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Speaker 4: The NFL regular season might stop. The Big Red Rage
Speaker 4: does not the original Thursday Night Football No Winter Advisories
Speaker 4: here in the az to postpone. This edition all presented
Speaker 4: by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santane Ford, Paul Calvec,
Speaker 4: Ron Wolfley, soon to be joined by Cardinals tight End
Speaker 4: coach Ben Steele, all, we have quite a bit to
Speaker 4: talk about with a position coach of Trey McBride and company.
Speaker 4: That is straight ahead, Ron Wolfe, did you know, speaking
Speaker 4: winter advisories, that this whole buffalo thing and now they're
Speaker 4: expecting yet another winter storm to hit over the weekend
Speaker 4: and they already had the game postpone last week. Do
Speaker 4: you know the name of the guy who's the key
Speaker 4: to the Bills playoff run?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, it goes he goes by the name Squirrel.
Speaker 1: Squirrel.
Speaker 4: I read this earlier today. Hands well, sort of. He's
Speaker 4: Josh Allen's name, and he's a retired farmer who win
Speaker 4: needed is called upon to dig the Bills quarterback out
Speaker 4: of his own driveway and get him out of his
Speaker 4: own place and to the stadium, either for practice and
Speaker 4: for games.
Speaker 1: WELLI there are guys I know that live in Orchard
Speaker 1: Park or East Aroar somewhere out there. They've got some
Speaker 1: acreage and suddenly they've got I don't know, one hundred
Speaker 1: yards of driveway. And suddenly, if it starts to snow
Speaker 1: and you get six to eight inches, or maybe you
Speaker 1: get six feet, you're in trouble. And you got to
Speaker 1: call your neighbor to come and bail you out.
Speaker 4: In fact, it was so bad earlier this week that
Speaker 4: they had a travel ban in Orchard Park and all
Speaker 4: the surrounding towns ron Willfleet, and yet somehow all the
Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills made it to practice. So apparently they allowed
Speaker 4: the Bills to hit the road obviously because they've got
Speaker 4: a big playoff game come up against Kansas City. And
Speaker 4: so there you go. There's your winter update. And of
Speaker 4: course Cardinals do go to Buffalo next year. So all
Speaker 4: the sideline reporters, we hope, you know, on behalf of
Speaker 4: all of us that that game is a mid season
Speaker 4: instead of late season.
Speaker 1: Here comes hooping.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so here we go Cardinals. They're under
Speaker 4: the off season, and the question becomes, all right, what's next?
Speaker 4: We know last off season there was a lot of change.
Speaker 1: We had our.
Speaker 4: Hashtag no allegiances. As of right now, only eight draft
Speaker 4: picks remain from the last four years. That's a thirty
Speaker 4: two draft picks. Only eight remain. It's sure to be
Speaker 4: fewer than that by the time next season starts. And
Speaker 4: guess what this roster coming up this year? If nothing else,
Speaker 4: Now that they has a year under his belt as
Speaker 4: head coach. They know what to expect. Year's your head coach,
Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon.
Speaker 6: Who's ever back here in twenty twenty four? They understand
Speaker 6: what's expected and how we operate. And if they're back here,
Speaker 6: I feel really comfortable myself and mine and the coaching
Speaker 6: staff feels really comfortable about their roles. But I always say, like,
Speaker 6: the price of admission is team and then you. And
Speaker 6: if they're back here in twenty four, they have that.
Speaker 1: See, that is the beautiful thing, Paul. Right now, that
Speaker 1: is the beautiful thing about this The foundation of this
Speaker 1: culture has been laid. It has so the foundation it
Speaker 1: was all about, okay, what kind of football are we
Speaker 1: going to play here? And if we're going to play
Speaker 1: this kind of football here, what kind of football player
Speaker 1: do we need to go get? That is the foundation
Speaker 1: right now. Now, what's the next step, Paul, What is
Speaker 1: the next thing to do? I think Manti asen Fort
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Gannon and the coaching staff. Of course, the
Speaker 1: entire organization has got to start building vertically. Somebody's got
Speaker 1: to bring the two by fours in right now. The
Speaker 1: foundation is there. Now you have to build, and you
Speaker 1: have to build a house vertically.
Speaker 4: By the end of the season, the Cardinals were the
Speaker 4: third youngest team in the NFL. You know, the youngest
Speaker 4: team in the NFL right now, Green Bay Wow. Second
Speaker 4: youngest team the La Rams, who who started in three
Speaker 4: and six and then won seven out of eight and
Speaker 4: went into the playoffs and had that narrow loss of Detroit.
Speaker 4: We'll get into that a little bit later. But now,
Speaker 4: at least do you have the answer to a couple
Speaker 4: of questions, what do you want to be as a team?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Who is going to be part of this team? And
Speaker 4: or who is needed? At least now you have some questions.
Speaker 4: Where is a year ago? At this time all you
Speaker 4: had were questions, Okay, what is this head coach all about?
Speaker 4: Are these players going to be? And you don't really know.
Speaker 4: And I said this earlier this week and Cardinals underground.
Speaker 4: You can agree or disagree, and I know you will,
Speaker 4: but you don't truly know what you have as a
Speaker 4: head coach and a general manager until the regular season starts.
Speaker 4: Until you get regular season snaps.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Craig Dorsch barely made the fifty three by the end
Speaker 4: of the year, He's one of your key contributors. So
Speaker 4: you never would have expected that when the season started.
Speaker 4: You need regular season snaps.
Speaker 1: Yes you do, Pauli, there's no doubt about that. But
Speaker 1: the foundation has been late. And when I say that,
Speaker 1: once again, I'm talking about football players. They already know
Speaker 1: they have a really good idea when they look at
Speaker 1: the roster, and I'm talking about JG and Monty assin
Speaker 1: Fort and the coaching staff. When they look at the roster,
Speaker 1: they already know do you want that guy back? Do
Speaker 1: we want this guy back? And this guy proved he
Speaker 1: belongs here. Whatever it is, it's football and football players ball.
Speaker 1: When I talk about building vertical pull now, it's time
Speaker 1: to go and identify the guys who are going to
Speaker 1: be a good fit for the foundation that is that
Speaker 1: has been laid. They're going to be a good fit,
Speaker 1: but they're more talented. That's what you've got to do now.
