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Here Queen go one hand to catch in 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: a touchdown? Oh baby hummed film. Here's Craig Griolu, Paul Calvisi, 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: and thirteen year NFL veteran Drew Stanton. So the game 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: was just two days ago Christmas Night, Cardinals lose at 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers nineteen sixteen in overtime. 15 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: But since that game, gentleman, by the way, A blared 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to one and all here on the Cardinals 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: Red Sea Reports. But since that outcome, there has been 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: both news on and off the field, which I think 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: Paul should be expected considering what this season has been 20 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,199 Speaker 1: all about on and off the field news. I'm putting 21 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: the ba and the humbug into things. After that loss 22 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: on Christmas night, Oh boy, let's see the heartbeat of 23 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: your defense and shall we say the leader on that 24 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: defense on and off the field, and guess what they're 25 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: going to go on the list of those who are 26 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: going to be missing through the rest of this season, 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: as seemingly almost everyone has on this team. At some 28 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,119 Speaker 1: point Monday, Buddha Baker fractured his shoulder during Sunday night's game, 29 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: that news confirmed by head coach Cliff Kingsbury to you 30 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: Paul and Ron Wolfley on Kingsbury's weekly TV show Cardinals 31 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: Game Plan, and then earlier this morning, Drew JJ Watt 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: goes on social media and breaks his own news once again, 33 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: announcing that he has two more games left in what 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: is a Hall of Fame career, announcing his retirements after 35 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: maybe one of the better games he's had, best two 36 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: games he's had so far this season. Yeah, you know, 37 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: he's playing an extremely high level and to be able 38 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: to do that, you question it because as Cardinals fans, 39 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: everybody's sitting and saying, well, things can't get much worse 40 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: can they and they just continue to roll downhills like 41 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: the end of the season feels like I can't get 42 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 1: here fast enough for fans, and that's unfortunate because you 43 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: want to do that. And there's still, again speaking from 44 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: a player's perspective, there's so much to be gained individually 45 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: and collectively for this team because you want to be 46 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: able to feel good going in the off season. You 47 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: don't want to just go out there and pack it in. 48 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: And there's young guys that are getting these opportunities, and 49 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 1: guys like Greg Dortch, guys like Billy Price that are 50 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 1: getting another chance to reinvent themselves. So those are the 51 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 1: guys that you're rooting for. And I know that most 52 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: fans don't want to hear that or believe that or 53 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: see that, But when you see two iconic members of 54 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: this team make announcements like this, that will affect this 55 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: franchise moving forward, not just for the rest of these 56 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: two games. Hopefully Buddha will be back and be back 57 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: to what he's capable of doing. It he will be, 58 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: but JJ Watt has meant so much to this organization 59 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: in a short period of time, so much to this 60 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: league if you're looking at it right, Uh, you look 61 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: at that twenty fourteen season that he had, it came 62 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: to mind where he's finished second overall an MVP just period. 63 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,399 Speaker 1: Based off of that unbelievable season that he was able 64 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: to have and being the humanitarian that he is again 65 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: that the highlights of what he does on and off 66 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: the field are remarkable. Being able to be a mentor 67 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: for Zach Allen and really help his career take off. 68 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: You know, a small sample size with Cam Thomas and 69 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: being on him. All of these guys that that pro offer, 70 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: these pros that are are comfortable with sharing what makes 71 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: them so elite is something that's just remarkable. And so 72 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 1: that was only for a short period of time here 73 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: to have somebody like JJ Watt in all aspects come 74 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: in and replace Larry Fitzgerald for that, you know, being 75 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: on the podium of a guy that everybody looks to 76 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 1: and reveres in this state as a pillar of what 77 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: you want to be on who you want your kids 78 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: to look up to. Right when this guy walks away 79 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: from the game, and like you said, first bout Hall 80 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: of Famer all of those things, it's off the field 81 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 1: that he made his mark as well off the field. 82 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: On the field, and especially just two seasons with the 83 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: Aris and A Cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury on the 84 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: professionalism that Watt has shown these past two seasons, he's, 85 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: you know, inspiring the way he practices. You know, he's 86 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: put his money where his mouth is, because he's talked 87 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: to the team about playing and being refreshed in this 88 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: circumstance that we're in, and he's definitely backing it up 89 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: and it's motivating for the staff and the players. And 90 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: that's what we've heard, whether it's through postgame interviews Paul 91 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: or the hot Hard Knocks cameras JJ Watt, especially late 92 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: this season with the postseason out of reach, he's tried 93 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: to motivated his teammates be selfish, play, play for yourself, 94 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: and he's done exactly that since the team has been 95 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 1: eliminated from the playoffs. I mean, we're talking first ballot 96 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer as a player and a leader. Just 97 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: the way he holds other guys accountable, just the way 98 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: he leads by example, just the way he talks to 99 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: the team. I mean, Drew, just when we watch him 100 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: in Heart Knocks Away, he addresses the team he's got 101 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: to be in the ninetieth percentile of coaches in just 102 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: the public speaking skills, in the command he respects in 103 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: front of a team. It's got to exceed a lot 104 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,679 Speaker 1: of assistant coaches and the way they're able just to 105 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: command the room. So look, at this point in a 106 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: four and eleventh season, you're either part of the problem 107 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: or you're part of the solution. JJ Watt was most 108 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: definitely part of the solution. So yeah, we're happy for him. 109 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: Stings for the Cardinals, right, it's not a ding for 110 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: the Cardinals that he's leaving and announcing his retirement. I 111 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: just hope, I just hope that a four and eleventh 112 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: season hasn't impacted his decision. I hope this is a 113 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: decision made many weeks, maybe even months ago, because if 114 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: all of a sudden he decided at this point in 115 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: a losing campaign, I would have loved to have seen 116 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: him maybe waited until February things he kind of recovers 117 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 1: from a long season, a lot of losing and a 118 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: lot of drama off the field, and then maybe made 119 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: that decision. I hope we don't get somewhere around the 120 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 1: super Bowl and he regrets this decision. So that's one 121 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: of the questions. I think I'm gonna ask him when 122 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: and if we get a chance to talk to him. 123 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: And this week, he's stayed healthy all season long, which 124 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: is something that he has struggled with, certainly recently in 125 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: his career. And then you wonder about family life, Drew, 126 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: because a newborn son, how much is it now not 127 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: about him, about about his family? Yeah, I think that 128 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: plays into it for sure. Especially you know when you 129 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: get over thirty years of age, you start thinking about 130 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: a lot of things, and football wherever that is lies. 131 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: You've got to take an honest assessment each and every year. 132 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: And to Paul's point, I mean, we've seen a surge 133 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: from him like we have not seen in a couple 134 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: of years. So maybe he knew for a while that 135 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: was the case. Maybe having you know, a newborn, you 136 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: look at that and say, okay, like your world changes. 