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Speaker 1: There was the pick, there was the punctuation, and then
Speaker 1: there was the hardware. He went the distance, he went airborne,
Speaker 1: and then he went viral. If we're talking Thursday to Thursday,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be real hard to top the week up.
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Speaker 1: big into the big Red rage is your NFC defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Week. Cardinals cornerback Marco Wilson is on
Speaker 1: board tonight. Marco, how are we doing? I'm doing great?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Oh? Man? I tell you we're
Speaker 1: all We're all feeding off your energy this So what
Speaker 1: does this last? I mean seriously, Thursday to Thursday? What
Speaker 1: has it been like? What has your phone been like?
Speaker 1: Have you even caught up? Yeah? Now, my phone was
Speaker 1: definitely blowing up. A whole bunch of people hitting me up,
Speaker 1: you know, telling me about the play they saw. It's
Speaker 1: been real cool, you know, it's been real cool. So overall, Marco,
Speaker 1: what kind of season do you think you're having right now? Uh?
Speaker 1: I say, I'm pretty having a I said a solid season.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I've been elevanting my play every week. Um,
Speaker 1: and I've just been doing what the coach has been
Speaker 1: asking me to do, trying to help my team however
Speaker 1: we need it. Um. You know, came up, came up
Speaker 1: big this this weekend, making some big plays. But I
Speaker 1: think I think I've been getting better and better each week.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the coaches in this season, and of course
Speaker 1: this season starts in August with cam and coach Kingsbury
Speaker 1: had a couple of things to say. What did he
Speaker 1: want to see out of you? Get out of you
Speaker 1: that maybe he wasn't seen at that point? Uh, honestly,
Speaker 1: maybe may just make more plays because I'm never a
Speaker 1: guy who's really out of position and like someone who's
Speaker 1: messing up plays and stuff like that. I've come in
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty detailed. That's That's the thing. I hang
Speaker 1: my head on some my details. I'm great a tension
Speaker 1: to detail. So probably just just making more plays, you know,
Speaker 1: picks and stuff like that. But you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's something I didn't put too much pressure on myself.
Speaker 1: I understood what I needed to do, and I just
Speaker 1: took it day by day and just you know, did
Speaker 1: the things necessary that I need to do to you know,
Speaker 1: try to fix these things. You know, Marco, I've got
Speaker 1: a question here. I want to ask you about Thursday Night,
Speaker 1: of course, and then I want to follow it up PAULI,
Speaker 1: if that's okay with you. But my first question is
Speaker 1: was was Thursday Night the best game you've played as
Speaker 1: a problem I asked him this earlier in the week
Speaker 1: Go Ahead, Marco, I said, not at all. I mean
Speaker 1: the first drive I gave up a pretty bad touchdown,
Speaker 1: So that's definitely out the book for best game ever.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely I think I played a great game.
Speaker 1: After that. They completed I say, one pass for not
Speaker 1: even ten yards after that on me. So I think
Speaker 1: it was a solid game, and I think it was
Speaker 1: honestly good that I got scored on like that because
Speaker 1: it was a good challenge. Like it happened early on.
Speaker 1: I got to be able to turn my mind around
Speaker 1: and make a good game out of it. Okay, what
Speaker 1: about the meme? Okay, what about you diving across the
Speaker 1: end zone? Marco, I gotta tell you about I've been
Speaker 1: a on this game for a long time. I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I've never seen anybody take off
Speaker 1: from the four yard line and land in the minus two. Man,
Speaker 1: where do you get those kinds of hops? Man? God
Speaker 1: given talent? Man, that's all I can't say. I mean,
Speaker 1: my dad was an athlete, you know, my mom's a
Speaker 1: little a little bit of an athlete, I say, but
Speaker 1: let's just gotta give him a talent. Man, I likened
Speaker 1: it to go into the big Top as a kid,
Speaker 1: the circus and the human cannonball where they put the
Speaker 1: guy you know and just and the guy shoots across
Speaker 1: the big top end of the net, except Marco was
Speaker 1: working without a net, and we'll get into that in
Speaker 1: detail in a little bit. Here's Cliff Kingsbury. We mentioned
Speaker 1: NFC Defensive Player of the Week and it's not going
Speaker 1: to be your best game ever in the book, in
Speaker 1: your book at least, but in the box score you
Speaker 1: had the pick six, he had two passes, defense, he
Speaker 1: had three times les and then you got the hardware.
Speaker 1: Here's your head coach, Cliff Kingsbury. Excited for him. He's
Speaker 1: worked really hard since training camp, continue to get better
Speaker 1: and just his presence on the field, how calm he
Speaker 1: looked out there Thursday night, His demeanor, the situational awareness
Speaker 1: has really improved and that was a big time play
Speaker 1: he made. So it's it's fun to see a guy
Speaker 1: like that gradually get better and earn some some recognition
Speaker 1: from outside this building. What do you hear from vance Joseph?
Speaker 1: What are you from? Cornerbacks coach Graig Williams? What are
Speaker 1: they still impressing upon you because you're only halfway through
Speaker 1: year two in this league. So what do they what
Speaker 1: do they harp on you week by week? Just just
Speaker 1: keep doing what I what got me to start in
Speaker 1: position as a rookie, which is, like I said, my
Speaker 1: attention to details. You know, out of this world, I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: And just continue to do that and not change anything
Speaker 1: up I'm doing or trying to do too much or
Speaker 1: doing less than what I've been doing. But just keep
Speaker 1: doing what I've been doing, is what they tell me.
Speaker 1: And you know, I know that's exactly what I should do.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't need to change anything. I don't think.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can do is just do more
Speaker 1: what you're more preparation, maybe stay more after practice, stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Marco, if you could go into the detail
Speaker 1: of playing the cornerback position in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much that goes into it. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the physicality that comes with it, and when I say that,
Speaker 1: I mean the more of the raw athleticism that it
Speaker 1: takes to play that position right there. But it's also
Speaker 1: a bit of a mind game, is it not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's definitely a lot of mental preparation going into a
Speaker 1: game as a cornerback. I think more than people expect. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think the mental part is honestly more than the
Speaker 1: physical part. But I say this is this is definitely
Speaker 1: one of the hardest positions of playing football, and especially
Speaker 1: with all the rules they're creating to help offenses. I know,
Speaker 1: I know these guys want to see offenses go crazy.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely getting harder to play as a dB.
