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Speaker 1: ourselves as the original Thursday night Football, so we get
Speaker 1: Jags and Jets tonight. It's all right here wolf because,
Speaker 1: as you know, our special guest is Cardinals rookie tight
Speaker 1: end coming off a season best game in his home state.
Speaker 1: Trey McBride is on board. Trey, how are we doing
Speaker 1: doing good? Yeah? Thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. No, Trey, thank you, man. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate your joining us right now. How do you think
Speaker 1: your rookie season is progressing? My friend? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think think about the rookie rookie years you're you're
Speaker 1: constantly learning everything, so different everything, you know, everything's moving
Speaker 1: so fast. So I think each week I've I've gotten
Speaker 1: a lot better. The game is starting to slow down
Speaker 1: a little bit for me, and I think each week
Speaker 1: I've started to progress and gotten each gotten better each
Speaker 1: and every week. And that's something that I, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm striving to do is continue to get better each
Speaker 1: and every week. And I think I've done that. Well.
Speaker 1: Your numbers at Denver right, four catches, fifty five yards,
Speaker 1: he had the long twenty nine all season highs. Did
Speaker 1: your confidence actually build maybe even over the core of
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, you know, I think just being back
Speaker 1: in Colorado, I think there was just something the something
Speaker 1: in the air that um just just made me play
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But honestly, yeah, just as I
Speaker 1: kept going, I know, I know I can play play
Speaker 1: at this league and I know I can be a
Speaker 1: good player. So just you know, as I keep getting
Speaker 1: those reps, keep getting those balls thrown to me, that
Speaker 1: confidence is just continuingly growing. You know, going back to
Speaker 1: when you were growing up, why why did you start
Speaker 1: playing football? Why did you do that? Try? You know,
Speaker 1: we just I have three three other brothers, so we
Speaker 1: all just kind of had had fun together and we
Speaker 1: just did whatever we could. And I think most of
Speaker 1: all our parents threw us into sports to get our
Speaker 1: energy out, you know. So I think that's really how
Speaker 1: it all started. Was my mom wanted us all to
Speaker 1: get out of the house and burn our energy, so
Speaker 1: she threw us in as many sports as we could.
Speaker 1: And and I think all of our brothers just fell
Speaker 1: in love with with football. I think that's just kind
Speaker 1: of how how it all happened. Yeah, it says here
Speaker 1: that in high school you also played basketball and baseball.
Speaker 1: In fact, you excelled. You set school records for most
Speaker 1: career points and basketball and most home runs and RBIs
Speaker 1: in baseball. Now Wolf allegedly was all stayed in baseball. No,
Speaker 1: but he has yet to prove that three times stop stop.
Speaker 1: So at what point did you choose football only or
Speaker 1: was that sort of always your course? You know, I
Speaker 1: think it was I kind of realized that my best
Speaker 1: chance at success was going to be to play football.
Speaker 1: I really love football more than anything. I was really
Speaker 1: good at basketball, was really good at baseball, and I
Speaker 1: did kind of teeter totter with playing baseball in college
Speaker 1: but I just knew I wanted to play football. That
Speaker 1: was always my calling. I knew I was going to
Speaker 1: be the most successful and the best at that sport.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to put my sole focus into
Speaker 1: to football. And also I wanted to play football with
Speaker 1: my brother, and that's what I did in college, was
Speaker 1: continued playing with him. So we know why you started
Speaker 1: playing football. But now is an adult. What is the
Speaker 1: best thing about the sport? Teams? Right? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there's there's so much to love about this sport. But
Speaker 1: I think just the grittiness of putting your pads on
Speaker 1: every day and getting to work and just like hitting
Speaker 1: those guys like in the trenches is you know, it's
Speaker 1: just fund in there and you just like get running
Speaker 1: those you know, duo and just getting a good block
Speaker 1: with the tackle. I mean, just stuff like that. It's
Speaker 1: hard to beat. Like, it's just so fun when you
Speaker 1: get to do stuff like that. So I just, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so much to love about this game, but I
Speaker 1: just I just love the gritty and nastiness about it,
Speaker 1: you know. So Trey, would you would you say duo?
Speaker 1: You mean double right? You mean the power without the poll? Yeah, exactly, yea,
Speaker 1: that is that is one of the most physical plays
Speaker 1: in the game. Man, you know like that. I mean
Speaker 1: it's just when you get a good block with the
Speaker 1: with the tackle, I think that's fun. Man, when you
Speaker 1: get a combo up to a linebacker. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: part of the game, you know, it's you got to
Speaker 1: learn to love it, you know. Yeah, when I see
Speaker 1: your numbers last year at Colorado State, ninety catches over
Speaker 1: eleven hundred yards, receiving ninety plus yards per game, right,
Speaker 1: I mean John Mackey Award winner as the nation's top
Speaker 1: tight end, I think of a receiving tight end. But
Speaker 1: to what degree were you a dual tight end Colorado State?
Speaker 1: You know I was. I was a real tight end.
Speaker 1: I put my hand in the ground seventy five percent
Speaker 1: of the time. Um, they didn't split me out a
Speaker 1: whole lot. So you know, that's that's really how I
Speaker 1: made my you know, that's how I made my role
Speaker 1: at Colorado State. It all started in the run game. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think that's how you you you pave your
Speaker 1: role as you you succeed in the run game, and
Speaker 1: that's how you get opportunities in the pass game with
Speaker 1: the play action things like that. So that's how it
Speaker 1: all started at Colorado State. And um, yeah I was.
Speaker 1: I was putting my hand in the ground, you know,
Speaker 1: things like that. They didn't split me out a whole lot. So, um,
Speaker 1: I did get a lot of catches, but my hand
Speaker 1: was in the ground. Speaking of Colorado State, what is
Speaker 1: the biggest difference between college and the National Football League? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think just the room room for air is is very,
Speaker 1: very small. You know, guys just moved so much faster.
