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Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage is the original Thursday night football. James,
Speaker 1: welcome in, and as you hear wolf laugh over there,
Speaker 1: I have to say, you tell me true or false?
Speaker 1: The one constant, if any, between making the move from
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh to the As would be the voice of a
Speaker 1: wolf Lake Christ Wolfley with the Steelers and Ron with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. True or false? Man, that's that's a hundred true,
Speaker 1: hundred true. Many phenomenal people bring great energy and it
Speaker 1: makes me feel feel like I'm still at home. You know.
Speaker 1: I just Wolfley mandate. That does my people. So I
Speaker 1: love a Wolfley. So, James, I gotta ask you, man.
Speaker 1: First of all, Craig says hello. He told me to
Speaker 1: make sure you say that to James. Has anyone ever
Speaker 1: walked up to you and said it's always dreary in Erie.
Speaker 1: I've heard that once. It's twice. I've heard that once
Speaker 1: as fice. But we get nice days up there too,
Speaker 1: though we get some nice days. But uh, Erie, Man, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard that, you know, dreary Erie to something like
Speaker 1: to say, but man, I love this. I love What
Speaker 1: was it with James? What was it like growing up
Speaker 1: on the lake in Erie, Pennsylvania Bad. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was awesome to me. I did you know they
Speaker 1: you know, I just love home. Um. And then me
Speaker 1: especially being the youngest with about my brothers. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just always just awesome to be with them and
Speaker 1: have them. But I mean it gets super super cold
Speaker 1: up there, that lake effects snow um. Taking trips to
Speaker 1: Edinburgh and Buffalo, and you know, it's just I was
Speaker 1: just surrounded by the code and water. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what made me. You know, Erie
Speaker 1: Eries definitely what made me. But it was awesome growing
Speaker 1: up there. I love I love the city. I loved
Speaker 1: people in the city and everything about it. How many
Speaker 1: older brothers? I got four older brothers four. It was
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, was flag football in a
Speaker 1: bunch of ten year olds and there was one kid
Speaker 1: and he was dominating and I mean dominating, and and
Speaker 1: someone said, what are you feeding him? And the mom said, no,
Speaker 1: he has three older brothers. Yeah, to what degree was
Speaker 1: at an advantage? Seriously, because you're always trying to match
Speaker 1: the bigger and older kids in your own family. Probably right,
Speaker 1: of course, of course. Yeah, we had a little cement
Speaker 1: cement block like patch in the backyard with with a
Speaker 1: hoop on it and me being the youngest, and my
Speaker 1: brothers though, they were about there playing twenty one, and
Speaker 1: it was just the hardest thing in the world was
Speaker 1: for me to just get a rebound, you know. So
Speaker 1: when I got the round kids, you know, my size,
Speaker 1: my age, you know, I was just I would dominating,
Speaker 1: just trying to jump all over him getting rebounds and everything,
Speaker 1: just because you know, just playing with my my brothers. You
Speaker 1: know it definitely, it definitely makes you tough. They mold you,
Speaker 1: you know, to the athlete that you are for sure.
Speaker 1: So James, I gotta ask you, man, your your brothers, um,
Speaker 1: older brothers, were they as big as you or bigger?
Speaker 1: They're they're all bigger than me. They're all bigger than Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: you had their their monster man oldest, my oldest brothers
Speaker 1: like six four, you know, two forty, some other brothers
Speaker 1: sixty three, you know, like two sixty you know, the
Speaker 1: other brothers six two, a little heavier than me. So,
Speaker 1: I mean they're there. They they some big dudes. Man.
Speaker 1: Is that one of the reasons maybe you ended up
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. I believe, so
Speaker 1: I definitely believe. So, you know, and just hearing like
Speaker 1: you know, talking with other Uh, we're not talking about
Speaker 1: facing other like linebackers and whatnot. You know, the average
Speaker 1: kind of size of a linebackers around six two two thirty,
Speaker 1: you know, especially for the bigger ones in high school
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So with me being that size, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm just the same size as the linebackers. Hole and
Speaker 1: I played defense, played defensive in but running back with
Speaker 1: you love because Wolf remember the stat right, it was
Speaker 1: your freshman year at pitt It was the bowl game
Speaker 1: you once a bunch of time, split a sack with
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. Yeah, you're in the same game that you
Speaker 1: ran for two hundred and twenty nine yards in the
Speaker 1: same game, man, I was that was a game to remember.
Speaker 1: That was again't remember in Detroit Bowl game freshman year. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kind of set the tone going into my sophomore season.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, defense is definitely in the history. Defense
Speaker 1: is in the background for sure. So James, speaking of
Speaker 1: a game and games, let's talk about this season a
Speaker 1: little bit, how do you think this season has gone
Speaker 1: for you personally? James? Uh, it's hard to think, you know,
Speaker 1: personally when you know, I feel like I'm just I
Speaker 1: want the team to just be successful. Um, I'm prepared
Speaker 1: it as hard as ever. You know, in the offseason,
Speaker 1: you know, I had to miss time with a rib
Speaker 1: and whatnotum, and so just trying to get into a rhythm.
Speaker 1: As of lately, I'm kind of like really now trying
Speaker 1: to get into the rhythm and just keep it going. UM.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have expectations and goals and stuff that
Speaker 1: we want to hit, but this kind of way with
Speaker 1: the thing has been going. Uh, losing a couple of
Speaker 1: tight games and missing time with an injury, I just
Speaker 1: kind of just wanted to stay stay even, stay level headed,
Speaker 1: and just continue to just to finish strong no matter
Speaker 1: what the what the postseason look. It's like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to finish strong and just continue to
Speaker 1: play my best football. No doubt. This team is still
Speaker 1: chasing its best game. And that's not us, that's your
Speaker 1: head coach Cliff Kingsbury, who said this, we don't think
Speaker 1: we've we've played our best football yet. Collectively, it's trying
Speaker 1: to do that. And you know, five games left, like
Speaker 1: I said to National TV games, there's a lot to
Speaker 1: play for him and guys want to play our best
Speaker 1: football and see what we can look like when we
Speaker 1: put one together. And I think that is, you know,
Speaker 1: the motivation for the coaches and the players right now.
