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Speaker 1: And Ron Wolfley, it doesn't get any better than that.
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Speaker 5: twelve Syria kidding me? Can I point out off the
Speaker 5: top here? Breaking news earlier today? Wolf did you see
Speaker 5: where roughly halfway between Phoenix and Seattle? Did you see
Speaker 5: what happened? No, Paul, magnitude seven point zero earthquake.
Speaker 2: Oh I did see that?
Speaker 5: Sorry, Yeah, coincidence, I think not. It's a precursor to
Speaker 5: what happens when the two football teams, the two football
Speaker 5: cities on either end of those tectonic plates, when they
Speaker 5: meet on Sunday. Wolf, that is just a little indication
Speaker 5: of what is going to happen on Sunday hashtag Richter Scale.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that, Paulie.
Speaker 1: Where you're going with that one right there, especially if
Speaker 1: you're talking about the Arizona Cardinals offensive line in James
Speaker 1: Connor lining up in hammering that box and getting better
Speaker 1: and actually doing it to Seattle the way Seattle shut
Speaker 1: us down in the last game.
Speaker 5: So anyway, that's just a precursor to what we have
Speaker 5: going here on the Bigge. Maybe a little later, Wolf,
Speaker 5: after the show, I'll tell you about how I lived
Speaker 5: through a seven point on earthquake.
Speaker 1: Of course, Oh no, you're not gonna tell that story, gut. Actually,
Speaker 1: I do want to hear that, Paul.
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Speaker 5: this show, the star of the show, no doubt, is
Speaker 5: the guy who rocks that in his name, Starling Thomas everywhere.
Speaker 6: So what's up y'all?
Speaker 5: By the way, what does it take for us to
Speaker 5: actually call you star as opposed to starling? You're You're
Speaker 5: because in the locker room, right, you mainly go by Star.
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 6: Star go by Star?
Speaker 7: Man, I'm gonna starting to make him Man is in
Speaker 7: my name. I go by that every day, So I
Speaker 7: just I just wait on my sleeves.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I couldn't name sort as soon as I got to
Speaker 7: the NFL, because that's what I want to be one day.
Speaker 2: That's what you want her to be one day.
Speaker 1: Now. Now, obviously your parents named you that, and what's
Speaker 1: behind that.
Speaker 6: I'm actually a fifth though, believe it or not.
Speaker 7: So man, it was ran in the family, and I
Speaker 7: got five strong Starlings, you know, pushing me for it
Speaker 7: every day. Man, So I appreciate them to giving me
Speaker 7: the name. And I'm gonna keep rock. And you know
Speaker 7: that's really cool.
Speaker 2: It was cool.
Speaker 5: Generations that goes back like over one hundred years.
Speaker 7: It has to, right, I get I can't be the
Speaker 7: one that ends it. So my son, don't get ready,
Speaker 7: his name is gonna be starting too.
Speaker 5: That is outstanding, all right, So look, let's just start here.
Speaker 5: We like to say we're the original Thursday night football. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 5: you look up here, you see Packers Lions. For anyone
Speaker 5: who knows his story, Starling came out of UAB last year,
Speaker 5: all right, and you were picked up by the Lions originally, yep,
Speaker 5: and you got to go against him earlier this year.
Speaker 5: We'll get into that a little bit. But when you
Speaker 5: look up in there at the screen, you see guys
Speaker 5: like I'm on Ross Saint Brown, and you see some
Speaker 5: of the receivers. I mean, those are guys you battled
Speaker 5: not too long ago in practice, right.
Speaker 7: I did, Man, I did, And it's kind of crazy
Speaker 7: seeing those guys up there because I kind of built
Speaker 7: a relationship with him when I first came into the league,
Speaker 7: being in my first team, so the bun was kind
Speaker 7: of deep there. So I still talk to some of
Speaker 7: those guys till this day.
Speaker 6: Man. I wish them all the luck, honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I want to talk here, if it's okay, Paul.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the last two games right now, specifically,
Speaker 1: and where you're at with these last two games, right
Speaker 1: How about you individually before we start talking about the
Speaker 1: team collectively, How about you individually over the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: These last two games were tough. They're going to leave
Speaker 1: a mark these last two games. What kind of mark
Speaker 1: is that on you?
Speaker 7: I feel like they have came down to the last
Speaker 7: two minutes of the game, and you know, as a dB,
Speaker 7: we want to put that on our shoulders to perform
Speaker 7: in those moments and two minute drills. There was a
Speaker 7: money downs for us, and you know, we didn't get
Speaker 7: the job done in those last two weeks, but this
Speaker 7: week we're gonna get it done, and we just continued
Speaker 7: to ready to move forward.
Speaker 5: What do you think the aftermath is in the locker room?
Speaker 5: There seems to be a little bit of an extra
Speaker 5: edge this week. Would you agree with that.
Speaker 6: I would definitely say that.
Speaker 7: I would definitely say that they got the one up
Speaker 7: on us, knowing that we are the better team and
Speaker 7: we kind of let it slip through the cracks in
Speaker 7: you know, this game kind of means something to us
Speaker 7: as a playoff game for us, and we're excited to
Speaker 7: go out there with energy in front of the home
Speaker 7: crowd and man, just let it loose.
Speaker 1: So you guys right now, Yeah, you know what, Honestly,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of clapping going on for that. I
Speaker 1: would agree, Man, just six and six at this point
Speaker 1: of the season right now, you guys have been competitive
Speaker 1: in almost every game that you guys have played, whether
Speaker 1: you win it or lose it, Finishing is so important,
Speaker 1: of course, right and you guys haven't been able to
Speaker 1: do that. We weren't able to do that against Minnesota
Speaker 1: or Seattle. But having said that, I would imagine the
Speaker 1: confidence level still inside that locker room, knowing that you
Speaker 1: guys can compete and have pretty much with every team
Speaker 1: you've played, It's got to be pretty high in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I feel like our company is very high, and I
Speaker 7: feel like these games that we kind of let slip
Speaker 7: away is going to help us in the long run,
Speaker 7: knowing that we've been there before and next time we
Speaker 7: get those same positions, that we're not going to let
Speaker 7: it slip because we've seen those moments and the moment's
Speaker 7: not going to be too big for nobody on the team.
Speaker 7: And we excited for this game. I can't explain how
Speaker 7: much we're excited. You could feel the energy in the
Speaker 7: locker room that we just overady to be in front
Speaker 7: of our home crowd for these last two home away
Speaker 7: games that we had and getting all the buze, So
Speaker 7: we just ready for the cheers now and come out
Speaker 7: of here with the W.
Speaker 5: Star Thomas is our guest here on The Big Red
Speaker 5: Rage live from Trophy and Chandler located on Queen Creek
Speaker 5: Road between Price and Dobson, and what you're hearing right
Speaker 5: now is been echoed by virtually every single player, including
Speaker 5: the quarterback. Here's what Kyler Murray had to say to
Speaker 5: the media yesterday.
