WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Cards Camp In Full Swing 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.800 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. Oh ahead, 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.600 he got jacked. This is the big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.960 by Santanford in Gilbert. Harry's gonna score touchdown. Slam to 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.960 the ground by Buddha Baker Like a torpedo. He came 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:23.279 flying into the backfield. The rage is brought to you 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:29.120 by satan Ford in Gilbert. Are you Santanford State Farm? 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.400 Talk to an agent today at eight hundred State Farm 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.000 and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts, Visit Acy Cardinals dot Com, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:46.159 Slash podcasts, The red scen Rising Guard, temperaturizing vision, blurring, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.599 rage taking over. Here's Paul Calvc. I'm ready, I'm one 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.279 hundred percent ready. I'm telling you a'ready and Ron Wolflee. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.960 It doesn't get any better than that, boy, unleash the far. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.760 We've been saying it since May, and we say it 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:09.280 again today. HBO, the Hard Knocks crew, they done pick 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:14.720 the wrong half of the Cardinals season to document. I mean, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:21.520 you want drama, you want storylines, you want compelling reality TV. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.880 The first half of this season continues to tell the 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.120 second half. Hold my beer and we'll get into that here. Momentarily, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.360 it is the Big Red Rage. We will have rookie 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.720 pass rusher My J. Sanders as a very special guest tonight, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.759 all presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert. We are Santan Ford, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:47.560 Ron Wolfley on assignment again Wolf is off. It is 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.840 still technically the month of July. You hear the laugh, 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.640 the scoff, the the reality and acknowledgement of one Rob Frederickson, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.680 former Cardinals linebacker, and and just Rob can't tell you 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:00.800 how great it is. Have you feel in at the 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.640 last second here and boom looking forward to the next hour. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.840 It's ratings week, Paul. So we gotta you know, we 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:11.520 gotta boost things up here. So whenever it sweeps, we 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.320 bring you in. Right. That's the way. That's the way 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.760 it works. You know that's because you know it's about 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.440 a production and performance bace business. That's exactly what it's 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.040 all about. And uh, man, do we have a lot 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.600 to talk about tonight? Do we not? Do we? Why? 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.960 What's happened? I don't know? Well, let's see um okay, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.080 see spend nearly a decade in the NFL playing linebacker, right, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.919 former first round pick? Yourself? Uh? Can I say that 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.880 that Kyler was playing defense today that Kyler was a 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.600 two way player, that he you know, look, the headline 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:47.720 on NFL Network was Kyler's clap back. Yeah, yeah, I don't. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.440 I don't think he was playing defense. I think he 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.800 was going on the offense. And and and really good 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.200 for him because had he not come out and set 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.320 things straight and you know, explained himself and explained kind 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.960 of his situation and the situation with this contract and 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:08.320 with the homework quote unquote clause, it would have been 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.400 left to social media and to talk radio to tell 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.960 that story. And so I think it was important Number 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.280 one for Kyler as a leader. I think that showed 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.960 great leadership. Number two just for him to get out 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.519 there and set the narrative and to really reset things 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.200 going forward for him, for the Cardinals and for this relationship. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.080 And if you're just getting back from a vacation yourself, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.880 it went something like this. On Monday, Kyler Murray signed 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.160 on the line that has dotted literally at the Cardinals headquarters. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.920 And then about two hours later it came out Ian 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.880 Rappaport NFL Network reporting that there is the independent study addendum, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.960 i e. The homework clause requiring four hours of independent 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.600 film study per week away from the team facility, but 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.760 there can't be any distractions from the internet or video 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.440 games or anything like that. So you know, and then 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:02.240 ever since then robbed your point, there's been a NonStop 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.640 negativity revolving around it. And so with that in mind, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.480 Kyler got up today impromptu press conference and he had 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:13.000 his say talking today because, um, you know, I feel 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.760 it's necessary with what's going on as far as regarding 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.520 me and the things that are being said about me. Um, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.920 to think that I can accomplish everything that I've accomplished 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.200 in my career and not be a student of the 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.200 game and not not have that passion and not not 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.760 take this serious is almost it's disrespectful, and it's it's 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.520 almost it's it's almost a joke. You know. Um, it's 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.960 to me, I'm not sixty seven to two thirty. I 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.920 don't throw the ball eighty five yards. I'm I'm already 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.640 behind the eight ball. You know, I can't afford to 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.359 take any shortcuts, no pun intended, but those things you 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.360 can't accomplish you don't take the game serious if you 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.440 don't prepare the right way. And you know, it's like 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.279 I said, it's it's laughable, you know things, and Rob 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.320 you can relate to this as a former Raider yourself. 