Speaker 1: Building vertical means going out and bringing more talented players
Speaker 1: in to build on the foundation that you have.
Speaker 4: All Right, So there's Kramitt vertical, which is the run game.
Speaker 4: Then there's build it, build it vertical. Okay, here's the
Speaker 4: quarterback Kyler Murray. Just on the leadership from the top down,
Speaker 4: a new head coach and a new GM.
Speaker 7: It's like refreshing, just you know, to have you know,
Speaker 7: guys up stairs that you know believe in it and
Speaker 7: really to it and hold everybody accountable. You know, it
Speaker 7: trickles down, you know, starts at the top. You know.
Speaker 7: I think every great organization business understand you know, it
Speaker 7: starts at the top and the guys really believe in
Speaker 7: what they appreciate. You know. I'm very confident in what
Speaker 7: we got going.
Speaker 4: There's that word again, accountability. People ask about, Okay, well,
Speaker 4: what is the difference with Jonathan Gann and maniasin for
Speaker 4: That's the first word I start with. That's the word
Speaker 4: that Michael Bidwell, the team owner, cited in making the
Speaker 4: coaching change last off season that needed to be addressed,
Speaker 4: that needed to be instituted do a greater degree. And
Speaker 4: I think what you saw over the course of the
Speaker 4: year was finding those guys willing to buy in to
Speaker 4: that accountability and those who are not were no longer
Speaker 4: with the team.
Speaker 1: Listen, I call it pads. Okay, I've heard you.
Speaker 4: Know an acronym pads physical.
Speaker 1: P It starts with people physical.
Speaker 4: You're looking at me like I should write this down.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying exactly, Okay, for accountability, d for discipline,
Speaker 1: S for smart. That's what you want on your football player.
Speaker 1: You want them to be physical, accountable, discipline, and smart.
Speaker 1: That's what you need. Pads is what they Now, you
Speaker 1: know what, You've got guys who are checking those boxes.
Speaker 1: Now you've got to go out and you gotta find
Speaker 1: more guys to do that. And that's what manti ascid for.
Speaker 1: That's why the draft, that's why having eleven picks in
Speaker 1: this draft coming up is so critical because I guarantee you,
Speaker 1: whether the guy is a cornerback, whether he's he's a safety,
Speaker 1: whether he's a center, a guard, he a full back, Paul,
Speaker 1: whomever it may be that you're going to bring in
Speaker 1: these doors, he's gonna check all of those boxes right there,
Speaker 1: or they're not gonna bring him in. That's my hot tag, Paul.
Speaker 1: They're not going to bring him in if he doesn't
Speaker 1: check every one of those boxes. Whether it's a free
Speaker 1: agent that you sign in the offseason, or whether it's
Speaker 1: a kid you're going to draft out of Kansas.
Speaker 4: Pads, physical, accountable, discipline, smart. Why do I have this
Speaker 4: feeling that you have that on a white grease board
Speaker 4: and they are woefully garage for your eighth grader vetter.
Speaker 1: All right, it's actually on the computer. I see.
Speaker 4: Well, look you I mean the Cardinals rookie class. To
Speaker 4: your point, the Cardinals know what they want. They led
Speaker 4: the NFL with eleven rookies that started at least one
Speaker 4: game that combined for an NFL high sixty four starts
Speaker 4: by rookies. And we all know that you can draft measurables.
Speaker 4: But it's the person, it's the mentality. It's when Ammania
Speaker 4: Sapport says, you know what, we met with Garrett Williams
Speaker 4: and we knew after fifteen minutes he was our sort
Speaker 4: of player. We met with a Michael Wilson and we
Speaker 4: knew he had our sort of mentality. So up and
Speaker 4: down the draft class, look at all the contributions and
Speaker 4: if you can stack another draft class this year like
Speaker 4: you did last year. To your point, that is how
Speaker 4: you build it vertical, correct, that's.
Speaker 1: What you do. You build it vertical. You build on
Speaker 1: the foundation. Now it's time to bring in more talent.
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Speaker 4: Steel tight ends coach. We'll talk about Trey McBride and
Speaker 4: more when we come back on the Big Red Rage
Speaker 4: presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert.
Speaker 3: Trey McBride has been one of the best receiving tight
Speaker 3: ends in football.
Speaker 1: Tray McBride grows strong grasshopper near sight.
Speaker 4: It is undercron comin.
Speaker 5: It's at the ten yard.
Speaker 1: Line by mccride.
Speaker 3: First Cardinal tight end in thirty four years with a
Speaker 3: one hundred yard receiving game.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Trey McBride, have a day, baby.
Speaker 3: McBride fighting for the first down at the two. He's
Speaker 3: still pushing the pile. Kenny pushes it into the end zone.
Speaker 3: Put it dutch down. Trey McBride all muscle buyer's lap
Speaker 3: in the end zone.
Speaker 1: It is caught by McBride.
Speaker 4: Hey, it's a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Big time play by Trey McBride.
Speaker 3: Caught inside the five yard line by mccride for a
Speaker 3: first down.
Speaker 1: We want to talk about a vertical game, and Trey
Speaker 1: McBride went up and grabbed that ball. That was an
Speaker 1: elite catch.
Speaker 3: That was spectacular.
Speaker 5: What a beautiful grab by mccride.
Speaker 3: Nice catch by Trey McBride. McBride with that catch sets
Speaker 3: the Cardinals single season record for most receptions by a
Speaker 3: tight end. His second NFL season has been phenomenal.
Speaker 4: And it continues no doubt. NFL is all about what
Speaker 4: opportunity and when you get one, and sometimes you only
Speaker 4: get one, you better seize thy opportunity. And Trey McClay,
Speaker 4: as we call him, led the Cardinals not only in catches,
Speaker 4: he was second in receiving yards. He was top ten
Speaker 4: in both categories in the NFL. And we have his
Speaker 4: position coach here on this edition of The Big Red
Speaker 4: Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert we are santan Ford,
Speaker 4: Ben Steele joins us over a decade in the NFL,
Speaker 4: and you're nodding, it's good to hear Trey mcbriden highlights
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 8: I hope he doesn't hear that montage that you guys
Speaker 8: just played with. I keep telling him he's only as
Speaker 8: good as his last play. So yeah, tremendous year for
Speaker 8: the guy.
