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Speaker 6: and leading tackler in the Rams game, Key Trell, Clark,
Speaker 6: are you one?
Speaker 1: You there?
Speaker 7: We go?
Speaker 6: In fact, Wolf says, I can tell you don't have
Speaker 6: anything yet to say. With no further ado, Key Troll,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure where this we started this year. The
Speaker 6: Angry Bird Award, okay where for those of us who
Speaker 6: are in the audience listening only, it's an angry bird
Speaker 6: stuffed animal that I put into this mini helmet right here,
Speaker 6: and I give this out every week. Well, if this
Speaker 6: goes to the either the most talacious play or player
Speaker 6: every game and the week thirteen, Week twelve winner and
Speaker 6: Clark right here, the Angry Bird Award.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're the one picking.
Speaker 6: That award is I created it, I pick it. There's
Speaker 6: just one one thing I should point out. I can't
Speaker 6: actually give this to you, Troll, because I don't quite
Speaker 6: have the budget yet and I only have one, so
Speaker 6: that it's honorary.
Speaker 1: We'll put it up here.
Speaker 2: So matter of fact, you have me excited for a
Speaker 2: second at least.
Speaker 1: Handed to him. Okay, go.
Speaker 6: Aulian voice another one to Jim One.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 2: Tro How you doing hey, man? I am will, I
Speaker 2: am well.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys for having me here today. This is
Speaker 8: a great opportunity man, for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Keith Troll. You know, honestly, it's great to see.
Speaker 7: We are big fans of your game and big fans
Speaker 7: of you as a person as well. How is your
Speaker 7: rookie season going? I mean, let's go a big picture
Speaker 7: right now when we start talking about it.
Speaker 1: How do you feel this year has gone?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 8: I feel like it's been a lot going on this
Speaker 8: rookie season for me, even starting way back into you know,
Speaker 8: missing rookie mini camp because I had to go graduate.
Speaker 8: It's been a whole uphill battle, man. But I think
Speaker 8: I've been been doing a great job with it. I
Speaker 8: have a great support system and I think through the
Speaker 8: highs and the lows, man, I feel like I'm being
Speaker 8: pretty resilient through it all.
Speaker 2: So Man, I'm grateful you're.
Speaker 1: Learning something about yourself a little bit as well.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's been highs, has been lows.
Speaker 8: I had to take some time and lock myself in
Speaker 8: the mirror for some things, maybe not playing as best
Speaker 8: as I thought I'll be able to be to play
Speaker 8: at at that moment, and uh, you know, getting benched
Speaker 8: and that whole situation. And man, it was just an
Speaker 8: uphill battle, like I said, And I'm continuing to keep on,
Speaker 8: you know, fighting and swinging every single day.
Speaker 1: So we want to get into that at some point
Speaker 1: in time, a little bit later, maybe.
Speaker 7: In the show, but right now, just the overall, man,
Speaker 7: t You're in the National Football League, Man, I mean
Speaker 7: when did you start dreaming.
Speaker 1: About playing in the NFL? What did you start really thinking?
Speaker 8: Man, I could do this, man, since I was a
Speaker 8: little kid. I've been playing football since I was five.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 8: Since I was playing flag football. I would get the
Speaker 8: football and run into the opposite end zone.
Speaker 2: Like I was.
Speaker 1: You were commercial.
Speaker 8: Yes, I was literally been playing this game since I
Speaker 8: was a little boy, man, And you know, I've never
Speaker 8: missed a season since I was five years old, so
Speaker 8: that says a lot as well. So yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 8: I just you know, I had I had a goal set.
Speaker 8: A lot of people say, man, you you gotta have
Speaker 8: a Plan B. I really didn't focus much on the
Speaker 8: Plan B. I just focused on Plan A, and that
Speaker 8: was making it to the NFL. And I'm here now
Speaker 8: and every day. Even in the LA game last week,
Speaker 8: I was just lining up and I'm like, man, like,
Speaker 8: I'm really in the NFL right now, and it's it's
Speaker 8: it's a surreal feeling.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: I know that rookie feeling. I know that.
Speaker 6: So the fact you didn't want to miss graduation Louisville,
Speaker 6: what does that say? Because we didn't even know you yet,
Speaker 6: and that was our first impression. We're like, that's a
Speaker 6: heck of a first impression. That graduation was meaningful enough
Speaker 6: to you that you're like, you asked coach for permission
Speaker 6: to attend right right.
Speaker 8: So before I even got drafted, me and JG had
Speaker 8: a conversation and I was letting them know, like, man,
Speaker 8: like rookie Minnie camp Is around the time of graduation,
Speaker 8: like coach, I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 8: be able to make it to rookie Minnie camp. And
Speaker 8: he was like, man, it's okay, Like dude, go graduate,
Speaker 8: Like do what you gotta do. We're gonna be here.
Speaker 8: Just come ready to work. And right right during that
Speaker 8: during that time period when he told me that, I
Speaker 8: knew that this was the place that I needed to
Speaker 8: be because a lot of clubs they probably won't respect
Speaker 8: that as much, you know, so I appreciated that for them,
Speaker 8: and you know, just keeping it real with me and
Speaker 8: letting me do that.
Speaker 1: So key trout, what was that like graduating? Like what
Speaker 1: I mean, did you walk? Did you do the whole thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I am. I'm in a fraternity as well.
Speaker 8: Uh so, me and two of them, two of my
Speaker 8: other fraternity brothers, we graduated on the same day and
Speaker 8: uh so we have a little frat.
Speaker 6: Step that we do.
Speaker 8: And as I was walking through the state and walking
Speaker 8: over the stage, you know, I just did my fraternity
Speaker 8: step and it was an amazing feeling.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 8: I'll say the only feeling that I can compare to
Speaker 8: it is probably having having my baby, my first born,
Speaker 8: uh and and getting drafted. It's like it's a feeling
Speaker 8: that you can't really explain, to be honest, and so.
Speaker 6: Worthy of an applause right there. I don't know what
Speaker 6: that frat step looked like.
Speaker 2: Maybe i'll show y'all one day on the celebration.
Speaker 6: I would look forward to that. But we do know
Speaker 6: what your intro looks like based on how you were introduced.
Speaker 6: Did you see that wolf you're up in the boot?
Speaker 6: Did you see him pull up all the gymnastics move?
Speaker 1: What do you call it?
Speaker 7: Bro?
Speaker 2: By the way, man, that's just a backflip, man, easy, easy,
Speaker 2: black flip. I've been doing that since I was little.
