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Speaker 1: we get to it, just let you know Ron Wolfley
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Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley and our very special guest tonight, Cardinal's cornerback
Speaker 1: and leading tackler, Antonio, how's the body doing, by the way,
Speaker 1: because you basically had the game of a middle linebacker
Speaker 1: against the Rams, right right right, I'm doing pretty solid, man.
Speaker 1: You know. I was lucky and I was thankful. You know,
Speaker 1: they had that many tackles in those many opportunities to
Speaker 1: show that I can I can play ball and be consistent.
Speaker 1: So I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. So Antonio, before
Speaker 1: we get into the football stuff, which is really really
Speaker 1: good and we love talking to you about that. What
Speaker 1: is Johnston, South Carolina? Like ah Man, real small town,
Speaker 1: but it's the peach capital of the world, so rubly
Speaker 1: that was gonna be very fault. It really is the
Speaker 1: peach capital of the world. Yeah, the peach capital of
Speaker 1: the world most of the time. You know, if he
Speaker 1: getting any peaches that are coming from down south, they
Speaker 1: probably came from Johnston more than likely. So what's it.
Speaker 1: What's it like though to live? It's a small town.
Speaker 1: H yeah, extremely small, super small town. Um probably, I
Speaker 1: know y'all said they even had what thirty five hundred
Speaker 1: people including the prison. Well we got about twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred including the prison. So yeah, it's really really small. Man.
Speaker 1: It's a real small community. Like everybody knows everybody, so
Speaker 1: it's not too much you can do as far as
Speaker 1: like get yourself in trouble because they gonna know who
Speaker 1: you are and then they're gonna tell your mom one
Speaker 1: then it's just it's all bad. So yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: real small town. Could you ever do it again? Small
Speaker 1: town life? I mean, you spent the last seven years
Speaker 1: in big cities in the NFL. Could you move back
Speaker 1: and do a small town again? Oh? Yeah, man, most definitely.
Speaker 1: I love I can go back every year at least
Speaker 1: three to four times because I love I just love
Speaker 1: being home, Like it's just you get away from a
Speaker 1: lot of the noise and everything and you just get
Speaker 1: to be a part of It's like it's really like
Speaker 1: a big family, like being in those small type of towns,
Speaker 1: so it's like almost like a family. You get to
Speaker 1: see everybody went to school with and everything. So you're
Speaker 1: either you either love peaches or you hate peaches. Which
Speaker 1: one is it? I don't hate them, but I don't
Speaker 1: love them me that I'm like right there in between
Speaker 1: you like you have so many, you know, growing up,
Speaker 1: and He's just like, I've had enough cobbler. Yeah, Thanksgiving, man,
Speaker 1: I've had enough peach cobbling. Enough enough, I have enough
Speaker 1: of ass. I'm just my wife though, Oh man, she
Speaker 1: loves them. Though, she loves them. Yeah, I tell you,
Speaker 1: I think of your wife when I think of your
Speaker 1: interception against the Saints, right, I mean a critical, pivotal
Speaker 1: interception would have been fourteen to three early in that game.
Speaker 1: Not sure the Cardinals come back. Cliff Kingsbury studied your interception,
Speaker 1: not the two picks sixes is maybe the most important,
Speaker 1: but as the pencil next sideline reporter, I vividly remember
Speaker 1: you coming to the sideline and going to the rail
Speaker 1: and looking for your wife and take it from there.
Speaker 1: Explain to everyone, because I think a lot of folks
Speaker 1: are familiar with the cooking accident you had, but just
Speaker 1: the wife and in the props and plot that's you
Speaker 1: paid to your wife and your recovery from those second
Speaker 1: degree burns. Yeah. Man, So my wife is very very
Speaker 1: important to me. I love them more than a world,
Speaker 1: of course, and more than anything in the world. So
Speaker 1: I've always told it like I was, like, man, when
Speaker 1: that day come that you know, guy, finally best blessed
Speaker 1: me with that opportunity to get my hands on the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, I pretty god as you're there, because I'm
Speaker 1: an come and bring get the ball and getting an
Speaker 1: opportunity to come back after being you know, sustained in
Speaker 1: the injury that I sustained, uh right, during training camp.
Speaker 1: You know, I was in the dark place. And so
Speaker 1: to get that that that pick after seven years of
Speaker 1: waiting for a long long time and not getting many
Speaker 1: opportunities to you know, get myself out there to get
Speaker 1: those interceptions. I mean, like man, it was perfect time
Speaker 1: with everything and so when I when I made it,
Speaker 1: I went straight to the sign. I'm like, uh, where
Speaker 1: she had? I know she's somewhere over there. And I
Speaker 1: was as I got to get down the sideline I'm
Speaker 1: looking for and people was like, yeah, man, you was
Speaker 1: showing off, showing and stuff. Had you walked going on?
Speaker 1: But I was like nah, yeah, but I was really
Speaker 1: looking for her. I couldn't find her. And then I
Speaker 1: turned around to just walk away and Benjamin was like,
Speaker 1: oh dash she is. I was like, perfect. And then
Speaker 1: so I was able to present her with the ball man.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was you know, yeah, Tonio, Thanksgiving obviously
Speaker 1: is right around the corner coming off here. You've got
Speaker 1: an awful lot to be thankful for, right, I mean
Speaker 1: it just can you put this this season into perspective
Speaker 1: for us and what it means to you? It means
Speaker 1: a great deal, of course, But it was kind of
Speaker 1: like a wake up call to a certain degree. Um
Speaker 1: was just everything where how everything was going for me,
Speaker 1: for Kemp, you know, it was so promising and this
Speaker 1: that and the third and all in the blink of
Speaker 1: it can all be gone. So at that time I
Speaker 1: was like thying. I was faced with two things. It
Speaker 1: was like I can either fall in the hole and
Speaker 1: give up and just you know, allow my injury to
Speaker 1: you know, take away everything, or I can use this
Speaker 1: to to become better or to become something more of myself.