Speaker 1: What's amazing. And James Connor is our guest Cardinals running
Speaker 1: back coming off the Pro Bowl season twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and you just had your first one hundred yard rushing
Speaker 1: game as an Arizona Cardinal and as it was unfolding
Speaker 1: against the Chargers, myself Jim MoMA Hundre, We're like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, is that real? And we're trying to fact
Speaker 1: check that because you had eighteen touchdowns last year, but
Speaker 1: that was your first hundred yard rushing game. What clicked
Speaker 1: in that game against the Chargers twenty five carries for
Speaker 1: a buck twenty uh, well clicked. I just felt like
Speaker 1: I got into a rhythm and I was just kind of, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of like, man, enough is enough.
Speaker 1: I know I'm a talented back and I've been feeling
Speaker 1: like I haven't been able to give my my best,
Speaker 1: you know, just like I said, from dealing with injuries
Speaker 1: and you know, slow start early in the season. So
Speaker 1: it was kind of just like, man, I need to
Speaker 1: really I need to really just take it up a
Speaker 1: level and just up my focus. And so I just
Speaker 1: I felt good out there versus versus the Chargers, and um,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to just be efficient as possible, just
Speaker 1: move the chains, and uh, talking with Kay Want in
Speaker 1: the backfield and uh, you know, also talking with my coaches,
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, we're gonna get you going and stuff. So,
Speaker 1: uh it just kind of worked together. We still didn't
Speaker 1: get the victory, that's really the only thing I care about,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, just got into a rhythm and
Speaker 1: kind of just up up the focus for sure. And
Speaker 1: and then obviously the schemes you know, we had, the
Speaker 1: tight ends were blocking greater on the perimeter, receivers were
Speaker 1: getting on people, made a couple of key blocks, you know,
Speaker 1: and just with the line, they were just physical. You know.
Speaker 1: That's where football games are one of lost at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. So, um, we set the tone in
Speaker 1: the run game and it was just working for us
Speaker 1: that day. James, you had twenty eight touches in that game,
Speaker 1: twenty five carries, three receptions. Is that sustainable for you
Speaker 1: going forward? Yes? I believe it's sustainable. Um, that's why
Speaker 1: I train for you know, Um, obviously the things that's
Speaker 1: gonna come with it, you know, But I love this game,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been sore before, so I definitely
Speaker 1: feel like it's sustainable and I just want to do,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it takes to to um, you know,
Speaker 1: help this team win. And so that that's twenty five
Speaker 1: carries and I'm all for it. I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: How different was the run game? There were certain players
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I'm not sure we've seen that before
Speaker 1: against the Chargers, and especially considering the change and run
Speaker 1: game coordinator, I mean, how much were things a little varied? Uh?
Speaker 1: Here and there are things vary, but um, you know,
Speaker 1: we still have our base runs and things that we
Speaker 1: love and uh, you know, really it always is going
Speaker 1: to come down to executing really and um, so we
Speaker 1: added a couple of things, but um, it was just
Speaker 1: really a mindset. It was really just a mindset thing.
Speaker 1: And that same question wolf I just thought I mentioned
Speaker 1: was pose to Cliff Kingsbury and here he was talking
Speaker 1: about the run game against the Chargers. You know, Steve Hyden,
Speaker 1: Brian Nakin in that room. Now you know Brian Natkin
Speaker 1: and Steve Hyden got together and had some thoughts, different ideas,
Speaker 1: and I think it was more about the physical play
Speaker 1: up front. Those guys created some some nice running lanes
Speaker 1: and I thought James finished runs downhill and so that
Speaker 1: was positive. But schematically, you know, there's similarities and obviously
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna put their own spin on things
Speaker 1: as well. And Wolf you noticed maybe you know here
Speaker 1: and there, right, I mean there were a couple of
Speaker 1: things and maybe he got you out of your seat
Speaker 1: as you were calling that game, right, Yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, Paulie James to meet, guys were running the
Speaker 1: ball in a more northsou fashion than East west. Was
Speaker 1: that my imagination? Now, we definitely want to be an
Speaker 1: attack mode and go downhill. We had a couple of
Speaker 1: counters and pools and pinpool plays and whatnot. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely just wanted to wanted to attack um, attack
Speaker 1: their weaknesses and and uh yeah, that was definitely just
Speaker 1: getting the shoulders you know, north and south, and like
Speaker 1: I said, I just wanted to move those change and
Speaker 1: and finished runs going forward, just we can you know,
Speaker 1: stay staying and with new sets of downs and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and just be able to continue to move the ball
Speaker 1: that way. What's it like to be in the huddle
Speaker 1: with all the rotating guys on the offensive line? Twelve
Speaker 1: different offensive linemen have played eight different starting line combinations.
Speaker 1: I'm just calling them at this point. Beach in the backups. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one constant is your right tackle, Kelvin Beacham. What's
Speaker 1: that like? And we're observing in a moment where you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna find out, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: you only can find out in a game situation, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very true. Uh, I just feel like it goes to
Speaker 1: everybody just being singlearly focused on doing their job. It
Speaker 1: is different. We've had you know, injuries and guys you
Speaker 1: know come and go up front, and so it really
Speaker 1: hasn't been the same for for those guys to be
Speaker 1: able to click and get into a rhythm themselves. But um,
Speaker 1: it's everything that was with the next man up mentality
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and so as it was really everybody just
Speaker 1: do their job, we sho'll be able to you know,
Speaker 1: to move the ball and have success. But it's tough
Speaker 1: not having a rhythm. But you know, everybody's has to
Speaker 1: be singularly focused on on their job. James, you gotta
Speaker 1: be one of the nicest guys I've ever been around. Seriously,
Speaker 1: man um, but you run the ball in an angry
Speaker 1: kind of way. Do you ever think of being angry
Speaker 1: when you're in the middle of a run? Uh man?
