Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Dave
Speaker 1: Pash Podcast. I'm your host Arizona Cardinals and ESPN broadcaster
Speaker 1: Dave Pash, and my guest this week is Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: starting quarterback Josh Dobbs. Not only is Josh Dobbs one
Speaker 1: of the best stories on the team, he's one of
Speaker 1: the best stories in the NFL. This year, he's tenth
Speaker 1: in the league in passer rating and as you know,
Speaker 1: he was acquired just a couple of weeks before the
Speaker 1: start of the regular season, and he's made a seamless
Speaker 1: transition to not only being the quarterback of the team,
Speaker 1: but being a winning quarterback. Obviously the Dallas Cowboys game,
Speaker 1: but just looking at his numbers, whether it was the
Speaker 1: Giants in particular the first half, or his numbers against
Speaker 1: San Francisco, albeit in a losing cause, it's been really
Speaker 1: impressive to watch Josh Dobbs. And Josh is a great story.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into that a little bit talk
Speaker 1: about something that's very passionate to him, and that's raising
Speaker 1: awareness for alopecia, something he has had in autoimmune disorder
Speaker 1: that he's had since he was in the third grade.
Speaker 1: We'll also talk about his background as an aerospace engineer
Speaker 1: and his goals for life after football.
Speaker 2: Go to space and come back. Yeah, go to space
Speaker 2: and definitely come back. I think it's something on my
Speaker 2: bucket list. Obviously that's a huge decision to make, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that'd be really cool.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that and a whole lot more with
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs, including his lengthy journey to the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: which started back in his days at the University of Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: for our terrific conversation with just an impressive young man
Speaker 1: on a Cardinals quarterback Josh Dobbs. So, Josh, as I
Speaker 1: was mentioning before we get on here, you and i've met,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure back at Tennessee, you're doing national games
Speaker 1: every week, so you're always meeting with the TV announcers.
Speaker 1: But after every time we did a Tennessee game, they
Speaker 1: always would provide you and we'd always walk away like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that guy's a study, that guy's smart, and obviously you're
Speaker 1: a terrific player at Tennessee. First of all, you're wearing
Speaker 1: a hat that says Astro Dobbs. Yeah, can you fill
Speaker 1: me in?
Speaker 2: Yeah. So during my time at Tennessee, obviously studied aerospace engineering,
Speaker 2: and so I got like two nicknames like Astro Astro
Speaker 2: Dobbs and then like Pastronaut, which has been going around
Speaker 2: a lot lately. So I started just a little brand
Speaker 2: around Astro Dobbs and started my foundation around it, to
Speaker 2: Extraordinary Dolls Foundation. So I always rocked the hat obviously
Speaker 2: because it's you know, me, and then like my passions
Speaker 2: and everything, it's cool. It seemed like the support and
Speaker 2: people start rocking the hats too as well.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, is this starting to blow up.
Speaker 1: Now with the way E've ben playing and the way
Speaker 1: things are going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people are starting to cop the hats. This one's
Speaker 2: actually brand new, so I got to add it to
Speaker 2: my site. So I just started. I just got a
Speaker 2: couple of new hats in for this season, so I
Speaker 2: got some new drops coming coming along, so I'll be
Speaker 2: sure to keep everyone posted.
Speaker 1: All right, So if we want to get them, where
Speaker 1: do we go to get him?
Speaker 2: You go to astrodobs dot com. It's on my Instagram
Speaker 2: TikTok Twitter, astrodobs dot com and everything's right there.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna get myself one.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: So my one of my daughters is in a serious relationship.
Speaker 1: My guess is they're going to get married. And he
Speaker 1: is an aerospace engineer. Is this like slam dunk husband material?
Speaker 2: Being an aerospace in it has to be, man, I
Speaker 2: don't I don't know where he works or who he
Speaker 2: works for.
Speaker 1: He went to a SU Were you almost?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I almost went to a su I'm guessing is
Speaker 2: he is he? I'm guessing he wants to get his
Speaker 2: pilot license or does he have his pilot that.
Speaker 1: It's above my pay grade. I was a broadcast major,
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, well she might be a frequent private pilot at
Speaker 2: some point. I'm sure good. I could use that.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes get from the college game to the
Speaker 1: Cardinals game. Sometimes tough, exactly exactly, it's very useful. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, I know, be an AIRS position to definitely
Speaker 1: husband material without a doubt. So you interned it NASA.
Speaker 1: What was your day like when you interned there?