Speaker 7: Okay, So you came out and you did a back flip. Okay,
Speaker 7: because I have to tell you I missed it. I
Speaker 7: saw pictures of it. Yeah, but I missed it right here.
Speaker 7: How long have you been able to do that?
Speaker 2: Probably since I was like ten years old up.
Speaker 7: So that's this is like, no way, man. I feel
Speaker 7: like a cave man throwing rocks at the moon. I mean,
Speaker 7: I think of how you even start doing that.
Speaker 6: If I'm the GM or the coach, I'm like, oh
Speaker 6: my goodness, do you consider that risky to do that?
Speaker 9: It is?
Speaker 2: But like I was telling my dad literally today. I
Speaker 2: literally told him.
Speaker 8: I said, man, like doing a backflip is kind of
Speaker 8: like second nature, Like it's just something that I can
Speaker 8: I can really do like easily. So Nick Ralans he
Speaker 8: told me when he was like, man, I just think
Speaker 8: about it. If you don't land it, I said, Coach,
Speaker 8: I'm going to landy.
Speaker 2: I probably.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 6: It reminds me of Marco Wilson last year and the
Speaker 6: pick six against Andy Dalton where he vaulted you know
Speaker 6: he did all that park course stuff when he was
Speaker 6: a kid. Kind of reminded me.
Speaker 2: No, that was that was an iconic photo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but that was up front, right, just vaulted
Speaker 6: in and then yeah, just because he said he just
Speaker 6: launched himself in the mid air, he figured it out.
Speaker 6: That's Marco.
Speaker 1: Can you do a front?
Speaker 8: Doing the front flip is not second nature? So I
Speaker 8: probably won't try that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's really cool. You do anything? Have you ever
Speaker 1: done parkour at all?
Speaker 2: Not really?
Speaker 8: I'm well, if if you consider like jumping off of
Speaker 8: slides and playgrounds in the back flips, yeah, I guess
Speaker 8: I did some parcor growing up.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 6: Kids don't try that at home. Please don't please, don't
Speaker 6: thank you. In fact, let's go into the locker room.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: So look, it was a tough out come against the
Speaker 6: Rams and one of the team captains, Dennis Gardeck, and uh,
Speaker 6: you know what, he had something really meaningful to say
Speaker 6: after the game.
Speaker 1: Here's gard Deck.
Speaker 10: You know, our sports psychologists hit us in the offseason.
Speaker 10: They said there's there's three enemies in any given battle.
Speaker 10: It's first yourself, second the guys around you, and third
Speaker 10: the actual opponent.
Speaker 1: And we fought all three of those today.
Speaker 6: Interesting, now, the guy sitting next to you reminds us
Speaker 6: of a Dennis gard Deck.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: So Wolf played ten years, went to four Pro Bowls
Speaker 6: as a special teams assassin. Guard Deck sort of has
Speaker 6: that similar mindset the way he plays, and I saw
Speaker 6: him work on the sideline in the second half. You know,
Speaker 6: some of the veterans said a few things to say, didn't.
Speaker 8: They No doubt, no doubt, And guys like guard Deck,
Speaker 8: you know he's he's emotional about the game, as he
Speaker 8: should be. Anybody that cares about this game should be
Speaker 8: emotional about it, especially when we're not getting you know,
Speaker 8: the outcome that we worked so hard for every single day.
Speaker 8: Uh So, man, hats off to guard At for being
Speaker 8: a great captain on his team and pushing guys vice
Speaker 8: younger guys as well to you know, get get this
Speaker 8: leaf turned over.
Speaker 7: You know what's so interesting about that, Polly as well?
Speaker 7: Just listening to that last cut that you played three enemies.
Speaker 7: I had an old coach who used to say, you
Speaker 7: know what your three enemies are? Me, myself and I.
Speaker 7: That's what he used to say right there. And his point,
Speaker 7: obviously was everything begins and ends with you and how
Speaker 7: you apply yourself everything. And you know, that was something
Speaker 7: that I adopted early on in my professional career. It
Speaker 7: wasn't in college that I learned that. Me myself and I.
Speaker 7: It was more about what are you gonna do? You've
Speaker 7: been given X amount of ability. Ron go out and
Speaker 7: you yourself and I go out and do everything you can,
Speaker 7: fulfill all of the potential that you have and apply it.
Speaker 1: That That was something that he used to say to
Speaker 1: me all the time, and I got that.
Speaker 7: I understand. There are a lot of extenuating circumstances. Are
Speaker 7: you kidding me? There's a there's a human being who's very,
Speaker 7: very talented, who's trying to keep you from doing your job.
Speaker 1: Control right exactly.
Speaker 7: So I mean, yeah, of course you have to worry
Speaker 7: about who your opponent is, and what scheme you're running,
Speaker 7: and what your assignment is. You have to worry about
Speaker 7: all of this. But I thought, man, that was really cool.
Speaker 7: You know that you would take responsibility just for yourself.
Speaker 7: Is this something that you're.
Speaker 8: Learning exactly every single day, every single day that I
Speaker 8: wake up, I have to put my right foot for it,
Speaker 8: for myself and for my family as well. But as
Speaker 8: far as Gardak was talking, as far as doctor so
Speaker 8: his name is doctor J. So doctor J. He comes
Speaker 8: in and you know, he he leaves and leaves us
Speaker 8: with good, good tools to you know, continue to develop
Speaker 8: our minds and and to be you know, silent assassins
Speaker 8: on the field, as I like to say, because at
Speaker 8: the end of the day, like you said, it's arts
Speaker 8: and nas with you. But we also got to understand
Speaker 8: the elephant in the room is there's still aning me out,
Speaker 8: inding me out.
Speaker 2: Yes, at the end of the day too. So man,
Speaker 2: that was good.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: And look, it's a new coaching staff, it's a new system.
Speaker 6: You know, Kyler Murray for example, right, He's only has
Speaker 6: three games under his spell to full speed football. Running
Speaker 6: this system. It's very different, including the footwork. And he
Speaker 6: was talking this week just about some of the growing
Speaker 6: pains learning Like you were talking about Key Troll, here's Kyler.
Speaker 11: We got to break old habits.
Speaker 6: We have to.
Speaker 11: You know, we're learning as the weeks go on, trying
Speaker 11: to execute as the highest level as we possibly can.
Speaker 11: And I think that's part of being in a you know,
Speaker 11: a new system.
Speaker 2: I haven't been in very many new systems, but.
