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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you started with that right there, especially
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Speaker 3: All right. So here's the deal. Jonathan Gannon yet to
Speaker 3: publicly name his starting quarterback. Let's just start with QB one.
Speaker 3: Because Kyler Murray the known and unknown. What's known is
Speaker 3: he's on pop. He's gonna miss the first four games.
Speaker 3: When he's coming back dot dot dot unknown. I'm guessing
Speaker 3: around Halloween, give or take. I have no idea. That's
Speaker 3: strictly a guess. Here's what we do know is there's
Speaker 3: a good chance, at least reportedly according to the NFL Network,
Speaker 3: the Cardinals are going to start a quarterback who didn't
Speaker 3: take a single snap in Cardinals camp, didn't take a
Speaker 3: single snap with the Cardinals in the preseason. Okay, yet,
Speaker 3: he has an aerospace engineering degree from Tennessee. He has
Speaker 3: a big brain. His name is Josh Dobbs. And here's
Speaker 3: Dobbs on his ability to pick up the offense so far.
Speaker 4: I figured I was gonna get down pretty quick, you know,
Speaker 4: just being able to keep a good relationship with Drew
Speaker 4: and then get here and dive into the playbook, you know,
Speaker 4: having last week out there on the field with the guys,
Speaker 4: but also in the film room with the coaches to
Speaker 4: pour through kind of Hey, where the difference is from here?
Speaker 4: And in the last playbook I was in with them?
Speaker 4: How do you guys change stuff? Having that week helped
Speaker 4: a lot, and now being able to vocalize those nuances
Speaker 4: and stuff that I know or stuff that has changed
Speaker 4: to my teammates has been really good.
Speaker 3: All right, Joshua Dobbs right there, and he's talking about
Speaker 3: Drew Petsing, the Cardinals offensive coordinator who was his quarterbacks
Speaker 3: coach in Cleveland. Their connection, the relationship, his knowledge of
Speaker 3: this system in a lot of ways, including a lot
Speaker 3: of the burbage. So all that being the case, Well,
Speaker 3: what sort of challenge is this? Do you think if
Speaker 3: indeed he is your starter on Sunday?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's still going to be a big challenge, Pauli.
Speaker 1: It really is because he doesn't even know his teammates.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I know he knows them right, Hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing, But he doesn't really know them yet.
Speaker 1: And you know, Pauli, it's kind of like you at
Speaker 1: a party whenever we go out and we socialize whenever
Speaker 1: that is, and you know how awkward you are, Paul
Speaker 1: at a party and it just you don't really know
Speaker 1: these people, so it puts you in a weird kind
Speaker 1: of vibe. And I think that's exactly where Josh Dobbs is.
Speaker 1: He's in that weird vibe type place right now where
Speaker 1: he knows his teammates, but he doesn't know his teammates,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be a process, of course. But
Speaker 1: the fact that he is a veteran I think really
Speaker 1: helps him right here. He has gone through a lot
Speaker 1: of the terminology, a lot of the pro concepts that
Speaker 1: you're gonna find in the National Football League. He did
Speaker 1: it at Pittsburgh, he did it with the Titans in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that has been around and
Speaker 1: knows some of the concepts that exist in the game
Speaker 1: of football. And then Drew Petsing his relationship with him
Speaker 1: as well. He's a veteran, I expect him to go
Speaker 1: out and actually play like a veteran pauland not look
Speaker 1: like a guy that is a rookie.
Speaker 3: See the difference at a party versus football is in football,
Speaker 3: your teammates, your colleagues have their names on the back
Speaker 3: of their jerseys. So there's a competitive advantage in that regard.
Speaker 3: He actually made that joke that on game day he's
Speaker 3: actually gonna rely on the fact that guys have nameplates
Speaker 3: on the back, or you could just go to the
Speaker 3: Kaiser White. I remember him saying about a month after
Speaker 3: he was signed here with the Cardinals. He said he
Speaker 3: still didn't know anyone's names, but everybody was just hey,
Speaker 3: my man. Ever was my man, my man, So you
Speaker 3: can always go that route as well. Look, Joshua Dobbs
Speaker 3: just did this. Did he not to end last season
Speaker 3: on eight days notice? He went to ten see he
Speaker 3: learned their offense. He started the first two games of
Speaker 3: his career the final two games last season for the Titans.
Speaker 3: This second game was a lot better than the first game,
Speaker 3: so he's been there and done that. In terms of
Speaker 3: navigating the learning curve, he said he got a running
Speaker 3: start just by being traded to the Cardinals and the
Speaker 3: Drew Petsen system. That gave him a bit of it advantage. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: but how restricted do you think Drew Petsen will be
Speaker 3: on the play calling sheet when it really gets down
Speaker 3: to it on Sunday?
Speaker 1: You know what, Paully, I really don't know for sure
Speaker 1: what to expect on that, but I can tell you
Speaker 1: my guess is that this is again a veteran quarterback
Speaker 1: who knows this offense to some degree, who knows Drew Petsing,
Speaker 1: of course, and you just heard him talk about that
Speaker 1: right there. And not only that though, Paully, but he's
Speaker 1: exactly what I think the Cardinals are looking for in
Speaker 1: a quarterback. This is something you've talked about as well.
Speaker 1: The dual threat nature of his game I think is
Speaker 1: something that they value. And because of that, Paul, you know,
Speaker 1: I expect them to open up the playbook. Now. When
Speaker 1: you game plan, of course, you're trying to be specific
Speaker 1: as to what you see on tape from your opponent.
Speaker 1: So you want to go ahead and say, okay, this
Speaker 1: is the defense they like, and run down situation, these
Speaker 1: are some of the pressures they like, and their nobvious
Speaker 1: pass situations, you know, whatever it may be. You're game
Speaker 1: planning specifically foreign opponent, so you don't have to have
Speaker 1: all of the playbook at his disposal. It's more of
Speaker 1: a game plan. It's going to be a focused attempt
Speaker 1: here by the Cardinals, and I think Josh Dobbs is
Speaker 1: going to handle that beautifully.
Speaker 3: Game plan is also the name of Jonathan Gannon's TV show,
Speaker 3: which we host every week, and we asked him specifically,
Speaker 3: you know, coach, you've said more than once that you
Speaker 3: really like about Clayton Tune and Josh Dobbs, the fact
Speaker 3: they can quote make plays inside and outside the pocket.