Speaker 2: It was crazy? So that was back in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 2: and so I spent a month down there at Kennedy
Speaker 2: Space Center. So I actually did twice twenty nineteen twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: right before COVID. So I would basically show up to
Speaker 2: the VAB Vertical Assembly building, so by you know the
Speaker 2: old shuttle pictures, like you see the shuttle rolling out
Speaker 2: the big tall building, it looks like it's out of
Speaker 2: the transformers. I would show it like that was like
Speaker 2: I had an office in there. So I show up
Speaker 2: to that building every day and basically I would meet
Speaker 2: with a different engineer who was working on the mobile
Speaker 2: launcher and I would shadow them and see what they do.
Speaker 2: So a lot of it was kind of in like
Speaker 2: the instrumentation division of what NASA was doing. So the
Speaker 2: mobile launcher is what carries the rocket from that vab
Speaker 2: vertical assimbly building out to the launch pad. And so
Speaker 2: the mobile, the mobile launcher and the launch tower sits
Speaker 2: there and it moves back and forth. Now the rocket
Speaker 2: comes from all different parts of the United States and
Speaker 2: gets assembled down at Kennedy Space Center. So I'll show up,
Speaker 2: boom shot out. Different engineer learned about it, and then
Speaker 2: the next year I got really involved. So it was virtual,
Speaker 2: but I was with their Razor group, which does a
Speaker 2: lot of kind of like their futuristic technologies, and so
Speaker 2: they're working on a lunar rover, and I basically was
Speaker 2: tasked with figuring out which rocket was best for that
Speaker 2: lunar rover to be to be on to eventually go
Speaker 2: to the Moon, which is probably about to go to
Speaker 2: the Moon, probably around this year.
Speaker 1: So how do you decide which rocket fits that? So
Speaker 1: you're the one that goes the next one that goes
Speaker 1: to the moon, we can you'll be able to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I was part of the decision exactly.
Speaker 2: So there's probably about five different rockets that are about
Speaker 2: to start being launched in the Moon pretty frequently. These
Speaker 2: are all unmanned rockets, and so on each of these rockets,
Speaker 2: they basically a company can pay for a payload spot
Speaker 2: for their rover or their experiment to go to the Moon. Right,
Speaker 2: So for me figuring out one is taking the size
Speaker 2: of this rover, figuring out can it fit on this
Speaker 2: rocket in the capsule? And then they have all these
Speaker 2: different ways for whatever your experiment is because it's unmanned
Speaker 2: to be able to get off the capsule once it lands,
Speaker 2: lands on the Moon and be able to boom, go around,
Speaker 2: do whatever experiments, come back, reattach itself, and come back
Speaker 2: to Earth. So it was then assessing, okay, like which
Speaker 2: one is most feasible from a cost standpoint but also
Speaker 2: a functionality standpoint for their rover to be attached to
Speaker 2: to detach itself from it, go around, do it whatever
Speaker 2: mission on the moon, come back, reattach, and come back
Speaker 2: to Earth safely with everything that they're trying to learn
Speaker 2: and test. So it was it was very unique. It
Speaker 2: was really cool. It was really cool. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I want to talk football obviously, but
Speaker 1: I'm totally fascinated by all this because you're one of
Speaker 1: the most unique people in the NFL given your background,
Speaker 1: and when did you get interested in all this? Was
Speaker 1: this at a really young age or when it was
Speaker 1: when you were at Tennessee.
Speaker 2: So it started really when I was really young my parents.
Speaker 2: You know, growing up, I was the only child, and
Speaker 2: I got involved in a lot of things like literally
Speaker 2: everything under the sun, like chess club, like I was
Speaker 2: in the chorus. I stink at singing, but I found
Speaker 2: that out pretty quickly. I had to do a little
Speaker 2: a solo in the fourth grade for one of our assemblies,
Speaker 2: and I was awful. So I don't sing anymore. But
Speaker 2: I was involved in a lot of things in school
Speaker 2: growing up, and I really found a love for like math, science, STEM.
Speaker 2: I love planes, like aviation is a huge passion of mine.
Speaker 2: And so just as I progressed, my parents wanted to me,
Speaker 2: They're like, you should be a lawyer. You love to debate,
Speaker 2: you like to talk, You're good at speaking in front
Speaker 2: of people. But you know, I was more on I
Speaker 2: had the love for the math and science side, and
Speaker 2: unless are the writing and reading. And so when I
Speaker 2: went to school, I took a couple of engineering classes
Speaker 2: in college, a couple of physics classes, and I mean
Speaker 2: excuse me in high school and I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: what two things? What am I good at? And what
Speaker 2: am I passionate about? And so what's gonna if you know,
Speaker 2: I can't play football forever, what am I going to
Speaker 2: have a career? And that I really enjoy? And so
Speaker 2: aerospace engineering was the was the perfect combination of both.
