WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - In The Trenches With Billy Price 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.560 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles. Oh ahead, 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:10.480 he got jacked. This is the big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.640 by satan Ford in Gilbert. Mary's Gonna score touchdown. Slim 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.479 to the Ground by Buddha Baker Like a torpedo, he 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.960 came flying into the backfield. The rage is brought to 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:29.240 you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Are you Santanford State Farm? 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.240 Talk to an agent today at eight hundred State Farm? 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:37.840 Tan by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals dot Com, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:46.720 Slash Podcasts, The Reds, Rising Guard, Temperaturizing Vision, flurring, Rage 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.840 taking over. Here's Paul CALVICI. I'm ready. I'm one hundred 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.160 percent ready. I'm telling you I'm ready. And Ron Wolflee, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.840 it doesn't get any better than that, boy, unleash the fiar. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.960 You know enough enough of my own New Year's resolutions, 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.280 Ron Wolfley, I'll keep those to myself. Please do Paul 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.200 this year. I have a bunch of value added suggestions 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.960 and resolutions that I'm going to offer to you. Ron Wolfley, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.720 I'll reject them. Just think of it as like an 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.280 old school suggestion box. Okay, I'm going to stuff that 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.760 suggestion box with some free advice for you as to 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.160 how you can improve your life going forward in twenty 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.399 twenty three. We'll see if you're receptive or not, and 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.360 if you're if you're not. I brought along some muscle 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.360 in the form of Cardinals starting center. Billy Price, our 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.480 guest on the Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.480 and Gilbert Billy. Welcome. If Wolf ask you for New 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.880 Year's resolutions, dist ignore him. Okay, we got bigger and 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.920 better stuff to talk about here tonight. Welcome. Appreciate it, man, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.680 Thank you for having me. Appreciate you. Billy, thank you 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.320 for showing up right now. It says here in my 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.320 notes that you were born in Austintown, Ohio. Buddy, I 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.760 gotta ask you right now, where is and what was 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.520 the like growing up there? So Austintown we always tell 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.760 people it's directly between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. It's a steel city. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.560 So growing up on the west side of Youngstown in 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.920 Austintown m a city of grit. We always talk about 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.720 a city of grit and people who people who understand 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.520 and you have to you have to get down and 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.720 dirty to earn the respect to earn what you have. UM. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.320 So it's a great mindset growing up, especially, you know, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.840 having the aspirations go play Division one college ball eventually 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.840 one day. UM, you know that what led to the 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.200 aspirations to play in the NFL. So being in high school, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.120 you work for everything you get, you know, and it's 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.520 very very competitive, especially in Northeast Ohio with football. UM 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.840 ended up getting a full right scholarship to Ohio State, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.600 UH and then being able to continue that that same 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.680 mindset of grit to earn what you get and then 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.760 which led me into being selected in by Cincinnati in 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.480 the first round in twenty and eighteen and it's been 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.400 it's been a journey ever since. All Right, So I'm 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.280 going to guess there are two kinds of people in 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.960 the city of Grin. You're either a Steelers fan or 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.960 you're a Browns fan. True or false. It's one percent accurate. 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:08.679 And when I was drafted, that was one of the 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.080 first questions they said, Hey, okay, hey, being in Ohio, 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.560 being an Ohio guy, were you a Cincinnati fan? And 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.280 unfortunately had to disappoint the entire fan base immediately and 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.200 say no, Actually, I was raised the Pittsburgh fan My 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.400 stepfather was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was raised on Jerome Bennis, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:30.200 Jerome Bettis, heinz Ward pen Ben, Roethlisberger, Heath Miller, all 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.720 those guys, and to watch the continue to watch the rivalry, 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.520 and obviously it's kind of a little bit lopsidedly, not 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.160 recently as recently with Burrow there now, but just that mindset. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.040 It just I gravitated towards Pittsburgh, and so every Sunday 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.200 Pittsburgh and Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, you know, every now and 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.920 then he catched Pittsburgh Cincy. So it was started to 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.600 start off the right foot with the fan base and sinc. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.000 But hey, it's it is what it is. It's where 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.920 I was raised, it's you know, the people I was around. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.920 So so, Billy, I gotta ask you this right now, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.720 you're telling me that Austintown is a suburb of Youngstown, Ohio. Correct, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.280 on the west side. Yes, on the west side, on 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.080 the west side of Youngstown right there. So are you 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.839 familiar with the Zorditch family? Very familiar? Oh you all 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.920 keep yeah, Mike, Michael Zorditch right, very very one of 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.680 my fast buddies, dude. Interesting so you're also forty five 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.880 miles from Akron. So here's the next hard hitting question, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:33.960 Lebron or Michael Jordan. I gotta go. I gotta go 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.479 Michael Jordan, just simply because the numbers speak what they are. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.680 I would say, when Braun gets to that level, he's 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.359 an incredible in today's era of sports. He is. He 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.599 is the goat in today's era. But if you're looking 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.920 from the history of from myself, from some of the 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.280 other guys in the locker room, I mean, it's hard 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.800 to deny what Michael Jordan's been able to do. So 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.839 in high school, you were All State. In fact, you 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.039 were a co defensive player of the Year in the 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.880 state of Ohio and high school. So how did you 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.560 end up an offensive lineman? Take us through that all, right, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.919 When and where did you make the switch to the 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:12.120 dark side? So play defense, played both sides in high school. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.159 Just again, you play both sides and Friday nights and 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.279 it's a little bit shorter quarter, so it wasn't as hard. 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:22.039 I got to college first day. Mike Rabel was a 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.000 defensive line coach at Ohio State. It took me about 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.640 four days of training camp at Ohio State for me 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.760 to realize if I wanted to continue to play football 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.599 at this level, I was gonna need to change sides. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.800 It was very thankful to be recruited to play both sides. 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.200 And the guy, the offensive line coach who was there 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.919 at Ohio States, Ed Warner, who recruited me when he 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.040 was at Notre Dame as the offensive line coach and said, hey, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.640 you know an opportunity, I would love to have you. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.240 And then he ended up under Urban Meyers staff at 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.760 Ohio State and then gave me the opportunity. I went 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.040 to coach, I mean, you're an eighteen year old, your boy, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.159 you really are a boy. Tears of my eyes and said, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.880 I just I don't know if I'm gonna be able 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.080 to do this. You know, after you're getting pancakes three 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.400 or four times, because it's it's the freshman in there 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.800 versus the first team offensive line, who was Taylor Decker 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.680 who's with the Lions, Andrew Norwell who's with Washington now 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.680 played with the Jags, Jack Muhart who spent four years 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.520 with Indie and all those guys, and I mean it 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.320 was it was ridiculing in Pat olf Line, who was 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.520 with Carolina right now. Wow, So you're against NFL offensive 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.080 line your first day there, and I said, I just 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.080 I don't know if I can do this. Um, I said, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.040 I need to change sides, and you know, go from 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.360 their urban allowed me to do it and said, hey, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.080 we're all about it. Got you into the offensive line 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.920 room with with coach Warner and the rest of his 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.440 history and Billy, yeah you did. You went to Ohio State, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.800 of course, and you actually played three seasons at guard 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.560 right before they moved you to center. Yeah, we kind 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.880 of got this little program now for interior guys, you 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.039 end up you end up learning the offense playing guard. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.760 So for me, I went left guard for two seasons, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.800 right guard for a season, ended up at center. And 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.240 pat olf Line did the same thing. He was at 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.719 left guard, went to right guard, that went to center 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.960 and ended up obviously he's doing very well for himself 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.800 in the NFL. So it allows you to understand and 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:03.040 learn the offense from a less less critical position because 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.520 you're not snapping the ball, so you're it's still important 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.200 to have the pass game and in the run game 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.120 and everything you're doing in there, but it's able to 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.559 slow your mind down for then when you get to center, 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.480 you understand the offense as a whole, understand formations, adjustments, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.240 and then you're accountable for snapping the ball. So it 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.640 was a nice transition into it. Um it's a little 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.400 o Hio State Hio State interior program as we call it. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.320 So I haven't seen anybody else since do it. Um. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.600 Let's say the kid who is in there now, he's 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.920 been playing center since he's been there, So it's man, Billy. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.880 That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, And we were 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.280 able to do I mean, having the size to be 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.280 able to do it, especially at a power five D 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.960 one level, being able to you know, handle you know, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.560 some of your b blocks, your douce blocks, and then 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:45.880 being able to transition inside and still be athletic enough 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.480 to go and do those things that center requires you to, 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.360 being able to pull backblock on some of these super 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.320 athletic three techniques that there are. UM, So it was 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.080 it was a good transition. It was a good grooming process, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.360 especially to be to be the guy in that offense. 