Speaker 4: I'm super proud of him, you know, It's funny because
Speaker 4: it seems like the guys in that room keep him
Speaker 4: in line and keep him humble, because every time I'm
Speaker 4: over in that area of the locker room, they're giving
Speaker 4: him the business.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely do. They definitely do.
Speaker 8: We've got a great room, you know. And Trey's a
Speaker 8: humble enough guy himself. He's not gonna get away from him.
Speaker 8: But you know, there's times that I remind him every
Speaker 8: single day. And it was after his first one hundred
Speaker 8: yard game. I told him, I was like, yeah, great game,
Speaker 8: he had one great game.
Speaker 5: Like who cares?
Speaker 8: The NFL is about consistency, like you said, So I'm like,
Speaker 8: you got to do it again, you know. You know
Speaker 8: that's something in the stretch line. I'll come by and
Speaker 8: tell him, Hey, great ones show up every day. It's
Speaker 8: not just like on Sundays. So today we got to
Speaker 8: work right there. He just and he he puts it.
Speaker 8: He put it, He puts the work in, and you know,
Speaker 8: tribute to him. I'm just super proud of the guy.
Speaker 1: So talk a little bit about the season that he had,
Speaker 1: how he started the season and and where did he
Speaker 1: grow the most.
Speaker 8: Coach, Well, you know, coming into the season, obviously was
Speaker 8: a little bit of a of a difficult spot for
Speaker 8: him to be in, you know, being in the shadows
Speaker 8: of Zach Ertz coming back off of his injury, and
Speaker 8: then when Zach got hurt again and eventually went on
Speaker 8: ir you know, Trey got his shot and he took
Speaker 8: advantage of it, and I knew he would, and he
Speaker 8: didn't say anything. He just kept working and kept his
Speaker 8: head down. So I'm super proud of him for that.
Speaker 8: And I told him that at the time, like, hey,
Speaker 8: your time is gonna come, and when it does, like
Speaker 8: it's gonna be huge, and and it was, and he
Speaker 8: wasn't too big for it. And he, you know, like
Speaker 8: I said, he does the little things that it takes
Speaker 8: to be great. And hopefully that continues. I think it will.
Speaker 1: How did he.
Speaker 4: Great out, you know, week in and week out, I mean,
Speaker 4: because what we saw were some spectacular plays at times,
Speaker 4: but we also saw a guy who was hard on
Speaker 4: himself as a sideline reporter. It's amazing how hard he
Speaker 4: was on himself at times on the sideline. So I'm
Speaker 4: just curious, you know, what did you make and how much.
Speaker 1: More is there?
Speaker 4: How much more potential is there going forward? In his
Speaker 4: game that was only year two.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's a ton of potential still there, you know,
Speaker 8: and even the games that he you know, has the
Speaker 8: stat lines that are super high like his his Really
Speaker 8: his last two games I thought were his two best
Speaker 8: games of the year because he didn't just do the
Speaker 8: pass catching part of playing a tight end. And to me,
Speaker 8: that's what a tight end is. It's not a one
Speaker 8: dimensional I'm just a slow wide receiver. I don't block anybody.
Speaker 8: I'm a dual threat. And everyone at the combine when
Speaker 8: I ask him who's like the most impressive tight end
Speaker 8: the league, they all say George Kiddle. Why because he
Speaker 8: blocks and he catches the ball obviously, and he's not
Speaker 8: always the go to guy in San Francisco, so you know,
Speaker 8: and Trey really works to do both, and he can
Speaker 8: do both, and he does both, and he's gonna stick
Speaker 8: his head in there. And I mean, he had some
Speaker 8: really good blocks in those last two games. I don't
Speaker 8: know if they were the best stat line. I know
Speaker 8: they weren't the best that he had this year, but
Speaker 8: by far he grated wise as far as blocking and
Speaker 8: just being a complete tight end, it was.
Speaker 5: It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Well, guess what. Wolf cited it during the broadcast, especially
Speaker 4: as the season war on, and then the head coach
Speaker 4: had as much to say about Trey McBride's blocking.
Speaker 6: He's a complete player in his mind.
Speaker 1: He would tell you this.
Speaker 6: To take the next step of being a completely dominant
Speaker 6: player at that spot. I think he wants that to
Speaker 6: be a little more consistent. But he does an excellent
Speaker 6: job in there with that improves every week.
Speaker 1: And there you go. Jonathan Gann, Yeah, you know what, coach.
Speaker 1: I tell him all the time. Do not just be
Speaker 1: a pass receiving tight end.
Speaker 8: I told him, I have heard that. I've heard you
Speaker 8: say that on the radio before. Yes, I promise you,
Speaker 8: if I have anything to do with it, he will not.
Speaker 1: And I can tell that, and I can see why
Speaker 1: he's gotten better because he's got a coach that is
Speaker 1: demanding that wide Coach, would you ever lower the bar
Speaker 1: for him? It's always raised the bar right. He's capable
Speaker 1: of doing.
Speaker 5: It, no question.
Speaker 8: And it helps our team. Y is on a first
Speaker 8: and second down, If we know that you're only going
Speaker 8: to be in there to catch the ball, like, it
Speaker 8: doesn't help us in the run, game winner, play action
Speaker 8: and all that compliments itself. So you know that's the
Speaker 8: biggest part as for me as a tight end coach
Speaker 8: that I want out of a guy is to be
Speaker 8: able to and willing to work at both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, for me, eleven personnel is such a
Speaker 1: huge part of a lot of NFL teams today, even
Speaker 1: in rundown situation first and ten second and one to
Speaker 1: six eleven personnel one back, one tight end, three wide receivers.
Speaker 1: That to me, you've got to be capable of doing
Speaker 1: both out of eleven personnel running the ball or throwing
Speaker 1: the ball, and that tight end is so critical, as
Speaker 1: you know, coach, in that eleven personnel, if you're going
Speaker 1: to run the ball, you better have a true stud
Speaker 1: tight end who can do both. Tray is that guy.
Speaker 5: He is that guy.
