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Speaker 7: The field, the focus is always on football, even into
Speaker 7: the bye week, even though before the last game the
Speaker 7: buzz was all about Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. At
Speaker 7: least that's all wolf was talking about for the last
Speaker 7: game against the Jets. After the game, speaking of buzz
Speaker 7: or the buzz, now was all about the first place Cardinals.
Speaker 7: Is it not? A four game winning streak, a first
Speaker 7: place standing NFC Offensive Player of the week. All of
Speaker 7: a sudden, the buzz is building nationally, is it not?
Speaker 7: While we at the same time pity the poor Jets.
Speaker 7: Did you guys hear what Jeff Olbrich, the interim head coach,
Speaker 7: did after the after the Cardinals broke twenty tackles According
Speaker 7: to next Gen Stats, he ordered full pads on Wednesday
Speaker 7: and Thursday for Jets practice.
Speaker 1: They're gonna They're gonna.
Speaker 7: Practice tackling in week eleven while the Cardinals enjoy the
Speaker 7: bye weekend. Welcome into the Big Red Rage, presented by
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Speaker 7: and the one and only Marcus Golden in studio, the
Speaker 7: former Cardinals Great Royalty.
Speaker 2: Thanks fellas.
Speaker 8: You know, it's always good to be in here with
Speaker 8: y'ab man and I'm happy to be here today.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, johnk. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 7: What you look forward to the most, and you're playing days.
Speaker 7: You just wrapped up a decade in the NFL. You
Speaker 7: have three double digit SAX seasons. But when it came
Speaker 7: to buy weekend, what did you look forward to the most.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, that's a great question, man, because especially when
Speaker 8: you get a we got a late by week. This week,
Speaker 8: it seemed like a super late by week. So when
Speaker 8: you play all these weeks and you grind it out
Speaker 8: each week, you just want to relax. Me that's one
Speaker 8: thing I wanted to do. I wanted to relax, just
Speaker 8: sit back. Probably still of course, you got to still
Speaker 8: do your job of study football. But at the end
Speaker 8: of the day, I just wanted to make sure I
Speaker 8: get to Friday or whatever day we was gonna get
Speaker 8: a break and just relax.
Speaker 1: So Junk, you work big on that, Hey let's go
Speaker 1: to Cabo that you weren't big on that, or.
Speaker 2: You know how it is when you're young.
Speaker 8: When you're young, you get it to the NFL, you
Speaker 8: get a break, you want to go to Cabown, I
Speaker 8: have a little fun. But as I got older, I
Speaker 8: was more of like a let me chill out, hang
Speaker 8: right with the family. I have my days back in
Speaker 8: my younger days where I would have went to Cawbo.
Speaker 7: Well, true or false, the bye week came at a
Speaker 7: good time.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think true, Paul I really do. I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there that we'll talk about, Hey,
Speaker 1: they won four games in a row right now. Listen,
Speaker 1: when you're two and four and then you you win
Speaker 1: four games in a row and you get to six
Speaker 1: and four right now? I think at some point in time,
Speaker 1: especially when you might be a surprise in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, I think you need to let the dust
Speaker 1: settle a little bit and really understand, Hey, why were
Speaker 1: we two and four? What was the situation that allowed
Speaker 1: us to be two and four on the season, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden we started winning games and
Speaker 1: now we're six and four. How did we get to
Speaker 1: six and four? I think as long as you keep
Speaker 1: yourself in check, Pauly, I think it's a good thing
Speaker 1: to allow the dust to settle on ten games that
Speaker 1: you've played and the fact that you're in first place
Speaker 1: in the NFC West, and then you can also look
Speaker 1: and say, hey, listen, we got seven games left. What
Speaker 1: is it going to take from me for me to
Speaker 1: do my job and to help us win games?
Speaker 7: Four straight wins, five out of six. Here's the head coach,
Speaker 7: Jonathan Gannon. Do you think he's pleased with how the
Speaker 7: Cardinals are playing, you bet you.
Speaker 9: I think the thing that's consistent with our team is
Speaker 9: how we play. I think you got to control yourself first,
Speaker 9: and I'm pleased with how we're playing right now. I
Speaker 9: talk about that being our motive play. But the effort,
Speaker 9: the motor, the finish, the violence, the hitting. I think
Speaker 9: there's a way to play this game, and that can
Speaker 9: give you a chance to win a bunch of games
Speaker 9: if that part is right and everybody's doing it in
Speaker 9: all three phases, are doing.
Speaker 7: It, Marcus Golden. When you watch the Cardinals and the
Speaker 7: brand of ball they're putting out there in year two
Speaker 7: under Jonathan Gannon, what jumps out to you the most.
Speaker 8: Yes, really exactly what coach was saying, man, just that
Speaker 8: hard nose football, playing together, everybody working hard together and
Speaker 8: getting it done, doing whatever we got to do to
Speaker 8: get a win. And that's what exactly jumps out on
Speaker 8: me on jumps out for me on tape when I
Speaker 8: watched the Cardinals this season, is that they're playing hard
Speaker 8: and they're going to do whatever they got to do
Speaker 8: to get out there and try to get the win.
Speaker 7: How far does physicality go if you're winning the battle
Speaker 7: of physicality. How often does that mean you're winning a
Speaker 7: game in the NFL?
Speaker 8: Hey, that's big time, especially when you and I always
Speaker 8: got to go to James when we talk about physicality
Speaker 8: or the Cardinals. The way he running the ball, the
Speaker 8: way he's even catching the ball out the backfield and
Speaker 8: running through guys, I feel like that sets a tone.
Speaker 8: So when you got that type of momentum and plus
Speaker 8: you're winning and making place, that's big time.
Speaker 2: And I feel like they got a lot to do
Speaker 2: with the team.
Speaker 1: You know, one of those Just listening to you talk
Speaker 1: about that, it reminds me of how well they airs are.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals ran the ball, And I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: Trey McBride running the ball, even though that's awesome to
Speaker 1: see him doing that. I'm not talking about Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: pulling it down poly and running the ball. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a football team that snaps the ball to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and the quarterback hands the ball off to a
Speaker 1: running back. What happens more times than not when you
Speaker 1: hand the ball off to a running back. How are
Speaker 1: you guys doing well? You think of the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: You had James Connor, you had Trey Benson, You had
Speaker 1: Amari de Mercado, and you had DJ Dallas. You had
Speaker 1: those four guys carry the ball twenty eight times in
Speaker 1: this game for one hundred and twenty seven yards, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't like they were ripping off fifty yard runs.
Speaker 1: They were brutal runs. It's an average of four and
Speaker 1: a half yards per carry. That to me tells me
Speaker 1: that the offensive learning and the Arizona Cardinals consistently were
Speaker 1: able to move the ball and run the ball every
Speaker 1: time they handed it off to a running back, and
Speaker 1: that to me matters. The how you win matters.
