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Speaker 4: Cook Edition. Think of how many times we can use
Speaker 4: that this year.
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: We started with Clayton Tune in the preseason. That's where
Speaker 4: it really began. It was pretty good right there. And
Speaker 4: the Paris Johnson junior. Oh, just your starting right tackle
Speaker 4: from day one, number six pick.
Speaker 1: Overall, doing a very nice job this year. I would say.
Speaker 4: RB one right now is an undrafted guy, Mari de Mercado,
Speaker 4: Michael Wilson, a whole playmaker, right, we had him a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago. Up and down, Key Trell Clark
Speaker 4: has started, Dante Stills has started, and now coming off
Speaker 4: his debut and making Cardinals history. How about it a
Speaker 4: round rookie everyone. Garrett Williams, thank you. This is a
Speaker 4: good time to ask how you're feeling. But it's really
Speaker 4: fitting considering you just played your first NFL game. How
Speaker 4: did you feel Monday morning? I mean, how sore were
Speaker 4: you after your first real, full speed, full contact, real
Speaker 4: football action in almost a year?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Really sore?
Speaker 6: You know, and it was expected though so when I
Speaker 6: woke up everything here, but it was kind of good though,
Speaker 6: because I kind of missed being sore in a way,
Speaker 6: you know, so it was cool, but definitely had to
Speaker 6: get in the training room early Monday.
Speaker 1: Garrett talk a little bit about the week leading up
Speaker 1: to it. Take us back to that right there. What
Speaker 1: was that like? When did you know for sure you
Speaker 1: were going to play? When did you know how much
Speaker 1: you were going to play? When did you know?
Speaker 6: I knew pretty early in the week that I was
Speaker 6: gonna be playing a lot, So for me, then just
Speaker 6: the regular preparation started. It wasn't really much of a
Speaker 6: thought about, oh my god, it's my first NFL game.
Speaker 6: It was I got a football game. I need to
Speaker 6: play the you know, so my preparation time of just
Speaker 6: went back to regular.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I feel like I did a good job even when
Speaker 6: I wasn't playing, of always staying prepared and kind of
Speaker 6: know what's going on a week by week. So nothing
Speaker 6: really changed when I got put in the put in
Speaker 6: the play, you know, so a good start, you know.
Speaker 1: Can I can I intrude and ask who told you?
Speaker 1: And where did he tell you?
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean the coach, you know, the coaches
Speaker 6: they kind of just tell you, like hey, like.
Speaker 1: Told you, or was not told me.
Speaker 6: To tell you, like, you know, hey, get ready to
Speaker 6: play Nicola this week. And then you just go out
Speaker 6: throughout practice and obviously he was like you got to
Speaker 6: practice good, So you know, I did my part in practice,
Speaker 6: and then yeah, just playing the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: It had to be a special moment though. Still, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you knew you were gonna play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's why they brought me here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I the whole time, even when I wasn't playing,
Speaker 6: was just kind of thought of when my when my
Speaker 6: numbers called, be ready to go, and just you know,
Speaker 6: try to help, you know, help the team win, helped
Speaker 6: team win games, and so what I did last week
Speaker 6: didn't help us win the games. So honestly, it's really
Speaker 6: just not you know, it's not enough. So just gotta
Speaker 6: do more.
Speaker 1: You've done a lot, though, buddy, no doubt, a lot,
Speaker 1: no doubt.
Speaker 4: Garrett Williams again, our guests here. We are alive from
Speaker 4: Trophy and Chandler located on Queen Creek Road between Price
Speaker 4: and Dobson. How much advice did you get from the vets?
Speaker 4: Did you seek it out? Did they come find you?
Speaker 4: How did that work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they come find me. You know, they just kept
Speaker 6: telling me just to play my game. Say, you know,
Speaker 6: I've been practicing with them for about two three weeks
Speaker 6: before the game, so they kind of got to see
Speaker 6: a little bit what I could do. So they just
Speaker 6: kept telling me just to be myself and just do
Speaker 6: what I do best and not overthink it. In that
Speaker 6: end of the day, football's football, which is very true.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: So earlier today Buddha Baker met the media. Here's what
Speaker 4: he had to say about the rookie Garrett Williams.
Speaker 7: Great young rookie, a guy who wants to understand each
Speaker 7: and every the ins and outs of the nickel position.
Speaker 7: But also you know all DB's and he's a guy
Speaker 7: we can you know, put anywhere on the field. You know,
Speaker 7: that's definitely special being a rookie and kind of understanding football.
Speaker 7: He's very smart, he asked questions if he doesn't really know,
Speaker 7: he's a student of the game. So Garrett is going
Speaker 7: to be special player for the Arizona Cardins.
Speaker 4: Wow, some pretty good words from Buddha Baker. I mean,
Speaker 4: and you know we've talked to Buddha on this very show.
Speaker 4: You know, how long does it take a player to
Speaker 4: know a player.
Speaker 1: You know Wolf? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wolf play ten years in the league.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: If they brought a fullback in on training camp, Wolf,
Speaker 4: how long would it take you to figure out that
Speaker 4: this guy can play or he camp?
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit longer than it would a mic linebacker.
Speaker 1: I'd know immediately ball with a mic linebacker.
Speaker 4: Got Jim, how much nickel had you played before this
Speaker 4: past Sunday in a game? How much nickel in a game?
Speaker 4: In a game had you played?
Speaker 5: None?
Speaker 1: Zero? Zero? I mean, boyd, what what kind of adjustments
Speaker 1: that for you to go out in that scheme and
Speaker 1: line up inside and play? What kind of adjustment was that? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think it's just it just goes back to really
Speaker 6: emphasizing the importance of practice and really like going into
Speaker 6: each practice finding ways to get better, because obviously, when
Speaker 6: you're learning a new position kind of on the fly,
Speaker 6: coming off injury, then the expectations that not only come
Speaker 6: in but play to this that standard. You know, you
Speaker 6: got to take those reps seriously and you got to
Speaker 6: learn from your mistakes. So I'd be lying to say
Speaker 6: that those weeks of practice, I didn't make a billion mistakes,
Speaker 6: but the coaches and the and my.
Speaker 5: Team that's real patient with me.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they still are because you know, I'm making
Speaker 6: mistakes daily in practice, just trying to keep building from it.
Speaker 6: But they they're helping me out a lot. So I
Speaker 6: feel I'm getting better each and every day at it.
Speaker 1: So I have to ask you this, do you have
Speaker 1: a preference. Do you like playing inside or do you
Speaker 1: want to be outside?
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't really care when you've been when
Speaker 6: you've been away for the game so long, you just
Speaker 6: kind of just want to play football, you know, so
Speaker 6: it doesn't make a difference. I just want to try
Speaker 6: to make plays for gospel where I'm at.
