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Speaker 1: You know that movie with the ending, that plot twist
Speaker 1: that you never saw coming read the book? Was that
Speaker 1: not the Cardinals game against the Vikings? And the final kick?
Speaker 1: That was not the kick to the gut for Minnesota?
Speaker 1: How about I mean, Wolf, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: have any plans and just floating through this show, you
Speaker 1: know you might come out a little flat and you
Speaker 1: think you can finish strong and pull out a win
Speaker 1: at the end. But just like the Vikings, I have
Speaker 1: no plans on taking it easy on you. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking I hope you packed a lunch. I mean
Speaker 1: you're gonna wish you applied for the USC job by
Speaker 1: the end of the show. To stop it right now, Paul,
Speaker 1: A mean, honestly, you're starting to bore me. Like watching
Speaker 1: you eat dinner and taking your fork and moving it
Speaker 1: all around the plate. Dad, forget it, Paul, when you
Speaker 1: just eat the salad, listen, I don't want to listen
Speaker 1: to you, Paul. I want to revel in the fact
Speaker 1: that the Arizona Cardinals right now are two and oh okay.
Speaker 1: As an analyst, does it matter how you win? Heck
Speaker 1: yeah it does as an analyst. Doesn't matter how you lose,
Speaker 1: all of course it does as an analyst. As a
Speaker 1: former player, Poulin, here's the players. This is the player
Speaker 1: coming out of me right now. You take two win,
Speaker 1: oh baby, and you run laughing off that field. You
Speaker 1: take it and you run, baby, unless they've changed it
Speaker 1: in the last thirty seconds. Um, there are two columns
Speaker 1: that matter, win and loss. There's there's no extra column
Speaker 1: per dominant win. Oh, there is a tie, Paul. We've
Speaker 1: experienced that, Yeah, Cliff Kingsbury. Yeah, we just dismissed those though. Okay,
Speaker 1: there are two that are relevant. There are two that matter.
Speaker 1: There's win and loss. There's no dominant win column. There's
Speaker 1: no close loss. You should have one column. No, that
Speaker 1: does not exist in the NFL. So you're right, And
Speaker 1: like BA used to say, it's just as easy to
Speaker 1: correct your mistakes after a close win then a close loss.
Speaker 1: You've got that, right, Paul. And once again too, when
Speaker 1: you look at these three games right to the games
Speaker 1: that have been of course, and the game that Lord
Speaker 1: Willing will be coming up with the Jacksonville Jaguar. That
Speaker 1: first week, the Arizona Cardinals were underdogs going into would
Speaker 1: you say they were underdogs? Paul? Going into that first week?
Speaker 1: Were most people saying the Arizona Cardinals are probably going
Speaker 1: to lose to the Tennessee Tite. Just flip on any
Speaker 1: talking head across the nation. Absolutely, they were underdogs. Well,
Speaker 1: of course, Paully. And what did they do? They went
Speaker 1: out and they railroaded the Tennessee Titans in week number one,
Speaker 1: and then of course the Minnesota Vikings game, and you know,
Speaker 1: they came out to end in that first half. The
Speaker 1: offense was up big time. I would say the offense
Speaker 1: was up overall for the most part for the game.
Speaker 1: And yet the defense came out a little flat. Well,
Speaker 1: they came out flat, frankly, and that first half right there,
Speaker 1: it's the one half of football that they have not
Speaker 1: played well. But again, every playoff team, Paully, go back
Speaker 1: and look at every playoff team, they win one or
Speaker 1: two of those games, just like that, a game that
Speaker 1: maybe you should have lost. And it was a chip
Speaker 1: It was a chip shot field goal for the Vikings
Speaker 1: kicker at the end of that game, a thirty seven yarder.
Speaker 1: You expect an NFL kicker to make that kick on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. He didn't. Hey, listen, you make no apologies.
Speaker 1: You take it and run. And now coming up against
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars, of course, the Arizona Cardinals are going
Speaker 1: to be favored heavily to win that game. They should
Speaker 1: take care of business. Let's see if they can complete
Speaker 1: the triffect them. For everyone out there who is now
Speaker 1: being bored by Wolf, the good news is tight end
Speaker 1: Max Williams will join us momentarily just around the corner.
Speaker 1: Even better news right now, we're gonna hear from Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: because yeah, there was a lot left the Cardinals left
Speaker 1: out on that field. Yet somehow they still managed to
Speaker 1: put up thirty plus points and four hundred plus total
Speaker 1: yards for the second straight week. Here's Kyler Murray. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you all the time. I mean, it comes down
Speaker 1: to shoot ourselves in the foot, topping ourselves. We score,
Speaker 1: it feels easy and it feels fun, and then we
Speaker 1: you know, turn the ball over negative plays. It's like, damn,
Speaker 1: you know, it feels ugly, but um, you know it
Speaker 1: is what it is. We have to we have to
Speaker 1: continue to get better and continue to practice. So the
Speaker 1: head coach, Cliff Kingsbury counted eleven negative plays. We know
Speaker 1: they took d Hop out of the game after the
Speaker 1: first quarter. There were obviously protection issues with Kyler Denil Hunter.
Speaker 1: I mean, just give that guy a spot on the
Speaker 1: All Pro team right now. I mean, on this show,
Speaker 1: how many times as DJ Humphreys over the years told
Speaker 1: us Denil Hunter might be the most underrated dude in
Speaker 1: the NFL. We saw evidence of that. So, yeah, there
Speaker 1: is a lot to clean up. Yet you know what
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's and Chandler Jones have cleaned up on the
Speaker 1: Player of the Week awards. Kyler's your NFC offensive players.
Speaker 1: So think about that. Think about the numbers they put
Speaker 1: up and they weren't even clicking for the most part. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: you stop and think about this right now when you're
Speaker 1: talking about Kyler Murray. He's played, Paul. I think it's
Speaker 1: thirty four games, Paul. As a matter of fact, Paul,
Speaker 1: he let me do it. Thirty four games. I'll say
Speaker 1: it with certitude that Kyler Murray has played. He's won
Speaker 1: the NFC Offensive Player of the Week award five times,
Speaker 1: and he should have wanted in the first week of
Speaker 1: the season, all right, five times He's wanted fifteen percent
Speaker 1: of the time that he has been a pro. I mean, Paul,
Speaker 1: it's honestly, what this kid is evolving and developing into
Speaker 1: right now, nobody knows. But I'm telling you it's starting
Speaker 1: to clear up the picture of Kyler Murray, is it not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: come for the arms, stay for the legs. And now
Speaker 1: it's fear the mind. If he's beating you, if he's
Speaker 1: beating you by deciphering your defense, and he's gone through
Speaker 1: his progressions and you see his escape ability, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean JJ Watt talked about that today, asked him
Speaker 1: about Kyler. He said, let me tell you, there's nothing
Speaker 1: better and being a defensive lineman and sipping on your
Speaker 1: gatorade and watching the JumboTron and you see Kyler extending
Speaker 1: to play for forty seconds and then throwing his up
Speaker 1: in the seven yard touchdown, and you realize, Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't have to be the guy dealing with that. The
Speaker 1: offensive players like that first down, moved the chain stuff right.