137 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: We all know that his fathers that you look around 138 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: and you're saying, okay, well I used to just be 139 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 1: about myself, but you start thinking about moving the family, 140 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: you talk about doing all of these things, and you know, 141 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: for the vast majority of us that make a career 142 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: of this we're doing it, you know, to provide for 143 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: that family, and he's obviously financially secure. He has all 144 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: these accolades. As we talked about being a Hall of Famer, 145 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: all of those things play into it. And look, I 146 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: think with two weeks left to go, he wanted to 147 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: just kind of put it out there and be able 148 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: to be at peace with it, especially talking about his 149 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: last home game. But there's nothing saying he can't come 150 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: back either. Right, We've seen retirement doesn't mean what retirement 151 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: used to mean in this league. We saw Tom Brady 152 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: come back. We've seen many people come back from the far. Yeah. 153 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: So and saying I'm not saying that that's the type 154 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: of person that he is or that's what he's going 155 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: to do. But you would also say, okay, so you're 156 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: not telling me next December, some team that's on a 157 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: hot streak and they need a pass rusher or a 158 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: guy to come in that he wouldn't at least look 159 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: into it, because again, he's to be in shape, he's 160 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: going to take care of his body, like all of 161 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: these things that will lead you to believe it. I'm 162 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: just curious once Paul actually talks to him of why 163 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 1: now because again again he's earned the right to do 164 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: whatever he wants at any point in time, whenever he 165 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: decides to do it. But take the offseason, take the 166 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: ability to digest what's going on, because there are a 167 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: lot of moving pieces within this and maybe this organization 168 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: isn't as close as he thinks. Maybe cap all of 169 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: these things play into it. They could have told him, 170 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: you know, we're not capable of bringing you back. Whatever 171 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: the case may be. He has earned the privacy and 172 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: the right to do it, because when you get forced 173 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 1: in these type of situations like we saw with Tom 174 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 1: Brady retires because it was out there for however long, 175 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: and then he retires, and now he's talking about retirement 176 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: again or going to a new team, all of these things. 177 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: Each case is so individual. On Sunday, JJ Watt had 178 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: six tackles, two tackles for loss, two quarterback hits, playing 179 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: a season high seventy seven snaps. Now, there were eighty 180 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: one snaps in that game on the defensive side, and 181 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: Bude Baker played all eighty one. Don't know exactly when 182 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: he fractured his shoulder, but Kingsbury again on his weekly 183 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: TV show, said Buddha was just acting like it was 184 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: a bruise or something, and quote plays the entire game 185 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: and turns out it's a fracture. Tells you all you 186 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: need to know about the type of teammate and person 187 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: he is. And we've heard coaches talk about Buddha Baker 188 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: and that aspects. Let's go back to hard knocks. Bill 189 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: Davis addressing his linebackers talking about Buddha Baker, Man, I 190 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: want to challenge you guys, somebody played harder than Buddha. 191 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: Get a game. Watch what the something comes from here 192 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: trying to play harder? What kind of defense would we 193 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: add should be cooler? A game hustle Bakers? And so far, Paul, 194 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: the answer has been no. No one has been able 195 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: to out hustle Buddha Baker. There was that high ankle 196 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: spraying earlier this season, still played, and we haven't heard 197 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 1: from Buddha himself. Maybe he is not completely out for 198 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 1: the rest of the season, but I would think a 199 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: fractured shoulder would eliminate him. Apparently he just thought it 200 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: was some sort of bruise and he's like okay, and 201 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: he's sort of working it there under his shoulder pad 202 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, I'm good, and then after the 203 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: game it's a fractured shoulder. That's like Ronnie Lotts stuff. 204 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: Just take the tip of my finger off so I 205 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: can get back in there and finish out this season. 206 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: That's the sort of guy Buddha Baker is. And it's 207 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: not just Bill Davis. Somebody tweeted out that infamous clip 208 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: from Mike Tomlin on the Steelers sideline where he's just 209 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,440 Speaker 1: absolutely giving props and plaudits to Buddha Baker and yelling 210 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 1: out his name. Basically the same thing. Can we play 211 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: like Buddha Baker just running around like some sort of 212 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: crazed assassin. And if you look at this season, for 213 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: everything that it hasn't been, it really hasn't bottomed out 214 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,839 Speaker 1: in terms of effort, intensity, urgency. In fact, we saw 215 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: it last year at Detroit home against Carolina. That hasn't 216 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: happened yet. So I think everyone's radar is up in 217 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: these last two games minus Buddha Baker JJ Watt. He 218 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: hope fills that void like he's been doing quite a bit, 219 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: but there's no doubt he is the heartbeat of that defense. 220 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: The effort was there on Sunday, did not end with 221 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: a win again. Nineteen sixteen, Cardinals lose in overtime to 222 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Trace mcsorley's first career starts, he was twenty 223 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: four of forty five for two hundred and seventeen yards, intercepted, dude, 224 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: lose two fumbles, although second one I don't think was 225 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: his fault. That was Keyanta Ingram, but again officially it 226 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: goes as mcsorley's fumble. Kingsbury on how he thought McSorley 227 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: performed on Sunday, Yeah, I thought he battled. I mean, 228 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 1: that's a good defense. Was obviously some stuff we'd like 229 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: to have back, but still had as in a position 230 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: to win the game. They're late, though we were moving 231 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: the ball well, weren't able to convert there on that 232 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: third and one and turn it over, which really I 233 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: thought kind of turned the tide in their favor. Mcsorley's 234 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: fourth season drew but first career start. What did you 235 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: see from him? Again? It's Christmas Night, primetime, Sunday night football, 236 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: and you got the greatest of all time Tom Brady 237 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: on the other sideline. Yeah, I thought it did a 238 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: great job right for what he was asked to do. 239 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: He played within the confines of what they were doing. 240 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: They were trying to be all control offense, stay on schedule. 