Speaker 1: You can't do a lot of things used to be
Speaker 1: able to do, so it's definitely challenging, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's fun. At the end of the day. It's fun
Speaker 1: and I enjoy doing what I do. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at DAP he drew three defensive holding flags in one game. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you've been doing this since you are a true
Speaker 1: freshman at Florida, So I mean, and when I saw
Speaker 1: I saw the stat You played in a high school
Speaker 1: program with Patrick Certan and Tyson Campbell. Yeah, I played
Speaker 1: with a lot of guys. Those are usually just the
Speaker 1: guys that get like, you know, the name put out there,
Speaker 1: But I played with We got a lot of guys
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now out of American Herd. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's just I mean, so to what degree? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, have you been preparing for this NFL career
Speaker 1: since age? What I mean in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: I mean, you must feel mentally prepared. I'll probably say
Speaker 1: I got super serious after like in my freshman year
Speaker 1: of high school. That's when I changed to playing cornerback. Um,
Speaker 1: and I realized, like, I'm having really fun playing cornerback,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty decent at it right now at a
Speaker 1: young age, like I can probably you know, do something
Speaker 1: serious with this. So Marco, right now this season, I'm
Speaker 1: just talking about this season. Who's the toughest receiver you
Speaker 1: face so far? That's a good question. You played a
Speaker 1: lot of marquee guys already and you might be getting
Speaker 1: the best receiver in the game this Sunday kind of thing,
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson. So yeah, let me ask you this. I'll
Speaker 1: follow up with this right here, even though you haven't answered,
Speaker 1: I'll follow up with this mark all right here. Do
Speaker 1: you do you keep a diary of any of your
Speaker 1: opponents and write stuff down? Do you take notes? Is
Speaker 1: there anything you do uh specific to the position? And um,
Speaker 1: what's your right face in the future I'll take I'll
Speaker 1: take a ton of notes. I have a notebook that
Speaker 1: I bring into the building every day. I'm taking plenty
Speaker 1: of notes on the guys that I'm going against. So
Speaker 1: and that's something that really helps me. I think tak
Speaker 1: taking notes like that really makes things thick in my
Speaker 1: in my brain. So when it when it gets down
Speaker 1: to game time and things I hectic, you know, like
Speaker 1: I could think quickly. So I just googled it up.
Speaker 1: You're on it, whys KELBC on his phone. I just
Speaker 1: googled it up. So if I'm seeing this right at
Speaker 1: the combine, you ran a four three five, and then
Speaker 1: move that decimal point over one because your vertical was
Speaker 1: forty three and a half inches. Yeah, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So Wolf, there's part of the answer. Okay, to to
Speaker 1: to what you were talking about with the front flip.
Speaker 1: Here's Buddha Baker to his locker yesterday and he was
Speaker 1: just asked about your pure athleticism. You know, he has
Speaker 1: all the attributes, the size, the speed. He's very explosive.
Speaker 1: If you guys didn't know, I think he'd bench like
Speaker 1: what was it twenty times and the twenty six reps.
Speaker 1: You know guy who jumps forty inches. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: not as fast as me yet, but you know he's
Speaker 1: getting there, and uh you know he's in there. He's
Speaker 1: making plays, making tackles, you know, picking the ball and
Speaker 1: jumping sky high ins an end zone. You can also
Speaker 1: leap over cars apparently. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, whatsad what's
Speaker 1: that parkour? Yeah? I saw the little YouTube video, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I would expect nothing less from that guy.
Speaker 1: He's he's a different type of folk, different type of folk.
Speaker 1: I like that. Tell us about the video most people
Speaker 1: have seen it. If you're on social media, how old
Speaker 1: you when you shot that? And just what gonna response
Speaker 1: if you received. I think I was probably like either
Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen years old, like eighth grade, and I
Speaker 1: had I had always been into like doing flips. When
Speaker 1: I was like seven years old, I taught myself how
Speaker 1: to do a backflip. And then I remember one day
Speaker 1: I was I was real young, and I seen a
Speaker 1: video on YouTube. It was a parkour video by some
Speaker 1: guys named Storm Free Run, and I watched the video
Speaker 1: and I thought everything they were doing was fire. I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're flipping, they jumping off the wall. I'm like this
Speaker 1: is cool, Like I could. I could probably do this
Speaker 1: so just when I had when I used to have
Speaker 1: a lot of downtime as a kid, I would, you know,
Speaker 1: practice new flips, jump over obstacles and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: The feedback I'm getting from it's funny because that video
Speaker 1: has been out for so long and a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I would only really show some of my friends and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, he, don't tell nobody. Don't tell nobody
Speaker 1: about this video because I know they're gonna laugh about it.
Speaker 1: But it's great feedback. I mean, I'm glad this video
Speaker 1: came back up because people could see like things I
Speaker 1: used to be in interest I used to have, So
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. Marco. How does Parker help you play corner?
Speaker 1: Does it? I mean, is there anything that translates from
Speaker 1: parcore over to playing corner of the National Football League.
Speaker 1: I'd probably say the only thing that really helps with
Speaker 1: that is just the athletic ability that it takes to do.
Speaker 1: Parkour just helps me, you know, play a position like cornerback,
Speaker 1: which requires a lot of athleticism. When you launched into
Speaker 1: that front flip, did you know exactly how it was
Speaker 1: gonna finish? Oh? Yeah, Like I said, I did that
Speaker 1: same exact thing before, like in college, I've gotten a
Speaker 1: pick in practice and I ran to the endzone and
Speaker 1: doing that and using college you can't. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance. They have a pick six and if I would,
Speaker 1: I probably would have done it because it'd probably be
Speaker 1: a flag in college. So I had to take my
Speaker 1: chance with this one. You realize when you're a grandparent,
Speaker 1: you can show that meme to the kid, the grand kids.
Speaker 1: You realize Landy Dalton and the four ground and you
Speaker 1: in the background. Yeah, that'd be pretty amazing, pretty amazing,
Speaker 1: I bet I kid you not. I saw that thing
Speaker 1: and laughed out for about five minutes. Man, Okay, what
Speaker 1: sports did you play in high school? Marcou and high
Speaker 1: school only did I only did a football on track track,
Speaker 1: and I was that uh yeah, I actually I used
Speaker 1: to always go to States for triple jump doing jump,
Speaker 1: so that'd probably makes some sense. Didn't you win a
Speaker 1: weren't you right up there among the state's best sprinters
Speaker 1: like one yard? I see that in your I was
Speaker 1: I was a great sprinter, but I did win States
Speaker 1: for like group group events like the four by one.