Speaker 1: Bruda Baker after the game, after the Cardinals were torched
Speaker 1: on the ground in the first half and they had
Speaker 1: to make some serious halftime adjustments. Here's boot on how
Speaker 1: the Cardinals won that game. And that was definitely an
Speaker 1: ugly game, but sometimes you got to win those ugly games.
Speaker 1: You know, our offense did a great job putting so
Speaker 1: much points on a board for us and the defense.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta be better, especial teams. We gotta
Speaker 1: almost blocked punt, got that penalty, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of penalties. We can we can be better. But when
Speaker 1: is a win win? In no mentality, cars win that's
Speaker 1: all right, man, you take it and run Paulli. Okay,
Speaker 1: But if we're in the trust tree right now, there
Speaker 1: are two words I don't like, Paul, get out of
Speaker 1: my tree. Gap integrity. I think a gap integrity. I
Speaker 1: start thinking of Robert Kidici and some of those defensive fronts,
Speaker 1: and you just can't have it. You just can't have
Speaker 1: the whole advance. Joseph said it again today that it
Speaker 1: was an issue, and so all right, is that a
Speaker 1: matter of focus. They made the adjustments at halftime. Buddha
Speaker 1: went on in that postgame interview and I asked him specifically,
Speaker 1: what was the adjustment. He said, we went jumbo quote unquote, yes,
Speaker 1: not exactly sure how you define jumbo. If they went
Speaker 1: with an extra defensive lineman. They were going four and
Speaker 1: five defensive. I'm not exactly sure. But they managed to
Speaker 1: nuize Chandler Jones as well. The Minnesota Vikings did, and
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins had a clean pocket almost the entirety of
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, no, Polly, I think they did. They
Speaker 1: actually brought in an extra defensive lineman. I think that
Speaker 1: is exactly what the Buddhi's referring to. But they did it.
Speaker 1: Against some power personnel groups as well. But they did
Speaker 1: play a lot better in that second half period against
Speaker 1: the run. The first half was just an abomination. It
Speaker 1: was that, there's no other way to actually say it.
Speaker 1: That is right now. The defense, you look at the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball for the Arizona Cardinals, they
Speaker 1: have played three really good halfs and then they played
Speaker 1: one bad half of football. So far. The offense for
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, for the most part, I think has
Speaker 1: been fairly consistent. Over all. The special teams has got
Speaker 1: to play better. That has always been a strength since
Speaker 1: Jeff Rogers showed up here he's an excellent special teams coordinator.
Speaker 1: That Cardinals have had a good special teams except for
Speaker 1: a field goal here and there. And that's an important thing.
Speaker 1: I don't make this. I don't mean to make it
Speaker 1: sound like it's not important. Matt Prador though now of course,
Speaker 1: has really shored up that part that phase of the
Speaker 1: game for the Cardinals. Man, I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 1: if they can get more consistency out of the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, this is gonna go real. Nas.
Speaker 1: Did Minnesota just put a blueprint out there against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense, one that the Jacksonville Jaguars might follow with
Speaker 1: James Robinson, who by the way, was fifth in rushing
Speaker 1: yards a year ago. For some of you reason with
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback, he's been underutilized, just sixteen carries in
Speaker 1: two games. I know they got behind, but they really
Speaker 1: haven't been blown out. That's sort of a no comprendo.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm Jacksonville and Daryl Beble and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the Cardinals, I'm coming out with a similar approach,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to run it straight up the middle.
Speaker 1: And it was shocking wolf A based on what the
Speaker 1: Cardinals defense did in Tennessee, obviously, but then b that
Speaker 1: interior oh line from Minnesota was nothing to write home about.
Speaker 1: They were exposed against Cincinnati. They're using backup tackles. I
Speaker 1: was shocked. I think the staff from Craig Greley figured
Speaker 1: it out. In the first half. There were six runs
Speaker 1: by Dalvin Cook of ten yards or more and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you every one of those. I think he was
Speaker 1: untouched until the second level. Yeah, Paully, And once again
Speaker 1: that was the real disturbing part to me. There were
Speaker 1: two parts of it. Number One, it was the first
Speaker 1: half and how the defense played in that first half, because, honestly,
Speaker 1: coming off Week one and what they did against Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: I wanted to see them put the hammer down on
Speaker 1: that questionable offensive line for the Minnesota Vikings. And then
Speaker 1: it was the endgame scenario where the offense could not
Speaker 1: run the time out, take the rest of the four
Speaker 1: minutes and win the game, and the defense couldn't keep
Speaker 1: the Vikings from going down and trying to attempt a
Speaker 1: field goal, a makeable field goal. So if you're on
Speaker 1: the Cardinals side, you hope that all those things you
Speaker 1: have to correct actually got the player's attention and you're
Speaker 1: not paying attention to the fact that Jaguars have lost
Speaker 1: seventeen straight games. Good news. Max Williams had a career
Speaker 1: game and he joins us. Next the Big Cardinals tight
Speaker 1: end on the Big Red Rage presented by satan Ford
Speaker 1: and Gilbert we Are. Satan Ford throws to the right,
Speaker 1: Max Williams with a cat to the forty breaks attack
Speaker 1: on forty five fifty into Viking territory at the forty seven,
Speaker 1: throwing down the scene, it's caught by Williams. It's tide
Speaker 1: of ten and out of the eight yard line of
Speaker 1: beautiful throw by Kyler Murray play action, Murray in the pocket,
Speaker 1: try to dump it off. It's deflected and caught by
Speaker 1: Max Williams of the forty and the forty five of
Speaker 1: the fifty in the Viking Territory where he's finally he
Speaker 1: got down. Step right up, ladies and gentlemen. See the
Speaker 1: man cuts the ball that's batted into the air. Max
Speaker 1: Williams with Shotty on the spot. Baby, I understand the music.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like a blooper real music. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? These are great catches, But
Speaker 1: I see, well, if you were sort of going with
Speaker 1: a circus theme, is what you're going with the day
Speaker 1: Pass on Arizona Cardinals Radio Network. Correct, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, Bully, That's exactly what it was right there.