Speaker 7: You can sense it, you can feel in the locker room,
Speaker 7: you can hear it in what guys say. Kyler Murray
Speaker 7: had a comment after the game that they didn't feel
Speaker 7: like there was anything the Jets could throw at them
Speaker 7: that they couldn't navigate and they couldn't still advance the
Speaker 7: ball down the field. It's that team confidence. It's just
Speaker 7: that sense. And Trey McBride talked about that and where
Speaker 7: they are right now at six and four.
Speaker 10: I feel like we're one play away from beating the Bills.
Speaker 10: You know, week one, we had a couple really close
Speaker 10: games early on, and you know, we had a couple
Speaker 10: of mishaps as well, So I feel like we're really
Speaker 10: close early on and we were just missing it by
Speaker 10: a little bit. And then now, you know, we kind
Speaker 10: of get rolling a little bit. You know, now we're
Speaker 10: winning three four in a row, and just continue and
Speaker 10: expect that to happen and continue to happen because the
Speaker 10: work we put in and the process that we have
Speaker 10: has been very effective.
Speaker 7: You know, we talked in the month August about separation season.
Speaker 7: That's when it comes to the roster and players, guys
Speaker 7: separating themselves getting a row to me in an NFL season.
Speaker 7: Right now, between Halloween and Thanksgiving is separation season. You
Speaker 7: see teams ascend or you see teams just discombobulate. The
Speaker 7: Cardinals are lamenting too incompletions, trying to figure out what
Speaker 7: happened on the one miscommunication the very first incompletion of
Speaker 7: the game. Well, the Chicago Bears, for example, the Cardinals
Speaker 7: opponent two weeks ago, hasn't scored a touchdown in its
Speaker 7: last twenty three possessions. Okay, there's the haves and have nots. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and just where the Cardinals are right now, just fine
Speaker 7: tuning Marcus right I mean, there's nothing glaring knock on
Speaker 7: wood that's wrong. You're just trying to fine tune your game,
Speaker 7: right now, are you not?
Speaker 8: Yes, like exactly what you're saying. It's like you fine
Speaker 8: tune in your game. But you got the guys. You
Speaker 8: got the guys and not Trey McBride. He got talking
Speaker 8: and everything he say. I can feel because he going
Speaker 8: out there and showing it by the way you play,
Speaker 8: and I think about it, like, I gotta bring that up,
Speaker 8: that big time play he had he broke the tackle,
Speaker 8: jumps over a guy insteady going like, that's like you plan,
Speaker 8: like you know that your team can win. And he
Speaker 8: brought that up and they got to keep doing that.
Speaker 8: And they going out there each week and they're actually
Speaker 8: plan and believe and you can see from watching that
Speaker 8: they believe that they can win each game. Did they
Speaker 8: step on the field.
Speaker 7: You know, we were talking after the game about how
Speaker 7: it looks like the first and second year players have
Speaker 7: elevated their game. Oh yeah, look, you know, you know,
Speaker 7: Trey McBride's gonna bring it, James Connor, Kaiser, White, Buddha Baker,
Speaker 7: Kyler Murray. But it looks like a lot of the
Speaker 7: younger guys have elevated their game, and that to me
Speaker 7: is the rising tide that's lifting this entire team.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right, paulyy right there. That's the most encouraging
Speaker 1: thing about the Arizona Cardinals at the by right now,
Speaker 1: six and four and on top of the NFC West.
Speaker 1: It is the young guys on this team, the first
Speaker 1: year players, the rookies, and the second year guys, and
Speaker 1: how much better they've gotten the second year guys and
Speaker 1: they're developing and Paul, because they're in the process of
Speaker 1: developing and getting better. That's why I think the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals got off to a two and four start. That
Speaker 1: in the fact, of course that they were playing a
Speaker 1: very tough schedule early on in the but that in
Speaker 1: the fact that these guys are growing and developing. That's
Speaker 1: the reason why they've turned this around, because those guys
Speaker 1: are at the heart of them winning games. Guys like
Speaker 1: Garrett Williams, yep, Guys like Paris Johnson Junior. You're number
Speaker 1: two right now, settling down that left tackle. How important
Speaker 1: was that? That was a big question mark coming into
Speaker 1: the season. We're all wondering, how is Paris Johnson Junior
Speaker 1: gonna hold up as a left tackle. He was a
Speaker 1: right tackle, played every snap the year before that. How's
Speaker 1: he gonna hold up at left tackle?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 1: Paris Johnson Junior, he's looking like he's gonna be your
Speaker 1: franchise tackle for over a decade.
Speaker 7: You mentioned Garrett Williams. Look at the other two young corners,
Speaker 7: Starling Thomas. Oh yeah, Max Melton, I mean, look, Marcus,
Speaker 7: you rushed the passer for a living. Okay, So let
Speaker 7: me ask you after the game. We asked how many
Speaker 7: different looks did they throw at Aaron Rodgers? And Jonathan
Speaker 7: Gannon said, we threw the bucket at him.
Speaker 2: That was his quote.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well you can't do that unless your quote you
Speaker 7: can trust your corner.
Speaker 2: Correct. Yes.
Speaker 8: And then, like you said, those young guys are standing
Speaker 8: out a lot, because I did see they was throwing
Speaker 8: a lot at throwing a lot that the Jets this week,
Speaker 8: and those corners they stood up stood being back there
Speaker 8: you got and then you got guys like Booda Baker
Speaker 8: JT back there you know, the young guys listening to them.
Speaker 8: So and it goes back to what you're saying, the
Speaker 8: stars are stand are doing with a great job and
Speaker 8: stepping it up.
Speaker 2: But these other players.
Speaker 8: To have a great team, you need the other players
Speaker 8: that's not Starts to really step it up and carry
Speaker 8: the team.
Speaker 2: And that's what I've been seeing the last few weeks.
Speaker 7: I mean, think about it, twelve different guys got a
Speaker 7: pressure last week in the Carlos defense, the week before,
Speaker 7: sixteen different players. They just keep dialing it up and
Speaker 7: the team just keeps fine tuning and improving, and all
Speaker 7: of a sudden the winning games and it's not close.
Speaker 7: So now you have to deal with a buy And
Speaker 7: the question of Paris Johnson Junior, all right, is the
Speaker 7: bye week? Is it coming at a good time or
Speaker 7: a bad time?
Speaker 11: Kind of wish we kind of keep going, you know
Speaker 11: what I mean, because you're already in a rhythm. You're
Speaker 11: you're in a rhythm, You're in your routine. But you know,
Speaker 11: I know we'll be able to come back together and
Speaker 11: be able to get back into our process and we'll
Speaker 11: be able to pick up where they left off. And
Speaker 11: when I starts to how we come back to practice,
Speaker 11: when we all come back together.
