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Speaker 1: You think you know Ron Wolflee? No, I know you
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Speaker 1: You think you know, Sure, you might know a thing
Speaker 1: or two about training camp, but you think you might
Speaker 1: know where the two twenty one airs on our Cardinals
Speaker 1: are headed. And I would say not so fast, as
Speaker 1: we just witnessed three days of mini camp, and we
Speaker 1: got a lot of seven on seven guys and shorts
Speaker 1: and helmets and a lot of trash cans and blocking
Speaker 1: bags out there. So there's only so much you can tell.
Speaker 1: Ron Wolfley, dare I say, when this NBA season started,
Speaker 1: your Phoenix Suns were seventy to one shots, so you
Speaker 1: putting money down in your bally. You might think you know,
Speaker 1: But until this whole thing plays out, at least until
Speaker 1: we get into some full contact football into August, then
Speaker 1: guess what we might get a few answers around here
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Speaker 1: Night Football right here, Paul kelvc Ron Wolfley, and soon
Speaker 1: to be joined wolf We're gonna have an addition to
Speaker 1: the full back club here tonight, our special guests. Do
Speaker 1: tell James Saxon, you better believe it, part of the
Speaker 1: full back Club. Can't wait to talk to him about
Speaker 1: how the Arizona Cardinals are going to incorporate a fullback
Speaker 1: into their offense in twenty twenty one. Do yourself favor,
Speaker 1: Do not ask that question. Some free advice right off
Speaker 1: the top. You know, don't make yourself look bad. Don't
Speaker 1: waste our precious time with a Cardinals running backs coach
Speaker 1: by asking any fullback related questions. Although Kyler Murray had
Speaker 1: a few things today to say about the run game,
Speaker 1: Wow did he not? Oh PAULI, where where do we
Speaker 1: begin on this one? Okay, So Kyler Murray meets the media.
Speaker 1: If you're scoring at home? I do believe this is
Speaker 1: the first time in the off season. And if you
Speaker 1: had a power poll of all the press conferences that
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has held, this has got to be top three.
Speaker 1: Today has to be top three. And by the way,
Speaker 1: did you see the powerpole? Wolf? As we started last
Speaker 1: week with a powerpole. Nothing like a nice power pole
Speaker 1: in June and the latest one in NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: You know, not to digress the powerpole. The biggest bandwagons
Speaker 1: right now? You are digressing. The biggest bandwagon right here,
Speaker 1: right now, according to NFL dot Com, happens to be
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Week one opponent, the Tennessee Titans. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: here we go. Are you kidding me? They got yep?
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals are number six, by the way, in
Speaker 1: terms of the biggest bandwagons right now, the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: right on their heels and number seven. And then in
Speaker 1: between three teams, you have a bunch of names. They
Speaker 1: incorporated names into the biggest bandwagons. Joe Burrow, Brandon Staley
Speaker 1: and the new head coach of the Chargers, former Rams
Speaker 1: D coordinator Ceedee Lamb, Chase Young cam Akers, the Rams
Speaker 1: running back. We know all about that guy. And then
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, the Lion's new head coach. Point, Paul, Hey,
Speaker 1: that is some good stuff right there, honestly, Dan Campbell, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't get me started on Dan Cambell. You mentor Dan Campbell,
Speaker 1: and you know here it comes. I envisioned him and
Speaker 1: in Chris Spielman sitting around a room ball by themselves,
Speaker 1: talking about bludgeoning each other. They're gonna put the blocking
Speaker 1: sled in the front office in Detroit because spiels and
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell are gonna be hitting the blocking soul between
Speaker 1: some of their their power meetings. Look, here's Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the press conference and a simple question,
Speaker 1: where do you want to evolve your game? Kyler? Where
Speaker 1: do you want to grow the most here in your
Speaker 1: third season? I think all aspects of the game, but
Speaker 1: leadership taking care of the ball, being better as far
Speaker 1: as accuracy, just just the whole game. There's no one
Speaker 1: in this building or that watches the game that's a
Speaker 1: bigger critic of themselves or of me than I am.
Speaker 1: So I know what I need to get better at.
Speaker 1: When we get out throwing the field, I plan to
Speaker 1: show you know I grew in those areas. Oh, Paul,
Speaker 1: I love that right there? Are you kidding me? This
Speaker 1: is exactly what I want to hear. I want to
Speaker 1: hear this from Kyler Murray. I need to get better
Speaker 1: in the little things. I need to get better in
Speaker 1: leader ship, Pauly, he started with leadership. Yes, Paul, I
Speaker 1: you know once again, I love that. Listen. You know
Speaker 1: the way I feel about this, Polly. Humility is a
Speaker 1: wonderful mastery, truly is because it allows you to see
Speaker 1: where you need to get better and what you need
Speaker 1: to do to get better. And I love listening to
Speaker 1: a guy articulate what obstacles he's got to overcome in
Speaker 1: his career to get better. And you just heard it
Speaker 1: right there from Guyler Murray. Love that. You know. I
Speaker 1: had a chance to watch the last three days of minicamp,
Speaker 1: and there are a few takeaways. For example, in no
Speaker 1: particular order, the rookie corners. I mean, man, if these
Speaker 1: guys can play, they definitely look the part. When you're
Speaker 1: talking about Tay Gowen and Marco Wilson, just the size
Speaker 1: and athleticism, and these guys that look like corners of
Speaker 1: the Seahawks would would draft the wide receiver position. Wolf
Speaker 1: to me, you look out there and you go, okay,
Speaker 1: AJ Green, Christian Kirk, Rondel Moore. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: potential right there, but there's also a lot of question marks.
Speaker 1: And Kyler Murray was asked today about his receivers, in
Speaker 1: particular AJ Green. I expect I did have a big year.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: should sleep on him. I know a lot of things
Speaker 1: have been said about you know him, maybe not be
Speaker 1: on to do it anymore or whatever. We don't really
Speaker 1: care about that, you know, ignore all that. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's on the team. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: a great receiver room, more weapons than I can ask for,
Speaker 1: and on paper, absolutely, but honestly, you have DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: and a lot of unknowns right now. What can you
Speaker 1: count on and bank on here? This season? When it
Speaker 1: comes to that receiver room. Yeah, it is a great
Speaker 1: question right there. What you can count on is d
Speaker 1: hop That's number one I would stop with. I would
Speaker 1: start I should say what DeAndre Hopkins. I think you
Speaker 1: can count on that right there? I think you can
Speaker 1: count on AJ Green. I do, at least, I think
Speaker 1: AJ Green has got an awful lot to prove. It's
Speaker 1: a very similar situation to the Pat P. I think
Speaker 1: Pat P's gonna have a good year up there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I really do, PAULI the guy's got so much talent.
