WEBVTT - Big Red Rage - Young Defenders Making Mark 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:05.440 Strap on the boots and scrape up the knuckles ahead. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:10.400 He got Jack. This is the Big Red Rain presented 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:14.480 by Santanford in Gilbert. Harry's gonna score touchdown then so 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:17.320 for bets goes up and makes the game. When it 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:22.840 catch Flarry Luncheon does it again. The Rage is brought 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.680 to you by satan Ford in Gilbert. Are you Satanford 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.400 State Farm? Talk to an agent today at eight hundred 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:37.160 State Farm, And by Arizona Cardinals Podcasts. Visit Hacy Cardinals 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:45.920 dot com, Slash Podcasts, The rod Scene, Rising ar Temperaturizing Vision, Flurry, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.720 Rage taking over. Here's Paul KELVC. Get the popcorn ready, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.479 It's gonna be a show and Ron will flip. It 0:00:53.640 --> 0:01:00.480 doesn't get any better than that. Unleash the far well. 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:06.240 It's was the night before the night before Christmas, and 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.600 I'd say that not a creature was stirring, not even 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.040 a mouse. But I have two kids, acassa GLVC wolf 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.840 at last count, you have two kids and two pets 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.200 over at your compound, and so you know there is 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.119 a lot of activity. Let's just face it. But I'm 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.760 gonna just go ahead and full past all that because 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.959 Ron Wolfley if I'm not violating hippo laws here? How 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.119 you doing? Because we saw the headline yesterday you are 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.920 officially quarantining along with Dave Pash and so I just 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.200 want to make sure officially, I think this is the 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.560 first we've heard from you, although you know, we know 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.880 you're on every social media platform, but you know, how 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:51.120 exactly are things and how are things progressive? Well, Paully, 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:56.440 let me start here by saying, Merry Christmas Eve, Eve, Paul, Okay, 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.640 Merry Christmas Eve. I can see what I did right there. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.960 That's number one. Number two, Paul, I feel fantastic. I 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.600 really do. I feel fantastic. Everyone in the family is fantastic. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.440 The problem is exposure, Paul. You know you come in 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.679 contact with some people from time to time, and these 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.359 people come down with it. And you know the protocols 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.400 of the National Football League and how stringent they are. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.840 You better believe we're being very, very careful. Ball. I'm 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.680 walking around here right now. I got hand sanitizern't throwing 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.120 it up against the walls, Paul. I mean everything literally 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.840 that you could touch here at the Wolfley compound. We 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.200 got hand sanitizer, Paul. We got mass I don't know, Paul. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.520 I know you're not very clean. I know that you 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.079 kind of get a little rough around the edges at 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.000 home when you're there. But I can tell you right now, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.880 Polly Pristine here at the Wolfley Compound, well, if you 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.520 need disinfecting wipes, I'll be over in about twenty minutes. 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.239 I brought I'll just right there. I'll leave him under 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.120 your tree. I'll send them right down the chimney if 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.640 you need disinfecting wife. So, but Paully, I appreciate you 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.120 asking everybody here is doing well at the Wolfley cop Well, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.240 we're concerned about you. We also want to make sure 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.720 it's not some well thought out ploy to take a 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.920 game off and give yourself a long Christmas weekend. So okay, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.120 there we go. We confirm that. All around they keep 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.120 up to Polly. Have you soiled the silks here? Thinking 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.280 about to actually calling a regular season game? Polly coming up? 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.960 I mean, this is a huge game. Do you understand this? Pole, 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.240 You're gonna call this game and this is going to 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.520 be a massive game for the Arizona Cardinals against the 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.160 forty nine ers. Thanks for ratcheting up the pressure. I 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.600 appreciate that you know, thanks for driving up the expectations. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.080 I you know, as if there isn't enough pressure, as 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.280 if day Pass isn't flawless at what he does. You know, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.400 as I try and tell people, he passed, right, I 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.440 mean at least beat rains following me up. All, okay, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.480 you're following pass up. You said that I didn't see. 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.560 What I'm saying is stinking passes over there doing a 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.200 Cardinals game on a Sunday, at college basketball game on 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.680 a Tuesday. He does an NBA game by Wednesday, at 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.280 college football game on a Saturday, another Cardinals game on 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.200 a Sunday, and he doesn't mess up one thing, not 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.400 one thing goes wrong, not one name, nothing, So as 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:10.400 if there lying up already exactly. By the way, speaking 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.200 of accolades, and I think Dave's won Arizona broadcast a 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.040 year or something like ten years in a row or something. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.159 Speaking of active how about Kyler Murray your NFC Offensive 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.919 Player of the Week his third time this season. No 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.400 Arizona Cardinal has ever won that award Player of the 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.880 Week three times in a single season. And you know what, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.600 bottom line, the gift that keeps on giving here this 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.480 holiday season is a second year Pro Bowl quarterback. When 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:38.760 you read the names from the NFC, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:44.479 and Kyler Murray, let that wash over you. And I 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.960 know what I've site myself. You can't take that for granted. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.680 We're starting to watch Kyler and everything he does in 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.800 this skill set and the passing yards, and we keep 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.080 asking for more. We'll wait a minute, and this season 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.120 of giving an appreciation, let's appreciate that. You know what 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.320 year a half instead of a have not, you have 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.239 a Pro Bowl quarterback to lead you for the next decade. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.920 So Polly, let's get this right. He was Rookie of 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.000 the Year of course his first year, and now he's 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.760 a Pro bowler. Well's on Kyler Murray Zach Allen on 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.320 this episode of The Big Red Rage presented by Satan 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:24.360 Ford in Gilbert snap it to Murray's gonna keep me 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.840 running right, cuts left, breaks a tackle at the five 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.359 and end of the end zone for the touchdown. That's 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.920 Kyler Murray. Right down, Candy Cane Lade, baby hurry and 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.920 trouble in the pocket, rolls to the left, now throws 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.440 left side of the end zone and oh my goodness, 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.160 Larry Fitzcarrol caught it for a touchdown, his first touchdown 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.159 of the year, and it's vintage fits. Shot gun snapped 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.320 to Murray drops back the throne buyers left side Hopkins. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.360 DeAndre Hopkins puts his hands up and he catches it 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.839 heads a touchdown. I have no idea how he caught 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.880 that fall. The sickle is how he caught that football. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.440 When you need a play, you go to the best, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:06.359 DeAndre Hopkins with a phenomenal catch against good coverage. I 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.640 don't know if there's anybody else in the NFL who 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.720 makes that catch. You know, since the onside kick really 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.839 isn't a thing anymore in the NFL, maybe we'll take 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.800 the moniker the hands team off that aspect of the 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.559 game and put it on d hop and Larry because Wolf, 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.600 can I get a comment on the degree of difficulty 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.520 on those two touchdown catches part of a thirty three 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.320 twenty six win against the Eagles in week fifteen, Oh, Polly, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.920 just incredible the difficulty level of DeAndre Hopkins and his catch. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.960 And then Larry Fitzgerald is well scourge at the red zone, Polly. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.240 I look at those two right there, and the most 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.840 encouraging thing about that is, Listen, we all know about 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.760 DeAndre Hopkins, we all know about his hands and how 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.400 incredible they are, and we all know about Larry Fitzgerald 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.320 and how incredible his hands are. The best thing that 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.120 happened to me was the fact that Kyler Murray threw 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.640 it up twice to a contested receiver, throw it up 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.160 to DeAndre Hopkins, throw it up to Larry Fitzgerald, and 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.960 guess what happened touchdown. Now they were really really good throws, okay, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.480 but man, they were even better catches for the most part. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.800 So hopefully, as you've got Kyler Murray, this young developing quarterback, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:26.200 looking at these two wide receivers making incredible catches, contested catches, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.720 hopefully he's going to do this a little bit more often. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.560 And then you had in the first half the forty 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:36.000 five yard grab in traffic between two defenders by DeAndre Hopkins, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.600 where Kyler said, you know what, that free safety, the 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.200 deep safety went to the sideline with the receiver, I'm 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.920 throwing it up right down the middle. And so yeah, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.480 to your point, we did see that on multiple occasions, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:52.240 and hopefully that continues because that's exactly what DeAndre Hopkins wants, 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.560 doesn't he nine for one sixty nine. He had the 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.800 game winning touchdown, essentially the making for those points after 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.960 he got some new gloves because on his first touches 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.200 the game, he fumbled the ball inside the ten yard 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.520 line and then he flicked his gloves away and later said, yeah, 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:07.920 those were four X, I need five X. And so 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.480 he got himself some new gloves. But but when you 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.240 see DeAndre Hopkins talking to Kyler on the sideline, I 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.080 presume part of that is, hey, even when I'm covered, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.280 I'm open. Yes, no, there's no doubt about that, PAULI. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.960 And remember we were talking to Cliff Cliff Kingsbury about 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.480 this very play right here. Just the fact that when 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.040 you had DeAndre Hopkins to the left of Kyler Murray 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.360 and all of a sudden you had press cover out 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.800 there at a safety in the middle of the field, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.920 they played robber coverage. This is something that the Arizona 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.520 Cardinals see an awful lot of because you want that spy, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.880 that robber who's a lurker down low, he's a free hitter. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.040 You go man across the board with a free safety 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.160 high in the middle of the field and now, all 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.200 of a sudden, you've got that lurker spying Kyler Murray 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.920 and looking for any crossing routes. It's a common coverage 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.640 at the Cardinals. See and we asked Cliff Kinsbury if 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.320 DeAndre Hopkins converted that route. In other words, he was 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.040 going to run a different route, and then suddenly when 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.200 he saw the coverage, he just ran fade. That's called 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.679 the conversion, Paul. It happens on a lot of red routes, 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.160 and Kyler Murray read it and knew what was coming, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.600 and so did Deandrey Hopkins. And that's the most encouraging 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.280 thing about it. He threw it up even though d 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:27.040 hop was covered, and look what happened. Touchdown, baby well, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.160 Kyler Murray a career high four hundred and six yards passing. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.040 So Kyler and de hop two of the four game 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.880 balls given out by Cliff Kingsbury. In fact, we're gonna 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.600 take a listen wolf, We'll go all access inside the 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:42.680 Cardinals victorious locker room against the Eagles. Here's coach Cliff 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.079 game ball send the tone had a blog punt and 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:56.120 a big cat did it again. He's elbing on every play. 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:03.840 DeAndre Hopkins the sack machine Dennis Gardak two more says 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:17.520 and then kay one, yeah, okay, what hear me? On 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.559 this short week? You play on Saturday. We'll play on Saturday. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.600 All right, Division game, Sam Frank coming here. Let's get 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:27.200 back on all right early, getting ready to go. Sorry, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.280 let's focus up this week. We got about it. Kyler 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.520 Murray breaking them down at the very end. That was 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:38.320 good stuff. So once again, Ezekiel Turner, Uh, no big deal, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.280 just a block punt and a twenty six yard reception 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.199 on fourth and two. Premiere on thirty three Queeteans Assassin 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.080 de Hop Guardak, Kyler Murray. By the way, a little 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.120 bit later, you and Zach Allen are gonna have to 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.960 break it down. How exactly is GUARDK doing what he 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.559 is doing? I need an explanation at this point on that. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.480 But that's a team that's coming together, Walf That's what 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.960 I heard in that locker room after their second straight win. Paulie, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.360 there's no doubt about that. You can feel this right, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.040 the chemistry that they're maybe peaking at the right time, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.280 all three phases starting to find a little something something 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.320 to hold on to. An identity, you know how important 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.679 an identity is to me offensively, DeAndre Hopkins and the 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.560 Kyler Murray's starting to get that chemistry defensively, of course, 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:27.240 getting to the quarterback special team's ball it out. It's 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.760 one name that was called by passionbul during the game 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.400 more than those four game ball recipients. And he is 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.160 next on the big red ray presented by satan Ford 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.320 in Gilbert. Zach Allen is there for the Cardinals to 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.120 make the play. Zach Allen's stuff that play. Jones backs 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.400 up throwing from his two and the ball is tipped 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.120 to the line and incomplete. I think Zach Allen got 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.480 a hand on a shotgun formation here for her. It's 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.640 takes the snap, drops back the pass facing pressure in trouble, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.600 and zack back at the thirty two yard line by 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.360 Zach Allen. An enormous play made by Allen and a 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.079 loss of fourteen. Well, that is a huge full men 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.480 of play right there by Zach Allen. The Eagles got 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.600 it going. They're trying to set up a screen to 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:15.080 the left of Jalen Hurts and Zach Allen got told 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.800 before he could throw a screen. That is an awesome job. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.199 I've lost count during the course of that game? How 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.559 many times said you and Dave Pashwolf called out the 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.560 name Zach Allen? You realize according to Pro Football Reference, 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.600 since twenty sixteen, only three defensive lineman in the NFL 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:37.200 have had eleven or more tackles in a game. And 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.000 we're now talking to one because it's all about you. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.160 Presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert A pleasure to welcome 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.120 Zach Allen, second year defensive lineman of the Arizona Cardinals, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.920 here on the show. Zach, how are we doing this evening? 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.000 I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, Zach. Was that 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.880 the best game you've ever played at the NFL level? Ah? Yeah, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.440 I definitely have to think. So. Yeah, it's nice to 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.000 have the kind of all kind of coming together right now. 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.640 And you know you wanted to come together during December, 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.640 so hopefully, um, you know it stays that way. What 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.960 went well in that game? Like, how how would you 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.400 explain that football one on one? What enabled you to 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.480 end up with eleven tackles, a sack, a tackle for loss, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.720 a quarterback hit, a pass defense and your defensive coordinator? 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.800 Advanced Joseph today confirming yes, Zach had his best game. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.880 Quote and quote what was it? Tell us about it? Um, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.840 I mean it's just been you know what I think 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.640 just coming into this defense, you know, the defense I 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.640 played in college, there's a lot of you know, staying 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.200 at the live stream as reading, you know, and we 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.280 played on tax and style defense. So I think, you know, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.680 the sky of started to click a little bit in 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.120 my head, you know, how how to play it, and 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.840 right now I'm loving it because it just lets you 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.240 get off the ball and go so um yeah, I 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.440 just want to keep it going forward. And you know, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.880 like Sunday, you know, it wasn't just you know me, 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.680 there was a bunch of great performance. So I think, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.920 you know, we're peaking at the right time and hopefully 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:07.520 we can keep it going. So, Zach, how's the ankle 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.160 going right now? How's the ankle feeling? How's your body overall? 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.320 And how's the ankle specifically? It's so well? Yeah. I 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.880 mean those uh you know, high ankles were paying paying 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.600 the buck to deal with. But um, you know, we 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:25.200 got a great medical staff that definitely you know, when 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.200 I got injured, I definitely you know, I wanted to 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.920 come back as quick as possible, and we beat the 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.280 recovery time by about a week or two, so I 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.920 was able to come back to that New England game 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.760 and then we've just been staying on top of it 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.600 and it's been feeling really good. And yeah, I mean 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.040 short weeks like this week, you gotta just do a 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.880 little bit of extra stuff. But I think we got 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.360 a great you know plan with you know, redcounts and 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.720 stuff like that. So um, I think we'll be fresh 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.520 for Saturday. Hey, Zach Allen, join us on the big 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.200 red race to what do great advanced Joseph use? You 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.000 up and down the line either side different bots along 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:06.000 that defensive front. How varied is your usage up there? Yeah? 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.400 I mean I think, you know, just in this defense, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:10.720 you know, you have to be able to do a 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:14.040 lot of things, and especially on the D line. You know, 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.720 I line up anywhere from a zero to nine, so 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.120 which I'm pretty comfortable with because that's what I did 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.680 in college. So yeah, I've just been having fun playing 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.640 the different positions and you know, trying to find good matchups. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.240 So Zach, come on. In order to have a Zach attack, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.840 you've got to have a technique that you liked the most, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.080 a technique you prefer the most. So if you're talking 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.040 zero to nine, that is a wide range of abilities 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.600 on your end, where if you had your preference, would 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:52.200 you line up and play where's your favorite technique? I 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.480 probably say the five and I'm you know, I'm lucky. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.560 That's usually where I'm at most of the time. So 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.040 over the tackle, yeah, just like right over tack, go 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.200 between the tack and the tight end right in there. Um. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.400 So yeah, that's that's what's been working for me, and 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.280 luckily that's what I get to do once wee time. 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.960 Why do you like that, Zach? I mean I think 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.640 there's just a familiarity. Um, do a little bit of 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.280 it in college. Um. And then just also like the 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.280 blocks you see there, Um, you know, it's it's pretty 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.560 you know, you know what you're getting based off the 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.880 tilts and stuff you can see, you know, for example, 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.080 like in like a tight end um pair, you know, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.000 like a wing tight end wing. You know you could 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.280 see that where if you're inside more it might be 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.720 tougher to see the total picture. Um, So you could 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.040 just use that information and um, you know, since you 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:46.280 didn't see some tendencies, so you mentioned college at Boston 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.680 College and then you're a high third round pick of 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.440 the Cardinals last season, and then you have the four 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.280 games and the neck injury that ended your season. And 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:55.840 I remember I didn't see you for a while in 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.600 the off season. When I saw you you came back, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.720 I'm like, wow, looks like you put some weight in 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.280 some size. What was your off season all all about? 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.640 In what was the before and after? Once you were 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.000 done and got ready to start this season. Yeah, it's 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.800 pretty crazy. So, um, you know, going through the whole 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.440 combine process, you know, everybody was like, oh, you gotta 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:18.200 cut weight to run fast, cut weight, cut weight, cut weight. Um. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.360 So I was, you know, really about like two seventy 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.640 ish um to send me five going into last season, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.920 which I haven't been that light since like my sophomore 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:32.560 year of college. UM. And then you know, playing you 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.800 know more inside than I did in the past, and 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.359 you know, obviously the NFL game is different. Um. You 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.520 know it was a little rough at first. UM. And 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.600 then you know, the neck injury, UM was a bummer 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.240 because I lost a lot of reps I could get 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.520 to get that experience, and then I just realized, you 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.240 know that I got to you know, get bigger, faster, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.560 stronger everything, and you know, I think Buddy Morris, our 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.680 strength coach, is the best in the business. So um, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.240 you know, right after, I mean really right after I 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.639 got injured, you know, it was obviously a lot of rehab, 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.840 but whatever I could do I was doing with Buddy. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.680 And then even when the season ended, I didn't take 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.480 a vacation or anything. I just was still in the 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:15.440 building working out. And then you know, obviously COVID hit, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.240 and you know, I still stayed out here because it 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.200 was a lot more open than it would be anywhere else, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.919 and I was still able to get my list in, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.760 really focused on the nutrition everything. It really got up 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.960 to about two eighty five two ninety, which I'm at 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.679 now and I think that's my perfect weight. I'm moving 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.760 better than I was before it was all clean weight, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.760 So yeah, definitely, you know, I'm feeling good and I'm 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.400 glad to see paying off now and Wolf just in incredible. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.720 Listen to Cliff Kingsbury on the recent play what he 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.960 thinks of Zach Allen here recently. He's always tried to 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.399 do everything like we we've told him to do it, 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.239 which as a coach you appreciate. I mean, we told 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.520 him to get stronger. He's been all off season here 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.239 working out and getting bigger. You know, he just had 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.240 a couple of injuries that had slowed him down. But 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.000 to get him back out there and watch the success 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.600 he's having is cool to see. He's a guy who 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.080 you know, is uber productive in college. He tends to 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.600 always be around the quarterback when he's in there, and 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.960 it's been nice to see him have some of that 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:19.840 production show up here the last couple of weeks. Zach, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.360 you gotta feel like you got it going right now? Right? 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:28.040 Is your career unfolding the way you thought it might? Yeah? 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.080 I mean, I mean this is kind of like what 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.080 you know, you do you want, you know, when you 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:33.919 think of come into the NFL, you wanted just to 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.160 be a continuation of college and do what you do. 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.280 And you know, I think I think for a lot 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.400 of like interior defensive lineman, it probably doesn't happen right away. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.840 I mean, obviously, you know, you have freaks of nature 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.960 and stuff like that, but there's definitely a learning curve 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.600 and I think I'm starting to figure that out m 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.199 a little bit, and hopefully this is kind of, you know, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:54.720 just the turning point and that can you know, have 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.760 a really consistent productive career now from here on out. Um. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.560 But I know, I mean the big things just taken 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.439 a week by week, especially in this week, you know, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.359 and the teams we face this year, you know, you 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.440 see a lot of different stuff. So what happened went 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.679 well the week before might not so well you know 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.560 for this next week. So yeah, I'm just taking a 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.760 day by day, week by week and just trying to 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.320 you know, stacked all together to make it work. Is 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.520 there something an offensive lineman got away with in your 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.360 rookie year that you're like, no, no, no no, no, no, 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:29.960 You're not getting away with that this year. I'm wise 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.520 to that. I know what's coming now. Is there anything 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.919 maybe that you've learned, especially in the last year. I 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.280 think a lot of it, you know that helped me 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.040 out was coach Buck. There's definitely you know, going through 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.560 the our new Delone coach going through our through the 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.480 off season. You know, I watched all the plays from 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:49.280 the season and you know, around the league and there 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.480 are definitely some blocks whereas like, you know, I just 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.520 don't know how to play that. I've never seen that before. 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:55.560 And then you know, right when he came in. I 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:57.040 was like, well, these are the blocks that I really 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:58.800 want to work on, and he's like, oh, these are easy. 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.040 And now it's you know, I want to see those blocks. 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:02.720 Those are the ones that I want to work you know, 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.480 I want to see because it's he just he makes 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.120 a game really easy to simplify. So I'm very fortunate 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.600 to have him as a coach. Yeah, Coach Buck one 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.719 of our favorites Wolf, I mean for a variety igot 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:20.879 about it. Yeah, a great teacher. He brings that intensity. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.560 You know, the guys respect him based on his career, 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.480 and if guys don't respect him, he's been known to 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.480 bust out his own game film and play his own 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.200 game film in the d line room at time and 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.960 his own highlights, just to make sure guys remember what 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:37.520