Speaker 1: That's really a good answer. By just let line me
Speaker 1: up played as long as I'm getting reps, let me go.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, not everyone can play inside. That that
Speaker 4: whole true, that whole slot corner. That's just a special
Speaker 4: skill set. In fact, you know, we were reminded of
Speaker 4: that by Jonathan Gannon himself, and he was asked about
Speaker 4: Garrett Williams playing inside, and here's what the head coach
Speaker 4: had to say.
Speaker 8: You got to be able to think fast and then
Speaker 8: you know his skill set, the skill set of a
Speaker 8: nickel there's a lot going on. You gotta be able
Speaker 8: to cover, you gotta tackle, you got play z own,
Speaker 8: you got blitz a little bit, and you're in the box.
Speaker 8: You're in space. So it's a unique position. It's a
Speaker 8: starting position. To me, one of the most you know,
Speaker 8: important on the defense. He got himself ready to play,
Speaker 8: stepped in there and played well.
Speaker 4: I mean, think about it. You could be an outside
Speaker 4: corner and you're on an island. It's just minoy minor
Speaker 4: you against the receiver. Or you can be an inside
Speaker 4: slot corner and to me, at least watching from the
Speaker 4: sideline Paully pencilneck over were, I'm like, it's just complete
Speaker 4: chaos because you were in the box. Yeah, what was
Speaker 4: tell us about that experience? Just being inside like that.
Speaker 6: It's crazy. It's a lot of people moving around fast.
Speaker 6: Especially it's a big difference from college to just the
Speaker 6: speed of the lineman and tight ends and quarterbacks, running
Speaker 6: backs to everybody. So things are moving fast, but you
Speaker 6: gotta adjust with it, you know. So definitely a big
Speaker 6: adjustment because when you're at a corner, your vision is
Speaker 6: just so different than when you're playing this slot. When
Speaker 6: you're a corner, you can kind of see everything around you.
Speaker 6: When you're in the slot, you kind of got to
Speaker 6: search a little bit more, you know, to see the
Speaker 6: full formation and things like that.
Speaker 4: What gave you the most anxiety? Now that the game's over, right,
Speaker 4: you're thinking, Okay, it's my first game. We're on the road,
Speaker 4: it's Seattle. I can't hear there's Geno Smith, Kenneth Walker,
Speaker 4: I'm playing a new position. Wait a minute, how's the knee?
Speaker 4: I mean, what gave you the most anxiety maybe or
Speaker 4: trepidation going into the game.
Speaker 6: Uh, To be honest, I wasn't really nervous going into
Speaker 6: the game. Like I just kept on talking about me preparing,
Speaker 6: not even just when I got to Arizona, but just
Speaker 6: from a rehab stamp with just rehabbing, with the thought
Speaker 6: of when I come back, I want to be able
Speaker 6: to pick up from where I left off before I
Speaker 6: got hurt.
Speaker 5: So when I finally got the.
Speaker 6: Opportunity, it was really just not like, Okay, we're here now,
Speaker 6: you know, what are we gonna do about it? And
Speaker 6: so that's just kind of what it was for me
Speaker 6: in my thought process.
Speaker 1: You know what I I saw you stick your face
Speaker 1: into the fan A couple of times, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: for a nickel corner that is an important thing. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to do that. How what kind
Speaker 1: of tackler do you consider yourself to be.
Speaker 6: I feel like I'm just somebody who's who's not scared,
Speaker 6: you know. I feel like that's something I developed a
Speaker 6: lot in college and my coach is very big on that.
Speaker 5: In college. Just if you're gonna play corner for me,
Speaker 5: you have to tackle, is that right?
Speaker 6: So for me, especially as a young guy in college,
Speaker 6: like I was, Okay, I gotta tackle.
Speaker 5: I gotta tackle.
Speaker 6: So now just being in the lead, it's kind of
Speaker 6: the same thought process. Now, especially a nickel, the defense
Speaker 6: kind of depends on you kind of being an extra linebacker.
Speaker 6: So I got to be able to make tackles. I
Speaker 6: gotta be able to make tackles of open space.
Speaker 5: You gotta be able to cover. I gotta be able
Speaker 5: to do everything that the defense requires.
Speaker 4: I mean four years at Syracuse. By the way, your
Speaker 4: alma maters on TV down here at Trophy and Chandler.
Speaker 4: We probably shouldn't mention the score right now against Virginia Tech.
Speaker 4: Is that is that what we're seeing down there? Your
Speaker 4: eyes are better than mine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's looking a little tough right now, we're all
Speaker 6: get together.
Speaker 4: Uh so in twenty eight starts right. I mean, you
Speaker 4: were three times All ACC when he was in college,
Speaker 4: led the ACC two years in a row, and passes defense.
Speaker 4: Here's what I want to know about. You had to
Speaker 4: pick six of Trevor Lawrence. Tell us about that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, that was my first first career interception in college.
Speaker 6: And it was cool because at that time, Clemson was
Speaker 6: the number one team in the country. Obviously Trevor Lawrenceton
Speaker 6: College was like, oh, yeah, the guy. And I was
Speaker 6: like eighteen or nineteen going into it, and so for me,
Speaker 6: it was just my whole plan when I went to
Speaker 6: Syracuse was just like, if I want to make it
Speaker 6: to the NFL. When we played the Clemsons the Florida States,
Speaker 6: those bigger programs, like, I have to play my best games.
Speaker 6: So that was like my first real test and it
Speaker 6: kind of just went back to preparing for those type
Speaker 6: of moments and so went into the game and I
Speaker 6: actually played probably one of the better games in my
Speaker 6: college career that game, and I think that's kind of
Speaker 6: what got my name started to flow around in the draft.
Speaker 6: Buzz and things like that, and so yeah, it's just
Speaker 6: it's crazy, Girt.
Speaker 1: There were scouts that thought, some scouts believed you were
Speaker 1: a first round pick. Do you ever think about that?
Speaker 1: Do you allow yourself to go back and look at
Speaker 1: that and wonder about where you would have been picked?
Speaker 1: Do you ever think about that?
Speaker 6: Honestly, I thought about the like pre draft, when you know,
Speaker 6: when everything's circulating around. But ever since I got drafted,
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I'm good with where I'm at.
Speaker 6: I kind of feel like thinking about the teams where
Speaker 6: I thought I was gonna go to, I feel like
Speaker 6: I ended up in the perfect situation with the right
Speaker 6: type of coaches that fit not only me just as
Speaker 6: a player, but as a person. And one thing I've
Speaker 6: realized from some of my friends and former teammates is
Speaker 6: that like fit is everything in the NFL. Yes, and
Speaker 6: I feel like I've had a place where I fit
Speaker 6: and really will.