Speaker 1: Not only that, now all of a sudden he's going
Speaker 1: to be in a defense. I think Mike Zimmer is
Speaker 1: going to use him in a very very specific kind
Speaker 1: of way. And I think the new scenery, so to speak,
Speaker 1: suddenly he's got to prove himself all over again. I
Speaker 1: think that is really going to help Pappy focus. And
Speaker 1: I think a focus Pappy is going to be an
Speaker 1: excellent Pappy. So I expect him to have a very
Speaker 1: very good year. Can I say Aj Green in the
Speaker 1: same light, in the same vein is what I'm speaking
Speaker 1: of in regard to Pat P. I think AJ Green
Speaker 1: is going to be that guy here too. He needed
Speaker 1: a change of scenery, a change of offense. It's the
Speaker 1: refresh button for aj greenball, all right, so hit zoom out.
Speaker 1: Does the Cardinals offense in general need to change, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to the run game. We know Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray and what happened at Seattle in week nine with
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury. Yes, and we know things. We're never
Speaker 1: quite the same for whatever reason. Earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury was asked about it, and he's used the
Speaker 1: word uncomfortable. Kyler was uncomfortable push and he had a
Speaker 1: push through you know, his physical state and that injury
Speaker 1: to a large degree. And if you look at some
Speaker 1: of the numbers the before and the after. For example,
Speaker 1: Kyler's rushing yards per carry six point nine nearly seven
Speaker 1: yards per carry in the nine games before Seattle, and
Speaker 1: these numbers crunched by our Kyle Odegarden asy Cardinals dot Com.
Speaker 1: The final seven games, he averaged less than five yards
Speaker 1: to carry and it had only one rushing touchdown under
Speaker 1: the final seven games. And guess what he had ten
Speaker 1: in the first nine games. So he was asked by
Speaker 1: Kyle about that today, here's Kyler Murray. Well, if your
Speaker 1: reaction to the shoulder injury and exactly what it did
Speaker 1: or didn't do to the Cardinals running game. You know,
Speaker 1: my legs should be a luxury. And it kind of
Speaker 1: wasn't like that last year. It was kind of me
Speaker 1: having to run for us and once you know, my
Speaker 1: shoulder was named up or whatever, and I wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to put myself out there and take those hits and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Who kind of took a law, you know,
Speaker 1: hit a law. You know, honestly, I think it was
Speaker 1: good for us. You know, think it was a lesson
Speaker 1: for us that you know, we can't be one dimensional.
Speaker 1: We just got to be better in all all areas,
Speaker 1: all aspects of the game. Paul. I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: in Vegas, when somebody hit the jackpot, they used to
Speaker 1: say winner, winner, chicken dinner, Paul, because that basically it's
Speaker 1: what you want. When in the very beginning of Vegas,
Speaker 1: that's what they did. Paul, ding Ding Ding ding Ding.
Speaker 1: I endorse this message, Paul. You know you have listened
Speaker 1: to me talk about this very thing. He can't be
Speaker 1: Michael Vick, Paul, he can't. You can't build your offense
Speaker 1: around Kyler Murray and say, Kyler's got to run the ball.
Speaker 1: If you tell me that Kyler Murray's got to run
Speaker 1: the ball for him to be effective in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, you're telling me, basically, he's Michael vec You
Speaker 1: need to run him when when when you need it
Speaker 1: the most. When I hear him say that his legs
Speaker 1: are a luxury, Paul, that's exactly the way you want
Speaker 1: to view him. Not in every down. Here we go,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. We're gonna have you run the ball ten, eleven,
Speaker 1: twelve times a game. Let him scramble. Let it every
Speaker 1: now and then when you need it the most, when
Speaker 1: you need a first down, when you need a touchdown
Speaker 1: in the red zone, let him run the ball. Then,
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that. But man, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna go into a game saying, well, we've got to
Speaker 1: have Kyler Murray, our running game is built around Kyler Murray. Man,
Speaker 1: you're your host. And look, he was dealing with injury.
Speaker 1: But well, if you tell me the defense is also
Speaker 1: adjusted accordingly in the second half of the season, did
Speaker 1: they not, without a doubt, Paul, without a doubt. You
Speaker 1: know what, And here's the thing with the whole zone
Speaker 1: read concept. If I want Kyler Murray, I'm a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and I want him to run the ball, I
Speaker 1: can force you to run Kyler Murray on that zone read.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and collapse that defensive end.
