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Speaker 1: we intro our special guest tonight, I'm making my Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm checking it twice for Santa. You're never too old
Speaker 1: to make a list for Santa. So you know what
Speaker 1: I'm asking for. Yeah, I'm asking to be, Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, sixty four, two hundred and seventy pounds. I'm
Speaker 1: asking to be twenty two years of age, you know,
Speaker 1: being an evolving NFL star. And I also wish that
Speaker 1: I was from Carl's Bad, you know, from the California coast,
Speaker 1: and that I was wearing a shirt that said Carl's Bad.
Speaker 1: Right now, as our guest Cameron Thomas, is this evening?
Speaker 1: Cam welcome? Hey guys, thanks having me on. Yeah, Cam, No,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Man, we really
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. You're from Carl's Bad, Cam, Yes, I've
Speaker 1: been very blessed to be from Carlos Bad. Okay, No, No, honestly,
Speaker 1: what is Carl's Bad California? Like? Man, you know what,
Speaker 1: I honestly will say this, I kind of get a
Speaker 1: lot of vibes from the Tempe area from Carlos Bad. However,
Speaker 1: we do have a beach. We do have that. We
Speaker 1: have the town lake, but they have the beach. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're north of San Diego, right, yeah, about forty
Speaker 1: minutes north. Okay, okay, So Cam, did you also know
Speaker 1: that Carl's Bad, California is the host to one of
Speaker 1: the best motocross tracks in the United States of America?
Speaker 1: Did you know that? It's a little new new news
Speaker 1: to me? Um, you know, which is surprising. You know,
Speaker 1: I grew up going to glamis not too far from
Speaker 1: here either, so that's something I should probably know. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, Yes, the five hundred grand Prix a Carlsbad, Cali, Fornia.
Speaker 1: Man Hike Michela here he is on his bull talk.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, don't get me started. Well, if is that
Speaker 1: a flashback to like the eighties? Because they are you
Speaker 1: sure they haven't paved it over and put down multimillion
Speaker 1: dollar homes on that racetrack? Are you sure there's a
Speaker 1: real possibility? Okay, there is because we've got someone from
Speaker 1: Carl's Bad. He hasn't heard of it, so all right,
Speaker 1: We'll get into that a little bit later. So here
Speaker 1: we are, it's week fifteen. You tell us what has
Speaker 1: this season been like, especially as a rookie. I mean,
Speaker 1: compare and contrast, for example, how you feel now in
Speaker 1: the NFL versus Oh, I don't know, last time we
Speaker 1: had you in, which was a matter of weeks after
Speaker 1: you had been drafted way back in May, I think
Speaker 1: is the last time you're in this studio. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like every week I do feel more comfortable
Speaker 1: with this within myself. This was as a person as
Speaker 1: a player. Um, you know, I just continue to be
Speaker 1: able to learn from the other players and just take
Speaker 1: what they what they give me and try to applaut
Speaker 1: to my own game. And uh yeah, I do believe
Speaker 1: every week I feel more comfort And I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: looking back from when I was first on this show,
Speaker 1: when I first had drafted in here, and looking from
Speaker 1: where I was there too now, I you know, it's
Speaker 1: really crazy on that note right there, How have you
Speaker 1: changed though? Specifically, Cam, how do you think you've changed
Speaker 1: from the beginning to where you are now? I would
Speaker 1: say this, I remember, you know, coming from college football,
Speaker 1: you know it's the the toughness wins games kind of
Speaker 1: aspect to kind of more like, you know, more of
Speaker 1: a mental game. I will say that it's a lot
Speaker 1: more mental that at this level. And yes, being able
Speaker 1: to just kind of just to learn and just study
Speaker 1: teams and just be able to take little pieces from
Speaker 1: here and there and be able to apply it in
Speaker 1: the week, Um, is something that has definitely helped it
Speaker 1: grow and expand my game. Cameron Thomas is our guest
Speaker 1: here at Cardinals round three, rookie out of San Diego State.
Speaker 1: In fact, Buddha Baker just stood in front of his
Speaker 1: locker and said, seventy five percent of the NFL is mental. Absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: a hundred percent agree with them. Yeah. So let's fast
Speaker 1: forward to April or May, right, and the new crop
Speaker 1: of rookies comes in. What sort of advice do you
Speaker 1: think you would give them? What would you tell them
Speaker 1: to expect? And I don't know, would you give him
Speaker 1: any any sort of best practices? What would you say
Speaker 1: to say? Keep your head in the game, you know,
Speaker 1: and it gets easier every week, it really does. And um,
Speaker 1: you get in that playbook because it's only gonna get
Speaker 1: in the field faster. So Cam, good or bad. Were
Speaker 1: you surprised by anything to do with the National Football League? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know I would I would probably just say the
Speaker 1: same thing I just said, you know, just with the
Speaker 1: knowledge of the game, you know, coming in, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: when you think of the NFL, you know, I thought
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, a next up, next step up,
Speaker 1: a level of grind um and and it really is,
Speaker 1: but just a different aspect going from the physical more
Speaker 1: to mental. Um. You know. I thought if by you know,
Speaker 1: by graduating college, you know, I would be able to
Speaker 1: kind of relax and studying. But it's the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: So so far, you've played what thirteen game games? Right,
Speaker 1: So who's been the biggest, baddest, most difficult assignment for
Speaker 1: you so far? That's a great question. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest time I had came actually back from training camp,
Speaker 1: you know, going from interior d lineman back to a
Speaker 1: standopouts a linebacker. I think there was a bit of
Speaker 1: an adjustment there. And you know, every week I think
Speaker 1: I just like I said, I get just way more comfortable. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's rolling off my ball from my stance. Um.