Speaker 3: And he said absolutely. In today's felt that is vital,
Speaker 3: that is critical. And when you watch just a little
Speaker 3: bit we've been able to watch at Josh Dobbs on
Speaker 3: the Cardinals practice field. He's very fluid, he moves very well.
Speaker 3: He throws very well on the run. He's very accurate
Speaker 3: on the run with a strong arm. He's one of
Speaker 3: four quarterbacks in SEC history to total fifty passing touchdowns
Speaker 3: and twenty five rushing touchdowns in their career, the others
Speaker 3: Tim Tebow, Dak Prescott and Johnny Manziel. So he can move.
Speaker 3: He can really run. Now, as for the old SEC connection,
Speaker 3: here's DJ Humphreys with only a scount of report Hump
Speaker 3: can give when asked about Josh Dobbs, his new quarterback.
Speaker 5: Josh, he's quiet, dude, as he says, what it seems
Speaker 5: like anyway from me. He went to Tennessee though, So
Speaker 5: it could he could just be a weird dude, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. That could be the case. So
Speaker 5: I haven't really quite figured him out yet. But I'm
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, He's on my team, so
Speaker 5: I'm gonna find out. I'll let you know sooner or
Speaker 5: later whether now he's a cool dude or not. But
Speaker 5: U t starting out. Ah, gotta watch him, Gotta watch.
Speaker 6: Them for sure.
Speaker 3: See it's sort of like the trash talk between you
Speaker 3: and Larry Fitzgerald between West Virginia and Pitta get a
Speaker 3: little bit by the way.
Speaker 7: L J.
Speaker 3: Collier is our guest on this addition to the Big
Speaker 3: Red ration presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert. So we'll
Speaker 3: get some perspective on the Cardinals starting defensive lineman what
Speaker 3: he's seen a Dobbs in practice, along with about a
Speaker 3: ton of other topics as well. And look the other
Speaker 3: thing for whoever the quarterback is going to be. We
Speaker 3: both believe that this will be a much more balanced
Speaker 3: offense this year. Correct, Yes, James Connor. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: if you're a fantasy football manager and you left James
Speaker 3: Connor on the board late in your draft, you made
Speaker 3: a mistake, because I think he's tracking for a big
Speaker 3: year and it won't be for a lack of opportunities.
Speaker 3: They are going to give him the football.
Speaker 1: You know. It's also interesting, Paully. I'm agreeing with what
Speaker 1: you're saying, but I also I cannot help it. I
Speaker 1: think of Josh Dobbs and I think of his skill side,
Speaker 1: and I think he favors more Kyler Murray's skill set
Speaker 1: than he does Clayton in his skill set. So it's
Speaker 1: not that Clayton Tune cannot be a dual threat guy.
Speaker 1: I think he can, but he's got to prove that.
Speaker 1: He's got to develop that a little bit more for me,
Speaker 1: but for the fact that Kyler Murray at some point
Speaker 1: in time, I fully expect that I know you do
Speaker 1: as well. I think we all do, Bully, that Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's going to get the opportunity to play here sometime
Speaker 1: in October. He's going to get the opportunity to play,
Speaker 1: and I fully expect the offense to look the same
Speaker 1: in regard to personnel groups, in regard to the formations
Speaker 1: they're going to use it, in regard to a lot
Speaker 1: of the plays that they're going to use. I think
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray starts that way. When he does get the
Speaker 1: opportunity to play, he's going to be in the Josh
Speaker 1: Dobbs offense.
Speaker 3: That's interesting, that's really interesting. I mean there's a reason
Speaker 3: they went after Josh Dobbs, obviously, the connection to Drew
Speaker 3: Petson and the knowledge right there. But I mean he's
Speaker 3: on his sixth team in his seventh season, and he
Speaker 3: just the end of last year started his first two
Speaker 3: career games. So what do the Cardinals know? What are
Speaker 3: the Cardinals like right about a Josh Dobbs And maybe
Speaker 3: that's a great point, Maybe just the fact it wouldn't
Speaker 3: be a big transition from his skill set to a
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray once K one returns. I like that very interesting.
Speaker 3: I mean it's we're gonna pose this question a little
Speaker 3: bit later, like what is the rest in the NFL
Speaker 3: gonna find out about this team that we think we know?
Speaker 3: And a balanced offense I think is won a really
Speaker 3: potent run game is one. I think another one is
Speaker 3: Michael Wilson can play, and you're gonna have some blocking
Speaker 3: receivers Zach Pascal and Michael Wilson you didn't have a
Speaker 3: year ago, which is gonna pave the way in the
Speaker 3: run game. I firmly believe. Episode sixty two of the
Speaker 3: Day Pash Podcast featuring Cardinals All pro safety Boodha Baker
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Speaker 3: pod and by the way, Buddha Baker, he is tracking
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Speaker 3: Too the year after a play action thing on the
Speaker 3: move rows and it's broken up, nearly picked off by
Speaker 3: Key Trell Clark.
Speaker 8: He can get from A to B right, He's fast,
Speaker 8: he's sticky on routes, and he's shown that throughout the
Speaker 8: Training Company show that in the first preseason game. What
Speaker 8: I also love about Key Treill is he's ferocious. You know,
Speaker 8: he's not the biggest guy, but he plays big.
Speaker 3: Heath Trell Clark coming up to make the big hit
Speaker 3: after a game.
Speaker 8: Of a couple and he ain't turning down any kind
Speaker 8: of contact and I do appreciate that.
Speaker 4: With his game as well, there's question marks.
Speaker 3: Do you need answers to those question marks?
Speaker 4: And he's one of those guys that may be an answer.
Speaker 3: Drew Staniers truly we're calling the game. We were saying, look,
Speaker 3: August is about answers, and the Cardinals think they got
Speaker 3: an answer on their six round rookie out of Louisville.
Speaker 3: Keyth Trell Clark, you're Nick Rollins there in the past, Pod.
Speaker 3: Guess what. It's September and he is a starting corner
Speaker 3: your sixth round rookie. It's the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 3: by Santanford in go. We are santan Ford, Paul KELBC,
Speaker 3: Ron Wolfley right around the corner. We're joined by l. J. Collier,
Speaker 3: former first round pick of Seattle, a starting defensive lineman
Speaker 3: for the Cardinals. We've got a ton of questions there,
Speaker 3: but wolf in your mind, maybe the biggest question mark
Speaker 3: in terms of position, group cornerback going into this camp.