Speaker 1: Stop right up, ladies and gentlemen. I mean the ball
Speaker 1: was batted what twice and Max just acted like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is nothing. Man just snatched it right out of
Speaker 1: the air. Yeah, tip drill. It was in the second quarter,
Speaker 1: second and ten thirty plus yards and the man himself
Speaker 1: joins us. Last we left big tight end Max Williams,
Speaker 1: who was in the Cardinals locker room in the postgame
Speaker 1: radio interview, your phone with a Minnesota area code was
Speaker 1: blowing up. Max and if memory service you were denying
Speaker 1: you had ever said the words you bet you? So
Speaker 1: you know what kind of week have you had? Welcome Max,
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us on the big red rage. You
Speaker 1: know it's a typical game week for me. That's the
Speaker 1: way I've treated it. Gotting to work all week now
Speaker 1: and we appracted tomorrow morning, then we fly out and
Speaker 1: just getting the best and most prepared I can get
Speaker 1: for Jacksonville. Max, you at a big day, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. And you were heavily involved in the offense.
Speaker 1: But you are every week. It's not a situation where,
Speaker 1: you know, the Arizona Cardinals move the ball without you contributing,
Speaker 1: not only in terms of catching the ball from time
Speaker 1: to time, but also when you're run blocking. What do
Speaker 1: you take more pride in? If anything? Do you know?
Speaker 1: I think it's a tight end. I try to take
Speaker 1: pride and everything we have to do, and that's obviously
Speaker 1: being on the line of scrimmage, being in the run game,
Speaker 1: game dirty with those old linemen in the trenches. But
Speaker 1: we also got to take pride, and we still have
Speaker 1: to be able to run routes win man routes, so
Speaker 1: we actually it's a lot of perfecting our craft on
Speaker 1: both ends of the ball. So I think we've taken
Speaker 1: pride in knowing that tight ends we have to be
Speaker 1: good at doing both of them. Yeah, a career high
Speaker 1: and catches with seven, the career high in receiving yards
Speaker 1: with ninety four. Is there anything you can bottle up
Speaker 1: from that game and take going forward? Meaning what did
Speaker 1: you like about how that game went for you? You know,
Speaker 1: for me, I like, obviously it's great gain the sun catches. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I think I made some good blocks, but there was
Speaker 1: things I knew I had to clean up, things that
Speaker 1: you know, just normal people wouldn't know watching because our
Speaker 1: schemes and stuff. So really, for Meili this week, what
Speaker 1: I take from that game is try to improve on
Speaker 1: the things I did wrong or not up to my standards,
Speaker 1: and then just prepare to be the best I can
Speaker 1: this week. You know, this is a question that I
Speaker 1: love to ask every player that we have on, But
Speaker 1: do you tend to pick at yourself? Max? Are you
Speaker 1: somebody that really you move yourself onto the magnifying glass,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to talk about, you know, your successes.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about your minuses. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about those things that man, every player goes out
Speaker 1: and experiences gets a negative of course when he's being greated.
Speaker 1: Do you focus? Do you have a tendency of focusing
Speaker 1: on the things you need to fix? You know? I
Speaker 1: think after the season and the off seasons win, it's
Speaker 1: a good time to look back and reflect on the
Speaker 1: good games and the bad games, and that's when you
Speaker 1: can really enjoy the good moments that you had. But
Speaker 1: for me, right now, it's a brand new week, and
Speaker 1: everything that happened in the last two games you got
Speaker 1: to forget about. You got to put them out of
Speaker 1: your head, and you gotta get your mindset for the
Speaker 1: next game. Because it's the NFL. Every week, something new
Speaker 1: can happen. It's a new team every week, it's new defenses.
Speaker 1: And then if you don't put the time in and
Speaker 1: the work in and forget about your success and failures
Speaker 1: in the past, you'll let it be prepared for the
Speaker 1: next week. All right. If MAXI Willians won't talk about
Speaker 1: Max Williams, then we'll ask Cliff Kingsbury about his tight end,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened earlier this week. Here's the
Speaker 1: head coach. They've played a bunch of two show defense,
Speaker 1: and we knew that he'd have a chance to work
Speaker 1: down the teams and across the middle of sum and
Speaker 1: he had a really nice game. The deflection that he
Speaker 1: caught when we were really stagging on offense, I think
Speaker 1: really woke us up and got us go on and
Speaker 1: that was a huge playing the ball game, all right,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury on the why and the how and can
Speaker 1: you tell us Max? I mean, when a tight end
Speaker 1: is effective in the passing game in a Cardinals game,
Speaker 1: is it usually down the seams? And you have a
Speaker 1: sense when you're game planning during the week, Oh okay,
Speaker 1: these are a few coverages, and this is a sort
Speaker 1: of team where a tight end really could be a
Speaker 1: big factor in the passing game. You know. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of that goes down to credit to the
Speaker 1: Cliff and the coaches, because ultimately they're the ones that
Speaker 1: are going to make the game plan, and our job
Speaker 1: is to go out there and execute the game plan.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's more get the game plan, get
Speaker 1: what we're going to want and then apply it to
Speaker 1: the defense that we know we're gonna be playing against.
Speaker 1: So i'd say each and every week it's more trying
Speaker 1: to apply what our coaches want us to run against,
Speaker 1: what defenses we're going to be playing. Max, do you
Speaker 1: feel that you're taking on more of a leadership role
Speaker 1: inside that locker room? You know, I always try for that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm in my seventh year now, and I know there's
Speaker 1: guys older on the team, But I think in our
Speaker 1: actual locker room right now, there's so many guys that
Speaker 1: are leader of our team that aren't per se our captains.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's guys like Christian Kirk, Chase, all those
Speaker 1: guys that do every little detail, push every single person.
Speaker 1: So really, I would say there's so many leaders in
Speaker 1: our locker room. We all try to elevate each other.
Speaker 1: Max Williams Our guest Cardinals tight End and the Big
Speaker 1: Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert It's all
Speaker 1: about you. You know I'm gonna ask you a question
Speaker 1: aj Green was asked earlier today. The question was along
Speaker 1: the lines of look what d Hop and Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: and now Rondale Moore, there's so many other receivers, you're
Speaker 1: probably getting less attention than ever, especially as years in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: whereas in number one and getting double teamed all the time.