Speaker 8: We get another opportunity to kind of rewrite the wrongs
Speaker 8: of going to Seattle and getting beaten, not playing our best.
Speaker 8: We came out this week and I think we played
Speaker 8: better football. We didn't finish. With that being said, we
Speaker 8: have another opportunity to go out there and do it
Speaker 8: again and you know kind of avenge or loss.
Speaker 5: Well, if you mentioned confidence, right, I mean Star when
Speaker 5: I tell you that the five teams that you've lost
Speaker 5: to and I'm not counting Seattle, Okay, we'll see what
Speaker 5: happens in the rematch. Buffalo, Detroit, Green Bay, Washington, Minnesota.
Speaker 5: Their combined record this year is now forty eight and thirteen. Yeah,
Speaker 5: think of the strength schedule there and I mean for example,
Speaker 5: the Detroit game, one score game, et cetera, down the line.
Speaker 5: But I mean it is a mat when you guys
Speaker 5: are watching the film, for example, how often you say, oh, man,
Speaker 5: that's correctable.
Speaker 7: Yes, every time, every time. And it's all little things.
Speaker 7: It's nothing that super big that we see on film.
Speaker 7: Everything is that small minute details that is easily fixed
Speaker 7: in the film room. So that's why I say in
Speaker 7: the loan round, we've been in those moments. We're just
Speaker 7: gonna be excited to see those moments show up again.
Speaker 7: And when they show up, we're gonna be ready.
Speaker 1: So much of the time, you know. I talked to
Speaker 1: my older brother Craig. Of course, he is a Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers radio analyst. He played twelve years in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and he played with some great players. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Steelers that had won four Super Bowl rings as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, and that we're talking about, man, the
Speaker 1: process of getting good where you put yourself into position,
Speaker 1: you put yourself into situations where you have a chance
Speaker 1: to win the game, and more times than not, if
Speaker 1: you win those close games, that puts you over the
Speaker 1: top collectively with a confidence level. I think that's what
Speaker 1: we're looking at right now as well, Pauly looking at
Speaker 1: a team that is trying to find itself, a team
Speaker 1: that is still developing. I think of this guy right here,
Speaker 1: Star Thomas, and we're going to continue to talk about
Speaker 1: this all show long, but to me, I think, here's
Speaker 1: a guy that is making his way in the National
Speaker 1: Football League and developing. Have you gotten better this season?
Speaker 7: Star, I definitely feel like I've gotten better, seeing that
Speaker 7: year one a year two jump and from myself being
Speaker 7: able to just be more comfortable and play the game
Speaker 7: that I know how to play. And I'm just so
Speaker 7: excited to continue to put it out now on Sundays,
Speaker 7: you knowing that sometimes you can be the underdog or
Speaker 7: take the long road, but you know the cream rises in.
Speaker 6: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: This team is loaded with young players. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: thirteen guys. If you go ahead and you start looking
Speaker 1: at it, how many young guys like Star Thomas that
Speaker 1: is in the process of developing from year one to
Speaker 1: year two. The jump that you make right now, that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I think we've seen some
Speaker 1: inconsistencies overall from top to bottom with the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: and how they're playing right now at six and six
Speaker 1: because they got a lot of young guys that are
Speaker 1: learning and developing and getting better.
Speaker 5: Well, it was last year's rookie class who came up
Speaker 5: with a moniker. Let the rooks cook. Yeah right, because
Speaker 5: no rookie class and you were part of it. Last year,
Speaker 5: No rookie class in the NFL started more games, No
Speaker 5: rookie class played more snaps in the regular season than
Speaker 5: the Arizona Cardinals. We know how many key rookies are
Speaker 5: contributing this year, but then you have, you know, a
Speaker 5: sprinkling of those key veterans as well, the team captains,
Speaker 5: guys like James Connor, who just sets the tone. It
Speaker 5: just goes unsaid, the sort of presence he is. He
Speaker 5: got a two year contract extension here in the past week,
Speaker 5: and here's James Connor just talking about that and the
Speaker 5: responsibility of a new deal.
Speaker 9: I just realize that you got to earn it, and
Speaker 9: you know that you're always being evaluated. So it's just
Speaker 9: no a great responsibility, you know, to be called as
Speaker 9: a leader, be called as a captain.
Speaker 5: You know, this had great mentors, you know.
Speaker 9: I remember asking Cam Hayward when he sounded like a
Speaker 9: sixty million dollars deal in Pittsburgh, and I'll just say,
Speaker 9: you know, I asked.
Speaker 6: Him, how does it feel?
Speaker 9: And he says, I got to show him I'm worth it,
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 6: And it's just like.
Speaker 9: Fluck my whole mindset just because they give you the money.
Speaker 9: It's still a huge challenge a head.
Speaker 6: So I just.
Speaker 9: Realized, man, that being a leader, that everybody's looking towards you,
Speaker 9: and you got to do the right things day in
Speaker 9: and day out, and also keeps myself accountable.
Speaker 5: And now James Connor is that guy. What does that
Speaker 5: say to locker room when a team captain like him
Speaker 5: gets rewarded.
Speaker 7: It's seen shows that hard work made a big paid off,
Speaker 7: you know. And it's just it's motivation for his younger
Speaker 7: guys to see James every day come in and work
Speaker 7: hard and you know, put the extra effort for it
Speaker 7: and just following his lead. He always tell me every day,
Speaker 7: follow the arrow, start, follow the arrow. And I'm just
Speaker 7: following his lead and hopefully, you know, one day I
Speaker 7: get to be rewarded like James did.
Speaker 1: Man, I talk about it all the time. James Connor
Speaker 1: is a guy who challenges every man that is around
Speaker 1: him challenges if you just watch James Connor play the
Speaker 1: game of football again and I talk about it all
Speaker 1: the time, but back me up on this.
Speaker 2: It challenges you as a.
Speaker 1: Man how hard he plays, it does and how talented
Speaker 1: he is, and if he's playing that hard, just like
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker as well, if he's playing that hard, it
Speaker 1: challenges you to do the exact same thing it does.
Speaker 7: It does you don't want to be that guy that
Speaker 7: they point out and say, oh, you got to pick
Speaker 7: it up. If your best players are playing hard every snap,
Speaker 7: why can't you? So that's that's kind of accountability that
Speaker 7: we take in that locker room right now.
Speaker 5: Do you ever sit on the bench and you watch
Speaker 5: James Connor, who, by the way, has spent most of
Speaker 5: the season leading the league in mistackles, force, broken tackles.
Speaker 5: Do you ever sit on the bench with a gatorade
Speaker 5: and look at the jumbo tron and just laugh because
Speaker 5: you watch other GB's trying to tackle.
