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Speaker 1: guest on the Big Red Rage, presented by Santan Ford
Speaker 1: and Gilbert Billy. Welcome. If Wolf ask you for New
Speaker 1: Year's resolutions, dist ignore him. Okay, we got bigger and
Speaker 1: better stuff to talk about here tonight. Welcome. Appreciate it, man,
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Appreciate you. Billy, thank you
Speaker 1: for showing up right now. It says here in my
Speaker 1: notes that you were born in Austintown, Ohio. Buddy, I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you right now, where is and what was
Speaker 1: the like growing up there? So Austintown we always tell
Speaker 1: people it's directly between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. It's a steel city.
Speaker 1: So growing up on the west side of Youngstown in
Speaker 1: Austintown m a city of grit. We always talk about
Speaker 1: a city of grit and people who people who understand
Speaker 1: and you have to you have to get down and
Speaker 1: dirty to earn the respect to earn what you have. UM.
Speaker 1: So it's a great mindset growing up, especially, you know,
Speaker 1: having the aspirations go play Division one college ball eventually
Speaker 1: one day. UM, you know that what led to the
Speaker 1: aspirations to play in the NFL. So being in high school,
Speaker 1: you work for everything you get, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: very very competitive, especially in Northeast Ohio with football. UM
Speaker 1: ended up getting a full right scholarship to Ohio State,
Speaker 1: UH and then being able to continue that that same
Speaker 1: mindset of grit to earn what you get and then
Speaker 1: which led me into being selected in by Cincinnati in
Speaker 1: the first round in twenty and eighteen and it's been
Speaker 1: it's been a journey ever since. All Right, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to guess there are two kinds of people in
Speaker 1: the city of Grin. You're either a Steelers fan or
Speaker 1: you're a Browns fan. True or false. It's one percent accurate.
Speaker 1: And when I was drafted, that was one of the
Speaker 1: first questions they said, Hey, okay, hey, being in Ohio,
Speaker 1: being an Ohio guy, were you a Cincinnati fan? And
Speaker 1: unfortunately had to disappoint the entire fan base immediately and
Speaker 1: say no, Actually, I was raised the Pittsburgh fan My
Speaker 1: stepfather was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was raised on Jerome Bennis,
Speaker 1: Jerome Bettis, heinz Ward pen Ben, Roethlisberger, Heath Miller, all
Speaker 1: those guys, and to watch the continue to watch the rivalry,
Speaker 1: and obviously it's kind of a little bit lopsidedly, not
Speaker 1: recently as recently with Burrow there now, but just that mindset.
Speaker 1: It just I gravitated towards Pittsburgh, and so every Sunday
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, you know, every now and
Speaker 1: then he catched Pittsburgh Cincy. So it was started to
Speaker 1: start off the right foot with the fan base and sinc.
Speaker 1: But hey, it's it is what it is. It's where
Speaker 1: I was raised, it's you know, the people I was around.
Speaker 1: So so, Billy, I gotta ask you this right now,
Speaker 1: you're telling me that Austintown is a suburb of Youngstown, Ohio. Correct,
Speaker 1: on the west side. Yes, on the west side, on
Speaker 1: the west side of Youngstown right there. So are you
Speaker 1: familiar with the Zorditch family? Very familiar? Oh you all
Speaker 1: keep yeah, Mike, Michael Zorditch right, very very one of
Speaker 1: my fast buddies, dude. Interesting so you're also forty five
Speaker 1: miles from Akron. So here's the next hard hitting question,
Speaker 1: Lebron or Michael Jordan. I gotta go. I gotta go
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, just simply because the numbers speak what they are.
Speaker 1: I would say, when Braun gets to that level, he's
Speaker 1: an incredible in today's era of sports. He is. He
Speaker 1: is the goat in today's era. But if you're looking
Speaker 1: from the history of from myself, from some of the
Speaker 1: other guys in the locker room, I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: to deny what Michael Jordan's been able to do. So
Speaker 1: in high school, you were All State. In fact, you
Speaker 1: were a co defensive player of the Year in the
Speaker 1: state of Ohio and high school. So how did you
Speaker 1: end up an offensive lineman? Take us through that all, right,
Speaker 1: When and where did you make the switch to the
Speaker 1: dark side? So play defense, played both sides in high school.
Speaker 1: Just again, you play both sides and Friday nights and
Speaker 1: it's a little bit shorter quarter, so it wasn't as hard.
Speaker 1: I got to college first day. Mike Rabel was a
Speaker 1: defensive line coach at Ohio State. It took me about
Speaker 1: four days of training camp at Ohio State for me
Speaker 1: to realize if I wanted to continue to play football
Speaker 1: at this level, I was gonna need to change sides.
Speaker 1: It was very thankful to be recruited to play both sides.
Speaker 1: And the guy, the offensive line coach who was there
Speaker 1: at Ohio States, Ed Warner, who recruited me when he
Speaker 1: was at Notre Dame as the offensive line coach and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know an opportunity, I would love to have you.
Speaker 1: And then he ended up under Urban Meyers staff at
Speaker 1: Ohio State and then gave me the opportunity. I went
Speaker 1: to coach, I mean, you're an eighteen year old, your boy,
Speaker 1: you really are a boy. Tears of my eyes and said,
Speaker 1: I just I don't know if I'm gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do this. You know, after you're getting pancakes three
Speaker 1: or four times, because it's it's the freshman in there
Speaker 1: versus the first team offensive line, who was Taylor Decker
Speaker 1: who's with the Lions, Andrew Norwell who's with Washington now
Speaker 1: played with the Jags, Jack Muhart who spent four years
Speaker 1: with Indie and all those guys, and I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was ridiculing in Pat olf Line, who was
Speaker 1: with Carolina right now. Wow, So you're against NFL offensive
Speaker 1: line your first day there, and I said, I just
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do this. Um, I said,
Speaker 1: I need to change sides, and you know, go from
Speaker 1: their urban allowed me to do it and said, hey,
Speaker 1: we're all about it. Got you into the offensive line
Speaker 1: room with with coach Warner and the rest of his
Speaker 1: history and Billy, yeah you did. You went to Ohio State,
Speaker 1: of course, and you actually played three seasons at guard
Speaker 1: right before they moved you to center. Yeah, we kind
Speaker 1: of got this little program now for interior guys, you
Speaker 1: end up you end up learning the offense playing guard.