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:02.440 But think about it, and Billy Price is our guest 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.760 Cardinals starting center. You moved to center as a senior 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.120 and then won the Remington Award as the best center 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.040 in college football. To what degree did that exceed your 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.240 own expectations? Um? You know, I had a really good, 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.200 really really really good group of guys around me, and 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.720 it just it's nice, but trying to be humble about it. 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.000 But as as you go, as as a team goes, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.360 you go, Okay, we were very very good that year. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.560 I can't tell you the amount of you know, top 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.600 round draft picks that Ohistate has been able to produce 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.160 over the last six seven years. So it's as a 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.240 team goes, you go and you get that recognition. So 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.160 for so Billy, there are so many interior offensive linemen 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.520 that play guard and center. Um, do you have a preference. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.920 Do you have a preference in the NFL? Would you 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.800 rather play guard than center? Um? I'd rather play center. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:56.280 I think for me especially, this game has slowed down 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.959 so much for me now, you know, and Rodney and 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.160 I have this conversation often, Rodney Hudson. The game slows down, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.000 you start to see things slower, people start moving slower, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.559 and they're still freak athletes, but you know, you're back 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.360 blocking on a three technique, You're able to see those 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.760 adjustments and him move and I think that that was 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.920 the best thing for me my true rookie year was 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.120 to play center, to get groomed to the speed of 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.880 the NFL so that you're able to continue to develop 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.840 and grow in this league and to be successful at it. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.480 So I'd preference the play center. So Rodney Hudson hasn't 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.760 played since week four. You came in from the Raiders, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:33.400 and it was a couple of weeks and then you 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.120 took over and you've been the starting center I think 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.839 since week seven. Are you finally at a point where 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.840 you're playing and not thinking? How much of a process 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.480 was that? What was the degree of difficulty in picking 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.760 up a new playbook and scheme on the fly. Yeah, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.800 it's difficult, especially when you were relied upon to make 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.440 a lot of the calls, make a lot of the calls. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.240 So in Vegas, the quarterback makes the calls. It's a 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.760 very very patriot like system. So the quarterbacks make the calls, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.080 which blew my mind when you said that our conversation 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.720 at Mexico City, Billy, when you were saying that you 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.040 weren't making the calls in Vegas, that kind of blew 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:08.800 my ba. Yeah, I mean, but look at it look 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.120 what Tom does in Tampa, what he just did against us, 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.640 And it was the same situation. And it's there you 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.040 have a growing relationship and again centers are able to 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.400 start to see some of the adjustments, rotations and some 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.800 tendencies that you have that relationship with the quarterback. But 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.080 when the offense and you've got the greatest quarterback of 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.280 all time, run it that you let him run a show. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:31.280 So it's a situation there, but you learned. You try 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.199 to pick up the playbook. In three weeks in Vegas 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.160 and then all of a sudden, you know, boom, hey 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.520 they want you taking you off a piece squad. You 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.200 want to go over and you know, picking up the offense. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.199 It's a little bit a little it's a little simpler, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.720 which is not a bad thing. It's you know, hey, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.400 you see the adjustments here, your adjustments here, your can 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.319 criteria here, your potential calls. Go play. And that was 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:51.800 the first thing Cook said to me. It was like, hey, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.679 we want you to stop thinking so much. We want 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.719 to make this simple. Go play. You're talented enough, you're 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.960 you're a baller, Go do your thing, Go play fast. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.360 And so it's gotten to that point and in each 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.040 week in the NFL outside of your divisional opponents, there's 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.800 a different scheme. There's a different game plan there. You know, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.400 we want to run the ball these types of plays 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.160 or protect and have a protection plan for this type 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.480 of player in the division. It makes it a look 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.240 because you have consistent tendencies and consistent guys who you 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.880 see like what Seattle we played twice in four weeks, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:22.720 five weeks or something like that, so it's like, okay, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.600 hey boom, you remember that kind of stuff. So it's 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.800 a little bit of a different situation to that, but 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.200 it's I mean, it was tough. And then on top 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.440 of it, I had a child, which that makes it 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.920 even more because again my wife was in Dallas, Texas. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:38.319 We're trying to figure it out. All of a sudden 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.160 she came out here. We had a kid. On Friday, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.240 I played Women and we played Minnesota on Saturday. I mean, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.120 the turnaround to what the mental side of this actually 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.679 was and the last x amount of week, I mean, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.439 it's been it's been a whirlwind of a season. I 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:52.960 can tell you that. Well, we did not know that, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.520 so we buried the league. Congratulations being a father to 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.000 you and your family. Appreciate it. Here will be nine 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.360 weeks this Friday, so it's he he hasn't gotten a 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:05.440 chance to see a Cardinals game yet, but he's doing well. 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.199 He's healthy. I don't know, I'm super super happy to 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.800 be a father. I think you've been a Cardinal nine 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.600 games right about. Speaking of how is your season gone, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.760 Billy h he has some bumps um as expected with that. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.320 It's you know, there's different quarterbacks, there's different cadences. There's 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.040 things again, as you learn an offense in the little wrinkles, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.040 some of these things you get used to in OTAs, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.840 and unfortunately I wasn't here for OTAs. You know, there's 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.040 free agency decisions, et cetera that were made, but having 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.760 that valuable time makes a difference. You know, some of 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.640 the cadences that we use, some of the motions, formations, things, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.400 It would have been very helpful for me to get 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.800 to the point where, you know, the last three or 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.480 four weeks, I've really felt like I've settled down. I've 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.080 really starting to play consistent and not you know, my 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.240 mind is not spinning and that makes a huge difference. Well, 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.960 speaking of quarterbacks, Colt McCoy is back and we will 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.800 see him in Atlanta and Cliff Kingsbury was asked about 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.520 Colm McCoy thirty six years of age and what he brings. Yeah, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.319 he obviously brings the calmness. You know, he has a 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.000 great field for what we're trying to do and the 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.439 leadership of getting people in the right spot, getting the 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.880 right calls, checking the right plays. I mean that that's 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.760 a comfort level that we all have when he's out there, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.080 and I'd love to get him some confidence and play 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.440 really well a couple more times hand in an offseason. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.080 Anybody who's seeing hard knocks realizes that he's a coach 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.640 in the making if he so chooses right. What is 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.679 that like on the field? How does that translate from 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.920 the huddle to the line of scrimmage. I would definitely 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.360 agree that there's a calmness to him. He's seen a lot, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.280 he's played a lot of ball, and having that calm 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:44.840 presence behind you and his ability to seriously get everybody 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.520 on the same page as well as trust the guys 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.080 around them to do their part as a professional. You know, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.240 we have protection meetings and I run the protection meetings 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.280 and it's okay, I see that. You know, if there's 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.880 any questions, it's okay, hey, what's your thought process behind it? Okay, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.840 hey you see it that way? Cool? I know my 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.400 answers instead of oh no, we're gonna do it this way, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:02.959 or we're gonna do it that way, or it's it's 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.480 it's a collective effort. And that's what I think. I mean, 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.320 I know, you know he got a game ball. I 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:09.839 believe he got a game ball for the Rams game. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.800 That's a perfect, perfect example. Everybody's collectively working together on 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.040 what's going on, what our game plan is, how we're 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.400 going to attack these guys to protect these guys. And 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.960 that's just Cole. I mean, if you know him, if 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.880 you see him, the way he operates, what you've seen 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.160 on Hard Knocks, that's Colt. I mean I think he's 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.720 a father of four, grew up in Texas. I mean 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.440 that is cold. His dad was a high school coach. Yeah, man, 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.600 and it really is. I do I agree with you 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.240 guys on the coaching aspect, because if you you listen 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.120 to him speak and you listen to, oh, hey, this 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.720 is our answer if they do this, this is the anticipation, 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:46.200 the answers, the adjustments, It's incredible. It's incredible, and it's 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.840 not to age him by no means, but I want 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.680 I used to want to go to Texas. I wanted 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.840 to go to play for Mac Brown And whose jersey 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:58.160 did I have? Quote McCoy's like, it's kind of a 0:14:58.560 --> 0:14:59.800 you know, my dad said the same thing when I 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.280 went out there. He goes, hey, you know colts out 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.440 there right, and he's like, do you want me to 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.000 send you the jersey to get signed? I go, no, please, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.080 I'll do that. So he's just incredible. It's calm, but 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.440 you're like, Dad, you know, cold will think is starting 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.800 center as a stalker or something might come on. You know, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.000 easy is crazy how we used to do. It's like 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.200 just wild, but well we have him when we come back. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.320 We want you to share what you can of your 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.880 conversation with JJ Watt earlier today and just what an 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.440 offensive lineman makes of j. J. Watt and what he's 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.600 been able to do this year in his Hall of 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.240 Fame career. We're visiting with Billy Price, our special guest 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.000 on The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.480 We're talking about a guy who was the twenty first 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.520 pick overall in the two eighteen draft. He started every 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.360 game at Ohio State ever since his red shirt freshman 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.600 year won a national title. We continue with a big 0:15:54.600 --> 0:16:04.800 red rage right after this second down and ten man 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.640 in motion is dorch exolely under center. Give to Connor 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.960 looking laugh, runs off tackle left side twenty ten. The 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.720 races inside the five and into the end zone. James 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:21.000 Connor houses it from twenty two yards out. That's the 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.840 Cardinals run game, wearing down the defense in the fourth quarter, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.840 and it pays off with the first touchdown of the game. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.320 And it all started by putting the quarterback under center 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:39.920 with twelve personnel, one back, two tight ends, run the ball, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.960 tackle zone concept. James Connor houses in there you go. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.600 That was from Christmas Night, Sunday Night football against Tom 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.960 Brady and company and that Tampa Bay defense. All right, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.360 so it's a rare opportunity. Ron Wolfley, Paul Calves. You 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.800 heard us right there, Billy Price, our special guest, the 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:02.000 starting center. True or false? Hear me surmise the Cardinals 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.239 wore down that Tampa defense in the fourth quarter. Then 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.919 you heard wolf Site the quarterback under center. Were we 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.960 correct or incorrect? Billy? This is your chance now you 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.879 were definitely correct all that it was, been pushing for 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.439 it and finally being able to get the call and 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.399 get them in the right defense. Right look, bot a boom, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.280 here you go touchdown. So was that, Billy? Was that 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:28.040 more of a stretch play a zone concept than you 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.240 guys have run before. You guys also run double, you 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.080 run the power without the polls, So that was more 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.640 of a zone concept, correct, correct, Yes, something we haven't 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.800 put a ton of on tape. So again, being able 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.040 to hit those guys, and you see a lot of 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:45.000 successful teams running the wide zone against Tampa, So getting 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.160 that look especially, I believe it was ended up being 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.280 to a strong side as the tight end motioned across 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:52.879 just the way that they adjusted to it and id 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.040 the backside make sure we cut that off. And it 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:56.359 was up to the tight ends to make sure that 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.960 we got a lane for jac and go hit your 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.560 head off the goalpost. But guy, yep, James Connor fifteen 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.240 carries five point three yards a carry. Um. You know, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.280 as you might imagine, Paul pencil Neck here has never 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.520 played offensive line, Billy, So I'll ask you this question, 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.320 what do you guys use to gauge and judge your 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.120 performance and where is yards per carry? Where does that rank? 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.000 What else do you guys assess when you grab the 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.159 box score after a game? What are you looking at? 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.920 First and foremost? Sacks first and foremost and some of 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:25.000 the sacks that all sacks are not created equal. Again, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:26.800 it could be a coverage sack. It could be I 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.280 got beat, It could be you know, somebody was hot 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.800 and involved and get out. You know, situations, So they're 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.080 not all sacks are treated equally. But again, a sack 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.600 as a sack. And if we can avoid those and 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.440 get you a nice big zero on there, that's the best. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.120 And then secondly, yards per carry. I think that that's 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.000 a correlation to how successful one year, how successful your 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.960 run game is. And two two I put two B 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.800 to that is how many carries did you end up getting? 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.240 You know, I think what last week I said, what 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.640 was a fifteen fifteen Connor fifteen carries? You know, obviously 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.479 offensive line being biased. Hey, we want more, we want more, 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.439 but for five point three a carry on fifteen, you 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.119 know it's a decent night. So um, you know, we 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.120 just continue to push for it. You know, we love 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.040 the duo runs, you know, the power without the Poolers 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.480 getting JC rolling here on the wide zone that we've 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.720 been we've been pushing for recently, just haven't really got 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.040 it run into game. And then again it's it's smashed 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.439 mouth football. It's tight zone. It's beat the guy across 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:20.080 from you, and you know you have to be physical. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.680 And again it gains a defense like Tampa um intention 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.359 to wear them down, and eventually you do wear them 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:26.520 down and all of a sudden, there you go, there's 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.840 a twenty two yard run for a touchdown. So just 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.040 it's it all ties in with it, Um, but definitely 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.800 sacks boy yards per carry and then touches boy Billy. 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.160 Just listening to you talk right there. You know, what's 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.440 all I can think of is Steve Hyden right now? Um, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.320