Speaker 2: Now when I chose it, I didn't know it was
Speaker 2: gonna be the hardest major that you can choose going
Speaker 2: to college. So I definitely, I definitely, you know, bid
Speaker 2: out a big, big slice of pie going to school,
Speaker 2: just with the course load and everything. But I enjoyed it, man,
Speaker 2: I loved it. And it's really cool now seeing all
Speaker 2: the unique opportunities I've had off the field in.
Speaker 1: So forgive me if this is a dumb question. You're
Speaker 1: clearly much smarter than me, so it might be a
Speaker 1: dumb question. But like, is the goal eventually to go
Speaker 1: to space in some way shape for.
Speaker 2: Me to go to space? Go to space, come back? Yeah,
Speaker 2: go to space and definitely come back. I think you
Speaker 2: know a lot of people like, hey, like go to space,
Speaker 2: go to the moon, go to Mars. You know, obviously
Speaker 2: we haven't sent people to Mars yet, so we.
Speaker 1: Have total recall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, movie, we haven't, right, we haven't brought them back either,
Speaker 2: so but I think at some point, you know, I
Speaker 2: think it's it's really cool seeing the amount of commercial
Speaker 2: opportunities that are in space right now, the amount of
Speaker 2: you know, every day per se people that are starting
Speaker 2: to get opportunities to go to space become astronauts. So
Speaker 2: it's something on my bucket list. Obviously that's a huge
Speaker 2: decision to make, but yeah, I think that'd be really cool.
Speaker 1: And Pastorna you mentioned was a nickname. Is that something
Speaker 1: that's recent, because I know it's been obviously blowing up
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: I would say it's probably that one's probably more recent.
Speaker 2: That one was probably more recent. You know, Astro has
Speaker 2: been a big, big nickname of mine, Astro astrodobs. But
Speaker 2: pastronauts starting to get some steam, so we got to
Speaker 2: do some something fun around it.
Speaker 1: You make all this sound so easy, and you've made
Speaker 1: football look easy the last month, and I'm just curious
Speaker 1: you get here. The trade happens just a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks before the regular season starts. How what was the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge in what part of it was easy for you?
Speaker 1: To transition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say the football part was probably the
Speaker 2: easiest part because it was the most consistent part. Transition
Speaker 2: is tough, especially in this business. You know, just picking
Speaker 2: up and moving at the drop of a dime, especially
Speaker 2: when you're not aware like that that that's coming is
Speaker 2: weird and a unique situation. But you know, I've done
Speaker 2: it in the past, and so I say, like just
Speaker 2: having to go through a similar situations per se in
Speaker 2: the past preparing me for this one. And so it's
Speaker 2: been really cool, like coming here, you know, the support
Speaker 2: system that's been around me here and helping make it
Speaker 2: very seamless, and it's allowed me, you know, to focus
Speaker 2: on my craft, focus on football, focus on my preparation,
Speaker 2: and enjoy that part of it. And so you know,
Speaker 2: I've I've found comfort in you know, the unknown and
Speaker 2: the uniqueness of the situation, but I've found a lot
Speaker 2: of comfort in the my preparation and the football side
Speaker 2: of it because it's been able to stay the same
Speaker 2: and I've been able to kind of dish off task
Speaker 2: and stuff to my support group, especially like the Cardinals
Speaker 2: have helped me out a ton, and just focus on
Speaker 2: the game and focus on preparation. And going out and
Speaker 2: playing good football.