Speaker 1: So for me, I went left guard for two seasons,
Speaker 1: right guard for a season, ended up at center. And
Speaker 1: pat olf Line did the same thing. He was at
Speaker 1: left guard, went to right guard, that went to center
Speaker 1: and ended up obviously he's doing very well for himself
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So it allows you to understand and
Speaker 1: learn the offense from a less less critical position because
Speaker 1: you're not snapping the ball, so you're it's still important
Speaker 1: to have the pass game and in the run game
Speaker 1: and everything you're doing in there, but it's able to
Speaker 1: slow your mind down for then when you get to center,
Speaker 1: you understand the offense as a whole, understand formations, adjustments,
Speaker 1: and then you're accountable for snapping the ball. So it
Speaker 1: was a nice transition into it. Um it's a little
Speaker 1: o Hio State Hio State interior program as we call it.
Speaker 1: So I haven't seen anybody else since do it. Um.
Speaker 1: Let's say the kid who is in there now, he's
Speaker 1: been playing center since he's been there, So it's man, Billy.
Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, And we were
Speaker 1: able to do I mean, having the size to be
Speaker 1: able to do it, especially at a power five D
Speaker 1: one level, being able to you know, handle you know,
Speaker 1: some of your b blocks, your douce blocks, and then
Speaker 1: being able to transition inside and still be athletic enough
Speaker 1: to go and do those things that center requires you to,
Speaker 1: being able to pull backblock on some of these super
Speaker 1: athletic three techniques that there are. UM, So it was
Speaker 1: it was a good transition. It was a good grooming process,
Speaker 1: especially to be to be the guy in that offense.
Speaker 1: But think about it, and Billy Price is our guest
Speaker 1: Cardinals starting center. You moved to center as a senior
Speaker 1: and then won the Remington Award as the best center
Speaker 1: in college football. To what degree did that exceed your
Speaker 1: own expectations? Um? You know, I had a really good,
Speaker 1: really really really good group of guys around me, and
Speaker 1: it just it's nice, but trying to be humble about it.
Speaker 1: But as as you go, as as a team goes,
Speaker 1: you go, Okay, we were very very good that year.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you the amount of you know, top
Speaker 1: round draft picks that Ohistate has been able to produce
Speaker 1: over the last six seven years. So it's as a
Speaker 1: team goes, you go and you get that recognition. So
Speaker 1: for so Billy, there are so many interior offensive linemen
Speaker 1: that play guard and center. Um, do you have a preference.
Speaker 1: Do you have a preference in the NFL? Would you
Speaker 1: rather play guard than center? Um? I'd rather play center.
Speaker 1: I think for me especially, this game has slowed down
Speaker 1: so much for me now, you know, and Rodney and
Speaker 1: I have this conversation often, Rodney Hudson. The game slows down,
Speaker 1: you start to see things slower, people start moving slower,
Speaker 1: and they're still freak athletes, but you know, you're back
Speaker 1: blocking on a three technique, You're able to see those
Speaker 1: adjustments and him move and I think that that was
Speaker 1: the best thing for me my true rookie year was
Speaker 1: to play center, to get groomed to the speed of
Speaker 1: the NFL so that you're able to continue to develop
Speaker 1: and grow in this league and to be successful at it.
Speaker 1: So I'd preference the play center. So Rodney Hudson hasn't
Speaker 1: played since week four. You came in from the Raiders,
Speaker 1: and it was a couple of weeks and then you
Speaker 1: took over and you've been the starting center I think
Speaker 1: since week seven. Are you finally at a point where
Speaker 1: you're playing and not thinking? How much of a process
Speaker 1: was that? What was the degree of difficulty in picking
Speaker 1: up a new playbook and scheme on the fly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's difficult, especially when you were relied upon to make
Speaker 1: a lot of the calls, make a lot of the calls.
Speaker 1: So in Vegas, the quarterback makes the calls. It's a
Speaker 1: very very patriot like system. So the quarterbacks make the calls,
Speaker 1: which blew my mind when you said that our conversation
Speaker 1: at Mexico City, Billy, when you were saying that you
Speaker 1: weren't making the calls in Vegas, that kind of blew
Speaker 1: my ba. Yeah, I mean, but look at it look
Speaker 1: what Tom does in Tampa, what he just did against us,
Speaker 1: And it was the same situation. And it's there you
Speaker 1: have a growing relationship and again centers are able to
Speaker 1: start to see some of the adjustments, rotations and some
Speaker 1: tendencies that you have that relationship with the quarterback. But
Speaker 1: when the offense and you've got the greatest quarterback of
Speaker 1: all time, run it that you let him run a show.
Speaker 1: So it's a situation there, but you learned. You try
Speaker 1: to pick up the playbook. In three weeks in Vegas
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know, boom, hey
Speaker 1: they want you taking you off a piece squad. You
Speaker 1: want to go over and you know, picking up the offense.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit a little it's a little simpler,
Speaker 1: which is not a bad thing. It's you know, hey,
Speaker 1: you see the adjustments here, your adjustments here, your can
Speaker 1: criteria here, your potential calls. Go play. And that was
Speaker 1: the first thing Cook said to me. It was like, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you to stop thinking so much. We want
Speaker 1: to make this simple. Go play. You're talented enough, you're
Speaker 1: you're a baller, Go do your thing, Go play fast.
Speaker 1: And so it's gotten to that point and in each
Speaker 1: week in the NFL outside of your divisional opponents, there's
Speaker 1: a different scheme. There's a different game plan there. You know,
Speaker 1: we want to run the ball these types of plays
Speaker 1: or protect and have a protection plan for this type
Speaker 1: of player in the division. It makes it a look
Speaker 1: because you have consistent tendencies and consistent guys who you
Speaker 1: see like what Seattle we played twice in four weeks,
Speaker 1: five weeks or something like that, so it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: hey boom, you remember that kind of stuff. So it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a different situation to that, but
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it was tough. And then on top
Speaker 1: of it, I had a child, which that makes it
Speaker 1: even more because again my wife was in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker 1: We're trying to figure it out. All of a sudden
Speaker 1: she came out here. We had a kid. On Friday,
Speaker 1: I played Women and we played Minnesota on Saturday. I mean,
Speaker 1: the turnaround to what the mental side of this actually
Speaker 1: was and the last x amount of week, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a whirlwind of a season. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that. Well, we did not know that,
Speaker 1: so we buried the league. Congratulations being a father to
Speaker 1: you and your family. Appreciate it. Here will be nine
Speaker 1: weeks this Friday, so it's he he hasn't gotten a
Speaker 1: chance to see a Cardinals game yet, but he's doing well.