Speaker 1: The play of the game is so much faster, and
Speaker 1: you know, you just there's there's no room for air
Speaker 1: in this league. You know, like the the margin of
Speaker 1: air is so small, you know, catching a ball, you
Speaker 1: you have to be so perfect on everything. So I
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest difference is just the margin of
Speaker 1: air you have is so minimal in this league. Cardinal's
Speaker 1: second round rookie tight end Trey McBride our guest here
Speaker 1: on the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and
Speaker 1: Gilbert So. Before Fort Collins in Colorado State, it was
Speaker 1: Fort Morgan where you grew up. We saw some of
Speaker 1: that last night on Hard Knocks, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: interesting Wolf, we've had Antonio Hamilton from small town Johnston,
Speaker 1: South Carolina. Zavan Collins, Hominy, Oklahoma. Both guys when telling
Speaker 1: us the population of their towns, which was less than
Speaker 1: ten thousand, they subtracted the population of the prison for
Speaker 1: that's how small because the prison like doubles the town population.
Speaker 1: But tell us a little bit about Fort Morgan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Fort Morgan's a small little farmtown northeast Colorado.
Speaker 1: But you know, our population was about ten ten to
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand, so pretty small town. My graduating high school
Speaker 1: class was roughly, you know, seventy five to one hundred people.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just a small, small community. Everyone
Speaker 1: everyone farmed, everyone knew each other, and it was just
Speaker 1: it was awesome. I loved it. You know, everyone knew
Speaker 1: where you lived, you knew where everyone else lived. You
Speaker 1: knew what I mean, everything all the business was going on.
Speaker 1: You knew everything that was going on in the town.
Speaker 1: So it was it was a lot of fun. I
Speaker 1: loved everything about Fort Morgan. So, Trey, when you look
Speaker 1: down the road and you see yourself twenty years from now,
Speaker 1: do you see yourself living in a rural area. You know,
Speaker 1: I loved it out there. I loved growing up. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't see myself going back to Fort
Speaker 1: Morgan necessarily, but I don't know. I it's hard to say.
Speaker 1: I could definitely see myself in a rural area, but
Speaker 1: I just it's hard to say. You know, what's it
Speaker 1: like to watch you talk about your hometown and have
Speaker 1: all your interactions and your family documented by NFL films
Speaker 1: on HBO last night? What was that like? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think it's it's very special, and you know, the just
Speaker 1: to bring um Fort Morgan into the picture. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a kind of an under the radar town that
Speaker 1: no one really hears about. So it's kind of cool
Speaker 1: to bring that into the pitcher and have people, you know,
Speaker 1: see what that town's all about. It's it's very special
Speaker 1: to the community and everyone there and Fort Morgan as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that I can, you know, shine a
Speaker 1: little light on that town. So talk a little bit,
Speaker 1: if you will, right now. Off this offense that you're
Speaker 1: currently in, how do you think you fit into this
Speaker 1: offense going forward? You know, I think they do a
Speaker 1: really good job of you know, get there's so many
Speaker 1: playmakers on this team, so just just finding a role
Speaker 1: and kind of making as many plays as you can.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I'm a I'm a good run blocker.
Speaker 1: I think I can help in the run game a lot.
Speaker 1: And I also think that they can split me out
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, get me one on one
Speaker 1: with linebackers, safety, things like that, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I can win that matchup. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: that my roles continually increased each and every week just
Speaker 1: because this the play of the game, speed of the
Speaker 1: game is slowing down a little bit and I'm feeling
Speaker 1: more comfortable. So I think is as long as I
Speaker 1: keep showing improvement and uh, you know, room for less,
Speaker 1: room for air and that, then they'll continue to keep
Speaker 1: you know, featuring me speaking of your position, coach, Steve Hyden, Look,
Speaker 1: we know how it works with rookies in the NFL.
Speaker 1: In fact, I had an assistant coach tell me earlier today,
Speaker 1: just say, Paul, when was the last time a rookie
Speaker 1: came in and really just crushed it from the get go? Right,
Speaker 1: It is a process. And Steve Hyden last night on
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks NFL Films, they captured a moment not long
Speaker 1: after the mid season season ending injury to zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, your role changed. Things got
Speaker 1: extremely real. Here you go. They took us into the
Speaker 1: tight End meeting room. We have a job inherent to
Speaker 1: turn place what we lost. Right, you've it's time to
Speaker 1: step bottle all the that we've dealt with with the technique,
Speaker 1: mental errors scale, that's going to stop. You're not a
Speaker 1: rookie anymore. You know what to do. Just be confident,
Speaker 1: go out there and go do it. And that's all
Speaker 1: we saw and heard. What was going on in your
Speaker 1: mind when he was telling you that. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I was just excited for the opportunity. Um, but you
Speaker 1: know I knew it wasn't wasn't anything that I wasn't
Speaker 1: prepared for. Um, you know, I come in, I'm prepared.
Speaker 1: I knew each and every week that that I was
Speaker 1: one play away from being being that guy. So I
Speaker 1: prepared each week that I was going to play as
Speaker 1: many plays as I could. So I made sure I
Speaker 1: knew that playbook inside and out, so if my chance
Speaker 1: ever did come, I wasn't gonna miss it. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's something that's very It was very you know, it's
Speaker 1: a cool honor to to get that role. To be
Speaker 1: the guy that steps in for for an injured Zach.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a he's a huge part of this offense.
Speaker 1: And for me to step in and they expect me
Speaker 1: to play just like he does, you know, things like that. So, um,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a huge honor for me,
Speaker 1: but something that I feel like I was prepared, um
Speaker 1: prepared for. You know, for me. I look at you
Speaker 1: and I watch you play tray and one of the
Speaker 1: most difficult adjustments I think you've had to make is
Speaker 1: where you line up in the backfield and where you
Speaker 1: run in space and try to get your block that way. Um,
Speaker 1: how much of that did you do it? Colorado stayed?
Speaker 1: Did you do a lot of in the backfield stuff?
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't. We had another tight end that
Speaker 1: did a lot of that stuff, and I was just
Speaker 1: more of the inline you know, true why tight end
Speaker 1: that would that would put their hand in the ground.
Speaker 1: So we had another tight end that would do a
Speaker 1: lot of that other stuff. So so I didn't do it. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is a huge learning curve for me, but something
Speaker 1: that you know, I'm willing to do and I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable doing. I just obviously it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: an adjustment at this level. Another y tight end, right,
Speaker 1: a classic guy, Max Williams, and we had him on.
Speaker 1: It was early this year. It was actually week three
Speaker 1: of this season. Max Williams was our guest here in
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage and at that point, really you
Speaker 1: hadn't seen much action in the two regular season games
Speaker 1: at that point, yet Max Williams had seen enough to
Speaker 1: say this. I mean, I think he's gonna be special.
