dark days, hard days, whatever it may be.

583
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 7: Just know I got to keep going because that's what

584
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 7: she wants, and she's pushing me forward in I got

585
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 7: brothers and sisters looking at me.

586
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 5: So when you put those on on Sunday, that's gonna

587
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 5: be a special moment, isn't it.

588
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 6: When you lay those up, it's gonna be a great moment.

589
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 7: Look how beautiful they are. I know I'm gonna do good.

590
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 7: I know I'm gonna do good with these on.

591
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,360
Speaker 5: Well, And look to bring this full circle back to football.

592
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 5: The position you play, you better be mentally strong, right,

593
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 5: you have.

594
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 6: To short term memory, you know, short term memory.

595
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 7: Playing cornerback, you know those guys over there, some of

596
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 7: the best athletes that play receiver, and being able to

597
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 7: just cover those guys and try to dominate them. As

598
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 7: much as I can. You have to be mentally strong

599
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 7: because they're gonna make players, but I just have to

600
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 7: make more than them.

601
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 2: So it says here, your dog is named Mook.

602
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 6: Okay, I love her.

603
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 2: What kind of dog?

604
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 6: I have a pit bull? And crazy thing about that? Man?

605
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,520
Speaker 6: I named her after my mom?

606
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. My mom's nickname was Mooky. So

607
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 7: I ended up showing my dog's name to Mook, so

608
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 7: I treated like a kid.

609
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 5: Well that's outstanding. That's really good stuff.

610
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 2: Man.

611
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 5: Uh, I tell you what it's it's gonna be neat

612
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 5: because there's over three dozen cardinals who are going to

613
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 5: be representing on Sunday with all the cleats under you

614
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 5: guys wear them in a at practice and just really

615
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 5: cool initiative by the NFL, and it's really taken off

616
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 5: I think the ninth consecutive year. And uh, did you

617
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,439
Speaker 5: get a chance to test drive those and practice?

618
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 6: Yeah? They feel crazy. That's good. I feel the picking

619
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 6: thees man taking these.

620
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 2: How many practices have you warned those?

621
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 6: One?

622
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 2: Just one?

623
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 6: That's all you need.

624
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,160
Speaker 1: One man, they create the shoe today. We're just one

625
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: and it breaks in, ready to go.

626
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 6: One, It forms to your feet.

627
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: Back to my day, Star, you had to break those

628
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 1: in for two weeks.

629
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Speaker 6: You know, they got the stretches.

630
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 2: Now.

631
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,560
Speaker 5: Welf used to put like iron pieces in his shoes,

632
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 5: you know, just to weigh him down, and they all

633
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 5: season that kind of stuff. Used to pull buses with

634
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 5: chains just to work on the legs, you know, that

635
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 5: kind of stuff. It was the old school strong man stuff.

636
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 5: We continue. Star Thomas is our guest Cardinals cornerback on

637
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 5: the Big Red Rage, presented by Sandann Ford and Gilbert

638
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 5: Live from Tropi and Chandler.

639
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 4: Snap to Donald three step drop, looking left, all the

640
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 4: way up in trouble, stepping up and sacked hell J.

641
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 4: Collier with the takedown. Donald takes the snap, drops back

642
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 4: in trouble. Kaisier White back there first and down goes

643
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 4: the quarnerback.

644
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 2: Copper zero coming from death.

645
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 4: Snap to Donald pre step drop pressure on mac Wilson

646
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 4: sacks him back at the thirty eight yard line. Donald

647
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 4: takes three step drop, hit and sacked get slammed to

648
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 4: the ground by mac Wilson back at the twenty two

649
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,880
Speaker 4: the fourth sack of the day for the Cardinals, about five.

650
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 5: Sacks each of the last two games. An Arizona Cardinals defense.