Speaker 1: What was it about this situation that when you found
Speaker 1: out about the trade that you felt good, You felt
Speaker 1: like you could succeed here because you're playing with a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say it's multiple things. One, the uniqueness
Speaker 2: of working with Drew and Izzy last year in Cleveland
Speaker 2: and having a very similar offense to be able to
Speaker 2: come into too. You know, my teammates that have accepted
Speaker 2: me and have done a great job of putting in
Speaker 2: the extra hours to get up to speed, right, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, little things that you're able to work through
Speaker 2: in OTAs and camp and shoot, Like the first couple
Speaker 2: of weeks leading up to the season, we didn't have
Speaker 2: those opportunities. So it's been a crash course leading to
Speaker 2: get into the season, and so everyone's taking it in
Speaker 2: a stride, have done a tremendous job of getting up
Speaker 2: to speed with me, and so that's been awesome. And
Speaker 2: then three, you know, just the confidence that the coaching
Speaker 2: staff and shoot this franchise has had in me to
Speaker 2: say like, hey, you know who you know out there
Speaker 2: in the NFL can we trade for that can give
Speaker 2: us an opportunity to go and win games each and
Speaker 2: every week, and it's a week before the season for
Speaker 2: them to pick me out and get blessed me with
Speaker 2: this opportunity. Man, I've just been working hard to take
Speaker 2: advantage of it, put my best foot forward every Sunday
Speaker 2: because as always say, man, there's only thirty two starting
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the world. You know, there's less than one
Speaker 2: hundred quarterbacks at the professional level in the world, and
Speaker 2: so to be one of thirty two, to be an
Speaker 2: NFL quarterback has always been a goal, a dream of mine.
Speaker 2: And what that means, said, you know, is now on
Speaker 2: me to make the most of the opportunity.
Speaker 1: You've done that so far. You're not just one of
Speaker 1: thirty two, you're in the top ten of passer rating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, knock on wood, no interceptions. I know that.
Speaker 1: You know the team didn't win this past weekend, but
Speaker 1: you know, I've been here for twenty two years, and
Speaker 1: you know, just watching the way you guys fought and
Speaker 1: didn't give up that ninety nine yard drive in particular,
Speaker 1: can you kind of take me through that in your
Speaker 1: mindset there, because it looked again like guys are believing
Speaker 1: and not just what JG and the coaching staff are selling,
Speaker 1: but they believe in you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we come into halftime right and we felt,
Speaker 2: you know, on offense, you know, knowing who we're going against,
Speaker 2: Robby thought we could have started a little bit faster,
Speaker 2: you know, And that's what I was said in the
Speaker 2: locker room. And so what we said to the defense was,
Speaker 2: you guys, go get a stop, get us the ball back.
Speaker 2: We'll make it a one possession game. And so defense
Speaker 2: went out, they did their job. They got to stop.
Speaker 2: We get the ball back. And as an offense, our
Speaker 2: mentality is, no matter where the ball is, we have
Speaker 2: the ball in our hands, and that's the opportunity now
Speaker 2: to go score, whether it's on the one yard line
Speaker 2: our one yard line of their one yard line. Our
Speaker 2: goal is to put the ball in the end zone.
Speaker 2: And so everyone has the right mentality, man, And that's
Speaker 2: what's been so great about this team. You know, everyone's
Speaker 2: just no matter what happens, we're one play at a time, right,
Speaker 2: one call at a time, executing that play. No matter
Speaker 2: what happens on the last play, boom, we're on to
Speaker 2: the next one. So get the ball and then everyone
Speaker 2: looking in the huddle, get the first first down. Get
Speaker 2: the drive start and go down and score touchdown, make
Speaker 2: it a one possession game. Obviously, you know, we may
Speaker 2: have the outcome that we want it, but I thought
Speaker 2: it was a tremendous growth, growth moment, you know, as
Speaker 2: a team, right just playing that complimentary football against a
Speaker 2: really good football team where defense gets to stop and
Speaker 2: they're relying on the offense to give us a chance
Speaker 2: boom to get back in the game, and then we
Speaker 2: go out and execute. That's what those are kind of
Speaker 2: the start of what good good programs, good organizations, good
Speaker 2: football teams are built off of. And so we keep
Speaker 2: doing that, we keep playing good, complimentary football, We keep
Speaker 2: growing on those little moments like that. Man, we'll continue
Speaker 2: to improve and start winning some games.
Speaker 1: Are you this calm, direct and deliberate when you're in
Speaker 1: the huddle?
Speaker 2: I like to say so. Yeah, I like to say so.
Speaker 2: You know, I've being around other quarterbacks and then obviously
Speaker 2: just my journey, man, I've learned that consistency. You know,
Speaker 2: people feed off of that. So knowing my preparation, Man,
Speaker 2: how I show up on Wednesday and how I show
Speaker 2: up on the game day, I want it to be
Speaker 2: the exact same, because one that helps me stay calm
Speaker 2: and focused and locked in on the task. And two,
Speaker 2: you know your teammates see that, right, They see how
Speaker 2: you approach every single rep. They see how you approach
Speaker 2: every single day, and then ultimately they see how you
Speaker 2: approach the game. So having like this demeanor, right, I'm
Speaker 2: being consistent in that, now I get firing on game day.