Speaker 8: And it's the same thing on third down when you
Speaker 8: know you want to be in a seven man protection
Speaker 8: and you got to bring in your jumbo tight end
Speaker 8: or whoever that is. You know that the teams are
Speaker 8: gonna a lot of times pressure more so, like we
Speaker 8: actually had an audible against the Eagles and we were
Speaker 8: in a seven man protection. Tray came down, sealed the
Speaker 8: end and we scored a touchdown. So yeah, you got
Speaker 8: to be multi multi as a tight end for the
Speaker 8: sake of the offense.
Speaker 4: And hey, how about his tight end coach? Right, I mean,
Speaker 4: if you're looking at his blocking, I would think you're
Speaker 4: the guy to be mentoring and tutoring im. Considering your background.
Speaker 4: You look at your resume, tell us about just some
Speaker 4: of your experience because you've been an on line coach
Speaker 4: along the way as well, right.
Speaker 5: M h yeah, I h.
Speaker 8: The last two years I was working with the offensive
Speaker 8: line as the assistant on line coach in Denver and
Speaker 8: in Minnesota coach tight ends before that in Atlanta and
Speaker 8: Tampa Bay, but former player, former tight end as well.
Speaker 8: And you know that was also something for me as
Speaker 8: a player, is you know, I was mainly a special
Speaker 8: team's role playing guy. But you know, for a tight
Speaker 8: end in this league, to be able to be in
Speaker 8: there every single down, that's what I want and that's
Speaker 8: what you know.
Speaker 1: I'm here to do special teams? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Right down? Don't get me started on that, coach?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 1: I tell you can we bring the kickoff back coach,
Speaker 1: no question, Oh my goodness, we gotta do something about.
Speaker 5: It, no question. That bothers me as well.
Speaker 8: And I talk a lot of special teams in the
Speaker 8: tight end room, like you know, especially the guys in
Speaker 8: the roster. I'm like, listen, special teams is about effort
Speaker 8: and just willing to go hit somebody in the mouse
Speaker 8: And if you're not the starting tight end, you better
Speaker 8: be contributing on special teams.
Speaker 1: And on that note right there, tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about Elijah Higgins and where do you see the
Speaker 1: upside for this guy? How much better can he get?
Speaker 1: I'd like to see him put some weight on as well.
Speaker 8: No question, Yeah, I'd like to see him put some
Speaker 8: weight on for sure.
Speaker 1: Right how much? Coach? Like, what do you think?
Speaker 5: I mean eight to ten? I think he could hold that.
Speaker 8: I think you know, you don't want him to lose
Speaker 8: his speed because he is a threat in the pass
Speaker 8: game and he can run and he's got great ball skills.
Speaker 8: The best part about him as a former receiver, he
Speaker 8: doesn't have any bad habits as far as footwork and
Speaker 8: inline blocking as a tight end. And so he takes
Speaker 8: on the coaching and does exactly what I tell him
Speaker 8: to do, and it's it's awesome because he you know,
Speaker 8: really works at it. And he's willing and able to
Speaker 8: stick his nose in there. And he had some great
Speaker 8: blocks the last few games when he was you know,
Speaker 8: had his opportunity when we were in multiple tight end plays.
Speaker 8: And I have no hesitation throwing him in the game
Speaker 8: if Trey needs arrest or whatever that may be. But
Speaker 8: his ceiling is is huge, and I'm so excited for
Speaker 8: him coming into his his you know, second year in
Speaker 8: the league, next year, getting a full offseason working at
Speaker 8: the tight end position with me, and yeah, I'm excited
Speaker 8: about him for sure.
Speaker 4: Cardinals tight end coach Ben Steels our guest here on
Speaker 4: the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 4: how much did both of those young guys learn from
Speaker 4: Jeff Swain. I mean, dude, who has a lot of
Speaker 4: years this league has a really good blocking coach.
Speaker 5: Swain is what I call him.
Speaker 8: He was invaluable in the room as a veteran voice
Speaker 8: in the room. And you know, at one point, you know,
Speaker 8: at the end of the year when he went on
Speaker 8: IR I'm looking around the room and I got Trey
Speaker 8: in his second year and then three rookies and I'm like, man,
Speaker 8: this is I'm like and I'm and the guys they
Speaker 8: were accountable, they did what they needed to do. But
Speaker 8: to have a guy like Jeff in the room and
Speaker 8: he still came to meetings even though he didn't have to,
Speaker 8: which was awesome. And he's always getting better, getting those
Speaker 8: guys better as far as coaching points with footwork and
Speaker 8: hand placement, you know, and at times when I'm not
Speaker 8: able to talk to him, you know right away he
Speaker 8: is right there doing it. So he was huge because
Speaker 8: he showed those guys what it truly means to be
Speaker 8: a pro. It's not just showing up to practice and
Speaker 8: then first one out the door. All the little things
Speaker 8: it takes to get your body right, eating the right food, mentally,
Speaker 8: making yourself aware and and on point with assignments and
Speaker 8: and everything outside of football as well.
Speaker 1: He's he's such a mentor for those guys. Coach. You
Speaker 1: ever talked to him in German?
Speaker 5: No, but I I know he was. He was hit yees.
Speaker 8: Psycho was obviously teaching him as Germany. So every once
Speaker 8: in a while I'd ask him a question and they
Speaker 8: throw out like some German and I'm like, what, listen,
Speaker 8: I don't speak German.
Speaker 1: Yet, but you played for Frankfurt, did.
Speaker 8: You I did, and I didn't learn that much German Frankfort.
Speaker 8: But didn't you like the food over there? I love
Speaker 8: the food. I learned ein beer bita. That was the
Speaker 8: one thing.
Speaker 1: One beer please, one beer.
Speaker 4: Well, hey, there's a lot of speculation Cardinals might be
Speaker 4: going to Munich to take on Carolina.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that'd be cool, that'd be cool.
Speaker 4: Bernard would be a big team leader on that broad trip.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt he would be. He'd have to be
Speaker 5: our chauffeur and getting this around.
Speaker 1: So, coach, I have to ask you this because once
Speaker 1: again you're coaching tight ends and you coach and have
Speaker 1: coached the offensive line as well. Now, that's that seems
Speaker 1: like a symbiotic relationship. Getting a true stud tight end
Speaker 1: a block like an offensive lineman would be fantastic, and
Speaker 1: yet you still have the receiving component, as we all
Speaker 1: know with Trey McBride, a guy like that, and other
Speaker 1: tight ends across the NFL. Right now, do you have
Speaker 1: a preference as to what you like to coach, like,
Speaker 1: would you like to just focus on offensive line or
Speaker 1: do you like the fact that you get a little
Speaker 1: duality at the tight end position?