Speaker 1: We had a crazy team. It Pat Urtane was on
Speaker 1: a four by one team. Anthony Schwartz is at the
Speaker 1: Browns right now, Tyson Campboots, Oh my goodness, fast just
Speaker 1: speat everywhere people want to know about the athleticism in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Welcome like Buddha Baker won a state one
Speaker 1: hundred title and high school in Washington. And then what
Speaker 1: Mike Marco does. So you know it makes sense, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are the point one percent who
Speaker 1: are playing this game we call NFL football. Is speaking
Speaker 1: of d Hop he returned. What does he you for cornerbacks?
Speaker 1: Because I see d Hop talking to defensive guys a
Speaker 1: lot on the sideline. How much is he helped you
Speaker 1: with your game? I think d Hop's helped me a lot.
Speaker 1: I think especially last year when I when I came
Speaker 1: in as a young rookie, I was going against him
Speaker 1: a lot, and it was something I was super excited about.
Speaker 1: He beat me a few times and and I didn't
Speaker 1: get too mad because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I know it's d Hop. I know he does. I
Speaker 1: know he's best receiver in the country right now. So
Speaker 1: what I do is just talk to him like yo,
Speaker 1: like what did you see? What did you see me
Speaker 1: doing right here? How did you think to do this?
Speaker 1: And he'll tell me everything. I mean, because he's not
Speaker 1: gonna hold out on answers. I'm on his team. He
Speaker 1: wants me to win too, so he's helped me a lot. Man.
Speaker 1: He's a smart guy, he's been playing for a long
Speaker 1: time and he's a great player, so it helps a lot.
Speaker 1: So Marco, what would you rather play man off her?
Speaker 1: Press man? I'd probably say press man. That's because that's
Speaker 1: that's just what I've been used to. But I think
Speaker 1: VJ has been been doing a great job with helping
Speaker 1: me work on my feet and off curveses too, so
Speaker 1: I could try to perfect you know, press and off
Speaker 1: you know. Speaking of DJ, he mentioned that the defense
Speaker 1: was a little surprise Friday morning because he had an
Speaker 1: edge to him. He liked to win, didn't necessarily love
Speaker 1: the defense, and there were three big plays back. He
Speaker 1: kept harping on the three big place. So you'll hear
Speaker 1: from your defensive coordinator what he told the media when
Speaker 1: we come back, and we'll talk about Justin Jefferson and
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Ridiculous stats. Wolf on Justin Jefferson, you realize
Speaker 1: he has the most yards receiving of anybody in NFL
Speaker 1: history through three seasons, and he still has eleven games
Speaker 1: to go. Yes, I mean he's been playing real good.
Speaker 1: He's tracking to break Randy Moss's single season record. Hello
Speaker 1: Randy Moss. Another Florida guy, Right, you're a Florida guy.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson is a Fort Lauderdale guy. He had some
Speaker 1: stuff to say on his podcast this week. We'll get
Speaker 1: into all that. The Big Red Rage, Rud Marco Wilson,
Speaker 1: We come back, presented by Santan Ford and Gil Back
Speaker 1: to the past. It was Dalton Perstown fires over the
Speaker 1: middle of the ball is tipped into the air and
Speaker 1: picked off with the thirty yards line running left to
Speaker 1: its twenty Marco Wilson to the dead He high stepped head,
Speaker 1: then he does a flip into the end zone of
Speaker 1: the topdown Marco Wilson and the pick six and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals take the lane twenty to fourteen. Dalton straight dropped
Speaker 1: back throws over the middle and a one handed interception
Speaker 1: by his Asa Simmons in midfield runs it back to
Speaker 1: the left of the forty pat the thirty pad, the
Speaker 1: twenty five pad, the twenty pad. Simmons in back to
Speaker 1: back interceptive returns for touchdowns by the Cardinals. On the
Speaker 1: end of the half. It was twenty two points right
Speaker 1: before halftime, scored by the Arizona Cardinals. In fact, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals did the nation of favor and saved America from
Speaker 1: another low scoring Thursday night football game. Instead of these
Speaker 1: twelve nine, twelve seven games, you guys put the most
Speaker 1: points on the board in over five years at Thursday
Speaker 1: Night Football. We like to call ourselves the original Thursday
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Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert pall Kelbac mostly and our very special
Speaker 1: guests Marco Wilson, the NFC Defensive Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the phone. Uh, it must have blown up
Speaker 1: right after you. I mean we just served the call.
Speaker 1: You got into the locker room, picked up your phone
Speaker 1: and then and then you tell us what was that Like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a whole bunch of people, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting me up. But you know, of course, I try
Speaker 1: to hurry up and look through all the messages to
Speaker 1: find with my family saying I'd love to see what
Speaker 1: my family saying because they're the most important. I know.
Speaker 1: They were super excited because they weren't at the game.
Speaker 1: They had to see it on TV, so it was
Speaker 1: just while, you know, wow, But it's a blessing. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be able to have that opportunity
Speaker 1: to make a play like that and be able to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL and just do what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: So Marco, as you're watching yourself right now, not only
Speaker 1: from the beginning of the year, but also from the
Speaker 1: beginning of your career, where do you think you've gotten
Speaker 1: better and where do you think you need to improve?
Speaker 1: I think I've improved just my awareness of the game, honestly,
Speaker 1: and just a few tech meet things with these with
Speaker 1: these zone coverages that I've had to learn since coming
Speaker 1: into the NFL, I think I've gotten I've gotten better
Speaker 1: with that. Uh And and I think I also still
Speaker 1: need to work on all my own coverages because still
Speaker 1: that's that's something I've always done since college. So that's
Speaker 1: that's something I'm still been working on every day in
Speaker 1: practice and just trying to perfect that so I can
Speaker 1: just be good with both man coverages his own coverage.
Speaker 1: I just want to be all around guy. You mentioned
Speaker 1: looking for messages from your family. Are you still coached
Speaker 1: by your dad, because your dad does that for a
Speaker 1: le coaches corners for a living, doesn't he. Yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 1: my dad helps me a lot, you know. He's always
Speaker 1: you know, even even doing film study through it the
Speaker 1: week to help me out as well. Um, and then
Speaker 1: of course on the off season, I do all my
Speaker 1: all my cornerback training with my with my pops. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm just grateful that's that's been really really a big
Speaker 1: deal for me because I see a lot of guys
Speaker 1: who don't have much guidance and they kind of have
Speaker 1: to do it on their own. And I've just been
Speaker 1: super blessed that I didn't have to go out and
Speaker 1: do it on my own, because who knows what I
Speaker 1: would have been doing. He's he's helped me so much, so, Marco.
