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Speaker 6: Where oh where are the Arizona Cardinals headed? Well, based
Speaker 6: on the news today from NFL International, they could be
Speaker 6: going to London next season to play Minnesota. They could
Speaker 6: be going to Munich to play Carolina. Good for a
Speaker 6: guy with the last name of Wolfley, Or they could
Speaker 6: be going to South Polo, Brazil to play Miami, oh boy.
Speaker 6: But we're not really talking about the schedule in terms
Speaker 6: of where for art foul. We're talking about the direction
Speaker 6: and standing in trajectory of this team right here, right now,
Speaker 6: the way you finish twenty twenty three as you launch
Speaker 6: into twenty twenty four, and we've got a big red
Speaker 6: rage to talk about it. Paul Kelby, c Ron Wolfley
Speaker 6: soon to be joined by his better half, older brother
Speaker 6: Craig Wolfley, all presented by santan Ford and Gilbert. We
Speaker 6: are santan Ford, Polly.
Speaker 1: I'd have to say right now, of those three cities
Speaker 1: that you just pointed out, I would have to go
Speaker 1: with Munich. I think if I had my brother Paul,
Speaker 1: i'd go with Munich.
Speaker 6: How about you, Well, London, we've been there and done that,
Speaker 6: So it's down to Munich and then Brazil. I'll tell
Speaker 6: you what. As crazy as they are about football in Germany,
Speaker 6: and once again they add over a million people in
Speaker 6: Q trying to get tickets for those NFL games in Germany,
Speaker 6: the whole Brazil experience would be intriguing because that would
Speaker 6: be a first of its kind in the NFL to
Speaker 6: be played the Miami Dolphins in Brazil.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that wouldn't be bad either, Pali, when you know
Speaker 1: it's a consolation prize that.
Speaker 6: Either way, sign me up, Okay, sign me up for
Speaker 6: the Arizona Cardinals dase based on what we just saw,
Speaker 6: especially the last month plus of the season, I mean,
Speaker 6: Ron Wolfy, does it not feel good to have a direction?
Speaker 6: Does it not feel good to have a foundation? Does
Speaker 6: it not feel good to once again know you have
Speaker 6: a franchise quarterback in Kyler Murray?
Speaker 1: Yeah, PAULI, it really really does. It's just amazing to
Speaker 1: think that the season before. Of course, last year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, they finished four and thirteen, and now here
Speaker 1: it is twenty twenty three that season and they finished
Speaker 1: four in thirteen.
Speaker 8: Paul.
Speaker 1: The difference between twenty twenty two is four and thirteen
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty three is four and thirteen is night
Speaker 1: and day. And it's all because there is a direction,
Speaker 1: it's all because there is culture, it's all because there
Speaker 1: is genuine hope for this football team going forward, and
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is right in the middle of it.
Speaker 6: No doubt. It's not only what we saw, it's what
Speaker 6: we heard, what we heard from a pony, Yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean I can't wait to talk to your brother, who's
Speaker 6: an analyst for the Steelers, about what TJ. Watts said
Speaker 6: after the Cardinals went into Pittsburgh and beat the Steelers
Speaker 6: at their own game, TJ. Watsonying, we got our bleeps kicked.
Speaker 6: So it wasn't just what you did, it's how you
Speaker 6: did it. It was the style, and it was the
Speaker 6: enthusiasm of everyone down the stretch, in particular the head coach.
Speaker 6: And here's what he said when he was asked, what
Speaker 6: was your final partying message to the team.
Speaker 9: We've been through a lot of adversity this year, but
Speaker 9: I've never been more enthused going into an offseason. We
Speaker 9: found a lot about out who we are and who's
Speaker 9: going to be a part of this thing. And I'm
Speaker 9: just really excited to get to the offseason and grow
Speaker 9: and improve and learn, and as I told him, get
Speaker 9: on a warpath in twenty twenty four, here we come.
Speaker 6: Nita. Remind you, Ron Wolfley, our marketing mantra only half
Speaker 6: serious earlier this year when I said a twenty twenty
Speaker 6: three dip for a twenty twenty four rip, I mean,
Speaker 6: to what degree are you poised for a big breakout season?
Speaker 6: Now that they know what they have, Now that they've
Speaker 6: established what they are, no more of this trying to
Speaker 6: assess and establish. No. Now you are poised to take
Speaker 6: the next step as an organization.
Speaker 1: Right Paully. And for me right now, and you know
Speaker 1: how big I am on culture, But for me, right now,
Speaker 1: I'm so encouraged because mantiasen Fort and jg they know
Speaker 1: exactly the kind of player they want to bring into
Speaker 1: that locker room, Paul. They know exactly the kind of player.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter Paul, if it's going to be the
Speaker 1: holder on extra point and field goal. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it's going to be a wide receiver or it's
Speaker 1: going to be a cornerback, or it's going to be
Speaker 1: a lineback, whatever it may be. They know the type
Speaker 1: of person they want to bring inside this paradigm known
Speaker 1: as an NFL locker room. And that to me is culture.
Speaker 1: It has been established, and the physicality and the toughness
Speaker 1: and the accountability and the discipline and the smarts and
Speaker 1: everything they're looking for in a dude. They know what
Speaker 1: they're going to bring into that locker room, and that
Speaker 1: to me is the foundation. That's what culture is. It's
Speaker 1: who we are and how we do things and what
Speaker 1: we do and now you know the plug and play
Speaker 1: guy you want to bring in. And I'm in courage
Speaker 1: because of that foundation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, eleven picks in this draft, six in the first
Speaker 6: eighty or so draft slots. So you have all that,
Speaker 6: But it is amazing two to me, if you want
Speaker 6: to add, zoom out that how effective you can be
Speaker 6: as an NFL team when you have two positions correct,
Speaker 6: head coach and quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean.