Speaker 1: And yeah, about an opponent, how about about like an
Speaker 1: opposing offensive lineman. Who's the toughest guy you've gone against
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to give it to Trent Williams. You know, he's earned
Speaker 1: his reputation for a reason, just be able to watch
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, you know how he takes other very
Speaker 1: high calibert um you know NFL players, and how he
Speaker 1: kind of treats them and neutralizes them. Yeah, exactly. But
Speaker 1: you know, um, I will say that, Yeah, I watched
Speaker 1: Marcus gold and get after that dude. And after seeing that,
Speaker 1: you know, I did learn that. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: you can respect players in this league, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they are just players and players
Speaker 1: can be beat. So oh that is great, Cam, That
Speaker 1: really is man, That is that is growth I think
Speaker 1: from you. Um. You know we're in December, as Paul
Speaker 1: he was talking about, it's almost Christmas. Cam, you got
Speaker 1: four games left. Man, did you hit a wall at
Speaker 1: all this year? Uh? No, not at all. Actually, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still very excited to be able to play every
Speaker 1: single Sunday. Um, no, not at all. How about physically though,
Speaker 1: I mean physically, if you have you had a week
Speaker 1: or have you gotten to the point because honestly, there
Speaker 1: were a number of rookies last year that about this
Speaker 1: point sort of faded physically, and just you know, a
Speaker 1: long NFL season, it goes so far beyond a college
Speaker 1: season in so many ways, and in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: you haven't had a break because you had to prepare
Speaker 1: for the draft and then you just kept on going, right. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: absolutely no, there is Uh, the season is obviously much longer,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I think I think I've been
Speaker 1: doing a pretty good job of keeping up with my body.
Speaker 1: You know, I've had obviously just the normal bumps and
Speaker 1: bruises throughout the season here. But yeah, I think I've
Speaker 1: been doing a good job and just taking care of
Speaker 1: my body, and it's been taking care of me. So
Speaker 1: who was the toughest dude to tackle this year? If
Speaker 1: I may ask, you know, Kenneth Walker. I gotta give
Speaker 1: him a lot of respect. Oh yeah, I do give
Speaker 1: him a lot of respects. Christian McCaffrey is up there
Speaker 1: as well, just just in terms of how elusive they
Speaker 1: are or is it the combination of the ability to
Speaker 1: make you miss and or run over you. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker's you know, he's got he's gotten a little
Speaker 1: more of the run through you type of m part
Speaker 1: to his game. But Christian McCaffrey, you know, he'll make
Speaker 1: you miss in a phone booth. So yeah, you just
Speaker 1: gotta respect both of them. They have different games, but
Speaker 1: both very good players. Yeah, Cam, I'm going to ask
Speaker 1: you to go ahead and look at your season and
Speaker 1: evaluate your season for us if you don't mind, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you think it's gone for you? Well, I'll
Speaker 1: say this right now. I'm a lot tough for them
Speaker 1: on myself, and I think a lot of people will
Speaker 1: agree on Have you always spend that way? Absolutely? You know,
Speaker 1: even my last year of college football when I came out,
Speaker 1: and you know, I still think that there was still
Speaker 1: a lot to improve on. You know, I still took
Speaker 1: my chances came out in the draft, but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I definitely think there's a lot more that I could
Speaker 1: prove on through the year, you know, And I would
Speaker 1: say a lot more. I mean, yeah, more mental, Like
Speaker 1: I said, like, it's still learn a lot more of
Speaker 1: the game of the football, and you know, definitely some
Speaker 1: big steps there. But yeah, I think every single week
Speaker 1: I am improving and taking those steps. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: definitely a bit of adjustment period. So when your position
Speaker 1: group is out there, you're working with the outside linebackers. Correct, Yes,
Speaker 1: yet you are a nose tackle at times of San
Speaker 1: Diego State. Yeah, it's amazing. And then during games you're
Speaker 1: used in a variety of ways just till some of
Speaker 1: the different spots you've already played this year. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: this year, you know, I played a little bit of
Speaker 1: obviously stand upouts a linebacker, whether it was a five
Speaker 1: you know, head up on or outside shade of the
Speaker 1: office tackle or a nine technique outside of the state
Speaker 1: of the tight end. You know, there's some packages and
Speaker 1: they were off on myself in there from a three
Speaker 1: tech rushing and I'm very comfortable doing that. You know,
Speaker 1: that's something actually coming into the NFL, I was a
Speaker 1: lot more comfortable doing the rushing the edge. And it's
Speaker 1: funny how things it flits, but yeah, you know that's
Speaker 1: something I don't mind doing it. I really do enjoy it,
Speaker 1: you know, And with Zach you know, obviously you know,
Speaker 1: hurting his hand that, you know, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if I found myself more in there this week and
Speaker 1: going forward, and yeah, just anything I could do to
Speaker 1: be valuable to this team. I'm up for doing. Cam,
Speaker 1: what do you think was your best game this season?
Speaker 1: And why do you think it was your best game?
Speaker 1: That's a great question. So a big trait or one
Speaker 1: of my best traits I believe I have as a
Speaker 1: players my effort and you know there might be, you know,
Speaker 1: some games where I might have more win percentage or
Speaker 1: you know, I might have better statistics. But I actually
Speaker 1: really liked last game against New England. I think my
Speaker 1: effort are out more in that game than it has
Speaker 1: in the other games, and that's kind that's kind of
Speaker 1: something I usually based myself off. So I think I
Speaker 1: think New England was a game I said I look
Speaker 1: up to. I'll tell you what. We got a little
Speaker 1: insight into the lead up to that game on Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks And for everyone who doesn't know, Cameron Thomas is
Speaker 1: our guests round three rookie And in college you wore
Speaker 1: number ninety nine because J. J. Watt and so there
Speaker 1: you were. It was the two of you in one
Speaker 1: of the meeting rooms and Hard Knocks caught that moment
Speaker 1: and here's a little clip. The number one thing you
Speaker 1: got to remember is that you also have strengths. Never
Speaker 1: talk yourself out of being successful. So like you have
Speaker 1: a great bull rush and you have a great long run.
Speaker 1: Just because this guy is good against it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you can't win with it. I'm here or twelve, I'm
Speaker 1: still learning. That's JJ Watt to our guest Cameron Thomas.