Speaker 1: Young guy coming in. He's athletic, he can block. It's
Speaker 1: crazy people see him. They saying, Oh, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: this receiving tight end. He's gonna get down and dirty
Speaker 1: in those trenches. Wolf would love it. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: excited too. So for me, every one of the fans
Speaker 1: I wondered about Trey, you ain't gotta worry about Trey.
Speaker 1: Tredy's gonna be special here, in my opinion, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see it. I'm here for it. I'm
Speaker 1: all in his corner. I'm trying to do the best
Speaker 1: that can to help him. Me and Zach and I
Speaker 1: love the kid man. He's awesome. Some great words from
Speaker 1: your teammate. Now, I know, Max Williams, he's a great,
Speaker 1: great personality, right, and he can be demanding and high
Speaker 1: maintenance on the rookies in the room. It's funny, you know,
Speaker 1: but but if there's a couple of things, maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of boxes are checked between now and the end
Speaker 1: of the season, in these last three games, what would
Speaker 1: you like to see and maybe in your own film.
Speaker 1: You know, I think, just just keep keep showing that
Speaker 1: I can I can keep improving each week. You know,
Speaker 1: There's so many things that I can get better at.
Speaker 1: There's little things that can help me get open um.
Speaker 1: And it's just seeing it, you know, playing at this level,
Speaker 1: it's things happen so fast, people design disguised coverages so well.
Speaker 1: So it's really it's really just playing fast and continuing
Speaker 1: to grow each and every week. And I think that
Speaker 1: I can continue to do that and continue to finish
Speaker 1: his season strong on a on a high note. Who
Speaker 1: is the baddest man you faced so far out on
Speaker 1: the field. Who's the baddest guy, Trey? You know, there's
Speaker 1: been a there's been a lot of good players that
Speaker 1: I've gone against this this year. You know, obviously Bosa
Speaker 1: was a good player, but I think the toughest guy
Speaker 1: that I had a really tough time was was with
Speaker 1: Davenport from from the Saints. He was a real tall,
Speaker 1: lengthy guy and I did have a heck of a
Speaker 1: time with that guy. Well, if it was the former
Speaker 1: Bronco that you used to have the toughest time with
Speaker 1: was Den Carl Mecklenburg used to kick your face in
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Come on, now, there were a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. There were a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: kicked my face inla Burg. Yes, he was wonderful, full
Speaker 1: of scholiure. I just like saying the name Mecklenburg. I
Speaker 1: mean that just that just oozes football, doesn't it come
Speaker 1: app Yeah, there you go. By the way, he literally
Speaker 1: had a forehead that was twice your sauce. Here we go,
Speaker 1: Here we go. That's yeah, the gloves are coming off here, Trey,
Speaker 1: we're just getting rolling. Trey mcbriner guest on The Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford. In Gilbert two receivers
Speaker 1: McCoy's way, he takes the shotgun stamp pros to the
Speaker 1: left side. McBride caught it at the thirty five and
Speaker 1: he's got a first down before he's bumped out pass
Speaker 1: to the left, caught again by McBride inside the thirty
Speaker 1: fighting for yardage. McSorley moving to his right, throwing on
Speaker 1: the run. It's caught for a first down by McBride,
Speaker 1: and he stepped out of bounds at the forty nine
Speaker 1: of Denver. Remember this is a homecoming of sorts for him,
Speaker 1: having played in Colorado State and winning the Mackie Award
Speaker 1: last year, which goes to college football's best tight end.
Speaker 1: Mcsorley's passed across the middle, caught by McBride a first
Speaker 1: down and past the forty five fifty good run, McBride
Speaker 1: running through arm tackles path to the catch to the
Speaker 1: forty five of Denver. I tell you couldn't miss it.
Speaker 1: Down on the Cardinals sideline. Every time he made a plane,
Speaker 1: he had four catches for fifty five yards. That cheering
Speaker 1: section jumped up. It was like two three dozen people.
Speaker 1: You had your own cheering section behind the Cardinals bench
Speaker 1: about ten rows up. Yeah. Yeah, it was really cool.
Speaker 1: My family all got tickets kind of right in that area,
Speaker 1: right behind the right band the Cardinals bench, So it
Speaker 1: was really cool to every time come over to the
Speaker 1: sideline get a you know, see them and it was
Speaker 1: just it was a special data to have everyone there.
Speaker 1: Trey McBride is our guest here on the Big Red Rage,
Speaker 1: presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert. We are santan Ford.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Carl Mecklenburg by the way, you know, Wolf's
Speaker 1: nemesis back in the day with the Broncos. Did you
Speaker 1: have a guy growing up? Do you have a favorite
Speaker 1: Broncos player that you you you know? And Ryan Jensen,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers center who's on IR and is a big
Speaker 1: reason why the Tampa offensive line has not been what
Speaker 1: it usually has been. He's from your hometown as well. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's a Fort Morgan guy, went to went to
Speaker 1: the same high school. It's it's very special. There's been
Speaker 1: three of us um now that have made it to
Speaker 1: the NFL from from my hometown. And and like you said,
Speaker 1: my favorite player growing up is actually, you know, my
Speaker 1: favorite Bronco was was Joel Dreeson. You know, he was
Speaker 1: he was our tight end. He's from my hometown. So
Speaker 1: just growing up and you know, everyone from my hometown
Speaker 1: wanted to be like Joel, So it was, uh, it
Speaker 1: was cool when he came and played for the Broncos.