Speaker 1: And so when I when I got hurt, I was like, man, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, if God does nothing else from me outside
Speaker 1: of just you know, healing me, then I'm great for him,
Speaker 1: thankful for it. So as I approached it with that
Speaker 1: type of mindset, I began to like, I heal faster
Speaker 1: because the doctor said, you know, the type of burns
Speaker 1: that I have had both second degree, very deep second
Speaker 1: degree and third degree burns, and so I just had
Speaker 1: a lot of I started having a lot more a
Speaker 1: lot more gratitude for the small thing. So something about
Speaker 1: just being able to get up, to walk, to get
Speaker 1: to the restroom was a big, big deal for me
Speaker 1: because within that first week it wasn't bad. But the
Speaker 1: second week when my feet swoll up and skins and
Speaker 1: beginning to peel and had to change my wounds. Like
Speaker 1: my wife literally like she was I guess five months pregnant,
Speaker 1: six months pregnant at the time, she would literally have
Speaker 1: to get up and pick me up and take me
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. So I know that I was up
Speaker 1: here a couple of times, but the days that I
Speaker 1: was here, I was an extreme amount of pain because
Speaker 1: just because how much my feet had swolled swollen, and uh,
Speaker 1: just with the nerve in is in my feet. So
Speaker 1: the type of feeling that you may have that you
Speaker 1: have in that to try to describe the sense of
Speaker 1: pain that I felt. And even now, like I had
Speaker 1: to take my shoes off sometimes and I had to
Speaker 1: lift my feet up and go on my tippy toes
Speaker 1: because if when the blood flows to my toes, the
Speaker 1: nerve is still healing, so they kind of have like
Speaker 1: this itchy feeling like if you go to sleep and
Speaker 1: you go to sleep on your arm and you wake
Speaker 1: up and you know how you can't move your arm
Speaker 1: and they've got that static like feeling, and so add
Speaker 1: that with a little bit of sense of like somebody
Speaker 1: just constantly like pinching you, like, and so that's the
Speaker 1: kind of like feeling that I have. And it was
Speaker 1: way way, way worse when I really was like really
Speaker 1: really recovering before I got back to bass. So like
Speaker 1: I just started being extremely grateful for each and every
Speaker 1: day cool and within six weeks you were back on
Speaker 1: an NFL field. Yeah, that is remarkable. Yeah, Antonio, and
Speaker 1: this last game, you had a career high eleven tackles,
Speaker 1: you had two passes defense. I mean, you guys turned
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup into a non factor. He had negative one
Speaker 1: yard receiving. That was all minus the Cardinals number one
Speaker 1: cover corner Byron Murphy. Think about that and plenty of
Speaker 1: other players, by the way, on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: And once again, here's what you had to say afterwards,
Speaker 1: Kelvin Beecham, react to how you describe the win at LA.
Speaker 1: Vitamin W is always good. You know, it makes it
Speaker 1: easier to go to work. It makes it easy to
Speaker 1: deal with the knicks, knacks and bruises and pains. You know,
Speaker 1: it makes it easier to go to work. And so
Speaker 1: we needed that vitamin W. What's vitamin W? Oh you
Speaker 1: got a big laugh out of Kelvin Beecham. Right, and
Speaker 1: based on hard knocks last night, does vitamin W helped
Speaker 1: cure popcorn itis? He had his own deal. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hope it do. So tell me
Speaker 1: about the game and that win and just I mean,
Speaker 1: how pivotal the win was. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's classified information. But Cooper Cup in two games had
Speaker 1: seven catches forty three yards, zero touchdowns on eleven targets.
Speaker 1: What was the key defensively against the Rams this season? Oh, well,
Speaker 1: going into the game, we of course, you know that's
Speaker 1: a divisional opponent, so we know them very well. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't like we were going into the game like,
Speaker 1: hey man, we got you know, double bracket coverage each
Speaker 1: and every player and just mess up the whole scheme. Na.
Speaker 1: It was just like, hey, we gotta line up, know
Speaker 1: where he is, and they gave me that role um
Speaker 1: this week with Byron being down, and of course, like
Speaker 1: we have like a great, great great room of dbs
Speaker 1: and that anybody can come in at any given time
Speaker 1: and covering the number one receiver with no problem. And
Speaker 1: you know that's just a test of advanced Joseph and
Speaker 1: his staff and and and everyone else. That's a part
Speaker 1: of like getting a roster together, like we have competitors
Speaker 1: through and through and so man, going into that week,
Speaker 1: it was just like, hey, we're gonna line up, We're
Speaker 1: gonna play at what we play and do what we
Speaker 1: do very well. We know that they like to run
Speaker 1: the ball a lot and so they was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, corners, you gotta show up and fill in
Speaker 1: those gaps and whenever we get crack blocks, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but they kept running it to my side.
Speaker 1: So I mean I would think after like the third
Speaker 1: or fourth time, they were like, Okay, let's try to
Speaker 1: the other side, but they kept coming back. So I
Speaker 1: just kept, you know, throwing that body in there. And
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do. And for us as corners
Speaker 1: to be able to tackle h in this league and
Speaker 1: more so primarily in this division, that's very, very important
Speaker 1: because most of these teams are run first type of offense.
Speaker 1: And so when we can do that and make them
Speaker 1: one dimensional and pass the ball like that gives us
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do what we do best, and that's
Speaker 1: covered Antonio. Man, it's just amazing to watch you. You're big.
Speaker 1: You're big for a corner um, You've got great size,
Speaker 1: You use your body, your physical you tackle, you can
Speaker 1: walk up on a receiver and play press. Man. I mean,
Speaker 1: you really look like you found a home here. Why
Speaker 1: if you found a home with the Cardinals. Oh, Man,
Speaker 1: I think it's just all God's timing. To be honest,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest, Like I've been around the league
Speaker 1: for a while. This is my fourth team, and I
Speaker 1: just couldn't find that home or that place for me
Speaker 1: to stick as far as getting the opportunities to play defense.
