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Speaker 1: So let's see the Arizona Cardinals went from New Year's
Speaker 1: Day and New Year's resolutions to January second Game Day,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and it was all about implementing those
Speaker 1: New Year's resolutions. Something you've yet to do. Round wolf Ley,
Speaker 1: I don't shake my fist at Moon, Sun and sky. Paul,
Speaker 1: let's run down the checklist of Cardinals new year's resolutions
Speaker 1: and how they fared on game day January second, let's
Speaker 1: see rush defense check. Dallas had its lowest output of
Speaker 1: the season forty five poultry rushing yards and their lowest
Speaker 1: yards per carry all year two point six. Zeke Elliott's
Speaker 1: middle name was Jack as in squad That was pretty
Speaker 1: good both Turnover free football was on the New Year's
Speaker 1: resolutions list. Wolf, Yeah, check that one plus one key
Speaker 1: takeaway on d right, Yes, okay, let's run the ball, wolf, No,
Speaker 1: we don't want to hear your run rate percentage run ratio.
Speaker 1: Run the ball thirty two times for a buck twenty
Speaker 1: seven four yards of carry. By the way, the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals this year, did you know when they run the
Speaker 1: ball thirty times or more? Yes? They are nine and
Speaker 1: oh yes I knew that, Polly right there? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: they checked a lot of boxes ball. Is that your point? Yes,
Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson check they're nine and two and Rodney and
Speaker 1: then and then talking about the big red rage presented
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Speaker 1: Was there not another New Year's resolution to find another
Speaker 1: outside receiving option minus d hop and double check for
Speaker 1: two touchdown receptions by our special guest. Tonight, Antoine Wesley
Speaker 1: will join us. Wolf, how about that? They cannot? Honestly, Polly,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to talk to Antoine Wesley and get
Speaker 1: his take as to what he believed the best catch,
Speaker 1: the best touchdown catch that he actually had, right because
Speaker 1: you can argue that one right there? Was it the
Speaker 1: tip ball? Or was it? Was it the fade and
Speaker 1: high pointing the fade right there? Most people would say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's it's the fade? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: The athleticism, the frame, all that goodness on display for
Speaker 1: all to see. For me, it was really the tip ball.
Speaker 1: But I can't wait to actually ask Antoine what he
Speaker 1: thinks was the best You know, I'm having a Ron
Speaker 1: Wolfley moment as my short term memory has failed me
Speaker 1: here Wolf, because he was he was asked that question,
Speaker 1: and I believe he agreed with you it was the
Speaker 1: tip touchdown pass. But I honestly don't remember and recollect.
Speaker 1: So yes, we're going to get an answer to that question.
Speaker 1: That'd be awesome right there, Bully. I'd be shocked, honestly
Speaker 1: if he did say the tip But because he's a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and we all know wide receiver. Oh I
Speaker 1: love it the fade, throw it up, Let me climb
Speaker 1: the ladder all high pointed and come down with the
Speaker 1: ball as he did. All right, So the Cardinals and
Speaker 1: the three game skid, they get the big dub in
Speaker 1: big d right Cardinals fans behind the bench in Dallas, Shotton,
Speaker 1: how about damn Cardinals. So that was good stuff at
Speaker 1: the very end, twenty five twenty two Cardinals win, And
Speaker 1: it's it's amazing how the formula really is. No turnovers,
Speaker 1: don't kill yourself with penalties. Let the other team wind
Speaker 1: about the flags like Dallas has been doing ever since
Speaker 1: that game. Oh my goodness. You know you run the ball,
Speaker 1: you stop the run. Funny how it all coalesces into
Speaker 1: a win. A fact, here's Corey Peters just talking about
Speaker 1: how the Cardinals took a step forward with the mindset.
