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Speaker 1: Better than that.
Speaker 4: So at one NFL training camp not named Cardinals Camp
Speaker 4: earlier today, there was a VIP on the sidelines. Hey
Speaker 4: look it's Hulk Hogan. He shot a promotional video with
Speaker 4: the head coach and some camera time, etc. Here on
Speaker 4: the Big Red Rage, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert,
Speaker 4: we settle for the guy with the wrestling announcer voice
Speaker 4: and Ron Wolfley here is truly Paul KELVC. But wait
Speaker 4: there is more. Not only Chris Moore is going to
Speaker 4: join us, but Ron Wolfley entered the storyline of Cardinals
Speaker 4: practice today when all of a sudden, wait a minute,
Speaker 4: get off me. We got a little rooting in a
Speaker 4: tooting going on, little scuffer kerffuffal, little skirmish Will Hernandez,
Speaker 4: who then wolf afterwards cited you as a possible reason
Speaker 4: for said skirmish based on an interview you did with
Speaker 4: Will Hernandez earlier in the day. No way did you
Speaker 4: speak it into existence when, according to Tyler Drake Arizona Sports,
Speaker 4: he reported that Will hernan has told him that whole
Speaker 4: deal today was provided by wolf He believed.
Speaker 1: I know nothing about this, JG. I don't know what
Speaker 1: Will's talking about. Although I did ask him bully when
Speaker 1: he first sat down to do the interview, have you
Speaker 1: gotten to a fight yet? I did. I did say
Speaker 1: that to him, and it was kind of tongue in
Speaker 1: cheek right there, knowing that yesterday was not a very
Speaker 1: physical practice. Of course, they went out there and they
Speaker 1: had the shorts on, they had a helmet on. I
Speaker 1: understand that. But today, day two, there was not a fight.
Speaker 1: There was not a fight, bully, don't call it a fight.
Speaker 1: There was a fight. There was a disagreement. There was
Speaker 1: a disagreement that actually happened out there, and Will Hernandez
Speaker 1: was involved in that disagreement.
Speaker 4: Because if there was a fight, there was one fight
Speaker 4: a year ago. We know what happens. You get sent
Speaker 4: off the field. Thou shalt be banished to the locker room.
Speaker 4: That happened last year. LJ. Collier, Elijah Wilkinson. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: walk of shame. One hundred yards off the field, down
Speaker 4: the ramp and you're done for the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that one. Always it's confounding to me.
Speaker 1: It is, it's very confusing, Paully, and it's confusing to
Speaker 1: me because once again, I mean, you want your football
Speaker 1: players to play so hard, so hard they're on the
Speaker 1: edge of getting into a brawl. You want so hard,
Speaker 1: so committed to what you're doing. You want them right
Speaker 1: or to brawl. As a matter of fact, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's an analogy that many many coaches have used over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. It's time to brawl, It's
Speaker 1: forget about football. It's brawl. That's what it is. Let's
Speaker 1: go brawl men tonight. Let's go do that. Let's fight tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean how many times I've heard a coach say that,
Speaker 1: of course in my career. So it's one of these
Speaker 1: situations where it's very confusing because we know JG Demand's physicality.
Speaker 1: You better be physical. I don't care if you're the
Speaker 1: holder on extra point and field goal, Polly, you better
Speaker 1: be physical or you know what you're going to be out.
Speaker 1: And because of that, the no fight policy is confusing
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 4: Look, as Kyler Murray said in fact to you this offseason,
Speaker 4: he said, we became a team no one wanted to
Speaker 4: play by the end of last season. So tough, physical team.
Speaker 4: We know it, the physicality, the violence. And by the way,
Speaker 4: the first day in full pads, full contact, full speed
Speaker 4: football should be early next week. It's a ramp up
Speaker 4: in the NFL. That's what it works in training camps
Speaker 4: these days. So I believe it's mondayday. So Cardinals reported
Speaker 4: on Tuesday, and then as you mentioned, today was day
Speaker 4: two of practice. But that Tuesday night there was a team,
Speaker 4: meaning you had ton of them. Wolf for your years
Speaker 4: in the NFL a decades worth of this. Twas the
Speaker 4: night before training camp, the owner Michael Bidwill spoke the
Speaker 4: head coach Jonathan Gannon obviously, and then Buddha Baker impromptu
Speaker 4: off the cuff. In fact, here's what James Connor had
Speaker 4: to say about team captain Buddha Baker, six time Pro
Speaker 4: Bowl and what he had to tell the team.
Speaker 6: Would has been a guy who's done it right year
Speaker 6: after year after year after year. You know, so when
Speaker 6: he talks, listen, He's been a captain every year for
Speaker 6: a reason. And he's our tone seer for sure.
Speaker 4: What do we call Buddha Bik over the years, the
Speaker 4: heartbeat of the team, the tone setter another word for it.
Speaker 4: Dennis Gardak in Arizona Sports earlier today, saying that what
Speaker 4: Buddha said was akin to basically saying he's establishing this
Speaker 4: is our team. That the coaches can talk. The coaches
Speaker 4: can tell us. All we need to know is players,
Speaker 4: but Buddha is claiming ownership that this is a player
Speaker 4: led thing. We're not just going to talk about it
Speaker 4: or listen to what's being said. We're going to be
Speaker 4: about it. End quote. Dennis Gardak. I love that his translation.
Speaker 1: I love that. Be about it right there, PAULI. Can
Speaker 1: I just say this right now, PAULI. I played ten
Speaker 1: years in the NFL. Yeah, it was a long, long
Speaker 1: time ago, no doubt about that. I was an eight
Speaker 1: time team captain. I went to the Pro Bowl four times.
Speaker 1: And yet can I tell you right now, if I
Speaker 1: were in that meeting room, I don't think there is
Speaker 1: anybody I'd rather hear Buddha Baker get up and hear
Speaker 1: what he had to say about this season, the culture
Speaker 1: in this coming season, and how we're going to approach
Speaker 1: playing football here. I don't. And if I'm thinking that,
Speaker 1: imagine what his teammates are actually thinking. They're all in
Speaker 1: on Buddha Baker, with the respect and the regard they
Speaker 1: have for him.
Speaker 4: What can we say about Buddha Baker that hasn't already
Speaker 4: been said?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 4: So I was thinking about it. I'm going to go
Speaker 4: back to his rookie year. You know what was on
Speaker 4: the team his rookie year. They spend one year together,
Speaker 4: Tyron Matthew.
Speaker 1: M Honey Badger.
Speaker 4: What Buddha did on the night the Cardinals reported to camp.