Speaker 1: And so once I came here, I think being released
Speaker 1: last year from Tempa, I came in and coaching events
Speaker 1: was just like, hey, man, you're gonna play at some point,
Speaker 1: any time, You're gonna play, And I think, what the
Speaker 1: I mean? I played in the second game for sure,
Speaker 1: Marco went down. I finished the game against Minnesota here
Speaker 1: in the home and where they missed the field goal
Speaker 1: and I did the like the infamous black the backflip
Speaker 1: and the end of the game, and everybody was talking
Speaker 1: about and I played basically the whole second half. And
Speaker 1: I didn't even really know the playbook like that, And
Speaker 1: then Byron and Marco got hurt. I think it was
Speaker 1: week five, and uh that was still with me, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to learn the playbook and stuff on the fly.
Speaker 1: So I had to start when we played San franc
Speaker 1: for the first time in the home game, and I
Speaker 1: was actually coming off an injury too, but we had
Speaker 1: so many guys going that had went down in that
Speaker 1: Rams game I knew. I was like, Damn, Marco got hurt,
Speaker 1: Byron got hurt. I hurt because I got hurt in
Speaker 1: that game as well, and I had to come out
Speaker 1: and I didn't come back into the fourth quarter. So
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I'm not going to miss out
Speaker 1: on this opportunity to get my first start here and
Speaker 1: show what I can do. Then we got that win
Speaker 1: once I at that start, and so from their own
Speaker 1: I kind of earned their trust and They've done nothing
Speaker 1: but continuously increased my role as far as being on
Speaker 1: the defense. And so I've been making the plays and
Speaker 1: taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been presented with.
Speaker 1: And so I'm just thankful. And the latest greatest example
Speaker 1: of a member of the secondary playing through pain and
Speaker 1: making it happen right Buddha Baker, And here he was
Speaker 1: after the game and how he was able to play
Speaker 1: defied the expectations he was going to miss two or
Speaker 1: three weeks until he didn't. For me, I think of
Speaker 1: every game as a playoff game. So they told me
Speaker 1: it's a three to four week process. But the way
Speaker 1: I worked, the way I did my treatment all week,
Speaker 1: the way you know, there's on the Cardinals treatment staff.
Speaker 1: Did I was able to play today and you know,
Speaker 1: not a hundred, but did good enough when we got
Speaker 1: to w We know what he does for you guys
Speaker 1: on the field, but what do you do for you guys?
Speaker 1: Just your spirit, just your mentality when you see him
Speaker 1: out there and define the you know the forecast that
Speaker 1: he was supposed to miss two or three weeks. Oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's just to show to his character and what type
Speaker 1: of player in person that he is. He's just a
Speaker 1: dog man. It's like you want that guy on the
Speaker 1: field because he just give you that extra sensive juice
Speaker 1: in that extra sensive fight. When you know that you
Speaker 1: got a brother behind you that's just as willing to
Speaker 1: get in that dog fight with you, then you are
Speaker 1: yourself like, man, they make it easier to play, and
Speaker 1: he's not making any businesses, business decisions as far as
Speaker 1: when it comes to making any tackles or any pass breakups.
Speaker 1: He's getting in there, and so man, it's it's just
Speaker 1: very very important, you know, to a defense like that.
Speaker 1: We have to have that type of guy like that,
Speaker 1: and we're thankful, as I said before, that we have
Speaker 1: all the guys basically that our backups can come in. Banjo.
Speaker 1: He started a number of games too, and so we
Speaker 1: were like, okay, Benjo, we already know what you can do.
Speaker 1: Of course they do because you've already started before. So man,
Speaker 1: as I said, our defensive back group, like, man, this
Speaker 1: is this is one of a kind. Like everybody really
Speaker 1: from the first to the third string can can really ball.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We're gonna come back and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Mexico City because you've been there and
Speaker 1: done that. We're gonna about your talk with Cole McCoy.
Speaker 1: We saw some of that in Hard Knocks. Good's amazing.
Speaker 1: Cole McCoy has helped guys all over the roster on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. So we want to get
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. And then of course the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers. How you guys were able to sweep the
Speaker 1: Niners a year ago. You know they're out for revenge
Speaker 1: this year for sure, and they also have in terms
Speaker 1: of their passing game, nobody has more yards after catch
Speaker 1: than forty nine Ers receivers. When it comes to tackling,
Speaker 1: you had the eleven Guess what everyone's gonna have to
Speaker 1: bring that aspect of their game to Mexico City. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford. We
Speaker 1: continue with Cardinals cornerback and leading tackler Antonio Hamilton. As
Speaker 1: we continue with a big red rage. Snapped to Wolford
Speaker 1: back to throw fires near your side. Cup bade to
Speaker 1: catch run out of play immediately by Hamilton, pops out
Speaker 1: rose deep middle and Hannah catches made by Cup that
Speaker 1: he bumbles the ball. It's loose and they're gonna say incomplete.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say that Cooper Cup never controlled it. What
Speaker 1: a great job. Antonio Hamilton locked it away, Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Stuck that paw in there and ripped the
Speaker 1: pig out and up up the middle for acres no
Speaker 1: running room as he is drilled by Antonio Hamilton in
Speaker 1: the hole the twenty one yard line play action booting
Speaker 1: to the right, getting rid of the passpot at the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line. Get up to about the twenty five
Speaker 1: is Hopkins. Hamilton on the tackle. Great job once again
Speaker 1: defensively coming up and making that tackle first down for
Speaker 1: the Rams on their twenty five A pass played to
Speaker 1: the left and jumping in front and almost picking it
Speaker 1: off was Hamilton. But it's incomplete. Ellen Robinson running the
Speaker 1: zero route to the left of Wolford and Antonio Hamilton
Speaker 1: jumped the robs. So you're saying, man, passion Wolf called
Speaker 1: the name Antonio Hamilton a lot during that game. You'd
Speaker 1: be right eleven tackle those two PBUs. I'm guessing you
Speaker 1: really wanted that pick six, Oh Man, without a shadow
Speaker 1: of a doubt, did you bang up your thumb on that?
Speaker 1: If I might ask, Oh, no, So my index finger
Speaker 1: and my middle finger have been messed up for a
Speaker 1: number of a number of weeks. And so if you
Speaker 1: could go back and slow down and watch how the
Speaker 1: ball hit my hand, it really if it would have
Speaker 1: hit my pump, oh I would have walked down there
Speaker 1: easily without a doubt. But the way that it hit
Speaker 1: my finger, it pushed my index and my middle finger back.