651
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 5: That is an absolute It's just an absolute heater right

652
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 5: now with some of the stats, just the uptrends, the ascension,

653
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 5: and we got to imagine that if you're a corner,

654
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 5: you're loving the pass rush and then some it's a

655
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 5: big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. I

656
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 5: say that because our guest is Star Thomas Cardinals starting

657
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 5: cornerback here live from Trophy and Chandler right on Queen

658
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 5: Creek Road between Price and Dobson. So you tell us,

659
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 5: I mean, if the guys up front are getting home,

660
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 5: what does that do for you as a corner?

661
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 6: Ah, it makes mind the way easier.

662
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 7: I don't have to cover as long and that means

663
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 7: the ball is in the air fasts, so plays to

664
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 7: be made. Man, So shout out to the big guys

665
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 7: up front forgetting home a lot.

666
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Speaker 1: You know, I talk about this a lot, Polly. There

667
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Speaker 1: are basically three ways you can actually get pressure on

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. You can be better then where you got

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Speaker 1: four guys, you line up and you're better than the

670
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Speaker 1: five guys trying to block those four guys, and you

671
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Speaker 1: can drop seven, or you can scheme your weight actually

672
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Speaker 1: getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks, or you can have coverage,

673
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Speaker 1: great coverage down the field that ultimately results in coverage sacks.

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Speaker 1: Right now, just the way that the Arizona Cardinals are

675
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Speaker 1: combining the scheme sack in particular with the coverage sack

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Speaker 1: as well. Do you know they are number nine in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League in sacks per attempt number nine, Paul.

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Speaker 1: When you think of that coming into this season right now,

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Speaker 1: there were two big concerns, two big concerns with the

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Speaker 1: defense in my opinion, will they be able to stop

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Speaker 1: the run and will they be able to get pressure

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Speaker 1: on an opposing quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Based on last year?

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Speaker 1: Based on last year, Man, those two things have improved dramatically,

685
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Speaker 1: especially over the last five six weeks. Right now, they're

686
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Speaker 1: number thirteen in rushing yards per game allowed, and they're

687
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Speaker 1: number thirteen in rushing yards per play allowed, number thirteen, Paul.

688
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Speaker 1: They're creeping into the top third in the National Football

689
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Speaker 1: League in that regard, and to be number nine in

690
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Speaker 1: sacks per attempt, which is even more specific than just

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Speaker 1: saying sacks sacks per attempt, the Arizona Cardinals are right there.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing the transformation this defense has.

693
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Speaker 7: Gone through it is man, just being able to see

694
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Speaker 7: those big guys there just take the challenge on seeing

695
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Speaker 7: what everybody was saying about them and just seeing them

696
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Speaker 7: go out there every Sunday just proving everybody room.

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Speaker 6: Man.

698
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Speaker 7: So also having for those guys just going out there

699
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Speaker 7: making those plays and like I said, they make my

700
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Speaker 7: job easier. I don't have to cover as long as

701
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Speaker 7: then they get those tip pass so that means the

702
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Speaker 7: balls in the air for the defeat to make. So

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Speaker 7: it's all a collective effort.

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Speaker 5: And then you think about the injuries you lost Paul Nichols,

705
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Speaker 5: Justin Jones, your two starting d tackles, You lost two

706
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Speaker 5: starting edge guys PI Joe Jilauri and Dennis Gardex. So

707
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Speaker 5: think about that and then think about since Week seven,

708
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Speaker 5: only the Eagles and Broncos have more sacks than the Cardinals.

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Speaker 5: So I guess my question is where, why, how has

710
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Speaker 5: the Cardinals defense improved? Because I hear it said by

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Speaker 5: some of the opposition opposition that you guys are disguising

712
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Speaker 5: a lot as well, and just some of the looks

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Speaker 5: that the Cardinals present. Our next level on helping the

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Speaker 5: entire defense.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, like I say, like I said, this is a

716
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Speaker 7: collective effort on that part. Shout out to Nick Rolins,

717
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 7: he coordinated for you know, calling the right players at

718
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Speaker 7: the right time. Shout out to all the dbs with

719
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Speaker 7: covering as long as they do. And shout out to

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Speaker 7: the big guys of a friend getting back home. And

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Speaker 7: like I said, we all working together and they're accepting

722
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Speaker 7: the challenge. Like you said, everybody want to come in

723
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Speaker 7: and try to run the ball on us, and he

724
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Speaker 7: they are going out there and stopping the run.