Speaker 8: I love the fact that I get that both sides
Speaker 8: of the of the of the offense. Being involved in
Speaker 8: the past game is obviously a little more natural than
Speaker 8: getting thrown into the O line room because of all
Speaker 8: the details that they have and everything that they do
Speaker 8: now at the tight ends doing everything pass protection, run blocking,
Speaker 8: and obviously running routes and receiving. You are more involved
Speaker 8: than any other position on the field other than quarterback.
Speaker 8: So you have to know everything. So you know, for
Speaker 8: me that the biggest part, hardest thing for me is
Speaker 8: fine enough time during the meeting to cover everything and
Speaker 8: getting them ready for acte. So you've got to be
Speaker 8: creative doing that. But uh, you know, I enjoy doing
Speaker 8: all facets of it for that reason. There were times
Speaker 8: when I was working on the offensive line that'll be
Speaker 8: looking down at seven on seven.
Speaker 1: Like, hey, what are those guys doing?
Speaker 8: But yeah, so I would say when I was with
Speaker 8: the offensive line, I probably missed the past game a
Speaker 8: lot more than than I probably should have.
Speaker 5: But but yeah.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like back when I played nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: Of course, the full back, of course, we used to
Speaker 1: tell the center what to do, okay, just so you go.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm telling you, speaking of telling everyone what to do,
Speaker 4: let me ask you about Jonathan Gannon, your head coach,
Speaker 4: because look at the Lions and Dan Campbell, look at
Speaker 4: the Texans, Damiko Ryans. These are high energy guys. And
Speaker 4: the more you read about how they brought in their
Speaker 4: culture in those two programs to turn things around, I
Speaker 4: see a lot of similarities to what Jonathan Gannon is
Speaker 4: doing here with the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Would you agree with that?
Speaker 4: And can you elaborate a little bit?
Speaker 8: Yeah, And you know I've thought about this, you know,
Speaker 8: since the end of the season too. Like you know,
Speaker 8: I was with with Nathaniel Hackett and with the Broncos
Speaker 8: last year for the you know, his first year as
Speaker 8: the head coach for them, and the difference you know,
Speaker 8: going into the end of the season and this year,
Speaker 8: like every team in the NFL is good.
Speaker 5: Everyone knows that.
Speaker 8: And to me, it's that one percent factor of your
Speaker 8: culture that puts you over the top. And the feeling
Speaker 8: at the end of this season was not like, man,
Speaker 8: we just had a terrible season. It was okay, we
Speaker 8: have room for improvement, for sure, and four wins is
Speaker 8: definitely not the standard. But our head coach has set
Speaker 8: set the culture and the players have bought into it.
Speaker 8: So when you have that and you know that you're
Speaker 8: getting the culture right, the football pieces are going to
Speaker 8: fall online. So I'm I'm so excited for next year.
Speaker 8: Like coming back to the office after a short break
Speaker 8: the end of our last game, I was, you know,
Speaker 8: running to my car to get to work on Tuesday,
Speaker 8: So it was we're excited as a staff.
Speaker 5: And we've been already getting things rolling and you know
Speaker 5: for offseason program whenever that starts.
Speaker 1: Up, Coach, where do you think the offense can evolve
Speaker 1: the most?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, I think that we obviously need to
Speaker 8: be able to play complimentary football on I'm just talking
Speaker 8: just on offense as far as you know, being able
Speaker 8: to work early in the downs, as far as first
Speaker 8: and second downs, so we don't we're not in these
Speaker 8: third and long situations. And you know, as an offensive hole, like,
Speaker 8: we got to just get better at all the.
Speaker 5: Details of everything that we do.
Speaker 8: And we're we're close for sure, and going into an
Speaker 8: off season program where it wasn't the first year. Is
Speaker 8: our staff just our staff getting to know each other
Speaker 8: and getting to know how we work together and the
Speaker 8: scheme and our players going into the offseason the second
Speaker 8: year in the scheme, that's going to be huge, huge,
Speaker 8: And then going into training camp is our second year
Speaker 8: to where we're not just day one install anymore, like
Speaker 8: we can speed it along and work on technique, fundamentals,
Speaker 8: the things that actually matter on the field, so that
Speaker 8: all of that combined and really is a staff like
Speaker 8: everyone looks at themselves first and how we can make each.
Speaker 5: Other better and then the players better, because that's the
Speaker 5: ultimate goal.
Speaker 1: Accountable mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what you know. Jonathan Gann had a
Speaker 4: saying early in his tenure kram at vertical, and we
Speaker 4: use that to describe the run game that ended up
Speaker 4: fourth overall in the NFL. Tight Ends were a big
Speaker 4: part of that. And it was amazing how many teams
Speaker 4: after they're done playing the Cardinals said that was a
Speaker 4: physical game, even like the Steelers have the game. We
Speaker 4: got out physical, we got our butts kicked. The Eagles
Speaker 4: said the same thing. So we're definitely looking forward to
Speaker 4: having a full season of Kyler and everyone has the
Speaker 4: season under their belt right and that offense evolving, and
Speaker 4: if we end up going to Munich, then you know what,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be as a guy who played Germany, you
Speaker 4: know you're gonna be leading the way as well, So
Speaker 4: that'd be fun.
Speaker 5: That would be a cool experience.
Speaker 1: We enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Coach, Thank you, coach.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you guys.
Speaker 4: There you go. That is Ben Steel, Cardinals tight end coach.
Speaker 4: We continue with a big red rage presented by santan
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Speaker 1: This could be the game.
Speaker 3: Fourth down and one hand off high tower, running right,
Speaker 3: get to the outside and he's got the first down
Speaker 3: of the forty five and pushed out a bounds throws
Speaker 3: a slant of fits caught at the thirty, inside them
Speaker 3: twenty five and down at the twenty three. It's a
Speaker 3: game of about eighteen in the first down for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald is literally trying to will this team to victory.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 3: Pumps right, throws back to the left, high Tower, caught
Speaker 3: it to ten, cuts left to the five high tower
Speaker 3: to the goal.