Speaker 1: That that that it became my favorite player for sure, Trey,
Speaker 1: What is it like hanging out around zach Ertz? You know,
Speaker 1: this guy has been one of the better tight ends,
Speaker 1: if not just a great tight end year in and
Speaker 1: year out. It's a guy that is really lit up
Speaker 1: the league. What is it like being around zach Ertz? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very cool, it's very special. I try to take
Speaker 1: in as much information as I can. I try to
Speaker 1: be a sponge around him. You know, he's been so
Speaker 1: successful in this league for so long, so trying to
Speaker 1: learn everything I can from him. He does such a
Speaker 1: great job. He's he's very sharp in the he knows coverages,
Speaker 1: He's very sharp. So trying to take all the tools
Speaker 1: that he has, how he reads coverages, how he gets
Speaker 1: open and kind of put him in my toolbag and
Speaker 1: things like that. But it's been a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to be around him. He's he's a great person, a
Speaker 1: great guy, and a guy that's always willing to to,
Speaker 1: you know, teach me his ways. What's it gonna be
Speaker 1: like to be around Tom Brady on Sunday night? I mean,
Speaker 1: the goat of all time. Yeah, you know, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be that's gonna be surreal. You know, a guy that
Speaker 1: I've really watched growing up my whole life. Um, and
Speaker 1: to be on the same field, um, primetime game, this
Speaker 1: is very very special. You know. I sometimes I almost
Speaker 1: wish I was on defense so I could get a
Speaker 1: chance to sack him. But um, but that's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. Um. But it is very special. It's a cool, cool,
Speaker 1: very cool deal. What do you think is the next
Speaker 1: step for you, Trey and your development? Is you look
Speaker 1: down the road, you say, my goodness, this is this
Speaker 1: is where I am right now. This is where I
Speaker 1: want to be next year. What is that next stop?
Speaker 1: You know, I think just fine tune in the small things,
Speaker 1: just getting open and coverage, how to win against you know, releases,
Speaker 1: things like that, top of routes. Just really fine tune
Speaker 1: in everything to make sure that my margin of air
Speaker 1: is so small. So just making sure that I can
Speaker 1: be as perfect as I can in every aspect of
Speaker 1: the game. But you know, I think just just continuing
Speaker 1: getting better, staying healthy, things like that. I think, come
Speaker 1: back next season knowing the offense I'm gonna be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, moving moving at a much faster pace when
Speaker 1: you when you think of Tampa, right, do you think
Speaker 1: of Rob Gronkowski And did you ever admire Gronk's game
Speaker 1: because he's another big piece missing from that Buccaneers offense
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah? Absolutely. You know, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: tight ends growing up was was Gronk and watching him
Speaker 1: play for with Tom Brady and things like that, It's
Speaker 1: been very special. So yeah, I mean I love watching him.
Speaker 1: He's a heck of a player, and you know, you
Speaker 1: never know with him, he could come out of retirement tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So and Wolf, you know, from doing Coach's TV show,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, former teammate of Tom Brady, and the amount
Speaker 1: of respect he asked for Tom Brady and just here's
Speaker 1: what he had to say to the media about the
Speaker 1: matchup on Sunday night. I mean, he's still the greatest
Speaker 1: player of all time, and you know, I've known him
Speaker 1: now twenty years. I got drafted there in oh three,
Speaker 1: and so to go out and compete against him, you know,
Speaker 1: or actually be on the same field with him, is
Speaker 1: going to be an honor and excited to excited to
Speaker 1: see him. He told us on the TV show that
Speaker 1: Brady's level of commitment to the game is just in
Speaker 1: saying was so far beyond. In fact, he almost lamented
Speaker 1: that he didn't have that same commitment in his own
Speaker 1: playing career, and it's one of the reasons why now
Speaker 1: he gets up at three in the morning and his
Speaker 1: coaching career. So I thought that was that was pretty intriguing.
Speaker 1: But when you look at this, this Tampa team, and
Speaker 1: you look at the platform and the stage on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: I just think the fact Brady's out there, the fact
Speaker 1: it's Sunday night football. A lot of people are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are not officially out of the playoff chase,
Speaker 1: But I don't think energy and intensity he's going to
Speaker 1: be an issue Sunday night. What do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think so at all. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: playing on Christmas, playing the primetime game, playing against Tom Brad,
Speaker 1: I think all these things factor into you know, that
Speaker 1: high energy, high juice, and I think guys are guys
Speaker 1: are still you know, guys still love the game. Guys.
Speaker 1: You know, guys are gonna go out there and play
Speaker 1: their hardest, give everything they have. So I don't think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be any question of what the Cardinals are
Speaker 1: going to do that night. But I'm excited to go
Speaker 1: out there and see, you know, how we play and
Speaker 1: how we do against the Bucks. Trey, what do the
Speaker 1: Bucks do well? You've been watching them on tape of course.
Speaker 1: What do they box defensively? What do they do well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do a lot of really good things. They have
Speaker 1: really good stout defensive ends that are really good stout
Speaker 1: players that just do a good job in the run game.
Speaker 1: They're two linebackers they have or are just like maniac guys,
Speaker 1: like they're all over the place. They're blitz in there,
Speaker 1: running around, they're out of their gaps, like they're just
Speaker 1: doing stuff all the time. They don't stop moving and
Speaker 1: just just fundamentally, they do a really good job defensively.
Speaker 1: And I think they they're a really good team, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the matchup. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a great matchup for us, and I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: how our game plan fits. Yeah, Wolf, you know Devin
Speaker 1: White and Lavante David. I mean, those guys were absolute
Speaker 1: money in twenty and twenty to the Super Bowl title.
Speaker 1: I think it's a reason why the Cardinals drafted Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons and Zavan Collins back to back. They wanted a
Speaker 1: pairing like those two inside linebackers from Tampa. And of
Speaker 1: course you're going with trace McSorley at quarterback. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna be making his first career start. By the way,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has made three hundred thirty one career starts.
Speaker 1: Think about the difference right there. Tell us about trace mcsloidy.
Speaker 1: Give us a quick scattering report on what you've seen
Speaker 1: out of the Cardinals third string quarterback. Yeah, he's a warrior.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who comes in every day, gets to work,
Speaker 1: and he's, uh, he knows what's going on. Like he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He didn't get a whole lot of reps um, you know,
Speaker 1: up to this point. But he's he's always knowing what's
Speaker 1: going on. He's really sharp, he's very talented, and I'm
Speaker 1: super excited to go and play with him. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a very good quarterback and I feel confident going
Speaker 1: in the game with Trace back there. So I'm super
Speaker 1: excited to see everything he does, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm confident that he can bring us a win on Sunday.
Speaker 1: You know, was your watching tape and you're looking at
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay box scheme from time to time. I'm
Speaker 1: sure maybe Lavante David or Devin White maybe on you
Speaker 1: who do you think is better in terms of coverage?