Speaker 1: He's healthy. I don't know, I'm super super happy to
Speaker 1: be a father. I think you've been a Cardinal nine
Speaker 1: games right about. Speaking of how is your season gone,
Speaker 1: Billy h he has some bumps um as expected with that.
Speaker 1: It's you know, there's different quarterbacks, there's different cadences. There's
Speaker 1: things again, as you learn an offense in the little wrinkles,
Speaker 1: some of these things you get used to in OTAs,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately I wasn't here for OTAs. You know, there's
Speaker 1: free agency decisions, et cetera that were made, but having
Speaker 1: that valuable time makes a difference. You know, some of
Speaker 1: the cadences that we use, some of the motions, formations, things,
Speaker 1: It would have been very helpful for me to get
Speaker 1: to the point where, you know, the last three or
Speaker 1: four weeks, I've really felt like I've settled down. I've
Speaker 1: really starting to play consistent and not you know, my
Speaker 1: mind is not spinning and that makes a huge difference. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of quarterbacks, Colt McCoy is back and we will
Speaker 1: see him in Atlanta and Cliff Kingsbury was asked about
Speaker 1: Colm McCoy thirty six years of age and what he brings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he obviously brings the calmness. You know, he has a
Speaker 1: great field for what we're trying to do and the
Speaker 1: leadership of getting people in the right spot, getting the
Speaker 1: right calls, checking the right plays. I mean that that's
Speaker 1: a comfort level that we all have when he's out there,
Speaker 1: and I'd love to get him some confidence and play
Speaker 1: really well a couple more times hand in an offseason.
Speaker 1: Anybody who's seeing hard knocks realizes that he's a coach
Speaker 1: in the making if he so chooses right. What is
Speaker 1: that like on the field? How does that translate from
Speaker 1: the huddle to the line of scrimmage. I would definitely
Speaker 1: agree that there's a calmness to him. He's seen a lot,
Speaker 1: he's played a lot of ball, and having that calm
Speaker 1: presence behind you and his ability to seriously get everybody
Speaker 1: on the same page as well as trust the guys
Speaker 1: around them to do their part as a professional. You know,
Speaker 1: we have protection meetings and I run the protection meetings
Speaker 1: and it's okay, I see that. You know, if there's
Speaker 1: any questions, it's okay, hey, what's your thought process behind it? Okay,
Speaker 1: hey you see it that way? Cool? I know my
Speaker 1: answers instead of oh no, we're gonna do it this way,
Speaker 1: or we're gonna do it that way, or it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a collective effort. And that's what I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, you know he got a game ball. I
Speaker 1: believe he got a game ball for the Rams game.
Speaker 1: That's a perfect, perfect example. Everybody's collectively working together on
Speaker 1: what's going on, what our game plan is, how we're
Speaker 1: going to attack these guys to protect these guys. And
Speaker 1: that's just Cole. I mean, if you know him, if
Speaker 1: you see him, the way he operates, what you've seen
Speaker 1: on Hard Knocks, that's Colt. I mean I think he's
Speaker 1: a father of four, grew up in Texas. I mean
Speaker 1: that is cold. His dad was a high school coach. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: and it really is. I do I agree with you
Speaker 1: guys on the coaching aspect, because if you you listen
Speaker 1: to him speak and you listen to, oh, hey, this
Speaker 1: is our answer if they do this, this is the anticipation,
Speaker 1: the answers, the adjustments, It's incredible. It's incredible, and it's
Speaker 1: not to age him by no means, but I want
Speaker 1: I used to want to go to Texas. I wanted
Speaker 1: to go to play for Mac Brown And whose jersey
Speaker 1: did I have? Quote McCoy's like, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: you know, my dad said the same thing when I
Speaker 1: went out there. He goes, hey, you know colts out
Speaker 1: there right, and he's like, do you want me to
Speaker 1: send you the jersey to get signed? I go, no, please,
Speaker 1: I'll do that. So he's just incredible. It's calm, but
Speaker 1: you're like, Dad, you know, cold will think is starting
Speaker 1: center as a stalker or something might come on. You know,
Speaker 1: easy is crazy how we used to do. It's like
Speaker 1: just wild, but well we have him when we come back.
Speaker 1: We want you to share what you can of your
Speaker 1: conversation with JJ Watt earlier today and just what an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman makes of j. J. Watt and what he's
Speaker 1: been able to do this year in his Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame career. We're visiting with Billy Price, our special guest
Speaker 1: on The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a guy who was the twenty first
Speaker 1: pick overall in the two eighteen draft. He started every
Speaker 1: game at Ohio State ever since his red shirt freshman
Speaker 1: year won a national title. We continue with a big
Speaker 1: red rage right after this second down and ten man
Speaker 1: in motion is dorch exolely under center. Give to Connor
Speaker 1: looking laugh, runs off tackle left side twenty ten. The
Speaker 1: races inside the five and into the end zone. James
Speaker 1: Connor houses it from twenty two yards out. That's the
Speaker 1: Cardinals run game, wearing down the defense in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and it pays off with the first touchdown of the game.
Speaker 1: And it all started by putting the quarterback under center
Speaker 1: with twelve personnel, one back, two tight ends, run the ball,
Speaker 1: tackle zone concept. James Connor houses in there you go.
Speaker 1: That was from Christmas Night, Sunday Night football against Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and company and that Tampa Bay defense. All right,
Speaker 1: so it's a rare opportunity. Ron Wolfley, Paul Calves. You
Speaker 1: heard us right there, Billy Price, our special guest, the
Speaker 1: starting center. True or false? Hear me surmise the Cardinals
Speaker 1: wore down that Tampa defense in the fourth quarter. Then
Speaker 1: you heard wolf Site the quarterback under center. Were we
Speaker 1: correct or incorrect? Billy? This is your chance now you
Speaker 1: were definitely correct all that it was, been pushing for
Speaker 1: it and finally being able to get the call and
Speaker 1: get them in the right defense. Right look, bot a boom,
Speaker 1: here you go touchdown. So was that, Billy? Was that
Speaker 1: more of a stretch play a zone concept than you
Speaker 1: guys have run before. You guys also run double, you
Speaker 1: run the power without the polls, So that was more
Speaker 1: of a zone concept, correct, correct, Yes, something we haven't
Speaker 1: put a ton of on tape. So again, being able
Speaker 1: to hit those guys, and you see a lot of
Speaker 1: successful teams running the wide zone against Tampa, So getting
Speaker 1: that look especially, I believe it was ended up being
Speaker 1: to a strong side as the tight end motioned across
Speaker 1: just the way that they adjusted to it and id
Speaker 1: the backside make sure we cut that off. And it
Speaker 1: was up to the tight ends to make sure that
Speaker 1: we got a lane for jac and go hit your
Speaker 1: head off the goalpost. But guy, yep, James Connor fifteen
Speaker 1: carries five point three yards a carry. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: as you might imagine, Paul pencil Neck here has never
Speaker 1: played offensive line, Billy, So I'll ask you this question,
Speaker 1: what do you guys use to gauge and judge your
Speaker 1: performance and where is yards per carry? Where does that rank?