Speaker 4: What have you learned from the Buddha Bakers and Jalen
Speaker 4: Thompson so far? I mean, is there just one big takeaway?
Speaker 5: You have mindset, and now your mindset's everything.
Speaker 6: You know, you have to go into practice with the
Speaker 6: same intensity as you go into games, and you can't
Speaker 6: just go into games just expecting to play good. Like
Speaker 6: the work has to be put in from Monday leading
Speaker 6: into Sunday. So they just keep on preing the lift,
Speaker 6: things about details and things like that, and honestly, I'm
Speaker 6: really really grateful to be able to be around guys
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 4: Well, if everything works out, Cardinals will have a one
Speaker 4: hundred percent healthy defensive backfield against Baltimore on Sunday, So
Speaker 4: that is a double ding, no doubt about it. By
Speaker 4: the way, he did something on Sunday that hasn't been
Speaker 4: done since a Hall of Famer did it for the Cardinals,
Speaker 4: a former teammateer Ron wolf Lees. We'll hear that when
Speaker 4: we come back. A reminder you can watch Cardinals game
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Speaker 1: Right after this.
Speaker 3: Shotgun snatched, Smith moves to his left, rolling that way.
Speaker 3: Hump Bank now throws Marside picked off at the one
Speaker 3: yard line.
Speaker 4: It's intercepted by the.
Speaker 3: Rookie Williams on of Syracuse his first gate after missing
Speaker 3: the last twelve months doing injury suffered at Syracuse in
Speaker 3: the middle of the season. He makes a huge play
Speaker 3: picking off Gino Smith in the red zone.
Speaker 4: About that in the one yard line. It was third
Speaker 4: and four to sixteen. Seattle's driving all they're threatening. Wait
Speaker 4: a minute, no they're not, because Garrett Williams picked off
Speaker 4: Geno Smith right at the goal line. And is he
Speaker 4: He's our very special guest here on the Big Red Rage.
Speaker 4: Garrett Williams. All presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert and
Speaker 4: we are live from Trophy and Chandler located on Queen
Speaker 4: Creek Road between Price and Dobson. Paul kelvc Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 4: and Garrett, is you've been able to tell so far?
Speaker 4: I like to teach the game of football to Ron Wolfley, Okay,
Speaker 4: And what I told Wolf after the game was I
Speaker 4: was really impressed not only by the pick, but the
Speaker 4: fact you played the ball. You turned around, got your eyes.
Speaker 4: Instead of just running with your back to the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage, you're back to the quarterback. So just take
Speaker 4: us through that play. You heard the play by play
Speaker 4: there from Dave passion another Syracuse guy. But you take
Speaker 4: us with how that sort of developed to your memory.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, So, I mean when they lined up in
Speaker 6: the formation, it was something that we've seen a lot
Speaker 6: of film going into the week, and actually on the field,
Speaker 6: I'd made like the wrong adjustment call, and then our
Speaker 6: safety Dre he like corrected me on the field, and
Speaker 6: then I just played what I the technique I've been
Speaker 6: taught and it was just crazy because the same exact
Speaker 6: play I messed up in practice during the week, So
Speaker 6: it was it was kind of cool to kind of
Speaker 6: like fix your mistake in a better you know, in
Speaker 6: a better situation.
Speaker 5: But just trying to play the ball.
Speaker 6: That's really been my biggest emphasis coming back is just
Speaker 6: getting the ball, attacking the ball every time and trying
Speaker 6: to make the play because that's what's going to ultimately
Speaker 6: help us win games, you know, So every time I
Speaker 6: see the ball, I'm just gonna try to attack and
Speaker 6: make the play. I really credit my college coach for that,
Speaker 6: because I used to be comfortable with like passport because
Speaker 6: he just kept telling me interceptions, interceptions, interceptions, And now
Speaker 6: that's all I'm about, trying to get the ball.
Speaker 1: So what coverage were you in? Might I ask? Yeah?
Speaker 5: We were in like a form of cover three okay, yeah,
Speaker 5: which was zone? Yeah, yeah, we were playing his zone.
Speaker 5: And so then I was plably a tenney called hangbus.
Speaker 1: Right, and they attacked the flat and actually ran up
Speaker 1: on a wheel route. Yeah did you know that? Was
Speaker 1: this something that you had scouted all week? Is this
Speaker 1: what you're talking about?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so the the out route part, yeah, I knew
Speaker 6: that was coming. Uh, the wheel part, you don't. You
Speaker 6: can't really you don't know. You just kind of to
Speaker 6: feel it because it kind of terms of a scrambled drill.
Speaker 6: So after that, you know, receivers kind of start running
Speaker 6: all over the place. So when I got out there,
Speaker 6: I peeked over my shoulder and seen him turn up
Speaker 6: the field, and so I just kind of start trying to.
Speaker 1: Get so you knew what he was doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I knew where he was going.
Speaker 6: I knew he's behind me, But I also knew that
Speaker 6: we're in the red zone, so he didn't really have
Speaker 6: much else, you know, anywhere else to go. So it
Speaker 6: kind of made me more comfortable to look at the
Speaker 6: quarterback a little bit longer and play the ball.
Speaker 1: It's just great, just a great play by you to
Speaker 1: actually look back and look for the ball. That is
Speaker 1: well done, Guard.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what though, it's more evidence to the
Speaker 4: football IQ on this defense, Wolf, is it not? Remember
Speaker 4: what Kaiser White told us see his game ceiling pick
Speaker 4: a Dak press gotten in the end zone against Dallas.
Speaker 4: He said he had messed up that same assignment, that
Speaker 4: same coverage in practice, but then nailed it in the game.
Speaker 4: So you're seeing this evolution of the Cardinals defense. All right, now,
Speaker 4: you heard the call right there, right. I know you've
Speaker 4: seen your pick on TV, You've seen the video. Maybe
Speaker 4: you heard the TV call, but have you heard it
Speaker 4: in Spanish? Because here is Luis ser nandsh on Cardinals
Speaker 4: Spanish radio.
Speaker 1: GI knows me.
Speaker 2: He Gotrac Williams, Liz Present, Welcome to the NFL.
Speaker 4: M Well, if I joked earlier this week, he doesn't
Speaker 4: call us muchacho Louis because that means young man, so
Speaker 4: he reserves that for the rookies like Garrett Williams. So, man,
Speaker 4: that's really good stuff. Just the energy on Wes. Well,
Speaker 4: you know I interviewed you after the game and then
Speaker 4: we left it. You were going to go to your locker,
Speaker 4: what was your phone? Like, well, how much did your
Speaker 4: phone blow up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh it was like freezing and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it was really cool, you know cause kind of
Speaker 6: like when it happened, I kind of knew. I was like, oh, yeah, like,
Speaker 6: here're gonna be blowing my phone up. And then after
Speaker 6: the game when I saw it, I was like, oh
Speaker 6: that a lot more people cared about that than I thought,
Speaker 6: you know. So it's always cool to see things like that,
Speaker 6: you know, to make my friends and family proud back home.