Speaker 3: Where do you feel on how the Cardinals stand right here,
Speaker 3: right now going against a heck of a receiving trio
Speaker 3: that Washington has on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paully, it's gonna be very, very tough right now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Marco Wilson is still a young CB one and he's
Speaker 1: got all the athleticism you could possibly want right there,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's still a work in progress. I think
Speaker 1: Keith Tarlt Clark the same thing. Obviously, he's a rookie
Speaker 1: right now. To me, Paully, it's really interesting, man, when
Speaker 1: you've got a young guy like that at corner, they
Speaker 1: can actually contribute, I think quickly. Because being a corner,
Speaker 1: especially if you're play an awful lot of man cover.
Speaker 1: Is you got that dude right there, you're not doing
Speaker 1: an awful lot of thinking.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to oversimplify it, I really don't, but
Speaker 1: for me, Key Trell Clark has got a chance to
Speaker 1: come in and make an immediate impact because of all
Speaker 1: of the man cover that I expect we're going to
Speaker 1: see at some point in time, whether it's a combination
Speaker 1: man's own or whether it's just straight up man whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, I expect to see a lot of
Speaker 1: man cover, and Key Trell Clark is a guy that
Speaker 1: I think can contribute immediately. It's kind of like playing edge, Paully,
Speaker 1: you can make an impact immediately as a rookie. Just
Speaker 1: go get the quarterback. Okay. Now, I know it's an
Speaker 1: oversimplification of the truth of course to say that, but
Speaker 1: it's one of the reasons why Michael Wilson and Wide
Speaker 1: receivers typically will struggle early on because of all the
Speaker 1: complex coverages that they're going to see. And yet at
Speaker 1: the same time, I don't expect Michael Wilson to struggle
Speaker 1: because he's absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, Key Trell Clark, he got
Speaker 3: a lot of regular season looks and experience in the preseason.
Speaker 3: By that, I mean he got almost a full first
Speaker 3: half against Russell Wilson. He then got Patrick Mahomes, he
Speaker 3: got Justin Jefferson over to joint practices. He made an
Speaker 3: early play on Justin Jefferson, and then Justin Jefferson got
Speaker 3: him back right. So he learned a lot along the way.
Speaker 3: And along the way, you know, Wolf, you have to
Speaker 3: earn the trust of your coaches and your teammates. Here's
Speaker 3: Buddha Baker talking about Key Trell Clark and just the.
Speaker 9: Work ethic ConTroll is definitely one of those guys that
Speaker 9: puts the extra work in extra meeting in He'll talk
Speaker 9: to the you know, of course, the safeties see what
Speaker 9: we see of course, and you know he's he's a
Speaker 9: guy who's very fast, has has a quick twitch young
Speaker 9: and I'm very excited to see what he can do
Speaker 9: on Sunday because he's been making plays and I'm excited
Speaker 9: to see him make more plays season.
Speaker 3: We got a sense in early May that he was
Speaker 3: precocious as a rookie when he said he already had
Speaker 3: a notebook on Michael Wilson and other Cardinals receivers just
Speaker 3: for practice. Man, he had a notebook. So you see
Speaker 3: the work ethic and guess what it resulted in a
Speaker 3: starting position for a guy who's taken on Day three
Speaker 3: of the draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Polly, once again, I mean, coming in,
Speaker 1: you only have two corners, two starting corners, now three.
Speaker 1: I think I included Nickel Corner as a starter as well.
Speaker 1: But it was interesting to see how Key Trell Clark
Speaker 1: came into that third preseason game and Polly was he
Speaker 1: was a done deal. He had made the team. You
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of guys drafted where Key Trell
Speaker 1: Clark was drafted coming into that third preseason game already
Speaker 1: established as a guy that not only was going to
Speaker 1: make the roster, but was most likely he figured to
Speaker 1: start as well. So that just shows you the kind
Speaker 1: of training camp and the kind of preseason that Key
Speaker 1: Troll Clark had in the confidence that the coaches have
Speaker 1: in him.
Speaker 3: So we went with the slogan let the rook cook
Speaker 3: for Clayton Tune the fifth round rookie quarterback right, and
Speaker 3: that was in the preseason. Looks like he's gonna be
Speaker 3: the backup. So now we're gonna inmend that to let
Speaker 3: the rooks cook. When you look at the depth chart,
Speaker 3: there's Key Troll Clark, there's a six pick overall, Paris
Speaker 3: Johnson Junior. He's a starter. And then the third rookie
Speaker 3: starting running with the first team is Michael Wilson, the
Speaker 3: third rounder out of Stanford. Here's Hollywood Marquis Brown today
Speaker 3: talking about the rookie.
Speaker 6: Mike got a unique skill set. Feel like our games
Speaker 6: come from each other very well.
Speaker 4: And I feel like a lot of people that sleep
Speaker 4: on him they're gonna wake up come game time.
Speaker 3: Hello, how about that? I mean, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: quiet confidence in that locker room about what's coming with
Speaker 3: Michael Wilson. And I think we got a real sense wolf,
Speaker 3: did we not? When he was held out a lot
Speaker 3: of the preseason. We didn't see him in a lot
Speaker 3: of the reseason games. Darren and I and this is
Speaker 3: more Darren than me because he actually covered that game,
Speaker 3: was there in person. He wondered aloud, Darren Urban, could
Speaker 3: this be an a Kwan Bolden sort of explosion where
Speaker 3: you keep a rookie receiver under wraps and then in
Speaker 3: the first game, we remember that epic historic game and
Speaker 3: Kwan Bolden had ten catches for over two hundred yards
Speaker 3: and two touchdowns. Now, nobody's predicting that sort of productivity,
Speaker 3: but he could have a big impact on Sunday and
Speaker 3: make a name for himself.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, Paul, there's no doubt. And you know,
Speaker 1: again I have to say this, but Michael Wilson is
Speaker 1: a really smart guy. Run He's a super smart guy, ball,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, man. And because of that, he's
Speaker 1: got a chance to actually come into the National Football
Speaker 1: League as a wide receiver and make an immediate impact. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, once again, we've seen wide receivers from time
Speaker 1: to time coming and make that immediate impact. We've seen that,
Speaker 1: but as we've discussed many times in the past, it's
Speaker 1: rare that it actually happens. And Michael Wilson, he's got
Speaker 1: it upstairs. He can understand the concepts offensively, he can
Speaker 1: understands read routes offensively. He can redefenses Paul and understand
Speaker 1: some of the adjustments and do it on the fly.
