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Speaker 1: you've obviously come to the show prepared. The NFC West's
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Speaker 1: the power rankings, do not Paully hit me with it.
Speaker 1: AFC West, Hey number three? Last? Okay? Yeah, oh all
Speaker 1: right da? Well, of course the Kansas City chiefs right,
Speaker 1: and everyone's looking at the Raiders still wondering whether aids
Speaker 1: gay to be good or not? Yea, I can see that, Paul,
Speaker 1: like justin Herbert. And then you know, when the Raiders
Speaker 1: end up with Aaron Rodgers, you know, look out. So
Speaker 1: there you go, man, we're talking about the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: of course ending up with Aaron Rodgers. Either one really
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Do you really think Aaron Rodgers is going
Speaker 1: to be moved by the Green Bay Packers? I think
Speaker 1: it's a waste of breath. Probably, probably, But believe me,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play this along as long as he possibly can,
Speaker 1: as as you can see, right down to his Hawaiian vacation,
Speaker 1: of which we're getting plenty of Instagram photos right about now.
Speaker 1: So maybe, just maybe we'll ask Rob Frederickson about that,
Speaker 1: because you know what, we have lots of questions for
Speaker 1: the former first round pick, the former first round linebacker.
Speaker 1: If you want to know about Zavin Collins, you know what,
Speaker 1: Bring on, Rob Frederickson. We'll do you that shortly here
Speaker 1: on The Big Red Rage. But I'm out. Last week
Speaker 1: on The Big Red Rage, Wolf Drew Grigson, would you say,
Speaker 1: would you say the Cardinals director of player Personnel moved
Speaker 1: the meter with his interview? Yeah, there's no doubt about him. Man,
Speaker 1: he knocked it out of the park. And here he
Speaker 1: is right off the top, and we asked him about
Speaker 1: Zavian Collins and obviously coming off the rookie minicamp and
Speaker 1: three days practicing on air, and okay, what can you
Speaker 1: tell if you're a personnel guy, Drew Grigson, with his
Speaker 1: command of the huddle, with his command of the defense,
Speaker 1: his ability to make adjustments even before he gets him
Speaker 1: from Vans. I mean, he's knocking stuff out, you know,
Speaker 1: vants telling me that if he makes a mistake, that's it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't happen again. You know, his ability to communicate
Speaker 1: with the rest of the defense, move people around, and
Speaker 1: be confident doing it. Now. I know it's still rookies,
Speaker 1: but it could be different again when he's looking at J. G.
Speaker 1: Watton and Chandler Jones, Buddha Baker. But again, I think
Speaker 1: it was his maturity and the respect that he's going
Speaker 1: to get from those guys. It's going to be an
Speaker 1: easy transpo. Just listening you right there, that really bodes well. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And again they're still making a ton at him, but
Speaker 1: just watching him out there again, I was I left
Speaker 1: the first couple of practices to day and we will
Speaker 1: get this was pretty good right now, so we're bad
Speaker 1: about him, you know, and having him inside Call of
Speaker 1: Defense with Isaiah next to him, and those are two
Speaker 1: gigantic freaks in the middle of the field and two
Speaker 1: incredible skill sets for a Mike and mow for us.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're giving him the green dot Zavin Collins.
Speaker 1: So you know what, that makes you feel a whole
Speaker 1: lot better because if he was swimming from day one,
Speaker 1: that already would give you a little trepidation. But to
Speaker 1: hear that he's setting the front, he's making the adjustments,
Speaker 1: he's able to communicate with the guys around him. That's
Speaker 1: really all you can glean from these workouts. But that's
Speaker 1: enough to at least give you a little encouragement that
Speaker 1: you know what he is going to be capable of
Speaker 1: being the starter from day one. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I could impart just how difficult this proposition is going
Speaker 1: to be. I think for Zavin Collins going forward, Bully,
Speaker 1: it's just once again, when you think about it, you've
Speaker 1: got a base defense. Imagine Polly, right now you've got
Speaker 1: you've got this base defense, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've got adjustments based on personnel, group, based on formation.
Speaker 1: You've got to make the right calls. You've got to
Speaker 1: actually be playing the right defense and the right coverage.
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got this base defense with those adjustments.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, you tailored those adjustments, Paul
Speaker 1: against a certain opponent that you're playing. It's called a
Speaker 1: game plan, Paully, So you're refining the base defense and
Speaker 1: then those adjustments to fit your opponent. It is Paul,
Speaker 1: I mean it is. There's a lot of different dynamics
Speaker 1: that go into actually understanding what it is that you
Speaker 1: have to do and also being able to tell other
Speaker 1: people what it is that they have to do. It
Speaker 1: is a difficult proposition in front of Zaven Collins. But listen,
Speaker 1: I think the Arizona Cardinals, they've been very very clear
Speaker 1: about this. This is gonna be trial by fire. They're
Speaker 1: gonna let him go out there and experience this and
Speaker 1: actually work through the process of becoming their mic linebacker
Speaker 1: by doing as opposed to watching, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, it's right there with him. And when I
Speaker 1: had chanced to watch someone rookie Mini Camp a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, his position coach makes sense. Obviously. Linebackers
Speaker 1: coach Bill Davis is out there a lot of times.