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.440 Things really got just a nine and outlandish when there 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.239 were actually comparisons to JaMarcus Russell thrown out there earlier 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.760 this week. I mean, come on, Kyler was the NFL 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.960 offensive rookie either or Kyler Murray's been a Pro Bowl 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.160 or each of his next two years. DaMarcus Russell did 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:18.960 absolutely nothing zero, And so I think that's probably just 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.200 one of many things that that irked Kyler and prompted 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.479 him to get up there, unscheduled, unannounced and addressed the media. Yeah, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.960 I think he was irked, and he should have been, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.720 because you know, before he got there, before he got 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.080 up there and spoke, it was really up to social 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.839 media and and to talk radio to set the narrative, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:44.800 to to feed on all these stereotypes or all the 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.640 all these um, you know, misconceptions that you know, he's 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.159 not a hard worker, he doesn't put in the time 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:56.679 that you know that it's video games over video, watching 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.480 football video. So it it really was up to him 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.159 to get up there and set the record straight. And 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.680 you know, going forward, I still don't think that this 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.400 thing has put to bed. I think it will continue 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.839 to linger on. Now it'll it'll just be little social 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.120 media equips and funny little posts by people. When maybe 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:19.000 Kyler throws an interception, I guess he didn't study this week. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.560 You're gonna have that, um, But I do think he did. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.240 He went a long way today and what he did 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.000 in that press conference and writing it and putting his 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.039 mark on what the story really is. Again Kyler saying, quote, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.880 it's disrespectful. It's almost a joke. And then he continued 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.920 and once again, this is right off the top. He 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:43.400 didn't take any questions to begin. He had a statement, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.640 and he continued with this, I refuse to let my 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.120 work ethic and my preparation be in question. You know, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:54.120 I've put an incomprehensible amount of time and blows, sweat, tears, 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.960 and work into what i'd do. To those of you 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.560 out there that believe that I'd be standing here today 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.839 in front without having a work ethic and without preparing, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.080 I'm honored that you think that, but it's not possible. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.880 He was asked also rob whether he has any regrets 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.880 about the New York Times article, in particular the quote 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.440 where he said he doesn't quote unquote kill himself watching film. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.960 And his response to that was no, not at all. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.679 That there's multiple different ways to learn and watch the game. So, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.080 you know, once again pushing back against some sort of 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.560 narrative that he can just roll out there on game 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.160 day and you know, and just create organically that there's 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:39.480 no preparation whatsoever, which look, which started to get out 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.200 of hand obviously throughout the entire week to the point 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.560 where Kyler felt compelled to address it. Yeah, and look, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.480 his work ethic. Work ethic is a couple of things 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.000 in football. It's it's the physical aspect and it's the 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.280 mental aspect, and you need both to be successful in 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.520 this league. There's not a football player in the NFL 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.960 on the Arizona Cardinals. Kyler Murray included that does not 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:07.200 put in extra work beyond what is required via the 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:12.640 collective barning agreement or via individual player contracts. Everyone does. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.880 They have to otherwise you won't succeed. You will you 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.360 will you won't be on the team. Um. This really, 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.160 this clause though, really spoke only to the mental aspect, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.040 the mental preparation UH in game week and leading up 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.440 to the game. It didn't speak to I've never seen 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:35.560 it before. I've I've seen physical clauses in contracts before. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.360 You know, you have a weight clause, you have to 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:42.599 be under a certain weight. UM, offseason workout uh, incentives 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.880 for players to keep them around the building, keep them 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.559 in good shape. But this, this is, this is groundbreaking, 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:53.760 Phil Paul Honestly, UM, I'm interested to see the ripple 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.440 effect of this and what this means for future contracts 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.640 for other players other leagues. Is this going to be 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.200 the new normal? I'm not sure. And look, I'm convinced 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.680 it goes back to that New York Times article. Now, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.360 whether the team was aware of it or not, but 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.800 that certainly did you know, set a precedent of sorts, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.360 and it got it out there. And when you're giving 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.840 a franchise record contract to a player, any player, there's 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.439 going to be safeguards in there. And for the most part, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.480 I haven't seen anyone who said they've ever seen a 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.360 clause quite like this. The Andrew Brands of the world 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.480 who've been doing NFL contracts and or studying them for 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.520 three decades and l Brian Baldinger was NFL Network today saying, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.680 and I quote I'm against these sort of clauses because 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.960 they're very divisive, but once again team Kyler agreed to 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.600 it obviously, and I'll just said zoom out for a minute. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.080 I said this earlier this week on Cardinals Underground, the 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.560 podcast that to me, it's just in keeping with the 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.440 off season. Last year, the off seam was a season 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.559 was all about leadership and physicality, adding those two elements 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.880 to a Cardinals team that started ten in two, but 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.800 after yet another or late season swoons, second year in 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.520 a row, losing five year, last six, and getting blown 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.960 out into the playoff game, I think the mission this 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:12.000 offseason was to add accountability, to try and create layers 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.280 of accountability, whether it's hard knocks and the HBO cameras 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.160 in the second half of this season putting everyone's face 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.360 on it literally, or in this case, a cause that 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.280 tries to guard against these late season swoons and tries 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.440 to make sure that that no one's relaxing, that no 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.120 one's getting comfortable. Those are some of the euphemisms we've 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.000 heard from from various team leaders to the media as 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.200 to what happened when you're trying to diagnose the end 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.359 of last season, and as for watching film Kyler Murray. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.640 He also had this to say today to the medium, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.880 to the film side of things, there's multiple different ways 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.319 to to you know, to watch film. There's many different 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.440 ways to process the game. There's many different ways quarterbacks 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 learn the game and break the game down. Of course, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.400 I watched film by myself. That's that's a given that 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.679 doesn't even need to be said. But I do enjoy 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.880 and love the process of watching the game with my guys, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.480 the quarterbacks, my coaches, and we heard that offseason anecdote. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.480 It was Kelvin Beecham telling the media after one of 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.600 the OTAs that Kyla was in a meeting room breaking 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.560 down a seven on seven session with some of the 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.559 new receivers and leading the way. But look, every young 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.520 quarterback robed to a certain degree, has to improve in 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.800 that category. What's amazing is when you hear a Kurt 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.760 Warner like we had last week in the Big Red Rage, 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.800 or even at David car today in the NFL network, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.960 they talk about how much more potential there is for 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.920 Kyler Murray, a guy if you remember going into the 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.040 Green Bay game week eight last season, Troy Aikman started 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.760 that broadcast Cardinals and Packers on Thursday Night seven and 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.040 oh Cardinals against the six and one Packers, and Troy 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.000 Aikman called Kyler Murray the leading candidate for NFL MVP 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.960 at that point in the season. And whether it's Kurt 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.559 or David Carr talking about, you know, how he gets better, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:53.000 it's just the little things, just completing this simple passes 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.800 what Kurt calls the layups, what David Carr called today, 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.679 not trying to make the hero play, just passing up 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.920 the easy pass, but instead making that connection in that completion. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.800 And they both think that's where he takes off in 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.440 terms of his production as a queue. Well, obviously you 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.280 mentioned earlier accountability in this offseason, and I think that's right, Paul. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:18.440 It is about accountability. It's it's usually though historically it's 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.520 been verbalized, right, it hasn't been formalized in a contract, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.800 So that that is where this has really gone into 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.559 uncharted territory. And to your point, really about what is 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.880 Kyler's ceiling and where can he go? Yeah, Look, I 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.760 don't think he's even come close to scratching the surface 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.840 of that ceiling. And a lot of it to me 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.720 is those pre snap reads. What what is the defense 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.320 trying to do in this situation, in this personnel group, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.360 this down in distance. Those are the little things that 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:54.119 you don't always pick up in the meetings with coaches 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.480 before practice or after practice. A lot of times you're 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.719 breaking down the practice film, you're looking at that and 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.680 you're out of there. There's no question Kyler Murray knows 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.240 this playbook inside. Now that I've heard some some of 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.160 his teammates come to his defense about how he knows 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.480 the playbook, of course he does. That's not I don't 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.600 think that's in question. That's that's never in question. That Really, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.280 I think the crux of this whole thing and what 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:22.040 it's getting at is getting him to trying to help 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.040 him help himself to do those little things that Kurt 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.280 Warner talked about and get to that place where he 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.280 already knows what the defense is doing before he snaps 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.640 the ball. And that's exactly what Kurt Warner used to say, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.560 that he knew where he was going with all at 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.199 least knew his first two reads pre snap, just based 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.480 on the defensive front and what the defense was showing. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.240 So you're saying that correlates directly to watching game film 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.120 of the opposition, the opposing defense. Each week you pick up, 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.920 you pick up tendencies, you pick up simularities from the 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.960 week before in certain situations, certain packages, you can you 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.079 can pick up so many little things just by watching 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.440 that film. You know, I know Kyler does it. And 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.160 unfortunately this thing optically has just gotten a little out 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.480 of whack. But I know Kyler will be prepared every Sunday, 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.679 and I'll tell you what. That's something David Carr talked 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.200 about today as well in NFL Network. Those pre snap 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.320 reads will come back. Remember my J Sanders coming up. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.560 In this edition of The Big Red Rage presented by 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.400 satan Ford and Gilbert we are Santan Ford and a 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.560 couple of headlines from the defensive side and J. J. 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:39.320 Watt next gave to Henry hitting the backfield by J. J. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.920 Watt who got off a block and drags it down, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.920 knocked down and complained it's j J. Watt, got his 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.680 hands up, he bumbles them all. It's flues on the 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:53.040 far side. Another takeaway. J J. Watt force the fumble 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.320 leveled in the backfield by J. J. Watt. J Terry 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.440 Watt gets the penetration right at the point of attack, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.880 hitting the backfield and down he goes for a loss. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:06.000 JJ Watts snailed him at the eighteen yard line. Mintel 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.760 running straight ahead gets dropped for a loss. JJ Watt 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:15.320 in the backfield with the takedown penetration on the backside. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.400 That is jj Watt, Baby, tip and complaint. It was 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.240 tip and it was jj Watt who Gonta and the 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.760 Cardinals stop him on fourtown again. It was the Cardinal's 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.560 record with jj Watton in the lineup last regular season 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.080 seven and oh he was very productive. I've called him 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.120 not only the rising tie the lists all boats on 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.120 the field, but on the sideline as well. Just a 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.440 different vibe on the sideline when jj Watt is in uniform. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.000 And we'll get into what he had to say today 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.280 a very entertaining press conference, the big red rage my 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.360 j Sanders, the Cardinal's third round rookie pass rusher coming 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.480 up here shortly or Rob Frederickson in for Ron wolf 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.800 le Year's truly Paul calvesian Wright. As we wrapped up 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:01.960 the first segment there, Rob, we got a tweet for 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.560 me and Rappaport and I quote the Arizona Cardinals have 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:12.840 removed the controversial independent study clause from QB Kyler Murray's contract. That's, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:17.840 according to sources, a move that happened yesterday, says Rappaport. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:25.440 Your reaction good. I mean, honestly, it was. It was 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.920 just a mess, if I could speak candidly about it, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.040 for both sides. It was a bad look for both sides. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.840 And it wasn't not necessary. How are you going to police? 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.560 At number one? It sets a dangerous president. So you know, 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.200 they believe that Kyler is the future quarterback, is the 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.640 present quarterback, is the one that can lead them to 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.080 the super Bowl. They believe that they wouldn't have invested 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.800 that kind of money in Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray believes 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.680 that he has the work ethic they'll desire, they want 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.320 to and the leadership to make that happen. It's a 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.520 perfect marriage. Let's get rid of all the pre nups. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:02.880 It's a good way of looking at it. And look, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.520 it was in there for a reason. Even if it 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.959 was there to send a message, which I think maybe, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.000 just maybe that's what it was all about. Perhaps, well 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:15.119 guess what mission accomplished? Message sent? So now you're removed 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.359 from the contract and try and do anything and everything 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.639 you can to make sure it doesn't come up and 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.280 be a persistent distraction over a seventeen game regular season. So, 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.960 once again, according to Ian Rappaport NFL Network, the Cardinals 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:32.560 have removed the independent study clause from Kyler Murray's contract. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.000 There you go. Now, as we said, he was maybe 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.960 a two way player today playing some defense at the podium. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.560 But as Rob said, he basically went on the offensive, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.040 which is what he did. We know a three time 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.720 NFL Defensive Player of the Year is JJ Watt, and 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.000 we know he is a master with the media. Rob 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.280 he had an opinion most everything, including those Guardian caps, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.200 said he feels like a bobblehead wearing those big, padded 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.800 extra layer cap on top of the helmet. And then 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.760 he lamented after he gave his opinion, he might be 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.199 fined by Roger Goodell. So that was good stuff. And 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.919 then of course somebody asked him the obligatory you know 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.679 question about camp and jeez, do you enjoy your thirteenth 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:19.639 training camp? JJ? I don't think anyone does. Anyway, Here's 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.640 what Here's what JJ Watt had to say. Okay, from 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.800 a work standpoint, from what you can accomplish from working 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.359 on your game, working on your craft. It's it really 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:29.960 is the best time of the year to make yourself 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.880 better as a player because you're you're working every single day. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.800 You have tons of film to watch every day to 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.760 improve on, and then immediately the next day you get 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.159 to go out there and fix the mistakes. And you 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.000 also get to talk to the old line and talk 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.560 to the tight ends and the quarterbacks about you know, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.800 what did you see when he blocked me on this player? 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.280 Or I saw this? What do you think if I 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.600 tried That's it really is the best time if you 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.040 utilize it properly to improve yourself as a player. All 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.480 of training camp last year and he's still ready to 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.399 go in week one at Tennessee. But look, some guys 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.120 need it more than others, do they not, rob they do, 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.480 especially the young guys. It's training camps a great opportunity 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.240 for first year players, for undrafted players, for guys looking 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:14.399 to hook on with a new team. Training camp is 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.560 the greatest interview of your life. It really is job 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.919 interview of your life. So um, it is necessary. I 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.760 think it can be beneficial, as JJ mentioned for veterans 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.800 in terms of just what do you see from JJ 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.359 Watt is a defensive lineman, he can ask offensive lineman, 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.280 what are you looking at it? What am I tipping? 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.760 What are my tells? Is there anything that I could 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:39.479 be doing differently? Just that mental aspect of it in 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:43.200 terms of getting getting an advantage over your opponent. Those 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.080 are the little things that veterans will take from from 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.760 training camps now in the modern era where training camps 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.440 are not as physical as they once were in the 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.200 olden days, Paul training camp is basically used to get 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.720 in shape for the regular season, but now it's really 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.720 it's just about honing your craft, perfecting your skills, and 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:08.560 getting ready for that opening opening season. Yeah. For example, 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.760 he said he has a Veteran's Day coming his way tomorrow. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.520 DeAndre Hopkins had one today along with probably Rodney Hudson today. 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.040 So I know one area you've talked about with JJ 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.360 Watt and all the defensive lineman is, man, if they 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.720 can just keep that offensive line off those young inside linebackers. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.119 Because I want to get into Isaiah Simmons here a 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.440 little bit. Rob Rouderson is someone who played the linebacker 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.400 position for as long as you did in the NFL. 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:37.200 And here's JJ Watt. Just initially, here's we'll start by 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.359 JJ talking about the unique skill set in just the 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.080 variety of spots that in Isaiah Simmons can play. He's 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.280 a unique individual, and I think he has a unique 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:49.840 skill set that can be utilize in different ways. And 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.719 I think that trying to unlock that and trying to 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.720 find what that best way to serve our team is 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:57.240 is what we're doing right now. And I think that 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.160 I trust DJ and everybody to find that right And look, Rob, 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.119 nobody has said he is the weak side inside linebacker. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.640 Right Cliff Kingsbury made some comments yesterday that he might 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.040 be better suited from what they've seen too, being a 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.639 little farther away from the ball or being up on 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:16.159 the edge. So it's really intriguing. This sounds like they've 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.040 found a role for him and it's gonna be a 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.840 little different than what we've been told in the past. Yeah, 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:22.720 I don't. I don't think Isaiah Simmons is going to 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:27.440 make his career being an inside the box, inside the box, 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:29.920 off the line of scrimmage linebacker. He's not going to 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:34.040 be a middle linebacker, inside linebacker in a three four defense. 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:36.399 That's just not who he is. It's not what his 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:41.040 body type is. Um he's That would be a dereliction 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.359 of his talent, it really would. He needs to be 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.560 in space. He's a kind of player that moves um 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.639 like a like a cornerback. He can run like a cornerback. 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.639 He's big, but he needs to be in space. And 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.680 I'm not I'm not so sure either that that's off 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.320 that coming off the edge. I really think Isaiah Simmons 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:03.280 is when he's blitzing with speed and power, he's an 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.520 effective blitzer, but out in space and the ability for 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.280 him to move and make plays in space is really 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.800 where he belongs for the majority of snaps. Okay, So 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:14.760 there's being in space, and then there's being a deep 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:17.640 center field safety, which we saw at times last year. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.080 And there's being in space, and then there's being assigned 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:24.040 a slot receiver, which could be part of a nickel package. 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.120 Will I say, simm it's how comfortable are you with 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:29.240 him in those sorts of roles. Well, he's comfortable with 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.280 it because he did the majority of that at Clemson. 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.679