Speaker 1: This is what I've been told, because he's a very
Speaker 1: very bright guy, Paul. If you can't do that, you
Speaker 1: got no chance of being a receiver that is actually
Speaker 1: going to contribute big, contribute significantly your rookie year. If
Speaker 1: you can't see it first in the brain. He does
Speaker 1: see it, which tells me now he's got a chance
Speaker 1: to be able to go out and execute it. And
Speaker 1: when you're talking about a guy who's six to two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen pounds, who's very, very physical, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that I love. Opposite of Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that for a minute. I think that's
Speaker 3: another reason why he's running first team, because this team
Speaker 3: is dead set on running the ball. And when he
Speaker 3: listened again, and he's not kidding when he says the
Speaker 3: run game is all eleven, he expects the receivers to block.
Speaker 3: There's a reason Zach Pascal is going to be out there.
Speaker 3: There's a reason of Michael Wilson, I think is starting
Speaker 3: instead of some of the smaller receivers on this roster.
Speaker 3: Because they're going to feature the run, and we know
Speaker 3: talking to the coaches, he's put on film some hallacious
Speaker 3: blocks already in the preseason. The little action he got,
Speaker 3: he did not hesitate to bring the boom on some defenders.
Speaker 3: So they're counting on that aspect of his game. And
Speaker 3: you're right because it was a study two years ago
Speaker 3: and they said the lowest hit rate for any first
Speaker 3: round position group in the draft and make an immediate
Speaker 3: impact was receiver. It was like seventeen percent. I don't
Speaker 3: know how they calculates all the analytics. The point was
Speaker 3: that receivers, more than any other position group, have an
Speaker 3: initial difficulty trying to make that transition and be productive
Speaker 3: in the regular season. And a lot of that is
Speaker 3: the mental side of it, because your forty doesn't matter,
Speaker 3: your hands don't matter if you're not running the right
Speaker 3: route and being in the right spot for your quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yes, and not only that too, Baly, You've heard me
Speaker 1: talk about a lot about twelve personnel right one back,
Speaker 1: two tight ends. Can you imagine twelve personnel where you've
Speaker 1: got Jeff Swain as a stud tight end on the field,
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz as your move tight end on the field,
Speaker 1: Michael Wilson as your why and Hollywood Brown as your
Speaker 1: ex can I tell you right now, attack the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, Attack the line of scrimmage, and then use
Speaker 1: play action to throw it over their heads. I love
Speaker 1: the fact that you've got two tight ends out on
Speaker 1: the field and a Michael Wilson out on the field
Speaker 1: who is going to block down field and is a
Speaker 1: big unit doing it. Attack the line of scrimmage with
Speaker 1: two tight ends blocking, Attack the line of scrimmage Kramitt
Speaker 1: vertical as JG loves to say with James Connor, and
Speaker 1: then here's Hollywood Brown over the top with a play
Speaker 1: action for me, Paul Again, it's a very simple approach,
Speaker 1: yet it's a deadly approach, and it's been around the
Speaker 1: NFL for a long long time, and I love that combination.
Speaker 3: We were watching the Red White practice in camp, the
Speaker 3: Great Roy Green said, you know what's gonna be the
Speaker 3: best thing for Hollywood Brown, Rondel Moore and Greg Dorch
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Speaker 3: have you said Washington has four first round picks on
Speaker 3: the defensive line. You know what? The Cardinals added their
Speaker 3: own former first round pick on the defensive line, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk to him next.
Speaker 1: L J.
Speaker 3: Collier joins us on the big red rage resented by
Speaker 3: santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford, Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: and the gun flick sec went brow batter at the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, and that was L. J. Collier getting
Speaker 3: the big mid up there and knocking it down. The
Speaker 3: former first round pick out of Seattle has had an
Speaker 3: early career revival, at least so far in Cardinals camp.
Speaker 10: If anybody is the best cooking d line room is me.
Speaker 10: I make one hell of a steak. Shout out to
Speaker 10: Trager Man.
Speaker 3: Okay, so he's flexing his ability to grill a steak. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the only steak he grew is still in his freezer.
Speaker 3: So he told us.
Speaker 5: He told us he was gonnavite everybody over to come
Speaker 5: to the pool and he was like, I'm buying steak.
Speaker 3: So I'm buying chicken wings and we just didn't make.
Speaker 10: It, so I think it's still in his freezer with
Speaker 10: some trash.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, Wolf, there's one unanswered question that
Speaker 3: we have to address before week one, before this season
Speaker 3: kicks off, We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Ledbetter, l J. Collier or back to Jonathan Ledbetter.
Speaker 3: It's like the US Open tennis right now, we're coming
Speaker 3: back to the other side.
Speaker 7: L J.
Speaker 3: Collier joins us in the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 3: Santan Ford and Gilbert Your response to this cooking controversy,
Speaker 3: if you will, LJ.
Speaker 6: Man, Look, I don't have to say anything. I can
Speaker 6: just ask my wife, her family.
Speaker 10: I got plenty of people that have come vouch for
Speaker 10: my stakes man, And if you guys would ever give
Speaker 10: me an opportunity, I'd love to make you one. I
Speaker 10: feel like I do all right, I'd do Okay, John
Speaker 10: don't even have a grill at his house.
Speaker 6: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, LJ. I've got it. Okay, you guy,
Speaker 1: I know you got the grill, and that's awesome right now.
Speaker 1: But I gotta ask you this before we dive into
Speaker 1: the meat of this. You come from a small town, correct.
Speaker 10: Very small, man. Monday is one of those towns that
Speaker 10: if you blink going through, you'll miss it. But it's
Speaker 10: a great place to grow up, I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: And where exactly is it again? And how many people
Speaker 1: are populating this town?
Speaker 10: Man? It might be a thousand to five hundred in
Speaker 10: the town. And like I'll tell you, I might have
Speaker 10: had a one hundred to three hundred kids in the school.
Speaker 10: I can't really remember. I've been gone so long, but
Speaker 10: I mean, I'll tell you like this, my sophomore year
Speaker 10: of English, it was three of us in there. It
Speaker 10: was me, it was a girl named Darien and Yachty,
Speaker 10: So it was just us three in there. I still
Speaker 10: talk to my English teacher to this day. Me and
Speaker 10: her son are pretty close.