Speaker 1: So you know how rare that is, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're a rookie and you play your first game and
Speaker 1: you come up with a pick. I mean that is
Speaker 1: that is a big time play, right there, is it?
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 1: PAULI?
Speaker 4: So the last time that happened nineteen ninety one. Maybe
Speaker 4: you've heard of the player who actually had a pick
Speaker 4: in his NFL debut, because that's the last time it
Speaker 4: happened for the Arizona Cardinals. His name a Nias Williams. Hello,
Speaker 4: and you'll find the name and his bust in the
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Former
Speaker 4: teammate Ron Willfully, By the way, he had a pick
Speaker 4: in his second career game as well.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 4: No pressure pressure on you, okay, but yeah he had
Speaker 4: and by the way, he had six his rookie year
Speaker 4: en route to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing about that too, Garrett. We've heard
Speaker 1: whispers about you as well, and and honestly from Monty
Speaker 1: assin Ford, who drafted you in the third round, even
Speaker 1: though you had a serious acl there's been an expectation
Speaker 1: that when this guy gets the opportunity, he's going to
Speaker 1: make plays. That's got to feel really, really good because
Speaker 1: I can remember a Nias Williams when he was a rookie,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget in training camp we were watching
Speaker 1: the Nias Williams and we were watching him in one
Speaker 1: on ones and you could tell immediately this kid is good.
Speaker 1: This kid is going to play. And you know what,
Speaker 1: the exact same thing happened to him his first game
Speaker 1: ever as a corner of the National Football League. Boom,
Speaker 1: he comes down with a pick. Man, that's goin to
Speaker 1: make you feel good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's crazy, onion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it's crazy to even be mentioned in the
Speaker 6: same conversations people like that.
Speaker 5: I'm just really humbling.
Speaker 1: How did it go mentally for you? Mental errors in
Speaker 1: regard to that, Did you commit any mental errors or
Speaker 1: did the coach leave you alone on Monday?
Speaker 5: Oh? Like from the game in general? Oh no, I
Speaker 5: made a bunch of mistakes in the game.
Speaker 6: So it wasn't even it wasn't even like, it wasn't
Speaker 6: even like, you know, obviously they were congratulating me on
Speaker 6: the pick, but they were like, hey, you're a line wrong, like,
Speaker 6: and that's how I wanted to be, you know, because
Speaker 6: even personally after the game, like like it was cool,
Speaker 6: but I was pissed because I knew, like, you know,
Speaker 6: I knew that I'd made some mistakes and I also
Speaker 6: knew that, like, we didn't win. So it's like, as
Speaker 6: cool as the moment was, you can't you don't really
Speaker 6: enjoy it as much if your told team not winning,
Speaker 6: which is ultimately the goal anyways, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons why you're going to
Speaker 1: be good, Garrett, because you care.
Speaker 4: Buddy, So we host Coach Gannon's TV show. He doesn't
Speaker 4: strike me as a guy who's gonna let much slide.
Speaker 4: Let's put it that way. Okay, now we'll mention now
Speaker 4: going into your final year at Syracuse, and it was
Speaker 4: a seven games before he got injured. You were thought
Speaker 4: to be maybe a first round pick. Now after the
Speaker 4: knee injury. Whenever we were last April, how uncertain were
Speaker 4: you going in as to where you would ultimately be drafted.
Speaker 6: I mean I had, like, I had an idea that
Speaker 6: a few teams thought really highly of me, Arizona one
Speaker 6: of them. But at the end of the day, you
Speaker 6: really just didn't know. Because this corner class in this
Speaker 6: year's draft was very deep, and so I knew how
Speaker 6: I thought I stacked up just naturally, but I knew
Speaker 6: with injuries there's gonna be that natural slide. And my
Speaker 6: agent he said it lives like the day before draft,
Speaker 6: and so I'm asking him, like, what are you thinking?
Speaker 6: So you know their job is to be honest. He
Speaker 6: was like, you know, the earliest, maybe late second. He's like,
Speaker 6: worst case scenario fifth and.
Speaker 5: I lost my mind. And and then he.
Speaker 6: Was like reassuring me that that wasn't probably the case,
Speaker 6: but he was like, I gotta tell you all possibilities.
Speaker 6: So when draft night came, I didn't know. I knew
Speaker 6: i'd probably be second day. And so then when the
Speaker 6: team I thought I was gonna pick me, he didn't
Speaker 6: pick me. I started panicking a little bit, you know.
Speaker 6: And then right as I started panicking, that's my phone
Speaker 6: right from Arizona. So it all kind of worked out.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: That is a great segue because guess what we have
Speaker 4: audio of the actual call when Garrett Williams got that
Speaker 4: call from the Cardinals war room and he was drafted
Speaker 4: in round three.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: Doing good?
Speaker 5: Congratulations, appreciate you. You come in here and dot either
Speaker 5: ball or what?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I know it? How you doing?
Speaker 9: This is mantias support.
Speaker 1: From the Cardinals. Get there? What are you doing? Where
Speaker 1: you at?
Speaker 6: I'm gonna Charlotte, I'm gonna Yeah.
Speaker 9: You got some people around you, you hang Who are
Speaker 9: you hanging out with?
Speaker 1: My family?
Speaker 5: My friends, all that?
Speaker 9: Man, you got your family and your friends. Well, guess
Speaker 9: what you're about to tell you? You're gonna be an
Speaker 9: Arizona Cardinal buddy.
Speaker 6: Yes, let's do it, man, let's do it.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 9: We're excited that we're going to get you in here.
Speaker 9: You remember you remember that meeting we had we did
Speaker 9: get to combine. Man, You're made of the stuff that
Speaker 9: we're working for.
Speaker 10: But now with the seventy second pick in the twoenty
Speaker 10: twenty three NFL Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select Garrett Williams,
Speaker 10: defensive back safe.
Speaker 4: What's it like to relive that moment? How emotional was that?
Speaker 4: You sounded awful emotional on that call?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, no, I was about to cry and then
Speaker 6: like everybody started yelling, and so I had to like
Speaker 6: tell them to be quiet. But now that and that
Speaker 6: that night probably not even probably his best best moment
Speaker 6: of my life, for sure. I'm just thinking about the
Speaker 6: sacrifices and all the things I did, just even put
Speaker 6: myself in that position, knowing that it wasn't handed to
Speaker 6: me at all. You know, I had to really go
Speaker 6: out and make this happen for myself. Obviously with the
Speaker 6: help of a lot of people along the way, but
Speaker 6: definitely especially one with a lot of friends and family there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great, great moment for sure, and.