Speaker 1: We definitely have taken a step forward as far as
Speaker 1: our focus is and our walk throughs and our practices
Speaker 1: and our meetings. And this team has won a lot
Speaker 1: of games. You know, we're not gonna change the way
Speaker 1: what we think about our say as we know we're
Speaker 1: capable of beating anybody, but we just have to execute
Speaker 1: at a high level. And there he was after the
Speaker 1: game in Dallas. So well, if your big takeaway, how
Speaker 1: much better do you feel about this team going into
Speaker 1: the postseason. I'm sorry, BALI really to read so much
Speaker 1: into one game, but I think it was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I think it was huge as a matter of fact
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals to win that game in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Would you say Dallas is a formidable team, Paul? Would
Speaker 1: you say they are? There's no doubt, even though you
Speaker 1: can look at their schedule and say, okay, who if
Speaker 1: they really beat that's kind of winning record to begin
Speaker 1: I understand all of that, but I will tell you
Speaker 1: right now, they had eleven wins on the season. That
Speaker 1: says this is a good football team, that being the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, especially when they play at Jara World, Paul,
Speaker 1: because you know they played better man their offenses fire
Speaker 1: veritable fire when you play at Jarland and they actually
Speaker 1: scored twenty two points in this game because your defense
Speaker 1: went out and bawled out. The defense won a game
Speaker 1: in my opinion for the Arizona Cardinals in a gross
Speaker 1: simplification of the truth, they won a game for the
Speaker 1: Cardinals by going out and keeping the Dallas Cowboys one
Speaker 1: of the best offenses statistically, you could say, the best
Speaker 1: offense in the National Football League, highest scoring offense at home.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they kept him to twenty
Speaker 1: two points when they typically score thirty eight. Man, they
Speaker 1: bawled out, and they did it without two of their
Speaker 1: top three edge rushers. Right, they did it without two
Speaker 1: of their top three corners. So there are a lot
Speaker 1: of guys, a lot of different names, a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in different places, and they came through. And you
Speaker 1: know how about the offensive line. Speaking of at Kelvin
Speaker 1: Beacham playing left tackle for the first time in three years,
Speaker 1: I'd love the postgame video from the locker room where
Speaker 1: they're giving out the game balls and everyone's fired up,
Speaker 1: and then they get around to Kelvin Beacham getting in
Speaker 1: a game ball for not giving up a sack at
Speaker 1: left tackle, and he's on one knee and he could
Speaker 1: barely even get up and acknowledge he just got a
Speaker 1: game ball because he's so gassed after playing four quarters
Speaker 1: at left tackle. Well, the guy next to him, Justin Peer,
Speaker 1: was talking to the media today and guess what when
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's under center against Seattle on Sunday, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the first time that he has played with the
Speaker 1: entire starting offensive line, that entire lineup. Here's justin pee
Speaker 1: on those guys getting healthy, getting all of us healthy.
Speaker 1: There's been spurts where Ronnie went down, There's I was
Speaker 1: out for a little bit, Beacham was out for a
Speaker 1: little bit. DJ Humphreys being out last week. Getting all
Speaker 1: these guys healthy going into the playoffs is the perfect timing.
Speaker 1: I think this is definitely something that is ideal for
Speaker 1: this offense and his offensive line, and we're looking forward to,
Speaker 1: you know, continue to get better and better as a
Speaker 1: group as we roll into the playoffs. And you can't
Speaker 1: minimize the presence of Rodney Hudson, just the way guys
Speaker 1: talk about him, the respect, the reverence for Rodney Hudson
Speaker 1: and what he does for everyone, And what if we
Speaker 1: had talked about it going into the game, Kyler just
Speaker 1: looks more settled and more comfortable. And of course there's
Speaker 1: a correlation, right if you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: penetration immediately coming through the A gaps, if you're feeling
Speaker 1: that much better and he's helping you read the defense,
Speaker 1: and he's making checks and calls everything. You know, it's
Speaker 1: all about making sure your quarterback is seeing the field.
Speaker 1: And when Rodney Hudson is out there, just Kyler's, Kyler's
Speaker 1: performance seems to just rise. Accordingly Pauli, the first step
Speaker 1: execution is going out there and actually knowing what to do.
Speaker 1: That is the first step of execution. You have to
Speaker 1: know what it is that you're doing. And Rodney Hudson
Speaker 1: rarely makes any kind of mistakes when it comes to
Speaker 1: going out on the football field and trying to communicate
Speaker 1: blocking schemes and protection schemes to his teammates. He does
Speaker 1: an incredible job of that. Now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he helps Kyler Murray as well in certain looks, certain
Speaker 1: blitz looks or pressure looks on third and obvious paths situation.
Speaker 1: He does a great job communicating that execution starts with
Speaker 1: knowing what to do. Before you can actually do it.