Speaker 1: Is it possible to summarize, just capitualize what have you
Speaker 1: learned from JJ Watt this year? Yeah, there's there's definitely
Speaker 1: some of the things that I've learned from him, you know,
Speaker 1: whether he's physically told me or just me observing him. Um,
Speaker 1: as a player, you know, I'm the reason he got
Speaker 1: to where he is today. Is his worth ethic and
Speaker 1: you know, his leadership is is something. Um, you know
Speaker 1: that's also a very big aspect of him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just being able to see him, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: do his workouts, be able to see his practice habits, um,
Speaker 1: just kind of see the way the way he carries
Speaker 1: himself throughout this building is something you know that's really
Speaker 1: inspiring and really helps the young player like myself. Kim,
Speaker 1: What is he like? You know what I mean? It's
Speaker 1: as a teammate, you know, we know the public perception
Speaker 1: of J. J. Watt of course, but as a teammate, Um,
Speaker 1: what is he like? Is he is he a funny guy?
Speaker 1: Does he like to laugh? But what does J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt like as a teammate? Now, JJ definitely has to
Speaker 1: have fun. Um, you know he's he could be sarcastic,
Speaker 1: definitely and um, now he'll definitely joke around with you,
Speaker 1: but at the same time he'll be locked in and
Speaker 1: you know, understanding where he needs to be. And um yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: some of those clips him giving given Zach Allen the
Speaker 1: business on the sideline during practice. Yeah, that's him, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's JJ. And how many times are you asked that?
Speaker 1: Do people come up to you and say, Cam, I
Speaker 1: know you play with JJ? Want man, you know what's
Speaker 1: he like? Do you get Do you get asked that
Speaker 1: all the time? Yeah? No, I definitely get asked that
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Um, you know, definitely from from
Speaker 1: people I'm close to. So and hey, you wanted to
Speaker 1: know the answer to that yourself once you got drafted. Right.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's Van's Joseph just JJ's impact on you
Speaker 1: earlier today, Cam win his number in college. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was as obvious that he was a hero of
Speaker 1: Cams and Cam's first day on a job, it was
Speaker 1: funny to watch him, you know, just walk around JJ
Speaker 1: and to stare at him, and he wouldn't say anything
Speaker 1: to him, but he would just stare at him, you know.
Speaker 1: He was funny to watch that. But now Cam's got
Speaker 1: those straits, you know, and he's a young guy. He's
Speaker 1: eager to learn. I mean, you know, if like Joe
Speaker 1: Buck was in here or some premier broadcaster, I'd probably
Speaker 1: be staring at him too, right, I mean it's just
Speaker 1: sort of natural, right, Yeah. No, I definitely remember that
Speaker 1: first time I saw It was definitely an eye opener,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing this guy that I've just watched for
Speaker 1: so long, you know, right in front of me. I
Speaker 1: think VJ kind of exaggerated a little bit. I'm the
Speaker 1: staring h He's gotta tell the media a good story,
Speaker 1: you know. No, I definitely remember the first time I
Speaker 1: met him, though. It was right when I got drafted.
Speaker 1: Walked in here. He was in the middle of a
Speaker 1: workout and I didn't want to distract him, but I
Speaker 1: walked up to him and induced myself while he was
Speaker 1: talking to VJ. I do remember VJ making a comment.
Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly what it was, but yeah, you're like, hey, DJ,
Speaker 1: I'm not a stalker around here. Yeah, go ahead, Wolf.
Speaker 1: No no, I was just gonna say, man, that did
Speaker 1: this year teach you anything? And if so, what what
Speaker 1: did it teach you? I taught me to shoot a
Speaker 1: ton of things. And honestly, at the top of my
Speaker 1: head here, um, I don't think there's any more about confidence, cam.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, like I think every rookie, every rookie
Speaker 1: has got to experience a point in the season where
Speaker 1: it's just you the pillow at night. Man, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: you're up at two thirty in the morning and the
Speaker 1: shadows are creeping across the ceiling and you're awake, and
Speaker 1: yet you're thinking about your profession, you're thinking about your sport,
Speaker 1: you're thinking about your game, and at some point of
Speaker 1: time camp you have to be able to say to yourself, man,
Speaker 1: I got this. If you had that moment this year,
Speaker 1: uh yeah I did. Actually, Um, that was that was
Speaker 1: eye open it for me in training camp. I remember
Speaker 1: I started off you know, um, there's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a transition from the you know, the change of
Speaker 1: the positions and I never really blamed that at all.
Speaker 1: I never looked at it like that way at all.
Speaker 1: But I remember there was a period of there's a
Speaker 1: dry period where I wasn't making any place. Shoot. I
Speaker 1: remember it was like maybe like four or five days
Speaker 1: in the camp and I haven't done anything, and I
Speaker 1: was just like I look at myself like like, you know,
Speaker 1: like what's going on right now? Like this isn't the camera,
Speaker 1: I know, And I remember there's something happened. I don't
Speaker 1: remember remember exactly what it was, but I was like
Speaker 1: I was getting pretty down on myself. I was just
Speaker 1: like this is you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: And I remember like the first main made play Main
Speaker 1: training camp, I got like washed from one side of
Speaker 1: the ball all the other and the tackle basically put
Speaker 1: me right to the running back because you know he
Speaker 1: put me there um and a gap that was like
Speaker 1: four over um. And I was really embarrassing myself. And
Speaker 1: I remember that night in my room at the hotel,
Speaker 1: I was just like, I'm just gonna cut this thing loose,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I don't got much to lose.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I don't have anything. I haven't really
Speaker 1: gained too much as I've been here, so I'm just
Speaker 1: love this thing loose. And as soon as I did that,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a whole new player. And that
Speaker 1: was the player I was at San Diego State. You know,
Speaker 1: I just I went out there. I have fun and
Speaker 1: I did not care. I just I went out there
Speaker 1: and I went and um, ever since then, I think
Speaker 1: us exactly what it's been. I've just gotten out there
Speaker 1: every single day. UM, enjoyed playing the sport. You know,
Speaker 1: I grew up loving and I'm very blessed to be
Speaker 1: in the position I'm in. Now that's a great story
Speaker 1: and it's echoes what JJ Watt tells. The Vans Joseph
Speaker 1: was on that he's and staff when jj Watt was
Speaker 1: a first round rookie said, most of his rookie year
Speaker 1: he struggled. And jj Watt said, I was trying to
Speaker 1: do this for that coach and this for that coach,
Speaker 1: and I realized, I just gotta be myself. I'm already struggling.