Speaker 11: You know, being in this one, I don't think that
Speaker 11: we're you know, we've reached our maximum level of you
Speaker 11: know what we're going to be eventually.
Speaker 6: How do you think the team has responded this week?
Speaker 2: Man? This week, I feel like we've came ready to play.
Speaker 8: I feel like we we had a showing that we
Speaker 8: weren't so proud of last week and it left a
Speaker 8: bad taste on our So I think this week, man,
Speaker 8: I think everybody is coming to play. We're competing understanding
Speaker 8: that we're not looking. We're present right now where our
Speaker 8: feet are, and we're not worried about.
Speaker 2: By weeks or whatever else is to come.
Speaker 8: We got to focus on right now If you think
Speaker 8: about this, if you think about what win really stands for,
Speaker 8: it stands for what's important now, and that's what guys
Speaker 8: are really taking to right now.
Speaker 6: What's what's it been like to practice Kyler for more
Speaker 6: than a month now, you know quarterbacks, what's it been like?
Speaker 8: Hey, Kyler is a is a special athlete to be
Speaker 8: able to go out there and do what he does,
Speaker 8: and especially come back from an injury like he did.
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 8: I had a similar injury as well, so I know
Speaker 8: what it took to go through to get to where
Speaker 8: he is now.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 8: So he's a special athlete. Like he said, Man, we
Speaker 8: got more hyps to reach in the ceilings forever.
Speaker 2: It was his junior year.
Speaker 6: You were having a heck of a year and you
Speaker 6: had the knee injury eight games in. We'll get into
Speaker 6: that in detail. We'll talk about what brought you to Arizona.
Speaker 6: By the way, you can hear from Jonathan Annon every
Speaker 6: week Cardinals in Focus, included at Sunday nine thirty am
Speaker 6: twelve News. We'll get you ready for this week's matchup
Speaker 6: Cardinals at the Steelers. As we continue, Key Trell Clark,
Speaker 6: our special guest, and the Big Red Rage live from
Speaker 6: Trophy and Chandler located on Queen Creek Road between Price
Speaker 6: and Dobson.
Speaker 4: Dobson is there, made the catch at the fort. He
Speaker 4: tackled immediately by Key Troll Clark, who has held his
Speaker 4: own in his NFL debut. Deep ball left side, single
Speaker 4: covered receiver there and of knocked away at the last
Speaker 4: second by Key Troll Clark in good cleek.
Speaker 1: Key Troll Clark just kept running in his face.
Speaker 4: Jones keeping it only got maybe a yard is easily
Speaker 4: planted by Key troll Clark.
Speaker 6: We saw him break up the past. Now he breaks
Speaker 6: up Daniel Jones.
Speaker 7: I promise you right now, Daniel Jones. We've got a
Speaker 7: mouthful of dirt and the.
Speaker 4: Pass is hawk foot hot up bounds is caught incomplete.
Speaker 1: Could not get both beat down one on one.
Speaker 7: On the outside with Key Troll Clark. He did a
Speaker 7: great job turning around.
Speaker 4: Pass left side. Skarana caught it, but he's dropped immediately.
Speaker 4: Key Troull Clark with a nice hit. Clark. We haven't
Speaker 4: seen him a lot, but he's back in the starting
Speaker 4: lineup today. And Clark with a great play to force
Speaker 4: a punt.
Speaker 6: And that's not an easy tackle. That's chronic guy who
Speaker 6: plays fullback as well. Yeah, as a receiver. I mean
Speaker 6: he's a physical dude. Nine tackles a team high total.
Speaker 6: And we're gonna get to know Key Troll Clark here
Speaker 6: momentarily as we continue with a big red rage presented
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Speaker 6: Cardinals twenty twenty three fan of the Year, Tailgate Troy,
Speaker 6: who's sitting right over there. Let me tell you what
Speaker 6: the name with the name like Tailgate Troy. Wolf's gonna
Speaker 6: stop by and grab a plate. I'm gonna you're getting
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Speaker 6: fan of the year. That's outstanding, no doubt about that.
Speaker 6: So I think it was by the end of Rookie
Speaker 6: Mini Camp Key Trell, and we heard from Michael Wilson
Speaker 6: who who was who was turning a few heads, right,
Speaker 6: turn a few heads, and he gave you props. He
Speaker 6: kind of introduced you to the media and he said,
Speaker 6: you know, there's this key troll Clark teammate of mine,
Speaker 6: and he's already has a notebook on me. Yeah, so
Speaker 6: tell us about your notebook and and was that just
Speaker 6: sort of a sort of an introductory thing or is
Speaker 6: that something you're continuing now and plan to continue.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Nah, that's that's something that I do always. I take
Speaker 2: notes on everything. I even have.
Speaker 8: I have a whole notebook full of like I still
Speaker 8: have my notebook as far as my college notebook when
Speaker 8: I took notes on every wide receiver before the season
Speaker 8: even started, So wow, Like, yeah, that's kind of that's
Speaker 8: kind of what I do. When I was going against Mike,
Speaker 8: I felt like he was getting me a little bit
Speaker 8: more than I like. So I was like, man, I'm
Speaker 8: about to watch some film when this boy. I went
Speaker 8: back and watched this college highlights, Like, I know we
Speaker 8: in practice, but you're not about to case the bothering.
Speaker 1: Me too much. Well, that is so cool. You did
Speaker 1: a little personal research right there, right, Okay.
Speaker 2: Let it on all of our wide receivers as well.
Speaker 7: What do you think is your strength as a corner
Speaker 7: right now? I know you're a rookie, and you're still
Speaker 7: making your way. But what do you think right now
Speaker 7: is your strength?
Speaker 8: I say, I feel like the physical attributes are there.
Speaker 8: Without the physical attributes, you know, I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 8: I feel like mentally right now, that's my strength of
Speaker 8: being able to respond.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: In the game, things are always going to go the
Speaker 2: way that you want them to go.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 8: Sometimes you gotta you gotta flush things when some bad
Speaker 8: things happen.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: So I say say, my strong point right now is
Speaker 8: just the mental part of the game. Being able to
Speaker 8: bounce back when things go wrong.