Speaker 1: I'll do whatever I can. I'll scheme something where a
Speaker 1: backer is scraping to the outside waiting for Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: on a zone read based on down in distance and
Speaker 1: where you are. I'm just I'll crash that guy every
Speaker 1: time and force Kyler to be the guy that runs
Speaker 1: the ball so you can hit him. I'm just saying, Well,
Speaker 1: Greg Roman, the OC of the Ravens, was just saying
Speaker 1: to season ticket holders here in the last week, and
Speaker 1: somehow this got out. He shared with them that Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's going to be under center a lot more this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? You know? Cliff Cakesbury said, I'll
Speaker 1: believe that when I see it. Because of what a
Speaker 1: good running back Lamar Jackson is. You added Rodney Hudson,
Speaker 1: You added Brian Winners at guard. These are maulers. These
Speaker 1: are guys who come off the ball. You added James Sackson,
Speaker 1: a power running back. What does that? Poor ten? What
Speaker 1: does that forecast. I mean, you know, it'd be great
Speaker 1: if we had James Saxon, the running backs coach, on next,
Speaker 1: because we could ask him a ball at all this
Speaker 1: and where exactly the run game is going and where
Speaker 1: should it be. So we'll go from Kyler's thoughts to
Speaker 1: the running backs coach next. The Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by Santan Ford in Gilbert. It's a run play right
Speaker 1: inside big whole headmands twenty five twenty ten five touchdown
Speaker 1: the inside zone being one and Chase Edmonds found the
Speaker 1: hole into the house, Baby gives it to Connor, sweeps
Speaker 1: the left side, gotta block at the tan Connor to
Speaker 1: the five into the touchdown. James Cotter explosive, just the
Speaker 1: weapons that we have, Chase doing this thing already, and
Speaker 1: so you know, watching film, I'm like, man, just do
Speaker 1: he can? He can ball and I want to, you know,
Speaker 1: learn from him and be a part of it, get
Speaker 1: to work with him. You know, I ain't no telling,
Speaker 1: I can't predict with him, but I know what I
Speaker 1: can guarantee. I'm gonna come in here and work day
Speaker 1: in and day out from my head down and grind
Speaker 1: and you know I'm inte for the long cost so
Speaker 1: seventeen game season. I'm looking forward to it. James Conner
Speaker 1: on the potential the ares on a Cardinals offense. You
Speaker 1: want potential? How about James Connor himself? We say welcome
Speaker 1: back into the Big Red Raid, presented by satan Ford
Speaker 1: and Gilbert. We are Satan for the year was twenty
Speaker 1: and eighteen, Wolf, just a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: you had James Connor with just under fifteen hundred yards
Speaker 1: from scrimmage five point four yards of touch He had
Speaker 1: thirteen touchdowns that season and that was his last season
Speaker 1: with James Saxon our special guest tonight, Yes, It's all
Speaker 1: about you, presented by santan Ford and Gilbert as the
Speaker 1: Cardinals running backs coach is joining us this evening and
Speaker 1: coach I guess Wolf has made this in an informal
Speaker 1: rendition of the full back Club here tonight. The two
Speaker 1: of you guys. Yeah, they ate your career and play
Speaker 1: in the position as well. Absolutely, Wolf, Wolf and I
Speaker 1: shortnecked a lot of people a day. Coach, how you doing, man,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Man doing okay?
Speaker 1: The family okay, Yeah, everybody's doing good. Man. I got
Speaker 1: a brand new, a little one five months old. About congratulation. Gratulations, coach,
Speaker 1: that is awesome, right there. Any place for a fullback
Speaker 1: in the James Saxon running back room was always a
Speaker 1: place about a little win. I'm lucky mylected all the work.
Speaker 1: You got that right? Bad? Uh so? Well if yeah,
Speaker 1: the bad news out of the way first, uh no,
Speaker 1: fullback on the horizon and the Cardinals offense as of
Speaker 1: last right now, what are your takeaways from mini camp?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you can glean or ascertain from
Speaker 1: mini camp these days, but give me a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 1: Now that the offseason is a rap coach, and next
Speaker 1: stop is training camp. Well, I just think for you know,
Speaker 1: for us as coaches, and we got a chance to
Speaker 1: be arounding guys and it's it's a lot um nice.
Speaker 1: It's nice to be able to be back to that
Speaker 1: part of the game. And it's it's important for everybody
Speaker 1: because it's it's a social game. We're social people, so
Speaker 1: getting back together in any fashion was good. How did
Speaker 1: the running backs look in your opinion, coach, I think
Speaker 1: these guys came in in shape, and I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's really early now, I think we feel like we
Speaker 1: got a good group. Um, we got guys who are
Speaker 1: capable of doing things we're gonna ask me to do.
Speaker 1: So I'm just looking forward to getting this whole thing started.
Speaker 1: Kyler was talking today about what the run game could
Speaker 1: or should look like. I mean, you go out in
Speaker 1: the off season as Steve kime ads James Connor and
Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson and Brian Winters and I look at that
Speaker 1: and I really, you know, what the offensive line and
Speaker 1: then call the pound game. I'm thinking, Okay, here we
Speaker 1: go more of a straight ahead, power running game. What
Speaker 1: should we expect this year? Well, you know, we're going
Speaker 1: to continue to do the things where we're real good
Speaker 1: at and you know, we're getting better a lot of
Speaker 1: different positions. And you know, Steve and those guys have
Speaker 1: done a great job of acquired guys for us, and
Speaker 1: we just got to put them in the right positions
Speaker 1: to go out and be able to, you know, do
Speaker 1: what the capable of doing. Um, you know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. I think it's gonna be fun to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, as a coach, senator and helping these guys
Speaker 1: get to places they want to go. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun fun thing to watch. James, what do
Speaker 1: you look for in a running back specifically? Well, um, toughness.
Speaker 1: You're toughness you get, they're not. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Eddie good and running back in the NFL that I've
Speaker 1: ever been around that wasn't probably toughest guy team or
Speaker 1: add toughness that you could clearly see. Um, And I
Speaker 1: think that we have several guys like that in our roam,
Speaker 1: including you know, obviously Chase and James. I mean, we
Speaker 1: got young guys like Jonathan Ward and Nial Benjamin who
Speaker 1: are these guys are hungry, Tabian Pieces and California Muhammad.
Speaker 1: We got a good group of guys that I'm really
Speaker 1: looking forward to working with. Cardinals running backs coach James
Speaker 1: Saxon our guest here on the Big Red Rage. I
Speaker 1: see two running backs who are both in contract years
Speaker 1: and a James Connor and a Chase Edmonds. Do you
Speaker 1: like that? Do you like that two guys pushing each
Speaker 1: other and improve it years in their career? You know that?
Speaker 1: You know, I've yet to be on a team that's
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, but I've been in the Championship
Speaker 1: game a couple of times. And the one thing I
Speaker 1: know is that in this game, you gotta play. Man.
Speaker 1: If if you want to be a great team, you
Speaker 1: want to be a great player, man, you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta be able to compete at the same level or
Speaker 1: even better than the best players in the sport. So
Speaker 1: that's to me, that's that's it, mean, that's part of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's where everybody who wants to win
Speaker 1: in this game has to go. And you got to
Speaker 1: beat the best that you want to be the best.