Speaker 1: I just gotta I gotta be myself. And if I stink,
Speaker 1: well I already stink. And then he said, boom, that
Speaker 1: was the turning point. And Vans Joseph said the game
Speaker 1: was a playoff game his rookie year, and according to
Speaker 1: Van's Joseph, he did things that he never seen a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman ever do. And that's where JJ watt more
Speaker 1: initially and eventually into a three time NFL Defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. So that that's a great story sort
Speaker 1: of that having that epiphany at that moment. So we'll
Speaker 1: continue here with Cameron Thomas. We'll talk about the Broncos
Speaker 1: and what's straight ahead on the Big Red Rage presented
Speaker 1: by Santan four in Gilbert snapped, the Smith drops back
Speaker 1: to throw pressure on his face. He's in trouble and
Speaker 1: he goes down. He sacked back at the twenty one
Speaker 1: yard line. Cam Thomas, the rookie, is there for the
Speaker 1: Cardinals to make the play. First career sacked or Cam Thomas.
Speaker 1: Herbert back to throw up third down in trouble, steps
Speaker 1: up sect again at the forty four yard line. This
Speaker 1: time it's Cam Thomas steps up in the pocket, gets hit, armed,
Speaker 1: is hit, ball flutters picked off by Simmons at the
Speaker 1: forty yard line and tackled at the thirty seven Cam Thomas.
Speaker 1: Swite had the throwing arm of Mac Jones. The ball
Speaker 1: fluttered into the air, picked off by Simmons. There you go.
Speaker 1: A highlight montage twenty twenty two, the Rookie Year for
Speaker 1: our guest in the Big Red Rage, presented by Santanford
Speaker 1: in Gilbert Cameron Thomas, who was the first San Diego
Speaker 1: State player drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the top
Speaker 1: three rounds since Wolf, a former team eighty years. It
Speaker 1: was actually nineteen eighty seven, the year before they moved
Speaker 1: to Arizona, round three out of San Diego State at
Speaker 1: tight end by the name of Rob A Wall. Rob. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was awesome. Wolf. Did you ever fight Rob a Walt?
Speaker 1: I didn't see Cam. You have to ask Wolf these
Speaker 1: questions because he tended to mix it up with a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of players, including his own teammates.
Speaker 1: So you have to be real clear as Booth had
Speaker 1: that mentality as a player. Ye, please don't judge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh no, no judgment at all here. I actually respect it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. What's your favorite play so far this season
Speaker 1: that you've made? And dare I say against the team
Speaker 1: you grew up watching, maybe the Chargers a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, early first quarter. You can take us through it.
Speaker 1: If you want and give us the play by play
Speaker 1: if that's indeed your choice. Yeah. Um, you know, looking back,
Speaker 1: you know there's there's a lot of plays in there
Speaker 1: that I'm in a high fire favor of, but that
Speaker 1: play in particular, that was a pretty special play for me.
Speaker 1: You know, being a kid from San Diego, you know
Speaker 1: the Chargers growing up, you know about thirty minutes in
Speaker 1: my house. So yeah, that was a super special play.
Speaker 1: I had a ton of people that game, you know
Speaker 1: that you know, drove up, um, drove on over and
Speaker 1: um yeah, I just I just remember that was actually
Speaker 1: my first play of that game. Wow, it was the
Speaker 1: first play the game. Am I got in there and
Speaker 1: uh you know JJ already kind of warmed him up
Speaker 1: and kind of Sacaron right before I did. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I just remember I took I was I took my
Speaker 1: rush up the field. Um. You know, Junk had a
Speaker 1: really good markets school and had a really good rush
Speaker 1: on the other side, flushed them up, and um I
Speaker 1: was able to counter at the level and you know,
Speaker 1: uh hit Herbert fur through the ball and then there
Speaker 1: was the celebration yes do tell um, which is kind
Speaker 1: of funny. Uh yeah that I'm being a kid from
Speaker 1: San Diego. That was my fifth time ever surfing and
Speaker 1: it was on grass, So that's good. That was Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was definitely something to remember. So, Cam, where's your
Speaker 1: future on the line of scrimmage? Man? Is it? Is it? Edge? Five? Technique,
Speaker 1: three technique? I know you got to be able to
Speaker 1: move around, But if you had a preference, where would
Speaker 1: it be? Cam? Yeah, you know, I definitely say I
Speaker 1: would be comfortable at all those positions. However, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel really happy I'm in the spot now, you know,
Speaker 1: being a stand up backer. Um, you know, I just
Speaker 1: you know, I always I never would have thought I
Speaker 1: would have ever said that, you know, I thought I
Speaker 1: was always gonna be a traditional hand of the dirt
Speaker 1: type of guy. But you know, being able to kind
Speaker 1: of get best in both worlds. I do really enjoy
Speaker 1: standing up on the edge because wol if you remember
Speaker 1: Zach Allen after his rookie year, right, he went into
Speaker 1: a real rigorous offseason regiment and he put on weight
Speaker 1: and strength and size. I could see you maybe doing
Speaker 1: that following that, Zach Allen, But no that you don't
Speaker 1: envision that as your off season, you know, obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever the team wanted to do with me if they
Speaker 1: did want to put me inside, Um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: something we could definitely talk about doing. But um yeah,
Speaker 1: if I if I was to have a preference, I'd
Speaker 1: be pretty happy where I'm at now. Oh I love
Speaker 1: that Cam's the stand up. It's some more edge correct. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So what do you think would you have to drop
Speaker 1: some weight? Do you think you'd have to drop weight
Speaker 1: or do you like your right your weight right where
Speaker 1: you are now? Yeah? You know, I've actually dropped a
Speaker 1: decent amount of weight since I've been here. I came
Speaker 1: in here around I remember my first way in here
Speaker 1: it was like two sixty nine, although I remember like
Speaker 1: just not drinking any water prior to that way, and
Speaker 1: I was the closer to like two seventy three. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, right now I'm sitting anywhere from like fifty
Speaker 1: eight to two sixty and you know, I feel really
Speaker 1: comfortable in that in that range, and um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like I didn't lose really any strength or any