Speaker 1: What else do you guys assess when you grab the
Speaker 1: box score after a game? What are you looking at?
Speaker 1: First and foremost? Sacks first and foremost and some of
Speaker 1: the sacks that all sacks are not created equal. Again,
Speaker 1: it could be a coverage sack. It could be I
Speaker 1: got beat, It could be you know, somebody was hot
Speaker 1: and involved and get out. You know, situations, So they're
Speaker 1: not all sacks are treated equally. But again, a sack
Speaker 1: as a sack. And if we can avoid those and
Speaker 1: get you a nice big zero on there, that's the best.
Speaker 1: And then secondly, yards per carry. I think that that's
Speaker 1: a correlation to how successful one year, how successful your
Speaker 1: run game is. And two two I put two B
Speaker 1: to that is how many carries did you end up getting?
Speaker 1: You know, I think what last week I said, what
Speaker 1: was a fifteen fifteen Connor fifteen carries? You know, obviously
Speaker 1: offensive line being biased. Hey, we want more, we want more,
Speaker 1: but for five point three a carry on fifteen, you
Speaker 1: know it's a decent night. So um, you know, we
Speaker 1: just continue to push for it. You know, we love
Speaker 1: the duo runs, you know, the power without the Poolers
Speaker 1: getting JC rolling here on the wide zone that we've
Speaker 1: been we've been pushing for recently, just haven't really got
Speaker 1: it run into game. And then again it's it's smashed
Speaker 1: mouth football. It's tight zone. It's beat the guy across
Speaker 1: from you, and you know you have to be physical.
Speaker 1: And again it gains a defense like Tampa um intention
Speaker 1: to wear them down, and eventually you do wear them
Speaker 1: down and all of a sudden, there you go, there's
Speaker 1: a twenty two yard run for a touchdown. So just
Speaker 1: it's it all ties in with it, Um, but definitely
Speaker 1: sacks boy yards per carry and then touches boy Billy.
Speaker 1: Just listening to you talk right there. You know, what's
Speaker 1: all I can think of is Steve Hyden right now? Um,
Speaker 1: what has Steve Hyden brought to this offensive line and
Speaker 1: the mentality they're off. It's Steve is putting a tough spot. Um.
Speaker 1: Any type, there is an in season coaching adjustment. Everybody's
Speaker 1: got to pick up a little bit, and I think
Speaker 1: it also has to pick up within the room itself.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a representative reflection of the men
Speaker 1: and the leaders that we have in this room. Again,
Speaker 1: Rod Hudson. I mean, if he go give him the
Speaker 1: gold jacket, now, Calvin Beacham, go go give that man
Speaker 1: and his honors and now how he deserves it. Hum Pugh.
Speaker 1: Will has been in there, you know, being inconsistent, consistently
Speaker 1: being in there in that room and understand the offense.
Speaker 1: And everybody's picked up a little bit. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: our film studies increased a little bit with the attention
Speaker 1: to detail and understanding how our run fits need to
Speaker 1: be have increased, And it's just everybody's just trying to
Speaker 1: continue to elevate it. And I know one thing for sure,
Speaker 1: no matter who's in there. You know, if I'm playing guard,
Speaker 1: if I'm playing center, if Max is playing right guard,
Speaker 1: or Max is playing left guard, or Will's in there,
Speaker 1: no matter who it is, We're just going to continue
Speaker 1: to keep swinging. And that's the mentality we take into it.
Speaker 1: Starting center of Billy Price is our guest here on
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Forn and Gilbert.
Speaker 1: So when you're on the bench and you're getting the gatorade,
Speaker 1: you're looking at the jumbo tron. You're seeing what JJ
Speaker 1: Watt has been doing recently to defensive lineman. Man, you
Speaker 1: tell us from a first person perspective, Man, what sort
Speaker 1: of deal has he been lately? He's been something he's
Speaker 1: been on in practice too. He's incredible. You're glad to
Speaker 1: have him, oney, I'm on your side, even at his age,
Speaker 1: you know, getting up there, especially you know, defensive line,
Speaker 1: it's a very physical position. And to see it still
Speaker 1: see his production just absolutely incredible. And what a last
Speaker 1: home game to go out on. Unbelievable. And again they
Speaker 1: have a couple of plays against Trisan Worfs all Pro
Speaker 1: right tackle the Bucks. I mean, a phenomenal, phenomenal player,
Speaker 1: a phenomenal athlete and still being able to do that
Speaker 1: and have that high production. I mean, that's that's who J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt is, man, and he just continues to go. You
Speaker 1: know what's amazing about ability too, Just it brings me
Speaker 1: back seeing a great player like that. There are great players,
Speaker 1: of course that not only go out and impact games
Speaker 1: on a very tangible level, but they also bring the
Speaker 1: intangibles to the field and inspire so many teammates around them.
Speaker 1: They're not even trying to. But when you're out there
Speaker 1: playing with a guy who basically is a living legend,
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to be a Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: man that that can fire you up as a player,
Speaker 1: can it? Absolutely? I mean the energy is in infectious.