Speaker 6: Look at the Rams right now. They won seven out
Speaker 6: of eight, they're rolling into the playoffs. They have Sean
Speaker 6: McVay and Matthew Stafford's a Pro Bowl quarterback. Again, look
Speaker 6: at an up and coming team like a Houston Texans
Speaker 6: outfit with Demiko Ryans and now c J. Stroud, Right,
Speaker 6: you get those two spots, right, It's amazing how you
Speaker 6: can mask and erase a lot of other deficiencies like
Speaker 6: the Cardinals did in that final month when Kyler over
Speaker 6: his final three starts seventy one to ninety nine. That's
Speaker 6: a seventy two percent completion percentage, six touchdowns, one pick,
Speaker 6: arguably not his fault because it was Michael Wilson who
Speaker 6: had a miscommunication, a passer rating of one oh eight,
Speaker 6: and then he actually almost ran for one hundred yards
Speaker 6: as well, including that thirty three yard burst in the
Speaker 6: finale against Seattle. When Kyler's playing like that, you don't
Speaker 6: need to have the world's best roster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right about that, Paul. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: this team should have been four and four with Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray as their starter. And although you don't want to
Speaker 1: look at your franchise quarterback and say, wow, we should
Speaker 1: be a five hundred team, this roster is still in
Speaker 1: a state of flox, Paul. It's nowhere even close to
Speaker 1: what it's going to be next year. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of guys on this team this year that I
Speaker 1: don't think are going to be here next year, PAULI.
Speaker 1: And you know, for me, that means an awful lot.
Speaker 1: You know, Kyler Murray had not played in a football
Speaker 1: game for almost a year, Paul, yep, and somehow, some
Speaker 1: way found a way to go out there and be
Speaker 1: three and five as a starter, but play above my
Speaker 1: expectation and evolve his game.
Speaker 6: Most importantly, well, you heard what Michael Wilson told us
Speaker 6: from the locker room after the finale against Seattle. It
Speaker 6: took time, those were his words. It just took time
Speaker 6: for Kyler to learn the receivers, for the coaches to
Speaker 6: let learn the skill sets and the strong suits of
Speaker 6: the players, for everyone to learn the offense and learn
Speaker 6: their quarterback. So you have the third youngest team in
Speaker 6: the NFL and the Arizona Cardinals. They just played the
Speaker 6: second toughest schedule, right They beat three playoff teams in Dallas, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6: Also the fact that how many times were they down
Speaker 6: at halftime and they fought back to either take the
Speaker 6: lead or make it a one score game. You know,
Speaker 6: teams in the past would not have competed like that
Speaker 6: for a full sixty minutes. So that's why Kyler Murray
Speaker 6: went addressing the media. He said the following about what
Speaker 6: he's seen so far in this team, in this coaching staff.
Speaker 8: There is a lot so forward too, and you know,
Speaker 8: I'm excited about it. You know, I know the guys
Speaker 8: are excited about it. Trust and believe in Moni and
Speaker 8: JG and what you know, what they got going on,
Speaker 8: what they're building here, it's complete one, you know, and
Speaker 8: I'm happy.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 8: I'm happy, happy in the position that we're in.
Speaker 6: And there's no doubt.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: We asked, We asked Jonathan and about it at the very
Speaker 6: end of the interview there after the Seattle game, that
Speaker 6: you are certain that confidence can carry over. Momentum doesn't
Speaker 6: carry over from one season next, but confidence does. And
Speaker 6: he answered immediately with a resounding yes. Well, what do
Speaker 6: you think What is it about that that he means
Speaker 6: for those who haven't played the game, how is it
Speaker 6: that confidence can carry over?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, his confidence. I think of Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: front and center, the guy that you just played that
Speaker 1: cut from Kyler Murray. Here's a guy where the confidence
Speaker 1: that he gained from playing under center and evolving himself
Speaker 1: as a person and evolving this offense. Because of that,
Speaker 1: the fact that now all of a sudden, you've got
Speaker 1: him this new offense and this new offensive scheme and
Speaker 1: the demands are going to put on him from under center,
Speaker 1: he knows in his heart that he can actually do it.
Speaker 1: Why because he's done it in a game. He did
Speaker 1: it and got better every game. If you ask me
Speaker 1: in regard to playing under center and he evolving that
Speaker 1: part of his offense, right Now that is the kind
Speaker 1: of confidence, knowing in your heart you could get that done.
Speaker 1: Knowing in your heart going into next year, you're you're
Speaker 1: already gonna master under center, being in the gun, being
Speaker 1: in pistol. Right now, you've got nothing to fear in
Speaker 1: this offense. And once you know that, Paul, it changes everything.
Speaker 6: I never thought we would see Kyler under center thirty
Speaker 6: times in a single game. I never thought i'd see
Speaker 6: a Cardinals offense rush for over two hundred yards in
Speaker 6: three of the last four games. Yep, it's amazing when
Speaker 6: Kyler says a one to eighty. That's in multiple ways.
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Speaker 6: dueling Wolf Lees on the Big Red Rage presented by
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Speaker 4: Takes turns and off Connor, sprinting to his left, find
Speaker 4: some room at the twenty. At the fifteenth, closing the
Speaker 4: ten head into the n SO throning touchdown James Connor
Speaker 4: from twenty nine yards out. That drive was all about
Speaker 4: James Connor.
Speaker 1: When you hammer the box, there's going to be a leak,
Speaker 1: and that was a huge leak from the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 4: Box and off Connor off the right side across the
Speaker 4: twenty five thirty five forty. He's got one thousand head
Speaker 4: midfield and steps up there. First one thousand yard season
Speaker 4: for James Connor.
Speaker 6: So let's see one Pittsburgh import worked out pretty well
Speaker 6: in James Connor. So we're gonna go to the Steel
Speaker 6: City for another here because Ron wolf Ley, you're familiar
Speaker 6: with all the playoff storylines right as we go into
Speaker 6: the postseason here in the Big Red Rage presented by
Speaker 6: santan Ford and Gilbert. Let's see we have Matthew Stafford
Speaker 6: against Detroit, Mike McCarthy against Green Bay, Tyreek Hill against
Speaker 6: Kansas City, and Craig Wolfley against his native Buffalo. How
Speaker 6: about that as we have dueling Wolfles here on the
Speaker 6: Big Red, you guys might need to identify yourselves before
Speaker 6: you speak, because folks might get your voices confused. I mean, Ron,
Speaker 6: you know here we go. Why don't you welcome your
Speaker 6: brother into the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Craig, how you doing, man?