Speaker 1: How about you as a tight end, just the tight
Speaker 1: end in this offense with all the receiving weapons, I mean,
Speaker 1: that position could be a consistent target. It might be
Speaker 1: an afterthought, but but for Kyler, considering you know, all
Speaker 1: these receivers are gonna beginning all that attention, it could
Speaker 1: be really effective, don't you think. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: agree percent with that. I think with all the weapons
Speaker 1: that we have on offense and all our receivers that
Speaker 1: they have to worry about, including our running back room,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's opportunities for tight ends especially
Speaker 1: but all the other receivers across the board, because teams
Speaker 1: don't have enough guys to cover all our receivers, so
Speaker 1: someone's always going to be open. And I think that's
Speaker 1: a luxury that we're going to try to keep going
Speaker 1: forward and building on it to try to become an
Speaker 1: offense that we want to be. Max. I think you
Speaker 1: are so integral to the success of this offense because
Speaker 1: I think especially an eleven personnel one back, one tight end,
Speaker 1: three wide receivers. I think the run pass ratio has
Speaker 1: really evened out a little bit, and you are really
Speaker 1: keyed to that because I think you're an excellent blocker,
Speaker 1: especially at the point of attack. How how much pride
Speaker 1: do you take in that, Max, because I don't think
Speaker 1: you could run the same offense without a guy that
Speaker 1: could come off the ball and be physical like you are.
Speaker 1: You know, I think allow of that's credit to my
Speaker 1: tight end coach here, Steve Hyden, because when I got here,
Speaker 1: I think I was half the player that he's turned
Speaker 1: me into. I give all the credit in the world
Speaker 1: to him in my run blocking and the technique I use.
Speaker 1: And I take a lot of pride in that now
Speaker 1: because up until obviously both this year, I haven't guys
Speaker 1: many pass catches, and I turned more into a blocking
Speaker 1: tight end after getting her in Baltimore getting here, So
Speaker 1: really I took pride in that because I knew that
Speaker 1: was my chance to make a difference for our team.
Speaker 1: So really, that's what I strive for. The fact your
Speaker 1: dad spent a decade in the NFL as an offensive alignment,
Speaker 1: you know how, I mean, you gotta take pride in that, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's in your family DNA. I mean, I
Speaker 1: try to say it's in my family in DNA to
Speaker 1: be a snapper because my dad did field goals. So
Speaker 1: I really take the heart that I should have been
Speaker 1: a long snapper if I'm really gonna follow my dad's footsteps.
Speaker 1: But no, it's it's it's great having him obviously for
Speaker 1: him playing so long being an old lineman. Well, I
Speaker 1: especially when I was really getting becoming a tight end
Speaker 1: in college and all that, it's great to have him
Speaker 1: in my corner just helping with the little things. So
Speaker 1: I'll it's I'm so close to my dad. It's it's
Speaker 1: unbelievable have him in my corner. And I love having
Speaker 1: him here for every game. You know what is so
Speaker 1: cool as while Max is watching you play, because you've
Speaker 1: got the little pitter patter feed. Has anyone ever told
Speaker 1: you this? Of course they've told you this, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not a long strider, are you wrong? There's there's
Speaker 1: no long stride, hey, hey, short fitter pattern long stride.
Speaker 1: As long as I get mine going quick enough, I'll
Speaker 1: cover enough ground. But now what's great about that? Max's
Speaker 1: You've always got your feet up underneath you. It's one
Speaker 1: of the things that I absolutely love, and it's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I think you're always in a
Speaker 1: hitting position with those feet underneath you. I think it's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's just been something my whole life.
Speaker 1: I've had a short stride, So it helps me in
Speaker 1: some things and it hurts me some others. Is that
Speaker 1: what Larry was giving you a hard time about on
Speaker 1: the sideline? Was the last season, the season before you
Speaker 1: had the long catch and run in the score that was?
Speaker 1: That was a nineteen. That's not even fair. Larry's getting
Speaker 1: you all that crap because I wasn't running that fast.
Speaker 1: That was the game. I hurt my ankle that you Yeah,
Speaker 1: So he's over here making fun of me to the
Speaker 1: public and everything. In the locker room, he's laughing about
Speaker 1: it because he knew that something about it. Hey, Matt,
Speaker 1: you haven't heard from lettery have you? I mean, I
Speaker 1: haven't heard anything what we're talking to. Come on, you're
Speaker 1: gonna break some news unfits. Oh I wish I could
Speaker 1: break some news. Yeah, far as I know, he's enjoying
Speaker 1: the golf Man expected the Rioter Cup this weekend. I
Speaker 1: bet he's going to enjoy that. Boy, you know him too, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: check check your phone. He probably just texted you a
Speaker 1: video clip at him teen off in Hawaii. That's that's
Speaker 1: what he's doing with all the receivers. So that's h
Speaker 1: you know. But look, that was the most receiving yards
Speaker 1: by a Cardinals tight end since Rob A Walt. Wow?
Speaker 1: I mean, will former team, did you ever fight Rob
Speaker 1: A Walt? Will If I always have to ask him
Speaker 1: this Max, any of his former teammates, I have to
Speaker 1: ask him if he actually fought he fought Rob A Walt? Max,
Speaker 1: It was a different error in the National Football A right,
Speaker 1: you fought everybody. You probably you probably fought Max's dad
Speaker 1: because he played in the same era. For all we know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what a comment on that. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I did not fight Rob A Walt. By the way,
Speaker 1: your dad comes to every game, did I hear you
Speaker 1: say that? Max? Yeah, my my mom and dad actually
Speaker 1: gonna make it to every game? Well is that just really?
Speaker 1: So they'll be in jacksonph just home games, so they're
Speaker 1: gonna be in Jacksonville. Nope, Jacksonville, I think Actually Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I think it's my mom, my dad, and my grandma.
Speaker 1: My one hunt are going down to the game. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: If I have an unbelievable support system from everyone from
Speaker 1: my wife's supporting me, to my parents, my brother and
Speaker 1: my my sisters, my brother in law, to my entire
Speaker 1: extended family. It's crazy how many people I have in
Speaker 1: my corner. And it's it's really a blessing. It's a
Speaker 1: football family, right, there's no joke. I mean, three generations worth.