Speaker 1: For sure. I definitely think violent, throwing my weapon, my
Speaker 1: stiff arm, uh man, and just you know, taking advantage
Speaker 1: of my size and and and you know, delivering out
Speaker 1: pain and punishment. Really and I noticed, because you know
Speaker 1: this is you just want to pick pick a guy
Speaker 1: out early, you know, and then as the game unfolds,
Speaker 1: you know, to start turning it down. So you know,
Speaker 1: definitely you have to you have to have that mindset
Speaker 1: while you played this game, you know. Cliff Kingsbury told
Speaker 1: us in our postgame radio interview. I asked him aout
Speaker 1: the run game one hundred and eighty one yards total
Speaker 1: buck twenty for you, and he said, yeah, we wanted
Speaker 1: to get James out on those DBS, get them out
Speaker 1: on the corners on a percent. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 1: just want to wear them down. And you know that's
Speaker 1: you know, the DBS, that's not really what they love
Speaker 1: to do. You know, they like to cover and get
Speaker 1: interceptions and whatnot, so we just want to take advantage
Speaker 1: of it when we can. James, what is your favorite
Speaker 1: running play to execute? And why my favorite running play
Speaker 1: to execute? I like, I like our inside zones. I
Speaker 1: like the pinapool when I got the tight ends out
Speaker 1: in front of me. It's kind of that's it slows
Speaker 1: down when I like that for me, when I get
Speaker 1: a chance to you know, jab step and let let
Speaker 1: the two poilers come out in front of me and
Speaker 1: let them, you know, kind of be my eyes before me,
Speaker 1: and uh take the most dangerous man and now I
Speaker 1: can just kind of play off of it. It just
Speaker 1: allows me to read and the game kind of just
Speaker 1: slows down. And we ran that, you know, quite quite well,
Speaker 1: versus Versus Chargers being the most recent game. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of like it when I got the blockers
Speaker 1: out in front and I get to just you know,
Speaker 1: slow the game down and pick and choose where I
Speaker 1: want to place the ball. You know, who also likes
Speaker 1: the NFL Network and Kyle Brant and Green runs. Getting
Speaker 1: back to Wolfe's question, there you've been featuring a couple
Speaker 1: of times now, Yeah, do you get to keep the scepter?
Speaker 1: You know, the house at the house. Yeah, if I
Speaker 1: get another one, I'll give it to you. What do
Speaker 1: you ever like if anyone comes through the door, you know,
Speaker 1: like like a like a traveling salesman. Do you ever
Speaker 1: opened the door with the scepter? That's gonna You're intimidating enough,
Speaker 1: but if you're holding a scepter, that's pretty tough. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, come on, I haven't done it yet, but
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just keep it by a friend door so
Speaker 1: I'm reminded. I mean, Wolf, come on, don't tell me
Speaker 1: you're not jealous. So you don't have a scepter like
Speaker 1: James Connor from Angry Runs in NFL. Nowhere, get real,
Speaker 1: you know, Polly, they would have never given me an
Speaker 1: Angry Run scepter though, Polly, all right, they would have
Speaker 1: never done that. Now for a wedge and busting a wedge,
Speaker 1: maybe I would have been a scepter. Okay, but they
Speaker 1: were not going to give me a scepter for running
Speaker 1: the ball. I ran the ball, James. I used to
Speaker 1: run it as a fullback with two hands, two arms
Speaker 1: over the ball. Yeah, that Wolf as his fullback club Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, and the guy. Have you ever considered yourself
Speaker 1: a fullback at any point in your career. Absolutely not,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. I've had great fullbacks. Um, you know, in
Speaker 1: past year, I had Roosevelt Nicks. He was a fullback
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. He was phenomenal. Man. My hat's offer the fullbacks,
Speaker 1: you know, just to go in there and take on
Speaker 1: linebackers and and honestly, you know, kind of get no
Speaker 1: credit for it, you know, no touchdowns, and but still
Speaker 1: doing all the dirty work. And I got that most
Speaker 1: respect for fullback. So now I've never been a fullback.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what next. Next Halloween, I might have
Speaker 1: to borrow the scepter. I mean, God's you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna build a costume around the scepter, are you kidding? Made? Kid,
Speaker 1: would be no doubt. So maybe I'll just maybe I'll
Speaker 1: have it on the sideline for Monday Night football. Lisas Salters,
Speaker 1: you know what, I've got the scepter over here. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what we'll continue with James Conner on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage, brought to brought to you by Satan for
Speaker 1: In Gilbert hand off James Conner running to the left
Speaker 1: out of hole twenty five thirty thirty five forty bragged
Speaker 1: down at the forty one. Boy, that's as big of
Speaker 1: a hole as we've seen opened up for the Cardinals
Speaker 1: this year. On the run, James Conner, the long back,
Speaker 1: Murray hands it to him off the left side for
Speaker 1: a priest at the fifty forty five forty head down
Speaker 1: to the thirty seven of the Chargers, so it's twenty
Speaker 1: boy yards on the ground. Sante Samuel Junior came home
Speaker 1: the cornerback and suddenly he realized that he was one
Speaker 1: on one with James Connor on the outside and thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna get his doorbell rung. James Connor went
Speaker 1: right by him with a nice little June brow shot
Speaker 1: right up by Connor. He he dies in the end zone.
Speaker 1: He touched down, he broke a tackle at the two,
Speaker 1: and then go for painter about that to make a
Speaker 1: twenty four to seventeen twenty five carries one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty yards rushing for James Conner. A very special guest
Speaker 1: in the Big Red Rage, brought to you by Sand
Speaker 1: Team forward in Gilbert Paul kelvc ron Wolf Way and
Speaker 1: Wolf talks about it a lot, James, and maybe we
Speaker 1: just got an instance of that that if you can
Speaker 1: show a defender that at some point you're gonna run
Speaker 1: right through them, right, then all of a sudden makes
Speaker 1: that much easier to go the other direction and make
Speaker 1: a miss or vice versa. You tell us, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a it's a game, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh and in that sense, you know it's a
Speaker 1: game throughout. So if you pick and choose your moves
Speaker 1: and what you want to do and and kind of
Speaker 1: how your body feels and angles and however you're feeling
Speaker 1: at that point in time. And so yeah, when they
Speaker 1: know that you when they will at least when they
Speaker 1: feel like you're a big bruise or type of back.