Speaker 1: You know, I think both of them are are are good,
Speaker 1: very very good backers. But I think in coverage, I
Speaker 1: think I have an advantage on them. I think that
Speaker 1: I can get him up their spot. I think both
Speaker 1: of them do a great job, but I'm confident that
Speaker 1: that both of them, Um, I can beat one on
Speaker 1: one and in coverage so um. But I, like I said,
Speaker 1: both of them are very talented players and I'm super
Speaker 1: excited to for the matchup. I'm just guessing, knowing Todd Bowles,
Speaker 1: former defensive coordinator from the Cardinals years ago, knowing how
Speaker 1: ultra aggressive he is, and that you have a young,
Speaker 1: unproven quarterback, You're gonna see some blitzes, aren't you. On
Speaker 1: Sunday night. Yeah, there's no question they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: bring the heat. They're gonna they're gonna light us up
Speaker 1: with pressure. So we gotta be really good about, you know,
Speaker 1: getting getting that ball out quick because they're gonna get
Speaker 1: heat up back there. Yep, no doubt. What do you
Speaker 1: expect to see now once again, who knows the game
Speaker 1: plan and everything else. I'm not asking you that, but
Speaker 1: do you think you're gonna get more five man pressures
Speaker 1: or more blitzes? You know it's hot balls. I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna do a lot of five five you know
Speaker 1: man down pressures. M But I do think that they
Speaker 1: do do some four down stuff where they bring safeties
Speaker 1: and stuff off the edge as well. But I'm super
Speaker 1: confident that we're gonna get lots of blitzes, lots of pressure. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think with a game plan we have, if
Speaker 1: we can get the ball out quick, you know, hit
Speaker 1: some runs some things like that, well we'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: Look it's December, your rookie year. But I asked you
Speaker 1: last week if you still have rookie duties, you know,
Speaker 1: the veterans tassi with certain things. And what was your
Speaker 1: answer this time of year? Yeah, absolutely, we have to.
Speaker 1: We actually had to decorate the tight ends room, get
Speaker 1: it all Christmas up. We put a Christmas tree in there,
Speaker 1: how to put some lights, you know, all kinds of
Speaker 1: different things in there, just to make sure that when
Speaker 1: when the guys came to work, they knew it was
Speaker 1: Christmas season. You know, try you got three games, man,
Speaker 1: you got three games. This is your rookie year right now.
Speaker 1: What what can you accomplish over the next three games?
Speaker 1: Do you have a goal? Do you have a mindset
Speaker 1: going into these last three? Yeah? I think just just
Speaker 1: like I said, continuing to prove each and every week.
Speaker 1: I've gotten better each week. My you know, my numbers
Speaker 1: have gotten better. Everything's just continuing getting better. So I
Speaker 1: think if I just you know, put my head down,
Speaker 1: keep going to work like I have, keep improving, you know,
Speaker 1: my opportunitis is going to come. And once that opportunity comes,
Speaker 1: I just got to take full advantage of that and
Speaker 1: run with it. We heard Cliff Kingsbury on hard not
Speaker 1: during a practice sake, Tray's got to play faster. Has
Speaker 1: that been part of your evolution? Yeah? Absolutely, you know,
Speaker 1: just the speed of the game, I said, is so fast,
Speaker 1: but just just playing fast, knowing exactly what you're doing
Speaker 1: and playing confident. Once you're confident, once you know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, you play faster. You you go out there
Speaker 1: and just play. And then I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: where I'm getting to is, you know, everything's kind of
Speaker 1: coming together. Everything getting faster, so I just got to
Speaker 1: go out there and play now, you know, so quickly. Tray,
Speaker 1: ten years from now, do you see yourself still playing ball? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. I think I think I can play. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to have at least a
Speaker 1: ten year career, so you know, in ten years, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping I'm still you know, blocking six techniques. That's awesome, hey, Tray,
Speaker 1: we really enjoy Thank you, thank you, Yeah, thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much for having me on. I'm super excited.
Speaker 1: And go Cardinals and we'll see him Sunday night. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with more of the Big Red Rage, presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert. We are Santan Ford sack
Speaker 1: absolutely mauled by J. J. Watt. That's like turning around
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Jaws is there ready to
Speaker 1: swallow you up. Back to throwing another sack for J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: That's two today. As he beats his man and then
Speaker 1: beats down the quarterback back to throw RiPP it and
Speaker 1: the ball comes out as he's hit, it flutters and
Speaker 1: my J Sanders has a hold of it. They're gonna
Speaker 1: say it's a fumble recovered by Sanders. J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: came around, knocked the ball out of his hand. That's
Speaker 1: what he did. JJ. Watt got the right hand on it.
Speaker 1: So that go down as another sack goes down as
Speaker 1: another side. There'll be three sacks in the first half
Speaker 1: and now a force bumble for Watt recovered by my J. Sanders. Oh,
Speaker 1: my goodness, JJ Watt, are you kidding me? The number
Speaker 1: was three. He had three sacks, He had three quarterback hits.
Speaker 1: He had three tackles for loss to go along with
Speaker 1: five tackles the force bumble in the past defense. There
Speaker 1: were also nine hundred a thousand other reasons that he
Speaker 1: had a big old smile on that bench. Ron Wolfley,
Speaker 1: as we say, welcome back in to the Big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert we are santan Ford.
Speaker 1: And that was reportedly the contract incentives that he hit
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand for the first one and then two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand apiece for each of the next two sacks.
Speaker 1: Nine hundred thousand dollars on those three sacks right there,
Speaker 1: performance incentives in his two and twenty two contract. Well, Polly,
Speaker 1: you know he did have a baby, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: Jeff saying right now, I want to put that away.
Speaker 1: If you know what I'm talking about, go ahead and
Speaker 1: put that into the school fun Paully Man, it was
Speaker 1: just incredible to see jj Watt out there bawling out
Speaker 1: the way that he was, and I cannot say that
Speaker 1: I was really surprised, I tell you. At halftime, Nathaniel
Speaker 1: Hackett actually cited jj Watt. According to the sideline reporter
Speaker 1: that I talked with on the Bronco sideline, the first
Speaker 1: thing he said was, well, we can't block jj Watt,
Speaker 1: and then because of that they made the halftime adjustment.
Speaker 1: They only threw it like four times in the second half.