Speaker 7: It is amazive because you see it at practice, so
Speaker 7: it's like it gets routine, But trying to see the
Speaker 7: other team do it as a layers because you know
Speaker 7: a lot of times corners don't want to tackle in Wednesday,
Speaker 7: see James coming around at corners of freak chase.
Speaker 6: They tend to get out of the way of him.
Speaker 5: And look this team, this Cardinals team went into Minnesota
Speaker 5: and ran for a buck fifty four against the number
Speaker 5: one Rundee. But what happened last time the Cardinals played
Speaker 5: at Seattle. He was held to his lowest rushing output
Speaker 5: since his rookie year twenty seventeen. I'm guessing there's gonna
Speaker 5: be a motivated James Conner out there Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me just say this. Against Minnesota, they handed the
Speaker 1: ball off to a running back twenty four times for
Speaker 1: one hundred and six yards to a running back. Now
Speaker 1: with Kyler Murray to a running back that's over four
Speaker 1: point four to two yards against the number one rush
Speaker 1: defense in the league.
Speaker 2: That's getting it done.
Speaker 6: Paul.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He also said this week we got to come out
Speaker 5: swinging first. Maybe coming off the bye. We got a
Speaker 5: bit of a slow start in Seattle. Can let that
Speaker 5: happen this time around. We're just getting off and running
Speaker 5: here on the Big Red Rage. Star Thomas is our guest,
Speaker 5: all presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan
Speaker 5: Ford live from Trophy and Chandler on Queen Creek Road
Speaker 5: between Price and Dobson.
Speaker 4: Be right back, yeah, to the off side of the
Speaker 4: end zone, and it is incomplete. Starling Thomas had good coverage.
Speaker 1: It's one on one on the outside and that is
Speaker 1: excellent coverage by Starling Thomas.
Speaker 4: Piers right sideline, Thomas docks it down. Good play by
Speaker 4: Thomas who is on Dobbs that time.
Speaker 1: Excellent coverage right there by Starling Thomas.
Speaker 4: Obviously, they have some really talented young players and they're
Speaker 4: all showing up deep ball near side and it's incomplete.
Speaker 4: What a jump by star Thomas in cover John Gibson
Speaker 4: in the twenty yard line.
Speaker 5: He turned around to defend the ball and drunk up
Speaker 5: the pass.
Speaker 1: That is just so heads one by Thomas. This young
Speaker 1: guy is developing and has been all season long.
Speaker 5: Star Thomas. The star is short for Starling. The star
Speaker 5: is short for starter. I like that about all twelve
Speaker 5: games this year. You started a handful of games last year.
Speaker 5: I reference the Lions original team. They released you at
Speaker 5: the end of camp. It took the Cardinals twenty four
Speaker 5: hours to claim you. They did not hesitate Starling Thomas
Speaker 5: is our guest here on the Big Red Rage Presentybody,
Speaker 5: santan Ford and Gilbert. Let's just go there. Let's talk
Speaker 5: about your background. You have less than two years in
Speaker 5: the league. Like I said, you've already started the majority
Speaker 5: of the games you've played in. So what was that
Speaker 5: like camp with the Lions and then that twenty four
Speaker 5: hour period where you changed teams? Tell us about that.
Speaker 7: It was a quick turnaround. Once I got released by
Speaker 7: the Lions. I went back home to Birmingham, got around
Speaker 7: family for at least probably five hours before my agent
Speaker 7: began calling me. Santine's was calling asking about me. It
Speaker 7: was a Wednesday, I remember, like yesterday. It was Wednesday,
Speaker 7: around twelve thirty. I got a call from the Arizona
Speaker 7: Cardinals saying that hey, your flight leaves at three thirty man.
Speaker 7: So I hopped on the flight three thirty, got to Arizona.
Speaker 6: The next day.
Speaker 7: I was practicing. The next day, I was practicing in Arizona.
Speaker 7: Them set for five weeks, I would say, to learn
Speaker 7: to playbook, get used to everybody, and I think bround
Speaker 7: week six, week seven, I was starting in Seattle.
Speaker 2: So it's amazing. That is amazing story, right, there stars.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people that have actually compared
Speaker 1: the culture and the mentality of the Detroit Lions with
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 7: So do you see that? I definitely can see it.
Speaker 7: We play a form of bullyball. We out physical opponents,
Speaker 7: We are smarter than our opponents, and we just take
Speaker 7: the fight to them most of the time. And I
Speaker 7: could see that in the way Detroit played. They play
Speaker 7: a lot of swagger, just like us, and we just
Speaker 7: have fun with the game of football.
Speaker 5: And look, Dan Campbell and Jonathan Ganner are different guy's,
Speaker 5: different styles, but the energy is there. It's got to
Speaker 5: be similar, right.
Speaker 6: Is there? Is there? Their energy is top notch.
Speaker 7: You know, if you're feeling down in team me, as
Speaker 7: soon as the coach walk in, you're gonna be piped
Speaker 7: up ready to play for him. The pregame speeches for
Speaker 7: JG Man you want to run through the wall form.
Speaker 6: So I love playing for him.
Speaker 5: What's it like in the team meetings when you know
Speaker 5: Jonathan Gannon can call on anyone in the room at
Speaker 5: any moment.
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, all you hear is everybody rumbling through
Speaker 7: their noteble is because you never know what kind of
Speaker 7: question he may act. So just being able to be
Speaker 7: ready at any time, it gives to coach a lot
Speaker 7: of confidence in you that you know, he knows that
Speaker 7: you're on your stuff and you know on your p's
Speaker 7: and q So, just being able to get your coach
Speaker 7: that trusting you and he can call you at any
Speaker 7: time and you will only answer okay.
Speaker 1: So that rookie season of yours, you played twelve games.
Speaker 1: You played in twelve games, Yeah, seven starts. You're a
Speaker 1: rookie season right now? What did your rookie season teach you?
Speaker 7: Ah man, There's a lot of ups and downs being
Speaker 7: a cornerback in the NFL. I must say it's the
Speaker 7: hardest position to play, and I agree with them.
Speaker 6: Being able to run with the best athletes backwards, it
Speaker 6: has to be pretty hard.
Speaker 7: But being able to just hold my own and it
Speaker 7: gave me confidence knowing that I was able to play
Speaker 7: in this league and that you have veteran guys that
Speaker 7: actually push for you. So being able to just stay
Speaker 7: here and have your coaches believe in you and push
Speaker 7: you to be your version of yourself meant a lot.
Speaker 5: The fact that you had five years at UAB and
Speaker 5: you started forty games in college. How much in hindsight,
Speaker 5: how much did that prepare you to get right into
Speaker 5: the FRAY.
Speaker 6: I felt like it was prepared me. Well.
Speaker 7: I went in with all the companies in the world
Speaker 7: knowing that I can play football. While I was at
Speaker 7: UA B, we played against Texas A and M Georgia LSU.