Speaker 1: So and I don't really have a whole I didn't
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of strength and at that time
Speaker 1: and then it just ah, it's gruesome, so like to
Speaker 1: have that when you need your hands and your fingers
Speaker 1: like it's just the most aggravating thing in the world. Antonio.
Speaker 1: What do you like to do in your free time? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: so I like to spend a lot of time with
Speaker 1: my family. Um, whether that's you know, we sit at home,
Speaker 1: we play a lot of uno, um like literally a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, and uh, we like to
Speaker 1: go to the movie and I like to take my
Speaker 1: kids to the park and do just man. I just
Speaker 1: try to be present, really, just to be around my family.
Speaker 1: So you have two young daughters and now you're expecting
Speaker 1: a son soon right here? Oh, real, soon, real soon.
Speaker 1: I think my wife she was talking about I think
Speaker 1: what's it called the burking something, uh, burking hicks, I
Speaker 1: think contractions, thinking that she was having them last night.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh, weout Mexico. Just just just just
Speaker 1: hold off till Tuesday or Monday, Monday, late Monday night.
Speaker 1: When I get back in the name, We're good because
Speaker 1: we got a home game. So this season, have you
Speaker 1: learned anything about yourself this season? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: really have. I've learned a lot that I'm in seven years.
Speaker 1: You would think you would know everything about yourself as
Speaker 1: far as when it comes to, you know, playing in
Speaker 1: this league, but you don't, you know, So I try
Speaker 1: to use every day to grow and I noticed that, man,
Speaker 1: I fight like no matter what, no matter what, I fight, um,
Speaker 1: even when the odds are stacked up against me, I
Speaker 1: always fight. And you know, and I know that I
Speaker 1: don't have control over everything, but I do try to
Speaker 1: control what I can control the best of my ability.
Speaker 1: And so with that, I try to go out and
Speaker 1: put my my my best foot forward and I just
Speaker 1: try to play as hard as I can, whether that's
Speaker 1: on special teams, defense, and quite frankly who whatever positions
Speaker 1: and that they needed me to do, I try to
Speaker 1: do it at my best because I know that I'm
Speaker 1: not playing for myself. I'm paying I'm playing for my family.
Speaker 1: I want to take care of my family in the
Speaker 1: way that I that I really want to and I
Speaker 1: haven't gotten that yet, but I know it's coming. You
Speaker 1: mentioned your defensive coordinator Vans Joseph. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the question was, but essentially could have been, you know,
Speaker 1: what have you learned about Antonio Hamilton. Here's the VJA.
Speaker 1: I mean, he came out of camp as a starter.
Speaker 1: He's getting back to what he was and in the summer,
Speaker 1: you know, and to watch him play not only as
Speaker 1: a cover guy Sunday, but as a as a run defender.
Speaker 1: I mean he made some plays on a running game
Speaker 1: that hadn't been made in the wall, you know, and
Speaker 1: the seeing b gaps, and that's that's the test of
Speaker 1: his toughness in his sides. He's a big corner, but
Speaker 1: he played his butt off. He's a guy that has
Speaker 1: great confidence in this game. He studies, he's mature, he's tough,
Speaker 1: so obviously he's playing good. So as he's playing good,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play more for us. Well an undrafted guy,
Speaker 1: I mean, you had to develop that toughness earlier. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, without a shot. I mean, just to forge
Speaker 1: your career. And then I mentioned, you know, Coulte McCoy.
Speaker 1: You tell us, so I was Colt helped you. I
Speaker 1: was a quarterback, helped a cornerback man. That's that's almost
Speaker 1: like the best teacher that you could possibly have, because
Speaker 1: he based off what I do, which is defend receivers.
Speaker 1: He's the one that's throwing it to the receivers. So
Speaker 1: any type of insight that I can gain from him
Speaker 1: is like a plus. So with everything when he seen
Speaker 1: me an off coverage, he like depending on the routes
Speaker 1: like I was explaining UH to someone yesterday, like I
Speaker 1: had been beat on UH corner routes the last like
Speaker 1: three weeks before last week, I had one against um
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf, one against Justin Jefferson, and one against UH
Speaker 1: someone Chris Olave No, no, no, not Chris Olivia. I
Speaker 1: can't I can't remember thee. But either way, he was like, man,
Speaker 1: you were in perfect position, the same way as the
Speaker 1: coaches were telling man, you're in perfect, perfect position. You
Speaker 1: just has to turn around and and and and take
Speaker 1: advantage of the opportunity and make the play. Because all
Speaker 1: those plays I was in face, but he gave me
Speaker 1: an extra nugget that they essentially couldn't give me, and
Speaker 1: that was the ball placement. So he was like, look, man,
Speaker 1: when you're in this type of leverage and you're in
Speaker 1: this position, I'm trying to throw the ball over here.
Speaker 1: So when you when you feel yourself right here, you
Speaker 1: can take a peep, know where that ball is going,
Speaker 1: and stick your hand right there, and I guarantee that
Speaker 1: ball going hit you nine times out of time. And
Speaker 1: he's been dead on and so with everything like that,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'm I'm extremely humble. I can learn
Speaker 1: from anybody, and so I can take any type of
Speaker 1: criticism from anybody too, because I just want to be
Speaker 1: as good of a player as I possibly can be.
Speaker 1: And for him to tell me that, now, I was
Speaker 1: just like, Man, Man, I really appreciate you. And uh.
Speaker 1: I do the same thing with him. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: cold you know, uh, because he's a great like he's
Speaker 1: a student of the game too, and of course he's no.
Speaker 1: He knows a lot and seen a lot. I like
Speaker 1: Coke Man, instead of telling him to run around like this,
Speaker 1: if you see we in this type of coverage, you know,
Speaker 1: tell me to run a right this and then get
Speaker 1: right here, because that's our blind spot. And so Man,
Speaker 1: we're always pick piggybacking off of each other, trying to
Speaker 1: make each other better. And Iron Sharper as the iron. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On that note right there, in Tonio, what part of
Speaker 1: your game do you think you need to improve the most? Uh.