Speaker 4: Doesn't that sound like something Tyron Matthew would do just
Speaker 4: from the gut, just from the heart, get up there,
Speaker 4: just be that leader. Yes, that's a guy who, pound
Speaker 4: for pound, arguably the toughest dude in the room. Yes,
Speaker 4: who puts it all out there. I think in some
Speaker 4: ways they're different people, they're different personalities. But in terms
Speaker 4: of the mentality, yes, I do believe there's some tyron
Speaker 4: Matthew and Buddha Baker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right about that, Paul, agree with that
Speaker 1: assessment right now. I just want to say this to
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker. There are there are rare players, based on
Speaker 1: Ian's rare players in the NFL who impact everybody on
Speaker 1: the field every time they play. Buddha Baker is one
Speaker 1: of those guys. He impacts not just his team, not
Speaker 1: just his coaching staff, not just the Cardinal fans that
Speaker 1: are out there watching them. He impacts the other coaching staff,
Speaker 1: the other head coach, the other players on the other sideline,
Speaker 1: based on how he plays the game, just based on
Speaker 1: how he plays. One of the smallest guys on the field,
Speaker 1: He's not the biggest, I've said this many times, not
Speaker 1: the fastest, not the strongest. All he is is gonna
Speaker 1: knock your face off. That's all he's gonna do, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it over and over and over again, fearlessly.
Speaker 1: There are rare players in the NFL that impact everybody
Speaker 1: that is out on the field, not just their team,
Speaker 1: but the opponent as well.
Speaker 4: So NFL dot Com came out with their annual Top
Speaker 4: one hundred players. He's number eighty nine, So we still
Speaker 4: a right there among the elite. I would say safety
Speaker 4: might be the only position group where there's no competition whatsoever.
Speaker 4: And well, that and starting quarterback. Otherwise, there are spots
Speaker 4: to be had and there's pecking orders, corner, left guard,
Speaker 4: running back. Actually, you know what, let's hear from the
Speaker 4: head coach, Jonathan Gannon on the position battles going on
Speaker 4: here at Cards camp.
Speaker 7: It's a feather in Mani's cap when you go to
Speaker 7: camp and you can't pencil in fifty three guys. That's
Speaker 7: a good thing. I really do think that, and I
Speaker 7: think that we couldn't pencil in fifty three guys. So
Speaker 7: there's a lot of spots that are open competition.
Speaker 4: No doubt. You want to talk about Mania support Ron Wolfe.
Speaker 4: Are you aware that in the four draft classes pre
Speaker 4: monty twenty nineteen, twenty twenty one, and twenty two. How
Speaker 4: many players do you think are left currently from those
Speaker 4: four draft classes pre mantios support.
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't need more.
Speaker 4: Than two hands.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say four.
Speaker 4: Seven Kyler, Zavin Collins, Victor d mukag, Trey mcplay, Cam Thomas, Jesse, Luketta,
Speaker 4: Marquise Hayes. Okay, wow, all right, so a lot of turnover,
Speaker 4: a lot of turnover. I'm not gonna list all the
Speaker 4: Purge movies. I'm just gonna tell you, well, if this
Speaker 4: is the latest Purge movie, the big Red Purge Cardinals
Speaker 4: roster reset, and you have a very young team, all
Speaker 4: of a sudden in certain spots, you have wide open
Speaker 4: competitions at corner, at left guard, who knows what running back?
Speaker 4: Drey Benson looked pretty good today, did he not. Max
Speaker 4: Melton made a few play shit, had one, maybe even
Speaker 4: two picks out there. I mean there are jobs to
Speaker 4: be one and there are spots to be had on
Speaker 4: the fifty three.
Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing. Yeah, you bring it there. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. This is going to be a
Speaker 1: very competitive training camp. Polly very competitive preseason because we
Speaker 1: may have some surprise cuts here because of how competitive
Speaker 1: I think this roster is right now. To your point,
Speaker 1: but you mentioned Trey Benson. Did you happen to see
Speaker 1: Trey Benson and how he is built? I have to
Speaker 1: tell you right now, I'd be just watching the highlights
Speaker 1: of him, of course when the silks were on. It
Speaker 1: just it's a whole different ballgame to actually stand next
Speaker 1: to him and see him from the waist down. He's what, Paul,
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty three pounds, Is that what we're saying?
Speaker 4: Six foot twenty something, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Two hundred twenty three pounds. Let's just go with that
Speaker 1: right now. I honestly think one hundred and eighty of
Speaker 1: them is from the waist down. It is truly amazing
Speaker 1: how thick he is. Man, I like that for a
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna run in between the tackles.
Speaker 4: He ran a four to three nine, and he was disappointed.
Speaker 4: He said he had run much quicker earlier. So okay,
Speaker 4: Yelda Froholdt was asked about Trey Benson and he said,
Speaker 4: you know what, I love the rookie so far because
Speaker 4: he makes the cuts he's supposed to. He follows the
Speaker 4: blocks and he follows the rushing lanes that he's supposed
Speaker 4: to do. So so far, so good on the rookie.
Speaker 4: I bring up Yelda Froholt because we've had a few
Speaker 4: moments already in this camp. Okay, this starting center, and
Speaker 4: there's no question he is the starting center. Unke this
Speaker 4: time a year ago, meeting the media, and let's just
Speaker 4: say he's a workout warrior. As we know, he couldn't
Speaker 4: even come to the press conference without some liquid protein
Speaker 4: in his hand. He actually started the press conference by
Speaker 4: using his teeth to open up a bottle of liquid protein.
Speaker 4: He had a couple of them by the time he
Speaker 4: was done. If you're scoring at home, that's eighty grams
Speaker 4: of protein over the course of his press conference. And
Speaker 4: then somebody asked him about it. Yelderprohole, Oh, I love protein.
Speaker 8: So just always protein, man, It's the number one thing.
Speaker 8: The more protein the better, So always always more protein.
Speaker 8: Good litt eighty grams here, so it works great. I
Speaker 8: want to go to just like a Stonemason, just be
Speaker 8: like you just chopped me up some natural rocks and
Speaker 8: just need a hundred pounder one hundred and fifty pounds
Speaker 8: two hundred pounder and two and fifty pounder and just
Speaker 8: put him outside his decorations. But we all know what
Speaker 8: they're for, so that'd be super fun. Just be the
Speaker 8: alpha on the street. Just carry around rocks. Sounds sick.
Speaker 4: That was his response to so good when we asked
Speaker 4: him about Okay, how's the home gym going, because he's
Speaker 4: told us here in the Big Red Rage before how
Speaker 4: he has his own home gym. It's his hobby. He
Speaker 4: just lifts weights for fun. Yeah, okay, and he has
Speaker 4: Atlas stones. Remember we do you know Magnus ver Froholt,
Speaker 4: you know, the old World's Strongest Man magus. He's like
Speaker 4: he's like a throwback to one of these guys.
Speaker 1: It's amazing about that. You know. My older brother Craig.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's played twelve years in the NFL, one
Speaker 1: of the strong men in the world, competed in the
Speaker 1: Strongest Man World. Content wants to go to Scotland to
Speaker 1: pull the Denny Stones. I think I've told you about
Speaker 1: this before, right, Maybe Yelda would know all about the
Speaker 1: Denny Stones in Scotland, by.