Speaker 6: Sort of reminds me of playing tackle. Like a long
Speaker 6: time host of this show, DJ Humphreys, Right, And DJ
Speaker 6: used to like to say, there'd be sixty snaps in
Speaker 6: a game, and I could be a kick of my
Speaker 6: guys butt for fifty nine of him. But he beats
Speaker 6: me on one man, just one and he gets through
Speaker 6: the quarterback and that can change the game. And you're
Speaker 6: nodding because you know that's life is a corner.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So mentally, how long did it take you to
Speaker 6: get that strength? Because I mean, look at your season, right,
Speaker 6: you started the first four games. Yeah, you played a
Speaker 6: lot of snaps in weeks five and six, and then
Speaker 6: you got zero defensive snaps the next five games. Yet
Speaker 6: you rebounded to start again last week and you led
Speaker 6: the team in tackles.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Is that all part of that mental strength maybe you
Speaker 6: formulated and forged as a corner.
Speaker 8: Absolutely. I'll tell you one thing. If I didn't have
Speaker 8: the mental strength to endure all of the adversity that
Speaker 8: I went through as far especially as far as being
Speaker 8: out for five games and being benched, I wouldn't have
Speaker 8: played last week.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: I had to just continue to be me and show
Speaker 8: the character that I know I have at the end
Speaker 8: of the day, knowing that in this game it's a
Speaker 8: production based business. If you're not producing, then you know
Speaker 8: they're gonna find somebody that's that's going to produce a
Speaker 8: little bit more. Man, So I had to really take
Speaker 8: the emotions out of it and really, like I said before,
Speaker 8: it looked myself in the mirror mentally.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, keep troull I've got to ask you this right here,
Speaker 7: because I heard you earlier talking about this. You said
Speaker 7: it was the best thing that could happen to you.
Speaker 7: Now keep trust Well, please, how what do you mean
Speaker 7: by that is the best?
Speaker 1: Thing to happen.
Speaker 2: Why man, Because.
Speaker 8: If you break it down to say, say a guy
Speaker 8: has came into the NFL and he's never hit that wall,
Speaker 8: never hit a time where you know, he got benched,
Speaker 8: or he's always been high that moment where he gets benched,
Speaker 8: or some things may not go his way. He might
Speaker 8: not respond the way that you would think he would
Speaker 8: be able to respond.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 8: Yes, But being that I was able to go through
Speaker 8: that in my rookie year and bounce back from it,
Speaker 8: I feel like that shows a lot about my character.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thoughts, and.
Speaker 8: I just think that it was the best thing that
Speaker 8: happened for me because I grew as a person as
Speaker 8: well more than just a football player.
Speaker 1: Wow, dude, we're.
Speaker 6: Gonna hear from Nick Rowlis here in a moment your
Speaker 6: defensive coordinator, was there something you needed to show Rollis
Speaker 6: and or Jonathan Gannon before you got back in the lineup.
Speaker 1: For them?
Speaker 8: I'm not sure what else they needed to see, but
Speaker 8: I know for me, I needed to show consistency because
Speaker 8: I wasn't consistent enough for my liking. So and I
Speaker 8: know if I'm consistent enough for me, then that would
Speaker 8: be consistent enough for them, all Right.
Speaker 6: Well, here's your decordinator, Nick Rowlis, and your performance against
Speaker 6: the Rams last Sunday.
Speaker 13: Oh, it popped off the tables. He tackled really well.
Speaker 13: That's not something you always are looking for with corner play,
Speaker 13: but it just so happened. A lot of balls went
Speaker 13: to the flat on him or he had to screen
Speaker 13: his way, and he tackled extremely well. I thought his
Speaker 13: off technique was good, you know, he was he was
Speaker 13: sticky on some cut splits or they're trying to get
Speaker 13: you off and get some access, and I thought he
Speaker 13: was in and out of his brakes really well. So
Speaker 13: he had a good game and you saw it no
Speaker 13: surprise because he was showing that stuff, you know, throughout
Speaker 13: practice leading up to that point.
Speaker 6: When we were at your locker yesterday, whole scrum of media.
Speaker 6: Did I hear you say that you went back and
Speaker 6: studied a lot of your coverages and a lot of
Speaker 6: other things, sort of like what you did in rookie
Speaker 6: Minnie camp against Michael Wilson. Did you go back during
Speaker 6: the five games you weren't playing and study earlier in
Speaker 6: the season.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 8: I feel like if you are a player in this league,
Speaker 8: you have to study yourself as well, because your opponent
Speaker 8: is studying you. There's no reason why I should study
Speaker 8: a guy in stite. Put all this time into studying
Speaker 8: someone else and don't study myself. I have to be
Speaker 8: able to sharpen my tools as well so I can
Speaker 8: be my best self on the field. Things that I
Speaker 8: may not made, things that I thought were a weakness
Speaker 8: strength may have been a weakness. So now if I'm
Speaker 8: looking back at the film and a guy may think
Speaker 8: he has a one up on me, and I look
Speaker 8: back and I'm like, hmm, oh, okay, Nah, You're not
Speaker 8: gonna beat me at that because I corrected it. Because
Speaker 8: I watched myself on tape and watch the things that
Speaker 8: I did wrong and correct them, so you know I
Speaker 8: won't do it again.
Speaker 7: So, key Troll, you're telling me you're it sounds like
Speaker 7: you're your harshest critic. You look at yourself and you
Speaker 7: break it down, right. Yeah, that is that is huge,
Speaker 7: right there, Key Troll. Seriously, if you do that, you're
Speaker 7: gonna play twelve fourteen years in this league. If you
Speaker 7: keep that mindset of constantly trying to get better and
Speaker 7: then looking at yourself first and saying where can I
Speaker 7: get better? Look, I played ten years in the NFL.
Speaker 7: It shouldn't have been there ten days, but I played
Speaker 7: there ten ten years in the NFL. I can't tell
Speaker 7: you how many guys that I played with who they
Speaker 7: would not look at themselves. They would not do that.
Speaker 7: They didn't want to. They wanted to look at their strengths,
Speaker 7: but not the weaknesses where they need to get better.
Speaker 7: To listen to you talk so openly about this process,
Speaker 7: but if you mean that you're gonna play twelve years
Speaker 7: in this lake.
Speaker 2: Man, thank you. Man I I just it's all a mindset.
Speaker 8: As I was telling you before, it comes from just
Speaker 8: gaining wisdom from you know, father figures that have came
Speaker 8: into my life.
Speaker 2: And I thank them for that.
Speaker 8: As well, because you know, it's not a lot of
Speaker 8: guys I'm and I see you know, it's not a
Speaker 8: lot a lot of guys that kind of have that
Speaker 8: mindset and think the way I do. Not trying to
Speaker 8: sound cocky, just being very confident. So man, I see
Speaker 8: it all the time. I see guys that, you know,
Speaker 8: try to put the blame on other people instead of
Speaker 8: really looking themselves in the mirror and seeing, okay, they
Speaker 8: may have an assessment on me but let me assess
Speaker 8: myself real quick. Yeah, let's see what they're saying as up.