Speaker 2: I'm doing good? Bro? How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? I truly want to know. How weird
Speaker 1: is it that you're going to be going back to
Speaker 1: the park Orchard Park, New York. Is that a little
Speaker 1: weird for you?
Speaker 2: Well, you know how it is. We grew up two
Speaker 2: point four miles from that stadium. A lot of dreams,
Speaker 2: a lot of joy was had as we grew up there,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean I even played a college game
Speaker 2: there my senior year in college, you know, when we
Speaker 2: played University of Miami at then rich Stadium. And I
Speaker 2: always thought that, you know what, I heard rumors they
Speaker 2: Bill said that they sign you as a free agent. Well,
Speaker 2: you know what, it didn't last because Chuck drafted me
Speaker 2: back in the nineteen eighty and the fifth round. So
Speaker 2: you know, I never And by the way, when somebody
Speaker 2: signs your paycheck, it's okay. I was a big Steelers
Speaker 2: fan then, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: And Chuck, you're talking about the legendary Chuck Nole and
Speaker 6: you played a decade for the Steelers, So yeah, and
Speaker 6: you know what, as the Steelers analyst right now, you're
Speaker 6: real familiar with the highlight. We just heard James Connor,
Speaker 6: who just had his first thousand yard season. I voted
Speaker 6: for him as Team MVP because he's more than a player.
Speaker 6: To me, Craig, He's a mentality, he's a mindset. Just
Speaker 6: the toughness that he brings. The Cardinals feed off that,
Speaker 6: and they just finished a season where they had the
Speaker 6: fourth rank rushing attack in the NFL. You tell us
Speaker 6: about your experience is what you saw during his Pittsburgh
Speaker 6: days James Connor.
Speaker 2: You know, I just love the life story of James Connor.
Speaker 2: His overcoming attitude, his desire to be great was just huge.
Speaker 2: And I was privileged enough that I got to do
Speaker 2: a show with him every Tuesday night at the Giant
Speaker 2: Eagle here and Rob Robinson up in the you know
Speaker 2: a little bit of ways from my house here, and
Speaker 2: it was always fun because he was just so engaging.
Speaker 2: He would you know, was was one of those guys
Speaker 2: that reaches out to the fans, and the fans reached
Speaker 2: out to him. How many times did I see pregame
Speaker 2: James go out and he'd you know, go out early
Speaker 2: to warm up and he'd see a sign that says
Speaker 2: I can overcome cancer because you overcame cancer, and he
Speaker 2: would go up inevitably and give words of encouragement. Love
Speaker 2: people who pour life into other people, and James Connor
Speaker 2: is one of those guys that pours life into other people.
Speaker 1: So Craig, you know, speaking of other people too. It's
Speaker 1: not just obviously off the field that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: James Connor also impacts a lot of guys in between
Speaker 1: those white lines, right. It's it's because of how hard
Speaker 1: he plays, right.
Speaker 2: Oh, he plays so hard, you know, and again overcoming
Speaker 2: the cancer while he was, you know, coming up for
Speaker 2: the draft. He's kidding me, you know. I think that
Speaker 2: the confidence, that the determination when you know, he talks
Speaker 2: about how he was so weak and so forth that
Speaker 2: he couldn't do this or that when he first started
Speaker 2: training for it. I mean, his life story is just
Speaker 2: an inspiration to anybody that takes a minute or two
Speaker 2: to read about it and to listen to him talk
Speaker 2: as he talks with passion. He talks with great confidence
Speaker 2: and determination. I love the kid. The young man is
Speaker 2: just an overcomer and he's got my respect as being
Speaker 2: a real is a real tough guy because you watch
Speaker 2: him play man, he's all about toughness, but he's just
Speaker 2: he's a lot of heart.
Speaker 6: Steelers analyst former Steeler Craig Wolfley our guest on The
Speaker 6: Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert So.
Speaker 6: We asked the head coach, Jonathan Gannon mid season, how
Speaker 6: much does this team feed off James Conner. He said,
Speaker 6: I feed off James Connor. That's the kind of impact.
Speaker 6: Here's what James Connor had to say recently, just on
Speaker 6: being example for his teammates.
Speaker 7: I think, is it something that comes with it, you know,
Speaker 7: when you handle your business day in and day out,
Speaker 7: and then accepting every challenge that comes with it. You know,
Speaker 7: and always want to be a leader, and you know,
Speaker 7: eventually you do this thing long enough, you play long
Speaker 7: enough in the league, that road just comes to you.
Speaker 7: It just comes with it. And I accept that challenge
Speaker 7: and responsibility.
Speaker 6: So he's in his prime right now, Craig, And do
Speaker 6: you combine that with a run first Cardinals offense that
Speaker 6: features a Kyla Murray who now is at the point
Speaker 6: where he runs when he wants to. You know, it's
Speaker 6: not so vital for this Cardinals offense how lethal do
Speaker 6: you think that makes that this Cardinals offense? Because you
Speaker 6: saw it firsthand when the Cardinals came in December to
Speaker 6: Pittsburgh and got out of there with a win.
Speaker 2: No question about it. I mean, that's a one two
Speaker 2: punch of incredible athletic talent. To watch that talent operate
Speaker 2: and see where it'll ball to looking forward to seeing
Speaker 2: what you guys can do with that. The other thing
Speaker 2: I wanted to add about James too, he does does
Speaker 2: that leadership thing like it's so natural for him. He
Speaker 2: wears leader ship like water wear's wet. It's just part
Speaker 2: of who he is and it comes out and you
Speaker 2: can see that effect on other guys and what it
Speaker 2: means to be to have him in the huddle because
Speaker 2: he really just does a great job doing what he does,
Speaker 2: whether it's picking up blitz, is catching the ball or
Speaker 2: busting through a tackle. And now you've got Kyler Murray
Speaker 2: another guy in there with an incredible amount of athleticism.