Speaker 1: power and just gained some speed off it. So god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well here's your defensive coordinator earlier today, just on the
Speaker 1: progress you have made during your rookie season, Cam, with
Speaker 1: more turns, you know, we'll get more sacks. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just playing with a lead, you know, and having
Speaker 1: more chances to rush freely. You know, that's that's been
Speaker 1: our problem. But Cam's a guy who can win one
Speaker 1: on one rushes. I mean he's he's played awful lot
Speaker 1: in the last month. He's won a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: but he needs more turns, you know, with a fair
Speaker 1: game and a lead. Yeah, think about that, right, Like
Speaker 1: last week, look at New England. They had two sacks
Speaker 1: in the first three quarters, they get a two score lead,
Speaker 1: and then they had four or sacks in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: It's sort of the way it works, right because now
Speaker 1: you can just rush with abandon right, Yeah, exactly. You know, UM,
Speaker 1: give your your defensive freedom, you know when there when
Speaker 1: the offense has it through the ball down to feel
Speaker 1: like that, um, you know, when they're down. You know,
Speaker 1: it definitely creates a lot more opportunities for a defense
Speaker 1: to make this place. And you know, Cam, we want
Speaker 1: you to look forward obviously, this beautiful part of the
Speaker 1: program here, we want you to look forward to down
Speaker 1: the road. Um, where do you think you can actually
Speaker 1: make the biggest strides next year? Is it? Is it
Speaker 1: as the n edge rusher and your techniques? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it against the run? Where do you think you
Speaker 1: can actually take your biggest strides. Yeah, there's definitely a
Speaker 1: lot of aspects. You know, I still got to grow
Speaker 1: at um, you know something for me, I think I
Speaker 1: could definitely just take that next step, the next jump
Speaker 1: in the run game and just lock it down. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously I have some I have some good players, have
Speaker 1: some bad places, but just the consistency, I'd say in
Speaker 1: the run game, who would be something that could really
Speaker 1: take me to that next level. And obviously you know
Speaker 1: in the past game, you know, I could definitely there's
Speaker 1: definitely a lot of area of improvement there. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure as um, the more I play,
Speaker 1: the more comfortable I'll get. So what do you expect
Speaker 1: of the Denver Broncos. What do they do well? And
Speaker 1: what what do you know so far about what's going
Speaker 1: to be most important on Sunday? Yeah, so just watching
Speaker 1: from whyviously, the Denver Broncos, whatever the media has portrayed
Speaker 1: them so far is not what they'll click on film.
Speaker 1: I think they are a very good team and you know, Um,
Speaker 1: whether Russell plays or not, he's a very talented player. Um.
Speaker 1: He could rip the ball down the field. You know,
Speaker 1: he could run out of the pocket, and he is
Speaker 1: a difference maker in games. Um. So I mean between
Speaker 1: that and you know, stopping the run, Um, you know
Speaker 1: there they are a good opponent. If in fact, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson plays, I question whether or not he will. But
Speaker 1: if he does, Um, what would it mean to wax
Speaker 1: is back? I mean with that, with that kind of
Speaker 1: geek you out a little bit. I would imagine you've
Speaker 1: been watching him as a kid for a long time.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. You know, there's I think a lot of
Speaker 1: edge rushers when they come into the league. There's always
Speaker 1: a couple of guys they kind of have at the
Speaker 1: top of the list. Everybody's on the list, but there's
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that are just sitting out. There's
Speaker 1: a little bit more and I would I would put
Speaker 1: him up there. Um. Yeah, you know, I remember my
Speaker 1: first draft of Arizona. I was like super fresh, like
Speaker 1: within the hour of getting drafted, you know, I was
Speaker 1: kind of like looking things up on the team, how
Speaker 1: to put up the roster this than that, obviously, I
Speaker 1: know Seattle was in the conference and I was bummed out.
Speaker 1: I was like, dang, he just got traded, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna have the opportunity. And then the schedule
Speaker 1: comes out a couple of weeks later and there he is,
Speaker 1: so um, you know, I hope he plays and yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope it works out well. Wolf. You
Speaker 1: remember we had my j Sanders in here. I think
Speaker 1: it was in May. It was, you know, fresh out
Speaker 1: of the draft. And I didn't even finish the question.
Speaker 1: I said, my Jay, which NFL quarterback do you want
Speaker 1: to sack the most? He jumped the question. It said
Speaker 1: Tom Brady Immediately he said Tom Brady, how about you? Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean Tom Brady. I think he's up there and
Speaker 1: too well everybody list, I mean, how how could he
Speaker 1: not be? That would that'd be a merry Christmas right there,
Speaker 1: if in fact you were able to get that. Um.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the Denver Broncos, describe their offense
Speaker 1: for me if you could. I you know, from your
Speaker 1: perspective right now, are they trying to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Do you think they're a power rushing team? Do you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, do they like to use play go ahead
Speaker 1: and describe the Denver Broncos what you see on tape. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do pass the ball, you know, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more than they do run it. I mean when
Speaker 1: they do run the ball, they like to you know,
Speaker 1: it's like use variation of zone plays. Um, they'll use
Speaker 1: slashers you know here and there and um yeah, then
Speaker 1: they'll obviously they'll pass the ball. So, um, we gotta
Speaker 1: we have to be ready. I mean they got hot
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. They're down twenty seven nothing, they lost
Speaker 1: thirty four twenty eight. Yeah. They put a lot of
Speaker 1: yards and a lot of points on the scoreboard in
Speaker 1: our hurry last week, didn't they? Oh yeah absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like like I said, you know what they look like.