Speaker 1: You know, I think your moves are limited and you know,
Speaker 1: underage to make your speed and whatnot. So you laid
Speaker 1: on them a couple of times and then you just
Speaker 1: give them a little you know, shoulder shiit me or whatnot,
Speaker 1: and you can get right through them. So, yes, it's
Speaker 1: definitely it's a game within the game, James. I know
Speaker 1: your faith is central to your life, faith that I share,
Speaker 1: bro Um, does it make you a better football player?
Speaker 1: And if so? Why? Absolutely? Um, I just feel like
Speaker 1: I'm protected at all times, you know. So when I'm
Speaker 1: out there, a lot of sometimes guys will be able
Speaker 1: to well, they'll play a little slower or maybe have
Speaker 1: a certain fears or whatnot. But I really don't have
Speaker 1: no fears when I'm out there, just because you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like God put me in this position and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's giving me the ability to be out
Speaker 1: there and do what I love and so, um, you know,
Speaker 1: injuries happen. Things happen, of course, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like everything happens for a reason. The story has already written.
Speaker 1: So it's it's all right, it's able. I'm able to
Speaker 1: just walk through, you know, my day to day, um,
Speaker 1: you know with uh, you know, walking with faith during
Speaker 1: practice the part we're able to see the media. I
Speaker 1: see you talking to de hop a lot. We love
Speaker 1: talking to DeAndre Hopkins obviously high I Q guys it
Speaker 1: classified info. If I ask you, what are you guys
Speaker 1: talking about at the times, you guys are laughing, you
Speaker 1: guys are have some in depth conversations. What are you
Speaker 1: guys usually kicking around? Man, It's it's not classified. It's
Speaker 1: it's really some of anything anything you could think of, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's um ye out there. You know that that's my
Speaker 1: brother you know, and everybody else there as my brothers too.
Speaker 1: So it's just you know, honestly, could be anything, you know, um,
Speaker 1: game related practice for relater, what we're thinking, or something
Speaker 1: so music, who's your favorite musician? Anything? You know, cars, food,
Speaker 1: anything so um, and we have to be like you said, Hi,
Speaker 1: i q so D is a very very smart person.
Speaker 1: You know, he's uh he's just real interesting. You know,
Speaker 1: he has things about him and so uh yeah, it
Speaker 1: could be literally anything. Jeames on that know, do you
Speaker 1: have a pregame routine and if so, what does it include?
Speaker 1: Uh pregame routine, Uh, it kind of depends on you
Speaker 1: know what a time that we're playing at it for
Speaker 1: home away, um, if I'm at If we're at home,
Speaker 1: I kind of get to the stadium pretty early and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, do my tub and do all my my
Speaker 1: stretches and whatnot, and a couple of different workouts that
Speaker 1: I like to do before the game. Um, but nothing
Speaker 1: I don't have really had no like superstitions or nothing
Speaker 1: like that. It's like to get the game early and
Speaker 1: just uh just continue my focus and just make sure
Speaker 1: um I'm loose and able to do that. But as
Speaker 1: far as you know, I don't really have no pregame rituals.
Speaker 1: All right. James Connor our guests twenty three touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his first twenty four games for the Ears on the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That's a franchise record. So, Ron Wolfley, once upon a
Speaker 1: time played for Bill Belichick. You were in the AFC.
Speaker 1: How familiar are you with what Belichick's gonna do on defense?
Speaker 1: How often you did you go against the Patriots? Um,
Speaker 1: I got to play the Patriots. I've played them twice.
Speaker 1: I played them twice, and uh, you know that's coach
Speaker 1: Belichick over there, so you know that, uh you know
Speaker 1: his team is gonna be well coached. You know that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in position, they're gonna make few mistakes,
Speaker 1: and so, um, really, it just it's another it's gonna
Speaker 1: be another physical game because we have to do that.
Speaker 1: We have to do that to win this one. And so,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I got some experience, but there's two games.
Speaker 1: But you know, you just you just know a type
Speaker 1: of game the Patriots are are gonna play. The Patriots
Speaker 1: they have a tough defense too. Man, you watch them
Speaker 1: on tape this defense is good. Why are they so
Speaker 1: good in your opinion, because because everybody does their job,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody will be in position and they play
Speaker 1: as one to play as a unit, you know, and
Speaker 1: they trust one another. And that's that's just I see it.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what it is. You know, if you
Speaker 1: play as a unit, play as one, trust each other,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be in position to fly around, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a pretty successful offense and defense. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of goes hand in hand. Cliff Kingsbury, was
Speaker 1: drafted by the Patriots, said to the media this week
Speaker 1: that he learned more in that one year unto Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick when it came to coaching. Then he probably has
Speaker 1: all his other years combined. Pretty interesting. So then someone
Speaker 1: asked him, all right, what do you expect from Belichick's defense.
Speaker 1: Here's Cliff Kingsbury week to week. They're they're so creative
Speaker 1: and what they do defensively and offensively, They're gonna attack
Speaker 1: your weaknesses. They're gonna find, you know, mismatches and then
Speaker 1: go from there. There you go. Cliff Kingsbury, I've heard
Speaker 1: it said by a number of guys that you know,
Speaker 1: you don't really know what Belichick thinks of you until
Speaker 1: the game starts, and then he's sort of identified. All right,
Speaker 1: here's gonna be their points emphasis, here's the guy we're
Speaker 1: gonna take away. We presume it's gonna be d Hop
Speaker 1: to the top couple options, right, But how curious are
Speaker 1: you to find out and how much do the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have to sort of discern and diagnose? Okay, what is
Speaker 1: Belichick doing? Because the way I heard told from guys,
Speaker 1: he's so multiple. They do so many different things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Just like coach said, week to week, they're different.