Speaker 3: So this is this is Monday with you, Monday, Texas. Yes, sir, okay, wow.
Speaker 3: So what was the football program like then?
Speaker 6: When I was in high school and coming up? We
Speaker 6: were actually really dominant.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 10: We had one of the best teams in the state
Speaker 10: at the time. We won state my junior year, and
Speaker 10: we were always pretty good. They're not as good as
Speaker 10: we were back in the day, but I played both
Speaker 10: sides of the ball. I played tight end for my
Speaker 10: first three years, and then my senior year I got
Speaker 10: mixed around a little bit. I played some running back,
Speaker 10: some receiver. I kicked, I kicked off, and I kicked
Speaker 10: field goals.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute, wait running back and receiver. You're an
Speaker 3: NFL defensive lineman.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I had a nice little tool book coming
Speaker 6: out of coming out of LJ.
Speaker 1: You're telling me you had hands.
Speaker 6: Oh guaranteed, I promise you.
Speaker 3: Well, fulet me tell you. If my kids on the
Speaker 3: field and LJ Colliers run, I need the ball. I'm
Speaker 3: pulling my kid off defense. It just I mean, that's just.
Speaker 3: I mean, give me a break on that one.
Speaker 1: Oh my, When when did they settle on you being
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle?
Speaker 6: Uh? Man? Pretty much?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 10: I met Sonny Comby, my recruiter after my junior year
Speaker 10: when I picked off a pass in the state game
Speaker 10: and ran it back for a touchdown. I pretty much
Speaker 10: knew then I was gonna play D line then and there.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe that's when you learn to cook, because you
Speaker 3: had to put on like one hundred pounds, right.
Speaker 10: I don't know, truth be told, man, I like I'd
Speaker 10: always wanted to learn how to grill and stuff, and uh,
Speaker 10: I never had time in college. So when I got
Speaker 10: my own house and stuff, I said, I reached out
Speaker 10: to my agency what they could help me do. And
Speaker 10: I just be like, Trager helps you out a lot
Speaker 10: with the recipes on the app and stuff. So I
Speaker 10: just go from there and I just mix and match
Speaker 10: my own stuff.
Speaker 3: Wow, I might have to try that. The wife isn't
Speaker 3: a big fan of my barbecuing skills, by the way,
Speaker 3: that's neither here nor there. It's the big red rage
Speaker 3: Old J Colley or joining us, Paul kelvc Ron Wolfey.
Speaker 3: All right, so how regular season ready do you feel
Speaker 3: right now going into this opener at Washington?
Speaker 10: This is the best I felt in my career as
Speaker 10: far as like just mentally prepared ready to go, you know,
Speaker 10: just from all the stuff I've learned in Seattle and
Speaker 10: then stuff that the coaches have put us through here.
Speaker 10: I feel like we're ready. A lot of people think
Speaker 10: we're not, but I feel like we're gonna go out
Speaker 10: there and we're gonna show the world that we are
Speaker 10: more than what they say we are. It's a group
Speaker 10: of guys that are hungry. We got a lot to prove,
Speaker 10: and we don't want to prove anything to anybody but
Speaker 10: the people that are in this building and in that
Speaker 10: locker room.
Speaker 1: LJ. You mentioned it right there Seattle. Why do you
Speaker 1: think things didn't work for you in Seattle?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 10: It was a little of them and it was a
Speaker 10: little of me, Man went hand in hand. I should
Speaker 10: have made more plays here and there, and it just
Speaker 10: wasn't the right fit. There's a lot of good people
Speaker 10: over there in that building, and I have a lot
Speaker 10: of respect for some of them. Pete John, those guys
Speaker 10: like that gave me multiple chances, but I really just
Speaker 10: needed a fresh start in a new place.
Speaker 3: You mentioned in the media about a month ago that
Speaker 3: it's a different mindset for you now in Arizona. Can
Speaker 3: you elaborate on that.
Speaker 10: You don't understand what it's like. I don't know how
Speaker 10: much you guys know about Seattle, but it's just kind
Speaker 10: of like a dark, gloomy place, and when you're not
Speaker 10: playing well and stuff's just not going your way, it'll
Speaker 10: really carry on to you. Man, you're just not feeling
Speaker 10: good about yourself. Whereas you get out here, it's sunny
Speaker 10: every day, it feels good. It just It brings energy
Speaker 10: into you, and I told myself I was gonna take
Speaker 10: a different approach when I got here.
Speaker 6: I will smile every day. I will love what I do.
Speaker 3: So what do you think Cardinals fans are going to
Speaker 3: see out of your game? Do you give us a
Speaker 3: scattery report on yourself? Because I think everyone's wondering. They
Speaker 3: see your resume, right, they see your status as a
Speaker 3: first round pick. Obviously the Cardinals have a need at
Speaker 3: that position. How would you describe yourself right now as
Speaker 3: you start this season.
Speaker 10: I feel like I'm gonna go. I'm gonna rush the
Speaker 10: hell out of the pastor this year and we're gonna
Speaker 10: stop the run. I feel like I'm gonna have a
Speaker 10: great year. I'm gonna go for six or seven sacks,
Speaker 10: a lot of TFLs, and I'm gonna ball this year.
Speaker 10: I could care less about the first round pick. Thing
Speaker 10: that only mattered the night of Now I'm in and
Speaker 10: that's all that matters. How can I provide for my family?
Speaker 10: How can I continue to make this thing go? How
Speaker 10: can I make this organization one of the best in
Speaker 10: the league. That's really what matters to me these days.
Speaker 1: Now, I gotta tell you that is I love that
Speaker 1: right there when you're talking about your family. How can
Speaker 1: I go out and provide for my family? Because you
Speaker 1: know what, once you have that your motivation, as you
Speaker 1: know LJ, it'll never leave you. That chip is going
Speaker 1: to be taking off your shoulder and it's going to
Speaker 1: be buried in your heart internally. Once you're like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm out here, you guys. You're out here playing a game.
Speaker 1: That's great. I'm trying to support my family. That motivation
Speaker 1: is awesome. So let me talk to you about this
Speaker 1: right here from a technique perspective. Three technique, five technique,
Speaker 1: where one technique, wherever they're going to move you, where
Speaker 1: do you like to play the most?
Speaker 10: I like playing over the three of these days three technique.