Speaker 2: Yet zooks man, I mean, I wonder what I always wondered,
Speaker 2: what would be like to have that kind of athletic ability.
Speaker 2: I sure if I didn't know it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, Craig though. What's interesting about this
Speaker 1: is I think James Connor has an impact, as I said,
Speaker 1: on other guys around him, but more specifically, I would say,
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, you blocked for Francoharris. You know, can you
Speaker 1: relate to that at all? That the kind of impact
Speaker 1: that a hard running back like James Connor can have
Speaker 1: on a guy at the point of attack.
Speaker 2: There's no question when you want Franco take that rock
Speaker 2: and then hit the two trap and he hits a
Speaker 2: lick and he split runs over somebody, then outracist somebody.
Speaker 2: You'll love that. You want to be part of it.
Speaker 2: I remember I'm flow thirty six. Oh my goodness. We
Speaker 2: get out there and I'm going outside the linebacker and
Speaker 2: I feel Frank pushing me. He's pushed me from behind,
Speaker 2: like run faster. I'm like, I'm running as fast as
Speaker 2: I can, dude. You know. But the fact is you'll
Speaker 2: love his competitiveness and his determination. And I've always had
Speaker 2: the greatest respect for people like Franco Herrits again, another
Speaker 2: guy who his toughness and everything else was legendary, but
Speaker 2: also his willingness to pour life into other people. He's
Speaker 2: always about that, you know, And That's where I just
Speaker 2: came to have such respect for a lot of these
Speaker 2: guys that I didn't know him when it before I
Speaker 2: got to the you know, the Steelers, but then you
Speaker 2: see how they lived their life story, how they they
Speaker 2: are so involved in community affairs or just in the
Speaker 2: lives of their teammates, little things that they do, and
Speaker 2: it was just always it was always known to me
Speaker 2: that these guys are special.
Speaker 6: Hey, Craig Wolfley is our guest, and you've been around
Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin his whole Steelers career and we can see
Speaker 6: him from the outside. But to have seventeen non losing seasons,
Speaker 6: eleven playoff birsts Now, what is it about Tomlin behind
Speaker 6: the scenes? Because we've marveled at Jonathan Gannon how he's
Speaker 6: been able to hit the reset button on culture with
Speaker 6: the Cardinals. How does Tomlin get it done? What's his formula?
Speaker 2: Leadership and consistency? I mean, this guy is always leading
Speaker 2: from the front. He's another of those guys that wears
Speaker 2: water like you know, wear's wet like water wears wet,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. He just leadership is what
Speaker 2: he's all about. And he has the same message. He's
Speaker 2: always the same. You know, whether you're in the middle
Speaker 2: of a two to three game losing streak or in
Speaker 2: the middle of a two three game winning streak. He's
Speaker 2: all about coming in, getting the work, in doing it,
Speaker 2: then rolling up the sleeves the next day, coming in
Speaker 2: doing the work and getting after it. You know exactly
Speaker 2: where you stand with Mike. I've never left the room
Speaker 2: with Mike not knowing where I stood with him in
Speaker 2: a conversation or anything like that. He's just one of
Speaker 2: those guys that looks right into your eyes, tells you
Speaker 2: what you need to know or you know what he's doing,
Speaker 2: and then that's it. And you appreciate that as a
Speaker 2: player when you have I always thought, and Ronnie, I
Speaker 2: think you know you probably back me up on this
Speaker 2: consistency of messaging from the head coach. Yeah, because when
Speaker 2: you if you've got a guy that stands up there
Speaker 2: and he's leaking if you know what I mean, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, And whether it's character or integrity, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Yes, you have no respect and that
Speaker 2: changes how you view things. But Mike Tomlin is a
Speaker 2: guy you got ultimate respect for and he leads from
Speaker 2: the front.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Greg totally agree with everything you just said right there.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about the Buffalo Bills, your opponent
Speaker 1: coming up here in the playoffs. You're going back towards
Speaker 1: your park. Of course, the Steelers are playing the Bills.
Speaker 1: Tell me about what you see with the Bills.
Speaker 2: Oh man, you know what everything begins and ends with
Speaker 2: Josh Allen. You know this guy is He's accounted for
Speaker 2: eighty six percent of the touchdowns scored by the buff
Speaker 2: Bills in twenty twenty three. When you put on the tape,
Speaker 2: you see the excellent athleticism. You see his ability to
Speaker 2: strong arm the throws and make touch throws, his ability
Speaker 2: to get out on the fringe and extend plays. He's
Speaker 2: going to make life difficult, very difficult for the Steelers. Now.
Speaker 2: The one thing about it is you've got weather forecast
Speaker 2: in up there that makes it non conducive to throwing
Speaker 2: the ball. Quite frankly, well, you know what he's kind
Speaker 2: of used to that, you know, the weather, be it
Speaker 2: big wins or whatever. He can judge those. It's going
Speaker 2: to be a little bit different from Mason. But you know,
Speaker 2: coming from the Baltimore game, which was a winner, typhoon
Speaker 2: there for crying out loud, he's got a franchise record
Speaker 2: of completing eighteen of twenty passes. I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: be able to adjust fairly quickly. But they've got a
Speaker 2: good running game. You've got Stefan Diggs on the outside.
Speaker 2: You got a two tiered tight end with Knox and
Speaker 2: Kincaid that're doing a great job. There, a good offensive line,
Speaker 2: you got some good defenders. They've got some people that
Speaker 2: are a little nicked up. It's gonna be, I think,
Speaker 2: a great opportunity for the Steelers to go in there.
Speaker 2: You've got to be able to run the ball, because
Speaker 2: you can't run the ball at these guys. If you
Speaker 2: give Josh Allen too much time of possession, he'll run
Speaker 2: you out of them, not just out of the stadium,
Speaker 2: but out of the state. You know, if you part
Speaker 2: of the problem is when you're down at TJ. Watts,
Speaker 2: that's significant. That's a huge hit for the Steelers defense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no doubt. He is out of this game. Yet
Speaker 6: the Steelers have a three game winning streak behind Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 6: Is it as much about Mason Rudolph or the fact
Speaker 6: they finally found their run game with Jalen warn and
Speaker 6: Najie Harris.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a combination and Mason. Here's the thing that
Speaker 2: I love about Mason. You know, you go back to
Speaker 2: when he was drafted, I believe it was twenty sixteen,
Speaker 2: eighteen somewhere in there. Six yeah, six years or so ago.