Speaker 1: James talk to me about Chase Edmunds and his skill
Speaker 1: set and the type of football player is. I absolutely
Speaker 1: love his mentality. Talk a little bit about Chase Edmunds. Well, um,
Speaker 1: probably one of the smartest guys I've ever been around.
Speaker 1: Question the guys not only a phenomenal above the next
Speaker 1: person and just a personable human. Just love being around
Speaker 1: him talking to him. He's an excellent athlete and the
Speaker 1: guy's got it's self confidence. It's just that just looses
Speaker 1: out of him and everybody around the building just kind
Speaker 1: of gravitates towards him. And Uh, it's good for our
Speaker 1: team and I think that you know, these guys are
Speaker 1: grown together and as you know, when you got guys
Speaker 1: like Chase and you add a guy like James, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's just it just it is great for you. You
Speaker 1: set me up right there on that note, same question,
Speaker 1: James Conner, talk to me about this dude. You know,
Speaker 1: this guy is a pro. Um. It's been fun. You know,
Speaker 1: it was fun to be around him from the first
Speaker 1: two years in the league, and then you know, it
Speaker 1: was fun watching him from Afar and you know, just
Speaker 1: to get a chance to be back around that guy. Um,
Speaker 1: the guy means you know, there's no words I can
Speaker 1: use to describe, you know, how I see it about
Speaker 1: that kid, Um, other than you know, I'm extremely excited.
Speaker 1: We're extremely excited that he chose to come here and
Speaker 1: be with us. And and it's gonna it's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good thing. And again, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Can can he catch the ball? The
Speaker 1: backfield to catch the ball? Yeah, I mean, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you want to ask an elephant to you know,
Speaker 1: ride in the sailboat this guy. Yeah, but now he's uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put that guy in the best position to
Speaker 1: help us, and and he more than will him to
Speaker 1: do that. He's gonna be prepared. I was talking to
Speaker 1: my older brother Craig about James Connor, and I know
Speaker 1: you know Craig as well, and he was so sad
Speaker 1: to actually see him leave right there. He was telling
Speaker 1: me that Mike Tomlin absolutely was heartbroken that they couldn't
Speaker 1: get something done, heartbroken that James Connor was actually walking
Speaker 1: out of that organization. Mike Tomlin, I guess called him
Speaker 1: as Belle cow a running back that was a three
Speaker 1: down back. Do you see him as a three down back?
Speaker 1: You know, the guy's capable of doing whatever you ask
Speaker 1: him to do. And in this league, you know, the
Speaker 1: longer you see in this league, you have to evolve
Speaker 1: and become smarter. And that's that's that's the bottom line
Speaker 1: for any guy that surviveing this league for a long time.
Speaker 1: And I'm I say survive, we're talking about thrive and
Speaker 1: be a factor on football team because nobody stays it's over.
Speaker 1: You get in this league and not be productive on
Speaker 1: mean done, the teams move on for guys like that book.
Speaker 1: When you got guys, we're gonna continue some produce. I
Speaker 1: mean want you want those days and I get it
Speaker 1: most of the talk in the off season has been
Speaker 1: about the one two punch of Chase Edmonds and James Connor.
Speaker 1: But the question that Chase gets the most is can
Speaker 1: he be in every down running back? What do you
Speaker 1: say to that? Um? You know, I I tell those
Speaker 1: guys all the time. I said, you know, nobody goes
Speaker 1: at hall saying it's not available. There's not one guy
Speaker 1: in all things who hasn't played. We hadn't been available.
Speaker 1: And the number one thing in order to be productive
Speaker 1: and important part of the team, you gotta be available
Speaker 1: and you gotta produce. And you know, we feel like
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be capable doing those things otherwise I
Speaker 1: see him. He's ready. So it's gonna be fun again. Watch.
Speaker 1: So what is the best asset? I know that I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated with James Connor, but anybody who's two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty pounds, I'm telling you right now, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. This is just me now, James. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna light him up in the queue. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: him behind the queue and I'm going to attack the down.
Speaker 1: I'm going to attack the box said down and kill.
Speaker 1: Am I that wrong? Or what now you This game
Speaker 1: is a game of playing in the league. It's a
Speaker 1: game of many battles, and you play within the scheme
Speaker 1: of what you're doing offensively or defensively with these positions play,
Speaker 1: but there are many battles, and you know, I always
Speaker 1: like to tell guys, you know it does there's reality
Speaker 1: and then there's perception. So are you one person or
Speaker 1: you two? Well, you know you guys are watching your
Speaker 1: tape all week long. I'm trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: it looks like listening to his coach and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the game, you know, his game day,
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden can meet you. So did
Speaker 1: you meet these expectations or did you go beyond that?
Speaker 1: So if you go beyond it, then then then there's
Speaker 1: mental games that happened. But now it's he is. He's
Speaker 1: exactly what he's advertised to be. He's a downhill runner.
Speaker 1: There's nobs. It's crazy. I looked up a little bit
Speaker 1: of his history and James Connor was a star running
Speaker 1: back in high school obviously, and a star defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Think about that combination. And then he comes in as
Speaker 1: a true freshman at Pitt and he broke Tony Dorset's
Speaker 1: record for rushing in a Bowl game. I mean, so
Speaker 1: yere's a guy with size and speed able to move.
Speaker 1: You have that element, the one two punch. And then
Speaker 1: what was interesting in the offseason, coach, is that Sean
Speaker 1: Coogler was promoted to run game coordinator. Obviously you're a
Speaker 1: big part of that. And then Cliff Kingsbury. Obviously, how's
Speaker 1: that going to go this year? The game planning and
Speaker 1: formulating the run game from week to week? How's that
Speaker 1: going to go? Well? I think coach does a great job,
Speaker 1: you know, putting this plan together and you know, and
Speaker 1: allowed coaches to work and you know, Coogs is a
Speaker 1: great human being. It's gonna be easy to work with him.
Speaker 1: Steve Hyde and Jim Dre you know, Can Turning, all
Speaker 1: these guys that we uh were as an offense was
Speaker 1: working together. But it's gonna be fun, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: But you know, I hadn't worked with a guy you know,
Speaker 1: let coos Um. He's about as good as you ever
Speaker 1: want to get. He makes coming to work fun. You know.