Speaker 1: Your grandfather is in the College Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: if I saw correctly right back. You know, for me,
Speaker 1: I actually never met my dad's dad, my grandfather. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just looking at them. I know I
Speaker 1: would have to ask my dad. I know, I know
Speaker 1: he did a lot of Notre Dame, so a lot
Speaker 1: of his overall stuff, though I'd be more of discussion
Speaker 1: my dad. I would have to ask the Well, that
Speaker 1: shows how humble you are because he was selected number
Speaker 1: two overall in the nineteen fifty one draft by the Bears,
Speaker 1: and he was an All American quarterback at Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: How about that. We continue with Cardinals tight end Mac
Speaker 1: Williams in a big red rage presented by Santan Ford
Speaker 1: in Gilbert second and nine. I'm the twelve Murray in
Speaker 1: an empty set as the football and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a quarterback round up the middle at the ten, at
Speaker 1: the five, Murray dies for the end zone and he's
Speaker 1: in for a touchdown. Kyler Murray makes him pay with
Speaker 1: a twelve yard run and then an unusual touchdown celebration. Now,
Speaker 1: he was already on the ground, but did you see
Speaker 1: he kind of did like the yoga pose with his
Speaker 1: legs crossing his fingers in the air touchdown celebration. Was
Speaker 1: that just a yoga pose? I was just starting on
Speaker 1: those guys. I was like, I've never watched Star Wars before,
Speaker 1: so I don't I didn't, you know. I got to
Speaker 1: my phone, I see people talking about baby Yoda. I
Speaker 1: had no clue what that was. You know, I wasn't
Speaker 1: intending to do that because of that, But yeah, I've
Speaker 1: never watched Star Wars before, so I don't know. There's
Speaker 1: your NFC Offensive Player of the Week. If we had
Speaker 1: a lie detector on, do you think it would have
Speaker 1: gone off? I'm not you know, Wolf, you're a huge
Speaker 1: Star Wars guy. When the Mandalorian came out he kept
Speaker 1: inviting me over for family movie. Now, you know, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's plausible or not. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: a young guy. Do you know what I will say, Paul,
Speaker 1: I'd be Hans of course, and you'd be an eat
Speaker 1: walk not much. I am willing, Okay, all right, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ignore that. And I get to Max Williams our guest,
Speaker 1: what do you think the buy in was in the
Speaker 1: locker room? And meaning did the guys buy the fact
Speaker 1: that Kyler's never seen Star Wars before? Because Cliff Kingsberry
Speaker 1: Max was a little offended by that said he was
Speaker 1: a huge Luke Skywalker guy growing up, and he didn't
Speaker 1: know how to take that. You know, For me, my
Speaker 1: bet would be he's probably not lying. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: never no okay one not to tell the truth. So
Speaker 1: and he's a big video game guy, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's really into movies. I've never really even
Speaker 1: heard him talk about movies. First off, from me, he
Speaker 1: says he hasn't seen it. I'm gonna say he hasn't.
Speaker 1: So Max, what about you? I mean, are you a
Speaker 1: Star Wars guy? Are you a Marvel guy? Are you
Speaker 1: you know I'm a huge movie gout all those movies.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge movie guy. Wow. I mean, like, what
Speaker 1: kind what, what kind of genre of a movie? Like
Speaker 1: anything but something scary. I'm I'll open a man, I
Speaker 1: don't like scary movies. They're scary. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: That that's not enjoyable to me to go to. You
Speaker 1: know the dude, like, I don't like to be scared.
Speaker 1: Why do I need to watch a movie that's scary?
Speaker 1: What do you like a thriller? You like a good
Speaker 1: action thriller or something like that, right, Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about like that paranormal activity. Yeah. Oh yeah, right
Speaker 1: now I'm with you on that stuff where demons are
Speaker 1: coming back? Yeah, next life. Well, I have a specific
Speaker 1: movie question for you, but first let's hear her from
Speaker 1: the head coach. Here's the comment when you asked about
Speaker 1: Kyler saying he's never seen Star Wars. Pretty heartbroken that
Speaker 1: Kyler's never seen Star Wars because from about age four
Speaker 1: to nine, I wanted nothing more in life than to
Speaker 1: be Luke Skywalker. So I think he could learn something
Speaker 1: from from that trilogy, if you will, and its coaches
Speaker 1: TV show Wolf we confirmed there. Yeah, he is offended
Speaker 1: a little bit a little bit by that, so he's
Speaker 1: gonna move on. But did we not hear during training
Speaker 1: camp Max that Ricky Bobby was going to be part
Speaker 1: of movie night for the tight End room, in particular
Speaker 1: for one Bernhard Psychovits. That started with me and Ian
Speaker 1: when Ian was still with us. We're a big move
Speaker 1: both of us are big movie guys. We're always in
Speaker 1: the training room or like the meeting room, we're always
Speaker 1: saying movie quotes. And we kept doing Ricky Bobby and
Speaker 1: Tell Dagan night ones for Psycho because like the way
Speaker 1: he learned English is so proper, so all of our
Speaker 1: slang and stuff, he just has no idea, like he's
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. So we're trying to teach
Speaker 1: him just funny slang things. And so we made him
Speaker 1: have a little movie report, then watch the movie, and
Speaker 1: then we gave him some good questions about it. So
Speaker 1: does he walk around now and say shake and bake? No,
Speaker 1: But if we ask him like, what's I sing you
Speaker 1: moved by Ricky Bobby, You'll know it's chicken bake? Okay,
Speaker 1: So Max, go ahead and look at the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: What are you seeing on tape when you watch these
Speaker 1: guys play defensively, you know, I think it's a team
Speaker 1: that they're they're putting it together, the whole team in general.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you do watch every game from
Speaker 1: preseason one to where they played last week. I think
Speaker 1: that defense is playing really good football and I think
Speaker 1: they're one of the strong parts of their team. So
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna have our work cut out for us,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have to go out there and execute
Speaker 1: on every single play. Yeah, the defense wasn't really why
Speaker 1: they lost the game to Denver. They had three sacks
Speaker 1: of Teddy Bridgewater, who's a mobile quarterback. They held Denver
Speaker 1: two of eleven on third down. They held Denver's rushing
Speaker 1: game three point two yards carry. How aggressive are they?
