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Talk to an agent 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:35.920 today at eight hundred State Farm, and by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.320 Visit Hazycardinals dot Com, Slash podcasts. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:47.920 The Red Seeds Rising Up, temperaturizing vision, flurring, rage taking over. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:52.000 Here's Paul Calvic abready, I'm one hundred percent ready. I'm 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.360 telling you abready, and Ron Wolf sleep. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.320 It doesn't get any better than that. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.760 Leash the fjord, I say, if you need to pick 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.800 me up, just do what I just did. I just 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.280 got done watching the Wired piece featuring Jonathan Gannon on 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.400 the Cardinals YouTube page. Right all Access Cardinals head coach 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:18.920 all miked up for a practice because remember JG rhymes 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.200 with energy and I'm something fired up right now. For 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.800 this edition to the Big Red Rage presented by santan 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.000 Ford and Gilbert. In fact, I hope our guest host 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.760 has packed a lunch for the next sixty minutes. Because 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:35.760 Ron wolf Lee on assignment. We welcome Rob Fredrickson back 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.360 to the airwaves and the Big Red Rage, the former 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.160 Cardinals linebacker Rob. How are we doing this evening. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.640 Paulie, I'm fired up? I can tell you're fired up 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.400 your energy. I mean, may you look good? To paul 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.560 you've been working out or what? 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.200 Thanks? I've been winning the off season. Nobody's really noticed, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.120 so thank you for pointing that out. I appreciate that. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.640 I don't know, it looks like you've been doing some 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.040 pull ups on the tall Tall rack or something in 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:57.920 the bathroom, would it? 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:58.360 What's good? 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.840 Well, anytime you use the word tall and yours, truly, 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:02.440 I'll better get out the light at tech. So let's 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.120 just put it that way. Maybe I'm so fired up 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.520 because the off season is over. Next stop, Cardinals camp 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.960 and Cardinals players literally least the veterans literally leaving the 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.959 facility today the Arizona Cardinals Dignity Health Arizona Cardinals Training Center. Right, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.240 you tell me a decade in the NFL, what's that 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.320 feeling like? Off season's over. Mandatory Mini camp is a rap. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.600 You got about five weeks or so until training camp. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.919 What are you thinking? What are you feeling as a player? 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:32.720 You know, for the most part, I think, especially with 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.160 a new coaching staff coming in and a new culture, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.520 which we'll talk about, you're gonna see a lot of 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.840 guys staying around. You're gonna see a lot of guys 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:45.160 in here tomorrow working out, Monday working out. So it's 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.920 not gonna be a big mindset shift. It's just gonna be, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.960 you know, a continuation of the off season until training 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:53.560 camp starts. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.079 Yeah, if you had a checklist for Jonathan Gannon in 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.840 the off season, it would be something like this culture check, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:07.200 accountability check, winning behavior. You're trying to install just that 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.520 right attention to detail. You're definitely trying to hit the 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.800 reset button on that. In fact, the question to Jonathan 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:15.920 Gannon here at the end of the off season was 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.760 where exactly does your team stand after Mini Camp? 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.840 At a point there in the offseason, it felt like 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.280 we were moving fast on a lot of things, a 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:23.440 lot of different balls in the air. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:24.600 But I really like. 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.079 Where we are as far as where we are right 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.960 now at the end of mini camp and a lot 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.720 of work to be done this summer, but I think 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.960 that we set a good foundation for when we come 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.440 back here. You know it's going to be ratcheted up, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:39.920 just to tad just. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.520 A bit when you get to Cardinals camp. One of 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.440 the comments that stood out to me was Xavin Collins 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.240 in the media last week. Robin he said in a 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.200 quote players they feel the pressure, and it's a good thing. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.240 You have new decision makers with a new head coach 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.840 and a new GM, and attendance was one hundred percent 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.840 across the board. Not everyone was on the field, but 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.960 everyone was in the building. And uh, I'm guessing that's 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.160 not a fluke that you know in a in a situation, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:07.960 in a league where you have to always compete for 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:11.040 your job. Guess what. There are new eyes on this roster. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:13.360 Oh there are. And you know, look, you're gonna have 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.920 buy in from the rookies and the and the rookie 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.840 free agents that have been brought in. You're gonna have 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.520 that automatic buy in. They're they're they're trying to make 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.840 the squad. They're trying to put their best foot forward 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.680 and and show this coaching staff what they can do. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.159 And what they're all about. So you're gonna have that 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.640 whether or not the coaching staff's new or it's been 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.200 here for ten years. It's it's the veterans and it's 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.040 it's the the veteran free agents and the veteran players 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.839 that you need to get that buy in from. And 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.880 I think they're getting it because they want to also 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.240 prove it. It's one of those those prove it mentality things. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.599 When you bring in a new coaching staff, you got 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.880 to and you're not one of their guys, you're not 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.440 one of their draft picks or one of their free 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.919 agent players that they brought in. Uh, you need to 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.599 prove it. You need to show them that you are 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.760 a part of this team and an integral part of 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.159 this team moving forward. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.880 I've talked to a number of guys who have started 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.640 the conversation with Look, the allegiances that used to exist, 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.200 they vanished. There are no more allegiances between the GM 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.200 and the head coach and most of this roster. So 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.600 when you talk about buying in and proving it, spoken 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.400 like a true former player, because that's exactly what Hollywood 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.120 Brown had to say this week when he was on 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.039 with Wolf and Luke. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.040 I feel like everybody's in that mode of really trying 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.800 to prove it and trying to be that team. We 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.600 know we can be. Guys done been on good teams. 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.119 You know, guys done came from good programs or other teams, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.960 are good colleges, so you kind of know what it takes. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.520 So for us, it's being here, being together, jelling, buying 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.080 into whatever these coaches are laying out, and that's how 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:48.719 we're going to beat a team that we want to be. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.880 Dennis Gardak saying this week and I quote, accountability has 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.320 definitely been ratcheted up, and it was a little uncomfortable 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.599 at first. There's sort of a new I mean, there's 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.159 definitely a new head coach and there's a new way 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:06.040 about things. But Rob, to me, it was absolutely necessary 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.119 because how many times of the last couple of years 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.680 did we talk after games about Cardinals beating Cardinals. That accountability, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.119 the attention to detail, which matters in the NFL. Little 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.880 things are big things. For example, we were talking about 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.240 penalties and I asked Greig Greeler the other day, I 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.760 just said, didn't the Cardinals finish top three last year? 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.680 And then two years earlier they had led the league 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.279 in penalties, and it was true. And Craig Grier loose style. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.240 His new nickname is AI, by the way, for artificial intelligence. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.200 He drilled deeper into it. You realize the Cardinals had 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.000 one hundred and eighteen accepted penalties last year, that was 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.160 most in the NFL, and fifty two of them were 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.679 pre snap, the most pre snap penalties in the NFL. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.919 To me, that's attention to detail. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.400 It's completely attention to detail. It's discipline. And you know, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.480 the product they put on the field last season, quite frankly, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.920 it just wasn't good enough, Paul. And so for them 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.720 to come into this offseason and come into these training 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.799 mini camps and not you know, be on their toes, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.720 that that would be even more concerning. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:07.799 But they didn't. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.640 They came in, they put their best foot forward, the players, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.000 and they they're buying into what Gannon is trying to do. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.480 And and it's a culture shift, it's a change. And 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.720 they're they're they're not good enough to be blase and 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.960 then where's the tea time after after practice. They're not 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.840 that good right now, good enough to do that right now? 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.560 They really need to focus on the minute small details 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.840 and get those things really hunkered down. Otherwise you know 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.120 it's it's going to be a struggle. 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.800 I mean, think how many players this offseason have told 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.040 us about the Cardinals emphasis and offense to run the ball, right, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.760 I mean, whether it's Cole McCoy or Will Hernandez, de Jumfrees, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.480 James Connor. In fact, we're talking to Keanta Ingram here 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.720 in a few moments, Cardinal's running back just about that 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:58.320 new attitude, the new approach, especially on offense. But there's 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.040 going to be a much more physical style of football, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.160 at least that's the way the coaching staff tells it. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.160 That's the vibe the players are getting. Obviously, it's what 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.640 Jonathan Gannon calls pajama ball in the offseason. You've yet 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.960 to go full contact, full speed, full pads, but I 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.240 think it's gonna look different, just the brand of football 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.600 rob once we get to August and Cardinals camp. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.920 I don't think there's a coaching staff in the NFL 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.560 that doesn't say we're going to emphasize the run game 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.520 this year. The difference is will you stay committed and 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.200 true to that mantra? Will you stay committed to running 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.200 the ball? When maybe the last possession was three and 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.480 out and you went three and out for two or 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.720 three possessions in a row, will you continue to stay 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.160 dedicated to running the football? I think, look, look for 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.520 Kyler Murray's growth, and this is this is an important 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.199 year for him. Obviously, first you got you got to 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.680 get him healthy and get him on the field, but 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:56.360 for his growth to have an offense and their mentality, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.160 the number one mentality being run the ball. I think 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.040 that's only going to ben a that Kyler. The play 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.440 action pass comes off of that, and he can he 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.840 can make some of those throws on time, which is 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.520 going to be a point of emphasis is getting that 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.559 ball out of his hands on time so he doesn't 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.400 take those hits and he doesn't have to run around 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.000 and try and add lib that. That to me is 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.400 really going to spell growth for Kyler. And if Kyler's 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.040 growing and if Kyler's benefiting from that run game, and 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.880 the entire team is really going to benefit. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.280 And we're going to talk again at count Ingram about 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.080 that run game. We're also going to hear Jonathan Gann 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.080 and Wired Up a little bit later in the show, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.880 and we'll talk about XAVI and Collins Isaiah Simmons, who 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.040 I think are the two biggest individual questions on the 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.280 Cardinals defense. But did zoom out in this brand new defense. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.920 If you were to ask me the position groups that 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.800 are most undecided so far the most to figure out, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.520 I'd say the top three are on the defensive side 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:54.400 of the ball, between D line, corner and edge. What 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.719 do you what are you going to be looking for 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.520 once we get around August in the three preseason games 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.280 and you're camp Nick Rowlis. You know, young defensive coordinators 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.760 Jonathan Gannon's system coming from Philadelphia, but you know there's 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.880 so many question marks and unknowns with this Cardinals defense. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.479 Where do you start? You think once we get to August. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.800 I think primarily you hit the nail on the head 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.400 is cornerback. That's the key position. But also getting pressure 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.720 on a quarterback and who are going to be those 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.960 outside redge, outside edge pass rushers that the Cardinals can 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.320 rely on and get some good pressure and get some 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.120 good movement in the pocket there. That's going to be important. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.360 And then obviously we talked about it a little bit 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.120 Isaiah Simmons and Zae and Collins, where do they fit 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:40.160 in his defense? They're too good athletically to not have 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.720 a prominent role in this defense. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.400 It was interesting. Zach Ertz was asked by Wolf and 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.680 Luke about the offense. He said, how different is it 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.880 from a last year? He said, it couldn't be more different. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.400 What Cliff was doing, what Drew Petsen is doing right now. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.720 On defense. I'm curious because Jonathan Gannon led the NFL 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.319 in sacks a year ago with the Eagles. He had 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.319 seventy to fifteen, more than any other team. But they 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.280 didn't have to blitz. They didn't have to they had 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.319 an unbelievable front seven. Yeah, this year, remember John and 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.480 again is famous saying adapt or die. I think he 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.520 might be forced to dialod up a lot more. 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.600 Yeah, it's all about personnel. And if you don't have 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.320 to bring that extra man or two men, and you 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.880 can get away with Russian four, that's obviously the primary 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.240 thing that you want to have accomplished. But if you 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.920 have to bring those extra guys, I expect Gannon to 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:30.480 dial it up. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.320 A season six episode four Cardinals flight Plan if you 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.880 haven't seen it, great stuff. I mean up and down 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.560 the war room with Manti asin Ford. Just go to 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.560 the Cardinals YouTube page, YouTube dot com slash a Z Cardinals. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.559 The rookies going out to a d Backs game. Lots 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.600 of good stuff, all right, he was a rookie last year. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.600 Year two for Keanta Ingram, he's our B two, we 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.440 think behind James Connor. We'll talk about all that and more. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.760 Rob Frederickson in for Wolf on the big red Rage 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.199 presented by santan Ford in Gilbert. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.760 Very straight drop back looking to throw, dumps it off 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.440 short left pought Binger to the thirty drunk attackle dear 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.119 side forty runs right forty. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.920 Five, so it's another tackle. Ingram had a fifty yard line, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.480 tries to cut it back and finally take it down. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.680 But that's a gain of twenty five for Keyante Ingram. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.080 You talk about run after the catch right there, that 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:19.920 is big time. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.640 Kyante snapped to Murray, gonna give to Ingram, running straight ahead. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.560 Ingram's diving for the goal line and he's into the 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:27.040 end zone. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.199 This curse NFL touchdown. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.400 That's what I'm talking about. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:36.240 Right there, Baby, light up in the pistol, hand the 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.160 ball off to Kyante Ingram. Let him stick that thing 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.480 in there. A great job at the point of attack. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.600 Hey, you want someone who can run it, someone who 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.640 can catch it, someone who can make a man miss 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.640 or powered in from the goal line like that two 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.720 yard touchdown his first career against the Saints last year. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.520 You want someone who could be a two hundred and 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.960 forty pounds power back like he was at Texas, or 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:03.920 a two hundred and twenty pounder who's going to make 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.480 you miss. That would be our guest tonight on the 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:11.120 Big Red Rage Keyonte Ingram All presented by santan Ford 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.199 and Gilbert We are santan Ford, Keante is no longer 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.880 a rookie. It is year two. How are you different 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.560 this time this year versus this time last year when 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.120 we first met you and talked to you. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.600 Just my knowledge of the game and how I approach it, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.559 you know, just sitting around veterans who did it over 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.319 and over, especially like James Connor, then learning from you know, Benjamin, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.880 then big hump over there, you know how hump is. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.960 You know, So just sitting in a room those guys, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.439 you don't have no choice but to soak off all 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.360 the knowledge, squad tissue word, just small detailed things, whatever 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.040 the case may be. 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.560 You know, I remember you saying between I don't know, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.960 high school Texas and then your final year at USC 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.160 you studied James Connor. You used to study his film 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.000 when you were in college. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:57.520 Oh yeah, most definitely. I study probably any running back 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.040 you can think of, man, I think that's a running. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.920 So what have you learned being a teammate of James 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.920 Connor as guy has gone to two Pro Bowls? 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.720 Man, One thing I learned being discipline and consistent. You know, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.920 it's not about going out there and throwing them the 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.040 most amount of weight. It's about going out there and 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.200 being consistent, going out there every day and doing it. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.840 You know. That's the point that I learned from James Connor. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.880 And then just getting close to him. You see why 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.040 he's a Pro Bowl. You see why you having you. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.360 Having so Keyanta Ingram is our guest here in the 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.440 Big Red Rage, and we asked him about you recently 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.400 and he just talked about the leap you've taken from 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.760 year one to year two. So just talks in terms 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.200 of your ability, your skill set. You know, what do 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.640 you wane right now? How is it feeling out and 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.680 how are you fitting into this offense? Or give us 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.880 an overall update on you. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.640 Oh yeah, man, So the off season going great. I'm 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.240 two hundred and twenty pounds right now, I'm feeling lean, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.400 I'm feeling mean. At the same time, the system's gonna 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.880 fit me well. Me and James Connor were both excited 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.160 about it, especially us being more downhill body type guys, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.720 bigger back type guys. So we excited learning the system, 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.359 getting familiar with it. Just the time and the catuses 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.200 the chemistry that the office need, just breaking all those 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.920 points down, and I feel like we got a pretty 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.640 good preview of that come out of Ota. So now 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.040 we got a little bit momentum going in fall camping, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:18.160 just trying to get. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.920 Ready for zach Ertz was asked in this studio a 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.280 couple of days ago, just how different is this offense 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.280 versus last year, and he said it couldn't be any 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.280 more different. So kind of filling the blank, I mean, 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:32.800 you know what, what what are some of your initial 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.960 takeaways of this scheme by Drew Petsing multiple offense. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:38.760 That's how I like to look at it. You got 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.360 to run in the past, We're gonna be a lot 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.040 more balanced. I feel like that's what the team kind 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.440 of wanted. You can tell the big guys up front 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.280 kind of want that too. So if they wanted, we 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:48.360 want at the zame dumb. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.160 So what's it like for running back when you're getting 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.280 the handoff from a quarterback that's under center versus when 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.080 you're in the gun? 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.200 I say time in reaction of the play you got. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.360 I know where you're going and what movie you're gonna 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.880 make getting it from the five yards from the line 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.240 of scrimms, because at the end of the day, you 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.600 five yards form a line of scrimmers. You know the 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.920 difference coming downhill man, you got the best seed in 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.680 the house. You know everybody want that, you know, so, 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.280 uh now we're getting that opportunity. Now it's time to 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:15.920 go maximize. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:19.240 So whether it's Will Hernandez or DJ Humphreys or Colt McCoy, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.320 James Connor, I mean even Zach Er, it's everyone. When 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.000 asked about this offense, their first initial takeaway is we're 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.880 gonna run the ball more right, And there's that enthusiasm 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.880 you smile. What is it about that? I mean, you 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.920 know how fired up does that get you? Oh? 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:38.480 Man, locked and loaded? You know it was back some 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.760 of the stuff we kind of do. I kind of 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.480 did a high school a little bit, so I'm very 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.840 excited there, especially just to see new faces, see how 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.160 we're gonna use them in the offense and use everybody 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.200 to that capability. I feel like that's the fun part 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:53.920 about it. You can tell everybody. Boy. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.640 So, so for those who don't know, Kanta Ngrim is 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.800 our guest. You were a big time high school for 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.200 in the state of Texas. You won a couple of 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.120 state titles in the Cowboys Stadium Kyler won three, right. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.199 I mean, you guys have a lot in common. You 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.000 were one of the most highly sought after recruits in 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.520 the country, went to Texas, finished at USC. I mean, 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.360 it's interesting between you, Kyler, Colt McCoy, even Clayton Tune 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.399 big time. You know, for those of us who have 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.040 only read the book or seen the movie or the 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.399 TV series Friday Night Lights, how real is that to 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.200 the fabric and culture of being a Texan. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.440 I feel like the best way to sum it up 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.600 is just to say it's a religion. I feel like 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.520 most states don't take on the grit that Texas take on. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:41.840 And I'm aware that we'll prize. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.560 So you were like a USA today, all American is 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.840 like a sixteen or seventeen year old. What was that like? 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.960 I mean, you were a legitimate celebrity halfway through high school, 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:51.359 weren't you. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.320 No, it was it was very different, you know, especially 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.879 with football. But I kind of it's in our culture, 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:00.680 It's in our blood, you know, So you really don't 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:02.399 look at it like that until you really go. I 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.600 guess outside of the states such as like USC and 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:06.359 do you really see the difference in it, you know? 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.720 But yeah, man, I feel like it's just in our blood. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.800 You seem like you're really grounded. But was there a 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.000 version of teenage version of Kanty Ingram who maybe got 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:17.399 a big ego, a big head. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.480 Uh. I never was a big ego guy. I was 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:26.120 very confident, confident, you know. I really believe in my abilities, 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.840 what I can do. How I see the game. I've 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.280 been playing the game since four or five years old, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.080 way back in flag football, you know, and the mechanics 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.439 still the same. I still got to put it in 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.160 the end zone and you got to have the extra 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.200 grid to have it. And I feel like I haven't 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:39.960 lost it, you know. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.640 So before I asked Kanty Ingram about Kyler Murray. Let's 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.280 hear it from Hollywood. Brown recently on The Wolf and 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.560 Luke Show, just talking about how motivated Kyler is these days. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.400 Kyle is a guy, he's a competitor. So for him, 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.879 you know, he hear the talks of oh he not 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.399 gonna be able to do this or do that. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.480 He gonna be so for him. 0:18:59.400 --> 0:18:59.920 He's dolled in. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.800 You know, He's always been a chip on his shoulder guy, 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.120 so he got even bigger chip now he's just he's 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.399