Speaker 4: Line, headed put down the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Great take the land with two fifty three to go,
Speaker 3: picked up by docket.
Speaker 4: Don't get inside the ten.
Speaker 3: Sets in the Cardinals half shot the world right for
Speaker 3: true the Cards have done it there showing the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl forty.
Speaker 4: Ten still get chills literal thole. I mean, on this
Speaker 4: day in two thousand and nine, Cardinals beat the Eagles
Speaker 4: thirty two to twenty five to advance to Super Bowl
Speaker 4: forty three. Standing job on the mic, Dave pash Ron
Speaker 4: Wolfley was in the booth. Unforgettable game in Cardinals history.
Speaker 4: In fact, the Lions win this past weekend reminded me
Speaker 4: a lot of the Cardinals win in that game and
Speaker 4: that NFC championship. In that Lions fans did not want
Speaker 4: to leave that stadium. They were still in their seats,
Speaker 4: soaking it all in, not wanting it to end. As
Speaker 4: Jared Goff, the last guy off the field, did every
Speaker 4: interview out there, and as he came running off, he
Speaker 4: got a standing ovation and the stadium was still packed
Speaker 4: thirty minutes, almost after the game had ended.
Speaker 1: Paully, just imagine the last time they won a playoff
Speaker 1: game nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 4: Paul I covered the team right after that. I covered
Speaker 4: those Lions teams in like ninety three and ninety four
Speaker 4: eight in the league. Yeah, and I'm still in disbelief,
Speaker 4: I really am. I mean, you're you're talking about. You know,
Speaker 4: one of the great cutaways was forget Taylor Swift over
Speaker 4: the weekend was the eighty nine year old season ticket
Speaker 4: holder of the Lions who had out season tickets first
Speaker 4: sixty six seasons. He was at the nineteen fifty seven
Speaker 4: NFL title game and the next year he bought season
Speaker 4: tickets because he was on the bandwagon. He's been a
Speaker 4: season ticket older ever since.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: So it is just amazing to watch that Lions turnaround.
Speaker 4: And Wolf I made a comparison. I said, you know
Speaker 4: what an ideal best case scenario for the Cardinals and
Speaker 4: Cardinals fans would be that Detroit and Dan Campbell is
Speaker 4: a case study for the Arizona Cardinals. They won three
Speaker 4: games their first year. They started the second season one
Speaker 4: and six. Do you know ever since they've won twenty
Speaker 4: one out of twenty eight games.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 4: They they got the O line fixed, the quarterback is intact.
Speaker 4: They got that premiere pass rusher in Aiden Hutchinson, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, they finally have a dialed in and they
Speaker 4: have that same sort of energy and physical mentality that
Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon has instilled in this team.
Speaker 1: You know that it's interesting, BALI because the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Detroit game, I think that is gonna be a good game.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that think Detroit playing home, of course, and the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers kind of being a little bit of a
Speaker 1: Cinderella team. I think for the most part here, I
Speaker 1: think they think that Detroit is gonna roll. And maybe
Speaker 1: they do. I don't know, Paully, but I think this
Speaker 1: is going to be a really physical, physical game between
Speaker 1: the Lions and the Buccaneers. And you know Todd Bowles, Yes,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers they throw the ball.
Speaker 1: They're not a really good running team by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. They love to throw the ball. Mike
Speaker 1: Evans is going off, of course, as we all know,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has played exceptionally well. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you the Lions defense number twenty seven in passing yards
Speaker 1: per game allowed and number thirty in passing yards per
Speaker 1: play allowed. They will give up some yardage out in
Speaker 1: the field. And that's why I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: come down to just how much they can the Lions
Speaker 1: control Mike Evans and Baker Mayfield throwing the ball. That
Speaker 1: to me is what this game is going to boil
Speaker 1: down to. That in the physicality of the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: attacking that front seven of the Bucks.
Speaker 4: You know what, I bet on Baker Mayfield when no
Speaker 4: one else is betting on Baker Mayfield, when everyone else
Speaker 4: counts him out. He's at his best. He's that guy
Speaker 4: who just he channels the haters and he turns it
Speaker 4: into things like this when you don't think he's capable,
Speaker 4: that's when he pulls it out. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: he's the first Tampa quarterback in franchise history with three
Speaker 4: hundred plus yards and three touchdowns in a playoff game.
Speaker 4: And how many drops do the Buccaneers have. Mike Evans
Speaker 4: himself could have had two deep shots that he dropped
Speaker 4: in that game. So I'm with you, I think that's
Speaker 4: going to be more of a game than most expect.
Speaker 4: And then you take this Niners game, and we obviously
Speaker 4: know the forty nine ers real well, and they go
Speaker 4: in with brock Party who led the NFL on passer rating.
Speaker 4: They got Christian McCaffrey back four different weapons. We had
Speaker 4: more than a thousand yards based on what you saw
Speaker 4: in Green Bay because they went into Dallas and the
Speaker 4: D and Big D stood for detonate. I mean, they
Speaker 4: destroyed the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, and Jordan Love was like
Speaker 4: shit in that game.
Speaker 1: You know, since the twelfth week of the season, Jordan
Speaker 1: Love has been one of the highest rated quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the National Football League in terms of quarterback rating. How
Speaker 1: well he has truly played from that point on. Now,
Speaker 1: the first half of the season was really up and
Speaker 1: down for Jordan Love. But can you imagine can you
Speaker 1: imagine if in fact Jordan Love is going to be
Speaker 1: the guy for the Green Bay Packers going forward for
Speaker 1: the next decade plus? Once again, is it possible, Paul Oh?
Speaker 1: The Green Bay Packers go from Brettfarv to Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: to now this new kid, Jordan Love, And is it
Speaker 1: possible they'd have almost forty years a franchise quarter.
Speaker 4: A staggering that is staggering, But based on what we
Speaker 4: say on that playoff win, it's definitely a possibility. In fact,
Speaker 4: you know what, I have it right here. Well to
Speaker 4: your point about him leading the league almost in so
Speaker 4: many different categories. Over his last nine games, he had
Speaker 4: twenty one touchdown passes and one interception. Yes, they won
Speaker 4: the coin toss and took the ball and then they
Speaker 4: crammed it down the Cowboys throat. They went twelve plays
Speaker 4: seventy five yards in a touchdown drive. The lasted more
Speaker 4: than seven minutes. They led forty eight to sixteen against
Speaker 4: the Cowboys team that had won sixteen in a row
Speaker 4: at home.