Speaker 1: See can I just jump in here, Polly and say
Speaker 1: this right now? Just listening to Paris Johnson Junior. And
Speaker 1: that cuts the thing I love about this football team.
Speaker 1: They got dogs, Paul. They got a lot of dogs
Speaker 1: inside that locker room, Marcus, and you know that how
Speaker 1: important that is. I think it's coming at a great time.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say the Buys coming at
Speaker 1: a great time is because they got dogs inside the
Speaker 1: locker room who are gonna come back and be dogs. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna suddenly turn into cats. They're gonna be dogs.
Speaker 1: And because of that, guys like Paris Johnson Junior, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna get complacent. I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody inside that locker room is gonna get
Speaker 1: complacent because they're not gonna let them. The dogs inside
Speaker 1: that locker room aren't gonna let anybody get complacent.
Speaker 7: I mean, think about your head coach. They just did
Speaker 7: an offseason study on momentum.
Speaker 2: This just in.
Speaker 7: He doesn't really believe in momentum. So I don't think
Speaker 7: he really fears the bye week, not when he sets
Speaker 7: the standard, not when he applies the accountability. Wolf we
Speaker 7: do his TV show. They have a four game winning streak, Marcas,
Speaker 7: and he shares with us on the TV show that
Speaker 7: every Monday meeting he holds guys accountable, maybe even more
Speaker 7: so in a win. And you're gonna hear your name
Speaker 7: called in front of the entire team if he notices
Speaker 7: you're up there on film with a loaf or a
Speaker 7: mental error. And I just think that's the sort of
Speaker 7: thing combined with players like James Connor and Buddha Baker
Speaker 7: and kay Zier White, the team captain's holding guys accountable.
Speaker 7: That's why you're seeing this consistency. And then you have
Speaker 7: the quarterback who might have been the toughest player on
Speaker 7: the field based on the hit he took. We'll talk
Speaker 7: about him next on the Big Red Range presented by
Speaker 7: Santan Ford.
Speaker 12: In Gilbert Murray under center, takes his play action of
Speaker 12: foot to the lapt and Murray gonna keep it.
Speaker 6: He walks into the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray with.
Speaker 4: Maybe the easiest touchdown run of his career. Snap to Murray,
Speaker 4: drop straight back a fad right corner of the end zone.
Speaker 6: Harrison Paul want a cat for a touchdown. Marvin Harrison
Speaker 6: Junior holds it in just a cord, just dropping the
Speaker 6: bucket by Murray.
Speaker 3: Spin the pig, Kyler, what dime being dropped into the
Speaker 3: buckets right over the shoulder of Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 4: Snap to Murray and he's gonna keep it running right
Speaker 4: to the outside ten, stays in bounds of the five
Speaker 4: and into the end zone for his second touchdown.
Speaker 6: Then he takes the football and hoists it into the casino.
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray a dominant performance here today and it's thirty
Speaker 4: to six Arizona.
Speaker 7: So he had as many touchdown runs as he had incompletions.
Speaker 2: Is that good?
Speaker 1: That's good, Paul, good enough.
Speaker 7: To be named NFC Offensive Player of the Week. That
Speaker 7: was the honor that came his way. Uh and you
Speaker 7: know what I mean. It doesn't just stop there with
Speaker 7: the two touchdown runs twenty two to twenty four, two
Speaker 7: sixty six through the air, touchdown through the air. You
Speaker 7: heard that, No picks. The ball security has been phenomenal.
Speaker 7: We'll get into that one. Twenty six point seven the
Speaker 7: passer rating and oh, by the way, seventeen straight completions
Speaker 7: is how he ended the game. A new team record
Speaker 7: better in Kurt Warner the Hall of Famer. It is
Speaker 7: the Big Red Race presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert,
Speaker 7: Paul Calvic, Ron Wolfley, and Marcus Golden. Before we get
Speaker 7: into the hitty absorbed, let's just talk about what he
Speaker 7: put in the box score and what you saw is
Speaker 7: the guy who studied quarterbacks for a living. What stood
Speaker 7: out to you now, maybe this game, maybe this month
Speaker 7: about Kyler Murray.
Speaker 8: Yes, like you said, anytime you able to mention Kurt
Speaker 8: Warner and saying you broke somebody record like that, and
Speaker 8: you know what type of how you've been playing this season,
Speaker 8: He's been playing unbelievable. Really, I said, he's been showing
Speaker 8: why he's been drafted number one overall. When you get
Speaker 8: drafted that high, you expect to come make a franchise better.
Speaker 2: And he's showing that this year.
Speaker 8: And it's exciting to see fest for me as a
Speaker 8: former player, but also just as a fan, and it's
Speaker 8: excited to see him doing that.
Speaker 2: And he out there balling.
Speaker 8: He went twenty two for twenty four out of twenty four,
Speaker 8: like you said, touchdown too, rushing touchdowns and got Play
Speaker 8: of the Week. So he out there putting the work
Speaker 8: in and it feels good to see it because he
Speaker 8: taught there making the whole team better.
Speaker 2: That's what you can tell.
Speaker 7: And by the way, he did it against the number
Speaker 7: two passing defense in the league once again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like once again Miami had the Miami was
Speaker 1: number one in terms of yards per game allowed, passing
Speaker 1: yards per game allowed, number one. It's just like the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Think how tough the Chargers number one scoring, number one
Speaker 1: scoring defense in the league. And then it was the Dolphin.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just amazing to see this. Four games
Speaker 1: in a row against really good defenses, the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: the number two defensive quarterback rated team in the league.
Speaker 1: Very very difficult to actually throw the ball against the Bears. Look,
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals right now have gone through a bit
Speaker 1: of a gauntlet, four games against really good defenses the
Speaker 1: last four games, and now they're sitting here six and four.
Speaker 1: Something is happening, Paul. Something is happening to this team offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: and in transition with special teams as well. But Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is right at the center of that something.
Speaker 7: Yes, right after the thirty one to six win, here's
Speaker 7: Kyler Murray at the podium with the media on this
Speaker 7: success of the passing game in particular.
Speaker 13: Guys, did hell of the job, the front.
Speaker 2: My job.
Speaker 13: Just put the ball in their hands and let them
Speaker 13: do what they do, you know, and try to get completions.
Speaker 13: You know, that's what I did today. I try to
Speaker 13: just keep it as simple as possible. And the guys,
Speaker 13: you know, they made plays that made plays for me
Speaker 13: all day and it's great to go out there and
Speaker 13: feel the way we felt today, you know, to be
Speaker 13: able to execute.
Speaker 7: The fact that he was at the podium and not
Speaker 7: in the hospital is remarkable considering the hit he took.
Speaker 7: That blind side sack. I mean from the sideline, it
Speaker 7: looked like a pedestrian who got hit in the crosswalk
Speaker 7: by a pickup truck. I mean, that's how hard he
Speaker 7: got hit. What's the hardest you ever hit a quarterback?