Speaker 1: Is infectious to be around somebody like that, to continue
Speaker 1: to elevate your game, to continue to try to even
Speaker 1: match theirs as that. So it's it's always you try
Speaker 1: to match the people around union and continue to elevate
Speaker 1: and continue to just just match the talent and the
Speaker 1: people around you, because you don't want to be the
Speaker 1: guy who's not doing their job on the field. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be the reason that Saca Thoup or
Speaker 1: you know, the TfL or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: I mean, when Buddha finishes a game with what turns
Speaker 1: out to be a fractured shoulder, I mean, as if
Speaker 1: you need any more cred in that locker room, my goodness,
Speaker 1: I would say playing safety, and especially Buddha. Buddha's more
Speaker 1: of a box safety. I mean, Buddha can go and
Speaker 1: cover the deep third. Don't get me wrong, but my
Speaker 1: goodness is often and as active as he is inside
Speaker 1: that box and have a fractured shoulder. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: what else needs to be said about about the kids
Speaker 1: as as a player and who he is, and it's
Speaker 1: just unbelievable those two individuals that are in our locker
Speaker 1: room and to be able to be around them, just
Speaker 1: their way they operate, the way that they prepare and
Speaker 1: how they take care of their bodies. I mean again,
Speaker 1: I got a little Nick dub knee right now, But
Speaker 1: single morning, buddhistre in there, J J. Watts out there stretching.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's one of those situations that, again,
Speaker 1: it inspires you to be a better pro. What else
Speaker 1: can you do to be better? There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: You're watching a Buddha baker go about his business right there. Um,
Speaker 1: just a pros pro through and through. And then JJ
Speaker 1: Watt of course, as many years as he's played and
Speaker 1: yet he's still going out and he's making plays and
Speaker 1: he's finishing strong right here? Does it make you think
Speaker 1: how many years you want to play? How long do
Speaker 1: you want to play in this league? Billy, We're gonna,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna hold them and ride the lightning
Speaker 1: as long as we can. Then I'll tell you that, Um,
Speaker 1: that's what's that's what's fun about this league to me,
Speaker 1: because again, playing playing center, you've there's a lot of
Speaker 1: there is a lot of thinking to it. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of reactions. You understand, Okay, what kind of personnel
Speaker 1: we're in a formation? What's the adjustment potential, can criteria
Speaker 1: for plays? There's some there's some thinking to it, and
Speaker 1: that's what makes it fun for me in a challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: if they're going to react in a week side says
Speaker 1: he's coming down, how are we going to do this differently?
Speaker 1: Protection it just it makes it fun. And so I
Speaker 1: always continue to tell my wife that too, you know,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, with my son being there and stuff.
Speaker 1: Now you obviously the career might be a little shorter,
Speaker 1: but we're going to continue to ride this thing out
Speaker 1: as long as we can. Right, quick answer your high
Speaker 1: school alma mater, what was your nickname for that team
Speaker 1: you played for? The Fitch Falcons. Falcons, which is the
Speaker 1: opponent this week, And here's Cole McCoy on that Atlanta defense.
Speaker 1: The Falcons are extremely well coached. Demp's has been coaching
Speaker 1: for forever. When they press you, you know, it's everyone's
Speaker 1: in the right spots, you know, whether it's fire zone
Speaker 1: or they're playing man or they're playing trap coverage behind like,
Speaker 1: my eyes have to be great this week, right, they're
Speaker 1: they're going to be flying around everywhere, you know, and
Speaker 1: they know our situation too, so that we'll probably get
Speaker 1: more than most teams. So, now, are they really gonna
Speaker 1: dare and try and bring bring some exotic blitzes against
Speaker 1: the guy who's seen everything at thirty six years of age.
Speaker 1: That's not going to stop demps, is it? Oh? God no,
Speaker 1: But we expect that, we expect the house. So you throw,
Speaker 1: you throw the whole house in the kitchen sank catcha
Speaker 1: especially for players who could miss last week. And although
Speaker 1: he's an experienced veteran, again, the timing of things, the
Speaker 1: speed of things and making getting the ball out fast
Speaker 1: enough or what the adjustment is on a can right
Speaker 1: here for a run, that's what there will be the challenge.
Speaker 1: And it's again you raise your level of preparation to
Speaker 1: make sure that everybody around you is ready to go.
Speaker 1: Make sure everybody else. Hey, we're gonna we're gonna go
Speaker 1: from power to tight zone power to wide zone power
Speaker 1: to this if this protection of that protection. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna make sure colts okay, So when you watch this
Speaker 1: DMP's defense on tape right now. I mean he is
Speaker 1: known for running complex packages and complex defenses where he
Speaker 1: goes to great lengths to disguise his coverage. Have you
Speaker 1: seen that on tape, Billy, Yeah, I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff on tape in their front seven, specifically, Again,
Speaker 1: you've got and that's this is what the NFL is
Speaker 1: now turned into. Some of these defensive ends run like linebackers,
Speaker 1: and these linebackers run like corners. So you've got to
Speaker 1: and especially too with the number changes as well, you
Speaker 1: have to track personnel and understand who that personnel is.
Speaker 1: You know, number three used to be a corner, but hey,
Speaker 1: that's a linebacker now these days. So you've got to
Speaker 1: make sure we track personnel, understanding our rules for protection,
Speaker 1: be cued into that and keep them up right. So
Speaker 1: as a guy grew up in Ohio, was drafted by Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: played in New York, how much you enjoy in this
Speaker 1: weather right now? When you look around the rest of
Speaker 1: the country and it's like subarctic. Yeah, my wife in Texas,
Speaker 1: let's dealt with some like ten degree weather. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's sixty five out here, baby, don't you have your
Speaker 1: two dogs here in Arizona. You get you know, I
Speaker 1: hope the dogs are appreciated not freezing their key stars
Speaker 1: this time of year. You know, you better, you better
Speaker 1: reiterate that to them. Yeah, they're missing a little bit
Speaker 1: of snow being labs. But I said, hey, we'll get
Speaker 1: you some snow. We get back in Texas in February. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: congratulations on everything and the addition to your family in particular.
Speaker 1: Congrats on that. I appreciate that. All right, Yeah, God blows.
Speaker 1: Billy appreciate you guys. There you go, Billy Price Cardinals
Speaker 1: starting center. We continue with the Big Red Rage presented
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Speaker 1: Four man rush back, the passing him in his face.
Speaker 1: It's JJ Watt and he sacks. I'm inside the thirty
Speaker 1: at his Hall of fay. J J. Watt hit and
Speaker 1: Sack absolutely mauled by J. J. Watt. That's like turning
Speaker 1: around and all of a sudden, Jaws is there ready
Speaker 1: to swallow you up. Hit by J. J. Watt and
Speaker 1: Sack back at the twenty one. JJ Watt gets home
Speaker 1: fresher coming in Herbert a sack at the forty yard line.