Speaker 1: When you talk about a zone, man, of course, you
Speaker 1: know you've got covered too, or roll up corner, you've
Speaker 1: got three deep, You've got the for zones that are
Speaker 1: out there. Is there one that you prefer? Not really, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think I think they're all pretty good coverages. The
Speaker 1: zone coverage to make plays you could you can always
Speaker 1: make different type of plays and different type of coverage,
Speaker 1: So I don't really prefer one or the other because
Speaker 1: they all give me a different spice. You know that
Speaker 1: I'm that I'm cool with, you know, seeing what I
Speaker 1: could do. All right, So here's your defensive coordinator, advanced
Speaker 1: Joseph Earlier. Today. Cardinals get to win on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Everyone's feeling pretty good. They come into the meeting room
Speaker 1: Friday morning and well, we'll let the defensive coordinator take
Speaker 1: it from there. Last Thursday to make those three big plays,
Speaker 1: that was fun to watch. But they give up those
Speaker 1: three big plays that we gave up that lad to
Speaker 1: seventeen points. We don't like that. Those three plays were
Speaker 1: the biggest place we've had all year. I mean, sixty
Speaker 1: plus forty plus fifty plus. That's not good defense. You know.
Speaker 1: In Friday, Friday morning, we had a spirited meeting. They
Speaker 1: were a little shocked, you know, of my attitude on
Speaker 1: Friday morning. But the standard did dip. That's got to stop.
Speaker 1: Well later he said, we speak the truth. Is that accurate.
Speaker 1: It's very accurate, very accurate. And then I wouldn't wander
Speaker 1: any other way. Honestly. He might have said, people were shocked,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't shocked, honestly, especially because I was. I
Speaker 1: was one of those guys that gave up them big plays.
Speaker 1: So it was cool to have a big play that
Speaker 1: I made and had a good game, but it was
Speaker 1: I was for sure thing about that play that I
Speaker 1: gave him, and how I can't. I can't let stuff
Speaker 1: like that happen anymore. So it's understandable. I understand exactly
Speaker 1: why he felt like that felt that way, because you know,
Speaker 1: moving forward, if we give up plays like that, it's
Speaker 1: not it's not gonna be good. Marco, where do you
Speaker 1: think this defense can get better? Where do you think
Speaker 1: it needs to get better rest of this this season unfolds? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think I think the best thing for us to
Speaker 1: do just moving forward, just to get better is just
Speaker 1: everybody honing in on the job and just doing doing
Speaker 1: their job to you know, the max maximum detail. I
Speaker 1: think if we just sit here and everyone does a
Speaker 1: job to the maximum detail, this defense will flow together
Speaker 1: because we got athletes and talent everywhere. What do you
Speaker 1: remember from Kirk Cousins last year? I remember a guy
Speaker 1: who got rid of the ball like ultra quick. He
Speaker 1: got sacked only one time. It used to getting the
Speaker 1: ball out quick. He had a darn good game. Cardinals won,
Speaker 1: you know, but they had to withstand a miss field
Speaker 1: goal at the end by Minnesota. What's your takeaway on
Speaker 1: the veteran quarterback. I think he's a great quarterback and
Speaker 1: you know, always a guy who's as a vet like
Speaker 1: that is going to be very smart, you know. And
Speaker 1: last year I didn't get to play much because I
Speaker 1: did hurt myself last year before when I what I
Speaker 1: do remember he was he was on pointed their gay man.
Speaker 1: This week, we got to make sure he plays. He
Speaker 1: doesn't play as good as he did last year. How
Speaker 1: about the offense in general, as you're sitting here watching
Speaker 1: tape on them, but what does the offense do? Well?
Speaker 1: I think their main thing is they just they got
Speaker 1: They got good guys everywhere. You know, the Dalvin Cook's
Speaker 1: an amazing running back. You got Justin Jefferson, the land
Speaker 1: kJ Osborne. They got weapons everywhere, and I think that's
Speaker 1: their best deal because they could hit you with a
Speaker 1: big play from from anywhere, and if you get caught
Speaker 1: lacking us, they can make you pay. DJ mentioned the Rams,
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell coming from the Sean McVeigh tree. Their similarities
Speaker 1: the two schemes. Yeah, definitely, definitely. And when you play
Speaker 1: the Rams, I mean, this is just me now, you
Speaker 1: tell me this true or false. But they're either going
Speaker 1: to try and mess with your eyes a lot, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they do a lot of tricky things. So I was
Speaker 1: gonna be super important on Sunday, and of course Wolf
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a ton of eyes on Justin Jefferson. Right,
Speaker 1: they're all world receiver. It was interesting to start the
Speaker 1: week somebody to describe Justin Jefferson to Cliff Kingsbury is
Speaker 1: pretty much elite, and Cliff Kingsbury cut off the reporters. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he's all the way elite. He is elite. This this
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. Here's Vans Joseph on the Vikings star receiver.
Speaker 1: He's a special player obviously, and you know by numbers
Speaker 1: he's getting the ball, you know, two to one today,
Speaker 1: second guy. So he's no different Cooper Cup or Adams
Speaker 1: or DK Metcalf. So's he's a special player and he's
Speaker 1: been that way for three weeks straight years. We saw
Speaker 1: him last year. He made some place last year. It
Speaker 1: wasn't bad, but obviously the plans always to keep those
Speaker 1: guys from hurting us and look, you guys have had
Speaker 1: success against other star receivers this year Cooper Cup, div
Speaker 1: Day Adams, Tyler Lockett, DK, metcalf so A J. Brown.
Speaker 1: What have you learned in those games against those teams
Speaker 1: with elite receivers. I think the main thing is just
Speaker 1: keeping your composure, you know, not getting too caught up
Speaker 1: in and who who the people are you're playing against.
Speaker 1: Just a more focused on what you gotta do and
Speaker 1: what your assignment is going to execute that because I
Speaker 1: think if you executing your assignment to you know, maximum detail,
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're make the plays that you need to make.