Speaker 4: The way, putting those rocks on display in his front yard.
Speaker 4: I asked him if that would be a HOA violation,
Speaker 4: and he smelled and he said find me. So he's
Speaker 4: a nonconformist like you Wolf. He doesn't like the HOA people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, Pauline, I didn't know what an
Speaker 1: HOA was. You have to remember that, coming from Buffalo,
Speaker 1: New York, at the bottom of the hill, growing up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hill, I had no idea
Speaker 1: what an HOA was.
Speaker 4: So Max Melton met the media, he had some great
Speaker 4: stuff to say, and we'll get into that a little
Speaker 4: bit later. Okay, what jersey was he rocking? Throwback? And
Speaker 4: why did they have to put him under for eight hours?
Speaker 4: We'll get into all that a little bit later. Hey,
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Speaker 4: we're gonna talk to Chris Moore, veteran receiver nearly a
Speaker 4: decade in the league. We're gonna talk about Marvin Harrison Junior,
Speaker 4: these new kickoff rules, what he's seen in the new
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Speaker 4: My goodness, all right, Netflix has this series called Receiver
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Speaker 4: Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert Chris
Speaker 4: Moore Cardinals newcomer, although he's far from a newcomer when
Speaker 4: it comes to the NFL. So first welcome to Cardinals camp, Chris,
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for having a couple of practices
Speaker 4: in how has cam just in the NFL change from
Speaker 4: year one nearly a decade ago for you to now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's changed a lot. My first year
Speaker 2: when I was gott in the league, I was with
Speaker 2: Baltimore and practices were a lot different and it was
Speaker 2: just about going out there and grinding through days, hitting
Speaker 2: each other non stop. And now the league I feel
Speaker 2: like they've gotten i would say, wiser, and has definitely
Speaker 2: made practice safer for players and it's more about learning
Speaker 2: scheme and stuff. So it's definitely changed. And shot this
Speaker 2: year we got those Guardian caps on which, yeah, I
Speaker 2: ain't lie. At first, I was very upset about that,
Speaker 2: but I've grow grown to like them and I think
Speaker 2: they'll help us.
Speaker 4: What's it like when you're actually wearing them in running routes?
Speaker 2: You can't tell? And that's what all those receivers were
Speaker 2: worried about. We're like, man, when you're trying to track
Speaker 2: a ball on air and turn your head, that's gonna
Speaker 2: be difficult. But they don't. They don't cause any problem.
Speaker 4: So you don't feel or maybe think, you look like
Speaker 4: a bobblehead at all. I mean, do you have to
Speaker 4: get over that maybe a little. Yeah, I said, we
Speaker 4: looked terrible out there in those things. But as far
Speaker 4: as affecting our play. No, they're good. Okay, So all right,
Speaker 4: Chris morre is our guest. All right, first year as
Speaker 4: a Cardinal, first Cardinals camp. Obviously, do you still get
Speaker 4: a little butterflies at the beginning of a training camp?
Speaker 2: I guess you can call them butterfly the more just
Speaker 2: excited just to go to work. I mean, I love
Speaker 2: playing football, one of the reasons why I keep doing
Speaker 2: it every year, and so it's just more exciting to
Speaker 2: go out there and just continue to play.
Speaker 4: What do you bring to this receiver room? What do
Speaker 4: you bring to this offense?
Speaker 2: I feel like I bring explosiveness. I'm a deep threat.
Speaker 2: I like to make explosive plays a receiver. I would
Speaker 2: definitely bring special teams value. That's something I hang my
Speaker 2: hat on. It's something that allowed me to stay in
Speaker 2: the league this long. And just as far as for
Speaker 2: my guys in the locker room, I think I bring
Speaker 2: some older leadership, just being able to tell guys things,
Speaker 2: give them some older experience because this is a young team.
Speaker 2: But that's all I want to do is just keep
Speaker 2: helping them learn how to be in this league as
Speaker 2: long as they can.
Speaker 4: When you say big plays and chunk throws last year,
Speaker 4: your average over nineteen yards of catch. Oh yeah, what
Speaker 4: do you attribute that to?
Speaker 2: Like I said, when the balls in the area, I
Speaker 2: want to go get in. I feel like, even though
Speaker 2: I'm older, I'm fast, I'm still very fast and when
Speaker 2: that ball's in the air, like I said, I want
Speaker 2: to make that big play to help the team.
Speaker 4: I mean, and you played seventeen games right, five starts.
Speaker 4: How much of that you think was appealing to many
Speaker 4: Austin Fort Because if there's one pattern we've seen in
Speaker 4: a lot of his acquisitions in the offseason, real reliability
Speaker 4: and durability. How important do you think that is?
Speaker 2: I think it's very important. That's the name of this game.
Speaker 2: If you can't play on Sunday, what value you have
Speaker 2: to the team? Really, Like, that's the point. You got
Speaker 2: to be out there on Sunday. You gotta be available
Speaker 2: for this team to be able to count on you.
Speaker 2: So I think that's something also that throughout my time
Speaker 2: in the league, I've been able to do. I've been
Speaker 2: able to be available and in the Sunday every Sunday.
Speaker 2: So I just keep trying to do it.
Speaker 4: Give me your impressions on Marvin Harrison Junior. All right,
Speaker 4: and tell me what do you think is realistic in
Speaker 4: year one? When guys like me evoke Justin Jefferson Pro
Speaker 4: Bowl as a rookie twenty twenty or maybe a Jamar
Speaker 4: Chase twenty twenty one, is that out of line?
Speaker 2: I want to say it's out of line. I mean
Speaker 2: if him as himself and anybody around him watching him,
Speaker 2: if you don't expect big things out of yourself or him, like,
Speaker 2: how can you come in and do it? So I
Speaker 2: think it is good to put high expectations on him,
Speaker 2: but at the same time, we had to be realistic.
Speaker 2: Everybody has the own learning curve, everybody has to adjust
Speaker 2: to this game different. So whatever happens happens. But I
Speaker 2: just know from watching him he's a special player and
Speaker 2: I personally expect good things out of him.
Speaker 4: There are a couple other rookie receivers in your room,
Speaker 4: So what do you know about the NFL having played
Speaker 4: over one hundred career games, three playoff games that they're
Speaker 4: about to find.
Speaker 2: Out to on Sundays. It's a different game, it's saying
Speaker 2: in college anymore. Everybody on that field is a pro
Speaker 2: and they're good at their job. I know some days
Speaker 2: in college I played at a in what it was
Speaker 2: at the time, AAC and the Big East. I might
Speaker 2: not have straight NFL players there every Sunday, so I
Speaker 2: was playing against some guys that that want to be
Speaker 2: playing on Sundays. But now you're playing against pro so
Speaker 2: everybody out there is a pro. The game's a little faster,
Speaker 2: but I mean, if you study and you become a
Speaker 2: professionalist game, you'll be all right.