Speaker 1: It's really amazing. No, no, it really is. I remember
Speaker 1: the phone call I got. It was from Larry Wilson.
Speaker 1: Larry Wilson, Hall of Famer, legendary Larry Wilson. He was
Speaker 1: the general manager at the time for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And I didn't believe it was him. I was like,
Speaker 1: knock it off. I thought it was one of my friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know they it got sideways there early
Speaker 1: pretty much wraps up my career as well. I probably
Speaker 1: have got sideways early right there. But it is a
Speaker 1: special moment, There's no doubt about it. You'll never forget
Speaker 1: something like that, right.
Speaker 4: Wolf defied the odds in so many different ways, including
Speaker 4: dissing the GM right.
Speaker 5: Off the bat on the phone.
Speaker 4: So it really is amazing that Wolf, you know, lasted
Speaker 4: ten years and went to four Pro Bowls. It really,
Speaker 4: it really is at me. You mentioned Charlotte there, So
Speaker 4: you grew up in Harrisburg, North Carolina. Yeh, a few
Speaker 4: miles from Charlotte Motor Speedway. Are you a NASCAR guy?
Speaker 5: Oh? Not really, not really.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it is cool that, like the area
Speaker 6: harrispere Concord in general is very big on it. So
Speaker 6: when there are when the races do come to town,
Speaker 6: it's like a very big thing and it's a lot
Speaker 6: of traffic. So for me, who doesn't really go to
Speaker 6: the races, it kind of messes up my routine.
Speaker 5: But it's it's really cool though, to see.
Speaker 1: What was the sound like, I mean, could you hear it? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you hear all the engines all that type
Speaker 6: of stuff.
Speaker 5: It's cool.
Speaker 6: It makes you want to go see what's going on
Speaker 6: in there, you know, but so far, one of these
Speaker 6: days I'm go go see one of these days.
Speaker 4: What was it like to grow up there? I mean,
Speaker 4: what do you remember the most? Just from the childhood
Speaker 4: and growing up?
Speaker 5: It was cool? It was fun, you know.
Speaker 6: I feel like I went to like kind of like
Speaker 6: one of those pro typical like small towns, middle school
Speaker 6: and high school right beside each other. You grow who
Speaker 6: you played with in middle schools, who you played with
Speaker 6: in high school. Uh So football was like a very
Speaker 6: big thing, especially when my coach, Jason Side got there
Speaker 6: my sophomore year, going to my junior year, football became
Speaker 6: like a super super big thing in the town.
Speaker 5: And I think that's kind of.
Speaker 6: What started, Like I always loved football, but really started
Speaker 6: to really drive like my real like passion I love
Speaker 6: football seeing how much football could kind of bring like
Speaker 6: everybody together and then think about how my closest friends
Speaker 6: are people that were my teammates at one point or another.
Speaker 6: So it was a really good time growing up in Harrisburg,
Speaker 6: really good time.
Speaker 1: What was it like in high school? Was football your
Speaker 1: only sport that you played? Did you play anything else? Yeah?
Speaker 6: So I played I played football, I played basketball, and
Speaker 6: then I played baseball, and so I played quarterback, like
Speaker 6: when I went to high school. So my first my
Speaker 6: freshman sophomore year, I was a quarterback. And so at
Speaker 6: the time I was baseball was like my full time commitments. Sokay,
Speaker 6: during the summer, I'm travel ball. I'm traveling all over
Speaker 6: the place. And that was really my best sport. I
Speaker 6: played center field and then second yeah, and so it
Speaker 6: was crazy. So I'm playing quarterback at the time. And
Speaker 6: so we had a tournament and I go to tack
Speaker 6: somebody out and I take my glove off and I
Speaker 6: broke my thumb. And obviously, at quarterback, you know you
Speaker 6: need your hands. And so we going to spring practice
Speaker 6: and I'm trying to play quarterback with a club on
Speaker 6: my left hands, and I just kept thinking about how
Speaker 6: frustrated I was, and I think that's when it kind
Speaker 6: of hit me that I enjoyed football a lot more
Speaker 6: than baseball.
Speaker 5: How fresher I was.
Speaker 6: And so then I made the decision that I wanted
Speaker 6: to commit my summer in my free time to football.
Speaker 6: And so when I told my baseball coaches and even
Speaker 6: my parents, they were pissed because well, it wasn't even that.
Speaker 6: It was just at the time, like we all thought
Speaker 6: like I was going to go to college for baseball.
Speaker 6: And so then when I kind of was like, hey,
Speaker 6: I don't want to play with folks on football where
Speaker 6: at football, like I was good, but I wasn't really
Speaker 6: projecting as like a collegiate or professional scholarship, you know,
Speaker 6: they were really confused. And then I just I remember
Speaker 6: I literally told you just gotta trust me and that
Speaker 6: I was going to put in the work to make
Speaker 6: it happen.
Speaker 1: Yes, And they yeah, Syracuse, Yeah that's Charlotte. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think a Syracuse coming in and pulling your
Speaker 1: kid out of Charlotte. Yeah, white Syracuse. Who else were
Speaker 1: you recruited by?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: So it was it was really between West Virginia and Maryland,
Speaker 6: Syracuse and then North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Virginia, how did you turn that out?
Speaker 5: Then North Carolina.
Speaker 6: They they made a really really strong push, which was
Speaker 6: hard for me because I grew up a North Carolina fan.
Speaker 5: But my dad, he was very big.
Speaker 6: On He just kept telling me that Syracuse he felt
Speaker 6: like for the plan for me to NFL, that it
Speaker 6: would be a good position for me, knowing that I
Speaker 6: could get in and I could play early. And then
Speaker 6: we had guys already Syracuse who were making noise as
Speaker 6: young players, and so Andre Cisco, the safety for the
Speaker 6: Jacksonville Jaguars, as soon as I got there, he was
Speaker 6: like the first guy really tried to get under his wings.
Speaker 6: So after my recher year, me Andre Cisco a Fox,
Speaker 6: and Mela Fan who's the safety on the Lions us
Speaker 6: through we just worked.
Speaker 1: Out easy for you to say, we just.
Speaker 6: Worked out all spring and so then I went in
Speaker 6: the next year fighting for a starting job.