Speaker 2: I think on my micd up show that a little bit.
Speaker 2: I changed a little bit of personality. But at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, man like I want to be
Speaker 2: that strong, calm, consistent voice and commander of the huddle,
Speaker 2: and we lead my guys each every time I step
Speaker 2: on the field.
Speaker 1: I know you've been asked us a ton, but Pittsburgh, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: back to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Tennessee, back to Cleveland. Here
Speaker 1: in Arizona. Did you doubt yourself at any point or
Speaker 1: did you always feel like you were going to get
Speaker 1: that opportunity to show what you could do? Was it
Speaker 1: hard to stay patient for that opportunity?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I never doubted myself. I would say
Speaker 2: I I gain more trust in myself. I would say
Speaker 2: that over that time. You know, when you get drafted
Speaker 2: to an organization. Man Like, I think everyone they they
Speaker 2: they view their NFL career as the storybook career. You know,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get drafted somewhere, you're gonna play there for
Speaker 2: twenty years, Your jersey are gonna get retired in the rafters,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get a gold jacket, and you're gonna ride
Speaker 2: off in the sunset. And that does happen. And those
Speaker 2: stories are out there and there, and I think those
Speaker 2: are the stories that are sold obviously the most, because
Speaker 2: those are the stories everyone loves to see. But I
Speaker 2: would say, you know, ninety seven percent of the players
Speaker 2: in the NFL, that's not their story, that's not their journey,
Speaker 2: that's not the opportunities they get. And so for me, man,
Speaker 2: like you know, getting drafted the Pittsburgh and leaving and
Speaker 2: then going back to Pittsburgh, all that really wasn't any
Speaker 2: of my choices. When I was drafted to Pittsburgh, I
Speaker 2: was then traded to Jacksonville's then claimed back by Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: and so from there, you know, after that year, going
Speaker 2: to my fifth or sixth year, you know, I said, like,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, man, I got to
Speaker 2: start position myself with the opportunity one to show I
Speaker 2: can at least be a consistent two in the league,
Speaker 2: which will then ultimately give me the opportunity to be
Speaker 2: a starter in the NFL. So, you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of my moves and transitions that have happened over the
Speaker 2: last year have been you know, me just putting that
Speaker 2: ultimate trust in my own skill set and ability and
Speaker 2: the ability to be able to perform on short notice.
Speaker 2: So you know, leaving Cleveland was a choice of mine
Speaker 2: because while I was in Cleveland, man going into that situation,
Speaker 2: knew it was going to be a unique quarterback room
Speaker 2: with three new guys signed all in the same year,
Speaker 2: and obviously with the Deshaun dial going on, so I
Speaker 2: know at some point Deshan was gonna come back. I
Speaker 2: didn't know what the room was going to look like.
Speaker 2: So ultimately chose to leave Cleveland because I knew, like, hey,
Speaker 2: like crazy things happen at the end of the football season,
Speaker 2: and I want to show teams that, you know, I've
Speaker 2: had a really good preseason, I can play really good football,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking for that opportunity to play. So end
Speaker 2: up going to Detroit and then getting signed from Detroit
Speaker 2: to Tennessee to go play. So everything worked out because
Speaker 2: I had that trust and confidence in myself and then
Speaker 2: obviously coming here same thing, you know, having that confidence
Speaker 2: in yourself that even though short notice, you can still
Speaker 2: go out execute play really good football. And it might
Speaker 2: be a unique situation. But everything shoot, that went through
Speaker 2: the last three hundred and sixty five days has prepared
Speaker 2: me for this opportunity. So I wouldn't say, you know,
Speaker 2: throughout throughout that time period, I ever, you know, lost
Speaker 2: faith in myself. Now, of course you might lose faith
Speaker 2: in the process. Right, there are some days you wake
Speaker 2: up and say, dang, am I ever going to get
Speaker 2: that chance? But in those days, man, I think those
Speaker 2: days are what make you right. Those are the days
Speaker 2: that when you wake up and you might lose faith
Speaker 2: in the process, but you haven't losed faith in yourself
Speaker 2: and you still show up. You still are a professional,
Speaker 2: you still do your job at a high level. You
Speaker 2: still prepare as if you're going to start, even though
Speaker 2: you're not even dressing on that Sunday. Those are the
Speaker 2: days that are banked reps that then ultimately prepare you
Speaker 2: for opportunities like this. So it's been a tremendous journey.
Speaker 2: Tremendous ride is definitely far from over, man, But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I've loved every step of the journey.