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Speaker 5: So he's all together and a great sign of any

726
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Speaker 5: great team or any great unit. Different heroes at different times.

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Speaker 5: This last game, Mac Wilson really stood out, yes, really productive,

728
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Speaker 5: and you know after the game he said, look, this

729
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Speaker 5: is on Monday actually after watching the film, and here's

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Speaker 5: what he had to say, and this is what we're

731
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Speaker 5: talking about. We say there's a little bit of an

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Speaker 5: edge this week in the locker room. Mac Wilson Senior.

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Speaker 11: No, you just want to win, honestly, you know, with

734
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Speaker 11: them being whatever the team it was nine to two,

735
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Speaker 11: you know, high power offense, high power team, good defense,

736
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Speaker 11: and you know you just want to go out and

737
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 11: win that game so bad, and you know, just the

738
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Speaker 11: fall short. It's tough, you know, but it's learning experience

739
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Speaker 11: for all of us, and it lift fire under all

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Speaker 11: of us.

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Speaker 2: You know.

742
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Speaker 11: I feel like you know, I know Guy's going to

743
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 11: bounce back for this one, and you know, we're just

744
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:02,719
Speaker 11: gonna see what we can do.

745
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Speaker 5: We talk about the word, In fact, it's JG's word, finish.

746
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 5: Finish drives, finish games right, finish the season, finish because

747
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 5: it's all right in front of you, isn't it.

748
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 7: Everything we're working for, everything, all those OTA's off season

749
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 7: workouts is right therefore is to take and all we

750
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 7: have to do out there is just go out there

751
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 7: and do it. Just got to go do it. He

752
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 7: always say, we got to act on it. So we're

753
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 7: gonna go act on this Sunday.

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Speaker 2: So you star.

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Speaker 1: How about you personally in regard to the defense, what

756
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: do you like to do? You like to play man?

757
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: Do you like to play press? Do you like to

758
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: play in a zone room? What do you prefer?

759
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 7: I just love to play football. I just love to

761
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Speaker 7: play football. Whatever he calls, I'm happy to play it.

762
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Speaker 7: Like I said, I don't feel like there's nothing that

763
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 7: I can't do out there. So whenever he calls the

764
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Speaker 7: zone or he calls man or even if he allows

765
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Speaker 7: me to blitz who said is like, i'ma be happy

766
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Speaker 7: to do it, and that's what I love to do.

767
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Speaker 1: How about tackling, who's the toughest tackle you find so far?

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 6: All those guys are pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 7: All those guys are pretty good. It's so hard to say,

772
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 7: so hard to.

773
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Speaker 1: Say, man, But how do you think your tackling has developed?

774
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's your rookie year.

775
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Speaker 7: I feel like my tackling has become way better. Watched

776
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 7: Boodle and how he tackled. Watched Jat and how they tackled.

777
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 7: We're all about the same size, so just going in

778
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 7: there with their ferocity and just violence of just running

779
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 7: through those tackles and running my feet and I'm just

780
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 7: gonna get up the next play, you know, regardless of

781
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 7: what happens. So making sure I'm out a cornerback that's

782
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 7: gonna not tackle, so they don't want to. I don't

783
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 7: want to have that on there.

784
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Speaker 1: Have you always had a motor, like a high motor

785
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Speaker 1: of intensity level?

786
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Speaker 2: Have you always had that?