Speaker 7: Can I go Tennessee and every game, every game that
Speaker 7: I kind of balled out against the SEC talent, and
Speaker 7: they say that that's the best of the best. So
Speaker 7: when I prepare myself against those guys, I wasn't afraid
Speaker 7: of coming into the NFL being ready to play.
Speaker 2: So what says here that you went to Ramsey High School?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Where is that is?
Speaker 6: In Birmingham, Alabama.
Speaker 1: In Birmingham, Alabama, Ramsey High School, the Ramsey Rams Is Okay,
Speaker 1: what positions did you play in high school?
Speaker 7: I was all over played quarterback, running back, receiver, quarterback,
Speaker 7: Yeah good. Sometimes sometimes you play long snappers, so I
Speaker 7: could be the first person that on the field and
Speaker 7: make the tackle.
Speaker 6: So I was just all over the place.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. So wait a minute, somebody told me you
Speaker 1: were the punter.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I could play. I could do everything. So your
Speaker 6: I can do everything.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you know it. But Wolf played
Speaker 5: ten years the league, went to four Pro Bowls as
Speaker 5: a special team's assassin. But Wolf, I don't see long
Speaker 5: snapping or punting on your resume. You know that that's
Speaker 5: pretty good. There was no punting. Okay, So here's my question.
Speaker 5: One of our favorites of all time, and this is
Speaker 5: going back a few years. Carlos Stansby.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Do you know the name because he's a Birmingham native.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, definitely, no name, our girl. Going to his
Speaker 7: football camps. They used the whole have a legion field
Speaker 7: all the time. That's serious, going to his football camps.
Speaker 7: Carlo Dansby. He's a Birmingham legend.
Speaker 1: So you know what you gotta do next time you
Speaker 1: see him, if you do see him in the future,
Speaker 1: just say, hey, what's up?
Speaker 2: Lows Dirty.
Speaker 5: It's one of the most terrible nicknames. I just don't
Speaker 5: do that.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like it.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's talk about Budda Baker. But first let's hear
Speaker 5: a Buddha Baker talking about you and where he thinks
Speaker 5: you have grown the most all around?
Speaker 6: You know, man? Sorry, you know he had he's very fast.
Speaker 10: He's always been very fast, but just that quick twitch
Speaker 10: and just being able to, you know, stay glued on
Speaker 10: a receiver. Definitely done a great job. And the zone
Speaker 10: techniques and all the techniques. I honestly say, nine and
Speaker 10: day he's done a great job. And he's going to
Speaker 10: continue to do a great job. You know, just take
Speaker 10: it one by tell him all the time, taking one
Speaker 10: play at a time. When the balls in the air
Speaker 10: go get it.
Speaker 5: That's one thing we should ask him about.
Speaker 2: Time.
Speaker 10: One thing to ask him about, ask him about what
Speaker 10: music he likes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so we're asking why did
Speaker 5: music come up with Buddha.
Speaker 7: Because I always trying to make him listen to a
Speaker 7: little country music me and from.
Speaker 2: So that's awesome.
Speaker 7: Yes, today I had the OSCO so I had all
Speaker 7: of them listening to Tennessee Whiskey.
Speaker 5: Well, Chris, I love it.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 5: You know, it's good for Buddha. You know, he's a
Speaker 5: Seattle guy. You know, it's too much grunge. Probably he's
Speaker 5: listening to from back.
Speaker 2: In the day. It's good.
Speaker 6: He needs it.
Speaker 7: He always piped up. I gotta kill him out a
Speaker 7: little bit sometimes.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about that because when I was young,
Speaker 1: of course in the NFL. Boy, how many years ago
Speaker 1: that really was? There were a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: would mentor these young guys in the league, right, rookies
Speaker 1: like me.
Speaker 2: How about you, man, you got mentors?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Buddha, Buddha, he took me under his wing. Man,
Speaker 7: I can't think of that God enough.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 7: I really loved that guy when I first got here
Speaker 7: last season. A lot of people don't know that. So
Speaker 7: I was out here by myself. Man, he invited me
Speaker 7: over for Thanksgiving Thanksgiving with him and his family, and
Speaker 7: me and him has been glued to the hip ever since.
Speaker 6: You can't let me.
Speaker 7: I sitting next to him in meetings, everything, our lockers
Speaker 7: are next to each other. Man just been together ever
Speaker 7: since this summer. I trained with him all summer from
Speaker 7: the off season, and it shows on the field when
Speaker 7: we use it on the same side together. So man,
Speaker 7: so man, you know that that all feel connection to
Speaker 7: me and him have his man's a brotherhood.
Speaker 6: Man, I love it.
Speaker 2: Guy. That is awesome.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: So if you want to make your way in the NFL,
Speaker 5: that's a pretty smart strategy. Attach yourself to Buddha bakery. Yeah,
Speaker 5: not bad right as a mentor, and it makes a
Speaker 5: lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Can I also say too, though this is just man.
Speaker 1: You could ask Buddha. But I'm sure Buddha saw something
Speaker 1: in Star too. I'm sure that he saw something in you.
Speaker 1: This kid has got a chance and probably like the
Speaker 1: fact you came from some humble beginnings in terms of
Speaker 1: how you got into the NFL as well. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: probably appealed to a guy like Buddha, didn't Man.
Speaker 7: I think so, Man, because me and him kind of
Speaker 7: played with the same aggression on the field. We love
Speaker 7: a game of football, Man, Me and him play with
Speaker 7: both a passion. Man, that's no match, Like we compete
Speaker 7: in everything we do. So Man just had that connection
Speaker 7: to it. It's like there's no other I can't even
Speaker 7: explain it right now.
Speaker 5: You guys were also sprinters in high school. He won
Speaker 5: state titles in Washington and uh and you ran tell
Speaker 5: us about your forty because you didn't go to the combine. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I'm guessing one of the reasons the Cardinals jumped
Speaker 5: on you was just your speed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Man, speed demon guy. Man.
Speaker 7: I was a four two eight guy coming out of
Speaker 7: college man for eight Yeah, four two eight man?
Speaker 6: It was it was official. All thirty two teams is there?
Speaker 2: Man? That is amazing. So what was it a pro
Speaker 2: day or something?
Speaker 7: You were and my pro day? I had a pro day,
Speaker 7: All thirty two teams came there. I had ran a
Speaker 7: four two eight man and it kind of skyrocketed my
Speaker 7: draft stock at that moment.
Speaker 2: Absolutely unbelievable right there. But yet you didn't get drafted.
Speaker 5: Correct, No, man, you ran four eight and you.
Speaker 2: Did not get drafted.
Speaker 6: It it was pretty socking to me. It was pretty
Speaker 6: socking to me.
Speaker 7: I'm going into it thinking maybe it'd be a Day
Speaker 7: three guy, early Day three, got late Day two guy.