Speaker 1: Well, I was going to ask you what you think
Speaker 1: your role is because you know there's no givens in
Speaker 1: the NFL. First of all, we don't know when Kyler's
Speaker 1: coming back, and you know how he's going to do
Speaker 1: when he comes back. I mean, you keep playing like this,
Speaker 1: you know there's no guarantees that Kyler steps right in,
Speaker 1: So like, how do you view it? Do you kind
Speaker 1: of like look at yourself and say, you know, if
Speaker 1: I keep playing like this, I'm going to make it
Speaker 1: a tough decision for the coaching staff to take me
Speaker 1: out of the game when Kyler gets healthy.
Speaker 2: For sure. Yeah. I just you know, I control what
Speaker 2: I can control, right, Like as I said last week,
Speaker 2: you know, I know at some point Kyler's going to
Speaker 2: come back and decision's going to be made. And you know,
Speaker 2: for me, I understand that, and I understand his role
Speaker 2: and then the role that he's had in this franchise
Speaker 2: up until this point, and I respect that. And so
Speaker 2: as I said last week, like everything's gonna be okay, man,
Speaker 2: But I control what I can control. And you know,
Speaker 2: as long as they tell nine to keep going out there,
Speaker 2: keep leading this team, keep playing quarterback, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: out and put my best foot forward. And the day
Speaker 2: that role changes, I'll embrace whatever that role looks like.
Speaker 2: And I'll keep moving forward and still being Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 2: still being the person that I am. So you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: so whenever that day comes in, it'll be okay. But
Speaker 2: until then and I'm putting my best foot forward, trying
Speaker 2: to leave these guys to victory every Sunday.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about a relationship with with Drew pettsing?
Speaker 1: You know, how much do you guys talk during the
Speaker 1: week about the plan? How much are you talking during
Speaker 1: the game? For example, I brought up the ninety nine
Speaker 1: yard drive. Like to me, the first play of that drive,
Speaker 1: nobody remembers or talks about, but like you just diving
Speaker 1: ahead for three yards to give you guys a little
Speaker 1: bit more breathing room. Not a lot of teams do that,
Speaker 1: at least the Cardinals that hadn't done that the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. How much come how much discuss? How
Speaker 1: many conversations you having with Drew throughout the weekend.
Speaker 2: On game day, we're having a ton of conversations. Man,
Speaker 2: we talk she was starting yesterday about the past game,
Speaker 2: how how we can improve, and then today we're on
Speaker 2: to the Bengals and talking about first and second down thoughts,
Speaker 2: getting a head start on that. So then we come
Speaker 2: in on tomorrow and wrap up that start on third down.
Speaker 2: So each day it's a discussion about a different part
Speaker 2: of the field, different zone on the field, and then
Speaker 2: as we get closer to the game days, more situational
Speaker 2: football thoughts and starting thoughts, how we're going to start
Speaker 2: the game, what we're gonna do on the big third downs,
Speaker 2: where we're gonna do on the red zone, and then
Speaker 2: you know, once we get in the game, the dialogue continues,
Speaker 2: right Like, I have a ton of dialogue with Izzy
Speaker 2: throughout the week for the most part, obviously because he's
Speaker 2: in the room. And then Drew comes down and we
Speaker 2: talk as well. So the relationships grow, man, the you know,
Speaker 2: obviously I spent time with Drew last year. I didn't play,
Speaker 2: but we spent a ton of time together. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, just being able to talk football last year,
Speaker 2: for me to be able to pick his brain when
Speaker 2: he was in the position as the coach and now
Speaker 2: for him to grow into the role as that. Oh see,
Speaker 2: those reps have helped us a ton this year. You know,
Speaker 2: when he calls plays, I feel like, you know, I
Speaker 2: know exactly what he's about to say as he's calling
Speaker 2: them into the huddle. And so as we continue to
Speaker 2: get reps together as the weeks continue to go by,
Speaker 2: that those the relationship right, the camaraderie per se, but
Speaker 2: the chemistry will just continue to grow. And so it's
Speaker 2: been great to see the steps that we've been able
Speaker 2: to make each and every week, just starting from week one.
Speaker 2: Man that feels like a year ago. That guy here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so it only shows the steps that will continue
Speaker 2: to make throughout the year.