Speaker 5: Thankful I won the job. And then after that, you know,
Speaker 5: we just kind of went from there that. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: We've had a good legacy of Syracuse guys on the
Speaker 4: Big Red Rage, right, Chandler Jones, Justin Pugh, you know,
Speaker 4: Dave Pash, we had earlier. We're not counting Craig Grilo,
Speaker 4: you know, because he's always repping the Ques and it
Speaker 4: just gets it's insufferable. You know, he wanted us to
Speaker 4: come out here and call it the Big Orange Rage tonight,
Speaker 4: and we're like, absolutely not, okay. Garrett Williams is our
Speaker 4: guest and a reminder. By the way, Episode sixty six
Speaker 4: of the Day PASH Podcast featuring espn NBA analyst Richard Jefferson,
Speaker 4: available now via your preferred podcast provider. Get the latest
Speaker 4: updates via Twitter at PASH pod.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: So, let's see you potentially could be an emergency quarterback.
Speaker 4: Then if you were a high school quarterback, let's let's
Speaker 4: talk about Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: We come back.
Speaker 4: How curious you might be to see Kyler upfront and
Speaker 4: in person, in game action, and when that might be
Speaker 4: It is the Big Red Rage. Garrett Williams, presented by
Speaker 4: Santan Ford and Gilbert We are live from Trophy and Chandler,
Speaker 4: located on Greek Creek Road between Price and Dobson.
Speaker 3: Shotgun snapped to Murray, steps up and takes off far
Speaker 3: side of the twenty got room at the ten, cuts
Speaker 3: right to the five dukes to defender and scars touchdown
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray a twenty two yard run, his second rushing
Speaker 3: touchdown of the game. That defender is in multiple pieces
Speaker 3: at the five yard line as he tried to break
Speaker 3: down and make that play, and Kyler broke him down.
Speaker 1: When right through Washington secondary like buttering the microwave.
Speaker 3: Baby, I see an arm, a foot, a piece of
Speaker 3: the torso on the ground there of the Washington defender
Speaker 3: as he got shook by Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4: That was spectacular. Oh my goodness, it's just some you
Speaker 4: here donfair fashion wolf call in the twenty one yard
Speaker 4: touchdown run against Washington circa two thousand. I remember that
Speaker 4: season because he set an NFL record. Nine games he
Speaker 4: had a passing and rushing touchdown, one of each, and
Speaker 4: that was an NFL record at the time. We could
Speaker 4: spend the rest of the show here on The Big
Speaker 4: Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert Live from
Speaker 4: Trophy and Chandler with Garrett Williams, Cardinal's third round Rookie.
Speaker 4: We could talk about Kyler Murray and all the accolades,
Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year, two time pro bowler, the whole deal.
Speaker 4: But you tell us what have you seen of him
Speaker 4: in practice? You know, coach said, he's full go. We
Speaker 4: don't know what exactly he's doing, but just just when
Speaker 4: you watch his skill set as a guy who played
Speaker 4: the position in high school. I mean, you tell us,
Speaker 4: what's your reaction.
Speaker 5: Kyler's nice.
Speaker 6: It's actually so crazy, even just the NFL part in general,
Speaker 6: being like seeing guys like him and like Zach, guys
Speaker 6: you watched growing up, and no, Kyler, he's he's legit.
Speaker 6: You know, it's it's it's special to watch, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying. The arm, talent, the mobility, things like that,
Speaker 6: he's one of one for sure.
Speaker 1: What about mentally right now? Based on what you're seeing,
Speaker 1: does it look is if he's picking up the offense
Speaker 1: and he's out there mastering the offense, does it look
Speaker 1: like he knows what he's doing?
Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: And Kyler is one of those guys who's got like
Speaker 6: he's not okay with not knowing what's going on. You know,
Speaker 6: he wants to have all the answers and he wants
Speaker 6: to know what to do. And it's showing in practice
Speaker 6: he's you know, he just started practicing again and he's
Speaker 6: already out there commanding things kind of like he didn't
Speaker 6: even miss a step. So it's just again, it's just
Speaker 6: it's really just special to see, uh, just knowing you've
Speaker 6: been watching him since college.
Speaker 5: That really really watched him since high school.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to be his teammate now, especially spend a lot
Speaker 6: of time in rehabbing, it's really cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he really was a national name in high school. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how remarkable it is. Well, Kanta Ingram told us
Speaker 4: last week his first week of practice that Kyler got
Speaker 4: out there and he's audibly, he's checking it in a different place.
Speaker 4: He's running the twos against the ones, and he seems
Speaker 4: to have a real mastery of the offensive act. Here's
Speaker 4: your offensive coordinator. Drew Petsing on what he's seen.
Speaker 11: So far, he was awesome. You know, I think his
Speaker 11: engagement in the meeting room certainly showed up. You saw
Speaker 11: some strides quickly, like it was something that didn't take
Speaker 11: very long, but I got it. That's what we talked
Speaker 11: about in the meeting room.
Speaker 5: Here it is on the field.
Speaker 11: I'm going to go out and make sure that I'm
Speaker 11: focused on and getting it done. So really encouraged by that.
Speaker 11: He was really into it. I think it was exciting
Speaker 11: and fun for him to be out there. So it
Speaker 11: was great to see that. I mean, anytime you go
Speaker 11: through an injury in or rehab like that, your first
Speaker 11: time back on the field, there's some emotion, some energy,
Speaker 11: and it was good to see that from him.
Speaker 4: That Chiante also told us as a rookie last year,
Speaker 4: one of his initial takeaways was just watching Kyler fit
Speaker 4: the ball in, just zip the ball into those tight windows.
Speaker 4: And I mean, you tell us that that's what makes
Speaker 4: an effective NFL quarterback, right because in the NFL, look,
Speaker 4: the separation isn't three yards like it is in college.
Speaker 1: It's closer to three inches.
Speaker 4: And so when you have a quarterback like that, and
Speaker 4: I don't know what you've seen so far, but when
Speaker 4: you have the accuracy and the anticipation, I mean, that's
Speaker 4: how you win in the NFL, right, because you're not
Speaker 4: going to dominate most of these They're not gonna be
Speaker 4: wide open.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: So, in terms of what Kyler has done out there,
Speaker 4: and in terms of the knee especially, you tell us
Speaker 4: what mental hurdle maybe did you have to overcome because
Speaker 4: we don't know where Kyler is mentally necessarily with the knee,
Speaker 4: But tell us from your perspective, how big a deal
Speaker 4: was that for you mentally with your need.
Speaker 6: I feel like I don't know, it's different because me
Speaker 6: and him are in two completely different situations. Where me,
Speaker 6: like I was coming in I've never even seen what
Speaker 6: the NFL looks like. Where him, He's had a lot
Speaker 6: of success already. But for like him, I kind of
Speaker 6: just feel like, I mean, he's Kyler. He knows he's good,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So I feel like it's
Speaker 6: not gonna be as big of a hurdle as people
Speaker 6: with thinks. Now, obviously when you get there out there
Speaker 6: on the field, like things are gonna be moving faster
Speaker 6: in practice because adrenaline in this game speed. But if
Speaker 6: there's a person I feel like who could kind of
Speaker 6: overcome that easily, it definitely be him.
