WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - A Special Start To The Season 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:05.440 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles ahead. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:10.360 He got Jack. This is the big red Rain presented 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.480 by Santanford in Gilbert. Mary's gonna score touchdown and so 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.320 for bets goes up and makes the game. When it 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:22.840 cast Flurry Luncheon does it again. The Rage is brought 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.640 to you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Are you Satanford 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.400 State Farm? Talk to an agent today at eight hundred 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:37.080 State Farm and buy Arizona Cardinals podcasts, Visit Acy Cardinals 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:45.320 dot Com, Slash podcasts, the rod scene, Rising Guard, Temperaturizing Vision, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.720 Flurry Rage, take it over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.280 popcorn ready, It's gonna be a show and Ron will flip. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.920 It doesn't get any better than that horn. Unleash the far. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:05.880 Do you feel that, Ron Bull? Do you sense how 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:14.440 the buzz is building? The bandwagon is form, the awareness 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:18.160 and the attention is growing. I like where you're going. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:24.280 The recognition is arriving. Power balls after a week one 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.600 is I try not to laugh? Have the Arizona Cardinals 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.039 in the top ten A lot of these power pulls? Ye, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.920 even vegas. Do not dismiss vegas burden the handball bush. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.959 Back in March, the Cardinals were eighty to one shots 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.760 to win the Super Bowl. Yeah, last month they were 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.760 fifty to one. Right now they are twenty eight to 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:51.400 one after one win. What can that win do for you? Well, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.800 in one week, it has done a lot for the 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.040 profile of the Arizona Cardinals. As we launch into this 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.440 week two edition of The Big Red Rate A by 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.760 santan Ford and Gilbert we are santan Ford, Paul Kalvic 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.080 here at Cossa LVCI Ron Wolfley's social distancing. There. There's 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.000 just no getting around it, is there, Polly? I mean 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.720 there really is not. If the Arizona Cardinals want to 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.640 be considered a good team, they have to win games 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.200 like this. They have to win this game at home, Paully, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:24.679 against a young team with a young quarterback that has struggled, right. I. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.480 This is a game you look at and say, the 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.920 Arizona Cardinals should win this game, and you know what, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:37.000 the win in San Francisco. That's exactly what Kyler Murray said. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.640 He told Buddha Baker on the sideline that this feels 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.239 like last year against the forty nine ers down the stretch. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.160 The difference to Your point is, they made the plays, 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.400 they finished the game both sides of the ball, and 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.600 they got the win. Because once again, everybody, now, just 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.359 because you're close on the scoreboard does not mean you're 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.600 close to being a winning team in the NFL. You 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.200 have to win those close games, figure out a way 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.760 to turn that and at least one game into this 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.240 season that Cardinals did exactly that, Polly, That is it 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.519 right there, ding ding ding ding ding. Good teams find 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.079 ways to compete against the other good teams in the 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.320 National Football League, and more times than not, you're going 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.160 to find a way to win it. The fourth quarter. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.360 They're going to be competitive games. Go back to last 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.880 year that two games years on. Our Cardinals played against 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.720 the forty nine ers last year very competitive games, but 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.160 to your point, could not get over the top. Now 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.880 this year they get over the top. They play well, 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.640 and they get over the top. And now what are 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.520 you gonna do about it? See, this is the thing 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.920 about you've got to compete against the best the league 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.320 can offer, no doubt about that. They've done that and 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.520 they've won a game. Now what do you do when 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.240 you're supposed to win a game? Man, You've got to 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.480 win the games you're supposed to wis Well, what was 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.920 the difference to you those two games stuck out to 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.360 such a degree last year Cardinals and Niners because the 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.400 Cardinals hung top with the NFC champions. Was it simply 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.000 a matter of adding DeAndre Hopkins fourteen catches for a 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.960 buck fifty one? What was it on both sides of 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.200 the ball? I think, Paul, I think it was Kyler Murray. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.960 It was Kyler Murray in that fourth quarter and pulling 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.560 down the ball and running, the ability to convert in 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.039 third down situations, and his threat of running ball ninety 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.719 one rushing yards for Kyler Murray. I think they called 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.400 his number three times where it was actually a called 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:26.400 run for Kyler Murray, maybe twice. But his ability to 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.200 scramble is what changed the game. He would he would 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.359 add one hundred yards rushing if not for those kneel 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.240 downs at the end. I saw a quarterback who did 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:39.320 what was necessary and needed to win. Yes. I saw 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.680 what Russell Wilson has been doing to the Cardinals in 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.520 the rust the NFL for a decade. Tasted. It could 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.480 be pedestrian numbers through three quarters, doesn't matter. He's going 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:48.960 to turn it on and find a way in that 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.359 fourth quarter to beat you. And that's exactly what Kyler 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.800 and the Cardinals did, just getting rolling on the big 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.039 Red Rage. We have Ezekiel Turner who had the turning 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.280 point in the game, the play that changed the game. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.440 All presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are Satan FOURD. 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.440 DeAndre Hopkins is a game changer physically. You bring so 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.840 many tools to the table. It's going to be a 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.720 massive help to Kyler Murray. Wide receiver screen to the 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.200 laugh caught by Hopkins at the twenty five move the 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.120 chain's baby, You're gonna catch a lot of passes this year. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.039 He throws far aside of the sideline, caught by Hopkins, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.120 a first down I even catch made by Hopkins. Throws 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.720 a deep ball far sideline on target DeAndre Hopkins with 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.520 a first down catch. Swite open Hopkins caught at the 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.600 twenty farside ten five and he's hitting the one. Welcome 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:39.000 to the Valley. Nooke didn't take very long before he 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.719 was able to take off the stick of the red 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.800 Hello my name is because man was he introduced to 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.719 Cardinals fans in the Red Sea and a big way. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.240 DeAndre Hopkins a career high fourteen grams for one hundred 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.080 and fifty one yards. It is a big red rage 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.520 presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.080 and you want big How about that for a debut? 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.600 The D and D hot standing for ding? How about 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.080 that wall? You know, first impression Bally right, I mean 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.680 you never forget that first impression. You only get the 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.640 opportunity to make that first impression one. So I go 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.160 back to Kyler Murray his rookie year. One of my 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.880 biggest takeaways from his rookie year was the fact that 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.719 in his very first game, with all the narratives arounded 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.320 Gayler Bury Bally, all the doubters that were out there, 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:24.599 it is very first game, he went out there and 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.240 he didn't look really good for three quarters, he did 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.920 not play well. All of a sudden down eighteen points 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.120 of the Detroit Lions at home, brought his team back 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.719 and actually tied that game up in the fourth quarter 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.239 down eighteen points. That to me told me something about 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.880 this kid in his very first game, and the same 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.080 thing that he said about DeAndre Hopkins. I think we 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.280 all expected him to be productive, but man fourteen receptions 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.320 for one hundred and fifty one yards. That's getting it 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.839 done in your first game, by the way, I have 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.680 it right here. That opener a year ago, the Cardinals 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.320 trailed to start the fourth quarter or twenty four to six, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.119 and Kyler in fourth quarter and overtime of that debut 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.000 against the Lions went twenty to twenty nine, two thirty eight, 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.200 two touchdowns, no picks for a passer rating to one 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.720 sixteen point seven. So right, so right there. Look, you know, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.560 I'm a believer that there are some late bloomers sometimes, 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.200 but for the most part, guys announced their arrival and 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.200 whether they're truly going to be players and make plays 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.360 in the NFL. You can you can figure that out 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.760 pretty quickly. And then when you have a three time 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.920 All Pro like DeAndre Hopkins, I just I guess I 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.400 never envisioned, well, if that's sort of chemistry, I just 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.520 never figure there'd be sixteen targets and fourteen grads, which 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.600 easily could have been fifteen catches for a buck eighty 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.400 if they would have connected to that one third down 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.920 chunk throw where Kyler was going to the back shoulder 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.000 and expected you have to peel off towards the sideline. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.200 That seemed to be a bit of a miscommunication. Yeah, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.480 there was a miscommunication, and it was on that play 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.120 right there, PAULI. But I have to tell you the 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.600 chemistry I'm with you on this, the chemistry between DeAndre 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.840 hot Kyler Murray. It was substantial, no doubt about that. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.640 But they really made a concerted effort to throw the 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.880 ball in a horizontal way, to throw the ball with 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.840 a little dink and dunk. And the reason being Cliff 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.440 Kingsbury told us, as PAULI, we were talking to him 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.440 and he told us this, The reason being that was 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.160 part of the game plan. They game plan that coming 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.280 out against the forty nine ers and that four man rush, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.680 the nick boss of the world and just how incredibly 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:29.000 freakishly talented he is, they wanted to get them tired. Well, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.040 one way to do that force him to turn and run. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.160 Every time you throw the ball, whether it's horizontally or 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.880 dinking it, they turned, and they're taught to run and chase. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.920 He wanted to tire them out and then run the 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.120 ball a little bit more in the second half. My 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.280 question is will they do that again, because a lot 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.840 of guys in that locker room were pretty convinced it worked. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.359 It was an effective game plan, and there was a correlation, 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.559 a cause and effect between what the Cardinals did in 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.840 that fourth quarter. For example, on the twenty two yard 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.679 touchdown run by Kyler Murray. If you look, Fred Warner 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.800 is a trailblitzer and he didn't have a lot of 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.679 juice or a lot of want to at that middle 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.760 linebacker position throughout his arm. That wasn't gonna get it done. 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.960 Kyler was gone, barely got touched. If you look at 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.079 the analytics, he barely got touched. He had the wherewithal 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.600 to get down when he was facing trouble. But I 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.520 think everyone wonders what is possible now? And DeAndre Hopkins 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.240 he had that question thrown at him on Monday and 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.000 his answer was, and I quote, I think I can 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.160 have an amazing season in an offense like this. It's 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.600 an offense that gets its playmakers the ball, ball out 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.840 quit great scheme, and when you've got a great quarterback 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.640 like Kyler, anything is possible. End quote. De hop I 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.080 just honestly, I could not help as I was watching 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.240 Dejanre Hopkins be as productive as he was. PAULI, I 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.280 could not help. But think of Bill O'Brien and every 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.000 Texans fan there is out there. I mean, honestly, I 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.559 do I respect coach O'Brien. I really do as being 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.880 a good coach. I don't think he's a very good 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.959 general manager, but I do think he's a good coach. 0:09:56.080 --> 0:10:00.680 I wonder what the Texan faithful, what they were thinking 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.719 about is DeAndre Hopkins said a career high in his 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.120 very first game. It's very first game for the Cardinals, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.120 a career eyeball. We joked after the game with Dave 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.520 Fashion the postgame, like Cardinals in the locker room right 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.360 now here in Santa Clara, they're giving out a game ball. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.599 In my opinion, I think they should have given it 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.160 to Bill O'Brien and just shipped it to him, but 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.559 they didn't. They gave it to d hop And in fact, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.800 we go all access ec Cardinals dot com. And here's 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.640 what it sounded like. We face adversity as big as 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.480 you can face. Y'all kept going, all right, that's a 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:31.800 hell of a job by an. The way to win. 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.200 We built something today, all right, and we gotta keep 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.760 building each week because they come out y'all felt how stopping. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.959 It was you'll turn out tired. We are now we 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:40.800 just get better and better. But it's couldn't be more 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.400 proud of the effort and guys sticking together. I want 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.120 your game ball to a new member of our team 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:55.160 had fourteen catches one from the moment I walked in 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.319 this building. Man, I feel something special about this team. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.080 I know we got what it taken to give what 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:06.520 we won't. But it's one day to Tom's DeAndre Hopkins 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.520 on the receiving end from Cliff Kingsbury. We've seen a 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.160 lot of those game ball presentations. Courtesyasy Cardinals dot Com. Wolf, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.520 I don't I'm not sure I remember an acceptance speech 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.560 from anyone that was great. Yeah, Gray got up and 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.440 he actually addressed the entire locker room. That was good stuff. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.760 It's great stuff, Polly. That Nuke is a larger than 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.360 life figure in that locker room right now. Everyone knows 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.640 how wildly talented he is. He already got a Larry Fitzgerald, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.400 the guy that is certain for a yellow jacket, a 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.280 guy that is going to be a Hall of Famer, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.000 And now you bring in DeAndre Hopkins, a guy that 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.240 also could be a Hall of fame wide receiver. If 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.239 he can actually accomplish some things maybe in the postseason 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:50.720 that Larry Fitzgerald has. If he's given that opportunity, who 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.840 knows what we're going to see from DeAndre Hopkins. But 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.360 the amazing thing to me, Polly, after all is sudden done. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.239 Is just the fact that once again, his first opportunity 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.080 to go make plays, his first opportunity to be productive, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.600 he sets a career high. That's just stunned. Ron Rivera 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:15.679 said this week he gets anxiety watching Kyler Murray. DeAndre 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.000 Hopkins gotta fall in there's And I asked Cliff Kingsbury 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.480 during Gameplan, his weekly TV show, if the Niners made 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.920 an adjustment on Diab. He said they did. I didn't 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.880 quite see it. So I'm curious what Washington's gonna do 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.520 this week. Maybe we'll talk to Ezekiel Turner about what 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.280 he would do trying to cover a guy like DeAndre Hopkins. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.200 We as yes, the pivotal moment of the game, that 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:45.240 guy is next to the big red rage. He will 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.760 snap it from the thirty six with Snowski stands at 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.240 his twenty two yard line and the pun is blocked. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.559 It was blocked by Ezekiel Turner recovered by Gardak who 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.920 gets up and runs at the fifteen and he's tackled 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:01.280 at the ten. All the Cardinals their punt return went 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.559 right through the forty nine ers protection with warm pastry. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:10.960 All that is sweet baby. Right there, Zeke Turner getting 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:15.240 the block. That is a huge play by the Cardinals 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.400 special teams and the should turn the momentum of this game. 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:30.840 Who Black who block me? His own hype man right there, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.839 Huda Baker, who was miked up before Buddha knocked out 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.120 his own microphone midway through the first half. He hit 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.439 a guy so hard that it actually killed the microphone. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.160 So that's the sort of aggressive football the Cardinals came 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.559 out of the gates plane and Wolf. You cannot underestimate 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.440 and understate what exactly that play did to the game. 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.480 You're thinking, how, why, what enabled the Cardinals to come 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.199 back from ten? Nothing down in your mind as a 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.480 guy went to four Pro Bowls as a special team 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.600 or how large was the punt block? It doesn't get 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.120 any bigger, bully right there. That's exactly what special teams do. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.319 For the most part. They control field position and then 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.520 they control the momentum of games so much at the time. Well, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.200 it's all about you, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.240 and by you, we mean Ezekiel Turner who joins us 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.920 now in the Big Red Rage. Zeke, good evening, and 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.520 you know who hit harder the Niners or some of 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.480 your teammates after you're coming off the field with a 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:30.080 pump lock. Yeah, thank you for having me. Yeah, my 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.160 head was hurting when I came to I saw you 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.360 getting mobbed over there. I mean, let's just start with 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.240 the basic question. We heard the play. Take us through 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.600 the play. Cardinals are down ten nothing, Niners are backed 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.520 up in their own territory, and then you take it 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.280 from there and after especially after watching the film, go 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.040 ahead and explain it to us. Yeah. Yeah, it was 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.240 great to get that play with my teammates, to go 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.120 out there and execute when our was called. So that 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.640 was good. Um, we knew coming into the season that 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.880 teams were gonna have We're gonna make mistakes from the 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.080 lack of offseason and all those misreps, so we just 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.880 wanted to come in and see who would make a mistake, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.560 and we caught them making one. So Zeke, have you 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.960 ever have you ever made a play that big in 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.680 transition on special teams? Have you ever made a play 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.080 that big? No? That was? That was. That was my 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.280 first punt block of my career, so it was it 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.960 was huge. You've never blocked a punt before in your career? No? 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.480 That yeah, that was that was my first one. How 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.480 did that? What did it feel like? Man? Because I've 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.640 never blocked a punt either. Okay, I went to four 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.240 Pro Bowls on special teams, but I can tell you 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.760 right now I've never blocked upup. What did it feel like? Yeah? 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.960 It was crazy. It just it just kind of went 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.880 silent like as it happened, everything just kind of froze 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.520 and went still. And then I was like and then 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.320 I just wanted to make sure the ball was like 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.680 behind the line of scrimins so account it as a block, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.720 and then I just just excitement as chills. Yeah, it 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.640 was great. Zeka was an X game though. That was 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.640 really interesting me. I used to play personal protector all 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.560 the time, so I was a guy making the calls 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.640 on the punt team, of course. And it was a 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.240 four by four set, and yet you guys ran an 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.320 axe up the middle. Do you care to respond on that? 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:23.160 A little bit. Uh yeah, well we had been running. 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.960 We had been practicing that since training camp, so we 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:30.200 got a lot of reps on it. The guy that 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.119 should have had me in their protection was the snapper, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.280 but he never came back with me or I guess 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.080 he never saw me cross back, and it just and 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.960 Van Dennis led the way. He cleared out the way 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.240 from me and I just followed behind him and then block. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.880 You know, great play. If a quarterback throws a touchdown pass, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.200 they asked him, a big chunk play touchdown Bomby, When 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.520 did you know it was gonna hit? When did you 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.080 know you were gonna get home? Did you know before 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.920 the snap, oh boy, this has got a chance? Or 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.040 was it somewhere along the course of the play. It 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.880 was a little of both. Before going out there, we knew, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.440 I mean, we knew we just had to had to execute. 