Speaker 1: It's not to say that I'm perfect. I'm not perfect
Speaker 1: by any means, but your confidence I really am. I'm
Speaker 1: very confident in my game. Like I come in on
Speaker 1: third downs and I cover the best receiver I'm not
Speaker 1: covering just anybody. So a lot of the players that
Speaker 1: were made those were the number one guys. I haven't
Speaker 1: been giving up any places and any type of like slices.
Speaker 1: So um, I remember in camp you were yapping with
Speaker 1: de Hop Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I
Speaker 1: know that I love to compete, man, and I just
Speaker 1: I always can you know, I can be more sharper
Speaker 1: on my press technique, I can always be more disciplined
Speaker 1: with my eyes because you know, we're in a division
Speaker 1: where a lot of these offenses they'd like to do
Speaker 1: a lot of jets and orbits and motions, and you
Speaker 1: have to make sure you put in your eyes in
Speaker 1: the right place. And that's that what I would probably
Speaker 1: say is the most important thing. It's just being better
Speaker 1: with my eye progression, because that's very important in the
Speaker 1: Niners obviously through a lot of that. But first, tell
Speaker 1: us about Mexico City since you've been Wolf and I
Speaker 1: were there in two thousand and five, but you were
Speaker 1: there more recently with the Raiders, right, yeah, So what
Speaker 1: are you tell them? Like some of your teammates are like, hey, Antonio,
Speaker 1: what's Mexico City gonna be all about? What are you
Speaker 1: telling them? Number One? It was super super cool if
Speaker 1: you had never been to Mexico City. I went in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen when we played against the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: I think against hot yep and so the altitude is real,
Speaker 1: for sure, it is real. I didn't play in that game,
Speaker 1: but I remember warming up and I remember have time
Speaker 1: walking back to the locker room because this is a
Speaker 1: far away from the field, and I remember getting back
Speaker 1: to the locker rooms like, Okay, why am I tired?
Speaker 1: I'm not even doing anything. And we had a couple
Speaker 1: of guys that had, you know, they needed their inhaler
Speaker 1: or whatnot. So but what I was just telling them, like, man,
Speaker 1: it's a it's an extremely dope environment. Like they're going
Speaker 1: to be loud, like it's not going to be a
Speaker 1: home and away team. They're gonna cheer for everybody about
Speaker 1: everything that goes on. And I think they even had
Speaker 1: to pause our game because they got so excited and
Speaker 1: we're going, like going crazy. They started throwing like paper
Speaker 1: airplanes on the field. I remember on the far side,
Speaker 1: and man, it was so dope like that. That was
Speaker 1: probably one of the funnest games, like honestly of my career,
Speaker 1: even though I didn't play in it, and it was
Speaker 1: just a cool atmosphere and environment because they're just so
Speaker 1: used to football, you know what I mean. But to
Speaker 1: have our game to come there, like man, they just
Speaker 1: embraced it and they just showed so much love. Speaking
Speaker 1: of environments, what can you tell us about the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers wide receiver room? What do you see on tape? Oh,
Speaker 1: we know that they have you know, of course, they
Speaker 1: have a great group. They have a guy, they have
Speaker 1: guys that are you know, masters in their roles. Everybody
Speaker 1: doesn't do the same thing. Certain guys do certain things.
Speaker 1: And we know Deebo Samuel he likes to get that
Speaker 1: ball and when he got that ball in his hand,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a phenomenal player, and so the same
Speaker 1: without you he's more of their receiver crafty style of guy.
Speaker 1: And uh, we know that. You know, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the route running, he's going to be the guy.
Speaker 1: In the same way with George Kittle. They do a
Speaker 1: lot of twelve and twenty one type of personnel. So
Speaker 1: Killer is going to get that his fair share of
Speaker 1: work too. And he's a great athlete. He can run
Speaker 1: all the routes too, and he can make you miss.
Speaker 1: And he's fast, He's not like slow. So man, I
Speaker 1: mean like they have a great group of guys. And
Speaker 1: even with um Christian McCaffrey that just got there, that
Speaker 1: just made them even better. So they got a lot,
Speaker 1: they got a lot of weapons, just like we do.
Speaker 1: And so they are who they are though, you know,
Speaker 1: even with everything that they are, they are a run
Speaker 1: first style of offense. And we know that we have
Speaker 1: to be gap sound going into this week and guys,
Speaker 1: and we have to you know when out one on
Speaker 1: one matchups with the ones that we get. And Jimmy
Speaker 1: G is the niners starting quarterback is thirty nine and nineteen.
Speaker 1: Think about that. And the only quarterback right now who's
Speaker 1: better on third and eight plus is Patrick Mahomes. So
Speaker 1: Jimmy G quietly having a pretty darn good year. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you when it comes to receivers, what does
Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown when he eventually comes back, whether it's this
Speaker 1: week or next or whatever, what does he do for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals? What sort of challenge is that going to
Speaker 1: be for secondaries to go against the hop Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: and Rondale Moore. Yeah, so he just spreads everybody out
Speaker 1: like it's not gonna be you can lean over here
Speaker 1: with the hop anymore. You can't really double team him
Speaker 1: because then you're gonna leave another corner one on one
Speaker 1: with one of the fastest guys in the league. And
Speaker 1: then he can run every route. So if you're trying
Speaker 1: to play it over top people whom he sitting down,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take that first down all day long. And
Speaker 1: so we can dink and dunk the ball downfield and
Speaker 1: we can just do what we want to with teams.
Speaker 1: And we still have aj Green too. He's a beast.
Speaker 1: So when he get out there on the field with
Speaker 1: all the weapons that week, it's just ridiculous. And I
Speaker 1: just you know, I'm excited to see once we get
Speaker 1: all of our weapons back and how we use them.
Speaker 1: And I just pray that, you know, everybody just embraced
Speaker 1: their rolling and whoever got the hot hand, I hope
Speaker 1: they give just keep feeding because we got all the
Speaker 1: guys that we got, all the twos and guys that
Speaker 1: can really get the job done him by himselves. Who's
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver you covered for this season this season?