241 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: You know, I would have liked to see them try 242 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: to establish the run a little bit more, be able 243 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: to help him out and play action. We saw some 244 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: stuff under center, as we heard Ron Wilfley talk about 245 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: in the red zone that he like again, until you're 246 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: out there and it's live bullets, it's all just kind 247 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: of okay, let's see if this works. And now there's 248 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: a sample size. Now he can actually go watch himself. 249 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know if it's been reported 250 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 1: what's going to happen this week yet or where they're 251 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: going to go with quarterback. But that's the thing about 252 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 1: being a third string quarterback is you have zero idea 253 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: when that opportunity is going to come again, so you 254 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: have to relish it. You have to make the most 255 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: of it. I thought he did a good job. He 256 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: didn't lose the game, and you know, do anything like 257 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: that knowing that they were going up against a Tampa 258 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: Bay team that is really reeling, right. I mean, this 259 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: is the first time I've sat and watched them from 260 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: start to finish, and that is not a team that 261 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: looks like a playoff caliber team and they just found 262 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: a way to win, you know, the last waning seconds, 263 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: the latest And Coulton McCoy he remains in concussion protocol, 264 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: but Kingsbury did mention Paul on Monday that they are 265 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: hopeful that Colt can come back now. Whether that makes 266 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: sense or not, everyone would like to see a healthy 267 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: cult McCoy going into next season. But trades McSorley a 268 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: second start, maybe even a third start, you can only 269 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: see improvement because yeah, you get improvement from year one 270 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: to year two, but from your first career start to 271 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: your second career start and a second week of full 272 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 1: first team reps. Yeah, and if there's one area that 273 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 1: he can improve in these last two games, if he 274 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: is indeed the guy, that would be third down. And 275 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: obviously Todd Bowles brought it, brought numbers, brought the Blitz, 276 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,160 Speaker 1: didn't seemingly give him the same look twice on third down. 277 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: Cardinals struggled on third down five and nineteen, and even 278 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: when he made the right decision, there were times where 279 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: he didn't make a great throw overthrow, underthrow. So we'll 280 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: see I'd have to do with nerves. Is that his 281 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: overall accuracy. How much better can that be? Obviously, the 282 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: chemistry with DeAndre Opkins needs to improve in an extra 283 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: large way. It was amazing Drew just to watch the 284 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: instant chemistry he had with Greg Dortch from the get go. Yeah, 285 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: And I'm guessing that's because of their time spending the 286 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: preseason and then probably running scout team. Yeah. I mean 287 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: that's where it all stems from, right, And that's your 288 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: security blanket, because when you're out there running scout team 289 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: and you're doing stuff, and you're running plays off of cards, 290 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: there's a little bit of freestyle to that. And so 291 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: you saw that within the confines of those plays, and 292 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: you know, to your point, I think it's a mixture 293 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: of all of those things. It is a little bit 294 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: of nerves, it's a little bit of oh man, this 295 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: happens a tick faster than it even doesn't practice. I 296 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: remember having to say, okay, you know, with certain guys, 297 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: they come out of their route so much faster. And 298 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: with DeAndre Hopkins, you know, based off of what we 299 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: know from his practice habits might not be as ready 300 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: to go and longer, you know, and the tooth than 301 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: he is now and all those things, But on game 302 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: day you've got to find a way to get the 303 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: ball down. If he is going to start again, I 304 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: can promise you that DeAndre will have more of an impact. 305 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 1: But you go with what you know. Right, you saw 306 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: Greg Dortsche and it seemed, even whatever you want to 307 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: call it, there were game planning to get Dorge the ball. 308 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: He is a firecracker of a type of a player 309 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: where he can change it and he can add that 310 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: spark that you need where you know, some of these 311 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: other guys are more stagnant. They're doing that. We saw 312 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown have a couple of catches. You'd like to 313 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: see Trade McBride get more involved again. The more you 314 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: can kind of push some of these younger guys along 315 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: and see what you have because that bottom of the 316 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: end of the roster, that all fifty three that you keep, 317 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: they're going to have to play at some point in time. 318 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: And so now as you look towards next year and 319 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: these type of pieces, Greg Dortch has asserted himself maybe 320 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: to be the number three here next year. I mean really, 321 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: because Rondel Moore, you don't know what you're getting week 322 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: in and week out with him. He can do the 323 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: exact same things that Rondel Moore can do. It's going 324 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: to be an interesting thing as it transpires. But somebody 325 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: like trace McSorley, if he gets another opportunity, I do 326 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: believe he'll be more relaxed, he'll be more confident, he'll 327 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: be able to learn from previous mistakes. And now you've 328 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: got to go on the road a different environment. It 329 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: is a week to week business and you've got to 330 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: be able to adapt to these type of situations of 331 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: going on the road to Atlanta against a rookie quarterback 332 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: and it's a whole different set of circumstances. Yeah, Desmond 333 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,200 Speaker 1: Ritter are going to be making his third career start 334 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: in as many weeks and mcstly going to make his 335 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: second career start potentially again. We'll get the latest as 336 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,800 Speaker 1: the week progresses as far as who the quarterback will 337 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: be for the Arizona Cardinals. We know that JJ Watt 338 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 1: has two more games left in his Hall of Fame career. 339 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: He made that known earlier on social media. More on 340 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: jj Watt's announcement on a very very productive not only 341 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, but a career that spans five pro Bowls, 342 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: five All Pros, and three time Defensive Player of the Year. 343 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: It is the Cardinals Red Sea Report, presented by SeatGeek, 344 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: Your ticket to great Seats, Craig Rail, Drewsten and Paul Calvc. 