Speaker 2: They when they tested him. One of the things that
Speaker 2: they had was these psychological profiles. Right, well, his mental
Speaker 2: toughness is mental toughness was off the charts, they say.
Speaker 2: And you know what, you see it playing out now
Speaker 2: because this has been a guy who's been dismissed by
Speaker 2: you know, some players, by opponents, by the fans, overlooked,
Speaker 2: sometimes ridiculed, and yet you watched him. He came to
Speaker 2: work every day and battled and battled and battled, and
Speaker 2: you see the good things that you know, you hear
Speaker 2: a lot of times people say, yeah, I got the
Speaker 2: will to win. Well, do you have the will to
Speaker 2: prepare to win? You hear some people say yeah, I
Speaker 2: do that. Well, you know what, this guy hasn't seen
Speaker 2: a playing field but for one time in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one and one time in twenty twenty in between starts.
Speaker 2: His last start and this start was over seven hundred days. Wow,
Speaker 2: what's he been doing. You know what he's been doing.
Speaker 2: He's been preparing, he's been out there getting practice, squad rest,
Speaker 2: he's been out there doing things. And you know what
Speaker 2: you see you see him doing. The nuance is a quarterbacking,
Speaker 2: you know, moving safeties with your eyes, shoulder face, things
Speaker 2: like that, the little things that you might not think
Speaker 2: of when you've been overs popped the field over seven
Speaker 2: hundred days, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Craig, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I thank you, Bro.
Speaker 6: It's outstanding, right, and we had two members on this
Speaker 6: show right now from the Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame,
Speaker 6: although Ron cannot say that in nineteen eighty one he
Speaker 6: finished fifth in the World's Strongest Man competition.
Speaker 2: I've knowing my brother he had has out pulled off
Speaker 2: a fourth.
Speaker 1: That's right. I love you, Bro, Love your bro.
Speaker 2: Loved to the family, dude, step We all love her.
Speaker 6: Okay, there you go, Craig Wolfley, everyone Steelers analysts going
Speaker 6: up to Buffalo is hometown for that play off matchup.
Speaker 6: Coming up this weekend, we'll get into some other playoff
Speaker 6: matchups and the future of the Arizona Cardinals, especially with
Speaker 6: the off season underway. It's the big red rage presented
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Speaker 4: And they're gonna fake it. It looks like, yeah, they
Speaker 4: bring Murray back in. They got Prader lined up wide left.
Speaker 4: Murray takes the snap back in the brow LOFs right
Speaker 4: side of the cry, part of the back of the
Speaker 4: end zone. Four touchdown. Tyler Murray on four down grows
Speaker 4: to the right the cry in the back of the
Speaker 4: en zone for the go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 1: Let it right, says Jonathan dadd.
Speaker 5: And he knows you're the franchise quarterback. He's a big
Speaker 5: time leader of this team. I won't tell you all
Speaker 5: the conversations we have, but he knows. He's the closest
Speaker 5: thing to me out there. So I want him to
Speaker 5: operate in a certain way. And he's went above my
Speaker 5: expectation for what that looks like. And I think he's
Speaker 5: only continued to get better and we got to get
Speaker 5: better together and he will so.
Speaker 6: Without Kyler Murray the end of last season, in the
Speaker 6: first half of this season, the Arizona Cardinals went one
Speaker 6: in thirteen. With Kyler Murray. You saw what was possible.
Speaker 6: Win's it Philadelphia, right? I mean, just big performances where
Speaker 6: he elevated not just the offense, but the entire team.
Speaker 6: In fact, the Cardinals offense minus Kyler Murray this season
Speaker 6: was twenty sixth ranked overall, with Kyler Murray ranked ninth
Speaker 6: in the NFL. And that was with a learning curve
Speaker 6: still being navigated by Kyler Murray really didn't get into
Speaker 6: a rhythm until the final three games. It's the Big
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Speaker 6: again to Craig Wolfley older brother Ron Wolfley, Steelers analysts
Speaker 6: getting ready to dress in layers for his trip to
Speaker 6: Buffalo for a playoff game where the Cardinals are looking
Speaker 6: to the offseason. And what do you think? Look, we've
Speaker 6: seen every snap of Kyler's career, right, but what do
Speaker 6: you think Manty ausen Ford and Jonathan Gannon learned first
Speaker 6: hand watching Kyler in the final eight games of the season.
Speaker 1: That he can play from under center and he can
Speaker 1: throw the ball from the pocket. Once again, PAULI, this
Speaker 1: is really really big for Kyler Murray going forward. I
Speaker 1: remember his cut what Kyler said about this offense going
Speaker 1: forward before this season started, before training camp, where he said, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know and I'm up for anything right now. I'm
Speaker 1: paraphrasing what he said, but basically what he was talking
Speaker 1: about is, hey, listen, if it doesn't work, we have
Speaker 1: to move in a different direction. And I wasn't crazy
Speaker 1: about that, BALI when I heard him say that, because
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, man, don't set yourself up for failure.
Speaker 1: Right here, Kyler Murray did anything but fail. He should
Speaker 1: be so encouraged right now Kyler Murray.
Speaker 10: Paul.
Speaker 1: I'm encouraged because I think Kyler Murray is encouraged. He knows,
Speaker 1: beyond a shadow of a doubt, he can do everything
Speaker 1: that this offense and what Drew Petsing and JG want
Speaker 1: him to be capable of doing. He can do it all.
Speaker 1: And that encourages me, and it's got to encourage.