Speaker 10: You know, I leave the five stuff to the guys
Speaker 10: out there like cams. So then it's like.
Speaker 1: Being on the outside shoulder of the guard whether it's
Speaker 1: strong or weak.
Speaker 10: Oh yes, sir, one hundred percent these days and you
Speaker 10: just work edges and help mainly go down the middle
Speaker 10: of them.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 10: But one thing I can say, man, it's easy to
Speaker 10: come on here and tell what I'm going to do.
Speaker 10: And I'm a type of person. I've done a lot
Speaker 10: of talking in my career where I'd rather just get
Speaker 10: up there and just show you guys what I come by.
Speaker 6: It's a long season.
Speaker 10: It may not start out the way I want the beginning,
Speaker 10: but I guarantee you we're gonna finish drone.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the head coach, Jonathan Gannon, just on how
Speaker 3: they plan on using L. J. Collier, and it's going
Speaker 3: to be different than it was with this previous team.
Speaker 7: Knowing how they used them in Seattle for you know,
Speaker 7: what they thought was best for their team, We're using
Speaker 7: them a little bit differently for what we think is
Speaker 7: best for our team. And then for him, he's done
Speaker 7: a really good job of, you know, taking on that
Speaker 7: responsibility and playing with some different techniques that he hasn't
Speaker 7: played with since he's been in the NFL. I like
Speaker 7: where his game is at. He's he's a he's a
Speaker 7: mean guy with a high motor.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 3: We saw you get kicked out of a training camp
Speaker 3: practice man.
Speaker 10: Just me and my guy Dennis has had a disagreement
Speaker 10: that day. It was birthday of pass just you know,
Speaker 10: a little extra pushing, and we've since talked and worked
Speaker 10: it over.
Speaker 6: And everything.
Speaker 10: Man, just when you played Delona Olin, Man, stuff just
Speaker 10: gets hectic in there sometimes. And I love Dennis to death. Man,
Speaker 10: we're cool now. We squashed it, but man, sometimes sparks
Speaker 10: get the flying in there, punches get thrown. It's a
Speaker 10: it's a grown man's game within the.
Speaker 1: Just so you know, LJ, I was standing and applauding
Speaker 1: when you were walking off the field when they tossed you.
Speaker 1: Because of that, I just to honestly, a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand, I think, and to me, it actually
Speaker 1: relieves a lot of pressure built up in that locker
Speaker 1: room right there, and it's amazing once you do go
Speaker 1: at it with a guy. Just like you said, so
Speaker 1: much of the time you end up making up respecting
Speaker 1: each other and everybody gains from it. It's an incredible thing,
Speaker 1: and you have to experience it, I think, to actually
Speaker 1: see it. But it sounds like to me, LJ, listening
Speaker 1: to you talk, you've had to come to the waters
Speaker 1: moment in your career. You feel like you're different somehow
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals than you were with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 6: Correct, Where is that?
Speaker 1: How is it? Why is that different?
Speaker 10: My mentals are different? I'm believing myself again. The confidence
Speaker 10: is there. I had no confidence in Seattle. I didn't
Speaker 10: believe in myself At times. I didn't understand how it
Speaker 10: was the first round pick. It was just times things
Speaker 10: weren't coming to me as easy. And now I just
Speaker 10: took a different approach in watching film and just really
Speaker 10: harping on myself to be like, man, that's not me,
Speaker 10: that's not who I am. I'm here for a reason.
Speaker 10: God has a plan for me, and like, wow, it's
Speaker 10: either one of those things where like I talked to
Speaker 10: my mentor he was just like, man, look, dude, like
Speaker 10: what do you want to do. Do you want to
Speaker 10: be an NFL player? Do you want to go home
Speaker 10: and sit on the couch? And I'm just like the
Speaker 10: way they're paying us in this job, like this man,
Speaker 10: you like, like I said at the end of the
Speaker 10: day's family man. And where I come from, I didn't
Speaker 10: come for much, and I feel like I'd be a
Speaker 10: fool to turn this down, this opportunity to go out
Speaker 10: there and make myself money, generational money that can set
Speaker 10: me up for life and have fun doing it.
Speaker 6: I didn't have fun in Seattle. I mean, it just
Speaker 6: wasn't fun for me.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you don't lack for motivation right now.
Speaker 10: No, I'm man, Look, I'm geeked up and I'm ready
Speaker 10: to go. I have a lot to prove, man, and
Speaker 10: I'm just like, it really just proven to myself that
Speaker 10: I can do what I said I can do, and
Speaker 10: I know I can go out there and provide for
Speaker 10: this team and be one of the best in the league.
Speaker 6: I believe that it will chair well.
Speaker 1: I just Paulie, I just got to jump l chaiirut
Speaker 1: that I love that because once again, so many people
Speaker 1: say I want to prove other people wrong. You are
Speaker 1: saying I want to prove myself right. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: hearing coming from you, Ed Buddy. I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: if you do not lose sight of that, because if
Speaker 1: you continue down that road with that kind of mentality, dude, man,
Speaker 1: with your skill and your talent, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: winning combination for you.
Speaker 3: Brother Wolf play ten years as a fullback, they're still
Speaker 3: talking about how he fought Richard Dent. Okay, the big defense.
Speaker 3: Now it didn't go Wolf's way, but you know the
Speaker 3: respect Wolf ern Okay, and that's l Jake Olay is
Speaker 3: our guest here. Let me ask you this. We didn't
Speaker 3: see a whole lot in the first team d line
Speaker 3: in the preseason, but when we did it was impressive.
Speaker 3: What should our takeaways be from that? And then what
Speaker 3: sort of defense? I'm not asking a game plan, I'm
Speaker 3: talking style of defense. Do you think we'll see under
Speaker 3: Nick Rolis this year?
Speaker 6: We're gonna get after the ball.
Speaker 10: We're gonna be aggressive, We're gonna be technique sound, and
Speaker 10: we're gonna be physical. We're gonna get after you were
Speaker 10: gonna run to the ball. We're gonna all work in
Speaker 10: one motion. One thing I know about defense is you
Speaker 10: gotta do your one to eleven. Everybody has a job
Speaker 10: to do. Everybody has something to do, and if you
Speaker 10: do your job, check off the boxes, you'll win that day.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of talk about Washington's defensive
Speaker 3: line right now, four first round picks. You've heard it
Speaker 3: probably mere right. Does that fire up the opposing position
Speaker 3: group room when you hear about that all week?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, because they're not saying anything about us all
Speaker 10: just they don't have any big name, big money guys.