Speaker 8: If it adds up, then if it doesn't, then.
Speaker 6: Keep me in you me, myself, me myself saying come
Speaker 6: on everything within You're right? Yes, say well look kep T.
Speaker 6: Clark Brown six rookie as our guest here on the
Speaker 6: big red race, Presentabody, santan Ford and Gilbert. Yet there
Speaker 6: you were, just beyond halfway pointer or your junior year
Speaker 6: at Louisville. Right, you're bidding to be all a C
Speaker 6: C again. In fact you were, but then down you
Speaker 6: went with a knee injury during one of your best
Speaker 6: games at that moment. How scared were you you wouldn't
Speaker 6: have an NFL future.
Speaker 8: Man, A lot flashed before my eyes when I got
Speaker 8: injured on that day. I'll say that was another piece
Speaker 8: of my life that really was that I had to
Speaker 8: be resilient and face some adversity. I feel like I've
Speaker 8: been facing adversity all my life, So man, I just
Speaker 8: I just knew that I had to keep on working.
Speaker 2: I knew it wasn't over.
Speaker 8: I had teammates that had the same exact injury that
Speaker 8: I had, and I see them flourishing, So I didn't
Speaker 8: better not. I knew that the journey would be a
Speaker 8: little bit longer to get to the destination that I
Speaker 8: wanted to get to, But I knew I was gonna
Speaker 8: get there.
Speaker 1: And I'm here, okay, speaking of here Lothian, Virginia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that how you say? Yes? Mid Lothian right there?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: It sounds so medieval mid Lothian. How cool is that?
Speaker 1: Paul Well?
Speaker 6: I knew you would be attracted. It's outside Richmond, right,
Speaker 6: most of us would just say Richmond. But not Wolf
Speaker 6: because he reads he reads fourteenth century literature. Okay, so
Speaker 6: he's attracted to the medieval aspect of it. What's what's
Speaker 6: crazy is not only were you in all state dB,
Speaker 6: but you're all state punt returner. And did I see her?
Speaker 6: Max Preps had you rated as the number two punt
Speaker 6: returner in the country athlete. So do you ever have
Speaker 6: your eyes on maybe we're turning a pun or two
Speaker 6: in the NFL? What are you thinking there?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 8: I went at the return place in Kyleage. I just
Speaker 8: never got my opportunity to uh. But man, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm a ball player. Whatever my number is called to do,
Speaker 8: I'm there to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Can I ask you about mid Lofian What is
Speaker 1: that like?
Speaker 7: Like, what is it?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: How many people are Yeah, I mean I just want
Speaker 1: to get a feel for this. So it's so cool.
Speaker 8: So I know as Virginia, but I'm not in the
Speaker 8: country part of Virginia. It's more it's more county city
Speaker 8: like a little bit. So it's not it's not like
Speaker 8: we're only have six.
Speaker 2: Hundred people in the right.
Speaker 1: It's not a small town.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a small town at all, man, It's
Speaker 2: it's quite big.
Speaker 8: On My high school was very big as well, had
Speaker 8: a big high school class, and you know, it was
Speaker 8: a great area to be in.
Speaker 6: Cool, nothing crazy, Yeah, I mean you guys were Class
Speaker 6: six state champs.
Speaker 1: I see here.
Speaker 6: So you know, it's not like zav And College and
Speaker 6: you you're telling Wolf about is one stop like town.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's not like that.
Speaker 6: And Denny Hamlin is a famous and notable alum from
Speaker 6: a class of ninety nine at your high school. Are
Speaker 6: you a NASCAR guy being from that part of the country, Man, No, No,
Speaker 6: that's awesome, that's good.
Speaker 7: That's right here. Speaking of you know, acquaintances and things
Speaker 7: of that, nature. Who's your best friend on the team.
Speaker 7: You got a best friend on the team, You got
Speaker 7: somebody you hang.
Speaker 8: So all Me and the guys are tight, yes, but
Speaker 8: uh but one guy that that that I've talked to
Speaker 8: and we had some deep conversations and uh just just
Speaker 8: talking life.
Speaker 2: Outside the ball as well as it's Garrett.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So so me and Garrett, Man, we're pretty tight. Uh
Speaker 8: it's it's a real relationship, man. And you know, he
Speaker 8: was my guy that I sit next to on the
Speaker 8: plane for the away games and when he came back
Speaker 8: on his debut and I was sitting next to him
Speaker 8: knowing that I was going to be inactive for the game,
Speaker 8: but I never I always supported my boy and was
Speaker 8: there and he always supported me as well. And you know,
Speaker 8: just continue to feed that good energy into me and
Speaker 8: just let me know, like, bro, it's not over, Bro,
Speaker 8: keep fighting and uh man, so that makes so much sense. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: that's my boy and crazy toy, crazy story man me
Speaker 8: and g uh.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 8: I have a homeboy that goes to Ohio State now
Speaker 8: and he played at Syracuse with g uh. He called
Speaker 8: me and said, man, I got a homeboy towards a
Speaker 8: c L. He wanted to talk to you, and I
Speaker 8: was like, cool, send him my number. It was Garrett
Speaker 8: And this was before we got drafted and now we're
Speaker 8: here together.
Speaker 1: Many is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's pretty destined right there. That's amazing. Hey, single
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Speaker 6: you we come back, we'll talk about some of these
Speaker 6: rookie duties.
Speaker 1: Maybe.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's week thirteen. Are you still doing the
Speaker 6: rookie duties? That's one question I'm gonna ask when we
Speaker 6: come back. You know, I mean guys like Wolf used
Speaker 6: to task all the rookies to get them donuts and
Speaker 6: stuff like that. Come on, now, we're live from Trophy
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Speaker 1: Puta Baker come.
Speaker 4: Out to be getting hand on boot a Baker put
Speaker 4: the Baker's a man who to Baker man?
Speaker 11: Man?
Speaker 1: Who the Baker's are bad?
Speaker 2: A dude.
