WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Starling Thomas V Confident At Cornerback For Cardinals 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:05.360 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles ahead. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:06.720 He got jacked. 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:12.080 This is the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:13.400 and Gilbert Terry's. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.439 Gonna score touchdown Slamm to the ground by Buddha Baker 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.400 Like a torpedo, he keeps flying into the back deal. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.079 The Rage is brought to you by santan Ford and 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:28.280 Gilbert Right on the Price, right on the corner of 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.600 the sand Tan two to two Freeway. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:36.239 In Valvest Want a crab by Tray McBride that was spectacular. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:41.680 And by Arizona Cardinals Podcast. Visit Azycardinals dot Com Slash podcast. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:49.040 All Right, Seats, Rising Uard, jump you, Rising Vision, Flurry Rage, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:50.080 take it over. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:51.760 Here's Paul Calvic. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.840 I'm ready. I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:55.480 I'm ready. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.640 And Ron Wolfley, it doesn't get any better than that. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.520 Here we go, burg Gang, Come on now, let the 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.319 twelve Syria kidding me? Can I point out off the 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.880 top here? Breaking news earlier today? Wolf did you see 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.040 where roughly halfway between Phoenix and Seattle? Did you see 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.440 what happened? No, Paul, magnitude seven point zero earthquake. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:23.280 Oh I did see that? 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.120 Sorry, Yeah, coincidence, I think not. It's a precursor to 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.080 what happens when the two football teams, the two football 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.280 cities on either end of those tectonic plates, when they 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.840 meet on Sunday. Wolf, that is just a little indication 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.080 of what is going to happen on Sunday hashtag Richter Scale. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:42.720 Yeah. I like that, Paulie. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.680 Where you're going with that one right there, especially if 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.480 you're talking about the Arizona Cardinals offensive line in James 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.919 Connor lining up in hammering that box and getting better 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.280 and actually doing it to Seattle the way Seattle shut 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.480 us down in the last game. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.840 So anyway, that's just a precursor to what we have 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.440 going here on the Bigge. Maybe a little later, Wolf, 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.840 after the show, I'll tell you about how I lived 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.200 through a seven point on earthquake. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.480 Of course, Oh no, you're not gonna tell that story, gut. Actually, 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:08.639 I do want to hear that, Paul. 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.560 It's the big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.760 Gilbert Ron Wolf. Were there, Paul Kelby c here, But 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.960 this show, the star of the show, no doubt, is 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.120 the guy who rocks that in his name, Starling Thomas everywhere. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.480 So what's up y'all? 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.280 By the way, what does it take for us to 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.640 actually call you star as opposed to starling? You're You're 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.280 because in the locker room, right, you mainly go by Star. 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:31.720 Do you know? 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:32.799 Star go by Star? 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.760 Man, I'm gonna starting to make him Man is in 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.600 my name. I go by that every day, So I 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.600 just I just wait on my sleeves. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:38.800 You know. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:40.560 I couldn't name sort as soon as I got to 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.679 the NFL, because that's what I want to be one day. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.280 That's what you want her to be one day. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.360 Now. Now, obviously your parents named you that, and what's 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:48.960 behind that. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.840 I'm actually a fifth though, believe it or not. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.920 So man, it was ran in the family, and I 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.200 got five strong Starlings, you know, pushing me for it 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.920 every day. Man, So I appreciate them to giving me 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:00.320 the name. And I'm gonna keep rock. And you know 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.400 that's really cool. 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:02.280 It was cool. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.920 Generations that goes back like over one hundred years. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.320 It has to, right, I get I can't be the 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.440 one that ends it. So my son, don't get ready, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.639 his name is gonna be starting too. 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.280 That is outstanding, all right, So look, let's just start here. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.120 We like to say we're the original Thursday night football. Okay, Okay, 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.720 you look up here, you see Packers Lions. For anyone 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.239 who knows his story, Starling came out of UAB last year, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.840 all right, and you were picked up by the Lions originally, yep, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.919 and you got to go against him earlier this year. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.000 We'll get into that a little bit. But when you 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.120 look up in there at the screen, you see guys 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.280 like I'm on Ross Saint Brown, and you see some 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.240 of the receivers. I mean, those are guys you battled 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:42.960 not too long ago in practice, right. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.240 I did, Man, I did, And it's kind of crazy 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.360 seeing those guys up there because I kind of built 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.920 a relationship with him when I first came into the league, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.360 being in my first team, so the bun was kind 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.440 of deep there. So I still talk to some of 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:55.600 those guys till this day. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.200 Man. I wish them all the luck, honestly. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.000 Yeah, you know, I want to talk here, if it's okay, Paul. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.080 I want to talk about the last two games right now, specifically, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.560 and where you're at with these last two games, right 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.600 How about you individually before we start talking about the 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.760 team collectively, How about you individually over the last two weeks. 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.920 These last two games were tough. They're going to leave 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.360 a mark these last two games. What kind of mark 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:21.080 is that on you? 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.039 I feel like they have came down to the last 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.360 two minutes of the game, and you know, as a dB, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.239 we want to put that on our shoulders to perform 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.600 in those moments and two minute drills. There was a 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.120 money downs for us, and you know, we didn't get 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.919 the job done in those last two weeks, but this 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.080 week we're gonna get it done, and we just continued 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.080 to ready to move forward. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.599 What do you think the aftermath is in the locker room? 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.799 There seems to be a little bit of an extra 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.560 edge this week. Would you agree with that. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:48.720 I would definitely say that. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.600 I would definitely say that they got the one up 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.359 on us, knowing that we are the better team and 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.080 we kind of let it slip through the cracks in 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.080 you know, this game kind of means something to us 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.480 as a playoff game for us, and we're excited to 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.280 go out there with energy in front of the home 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.000 crowd and man, just let it loose. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.880 So you guys right now, Yeah, you know what, Honestly, 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.960 there's a lot of clapping going on for that. I 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.919 would agree, Man, just six and six at this point 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.960 of the season right now, you guys have been competitive 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.239 in almost every game that you guys have played, whether 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.360 you win it or lose it, Finishing is so important, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.240 of course, right and you guys haven't been able to 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.080 do that. We weren't able to do that against Minnesota 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.240 or Seattle. But having said that, I would imagine the 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.680 confidence level still inside that locker room, knowing that you 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.479 guys can compete and have pretty much with every team 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.760 you've played, It's got to be pretty high in there. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:41.039 Yeah. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.279 I feel like our company is very high, and I 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.359 feel like these games that we kind of let slip 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.480 away is going to help us in the long run, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.440 knowing that we've been there before and next time we 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.520 get those same positions, that we're not going to let 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.000 it slip because we've seen those moments and the moment's 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.880 not going to be too big for nobody on the team. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.680 And we excited for this game. I can't explain how 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.760 much we're excited. You could feel the energy in the 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.960 locker room that we just overady to be in front 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.760 of our home crowd for these last two home away 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.360 games that we had and getting all the buze, So 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.800 we just ready for the cheers now and come out 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:12.440 of here with the W. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.840 Star Thomas is our guest here on The Big Red 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.640 Rage live from Trophy and Chandler located on Queen Creek 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.040 Road between Price and Dobson, and what you're hearing right 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.920 now is been echoed by virtually every single player, including 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.000 the quarterback. Here's what Kyler Murray had to say to 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:26.960 the media yesterday. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.840 We get another opportunity to kind of rewrite the wrongs 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.440 of going to Seattle and getting beaten, not playing our best. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.200 We came out this week and I think we played 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.560 better football. We didn't finish. With that being said, we 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.279 have another opportunity to go out there and do it 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.440 again and you know kind of avenge or loss. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.720 Well, if you mentioned confidence, right, I mean Star when 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.119 I tell you that the five teams that you've lost 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.599 to and I'm not counting Seattle, Okay, we'll see what 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:55.640 happens in the rematch. Buffalo, Detroit, Green Bay, Washington, Minnesota. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.000 Their combined record this year is now forty eight and thirteen. Yeah, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.560 think of the strength schedule there and I mean for example, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.200 the Detroit game, one score game, et cetera, down the line. 