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.200 So I'm sure I knew everybody was just going to 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.000 do their job. And then we got We knew we 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.560 were going to catch them sleep, and we knew we 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.320 were gonna get the look we wanted. And then as 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.400 I'm running the path that I was just going through 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:25.199 there untouched and I was like, oh boy, this is it? Then? Well, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.239 how big was it? I posed that question to Wolf Our. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.639 Jim Hunter posed that same question to Patrick Peterson, And 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.040 here's what Peach twice had to say. Yeah, that block 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.320 punt definitely Uh the night of the team, we was 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.960 a little I won't necessarily say we was flat, but 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.800 we definitely was behind that block punt definitely, uh started 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.639 it all. Zeke plays with a ton of energy. He 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.359 practiced that way, and it shows up on Sundays. You know, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.560 he's been you know, alpha dog on special team since 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:57.840 he's gotten here. You know, I love the way he played. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.359 He played his game at one speed, you know, and 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.720 that's past. You know, that's facts. As the kids like 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.760 to say. With Pat p I mean will fifth. I 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.320 reminded you his rookie year, Zeke Turner out of you 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.639 doub he led the NFL with thirteen solo tackles on 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.000 special teams and had twenty two total tackles on special 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.119 teams his rookie year. Put that in a perspective. Is 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.320 that a lot? No? That that really is? Honestly, listen, Boalie, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:21.680 I could tell you right now, I went to four 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.880 Pro Bowls, I'd get three tackles a game or made 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.919 three tackles a year. Three tackles. Think about that, and 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.399 the reason being is because the good cover guys, you 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.840 get doubled, right, You get doubled so much of the time. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.280 So talk about that, Zake. Talk a little bit about 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.359 your ability to play in transition on special teams. Do 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.080 you love it? Do you love playing in that phase 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:47.000 of the game. Yeah, No, definitely. It's something I did 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.240 since I was in college. And then the guys you 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.840 go out there with you just kind of build that bond. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:54.920 So like when you go out there, you know you're 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.920 competing against each other, you know you're trying to help 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.680 the team fill position, and yeah, it's great feeling. He's 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.960 playing with special teams. What's your favorite special team, Zeke? 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.440 What's your favorite one to play on? Um? I like PUNT. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.000 I like PUNT, I like I like being a PP 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:17.000 um down like it tackle. Why do you like the PP? 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.399 The personal protector? Zeke? Why do you like it? I 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:22.000 don't know what kind of gives you kind of gives 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:27.720 you that QB feeling, you know, to team in the 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:32.320 best position to you know, flip the field, put the 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:34.640 other team in a better in a worst spot. Than 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.040 they are. I don't know. I'm waiting for a direct snap. 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:39.720 Do you you know? I mean you do? Do you 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.359 have do you have skills? Can you run it? Can 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.399 you throw it? Yeah? I mean we'll have to see. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.520 Whenever that day, maybe we'll have to see. I had 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.680 some I had some very very good special teams coaches 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.120 throughout my career, guys that poured into me not only 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.000 from a football perspective, but as a man as well. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.200 Talk to me a little bit about Jeff Rogers. Him 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.400 the kind of coach he is. Oh, yeah, No, he's 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.000 a great coach. You know, he's gonna, he's gonna he 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.680 knows a lot about the game. He's very aware of 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:14.919 everything that's going on, everything situationally, feel position wise, and 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.400 he's i mean just a great all around coach. It's 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.359 always trying to get you better. He's gonna be hard 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.399 on you. I'm gonna make sure you do do everything 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.720 the right way. And yeah, he's just very aware of 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.000 the game. And it's just it's just fun to watch 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.640 and learn from. Zeek. You say he coaches hard, he's 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.359 hard on you. I mean he ye'll let you on 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.160 the field. Yeah, I mean, he wants he wants things 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.800 done a certain way. So if it's if it's not 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.040 the way he wants to look, then yeah, he'll definitely. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.880 Do you respond well to that? Zeke, I always responded 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.000 well to a coach who coached me hard. Do you 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.399 respond well to that? Oh? Yeah, absolutely. That's that's the 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:55.360 only way you're gonna get better is from coaching. And 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.240 that's only I mean you you you should want to 0:20:57.280 --> 0:20:59.160 be coached. You should want the coach to be hard 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.320 on you, so you know that your mistake that you 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.800 can improve on. I'll tell you the last few years 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.000 on the Cardinals sideline as a sideline reporter, if you 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.520 do something wrong or mess something up, Coach Rogers will 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.280 find you're you're not gonna be able to go to 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.400