Speaker 4: Chris Moore is our guest Cardinals veteran receiver. It's interesting
Speaker 4: some of the guys have mentioned they've already had a
Speaker 4: Welcome to the NFL moment. Cornerback Elijah Jones said he
Speaker 4: was just calling the defense. He turned around and Buddha
Speaker 4: Baker's standing there. He's like, man, that's Buddha Baker, right.
Speaker 4: Darius Robson said, just the grip strength of Will Hernandez.
Speaker 4: He's like, how is this guy so ridiculously strong?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Do you remember you're welcome to the NFL moment? Did
Speaker 4: you have one?
Speaker 2: I think mine was. I was definitely lucky. My receiver
Speaker 2: room my first year was it was Stacker receivers. I
Speaker 2: had definitely had Steve Smith, Mike Wallace, Mike Wallace, and
Speaker 2: I grew up watching those guys play. So just to
Speaker 2: be able to come in as a rookie and see
Speaker 2: those guys the way they practice and the way they
Speaker 2: played on Sundays was definitely my welcome to the NFL
Speaker 2: moment because it's crazy because I'm at that age now
Speaker 2: where like dudes, the guys coming in were in middle school,
Speaker 2: high school when I was already starting when I was
Speaker 2: first getting in the league. So that age gap is crazy.
Speaker 2: That how you can go from watching them when you're
Speaker 2: a kid and now you're peers with them. So it's
Speaker 2: definitely a crazy moment.
Speaker 4: Let me tell you, I've been doing this twenty years
Speaker 4: on the sideline, and I'm gonna guess Patrick Peterson's welcome
Speaker 4: to the NFL moment, right, future All Pro cornerback was
Speaker 4: his debut game, first regular season game was against Steve
Speaker 4: Smith and it was hand to hand combat. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: the entire I've never to this day seen a player
Speaker 4: more intense power for pounding Steve Smith. Won't you agree
Speaker 4: with that?
Speaker 2: Oh for sure? He's a hang along on game day.
Speaker 2: He's a different human. He's scary. I was his teammate
Speaker 2: I was scared to be on that sideline with him,
Speaker 2: So he definitely turns on the inner dog when it
Speaker 2: comes to Sundays.
Speaker 4: So what sort of advice do you have for the rookies,
Speaker 4: guys like Marvin Harrison Junior. You mentioned Leadership's a big
Speaker 4: role for you in that room, is the VET? What
Speaker 4: do you tell those guys?
Speaker 2: My biggest thing is learn how to be a pro.
Speaker 2: Like there's a lot of things you can do, and
Speaker 2: then that day in and day out, to make sure
Speaker 2: you're prepared every day and don't be afraid to ask
Speaker 2: guys and take take things from guys like That's all
Speaker 2: I did my first few years in the league. I
Speaker 2: saw what other vets were doing, and I tried it
Speaker 2: and see if it worked for me. And then if
Speaker 2: it didn't, I moved on to try something up. But
Speaker 2: dead I kept it in my routine. And I will
Speaker 2: say that's the biggest thing is when you're in this profession,
Speaker 2: you have to have a routine.
Speaker 4: What do you look for when you assess a receiver?
Speaker 4: If the team was to bring in some free agent
Speaker 4: receiver tomorrow and you're just sort of watching him, what
Speaker 4: do you look for in trying to determine, Okay, this
Speaker 4: guy have a future or not.
Speaker 2: First thing I look for is, obviously can he catch,
Speaker 2: like not afraid to catch the ball away from his
Speaker 2: body even if he's in traffic, those catches that may
Speaker 2: look difficult, He's still gonna throw his hands out away
Speaker 2: from his body and catch it. And then just how
Speaker 2: smooth he is, because you got to be smooth. You
Speaker 2: got to make the defense think you're going one way
Speaker 2: and go the other ways. So it's just definitely hands
Speaker 2: and how smooth you are, a little bit of speed
Speaker 2: because I'm a fast guy, so you gotta be faster
Speaker 2: around me.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Chris Moore is our guest Cardinals receiver. Why do
Speaker 4: you think receiver the position itself in round one over
Speaker 4: the last decade has the worst hit rate of any
Speaker 4: position group in round one of the draft in the league.
Speaker 4: Why are there so many misses at the position?
Speaker 2: I think it's a It's a hard position to come
Speaker 2: into the league straight out of college. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of changes. One, you're just you're coming in. You're used
Speaker 2: to be getting fed the ball all the time. It's college.
Speaker 2: You're usually if you're coming in your first round draft
Speaker 2: pick or even if you're a draft you were the
Speaker 2: man on your team and you used to getting fed
Speaker 2: every game, and in the league sometimes that's not the
Speaker 2: reality to the game plan dictates how who gets the ball,
Speaker 2: So sometimes you can go first half without seeing them football.
Speaker 2: And it's just weird for a receiver his first time
Speaker 2: to have to all of a sudden, this third down
Speaker 2: and we gotta make a big play and this is
Speaker 2: the first time you see the ball go to you
Speaker 2: and you got to make that play like a lot
Speaker 2: of young guys just aren't ready for that. So I
Speaker 2: think that's one of the most difficult things. And then two,
Speaker 2: I don't like to make this an excuse, but the
Speaker 2: equipment does change. We are catching a different football, so
Speaker 2: some guys that's an adjustment for them. They take the
Speaker 2: white line off the ball. The ball is a little bigger,
Speaker 2: So for some people that's an adjustment too.
Speaker 4: That's interesting. Chris Moore is our guest. All right, Kyler Murray,
Speaker 4: you played with Lamar Jackson. Do you see parallels at all?
Speaker 2: I do? I do. They're both when they're both special.
Speaker 2: When that ball is in their hand, you never know
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. You just know it's gonna be good
Speaker 2: for your team. So I definitely see some parallels in them.
Speaker 2: But both of them are amazing, special, special athletes, definitely
Speaker 2: once in a generation.
Speaker 4: How do they impact defenses? How do you see defenses
Speaker 4: react when you're playing a guy who might be the
Speaker 4: best athlete on the field, yet he's playing quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I feel like defense now they just
Speaker 2: had to think more like you think you got everybody covered, okay,
Speaker 2: but now he's running, and then he's running, and now
Speaker 2: he's not running. He's just scrambling just to get you
Speaker 2: out of your motion. The receiver is just scrambling himself,
Speaker 2: and they throw a big play. So I think it
Speaker 2: just keeps defenses on their toes. You can't prepare for
Speaker 2: a quarterback like that. You can try, but there's just
Speaker 2: so many options they have when they're the best athletes
Speaker 2: on the field.
Speaker 4: This was a top five run team a year ago,
Speaker 4: and you're used to being part of a team like that, Baltimore. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you had Kyler's back, right, He has a full offseason,
Speaker 4: well versed in the offense. I'm like last year we
Speaker 4: just landed in the middle of the year coming off
Speaker 4: of torn acl Now all of a sudden, you've improved
Speaker 4: the receiver room. I mean, what do you like? What
Speaker 4: are you most bullsh about when it comes to this
Speaker 4: offense this year.