Speaker 6: Watching that's a running and hit and everything I've told
Speaker 6: Buddha Baker more than once. He needs to make that
Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin comment about him his ring tone. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's like the ultimate praise right there. You got a
Speaker 6: future Hall of Fame head coach Mike Tomlin raving about you,
Speaker 6: miked up on NFL films while he's watching you play
Speaker 6: over the course of a game. That is that is
Speaker 6: the highest praise of them all. Hey, it's a Big
Speaker 6: Red Rage. Key Trell Clark is our guest here at
Speaker 6: Trophy and Chandler located on Queen Creek Road between Price
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Speaker 6: and Gilbert. We are Santan Ford, you tell us what
Speaker 6: Starling Thomas, the other rookie corner a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 6: just happened to be chopping up with a little bit
Speaker 6: in the locker room, and he said win in doubt.
Speaker 6: He looks at Buddha that he really follows Buddha's lead.
Speaker 6: How about you, Yeah, I'm the same way, bro man.
Speaker 8: So growing up, you know, when I really started looking
Speaker 8: at the league, man and really paying attention to more
Speaker 8: and more, Buddha was my favorite player. You know, I can,
Speaker 8: I can I really think about a time last year
Speaker 8: we were playing Clemson and I was in my locker
Speaker 8: with a towel over my head watching his highlights. Bro
Speaker 8: Like it's crazy. So I was literally watching his highlights,
Speaker 8: Like I went back to college. I watched his highlights
Speaker 8: when he was over there in Washington. So I'm watching
Speaker 8: his college highlights. I'm like getting ready for the game.
Speaker 8: I'm getting pipe hype up hyped up for the game.
Speaker 8: And it's just amazing to just be playing with him.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 7: You know what's incredible about Buddha Baker is the impact
Speaker 7: he has on everyone else around him offensively, defensively, in
Speaker 7: transition with special teams. I don't care where it is
Speaker 7: right now, Buddha Baker. When you watch Buddha Baker play, PAULI,
Speaker 7: the most incredible thing about it is his fearlessness and
Speaker 7: and the intensity in which he plays. Play after play
Speaker 7: after play after play. He immediately challenges you as a man. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I don't care if your offense, defense specialty, I don't
Speaker 7: care what you are.
Speaker 1: He challenges you just by watching.
Speaker 7: Him play, how hard he plays and with the intensity
Speaker 7: that he played, he challenges everybody on the sideline to
Speaker 7: do the exact same without saying a word. And I
Speaker 7: don't know, I don't know if you could have a
Speaker 7: better example than Buddha Baker because.
Speaker 6: Of that, man, Man, So what was it like when
Speaker 6: you're in the same meeting room with Buddha Baker? Because
Speaker 6: Paris Johnson Junior shared a little story about you know,
Speaker 6: he sort of was taken aback by Kyler Murray. You
Speaker 6: know he's like, Okay, at cool, at cool, Paris. He's
Speaker 6: like telling himself, you know, don't be a fanboy.
Speaker 2: There's Kyler Murray that kind of thing.
Speaker 6: Was it a process for you to sort of be
Speaker 6: his teammate?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 8: See I speak my mind, man, and I feel like
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, where a teammates now,
Speaker 8: So I can tell you how I feel. When I
Speaker 8: first met him, I said, Bro, like, I really respect
Speaker 8: you as a player and a person as well. Bro,
Speaker 8: you a guy that already looked at and I literally
Speaker 8: like you said, like, I'm not trying to be a
Speaker 8: fan boy. That's what I told him, Like, Bro, I'm
Speaker 8: not trying to be a fan boy. Bro, Like, I
Speaker 8: appreciate your work, all the work that you put in.
Speaker 8: You make me want to go hard as well.
Speaker 6: So well, guess what earlier today, Buddha, Baker was asked
Speaker 6: about you and your return to the starting lineup. Here's Buddha.
Speaker 9: He continued to stay in it, continue to work very
Speaker 9: hard all the scout team reps. He was continuing the
Speaker 9: work is technique, continuing to work the communication aspect of
Speaker 9: it as well. And you know, he came in and
Speaker 9: you know, it's just like he was earlier on when
Speaker 9: he was starting, and now he's he's just adding more
Speaker 9: knowledge onto the game now that he's playing. So to
Speaker 9: get these reps and to get this time on the
Speaker 9: field is definitely good for younger players, especially corners on
Speaker 9: the outside.
Speaker 6: In fact, to your point earlier, Wolf, when we watched
Speaker 6: the first couple games of the Cardinals in twenty twenty three, Yeah,
Speaker 6: one of the things a lot of guys cited, guys
Speaker 6: like you and Kyle Vanderbosch, Roth Berderckson said, you know what,
Speaker 6: no longer is there so vast difference between Buddha and
Speaker 6: the rest of the players on film last year too often, right,
Speaker 6: there was Buddha playing at one speed and the rest
Speaker 6: of the defense at another speed. But now everyone's playing
Speaker 6: up the Buddha's intensity got to urgency right, and that
Speaker 6: that has to be compelling when he's setting that standard.
Speaker 2: I mean guys have to match that right, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 8: For myself, I'm not the biggest guy every time we
Speaker 8: step on the field, I'm probably the smartest guy on
Speaker 8: the field, but my goal is not to play like that.
Speaker 8: You know, at the end of the day, I gotta
Speaker 8: I see Buddha getting to the ball running full speed
Speaker 8: like he don't care about his life, but he does.
Speaker 1: It's like they used to say he was running into
Speaker 1: the darkness.
Speaker 2: But na, like, bro, I take heath to that man.
Speaker 8: So you know, that was kind of my mindset last game,
Speaker 8: Like bro, like, forget it, full speed, I don't care
Speaker 8: that he's bigger than me. I'm gonna runn fullest, full
Speaker 8: speed into him. If I get him down, I get
Speaker 8: him down. If I don't, I know my team is coming.
Speaker 1: So once again, and that's.
Speaker 7: The reason why Buddha Baker players like him challenge everybody
Speaker 7: on the sideline because football, for the most part, it's
Speaker 7: played by big, fast individuals who will just knock your
Speaker 7: face off.
Speaker 1: Period.
Speaker 7: I realize when you get into the secondary, when you
Speaker 7: get into position, they're gonna get smaller and they need
Speaker 7: to get smaller because you need speed out there as well.
Speaker 7: But Buddha Baker, when when people watch him, is smaller.
Speaker 7: He's not a prototype safety by any stretch of the imagination,
Speaker 7: not even close. He's not the fastest guy, he's not
Speaker 7: the biggest guy, and he's not the strongest guy in
Speaker 7: the field.
Speaker 1: He's not.
Speaker 7: He's just the best player on the field every time
Speaker 7: he steps in between those white lines because of how
Speaker 7: he plays.