Speaker 1: All they did was start running the ball because their
Speaker 1: pass protection against Watt was so porous. Yeah, no, that's
Speaker 1: you know, once again, JJ Watt is such a game
Speaker 1: changer when he's healthy and he's ready to go. You
Speaker 1: see it firsthand. The guy makes plays, whether he's actually
Speaker 1: getting sacks or pressures Pauli or knocking the ball out
Speaker 1: of strip sack, whatever it may be. You know what,
Speaker 1: those are obvious for so many people. But it's the
Speaker 1: plays that he makes where it's not so obvious. At
Speaker 1: the point of attack at the tip of the spear.
Speaker 1: What a great job he does. And not only that too, Paul,
Speaker 1: But you know this, JJ Watt is one of those guys.
Speaker 1: It's not just about him and what he does. He
Speaker 1: impacts guys around him. You know, he was brought in
Speaker 1: in the late stages of his career, obviously, and one
Speaker 1: of the big reasons why was leadership. And he has
Speaker 1: definitely checked out box. So when you talk about, okay,
Speaker 1: where are the Cardinals going from here after this season?
Speaker 1: What exactly is the plan with J. J. Watt whose
Speaker 1: contract is up, and we get it, he's thirty three nails,
Speaker 1: little miles in that body, but look a and how
Speaker 1: he's playing, and then be look at what he does
Speaker 1: in that locker room. In fact, Hard Knocks after the
Speaker 1: game in Denver last night gave us a look and
Speaker 1: a listen at his postgame speech. I'm not gonna stand
Speaker 1: up here and tell you it doesn't suck. It sucks.
Speaker 1: It's brutal. But what I do have respect for is
Speaker 1: everybody busting their I appreciate the willingness to come in
Speaker 1: every day and be a man and go about your
Speaker 1: work and go about your business even when we all
Speaker 1: know what the situation is. Don't lose that. You gotta
Speaker 1: try and get better each day, please like for yourself
Speaker 1: and for us as a team, both equally, because right
Speaker 1: now the reality of the situation is is you're also
Speaker 1: doing for next season because the unfortunate reality is that
Speaker 1: we're not in the playoffs. So take care of yourselves. Study,
Speaker 1: don't let up, hit the weight room, hit the books.
Speaker 1: It's not time to pack it in. It's time to
Speaker 1: work and put yourself in a better situation. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you know what makes a player, Gray Pauli is consistency,
Speaker 1: and JJ Watt is that guy. What he's basically describing
Speaker 1: right now is it doesn't matter who you're playing. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter at all. It doesn't matter what week of
Speaker 1: the season is. It doesn't matter what team you're playing,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what coach you're playing against. None of
Speaker 1: it matters. What it is is a football game. That's
Speaker 1: all it is. And you have another opportunity to go
Speaker 1: out and play as hard and as well as you
Speaker 1: possibly can. This is the reason why I love J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: This guy the consistency. When you listen to him talking
Speaker 1: about this and going about your business and being a professional.
Speaker 1: The consistency is what is so amazing about this guy,
Speaker 1: not only how he plays, but also how he thinks.
Speaker 1: And you see it Unhard now when he was miked
Speaker 1: up and the opponents, the opposing players after the game,
Speaker 1: the reverence they have for a JJ Watt and the
Speaker 1: respect for his game. I remember coaches on this staff
Speaker 1: saying a couple of games into his first season with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, they had no idea they knew he was
Speaker 1: a leader, they had no idea of his ability to
Speaker 1: speak like that in front of the team. And he
Speaker 1: really he is that guy. He is that voice that
Speaker 1: everyone follows now. The one person who's not been surprised
Speaker 1: about that Vance Joseph, who was an assistant coach on
Speaker 1: those Houston Texan teams when JJ Watt came into the
Speaker 1: league as a first round draft pick. So those two
Speaker 1: you see them talking a lot. And here's Vance and
Speaker 1: he was unhard knocks just about his message, right, and
Speaker 1: this is to the team about the final stretch upcoming.
Speaker 1: You know, my point of the players right now is, man,
Speaker 1: this last month, you'll be selfish about your time and
Speaker 1: being the best player you can be. So moving forward,
Speaker 1: no one questions if you can play this game. Sometimes
Speaker 1: in the team sports we tell lies about I don't
Speaker 1: want to make money. I don't want to be a star.
Speaker 1: I just want to be a good team Jazz bool.
Speaker 1: But he's my point to you, guys. This year is
Speaker 1: my loss. So I want you to want something. I
Speaker 1: want you to go earn something. That's okay, you want
Speaker 1: to contract and you want to be a star, play
Speaker 1: your ants off, help us win games. I want you
Speaker 1: to be selfish, to be the best player you can be.
Speaker 1: But what's your ask earning the all access that we
Speaker 1: get behind the scenes from Hard Knocks NFL films. Well,
Speaker 1: if what stands out to you about that speech Van's Joseph,
Speaker 1: what he had to say to the defense, Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just so true right now. Typically when you get
Speaker 1: a guy that basically says, I'm going to play for you,
Speaker 1: you know what, buddy, sit down, Okay, you know what. Honestly,
Speaker 1: just go play for yourself. You can see it. It's
Speaker 1: very interesting that JJ Watt, and not only JJ Watt,
Speaker 1: but Van's Joseph, they're trying to get guys that are
Speaker 1: out there. They're trying to reach guys that are still
Speaker 1: young and developing. They're trying to they're trying to reach
Speaker 1: these guys and let them see that. You know what,
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity, man, you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: finish this season strong and send a message to not
Speaker 1: only the Arizona Cardinals going forward, but also to every
Speaker 1: other team that might be interested in you one day,
Speaker 1: every other team that might be looking at you this
Speaker 1: offseason if in fact you're going to be a free agent.
Speaker 1: And we know there's a large contingency of guys inside
Speaker 1: that locker room that are going to be a free agent.
Speaker 1: So what he's saying is be selfish. Go ahead, look
Speaker 1: at yourself and go out there and ball out. And
Speaker 1: you know what, Paulie, Honestly, I just want to say
Speaker 1: this once again, that's the way it should be every week.
Speaker 1: That should be whether you're under contract for four years,
Speaker 1: whether whether you're going to be out there as a
Speaker 1: free agent the off season, it doesn't matter. You've got
Speaker 1: to train yourself, train your heart, train your mind, your
Speaker 1: soul to go out and play like that every game.