Speaker 10: And now I'm just like man at the end of
Speaker 10: the day. One thing. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 10: have seen the movie any given Sunday, but that movie
Speaker 10: holds like a heavy place in my heart. Come just
Speaker 10: like they said, al Pacino said it right, anything can
Speaker 10: happen on Sundays. Man, you can say what you want
Speaker 10: during the week. All those guys who do the pencil
Speaker 10: pushing and on the computers and stuff. I said, Man,
Speaker 10: you ain't got to go out there and play. You
Speaker 10: can say what you want to do about those guys
Speaker 10: in hell, the Commander's defensive line. Know if you of
Speaker 10: Montez Sweat was drafted two picks before me, and he'd
Speaker 10: had a great career. Those guys are who they are
Speaker 10: for a reason. But we are who we are for
Speaker 10: a reason. We'll knock on them or the Commander's organization,
Speaker 10: but we will so then we are here too. We
Speaker 10: got a lot of We got a hungry room. I'm
Speaker 10: not the only guy in that room that's hungry and
Speaker 10: believes they can take their career off this year. Everybody
Speaker 10: in that room is hungry. We have a great group.
Speaker 10: There's no drop off with us.
Speaker 1: But LJ. Does al Pacino know what a solid defense
Speaker 1: is or a bear.
Speaker 6: Defense does not even not great movie though, he said, I.
Speaker 1: Know it was a great movie, but it's man, I
Speaker 1: see a lot of that. Is that what you guys
Speaker 1: call it? Just you know, terminology wise, when you cover
Speaker 1: the three interior offensive linemen with a nose tackle and
Speaker 1: two three techniques for the most part, is that you
Speaker 1: call that solid? Or do you call it a bear?
Speaker 10: We just called it pretty much just base. Sold it
Speaker 10: would be a whole different thing, but I call it base. Yeah,
Speaker 10: just base, Just like do.
Speaker 1: You like that? What is the advantage to you when
Speaker 1: three defensive linemen are bunch down, sunk down on both sides,
Speaker 1: what is the advantage?
Speaker 6: All gaps are taken.
Speaker 10: I handle my gap on the right, led handles on
Speaker 10: the left, and Lakey holds it down the middle or
Speaker 10: keV or whoever does is in the game and there's
Speaker 10: nowhere for anybody to go.
Speaker 3: The sea.
Speaker 10: Gaps are taken by the linebackers. I got the B.
Speaker 10: A gaps are taken like everywhere, there's no waybody to run.
Speaker 10: That's why I said, where the one eleven thing comes
Speaker 10: back into play. I handle my B gap. The guys
Speaker 10: on the outside handle their gaps. Man, we'll all be fine, So.
Speaker 3: You played LJ. Coller, you played at Washington twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: two years ago. It's gonna be, by all accounts, a
Speaker 3: totally different scene on Sunday, new ownership, including Magic Johnson,
Speaker 3: who gave a pep talk I guess yesterday to the
Speaker 3: locker room. It's it's been sold out for weeks. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be a big vibe in that stadium, isn't it.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be fun, man.
Speaker 10: I'm like, man, there's no greater feeling than getting a
Speaker 10: sack and just hearing the crowd either shut up or rule.
Speaker 6: There's no better feeling, man. So I've not lived for this, man.
Speaker 10: That's what we work our tails off for, from when
Speaker 10: the season ends to it begins to ota. This is
Speaker 10: what you're doing it for it man, to get to
Speaker 10: Sundays and show up and show out.
Speaker 1: So, LJ. You're you're obviously watching a lot of tape,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine you're watching a lot of tape
Speaker 1: on the Commander's offense. Of course, talk to me about
Speaker 1: their off line right now. What are you seeing on
Speaker 1: tape from center all the way out to the tackles.
Speaker 10: Oh, the center's kind of a heavy set of guy.
Speaker 10: You know, he's gonna be real aggressive. Him and the
Speaker 10: left guard are gonna be real aggressive. But the right
Speaker 10: guard is more. He's a former tackle, so he's gonna
Speaker 10: be more like he's gonna jump out to the b
Speaker 10: gaps more. And they can't really set on bull rushes
Speaker 10: very well, so we're gonna have to work that very much,
Speaker 10: really game them up a lot. And they're not a
Speaker 10: bad group. You can't really disrespect any guy that plays
Speaker 10: in the NFL. They get a check just like we do.
Speaker 10: But I feel like if we hit all the points
Speaker 10: we talked about this week, we'll do fine. From running
Speaker 10: games and really mixing stuff up and using our hands
Speaker 10: and getting on edges and the things we have seen
Speaker 10: in weeks to come from those guys or what they've
Speaker 10: done peeps or how guys have beat them before.
Speaker 6: I like, we'll show up and we'll have a good
Speaker 6: day on the D line.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, I got a half an eye
Speaker 3: on number ninety one in this game.
Speaker 7: L J.
Speaker 3: Coller, thanks, man, appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I appreciate you, guys.
Speaker 3: Man outstanding. We continue to be right back to wrap
Speaker 3: up this edition to the Big Red Rage, presented by
Speaker 3: Santan Ford in Gilbert, the host of his Jankins right
Speaker 3: to laugh, play Bank Blumber rolling right still on the rum,
Speaker 3: gonna take off to the five and times and he
Speaker 3: is in for the touchdown. The arms are up, the
Speaker 3: Cardinals score after the turnover. That's a historic call, Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 3: are you aware that your longtime broadcast partner, Dave Pash
Speaker 3: that's his first ever Cardinal's touchdown call in the history
Speaker 3: of Arizona Cardinals Radio circa two thousand and two at Washington.
Speaker 3: Think about that, Oh, Paulie, you know that Dave Pash.
Speaker 1: Working with him all these years has been such an
Speaker 1: awesome experience. Right there, I know, PAULI when to shut
Speaker 1: up when Dave's talking, Trust me on that.
Speaker 3: I wonder who's older, Nick Rolis now or Dave Pash?
Speaker 3: Then it's close twenty nine thirty years of age right
Speaker 3: in that range right there. It is the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 3: Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We
Speaker 3: are Santanne Ford Special thanks LJ. Collier in that last segment.
Speaker 3: Great and you know what, I think, there's a quiet
Speaker 3: confidence that he's building a great season straight ahead we'll see.