Speaker 1: He would stop the drill, he'd jump in, he'd points
Speaker 1: some fingers, he'd impart some knowledge and if he caught
Speaker 1: Cardinals flight planned season four, episode two the other night,
Speaker 1: well guess what Bill Davis was asked about his first
Speaker 1: round linebackers Zavan Collins. I know, it's such a crapshoot.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how it's going to unfold. Was
Speaker 1: I hoping he was there? Absolutely, And I was glad
Speaker 1: he was. We're making a concerted effort to get intelligent
Speaker 1: high football IQ players, and Zavan and Isaiah in the
Speaker 1: middle joined all the inside backers. They're the quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: our defense. Thank god we have the off season. Thank
Speaker 1: god we're gonna have a rookie camp. Last year was
Speaker 1: so hard on Isaiah. That was all the rookies. They
Speaker 1: were robbed of those chances through to really absorb immense
Speaker 1: amount of information. And I can tell right now of
Speaker 1: all you know, he'll be a very quick learner, and
Speaker 1: hopefully we have the reps on the field to where
Speaker 1: that that actually goes even faster. There you go, Bill Davis,
Speaker 1: your reaction to that. Wolf, I'm sure he saw Cardinals
Speaker 1: flight plan. He's in there. He's breaking down Zamon Collins
Speaker 1: on film what he saw at Tulsa. And he actually,
Speaker 1: and you know what, you know this better than virtually
Speaker 1: anyone he throw. He said, he's an old school linebacker
Speaker 1: with his size, with new school athletic ability and speed.
Speaker 1: Because you tell me, Wolf, back in the day, you
Speaker 1: used to go against some monsters at inside linebackers. Oh yeah, Oh, yeah, Paulie,
Speaker 1: And there's still pretty brutal. Dudes, They're still even today,
Speaker 1: they're still very, very difficult. Right now. I love this man.
Speaker 1: This is listen. This is going to be a work
Speaker 1: in progress. It is with Zaven Collins, He's going to
Speaker 1: have to go through some of the lumps here. But
Speaker 1: the prospect of actually having Zaban Collins and Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: out on the field at this same time, that length
Speaker 1: and that athleticism and that physicality, I am hoping something
Speaker 1: very very special is coming in front of the Red Sea.
Speaker 1: I think I'm hoping that something very special comes together
Speaker 1: at some point. I don't know if it's gonna be
Speaker 1: this season where we see Zaven Collins go out there
Speaker 1: at his best. I don't know, but I do know
Speaker 1: this right here. You have to know what to do
Speaker 1: before you can do. Do you understand that, Polly. You
Speaker 1: have to know what to do before you can do
Speaker 1: and you have to know it with conviction. This is
Speaker 1: something I can't wait to talk to Rob Frederickson about
Speaker 1: in the next beautiful part of the program. You have
Speaker 1: to know what to do before you can actually do it.
Speaker 1: And I think Zaven Collins is gone he's not going
Speaker 1: to have any problems with the doing. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be physical. I think he's gonna be athletic, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be long, he's gonna make place. But he's got
Speaker 1: to know what to do and then be able to
Speaker 1: tell other people what to do as well. With that
Speaker 1: green dot playing Mike linebacker in the box, Isaiah Simmons,
Speaker 1: certainly hopefully we'll be able to help him do that.
Speaker 1: I think Booted Baker, I've talked to you about this before,
Speaker 1: walking down in the box, being a box safety. I
Speaker 1: think he will help Zavian Collins with a lot of
Speaker 1: the calls as well. We'll have to wait and see,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's just I cannot wait to see
Speaker 1: how this whole thing transpires. Well. In that film room,
Speaker 1: Bill Davis said one of the first things he looks
Speaker 1: for when he assesses any inside linebacker is the rate
Speaker 1: at which he recognizes the play and then reacts and
Speaker 1: then he goes from there. So that was his initial takeaway.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Drew Grigson last week here on
Speaker 1: The Big Red Rage, the Cardinals director of player Personnel,
Speaker 1: because his other big takeaway from rookie minicamp would happen
Speaker 1: to be Rondale Moore, the second round receiver out of
Speaker 1: Purdue ran the four two nine forty. But it goes
Speaker 1: beyond that when it comes to his quickness, Grison, He's
Speaker 1: gonna make this dynamic inside. He's arguably the best runifer
Speaker 1: catch guy in this draft. It's a straight line, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: But this kid's ability to move a lad early, and
Speaker 1: I mean he just gets teleports. He hasn't just changed directions.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable to watch. He's a video game in real life.
Speaker 1: Every one of the defensive coaches say the other day,
Speaker 1: this kid looks quick and slow motion. I just didn't
Speaker 1: win that. I just I'm excited to see him for
Speaker 1: seventeen games for US. I mean, I'm excited for the
Speaker 1: preseason just to see Rondale Moore. Just get him a
Speaker 1: ball in space and get out of the way once again, Bully.
Speaker 1: With Rondelmore, the key is going to be, I mean,
Speaker 1: everything horizontal is something he does very very well. He
Speaker 1: also has got to be a guy that can be
Speaker 1: teams vertically, and that really is going to be the
Speaker 1: challenge right there. If Rondel Moore can actually line up
Speaker 1: and run by somebody. I've talked about this the entire
Speaker 1: offseason since they've drafted him, But Paul, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be huge, not only for the Arizona Cardinals, but specifically
Speaker 1: for Ron Delmore. It's going to be important that he
Speaker 1: beats people vertically down the field and catches the ball
Speaker 1: and a defensive court. Nader says, man, I don't know
Speaker 1: where that emmonium made is, but somebody passing to me,
Speaker 1: you need to scare the opponent vertically. And then when
Speaker 1: that happens, man, all that horizontal goodness is gonna be there. Well,
Speaker 1: and when you give him that space, if you truly
Speaker 1: can stretch the defense as the saying goes. In twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen is one full season to college football with Purdue,
Speaker 1: he forced thirty seven miss tackles, which was the most
Speaker 1: by any receiver in a single season in college ball
Speaker 1: since twenty fourteen. So and at a buck eighty five
Speaker 1: and with those legs, you know he's gonna break an
Speaker 1: arm tackle or two. And let's be honest, Andy Isabella
Speaker 1: hasn't shown a lot of that. He doesn't have your
Speaker 1: Cavs ball. We come back, Rob Frederickson is going to
Speaker 1: join us here On the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 1: santan Ford In Gilbert with the sixteenth pick, the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals select Zaven showing I have a number twenty three
Speaker 1: Davan Collins. Then, dude's an animals six three, two sixty linebacker,
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers in all of college football.