Speaker 1: But now playing the San Francisco forty nine Ers in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Of course you have to wonder, is this
Speaker 1: where Cinderella Slipper shatters into a million pieces? Right now?
Speaker 1: I do believe there is a way for the green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers to somehow, some way beat the forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: but it involves a lot of turnovers and a lot
Speaker 1: of takeaways and playing very very well. But to me,
Speaker 1: the matchup of this game is going to be the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers and their offensive line. Number four in
Speaker 1: sacks per attempt allow. That's really really good, PAULI, that's
Speaker 1: elite in the NFL. Number four in sacks per attempt allowed.
Speaker 1: The green Bay Packers offensive line. And here it comes
Speaker 1: Chase Young, Here it comes Nick Bosa. Here comes the
Speaker 1: front seven, maybe the best front seven. To me, it
Speaker 1: is the best front seven in the football universe against
Speaker 1: that offensive line. Can they run the ball? Can they
Speaker 1: just to keep Jordan Love in a balanced offense? That
Speaker 1: is a path to an upset. But I think of
Speaker 1: all the games that could be a blowout, this is
Speaker 1: the one the forty nine Ers could blow them out.
Speaker 4: If you walk into the forty nine Ers locker room
Speaker 4: right now. I wonder if there's a certain quote that's
Speaker 4: up on the old whiteboard. Because the defensive tackle for
Speaker 4: the Packers, DeVante Wyatt, said they have been studying the
Speaker 4: Baltimore game film where brock Perty threw four picks in
Speaker 4: that Christmas Night more okay, okay, he said, and I'm
Speaker 4: quoting now, we just got to get pressure on him.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. When he's throwing the ball
Speaker 4: against pressure, it's off rhythm. I watched it a lot
Speaker 4: on film. When d Lyman, just get pressure into him,
Speaker 4: he's always throwing off or it's behind, or it's overthrown,
Speaker 4: or it's short. There'll be a lot of picks or
Speaker 4: stuff like that. So when you get pressure on him,
Speaker 4: it's a guarantee we'll get a turnover.
Speaker 1: End quote. Woh, Okay, Can I talk to you please,
Speaker 1: it's time for you to stop talking.
Speaker 4: So now we'll see if Green Bay indeed can get
Speaker 4: pressure on brock Purdy. Because you're right, the Niners have
Speaker 4: one of the best offensive lines in the business and
Speaker 4: that will be intriguing to watch, no doubt about that. Hey,
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Speaker 3: Five seconds left, Snowball's complying. Have a Buffalo bells. Thanks
Speaker 3: to a thirty one to seventeen victory over the Steelers
Speaker 3: will return to the AFC Divisional Round, where next week
Speaker 3: they'll take on the Kansas City Chiefs. Here at home,
Speaker 3: mahomes Allen again, right here in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: That's what you want.
Speaker 8: Two of the best quarterbacks battling it out in the
Speaker 8: division round.
Speaker 3: In this atmosphere.
Speaker 4: Oh We're gonna be rock, no doubt. Tony Basselli, Tom McCarthy,
Speaker 4: Westwood one third straight year, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes meet
Speaker 4: in the postseason, bought that Bills have him at home
Speaker 4: after you had a Chiefs team that had hosted the
Speaker 4: AFC Championship five straight years and the Bills here it
Speaker 4: is Ron Wolfley, Buffalo Nate up here on the Big
Speaker 4: Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. The Bills
Speaker 4: in home playoff games since nineteen seventy are fourteen and two.
Speaker 4: I still don't know how the fans got in their seats.
Speaker 4: There was so much snow an hour before kickoff. Incredible
Speaker 4: is the stories of Bills fans going and grabbing shovels
Speaker 4: from the stadium crew and just shoveling out their own aisles. Yes,
Speaker 4: and then having to stand, mainly because you couldn't even
Speaker 4: sit in a seat.
Speaker 1: But here's the here's the thing I didn't understand, Paul.
Speaker 1: If you're shoveling out the isle, where are you throwing
Speaker 1: the snow? You're you were throwing it in the island
Speaker 1: in front of you or behind you, And they're doing
Speaker 1: the same thing. I don't know. It was crazy.
Speaker 4: There were enough people who made a little like cooler
Speaker 4: in front of them. They're storing their beers in there.
Speaker 4: It was outstanding. You know, they're keeping the ice cold literally.
Speaker 1: I honestly think of all the games this weekend coming up,
Speaker 1: the four games coming up this weekend, the Sunday night game, No,
Speaker 1: not about it with the Kansas City Chiefs going to
Speaker 1: the park as I like to call it, Orchard Park
Speaker 1: to play the Buffalo Bills. There it is, right, Paully,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the marquee game is not. No, it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know it's there's enough bad blood in
Speaker 4: that series. There's enough star power two teams, right, I
Speaker 4: mean you got the pedigree and the defending Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 4: The Bills right now are red hot, the way they
Speaker 4: ended the season, the way they're playing right now, the
Speaker 4: home fans who have wanted a piece of the Chiefs
Speaker 4: for all this time. So I mean, you tell me,
Speaker 4: and the way, just the way Josh Allen is playing
Speaker 4: right now, and the way he's running the ball as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the storyline And I'm not big on
Speaker 1: the storylines. I'm big on the process. I just want
Speaker 1: to see the competition. I want to see the offense,
Speaker 1: the defense. The Buffalo Bills are running the ball so
Speaker 1: much better than what they have. I think that's more
Speaker 1: than anything else. Is one of the reasons why they
Speaker 1: have a chance of actually winning this game. The Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs defense is so much better, Paul. It is
Speaker 1: so much better number eighteen and number twenty four as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, and rushing yards per game and
Speaker 1: rushing yards per play allowed. That is the only area
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs defense has struggled. Everywhere else they
Speaker 1: have been nails. Can the Buffalo Bills turn it back
Speaker 1: and run the ball like they did a few years ago.
Speaker 1: If they can be that team, I think they win
Speaker 1: this game. But it's gonna be I think this is
Speaker 1: one for the ages.