Speaker 3: It's certainly a critical year. He's in a contract year,
Speaker 3: came over on a one year proved deal after being
Speaker 3: a first round pick by Seattle. Now the Cardinals going
Speaker 3: into Washington, A let's just say that Cardinals history has
Speaker 3: a lot of monumental moments. Okay, we're talking that two
Speaker 3: thousand and two year, and you heard that call. That
Speaker 3: was Jake Palmer's final season opener with the Cardinals. That
Speaker 3: highlight the year before was Pat Tillman's final NFL game
Speaker 3: at Washington. Four or five months later, news broke of
Speaker 3: Pat Tillman joining the Army. Think about that. Wow, That
Speaker 3: two thousand and one season of an alley at Washington
Speaker 3: was also Adrian Wilson's first career pick six. So there's
Speaker 3: and now now think about it. This game marks the
Speaker 3: first game under the new ownership group Josh Harris, Magic Johnson.
Speaker 3: By the way, Magic Johnson gave a big old speech, inspirational,
Speaker 3: motivational speech to Washington, to that locker room yesterday. I
Speaker 3: guess it fired up all the commanders. Based on reports,
Speaker 3: this new ownership group bought the team for over six
Speaker 3: billion dollars, and the word is they have not seen
Speaker 3: this level of anticipation for a Washington game since RG
Speaker 3: three's rookie year that was more than a decade ago.
Speaker 3: It's sold out and that's something they haven't done recently.
Speaker 3: Game has sold out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incredible, Paully, It really is. When I think
Speaker 1: of this matchup and that is coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Of course, for me, all I can think of is
Speaker 1: the offensive line of the Commanders, because that has been
Speaker 1: the biggest question mark coming into training camp, coming into
Speaker 1: the preseason, it's been their offensive line, the Commander's Polly
Speaker 1: and to me, I think that's where the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: need to get after that offensive line. They brought in
Speaker 1: some free agents. They're trying to actually build that offensive line.
Speaker 1: But that is the biggest question mark. It's not their skill.
Speaker 1: Their skill is good and Sam Howell's got a lot
Speaker 1: to prove that. But their skills, of course, we all
Speaker 1: know Terry McLaurin are scary. Terry Paul Scott does he
Speaker 1: not have the best nickname ever? Right there? We know
Speaker 1: they've got great skill, but that offensive line is a
Speaker 1: question mark.
Speaker 3: So you look at those receivers, right, Terry McLaurin, John
Speaker 3: Dotson Curtis Samuel. But and they have weapons. There's no doubt.
Speaker 3: They got Logan Thomas, the former Cardinals. They're starting ten.
Speaker 3: And but the thing is, if you have a bad
Speaker 3: offensive line, yes, dare I say you have a bad team,
Speaker 3: you're going nowhere. In the last five years, this Washington
Speaker 3: offense has finished in the bottom three of virtually every
Speaker 3: single category they've had. This is their seventh different season
Speaker 3: opening quarterback in seven years. So you're right for all
Speaker 3: the talk this week about jeez, can the Cardinals Z
Speaker 3: line hold up against the Washington Commanders D line on
Speaker 3: the four first round picks? That might be where this
Speaker 3: game turns. The Washington offensive line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Paula, you know, and I know you can flip
Speaker 1: it over. You can say, man, that great Washington Commander's
Speaker 1: defensive line against the Arizona Cardinals offensive line. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is going to be a huge match up a huge
Speaker 1: part of the game as well. But I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Sam Howell. Everyone's talking about, oh my goodness, you're starting
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs, you know, or maybe it's Clayton toone. You're
Speaker 1: starting right now? Hey, listen, you know what, It's not
Speaker 1: like Sam Howell's been out there for the last five years,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing forty passes a game. No, he's not.
Speaker 3: It's his second career start.
Speaker 1: He's got nineteen pass attempts on his career, Paul, And
Speaker 1: you know, to me, you've got to be able to
Speaker 1: protect him. Of course, can the Arizona Cardinals get to him.
Speaker 1: I would stuff the box, Paul. I would do that.
Speaker 1: I would force Howell to throw the ball. I would
Speaker 1: force him to beat you, show that he can beat you.
Speaker 1: If you've got to adjust mid stream, fine, But for me,
Speaker 1: if I'm Nick Rowlis, I'm cramming up the box man
Speaker 1: and cram it up. There you go, Paul.
Speaker 3: Everybody cites his win against Dallas in Week eighteen last year.
Speaker 3: It was a meaningless game for Dallas. They showed up
Speaker 3: with preseason intensity and energy, and he went a pedestrian
Speaker 3: eleven and nineteen for a buck sixty nine. He had
Speaker 3: a touchdown, he had a pick. He struggled in the
Speaker 3: red zone in that one. Now he's got some wheels,
Speaker 3: a little bit he can move. He ran for a touchdown.
Speaker 3: He threw a fifty two yard bomb to Terry McLaurin, who,
Speaker 3: by the way, practiced full today. With that toe injury,
Speaker 3: so he's tracking to play. But I'm with you, Sam Howe,
Speaker 3: as as much to prove as anyone out on that field.
Speaker 3: And if you can take away his run game, to
Speaker 3: your point, you stuff up the box and you put
Speaker 3: it all on the guy who was a fifth round
Speaker 3: pick a year ago. Guess what advantaged Cardinals I would think,
Speaker 3: And I'm guessing that Nick rowss Wolf is going to
Speaker 3: show him anything and everything just for the sake of
Speaker 3: trying to confuse the inexperienced quarterback right exactly.
Speaker 1: But that's a rundown where you jam up the box,
Speaker 1: you stuff it up, and then on third and nine
Speaker 1: pass situations, I think we're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: complex pressure and blitz packages coming from the Cardinals. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna show him that they want to almost
Speaker 1: get inside his head, I think a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then play coverage and hope that in selected situations he
Speaker 1: might throw them the ball.
Speaker 3: What do you think about the Cardinals blitzing real quick?
Speaker 3: Because this staff did not have to blist with Philly
Speaker 3: last year. How aggressive do you think they will get on.
Speaker 1: If it's Polly. I think we're going to see that early.
Speaker 1: I think that's what we're gonna see. Pressure bringing five
Speaker 1: and Blitz is bringing six or more. I think we'll
Speaker 1: see it early. Try to get in his head and
Speaker 1: then play coverage.
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