Speaker 1: What I liked about him was everything size, football, acumen, instincts, coverability.
Speaker 1: This guy's got rare and unusual round skills for a
Speaker 1: guy who's only six foot five, two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five miles. I only dreamed of Arizona and being in
Speaker 1: that organization, in that community, with everything there. It was
Speaker 1: something that I've dreamed of. And well Collins preceded by
Speaker 1: the GM Steve Kim, the draft pick and the guy
Speaker 1: making the draft pick. That was from draft night talking
Speaker 1: to the media. The Big Red Rage presented by santan
Speaker 1: Ford Ian Gilbert. We are santan Ford, Paul calvc, Ron
Speaker 1: Wolfley and soon to be joined by Rob Frederickson. Who
Speaker 1: Wolf did you happen to catch? Made a cameo in
Speaker 1: Cardinal's flight plan. I did Balley. I saw that there
Speaker 1: was the war room scene where Steve Kim said, I've
Speaker 1: got it right here on my phone. I told Vanson
Speaker 1: only starter day one, big fast and smart. Put that
Speaker 1: on camera, boys, and he winked at the camera talking
Speaker 1: about Zavin Collins and what he texted Vance Joseph and
Speaker 1: Bill Davis, the defensive coaching staff. But then there was
Speaker 1: a text he received from our own Rob Frederickson, former
Speaker 1: first round linebacker who joins us now in the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage and Rob, good evening, we don't have time
Speaker 1: for the semantics. What exactly were you pinging the GM's
Speaker 1: phone with on draft night? Hey, Paul, So you know
Speaker 1: they made the pick, and I absolutely loved the pick.
Speaker 1: And I just texted Kim and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: we have a kind of a joking relationship. I just
Speaker 1: joked him as a great pick. Must have been Michael's pick.
Speaker 1: Well you got a smile out of him. We saw
Speaker 1: it right there on camera. Yeah. Yeah, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're just joking around. And look, I don't care who
Speaker 1: made the pick. That's that's a great pick. I think,
Speaker 1: um just just looking at Zame Collins and what he
Speaker 1: was able to do in college and I really think
Speaker 1: his game will translate to the NFL. You know, all
Speaker 1: I think of as playing the mic linebacker right there,
Speaker 1: not only one of the most physical positions in all
Speaker 1: of professional football, but also just how mental it is
Speaker 1: anytime you're playing inside the box, especially if you have
Speaker 1: the green dot. How do you think all of that
Speaker 1: is going to go? Rob, Well, you know, they'll obviously
Speaker 1: be a learning curve. Wolf like you and I had it.
Speaker 1: Everyone has it when you when you go from college
Speaker 1: and you know, a smaller school like Tulsa into the NFL.
Speaker 1: There's going to be some adjustments. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a learning curve. But I think he's equipped just watching
Speaker 1: what little film I have of him, I think he's
Speaker 1: equipped to move right in from day one and be
Speaker 1: an impact player. He just he has the instincts of
Speaker 1: an inside linebacker and you really can't teach those, you know.
Speaker 1: And then we saw at times last year, especially early,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons really struggled with it, just the speed of
Speaker 1: things that happened inside the box. And you know, obviously
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, he got better as the season progressed. But
Speaker 1: I really think, yeah, I really think Xavin Collins will
Speaker 1: come in from day one and be ready to roll.
Speaker 1: You know, it was apparent a couple of things last year,
Speaker 1: and we saw Isaiah Simmons, especially the first month of
Speaker 1: the season eight. He didn't play all of his snaps
Speaker 1: in college ball at the inside linebacker spot. He split
Speaker 1: his reps between four or five different positions, so he
Speaker 1: maybe wasn't as experienced an inside linebacker, you know as
Speaker 1: Zaven Collins. Obviously. Number two. One of my big takeaways
Speaker 1: so far in the offseason is when they asked Staven
Speaker 1: Collins about trying to digest the playbook and getting out
Speaker 1: there during rookie minicamp, and he paused and he said,
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine doing this without having that rookie manning
Speaker 1: camp doing this virtually, and that was the challenge Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons faced a year ago. At the same time, this
Speaker 1: isn't a situation where Daryl Washington comes in and he
Speaker 1: has Carlos dan be next to him mentoring him right
Speaker 1: and telling him where the rook where to be. So
Speaker 1: what is the degree of difficulty to be a starter
Speaker 1: from day one at that position and being asked to
Speaker 1: call the defense rob well, just you know, again not
Speaker 1: ever having met Zavan Collins, but just seeing some of
Speaker 1: his interviews and hearing him, he sounds like a guy
Speaker 1: that that will command a huddle. He really does. He
Speaker 1: sounds like a guy from day one to me that
Speaker 1: that will come in there and get the call, make
Speaker 1: the call, and get everybody lined up. You know, he's
Speaker 1: also got some some veteran leadership, not at the position,
Speaker 1: but he's got some veterans, you know, JJ Watt and
Speaker 1: getting Chandler Jones back, Buddha Baker. You know, there's some
Speaker 1: really strong leaders on that defense that I think will
Speaker 1: will buoy him and and really bring Zavian Collins along.