Speaker 1: Where's your confidence level right now? Because you you sound
Speaker 1: like a confident dude to me, I'd probably say my
Speaker 1: confidence level has always been high, as it's always kind
Speaker 1: of keep it high no matter no matter what's going on.
Speaker 1: I think confidence is the main thing, you know, on
Speaker 1: and off the field. If you're not confident about yourself,
Speaker 1: you're gonna fail. How much does that separate cornerbacks? Think
Speaker 1: about your last game, If you would have let that
Speaker 1: first drive eat at you, you never would have in
Speaker 1: the NFC Defensive Player of the Week, was there a
Speaker 1: time in your development where you give up a big
Speaker 1: touchdown path that's on the opening drive like that, and
Speaker 1: you might have gone in the tank. Might a lot
Speaker 1: of guys go in the tank? Yeah? Play like a
Speaker 1: play like that would make a lot of people, you know, upset.
Speaker 1: I was for sure upset, But as soon as I
Speaker 1: hit that sideline, I washed it out of my brain
Speaker 1: because I know I've been I've been playing corner for
Speaker 1: long enough just to know that you're gonna get beat.
Speaker 1: And when you get beat, you can't you can't sit
Speaker 1: there and think about it because now you you can
Speaker 1: mess up your whole game. You got to forget about
Speaker 1: it and just continue to move. Know that you that guy,
Speaker 1: know what you're capable above, and just go out there
Speaker 1: and just continue to play. Marco, do you consider yourself
Speaker 1: to be a good tackler? I know that you don't
Speaker 1: ask corners that very often, but do you consider yourself
Speaker 1: to be a good tackle? Yeah? I would say I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty solid tackler, and I'm not a guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna shy away from contact either. Who's the toughest tackle
Speaker 1: on the Minnesota Bikers? Who do you think it is
Speaker 1: going to be the office tackle. No cook for sure,
Speaker 1: for sure, Why do you say that he's an elite back?
Speaker 1: And then you know, I just seeing him on film.
Speaker 1: He cut so quick, man, he runs with purpose, and
Speaker 1: on top of that, he's from back home. I know
Speaker 1: how back home to play, so I know the time
Speaker 1: it is. Hey, he had ninety six yards rushing in
Speaker 1: the first half last year, and then the Cardinals made
Speaker 1: a heck of a halftime adjustment and he really didn't
Speaker 1: kill the Cardinals in the second half. Speaking a Florida
Speaker 1: Fort Lauderdale guy, Patrick Peterson, who spent a decade here
Speaker 1: after being the number five pick in the drap once
Speaker 1: upon a time, do you study other corners or have you?
Speaker 1: And did you follow Pat Pete when you were younger? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely study study of the corner. I have a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of corners that I like to look at.
Speaker 1: I respect a game. I definitely looked at Pat a
Speaker 1: few times, so you know, growing up, you know, looked
Speaker 1: up to him. He's a great top corner. I want
Speaker 1: to say I looked at him the most out of everybody,
Speaker 1: but I definitely got a few things from Pet Pete.
Speaker 1: You know what's amazing, Guys, is pat. He looked into
Speaker 1: the camera at the Miami game, right, so, the Vikings
Speaker 1: last game. They went to Miami, which he considers home,
Speaker 1: and he looked into the camera before the game he said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a pick, and he did. He got
Speaker 1: a pick. He is predicting two picks this week on
Speaker 1: his podcast Arco Wilson. Have you if you ever called
Speaker 1: your shot like that? Uh, I ain't gone. I've always
Speaker 1: been the guy to not say much before the games
Speaker 1: because I played football, I know anything can happen. I
Speaker 1: tend not to say say anything before the game until
Speaker 1: my work's done. I do my talking on the works
Speaker 1: done because I don't want to say one thing go
Speaker 1: out there, another thing happens and people look at me crazy.
Speaker 1: So anything that I am predicting, anything that I think
Speaker 1: is gonna happen, I keep it strictly in my brain
Speaker 1: until after the game's over. It's good. Tell me about
Speaker 1: what you're seeing with Adam DeLand as well. You know
Speaker 1: everyone talks about Justin Jefferson, but what about Adam DeLand.
Speaker 1: What are you saying from this guy, another veteran guy
Speaker 1: as well. He moves great, you know, and he's super smart.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing. You know, contract the ball great,
Speaker 1: he's a great player as well. They're weapons everywhere. Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson him. I think they're great receivers. By the way,
Speaker 1: speaking of you know, talking and all that, are you
Speaker 1: much of a trash talker? Oh? No, I don't really
Speaker 1: say much on the field. I tend not to get
Speaker 1: into I'm focused on my job. Which Cardinals receiver talks
Speaker 1: the most trash? Come on, now, when you're in camp
Speaker 1: like in August, who's talking the most? Probably Tweezy makes sense?
Speaker 1: Makes sense? Tell you do you see that Wake Forest
Speaker 1: beat Boston College and that Zach Allen six five two
Speaker 1: ninety had to wear Greg Dortch's Wake Forest shirt. Greg
Speaker 1: Dortch is listed at five seven hundred seventy five and
Speaker 1: he wears the medium. Wow, that must have been a
Speaker 1: visual yesterday when Zach Allen was wearing that shirt around
Speaker 1: and definitely definitely. Okay, Marco, you got you got five
Speaker 1: seconds here? Where do you see yourself in five years?
Speaker 1: What I'll be I'm trying to figure out. I'll be
Speaker 1: twenty eight, uh Man, still in the NFL making play.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, thank you, for having
Speaker 1: me and thanks for the all time meme. Seriously, we're
Speaker 1: gonna enjoy that the rest of this season. We're gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy that. Five years into the future, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: enjoying that meme. So no problem. I'll try to make
Speaker 1: some more this you all right, many thanks to Marco Wilson.
Speaker 1: We continue to be right back with more of the
Speaker 1: big Red Rage presented by satan Ford and Gilbert we are.
Speaker 1: Satan Ford Murray drop back, steps up now, turns rumps
Speaker 1: to his lapt rows left and the ends of pup
Speaker 1: gets us there sliding for topdown. For oh, that was
Speaker 1: all Kyler Murray. He had nowhere to go circling in
Speaker 1: the pocket, but he found a running lane and then
Speaker 1: he found d hopping the ends on for a touchdown. Well,
Speaker 1: it drops the fiscuit in the basket, does it nots?