Speaker 1: Will they bring numbers? Do you guys have to worry
Speaker 1: about them dialing it up? You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: it's one of those I don't want to say too much,
Speaker 1: but we're expecting, you know, it's games still what three
Speaker 1: days away, But they're definitely a defense. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: down there, they're gonna get dirty, and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: things that are going to get exotic, so we have
Speaker 1: to be ready for all sorts of their pressures that
Speaker 1: they bring. You know what, I think that's probably going
Speaker 1: to be the way that it's going to go the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. I think, Max, you're going to
Speaker 1: a lot of poking. I think you're going to see
Speaker 1: a lot of prodding trying to figure out how teams
Speaker 1: are going to attack you. Right now, I would just,
Speaker 1: based on the first two games, I would try to
Speaker 1: do everything that I possibly could to keep Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: in the pocket. I mean, and you know that it's
Speaker 1: a lot easier said than done, but man, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a full on mush rush. Just try to do
Speaker 1: everything you can to keep him in the pocket and
Speaker 1: then play zone behind it, because those just watching the
Speaker 1: tape through the first two games, that's where he's thrown
Speaker 1: his interceptions, and maybe defensive coordinators are going to continue
Speaker 1: to poke and prod by doing that. What do you
Speaker 1: say to that, you know, I'd say if you would
Speaker 1: ask k One about those interceptions, that would be him
Speaker 1: his answer for me, because in my opinion, some of
Speaker 1: those things, like if on the second pick, if you
Speaker 1: watch the film, you actually see that k Ones actually
Speaker 1: getting hit as he's throwing it. And so I can't
Speaker 1: comment on that because I'm not a quarterback, so I
Speaker 1: really don't know what goes through his head and how
Speaker 1: they make those decisions. You know. That's that's why they're
Speaker 1: k one. That's the quarterback roupose. I can't really say
Speaker 1: too much about that. But all I can say abo
Speaker 1: okay one is I think I think he's so dangerous
Speaker 1: no matter where he is, and I think he makes
Speaker 1: all those plays in the pocket, even though treads the
Speaker 1: Old Line like it's almost a good thing if he's
Speaker 1: in the pocket, because that means Old Line is playing unbelievable. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: remember we asked, in fact, you asked the head coach,
Speaker 1: Cliff kingsburyan his TV show Wolf this week about the
Speaker 1: mush rush, and he said, well, if they choose to
Speaker 1: do that, great because that gives Kyler more time and
Speaker 1: I'm confident he can go through his reads and we
Speaker 1: have enough weapons he's going to find someone open. So
Speaker 1: that was an interesting answer to that question. But you
Speaker 1: know a lot it's not just that, Poli though, it
Speaker 1: really is. I mean, this is what they did to
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson right chair number two, year number three, Max.
Speaker 1: They tried to keep Russell Wilson in the pocket at
Speaker 1: all costs and forced him to go ahead and throw
Speaker 1: the ball from the pocket and beat them from the pocket.
Speaker 1: I think that's what defensive coordinators are going to do
Speaker 1: to you, guys, Max, going forward to end, they might
Speaker 1: just get the Russell Wilson effect with K One going
Speaker 1: out and beating him, because he's certainly capable of doing that,
Speaker 1: you know. I think with that, I think it's that's
Speaker 1: that's coaches. That's why the coaches come up to the
Speaker 1: game plans. If guys are going to plays a certain
Speaker 1: way because they're worried about K One getting outside of
Speaker 1: the pocket, use these legs, well, then we just gotta
Speaker 1: run the ball better, or we got getting the playoffs
Speaker 1: in game better. You know, there's there's answers to everything.
Speaker 1: So I think that's why we game plan. I think
Speaker 1: that's why we adapt to what teams do at halftime
Speaker 1: and we'll make adjustments on the sidelines. And I think
Speaker 1: he was going to a game with your game plan
Speaker 1: and however unfolds in the end, it all that matters.
Speaker 1: If you want to lose, well you are so you
Speaker 1: are such a veteran that it is such a good
Speaker 1: answer right there is well played by you by tight end.
Speaker 1: Max Williams our guest on the Big Red Race presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert. A lot has been made
Speaker 1: this week about the scramble drill, and Cliff Kingsbury said, yes,
Speaker 1: we do practice it. Kyler said, absolutely, we practice it.
Speaker 1: It's that second phase of a play can be one
Speaker 1: of the most effective aspects of any high powered offense.
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury said, they study in the offseason all the
Speaker 1: top offenses. They have that ability, and obviously Kyler has
Speaker 1: made some defenses pay. What does that mean for you
Speaker 1: as a receiving target if you're out on a route
Speaker 1: and he's on the run, what does that mean for you?
Speaker 1: You know, I think what it means to me and
Speaker 1: everyone else is that the play is never over with
Speaker 1: k One. I mean, you guys seen it for the
Speaker 1: first two games that Kyler makes on they plays with
Speaker 1: his legs to escape certain things or extend plays that
Speaker 1: Really the play has two parts at the whole beginning
Speaker 1: and then everything that happens when everything goes crazy and
Speaker 1: K One's making plays. So that is something you have
Speaker 1: to drill, and we do I would say twice a week,
Speaker 1: if not more, work on something like the scramble drill
Speaker 1: because so many plays are able to be made in
Speaker 1: that second half of the play. You know, do you
Speaker 1: feel like the onus has been on the offense, especially
Speaker 1: early in the season here as the defense kind of
Speaker 1: finds its way with all the young players that are
Speaker 1: actually playing on the defensive side of the ball, do
Speaker 1: you think you guys have the yoke of responsibility around
Speaker 1: you right now to go out and really put up
Speaker 1: some numbers, post some points as well carry this team
Speaker 1: early in the season, knowing you've got all those young
Speaker 1: guys on the defensive side of the ball. No, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say we feel there's a responsibilities because we know
Speaker 1: throughout the whole year there's gonna be times where the
Speaker 1: offense isn't performing and defense is gonna have to hold
Speaker 1: a team under fourteen points for us to win. And
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be times where defense is giving up
Speaker 1: some points because things aren't really following their way in
Speaker 1: the offense has to take responsibilities and people always tending
Speaker 1: to forget. I mean, how big and important special teams
Speaker 1: is that whole third phase of the game. I mean
Speaker 1: there's times where all three of our phases are gonna
Speaker 1: need to step up and really help carry the team
Speaker 1: to win that game. I think that comes down to
Speaker 1: just our whole model of we have to finish, and
Speaker 1: so I think everyone's taking responsibility and saying, hey, this
Speaker 1: is a game that we're going to have to do
Speaker 1: this to win. If you take that mentality in each
Speaker 1: and every week, you should be successful. How about the
Speaker 1: responsibility when it comes to come place and see And
Speaker 1: that was the word Kyler Murray used in training camp
Speaker 1: to describe the end of last season, sort of that
Speaker 1: eighteenth opponent on the cardinal schedule. And then Cliff Kingsbury said,
Speaker 1: after this last game, Yeah, we came out flat. So
Speaker 1: tell me about that. And if that's a risk you
Speaker 1: think going against a team that has lost seventeen games
Speaker 1: in a row, You know, I think. I think last
Speaker 1: week offense did come out flat. I mean compared to
Speaker 1: how we felt in Week one. I feel like in
Speaker 1: Week two we did come out a little flat, a
Speaker 1: little slow. You could say maybe it's because we were
Speaker 1: feeling good about the Tennessee game, or it just wasn't
Speaker 1: going our way. So I think going into this game
Speaker 1: this week, it's it's the next opponent, it's any getting Sunday.