Speaker 1: Rob if you could talk to us about having two
Speaker 1: inside linebackers that are three down backers, two inside linebackers
Speaker 1: that are never going to come off the field. Why
Speaker 1: is that such an advantage? Why do we see this
Speaker 1: the commonality of this actually occurring with a Luke Keakley
Speaker 1: and a Thomas Davis for the Carolina Panthers. I think
Speaker 1: of Navarro Bowman and Patrick Willis the great San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty nine or defenses. Why, in your opinion is it
Speaker 1: so important those two inside linebackers never come off the field. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's important to be number one, because
Speaker 1: they get into a flow. You know, you get into
Speaker 1: a flow of a game and you don't You don't
Speaker 1: want to be coming off for one or two snaps
Speaker 1: and then going back in as a linebacker. You want
Speaker 1: to be out there the entire time. And I think
Speaker 1: with these guys, especially Isaiah Simmons, the versatility that he has,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what personnel group the offense has out there.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons, we can put him out on a slab receiver,
Speaker 1: we can drop him back, if we saw it last year,
Speaker 1: drop him back to play a deep safety. So there's
Speaker 1: really some some things that you know, this defense can
Speaker 1: do with these guys Zamn Collins and Isaiah Simmons that
Speaker 1: are so versatile they don't need to come off the field.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why I love it. I'm
Speaker 1: so fired up about it, Rob is just the fact
Speaker 1: that for me down in distance and personnel groups, as
Speaker 1: you well know now, all of a sudden, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you're an eleven personnel, You're not going to
Speaker 1: take those two guys off the field. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: do it. It doesn't matter if you're in twelve personnel.
Speaker 1: Those two guys are still gonna be there. You can
Speaker 1: run personnel groups out there, especially in rundown situation, you
Speaker 1: can do it. And you know how offenses rob love
Speaker 1: to actually disguise the play they're gonna run based on
Speaker 1: personnel groups and formations as well. If you've experienced it,
Speaker 1: if you've been out there playing this game, you've seen
Speaker 1: it all typically by the fourth quarter. Now again, do
Speaker 1: you make adjustments. Of course, teams always make adjustments, always
Speaker 1: on the fly. But I think seeing it and getting
Speaker 1: that repetition and experience, it's one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: the best defenses in the National Football League have those
Speaker 1: two inside linebackers. I absolutely love it. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think these two, you know, it's gonna take some
Speaker 1: time and there's gonna be a learning curve for both
Speaker 1: of them. Isaiah Simmons is still learning as he goes,
Speaker 1: but I think these two. Number one, we got faster
Speaker 1: at the position. That's number one, and that's everything in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That is everything. You can't make a tackle
Speaker 1: if you can't get there, and these two they move
Speaker 1: around out there and that and that's gonna be fun
Speaker 1: to watch. That's number one and number two. You know,
Speaker 1: they I just think, I just think they're gonna absorb
Speaker 1: so much. And Paul, you hit the nail on the
Speaker 1: head with the benefit of these OTAs and these rookie
Speaker 1: mini camps. Isaiah Simmons didn't have that, so he's going
Speaker 1: through it the first time. It's the same as Zavan
Speaker 1: Collins and the rest of these rookies. So these guys
Speaker 1: are going to absorb so much in this offseason and hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, take it over to the field once the
Speaker 1: season starts. Until last year, you for hearing me say
Speaker 1: the words, thank goodness for the preseason, But you know
Speaker 1: what with these two guys in particular, especially when you're
Speaker 1: asking them to be starters from day one and be
Speaker 1: every down linebackers. As Wolf says, Rob listened to Drew
Speaker 1: Grigson last week here on The Big Red Rage, Cardinals
Speaker 1: director of player Personnel, and I think Wolf asked him,
Speaker 1: when did you know Zaban Collins would be the Cardinals guy?
Speaker 1: When we interviewed Zaven over Zoom and he, you know,
Speaker 1: he pressed the leave button, we all looked at each
Speaker 1: other in the room like, oh boy, Like it's almost
Speaker 1: like we knew that that was a guy that this
Speaker 1: is going to be a consideration at the sixteen and
Speaker 1: then its evolved and it became what it was. And
Speaker 1: that's always in the back of your mind as the
Speaker 1: guys are falling and we start to look at is
Speaker 1: even going to get past this team? Where he's gonna
Speaker 1: get past this team? And then sure enough he fell
Speaker 1: right to us and we were able to pick him.
Speaker 1: And again we feel great about him at sixteen, but
Speaker 1: I think we got to steal at sixteen. How about
Speaker 1: that Drew Grigson, you said earlier, Rob Frederickson, our guests,
Speaker 1: it's all about you present him by Santan Ford and
Speaker 1: Gilbert Cardinal's former first round linebacker, what his game translates
Speaker 1: to the NFL. Those are your words earlier. Break that
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Well. Number one, the size for
Speaker 1: the position. You don't see a lot of two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty or however many pounds he wags. You'll see
Speaker 1: a lot of inside linebackers away two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: pounds that can move like he does. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have any question that he can
Speaker 1: hold up in the run game, he can hold up
Speaker 1: in the box. That's not a question that was a
Speaker 1: question maybe for Isaiah Simmons last year, but he progressed
Speaker 1: obviously throughout the year. But Zavian Collins just plays with
Speaker 1: instinct at that inside linebacker position. Whether he's blitzing, whether
Speaker 1: he's just reading the blocking schemes or getting out into coverage.
Speaker 1: Those are things that you really can't teach. Now they
Speaker 1: can improve on some things obviously the NFL when it
Speaker 1: comes to coverages, they're going to be more advanced and
Speaker 1: more intricate versus the college game because when you're in college,
Speaker 1: you're very limited in the amount of time that you
Speaker 1: have during the week and meetings and practices, so there's
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some learning involved. And I just from
Speaker 1: what I see of him on film, he's just a
Speaker 1: very instinctive player and he knows where the ball is
Speaker 1: and he knows how to get there. Yeah, you know what, backer,
Speaker 1: I love the fact you got a guy that is
Speaker 1: six five, he's a big dude bad. You got a
Speaker 1: guy that is big. Isaiah Simmons is long. You got
Speaker 1: Zaven Collins. Two inside linebackers that are really gonna be
Speaker 1: long that can clog up that two round passing lane,
Speaker 1: as you well know. But talk to me a little
Speaker 1: bit about Rondelle Moore and your your thoughts on Rondale
Speaker 1: Moore as the second round pick for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: You know, well, if I watch a lot of Big
Speaker 1: ten football, a lot a lot of my Spartans, and
Speaker 1: then a few years ago, Rondel Moore was absolutely destroying
Speaker 1: the Big Ten. I mean he was honestly in the
Speaker 1: Heisman talk and he destroyed Ohio State. Now he's had
Speaker 1: some j's the last couple of years, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: he hasn't seen the field a lot, so that's obviously
Speaker 1: a concern. But just from a talent standpoint, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not the tallest guy in the world, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you he is a quick one of the quickest players
Speaker 1: you'll ever see, and once he gets the ball, he
Speaker 1: knows what to do with it. Very exciting football player.