Speaker 1: JJ Watts sacked by the future Hall of Famer J
Speaker 1: J Watt. JJ Watt making a huge play men in
Speaker 1: the backfield and taking down and JJJ Watt is there. Boy.
Speaker 1: He continues to make big plays when the Cardinals need
Speaker 1: a most cousins in the pocketing trouble hit sack by
Speaker 1: JJ Watt. Oh my goodness, JJ Watt, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Stafford back to throw in trouble and sacked by j
Speaker 1: J Watt at the twenty yard line. The Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer there again when you need a motion. And how
Speaker 1: many times have we called the name JJ Watt both
Speaker 1: especially on Christmas tonight, right, I mean at Denver in
Speaker 1: the first half, first half against the Bucks. Full name
Speaker 1: justin James Watt, his real middle name could be just
Speaker 1: first ballot, because that's the way it's gonna go. He's
Speaker 1: going right into the Hall of Fame as the three
Speaker 1: time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, five time first
Speaker 1: team All Pro, and you know what, he's going out
Speaker 1: the same way he came in as an Cardinal right
Speaker 1: via Twitter, his announcement, his news. He broke it his way.
Speaker 1: Remember he was in the squat rack. We're in the
Speaker 1: Cardinals the Cardinal's shirt, and he said, source me this time.
Speaker 1: He announces the retirement this week and he's got two
Speaker 1: games to go, both as an Arizona Cardinal. Boy, PAULI,
Speaker 1: it really is, you know, um, I did not think
Speaker 1: that this was gonna be JJ Watts last year. I
Speaker 1: did not think that. I know you and I have
Speaker 1: had some conversations about this, but you know, I you
Speaker 1: know the way I feel on this many every gray player.
Speaker 1: I think every player has truly got to see his
Speaker 1: own athletic mortality. I don't care if you're playing in
Speaker 1: the NBA, the NHL, major League Baseball, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: You've got to see your own athletic mortality to truly
Speaker 1: be able to walk away from the game. Do you
Speaker 1: have any idea, Poulie, how rare it is that a
Speaker 1: professional athlete will leave the game that he loves and
Speaker 1: walk away while he's on top and still capable of
Speaker 1: going out and having the kind of games we just
Speaker 1: saw JJ Watt have against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Christmas.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just don't see a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that walk away from the game when they can still
Speaker 1: play it at an incredibly high level, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what JJ Watt is doing. I mean, there's really only
Speaker 1: one or two per generation, the Barry Sanders, right see
Speaker 1: Andrew Lucks. I mean, there's just not that many. So
Speaker 1: of course J J. Watt was asked by the media
Speaker 1: why he's retiring after this season. It's been an unbelievable ride.
Speaker 1: And if you told me back then when I started
Speaker 1: that I'd be able to play twelve years in the
Speaker 1: National Football League and live the life that I live,
Speaker 1: I'd have been extremely thankful and probably would have told
Speaker 1: you you were crazy. But I'd much rather go out
Speaker 1: playing good football, knowing that I could still play and
Speaker 1: knowing that hopefully people remember me playing good football, then
Speaker 1: to go out limping out and being forced out and
Speaker 1: knowing that I probably should have done it earlier. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you, based on the last couple of months, he's
Speaker 1: a long way from reaching that stage. And he did
Speaker 1: also cite wolf the heart scare mid season, where his
Speaker 1: heart had to be shocked back into rhythm a fib
Speaker 1: He did mention the arrival of his firstborn, his son,
Speaker 1: which has been a recent happening, how much he enjoys
Speaker 1: being a dad. So I think all these things come
Speaker 1: by now. I hope that a four and eleven campaign
Speaker 1: hasn't contributed to maybe part of the frustration. He's a
Speaker 1: guy who's all in all the time, so he did
Speaker 1: also psy just the mental stress of being committed as
Speaker 1: an NFL player, and that has worn on him as
Speaker 1: somebody who's been so committed every single day for so long.
Speaker 1: So I think everything combined boom led to this decision. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're right on that, Paully. Yet at the
Speaker 1: same time, man, I mean, it's such a rare mentality,
Speaker 1: it really is. I know back when I was playing
Speaker 1: and I realized, Paul, oh my goodness, that was ancient
Speaker 1: in it. Yes, here, you're probably right, it was a
Speaker 1: long long time ago. But I can tell you, Paul
Speaker 1: that the mentality back then was make him rip the
Speaker 1: jersey off your back, make you hang on as long
Speaker 1: as you possibly can. And you know that is not
Speaker 1: the mentality that JJ Watt is aspiring to here. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be sitting here if I didn't have a
Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. So here we go. Thanks for asking you
Speaker 1: ready for this? Oh no, you can't tell me that
Speaker 1: he doesn't have another game plan out there to be
Speaker 1: involved in football, maybe behind a microphone. He did some
Speaker 1: network stuff earlier this year, did he not in the
Speaker 1: month August? And he was very, very good. As you
Speaker 1: might imagine, he's got a great personality. He's blunt, he
Speaker 1: has the credentials, he's opinionated, he's fine. I mean all
Speaker 1: the above. So maybe just maybe his business agent has
Speaker 1: something lined up and he's going to be in front
Speaker 1: of a camera somewhere effective next season. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: All we know is earlier today we had a chance
Speaker 1: to talk with DeAndre Hopkins in front of his locker,
Speaker 1: and of course he's been a long time teammate a
Speaker 1: JJ Watt both Houston and here, and yeah, he was
Speaker 1: like us, he was thinking JJ had another season or
Speaker 1: two in him. Always thought JJ was gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those guys that, you know, just just do it
Speaker 1: to the wheels fall off. But I'm happy that he's
Speaker 1: going out the way he's going out, finishing his career.
Speaker 1: You know, with all the accolades, he has an end
Speaker 1: off the field. You know, obviously championships are what we
Speaker 1: play for. My thank JJ. You know, he wants he
Speaker 1: won a Championship of life. That's well son, that's well said.