Speaker 1: Coach Kingsberry has done that with everybody and stuff. We've
Speaker 1: got a great group of group of coaches and everybody
Speaker 1: enjoys being around each other and that makes it easy working.
Speaker 1: And then h so we're looking forward to getting this thing. Sorry,
Speaker 1: So James, you gotta help me out here, I mean
Speaker 1: the rest of the running back room and say, tell
Speaker 1: me who I should be talking off as we get
Speaker 1: ready to go into training gap right here? Is there
Speaker 1: a guy you know? Yeah? Ahead. I think that the
Speaker 1: group that we have is is as good as E's. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that all six of these guys
Speaker 1: have you know, qualities that you can give to a
Speaker 1: team that make it help. I'm and again, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just looking. I'm excited for every guy's opportunity and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun again, like I said, it'd be fun
Speaker 1: to watch. I tell you one of my takeaways from
Speaker 1: watching three days a mini camps that you know, Benjamin
Speaker 1: ran every single drill, I mean, even the warm ups.
Speaker 1: He was going one hundred and ten percent. He he
Speaker 1: was out there seemingly to make a statement with every
Speaker 1: single rep. Honestly, even when guys are just going half
Speaker 1: speed and warm it up, he was seemingly going full
Speaker 1: speeded he catch your eye a little bit, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, anybody who've got the obviously you want.
Speaker 1: All these kids have ability. I mean, he's got great ability.
Speaker 1: He's just having It's gonna be time for him. He's
Speaker 1: just gonna have to take advantage of whatever opportunities to
Speaker 1: get the greatest one play here. Maybe it's Can who knows,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to be prepared to be available
Speaker 1: number one and number two, to be able to execute
Speaker 1: properly the things we're gonna ask him to do. He's
Speaker 1: an exciting you. And Claire Johnson Moore's extremely exciting you,
Speaker 1: and Claire Taby and Feast, a guy who's you know,
Speaker 1: bounced around a little bit in California, Muhammad, who Coops
Speaker 1: had and never deavor with him. I mean, skee to.
Speaker 1: Those guys got something different that makes them all valuable. Coach,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Kyler Murray as a young
Speaker 1: quarterback developing and his develop meant this year? What do
Speaker 1: you expect from Kyler? You know, I think that everybody
Speaker 1: expects something from him, But I think the guy can't
Speaker 1: get any better coaching than coach. He's there um and
Speaker 1: he is. His kid is going to light it up
Speaker 1: even more. I'm just I'm just I think we're all
Speaker 1: in a position if we're gonna sit here, you know,
Speaker 1: wash out. His kid develops and grows into everything, and
Speaker 1: everybody expects me to be um And that's not putting
Speaker 1: pressure on him. Eat. I'm sure he understands that better
Speaker 1: than anybody. But it's just gonna it's gonna be fun
Speaker 1: just to see how coach takes him and he begins
Speaker 1: to grow into exactly what everybody believes he can be.
Speaker 1: Your days is elite blocking back. Who was your toughest battle?
Speaker 1: Who was your toughest battle you had to meet in
Speaker 1: the whole Coach, You know there's a lot of guys, man,
Speaker 1: I mean fullback. We don't remember when we were running
Speaker 1: into you. Just you just appreciate the activity. Could I
Speaker 1: say Harry Carson? Can I say Mike Singletary? Can I say, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: though Mike Singletary is the only lineback, well, he's one
Speaker 1: of two linebackers I've ever blocked that. After play was over,
Speaker 1: I got coached the field, James. I love you man,
Speaker 1: Thank you brother, Thanks coach. We appreciate it. No problem.
Speaker 1: You guys have a great week. Yeah, that's awesome. There
Speaker 1: you go, Cardinals running Backs coach James Saxon, and uh,
Speaker 1: maybe that's where his coaching career started right there actual field.
Speaker 1: Carl Banks in there as well, Paully Mike Singletary had
Speaker 1: an impression amount him. He went on to be a
Speaker 1: twenty year coach in the NFL back with more in
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage. After this, Brady gets a stamp
Speaker 1: from Andrew Falco's trying to get the accepted. Coming back
Speaker 1: up the field, it's Robert Albert Albert forty Bertie twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: ten five and he will walk into the internal at
Speaker 1: eighty one yard big six. He knows if he's healthy, man,
Speaker 1: he's a big party his defense and when you're speaking
Speaker 1: about leaders and guys, that's pushing guys man. He is
Speaker 1: on top of our listens Ford leaders. Yeah, when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he can play. And when he's out in that field,
Speaker 1: you can't miss him. Just his style of play, how
Speaker 1: vocal he is. He was a can't miss guy. In
Speaker 1: the last three days at mini camp Bans Joseph there
Speaker 1: on Robert Alford who has missed the last two years
Speaker 1: with injury. So some advice from Vans Joseph there. We
Speaker 1: got coached up by James Saxon in the last segment,
Speaker 1: Cardinals running backs coach, and I guess that's what I
Speaker 1: get wolf huh. Here on the Big Red Race presented
Speaker 1: by Santan Ford and Gilbert, I ask, you know, Ken,
Speaker 1: a two hundred and thirty something pound running back, catch
Speaker 1: the ball? And then what was this quote? What was
Speaker 1: the response to me? It was something about us you
Speaker 1: don't put an elephant in a sailboat, paul I believe
Speaker 1: that was what he said. That's you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: where's to live by him? Like, very profound right there,
Speaker 1: don't put an elephant on a sailboat. If there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. I got to write that down, Paulie,
Speaker 1: and remember that, I'm gonna use it to morning. Don't
Speaker 1: overthink it. Basically, it's what he's saying, okay, right, which
Speaker 1: is what I was guilty of doing right there. So
Speaker 1: now look, I don't think I'm overthinking it when I say, okay.