345 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: We do it every Tuesday at eleven am year round, 346 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: talking all things Arizona Cardinals football. This is the Arizona 347 00:16:55,320 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: Cardinals Radio Network. Cousins. Four man rush back to pass 348 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 1: him in his face. It's JJ Watt and he sacks 349 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: them inside the thirty at his Hall of Fame J J. 350 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: Watt hit and sack. Absolutely mauled by J. J Watt. 351 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:20,600 Speaker 1: That's like turning around and all of a sudden, Jaws 352 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: is there ready to swallow you up. Hit by J. 353 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: J Watt and sack back at the twenty one. J J. 354 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: Watt gets home pressure coming at Herbert a sack at 355 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: the forty yard line. JJ Watts sacked by the future 356 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer J. J. Watts. JJ Watt making a 357 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: huge play then in the backfield and taking down and 358 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: JJ Watt is there. Boy. He continues to make big 359 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: plays when the Cardinals need a most Cousins in the 360 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:56,640 Speaker 1: pocketing trouble hit sacked by J J. Watt. Oh my goodness, 361 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: JJ Watt, are you kidding me? Stafford act to throwing 362 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: trouble and sacked by J. J. Watt at the twenty 363 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: yard line. The Hall of Famer there again when you 364 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: need him most please the team with nine and a 365 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 1: half sacks fourteen tackles for loss. J. J. Watt earlier 366 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 1: on Tuesday announcing his retirement via social media. He's got 367 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: two more games left in this his best season since 368 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Now missing from that Dave passed Ron Wolfley 369 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: montage Paul was a tackle for loss on Sunday that 370 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: you had the call and a number of stops for 371 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: no gain, including in that first quarter that first couple 372 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: of possessions Leonard Fournette stopped for no gain on second 373 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: and one Watt and Marcus Golden stopping Fournette on third 374 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,959 Speaker 1: and one for no gain. Again, this is year twelve 375 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: and there is no signs of what slowing down, But 376 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: he is going to call it a career. In fact, 377 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: there was a moment in the second half Sunday Night 378 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: Football had a montage of his getoffs in him splitting 379 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: the double team in the quickness, right, the alacrity, if 380 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: you will to use a big Mike Tarrico word, getting 381 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: off the ball and getting into the backfield. This guy 382 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: looks like he's in his mid twenties. So then to 383 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: get news of the retirement. He's playing some of his 384 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,040 Speaker 1: best ball right now. He's walking away from that craps 385 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: table in Vegas up big. He's taking a big stack 386 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: of chips and he's just gonna cash those things in. 387 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: He's been playing some great football. I mean, you watch 388 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: him even out in this practice, these practice sessions, even 389 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: when they're the glorified walkthroughs, and they have the d 390 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: line drills and they'll line up and they'll do the 391 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,360 Speaker 1: ten yard dash, okay, and it's a competition in all 392 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: ten and there's a lot of young guys out there. 393 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: He's top two or three in the ten yard dash. 394 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: They get off and sprint for the pylon. So there's 395 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: no doubt he's been he's been leading both in the 396 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: locker room with his leadership but then also with his play. 397 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: And one of my lasting memories from this season, and 398 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: I'll never forget it was just the big small head 399 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: in that first half at Denver, and then you realize 400 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: not only was it a three sack first half. But 401 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: it's all the incentives that he hit nearly a million 402 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,680 Speaker 1: dollars worth, and you realize why that smile was quite 403 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: that wide. It's you always want to go out on top. 404 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: It's very difficult to walk away when you are playing 405 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: your best. And I'd argue again, JJ Watt is being 406 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: is playing very very well this season. And on Sunday's 407 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: pregame huddle, we were speculating myself KYLEV Nibosch and Bertram 408 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: Barry that you talk about playing selfish football these last 409 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: remaining games that JJ Watt was earning himself a paycheck 410 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: next season, whether here or somewhere else. But Watt says, no, 411 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm I'm done. I'm gonna walk away with my health 412 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: and playing at my best. Yeah, health and wealth it's 413 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to walk away with, you know. But 414 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: you also look at the position he plays right that 415 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: there's that selfishness that plays into it there because of 416 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: how he can impact a game. He can go split 417 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: a double team, he can do all these things, and 418 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,199 Speaker 1: he understands when to take those calculator risks. Again, the 419 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: guys that are the elite of the elite are the 420 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 1: ones that understand not only physically how gifted they are, 421 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: but mentally what they can do to get to that 422 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: next level. And to go out and have three sacks 423 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: at any point in time and a half were regardless 424 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,440 Speaker 1: of what age you are, what you're doing, it's special, 425 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 1: especially at this level of what he was able to 426 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: do to impact the game there. To have nine and 427 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: a half sacks at this point, I'm sure he's gonna 428 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 1: driving his power to get to double digits because there's 429 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: probably something in there too about all of it. And 430 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: saying that again, I think you're just looking at an 431 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: iconic player for this league that's been able to impact 432 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 1: it in so many different ways. And if he decides 433 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: to call it quits, as it appears he's going to. 434 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: You look back and you say, man, the ability that 435 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: he brought to the football field to impact games was 436 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: so unique. I mean I remember a game playing against 437 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: him early in his career, the one year I spent 438 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 1: at Indianapolis, and it was like, how can we make 439 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,239 Speaker 1: sure this guy doesn't wreck the game? How can we 440 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: make sure that this guy and the game plan revolved 441 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: around him because he was so big, so strong, so powerful, 442 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: but also understood the game within the game, and so 443 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: you know, for him to be able to give that 444 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: knowledge away, to be able to do all the things 445 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: that he did, and to be only, you know, calling 446 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: it quits at this point, it's unfortunate. But you also, 447 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: you know, respect the game and what he brought to it. 448 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: And you've been saying halfway through this season, Paul, when 449 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: you look at number ninety nine within the NFC West, 450 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: the best number ninety nine, whereas an Arizona Cardinals uniform, 451 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 1: not at Los Angeles Rams uniform, It hasn't been Aaron Donald. 452 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: It hasn't. And a lot of it started with that 453 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: first matchup against the Rams. And I thoroughly I'm convinced 454 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: that JJA was sick and tired to hear and everybody 455 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 1: talk about ninety nine and it wasn't him, or at 456 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: least he wasn't even in the conversation. So I mean, 457 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: here's a guy as a three time NFL Defensive Player 458 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,959 Speaker 1: of the Year, just like Aaron Donald, and you forget. 459 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: It's only upon his retirement this morning where you see 460 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: some of those stats he put up, like in twenty fourteen, 461 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: you realize he was the first player in NFL history 462 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: with multiple twenty sacks seasons, and he was three years 463 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: into a career. That was the same year where he 464 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: was the first player since nineteen forty eight with three 465 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: offensive touchdowns and two defensive touchdowns as a former tight 466 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: end in Central Michigan. And I didn't realize until this 467 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: morning that when he walked away from Central Michigan, I 468 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: thought he transferred directly to Wisconsin. He didn't. He walked 469 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,600 Speaker 1: away from football, went back home, and then spent an 470 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: offseason working and getting in shape, and then walked onto Wisconsin, 471 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: this time as a defensive lineman, a defensive end. So 472 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: he's been doing this on his own terms, and he's 473 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: going out the way he came in. Remember how he 474 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: made his announcement via his Twitter account. There he wasn't 475 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 1: the squat rack wearing Arizona Cardinals shirt, and I was like, 476 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: wait a minute, this for real? Someone photoshopped it? Is 477 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: this really his