Speaker 1: How about you personally, Garrett, what was it like to
Speaker 1: have that serious knee injury and then you trying to
Speaker 1: come back? Was there was there was there hurdles that
Speaker 1: you needed to overcome mentally when you were trying to
Speaker 1: get back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: This is without The past year without that has been
Speaker 6: like the hardshear in my life for sure, Because anybody
Speaker 6: knows me, like I football is like really like truly
Speaker 6: like a passion of mind. So not being able to
Speaker 6: play was different as I was like that was my
Speaker 6: first surgery ever. So like a lot of different things,
Speaker 6: and then it just gets back to the thing of
Speaker 6: like when you're on crutches and needing people just to
Speaker 6: help you get up the stairs and get into your
Speaker 6: car and carrious like so many little things like that
Speaker 6: you take for granted, Like there's a thing I'll never forget.
Speaker 6: It was like right after I had gotten hurt. So
Speaker 6: I'm still Syracuse, maybe two days after the injury, and
Speaker 6: my mom's in my apartment and I was trying to
Speaker 6: shower and I slipped and I fell and my mom
Speaker 6: had to pick me up off the ground.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: And I was like butt naked.
Speaker 6: And so imagine I'm twenty one years old, thinking I'm
Speaker 6: growing and my mom.
Speaker 5: Has to pick it up, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Awkward, Yeah, things like that, Like it kind of puts
Speaker 6: the same perspective, and it just makes you more grateful
Speaker 6: just to even like be able to be out there
Speaker 6: and not even just play football, just to walk again,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying, Run around and just not
Speaker 6: feel your knee hurting every second. Like it's it's a
Speaker 6: lot of different things you got to overcome that you
Speaker 6: don't even think of. And when I got to Arizona,
Speaker 6: things got a little bit easier because I had guys
Speaker 6: like Kyler and Zach who are dealing with the exact
Speaker 6: same things, So we could kind of talk about those
Speaker 6: different things we were struggling with, and it kind of
Speaker 6: feel like helped each of us kind of get going.
Speaker 6: So like for me personally, seeing Zach get out there
Speaker 6: week one and do his thing, it gave me a
Speaker 6: lot of confidence seeing him go out there taking hits,
Speaker 6: run around, making plays. So I'm really really grateful that
Speaker 6: I'm able to be around this type of guys.
Speaker 1: Was there an adjustment period for you in regard to
Speaker 1: being in between the white lines and knowing that your
Speaker 1: knee was going to be okay? Did you think about
Speaker 1: it when you were out on the field trying to
Speaker 1: come back?
Speaker 5: I thought about it.
Speaker 6: I thought about it a lot before I got activated,
Speaker 6: So like when I was out there with the trainers
Speaker 6: running around, you know, it was very like, you know,
Speaker 6: sometimes I'd be very like hesitating things like that, But
Speaker 6: once I got cleared and I was out there with
Speaker 6: the guys, honestly, it's you know, there's not much thinking
Speaker 6: about that, you know, I'll just be locked in.
Speaker 1: And it's corner. Such a physical position.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they change the direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know how it could be any
Speaker 4: more demanding.
Speaker 5: On that body part. Oh it is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And don't get it twisted like it's you know,
Speaker 6: I still have to do stuff for my knee daily,
Speaker 6: Like this is a never never for me, Like the
Speaker 6: rest of my career, I would be very big.
Speaker 5: On that type of stuff.
Speaker 6: But you still deal with those knee soreness, knee pain
Speaker 6: like things like that. But we have a really good staff,
Speaker 6: like sports performance staff surrounded surrounding me and all the guys,
Speaker 6: and they make me feel really comfortable. So when I
Speaker 6: did get out there, I didn't really have to second
Speaker 6: guess anything because they made sure I knew that I
Speaker 6: was ready.
Speaker 4: Zach Ertz, Garrett Williams, So Kyler Murray is next? TikTok, Well,
Speaker 4: what are you reporting? What are you tweeting out there
Speaker 4: about their sources? When's he coming back?
Speaker 1: You know me, I don't break any stories. I'm like you.
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Speaker 4: we'll talk about the Ravens. Oh just the twenty nineteen MVP.
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson next and the Big Red Rage, presented by
Speaker 4: Santan Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 1: Lamar under center.
Speaker 4: Fourth down and one at the Lion seven. Ricard goes
Speaker 4: in motion. Jackson play fake, He'll keep it, run to
Speaker 4: the left side. He's flip five.
Speaker 1: You walk in touch down. Now.
Speaker 12: That is creativity from this offense, showing them one thing
Speaker 12: which they've done over and over and over and then
Speaker 12: booting it off a nicked boot out of that with
Speaker 12: Lamar outstanding play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt, that's Jerry Sandusky Rod Woodson on Ravens Radio. Well,
Speaker 4: let's see here, Ron.
Speaker 5: Hopefully.
Speaker 4: Baltimore scored a touchdown in its first four possessions at
Speaker 4: home against Detroit and their last outing it was twenty
Speaker 4: eight to nothing before the Lions had a first down.
Speaker 1: Is that good? That's really good?
Speaker 4: Pretty darn good, Big Red Rage. Garrett Williams is our
Speaker 4: guest the Round three Rookie All, presented by santan Ford
Speaker 4: and Gilbert. We are live from Trophy and Chandler located
Speaker 4: on Queen Creek Road between Price and Dobson. You know
Speaker 4: us is pretty pretty good, Lamar Jackson. Their quarterback, Garrett
Speaker 4: you're probably aware he's top three in passer rating, completion percentage,
Speaker 4: passing yards, and oh, by the way, he's eighteenth in
Speaker 4: the NFL in rushing. That's including all the running backs.
Speaker 4: So you tell us what jumps off the film when
Speaker 4: it comes to number eighth.
Speaker 6: He's special. You know, he can he can kill you
Speaker 6: in every single way you could think of. And he's
Speaker 6: playing comfortable. You know, I think that's the big thing
Speaker 6: for any FOLL player. He looks comfortable out there. Then
Speaker 6: you add his amazing skill set on top of it.
Speaker 6: That's what that's what's gonna happen. You know, they're doing
Speaker 6: a good job of them put the right place and
Speaker 6: right people around for him to succeed, and he's he's
Speaker 6: making HAVM.