Speaker 1: It seems like MANI us and for IT and JG
Speaker 1: they have a specific type of person that they want
Speaker 1: here as well as a player that there's more that's
Speaker 1: going into who's on the roster as opposed to just
Speaker 1: picking talent and picking players. Michael Wilson, you fit exactly
Speaker 1: the mold of what MANI and JG want. Michael Wilson
Speaker 1: seems like another guy. He actually kind of feels like
Speaker 1: a wide receipt version smart guy, went to Stanford. Both
Speaker 1: very good college players. He's a third round pick, you
Speaker 1: were a fourth round pick. Talk about your connection with
Speaker 1: him and what you've seen from Michael so far. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it had a huge game this past weekend.
Speaker 2: He had a great game. That was really cool for
Speaker 2: him to be back in the Bay obviously right down
Speaker 2: the street from school and ball out. Relationship has been awesome,
Speaker 2: Like he's been a guy since the day I got here.
Speaker 2: I think it was probably the first guy that came
Speaker 2: up and introduced himself in the lunch room right when
Speaker 2: I walked in. But he's always you know, picking my
Speaker 2: brain from a QB perspective of hey, like what can
Speaker 2: I do better? Or hey let's get an extra rep
Speaker 2: on this, and then from there, you know, he's just
Speaker 2: so locked into the game plan and always you know,
Speaker 2: doing the right things exactly where he needs to be. Obviously,
Speaker 2: he's a great dude off the field, and so just
Speaker 2: seeing that, having you know, that safety blanket as a
Speaker 2: quarterback is awesome. You know, as you said, he's a
Speaker 2: great dude, and you know, I think guys like that
Speaker 2: are are tremendous opportunities to continue to build the team culture.
Speaker 2: And chemistry around, and so I enjoy Obviously, I've loved
Speaker 2: the way he's played. He's made some huge plays, obviously
Speaker 2: the Dallas game with the big play to put his
Speaker 2: in position to seal it, and then last week with
Speaker 2: the two touchdowns and a couple other big time catches
Speaker 2: and big situations to put his in position to score.
Speaker 2: So it's been tremendous in his growth. Like when he
Speaker 2: showed up, I was watching some of the camp film
Speaker 2: and just watching him, was like, who's this dude? Like, Oh,
Speaker 2: that's that's the rookie. I was like, Wow, he looks
Speaker 2: like a second third year player already. Yeah, and so
Speaker 2: he'll continue to grow and improve, man, But he's been awesome,
Speaker 2: and so I'm excited for him in his career.
Speaker 1: Another guy that looks like he's been in the league
Speaker 1: for a while, and he's playing a position that I
Speaker 1: don't think he played a ton of Ohio State Paris
Speaker 1: Johnson mostly left tackle playing right tackle. What stands out
Speaker 1: to you about him and how he's played so far?
Speaker 2: Man, he's had the gauntlet of guys the blog already
Speaker 2: this season. Man, that's been That's probably been what's been
Speaker 2: so impressive, Right, like she had. He's had a slate
Speaker 2: of guys thrown at him, starting with the Commanders in
Speaker 2: the front that they have and than the Giants have
Speaker 2: a really good front, and obviously eleven Michael Parsons with
Speaker 2: the Cowboys and then last week Nick Bosa, and so
Speaker 2: he'll continue having more guys that he'll be tasked with blocking,
Speaker 2: but he's stepped up to the challenge every single week.
Speaker 2: He has that right demeanor, that confidence in himself and
Speaker 2: you know, just you come in as a come in
Speaker 2: as a as a different as a new quarterback and
Speaker 2: having your alignment look at you and gets you hyped
Speaker 2: to go out and go out and play and take
Speaker 2: over games. Man, that's that's a great feeling. So he did.
Speaker 2: He does a tremendous job. Is really cool seeing his
Speaker 2: relationship that he's already created with DJ on the other side.
Speaker 2: Obviously DJ's played a lot of football and at a
Speaker 2: very high level. But just seeing how he's learning from
Speaker 2: DJ and how to take care of his body, what
Speaker 2: to do off the field, getting into his routine as
Speaker 2: a rookie man, that that's very impressive. Just you know,
Speaker 2: being around the around the league and seeing guys man
Speaker 2: he's he's acting like similar to Mike as a vet,
Speaker 2: you know, already as a rookie and learning the right
Speaker 2: ways to take care of his body off the field
Speaker 2: in order to then go out and prepare and play
Speaker 2: high level football on Sundays.
Speaker 1: A couple more, we'll get you out of here. Josh,
Speaker 1: You've always you've never shied away from bringing awareness to alopecia,
Speaker 1: something you've dealt with since I think you.
Speaker 2: Were third or fourth grade. Yeah, third grade.