Speaker 7: From what I put on the film and from what
Speaker 7: I did at the All Star Games and what I
Speaker 7: ran at my Pro day, I was thinking it would
Speaker 7: be a day two, Day three guy, and it just
Speaker 7: didn't happen that way. I had other plans for me.
Speaker 5: So I saw a quote this week for those who
Speaker 5: don't know, it's my cause, my cleats, and this is
Speaker 5: a player's chance to showcase causes and charities that are
Speaker 5: important to them. I saw a quote recent story Zach
Speaker 5: Gershman accardinals dot Com where you said my mom helps
Speaker 5: me run fast. Explain that to everyone in the story
Speaker 5: because she lost your mom.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my mom passed away in my freshman year of college.
Speaker 7: She was a fighter. She got diagnosed with breast cancer
Speaker 7: my senior year of high school. They gave her only
Speaker 7: six months to live, which is crazy, but she ended
Speaker 7: up living a whole another year and a half and
Speaker 7: was able to see me play football in college for
Speaker 7: six games. So I always say, I write her name
Speaker 7: on every pair of cleats that I have, So I
Speaker 7: always say she helps me run fast, jump high, and
Speaker 7: play football.
Speaker 6: Real good?
Speaker 2: Did you bring those?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I actually brought them in great bread right all right, man,
Speaker 7: they did pretty.
Speaker 6: Good with these. Man, I love them. Manna have to
Speaker 6: frame these.
Speaker 5: It is really well done.
Speaker 6: We have to frame these right here. That's uh.
Speaker 5: And so, so cancer awareness is your cause obviously, and
Speaker 5: then the organization is Virtue.
Speaker 7: Virtue, Yes, it's a company, nonprofit organization back home and Burmingham.
Speaker 7: So just being able to go back home and give
Speaker 7: back to my community and do something that I care about,
Speaker 7: you know, being able to try to help find a
Speaker 7: cure for whatever kid may be out there so they
Speaker 7: don't have to go through what I went through.
Speaker 1: Man, that is truly incredible. Star, It really is. What
Speaker 1: do you think you take from.
Speaker 7: Your mom being able to just persevere through anything, you know,
Speaker 7: whatever life throws that you, just being able to withstanding
Speaker 7: oning that is a better side at the other side.
Speaker 7: So just being able to see her fight, Just knowing
Speaker 7: that I can't give up whatever I'm doing, even though
Speaker 7: it's gonna be.
Speaker 6: Dark days, hard days, whatever it may be.
Speaker 7: Just know I got to keep going because that's what
Speaker 7: she wants, and she's pushing me forward in I got
Speaker 7: brothers and sisters looking at me.
Speaker 5: So when you put those on on Sunday, that's gonna
Speaker 5: be a special moment, isn't it.
Speaker 6: When you lay those up, it's gonna be a great moment.
Speaker 7: Look how beautiful they are. I know I'm gonna do good.
Speaker 7: I know I'm gonna do good with these on.
Speaker 5: Well, And look to bring this full circle back to football.
Speaker 5: The position you play, you better be mentally strong, right,
Speaker 5: you have.
Speaker 6: To short term memory, you know, short term memory.
Speaker 7: Playing cornerback, you know those guys over there, some of
Speaker 7: the best athletes that play receiver, and being able to
Speaker 7: just cover those guys and try to dominate them. As
Speaker 7: much as I can. You have to be mentally strong
Speaker 7: because they're gonna make players, but I just have to
Speaker 7: make more than them.
Speaker 2: So it says here, your dog is named Mook.
Speaker 6: Okay, I love her.
Speaker 2: What kind of dog?
Speaker 6: I have a pit bull? And crazy thing about that? Man?
Speaker 6: I named her after my mom?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. My mom's nickname was Mooky. So
Speaker 7: I ended up showing my dog's name to Mook, so
Speaker 7: I treated like a kid.
Speaker 5: Well that's outstanding. That's really good stuff.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: Uh, I tell you what it's it's gonna be neat
Speaker 5: because there's over three dozen cardinals who are going to
Speaker 5: be representing on Sunday with all the cleats under you
Speaker 5: guys wear them in a at practice and just really
Speaker 5: cool initiative by the NFL, and it's really taken off
Speaker 5: I think the ninth consecutive year. And uh, did you
Speaker 5: get a chance to test drive those and practice?
Speaker 6: Yeah? They feel crazy. That's good. I feel the picking
Speaker 6: thees man taking these.
Speaker 2: How many practices have you warned those?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 2: Just one?
Speaker 6: That's all you need.
Speaker 1: One man, they create the shoe today. We're just one
Speaker 1: and it breaks in, ready to go.
Speaker 6: One, It forms to your feet.
Speaker 1: Back to my day, Star, you had to break those
Speaker 1: in for two weeks.
Speaker 6: You know, they got the stretches.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Welf used to put like iron pieces in his shoes,
Speaker 5: you know, just to weigh him down, and they all
Speaker 5: season that kind of stuff. Used to pull buses with
Speaker 5: chains just to work on the legs, you know, that
Speaker 5: kind of stuff. It was the old school strong man stuff.
Speaker 5: We continue. Star Thomas is our guest Cardinals cornerback on
Speaker 5: the Big Red Rage, presented by Sandann Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 5: Live from Tropi and Chandler.
Speaker 4: Snap to Donald three step drop, looking left, all the
Speaker 4: way up in trouble, stepping up and sacked hell J.
Speaker 4: Collier with the takedown. Donald takes the snap, drops back
Speaker 4: in trouble. Kaisier White back there first and down goes
Speaker 4: the quarnerback.
Speaker 2: Copper zero coming from death.
Speaker 4: Snap to Donald pre step drop pressure on mac Wilson
Speaker 4: sacks him back at the thirty eight yard line. Donald
Speaker 4: takes three step drop, hit and sacked get slammed to
Speaker 4: the ground by mac Wilson back at the twenty two
Speaker 4: the fourth sack of the day for the Cardinals, about five.
Speaker 5: Sacks each of the last two games. An Arizona Cardinals defense.
Speaker 5: That is an absolute It's just an absolute heater right
Speaker 5: now with some of the stats, just the uptrends, the ascension,
Speaker 5: and we got to imagine that if you're a corner,
Speaker 5: you're loving the pass rush and then some it's a
Speaker 5: big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. I
Speaker 5: say that because our guest is Star Thomas Cardinals starting
Speaker 5: cornerback here live from Trophy and Chandler right on Queen
Speaker 5: Creek Road between Price and Dobson. So you tell us,
Speaker 5: I mean, if the guys up front are getting home,
Speaker 5: what does that do for you as a corner?
Speaker 6: Ah, it makes mind the way easier.