Speaker 1: You know, you never know kind of what they what
Speaker 1: they're gonna expect there, what they're going to just do
Speaker 1: it this week? Um, we know, you know, I think
Speaker 1: Belichick already talked about d Hop and a talented player.
Speaker 1: He was in a high praise layers this week, so
Speaker 1: you know that they're gonna be on that. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm curious to find out you know, how they
Speaker 1: how they plan on playing in or what and you
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna look like. But um, it just
Speaker 1: goes back to doing your job and running hard. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to run through arm tackles. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to break tackles, um, just because I know
Speaker 1: that everybody's gonna be in position and sometimes you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna scheme it up. Um, they take the runaway obviously.
Speaker 1: So as long as I can, you know, run aggressive,
Speaker 1: break through arm tackles, and it's gonna trying to move
Speaker 1: the chains, uh, and stay consistent with it in the
Speaker 1: big ones, in the running game and whatnot. To start
Speaker 1: popping James on that note right there, Who do you
Speaker 1: think is the best tackler on that defense? Uh? Eight Bentley?
Speaker 1: Benley's a good Yeah. Ben Ley's Uh, He's gonna come
Speaker 1: down put his hat on you. Um, twenty three is
Speaker 1: doing his thing. Ja. Jabrielle Preppers is a talented football player,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, so you know seeing that and then
Speaker 1: um up front their stout Jude on leading the league
Speaker 1: in sacks, you know, so they got they got they
Speaker 1: got playmakers, you know, all over the defense. How much
Speaker 1: pride do you take in your pass protection? And how
Speaker 1: often are you are you when you're getting twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five carries a game, how often are you also called
Speaker 1: upon to pass protect? Yeah, it's all, it's all part
Speaker 1: of the job. Description. You know, um, you know your
Speaker 1: fatigue sets in of course, but you know that's that's
Speaker 1: that's part of the job description. You know you're running back.
Speaker 1: But it's not just to run the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: it's to catch, to block, to you know, move, the change,
Speaker 1: the run, aggressive, everything that comes that comes with it.
Speaker 1: So knowing Romandra Stevenson run the ball very physically, does
Speaker 1: that ever make you want to run the ball even
Speaker 1: more physically? On the other side, do you ever get
Speaker 1: into anything like that a little tit for tat oh,
Speaker 1: or you're gonna run the ball that way? Watch me
Speaker 1: run this? How about? Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure, I
Speaker 1: think it for sure. Um, you know last week verst
Speaker 1: Ekeler last year he had like twenty some touchdowns, you know,
Speaker 1: so a little extra there, um, But yeah, you know
Speaker 1: Stevenson runs that thing. He runs a thing tough too,
Speaker 1: So it's definitely, you know, I always want to try
Speaker 1: to be the best back in the stadium. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: you know how it works. I mean, like, I'll take
Speaker 1: a recent example when the Cardinals beat the Rams all
Speaker 1: week oh ninety nine, Aaron Donald, Aaron dot and then
Speaker 1: who had the best ninety nine game? Out there. J. J. Watt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't tell me that JJ didn't hear about ninety nine.
Speaker 1: He's like, wait a minute, there's another ninety nine on
Speaker 1: this field, right, And guys pick out little motivational things
Speaker 1: like that, I hear him say. And then and then
Speaker 1: there's Monday night football, right, and look there was Troy
Speaker 1: Ikman and he called out some members of the Cardinals
Speaker 1: defense in Mexico City. So that's you had another reason
Speaker 1: why people went, oh, you know, five games to go, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're four and eight part I mean, just the whole
Speaker 1: primetime thing. That's the whole guys accountable, I would imagine,
Speaker 1: sure for sure. And and and it's just you know,
Speaker 1: we have our we need to have our resume. And
Speaker 1: that's that's what you put on tape, is you know,
Speaker 1: that's what we're judged on. So anytime you step on
Speaker 1: that field, you know you gotta give it you all, man,
Speaker 1: you have to um and just for the love of
Speaker 1: the game, you know, simple as that. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just I can't disrespect the game. No matter if if
Speaker 1: you if you knocked out the playoffs earlier, you still
Speaker 1: got games to play. You know, you got to go
Speaker 1: out there and give it you all and prepare And
Speaker 1: that's that's honestly just the bottom line, James. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: you do have games to play. You got five games left.
Speaker 1: What can you accomplish as a team over the next
Speaker 1: five games. We can accomplish some more some more victories, um,
Speaker 1: and just build whatever that comes with it, you know,
Speaker 1: just try to play for one another, just this um
Speaker 1: camaraderie and just putting it out there, you know, just
Speaker 1: leaving or a out there. You know, we have honestly
Speaker 1: nothing to lose, so it just go out there and
Speaker 1: give it you all and it's um, you'll be able
Speaker 1: to see what type of type of players that we
Speaker 1: have now with d Hop and Hollywood Brown out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of potential still left in
Speaker 1: this offense, isn't there? Yeah? There is. Like you said,
Speaker 1: we still you know, with with with the missing pieces
Speaker 1: and injuries and whatnot. You know, we still have yet
Speaker 1: to have like our whole unit out there playing as
Speaker 1: one and playing our best football. So we got five
Speaker 1: more opportunities at that. Dude, you have any regrets so
Speaker 1: far with this season? No, sir, No, no sir, no regrets.
Speaker 1: You say that with certitude. James, No, do you. We
Speaker 1: just have to know your preparation and um, you know
Speaker 1: what you do for the game. And so obviously you
Speaker 1: know watching film and film session, there's there's runs you
Speaker 1: want to get back, or I wish I would have
Speaker 1: cut cut it back right here, or took that hole
Speaker 1: or bounced it, bounced it outside on that one, or
Speaker 1: you know stuff like that. But man, as long as
Speaker 1: you know that you that you're putting your best foot
Speaker 1: afford and you're truly preparing and um playing with max effort.
Speaker 1: You know, this game is so humbling, and so you
Speaker 1: know there's there's really no reason to regret anything. And
Speaker 1: if you can truly lick yourself in a mirror, note
Speaker 1: that you're giving it everything that you've got. Hey, James,
Speaker 1: we really appreciate it. Man, We really enjoy watching you
Speaker 1: play football. We really do. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Guys.