Speaker 7: Marcus School? Is there an answer to that question?
Speaker 8: That's a good question, man. A few come to mind
Speaker 8: when I think about it, man cut, but one particularly.
Speaker 2: I actually came off the edge free and.
Speaker 8: A uh Baker Mayfield was right there standing there looking
Speaker 8: for me.
Speaker 2: I crushed him. I wanted to get the ball.
Speaker 8: I thought I hit him helping the hell, but I
Speaker 8: was looking up like man, if they finish, throw a flag. Thankfully,
Speaker 8: I ain't get a flag, but that was a pretty
Speaker 8: good hield.
Speaker 1: Yes, did you backshot?
Speaker 2: Did I whacked him out?
Speaker 8: It was he was like this, and if I should
Speaker 8: have just scripped the ball man, I was trying to
Speaker 8: get a good hit on him. But but uh, I
Speaker 8: was glad I ain't get that flag.
Speaker 7: Can you hear the air come out of a quarterback
Speaker 7: when you hit him that hard?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: Yes, especially man, when you catch them blind side and
Speaker 8: you come in free. You can feel it, man, and
Speaker 8: you pray for those type of shots when on any quarterback.
Speaker 8: So Kyler Man, but he got back up, He got
Speaker 8: right back up, picked his hilim and up, had his
Speaker 8: matt on his face and was ready to go man
Speaker 8: and finished the game scrown.
Speaker 7: Well, here's what the head coach had to say. We
Speaker 7: asked him to assess Kyler Murray, especially the game he
Speaker 7: put out there and the hit he took.
Speaker 9: I haven't seen all the other games, but if there
Speaker 9: is a better player on the planet, you better show me,
Speaker 9: because I thought he was the best player on the
Speaker 9: planet today.
Speaker 7: Jonathan Gannon let that hang in the air for a moment,
Speaker 7: and Wolf, I mean, you know this probably better than
Speaker 7: either one of us combined because you got your finger
Speaker 7: on the pulse. So what's being said nationally this week?
Speaker 7: Isn't Kyler Murray getting a lot of discussion for being
Speaker 7: right there in the MVP race?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, there is a lot of people that are
Speaker 1: talking about Kyler Murray as an MVP right now. Once again,
Speaker 1: when you look at the power poles, the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: and I'm not big on a power pole, I'm not,
Speaker 1: but you know what, there are analysts and pundits that
Speaker 1: are out there and most entities have the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: in the top ten and in their power poles. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, Yeah, the Arizona Cardinals at six and four.
Speaker 1: You know why that is? It's because of Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Right now, and let me just go back to the hit.
Speaker 1: I think it's a still point moment at Kyler Murray's career.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this one of the reasons why for Kyler.
Speaker 1: You can't get hit any harder than he got hit.
Speaker 1: You can't your helmet rolled ten yards, you got landed
Speaker 1: on as well, blindsided, just got the back waxed. And
Speaker 1: yet you know what, your teammates saw that as well,
Speaker 1: and then they saw you get up with a wry
Speaker 1: smile on your face, and I think I know why
Speaker 1: he was smiling, but I'll get to that momentarily. They
Speaker 1: saw you get up with a smile on your face
Speaker 1: and throw a touchdown pass to Marvin Harrison Junior just
Speaker 1: a couple of plays after that. That to me is saying,
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm gonna take the most vicious hit I've
Speaker 1: ever taken in my life, and I don't care. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get up and I'm gonna go ahead and throw
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass that was dropping a dime. And his
Speaker 1: teammates saw that as well, and that is really really important,
Speaker 1: the resiliency and the toughness to take that hit and
Speaker 1: then get up and finish the game the way that
Speaker 1: he did. Oh man, that's gonna pay off big.
Speaker 7: We're gonna hear from Trey McBride. Then, I want to
Speaker 7: hear why you think he was smiling. Here's Trey McBride
Speaker 7: and Kyler Murrain his play this season.
Speaker 2: Elite Man.
Speaker 10: The guy is zoned in. He's locked in. You know,
Speaker 10: you can just kind of tell he's got that look
Speaker 10: in his eye and when he's in that mode, he's unstoppable.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm kind of irritated I dropped that ball
Speaker 10: in the end zone. He could have had a you know,
Speaker 10: almost a dang perfect game besides that first play. So
Speaker 10: that makes me sick that I dropped that ball for him.
Speaker 10: But he's playing at a really high level right now.
Speaker 10: I'm excited for him, and I'm excited to continue to
Speaker 10: grow with him.
Speaker 7: And again after he took that, By the way, that
Speaker 7: was the second fastest sack this year two point two
Speaker 7: four seconds Quinn Williams, according to an exten satz. So
Speaker 7: that was instantaneous. Well why do you think he was smiling.
Speaker 1: For me, PAULI. I think it's a situation where, you know,
Speaker 1: that had to be a nightmare for him all of
Speaker 1: the you know, he's never been hit like that. Have
Speaker 1: you ever seen him hit like that any or even close?
Speaker 1: Write nothing. Nobody can get a clean shot on him.
Speaker 1: Most of it exactly right. And I think it happened.
Speaker 1: It finally happened, his worst nightmare maybe of how he
Speaker 1: might be hit, and it happened in his helmet rolled
Speaker 1: once again ten yards and he got up and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I can't face anything worse than that.
Speaker 1: And he was smiling, and that to me means he
Speaker 1: accepts it and moves on with his career. You know me, Paul,
Speaker 1: I might read into this stuff a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: I might do that, and I freely admit it. As
Speaker 1: a former wedgebuster, the physicality of it and actually going
Speaker 1: through all of that, I remember what it was like
Speaker 1: to bust a wedge for the first time, and the
Speaker 1: fear that I had going into this thing. It was incredible.
Speaker 1: You're hitting a man who's three hundred and forty pounds
Speaker 1: in the wedge and you're hitting him right in the
Speaker 1: face on a dead sprint. That's gotta hurt. Guess what
Speaker 1: it didn't. And it made me smile once I put
Speaker 1: that quote unquote demon to rest, and I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: he did the exact same thing.
Speaker 7: Yes, you guys played two decades.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 7: Okay, I might not know much, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 7: I know this much. If you have that guy at
Speaker 7: that position, you don't have to have the NFL's best
Speaker 7: roster to advance deep into the postseason. Joe Burrow did
Speaker 7: it a couple of years ago. Heck Patrick Mahomes last year,
Speaker 7: did he have the best set of weapons and receivers
Speaker 7: last year. Absolutely not twenty fifteen was your rookie year.
Speaker 7: Carson Palmer had had a Pro Bowl season, did he not?
Speaker 2: He did? How big? Was that?