Speaker 6: Him, no doubt. I mean, you know, I asked him
Speaker 6: before the Seattle game about just being under center and
Speaker 6: how much more comfortable he felt, and he went into
Speaker 6: a long explanation and along the way he said he
Speaker 6: had asked for it in the past, which I found surprising,
Speaker 6: but he did welcome it to the point where he's
Speaker 6: under center thirty times against Seattle. Not only that, but
Speaker 6: I just thought he really looked natural by week eighteen,
Speaker 6: did it not. He's got the ball in the hip,
Speaker 6: he's got his back to the defense. I mean he's
Speaker 6: freezing those linebackers for half a second. They're not exactly
Speaker 6: sure where the ball is. And I think what you
Speaker 6: heard was complete buying from Kyler Murray. He realizes it
Speaker 6: does indeed stress a defense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, Paully, And once again, it's because you've
Speaker 1: got to be capable of doing whatever you need to
Speaker 1: do to beat your opponent. Some guys, Polly, let me
Speaker 1: think about it. Some teams front sevens aren't good. They're
Speaker 1: not good, and because of that, you know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do. You're gonna run the ball, attack them in
Speaker 1: a very north south kind of way, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna use play action from under center to burn those guys,
Speaker 1: and it's going to open up the middle of a
Speaker 1: field because those linebackers are going to be sucking up
Speaker 1: on that second level. It look, it's been around since
Speaker 1: the beginning of football and it works. And because of that, again,
Speaker 1: you've got to be capable of doing whatever you need
Speaker 1: to be Sometimes, Hey, listen, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: situation where they're only going to have five to eight
Speaker 1: snaps under center because maybe you want to get in
Speaker 1: a shotgun and you want to throw the ball because
Speaker 1: you think this team's secondary is not good. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you need to be capable of doing it all. And
Speaker 1: I think Kyler Murray has learned that he can do
Speaker 1: it all orchestrated and execute it.
Speaker 6: So going back to your earlier scenario, when you know
Speaker 6: a front seven isn't good, like, oh, I don't know
Speaker 6: the Seattle Seahawks, who had been the league's worst run
Speaker 6: defense of the last half dozen games, coming in, So
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, the Cardinals go in. They run
Speaker 6: it thirty eight times for two hundred and six yards
Speaker 6: five point five four yards of carry. And to your point,
Speaker 6: this team, this coaching staff, this quarterback is willing to
Speaker 6: do whatever it takes to game plan accordingly for the
Speaker 6: weaknesses of the opponent.
Speaker 1: Yes, Pauline, here's the great thing about it too. The
Speaker 1: butt guts up front. Okay, the offensive lineman, paul They
Speaker 1: love getting into a Donnybrook on the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: They love brawling on the line of scrimmage. This is
Speaker 1: who they are. And every time you put that quarterback
Speaker 1: under center for the most part man. Yeah, the defense
Speaker 1: kind of knows what it is that you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: You're basically gonna run five plays out of that. They've
Speaker 1: watched you on tape. The problem is now they got
Speaker 1: to start it. And the offensive line knows as soon
Speaker 1: as you put that quarterback, you put that quarterback under center,
Speaker 1: the offensive line knows the onus is on them. You're
Speaker 1: telling them, hey, listen, they know what's coming. Still we
Speaker 1: demand that you go block it. And that to me,
Speaker 1: they like that kind of responsibility, Pauli, and it fires
Speaker 1: me up. It gets me jacked up because when you
Speaker 1: put a quarterback under center, the defense knows what's coming
Speaker 1: and I don't care. Now we're gonna run over you anyways.
Speaker 1: That is a challenge to your offensive lineman and that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I love it.
Speaker 6: Well, Cardinals got to win at Pittsburgh. You heard the
Speaker 6: respect Craig Wolfley had in the last segment talking about
Speaker 6: the combination of a Kyler Murray and James Connor. And
Speaker 6: here's what the head coach had to say about his franchise, QB.
Speaker 5: I really think sky's the limit. I think that he
Speaker 5: can hit another level. I know our team can. I
Speaker 5: know the offense can.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean with that guy playing quarterback for us, I
Speaker 5: know we can win every game.
Speaker 6: And they had that three game stretch towards the end
Speaker 6: where the receivers weren't getting very involved. But then the
Speaker 6: final two games it came alive, especially Michael Wilson, right,
Speaker 6: and he talked at length after the game just about
Speaker 6: the process. It took time. It took time for the
Speaker 6: chemistry to develop. Game reps are so critical you can't
Speaker 6: really replicate it, you know. And then Kyler under center,
Speaker 6: we talked about that. Here's Kyler Murray just talking about
Speaker 6: the process of learning to play under center.
Speaker 8: It wasn't too difficult. Had a lot of mental reps
Speaker 8: in the off season. They prepared me very well, you know,
Speaker 8: for my time to come back, and so when I
Speaker 8: when I came back, it was as seamless as possible.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: I think for me, it was just about getting these
Speaker 8: reps in and going into the offseason, Guy willing healthy
Speaker 8: and you know, like I said, getting getting ready to roll,
Speaker 8: you know, next season.
Speaker 6: So, well, where do you think this offense evolves next?
Speaker 6: You have a full offseason. They've assessed their needs and
Speaker 6: once What do you expect to see next season with
Speaker 6: this offense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, PAULI you know, I think in a couple of areas.
Speaker 1: Number one, I think running the ball even more physically
Speaker 1: from the shotgun. I think that's something that we're going
Speaker 1: to see and more of Kyler Murray under center more
Speaker 1: of now Now, Paul, do I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be thirty snaps a game? No, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be that, but I do believe it's going
Speaker 1: to be a third of the snaps from under center,
Speaker 1: and that number will vary based once again on who
Speaker 1: it is that they're playing. But this offense is only
Speaker 1: going to get better next season. And Kyler knows once again,
Speaker 1: he knows he doesn't have to guess, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to dream, he doesn't have to speculate. He knows he
Speaker 1: can play from under center and be successful. That is
Speaker 1: huge because confidence is the currency of competition, and he
Speaker 1: needs to be confident. He's going to buy and he's
Speaker 1: going to sell his performance in his production based on
Speaker 1: his confidence level. And he can be confident with this
Speaker 1: offense going forward. And you cannot overstate that.