787
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Speaker 7: I feel like I've done I always have. Especially playing

788
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 7: corner you always have to be super mellow. Yeah, you

789
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 7: can't get to how you can't get too low. But

790
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Speaker 7: you always have to play with an edge, and me

791
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 7: being a shorter corner, as they will say, I always

792
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Speaker 7: have to play with the edge and be more scrappy

793
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Speaker 7: than usual.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm just looking at some of the game logs. Right,

795
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 5: six solo tackles against Chicago. Yep, you had five tackles

796
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Speaker 5: for solo against the Jets. Wolfson always asking about the

797
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 5: physical part of the game. I want to know when

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Speaker 5: you go against some of the elite receiver units in

799
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Speaker 5: the league and in a row. I mean, you went

800
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Speaker 5: against Miami Chicago, the Jets, DeVante Adams, right, Garrett Wilson.

801
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Speaker 5: Then he got Justin Jefferson just last week. What is

802
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 5: that like when you're going up against the best of

803
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 5: the best.

804
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Speaker 7: As an opportunity to put your name out there and

805
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 7: to show what you can do and to build your confidence.

806
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 7: Like you said, you just missed all of those receiver

807
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 7: cords that we went against in the past few weeks.

808
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 7: And I feel like us as a secondary has shown

809
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 7: up week after week after week, and our confidence is

810
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 7: so high that we don't feel.

811
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Speaker 6: Like we can be stopped.

812
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Speaker 5: How different a challenge is it to go against Tyreek

813
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Speaker 5: Hill one week, Keenan Allen the next week, DeVante Adams

814
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Speaker 5: or Garrett Wilson. Just mean, all those guys are really

815
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 5: unique in their own ways, aren't they.

816
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're so unique, so you have to have a

817
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 7: different game plan when you go on against them. Like,

818
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 7: you know, Tyreek Hill, he's pretty fast, so you would

819
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 7: like to make him stop his feet a little bit

820
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 7: more and run shorter rouse than what you would think.

821
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Speaker 7: But you can't be scared of this speed. I feel

822
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,439
Speaker 7: like there was a key for us going into the week.

823
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Speaker 7: If you watch, we pressed him a lot. We wasn't

824
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Speaker 7: We wasn't too afraid of his speed. We was also

825
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 7: in the room like we run for it too too,

826
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 7: So let's see, you know, so we wasn't scared that week.

827
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Speaker 7: But when you go against DeVante Adams and Garrett Wilson,

828
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 7: you know, those guys are a little bit more shifty,

829
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 7: so you have to play with a little bit more

830
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 7: of your feet and better eyes, you know, and not

831
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 7: playing with so much on top. You just gotta play

832
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 7: on body.

833
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Speaker 1: Okay, So maybe not the technique, maybe not the technique

834
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: processor or man or man or all for whether you're

835
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Speaker 1: gonna play in his own room? What about the coverage?

836
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: What's your just the call? What's your favorite call if

837
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Speaker 1: you have one?

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Speaker 6: I don't know. Man. I love them all, man, I

839
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 6: love them all.

840
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 7: Every coverage, every coverage that we have, every call that

841
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 7: Nigroage calls. I feel like it's a great call for

842
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 7: that play. Man, regardless of when he called, I feel

843
00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 7: like we're gonna win that play.

844
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Speaker 2: His demeanor, like Nick Rowlis.

845
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Speaker 7: I feel like he's he's a very mellow guy at

846
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 7: the beginning, but once you hit the field, he puts

847
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 7: his shades on, and he puts his paper over his lips,

848
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 7: over his mouth, and he's very he's very tapped in

849
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 7: and locked in.

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Speaker 2: Man, he puts his shades on. What do you think

851
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 2: he does that?

852
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 6: I guess it's an alter ego or something. I guess

853
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 6: he turns into a different person.

854
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 5: That It's true. Remember the preseason puts the hood on

855
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 5: there you go. Yeah, he's a former inside linebacker in college.

856
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 5: He sort of goes into that assassin.

857
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 6: Mode, you know what I mean, different mode.

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00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 5: That's good stuff.

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00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Have you had some good battles with Marvin Harrison Junior

861
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Speaker 5: in practice.

862
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, definitely, Paul can't believe me and Hill was battling.