Speaker 7: Just elevating when you have that guy? And then what's
Speaker 7: the belief in the locker room Marcus, when you know
Speaker 7: you have that guy?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, like you said, I started with twenty and fifteen.
Speaker 8: I hate you had to bring that whatever. That's the
Speaker 8: closest I got to wait to the super Bowl. But man,
Speaker 8: that was some good times when you got a quarterback though,
Speaker 8: like Carson, Like Carson back then, that was the best
Speaker 8: quarterback I had for a long time until I probably
Speaker 8: got to play back with Kyler Marray. But Carson, man,
Speaker 8: he was a be He's a leader. You knew when
Speaker 8: you stepped on that field, Hey, my quarterback is going
Speaker 8: to go out there and give me a chance to win.
Speaker 8: So if you got a bunch of guys in the
Speaker 8: locker room who know the quarterback is going to go
Speaker 8: out there and push the ball down the field and
Speaker 8: put points on the board, they give you no choice
Speaker 8: but to be happy and go out there and know
Speaker 8: you can hunt. Because we got a chance to go
Speaker 8: out there and win the game.
Speaker 7: And what's different for me with Kyler this year is
Speaker 7: the ability the different ways he's able to win some
Speaker 7: of these games. Yes, their games are he's had two
Speaker 7: carries for six yards. There's games are is a fifty
Speaker 7: yard touchdown or run forty four yard touchdown run. Then
Speaker 7: there's games where he sits in the pocket. And when
Speaker 7: he does sit in the pocket, doesn't he look a
Speaker 7: little more comfortable this year than years past?
Speaker 2: Would you guys agree with that? Yes? I do.
Speaker 8: It looked like and I've been watching just from watching
Speaker 8: the last few games to see just look like he
Speaker 8: can't control. He looked like he ain't control. And it
Speaker 8: goes back to knowing what your quarterback can do. Watching them.
Speaker 8: Every time we get on the field on offense, it
Speaker 8: looks like, hey, we got a chance to score. And
Speaker 8: when you a quarterback like that, that you know, man,
Speaker 8: we got a chance to score. Every time he get
Speaker 8: on the field, man, that's gonna bring the whole team
Speaker 8: together and get everybody going.
Speaker 1: And it's also part of the process right now with
Speaker 1: him going under center and using play action a lot
Speaker 1: of times, you got to hook up in that pocket
Speaker 1: and you've got to be able to throw the ball
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field, and that's what he's
Speaker 1: been doing as well. So to me, it's all part
Speaker 1: of the process, and he's getting reps and I think
Speaker 1: he's getting more comfortable because of that.
Speaker 7: I think we all saw him throw the ball into
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Speaker 4: Rogers backpedaling from the pocket and Rogers is sacked. The
Speaker 4: bull came out Rogers and an't got it back. Luketta
Speaker 4: with the sack and that bors is a fun What
Speaker 4: about that surprise, Jesse Luketta.
Speaker 6: Rogers drops back in trouble, moving left, gets.
Speaker 4: Hit from behind, bull flutters it's loose and recovered by
Speaker 4: the Cardinals.
Speaker 6: At the ten, savior Thomas.
Speaker 4: Hacking it out, recovered by Heisier White.
Speaker 2: The rookie made a play.
Speaker 4: Savior Thomas Rodgers takes the snap blitz coming, Rodgers has
Speaker 4: no chance, sacked by Fooda Baker for a loss of
Speaker 4: eight at the forty yard.
Speaker 1: Live Buda Baker came off the edge clean and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers got his backwaxed.
Speaker 7: Buddha with his first Secons twenty twenty one about the
Speaker 7: last two weeks. Nine sacks the last two weeks for
Speaker 7: a Cardinals defense. That is absolutely bawling, especially at home.
Speaker 7: That is four straight games right where the Cardinals defense
Speaker 7: in the second half. Think of this a second half
Speaker 7: shutout four times now, it should say in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 7: So Jonathan again and we asked them about halftime adjustment.
Speaker 7: He said, no, there's just always adjustments throughout the entirety
Speaker 7: of the game.
Speaker 2: We get it.
Speaker 7: Here's what else we get that the Giant the Jets
Speaker 7: and their six possessions went fueld goal, fueld goal, punt,
Speaker 7: they lost to fumble, they went punt turnover on downs,
Speaker 7: so they got absolutely stymied, held out of the end zone.
Speaker 7: Thirty one to six is your final Paul Kelvy c
Speaker 7: Ron Wolfey here on the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 7: santan Ford and Gilbert are special guest tonight former Cardinals
Speaker 7: defender a decade in the league, Marcus Golden. And so Marcus,
Speaker 7: here we go in your wheelhouse, the pass rush, the defense.
Speaker 7: You tell us you've been watching Cardinals football lately. What
Speaker 7: are you impressed by the most recently?
Speaker 8: And I'm really impressed a lot just be off tops.
Speaker 8: Just the coaches is putting the guys in a great
Speaker 8: position on defense to be able to go out there
Speaker 8: and make a lot of plays. And those guys are
Speaker 8: going out there and stepping it up and all together.
Speaker 8: When I watch the defense, I always try to watch
Speaker 8: like how they playing together?
Speaker 2: How do they look?
Speaker 8: It's some dogs on the fields, everybody getting to the
Speaker 8: ball trying to make plays.
Speaker 2: And that's what I see.
Speaker 8: It's like each week it's a big play that they
Speaker 8: make to get the offense to ball and the offense
Speaker 8: go score, or just some big play. You can always
Speaker 8: point out a moment in every game where the defense
Speaker 8: stepping it up and making big plays, and it's just
Speaker 8: it's so many guys. It's so many guys. Of course
Speaker 8: you got the start boota Baker flying all over the field,
Speaker 8: but you got all the other guys, Like you said,
Speaker 8: Kaizer steals it's just a lot of guys out there.
Speaker 8: They're stepping it up and making big plays.
Speaker 1: You know. For me, Paul, right now, I see an
Speaker 1: identity that is starting to form with this defense, and
Speaker 1: I think that's really really important. It's not the end
Speaker 1: all be all, but I think it's important that they
Speaker 1: have an identity, and the identity is we're not going
Speaker 1: to give up explosives. That's not what we're going to do.