Speaker 1: There you go, James Conner coming off his Pro Bowl season.
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football Straight Ahead, we continue on the Big
Speaker 1: Red Raid presented by santan Ford and Gilbert Burst and
Speaker 1: goal on the two Cardinals look at to tie the game.
Speaker 1: Snap the Palmer gonna throw lops at left side of
Speaker 1: the end zone for fitz He's on the ground and
Speaker 1: he's still bought it the cent dream mark for Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: Career touchdown number one hundred and the Cardinals tie the
Speaker 1: game at twenty. You'll wind him up at the slot
Speaker 1: and throw the fade. Larry touches the ball as he's
Speaker 1: going down to get somehow hit it towards What a
Speaker 1: catch by Larry. Should we expect anything else? A historic
Speaker 1: moment and a ridiculous catch for the future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: There you go. Some Cardinals history circa two sixteen against
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. That was the season opener. And
Speaker 1: you know what, Wolf think about this? It's a big
Speaker 1: red rage presented by santan Ford in Gilbert We are
Speaker 1: santan Ford Special thanks to James Conner. Will get into
Speaker 1: that a little bit. The Pro Bowl running back. But
Speaker 1: if you have Monday night football, is fits gonna be
Speaker 1: out on that field on Monday Night as an ESPN broadcaster, Wolf, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be really weird. Paul. You know what, you
Speaker 1: better keep your head on a swivel because twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: was right about the time that he took you down
Speaker 1: on that same field. And you know why, I think.
Speaker 1: I think in hindsight now we realize why, because how
Speaker 1: many times, Wolf, did you report that Larry the end
Speaker 1: of his career was going to go play for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I never reported it, Polly, but suspected it, Yeah, from
Speaker 1: time to time. So there you go, Larry Fitzgerald part
Speaker 1: of the Monday night festivities. We think, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: it would make sense that right in his own home
Speaker 1: state of Asy, where he's on a first named basis
Speaker 1: with everyone, Larry, that he might be part of the
Speaker 1: broadcast Cardinals and Patriots. It'll be Monday Night and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a Patriots team that well means you get
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. And Wolf, you played for him, so you
Speaker 1: know him, and you know that you're lucky as a
Speaker 1: media member if you get like a couple of mumbles
Speaker 1: and a grunt out of Bill Belichick when he asked
Speaker 1: him a question. Did you see how effusive he was
Speaker 1: with the praise high praise for DeAndre Hopkins this week
Speaker 1: when they asked him about Cardinals receiver de hops speaking
Speaker 1: of receivers as a matter of fact, Polly, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did hear that, and I think it's probably a good
Speaker 1: way to go if you're an opposing coach, especially if
Speaker 1: you're Bill Belichick, because you never say any thing about
Speaker 1: anyone for the most part, certainly not your own players.
Speaker 1: But I do remember Bill lathering up some other players
Speaker 1: from other teams from time to time, just not that
Speaker 1: he was insincere in regard to doing it. Because you
Speaker 1: could look at DeAndre Hopkins and you can watch him playing,
Speaker 1: you can say, my goodness, that guy is really really good.
Speaker 1: You can look at Kyler Murray and all the talent
Speaker 1: that Kyler Murray has and you can say, my goodness,
Speaker 1: this guy is an absolute freak. You can see it,
Speaker 1: and I think it's rather obvious. But you know what, Listen,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, it all starts with execution, over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. I cannot tell you, PAULI, how many
Speaker 1: times he talked about doing your job, how many times
Speaker 1: he intimated that it wasn't the play, it was the
Speaker 1: player that makes the difference, and do your job. To
Speaker 1: this day, I continue to hear him say that he's
Speaker 1: all about the d tales in you going out there
Speaker 1: and preparing yourself to be ready to give everything you've
Speaker 1: got to do. Your job. He looks for very well balanced,
Speaker 1: well proportioned football players, guys that mentally can understand any scheme,
Speaker 1: even if you make an adjustment midstream. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Paul first quarter, first quarter. I have memories of
Speaker 1: him calling the offense over in Cleveland, calling everybody over
Speaker 1: and saying, Okay, everything we practiced all week, forget about it,
Speaker 1: we're not doing it. Here's what we're doing. PAULA. You
Speaker 1: had to a grease Bart. You had to literally be
Speaker 1: able to absorb what he was saying and go out
Speaker 1: and regurgitated on the field just moments later. It's he
Speaker 1: looks for a certain type of football player, and he
Speaker 1: wants to be Paul. This is the one thing about
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots in Bill Belichick, more so than
Speaker 1: maybe anything else. They will be whatever they need to
Speaker 1: be in order to beat you. Does that make sense, Paul, yep, yes,
Speaker 1: because they're going to attack your weaknesses. Yes, so they
Speaker 1: will adapt accordingly correct. So it's interesting, you know, speaking
Speaker 1: of de hop in those words of Bell, Belich said,
Speaker 1: he said, I mean, he said a lot, but I
Speaker 1: mean it really resonates when he says about Deander Hopkins
Speaker 1: quote he's every bit as good as anybody I've ever
Speaker 1: coached against. So he just bottom lined it with that.
Speaker 1: But de hop said that Belichick definitely has had a
Speaker 1: certain way of defending him. De Hoop wouldn't elaborate or
Speaker 1: let the media in on it, but his record with
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans was one in seven against the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots, so he's been very effective. Kyler Murray shared
Speaker 1: with the media that Belichick a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: had a very specific game plan that Kyler saw that
Speaker 1: was Belichick esque. And remember the loss at Foxboro twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and then empty stadium the COVID year. So I
Speaker 1: think everyone an offense both is really curious to know, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is Belichick having now because he's so multiple and
Speaker 1: James Connor confirmed that you're never quite sure what he's
Speaker 1: gonna bring. Yeah, and Pauly, you know what, this defense
Speaker 1: is very very underrated. It is right. You don't hear
Speaker 1: a ton about the New England Patriots defense. Yet in
Speaker 1: every major metric they're either elite, which is top five
Speaker 1: to me, or top ten, which is really really good.