Speaker 2: Mindset.
Speaker 1: It is a mindset, key truff. Why do you say
Speaker 1: that though, Because you know that, don't you.
Speaker 8: That's a masset. Whoever you tell yourself you're gonna beat,
Speaker 8: that's who you're gonna be. You tell yourself you're gonna
Speaker 8: be great, You're gonna be great. If you tell yourself
Speaker 8: that I'm gonna go out here on the field today
Speaker 8: and I'm gonna be the best player on the field,
Speaker 8: regardless if there is a Hall of future, Hall of
Speaker 8: Fame on the field, I'm gonna be the best player
Speaker 8: on this field today, then you will be. But if
Speaker 8: you have any ounce of doubt that you're gonna that
Speaker 8: you're not gonna do that, then you won't be.
Speaker 6: So you had nine tackles. In this last game he
Speaker 6: had ten tackles, two passes defense against Dallas. Who's the
Speaker 6: best player you've gone against so far in a game?
Speaker 6: Who's a guy just the dude factor? Like, Okay, this
Speaker 6: this guy is a dude.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna take it all the way back to preseason.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go to Patrick Mahomes like, I'm not even
Speaker 8: talking about wide receivers. I'm just I'm just talking about quarterbacks,
Speaker 8: you know, at the end, just a player. And because, man,
Speaker 8: when I was playing against him, he would make things
Speaker 8: happen with his legs, Like make plays happen with his legs.
Speaker 8: As a dB, it's hard to cover for longer than
Speaker 8: three seconds, Like he makes the play last for ten
Speaker 8: seconds just running around.
Speaker 2: So that was a guy that I want to guess
Speaker 2: that that was a very good.
Speaker 6: That's a good answer, good answer, no doubt about it. Hey,
Speaker 6: Cardinals game plan, Friday six thirty on twelve News. We'll
Speaker 6: get you ready for the game. In fact, speaking of mindset,
Speaker 6: let's talk about James Connor when we come back with
Speaker 6: Key Trell Clark on the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 6: Santan Ford in Gilbert This is a James Connor four
Speaker 6: yard touchdown run. Just do flat shovel, flat face as
Speaker 6: Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 5: Flat shovel, flat face, that's how you run the ball
Speaker 5: inside the red zone. A little gold to go. Hand
Speaker 5: it off to James Connor. Let him find the light man.
Speaker 1: That's what he did.
Speaker 5: He's James.
Speaker 1: Connor.
Speaker 2: H flat flat shovel, flat face.
Speaker 1: That's how you run the ball inside the red zones.
Speaker 1: I don't know how.
Speaker 6: If you're familiar with Frank Kelly and know he's a
Speaker 6: nationally comedian and impressionist. He lives here locally. He joined
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Speaker 6: own radio studio Cardinals HQ and Arius. He is amazing
Speaker 6: man of a million voices, ridiculous talent, and it is
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Speaker 6: Key Troll Clark is our special guest here live from
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Speaker 6: Ford and Gilbert Forget the whole Seahawks game that's up
Speaker 6: here right now. We're the original Thursday Night Football. That's
Speaker 6: how we bill ourselves around here, Key troll. So tell
Speaker 6: us about James Conner. You talk about tough tackles. I
Speaker 6: don't know if there were were there any scrimmages that
Speaker 6: were live or anything like that, if you actually had
Speaker 6: to square up number six man.
Speaker 2: I told him probably about two weeks ago.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know me, And I was about to go
Speaker 8: for to tackle, and we can't tackle in practice obviously,
Speaker 8: but I was about to tag him off. And as
Speaker 8: I'm running to tag him off, I fear a big
Speaker 8: gussle Win go past me. I'm like, I'm like, oh
Speaker 8: my goodness, boy. I had tell him, I said, bro,
Speaker 8: I felt a big gust of win when you rare
Speaker 8: a pat.
Speaker 2: He just thought it laughing.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's been on this show more than once, right,
Speaker 6: and he's told us how he originally went to pitt
Speaker 6: University of Pittsburgh as a defensive end. He was in
Speaker 6: the same position room with Aaron Donald. There was a
Speaker 6: bowl game where he split a sack as a freshman
Speaker 6: with Aaron Donald, and then all of a sudden he
Speaker 6: was a full time running back. So how do you
Speaker 6: know you're in the NFL when a former d lineman
Speaker 6: is now a starting Pro Bowl running backs, Right, that's
Speaker 6: just crazy.
Speaker 2: I knew that that was That's news to me. I
Speaker 2: didn't know that.
Speaker 6: You guys are well aware that he's going back to Pittsburgh, Yes, right,
Speaker 6: hometown homecoming for him.
Speaker 2: Homecoming.
Speaker 6: How much did you guys feed off? Because a lot
Speaker 6: of times when he trucks someone, I see the defense
Speaker 6: jump up. Did that get you guys going?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Man, j C.
Speaker 8: He's gonna express his emotions on the field by any
Speaker 8: means necessary. It could be we could be a ball
Speaker 8: at minfield and he just got a first down.
Speaker 2: He's gonna hold.
Speaker 8: If he trucks somebody and got the first down, he's
Speaker 8: gonna get up, celebrate, and the whole everybody better wait
Speaker 8: for him to get back to that.
Speaker 7: You know, there's no doubt about it, man, I mean,
Speaker 7: this is what James Connor brings it. Man, he's got
Speaker 7: to get the ball, he's got to get the touches.
Speaker 7: You know, you gotta break, You gotta hand the ball
Speaker 7: off and let him attack the line of scrimmage. I
Speaker 7: don't want to go with the whole under center thing
Speaker 7: and everything else. Everyone knows how I feel about that
Speaker 7: BALLI I don't want to talk about it. Thank you
Speaker 7: again for me, James Connor needs to get a run
Speaker 7: at the line of scrimmage and let two hundred and
Speaker 7: thirty two pounds raw. Yeah, exactly right. It's interesting though,
Speaker 7: because when you flip it over to you, you look
Speaker 7: at the Steelers. They've got a couple of really tough
Speaker 7: tackles as well. When you're talking about tackling a guy
Speaker 7: like Jalen Warren or tackling a guy Harris Naji Harris
Speaker 7: sixty two pounds, they got a couple of tough tackles,
Speaker 7: do they not?
Speaker 1: They do?
Speaker 8: They do have some some guys. That's the lead over there, man.