Speaker 2: I think it's more of a balance and complete offense.
Speaker 2: I think that we can do well in the run
Speaker 2: game as they did, and then I believe our passing
Speaker 2: game can just can be very effective as well. So
Speaker 2: I believe we can do whatever we need to do
Speaker 2: out there on Sundays. We just got to execute and
Speaker 2: make those plays because we have the guys in the
Speaker 2: building to do it. After spending time with these guys,
Speaker 2: we got guys that want to do it and are
Speaker 2: willing to go out there and do whatever they had
Speaker 2: to do to win.
Speaker 4: Cardinals receiver Chris Moore. I guess in the Big Red
Speaker 4: Rage you played last year in Tennessee, that means you
Speaker 4: played with Sean Murphy Bunting. Yes, all right, So tell
Speaker 4: us about Sean Murphy Bunting and whether the Cardinals are
Speaker 4: getting right now. He's cornerback one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, he's a great corner He'll go out
Speaker 2: there every day if there was. What I like about
Speaker 2: him at most is his toughness. I believe last season
Speaker 2: he had some injuries and he played through them, and
Speaker 2: we can count on them every Sunday to be out
Speaker 2: there and play football. And then, like I said earlier,
Speaker 2: that's what you want guy that's gonna come out every day,
Speaker 2: work and be available on Sunday. So I'm excited. It's
Speaker 2: always good to have a familiar face when you come
Speaker 2: into a new team, so it's good to see him.
Speaker 4: I asked about receivers. How long does it take you
Speaker 4: to determine whether a corner can play? Can you tell
Speaker 4: right away when you're going against the corner, like, for example,
Speaker 4: I've heard a lot of really good reviews on Max
Speaker 4: Melton so far. The second round rookie ye number sixteen.
Speaker 4: If you're coming out to camp, I mean, his athleticism
Speaker 4: scores were through the roof coming out of Rutgers. But
Speaker 4: for a guy like that, what do you think he's
Speaker 4: gonna need to learn right away? Any rookie corner when
Speaker 4: they come to the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the big thing for them is to
Speaker 2: not lose their composure. Because this is the NFL. You're
Speaker 2: playing against great receivers, so things will happen. So when
Speaker 2: when say a big play does happen, to you just
Speaker 2: got next play, because the next play can be your
Speaker 2: pick and change the whole game. So you can't hang
Speaker 2: your hat on something that had previous. You just got
Speaker 2: to move on. But I say that's the biggest thing
Speaker 2: for them. As long as they keep their confidence and
Speaker 2: the composure good, can you can trust them out there?
Speaker 4: You played your share of special teams over the years, right? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: How many big plays are coming to the NFL this
Speaker 4: year on kickoff return considering the rule change?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm excited to see. I think Week
Speaker 2: one is gonna be nuts, Like it's gonna be crazy,
Speaker 2: but there's definitely gonna be a lot more plays happening
Speaker 2: on kickoff return because of this new rule change.
Speaker 4: It was kind of a dead play. It was.
Speaker 2: It was no because I was doing it. I was
Speaker 2: returning last year a little bit, and like most time,
Speaker 2: we were just going for touchbacks because it was pointless
Speaker 2: to even take it out just because of how the
Speaker 2: stats worked with the yardage and stuff, so it wasn't
Speaker 2: even worth it as a play. So I like this
Speaker 2: because I was actually getting scared that they were trying
Speaker 2: to take special teams out of this game. And it's
Speaker 2: a big, important part of football, So I'm excited they
Speaker 2: try to find a way to keep it alive.
Speaker 4: Do you think some teams are gonna find out the
Speaker 4: hard way? Oh boy, we maybe misjudge or didn't practice
Speaker 4: this correctly, or we don't have the right strategy. Do
Speaker 4: you think some teams are going to really pay a
Speaker 4: price in Week one?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna be as far as that.
Speaker 2: In that case, I think it's just gonna be so
Speaker 2: new to the players that it's gonna be some coaches
Speaker 2: gonna figure out the right thing to do and somebody
Speaker 2: and it's gonna hurt. But I think more so it's
Speaker 2: just about feeling this because it's interesting. We've been watching
Speaker 2: film on I believe the XFL has done something similar,
Speaker 2: so we've been trying to You try to watch and
Speaker 2: try to study and see how to do, and then
Speaker 2: you try to anticipate what other teams might do. So
Speaker 2: I just think it's gonna be interesting. We want to
Speaker 2: see how it goes. It is.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's gone from just maybe the most boring
Speaker 4: play in the game too. It could be out chaos, yes,
Speaker 4: and it's gonna be fun. I think it definitely revamped
Speaker 4: special teams makes it important again, especially that play. All right,
Speaker 4: Chris Moore is our guest. I got to ask you
Speaker 4: about your high school, Thomas Jefferson High School in Tampa. Yes,
Speaker 4: so your list of notable athletes includes four all time
Speaker 4: baseball figures Luis Gonzalez, Tony LaRussa, Fred McGriff, Tino Martinez,
Speaker 4: three of the four Hall of famers, and the other
Speaker 4: one's the most popular Dbacks player in team history. Did
Speaker 4: they try and make you a baseball player when you
Speaker 4: were going to high school? No, they didn't.
Speaker 2: My well, growing up, my mom wouldn't let me play baseball,
Speaker 2: so I never even thought about that as a sport. So, no,
Speaker 2: they didn't.
Speaker 4: Your mom wouldn't let you play baseball.
Speaker 2: Nah, she told me, that's what she said. That's one
Speaker 2: sport I can't play. I had a great uncle who
Speaker 2: used to play for the Expos, and I guess my
Speaker 2: mom used to always has to go to those games,
Speaker 2: and she despises baseball because of that. So she just
Speaker 2: asked me, it's like, please, don't make me watch baseball games.
Speaker 2: So I told her I went it. Football track was
Speaker 2: my theme though.
Speaker 4: That's funny, Yeah, that's funny. Well, it's the worst Little
Speaker 4: League assistant coach ever. She's there's something when you know,
Speaker 4: there's that age rage between like eight and ten where
Speaker 4: nobody can find the plate and every game includes like
Speaker 4: twenty walks and you're like, oh my gosh, what am
Speaker 4: I doing here for four hours watching the kids baseball game?
Speaker 2: Exactly? And you sitting in that heat is bad?
Speaker 4: Okay? All right, well Chris, look, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 4: Is What do you know about this team? Last question
Speaker 4: that maybe the rest of us are going to find out?
Speaker 4: Is there something about the identity of this team? Or
Speaker 4: you know, we hear a lot about how connected this
Speaker 4: team is, and you know, one word to hear a
Speaker 4: lot is it's a hungry team. You've been around this
Speaker 4: league long enough. What can you tell so far?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you said, is this team is young. But
Speaker 2: that I think that's what is so special about them.