Speaker 1: And man, if you can get guys to do that,
Speaker 1: if you can get guys to understand that, Paul Man,
Speaker 1: it makes things so much better. And you're right, there's
Speaker 1: nearly thirty pending free agents. You've played nearly eighty players
Speaker 1: this year. Decisions will be made. There will be change
Speaker 1: after a losing campaign like this. Guess what, there's most
Speaker 1: likely going to be changed of the GM position according
Speaker 1: to NFL Network and the reports they put out there.
Speaker 1: So if there's a different decision maker, as Cliff Kingsbury said,
Speaker 1: he told the team that these guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: some recency bias, if you will, when they look at
Speaker 1: the film. They're going to go to the film and say,
Speaker 1: what sort of game did you put out there when
Speaker 1: the games didn't county down the stretch? What were you
Speaker 1: like and were you one of the first? Were you
Speaker 1: part of the problem or you know, part of the solution?
Speaker 1: And I think that's part of the message Advance and
Speaker 1: JJ Water trying to convey. No, you're you're right on it, Paul,
Speaker 1: You really are right there. You know I say it
Speaker 1: all the time. You gotta take this game personally. You
Speaker 1: gotta make it snow Paul. And that's what I think
Speaker 1: it is. If you make it personal like that, it's
Speaker 1: never gonna be a game to you. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a test. And if you make it a test, somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, you can turn it into a test. You're
Speaker 1: gonna go out and you're gonna give everything you have
Speaker 1: take it personally, well, look, the Cardinals are gonna have
Speaker 1: one last gift on wrap on Christmas. It'll be a
Speaker 1: Christmas Night. They the home game against Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers on Sunday Night Football Primetime International TV audience. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to go out there and you want to
Speaker 1: do something for yourself. You want to do something about
Speaker 1: that home win loss mark this year. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about how and with whom next when we come back.
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Speaker 1: and Gilbert. We are santan Ford back to pass, goes
Speaker 1: ripping looking Dave wearing it out right side, underground and
Speaker 1: picked off on the goal line, Intercepted on the goal
Speaker 1: line by Buddha Baker and returned out to the four
Speaker 1: Budda Baker sitting in the middle of the field. I
Speaker 1: was an easy pick for food off. You know, these
Speaker 1: type of acculates come. It's definitely a cool thing and
Speaker 1: especially with you know, the team not doing as great
Speaker 1: as we could and them still you know, you know,
Speaker 1: giving me the praise, giving me the good acculate. So
Speaker 1: it's definitely special and um, you know cool for me.
Speaker 1: An easy pick is an easy interception, an easy pick
Speaker 1: for all the voters. Buddha Baker and all pro safety
Speaker 1: a starter in the Pro Bowl, how about it? That's
Speaker 1: his fifth. By the way, Wolf is Craig Grilu, not me,
Speaker 1: As Craig Griolu pointed out, there's another cardinal safety. Now
Speaker 1: this one doesn't wear number twenty four, but there's another
Speaker 1: cardinal safety. You just exceeded your number of Pro Bowls
Speaker 1: by one. First, Adrian Wilson. Now, Buddha Baker. First of all,
Speaker 1: you had to say that polygons. That was Craig Griolu
Speaker 1: pointed that, okay, right, exactly, we all know it. A
Speaker 1: dub of course had five. I only got to fourth.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Paul, really I appreciate that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's fascinating, Paully. In the last beautiful part of
Speaker 1: the program, we were talking about greatness and consistency, and
Speaker 1: can I ask you do you think Buddha Baker, Paul,
Speaker 1: do you think he treats games differently, or do you
Speaker 1: think Buddha goes out pretty consistently and lays it on
Speaker 1: the line game in and game out. I never thought
Speaker 1: I would see another Cardinals safety in recent history play
Speaker 1: as hard down in, down out, week in week out
Speaker 1: as Tyrn, Matthew and Buddha Baker does it. Yes, he
Speaker 1: probably exceeds it, to be honest with him, Paully, It's
Speaker 1: just it's a great thing to watch, it really is.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that takes the game personally. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that is consistently great. Why is that? It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who they're playing. It doesn't matter how big the
Speaker 1: game is. It doesn't matter if it's played on Christmas
Speaker 1: and if it's going to be a nationally televised game.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. FOODA Baker approaches each and every game
Speaker 1: exactly the same in guess what guys see that. People
Speaker 1: see that all over the country. And that's the reason
Speaker 1: why he's going at the Pro Bowl. Hey, look at
Speaker 1: the playoff loss last year in LA. Look at when
Speaker 1: he got hurt at the very end. He was the
Speaker 1: one guy who was still running around like the game
Speaker 1: had just started. It's just it's remarkable and when you
Speaker 1: look at the last four years, basically his run of
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl safety starting safety right nominations and bids. He
Speaker 1: leads all NFL safeties and tackles and it's not even close.
Speaker 1: He exceeds the next closest guy by over one hundred tackles.
Speaker 1: It's just it's been dominant play by Buddha Baker. Think
Speaker 1: about this too. At some point in time, man, he's
Speaker 1: going to continue to go to Pro Bowls. It's not
Speaker 1: like he's got this huge resume of picks. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have a ton of picks in the National Football League
Speaker 1: for a safety. And yet all this guy does is
Speaker 1: go out and produce Pro Bowls. After five Pro Bowls
Speaker 1: right now, the guy is incredible. Man, he gets like
Speaker 1: three four more and you're gonna start looking at him
Speaker 1: like this is Hall of Fame stuff. You know what
Speaker 1: he does have. He has a respect of all his
Speaker 1: teammates and he has a respect of everybody watches Cardinals
Speaker 1: game film. Bans Joseph said that again today. How many
Speaker 1: coaches come up to him just tell him how Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker jumps off the Cardinals film. And we've heard that
Speaker 1: so many times. If you're Tom Brady. You're obviously looking
Speaker 1: for Buddha Baker before every snap, right, You're okay, where's
Speaker 1: number three? Where's number ninety nine? And then for the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: speaking of quarterback, you have Trace McSorley, And we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about Brady, but let's talk about what the
Speaker 1: Cardinals are facing with their third string quarterbacks, starting with
Speaker 1: the head coach, Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah, avoid the negative plays.