863
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 6: So that was pretty good.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's great.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: You know what, maybe when we come back here, we'll

867
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Speaker 5: get some of maybe what you've told Darius Robinson in

868
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Speaker 5: terms of advice and rookie year. He's going into a

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Speaker 5: second game.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 5: Check out the latest episode of the Day Past podcast.

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Speaker 5: You can find an Apple podcast Spotify and the Cardinals

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Speaker 5: official YouTube page. That's YouTube dot com slash ac Cardinals.

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Speaker 4: Third and six on the Cardinals eighteen yard line. Great

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Speaker 4: receivers right one left, Gino Smith in the gun. Will

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals come after him? On a must stop third

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Speaker 4: down shotgun snap back to throw. Smith steps up, moves

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Speaker 4: to his right, being chased far side.

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Speaker 5: Now throws. Oh we've been a pickoff in the end zone.

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Speaker 5: Oh what a gorgeous play.

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Speaker 4: My Garrett Williams to pick off Geno Smith in the

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Speaker 4: end zone.

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Speaker 1: Oh what a great way to start the fourth corner.

889
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Speaker 1: Right here, turning over Geno Smith in the red zone,

890
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Speaker 1: you rush five and Garret Williams mates a play.

891
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Speaker 2: It was two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Ago in Seattle. Now the Seahawks come to the AC

893
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Speaker 5: and we have Star Thomas as our guest on a

894
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Speaker 5: big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We

895
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Speaker 5: are santan Ford. And if we're talking about cornerback play man,

896
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 5: you cannot ignore Garrett Williams this season, guys. I don't

897
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Speaker 5: know if you saw the next Gen stat this week.

898
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Speaker 5: He currently is allowing a passer rating under forty nine,

899
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Speaker 5: which is the second lowest among all corners who have

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Speaker 5: enough snaps to qualify. Think about that, Think about what

901
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 5: he's doing in the yards per target is the lowest

902
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Speaker 5: among all corners. So from one corner to another, what

903
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Speaker 5: is Garrett Williams doing really well right now?

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Speaker 7: I mean, man, he's found the ball, he's playing his technique, great,

905
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Speaker 7: great man. I see him every day watching film. He

906
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Speaker 7: he's as a student of the game. Man, he's a

907
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 7: real student of the game. And I just try to

908
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Speaker 7: take something. Whatever I see G's doing, I try to

909
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Speaker 7: do myself because he's doing something right.

910
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Speaker 5: And well, if you know, well another guy who's way

911
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Speaker 5: ahead of the curve in terms of being a young

912
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Speaker 5: guy and watching film as Darius Robinson. Yes, I mean

913
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 5: we knew that the moment he was drafted. He he

914
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Speaker 5: did that interview when he's talking about his film work.

915
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Speaker 5: Here's Darius Robinson after playing his first regular season game

916
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Speaker 5: last week at Minnesota, and here's what he had to say.

917
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Speaker 12: Sometimes I feel like I know exactly like my brain

918
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 12: was going, but my feet wasn't matching. I don't know

919
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Speaker 12: if I was too excited or what, but I'm just

920
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 12: really gonna fix that in practice this week and just

921
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Speaker 12: keep earning reps as far as like technique fundamentals, like

922
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Speaker 12: JG always says, alignment, assignment, key technique, So that's all

923
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Speaker 12: it is.

924
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Speaker 2: So I'm just super excited to get better.

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Speaker 5: Can you relate to that? Considering it was about a

926
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Speaker 5: year ago you went through that point in your first

927
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Speaker 5: regular season game, you must have been pretty amped up.

928
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Speaker 7: Definitely, It's like you see something but just like this

929
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 7: can't be happening right now.

930
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 6: It's too good to be true.

931
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Speaker 7: So I understand exactly what he's saying. But Dee Robb

932
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Speaker 7: is going to be a great player for us.

933
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Speaker 6: I could see it.

934
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 7: Man, he's already he already cared itself like he's been

935
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 7: the league for a long time.