Speaker 2: These guys came in and they went through after coming in. Myself,
Speaker 2: they went through some things last year and they grew
Speaker 2: together as a staff and as the players that were
Speaker 2: already here. So I think they understand like what it
Speaker 2: actually takes to win on Sunday and they're all hungry.
Speaker 2: They want to come out here and prove to the
Speaker 2: NFL that we're a team that people should be worried about.
Speaker 2: And so I just I love how the guys come
Speaker 2: out here and work. I mean, this is this is
Speaker 2: a good team. I love it. A lot of special guys.
Speaker 4: And in your ninth season, sounds like you feel like
Speaker 4: you still have that top end speed. You still have
Speaker 4: the track speed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'll still fast. Hopefully down't go nowhere for
Speaker 2: a couple more years, but now I can still run.
Speaker 4: All right. Hey, it's been our pleasure, look forward to
Speaker 4: the season. There you go. Chris Moore is our guest.
Speaker 4: We continue with a big red rage presented by Santan
Speaker 4: for in Gilbert. This is a James Connor four yard
Speaker 4: touchdown run. Just do flat shovel, flat face, as Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 5: Flat shovel, flat face, that's how you run the ball
Speaker 5: inside the red zone. A little gold to go. Hand
Speaker 5: it off to James Connor. Let him find the light.
Speaker 5: That's what he did. Here's James Connor h flat flat shovel,
Speaker 5: flat face.
Speaker 4: That's how you run the ball inside the red zone.
Speaker 4: Sonny the Morgan Freeman go ball. Technically that's the Day
Speaker 4: Pasch podcast. Really it's the Frank Callyando Podcast. Sorry, Dave,
Speaker 4: that was all Kelly I know right there. I mean,
Speaker 4: come on now, that's just Dad Water unbelievable entertainment. And
Speaker 4: you know what a great intro for James Connor. It's
Speaker 4: a big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 4: We are Santan Ford, Paul calvic Ron wollfully special. Thanks again,
Speaker 4: Chris Moore. So to recap Chris Moore, he averaged better
Speaker 4: than nineteen yards of catch. Now, he didn't have catches
Speaker 4: to qualify among the NFL leaders last year, but he says, quote,
Speaker 4: I'm still fast, still has that track speed, even at
Speaker 4: age thirty. Okay, he does see parallels between Kyler and
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson. He played four years with Lamar Jackson in Baltimore.
Speaker 4: About the kickoff return coming this year, the rule change,
Speaker 4: he said, quote week one is gonna be nuts. He said,
Speaker 4: you know what, we want to be a team that
Speaker 4: people are gonna worry about. Talking about how hungry he
Speaker 4: senses this Cardinals team is. And then maybe most amazing
Speaker 4: is that mom wouldn't let him play baseball when he
Speaker 4: was a kid because she didn't want to sit through
Speaker 4: the endless baseball games because she found it boring. Because
Speaker 4: his uncle wants upon a time played for the Expos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's not forget this. He played with Steve Smith.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, one of the most intense human beings
Speaker 1: on the face of the planet. Forget about wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about just one of the most intense individuals
Speaker 1: the game has ever seen.
Speaker 4: Okay, so is that our segue to James Connor?
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of I mean, what is it, Pauli? The
Speaker 1: Angry Run? Is that what it is? Pauli right there?
Speaker 4: Yes, threeceptors, receptor, receptors.
Speaker 1: For people who don't understand Pauli kind of like me
Speaker 1: for people don't understand that the sceptor, what exactly is that?
Speaker 2: Ball?
Speaker 4: NFL Network, Good Morning Football, Kyle Brandt, the beating heart
Speaker 4: of that show. He does Angry Runs every Tuesday, and
Speaker 4: he just picks out the most physical runs and then
Speaker 4: he gives out a sceptor every week to who trucks somebody,
Speaker 4: who track stops somebody. And so James Connor is a
Speaker 4: three time award winner of the Angry Scepter Angry Run. Okay,
Speaker 4: so he's got him somewhere. He doesn't even know where
Speaker 4: he has him. He said, if he ever finds him,
Speaker 4: he give us one. But okay, so he just lives
Speaker 4: for the next carry, the next season. Well, that season
Speaker 4: is here, and he was asked, all right, James Connor,
Speaker 4: a thousand yards you got it for the first time
Speaker 4: last year in your career. Is that the goal this year?
Speaker 6: I know that if I stay healthy, you know, and
Speaker 6: do what I do, you know, that's definitely the floor.
Speaker 6: So you know, I've always believed in my talent, and
Speaker 6: so I'm confident. I think, you know, we're going to
Speaker 6: hit that again for sure, but you know, we got
Speaker 6: to win first. That's all I care about everything else
Speaker 6: that comes with it.
Speaker 4: And he said that before thousand yard season, that's the floor,
Speaker 4: not the ceiling. And if he can stay healthy knock
Speaker 4: on wood, he missed four games a year ago. If
Speaker 4: he can stay healthy. We know about the Cardinals, the
Speaker 4: Cardinals commitment to the run board. I mean, you're talking
Speaker 4: about a team that was top five in every rushing category,
Speaker 4: number two in yards per carry.
Speaker 1: PAULI. Once again, they've already done it. That's the thing
Speaker 1: that is so encouraging. You're not talking. You're not grasping
Speaker 1: at straws here. You're not talking pie in the sky.
Speaker 1: When you talk about the Arizona Cardinals being maybe the
Speaker 1: most physical offensive football team in the league. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna see him line up right now. I've told
Speaker 1: you this ballyl offseason, but I believe it. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get twelve personnel. We're going to lead the
Speaker 1: league in twelve personnel and rundown situation right now, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be James Connor running the ball. And
Speaker 1: what does James Connor do? He chooses the third rail
Speaker 1: of running the ball many many times, which is running
Speaker 1: over somebody's face. For the most part, I love the
Speaker 1: fact that Manti asen Fort and the Cardinals went ahead
Speaker 1: and drafted Trey Benson and the third round drafted Trey.
Speaker 1: Here's a guy, he was the second running back taking
Speaker 1: off the board right now, who is built like James Connor. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not as heavy as James Connor, but he's right there,
Speaker 1: and he might be faster. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: he is faster than James Connor. But I like the
Speaker 1: fact you're going to institutionalize physical You're going to institutionalize
Speaker 1: that brutality that is going to happen, and this, to me,
Speaker 1: is going to set off a chain reaction for the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals offensively and from a team perspective that I
Speaker 1: think is going to allow them to win games once again.
Speaker 4: Three of the last four games last year, the Cardinals
Speaker 4: ran for over two hundred yards. In those games, they
Speaker 4: led the NFL. In your in rushes of twenty yards
Speaker 4: or more, James Connor among the league leaders in that category.