Speaker 1: I'm um, film from what you know, from what I've
Speaker 1: heard going into this game, they do not correlate to me,
Speaker 1: like I really, Um, do you give the Broncos a
Speaker 1: ton of credit? Cam? Did you have any goals coming
Speaker 1: into this season? My biggest goal is to have fun,
Speaker 1: to make plays. Um, so good one. Yeah. How about
Speaker 1: rookie duties? You know, Trey McBride said earlier today that
Speaker 1: he still has rookie duties that Max Williams made him
Speaker 1: decorate the tight end room for Christmas. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: got we got two trees in our room actually, so
Speaker 1: not trying to make it a competition at all, but
Speaker 1: you know we do have that. We got the whites,
Speaker 1: We have the stockings, U should we had a reef
Speaker 1: and snacks. Do you have to get snacks and stuff
Speaker 1: for the guys still too? Oh yeah, we got some
Speaker 1: snacks two days ago or a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: Hit Costco got the Celsia strengths. Load him in the fridge,
Speaker 1: you know. And of course every Saturday we gotta get
Speaker 1: donuts for the groups. So yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, Wolf
Speaker 1: still getting my drinks around here. That's the way I work.
Speaker 1: So Cameron, thank you very much. Yeah, thanks for having
Speaker 1: me on. Guys. We continue with a big red rage
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Speaker 1: up looking deep that takes off running the right at
Speaker 1: the thirty five, at the forty and dives to about
Speaker 1: the forty four yard line, a gain of three for
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and and I'm injured Cardinal. It's Tyler who
Speaker 1: went down very awkwardly that time as he tried to
Speaker 1: cut Oh no, non contact. He cut right, then tried
Speaker 1: to cut left and just buckle, and there was a
Speaker 1: Patriot player right there who called to the Cardinals sideline
Speaker 1: to bring on the training staff. It looked like when
Speaker 1: he went to the ground the injury had already happened.
Speaker 1: He was in pain, his head started to come back,
Speaker 1: and he just went to the ground. Oh boy, we
Speaker 1: got to one. We got the one. We got a
Speaker 1: roupree boards and poker, we got a roupup books, we
Speaker 1: got some brothers. Now, let's go regroup and get one
Speaker 1: for one. Let's go, everybody, regroup, get one for one.
Speaker 1: Let's go. That's JJ Watt right there. That was from
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks in NFL films. As several players were miked up.
Speaker 1: Almost all the players were around Kyler Murray when he
Speaker 1: went down, and just like that, three plays into the game,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals had to go with Plan B. Colt McCoy
Speaker 1: and it will be Plan B the rest of this
Speaker 1: season and then unknown into the off season, sort of
Speaker 1: like we're going Plan B right now. Technically, Ron Wopley
Speaker 1: is yours truly with an issue on the line, so
Speaker 1: we've got to go with an alternate game plan here.
Speaker 1: Paul calvc Ron Wopley The Big Red Rage presented by
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Speaker 1: Cameron Thomas, and we'll talk a little bit more about
Speaker 1: Cameron Thomas and what he had to say. But first
Speaker 1: your thoughts on loss. Forget the game, and it's much
Speaker 1: worse when you lose your franchise quarterback to a season
Speaker 1: ending knee injury torn ACL non contact on the third
Speaker 1: play of the game. As we're just hurt, Yeah, Paula.
Speaker 1: Really is a just a horrible situation that has happened
Speaker 1: with the Orizinal Cardinals. Right now, we all know the
Speaker 1: kind of season that they've had, we all know the
Speaker 1: many distractions that they've had. This just seems like an
Speaker 1: exclamation point on the entire season. And to see your
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback Kyler Murray go down on play number three
Speaker 1: of this game, another non contact injury. We've seen it
Speaker 1: all over the National Football League this year, of course,
Speaker 1: with a Cardinals non contact and now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you see Kyler Murray go down. It's a horrible
Speaker 1: occurrence for Kyler Murray. Yet at the same time I
Speaker 1: have to wonder if it gives him an opportunity to
Speaker 1: reflect as to where he's been and where he wants
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, he was emotional. We all saw it.
Speaker 1: It was on Monday Night football. He was on the
Speaker 1: card the towel was on his head. He took the
Speaker 1: towel off. He acknowledged the crowd or some tears maybe
Speaker 1: even in his eyes as they were carting him off.
Speaker 1: Matthew Judan knew it right away. I was on the sideline.
Speaker 1: You could see Judan immediately signaling to the Cardinals sideline.
Speaker 1: And then after the game, Colt McCoy, who finished the
Speaker 1: game and as your QB one the rest of this season,
Speaker 1: shared with the media this week about how he left
Speaker 1: the stadium and he went right over to Kyler's house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: touched Kyler. Bunch spent a couple of hours with him
Speaker 1: at his house after the game Monday night. His spirits
Speaker 1: were fine, like he's smiling, but I mean it's an injury,
Speaker 1: and you know we're all upset. He's upset, you know,
Speaker 1: he's frustrated, but his spirits were in a good place
Speaker 1: and he'll attack the rehab. We've got great doctors here
Speaker 1: and lots of guys have come back from acl hasn't
Speaker 1: been just fine. So I think he's got full confidence
Speaker 1: in that, and you know, it's part of the game,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a shock and so you know, well,
Speaker 1: I'll put arms around him for sure. That is a
Speaker 1: lot of different angles here. Well, what about the game
Speaker 1: that Kyler plays though, because you know, we can talk
Speaker 1: about a Joe Burrow as the most recent example, but
Speaker 1: obviously Kyler is one of the most athletic quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league, and his legs are so vital to what
Speaker 1: he does. Is that present a different dynamic, a different
Speaker 1: challenge in this case? Yeah, you know, honestly, I think
Speaker 1: anytime you blow your ACL out you have to worry
Speaker 1: about that in the long term effects that that could have.
Speaker 1: But you're talking about Kyler Murray, who's still so young,
Speaker 1: Paully and also too just the way they deal with
Speaker 1: acls today, it's not like back when I was playing
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five, when I came into the league.