Speaker 1: And guess who's there? DeAndre Hopkins and off schedule touchdown
Speaker 1: once again for Kyler Murray at d hap pator Peterson
Speaker 1: Connall lost Hopkins there d Hophead four grabs fifty four
Speaker 1: yards at touchdown fifteen yards score in that week two
Speaker 1: win a year ago at home thirty four thirty three
Speaker 1: where run Wolfley, I know you remember vividly eight ly changes,
Speaker 1: eight hundred ninety three total yards. You had a Cardinals
Speaker 1: defense that allowed three points in this second half after
Speaker 1: a miserable first half where they gave up twenty three points,
Speaker 1: two hundred ninety two total yards, one hundred forty two
Speaker 1: yards rushing in the first half alone, fifteen first downs.
Speaker 1: It was the mother of all halftime adjustment games. And
Speaker 1: the Cardinals get to win thirty four thirty three against
Speaker 1: the Vikings, and that is their opponent this coming Sunday
Speaker 1: here in week eight on the Big Red Rage present
Speaker 1: of by satan Ford in Gilbert. Yeah, Polly, you know once,
Speaker 1: I love that you had the game book right in
Speaker 1: front of end. You were just ripping off the stats, Polly,
Speaker 1: way to go, big guy. I mean, I honestly though,
Speaker 1: we all know DeAndre Hopkins has a huge impact on
Speaker 1: this offense. And we saw it again Thursday night. Did
Speaker 1: we nod? Oh my goodness? I mean, look, there's what
Speaker 1: the Cardinals did in the box score in that forty
Speaker 1: two thirty four win. By the way, the forty two
Speaker 1: points the most in the Cliff Kingsbury era. Yes, the
Speaker 1: defense pitched in with a couple of pick six is obviously,
Speaker 1: but just the way the offense looked right, Well, if
Speaker 1: just what players said after the game about d hop
Speaker 1: being on that field, being in that huddle, it just
Speaker 1: looked different if nothing else, didn't it. Yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: absolutely did. And you know why, Paulli, because they were
Speaker 1: moving d Hop all over the place. He was in
Speaker 1: the slot, he was outside, he was on the right
Speaker 1: side of the field. He even went into motion. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that ball, he went
Speaker 1: into motion. And you know, obviously we know that this
Speaker 1: has been a point of contention a lot for some
Speaker 1: fans that DeAndre Hopkins for the most part just lined
Speaker 1: up on the left hand side, and Kyler Murray was
Speaker 1: even talking about that very thing as well. Listen, d
Speaker 1: Hop has a massive impact on how defenses try to
Speaker 1: defend the Arizona Cardinals, and I think it's a great
Speaker 1: idea to move him around and get him a little
Speaker 1: lost if you can. Next Gen stats right after the
Speaker 1: game said he was in four different spots. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: used him a total of three different spots all of
Speaker 1: last year the police sets. According to the the next gens Stats.
Speaker 1: Here's what the ed coach Cliff Kingsbury had to say
Speaker 1: about de Hop's impact against the Saints. I think when
Speaker 1: they're having a role coverage and do different things that
Speaker 1: it opens up other people in the run game and
Speaker 1: all sorts of things. But you saw the playmaking ability
Speaker 1: and you know holds on third down that converts the
Speaker 1: first downs, and the passing affairs on third downs and
Speaker 1: in the end zone that converts the first downds. I
Speaker 1: mean that you can't put an emphasis on how big
Speaker 1: that is for us, and he changes things, there's no doubt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Not only did he have the
Speaker 1: ten catchers for one hundred yards receiving on fourteen targets,
Speaker 1: but he drew three defensive flags and every one of
Speaker 1: those was a critical point in the game. It was
Speaker 1: they extended drives. And then well there's what guys said
Speaker 1: about him in the huddle. Remember Eno Benjamin or postgame
Speaker 1: radio interview, he called de Hoop another quarterback in the
Speaker 1: huddle because he come back after the plane. He had
Speaker 1: so many observations about what the defense was doing and
Speaker 1: what the Cardinals needed to do in response. It was remarkable. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're right, there's no doubt. Polly. DeAndre Hopkins totally changes
Speaker 1: the offense for the Arizona Cardinals. I wish the Cardinals
Speaker 1: would have found a way to somehow, some way move
Speaker 1: the ball and be effective without DeAndre Hopkins. But now
Speaker 1: that he's back, you know what, I'm willing to embrace
Speaker 1: everything that we get from actually having d hop back.
Speaker 1: And what is that. I think he helps Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this many times. I think he helps
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and his progression and going through his progression
Speaker 1: wherever d hop is not just lined up to the left,
Speaker 1: but wherever he is. I think it's going to clarify
Speaker 1: a lot of Kyler Murray's reads. And not only that,
Speaker 1: Polly and also is going to help the play caller,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury. This is something that Cliff Kingsbury has talked
Speaker 1: about to us as well, the fact that it does
Speaker 1: help him call plays because he can have a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea as to based on the personnel group, the
Speaker 1: down in distance, and the formation he's gonna go with.
Speaker 1: He can pretty well have a guess as to what
Speaker 1: the defense is going to be and because of that,
Speaker 1: call plays against defense. So he does an awful lot
Speaker 1: for this team in many different ways. You know. Rondelle
Speaker 1: Moore talked to him today. Both of them said that
Speaker 1: because d Hop commands that cloud coverage is safety over
Speaker 1: the top and or double coverage, it's like taking two
Speaker 1: guys away. Yeah, and then it just trickles down through
Speaker 1: the rest of the offense. Guys are able to get open.
Speaker 1: And then there's there's that mentality that d Hop brings,
Speaker 1: the accountability he brings. He's always talking to someone about something.
Speaker 1: In fact, I had a chance to interview d Hoop
Speaker 1: earlier today and we asked him about just being vocal
Speaker 1: in the huddle. That's just me, that's wym That's how
Speaker 1: I've been since I've been in NFL. I think I've
Speaker 1: always been a guy who was able to motivate and
Speaker 1: trying to push people because I want the same back
Speaker 1: to myself. I want guys to vocalize things that I'm
Speaker 1: doing or need to do better. So for me, it's
Speaker 1: it's just you know, being out there and you know,
Speaker 1: just really not necessarily being a vocal leader. But then
Speaker 1: my play show, Paulie, that is right there, that is
Speaker 1: definition of leadership to me. Right there, you know what
Speaker 1: I want guys to come back at me too. I
Speaker 1: want guys to talk to me. This is what accountability
Speaker 1: does in a locker room, Paul. This is the best
Speaker 1: thing about it. First of all, D Hop keeps himself accountable.