Speaker 1: The biggest question looming over this team, the biggest answer
Speaker 1: they need out of training camp is cornerback agree or disagree? Oh, Polly, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I think on the defensive side of the ball, I
Speaker 1: definitely think from a positional perspective. And it's tough, Polly,
Speaker 1: because I know Robert Alfred. You can't bank on Robert
Speaker 1: Alford the last two years. I understand he's suffered severe
Speaker 1: injuries that have ruined his seasons for two years. You
Speaker 1: got to go all the way back to twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: to watch him on tape in a game. For the
Speaker 1: most part, I understand that. But if you tell me
Speaker 1: Robert Alford is going to be healthy, I think they're
Speaker 1: going to be fine out there. For me, it's the
Speaker 1: inside linebacker position. That is the one position that I
Speaker 1: am going to be looking at and watching very closely
Speaker 1: with Zaven Collins and Isaiah Simmons. Yeah, and I get
Speaker 1: it absolutely. Alfred, as we know, was having a great
Speaker 1: camp twenty nineteen and then oh man, he broke his
Speaker 1: lower leg out for the season. Last year. He was
Speaker 1: bawling ye and then out of nowhere a torn pack
Speaker 1: and so miss the season again. And the question of
Speaker 1: Robert Alfred today, Wolf was did you ever consider retirement?
Speaker 1: Not at all? Man, Nah, I'm not ready to hang
Speaker 1: him up at all. So, um, you always gonna have
Speaker 1: dark times, man, in anything that you do. Um, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you love what you do. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: use that to motivate you. And that's what I use
Speaker 1: these past two years as get better at studying film.
Speaker 1: Um something that I could get out of it that
Speaker 1: was positive for me. Man, That is music to my
Speaker 1: ears right there, Polly. Just the fact that he said
Speaker 1: that he wasn't ready to retire ball, not like you,
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready to retire ball. Make me an offer.
Speaker 1: Where's the golden parachute. I'm ready to sign the line
Speaker 1: that has dotted, there's no t That's what I want
Speaker 1: to hear out of my potential starting corner. I want
Speaker 1: to hear somebody that has resolved and love of the game.
Speaker 1: And that's the one thing you hear about Robert Alford.
Speaker 1: You hear it from his teammates, you hear it from
Speaker 1: his coaches, you hear it from the guys in the
Speaker 1: front office ball. He loves ball. He loves everything about it.
Speaker 1: He's an alpha, He's an alpha male. He's a dog,
Speaker 1: and he's very similar in mentality and very similar in
Speaker 1: his soul. Paul to a guy that the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: brought in, Malcolm Butler. Yeah, I mean job number one
Speaker 1: was one in the offseason, Steve Kind wanted to get
Speaker 1: everybody now more physical. Yes, well, you didn't have to
Speaker 1: go out and get Robert Alford. He was already from
Speaker 1: the roster now. Cliff Kingsbury interestingly told the media this
Speaker 1: week that Robert Alford literally told management, told the decision makers,
Speaker 1: I owe you guys one. So they cut him. They
Speaker 1: resigned him to a bargain basement deal. And he's out
Speaker 1: there and he's playing, and you mentioned the respect he
Speaker 1: gets from his teammates. Will speaking of Buddha Baker was
Speaker 1: asked this week about Robert Alford. Those of you who
Speaker 1: do not know Robert Alfred, He's a big talker, a
Speaker 1: guy who loves the game, a guy who you know
Speaker 1: last year and would still go to meetings, would still
Speaker 1: go to practice and watch practice and help young guys
Speaker 1: out or help you know, older guys out and seeing things.
Speaker 1: So now that he's on the field and I know
Speaker 1: he's very excited, he still looks like the great Robert Alford.
Speaker 1: Fresh Robert Alford. Wolf. If Robert Alford is healthy, to
Speaker 1: your point, he's out there. And then Malcolm Butler, mister
Speaker 1: more than one hundred tackles a year ago, as a corner.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk with Rob Moore. Do
Speaker 1: you remember Rob Moore, former Cardinals receiver. Of course I do, Paul,
Speaker 1: he's now the Titans receivers coach. And I mentioned Malcolm
Speaker 1: Butler just in conversation and he reacteds at all. He'll
Speaker 1: fight you now, he'll fight you. So you're gonna have
Speaker 1: two physical corners, potentially Byron Murphy on the inside. Okay,
Speaker 1: but once again it's predicated on Alfred stand healthy and well,
Speaker 1: if you know, on the big Red rage a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago at Greg Williams and I want you to
Speaker 1: ract once again when we fresh your memory on the
Speaker 1: cornerbacks coach, and he's Scott a report. You guys saw
Speaker 1: Robert Alfred from a training camp standpoint over the last
Speaker 1: two years. We were expecting big things from him he
Speaker 1: the last two years just from his performance in what
Speaker 1: he brings from a tenacity level to our team into
Speaker 1: our secondary. I mean, this guy is energy in a bottle.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? If you if you're ever
Speaker 1: around how he is always on and he's a dog
Speaker 1: in the appear to the other words. Samy just listened
Speaker 1: to that, Paul. It's one of the reasons why I've
Speaker 1: been talking about Robert Alfred for how many years, I
Speaker 1: mean just years waiting to see Robert Alfred out there
Speaker 1: playing on the field, and Paul, to your point, in
Speaker 1: training camp, he was the best player on the field.
Speaker 1: He was. He was out there absolutely bawling. And that's
Speaker 1: why if this guy can stay healthy, it's really going
Speaker 1: to change a lot for the Arizona Cardinals. And Paul,
Speaker 1: by the way, the passing defense for the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: not nearly as bad is purported by everybody. Everybody has
Speaker 1: a perception they were awful last year. They were number
Speaker 1: ten as a matter of fact, and yards per game
Speaker 1: number seven and yards per play. Paulie, you put those
Speaker 1: two things together right there, that's very, very tough. That's
Speaker 1: a top ten past defense, number five in sacks per attempt,
Speaker 1: number twelve on third down defense, and a defensive quarterback rating.
Speaker 1: And you know that this is big to me because
Speaker 1: you go ahead with a quarterback rating, you look at
Speaker 1: it year in and year out, the best quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the NFL, they're in the top ten every year. That
Speaker 1: that quarterback rating has got to be accurate to some degree.
Speaker 1: It's a decent measurement of how a human being plays
Speaker 1: that position. Will now flip it over a defensive quarterback rating.