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.800 But I mean it is a mat when you guys 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.720 are watching the film, for example, how often you say, oh, man, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:12.640 that's correctable. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.560 Yes, every time, every time. And it's all little things. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.200 It's nothing that super big that we see on film. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.800 Everything is that small minute details that is easily fixed 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.880 in the film room. So that's why I say in 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.400 the loan round, we've been in those moments. We're just 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.520 gonna be excited to see those moments show up again. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.520 And when they show up, we're gonna be ready. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.320 So much of the time, you know. I talked to 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.640 my older brother Craig. Of course, he is a Pittsburgh 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.640 Steelers radio analyst. He played twelve years in the NFL, 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.480 and he played with some great players. I'm talking about 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.080 Steelers that had won four Super Bowl rings as a 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.680 matter of fact, and that we're talking about, man, the 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.040 process of getting good where you put yourself into position, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.480 you put yourself into situations where you have a chance 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.840 to win the game, and more times than not, if 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.640 you win those close games, that puts you over the 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.960 top collectively with a confidence level. I think that's what 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.720 we're looking at right now as well, Pauly looking at 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.120 a team that is trying to find itself, a team 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.280 that is still developing. I think of this guy right here, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.520 Star Thomas, and we're going to continue to talk about 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.920 this all show long, but to me, I think, here's 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.000 a guy that is making his way in the National 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.000 Football League and developing. Have you gotten better this season? 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.320 Star, I definitely feel like I've gotten better, seeing that 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.120 year one a year two jump and from myself being 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.800 able to just be more comfortable and play the game 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.360 that I know how to play. And I'm just so 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.679 excited to continue to put it out now on Sundays, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.160 you knowing that sometimes you can be the underdog or 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.800 take the long road, but you know the cream rises in. 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:43.680 I'm excited. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.880 This team is loaded with young players. I'm talking about 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.600 thirteen guys. If you go ahead and you start looking 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.720 at it, how many young guys like Star Thomas that 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.560 is in the process of developing from year one to 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.839 year two. The jump that you make right now, that's 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.199 one of the reasons why I think we've seen some 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.559 inconsistencies overall from top to bottom with the Arizona Cardinals 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.720 and how they're playing right now at six and six 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.559 because they got a lot of young guys that are 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.040 learning and developing and getting better. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.280 Well, it was last year's rookie class who came up 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.520 with a moniker. Let the rooks cook. Yeah right, because 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.400 no rookie class and you were part of it. Last year, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.120 No rookie class in the NFL started more games, No 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.440 rookie class played more snaps in the regular season than 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.199 the Arizona Cardinals. We know how many key rookies are 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.160 contributing this year, but then you have, you know, a 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.960 sprinkling of those key veterans as well, the team captains, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.480 guys like James Connor, who just sets the tone. It 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:46.199 just goes unsaid, the sort of presence he is. He 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.480 got a two year contract extension here in the past week, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.720 and here's James Connor just talking about that and the 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.720 responsibility of a new deal. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.719 I just realize that you got to earn it, and 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.720 you know that you're always being evaluated. So it's just 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.120 no a great responsibility, you know, to be called as 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.440 a leader, be called as a captain. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.520 You know, this had great mentors, you know. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.000 I remember asking Cam Hayward when he sounded like a 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.920 sixty million dollars deal in Pittsburgh, and I'll just say, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:10.760 you know, I asked. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:11.280 Him, how does it feel? 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.640 And he says, I got to show him I'm worth it, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:14.000 you know. 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:14.600 And it's just like. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.199 Fluck my whole mindset just because they give you the money. 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.280 It's still a huge challenge a head. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.319 So I just. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.160 Realized, man, that being a leader, that everybody's looking towards you, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.520 and you got to do the right things day in 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.880 and day out, and also keeps myself accountable. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.120 And now James Connor is that guy. What does that 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.480 say to locker room when a team captain like him 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:32.359 gets rewarded. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.840 It's seen shows that hard work made a big paid off, 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.199 you know. And it's just it's motivation for his younger 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.320 guys to see James every day come in and work 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.760 hard and you know, put the extra effort for it 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.240 and just following his lead. He always tell me every day, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.760 follow the arrow, start, follow the arrow. And I'm just 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.480 following his lead and hopefully, you know, one day I 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.320 get to be rewarded like James did. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.760 Man, I talk about it all the time. James Connor 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.440 is a guy who challenges every man that is around 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.439 him challenges if you just watch James Connor play the 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.400 game of football again and I talk about it all 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.720 the time, but back me up on this. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:09.440 It challenges you as a. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:13.520 Man how hard he plays, it does and how talented 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.480 he is, and if he's playing that hard, just like 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.600 Buddha Baker as well, if he's playing that hard, it 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.520 challenges you to do the exact same thing it does. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.040 It does you don't want to be that guy that 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.960 they point out and say, oh, you got to pick 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.840 it up. If your best players are playing hard every snap, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.640 why can't you? So that's that's kind of accountability that 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.000 we take in that locker room right now. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.720 Do you ever sit on the bench and you watch 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.640 James Connor, who, by the way, has spent most of 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.080 the season leading the league in mistackles, force, broken tackles. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:42.679 Do you ever sit on the bench with a gatorade 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.040 and look at the jumbo tron and just laugh because 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:46.440 you watch other GB's trying to tackle. 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.640 It is amazive because you see it at practice, so 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.599 it's like it gets routine, But trying to see the 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.680 other team do it as a layers because you know 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.760 a lot of times corners don't want to tackle in Wednesday, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.839 see James coming around at corners of freak chase. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.040 They tend to get out of the way of him. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.880 And look this team, this Cardinals team went into Minnesota 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.240 and ran for a buck fifty four against the number 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.240 one Rundee. But what happened last time the Cardinals played 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.920 at Seattle. He was held to his lowest rushing output 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.880 since his rookie year twenty seventeen. I'm guessing there's gonna 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.840 be a motivated James Conner out there Sunday. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:17.200 Yeah. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.880 Let me just say this. Against Minnesota, they handed the 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.520 ball off to a running back twenty four times for 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.440 one hundred and six yards to a running back. Now 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.120 with Kyler Murray to a running back that's over four 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.880 point four to two yards against the number one rush 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.360 defense in the league. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:34.520 That's getting it done. 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:34.760 Paul. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:35.480 Yeah. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.559 He also said this week we got to come out 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.319 swinging first. Maybe coming off the bye. We got a 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.880 bit of a slow start in Seattle. Can let that 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.839 happen this time around. We're just getting off and running 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.480 here on the Big Red Rage. Star Thomas is our guest, 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.840 all presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.800 Ford live from Trophy and Chandler on Queen Creek Road 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.600 between Price and Dobson. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:02.320 Be right back, yeah, to the off side of the 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.560 end zone, and it is incomplete. Starling Thomas had good coverage. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.360 It's one on one on the outside and that is 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.920 excellent coverage by Starling Thomas. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.559 Piers right sideline, Thomas docks it down. Good play by 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.480 Thomas who is on Dobbs that time. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.559 Excellent coverage right there by Starling Thomas. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.640 Obviously, they have some really talented young players and they're 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.320 all showing up deep ball near side and it's incomplete. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.840 What a jump by star Thomas in cover John Gibson 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.160 in the twenty yard line. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.160 He turned around to defend the ball and drunk up 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:37.680 the pass. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.079 That is just so heads one by Thomas. This young 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.240 guy is developing and has been all season long. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.840 Star Thomas. The star is short for Starling. The star 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.480 is short for starter. I like that about all twelve 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.160 games this year. You started a handful of games last year. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.520 I reference the Lions original team. They released you at 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.760 the end of camp. It took the Cardinals twenty four 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:08.760 hours to claim you. They did not hesitate Starling Thomas 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.640 is our guest here on the Big Red Rage Presentybody, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.040 santan Ford and Gilbert. Let's just go there. Let's talk 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.400 about your background. You have less than two years in 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.080 the league. Like I said, you've already started the majority 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.720 of the games you've played in. So what was that 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.760 like camp with the Lions and then that twenty four 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.160 hour period where you changed teams? Tell us about that. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.840 It was a quick turnaround. Once I got released by 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.480 the Lions. I went back home to Birmingham, got around 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.240 family for at least probably five hours before my agent 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.520 began calling me. Santine's was calling asking about me. It 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.840 was a Wednesday, I remember, like yesterday. It was Wednesday, 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.280 around twelve thirty. I got a call from the Arizona 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.560 Cardinals saying that hey, your flight leaves at three thirty man. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.760 So I hopped on the flight three thirty, got to Arizona. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:54.600 The next day. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:59.240 I was practicing. The next day, I was practicing in Arizona. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.800 Them set for five weeks, I would say, to learn 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.280 to playbook, get used to everybody, and I think bround 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.760 week six, week seven, I was starting in Seattle. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.360 So it's amazing. That is amazing story, right, there stars. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.640 So there's a lot of people that have actually compared 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.920 the culture and the mentality of the Detroit Lions with 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.280 the Arizona Cardinals. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.160 So do you see that? I definitely can see it. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.720 We play a form of bullyball. We out physical opponents, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.320 We are smarter than our opponents, and we just take 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:29.840 the fight to them most of the time. And I 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.920 could see that in the way Detroit played. They play 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.800 a lot of swagger, just like us, and we just 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.360 have fun with the game of football. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.200 And look, Dan Campbell and Jonathan Ganner are different guy's, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.040 different styles, but the energy is there. It's got to 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.040 be similar, right. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.200 Is there? Is there? Their energy is top notch. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.520 You know, if you're feeling down in team me, as 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.680 soon as the coach walk in, you're gonna be piped 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.320 up ready to play for him. The pregame speeches for 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.720 JG Man you want to run through the wall form. 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:56.920 So I love playing for him. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.920 What's it like in the team meetings when you know 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.520 Jonathan Gannon can call on anyone in the room at 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.160 any moment. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.120 Oh my goodness, all you hear is everybody rumbling through 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:09.880 their noteble is because you never know what kind of 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.520 question he may act. So just being able to be 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.760 ready at any time, it gives to coach a lot 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.080 of confidence in you that you know, he knows that 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.000 you're on your stuff and you know on your p's 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:20.800 and q So, just being able to get your coach 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:22.960 that trusting you and he can call you at any 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.640 time and you will only answer okay. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.800 So that rookie season of yours, you played twelve games. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.920 You played in twelve games, Yeah, seven starts. You're a 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.800 rookie season right now? What did your rookie season teach you? 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:36.840 Ah man, There's a lot of ups and downs being 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.080 a cornerback in the NFL. I must say it's the 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.600 hardest position to play, and I agree with them. 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:44.920 Being able to run with the best athletes backwards, it 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:45.960 has to be pretty hard. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.360 But being able to just hold my own and it 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.400 gave me confidence knowing that I was able to play 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.960 in this league and that you have veteran guys that 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.840 actually push for you. So being able to just stay 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.280 here and have your coaches believe in you and push 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.680 you to be your version of yourself meant a lot. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.719 The fact that you had five years at UAB and 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.959 you started forty games in college. How much in hindsight, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.280 how much did that prepare you to get right into 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:10.640 the FRAY. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.720 I felt like it was prepared me. Well. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.840 I went in with all the companies in the world 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.119 knowing that I can play football. While I was at 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:21.200 UA B, we played against Texas A and M Georgia LSU. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.520 Can I go Tennessee and every game, every game that 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.679 I kind of balled out against the SEC talent, and 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.280 they say that that's the best of the best. So 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.479 when I prepare myself against those guys, I wasn't afraid 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.639 of coming into the NFL being ready to play. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.639