Speaker 4: But to your point, there are some young guys pushing
Speaker 4: him on this depth chart. It is musical chairs. Three
Speaker 4: four tops running backs are going to make this team
Speaker 4: and there's a half dozen guys in that room. Here's
Speaker 4: James Connor on the depth.
Speaker 6: It's still my job, you know, to help all the
Speaker 6: other backs, you know, just like they help me, you know,
Speaker 6: just bring them along because there's strengthen numbers.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 6: That's what training chemist ford. You know, we're doing this
Speaker 6: big evaluation, but that definitely adds to the longevity, you know,
Speaker 6: with having other backs that can you know, maybe no
Speaker 6: drop off. You know, that was my main goal when
Speaker 6: Le'Veon Bell came out the game, I wanted to be
Speaker 6: right there so we can keep the offense moving well.
Speaker 6: So that's how we want to play it.
Speaker 4: If you remember the Philadelphia Eagles win Cardinals going to Philly,
Speaker 4: they get the win, they were down twenty one to
Speaker 4: six at halftime.
Speaker 2: Yuh.
Speaker 4: Opening drive of the second half, James Connor got the
Speaker 4: first few carries and they brought in Michael Carter. He
Speaker 4: had a pear pair of twenty yard runs, just making
Speaker 4: dudes look stupid because all of a sudden, dbs are
Speaker 4: they're so accustomed to gearing up for two hundred and
Speaker 4: thirty pound James Connor and then here comes Michael Carter
Speaker 4: breaking ankles in it. It just was a really effective
Speaker 4: one to two punch, right Paully.
Speaker 1: And if speaking of one two punches right now, whenever
Speaker 1: you run the ball, you have to have balance. You
Speaker 1: have to have balance because all the defensive coordinator is
Speaker 1: gonna do and run down situation. He's gonna jam up
Speaker 1: the box, Polly, He's gonna jam it up. He's gonna
Speaker 1: make it really, I don't care. We'll bring nine guys
Speaker 1: into the box. If that's all you're gonna do is
Speaker 1: line up, try to run the ball. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and jam up the box. It makes it very
Speaker 1: difficult to run the ball successfully. That's the reason why
Speaker 1: you've got to also have play action. It is it's
Speaker 1: point A to point B right Paully, it's the left
Speaker 1: hand in the right hand you have to run. You
Speaker 1: have to play it right down the middle. In regard
Speaker 1: to running the football, well, when teams start to overadjust
Speaker 1: and say we're gonna shut your run down to him,
Speaker 1: that's great because here it comes. I didn't hand the
Speaker 1: ball off. Now all of a sudden, we're going to
Speaker 1: hit Marvin Harrison Junior on a dig for twenty yards
Speaker 1: down the field. This is why it goes hand in
Speaker 1: hand and there's always this fine balance that you have
Speaker 1: to find as an offensive coordinator. What are teams doing,
Speaker 1: What are teams doing to try to stop this brutal
Speaker 1: rushing attack that I think the Cardinals are going to have,
Speaker 1: and how will you adjust to that.
Speaker 4: It's funny because James Connor was asked about Marvin Harrison Junior,
Speaker 4: his takeaways, his impressions, because every player is asked about
Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison Junior, and what he said was, hey, more
Speaker 4: power to him. I hope he takes more guys out
Speaker 4: of the box and he takes double coverage. Lighter boxes
Speaker 4: were all for it.
Speaker 1: Keep those safeties all right, man.
Speaker 4: And that's something the Cardinals did not have last year.
Speaker 4: They did not have wide receiver one that will command
Speaker 4: double coverage. They didn't have a six foot five, two
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy pounds blocking tight end and tip riman.
Speaker 4: They didn't have a rookie with fresh legs who runs
Speaker 4: a sub four four two hundred and twenty plus pounds
Speaker 4: in Tray Benson. So started. Not only was a top
Speaker 4: five run game, but it's a run game that could
Speaker 4: get better this year. Yes, so, Kyle Shanahan, I know
Speaker 4: you love to run the ball. Seatt always loves to
Speaker 4: run the ball. We know what Kyra and Williams did
Speaker 4: last year at the Rams. Guess what Cardinals are coming.
Speaker 4: It is going to be a run first offense from
Speaker 4: what we can tell. We continue with this addition to
Speaker 4: the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert.
Speaker 4: This troick.
Speaker 9: Malakailt call me Max Counts touchdown Scarlett knights Man.
Speaker 4: Look he torch pulled old man.
Speaker 9: Inside the pie of your line is intercepted by Max Melton.
Speaker 4: Max Melton went to pack.
Speaker 10: You know, everybody's have an opinions. The opinions are like
Speaker 10: Gucci belts. Everybody has one, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 10: so exactly like everybody's haveing the paion. Nobody's ever going
Speaker 10: to be one hundred percent on the same pace, especially
Speaker 10: when you were talking about millions of fans. You know.
Speaker 10: But I know, come this season, once we get a
Speaker 10: couple of weeks in, I think they'll be happy with
Speaker 10: their pig.
Speaker 4: That was a sobering moment. After the selection of Max
Speaker 4: Melton high second round, I turned to Craig Reeler, Do
Speaker 4: you have a Gucci belt? Because I don't have a
Speaker 4: Gucci belt?
Speaker 6: Both?
Speaker 4: Do you have a Gucci Beltau? You don't have a
Speaker 4: Gucci Jimalma Hundre do you have a Gucci belt?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 1: We know you were on TV in Chicago, Paul, at
Speaker 1: some point in time you were at the Gucci belt.
Speaker 4: It's the big red rage brought to you Hi, santan
Speaker 4: Ford and Gilbert We are santan Ford, Paul, kelvc Ron.
Speaker 4: Woefully no Gucci belts here, but Max Melton and unmistakably mad.
Speaker 4: Max pulled up in a an elite supercar that cost
Speaker 4: him a little bit of coin. He had a Kevin
Speaker 4: Cop throwback jersey on that he bought it a thrist store,
Speaker 4: So it's sort of that dichotomy of the supercar big money.
Speaker 4: And then he had the goodwill Kevin Cop jersey on
Speaker 4: number four, so that was interesting. And then it was
Speaker 4: what was on his body, his person underneath the jersey,
Speaker 4: which we'll just get into this and then we'll talk
Speaker 4: some football, but just show you a little bit about
Speaker 4: the personality that is Max Melton. He shared with the
Speaker 4: media what he did during his time off before camp.
Speaker 10: I got put to sleep for my tet so I
Speaker 10: went under anesthesa for eight hours and I had five
Speaker 10: tattoo artists working on me. At onezon got the throwback
Speaker 10: Rutgers logo Welcome to New Jersey sign two streets I
Speaker 10: grew up on and till that's where you get off
Speaker 10: of my city. So they all got meaning. My real
Speaker 10: name is Malachi. I don't even know if I'll know
Speaker 10: that real named Malachi. That means messenger of Jesus Christ
Speaker 10: and biblical terms. And I got an angel with a
Speaker 10: message bottle in her hand, like coming from heaven. Every
Speaker 10: one of my tess got meaning to it.