936
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Speaker 6: Man, he's gonna continue to grow. What was your first Seattle?

937
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Speaker 6: Was that was my first start? Excuse me? My first game?

938
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

939
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Speaker 7: It was Cincinnati Bengals. I played Cincinnati Bengals only special teams. Okay,

940
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Speaker 7: then we went to l A.

941
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Speaker 6: Rams. I played corner a little bit, and then Seattle

942
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Speaker 6: was the first start.

943
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Speaker 1: Actually, okay, Seattle was the first start. Was there any difference.

944
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Speaker 1: Did you have a lot of anxiety with that first start?

945
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Speaker 2: Oh?

946
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Speaker 7: Man, yeah, yeah, yeah, It's like, okay, like, man, it's

947
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Speaker 7: a dream come true right now, and I'm living in it,

948
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Speaker 7: you know. You know, always ask gods for those glimpses,

949
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Speaker 7: and I was living in that glimpse in that moment.

950
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Speaker 7: So during that that game, it was probably one of

951
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Speaker 7: the best games I probably played. I felt like I

952
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Speaker 7: was tackling, I was covering everywhere.

953
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Speaker 6: It was. It was amazing playing see.

954
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Speaker 2: You, did you have the NFL moment?

955
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Speaker 6: You know?

956
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Speaker 2: Did you?

957
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Speaker 6: Oh?

958
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: My goodness.

959
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: You know, at what point did you have that NFL moment,

960
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: Whether it was in the previous games you were playing

961
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Speaker 1: or whether you were starting, did you have a moment

962
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Speaker 1: where you said to yourself, I can play with these guys.

963
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Speaker 7: I felt like I feel like I had that NFL

964
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Speaker 7: moment and like training, trading and training camp site. Oh

965
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 7: you seeing those guys and it's like, bro, I'm hanging

966
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 7: with him, like I'm making plays against I'm in my

967
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Speaker 7: Saint Brown or Jameson Williams, like when I was in Detroit,

968
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Speaker 7: and then I get to Arizona and like, I'm still

969
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Speaker 7: making play. That was Hollywood Brown here. So you know,

970
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 7: I was being able to make plays and to see

971
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Speaker 7: that your captains were coming to you and saying good job.

972
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Speaker 1: So that's really important, though, isn't it. I mean for

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00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: your own development to have that kind of confidence where

974
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Speaker 1: you can sit there, Paul at night, You're laying there

975
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: and the shadows are creeping across the ceiling and you're

976
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: thinking yourself, I can do this.

977
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Speaker 2: I can do this. That's so important you have that moment,

978
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Speaker 2: isn't it.

979
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 7: Yes, you have to have that confidence in yourself. You

980
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 7: can't be your biggest creating in your biggest fan, so

981
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 7: you have to pick one. So being able to believe

982
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 7: in yourself is everything.

983
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:51,479
Speaker 2: Yep.

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00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 5: I mean even when you're the fourth pick overall. Marvin

985
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 5: Harrison Junior sited his touchdown against Jalen Ramsey huge confidence

986
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 5: builder for him. It's important Trey Benson. You know that's

987
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 5: talking to James County about Trey Benson. I think it happened,

988
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 5: you know, sort of mid season. He started making plays

989
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 5: and breaking tackles and refusing to go down, and he

990
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Speaker 5: and James Connery is talking about he has that confidence

991
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 5: he can make plays just like he made him at

992
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Speaker 5: Florida State.

993
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Speaker 1: I think, honestly, there are so many fans that are

994
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: out there, Well, what are you talking about? You know

995
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: these guys are are hyper competitive alpha metals. Of course

996
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: they're confident, are.

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Speaker 2: You kidding me?

998
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right about that. They are for the most part.

999
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: But man, you gotta see yourself do. You have to

1000
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: see yourself do? And that's so important that you do

1001
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Speaker 1: because now all of a sudden, that's where that development

1002
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Speaker 1: and that confidence really comes from.