Speaker 1: I would have to say Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson that
Speaker 1: catch that throw and catch by Kirk Cousins that he made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I said, I was in perfect position, and Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins put that ball only where he could get it,
Speaker 1: and he had to do the even harder job with
Speaker 1: making the catch, and he made it like almost with
Speaker 1: a one hand against his body. He didn't give me
Speaker 1: an opportunity to stick my hand in there because he
Speaker 1: threw his hands up late. And that young boy's crafty.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing, and so that's just a
Speaker 1: hat off to him. And uh yeah, I would say
Speaker 1: that's the best receiver Cartin look at to catch him
Speaker 1: in this last week. He o'dealed that one with that
Speaker 1: one hand or oh my goodness, that's uh well, the
Speaker 1: hard knock camera's wolf. When they get around Antonio Hamilton,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have quite a story and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a great interview. We appreciate all your time. Antonio. There
Speaker 1: you go back to your brother. We continue with a
Speaker 1: big red rate presented by Santan four King Gilbert, three
Speaker 1: receivers right, one left, second and goal on the six
Speaker 1: yard line. McCoy flanked to his left by Connor. We
Speaker 1: now motions out light to the right and snap to
Speaker 1: McCoy looking left. It's a fade left, corner of the end.
Speaker 1: Zoe H J. Green with a great crab touchdown. The HJ.
Speaker 1: Green of old his back. He's made two incredible crabs.
Speaker 1: Cold McCoy meanwhile, continues to deliver. This offense looks entirely
Speaker 1: different right now, sixteen to three with the extra point coming.
Speaker 1: It all starts with protection for col McCoy and on
Speaker 1: the fade it's J Green the scarecrow. I want to
Speaker 1: stick baby about it. It was hard not to notice
Speaker 1: after the game when AJ Green said, Hey, Colt, trust me,
Speaker 1: and then Colt said I trust AJ. So they definitely
Speaker 1: have a chemistry going. And you saw it right there
Speaker 1: on what was a dagger of a touchdown in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways right before halftime to make it seventeen
Speaker 1: three Cardinals get the win. We're talking all about it
Speaker 1: here on the Big Red Rate presented by Santan ford
Speaker 1: In Gilbert Paul kelvc Ron wolf Lee, and we were
Speaker 1: just joined by Antonio Hamilton. Wolf Your thoughts and impressions
Speaker 1: on Antonio Hamilton Man, you talk about impressive, you know, Polly, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think the only thing better than Antonio Hamilton ends
Speaker 1: in visiting with him is how well he's playing on
Speaker 1: the field. I think that's about the only thing going
Speaker 1: that's a little bit better than Antonio Hamilton talking to
Speaker 1: us Man, he was fantastic. He expounded on so many
Speaker 1: of the questions, really opened up about his cooking incidents.
Speaker 1: Of course, the accident something that really set him back,
Speaker 1: and it's his own personal development as well. Man. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed that so much, Paul, I know you did too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he got the primary assignment on
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup last week without Byron Murphy. So a fans,
Speaker 1: Joseph hasn't hesitated to use Antonio Hamilton in some high
Speaker 1: leverage situations all season long. But you know, it's just
Speaker 1: the way this season has gone. You go into a
Speaker 1: game and you hear you guys reference it there in
Speaker 1: the play call. You're minus four starters on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you don't have your franchise left tackle, you don't have
Speaker 1: your number one cover corner, you're on your four different
Speaker 1: kicker for Pete's sake, and the Cardinals found a way.
Speaker 1: And I tell you, the more I reflect on that
Speaker 1: win is just what guys were saying afterwards is that
Speaker 1: there was a belief based on last year. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: winning division games on the road. That's what Colt McCoy does. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: it's super, super impressive what Colt McCoy has been able
Speaker 1: to do. I mean, this guy, once again, when you're
Speaker 1: talking about the four games that he is filled in
Speaker 1: to be three in one right now and beat everybody
Speaker 1: in the NFC West, that's it says so much about Colt.
Speaker 1: Just watching him on hard knocks as well. He's thirty
Speaker 1: six years old and he looks like he's eighteen, does
Speaker 1: folly and you know, I mean just said the leadership
Speaker 1: that he brings to the table and the mentorship that
Speaker 1: he brings to Kyler Murray. I just it's one of
Speaker 1: the best things about this team and this roster is
Speaker 1: the fact they have Colt McCoy's or backup quarterback and
Speaker 1: you know what, he's almost an assistant offensive coordinator. What
Speaker 1: did Kurt Warner do for the Cardinals? What did Carson
Speaker 1: Palmer do? They were very involved in the game planning.
Speaker 1: When you've spent a decade plus in the league and
Speaker 1: you've seen every defensive scheme and you know defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: on a first name basis. Yeah, I don't think it
Speaker 1: was any surprise really when Hard Knocks showed this, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna listen to it right now. Here's Cole McCoy
Speaker 1: during the game week getting ready for the Rams in
Speaker 1: the quarterback room. I don't want to go into this
Speaker 1: game if anybody has confusion on what they're supposed to do. Good.
Speaker 1: If we don't know what to do and if it's
Speaker 1: not detailed then dialed in, then we're not gonna beat
Speaker 1: this team. If we know what to do and if
Speaker 1: the space's right and do what you do your job,
Speaker 1: will beat this team. That's the that's it will beat anybody.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. So when we talk about like
Speaker 1: what can we do, it's just these it's these little
Speaker 1: details that are just adding up. We'll go white out.
Speaker 1: Then it's not one position, group being the place you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be and get the ball like when you're
Speaker 1: ready to pull the trigger. Most of the time somebody's open,
Speaker 1: sign the one we're better across the board and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. Hey oh yeah, wait for me, man, wait
Speaker 1: for me. I mean like little things, Hey, it's the
Speaker 1: details of it. Well, if you know what. On his
Speaker 1: TV show this week, Cliff Kingsbury, he mentioned how adamant
Speaker 1: that quote was to start the week about the ball
Speaker 1: has to come out quick. Yeah, hey, because of our
Speaker 1: offensive line situation, but b because of the Rams defensive
Speaker 1: front and Aaron Donald and you know he had a
Speaker 1: plan in his own mind going into this game. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: this is what I love about it right here. It
Speaker 1: really is. It's a game plan. And obviously they knew
Speaker 1: what the game plan was going to be all week long.