Speaker 1: They were in the top half of the league, number fourteen.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact. How much better can they
Speaker 1: be with a healthy Chandler Jones? How much better can
Speaker 1: they be with JJ Watt? How much better can they
Speaker 1: be with JJ Watt, Jordan Phillips and Chandler Jones. I'm
Speaker 1: bullish on this defense getting better, in particular if Robert
Speaker 1: Alford is healthy, if you can believe in Jalen Thompson
Speaker 1: as well staying healthy, Yes, along with and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you these two rookie corners who have been getting a
Speaker 1: lot of reps and they look the part, and Tay
Speaker 1: Gollen and Marco Wilson, one of those guys can just
Speaker 1: be counted on to contribute at some point and get
Speaker 1: into that rotation because well, if you know fas Joseph,
Speaker 1: his base defense is three corners. He's going five dbs
Speaker 1: more than half the time. You need at least a
Speaker 1: trio of corners. Yeah, there's no doubt about it, Paulie.
Speaker 1: You do. And yet at the same time, you can
Speaker 1: leave two linebackers on the field that are never gonna
Speaker 1: come off and Zaven Collins and Isaiah Simmons. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see that grows strong grasshoppers. Well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, Well, before you go out running down the street,
Speaker 1: we have one segment to go here and we're talking
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Simmons, those inside linebackers. What exactly did the
Speaker 1: Cardinals see so far? It is the big red rage
Speaker 1: presented by Satan four in Gilbert shotguns, snapped to Wilson,
Speaker 1: straight drop back, steps up in the pocket, takes off
Speaker 1: running far side of the forty and drilled by Simmons
Speaker 1: at the forty one. Isaiah Simmons is balling. How you
Speaker 1: do things outside of the facility and off the field,
Speaker 1: like going home, and how long you choose to study,
Speaker 1: what you choose to do extra, what you choose to
Speaker 1: do after practice is over. That's something that I've always,
Speaker 1: you know, done, but you know, it's just a whole
Speaker 1: new level when you're a pro, just because at this
Speaker 1: level where everybody's physically gifted, everyone's an athlete, and I
Speaker 1: feel like where people separate themselves as the mental aspect
Speaker 1: of the game, and then you throw in what Bill
Speaker 1: Davis Cardinals linebackers coach told us last week here on
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert,
Speaker 1: how many different positions did the coaches ask the rookie
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons to play last year without an off season?
Speaker 1: Was it six? Paul? I mean half dozen? You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: We think about that, right Ding. So he's gonna be now, look,
Speaker 1: are they going to use him as a wildcard? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: at least that's my expectation. Not to the degree though
Speaker 1: a year ago, because now he's needed on an every
Speaker 1: down basis to be alongside Zavian Collins and so, but
Speaker 1: you know, that threat will still be there. But I
Speaker 1: think he'll be able to go ahead and streamline things
Speaker 1: a little bit. We'll be able to focus on the
Speaker 1: one position and then you know, hopefully now with an
Speaker 1: offseason and being out on that field and year one
Speaker 1: under his belt, Wolf, what are your expectations Rizaiah Simmons Man,
Speaker 1: I expect Isaiah Simmons to explode this year. I think
Speaker 1: he is going to have a huge year. We loved
Speaker 1: him when he was taking number eight overall by the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. We absolutely loved his game, his skill set,
Speaker 1: of course, Pauly, but I think he's on the prescipice
Speaker 1: right now of having a huge year. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I say that is because of what Bill Davis
Speaker 1: has told us this offseason and including the last time
Speaker 1: he was on he was talking about the intelligence of
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons and just listening to Isaiah Simmons right there, Paulie.
Speaker 1: The mental side of it is critical. It's what separates
Speaker 1: one player from the next player. And this is going
Speaker 1: to be the challenge Isaiah Simmons is gonna have to
Speaker 1: go out improve it now. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: prove it league. This is the great thing about it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have front row seats to two inside linebackers
Speaker 1: with incredible skill, incredible talent that both are going to
Speaker 1: have to go out and improve it. Paul that he
Speaker 1: would play in the NFL. That's the last box that
Speaker 1: needs to be checked, right obviously, as lay athleticism, just
Speaker 1: break he proved to you this time a year ago.
Speaker 1: You were wondering, Okay, does he have the physicality. He's
Speaker 1: got it, PAULI stick his face into the fire. I've
Speaker 1: seen him do it. So now do you have the
Speaker 1: mental aptitude to play the prussion, the instincts the football
Speaker 1: IQ and and let's be honest, is Son Reddick never
Speaker 1: quite got it and that was the difference. He had
Speaker 1: a lot of athleticism him as well. He was hard nosed,
Speaker 1: but making the transition from edged inside linebacker he never
Speaker 1: quite caught on. He was always a half step slow,
Speaker 1: and that was enough to get him beat and get
Speaker 1: him out of the rotation. Now he's in Carolina, so
Speaker 1: you have these two young linebackers advanced. Joseph the decordinator
Speaker 1: this week was asked about Isaiah Simmons impairing him with
Speaker 1: the rookie Zavin Collins. I think as a coach, you
Speaker 1: have to understand it's going to be some bad downs,
Speaker 1: but also on a flip side, it's gonna be played
Speaker 1: that those two guys can make that other guys can't make.
Speaker 1: It's our job as a staff mine, especially to put
Speaker 1: players first, in scheme second, you know, and to let
Speaker 1: those guys unlock those bodies and just play. You know,
Speaker 1: So when you're playing with two young backers, and I
Speaker 1: did it in Sam fran We had Pat Willis and
Speaker 1: Navarro Bowman when they were young guys, and you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of simplify things, and a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys are running hit. Was that you that just pounded
Speaker 1: the tables? Pounded the table right there? Because I was
Speaker 1: thinking of Navarro Bowman and Patrick Willis. You've mentioned those
Speaker 1: guys numerous times. Have you been talking advanced Joseph? I
Speaker 1: have not been talking to vance Joseph Paully, but that
Speaker 1: I mean those guys right there. When I think of
Speaker 1: some of the best linebacking tandems the NFL has ever
Speaker 1: known on the inside, I think of those guys, There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Luke Keekley and Thomas Davis as well, PAULI.