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing about watching them once again under
Speaker 1: John Harball. The one thing you know you're gonna get
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Ravens is a very physical football team offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: and in transition. Watching them offensively, first intent, they're in
Speaker 1: two back fifty percent of the time. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's like a fifty to fifty split. They're in one
Speaker 1: back and two back sets right there, and they run
Speaker 1: it all. They go eleven personnel, one back, one tight end,
Speaker 1: three wide receivers all the way to twenty personnel where
Speaker 1: you've got two backs and you've you've got no tight ends.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really interesting to see what they're doing.
Speaker 1: And yet at the same time, all they do is
Speaker 1: attack the line of scrimmage over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens are very physical football team. That shows
Speaker 1: up on tape, doesn't it again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, the very big offensive line, and they
Speaker 6: they played like you said, they play a physical brand
Speaker 6: of football. And so for us on defense and even
Speaker 6: the offensive too. You gotta just understand going into that
Speaker 6: game that you got a mass energy and they're gonna
Speaker 6: come in and think they can bill you. And that's
Speaker 6: just how they That's just how they go into games,
Speaker 6: and so you gotta throw your punches too and let
Speaker 6: them know that you're here.
Speaker 4: Just to first thing, Jonathan Gannon said, who he thinks
Speaker 4: they have an underrated offensive line. That was his big
Speaker 4: takeaway when he looks at that team. Obviously, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 4: gets a lot of publicity deservedly so, in fact, we
Speaker 4: asked Zaman Collins earlier this week just about the task
Speaker 4: of going against the twenty nineteen MVP.
Speaker 13: Lamar is pretty special, dude. He can obviously cause a
Speaker 13: lot of issues in the past game with just his
Speaker 13: feet and then obviously his talented arm. So you had
Speaker 13: something you watch teams trying to every week shut him down,
Speaker 13: you know. So it's definitely a tall task to do.
Speaker 4: Running ability, right, just I mean, there are two quarterbacks
Speaker 4: who can kill you from the pocket but can also
Speaker 4: run a four to three Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray
Speaker 4: and Zay Flowers was telling some of the this week.
Speaker 4: That's the rookie receiver for Baltimore. That just the running ability,
Speaker 4: the escapability, you know, his ability to extend the play.
Speaker 4: It makes Stebe's cover you twice. Yeah, So explain that
Speaker 4: because you've gone against safe Flowers before, now you go
Speaker 4: against Lamar. What does he mean by that cover you twice?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So there's the initial part when the play happens that
Speaker 6: they have their regular routes, you try to guard it,
Speaker 6: and then when your quarterback breaks the pocket, it's called
Speaker 6: scramble drill. And so when scramble drill, the receivers they
Speaker 6: basically make up and run their own routes, and so
Speaker 6: not every team is great at scrambled droll's because it
Speaker 6: really depends on the mobility and accuracy of.
Speaker 5: Every quarterback outside of the pocket.
Speaker 6: And so when you have guys like Lamar and Kyler,
Speaker 6: guys like that who can keep plays alive and still
Speaker 6: be accurate outside of the pocket, receivers feel way more
Speaker 6: comfortable running farther down the field and doing whatever they
Speaker 6: want because they know the ball still has a chance
Speaker 6: to get to them. So it definitely has been an
Speaker 6: emphasis for us this week in practice of staying on
Speaker 6: your guy, you know, don't get comfortable even when the
Speaker 6: play is you think it's dead, because with the Goblin
Speaker 6: Mars more than likely probably not done when you think
Speaker 6: it is, you know.
Speaker 1: And then you go ahead and you flip it over
Speaker 1: and look at their defense as well. Once again, this
Speaker 1: is a very physical defense right here. It's amazing because
Speaker 1: they're number two in the National Football League in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Red zone defense that is really really big.
Speaker 1: They're number one in goal to go defense, number one,
Speaker 1: and because of that, the harder the closer you get
Speaker 1: to the end zone, the harder it becomes to score
Speaker 1: against these guys. It's truly incredible to watch it on tape.
Speaker 1: They're the number one scoring defense in the National Football
Speaker 1: League thirteen point nine points per game. The Baltimore Ravens defensively,
Speaker 1: and you know what it really is, it's not even
Speaker 1: their rush defense as much as it is their pass defense.
Speaker 1: They're the number one defensive quarterback rating defense in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Wow, number one opposingquarterbacks have an average
Speaker 1: up seventy point eight quarterback rating against them. Seventy point eight.
Speaker 1: Just abandon all hope, he who enter here. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. That's what this offense, our offense is going
Speaker 1: to be up against.
Speaker 4: But think about how it is week to week, Right
Speaker 4: like the week before Cleveland went out and they jack
Speaker 4: stomped the Niners and they had the number one defense
Speaker 4: in the NFL any week, and then the Colts just
Speaker 4: put thirty eight on them any week, PAULI, it's amazing
Speaker 4: now week to week, Eric, I don't you know, obviously
Speaker 4: you're figuring this all out in your rookie year. But
Speaker 4: I'm guessing a lot of guys are telling you, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, this is this isn't college. This
Speaker 4: isn't Notre Dame against some Division III school. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, Cardinals went out and beat Dallas when they
Speaker 4: were supposedly a number one team in the Power Pole.
Speaker 4: So what has the mindset been like in practice this week?
Speaker 6: Probably it really just stays consistent. It's not really as
Speaker 6: much about who we are playing like now, obviously, like
Speaker 6: there's like the game plan and things like that, But
Speaker 6: I feel like for us, and really feel like a
Speaker 6: lot of teams, is really more about your own team
Speaker 6: and just improving your team within your locker room and
Speaker 6: getting better in practice and focusing on the details of
Speaker 6: controlling what you can control. You know, if you prepare
Speaker 6: how you're supposed to go and going into games, you're
Speaker 6: gonna probably play better in the games regassi of who
Speaker 6: you're playing against.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: So as long as you're taking care of yourself and
Speaker 6: the team is making sure that we're all helping each
Speaker 6: other get better, that's that's really just the main thing.
Speaker 4: And this will be your third matchup against Jay Flowers
Speaker 4: because you went against him at BC. Yep, that'll be interesting.
Speaker 4: Right now, he's number two among rookie receivers. Jay Flowers
Speaker 4: thirty nine grabs, four hundred and forty two yards, so route.
Speaker 1: Right now if you ask me, yeah, he is.
Speaker 5: Hey, how about it?
Speaker 1: Everyone?
Speaker 4: For Garrett Williams, I mean honestly, I'm like, could he
Speaker 4: deliver beyond the interception against Seattle? And yes he did tonight.
Speaker 4: Absolutely he did, really well done. Special thanks as always
Speaker 4: Jim al Mohundro, Codey Venture, Lauren Colebel Wald Ellis, Lawrence Ellis,
Speaker 4: for Ron Wolfley Help, Paul CALVC, Garrett Williams our very
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