Speaker 8: And the main thing for us is just for me
Speaker 8: at least, it's being a fundamental tackler. You can't run
Speaker 8: with any without any legs. That's what people my coach
Speaker 8: used to tell me all the time.
Speaker 1: And you're not afraid, Nah, you'll stick it right into
Speaker 1: the fan.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not really afraid at all by any means.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 8: Look, I'm not gonna get everybody. I don't want to
Speaker 8: get everybody motivated to play a game, right now. But
Speaker 8: that's how I'm feeling, and Sunday is getting closer. I
Speaker 8: might get a little round up right now.
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, you going to Pittsburgh to play the
Speaker 6: Black and Gold. It's going to be a black and
Speaker 6: blue game. There's no doubt about it. James Connor knows it. Look,
Speaker 6: he didn't even play a home game high school, college
Speaker 6: and pros until outside Pennsylvania until he signed with the Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Think about that, and he's going back home and this
Speaker 6: week he told the me to just expressed his gratitude
Speaker 6: to the city of Pittsburgh and the Steelers for just
Speaker 6: what they afforded him.
Speaker 12: M there's a lot of love there in the city.
Speaker 12: You know, I got a lot of respect for the
Speaker 12: people there and just love for them. You know, taking
Speaker 12: a chance, I'm gonn take an opportunity, even though when
Speaker 12: it's coming out, you know, I was done with all
Speaker 12: types of injuries and cancer and everything in the Stelers
Speaker 12: still you know, selected me, and so you know, I'm
Speaker 12: grateful for that. And then obviously the University of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 12: You know, it's one of one of the few schools
Speaker 12: that gave me a scholarship. So I got nothing but
Speaker 12: love and the people. Yeah, that's all I loved there.
Speaker 1: Think about it. He beat cancer.
Speaker 6: They found tumors around his heart, He endured twelve rounds
Speaker 6: of chemo, came back. The Steelers saw that because they
Speaker 6: share the same facility, pitt and the Steelers, so they
Speaker 6: saw that firsthand. What he was made of. Yeah, how
Speaker 6: he came back and what sort of player in persony
Speaker 6: he is.
Speaker 7: And as he know Paully, my older brother Craig of course,
Speaker 7: is the radio analyst for the Pittsburgh Steelers and knows
Speaker 7: James very very well.
Speaker 1: One of his favorite players of all time.
Speaker 7: Craig's been doing that for what twenty three years somewhere
Speaker 7: in there, twenty three twenty four years. His favorite player,
Speaker 7: one of his favorite players of all time, it's James
Speaker 7: Connor because of who he is as a person.
Speaker 6: And I'm guessing top five also would be TJ. Watt,
Speaker 6: who's going to be a Hall of Famer, and he's
Speaker 6: type for the league lead in sacks right now. And
Speaker 6: James Connor was asked, Okay, what does the Cardinals offense do.
Speaker 6: What's the key to getting past TJ.
Speaker 1: Watt?
Speaker 6: When you're running the ball.
Speaker 1: Run fast?
Speaker 12: Now, TJ's a machine. You know he's gonna make plays
Speaker 12: for sure. You know he's gonna stop. But he's one
Speaker 12: of the best in the game right now. So yeah,
Speaker 12: got a hands full with him for sure.
Speaker 6: And look, it's a very stout defense. They're the number
Speaker 6: five scoring defense, so you know they're not going to
Speaker 6: give up a lot of points. They typically don't, which
Speaker 6: falls back to your defense, right ca you Trow You
Speaker 6: guys got to bring it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. The key for this week, like I told you, man,
Speaker 2: is we didn't better.
Speaker 8: Now at the end of the day, we didn't come
Speaker 8: up Victoria's last week, but this week we've been grinding
Speaker 8: very hard to make sure that we are limited those
Speaker 8: disupposed to plays that we're not allowing up, giving more,
Speaker 8: giving up more points than we want to give up.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: We don't want to give up anything, obviously, but you
Speaker 8: know it's the NFL. So we just got to play
Speaker 8: our game, man, and just go out there and just
Speaker 8: play ball, have fun and execute.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: Obviously everybody knows we got a lot of rookies that's
Speaker 8: gonna be on the field as well. So man, just
Speaker 8: from us, we just got to play at a high
Speaker 8: level as well. You know it should be no drop off.
Speaker 7: Yeah, George Pickens, what do you see from him on film?
Speaker 7: George Pickens?
Speaker 8: George Pickens man, he's a he's a good wide receiver.
Speaker 8: I feel like, uh, you know, at the end of
Speaker 8: the day, he's gonna give us some good work. I'm
Speaker 8: gonna be able to better my craft. It's going to
Speaker 8: be more of an Iron Shoppers iron.
Speaker 1: Type of thing. Okay, press cover? Do you want press
Speaker 1: coverage on that? You want press? You want off? You
Speaker 1: want a little zone? What do you want?
Speaker 2: You trying to get to the nitty gritty. That's what
Speaker 2: it sounds like. I know I can't. I can't. I
Speaker 2: can't say the game plan. He's gonna just gonna be covered.
Speaker 6: The media was hitting you up at your locker yesterday
Speaker 6: too about Deontay Johnson, Like, yeah, you you all of
Speaker 6: a sudden you went silent. You're not one to mince words,
Speaker 6: but all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: I'm just more so when it comes to my opponent.
Speaker 1: I just like to I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all gonna see when he is. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: like to talk too much.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 6: Now, what about Kenny Pickett. He can extend plays. You
Speaker 6: guys got to worry about his legs too a little bit, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I played I played Kenny Pickett when I was
Speaker 8: at Louvo and he was at pitt and so I
Speaker 8: got the sparience playing him once. Obviously, he's a he's
Speaker 8: a little bit of a different player now. He's he's
Speaker 8: gained more knowledge, of course since being in the NFL. Man,
Speaker 8: So he's a he's a pretty good player.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 2: We's got to come ready to play, you know what, Puli.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I just want to say this quickly. James Connor
Speaker 1: and we're talking about James Connor. I'd love to see
Speaker 1: James Connor get the ball twenty five times and escape.
Speaker 7: Seriously, hey, light up and hand the ball off and
Speaker 7: let him go to work on this because the one
Speaker 7: thing that cannot happen is that this offense, the Cardinals
Speaker 7: offense is one dimensional. You can't do that, not against
Speaker 7: this defense, with their past defense. It's too good.
Speaker 6: Well, based on what he told us on his TV
Speaker 6: show this week, it's not gonna happen again. Just six
Speaker 6: carries for James Connor.
Speaker 1: He will be featured.
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