Speaker 1: And look, Wolf, it's going to be a big void,
Speaker 1: is it not. I mean, just his level of play
Speaker 1: and the defensive line, and then the leadership which we
Speaker 1: have seen firsthand all access behind the scenes with hard knocks.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's lead in both regards. Yeah, Paul, he
Speaker 1: know it really is. I mean the tangible of JJ
Speaker 1: Watts still going out and playing football at a high level,
Speaker 1: playing that three technique, playing a five technique at a
Speaker 1: high level, going out having nine and a half sacks, Paul,
Speaker 1: is there any doubt right now that he's going to
Speaker 1: finish with double digit sacks over the course of these
Speaker 1: next two games. I think that's a given right now,
Speaker 1: the way that he's playing, and you can tell he's inspired,
Speaker 1: and yet he inspires so many guys around him. And
Speaker 1: that is the intangible that I keep talking about. It
Speaker 1: the intangible we were talking about with Billy Price as well,
Speaker 1: just the fact that this guy affects so many other
Speaker 1: guys around him. And I know what that's like, Paul,
Speaker 1: I know what that's like to some degree. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that Kevin mack oj Anderson, these are names
Speaker 1: that people really don't know. But I can tell you
Speaker 1: when you were in the huddle with Kevin Mack for
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns great running back Jerome Bettis as well,
Speaker 1: and you were O J. Anderson, You're in the huddle
Speaker 1: with these guys and you know that your job is
Speaker 1: the block for him. You have no idea what that
Speaker 1: would fill me with. And some of these offensive linemen
Speaker 1: as well, the way that they would come off the
Speaker 1: ball be more intent. Yeah, it does. It speak to
Speaker 1: a weakness in us. Yeah, because you should do that
Speaker 1: every play, regardless of whether Kevin Mack is running behind you,
Speaker 1: or Otis Anderson is running behind you, or J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt is lined up alongside you. Yet the harsh reality
Speaker 1: is we're human beings, and JJ Watt inspires people around him.
Speaker 1: I walked up to the corner of the locker room
Speaker 1: with some of the rookie defenders. Cam Thomas was there,
Speaker 1: my J Sanders is their second year guy, Vic D.
Speaker 1: Mukag was there, and I just said, hey, you guys,
Speaker 1: tell me what do you think you took away the
Speaker 1: most from this last year or two? A? JJ Watt
Speaker 1: and Cam Thomas said, and I think we heard some
Speaker 1: of this in hard knocks. You know what, do what
Speaker 1: you do best, regardless of what the matchup is. Katie
Speaker 1: to your own game. And then both my j and
Speaker 1: Victimukaji said, just how hard he goes all the time.
Speaker 1: They're in walkthroughs, they're in meetings. He's always locked in,
Speaker 1: always improving his craft. And that's what those young guys
Speaker 1: get from that. By the way, you can join the
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Speaker 1: with a big red rage sec in five. Now the
Speaker 1: Atlanta forty two. They're gonna keep it on the ground
Speaker 1: with James. It's a flaflicker Warner gotta throw deep near
Speaker 1: sycling for fancies and double coverage. It doesn't matter he
Speaker 1: caught it anyway, touchdown Cardinals. You can't stop that guy.
Speaker 1: I'm the flea flicker. Whoa whoa play Larry Fitzgerald stabs
Speaker 1: the ball out of the air. About it out of
Speaker 1: the archives Wolf. The two thousand and eight wild Card
Speaker 1: playoff win against rookie quarterback Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: This series, it's crazy. The last eleven meetings in this
Speaker 1: series between the AC and the atl the home team
Speaker 1: is won. That's the way this is gone. So we'll
Speaker 1: see about Sunday. Two games to go in the season.
Speaker 1: Cardinals on a five game bender. Atlanta has lost four
Speaker 1: in a row, and we'll see. Look, both teams are
Speaker 1: saying the right things. Both teams appear to be playing hard.
Speaker 1: The Falcons have lost a lot of games. Cardinals obviously
Speaker 1: went into overtime against Tom Brady in the Buccaneers, but
Speaker 1: just did zoom out these last two weeks. How much
Speaker 1: can be gained? How much should be gained by this
Speaker 1: Cardinals team that obviously is going to see a significant
Speaker 1: amount of change in the off season. But you know,
Speaker 1: James Connor was asked that question a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago and his answer was, quote some respect, but it
Speaker 1: does go beyond that, doesn't it. I mean, you do
Speaker 1: get a chance to evaluate a lot of different players,
Speaker 1: and it's going to factor into a lot of different
Speaker 1: decisions if nothing else, no doubt about it, Paulie, You're
Speaker 1: going to get a ton of that, right now over
Speaker 1: the course of these next two games, of course, it
Speaker 1: really is a situation do you want to be here? Well,
Speaker 1: if you want to be here, you know, go out
Speaker 1: and ball out. Of course, leave it onto the field.
Speaker 1: And this was something Vance Joseph was actually talking about
Speaker 1: on Hard Knocks, the last Hard Knocks that came out.
Speaker 1: He was talking about the fact, you know that we're
Speaker 1: watching guys on the backside of plays that are dogging it.
Speaker 1: Why in the world would you be dogging it? Why
Speaker 1: what does that tell us about you? Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: it probably tells you don't want to be here. And
Speaker 1: if that is the case, you're not going to be
Speaker 1: here next year. It's PAULI, this is about being a pro.
Speaker 1: These next two games is about being a pro and
Speaker 1: going about your business as a pro, which means you
Speaker 1: go out and you ball out because that's who you are.
Speaker 1: You take pride in your purpose, pride in your job.
Speaker 1: You go out and you ball out. And that's what
Speaker 1: I expect to see out of a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1: Whether you want to be here or you want to
Speaker 1: go somewhere else. Man, you got to put some stuff
Speaker 1: on tape. That's good because we're a full service show.
Speaker 1: Here the Big Red Rage or jim Omhundro fine producers,
Speaker 1: some complimentary broadcasting. Here Wolf, you cited that club. Guess
Speaker 1: what it's ready to go. Here's bands Joseph in the
Speaker 1: defensive meeting room. You've got two guys in Vuddha Baker
Speaker 1: and JJ waff. The best treat is effort. The profile
Speaker 1: for NFL safety is not that it's five eleven six
Speaker 1: foot tall. It's two hundred and twelve pounds. That's not that,
Speaker 1: but you can't measure. It's hard in his effort. I
Speaker 1: was in Houston with that to JJ. His effort and
Speaker 1: how he plays the game. JJ, that's why you Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Bans Joseph NFL films Hard Knocks on HBO.