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Speaker 5: All Right, I'll do what I do best. I'll ask

1004
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Speaker 5: the dumb guy question here star. I know, I know,

1005
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 5: you study film on receivers, what about quarterbacks? And what

1006
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 5: about Geno Smith? Because he just pulled another game out

1007
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 5: on the road at the Jets, and nobody has more

1008
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 5: game winning drives engineered than Geno Smith over the last

1009
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Speaker 5: two and a half years. It's he's right there with mahomes.

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Speaker 7: Man, kind of kind of nerve recking when you think

1011
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 7: about it, like come on, it's like it's right there.

1012
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 7: But he he has a certain kind of web of

1013
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Speaker 7: using his legs and when the game's on the line,

1014
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Speaker 7: he kind of makes some big time throws. So shout

1015
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Speaker 7: out to Geno Smith. May he's playing really good football

1016
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Speaker 7: right now. He makes really good decisions and taking control

1017
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Speaker 7: of their offense.

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Speaker 1: If you're a cornerback and you're playing in his zone room, Okay,

1019
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Speaker 1: if you're a corner and you're playing zone, do you

1020
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Speaker 1: ever pick at the quarterback?

1021
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Speaker 6: Do that hopefully he throwing he throws me the ball.

1022
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Speaker 1: Okay, if you're ever playing man off, do you ever

1023
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: peek at him?

1024
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Speaker 2: Again?

1025
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Speaker 1: Do you ever peak at the quarterback? Because back in

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00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: my day that's called cluing. I don't know what you

1027
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Speaker 1: call it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you do.

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Speaker 7: You do take a quick peek to see you know,

1030
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Speaker 7: maybe you getting three step drop or five step drop.

1031
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Speaker 7: You just and being able to dictate what comes off

1032
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 7: those drops that he may give you.

1033
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 2: But cluing gets a little dangerous.

1034
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Speaker 6: He can it really can't?

1035
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 2: People? What's that? Where that danger is?

1036
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 7: If your eyes stay on the quarterback too long, you

1037
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 7: receiver mic run past you and all you know, you

1038
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 7: just gotta use knees and elbow. You know you gotta

1039
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 7: keep going the balls over your head. But you know,

1040
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 7: if you do it right, you make a play.

1041
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 5: What's the toughest part about a quarterbacks skill set for

1042
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 5: a corner?

1043
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Speaker 2: Would it?

1044
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 5: Would it be accuracy?

1045
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 2: What is it?

1046
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 5: You know that? Okay, you know this? This really makes

1047
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 5: this guy formidable if he's able to do this.

1048
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Speaker 7: I feel like if the quarterback is able to use

1049
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 7: his legs, being able to throw in extend plays outside,

1050
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 7: I gotta feel like that is a big attribute for quarterback.

1051
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Speaker 7: And then that means the corner has to cover Instead

1052
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Speaker 7: of three seconds, it's six seconds now and chase the

1053
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Speaker 7: guys all over the field.

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Speaker 5: Fuddy, we really enjoyed them.

1055
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Speaker 6: Thank you, guys. Man really enjoyed it.

1056
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Speaker 5: I can't wait to see it out there, especially with

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Speaker 5: the cleats.

1058
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Speaker 6: Thanks, thank you guys for having me.

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Speaker 5: It was amazing And let me tell you it's time.

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Speaker 5: It's time. You know, everyone's sick and tired of being

1061
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 5: sick and tired of the Seahawks at this about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: a special thanks executive producer Jim Amahundro, Cody Fincher, Wald Ellis,

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Speaker 5: Lawrence Ellis, Matt Lazarus for Ron Wolfley on Paul Ca

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Speaker 5: WC Star Thomas our guest on The Big Red Rage

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Speaker 5: presenti by Santan Ford and Gilbert live from Trophy and

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Speaker 5: Chandler Jaw.

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Speaker 3: You've been listening to The Big Red Rage presented by

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Speaker 3: Santan Ford and Gilbert right on the Price, right on

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