Speaker 1: I hope he can stay healthy. That's you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the big knock on Wood. But Rondel Moore,
Speaker 1: you know, if this guy stayed healthy, he would have
Speaker 1: been a first round pick. Do you think he evolves
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury's offense? Meaning there's gonna be some wrinkles we've
Speaker 1: never seen before because they now have a Rondel Moore.
Speaker 1: Or is this the piece that completes Cliff Kingsbury's offense
Speaker 1: and the guy he's been looking for all along. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I'm speaking honestly here, I don't want to see
Speaker 1: a bunch of whole new wrinkles. Honestly, I actually want
Speaker 1: to see this offense gain an identity. And I think
Speaker 1: personally it starts with the running game. I want I
Speaker 1: want to see more downhill running. I want to see
Speaker 1: more under center. But that's just me personally, that's I
Speaker 1: just think there's so many more things. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: think there's so many more things you can do when
Speaker 1: you're under center, and it doesn't have to be all
Speaker 1: the time. But yeah, exactly, you know, maybe twenty twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen snaps a game. Let's let's do some things where
Speaker 1: that running game really starts to establish things, and then
Speaker 1: you're gonna see guys like Rondel Moore really exploit things
Speaker 1: coming out of play action over the middle. Oh my goodness, Becker,
Speaker 1: do you really think that might happen? For me? It's
Speaker 1: the biggest question mark going into the season, It really is.
Speaker 1: It's not the defense. It's the offense. Ironically enough, it's
Speaker 1: the offense. And how much will this offense change? I
Speaker 1: you know, is there going to be a blending of
Speaker 1: the old and more traditional offenses with the new I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that to me is the biggest question mark. Yeah. Well, well,
Speaker 1: if I remember last year, you and I were talking,
Speaker 1: yeah before before the game, and we were we were
Speaker 1: just pleading for something like that to happen, and and
Speaker 1: they did. Cliff. Cliff started getting Kyler under center. They
Speaker 1: were doing some bootlegs, some play action and moving DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins around. I don't think it's good to have him
Speaker 1: stagnant over on the left side. Let's move him around
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was working. And so I think
Speaker 1: when when when in the off season, when they go
Speaker 1: back and self scout and self evaluate the season and
Speaker 1: watch the film and they see some of those plays that,
Speaker 1: you know what, there's some things that we can build
Speaker 1: off of that. Um, I think they're gonna implement it.
Speaker 1: I really do so. Rob. If we went back and
Speaker 1: looked at what Rondel Moore did to your Michigan State
Speaker 1: sparts in twenty eighteen, you conveniently left out the stats.
Speaker 1: I mean, did he have like a dozen catches for
Speaker 1: two fifty and three touchdowns and upump return taken to
Speaker 1: the house and he come on, now, he must have
Speaker 1: torched your sparties. He certainly did. But you know, look,
Speaker 1: I'm just glad he's on our team now. I'm tired
Speaker 1: of watching him beat up on my spartans. I saw
Speaker 1: it was a few years ago where on the road,
Speaker 1: and I guess it was the pleasure. It was a
Speaker 1: spectacle watching Rob watch the Michigan Michigan State game. And
Speaker 1: let's just say I kept a good distance from Rob
Speaker 1: because he was re enacting a lot of the physicality
Speaker 1: of the game and from his seat at the bar,
Speaker 1: let's put it that way. So yeah, well you know what,
Speaker 1: we won that game, Paul, So I didn't have to
Speaker 1: beat you up or anything back. You're the best man.
Speaker 1: Thank you, brother, Really appreciate your time this evening, baby
Speaker 1: guys Misia and can't wait to see you again. Okay, buddy,
Speaker 1: we continue with a big red rage right after this.
Speaker 1: Don't be don't be right here, Hey, you don't need
Speaker 1: to run. Played a homer off the right side across
Speaker 1: the forty five. He gets leveled at the forty seven
Speaker 1: yard line, food A Baker came flying in there with
Speaker 1: a head dropped down by Baker. At the thirty five
Speaker 1: ye hard line, Booda Baker on the safety blitz. Something
Speaker 1: gets hit and slammed to the ground by Buddha Baker
Speaker 1: like a torpedo. He came flying into the backfield over
Speaker 1: the middle, picked off, intercepted by Baker. At the fifteen
Speaker 1: gets up a run pass near side, picked off by Baker.
Speaker 1: The five running left to the ten of the twenty
Speaker 1: fit chases on Booda Baker, redded jumped into one a day,
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker. They all pro safety Buddha Baker and Wolf
Speaker 1: who can forgive what he told us earlier this month
Speaker 1: in person on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan
Speaker 1: Ford in Gilbert Buddha Baker. Remember we were talking about Seattle,
Speaker 1: his hometown, going back to Seattle, the guy who heckles
Speaker 1: all the players, and he made a comment about Buddha
Speaker 1: and his size, fine diminutive American and that what was
Speaker 1: Buddha's response, Well, you know, I just proceeded to knock
Speaker 1: out two or three of the running backs, right That
Speaker 1: was That was the mentality and don't all the great
Speaker 1: ones have that? Yes, they have that fire, that need
Speaker 1: to compete and prove themselves on an almost down by
Speaker 1: down basis, no doubt about it. I think of Tyrone Matthew.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Badger had the exact same thing. Paulie
Speaker 1: run into the darkness right as pants. Joseph loves to
Speaker 1: say it was one of the greatest things I ever
Speaker 1: heard of any coach say about a player that Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker will run into the darkness and you watch him play,
Speaker 1: he comes down out of that secondary like a bad
Speaker 1: bad man, no doubt about it. Well, it's great to
Speaker 1: visit with Rob Frederickson, former Cardinals linebacker, former first round
Speaker 1: pick of the Raiders, current member of our broadcast team.