Speaker 7: I don't have to cover as long and that means
Speaker 7: the ball is in the air fasts, so plays to
Speaker 7: be made. Man, So shout out to the big guys
Speaker 7: up front forgetting home a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, I talk about this a lot, Polly. There
Speaker 1: are basically three ways you can actually get pressure on
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You can be better then where you got
Speaker 1: four guys, you line up and you're better than the
Speaker 1: five guys trying to block those four guys, and you
Speaker 1: can drop seven, or you can scheme your weight actually
Speaker 1: getting pressure on opposing quarterbacks, or you can have coverage,
Speaker 1: great coverage down the field that ultimately results in coverage sacks.
Speaker 1: Right now, just the way that the Arizona Cardinals are
Speaker 1: combining the scheme sack in particular with the coverage sack
Speaker 1: as well. Do you know they are number nine in
Speaker 1: the National Football League in sacks per attempt number nine, Paul.
Speaker 1: When you think of that coming into this season right now,
Speaker 1: there were two big concerns, two big concerns with the
Speaker 1: defense in my opinion, will they be able to stop
Speaker 1: the run and will they be able to get pressure
Speaker 1: on an opposing quarterback.
Speaker 5: Based on last year?
Speaker 1: Based on last year, Man, those two things have improved dramatically,
Speaker 1: especially over the last five six weeks. Right now, they're
Speaker 1: number thirteen in rushing yards per game allowed, and they're
Speaker 1: number thirteen in rushing yards per play allowed, number thirteen, Paul.
Speaker 1: They're creeping into the top third in the National Football
Speaker 1: League in that regard, and to be number nine in
Speaker 1: sacks per attempt, which is even more specific than just
Speaker 1: saying sacks sacks per attempt, the Arizona Cardinals are right there.
Speaker 1: It is amazing the transformation this defense has.
Speaker 7: Gone through it is man, just being able to see
Speaker 7: those big guys there just take the challenge on seeing
Speaker 7: what everybody was saying about them and just seeing them
Speaker 7: go out there every Sunday just proving everybody room.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 7: So also having for those guys just going out there
Speaker 7: making those plays and like I said, they make my
Speaker 7: job easier. I don't have to cover as long as
Speaker 7: then they get those tip pass so that means the
Speaker 7: balls in the air for the defeat to make. So
Speaker 7: it's all a collective effort.
Speaker 5: And then you think about the injuries you lost Paul Nichols,
Speaker 5: Justin Jones, your two starting d tackles, You lost two
Speaker 5: starting edge guys PI Joe Jilauri and Dennis Gardex. So
Speaker 5: think about that and then think about since Week seven,
Speaker 5: only the Eagles and Broncos have more sacks than the Cardinals.
Speaker 5: So I guess my question is where, why, how has
Speaker 5: the Cardinals defense improved? Because I hear it said by
Speaker 5: some of the opposition opposition that you guys are disguising
Speaker 5: a lot as well, and just some of the looks
Speaker 5: that the Cardinals present. Our next level on helping the
Speaker 5: entire defense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like I say, like I said, this is a
Speaker 7: collective effort on that part. Shout out to Nick Rolins,
Speaker 7: he coordinated for you know, calling the right players at
Speaker 7: the right time. Shout out to all the dbs with
Speaker 7: covering as long as they do. And shout out to
Speaker 7: the big guys of a friend getting back home. And
Speaker 7: like I said, we all working together and they're accepting
Speaker 7: the challenge. Like you said, everybody want to come in
Speaker 7: and try to run the ball on us, and he
Speaker 7: they are going out there and stopping the run.
Speaker 5: So he's all together and a great sign of any
Speaker 5: great team or any great unit. Different heroes at different times.
Speaker 5: This last game, Mac Wilson really stood out, yes, really productive,
Speaker 5: and you know after the game he said, look, this
Speaker 5: is on Monday actually after watching the film, and here's
Speaker 5: what he had to say, and this is what we're
Speaker 5: talking about. We say there's a little bit of an
Speaker 5: edge this week in the locker room. Mac Wilson Senior.
Speaker 11: No, you just want to win, honestly, you know, with
Speaker 11: them being whatever the team it was nine to two,
Speaker 11: you know, high power offense, high power team, good defense,
Speaker 11: and you know you just want to go out and
Speaker 11: win that game so bad, and you know, just the
Speaker 11: fall short. It's tough, you know, but it's learning experience
Speaker 11: for all of us, and it lift fire under all
Speaker 11: of us.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 11: I feel like you know, I know Guy's going to
Speaker 11: bounce back for this one, and you know, we're just
Speaker 11: gonna see what we can do.
Speaker 5: We talk about the word, In fact, it's JG's word, finish.
Speaker 5: Finish drives, finish games right, finish the season, finish because
Speaker 5: it's all right in front of you, isn't it.
Speaker 7: Everything we're working for, everything, all those OTA's off season
Speaker 7: workouts is right therefore is to take and all we
Speaker 7: have to do out there is just go out there
Speaker 7: and do it. Just got to go do it. He
Speaker 7: always say, we got to act on it. So we're
Speaker 7: gonna go act on this Sunday.
Speaker 2: So you star.
Speaker 1: How about you personally in regard to the defense, what
Speaker 1: do you like to do? You like to play man?
Speaker 1: Do you like to play press? Do you like to
Speaker 1: play in a zone room? What do you prefer?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 7: I just love to play football. I just love to
Speaker 7: play football. Whatever he calls, I'm happy to play it.
Speaker 7: Like I said, I don't feel like there's nothing that
Speaker 7: I can't do out there. So whenever he calls the
Speaker 7: zone or he calls man or even if he allows
Speaker 7: me to blitz who said is like, i'ma be happy
Speaker 7: to do it, and that's what I love to do.
Speaker 1: How about tackling, who's the toughest tackle you find so far?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 6: All those guys are pretty good.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 7: All those guys are pretty good. It's so hard to say,
Speaker 7: so hard to.
Speaker 1: Say, man, But how do you think your tackling has developed?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's your rookie year.
Speaker 7: I feel like my tackling has become way better. Watched
Speaker 7: Boodle and how he tackled. Watched Jat and how they tackled.
Speaker 7: We're all about the same size, so just going in
Speaker 7: there with their ferocity and just violence of just running
Speaker 7: through those tackles and running my feet and I'm just
Speaker 7: gonna get up the next play, you know, regardless of
Speaker 7: what happens. So making sure I'm out a cornerback that's
Speaker 7: gonna not tackle, so they don't want to. I don't
Speaker 7: want to have that on there.
Speaker 1: Have you always had a motor, like a high motor
Speaker 1: of intensity level?
Speaker 2: Have you always had that?