Speaker 6: Ball to me, I think where they get better next
Speaker 6: season is the big play strike. How many times this
Speaker 6: season did they miss Hollywood Brown When he was healthy,
Speaker 6: he was getting open, he was beating man coverage, press
Speaker 6: man coverage. I mean, he was open downfield, and they
Speaker 6: didn't maximize him nearly enough. His game film was a
Speaker 6: lot better than the box score. So whether it's Tylerwood
Speaker 6: Brown who comes back because he's going to be an
Speaker 6: unrestricted free agent, whether it's another big play receiver via
Speaker 6: the draft or free agency, but I'll see this. The
Speaker 6: Cardinals ended up number one in the NFL in explosive runs.
Speaker 6: They had twenty three runs of more than twenty yards,
Speaker 6: And I got to imagine a lot of it has
Speaker 6: to do with having a Kyla Murray right where defense
Speaker 6: has to worry about a running quarterback and then someone
Speaker 6: else gets loose to the second level and rips it
Speaker 6: for a big run.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it, Bully, And right now they're only
Speaker 1: gonna build on what he's done. That really gets me
Speaker 1: jacked off, because I think they're going to evolve big time.
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Speaker 4: Snapt to Murray Let's coming urry backing up plus into
Speaker 4: the end zone the middle of the end zone, pulled
Speaker 4: in by Wilson for a touchdown.
Speaker 8: I told you all from day one, you know, I
Speaker 8: watched his Senior Bowl and I was like, yeah, the
Speaker 8: kid knows, you know, he knows what he's doing. I
Speaker 8: could tell, you know. And then just obviously he had
Speaker 8: zero catches two weeks in a row, and that's not
Speaker 8: you know again, they're not a real representation of you
Speaker 8: know what I think we could beat. Now we'll get
Speaker 8: a full off season on our bilt. You know, I
Speaker 8: think next year, you know, Michael have a big year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you hope. The whole Kyler to Michael Wilson connection
Speaker 6: and improvement is a harbinger of things to come for
Speaker 6: the entire team, for the entire offense, because there was
Speaker 6: that two game stretch there where he had zero catches
Speaker 6: on seven targets, and by the season finale he had
Speaker 6: six catches on six targets for ninety five yards and
Speaker 6: a big game against Seattle, and all of a sudden
Speaker 6: he was a big play receiver again. Michael Wilson. It's
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Speaker 6: So if you want numbers on the rookies, this season,
Speaker 6: the Cardinals led the NFL with eleven rookies starting at
Speaker 6: least one game. Those rookies who started combined for an
Speaker 6: NFL high sixty four starts. The Cardinals are the only
Speaker 6: team to start six rookies in one game. I mean, well,
Speaker 6: just this rookie class, whether you were drafted or undrafted.
Speaker 6: You know, whether you're Starling Thomas or Amari de Mercado,
Speaker 6: they were critical on either side of the ball. Undrafted guys.
Speaker 6: How much do you think all these game reps are
Speaker 6: gonna pay off next season.
Speaker 1: PAULI honestly, I think it's gonna be huge. Whether they're
Speaker 1: gonna take that next step and be a starter, Paul,
Speaker 1: or whether they're just going to be a backup next year,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Man, all of those reps that
Speaker 1: these guys got this year, it's gonna make them better
Speaker 1: that much. We know you're not gonna get worse because
Speaker 1: of experience. You're not. It will make them better. How
Speaker 1: much better, Paul? That remains to be seen right now,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that has got to do with
Speaker 1: their talent level, of course, and their toughness. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait and see how it evolves. But the
Speaker 1: fact that all these rookies got as many reps as
Speaker 1: they did, that's never going to hurt a team.
Speaker 6: And you know what, you found out what you have,
Speaker 6: and now you have a better understanding of what you
Speaker 6: need in the offseason. Because all these rookies got serious
Speaker 6: playing times, You're like, okay, are they potential fits on
Speaker 6: the depth chart or not. With Michael Wilson, I think
Speaker 6: we all agree that he has serious upside, would you not, Wolf?
Speaker 6: Just the size, just the smarts, the natural catching ability,
Speaker 6: the gamesmanship. I mean, how impressed were you with Michael Wilson, No.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it, PAULI I think listen, you talked about
Speaker 1: it already. The couple of games that he played where
Speaker 1: he was targeted seven times and had no receptions whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I thought the last game, of course, was huge for him,
Speaker 1: almost eclips that one. One hundred yard mark right there.
Speaker 1: I thought that was really really important for him. But
Speaker 1: more important, I thought Kyler Murray targeting him as often
Speaker 1: as he did and throwing the ball to him. It
Speaker 1: was almost almost like he was saying, listen, I know
Speaker 1: you're good. Go prove it. Here's your opportunity. Prove it
Speaker 1: to everybody that's watching. And guess what. Michael Wilson responded.
Speaker 1: I think there are other guys on this roster as
Speaker 1: well that will take a big step going forward. And
Speaker 1: I think Michael Wilson is one of those guys. And
Speaker 1: I also think Polly Paris Johnson Junior is another.
Speaker 6: And you know what, both guys have one thing in common.
Speaker 6: They're playing for their quarterback, all right. One is directly
Speaker 6: protecting him. We'll get to Paris Johnson Junior in a moment.
Speaker 6: Here's Michael Wilson when we asked him about Kyler Murray.
Speaker 10: I feel extremely responsible to play at a high level
Speaker 10: for him because I'm playing for his legacy, right being
Speaker 10: a Heisman Trophy winner, being number one pig, being a
Speaker 10: franchise quarterback who signed a big contract. He's got a
Speaker 10: lot of responsibility and I want to make sure I'm
Speaker 10: playing at a high level to play a positive role
Speaker 10: in his story.
Speaker 6: That's pretty profound for a rookie. I mean probably I'm
Speaker 6: emblematic of the fact he went to Stanford right there.