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks definitely showed us that they were talking about it. Hey,
Speaker 1: the ball is coming out. Man is space? You hear
Speaker 1: him mention the words space. They knew the zone was
Speaker 1: going to be there. Run your route, be in the
Speaker 1: right place, and you'll get the ball. The little things
Speaker 1: he was talking about going out and doing your job, executing,
Speaker 1: being where you're supposed to be right there, that was
Speaker 1: so evident on the first possession was not against the Rams, PAULI, Well,
Speaker 1: they went down eleven consecutive passes in a row to
Speaker 1: start the game. Never and you want to talk about
Speaker 1: a Sicilian message Polly being to the Rams right there
Speaker 1: at that point in time, you know, hey, Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: Do you think Aaron Donald thought that was going to
Speaker 1: be the case. Do you think Sean McVeigh thought that
Speaker 1: was going to happen. Do you think any Ram thought
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were going to come out and give Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald and that pass rush the opportunity to get to
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy. No, man, eleven consecutive passes in a row,
Speaker 1: and I think that took him by surprise. Yet that
Speaker 1: was the game plan all week long, and you know what,
Speaker 1: we were there and you still learn things in hard
Speaker 1: knocks like that, you go behind the scenes. Obviously, even
Speaker 1: on his big fourth down throw to number four to
Speaker 1: Rondelle Moore, the shot that Colt McCoy took, he hung
Speaker 1: in there and man, he just got lit up and
Speaker 1: he's still completed. Would ended up being that one hit
Speaker 1: of grab by ron Dale Moore is, you know, just
Speaker 1: a perfect toss. What other takeaways did you have from
Speaker 1: that episode episode two last night? Well, yeah, Paul, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, just Calvin Beach him, what a dog Calvin
Speaker 1: Beach him? Is the running with Leonard Floyd, And I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: all game long talking to Leonard Floyd and just some
Speaker 1: of the things he was saying to him, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't think of Calvin Beecham being that way.
Speaker 1: He's so articulate, he's so intelligent. You know, we talk
Speaker 1: about it all the time, bally hoo Hey, if he
Speaker 1: ran for president, I'm voting for him. Hey, I wrote
Speaker 1: him in for governor. I wrote in Kelvin Beecham for governor.
Speaker 1: I'm even more convinced now. And just to see him
Speaker 1: out there totally in the face of Leonard Floyd, just
Speaker 1: trash talking him in a very matter of fact kind
Speaker 1: of way. The leadership. Also when he was talking to
Speaker 1: Lucidas Smith, right, play football, just play football. You know,
Speaker 1: I love the way that he was not joking around.
Speaker 1: He was speaking very directly. He was a little upset.
Speaker 1: Beach has got a little something something coming out of
Speaker 1: the side of his neck. And that was one of
Speaker 1: my big takeaways. And you know what we should have
Speaker 1: figured because in training camp he had a moment in
Speaker 1: training camp there was an eleven on eleven red zone
Speaker 1: goal line session and he wasn't happy and he made
Speaker 1: it known when he came to the sideline. So that
Speaker 1: was good stuff. And yeah, you're right, the way he
Speaker 1: talked to Lucida Smith the sixth round, rookie. How about
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and what he said during the dinner, the
Speaker 1: Old Line dinner that Kyler attended, and he told Lucida's
Speaker 1: flat out, He's like, you're thinking too much. Just play
Speaker 1: and for Lucidas tab that sort of game. And I
Speaker 1: didn't look at the film and Aaron Donald wasn't over
Speaker 1: him exclusively. He was up and down the defensive front.
Speaker 1: But you guys did not call Aaron Donald's name a
Speaker 1: lot in that game. No, you're right about that, Polly,
Speaker 1: and you know, listen, Lucida Smith has an awful lot
Speaker 1: of growth that has got to happen, of course in
Speaker 1: his career, but that was an excellent debut I think
Speaker 1: from Lucidas and Polly. Going back to your comment about
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, I didn't even know that was Tyler Murray.
Speaker 1: I don't when it first happened, you know, because he
Speaker 1: had the hood on and it didn't sound like Kyler. No,
Speaker 1: he was so definitive in what he was saying, and
Speaker 1: so a man, I was really really encouraged when I
Speaker 1: saw that. I love the way he was speaking to Lucidas.
Speaker 1: I also liked angry JJ Watt. You know, obviously the
Speaker 1: penalty wasn't good, but angry JJ is a good JJ
Speaker 1: and he was the best ninety nine on the field
Speaker 1: during that game. So Moore please of that. And it
Speaker 1: was just interesting to see how nervous everybody was speaking
Speaker 1: a Lucidas Smith right, just with the situation at O
Speaker 1: line and facing Aaron Donald. There was some genuine nervousness
Speaker 1: and anxiety going into that game. Guess what going into
Speaker 1: episode fifty of the Dave Pash Podcast. This special guest
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Speaker 1: Do tell. I mean, what's this all about? You and
Speaker 1: Pass on the pot? Yeah, we were talking about when
Speaker 1: Pass had hair on his head and not in his nose.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that, Pauli and talking about what
Speaker 1: it was like fifteen years ago and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Holmes of course, had some really good jokes to play,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of bloopers. We continue with a
Speaker 1: big red rage right after this. We have one hundred
Speaker 1: three thousand, four hundred and sixty seven on hand, an
Speaker 1: NFL regular season record. Wow, how about that for a number?
Speaker 1: I wish everybody can feel what one hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: feel like on the field. Like you're on the field
Speaker 1: in one hundred thousand people are watching you. It's just different. Man.
Speaker 1: That's former Cardinals safety Robert Griffith. All the players knew
Speaker 1: the fans we're going to be a factor. El Grande,
Speaker 1: former Pro Bowl pass rusher bertram Berry. It really was
Speaker 1: a different energy where the fans were going nuts the
Speaker 1: entire time, whether something good happened for us or something
Speaker 1: bad happened for us. I just remember the crowd yelling
Speaker 1: no matter what, they just wanted to see us go
Speaker 1: out there and play. I just remember being allowed the
Speaker 1: entire game in a good way. That people were so
Speaker 1: excited that there was an NFL game going on. In
Speaker 1: a general sense, they were just rooting for something big
Speaker 1: to happen. Every play. It felt like a big party.