Speaker 1: You know, the last few times he's got in it's
Speaker 1: really without any reps at all. So if he can
Speaker 1: get some reps, I think it'll help. And just you know,
Speaker 1: gotta stay away from the turnovers and then first and
Speaker 1: s and down sacks. If we can stay on schedule,
Speaker 1: particularly against this Tampa front, that will definitely help our chances.
Speaker 1: And those are all things that obviously plagued him in
Speaker 1: that second half coming in relief of Colt McCoy. But
Speaker 1: now he has a full week of practice, he gets
Speaker 1: all the reps, and he's gonna get a game plan
Speaker 1: catered towards his skill set and plays that he likes. Remember,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury told us on his TV show this week,
Speaker 1: he's gonna ask him. He's asked Trace Okay, look, what
Speaker 1: are you most comfortable running? So with that in mind, Wolf,
Speaker 1: what's a realistic expectation you think for Trace McSorley on
Speaker 1: Sunday Night. Yeah, you know, Polly, I wish I knew, Paul,
Speaker 1: I wish I could answer your question. Really, it's I
Speaker 1: have no idea what to expect from Trace McSorley in
Speaker 1: a game where he's gonna have all week, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have all week to prepare for it. I would expect
Speaker 1: we're going to see a real blend the old versus
Speaker 1: the new. That's what I expect, Paul, I do. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see Trace McSorley maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: more under center than what we have seen Colt McCoy
Speaker 1: even or Shirley Kyler Murray. Of course. I think we're
Speaker 1: also going to see him in the shotgun. I think
Speaker 1: the pistol. I think we're going to see more variations
Speaker 1: of the blending of the old and the new. And yeah,
Speaker 1: Trace McSorley is a guy that can pull the ball
Speaker 1: down and run, and that I would expect to see RPOs.
Speaker 1: I would expect to see zone reads as well. And
Speaker 1: you know what I would expect to see twenty two
Speaker 1: and twenty three duo as we like to call it,
Speaker 1: a north south attack on the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: then play action off of that. I think trace McSorley
Speaker 1: can do all of that. I have no idea how
Speaker 1: he's gonna play, but he doesn't look flustered, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that much. He handled the press conference with a palm.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't look nervous at all, all the
Speaker 1: questions about facing Tom Brady. His first career start against
Speaker 1: Tom Brady on Sunday Night in primetime. Here's the guy
Speaker 1: who won three state titles in high school and then
Speaker 1: went to Penn State and was a four year starter. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's used to a big stage in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, but nothing quite like this. But it
Speaker 1: is amazing how many guys in the locker room use
Speaker 1: one word with him confidence. They say he plays with
Speaker 1: a lot of bravado. So we'll see if that translates
Speaker 1: to the field against Tom Brady and company on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, and you know they're gonna need that. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt. It's gonna be really interesting to see what
Speaker 1: kind of effort the Arizona Cardinals give coming out of
Speaker 1: the tunnel. They've had a miserable season for the most part.
Speaker 1: And for me, Paully, man is the misery continues to
Speaker 1: pile on. It forces you to go out. It fills
Speaker 1: you with this expectation of going out and balling out
Speaker 1: these last three games when you can see the light
Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel, Paully, it makes you
Speaker 1: go out from the very get go, from the opening
Speaker 1: kickoff and ball out because you know that it's winding down,
Speaker 1: you know that it's going to end. You know the
Speaker 1: misery is going to be over at some point in
Speaker 1: time more times than not, and Paul, you know I've
Speaker 1: got a PhD In losing more times than not. Man,
Speaker 1: the last three four games of a season, that's ball
Speaker 1: out time right there. It fills you with a hope
Speaker 1: of a new day, a better way next season. It's
Speaker 1: the light at the end of the tunnel. And I
Speaker 1: agree we'll know right away if the Cardinals are matching
Speaker 1: that energy, that desperation from a Buccaneers team where the
Speaker 1: head coach Todd Bowles says, quote, we have three games
Speaker 1: left to save our season. They're six and eight, they
Speaker 1: have a one game leading in the Division. If they
Speaker 1: win out, they're in. They will host a playoff game
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady will avoid the first losing season ever
Speaker 1: of his NFL career. Think about that. But they have
Speaker 1: to win out all three of their final games. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if the Cardinals are up to it. You know,
Speaker 1: matching that you're also figuring your trade. Brink Bryan, talk
Speaker 1: about a wolf. I mean, if you know one thing
Speaker 1: about Todd Bowles from his years here, he's gonna go
Speaker 1: down swinging, isn't he? Oh yeah, you know that's the
Speaker 1: one thing about her right there. You're talking out of
Speaker 1: defense that is going to be hyper aggressive. We heard
Speaker 1: Trey McBride, as you say, talking about that thing. But
Speaker 1: that's the one thing we know about Todd Bulls. He
Speaker 1: is PAULI. He is a grandmaster guru sense. When it
Speaker 1: comes to five man pressures, he's bringing five. You just
Speaker 1: don't know which five he'll actually bring. And then we
Speaker 1: know that he's got a real affinity as well for
Speaker 1: our bringing cover zero. And that's man across the board,
Speaker 1: bring everybody when it gets down to it, when it's
Speaker 1: nasty time, Todd Bowles is not afraid to dial up
Speaker 1: Cover zero. So I would expect, especially with Tracey McSorley
Speaker 1: a young quarterback, I would expect Todd Bowles to give
Speaker 1: him a lot of complex pressure package looks and a
Speaker 1: lot of blitzes as well. And think about it, the
Speaker 1: Cardinals could have their eleventh different starting offensive line combination
Speaker 1: based on whether Kelvin Beacham is going to go at
Speaker 1: right tackle. He did not practice again today. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers got Tristan Worf's back to practice, so that could
Speaker 1: be a big disparity. We'll see as the Cardinals injuries
Speaker 1: continue on both sides of the ball. Again, It's going
Speaker 1: to be Sunday Night Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady has played more Super Bowls in that stadium than
Speaker 1: he has regular season games. Think about that, all right,
Speaker 1: all part of the allure that Trey McBride and everyone
Speaker 1: else is going to be facing with the Cardinals. Special
Speaker 1: thanks to the Cardinals Rookie Ted end as our special guest.
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