Speaker 7: I feel like I've done I always have. Especially playing
Speaker 7: corner you always have to be super mellow. Yeah, you
Speaker 7: can't get to how you can't get too low. But
Speaker 7: you always have to play with an edge, and me
Speaker 7: being a shorter corner, as they will say, I always
Speaker 7: have to play with the edge and be more scrappy
Speaker 7: than usual.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm just looking at some of the game logs. Right,
Speaker 5: six solo tackles against Chicago. Yep, you had five tackles
Speaker 5: for solo against the Jets. Wolfson always asking about the
Speaker 5: physical part of the game. I want to know when
Speaker 5: you go against some of the elite receiver units in
Speaker 5: the league and in a row. I mean, you went
Speaker 5: against Miami Chicago, the Jets, DeVante Adams, right, Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 5: Then he got Justin Jefferson just last week. What is
Speaker 5: that like when you're going up against the best of
Speaker 5: the best.
Speaker 7: As an opportunity to put your name out there and
Speaker 7: to show what you can do and to build your confidence.
Speaker 7: Like you said, you just missed all of those receiver
Speaker 7: cords that we went against in the past few weeks.
Speaker 7: And I feel like us as a secondary has shown
Speaker 7: up week after week after week, and our confidence is
Speaker 7: so high that we don't feel.
Speaker 6: Like we can be stopped.
Speaker 5: How different a challenge is it to go against Tyreek
Speaker 5: Hill one week, Keenan Allen the next week, DeVante Adams
Speaker 5: or Garrett Wilson. Just mean, all those guys are really
Speaker 5: unique in their own ways, aren't they.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're so unique, so you have to have a
Speaker 7: different game plan when you go on against them. Like,
Speaker 7: you know, Tyreek Hill, he's pretty fast, so you would
Speaker 7: like to make him stop his feet a little bit
Speaker 7: more and run shorter rouse than what you would think.
Speaker 7: But you can't be scared of this speed. I feel
Speaker 7: like there was a key for us going into the week.
Speaker 7: If you watch, we pressed him a lot. We wasn't
Speaker 7: We wasn't too afraid of his speed. We was also
Speaker 7: in the room like we run for it too too,
Speaker 7: So let's see, you know, so we wasn't scared that week.
Speaker 7: But when you go against DeVante Adams and Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 7: you know, those guys are a little bit more shifty,
Speaker 7: so you have to play with a little bit more
Speaker 7: of your feet and better eyes, you know, and not
Speaker 7: playing with so much on top. You just gotta play
Speaker 7: on body.
Speaker 1: Okay, So maybe not the technique, maybe not the technique
Speaker 1: processor or man or man or all for whether you're
Speaker 1: gonna play in his own room? What about the coverage?
Speaker 1: What's your just the call? What's your favorite call if
Speaker 1: you have one?
Speaker 6: I don't know. Man. I love them all, man, I
Speaker 6: love them all.
Speaker 7: Every coverage, every coverage that we have, every call that
Speaker 7: Nigroage calls. I feel like it's a great call for
Speaker 7: that play. Man, regardless of when he called, I feel
Speaker 7: like we're gonna win that play.
Speaker 2: His demeanor, like Nick Rowlis.
Speaker 7: I feel like he's he's a very mellow guy at
Speaker 7: the beginning, but once you hit the field, he puts
Speaker 7: his shades on, and he puts his paper over his lips,
Speaker 7: over his mouth, and he's very he's very tapped in
Speaker 7: and locked in.
Speaker 2: Man, he puts his shades on. What do you think
Speaker 2: he does that?
Speaker 6: I guess it's an alter ego or something. I guess
Speaker 6: he turns into a different person.
Speaker 5: That It's true. Remember the preseason puts the hood on
Speaker 5: there you go. Yeah, he's a former inside linebacker in college.
Speaker 5: He sort of goes into that assassin.
Speaker 6: Mode, you know what I mean, different mode.
Speaker 5: That's good stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Have you had some good battles with Marvin Harrison Junior
Speaker 5: in practice.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, definitely, Paul can't believe me and Hill was battling.
Speaker 6: So that was pretty good.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's great.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know what, maybe when we come back here, we'll
Speaker 5: get some of maybe what you've told Darius Robinson in
Speaker 5: terms of advice and rookie year. He's going into a
Speaker 5: second game.
Speaker 11: Uh.
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Speaker 4: Third and six on the Cardinals eighteen yard line. Great
Speaker 4: receivers right one left, Gino Smith in the gun. Will
Speaker 4: the Cardinals come after him? On a must stop third
Speaker 4: down shotgun snap back to throw. Smith steps up, moves
Speaker 4: to his right, being chased far side.
Speaker 5: Now throws. Oh we've been a pickoff in the end zone.
Speaker 5: Oh what a gorgeous play.
Speaker 4: My Garrett Williams to pick off Geno Smith in the
Speaker 4: end zone.
Speaker 1: Oh what a great way to start the fourth corner.
Speaker 1: Right here, turning over Geno Smith in the red zone,
Speaker 1: you rush five and Garret Williams mates a play.
Speaker 2: It was two weeks.
Speaker 5: Ago in Seattle. Now the Seahawks come to the AC
Speaker 5: and we have Star Thomas as our guest on a
Speaker 5: big red rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We
Speaker 5: are santan Ford. And if we're talking about cornerback play man,
Speaker 5: you cannot ignore Garrett Williams this season, guys. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you saw the next Gen stat this week.
Speaker 5: He currently is allowing a passer rating under forty nine,
Speaker 5: which is the second lowest among all corners who have
Speaker 5: enough snaps to qualify. Think about that, Think about what
Speaker 5: he's doing in the yards per target is the lowest
Speaker 5: among all corners. So from one corner to another, what
Speaker 5: is Garrett Williams doing really well right now?
Speaker 7: I mean, man, he's found the ball, he's playing his technique, great,
Speaker 7: great man. I see him every day watching film. He
Speaker 7: he's as a student of the game. Man, he's a
Speaker 7: real student of the game. And I just try to
Speaker 7: take something. Whatever I see G's doing, I try to
Speaker 7: do myself because he's doing something right.
Speaker 5: And well, if you know, well another guy who's way
Speaker 5: ahead of the curve in terms of being a young
Speaker 5: guy and watching film as Darius Robinson. Yes, I mean
Speaker 5: we knew that the moment he was drafted. He he
Speaker 5: did that interview when he's talking about his film work.
Speaker 5: Here's Darius Robinson after playing his first regular season game
Speaker 5: last week at Minnesota, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 12: Sometimes I feel like I know exactly like my brain
Speaker 12: was going, but my feet wasn't matching. I don't know
Speaker 12: if I was too excited or what, but I'm just
Speaker 12: really gonna fix that in practice this week and just
Speaker 12: keep earning reps as far as like technique fundamentals, like
Speaker 12: JG always says, alignment, assignment, key technique, So that's all
Speaker 12: it is.
Speaker 2: So I'm just super excited to get better.