account? Same thing earlier today. Why on 478 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: a Tuesday with two games to go, all of a sudden, 479 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: JJ Watt would announce his retirement. Well, that's the way 480 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 1: he operates his tweet if you missed it, And he 481 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: mentioned that Christmas night was his newborn son's first NFL 482 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: game and his quote last ever home game, and then 483 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: he added, my heart is filled with nothing but love 484 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: and gratitude. It's been absolute honor and a pleasure and 485 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,360 Speaker 1: of tweet again. He leads the Cardinals in both sacks 486 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: and tackles for loss here in his twelfth season. His 487 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: teammates Davin Collins not surprised by what Watt has done 488 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 1: this year. He knows what he's doing. You know what 489 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: I mean. I just tell Jed do whatever you want. 490 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: I'll make you right in the back end. It's easy 491 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 1: because he makes it just he makes a decisive decision 492 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: and goes with it. So yeah, no surprise there. Jed's 493 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: been doing that forever and it's nice having that in 494 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: front of Jazel linebacker. The production on the field, and 495 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: then what he has meant off the field in that 496 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: locker room. To a Cameron Thomas, to a Zach Allen 497 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: who has played very well in his two seasons as 498 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 1: a teammate of JJ Watt, and being one of those coaches, 499 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: one of those leaders in the locker room. Hard Knocks 500 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: capturing JJ watt postgame speech at Denver. I'm not gonna 501 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: stay up here and tell you it doesn't suck. It sucks. 502 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: It's brutal. But what I do have respect for is 503 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,199 Speaker 1: everybody busting their I appreciate the willingness to come in 504 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: every day and be a man and go about your work, 505 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 1: and go about your business even when we all know 506 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: what the situation is. Don't lose that. You gotta try 507 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: and get better each day. Please like for yourself and 508 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: for us as a team, both equally, because right now 509 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 1: the reality of the situation is is you're also doing 510 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: for next season because the unfortunate reality is that we're 511 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: not in the playoffs. So take care of yourselves. Study, 512 00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,679 Speaker 1: don't let up, hit the weight room, hit the books. 513 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: It's not time to pack it in. It's time to 514 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: work and put yourself in a better situation. If you 515 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 1: are going to talk the talk, you had better walk 516 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,719 Speaker 1: the walk. And JJ Watt has and we've seen it 517 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: several times Drew when he makes the speeches, whether again 518 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: it is post practice or post game, and he is 519 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 1: doing what exactly he wants his teammates to do. Yeah, 520 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: I mean again, if you just take that SoundBite right 521 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: there and you apply that to anything that you do 522 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: in life, you will be successful. Well, if you apply 523 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: that as a young guy, and you are all ears 524 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: to what he's saying. I mean, that was so well 525 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: put in so many different ways about what it's like 526 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: to be in December football when you have nothing left 527 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: to play for? Can you go out there with the 528 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: same approach regardless of the situation and put your best 529 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: foot forward for yourself individually, but also for this organization 530 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: because everybody's watching you. You're you're constantly being assessed in 531 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: this business. And from a guy that's been there, done that, 532 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: understood all of those things. Did he write that down though? 533 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: That's what I want to know, because that was the 534 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 1: delivery was spot on? Did he practice in the mirror, Paul, 535 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: like practicing next to you. He's saying this wasn't the 536 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: ninetieth percentile motivational speeches? Is he not? He's better than 537 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: most coaches in this league? Yeah? Is that written down? 538 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: Does he just pull? I mean because or he's just 539 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: thinking about Again, there's things that that veteran guys see 540 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: and so being around it long enough, he understands what 541 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: needs to be said and when it needs to be said, 542 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, and lucky enough, Hard Knox is here to 543 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: capture it and what's amazing is that was in Denver 544 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: and after the game, they let the media in pencil 545 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: necks like yours truly, and we're at his locker and 546 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: Darren Urban actually asked him about what his message would 547 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: be to the team, not knowing that he had addressed 548 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: the team, and he basically gave a very succinct recap 549 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,960 Speaker 1: of that to the media, and then we saw it 550 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: in Hard Knocks and you're like, oh, yeah, that's exactly 551 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 1: what he said. He's not kidding, he's not embellishing. That's 552 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: what he delivered to the whole room right after loss, 553 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: because everybody saw it themselves and Green, you know, being 554 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 1: around the facility in the off season and yeah, he 555 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: made that miraculous comeback in time for the playoff game. 556 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: Now is all for not and the Cardinals got trounced. 557 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: We get it. But it was like a week after 558 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: that game. He's in the facility and they weren't certain 559 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: lunch in the player's cafeteria. There's JJ Watt in line 560 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: with all of us people on the office side, and 561 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: it was like a sports Center inside Sports Center commercial 562 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: because he got a bunch of us and then the 563 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: camera pans up to six foot six JJ Watt in line, 564 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: and everyone was joking like, get ahead of jj Watt 565 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: in the buffet line and there's gonna be nothing left 566 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 1: for lunch. Okay, that's the kind of games Wan, the 567 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,399 Speaker 1: ship you need here every single day working with Buddy 568 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 1: Morris to make sure he was healthy for this season, 569 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 1: and this has been a healthy season, even though there 570 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: was that health scare earlier in the year when he 571 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: had to have his heart shocked back into rhythm again. 572 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: That was prior to him being a first time father, 573 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,360 Speaker 1: and you wonder how much again, all of this has 574 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: played a factor. That's a great point. You're absolutely right, 575 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: that was a true health scare that went beyond football 576 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,640 Speaker 1: and just rehabbing an injury. And he also got ahead 577 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 1: of that news as well, before Jay Glazer or some 578 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 1: insider was about to tweet it out. Maybe that's what 579 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: JJ Watt does in his next profession, social media influencer. 580 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: JJ Watt. He's got a standing invitation to join us 581 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: on Cardinals podcast. Of course, that's a standing invitation for 582 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: two years now to Larry Fitzgerald, and fitz hasn't gotten 583 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: back to me on that front yet. It's a good thing, 584 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: true Stanton took us up on that offer. This is 585 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: Heroes on a Cardinals radio network. Snapped to Wolford back 586 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: again looking deep, airing it out in the middle of 587 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: the field and it's intercepted somehow picked off at the 588 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: thirty by Buddha running back the other way. Forty fifty 589 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: forty Baker thirty cuts right entackled in the twenty five. 590 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: This guy shouldn't even be playing. What heart? What prints? 591 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: Booda Baker showing leadership this week despite a bad wheel. 