Speaker 1: You want to be in the top ten in major metrics,
Speaker 1: and when you look at yards per game and yards
Speaker 1: per play, and you look at passing yards per game,
Speaker 1: and passing yards per play and rushing yards per you know,
Speaker 1: you look at all those major metrics. Poly they're in
Speaker 1: the top ten men and big metrics like interception rate
Speaker 1: and sacks per attempt. They're elite, top five in the
Speaker 1: NFL defensively. Yeah, the problem they have that bottom five offense,
Speaker 1: and the formula to beat the Patriots basically has been
Speaker 1: if you can score more than seventeen points, you win
Speaker 1: the game. And here's the other thing, and I'll just
Speaker 1: throw this out there. They've obviously said issues against Josh okay,
Speaker 1: so maybe he's dropped again. Is there we go, Paulie?
Speaker 1: Are you there? Okay? A different style of runner, I
Speaker 1: apologize than Kyler Murray. But I'll tell you what, Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a good time to hear you know a guy
Speaker 1: who is rarely getting tackled by one person, second year
Speaker 1: player that of course Bill Belichick even has said good
Speaker 1: things about which you don't really hear Bill Belichick saying.
Speaker 1: So he's a leading target in Russian, leading target in
Speaker 1: the receiving as well. So a guy that we know
Speaker 1: is going to be heavily into the game plan and
Speaker 1: a guy we're gonna have all eleven that needs to
Speaker 1: get to him because he's a he's a big dude,
Speaker 1: you know, two forty plus. I mean, Wolf, you tell
Speaker 1: me two hundred forty pounds coming downhill. Cardinals better be
Speaker 1: motivated on Monday night or Troy Hickman might call him
Speaker 1: out again. Yeah, now you're right about that, man. I
Speaker 1: honestly believe this is exactly what Bill Belichick and the
Speaker 1: Patriots offense is going to do. They are going to
Speaker 1: line up and they are going to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Romandre Stevenson I think gets the ball twenty five times
Speaker 1: at least in this game. It's not like Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: hasn't done it before where he lined up and said,
Speaker 1: you know what, your weakness is stopping the run. Isn't
Speaker 1: that right? Buffalo Bills? And he's gonna line up and
Speaker 1: run the ball forty five times. I forget how many
Speaker 1: times exactly he ran the ball. I think it was
Speaker 1: forty six, Polly, but don't hold me to that. Ask
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. He was yelling about it on the sideline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, Polly, I think we could see a
Speaker 1: repeat of that offensively from the Patriots. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna line up and they're gonna stoke it. By the way,
Speaker 1: he's not the only one. Kendrick Borne, the receiver of
Speaker 1: the Patriots, said quote, we've got a at the ball
Speaker 1: down field. Mac needs more time, he said. The receivers
Speaker 1: can't do anything if the ball doesn't get downfield. If
Speaker 1: we can't throw it past five yards, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a long game. Kendrick Bourne calling out the offense and
Speaker 1: or Matt Patricia, the play caller, former defensive coordinator who's
Speaker 1: now running the offense ostensibly under Bill Belichick. So we'll
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Speaker 1: back with a big red rage right after this. You
Speaker 1: know who's the worst at throw on the red flag?
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Billichick throw it? Now? Billichick underhands it,
Speaker 1: really he saw it. Oh, it's the soft toss throw.
Speaker 1: I mean, Bill for you know, in the name of
Speaker 1: all that is good and righteous, dead thing and you know,
Speaker 1: come over the top with it. Well, as you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not on snap face and all that, so I
Speaker 1: don't really get those. But I really just worried about
Speaker 1: getting our team ready to go. I'm really do worried
Speaker 1: about what they put on Vinceton Chat or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I'd like like a little puppet that you can kind
Speaker 1: of put your fingers in. It's a little monkey and
Speaker 1: then he can talk and move his fingers and nod
Speaker 1: his head and say, can kind of talk back to you.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that was from a media Super Bowl day,
Speaker 1: you know, the media day on Super Bowl. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know where else that possibly could emanate from
Speaker 1: that whacky Soundbye, I do mean whacky when you're stayed
Speaker 1: in context of Bill Belichick right there. You're a former
Speaker 1: coach and h Wolf. Come on, maybe you know the
Speaker 1: whole cornhole thing with the bean bags, right Maybe that's
Speaker 1: how he's throwing the red challenge flank. I don't know, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know either, Polly, I can tell you. Do
Speaker 1: you see that little attempt at humor right there? That
Speaker 1: last little, you know. I mean, the coach just isn't
Speaker 1: good at it. You know, I love the guy. I
Speaker 1: love playing for you. He totally left you alone. I
Speaker 1: love that about Bill Belichick. He didn't try to act
Speaker 1: like he was your best friend, didn't try to act
Speaker 1: like he cared about you, your marriage, or your kids.
Speaker 1: He didn't. I affectionately call him the sociopath, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's what he was. Basically, he was all business.
Speaker 1: He was all about football all the time. And I
Speaker 1: really appreciated that about him. Someone tweeted out the classic
Speaker 1: moment that someone captured of Randy Moss going into his
Speaker 1: coach's office inviting him to his Halloween party at a
Speaker 1: skating rink, and and Belichick accepted and showed up in
Speaker 1: costume on skates at a skating rink. I heard that story, Paul,
Speaker 1: and I didn't believe it when I heard it, And
Speaker 1: if there's no video of it, I wouldn't have believed
Speaker 1: it either. And Randy Moss is like nervous asking him,
Speaker 1: and coach immediately accepted it and showed up and was
Speaker 1: the life of the party. So I gonna have a personality, Paul.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of his best friends is John
Speaker 1: Bond Jovie for real? You know. Yeah, So look, you
Speaker 1: want to talk about Money night football, He's third all
Speaker 1: time in the history of Monday night football in terms
Speaker 1: of wins. It's Don Shula, It's Andy Reid and Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick in that order. And so it just so you
Speaker 1: go in even Cliff Kingsbury semi joke, remember on our
Speaker 1: TV show this week, he said, yeah, you got an
Speaker 1: extra layer sweat on the back of your neck just
Speaker 1: looking at the other sideline and there's the great Bill Belichick, right,
Speaker 1: And that's who you're coaching against and trying to match
Speaker 1: wits against. And so yeah, it can be very daunting,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And then you're Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: And of course he was asked about the New England defense.