Speaker 1: So he had the cameo Cardinals Flight Planner Reminders, Season four,
Speaker 1: episode two, available right now in the Cardinals YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: right all access behind the scenes of the draft, you
Speaker 1: get into the war room, rookie minicamp, some great stuff
Speaker 1: YouTube dot Com, slash Asy Cardinals. So it was interesting
Speaker 1: to hear both you guys say that you actually have
Speaker 1: more folk right now on the offense versus the defense. Nationally, Obviously,
Speaker 1: the focus is on the defense and whether the defense
Speaker 1: can measure up and propel the Cardinals that next step
Speaker 1: into the postseason. And I think most people will look
Speaker 1: at the secondary, not the safety position, but the cornerback position,
Speaker 1: and just tell me where you are right here, right
Speaker 1: now on that. And if you expect, for example, a
Speaker 1: time time sign between now and August. Yeah, you know, Polly,
Speaker 1: I do believe that we could see a veteran corner
Speaker 1: being brought in here, no doubt about it. But you
Speaker 1: have to say, what veteran corners are walking around out
Speaker 1: there right now. It's not like there's a bunch of
Speaker 1: veteran corners walking around on the street. I know. Stephen Nelson,
Speaker 1: of course, was a subject matter earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: talking about the possibility of going out and signing a
Speaker 1: guy that played for the Steelers, a guy that has
Speaker 1: been paid, a guy that is impressive when it comes
Speaker 1: to the kind of salary that he garnished, a kind
Speaker 1: of contract he actually signed Pauli. So that it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: But you know what, honestly, and they got lucky last
Speaker 1: year at trade Kirkpatrick. Obviously they asked him late. Yes, absolutely, Paully,
Speaker 1: But to me, once again, I think the corners they
Speaker 1: have now, as long as they stay healthy, the corners
Speaker 1: they have now, I'm okay with it. I am Robert Alfred,
Speaker 1: of course, is the guy you think of very first.
Speaker 1: Do you think of him? And the fact he has
Speaker 1: not been able to stay healthy. We all understand that.
Speaker 1: But it really has been freak injuries that have happened
Speaker 1: to Robert Alfred over the last two seasons. And you
Speaker 1: know it as well as I do. He's a very
Speaker 1: capable guy. But you got Malcolm Butler. I am really
Speaker 1: jacked up about Malcolm Butler because of the dog that
Speaker 1: he is. Byron Murphy, I think is only going to
Speaker 1: get better. And you have to remember, it's not like
Speaker 1: this secondary stunk last year. They did not, Paul, No,
Speaker 1: they did not. They were number ten overall and passing
Speaker 1: yards per game, number seven overall and passing yards per play.
Speaker 1: By the way, they were fifth in sacks per attempt.
Speaker 1: That was without Chandler Jones. And now you've got Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: you got j. J. Watt, you got a healthy Jordan Phillips.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the pass rush is going to help a guy
Speaker 1: like Malcolm Butler out a lot because if you got
Speaker 1: guys that we'll be able to walk up over wide
Speaker 1: receivers and jam them on the line with an expectation
Speaker 1: I only have to hold up on that press man
Speaker 1: cover for a few seconds before we're going to get
Speaker 1: home on that quarterback man. That really fills those dbs,
Speaker 1: especially the corners, with a lot of confidence. And speaking
Speaker 1: of Malcolm Butler, remember what he said in the media
Speaker 1: after signing on the line that has dotted his intro
Speaker 1: press conference with the Airs on a Cardinals and he
Speaker 1: was asked, how bullish is he on a Cardinals team
Speaker 1: making the postseason, ending the five year drought. Here's Butler
Speaker 1: almost definitely think we can make him push guys get
Speaker 1: old and things like that. But if you're doing the
Speaker 1: right thing, which overbody, you staying focused, you committed to
Speaker 1: the game, you commit it to one goal, and that's
Speaker 1: just winning, you know what I mean. If everyone had
Speaker 1: the same mindset that's what we're gonna do, then oh,
Speaker 1: ball harder this year. You know, I was floy had
Speaker 1: my best year at the age of thirty age and
Speaker 1: number the number here, you know, will be thirty one
Speaker 1: this year during the season, and look, here's the guy
Speaker 1: who had over a hundred tackles as a cornerback, So
Speaker 1: he plays hard. There's no question about that. My question
Speaker 1: within the question when it comes to the cornerbacks both
Speaker 1: is whether Vance Joseph is going to be able to
Speaker 1: play the way he wants to. Yeah, Deally takes those
Speaker 1: two corners, puts him on an island. Then he dials
Speaker 1: up the other nine guys. But the second half of
Speaker 1: last season they got away from that. Primarily Pat P
Speaker 1: really wasn't employed the way traditionally was and traveling season
Speaker 1: for that, Polly right, and that might have been more
Speaker 1: on pat P, let's be honest and so, but as
Speaker 1: Malcolm bothered that guy, Yeah, especially at age thirty one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that remains to be seen right now, PAULI. But so
Speaker 1: once again, I know a lot of people will say, hey,
Speaker 1: Wolf number ten in passing defense and number number seven
Speaker 1: in passing yards per play. You know that was with
Speaker 1: pat P. And there's no doubt about that. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to minimize Pat P in any way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: But once again, um, it wasn't like pat P was
Speaker 1: locked down. I think we'd all admit he was not
Speaker 1: the lockdown corner that we've seen from him in the
Speaker 1: past last year. Now going up to Minnesota, I expect
Speaker 1: pat P to have a great year. I really do,
Speaker 1: because I think the change of scenery is going to
Speaker 1: do him a lot of good. But I true or false?