Speaker 1: He does. He keeps himself accountable. First, He's going to
Speaker 1: hold himself to a standard. He might not hold anybody else,
Speaker 1: but dog on it. If you're not doing what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing, d Hop's gonna walk up on you. Man.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about this, Paul, many many times
Speaker 1: over the years. That to me is the definition of leadership.
Speaker 1: And d Hop is a leader, I mean, hard, stone
Speaker 1: cold leader inside that locker room, man. And that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing nobody talks enough about. The tangibles are obvious,
Speaker 1: the intangibles lights out. And you know what, if you
Speaker 1: want to see it and hear it for yourself, go
Speaker 1: to this week's edition a Wire, Go to the Cardinals website,
Speaker 1: easy Cardinals dot com, the YouTube channel and see d Hop.
Speaker 1: It's a six minute video. He was miked up against
Speaker 1: the Saints and there's one pointing moment where Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: early in the game, comes off the field and die
Speaker 1: Hop goes right up and says, you got to make
Speaker 1: that tackle. That's a play you gotta make, Isaiah. And
Speaker 1: you know, the two of them kind of awesome, go
Speaker 1: back and forth a little bit, but you know they're
Speaker 1: Clemson guys. I saw him today walking off the practice
Speaker 1: field together. They're really good friends. And to your point, Wolf,
Speaker 1: he has that ability to walk up on a guy
Speaker 1: and tell him, guess what, you gotta be better? And
Speaker 1: I on the sideline, it was palpable. He was working
Speaker 1: both sides, the offense and the defense. You're Marco Wilson,
Speaker 1: say how much he's learned from a DeAndre Hopkins. How
Speaker 1: hop will tell him, Okay, here's what you did wrong.
Speaker 1: Here's how I beat you on that route. Yes, and Paul,
Speaker 1: I want to say this quickly because you already mentioned
Speaker 1: the fact he was targeted fourteen times and he had
Speaker 1: ten receptions for one hundred and three yards. And what
Speaker 1: I love about that, Paul, is this is his first
Speaker 1: game back. He didn't even have a practice. Man, he
Speaker 1: didn't even have a practice bullet. First game back, and
Speaker 1: he goes out there and lights the l amp. What
Speaker 1: do you think that does? What do you think that
Speaker 1: does to defensive coordinators that watch that take that immediately
Speaker 1: reinforces everything they suspected about Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: Immediately in that game, you grabbed the rest of the
Speaker 1: league's attention and said, Hey, oh, by the way, if
Speaker 1: you thought d Hop was going to slow down at all,
Speaker 1: that's not going to be the case. And I love
Speaker 1: that because it totally reinforces a component of this offense
Speaker 1: that was alive and well in the first half in
Speaker 1: September and October of twenty twenty one, where you had
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray spreading the ball, doing a great job spreading
Speaker 1: the ball. I think he was reading coverage a lot
Speaker 1: of it through DeAndre Hopkins, and yet he was spreading
Speaker 1: the ball to other receivers. Now you've reinforced the fact, Hey,
Speaker 1: d Hop is back, and now we're going to spread
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more. I think we'll see
Speaker 1: that in the coming weeks. Hey, Kyler's passer rating over
Speaker 1: one hundred in that Thursday Night win against US Saints
Speaker 1: YEP and the Cardinals with d Hop over the last
Speaker 1: two seasons nine and two without d Hop five and nine,
Speaker 1: and in case Vikings, defensive coordinator at Dontel is listening
Speaker 1: right now. His corner Patrick Peterson predicted not one, but
Speaker 1: two interceptions. Is DeAndre Hopkins aware of that? Most definitely yes,
Speaker 1: because I asked him in the locker room. They heard
Speaker 1: the comments for Patrick Peterson. So don't think that another
Speaker 1: fourteen target game ain't coming on Sunday, because I'm feeling
Speaker 1: it and I'm calling it. Episode forty seven a day
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Speaker 1: Scott Van Pelt, Available now via your preferred podcast provider.
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Speaker 1: more on the Vikings when we come back on the
Speaker 1: Big Red. Rage was in a vice satan Ford in
Speaker 1: Gilbert account of the ball that will be the last play.
Speaker 1: The count steps up rolling barside, but Tom throwing Barside
Speaker 1: into the end zone and the ball is touch Day Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Paul and the Cardinals win the game on the final
Speaker 1: part and the Kings are going home for the new year.
Speaker 1: The seasons on the line. Mccount takes the snap. He
Speaker 1: stepped up. He's all by himself. Vision of the ends
Speaker 1: own the Cardinals and not the fighting down of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Two calls that will forever live in infamy and in glory.
Speaker 1: The winning and losing call two thousand and three, final
Speaker 1: play of the game, final play of the regular season
Speaker 1: then knocked the Vikings out of the postseason. It was
Speaker 1: like a Shakespearean tragedy right there. For Paul Allen, the
Speaker 1: Vikings voice, the radio play by play guy, and of
Speaker 1: course a very young Dave Pash preceded there. It is
Speaker 1: the big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 1: We are santan Ford and that will be the subject
Speaker 1: in the next Cardinals Folktales, Miracle in the Desert. It
Speaker 1: premiers next week. Ron will Flake. It's all about perspective,
Speaker 1: is it not, Polly. Those two calls right there pretty
Speaker 1: much put it in perspective. So both guys are still
Speaker 1: calling games for the respective teams. And you have a
Speaker 1: Vikings team that is five and one after their best
Speaker 1: start since two sixteen. They have won four straight games,
Speaker 1: all by one score. They have the only two game
Speaker 1: lead among the eight division leaders. Are you buying these
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings coming off a win at Miami? Impressive at
Speaker 1: first glance, but when you consider they beat Skylar Thompson,
Speaker 1: the third string quarterback and Teddy Bridgewater without two h
Speaker 1: What do you make of the Vikings? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Polly Hey, I don't want to discredit them in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. Five and one is five and one,
Speaker 1: and they have played very, very well. They can only
Speaker 1: play the people that line up acrossroom. They can who
Speaker 1: played the schedule that is on their schedule. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to give him credit. They're five and one right now.