Speaker 1: It's some powerful stuff right there. Just the looks on
Speaker 1: everyone's face when he's citing those two guys. Here's the thing. Well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be without Buddha Baker against the Falcons on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And you know, look, Bans Joseph calls him the human
Speaker 1: racer for good reason. He makes everyone look good. And
Speaker 1: if there are mistakes, there's Buddha Baker a lot of
Speaker 1: times as a safety net. What do you make of
Speaker 1: this Cardinals defense minus the only full bowler on this team,
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker. Yeah, boy, this is gonna be rough. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be rough right now. I have no idea what
Speaker 1: to expect, but I do know this. The Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: can run the ball. They do an excellent job of
Speaker 1: running the ball. Think about it. Their offenses number three
Speaker 1: and number four and rushing yards per game and rushing
Speaker 1: yards per play. Think about that. That's what they can
Speaker 1: do right there, Tyler Algier, of course, is they're running
Speaker 1: back Paully. This guy runs the ball in a very
Speaker 1: very physical kind of way. And what's so fascinating about
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons as well, is all of the power
Speaker 1: personnel groups that they use. Polly, think about this for
Speaker 1: a minute right here. Twenty seven percent of the time
Speaker 1: they're in eleven personnel. That is something that's every NFL
Speaker 1: team is in for the most part, eleven personnel, one back,
Speaker 1: one tight end, three wide receivers. But their number one
Speaker 1: personnel group is twelve personnel. They're in twelve personnel thirty
Speaker 1: percent of the time, which is two tight ends. They're
Speaker 1: in a power personnel group over seventy percent of the time.
Speaker 1: They're in a power personnel group in first and ten
Speaker 1: and second and one to six, Paul, they run the football.
Speaker 1: That's what they do the best. And I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna line up and despite J. J. Watt having the
Speaker 1: great game that he did, get ready for J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt to have four more tackles behind the line of scrimmage, right,
Speaker 1: get ready for another JJ Watt game like that because
Speaker 1: he's going to be given the opportunity because the Falcons
Speaker 1: run the ball. Yeah, there's that old Santa on defense.
Speaker 1: You stop the run and earn the right to rush
Speaker 1: the passer. Right, that's gonna be this week. That's what
Speaker 1: Vance Joseph was telling the media. Stopping the run his first,
Speaker 1: second and third and then you get the right to
Speaker 1: go after the rookie quarterback Desmond Ritter. Interesting, he lost
Speaker 1: his first two starts, Desmond Ritter. This will be career
Speaker 1: start number three. He's a third round rookie at a
Speaker 1: Cincinnati longtime teammate of My J. Sanders. Fact, My J.
Speaker 1: Sanders has been given some info to Advanced Joseph. That's
Speaker 1: what they were talking about today. Doesn't have a touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: doesn't have an interception in his two starts, and he's mobile.
Speaker 1: He's totally unlike Tom Brady. He will pull it and
Speaker 1: run it if necessary. So that's going to keep the
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense on it's when it comes to stopping the run.
Speaker 1: It could be the quarterback as well. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know what else is really interesting too. The defensive quarterback
Speaker 1: rating for the Arizona Cardinals over the last three games
Speaker 1: has been really, really good. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: they're number five in the National Football League in terms
Speaker 1: of their defensive quarterback rating. Now you know me, Pauli.
Speaker 1: Passer rating to me is a big deal. At the
Speaker 1: end of the year, you look at who's in the
Speaker 1: top ten of the passer rating in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: year after year, guess what the usual suspects are there.
Speaker 1: If you're a good if you're a good football player,
Speaker 1: if you're a good human being playing the quarterback position
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you're going to appear in that top ten.
Speaker 1: The same thing could be said for defensive quarterback rating.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals number nine over their last three games,
Speaker 1: number nine with a seventy nine point zero defensive quarterback rating.
Speaker 1: They've been playing better overall and yet you know, the
Speaker 1: score hasn't always indicated that, or maybe the schedule hasn't
Speaker 1: always indicated that. The Falcons number one receiver is top
Speaker 1: ten pick rookie Drake London on a usc We'll see
Speaker 1: what the status is a man Antonio Hamilton, Marco Wilson.
Speaker 1: They could be thin at corner again. And then you
Speaker 1: look at the Cardinals ability maybe to run the ball
Speaker 1: in this one. You know James Conner, he likes to
Speaker 1: look at the other team. And there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of accolades about the Atlanta running game. So what does
Speaker 1: that mean for the Cardinals because Baltimore last week ran
Speaker 1: for a buck eighty four. Yeah, and we know the
Speaker 1: Ravens specialized in that. And look, we know a seventeen
Speaker 1: degrees a kickoff in that game, Tyler Huntley only through
Speaker 1: its seventeen times. But I'm thinking, Billy Price, our guest tonight,
Speaker 1: in that old line, they're gonna have a chance to
Speaker 1: establish the run. That's a great point, Paul, he really is.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I think you're going to do.
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons defense has been the veritable Achilles heel
Speaker 1: for the Falcons all season long. They just have not
Speaker 1: played well, but especially the run. You know, number twenty
Speaker 1: four in their rush defense and yards per game allowed.
Speaker 1: And I would suspect that the Arizona Cardinals are going
Speaker 1: to line up and Billy Price was talking about this,
Speaker 1: this evolution over the last half of this season, in
Speaker 1: particular where they're starting to run that tackle zone, starting
Speaker 1: to run that wide zone is what he called it.
Speaker 1: The stretch play that everybody is running and has run
Speaker 1: for the last decade. I would say in the NFL. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're seeing a lot more of
Speaker 1: it here with the Arizona Cardinals, and that is something
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in seeing because that's where you put
Speaker 1: that quarterback Pauli under center. You put him under center,
Speaker 1: and Colton McCoy is very comfortable under center. Look, I
Speaker 1: think it's also going to come down to red zone.
Speaker 1: Atlanta has been terrible in the red zone as an offense.
Speaker 1: They were over four last week against the Ravens. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals sort of like Atlanta. They've been moving the ball,
Speaker 1: but then they'll bog down to the red zone and
Speaker 1: they'll have this self inflicted So who can be clean,
Speaker 1: who can execute? And the red zone we'll see Cardinals
Speaker 1: have been much better on the road. We know that,
Speaker 1: and two games to go, quote McCoy will be running
Speaker 1: things and look, Colt McCoy could be the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: for a good stretch next season. So we'll see if
Speaker 1: you can get even some more coff and see where
Speaker 1: they can glean from this Cardinals offense. Special Thanks once
Speaker 1: again Cardinals starting center, Billy Price, Jim Amahundro, Cody Fincher,
Speaker 1: Fron Wolfley on Paul Calveci Cardinals at Atlanta. That'll do
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