Speaker 1: Polly nineteen ninety even, I can tell you that if
Speaker 1: you blew your ACL out most of the time, you
Speaker 1: were never going to be the same. It didn't mean
Speaker 1: you couldn't come back from an ACL you could, but
Speaker 1: most of the time, PAULI, it meant you weren't going
Speaker 1: to be the same guy. That no longer is the
Speaker 1: case anymore. It's not the metaphorical death sentence that it
Speaker 1: once was. For guys that use their athleticism to make plays,
Speaker 1: Guys like Kyler Murray, guys like running backs and wide
Speaker 1: receivers and cornerbacks. You can come back from an ACL
Speaker 1: and it be darned near one hundred percent of what
Speaker 1: you were before. Now is that going to be the
Speaker 1: case with Kyler Murray? We don't know. We're going to
Speaker 1: have to wait and see. But man, being as young
Speaker 1: as he is, I honestly don't think this is going
Speaker 1: to inhibit him and his career in the near future. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think of a young Tyr Matthew. Remember the end
Speaker 1: of his rookie year, and that was hillacious knee injury.
Speaker 1: It was much worse than a torn a cl and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals medical team did a phenomenal job with that
Speaker 1: surgery in that rehab, and obviously Tyron Matthews had a
Speaker 1: borderline Hall of Fame career ever since. You know, But
Speaker 1: you know, Paul, that first year back, PAULI, do you
Speaker 1: remember that, Yeah, first year fourteen. It took a while,
Speaker 1: You're right, it did. It took a while for him,
Speaker 1: you know. And everybody's different, man, everybody heals differently. Everybody
Speaker 1: has a different knee, a different reaction. Maybe there was
Speaker 1: more damage done to Tyrone's knee, maybe there wasn't. I
Speaker 1: don't know the specifics of that, but I just know
Speaker 1: that everyone's different. But Tyrone is an excellent example to
Speaker 1: a guy that came back and yet it took him
Speaker 1: a year to look like himself. Yeah, yeah, no question
Speaker 1: and so, and it just presents so much uncertainty. Obviously
Speaker 1: in the off season, are you actually gonna invest assets
Speaker 1: into another quarterback? Is this Colton McCoy show, maybe even
Speaker 1: through a considerable part of next year. So those are
Speaker 1: just huge offseason questions. As for the final four games,
Speaker 1: and especially what you're looking at in Denver, I mean, Wolf,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that this team trusts Colt McCoy, Right,
Speaker 1: he's decisive, Yes, either's you knows. As hollowand Brown told
Speaker 1: us yesterday, there isn't a single coverage or scheme he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen before. So if nothing else, you come in
Speaker 1: with a quarterback who really is almost like a player
Speaker 1: coach in so many ways. Yeah, no, he really is
Speaker 1: listening for the next four games. Colton McCoy, this is
Speaker 1: one of the best backups in the league to me
Speaker 1: right now for this situation, this offense Kyler Murray. Of course,
Speaker 1: for Colton McCoy to be a backup, he has already
Speaker 1: proven his value and his worth to this team. It's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why the Cardinals went ahead and
Speaker 1: extended him, signed him to a two year contract. So
Speaker 1: he's under contract going into next year. He's not only
Speaker 1: going to finish this year. I think they're okay going
Speaker 1: into next year with Colton McCoy. Now, PAULI, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? What does that look like? Do they bring
Speaker 1: another veteran in? Is that a possibility bring another guy
Speaker 1: in in case something were to happen to Colton McCoy.
Speaker 1: Do they bring another veteran in to compete with Colton McCoy.
Speaker 1: I don't know those answers. I just know and you
Speaker 1: know this as well. Cliff Kingsbury and the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: are very very comfortable with Colton McCoy as their quarterback.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. I think it just heightens
Speaker 1: the importance of improving everything else around Colt McCoy this offseason.
Speaker 1: Why are the Niners still winning with a third string
Speaker 1: quarterback because they have great We have great offensive line
Speaker 1: and defensive line right the number one defense in the league.
Speaker 1: They have a great running game, and they have the
Speaker 1: ability to just throw the ball short guys make you know,
Speaker 1: defenders miss in all the yack yards you It is
Speaker 1: imperative that you build it up around Cole McCoy, starting
Speaker 1: with his Denver game, that you don't get behind by
Speaker 1: Q scores so you can stay balanced and have a
Speaker 1: run game. Yeah, Paulie, no doubt about it. We're all
Speaker 1: gonna have a front row seats, So hold on. And
Speaker 1: Cole McCoy, by the way, you know, look, he was
Speaker 1: one quarterback in the first three quarters and then that
Speaker 1: final quarter of Monday Night Football when he got sacked
Speaker 1: four times as a defense in New England was just
Speaker 1: team off on him. So he got to stay in
Speaker 1: the game, and you got to continue to run James
Speaker 1: Conner and open up the passing game. As we continue
Speaker 1: with a big red rage present of by San tan
Speaker 1: Ford and Gilbert we are santan Ford. We'll be back
Speaker 1: right after this. I'll be the first one to say
Speaker 1: I made some calls, all right, but the basic that
Speaker 1: we know how to do it means a lot in
Speaker 1: these games. It's hard, we're coming. It continues to happen.
Speaker 1: It's getting it right in practice. And hold each other accountable,
Speaker 1: all right. Treat you like men. That's how it's going
Speaker 1: to be. That may be a fault of mine, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna treat you like men. So we got to
Speaker 1: hold each other accunable somehow the last month because we're
Speaker 1: better than that. Can I understand that? That's it? We're
Speaker 1: better than that And that's all I want to see
Speaker 1: for this group the last month. But your best football
Speaker 1: because I love being around you guys, love ting to
Speaker 1: work every day with you. You practice hard, you fight
Speaker 1: your assi for each other. But we have to do
Speaker 1: it right because we're giving away. That's one thing to
Speaker 1: get beat, it's another thing to beat yourself. And will
Speaker 1: if we talk so much up until that Money Night
Speaker 1: game about what are you gonna get out of the
Speaker 1: rest of this season? And job number one was k one?