Speaker 4: What's interesting is, and Josh Allen said this quote, we're
Speaker 4: a step behind already, and he was noting and citing
Speaker 4: how the Chiefs are going to have two more days
Speaker 4: of rest after they beat Miami in those sub zero
Speaker 4: temperatures and because they had to delay the game one
Speaker 4: more day. So we'll see how much that.
Speaker 1: I'm not that crazy about that. To PAULI I'm not
Speaker 1: crazy about the fact they're playing games on Monday night.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't think they ought to do that.
Speaker 1: I think it does create a disadvantage for the team
Speaker 1: that does play on that Monday night. But this is
Speaker 1: my favorite weekend right here, PAULI not only that when
Speaker 1: you think of the other game in the AFC, think
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks that are playing in this game.
Speaker 7: C J.
Speaker 1: Stroud of course, and then Lamar Jackson Houston and the
Speaker 1: Ravens ball. This is this is gonna be a good
Speaker 1: game as well.
Speaker 4: C J. Stroud, I mean it is. I mean you
Speaker 4: have c J. Stroud and Damiko Ryans just combined to
Speaker 4: become the fourth team ever to win a playoff game
Speaker 4: with a rookie quarterback and a rookie head coach. And
Speaker 4: first thing I think of is going into Baltimore, and
Speaker 4: I think of what the Ravens did to the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers, and I think of what rokwand Smith and
Speaker 4: Patrick Queen said after the game that you know what,
Speaker 4: teams don't want to play our brand of physical ball.
Speaker 4: And so we can talk about Lamar, and we can
Speaker 4: talk about c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud.
Speaker 4: I'm wondering about that Baltimore defense and if they're going
Speaker 4: to be too physical for Houston to handle because their
Speaker 4: all line at best is average.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right about that. There's no doubt. There's
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens defense, the best scoring defense in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. Not only that too, Paul, this is a
Speaker 1: team that is physical John Harbaugh. Of course, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that demands physicality. The Ravens pass defense number
Speaker 1: six and passing yards per game allowed, number one, in
Speaker 1: passing yards per play allowed, number one, the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: And I think right now, you think of Nico Collins
Speaker 1: of course, and CJ. Stroud and the combination that they've
Speaker 1: been Remember the name Kyle Hamilton, Paul, Okay, the strong
Speaker 1: safety for the Baltimore Ravens. Kyle Hamilton what Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: should have been. He's six ' for pounds. The guy
Speaker 1: can run. The guy's an excellent tackler in the open field.
Speaker 1: And not only that, four interceptions on the season. Four interceptions.
Speaker 1: That's a nice season right there for safety. A guy
Speaker 1: that was a Pro Bowl player. Kyle Hamilton, to me,
Speaker 1: is the guy that could really play a key role
Speaker 1: in the Baltimore Ravens beating the Houston Texas.
Speaker 4: So in yards per pass allowed, Baltimore's d is No.
Speaker 4: Number one, and I did not know that. Well, what's
Speaker 4: intriguing there is c J. Stroud has to be a
Speaker 4: top three quarterback this year in the downfield passing game.
Speaker 4: His ability to hit receivers in the second and third
Speaker 4: level is elite as a rookie. We saw it in
Speaker 4: person mid season when the Cardinals went to Houston. It
Speaker 4: is remarkable. He does not hesitate to pull the trigger
Speaker 4: and go downfield.
Speaker 1: Yes, and Paul, think about this. Last week the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans ran forty four plays. That's it, forty four plays. Wow,
Speaker 1: they scored forty five points in forty four plays. Now
Speaker 1: you know they got a little help of course right there, yes,
Speaker 1: with the pick six, but still Yeah.
Speaker 4: Here's what's interesting is the numbers for CJ. Stroud and
Speaker 4: Jordan Love were almost identical. Sixteen to twenty one, both
Speaker 4: of them three touchdowns, both of them zero interceptions, both
Speaker 4: of them same passer rating one fifty seven point two,
Speaker 4: and they are separated by two passing yards. Do you
Speaker 4: see the tweet by JJ Watt? They got like ten
Speaker 4: million likes. Their Pro Football Focus grade wasn't even close.
Speaker 4: Jordan Love got ninety two point five.
Speaker 6: C J.
Speaker 4: Stroud got seventy seven point eight.
Speaker 1: Like what?
Speaker 4: And JJ Watt tweeted out, quote, this is what happens
Speaker 4: when you grade football players with an algorithm and people
Speaker 4: just because their numbers were identical and they are completely
Speaker 4: opposite Pro Football Focus grades.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know this. I'm with JJ Watt. And now,
Speaker 1: by the way, okay, but I wouldn't even say the algorithm.
Speaker 1: I'd say who's actually grading? Right, That's what I would
Speaker 1: like to know right here. But again, I think the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens had a bonafide shot of winning the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I think they do, Paul It.
Speaker 4: Okay, here's my question though, Lamar Jackson most likely your
Speaker 4: NFL MVP for a second time.
Speaker 1: This all time.
Speaker 4: Playoff record is one in three as a starting QUARTERBACKSS
Speaker 4: and the Baltimore offense has never scored more than twenty
Speaker 4: points in a post season game during Lamar's career. Is
Speaker 4: he playoff equipped? Is the pressure? Because there's zero pressure
Speaker 4: on Houston right now. They're so far ahead in the curve.
Speaker 4: Stinking Cardinals. Oh my gosh, we paid for it right
Speaker 4: with that draft pick that was never supposed to happen.
Speaker 4: Houston had the worst winning percentage the last three years
Speaker 4: combined of any team, and out of nowhere they won
Speaker 4: a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Yes, here's my bloodiest game of the week as well, Paul.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, you said a lot of good
Speaker 1: stuff right there, Poly, but this is the bloodiest game
Speaker 1: of the week. You got the Ravens, the number one
Speaker 1: rushing offense in the National Football League against a team
Speaker 1: that is number two and yards per attempt allowed, the
Speaker 1: Texans number six and yards per game, rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game and number two and rushing yards per play. This
Speaker 1: is going to be a bloodbath on the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: By the way, everything Demiko Ryans has done in Houston
Speaker 4: is exactly what Jonathan Gannon is instituting with the Cardinals.
Speaker 4: That energy, that physicality special Thanks the Cardinals tight ends
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