Speaker 1: I think they're a good team. When you look at
Speaker 1: them offensively, Kirk Cousins all starts with him. Now, now
Speaker 1: look at I'm not trying to say that Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: is an elite quarterback. I don't think he is. I
Speaker 1: think he's a great quarterback. That's what I think. He
Speaker 1: is a great quarterback. I'm not going to call him
Speaker 1: an elite quarterback. He's got some great weapons around him.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson stop right there, man, it start right there
Speaker 1: and stop right there. That guy is as good as
Speaker 1: it gets in the National Football League. Adam Feeling, of course,
Speaker 1: is a guy that is sneaky good. He's sneaky fast,
Speaker 1: and that's what makes him so dangerous. You don't look
Speaker 1: at him and say, oh my goodness, he's terrifying me
Speaker 1: the way Justin Jefferson is terrifying me as I watch
Speaker 1: him on film. But then there's, oh my goodness, the
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and the offensive line is something nobody really
Speaker 1: talks enough about. I know Dalvin Cook, we all know
Speaker 1: how good he is, but the offensive line, in terms
Speaker 1: of running the ball, has done a fantastic job of
Speaker 1: blocking as well. This is an offense that can go
Speaker 1: out there and play very very well. And that's not
Speaker 1: even that's not even close, Paulie. To me, as I
Speaker 1: watched them on film, they get it done. What's interesting
Speaker 1: is Dalvin Cook has yet to top twenty carries in
Speaker 1: a game. And yeah, I mean he has done that
Speaker 1: twenty five times the last three years. But for most
Speaker 1: people watching this offense that I've talked to, they say
Speaker 1: it's much more of a past first offense. Under Kevin O'Connell,
Speaker 1: who of course comes from Sean McVeigh, they've been very
Speaker 1: good at executing. For example, against Chicago and Week five
Speaker 1: they converted twelve third downs. Think about that most of
Speaker 1: the game since two thousand and nine, so they've been
Speaker 1: doing the little things right. I'm just it does seem
Speaker 1: to have a different identity though than the Vikings team
Speaker 1: that came to town in Week two and once again
Speaker 1: ran for over under in forty yards in that first half.
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting that sort of offense. Yeah, no, you're
Speaker 1: right about that, Polly. They do throw the ball and
Speaker 1: off a lot, and you would too if you had
Speaker 1: the wide receivers they do, right, Yeah, you would definitely
Speaker 1: do that. But Man, Dalvin Cook is one of these guys.
Speaker 1: You just can't forget about him. He's averaging almost five
Speaker 1: yards a carry right now. And yeah, they don't run
Speaker 1: the ball as much as they have certainly in the past.
Speaker 1: But the Cardinals defensively are going to have to bone
Speaker 1: up Man and also too offensively. This team, the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: remind me of the Raiders. They remind me of the Raiders, Polly.
Speaker 1: The Raiders, they had Max Crosby of course, and Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: those two guys coming off the edge, and that's very
Speaker 1: similar to what the Vikings have Daniel Hunter of course,
Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith, those two guys coming off the edge. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if the Cardinals won't adopt a similar game plan,
Speaker 1: especially as to what they did in that second half
Speaker 1: against the Raiders where they started running a lot of
Speaker 1: counter a lot of counter plays, the counter tray where
Speaker 1: they were pulling the guard and tackle, the offside guarden
Speaker 1: tackle and kicking out, trying to kick out Max Crosby
Speaker 1: and Chandler Jones and forced them to take on blocks
Speaker 1: by big dudes like Will Hernandez. I wonder if we
Speaker 1: won't see that again, Paul. You know, that's a great
Speaker 1: question for Cliff Kingsberry, who had an extra few days
Speaker 1: during the weekend after Thursday Night football to do some
Speaker 1: self scouting. Here's what he learned from an offensive perspective.
Speaker 1: Just the big plays are way down. I think that's
Speaker 1: an area we gotta try and manufaction more of them
Speaker 1: getting hotbags going to help. I mean, you saw what
Speaker 1: he was able to do, but we gotta be able
Speaker 1: to make some bigger plays down the field. And your point,
Speaker 1: they better protect Kyler Murray or get him out of
Speaker 1: the pocket, get him some time to Neil Hunter in
Speaker 1: four career games against the Arizona Cardinals has eight sacks. Hello,
Speaker 1: and Zadarius Smith has been really good this year And
Speaker 1: I talked to I had to interview a couple of
Speaker 1: Vikings people and for a scound report run their team.
Speaker 1: Everyone rais about dal Dalvin Tomlinson, the interior d lineman,
Speaker 1: who they said is so underrated and has been such
Speaker 1: a wrecking ball this year. So those I mean they
Speaker 1: have a stout front four. They have a stout front seven.
Speaker 1: Jordan Hicks and all his knowledge of the Cardinals offense,
Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray along with Kendricks. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: dynamic pairing a linebacker. Now you're right about that, PAULI
Speaker 1: they are. They're very very good. Their secondary now has
Speaker 1: struggled that that much. I will tell you their secondary
Speaker 1: has struggled. Harrison Smith, of course, is getting a little
Speaker 1: long in the tooth. He's still a very very good player.
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson one of the corners as well. But that
Speaker 1: secondary right now number twenty eight in the National Football
Speaker 1: League in terms of passing yards per game allowed, in
Speaker 1: number thirty two in terms of passing yards per play allowed, Paul,
Speaker 1: they have given up chunks of yardage and hopefully this
Speaker 1: is going to continue this weekend. By the way, Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson in that podcast this week, not only did he
Speaker 1: predict two interceptions against the Cardinals. Okay, he also said,
Speaker 1: he'll be standing up on the sideline. I'm quoting loosely
Speaker 1: now seeing what the Cardinals do because I pretty much
Speaker 1: know every defense they're going to be running for the
Speaker 1: most part. So we'll see. We'll see how much he
Speaker 1: can pass along Van's Joseph's system. And he also mentioned
Speaker 1: about Kyler. Murray has some pretty frank comments and among
Speaker 1: other things, said about Kyler, this is pat p Now.
Speaker 1: He's got to understand how to rely on teammates and
Speaker 1: how to play within the scheme and respect the game.
Speaker 1: So there's no lack of motivation in that Cardinals locker room,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that much. Yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: That's a two way street, isn't it. Though. You get
Speaker 1: somebody who starts talking about it, and before you know it,
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about it on both teams. Good for the game.
Speaker 1: Special thanks Marco Wilson and his meme. We thank his
Speaker 1: meme as well, Jim Almendro, Cody Fincher for on wolfwaylfall KELBC.
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