Speaker 1: Was Kyler Murray? Well, now that he has this season
Speaker 1: and he knee injury, dare I say the job that
Speaker 1: Cardinals need to do first and foremost is to get
Speaker 1: rid of the word self inflicted. Just eliminate that from
Speaker 1: their vocabulary, because it's been persistent throughout the season, Cardinals
Speaker 1: beating Cardinals, and that's what Cliff Kingsbury was lamenting there
Speaker 1: after the game. Courtesy of Hard Knocks. Yeah, Paully, you
Speaker 1: know what, I really enjoyed that part of it, minus
Speaker 1: the profanity, of course. I mean just saying right now, Cliff,
Speaker 1: I thought was as assertive and resolute as I've seen
Speaker 1: him in front of the team at all. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, Paully, if you were impressed as well,
Speaker 1: but you know, just yeah, just the way he was
Speaker 1: speaking right there. This is this is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a window that the Arizona Cardinals have got a crack,
Speaker 1: and Cliff Kingsbury has got to look through. Right now.
Speaker 1: This is what it's got to be like next year.
Speaker 1: I think, more than anything else, you've got to surround
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury with a bunch of guys that are dogs
Speaker 1: inside the locker room. I think to some degree they
Speaker 1: have already done that, but I think you've got to
Speaker 1: hold them to a higher standard. He's got to become
Speaker 1: the alpha mel In my opinion, that doesn't mean he's
Speaker 1: got to be screaming at guys. It doesn't mean he's
Speaker 1: got to be yelling at guys or threatening guys or
Speaker 1: being anybody that he isn't. He's just got to be resolute,
Speaker 1: I think, for the most part, going forward and demanding
Speaker 1: that you do your job. And if you don't do
Speaker 1: your job, maybe you're not going to be here. Do
Speaker 1: the Ears of the Cardinals have an accountability problem in
Speaker 1: your opinion, because we've heard it from Buddha Baker courtesy
Speaker 1: a hard Knox after the Eagles game. We've heard it
Speaker 1: at different times, even in the offseason. Wolf. In fact,
Speaker 1: what's ironical, if you will, as I make up a word,
Speaker 1: is that hard Knox was brought in why to add
Speaker 1: an extra layer of accountability. Yeah, and so now we
Speaker 1: see late in the season that it's obviously still an issue.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is something that still needs to be addressed. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I think, PAULI they will. But once again, I also
Speaker 1: look at this situation and I know nobody wants to
Speaker 1: hear this. They don't and nobody wants to hear it.
Speaker 1: They look at it and they say it's an excuse,
Speaker 1: and I understand that you never want to look for
Speaker 1: an excuse, But when you have the rash of injuries
Speaker 1: that the Arizona Cardinals have had, and I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about Kyler Murray, Okay, I'm not talking about that Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray played. He had five games remaining before he blew
Speaker 1: his knee out. I'm talking about everybody else around him.
Speaker 1: To a point where your offensive line, eighty percent of
Speaker 1: your offensive line is out gone and has been for weeks.
Speaker 1: Dare I say months that right there, Polly, Once again,
Speaker 1: all bets are off. At that point in time. You
Speaker 1: could have the most talent in the world at the
Speaker 1: skill position. You really could. Yeah, you could have the
Speaker 1: most talented wide receiver. But if you can't protect your quarterback,
Speaker 1: if you can't give him a reasonable amount of time
Speaker 1: for him to act, actually go through his progressions and
Speaker 1: find an open receiver, it doesn't really matter who you
Speaker 1: have out there at wide receiver unless you're going to
Speaker 1: go ahead and one, two, three and get the ball
Speaker 1: out every time. Now, that may work for one game,
Speaker 1: but two games in a row with a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: that's not going to cut it. Paul it just won't.
Speaker 1: At some point in time. NFL defenses are going to
Speaker 1: catch up with you. The entire situation this year has
Speaker 1: just been a mess for the Cardinals. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: think about it. They had three big plays are eliminated
Speaker 1: by a couple of illegal shifts and offensive pass interference
Speaker 1: you know in aj Green going out of bounds coming
Speaker 1: back in. These are the sort of mistakes and it's
Speaker 1: what Colt McCoy was talking about to the media. The
Speaker 1: penalties crushed us right and their self inflicted wounds, and
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about them kind of all year
Speaker 1: at certain times, and they just they bid us on
Speaker 1: Monday night. And so just I think have a really
Speaker 1: point of emphasis on some of the things that we're
Speaker 1: trying to do with some of the motions and shifts,
Speaker 1: like just being very detailed, no presnap penalties, and that
Speaker 1: will give us a chance, you know, the self inflicted
Speaker 1: wounds Polly too. Once again, when you're playing an awful
Speaker 1: lot of backups in your lineup, they're backups for a reason.
Speaker 1: I was a backup, Polly, Okay, I'm just telling you there,
Speaker 1: you're a backup for a reason, and sometimes it's because mentally,
Speaker 1: you have a tendency of making mistakes. Now, this has
Speaker 1: been something that the Cardinals have dealt with all season long,
Speaker 1: and it's not just backups who make it. We also
Speaker 1: saw d hop Right and DeAndre Hopkins. We also we
Speaker 1: saw him and Hollywood moving at the same time. You
Speaker 1: can't do that. But those self inflicted wounds that Colt
Speaker 1: is talking about, that has been I would say, the
Speaker 1: most prevalent, consistent thing we've seen from the offense in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. And it's been whackable.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it, right, It's been different guys at
Speaker 1: different times making different mistakes and so it's hard to identify.
Speaker 1: And honestly, the release of a Trey von Mullen, I
Speaker 1: wonder if that somehow relates to accountability, because there's one
Speaker 1: way to motivate and get everyone's attention, and that is
Speaker 1: with job security. So I truly wonder about that. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see what it looks like in Denver. Obviously, Cliff
Speaker 1: had a message to send after the loss against the
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