592 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: He's even hobbling now after he picks it off. This 593 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: guy's unbelievable. Incredible play by Buddha Baker, right though I 594 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: say it Simmons as well. I say is Simmons shotty 595 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: on the spot batting the pig into the air. And 596 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: then there was Budda Baker like we've seen him so 597 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: many times before. What a football player. And don't forget 598 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: that was six days after head coach Cliff Kingsbury had 599 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: ruled Buddha Baker out for that week's game against the Rams. 600 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: Until Acte showed up and there was number three and 601 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: you're like, okay, maybe there is a possibility we see 602 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: Buddha Baker on the field on Sunday, and then yeah, 603 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: as Patch mentioned, the celebration, the post turnover celebration, Buddha's 604 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: hobbling and his teammatesers ain't come on, come on, It's like, no, 605 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: this man has a high ankle spring and you're making 606 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: them celebrate in front of the cameras. I can tell 607 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: you the entire sideline was screaming, get down. What are 608 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: you doing in there? Because he took a pretty hard tackle. 609 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 1: He got ripped to the ground and it's sort of 610 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: sent his ankle sideways a little bit, I think, you know, 611 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: but it is amazing. And there is sort of a 612 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: sort of a long standing rule on the Cardinals sideline 613 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: if something comes out of nowhere and is an absolute 614 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: blurer to create just a collision of any sort, and 615 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: you're not sure who or what it was, it was 616 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: Buddha Bakery. Honestly, you're like, what was that? Oh, that 617 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: was number three coming out of nowhere to make the tackle. 618 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: And doesn't that sound like we will see number three 619 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: of the rest of this regular season. As we welcome 620 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 1: you back here to the Cardinals read report presented by 621 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 1: a Steek Your ticket to great seats case you missed 622 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,719 Speaker 1: the news on Monday. In fact, it was Paul and 623 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:09,880 Speaker 1: Ron Wilfley that you had the exclusive with head coach 624 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury on his weekly TV show Cardinals Game Plan 625 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: acknowledging yes confirming the report that Buddha Baker suffered a 626 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: fractured shoulder at some point during Sunday's game. Don't know 627 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: exactly when, but he played all eighty one defensive snaps. 628 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: He thought it was a contusion. He's like, it's just 629 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: kind of a bad bruise. I'm good, I'll play every snap. 630 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 1: And then they got an X ray obviously of at 631 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: some point after the game and realized it was a fracture. So, 632 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: I mean, you tell me, Drew, what sort of street 633 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: cred does that give a guy in a locker room 634 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: after you played an entire game and at some point 635 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: you fractured a shoulder. Yeah. Well, I don't think Buddha 636 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 1: needs anymore street cred. He's already established himself as somebody 637 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: that doesn't need any more of that. But again, to 638 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 1: be able to play through that, and I'm sure there'll 639 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: be everybody watching now trying to go back and identify 640 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: when it was or when it happened remarkable to be 641 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: able to play through something like that again, to just say, well, 642 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: you know, I can keep going. But that lets you 643 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: know the mindset, right. It's mind over matter at that standpoint. 644 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 1: And you know we heard the SoundBite earlier about if 645 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,960 Speaker 1: everybody could just play as hard as Buddha, Well, yeah, 646 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: I mean that is the goal in all of this, right, 647 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: And Buddha's got to find a way to be able 648 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: to wear off on some of these guys, to be 649 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: able to pull guys along with him, to be able 650 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: to do that, and this team will be better off 651 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: for it. But when you're leading by example like Buddha, 652 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: Baker does it, and we've seen him get up and 653 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 1: try and I passion people with the way that he's 654 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,040 Speaker 1: talks and speaks and does all of these things. But 655 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: when you're going out there and you're laying it all 656 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,719 Speaker 1: out on the line, and then you continue to lay 657 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: it on the line, and then you leave it all 658 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: out there on the field, literally all out there on 659 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: the field, there's nothing more to be said. That's the 660 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: type of guys that you build franchises around. And that's 661 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 1: why he has been compensated accordingly. That's why he is 662 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: who he is, and you sit there and you say, Okay, 663 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: as wrong as this season was in so many different 664 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: ways for Buddha to be able to get the accolades 665 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: of being a Pro Bowl or to be able to 666 00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 1: do all of these things, you feel good about what 667 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: he's into visually able to accomplish them. Next year, you 668 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: look at, Okay, what can we do better as a 669 00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,320 Speaker 1: collective hole because to your point, right, he was that 670 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: blur that was out there and I think Jayalen Thompson 671 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: and him are as good as it gets in this 672 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: league as a tandem, and that's a bright spot. And 673 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: now you have an entire off season and say, okay, 674 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: what else can we do to be able to make 675 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: them even better? Because there's still room for growth as 676 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,360 Speaker 1: an entire defense to sit there and make leaps and 677 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: bounce from where they were this year. It is hard 678 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: to keep Buddha Baker off the field. A fractured shoulder 679 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: will do so these last two games here. But when 680 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: you do see Buddha Baker on the field, whether it's 681 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 1: a bruise or a high ankle sprain, seeing him play 682 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: motivates his teammates. Here's the head coach Cliff Kingbury. When 683 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: guys realize, hey, Bood is gonna push through and play. 684 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: When they told us beginning the week he'd be out 685 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: two to through weeks, no chance. Yeah, it's hard not 686 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: to be inspired and guys want to play hard for 687 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: him and that they played a high level with him, 688 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,160 Speaker 1: so that that meant a lot to our team. And 689 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: it's the respect that he has not only of his teammates, Drew, 690 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: but of his peers. Because when he talking about Buddha 691 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: Baker was named to the Pro Bowl, it wasn't just 692 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: that he was named to the Pro Bowl. He was 693 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: named a starter on the NFC and he mentioned that 694 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: how much it affected him that it was his peers 695 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: that voted him to that honor. Yeah. I mean, look, 696 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl can be looked at in a lot 697 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: of different ways. And you look at some of these guys, 698 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: like you know, t J. Waterf We're going to be honest, 699 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 1: he missed a handful of games and still he gets 700 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's based off perception. There's other times that you 701 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: go out and you earn it every single year like 702 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: Buddha Baker has done it. And again you look at 703 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: what he've been able to do playing through injuries, but 704 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,360 Speaker 1: also just his statistics of what he's able to do 705 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 1: on a defense that you know has had some struggles. 706 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: And that's one stat that we've talked about on their shows. 