Speaker 1: We're not going to give up explosive plays. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, the New York Jets did not have
Speaker 1: a play that was over twenty yards. Twenty yards is
Speaker 1: a big play. Twenty yards or more is considered a
Speaker 1: big play in the National Football League. The longest play
Speaker 1: was a fifteen yard screen pass to Brace Hall. That
Speaker 1: was it. They didn't give up any explosives. This is
Speaker 1: what they've been doing over the last four weeks. In particular,
Speaker 1: they are allowing a team to matriculate the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. If you look at their metrics, they're giving
Speaker 1: up a lot of yards, whether it's running yards or
Speaker 1: passing yards. They're not great on third down still, they're
Speaker 1: not getting off the field. But where they are great
Speaker 1: is in the red zone. They are jumping teams in
Speaker 1: the red zone and keeping them out. By way of example,
Speaker 1: the New York Jets zero for three in the red
Speaker 1: zone once again. The Arizona Cardinals right now. Would it
Speaker 1: blow your mind to know they are a top ten
Speaker 1: red zone defense right now? Top ten red zone. Hey,
Speaker 1: and by the way, we're not talking about week two
Speaker 1: top ten defense in the red zone. We're talking about
Speaker 1: week ten. Yes, ten games they've played in Paul, They've
Speaker 1: really done a great job of trapping teams in the
Speaker 1: red zone.
Speaker 7: Well, think about the Jets had a season low two
Speaker 7: hundred and seven total yards. They had a season low
Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty one yards passing. That's with Aaron
Speaker 7: Rodgers and supposedly one of the best receiver rooms in
Speaker 7: the league. Here's what Jonathan Gannon had to say about
Speaker 7: that defensive performance against New York.
Speaker 9: When you come into a game like this and you
Speaker 9: prepare for a quarterback of that caliber, with the weapons
Speaker 9: that they have, you never know how it's kind of
Speaker 9: gonna go. I thought they really stepped up. I like
Speaker 9: to plan a lot, and it was well executed and
Speaker 9: a bunch of guys are making plays, And I thought
Speaker 9: our motive play was on display. Man, Like, we'll grade
Speaker 9: the tape hard, but there's not gonna be a lot
Speaker 9: of loafs our. Guys are humming, they're hitting. The hitting
Speaker 9: is on display. When you do that, you'll give yourself
Speaker 9: a chance.
Speaker 7: You don't have to have the most talented roster in
Speaker 7: the league to have a sound defense, to have a
Speaker 7: hard hitting defense, to have a defense that is always
Speaker 7: playing at volume ten, right, I mean on the sideline,
Speaker 7: they see guys because they use the rotation you tell me, Marcus,
Speaker 7: I mean there are guys are I want it, And
Speaker 7: then when they get the rep, it's a full blown
Speaker 7: hundred percent effort rep because they don't know how many
Speaker 7: they're getting per game. And I just to me, that's
Speaker 7: what I see out there, that effort level.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I see a lot of it.
Speaker 8: And then it goes back to what Wolf always saying,
Speaker 8: they got a bunch of dogs out there, and they
Speaker 8: got some dogs out there. And when you just said that,
Speaker 8: guys are standing on the sideline ready to get in.
Speaker 8: Jesse he's been called up to step up and make
Speaker 8: some plays.
Speaker 2: And it seems.
Speaker 8: Like what back to back these last two weeks, he
Speaker 8: had a sack each week. He's out there really stepping
Speaker 8: it up man and rushing the pass, and they say
Speaker 8: it's a lot no bat no matter who's on their field,
Speaker 8: the defense is out there flying around and the guy
Speaker 8: on the field believes he can make the play. And
Speaker 8: then I see that a lot from the whole defense.
Speaker 1: And you know what, let me just jump in here
Speaker 1: on top of that and just say, Buddha Baker is
Speaker 1: an awesome model to have for every guy that is
Speaker 1: on the field. Yes, the fact that Buddha Baker is
Speaker 1: out there flying around. He's the smallest guy on the
Speaker 1: field week after week after week, and all he does
Speaker 1: is blow your face off. That's what he does. And
Speaker 1: you know what, at some point in time, you've got
Speaker 1: guys that are watching him, guys that are on the sideline,
Speaker 1: and guys that are actually on the field. His teammate
Speaker 1: watching him as well, especially when they go into the
Speaker 1: film room and they watch that tape and they watch
Speaker 1: this guy flying around. At some point in time, it
Speaker 1: challenges every dude who puts a mouthguard in and walks
Speaker 1: out there on the field with Buddha Baker. If he's
Speaker 1: playing like that, why aren't you.
Speaker 7: Nine more tackles. He has one hundred tackles in ten games.
Speaker 7: He's tracking for a career year. He's the best open
Speaker 7: field tackler in the NFL. I'll say it. You can
Speaker 7: at me if you want, but here's Boodh himself on
Speaker 7: just how the defense has been playing recently and the
Speaker 7: way they're making it difficult for every opponent.
Speaker 14: We just control we can control. We live through the process,
Speaker 14: you know, I tell him, you know, separations in the preparation,
Speaker 14: how we prepare throughout the week, so and that's when
Speaker 14: we know know what to do on Sunday. We have
Speaker 14: fun and we control what we can control. Take one
Speaker 14: play at a time, alignment as Simon key technique, and
Speaker 14: that's what we do. We're tight, knick group. We all
Speaker 14: love each other and it's definitely special to come out
Speaker 14: on the field and play with these guys here.
Speaker 7: I want your analysis here, Marcus and what the Cardinals
Speaker 7: are doing to neutralize the opposing receiver rooms because the
Speaker 7: last three games are remarkable to me. Miami came in
Speaker 7: with Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddell. They got some catches,
Speaker 7: they got some yards, didn't wreck the game, didn't get
Speaker 7: into the end zone. Then you go against the Bears
Speaker 7: Keenan Allen, DJ Moore, Roma Dunza. Hello, they didn't wreck
Speaker 7: the game. And then DeVante Adams and Garrett Williams, two
Speaker 7: really talented Pro Bowl receivers and they didn't knew much
Speaker 7: of anything to impact the game. So how are the
Speaker 7: Cardinals neutralizing because they're going to go to Seattle next
Speaker 7: and we know Seattle's the best part about their team
Speaker 7: are the three receivers? Yes, So what's working for the
Speaker 7: Cardinals in that regard?
Speaker 8: I think, like you said, like I said before we go,
Speaker 8: it gotta work with the coaches. Start with the coach.
Speaker 8: What are we gonna do to neutralize these guys. You
Speaker 8: got some of the best players in the world coming
Speaker 8: in here and most athletic athletic guys in the world
Speaker 8: that ride receiver, and we gotta put a plan to
Speaker 8: be able to shut these guys out. After that, it's
Speaker 8: a players. We gotta come together and believe it in
Speaker 8: this play and go out here and play hard and
Speaker 8: take these guys away from the game. And then you
Speaker 8: gotta ask, and well know, we keep coming back to Buddha.
Speaker 8: But then you got JT. You got two great safeties
Speaker 8: back there. So even as the receivers and running and
Speaker 8: trying to get open, you know, hey, man, I might
Speaker 8: take a hit from one of them safeties back there.
Speaker 8: So I think it's just overall playing together, of course,
Speaker 8: but guys are stepping it up at the right time
Speaker 8: and making the players they supposed to make. The counsel
Speaker 8: of those receivers out.