Speaker 1: Was Pat P's still the Cardinal's best cornerback last year? Yes?
Speaker 1: He was? Yeah? To me he was. Yeah. His biggest problem,
Speaker 1: honestly was penalties. He led. That was his biggest problem,
Speaker 1: exactly right. He was just consistently getting flagged up. So
Speaker 1: it's the one thing, Paul, you got to remember too.
Speaker 1: Defensive quarterback rating is really an important number. It is
Speaker 1: for a defense to look at defensive quarterback rating. Quarterback rating, Paul,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people throw stones at it,
Speaker 1: but Gino I like it because year after year after
Speaker 1: year in the top ten. Guess what, there's the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL. For whatever reason, there they are.
Speaker 1: So it must be a decent indicator of how a
Speaker 1: human being is playing the quarterback position. Flip it over
Speaker 1: and go defensive quarterback rating. The Arizona Cardinals improved from
Speaker 1: dead last in the league in twenty nineteen with one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine point nine quarterback rating defensive quarterback rating
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine point nine Paulli. That was dead
Speaker 1: last in the National Football League. They improved to number
Speaker 1: fourteen in the top half of defensive quarterback rating. That
Speaker 1: was with Pad p having certain struggles, that was with
Speaker 1: not having a Chandler Jones. It was really an incredible
Speaker 1: accomplishment and I think this is something that the Cardinals
Speaker 1: can build off going forward, and it starts with that
Speaker 1: secondary Paulli and the players will dictate the scheme. We
Speaker 1: know that we had Greg Williams on the cornerbacks coach
Speaker 1: recently on the Big Red Rage, and when we asked
Speaker 1: him about Malcolm Butler and his versatility, Here's Greg Williams.
Speaker 1: He's had a chance to be in multiple schemes, so
Speaker 1: I think he can adapt to whatever we want him
Speaker 1: to do and whatever will help the team win. To
Speaker 1: stay right, stay left, or travel. He's done it all
Speaker 1: and he's more than willing to do that in this
Speaker 1: game as well. So what is Malcolm Butler going to
Speaker 1: show these coaches in training camp? Is Robert Alford gonna
Speaker 1: be Romerd Alfred circa twenty seventeen before all the flurry
Speaker 1: of injuries and the guy we saw in training camp
Speaker 1: as recently as last year. What about Marco Wilson and
Speaker 1: Tay Gowen, two guys with size and athleticism, how quickly
Speaker 1: can they navigate the rookie learning curve? If you have
Speaker 1: a guy like Marco Wilson who could also play inside
Speaker 1: as Byron Murphy, maybe a candidate to kick outside at times.
Speaker 1: These are a lot of questions in that secondary that
Speaker 1: are spirling right now. Those are good points, Pauli, and
Speaker 1: keep in mind right now this is just my belief,
Speaker 1: but if you wanted to get a rookie to actually
Speaker 1: make an impact, plane corner is a great position to
Speaker 1: actually try to have that happen. You know what's so
Speaker 1: physically related, it's just your talent taking over. Go out
Speaker 1: and you cover that guy. And if I was a
Speaker 1: rookie corner in the NFL right now, there's no better
Speaker 1: team than the Arizona Cardinals to come in and make
Speaker 1: a name for yourself. We continue with the Big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by Santan Board and Gilbert. We are Santan
Speaker 1: fourd case Edmonds in the backbod with Murray third down
Speaker 1: in one of the twenty nine four receivers set shotgun
Speaker 1: snap it's a run play right side, big Whole Edmonds
Speaker 1: twenty five ten five touchdown the inside zone being run
Speaker 1: and Chase Edmonds follow the whole baby twenty nine yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run on third down and one for Chase Edmonds.
Speaker 1: All four of Chase Edmonds touchdowns at Medlife twenty yards
Speaker 1: are longer. Dave bashed the voice of the Cardinals on
Speaker 1: top of that staff because the year before the Cardinals
Speaker 1: had gone to the New York Giants and he had
Speaker 1: three touchdown runs of twenty yards or more in the
Speaker 1: same game. So, yes, Cardinals go to the Big Apple
Speaker 1: and they always get big games that at Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: a twenty nine yards score. They're part of the Cardinals
Speaker 1: Week five win thirty to ten of the Jets last season.
Speaker 1: This season, though, Ron Wolfley, you can now call Chase
Speaker 1: Edmonds Deuce. He has changed his number. He is now
Speaker 1: number two. Yes, in college, the Fordham guy was twenty two,
Speaker 1: and he says he was known as Deuce and he said,
Speaker 1: among other things, to our Kyle to Guard this week
Speaker 1: on Acy Cardinals dot Com, he said, look now I'm
Speaker 1: going back to two. Hopefully I can change my life.
Speaker 1: And he had a lot of really good quotes to
Speaker 1: Kyle to guard. Look, we know as Edmunds well do
Speaker 1: we not? Will highly intelligent guy, really well spoken, very
Speaker 1: passionate about everything he does. Only just a great football player.
Speaker 1: And and you know what, he would take that as
Speaker 1: the ultimate complement what he football player? Football player, PAULI,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy you could stick out
Speaker 1: as a gunner. If you wanted a two on punt
Speaker 1: pro you could put him anywhere. I kid you, not
Speaker 1: special teams, he could play anywhere. This is a tough
Speaker 1: human being. He's just a great football player. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's going to the Pro Bowl. I'm not saying, Paul,
Speaker 1: that he's gonna win the MVP. I'm just saying, when
Speaker 1: you talk about the body, soul, in spirit of a
Speaker 1: human being being a great player, think of Chase Edmonds,
Speaker 1: because he's got it all. You know what, Chase the
Speaker 1: same it's now or never quote end quote. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to run through a damn wall. Another quote
Speaker 1: that I'm going to ball out this year, among other things.