707 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: Anytime you see a safety as a leading tackler, you 708 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: know it's a long day for a defense, and he 709 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 1: has been the leading tackler way too often. Now it 710 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: also speaks volumes because he is that type of a 711 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: player that is going to be able to make the 712 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He does such a good job of 713 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: run blitzing and even blitzing in general, but more so 714 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,439 Speaker 1: the run blitz is that he's able to get guys 715 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: down to the ground. But to have those accolades and 716 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: have that year in a year out, everybody looks to 717 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 1: you and say, this is a guy that is a 718 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 1: mainstay as a starter in the Pro Bowl because he's 719 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: a soft spoken guy. I mean, he was super young 720 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: when I was here with him, but loved being teammates 721 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 1: with him. You could see the way that he worked, 722 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: the way that he prepared, how much it meant to 723 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 1: him all of these things. So to see the light 724 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: that he is actually getting shined on him now, it's 725 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: no surprise at all, five times now named a Pro 726 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,480 Speaker 1: bowler four in a row at the safety position. So 727 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 1: think about it. We were in training camp this August 728 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: and there was some chatter that maybe Jayleen Thompson had 729 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: reached the same level. Maybe dare I say eclipsed a 730 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: Buddha Baker in terms of the caliber of his play. 731 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: So we can dismiss that narrative. JT is a great safety, 732 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 1: but he's not Buddha Baker. Buddha Baker is truly elite 733 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: in the NFL. And to me, I think about the 734 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 1: playoff game. I think of how hard he was playing 735 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: in LA and a game that had been decided before halftime, 736 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 1: and he left that game on a stretcher. He was 737 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: carted off and for him to come back with the 738 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: same sort of vengeance. And remember he's a new dad himself, 739 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: Buddha Baker. So I just much respect for all the above, 740 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,800 Speaker 1: not only the face the defense, but also when we 741 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,839 Speaker 1: got training camp, Paul the face of hard knocks. One 742 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,879 Speaker 1: of those promos of him doing shoulder shrugs that led 743 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,840 Speaker 1: to some well, let's just say that Paul Calves, he 744 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,919 Speaker 1: put his foot in his mouth, come on out to shrugs. Yeah, 745 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: I think I saw myself. Yeah that was that was 746 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,399 Speaker 1: one tens, baby, that was one ten. So it's pretty heavy. 747 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 1: It's more than your body weight. You got, Joe, come 748 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 1: on much okay? Combining great? Okay, feel batter now, nice 749 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,080 Speaker 1: kick saved there. And for Paul nobody shrugs with one dumbbell. 750 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 1: I mean I assumed everybody knew and everybody saw the quip. 751 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: He's got one in each hand. One ten times two 752 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 1: equals to twenty more than his body weight. It'd be 753 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: pot calling kettle black when you're talking about you know, 754 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: there's nobody, nobody in the media, all right, who takes 755 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 1: who would ever dare to take a shot at someone's 756 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 1: size from pauling pencil neck over here, And believe me, 757 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: that's one area I don't cross. That is the third rail. Yeah, 758 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 1: Buddha play is much bigger than his stature, and it's 759 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: unfortunately you're not going to see him the rest of 760 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 1: the regular season unless I'm just gonna hold the door 761 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: open to the fract No, no fraction, no, not even 762 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: a fraction. Shoulder tape it up. See number three out there. 763 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 1: If there was a playoff game out there, Yeah, I 764 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: could see him pulling or J. J. Watt I could 765 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,359 Speaker 1: see yeah maybe. So okay, that was Miami this year. 766 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: Thanks Jim Almahndro for rehashing that all the way back 767 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: in Tennessee and August. Appreciate that. Cardinals with two more 768 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 1: games left in Atlanta and at San Francisco, we'll touch 769 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 1: on the Falcons who are struggling just like the Arizona Cardinals. 770 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 1: That's ahead here. It is the Arizona Cardinals Red Sea 771 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:56,239 Speaker 1: report on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Second down and 772 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,879 Speaker 1: ten man in motion is door. Its solely under said. 773 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,760 Speaker 1: Give to Connor looking laugh, runs off tackle left side, 774 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: twenty ten, races inside the five and into the end zone. 775 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,760 Speaker 1: James Connor houses it from twenty two yards out. That's 776 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,960 Speaker 1: the Cardinals run game, wearing down the defense in the 777 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and it pays off with the first touchdown 778 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 1: of the game. And it all started by putting the 779 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: quarterback under center with twelve personnel, one back, two tight ends, 780 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,880 Speaker 1: run the ball, tackle zone concept. James Connor houses it. 781 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,760 Speaker 1: A great play call by Paul over there the twenty 782 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,400 Speaker 1: two yard touchdown run to make it sixteen to six 783 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,359 Speaker 1: in favor of the Cardinals. Yeah, they would not win 784 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen in overtime on Sunday the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 785 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,840 Speaker 1: But did you notice, Drue, how quick Wolf was to 786 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 1: notice that McSorley was under center on that play call. Yeah. 787 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,239 Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you listen to a Wolf Lee broadcast, 788 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,359 Speaker 1: you're going to hear some things that are going to 789 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 1: repeat themselves every single week. Talking about the personnel, it's 790 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: always matters. And then anytime they're under center or about 791 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: you know, imposing their will or any of you know, 792 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,200 Speaker 1: you can tell that he is a hard nosed fullback 793 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: at heart and who wants everybody to know that that's 794 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,359 Speaker 1: the way the game should be played. You know what's 795 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,319 Speaker 1: interesting is before the game, we went and we're talking 796 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,439 Speaker 1: a lot of the former Cardinals assistants who are now 797 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,280 Speaker 1: coaches right for Tampa, including Bruce arians Ba saw Wolf 798 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,439 Speaker 1: and he looked at him. The first thing he said 799 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 1: is forty one is not a fullback, Wolf, because that's 800 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,200 Speaker 1: the hybrid tight end. Co Keith, the rookie. He just 801 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,280 Speaker 1: immediately jammed Wolf with the whole we don't have a fullback, capiche. 802 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 1: I'll say this though, on the failed pitch, it was 803 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,960 Speaker 1: James Connor lined up in front of Keanta Ingram as 804 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,719 Speaker 1: a quote unquote fullback. But again that was just one 805 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,520 Speaker 1: play out of many this season. Would like to see 806 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,279 Speaker 1: more of James Connor, whether there's against the Falcons, who 807 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: against the forty nine is because he did run the 808 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,240 Speaker 1: ball very very well all seventy nine rushing yards on 809 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,640 Speaker 1: Sunday and the loss. And what we would also like 810 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 1: to see coming up this week is more involvements out 811 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,400 Speaker 1: of DeAndre Hopkins just one catch for four yards on 812 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,839 Speaker 1: ten targets. Greg Dortsch got more of the receptions in 813 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 1: that loss on Sunday. Here's the head coach, Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah, 814 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,719 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, hop definitely had some opportunities when 815 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,120 Speaker 1: he was he was open and weren't able to get 816 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: the ball to him. And then I got to do 817 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,239 Speaker 1: a better job of any game adjustments, finding ways if 818 00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: the ball is not coming to him in the Philadelphense, 819 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,280 Speaker 1: finding ways to get him the football. So we can't 820 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: know leave a game with him just having one catch. 