Speaker 1: So really that's we're all stepping up as we haven't
Speaker 1: won a game yet this year, and they haven't played
Speaker 1: a game yet this year, and we have to win
Speaker 1: every battle weekend. That's the whole thing about it, right
Speaker 1: In the National Football League, even when you have a
Speaker 1: team like the Jacksonville Jaguars that are totally rebuilding, you
Speaker 1: just never know every guy on the field is capable
Speaker 1: of going out and playing. You've got to get yourself off, Max.
Speaker 1: This is this is about you guys getting yourself up
Speaker 1: and getting ready to play and going out and being
Speaker 1: a pro. And I think this locker room is loaded
Speaker 1: with guys like you who are pros. And that's the
Speaker 1: reason why I expect such good things. Max, we thoroughly
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I still see you need to walk up
Speaker 1: on Kyler and tell him, Hey, I was a heck
Speaker 1: of a running quarterback in high school. I think you
Speaker 1: still need to tell him that. Oh, you know what,
Speaker 1: whatever K one would want me to do, I'll tell
Speaker 1: whatever he wants to hear. As long as we're winning
Speaker 1: games and we're having fun. As long as you get
Speaker 1: seven catches and ninety four yards receiving, that's a double ding. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: thank you. I would not complain if that happened every game.
Speaker 1: That's right, Max, Thank you so much, buddy. You're the
Speaker 1: best man, and you still shouldn't for having guys. You
Speaker 1: still shouldn't have shaved the mustache, but that's another conversation.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it and look forward to seeing you on
Speaker 1: the flight tomorrow. It is a big red rage presented
Speaker 1: by santan Ford and Gilbert We are. Santan Ford go
Speaker 1: to throw murder in trouble, spins out of there to
Speaker 1: his left, being chased by two Vikings, and launches a deep,
Speaker 1: wide open near side of the forties bondown mar coop
Speaker 1: at the thirty, at the twenty, at the fifteen ten,
Speaker 1: five clucksdown, Tyler Murray, you are ridiculous, Murray Mattick seventy
Speaker 1: seven yard touchsdown pass. Ninety nine point nine percent of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks on the planet gets sacked. But not only
Speaker 1: does Kyra Murray not get sacked, he throws a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Nasty us Nasty does and we all know that Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is nasty. The stuff you see in dreams and
Speaker 1: in video games, but not in the NFL. WHOA, I
Speaker 1: got a huge reaction from the collective voice of the
Speaker 1: Ears on a Cardinals day pass. Ron Wolfley was on
Speaker 1: board with yours, truly, Paul Calvci wrapping up this edition
Speaker 1: the Big Red Rage presented by santan Ford and Gilbert
Speaker 1: and have had to rate the biggest reaction in that
Speaker 1: entire Vikings win on the Cardinals sideline. It had to
Speaker 1: have been that play. Well, what is it? What is
Speaker 1: it that elicits such reaction about that seventy seven yards
Speaker 1: strike from Kyler to Rondelle May. Yeah, you know what, Paul,
Speaker 1: I think all his talents are on display for everybody
Speaker 1: to see in a situation like that. We saw it
Speaker 1: certainly in the Hall Murray against the Buffalo Bills in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and I think you saw it right there
Speaker 1: again doing the whirly bird out of the pocket, rolling
Speaker 1: out to his left. Once again. You saw the athleticism,
Speaker 1: You saw the speed. Then you saw the armed talent
Speaker 1: as well, the way that he's running and throws the
Speaker 1: ball dead on the run, in the accuracy of his throws,
Speaker 1: all the physical displays everything is there for everybody to
Speaker 1: see his raw talent, and that I think is the
Speaker 1: reason why you get so moved when you watch Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray play Listen, Paul, It's not just what Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: is doing that has got the attention in the NFL,
Speaker 1: it's how he's doing it. He's define a lot of
Speaker 1: the logic and like on that play right there, you
Speaker 1: know you would think, okay, no, that plays over, He's
Speaker 1: going down noe. That is not the case. He's breaking
Speaker 1: rules in the league that have existed forever, basically, and
Speaker 1: now he has Rondale Moore yet another weapon who, by
Speaker 1: the way, leads all rookie receivers in receiving yards and
Speaker 1: his top five in the NFL in all purpose yards.
Speaker 1: Think about that. He is having an impact. A ken
Speaker 1: to another rookie receiver once upon a time and former
Speaker 1: host of The Big Red Rage, An Kwon Boldman, who
Speaker 1: was in the news because he is one of one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty two Modern era nominees announced for the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame class of two twenty two. I
Speaker 1: know how you feel about QA, and a lot of
Speaker 1: it has to do with the mentality in the manner
Speaker 1: in which he played football, and with that in mind,
Speaker 1: and with Jacksonville on the schedule. This is circa two
Speaker 1: thousand and five, and Kuan Bolden was miked up. Now
Speaker 1: remember he's a receiver, not a middle linebacker. Listened to
Speaker 1: him John with a dB No, you don't want to
Speaker 1: see me garbage is hey, yea, you don't want to
Speaker 1: see me. You don't want to see me. Put you
Speaker 1: on your back. You don't want to see this. You
Speaker 1: don't want to see this, your garbas you don't want
Speaker 1: to see this. Play boy, I'll put you on your
Speaker 1: back every play. That's what's so Oh you can't see
Speaker 1: me your garbage, dude, that's why you don't start your garbage.
Speaker 1: How you got a name on the back of the jersey.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry right there, Oh my goodness. That it's just
Speaker 1: that it is unbelievable a wide receiver. You just don't
Speaker 1: hear a wide receiver talking like he's playing mike linebacker.
Speaker 1: It's just goodness. That was my first year on the
Speaker 1: sideline and you talk about being wide eyed. I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this what it's really like down here? When even
Speaker 1: the receivers sound like this, Oh my goodness, are you serious? Paul.