Speaker 4: Five tattoo artists were done him for eight hours. He
Speaker 4: was under he was under bully for eight hours. Eight hours.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: A couple of sleeves each arm crossed the chest. So
Speaker 4: significant tattoo work. And you know, brought his parents out
Speaker 4: even though it was one hundred and ten. They said
Speaker 4: they enjoyed their time. From New Jersey in Arizona. He's
Speaker 4: a car guy. He's already talked about that. But he
Speaker 4: also happens to be one of the most athletic corners
Speaker 4: to come out of this draft. In fact, in a
Speaker 4: couple of years. Dave Sears, the assistant GM, told us
Speaker 4: a couple of months ago on the Big Red Rage
Speaker 4: here that that he was one of the only corners
Speaker 4: to test at a certain level in both the forty,
Speaker 4: the vertical the broad jump. And he's also had more
Speaker 4: than forty starts in the Big ten. He's gone against
Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison Junior twice. He's gone against Caris Olave, Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 4: He's probably gone against Keon Coleman from Michigan State. He's
Speaker 4: going to see him week one in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Pay He's got an awful out of swag, guy would
Speaker 1: say for a rookie coming in here right now, and
Speaker 1: he would not be the first cornerback in the National
Speaker 1: Football League to have a little bit of swag. Yes,
Speaker 1: you need little bit of swag if you're gonna play
Speaker 1: that position right there, So maybe that's a harbinger of
Speaker 1: things to gom.
Speaker 4: He's in a competition. I mean, you have last year's
Speaker 4: guy with a lot of swag, Key Trell Clark, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: Starling Thomas, undrafted guy who started a lot of games
Speaker 4: last year. Garrett Williams Now, he's your starting nickel slot corner,
Speaker 4: but he potentially could go outside. Elijah Jones, who we
Speaker 4: talked to on The Big Rid Rage nearly six foot two,
Speaker 4: played sixty plus games at Boston College. He's a little older.
Speaker 4: And you know it's interesting then Sean Murphy Bunting is
Speaker 4: cornerback one. You're at Chris Moore earlier talk about his
Speaker 4: former teammate with Tennessee, and here's Murphy Bunting just talking
Speaker 4: about that cornerback room. And now they're all pushing each other.
Speaker 10: Everybody shows up every day, work hard, We feed off
Speaker 10: each other, we compete. Obviously, being an NFL. You know
Speaker 10: that it's going to be a competition every you know,
Speaker 10: everything's a competition. Everything's being evaluated, but it's it's ultimately
Speaker 10: not our decisions. So I think you know, going into it,
Speaker 10: we just lean on each other for things that we
Speaker 10: need to lean on them for. We fight, we push,
Speaker 10: and we just try to make each other better every day.
Speaker 4: How do you assess that room, that position battle?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really glad that Sean Murphy Bunting is here, Pelly,
Speaker 1: I really am. I mean, first of all, he brings
Speaker 1: experience and knowledge to that position right now. I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about CB one because of Sean Murphy Bunting. I
Speaker 1: am not. I do believe they need a model, and
Speaker 1: he's got an awful lot of pressure on him not
Speaker 1: to only go out and play, but also to model
Speaker 1: the culture. This is how we do things around here,
Speaker 1: to lead that room because there are so many young
Speaker 1: guys in that room right now, so he's got to
Speaker 1: be the model to everybody else. But you know what
Speaker 1: the good thing is, You've already vetted these young guys
Speaker 1: that you've brought in, like Garrett Williams. You've already vetted
Speaker 1: these young guys that you brought it in, like Max Moultain.
Speaker 1: You've vetted these guys already because of your draft, because
Speaker 1: of how maniasin fort of value weights these players. They're
Speaker 1: already a good fit for your culture. They're already ahead
Speaker 1: of the game because of that ball.
Speaker 4: You know what, that's a great observation because Jonathan Gannon
Speaker 4: today said that when they met Max Melton at the combine,
Speaker 4: right away they noticed that there was chemistry there, just
Speaker 4: his mindset, the way approaches the game. And then they
Speaker 4: drilled a little deeper. They had zooms, they had more interviews,
Speaker 4: and they realized, Okay, this is our sort of coin.
Speaker 4: Then they went to the tape. That's right, Paula. It
Speaker 4: was almost reverse engineered. What's the person like now we
Speaker 4: examine the player.
Speaker 1: Why would you do that? Why would you do that?
Speaker 1: Why would you say, we've got this culture. This is
Speaker 1: what we have. We have a culture here. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna bring guys in. We're gonna run because he's really
Speaker 1: really good and man, we like to stay. We're gonna
Speaker 1: bring him in. Don't really know about what kind of
Speaker 1: culture fit he's gonna be, but he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: conform you know what you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do that you want to go
Speaker 1: find guys that are gonna be good fits culturally.
Speaker 4: Fact JG said that it boils down to they all
Speaker 4: look at each other many Dave Sears, Jonathan Gannon, all
Speaker 4: the other personnel evaluators. Comes down to one question, do
Speaker 4: we want this guy in our building? And if the
Speaker 4: answer is yes, then they get into the football side
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Speaker 4: wolf Just give us a couple observations, maybe at camp
Speaker 4: two days in couple of practices in I know there's
Speaker 4: a couple of things you saw, especially maybe with the
Speaker 4: run game and some of the personnel groups.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Bolly, I really loved it. It
Speaker 1: was rundown situation first and ten, of course, and it
Speaker 1: was twelve personnel. Well, there's going to be a lot
Speaker 1: of times that are going to be in tall personnel
Speaker 1: with Tip Ryman as a stud tight end and Trey
Speaker 1: McBride as the move tight end.
Speaker 2: And that's what it was.
Speaker 1: It was those two guys that were out there and
Speaker 1: first and ten, there's gonna be a lot of times
Speaker 1: Kyler is going to be under center, James Connor's toes
Speaker 1: are going to be at seven yards and they're going.
Speaker 2: To run the ball.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not what they did. They went ahead and
Speaker 1: spread the formation and then motion James Connor out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, went empty from the shotgun and threw the
Speaker 1: ball on first and ten and twelve personnel. That is
Speaker 1: going to blow some defensive coordinators' minds when they do
Speaker 1: that in a game, and they will.
Speaker 4: You added receivers, right, including Marvin Harrison Junior. So you
Speaker 4: had games last year like against the Niners late in
Speaker 4: the season more than four hundred yards of total offense.
Speaker 4: You got twenty yards receiving out of your receiver group. Wow,
Speaker 4: think about the run game. Yes, the two tight ends
Speaker 4: you just described. Yes, and now Michael Wilson and your
Speaker 4: two Marvin Harrison Junior, Greg Dorsch, who's been tearing it
Speaker 4: up say Jones. Yes and look good, really good. PAULI Special,
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