821 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: But I was proud of Dortch's performance. He continues to 822 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 1: improve and you know he's progressed a long way in 823 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,400 Speaker 1: the season. I'll guarantee you this drew whether it is 824 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,760 Speaker 1: McSorley or it is cold as the quarterback. This week, 825 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:49,240 Speaker 1: Hopkins is going to maybe not get the same number 826 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,799 Speaker 1: of targets, but he'll have more catches this week than 827 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,879 Speaker 1: just the one as he did on Sunday. I think 828 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: more targets too. I think that makeup for a lost time. Well, 829 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,640 Speaker 1: what was the streak of how many games in a row? 830 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:03,720 Speaker 1: So they were going to do everything in their power 831 00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:05,359 Speaker 1: to make sure they at least got him one, which 832 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: they need to do right And sometimes I remember being 833 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: with Larry or with Reggie Wayne, he had multiple catches 834 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,720 Speaker 1: that it was that ball was getting in their hands 835 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 1: to start, So this doesn't even become an issue later 836 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,600 Speaker 1: on where everybody's kind of sitting there looking and waiting 837 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,839 Speaker 1: and trying to figure it out. But again, in order 838 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,120 Speaker 1: for this team to be who they want to be, 839 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,360 Speaker 1: in order for this offense to be who it needs 840 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,840 Speaker 1: to be in order to win football games, DeAndre Hopkins 841 00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 1: has to be that influential piece. He has to be 842 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,080 Speaker 1: everything to this offense because he has a capability of 843 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:36,239 Speaker 1: doing it. You know, it's all so hard because you're 844 00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,480 Speaker 1: going with a younger quarterback that it's his first career. Start, 845 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,240 Speaker 1: the timing, the throw, all of that stuff is just different. 846 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,920 Speaker 1: And when you have somebody that Kyler Murray and he's 847 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,520 Speaker 1: talked about it before, he makes plays off schedule, he 848 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,960 Speaker 1: does all these things, young quarterbacks are not going to 849 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 1: do that. When their eyes come down, they're probably looking 850 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,279 Speaker 1: to scramble. So you've got to be able to, as 851 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:55,880 Speaker 1: Cliff talked about, in the lead, and you've got to 852 00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,799 Speaker 1: find ways to get the ball in his hands and 853 00:41:57,880 --> 00:41:59,719 Speaker 1: have a game planned from the very onset of the 854 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,319 Speaker 1: week of having that box. As I've talked about before, 855 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,320 Speaker 1: these are the players that we know the ball is 856 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 1: going to get in his hands or he's the primary 857 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,640 Speaker 1: wide receiver based on the coverages we're going to see 858 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: this week. If it's single high and it's off coverage, 859 00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,360 Speaker 1: throw him a hitch, throw him a slant, get the 860 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,840 Speaker 1: ball in his hands, and it doesn't necessarily have to 861 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,239 Speaker 1: be a screen or anything like that. You want to 862 00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,160 Speaker 1: be able to get it moving and get him downfield, 863 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,960 Speaker 1: get him in the slot more. Be able to do 864 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,680 Speaker 1: all these things. And again, the other thing that we've 865 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,400 Speaker 1: talked about is being able to consistently stick with a 866 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,520 Speaker 1: run game, and James Connor is showed within the last 867 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,000 Speaker 1: month of the season that he wants to carry that load, 868 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: that he can carry that load like we saw last year. 869 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,120 Speaker 1: And he has that kind of capability. And it doesn't 870 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,280 Speaker 1: matter if it's Cliff start or if it's Colt starting 871 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,160 Speaker 1: or Cliffs starting. I don't care. You can start whoever 872 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 1: you want a quarterback or trace. You need to have 873 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,319 Speaker 1: a run game. You've got to be able to do that. 874 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,200 Speaker 1: I thought that they've been doing some good things in 875 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,080 Speaker 1: the run game. They've just got to be able to 876 00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: stick with it. Because you see the play action pass, 877 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: the intermediate pass game, all of that stuff opens itself 878 00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,880 Speaker 1: up when you're capable of doing it. Cardinals this week 879 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 1: in Atlanta eleven am is the Kickoffs six thirty pregame 880 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: coverage ends here on the Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. And 881 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 1: you look at the Falcons, Paul five and ten. They 882 00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:09,040 Speaker 1: have lost four straight, six of seven. Sound familiar, They've 883 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,280 Speaker 1: only one well, they've their four of their five wins 884 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,440 Speaker 1: have come at home. But this again, you're talking about 885 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,680 Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback in Desmond Ritter, someone that maybe was 886 00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,799 Speaker 1: not going to see the field this season, but then 887 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,840 Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota, they made a decision to bench him, and 888 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,520 Speaker 1: then he undergoes knee surgery. So it is Desmond Ritterer 889 00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,200 Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future in Atlanta. So you're going from 890 00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,520 Speaker 1: Tom Brady who's now made three hundred and thirty one 891 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,960 Speaker 1: career starts, to Desmond Ritter and his third career starts. 892 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:36,759 Speaker 1: So you're saying there's going to be a difference in 893 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,759 Speaker 1: QB acumen. Is that we're saying, yes, let's hope there is. Yeah, 894 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,080 Speaker 1: And look, there are things to be gained, all right. 895 00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,120 Speaker 1: You know, Trace McSorley, you need to get a better 896 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,920 Speaker 1: idea of him, because guess what, it doesn't look like 897 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,719 Speaker 1: you can count on a Kyler Murray at least the 898 00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:52,920 Speaker 1: first month. And next season we'll see Chase Young just 899 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: came back. Took him thirteen months from his knee injury. 900 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,800 Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, on the other hand, did an eight or 901 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,920 Speaker 1: nine months, So it differs. It's an unknown, So you 902 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,200 Speaker 1: need to figure out more about Tracey mcslorley and or 903 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,719 Speaker 1: Colt McCoy. And then there's plenty of young guys out 904 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,880 Speaker 1: there and against Desmond Ritter. You want to find out 905 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,400 Speaker 1: more about these corners. Where exactly are you Cam Thomas, 906 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,480 Speaker 1: What exactly is he? What do you want to do 907 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,560 Speaker 1: with him, especially now with the absence of a JJ 908 00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: Watt in that retirement. Is he gonna go to Zach 909 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: Allen route, put on a little more weight, be a 910 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,560 Speaker 1: five technique my J Sanders's There are things to be 911 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: gained in these final two games and you just hope 912 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,319 Speaker 1: to see them materialize here at the end of the year. 913 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,880 Speaker 1: Sanders and Ritter teammates at Cincinnati as well, so you 914 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,000 Speaker 1: got that storyline here. But again on paper, Drew, it 915 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: is a winnable game. Yet you got to go out 916 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,920 Speaker 1: and execute, and that's been the issue for this Cardinals 917 00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 1: team during this recent slide. It is, but it's a 918 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,040 Speaker 1: very winnable game. You've got to go on the East Coast, 919 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,399 Speaker 1: which presents this challenges. Run the ball, stop the run. 920 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,120 Speaker 1: That's how you beat the Falcons. This is a team 921 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,399 Speaker 1: that's going to try and run the ball. That comes 922 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,560 Speaker 1: from that Tennessee type of mentality. You have to be 923 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,160 Speaker 1: able to do those things and you're going to give 924 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,879 Speaker 1: yourself a chance. Eleven AM is a kickoff on sun 925 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,200 Speaker 1: Day special Thanks behind the scenes, Jim Mhandro, Lauren Coble 926 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,960 Speaker 1: for Drew Stanton KALBC. I'm Craig Rayelu. 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