Speaker 1: Can you say cover three? Yeah, say cover three right now?
Speaker 1: Three deep? They are three D pauly four underneath. Of course,
Speaker 1: they're playing really, really well in terms of their zone discipline.
Speaker 2: Yes they are.
Speaker 1: And it's not just cover three that they're playing, of course,
Speaker 1: but they're coverage. They're buttoned up on the back end,
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody seems to be playing the right defense. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of times out there where
Speaker 1: you might have miscommunication and that's gonna shoot you in
Speaker 1: the foot at some point in time. That is a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator's worst nightmare, that you're gonna have miscommunication and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a mental error. There's not a lot
Speaker 1: of mental airrors. You don't see a lot of wide
Speaker 1: receivers running open. Okay, Now, we have seen it from
Speaker 1: time to time, You're always going to see that in
Speaker 1: a season, but man, not on a regular basis. There
Speaker 1: haven't been a lot of busted coverages in the secondary.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I look at this Cardinals defense. I look at this
Speaker 7: Cardinals team. They're not beating themselves. Yes, too often, especially
Speaker 7: the first month of the season. And I think a
Speaker 7: lot of it, to your point, Wolf had to do
Speaker 7: with a lot of first and second year players. But
Speaker 7: you know, different guys taking their one turn to make
Speaker 7: their one mistake of the game and it's enough to
Speaker 7: get you beat. Yeah, that's what I saw in the Jets.
Speaker 7: I saw different guys taking their one turn to make
Speaker 7: there you know. And at the very end of the game,
Speaker 7: on that final failed fourth down, there's Aaron Rodgers with
Speaker 7: his palms up like what are you doing? And he's
Speaker 7: yelling at Garrett Wilson even And you know, that's how
Speaker 7: to me how the Cardinals are getting a competitive advantage.
Speaker 7: And you can't tell me the coaching you mentioned the
Speaker 7: coaching and taking away these receivers. Marcus, to me again,
Speaker 7: you don't have to have the most talented roster in
Speaker 7: the league to just be a sound football team. And
Speaker 7: when one, two or three plays decide the game and
Speaker 7: you're not beating yourself. To me, that can be the
Speaker 7: difference in the game. Well, Paulie, you gotta find dudes
Speaker 7: who think that way. Yes, and that's where many ausen
Speaker 7: Ford and JG. They're on the same page as to
Speaker 7: what kind of human being they're going to.
Speaker 1: Bring in this.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
Speaker 7: Is Jonah Williams tracking to return? We don't know, but
Speaker 7: we know he's been practicing. What about Darius Robinson.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, the king.
Speaker 7: What if you added a game wrecker at least based
Speaker 7: on training camp. We'll talk about that next. The Big
Speaker 7: Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 4: Zuri, brings pressure and they throw Leary down, Larry Darius Robinson.
Speaker 6: Here's Brown pan Brown is sacked.
Speaker 12: He is taken down by Darius Robinson.
Speaker 5: They gonna six Yearry taking down.
Speaker 4: He couldn't call the trigger and Darius Robinson comes up
Speaker 4: with a sack.
Speaker 1: Keep your eye on Darius Robinson just simply beats his man.
Speaker 4: One on one, Bresler on third and six pockets collapsing.
Speaker 5: So as hey, it's Darius Robinson that gets home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can feel this presence.
Speaker 15: I will say that He's one of those guys that's like, yeah,
Speaker 15: you are a first try to do it for a reason.
Speaker 15: So it's nice to play behind him. Get off as crazy.
Speaker 15: His strength is crazy. I think there's more. He fine
Speaker 15: tunes his game within the scheme of learning to playbook,
Speaker 15: which is I thought he's picking up very well.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a monster for us.
Speaker 7: Let that hang in the air. That's joint practice at
Speaker 7: Indianapolis in August. That's Chris Barnes better an inside linebacker.
Speaker 7: Players no players, And I can tell you right now
Speaker 7: that was the consensus in the locker room. Darius Robinson
Speaker 7: before he got hurt, what he put out there on
Speaker 7: the field, what he put out there on the practice film,
Speaker 7: what he put out there against the Colts, and oh,
Speaker 7: I don't know all pro guard Quentin Nelson when he
Speaker 7: jacked him up one on one. 'tis the holiday season?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 7: The gift that would keep on giving for the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 7: the return of Darius Robinson, the first rounder out of Missouri,
Speaker 7: Paul calv c Ron Wolfley, and Marcus Golden Marks here
Speaker 7: did I hear the missoo fight song? In that montage
Speaker 7: by Jim momunter, I think I did in there.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, in my z z o U elion Zoo.
Speaker 8: Shout out to my Missou brothers. Man, we got to
Speaker 8: represent for Maszoo.
Speaker 15: Man.
Speaker 7: So tell us about your connection with Darius Robinson. It
Speaker 7: goes back a few years, doesn't it. Yes, yes, it
Speaker 7: goes back a few years. I remember I was visiting Miszoo.
Speaker 7: I think it was. Was it a spring practice? I
Speaker 7: can't remember. I think it was the spring practice. And
Speaker 7: I've seen a young guy, the big guy. I'm like,
Speaker 7: I asked one of the coaches, who is that kid man?
Speaker 7: And you was like, oh, that's Darius Robert. He gonna
Speaker 7: be real good, man, he gonna be real good. And
Speaker 7: I'm like yeah, man.
Speaker 8: So I start watching him, checking him out, and eventually
Speaker 8: we was able to connect and then talk to each other,
Speaker 8: talk about past rush moves he can do when he
Speaker 8: was at Massou and man, he's a beast man. And
Speaker 8: for to see where he at and going first round,
Speaker 8: I wasn't surprised because when I first saw him, like yeah,
Speaker 8: he looked like he can do something, and he proved
Speaker 8: it that he can get out there and do it, man,
Speaker 8: And I'm glad to see him here proud of Now.
Speaker 7: Look, admittedly I need to go, Pauli, pump my brakes
Speaker 7: a little bit. Okay, I get it. So Wolf, what's realistic?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 7: If he's healthy in the next two or three weeks.
Speaker 2: We don't.
Speaker 7: We honestly don't know. Oh we know is that Jonathan Ganner,
Speaker 7: at the end of his postgame press conference, was asked
Speaker 7: if he's confident Darius Robinson will return to play this season. Quote,
Speaker 7: I'm very confident. So that was bullish. But what's realistic
Speaker 7: you think in terms of the impact he can make
Speaker 7: and how soon?
Speaker 1: Oh, Pauli, you're asking the wrong guy, because I think
Speaker 1: if I had to pick one position this team needs,
Speaker 1: it's Darius Robinson.
Speaker 2: Agreed.
Speaker 1: Just the injuries alones. Oh, just the injuries alone, Paully.