Speaker 1: So here's the cardinal starting quarterback. I remember two years ago.
Speaker 1: You know, they kind of played me a little differently.
Speaker 1: I just think with him, you know, you never really
Speaker 1: know what to expect. You know, they can do one
Speaker 1: thing one week and switch it up the next week,
Speaker 1: all depending on who they're playing. His resume speaks for itself,
Speaker 1: you know, tons of respect and for what they do,
Speaker 1: their scheme and stuff like that. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we got to focus on us and
Speaker 1: go out there and execute. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the New England defense is number three in the NFL
Speaker 1: and sacks. This isn't like the Chargers missing Joey Bosa.
Speaker 1: They're coming and they're going to be really stout against
Speaker 1: four backup offensive linemen. Yeah, Polly, now, you're right about that.
Speaker 1: They do a great job of getting you in third
Speaker 1: and obvious pass situations as well, Paul Aman, this is
Speaker 1: as I was talking about. This is a top ten
Speaker 1: defense overall. They're actually number eleven in rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game allowed, number nine in rushing yards per play. They
Speaker 1: do a really good job of stopping the run. Are
Speaker 1: they going to be able to commit eight in the box?
Speaker 1: Are they going to walk of safety down? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think they're gonna start with Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: of course, and d hop on the field. I think
Speaker 1: they'll start with that covered two shell right there. And
Speaker 1: that's the reason why the game within the game for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals is going to be can they run the
Speaker 1: ball when they have that covered two shell? Can they
Speaker 1: still run the ball in between the tackles? Specifically and
Speaker 1: can they do it with any decency? That to me
Speaker 1: is where the worm will turn PAULI, because if they
Speaker 1: get you in third and obvious as situations, you got
Speaker 1: Matthew Judon who is a powerhouse. He is a bowl
Speaker 1: without horns coming off the edge. And then you have
Speaker 1: Ooja as well, and uj is more like a burst,
Speaker 1: get up the field, get around the edge, speed rusher.
Speaker 1: But those two guys they get after you. And look,
Speaker 1: we can talk about New England all we want, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so, but the last five games are about the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and can they get this offense? Right? You
Speaker 1: heard from Kyler Murray if he's looking for even further
Speaker 1: motivation inspiration. CBS tweeted out NFL and CBS tweeted out
Speaker 1: their QB Power rankings. Wolf, I know you love the
Speaker 1: power rankings, right Yes, Kyler right now is the eighteenth
Speaker 1: rated quarterback. Some of the quarterbacks immediately ahead of him,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, who was in the same draft with Kyler,
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, Jared Goff, Derek Carr, Justin Fields, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: all rated ahead of Kyler Murray right now? What can
Speaker 1: he do to get back to that Pro Bowl level
Speaker 1: and legitimate MVP candidates status that we saw the first
Speaker 1: half of last year. Yeah, Paul, you know what, honestly,
Speaker 1: what can he do? Start throwing the ball down the
Speaker 1: field where he completes some passes down the field. I
Speaker 1: think that really would open up this offense. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're just going to get the ball out quickly,
Speaker 1: that's great, there's nothing wrong with that. But you know,
Speaker 1: secondaries are going to start tightening up of course and
Speaker 1: looking for that. And I think defensive linemen as well,
Speaker 1: not really rushing the passer, but looking to bat a
Speaker 1: ball down. I think we've seen that happen to Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray this year as well. So you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to throw the ball down the field. Chunk throws.
Speaker 1: That's what really has been missing from the Arizult Cardinals offense,
Speaker 1: PAULI is chunk throws in so much of the time,
Speaker 1: I'm tired of saying it, Paul, but so much of
Speaker 1: the time using play action, attacking the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: because you have been run the ball and running the
Speaker 1: ball fairly well, that's why you are attacking the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and all of a sudden you fake it
Speaker 1: and you use play action to take some chunk throws
Speaker 1: down the field. It's been around for a long long
Speaker 1: time because it works, Paul, It's part of the fabric
Speaker 1: of the game. And I don't think Kyler Murray in
Speaker 1: this offense does that enough and does it well enough.
Speaker 1: But defensively from the Cardinals these last five games, is
Speaker 1: there's one or two things you'd really like to see
Speaker 1: develop and materialize over the final five games. What would
Speaker 1: it be? Wolf? You know you're talking defensively specifically, Paul,
Speaker 1: or offensively, and maybe I'll start I'll throw this out there.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see, obviously, some more production from the edge.
Speaker 1: The leading edge guy has two sacks. So I would
Speaker 1: give every single snap I could to my j Sanders
Speaker 1: and young man. Let's see what you have. Cam Thomas,
Speaker 1: you're gonna play ninety percent of the snaps as well.
Speaker 1: And then Isaiah Simmons and Zaven Collins. You know these guys, look,
Speaker 1: the stats are great, but have they been reliable? Have
Speaker 1: they been consistent enough? Have offenses been able to victimize
Speaker 1: them at times? And you saw it obviously at the
Speaker 1: end of the Chargers game. So if you can get
Speaker 1: these guys just to be that much more instinctive and
Speaker 1: reliable snap to snap. I think these are important things
Speaker 1: for the Cardinals to try and to develop over the
Speaker 1: last month plus. No, you're right about that, Polly, especially
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball, Zaven Collins. I'm
Speaker 1: really encouraged with Zavian Collins. Isaiah Simmons has made some
Speaker 1: gray plays, There's no doubt about it. I think Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons has a rare knack of being a big play guy,
Speaker 1: but he's got to do it with more consistency, Polly.
Speaker 1: He's got to make the mundane play, not just the
Speaker 1: gray play, but the mundane play. And I'm encouraged with
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