Speaker 1: What he said his contract year, his fourth year in
Speaker 1: the league, twenty eighteen, fourth round pick. And as for
Speaker 1: those people out there side, come on, now at his
Speaker 1: size five nine, two hundred pounds or so, can he
Speaker 1: really be a work workhorse, bell cow type of back.
Speaker 1: And you know, one of us around here might decided
Speaker 1: the Miami game a year ago when he got the
Speaker 1: twenty five carries and only had seventy yards rushing. It
Speaker 1: gets a pretty good stout Miami Dolphins defense. I think
Speaker 1: we would all agree. And he told our Kyler Guard,
Speaker 1: you know what I read it all, bro is what
Speaker 1: he says. He reads everything, and everything motivates him. And
Speaker 1: he's coming to play this year and try and win
Speaker 1: as many reps in touches as he can at running back.
Speaker 1: It's so fascinating, BALI really is. Because James Connor again
Speaker 1: is also a guy. He's more of a traditional offense
Speaker 1: running back inside zone, good power scheme guy, good and blitz,
Speaker 1: pick up after play action, catch the ball coming out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. Mike Tomlin called him his bell cow.
Speaker 1: When you had James Connor rolling with the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: he was truly a three down guy. Chase Edmunds more
Speaker 1: of a new offense, a new age offense type of
Speaker 1: running back, zone reads and rpls more of a back
Speaker 1: coming out of the backfield and catching the ball. A
Speaker 1: guy you could line up, I think in the slot
Speaker 1: and have him work against a cornerback running a choice route,
Speaker 1: which is a go anywhere route for the most part.
Speaker 1: So I look at that, Paulie, I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a perfect blend between Chase Edmonds and James Connor. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up, because here's a flashback
Speaker 1: to what James Connor said his intro press conference as
Speaker 1: a cardinal on working with Chase Edmonds. I just think explosive.
Speaker 1: I mean just the weapons that that we have, Chase
Speaker 1: doing a sting already, and so you know, watching film,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, just do he can He can ball?
Speaker 1: And I want to, you know, learn from him and
Speaker 1: be a part of it and just get to work
Speaker 1: with him. With Chase and so you know, I ain't
Speaker 1: no telling I can't predict nothing, but I know what
Speaker 1: I can guarantee. I'm going to come in here and
Speaker 1: work day in and day out, put my down and grind,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm in for a long cost so
Speaker 1: seventeen game season, I'm looking forward to it. Paula. I
Speaker 1: think of offensive lineman when I listened to that right there.
Speaker 1: James Connor. Of course, he knows he's going to be
Speaker 1: able to learn from Chase Edmonds. But I think of
Speaker 1: offensive lineman too that love the block for a guy
Speaker 1: who's gonna stoke it. That is James Connor. And by
Speaker 1: the way, that's Chase Edmonds as well. Yeah, and Chase said, look,
Speaker 1: he's realistic. He knows when it's the four men an
Speaker 1: offense and you're trying to grind down the opponent and
Speaker 1: try and move the sticks late in the game and
Speaker 1: run the clock, James Connor will probably be that guy.
Speaker 1: He's that big back or maybe in the red zone
Speaker 1: near the goal line. Guess what, James Connor might be
Speaker 1: the guy that comes in and gets a lot of
Speaker 1: the touchdown runs. You know, he's so Chase is realistic
Speaker 1: about that. How about this comment from G. J. Humphreys
Speaker 1: a year ago on the Big Red Rage when we
Speaker 1: asked about Chase Edmonds just in general, and he went
Speaker 1: all the way back to Chase's rookie year, big energy, Jesse,
Speaker 1: We all me and justin always look around you hear
Speaker 1: Chase before you see him. Every time you're gonna hear
Speaker 1: him before you see him. My god, though, man, he's
Speaker 1: always been a guy at football matter most to him
Speaker 1: as well. On the first day I've realized about him
Speaker 1: as a rookie, you know, you could tell that he
Speaker 1: takes his game serious as officer alive. You see a
Speaker 1: rookie running back coming in, He's just as focusing on
Speaker 1: picking up the blisses as he is fighting the hole.
Speaker 1: He found a special place in our heart. Quickly, Paulie,
Speaker 1: what do you say all the time? Players know players right? Yep,
Speaker 1: dogs no dogs as well, and DJ Humphries is a
Speaker 1: dog and appreciates that in Chase Edmonds and the fact that, yeah,
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds is not a big guy, but man, he
Speaker 1: plays much bigger than his body, much bigger than his frame.
Speaker 1: And I think it's one of the reasons why I'm
Speaker 1: bullish on this offense becoming more physical, just the way
Speaker 1: that Steve Kim says he wants this team to be
Speaker 1: more physical. Better leadership in the all season, create that culture,
Speaker 1: create that identity. We're gonna line up and we're just
Speaker 1: gonna be better than you in certain situations. Not all
Speaker 1: the time, but we're gonna line up and sometimes just
Speaker 1: beat you as opposed to trying to trick you, Chase
Speaker 1: saying this week, among other things, I believe if I
Speaker 1: have twenty touches in a game, I can make some
Speaker 1: special things happen. And even if that's fifteen rushes in
Speaker 1: five catches, you know, just he has ability to make
Speaker 1: that first guy miss. So we'll see the one two
Speaker 1: punch in the Cardinals backfield. Speaking of a one two punch,
Speaker 1: two guys, we will not see around the facility anymore.
Speaker 1: How about congratulations on a well earned, well deserved retirement
Speaker 1: for former Cardinals receiver Anthony Edwards, who has been so
Speaker 1: indispensable in so many roles for the Cardinals over the
Speaker 1: last two decades. Congratulations Anthony and assistant equipment manager Stein, Well,
Speaker 1: I did you really nickname Stein? I call the mind
Speaker 1: Stein out there because we're working the ball machine, and
Speaker 1: that machine actually said hey Stein. He picked it up
Speaker 1: from that point Stein, Love you, buddy. Congratulations, congrats, special
Speaker 1: thanks Jim or a chopped art. This has been the
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