WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Larry Fitzgerald Joins 600th Show 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.160 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. Oh 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:08.840 and ahead, he got jacked. This is the big Red 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:14.320 Rain presented by Santanford in Gilbert. Mary's gonna score touchdown. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.440 Slim to the ground by Buddha Baker Like a torpedo. 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:23.040 He came flying into the backfield. The rage is brought 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:27.880 to you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Are you Santanford 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.560 State Farm talk to an agent today at eight hundred 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:37.360 State Farm, And by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts Visit acy Cardinals 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:45.560 dot Com, Slash Podcasts, The Red sne rising Ud, Temperaturizing Vision, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:50.120 Flurring Rage, take you over. Here's Paul Calveci. I'm ready. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.000 I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.360 And Ron Wolflee, it doesn't get any better than that. 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:03.760 Unleash the Far. It's certainly early, but I'm thinking I'm 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:10.040 projecting that the original Thursday Night Football here. We should 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.680 fit right into this brand new Jonathan Gannon culture Ron Wolfley, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.080 because like JG said today, there's gonna be a lot 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.600 of quote back and forth between coaches and following up 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.880 saying hey, quote in this building, we're going to challenge 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.200 each other than Quo. And that's exactly what we've been 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.400 doing around here for over two decades. I mean, think 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.520 about that if you've been scorn at home. This is 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.600 season number twenty two and wait for it, show number 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:44.760 six hundred in the History of the Big Red Rage, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.480 presented by santan Ford and Gilbert we are santan Ford. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:52.400 That's something else. Pay right there. And this is actually 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.360 the child metaphorically speaking of Jim Almahundro. Is it not 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.040 Big Red Rage? Is this his baby? And and we 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.240 have to credit him for the big get on the 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.600 Big Red Rage because guests who Tonight's very special guest 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.360 is this same guest we had for show number four hundred, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.239 Go for it, Wolf present our special guest tonight, ladies 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:18.480 and gentlemen, we give you Larry Fitzgerald. And I'm also 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.000 known as the Japanese Fighting Fish. Paul. No, absolutely not. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.720 Let's leave that out when we talk to Larry next segment. Okay, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.000 so Larry's on deck, can't wake got a lot of 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.040 stuff to talk about, just Larry being Larry and winning 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.000 a life as everyone likes to say. And then what 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.200 he sees in the Arizona Cardinals going forward? What needs 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.160 to happen. Of course, he's been part of that ESPN 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.079 Monday Night Football crew. So okay, we'll get all his thoughts, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.919 but right now, give me your thoughts just on what 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.920 you've seen so far of the Jonathan Gannon era. And 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.640 it's not so much what you see, it's almost palpable. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.400 It's what you feel. Is it not just the ultra 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.000 high energy that looks to be more the norm than 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.600 the exception. Yeah, first of all, Paul, I'm gonna have 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.800 to get used to going with JG. I mean, you 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.120 know what I mean. I mean, you're you're, you're down 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.200 to the initials. I just Jonathan Gannon. I don't know 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.280 if I can go JG. Just ye had Paully having 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.920 said that, Um, this is a young staff that is 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.240 being put together right now. I don't know. There's there's 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.200 a couple of guys. Well, I do know, as a 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.720 matter of fact, at least from the coordinators, there are 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.200 two of their coordinating coordinators that are under forty years old. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.680 In that Polly, I don't know if that sets a 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.040 record and the National Football League, I don't know where 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.880 else that's been the case where you got a thirty 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.960 five year old and Drew pet Sing and then you've 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.120 got Nick rawlis at twenty nine years of age, and 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.600 the only thing that offsets it a little bit is 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.480 Jeff Rogers coming back as you're special team coordinator. This 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.560 is a young staff that has been put together, Paully, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.520 Jeff Rogers, a venerable forty four years of age. Right, Yes, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.440 at this point, think about that. Yeah, Nick row is 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.240 the NFL's youngest coordinator, the defensive coordinator the Arizona Cardinals. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.480 He was introduced yesterday. We'll hear from him a little 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.960 bit later. We'll get into that. True Petson was introduced today. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.880 We'll talk all about the Cardinals offense a little bit later. 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.160 We'll hear from the new OC along with the head 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.800 coach who was alongside for both of those press conferences. Yesterday, 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.360 Wolf we heard from the owner of Michael Bidwell. He 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.559 was on the Dave Pass podcast and we learned a lot, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.800 a lot of really good insight. Highly recommend dialing up 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.240 the Dave Pass podcast. And here the owner of Michael Bidwell, who, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.680 as Dave said, the busiest man in sports over the 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.560 last month or so, hosting the Super Bowl, filling the 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.080 GMA head coach spots in fact, speaking to the GM. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.560 Here's Michael on his conversations with Mannie Asenford about this 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.320 Cardinals roster number one. We spent a lot of time 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.599 talking about Kyler and what type of offense we should 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.560 be running, and how to protect him, and where we 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.359 should be spending our money. We've got a lot of 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.560 money tied up in a couple of different positions, and 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.160 so I think you're gonna see that change. We're gonna 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.120 I think you're gonna see us beefing up the offensive line, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.080 the defensive line. We've got to get help at corner. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.000 We've got to get them just more protection for Kyler, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.120 and then we've got to be able to rush the passers, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.040 especially in the NFC West. So and well, you've talked 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.560 about it at length. We talked about it all last season. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.640 You got to win to the line of scrimmage before 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.680 you can win on the scoreboard. And it looks like 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.320 the Cardinals and the new decision makers have identified as much. Yeah, Polly, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.760 you know, my first thought here is, of course they've 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.279 talked about the offense, the type of offense that Kyler 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.120 Murray's got to be in. You know, how I feel 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.960 about this. Polly been talking about it for years now, 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.440 but I'd love to see Kyler Murray more under center. 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.520 And that is something that Jonathan Gannon already has talked about. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.840 I'm sure. I'm sure Drew Petsingh did not like that. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.000 It did not like them out there actually talking about it, 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.520 because why would you talk about it at all? You 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.880 don't ever want to let the opponent know what it 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.800 is that you're thinking. Yet at the same time, I 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.720 think it's it's important that you manage expectations. And it's 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.640 not only the expectations I think of your coaching staff, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.840 it's also more importantly of your players. And that's what 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.880 I liked about JG. I like the fact he did 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.839 come out and say we're going to put him under 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.719 center more and you know it's going to be shotgun 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.920 of course, and under center. I think you need that. Paul. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.960 I think you need to blend the old and the new, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.240 and that's why I was glad to hear Michael actually 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.240 talk about the fact they talked a long time with 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.240 Mannie Asenford about what kind of offense he needed to 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.720 be in. Look, the reality is, you can't put Kyler 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.479 under center, basically any less than what they've done, right, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.359 So I don't know how we're revealing it really is. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.320 When the stat I saw on ESPN today was that 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.360 on six of four hundred and thirty seven dropbacks last year, 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.640 Kyler was under center. Think about that. So it was 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.200 the lowest percentage in the NFL. What's intriguing is the 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.120 second lowest percentage of being under center as a quarterback 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.200 on dropbacks was Jalen Hurts. So yes, we'll see what 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.000 that means exactly, because Jonathan Gannon has said that is 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.480 a very specific idea in mind of how he wants 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.920 to play offense. So he will be involved with Drew 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.200 pet seen in the construction and the calling of this offense, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.240 the philosophy as for Kyler, who's Michael Bidwell in the 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.600 Day Pash podcast just on Kyler's return. You know, I 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.239 think it's gonna be earlier than you know this mid season, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.920 so hopefully it's towards the beginning of the season. But 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.120 you know, I don't want to put any specific dates 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.040 because there could be setbacks, there could be the progress 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.560 could slow. But I think right now, I mean, he's 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.520 a young man. It looks like he's a fast healer. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.800 Things are going well. Let's hope that keeps going the 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.800 way it is and then that there are no setbacks. Yeah, 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.960 no timetable. In fact, Jonathan Gannon said as much again today. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.600 But I think both are bullish optimistic that it doesn't 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.240 have to be mid season. It could be earlier, It 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.760 could be towards the beginning of the season just as easily. Yeah, Pauli, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.640 you know, once again, I like to use a nine 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.920 more when you're talking about an ACL I like to 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.760 use a nine month window right there, that's right in 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.760 the middle. There are guys where it does take longer 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.520 than nine months, Paulie. There are guys that does take shorter. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.200 They recover quicker and they're out there before that nine 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.960 month mark in terms of rehab. But using that right 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.680 there would put him when he did it, right in 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.360 the middle of September for the most part. And you know, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.480 I think that's a good place to start. Now. It 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.360 could be sooner, it could be later, But I think 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.920 you've got to manage expectations to some degree on this. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.040 And yet the mid season stuff that I agree with 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.680 Michael on that, I think that's really being pessimistic. Well, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.959 and everyone's different obviously, and also he had some meniscus damage, 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.959 so how does that factor in. That's an unknown. But 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.600 when Jonathan Gannon tells the story of leaving the building 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.800 the other day at nine o'clock at night and there's 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.160 a really nice car park to his and he did 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.040 a one eighty when back into the building and was 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.439 Kyler Murray still rehabbing nine o'clock at night. So from 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.720 all accounts, he's really attacked this process, and I think 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.600 that's why there's definitely some optimism. And then when they 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.800 get back to playing offense. You heard what Jonathan Gannon 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.839 or may have seen the quotes to Peter King, and 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.400 he said, among other things, quote this offense will look 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.600 much different. And we got maybe a little bit more 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.240 in terms of elaborating on how and where. When Michael 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.480 Bidwell was talking about just making things easier for Kyler, well, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.200 I think what we're gonna do is try to take 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.880 some of the pressure off of him. The way the 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.240 offense was before, he had a choice on almost every 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.920 play we ran, and so we were making him think 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.800 too much and we were making him put too much 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.520 pressure on him. And what we need him to do 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:51.319 is to play faster and to play with that confidence 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.040 that will come with Okay, I don't have to get 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.520 every first down. I can hand the ball off. I 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.160 know they're going to put him under center quite a 0:09:58.200 --> 0:09:59.920 bit and that's going to take some of the pressure off. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:01.920 By the way, we're going to see some of these 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.920 conversations here, these four ourselves. We're gonna see Kyler behind 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:08.520 the scenes rehabbing tonight. Cardinals Flight Plan the debut episode 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.480 twenty twenty three, seven o'clock tonight. You catch it live 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.120 right after the Big Red Rage, or on demand later 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.120 via YouTube dot com slash as Cardinals Cardinals flight Plan 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.560 the Emmy Award winning But based on what Michael said 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.560 right there, I mean wolf translate, what are you expecting? 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.960 Oh my goodness, I love what he said right at 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.200 the end, Polly about the under center a little bit 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.880 more and take the pressure off of Kyler Murray. That's 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.360 exactly what you do when you put you when you 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.600 put that quarterback under center. Man, here it goes. Snap 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.120 the ball and guess what, Polly, you run to that 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.600 mesh point. You run to that mesh point with James Connor, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.760 and you hand the ball off to James Connor. You 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.719 hand the ball off to the running back, and you 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.719 let the running back attack the line of scrimmage. You 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.439 let him do what he does. You let that offensive 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.520 line eat. You let them come off the ball with 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.000 a dark heart and a painted face and try to 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.920 drive somebody into the ground. When you run the ball 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.400 with a quarterback under center, you're taking the pressure off him. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.640 Because now also too, when you run bootlegs off that 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.160 which you know, okay, you're going to fake the handoff 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.480 and now you're going to bootleg, you're going to roll 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.360 out to the strong side, or a waggle is rolling 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.160 out to the weak side, whatever way it is. There's 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.640 an immediate read on that. So much of the time, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.679 if the guy in the flat is open, put it 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.240 on him, dump it on him right now. It's there. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.800 There is no decision. It's like one simple decision, you know. 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.199 And I think that's something that they want to do. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.520 They want to take the pressure off of Kyler Murray 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.280 by putting him under center more and I oversimplified all 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.880 of that, Paul, But I can just tell you right now, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.160 I know what Michael is saying, and I believe it's 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.000 going to work in terms of alleviating a lot of 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.320 the stress on Kyler Murray. There was a Browns beat writer. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.719 I don't know if he's on with you, but it's 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.360 on ninety eight seven FM Arizona Sports, just talking about 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.920 how he fully expects Drew pet seem to really special. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.480 Lies in the bootleg a lot of play action moving 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:08.120 the pocket, so it's intriguing. It's definitely intriguing how the 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.360 Cardinals are gonna use Kyler Murray. And you can catch 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.920 all of Michael's comments. And I highly recommend the pash 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.280 Pod wherever you get your podcasts. It just dropped the 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.240 owner with Dave pash up. Next, how about the legend 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.240 Larry Fitzgerald. We talk all thing Cardinals and the future 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:30.640 with fitz Next on the Big Red Rage with the 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.719 third Choice and then two thousand four NFL Draft the 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.800 Arizona Cardinals. Just like Larry Fitzgerald wide receiver, University of 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:47.560 Fitzgerald's wandered to pass with time, fires over the middle 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.240 of the fits caught in the forty five five day 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:57.720 fitzst thirty good Bye five Cardinals Land put down Larry Fitzgerald. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:03.480 You gotta meet hid a sixty four yard touchdown passed 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.240 by Warner to Fitzgerald and the Cardinals lead. Super Bowl 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.320 forty three. Palmer setting up, He's in trouble. He's hit, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.599 gets out of there and rolls right, throws back to 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.640 the left, fits us White open one of the thirty 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.040 five bow. He's there. He's at the forty at the fifty, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.480 turns up field in the forty five ten the forty 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.000 thirty five stiffis thirty twenty five twenty fitch to the 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.480 near side, ten to the five and tackled there staffed 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.520 the Palmer rolls off pit. It's a pitch the fitz 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.199 Triennis Rady ahead, hit of the ends, out of the 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.880 shovel fast, but a touchdown of the windows. But Cardinals 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.680 at dance to the NFC Championship game on a shovel pass, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.319 of all things, and one of the craziest games ever. 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.880 Still love the no look stiff arm love it. Show 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.720 number six hundred Wolf you gotta go big or go home? 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.079 And uh yes, that's foreshadowing right there. Yes. He was 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.960 also our guest for show number four hundred and if 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.360 memory serves, that was the show on site on location 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:06.720 where he gave away one of tim Hovick's cars, unbeknownst 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.240 to Tim Hovec, who was having a beer and then 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.040 realized he was giving away one of his cars up 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.880 on stage. Yea. In fact, most recently you might have 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.199 seen our special guest tonight as the frontman of the 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.440 Super Bowl Host Committee, Wolf Big Title, Executive Chair of 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.080 the Super Bowl Host Committee ESPN Monday Night Football. We've 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.120 seen him there always got a podcast with Tom Brady 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:34.120 by the way right and a multi sport athlete these days, golf, chess, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.680 pickle ball, and he played a little football along the way. Yes, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.720 we're introducing Larry Fitzgerald here on the Big Red Rage, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.200 presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Larry, how is you? 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.240 I'm doing great, man. I hope Tim is listening so 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.480 we can make sure we'll be giving another car away. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.400 And for some reason, I'm going back to my text message. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.400 I don't see the text for show, but I'm glad 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:01.480 I could be back foots man. It's so good to 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:06.760 hear you. How's everybody doing. Everybody doing okay, everybody's great. 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.440 Then Devin got a lacrosse game later, so you know, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.280 just doing the daddy duty, you know, how it is 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.000 what kind of parent are you on the sidelines, Larry, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.680 Come on, be honest. Now, Wolf Wolf has to control 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.160 himself on those flag football sidelines, how about you. No, 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.000 I try to keep a little profile and trying not 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:24.960 to make it about myself. Man, it's I just want 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.640 to support them. I don't want to put any pressure 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.040 on them and just you know, just make sure they're 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.680 having a good time. That's most important, and staying healthy. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.800 But I don't get too involved. I try to ask 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.720 me a question, and Devin asked me a question, I'll 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.960 answer it, but I don't try to interject too often. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.920 So fits to you. It is your first year in broadcasting. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.360 Are you enjoying it? My brother, Yeah, it was a 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.600 lot of fun this year. I enjoyed you know. They 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:53.320 asked me initially to do a little bit more, but 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.760 I wanted to take a little bit more, you know, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.080 scarce approach, to make sure there's something I really enjoy it, 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.520 and I did. I enjoyed the camaraderie, not only in studio, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.360 but you know, being um you know, they're alive for 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.240 the games and Monday night was really cool. And it'll 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:11.960 be able to be that close to the games and 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.200 be able to interact with, you know, Steve Young's and 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.880 RG threes and Booker McFarlane, some very knowledgeable guys that 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.520 I got. I learned a great deal from anything. Surprise 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.800 you about the broadcasting business now that you're in front 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.880 of the camera and you see what's going on behind 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:32.920 the scenes, surprise me. Um, anything you learn, maybe you're like, okay, 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:37.120 I didn't quite realize that. Now you can really differentiate yourself, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:38.880 you know, if you put in the work and do 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.760 the homework in terms of studying right. Um. I think 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.160 a lot of guys, you know, when they play the game, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:45.800 they think like, what if you can attest to this, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.320 you know, you think that you can just walk off 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.520 the field and do the media at a high level 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.360 by just just because you played. But that's not that's 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.280 not realistic. There's a reason that there's people out there 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.320 been doing this for twenty five and thirty years at 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.640 the highest level is because they have a look commitment 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.280 and dedication that makes them special. And you have to 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.159 take that same level of dedication that you took when 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.280 you were you know, a professional athlete and take that 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.640 same motivation to broadcasting or to whatever media platform you're 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.840 you're going to be in and you know, there's no shortcuts. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.040 If you want to be good, you got to put 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.680 the work in like anything else in life. What was 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.359 the hardest part about that, Larry specifically, what was the 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.200 hardest part about broadcasting? Uh? You know, I mean, like 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.000 you guys are on radio, right, so you get a 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.920 chance to be on air, um, you know, regularly, and 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.560 you have a lot of time that you have to 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.040 feel Like on TV, you know, you literally have you know, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.560 four or five segments, so you don't have a whole 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.159 lot of things you can talk about. You just have 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.920 to high level thoughts. You know that that the audience 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.119 can really understand and relate to it. I can't go 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.359 out there and talk X and os and you know, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.600 depths on certain routes and this coveras because most of 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.960 people are listening don't have any idea what I'm talking about. 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.399 So billing condensed down to make you know, valid points 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.720 that are facts, will you know, utilizing you know, the 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.640 relationships that you have around the league with coaches and players, etc. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.399 To be able to have and also using analytics to 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.600 be able to tie those all in to make you 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.320 know very tight you know, valid points. You know that 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.439 the audience can resonate with Yes. Larry Fitzgerald is our 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.560 guest here on The Big Red Rage presented by Santan 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.280 Ford and Gilbert. By the Way, if You're Scoring at 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.160 Home is thirteenth all time appearance on The Big Red 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.120 Rage going back to OH four. Cardinals have a brand 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:31.040 new head coach, Jonathan Gannon. He's talking about accountability, something 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.119 Michael Bidwell's cited in the offseason as what's needed in 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.960 this rebuild, trying to establish a culture. What's a common 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.399 trait in your experience and having an effective culture? Larry, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.080 And what do you think is part of that accountability? 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.120 Where does it start? What does it look like? Well, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:50.800 I mean you look around the league and you look 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.920 at the best teams, right, you know, accountability is something 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:56.480 that I hear a lot of people talk about, but 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.760 it has to be something that the players, because the 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.840 players police a locker. You know, when I got to Arizona, 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.119 you know, our record wasn't wasn't great, but you know, 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.560 the way Emma Smith went about his business, the way 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.200 Adrian Wilson went about their business, it was something that 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.040 I could look to and say, look, these guys are 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.359 doing it at a high level, not only professionally on 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.200 the football field, but they're doing as a high level 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.840 as men and individuals and leaders. And so you have 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:26.240 to develop that leadership, like like the players that you draft, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.800 the free agent that you bring in have to embody 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.680 a lot of those characteristics because then then the coach 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.760 doesn't have to talk about why you like to practice 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:35.800 that the energy and practice needs to pick up, like 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.240 those things not even happened to be addressed. You know, 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.320 I look back to when Kurt came and you know 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.119 how he really shifted, you know, how things were going. Um, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:47.280 you know, I thought I was practicing hard up. I 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.440 thought I was putting in the work. But no, Kurt said, 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.080 Isaac Bruce and Tory Holt or doing it at this level. 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.040 And if you want to be at that level, these 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:55.720 are the things that you're gonna have to do. And 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.440 so it's a trickle down effect. And I don't know 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.560 it's necessary. I don't know if it's always on the 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.280 coaches to bring those type of things. It really comes 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.360 down to the players. And I think about the great 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.280 leadership they have in that locker room. You know, Bude Baker, 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.359 if you have fifty three Bude Bankers. You would never 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.920 lose a football game ever because the guy is build 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.840 but he has made of all the greatest things that 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.520 you can ever have and a football player. I mean, 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.760 the work ethic, you know, all the intangibles, the intelligence, 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.040 willing to play through injuries for his brothers. I mean, 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.520 all of these things are our model. Like you could 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.399 you could build a model with that guy, right, So, 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.480 you can't tell me that that there's not wonderful leadership 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.520 in that in that locker room, Yeah, Larry, you know 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:43.000 Jonathan Gannon was talking to Peter King about using Kyler 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.399 Murray under center a lot more right now. Your thoughts 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.600 on that, Larry, how do you think that might help 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.280 Kyler Murray? And and theory you would like him to 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.960 be able to do it because, um, you know, it 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.280 opens us some things that weren't possible, you know, in 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:03.200 previous years. But it's something that he's had to work on. 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.359 I mean, I can't even tell you, you know, just 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.520