Speaker 5: Can you relate to that? Considering it was about a
Speaker 5: year ago you went through that point in your first
Speaker 5: regular season game, you must have been pretty amped up.
Speaker 7: Definitely, It's like you see something but just like this
Speaker 7: can't be happening right now.
Speaker 6: It's too good to be true.
Speaker 7: So I understand exactly what he's saying. But Dee Robb
Speaker 7: is going to be a great player for us.
Speaker 6: I could see it.
Speaker 7: Man, he's already he already cared itself like he's been
Speaker 7: the league for a long time.
Speaker 6: Man, he's gonna continue to grow. What was your first Seattle?
Speaker 6: Was that was my first start? Excuse me? My first game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: It was Cincinnati Bengals. I played Cincinnati Bengals only special teams. Okay,
Speaker 7: then we went to l A.
Speaker 6: Rams. I played corner a little bit, and then Seattle
Speaker 6: was the first start.
Speaker 1: Actually, okay, Seattle was the first start. Was there any difference.
Speaker 1: Did you have a lot of anxiety with that first start?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, yeah, yeah, yeah, It's like, okay, like, man, it's
Speaker 7: a dream come true right now, and I'm living in it,
Speaker 7: you know. You know, always ask gods for those glimpses,
Speaker 7: and I was living in that glimpse in that moment.
Speaker 7: So during that that game, it was probably one of
Speaker 7: the best games I probably played. I felt like I
Speaker 7: was tackling, I was covering everywhere.
Speaker 6: It was. It was amazing playing see.
Speaker 2: You, did you have the NFL moment?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 2: Did you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: My goodness.
Speaker 1: You know, at what point did you have that NFL moment,
Speaker 1: Whether it was in the previous games you were playing
Speaker 1: or whether you were starting, did you have a moment
Speaker 1: where you said to yourself, I can play with these guys.
Speaker 7: I felt like I feel like I had that NFL
Speaker 7: moment and like training, trading and training camp site. Oh
Speaker 7: you seeing those guys and it's like, bro, I'm hanging
Speaker 7: with him, like I'm making plays against I'm in my
Speaker 7: Saint Brown or Jameson Williams, like when I was in Detroit,
Speaker 7: and then I get to Arizona and like, I'm still
Speaker 7: making play. That was Hollywood Brown here. So you know,
Speaker 7: I was being able to make plays and to see
Speaker 7: that your captains were coming to you and saying good job.
Speaker 1: So that's really important, though, isn't it. I mean for
Speaker 1: your own development to have that kind of confidence where
Speaker 1: you can sit there, Paul at night, You're laying there
Speaker 1: and the shadows are creeping across the ceiling and you're
Speaker 1: thinking yourself, I can do this.
Speaker 2: I can do this. That's so important you have that moment,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 7: Yes, you have to have that confidence in yourself. You
Speaker 7: can't be your biggest creating in your biggest fan, so
Speaker 7: you have to pick one. So being able to believe
Speaker 7: in yourself is everything.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: I mean even when you're the fourth pick overall. Marvin
Speaker 5: Harrison Junior sited his touchdown against Jalen Ramsey huge confidence
Speaker 5: builder for him. It's important Trey Benson. You know that's
Speaker 5: talking to James County about Trey Benson. I think it happened,
Speaker 5: you know, sort of mid season. He started making plays
Speaker 5: and breaking tackles and refusing to go down, and he
Speaker 5: and James Connery is talking about he has that confidence
Speaker 5: he can make plays just like he made him at
Speaker 5: Florida State.
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, there are so many fans that are
Speaker 1: out there, Well, what are you talking about? You know
Speaker 1: these guys are are hyper competitive alpha metals. Of course
Speaker 1: they're confident, are.
Speaker 2: You kidding me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right about that. They are for the most part.
Speaker 1: But man, you gotta see yourself do. You have to
Speaker 1: see yourself do? And that's so important that you do
Speaker 1: because now all of a sudden, that's where that development
Speaker 1: and that confidence really comes from.
Speaker 5: All Right, I'll do what I do best. I'll ask
Speaker 5: the dumb guy question here star. I know, I know,
Speaker 5: you study film on receivers, what about quarterbacks? And what
Speaker 5: about Geno Smith? Because he just pulled another game out
Speaker 5: on the road at the Jets, and nobody has more
Speaker 5: game winning drives engineered than Geno Smith over the last
Speaker 5: two and a half years. It's he's right there with mahomes.
Speaker 7: Man, kind of kind of nerve recking when you think
Speaker 7: about it, like come on, it's like it's right there.
Speaker 7: But he he has a certain kind of web of
Speaker 7: using his legs and when the game's on the line,
Speaker 7: he kind of makes some big time throws. So shout
Speaker 7: out to Geno Smith. May he's playing really good football
Speaker 7: right now. He makes really good decisions and taking control
Speaker 7: of their offense.
Speaker 1: If you're a cornerback and you're playing in his zone room, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're a corner and you're playing zone, do you
Speaker 1: ever pick at the quarterback?
Speaker 6: Do that hopefully he throwing he throws me the ball.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you're ever playing man off, do you ever
Speaker 1: peek at him?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: Do you ever peak at the quarterback? Because back in
Speaker 1: my day that's called cluing. I don't know what you
Speaker 1: call it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you do.
Speaker 7: You do take a quick peek to see you know,
Speaker 7: maybe you getting three step drop or five step drop.
Speaker 7: You just and being able to dictate what comes off
Speaker 7: those drops that he may give you.
Speaker 2: But cluing gets a little dangerous.
Speaker 6: He can it really can't?
Speaker 2: People? What's that? Where that danger is?
Speaker 7: If your eyes stay on the quarterback too long, you
Speaker 7: receiver mic run past you and all you know, you
Speaker 7: just gotta use knees and elbow. You know you gotta
Speaker 7: keep going the balls over your head. But you know,
Speaker 7: if you do it right, you make a play.
Speaker 5: What's the toughest part about a quarterbacks skill set for
Speaker 5: a corner?
Speaker 2: Would it?
Speaker 5: Would it be accuracy?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 5: You know that? Okay, you know this? This really makes
Speaker 5: this guy formidable if he's able to do this.
Speaker 7: I feel like if the quarterback is able to use
Speaker 7: his legs, being able to throw in extend plays outside,
Speaker 7: I gotta feel like that is a big attribute for quarterback.
Speaker 7: And then that means the corner has to cover Instead
Speaker 7: of three seconds, it's six seconds now and chase the
Speaker 7: guys all over the field.
Speaker 5: Fuddy, we really enjoyed them.
Speaker 6: Thank you, guys. Man really enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to see it out there, especially with
Speaker 5: the cleats.
Speaker 6: Thanks, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 5: It was amazing And let me tell you it's time.
Speaker 5: It's time. You know, everyone's sick and tired of being
Speaker 5: sick and tired of the Seahawks at this about it. Yeah,
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