Speaker 1: It felt like a big party the people that were
Speaker 1: just hungry to be a part of that first regular
Speaker 1: season game outside of the US. Rolando Canto right there,
Speaker 1: former Cardinals offensive linemen talking about the first regular season
Speaker 1: NFL game outside the United States in league history two
Speaker 1: thousand and five, when the Cardinals beat the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, which is where
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are headed again. That was straight from Cardinals
Speaker 1: Folk Tales, the Emmy Award winning documentary series. All I
Speaker 1: have to do is search Cardinals Folk Tales. It's titled
Speaker 1: One Time in Mexico and you can find it at
Speaker 1: your favorite podcast provider. Paul klvc Ron Wolfley happen up
Speaker 1: this edition to The Big Red Rage percent of by
Speaker 1: Santanford in Gilbert. Well. If I don't know if he
Speaker 1: caught the quote from Antonio Hamilton earlier Cardinals Cornerback, he said,
Speaker 1: it's an extremely dope environment. Yeah, he repeated that a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Yes, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: really use that and pull off that quote. Extremely dope
Speaker 1: is how he described the environment. What do you think?
Speaker 1: What are you telling people about the trip? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I like everybody else, So it was so incredibly loud,
Speaker 1: and I just remember all of the people. How many
Speaker 1: people can you jam into a stadium and how huge
Speaker 1: the stadium was. I was blown away by that also too,
Speaker 1: just what they would cheer at. Yes, as you know,
Speaker 1: once again, Neil Rackers was it was Neil Rackers was
Speaker 1: it not poly I'm remembering that correctly. He was kicking
Speaker 1: off and weren't they all just going nuts as he
Speaker 1: was warming up and when he went to actually kick
Speaker 1: it off to start the game, wasn't it? I mean,
Speaker 1: they were cheering incredibly wild at that point in time.
Speaker 1: It was like he was the rock star and the
Speaker 1: rest of the Cardinals were his backup band. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like it was like Neil Rackers and the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That's basically what it was. And you're right, it was
Speaker 1: two hours before the game. We're doing the pregame show, like, well,
Speaker 1: what's the standing ovation for people losing their mind? And
Speaker 1: it's Neil Rackers just warming up and he hit And
Speaker 1: I talked We talked to Matt Prador about this today,
Speaker 1: actually yours, Julian Jim MoMA hundred. We talked to Matt
Speaker 1: Prador today and he said he remembered the story because
Speaker 1: see Andy Lee and I talked to Andy Lee yesterday
Speaker 1: was the punter for the forty nine ers in that game.
Speaker 1: That was his second years. Andy Lee is one of
Speaker 1: two forty year olds to start this season, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and Andy Lee, and he said he remembers Neil Rackers
Speaker 1: and Joe Nenny hitting seventy yard field goals in warm ups. Yeah, Paully,
Speaker 1: that's because what it's almost eight thousand feet Mexico City correct,
Speaker 1: higher than flagstaff. It's like seventy three hundred plus. I
Speaker 1: looked that up, I wonder, and so it's higher than flagstaff.
Speaker 1: It really flies the ball. And so ay Prater said today,
Speaker 1: if he's tasked with setting an NFL record, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: feels confident in that atmosphere. Yeah, you know, it's going
Speaker 1: to be so interesting to see this matchup. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals against the forty nine ers. And when I
Speaker 1: think of the San Francisco forty nine ers, I no
Speaker 1: longer think of Kyle Shanahan and the use of twenty
Speaker 1: one personnel and twelve personnel. I really don't. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: run the ball, and they still continue to try to
Speaker 1: attack the line of scrimmage in the North South Way.
Speaker 1: They're just not having a ton of success actually doing it.
Speaker 1: Even with Christian McCaffrey. Now again, I don't want to
Speaker 1: make it sound like he's not dangerous. You better believe
Speaker 1: he's dangerous. He'll take it to the house. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's it's really about their defense, Paul. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: how good their defense really is. They're a physical team.
Speaker 1: You know that. Cliff has told us that how physical
Speaker 1: they are, especially on the line end of scrimmage. But man,
Speaker 1: that defense, on that front seven, Polly, it's probably the
Speaker 1: best in the National Football League. Well, they've allowed fewer
Speaker 1: than twenty points in seven o their nine games. They've
Speaker 1: held the opponent's scoreless in the second half of the
Speaker 1: last two games. They're number one in total d they're
Speaker 1: number one against the run. They're the number four scoring defense.
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, they've had injuries in the second area,
Speaker 1: especially at corner, a couple of devastating injuries. If if
Speaker 1: you can get time for Cool McCoy or Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: We have no idea at this point who's going to start.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think with the Cardinals weapons that
Speaker 1: could be a real advantage, because, yeah, they just beat
Speaker 1: the Chargers, but the Chargers were without Keenan Allen and
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. Yes, the risk reward is there? Is it not? Yes,
Speaker 1: you want to come out and try to throw the
Speaker 1: ball eleven times against the forty nine ers, I don't
Speaker 1: know about bad, Polly. I don't know, man, but to
Speaker 1: your point, that might be the only weakness on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Here's the thing. Car swept
Speaker 1: the Niners last year. They've won eleven to the last
Speaker 1: fourteen against the forty nine ers, so we'll see they
Speaker 1: go in with a bit of confidence. Both quarterbacks beat
Speaker 1: the forty Niners last year. Now, Jimmy g has been
Speaker 1: pretty darn effective this year. We mentioned how on third
Speaker 1: and eight plus he's second only to Patrick Mahomes. He's
Speaker 1: not really turning the ball over. So we'll see. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a playoff atmosphere. That much we know for sure.
Speaker 1: Hey for Jim al Monro, Lauren Coble, Antonio Hamilton our
Speaker 1: special guest to night, Ron Wolfley of Paul calBC. This
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