Speaker 6: But he also said at one point I had earned
Speaker 6: Kyler's trust. Now, if you're Kyler Murray, you're looking at
Speaker 6: your right tackle, Paris Johnson Junior, who started every game,
Speaker 6: played every snap on offense, the only offensive player to
Speaker 6: do that. What sort of trust do you think Kyler
Speaker 6: has in that tackle? They got six overall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, honestly, I'm hoping that it's the trust
Speaker 1: that is there. Of course, that was developed this year,
Speaker 1: It's going to be there next year. But Paul, there's
Speaker 1: no way in the world Paris Johnson Junior doesn't get
Speaker 1: better next year. There's I'm sorry, he's not gonna take
Speaker 1: a step back. He's got all the athleticism you could
Speaker 1: possibly want. He's got everything you need from a great tackle.
Speaker 1: And I could build a case that would say, with
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray as your quarterback, being a right handed orderback,
Speaker 1: where Paris Johnson Junior as your right tackle, the right
Speaker 1: tackle might even be more important than the left tackle
Speaker 1: because of the left tackle is a blind side with
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. The right tackle is not the blind side.
Speaker 1: It's the side that you can see. And because of
Speaker 1: his height, he's very sensitive to that. He will move
Speaker 1: around that pocket a lot. If you've got Paris Johnson
Speaker 1: Junior out there and he's a rock at right tackle,
Speaker 1: that's gonna bring a lot of aid, comfort and shelter
Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray. But if there's opponent color flashing in
Speaker 1: front of Kyler Murray all the time because your right
Speaker 1: tackle is breaking down, that's gonna move him out of
Speaker 1: that pocket a whole lot more.
Speaker 6: I mean, think of all the guys he saw this year,
Speaker 6: because I would talk to Paris about this in the
Speaker 6: locker room. He saw Aaron Donald twice, Nick Mosa twice.
Speaker 6: He got TJ. Watt to his side most of the game.
Speaker 6: A Miles Garretty went against Will Anderson to his side
Speaker 6: most of the game. He got Montes sweat a lot,
Speaker 6: Trey Hendrickson, who is number two in the NFL, and
Speaker 6: sack the Bengals guy all the while. He avoided the
Speaker 6: rookie wall. He said the last two weeks ain't no
Speaker 6: rookie wall. I never hit it. I'm good, and so
Speaker 6: I was really impressed with him from the get go
Speaker 6: because he was the starter immediately upon being drafted Paula.
Speaker 1: Honestly, right now, if you wanted to give an award
Speaker 1: to a guy that was the glue guy of the year,
Speaker 1: you could point to Paris Johnson Junior. For all the
Speaker 1: reasons you just said. The fact that he played in
Speaker 1: all seventeen games, He started all seventeen games and did
Speaker 1: not miss a rep. I mean the fact that he
Speaker 1: was out there and yeah, was every game perfect? No,
Speaker 1: was every rep perfect? Of course not. He had his
Speaker 1: share of mistakes and he's going to learn and develop
Speaker 1: how to deal with those going forward. But man, Paris
Speaker 1: Johnson Junior, you could build a case he was the glue.
Speaker 1: He was the glue on the offensive line, and he
Speaker 1: was a glue guy for this team in his rookie year.
Speaker 6: So there was an incident at the end of the
Speaker 6: Steelers game where TJ. Watt got into it with Paris
Speaker 6: Johnson Junior. I can tell you now I have from
Speaker 6: reliable sources that TJ. Watt didn't like the fact that
Speaker 6: Paris was taking him out of bounds every game. Paris
Speaker 6: tries to take at least one guy out of bounds.
Speaker 6: It's sort of his calling card, it's his signature thing
Speaker 6: he started doing at Ohio State. TJ. Watt is like,
Speaker 6: oh boy, and he fell to the ground immediately and
Speaker 6: then just started started tussling with Paris because he didn't
Speaker 6: like the fact that the rookie had him and was
Speaker 6: sending him out of bounce. And so he plays with
Speaker 6: that sort of nasty streak. And so now we wonder
Speaker 6: what the injury to DJ Humphreys in the contract situation,
Speaker 6: how viable, how likely is it that Paris Johnson Junior
Speaker 6: could be your starting left tackle next year?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, once again, that's going to be really
Speaker 1: really interesting to see what they do. And then, of
Speaker 1: course immediately you think of the draft as well. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to mention any names because we don't
Speaker 1: want to go down that path.
Speaker 6: Paulie, Well, there is a Notre Dame tackle in a
Speaker 6: Penn State tackle, but anyway.
Speaker 1: Right, that's Penn State tackle too. I kind of liked
Speaker 1: that guy and awful lot and his name is gotten
Speaker 1: really really cool as well. But having said that again,
Speaker 1: I think you could build a case why that right
Speaker 1: tackle is even more important than that left tackle ball.
Speaker 6: Was there another rookie that really stood out to you
Speaker 6: this year? Whether it was six rounder Dante Still's got
Speaker 6: a lot of reps in that banged up D line.
Speaker 6: Garrett Williams, who came back mid season played was an
Speaker 6: immediate starter at nickel. I mean, was there another guy,
Speaker 6: Amari de Mercado, a Starling Thomas, anybody else who really
Speaker 6: stood out to you this year?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know Bjojealari. Once again, I think he flashed
Speaker 1: from time to time, Pauli, but he wasn't consistent. And
Speaker 1: I think getting that first year out of the way
Speaker 1: is really going to help b j Ojelari, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great to see him flash here and flash in
Speaker 1: this game and make a play here and make a
Speaker 1: play there, But it all comes down to consistence, and Paulie,
Speaker 1: the one thing I know about Bjojelari is this is
Speaker 1: a great kid. This is a kid who cares about
Speaker 1: what it is that he's doing. And because of that,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to explode next year. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to get better. He wants to get better,
Speaker 1: he cares about getting better. He's got some athleticism, he's
Speaker 1: got the talent, to take that next step. So to me,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking at Bjojelari.
Speaker 6: I tell you what that would be a best case
Speaker 6: scenario if you're trying to identify one guy who can
Speaker 6: make that Trey McBride leap from rookie year to year two.
Speaker 6: What a phenomenal season it was for Trey McBride, set
Speaker 6: franchise records. Bijo Jelai would go a long way. Considering
Speaker 6: this team had one sack over its final six games.
Speaker 6: They need pass rush, they need to get to the quarterback.
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