Speaker 1: I mean that he was your first year and he
Speaker 1: was my first year, and I witnessed that, and I
Speaker 1: heard that firsthand. I'm like, I need my blankie. I was.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. So ankuon Bolt all the best of
Speaker 1: your bid to make the Hall of Fame. We'll see
Speaker 1: how that turns out. And we bring it up every
Speaker 1: time the Cardinals play Jacksonville, which isn't very often, but
Speaker 1: Wolf we talked a little bit about Jacksonville's defense. Obviously
Speaker 1: they're more known for the offense because of the number
Speaker 1: one pick, Trevor Lawrence, and then the head coach Urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: who's already apologized to the fans after the second loss
Speaker 1: of the season, and people are trying to tell them,
Speaker 1: pump the brakes. You gotta okay, we know you won
Speaker 1: three national championships, but this is the way it goes
Speaker 1: in the NFL when you take over a one in
Speaker 1: fifteen teams. So when you look at Jacksonville's offense, give
Speaker 1: us a quick scutter report. You know, the Jaguars constantly
Speaker 1: put Trevor Lawrence on the move. They like to move
Speaker 1: them out of the pocket, whether it's a bootleg, to
Speaker 1: the strength of the formation or a waggle to the
Speaker 1: weak side of the formation. They like to go ahead
Speaker 1: and run down situation, Paulie. They'll use that athleticism that
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence has them put them on the move. They
Speaker 1: love play action as well. They'll use the RPOs. They
Speaker 1: do that very very well. I also have seen them
Speaker 1: put Trevor Lawrence under center and run twenty two in
Speaker 1: twenty three double the power without the poll Alah, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady of course, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and ba
Speaker 1: what he does. They love to use the play action
Speaker 1: that comes off of that. They'll put him under center
Speaker 1: a lot. As a matter of fact, that he's in
Speaker 1: the gun, I would say the majority of the time.
Speaker 1: But it's really really close in regard to them putting
Speaker 1: him under center a lot. I think they're trying to
Speaker 1: grow and expand that part of not only Trevor Lawrence's repertoire,
Speaker 1: but also Urban Myers. Yeah, Trevor Lawrence has five picks,
Speaker 1: four touchdown passes through two games. It's not a very
Speaker 1: balanced offense. They really haven't tried to run it. Even
Speaker 1: though James Robinson was the fifth leading rusher in the
Speaker 1: NFL a year ago. He hasn't gotten a lot of carries.
Speaker 1: I know they've gotten down early. They had that season
Speaker 1: opening loss at Houston, which was just rife with errors,
Speaker 1: and the media reports use words like debacle and dysfunctional
Speaker 1: to describe that Jaguar's coming out and that Houston loss.
Speaker 1: They appear to be much more crisp aginst the Broncos.
Speaker 1: They still lost twenty three thirteen. They went down the
Speaker 1: field on their first drive and scored, and then after
Speaker 1: that there was only one hundred and six yards of
Speaker 1: total offense. After that opening drive they ended up in
Speaker 1: the end zone. So you know what concerns you or
Speaker 1: where do you have the most fear in this Jacksonville matchup?
Speaker 1: Week three on the road, You know, Polly, it's just
Speaker 1: the fact that it's Jacksonville on the road. And I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say this. You know the way I feel.
Speaker 1: I respect every opponent, every player in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: but this game is truly about Kyler Murray and the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals taking care of business themselves going on the road. Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't mean any disrespect whatsoever, but when you look
Speaker 1: at the secondary for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Polly. That cornerback
Speaker 1: room is just devastated. Polly. It is a mess right now.
Speaker 1: And when you think of the first week of the season,
Speaker 1: the Titans secondary was a mess. The onus was on
Speaker 1: the Cardinals in their passing attack, in particular, to go
Speaker 1: out and throw the ball. That's exactly what they did.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings, their secondary isn't great either. You know what,
Speaker 1: the onus was on the offense to go out and
Speaker 1: score points. That's what they did. They scored thirty four
Speaker 1: points in that game. I think the exact same thing
Speaker 1: is in place for this game right here. The Jaguars
Speaker 1: are number twenty seven and passing yards per game allowed.
Speaker 1: In number twenty seven and passing yards per play allowed.
Speaker 1: You put those two things together, that in the fact
Speaker 1: they're not great at getting to the quarterback, and now
Speaker 1: you've got a team that is struggling against the pass. Paul,
Speaker 1: this is a franchise quarterback game where Kyler Murray will
Speaker 1: take on that yoke of being a franchise quarterback, take
Speaker 1: the spear, the tip of the spear, and then attack
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars through the air and get his team
Speaker 1: to play well and win the game. You know, there
Speaker 1: are three things that concern me coming out of that
Speaker 1: game against the Vikings. One that they effectively neutralized Chandler
Speaker 1: Jones yet three quarterback pressures. He was not a factor
Speaker 1: in the game, certainly not like week one. Number two
Speaker 1: would be gap integrity or lack thereof, and Vance Joseph
Speaker 1: talked about that. And then number three, they found a
Speaker 1: way to take de hop out of the game after
Speaker 1: the first quarter. You know, those are three lasting impressions
Speaker 1: from that game if you're looking to fix things after
Speaker 1: a victory, that stand out to me coming off Week two. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I think honestly a lot of teams are gonna try
Speaker 1: to do that. They're gonna high low DeAndre Hopkins, right,
Speaker 1: They're gonna put somebody on him down low. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have somebody over the top of them, high low them.
Speaker 1: They're gonna play in and out, which is a bracket
Speaker 1: on him. Rarely are they going to leave him alone.
Speaker 1: And I honestly think that at some point in time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you might want to force some balls into him because
Speaker 1: he's so good in terms of catching fifty fifty balls.
Speaker 1: But Paul, you've got to be so careful. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're developing Kyler Murray. Look at the way he's spreading
Speaker 1: the ball. Look at how many guys have gotten involved
Speaker 1: in this offense through the first two weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: You want him to throw the ball to the open
Speaker 1: guy and not try to force everything into it. And
Speaker 1: once you beat a defense and beat a defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: by doing that, they'll take some chances on freeing up
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins because they know they can get beat elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And that's when you go back to him. Well, and
Speaker 1: that's what Drew stan told us this week on the
Speaker 1: Red Sea Report, that the second interception down field, that
Speaker 1: yes he's got ridiculous armtown and yes he might have
Speaker 1: been hit, but that is a risky throw because you're
Speaker 1: forcing that one and that's when you get the interceptions.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, that's a valid point, no doubt. Hey
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