Speaker 1: But it's not only that. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: is gonna impact and opponent's ability to run the ball.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be good in the running game, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be really good in the passing game as well.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he's gonna go out there and
Speaker 1: suddenly turn into a three technique that's gonna get ten sacks.
Speaker 1: The rest of the season. I'm just talking about a
Speaker 1: guy that can generate pressure, interior pressure, or you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and stick him out on the edge as well.
Speaker 1: He can line up in any gap, tackle the tackle,
Speaker 1: and when you don't know where he might line up,
Speaker 1: that becomes a problem for an offense, especially if he
Speaker 1: shows the kind of talent, the kind of bursts that
Speaker 1: we all expect him to right now. He's going to
Speaker 1: impact the other team's ability to run the ball, and
Speaker 1: he's going to impact the other team's ability to throw
Speaker 1: the ball. And that's exactly what this defense needs the most,
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Right now, somebody's gonna stick his hand
Speaker 1: in the dirt and get dirty.
Speaker 7: I was talking to running backs recently. I said, refresh
Speaker 7: my memory and Darius Robinson, what do you remember from camp?
Speaker 7: They said, you know what? I remember getting the handoff
Speaker 7: and eleven on eleven and he's right in my lap
Speaker 7: that he's busting through the interior of the old line. Marcus,
Speaker 7: you tell us if you can get that guy who's
Speaker 7: that sort of nuisance and penetrating the interior. The on
Speaker 7: line offenses hate that, don't.
Speaker 2: They, Yes, they hated it a lot. Man rookie is
Speaker 2: not that guy. Man.
Speaker 8: Even when I saw him playing in the Miszoo, always
Speaker 8: like Man, that guy got a motor on him. Just
Speaker 8: he never stops. Man, And I watch for guys like that.
Speaker 8: That's some of my favorite players. So when you play
Speaker 8: like that, then you got the gifts that he got. Man,
Speaker 8: big old guy, long arms, can can naturally bend the
Speaker 8: edge or go through him in the Sky's the limit
Speaker 8: for him, honestly. Man, With the abilities that he got
Speaker 8: and the way he played a game, that's what I
Speaker 8: really love about him. So yes, I really do think
Speaker 8: that he can come in right away. You know, he young,
Speaker 8: is still this rookie year. You give him some time,
Speaker 8: but I will honestly say, before the season is over,
Speaker 8: I feel like this kid gonna dominate. He gonna make
Speaker 8: some big plays this season. And I say that by
Speaker 8: the way he played. He played hard. Man, when their
Speaker 8: snap go, when that ball go. He plays hard all
Speaker 8: the way to the whistle every play and can do
Speaker 8: that as a young player. I feel like it makes
Speaker 8: some big plays in it.
Speaker 1: So wait a minute, Marcus, are you calling him a dog?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, he's a dog, a dog dog man, You know,
Speaker 8: dog goodness right there?
Speaker 1: That is Somebody go tell Darius Marcus Golden just called
Speaker 1: him a dog.
Speaker 8: Yes, man, Yes, he got what it takes man. And
Speaker 8: I'm excited as a fan Frommazoo in now of course
Speaker 8: for the quarters. I'm excited to see a kid get
Speaker 8: out there. I can't wait, man, I'm excited.
Speaker 7: Hey, motor knows Motor's that's that's all right. And I
Speaker 7: also know this Cardinals defense has been ascending, it's been improving,
Speaker 7: and you hit zoom out. It gives you a lot
Speaker 7: of belief because you know you have weapons on offense,
Speaker 7: you know you have the quarterback, especially based on the
Speaker 7: last few weeks. Here's what Jonathan Gannon had to say recently,
Speaker 7: just knowing what to do, this team learning to win games.
Speaker 9: We know what we have to do to win and
Speaker 9: keep those controllables in our favor, and we're handling those
Speaker 9: right now. But they know that, you know, the last
Speaker 9: however many weeks we've gotten some wins. They know they
Speaker 9: got to do it all over again or they will
Speaker 9: lose and we will lose. And so they know what
Speaker 9: it takes to put themselves and give themselves a chance
Speaker 9: to win.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm not worried about this, PAULI, I really
Speaker 1: am not the bye week happening when it is. I
Speaker 1: think this is a mature football team because they went
Speaker 1: out and they found the guys who think the correct way,
Speaker 1: and they bring them into the locker room dogs. As
Speaker 1: we continue to talk about it, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: going to come back here and go, oh, we're six
Speaker 1: and four and oh my goodness, we're on the top
Speaker 1: of the NFC. That's not who they're targeting. That's not
Speaker 1: who they're going out and getting and bringing into the
Speaker 1: locker room. That's not the guy who thinks that way.
Speaker 1: And that's the reason why I'm bullish on this. It's
Speaker 1: coming at a perfect time to buy where they can
Speaker 1: settle a little bit, get healthy, and then come back
Speaker 1: with a clear understanding of what it is they need
Speaker 1: to do and why they're in the position they are.
Speaker 1: And I love that.
Speaker 7: Regroup, reset, and then put another two hundred yards rushing
Speaker 7: on the Seattle Seahawks who are bottom five and rush
Speaker 7: d That's our model around here. When you go to Seattle,
Speaker 7: still one of the loudest venues in the league.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't you say yes, yes, for sure?
Speaker 7: What is that challenge like as a player, when you
Speaker 7: go into Seattle.
Speaker 2: You know it's gonna be loud. It's a challenge. Man.
Speaker 8: I hate to say that because I hate to get
Speaker 8: on your they fans that much credit, but it is
Speaker 8: loud thrown nor if it's because of how the stadium
Speaker 8: is built. But man, when you but as players, you
Speaker 8: get excited for that, especially being on the Cardinals and
Speaker 8: going to pay Seattle. That's like a rival game. That's
Speaker 8: big time. So the energy gonna be how the guys
Speaker 8: gonna be ready. So I'm pretty sure that the noise
Speaker 8: from the fans won't be a big deal at all
Speaker 8: for the guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, nothing else that guards against any sort of energy
Speaker 7: letdown because you walk in I mean, yes, it is
Speaker 7: you against the world when you walk into that venue.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I remember me and Tanny used to talk
Speaker 8: about that. We couldn't wait to go there and play Seattle.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 8: So there's some great battles. I know those guys gonna
Speaker 8: have some fun out there.
Speaker 7: Marcus, we really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the time, Appreciate your brother, Thank you, Hey.
Speaker 7: Special thanks as always, jim On Mahundro, Cody Fincher, Matt
Speaker 7: Lazarus for Ron Woffley on Paul ca VC once again.
Speaker 7: Seven games to go, four games in the Division, two
Speaker 7: of the next three against Seattle and a road game
Speaker 7: by the way, a marquee matchup at Minnesota that could
Speaker 7: be big in the NFC All Straight Ahead special. Thanks
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