Speaker 1: Those two guys were incredible inside linebackers for years with
Speaker 1: a Carolina Panthers. I think of those two guys, I
Speaker 1: think at Carolina and I think of the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. What can I can I just nocalize
Speaker 1: a pet peeve here? Okay? Why why do you always
Speaker 1: fail to site last year's Super Bowl winner? Did you
Speaker 1: happen to see Devin White and Lavante David Demi? Okay, Paul, Yes,
Speaker 1: there was a playoff game. Tom Brady threw three picks
Speaker 1: in the second half. They still won. Why because of
Speaker 1: those two linebackers. They were destroying teams in the postseason
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. And if it's a
Speaker 1: copycat league, do we not have a fresh reminder of
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Bucks and their dynamic young linebacking crew. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now you're you're just piling on, Paul. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: just piling onto my point right here in What I
Speaker 1: love about this as well is provided that these two
Speaker 1: guys and they got to prove it. Paul, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: this is a prove it league. I've said it before.
Speaker 1: You got to prove it. They're gonna stick their face,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be able to hold up at the point
Speaker 1: of attack. I think Isaiah Simmons is going to be
Speaker 1: that guy. We need to see Zavian Collins do it
Speaker 1: as well. He needs to be aggressive. He needs to
Speaker 1: show that he's gonna stick his face on somebody and
Speaker 1: he's gonna hold up at the point of attack. And
Speaker 1: if you tell me those two guys do that. The
Speaker 1: physicality side of it, they've got that covered and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the athleticism and in coverage and their length, Paul,
Speaker 1: can you imagine there won't be two inside linebackers that
Speaker 1: are longer or taller than those two guys in the league. Paul,
Speaker 1: it is striking when you watch them and they're out there,
Speaker 1: whether it was seven on seven, well, I mean just
Speaker 1: to see. First you got to get past the numbers set.
Speaker 1: It's gonna throw this in my face that you've been
Speaker 1: out there at practice, but first you gotta get past
Speaker 1: the numbers. Well, if you gotta get passing on with
Speaker 1: one inside linebacker is wearing nine and the others wearing
Speaker 1: twenty five. But as soon as you get past that,
Speaker 1: then you realize, oh my goodness, look at the measurables
Speaker 1: out there. Zaven Collins is very vocal and look, Wolf,
Speaker 1: we both agree. We don't agree on much, but we
Speaker 1: both agree that players know players. And when Buddha Bakers
Speaker 1: said this week about Zaven Collins, he said, on his own,
Speaker 1: wasn't even asked about Zamon Collins, and he offered up
Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, he gets it. He
Speaker 1: understands football. Quote end quote. That made me a lot
Speaker 1: more bullish on the rookie handling the green dot and
Speaker 1: calling the defense. He's very vocal out there. He's not shy,
Speaker 1: and so look there's gonna be risk reward, There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it with two young guys in the middle.
Speaker 1: But as Van's Joseph said, players first, scheme second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're seeing a bit of a philosophical change here,
Speaker 1: perhaps going all the way back to the war room.
Speaker 1: In this selection is Zaven Collins, where Steve Kine looked
Speaker 1: at the camera and said, hey, these he's a starter
Speaker 1: day one book it. Yeah, yeah, they absolutely there's a doubt.
Speaker 1: But what I like is we talked to Billy Davis,
Speaker 1: the inside linebacker coach last week, right Paully, and he
Speaker 1: was talking about Isaiah Simmons, and I asked him specifically, well,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Simmons be able to help Zaven Collins, and he
Speaker 1: without a shadow of a doubt, without any hesitations that
Speaker 1: that's a great thing about it. Isaiah Simmons is a
Speaker 1: very very bright kid and knows the game and his
Speaker 1: knows the defense and knows the calls. He'll be able
Speaker 1: to help Zaven Collins. So you know what, Paul, again,
Speaker 1: like I say, I don't want to get out of
Speaker 1: my lane here because you've got to prove it to me.
Speaker 1: This is a prove it league. Raise the bar for
Speaker 1: every rookie. It's it's Paul. It's so hard to come
Speaker 1: in from the college game and make an impact on
Speaker 1: an NFL team because it's just the best of the
Speaker 1: best and it's a completely different game. And I just
Speaker 1: I think, you know, sometimes I've got to cool my
Speaker 1: jets on these guys. You've got to prove it to me.
Speaker 1: And that's what our expect should be. And Zaman Collins
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy. I can tell you
Speaker 1: just conversations I've had. Jordan Hicks ain't walking through that door.
Speaker 1: He will not be a part of the Ears on
Speaker 1: a Cardinals come training camp. So that's the way. The
Speaker 1: other thing that gave me a little bit of hope
Speaker 1: was what Buddhas said this week and he asked was
Speaker 1: asked about this year's version of the defense, bringing in
Speaker 1: a lot of leaders, guys like JJ Watton on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball. And this is Buddha now, and
Speaker 1: I quote, you know what, We're able to hold each
Speaker 1: other accountable, and that's something that guys haven't really done
Speaker 1: the past few years. Hold each other accountable, and quote
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker, so hopefully, and let me tell you, JJ
Speaker 1: Watt leading every single d line drill, bringing ridiculous energy
Speaker 1: and it just it is a different vibe out. There
Speaker 1: was some different personalities on that side of the ball,
Speaker 1: some new, some returning from injury. And there's your point
Speaker 1: with you got to Malcolm Button and or Robert Alfred,
Speaker 1: totally different mindset at corner. These are guys who will
Speaker 1: brawl with you every single snap and that's all by design.
Speaker 1: As we know, they wanted, they wanted this. This is
Speaker 1: where they hoped to head in the off season. You
Speaker 1: know what, PAULI, do your job. That's what they need
Speaker 1: to do. Do your job, and that's soul that that
Speaker 1: should be the theme of this year. Do your job,
Speaker 1: go out, be accountable to yourself first and then to
Speaker 1: each other man. You know, coaches, put the sains up
Speaker 1: on the wall. Do your job. That's one um and
Speaker 1: then we'll add to an effective this show. Don't put
Speaker 1: an elephant on a sailboat. That'll be the other you know, discipline, focus, commitment,
Speaker 1: and then don't put an elephant on a sailboat. So
Speaker 1: put him in the queue and let him run downhill.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, special thanks Jim Mo mondro Cody Fincher, Wolf
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