Speaker 1: And just tell me about why you're passionate about making
Speaker 1: people aware of that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just part of my journey, and so
Speaker 2: everything that's part of my journey, man, I always love
Speaker 2: bringing attention to it. Obviously, having alopecia since the third grade,
Speaker 2: my journey's look different than some people with alopecia. For
Speaker 2: those of you who don't know, alopecia is the autoimmune
Speaker 2: disease that tax your hair follicles. Some people their hair
Speaker 2: is patchy, some people have no hair, some people have
Speaker 2: a lot of hair. It affects everyone differently, but usually
Speaker 2: at some point you start losing your hair and it
Speaker 2: never really grows back. So for me, you know that
Speaker 2: happened in college where you know, lost my hair didn't
Speaker 2: really grow back. And being a divisional one quarterback, a
Speaker 2: really good Division one quarterback at a very prominent university,
Speaker 2: you're a lot of spotlight, so you get a lot
Speaker 2: of attention and sometimes people don't know what alopecia is.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people are very ignorant to what alopecia is and
Speaker 2: that comes with the platform. So for me just to
Speaker 2: be able to show people that no matter what you're
Speaker 2: going through, everyone's going through something. Alopeca is a little
Speaker 2: more visual than other things that people go through on
Speaker 2: a daily basis, But no matter what you're going through, man,
Speaker 2: just be true to who you are, be yourself, have
Speaker 2: that confidence in yourself, and just control what you can control.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge advocate for that. The kids that I've met,
Speaker 2: they have alopecia, the adults I've met that have alopecia,
Speaker 2: has been tremendous seeing the looks on their faces when
Speaker 2: they meet someone else just with alopecia, you know, not
Speaker 2: me being an NFL quarterback or college quarterback, just me
Speaker 2: being someone else that relates to them, that knows exactly
Speaker 2: what they're going through and their hair journey per se.
Speaker 2: But also it's extremely confident in my own skin and
Speaker 2: showing them that, you know, if they can if they're
Speaker 2: confident in their own skin, man, they can define their
Speaker 2: own success in life. And so yeah, ALPC has been
Speaker 2: a great part of my journey. Man. It's molded me
Speaker 2: into who I am today, and so I definitely don't
Speaker 2: shy away from it.
Speaker 1: Was there anybody in particular I read a story where
Speaker 1: You've got a chance to meet Charlie Villain the way
Speaker 1: of a former NBA player. Anybody specific that that you
Speaker 1: recall that encourage you when you need an encouragement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I have a tremendous support group with
Speaker 2: with my family. Charlie's been awesome and he always says,
Speaker 2: you know, Alo Pisas doesn't have me, I have alopecia,
Speaker 2: And that just talks about just being comfortable in your
Speaker 2: own skin and accepting you know that alopieza is a
Speaker 2: part of your story. Ryan Shazier is also one who
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time with in Pittsburgh, and
Speaker 2: so just being around those those people, those individuals, those
Speaker 2: highly successful individuals that also may face the same ignorance
Speaker 2: sometimes that I've gone through, but still are able to
Speaker 2: stand up and take it in stride and still be
Speaker 2: true to who they are. It just has always served
Speaker 2: as a great example for me of how to proceed
Speaker 2: about my life.
Speaker 1: Well, listen, it's been great covering your games here as
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback. And not only are you one of
Speaker 1: the best stories on the team, you're one of the
Speaker 1: best stories in the NFL right now. So congratulations on
Speaker 1: the great start, and let's keep it going this weekend.
Speaker 2: Just do it for the time, man, I appreciate you,
Speaker 2: may Man, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: You got it, man, I could have just forgotten completely
Speaker 1: about football and talked rocket science with Josh Dobbs for
Speaker 1: forty five minutes, so entertaining, so interesting, and just hearing
Speaker 1: about his journey and all the things that he did
Speaker 1: as an Internet NASA and his goals for life after football.
Speaker 1: Also just incredibly impressive to hear about his passion for
Speaker 1: raising awareness for alopecia, something that he's dealt with since
Speaker 1: a young boy. And also Josh's role as the quarterback
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals, his leadership, his relationship with Drew Petsing,
Speaker 1: and a guy that has had to wait his turn
Speaker 1: and be patient over two stints with the Steelers, two
Speaker 1: stints with the Browns Jacksonville, Detroit, Tennessee, and now with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. It's great to see Josh Dobbs playing well.
Speaker 1: It's easy to root for a young man like Josh Dobbs.
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