Speaker 1: You gotta know what to do, and that's where Rodney
Speaker 1: Hudson is so huge. And then when you talk about
Speaker 1: his ability as a football player to actually execute his job,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, he's as good as it gets. What
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsberry say about Ronnie Hudson on his TV show
Speaker 1: Game Plan, he said he's rarely wrong, so everyone has
Speaker 1: that trust and Rodney Hudson what he's seen, what he's calling,
Speaker 1: and honestly, well, if we got into this earlier this week,
Speaker 1: you know, if you told me, okay, if you are
Speaker 1: basing your first round playoff game just strictly on the opponent,
Speaker 1: I would take the Cowboys all over again, because I
Speaker 1: firmly think Cliff Kingsbury and Vance Joseph we're a step
Speaker 1: ahead of Mike McCarthy and company. If you're telling he
Speaker 1: you're gonna see Sean McVay, And what does Sean McVay
Speaker 1: have in storing The last time he saw the Rams,
Speaker 1: I saw Cooper Cup wide open, and I saw receivers
Speaker 1: wide open all over the field. If you're talking about
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and what he might have in store for
Speaker 1: a playoff game, Okay, that's a little bit unsettling, right,
Speaker 1: But based on Vance Joseph disguising all those looks and
Speaker 1: even Dak Prescott saying after the game they did a
Speaker 1: good job at disguising, just seemed like the Cardinals coaching
Speaker 1: staff and game plan was a step ahead of the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe, Paulie, maybe you're right on that one, But
Speaker 1: what's it going to be in another rematch in two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's a very very talented football team the Arizona Cardinals
Speaker 1: beat in their place. I want the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers. And the reason why I want the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers for a third time is because that means
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals aren't playing at home, and that means
Speaker 1: they went ahead and won their game against the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks and won their division, the NFC West. That to me, Polly,
Speaker 1: I would love that. I would love for the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I'm getting greedy, paul I, honestly am I want the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals to win the NFC West. Now that means,
Speaker 1: of course, the forty nine Ers beat the Los Angeles Rams,
Speaker 1: but man, I love that. I'll take that all day
Speaker 1: in run, especially playing the forty nine Ers once again.
Speaker 1: You already beat them twice and now the odds aren't
Speaker 1: in your favor, but so what you're playing home, let's roll.
Speaker 1: Also means the Cardinals would have to do something they've
Speaker 1: never done against Russell Wilson a season sweep Hey the Day.
Speaker 1: PASH Podcast episode twenty three available now featuring Cardinals VP
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Speaker 1: at pash pods. Some great comments from a dubbed by Kyler,
Speaker 1: Murray's leadership, Kurt Warner and more. Ant Swan Wesley is
Speaker 1: next on The Big Red Rage presented by Santan Pord
Speaker 1: and Gilbert we All Santanford four. It's been gold for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Of the Cowboy one under center is Murray.
Speaker 1: Ward is the running back. He takes he boots to
Speaker 1: the left. Now he throws back across his body into
Speaker 1: the enddowe for a tondown. It's caught by Wesley. That
Speaker 1: was Kyler magic that time and the Cardinals with a
Speaker 1: huge touchdown here on fourth down, third and six of
Speaker 1: the nineteen Kyler takes the snap short set, blobs it
Speaker 1: deep near side of the one yard line. Oh want
Speaker 1: to catch ant Swan Wesley into the end zone for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. How did he pull that down? And how
Speaker 1: about the toss by Kyler Murray, a huge score for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Early in the third, Kyler Murray with a
Speaker 1: beam Antoine Wesley one on one on the outside. Let
Speaker 1: the Big Bad go off and bring it down thirt
Speaker 1: and six from the nineteen, preceded by fourth and goal
Speaker 1: from the one. Cliff Kingsbury said a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: wolf I was probably the only one in the building
Speaker 1: that knew he could really play. Talking about the offseason
Speaker 1: acquisition of Antoine Wesley, I'm very familiar with him, said
Speaker 1: the head coach. I watched him in college. Nobody could
Speaker 1: cover him. And now guess what the NFL knows, because
Speaker 1: if nothing else, that game was the national Game of
Speaker 1: the Week on Fox, and it got Mondo TV ratings.
Speaker 1: Say hello to our guest tonight on The Big Red Rage,
Speaker 1: presented by Santan Ford in Gilbert. Antoine Wesley joins us, Antoine,
Speaker 1: are we doing Hey, guys, I'm doing good. Are you
Speaker 1: guys doing really? We're doing great? Bad, Really appreciated, Antoine,
Speaker 1: your time this evening right here? Man, where do you
Speaker 1: start when you think of the Dallas Cowboys game? What
Speaker 1: is the first thought that you have? Oh? Man, um
Speaker 1: I got a lot of family members that love the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So the big game, you know, yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: all the press was. Okay, Kyler going back to Texas,
Speaker 1: Cliff going back to Texas, Kelvin Beecham, But wait a minute,
Speaker 1: you're a Texas guy, So what was it like for
Speaker 1: you to ball out in that stadium? Oh? Man, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. It feel it feel it felt like oh
Speaker 1: back at home. You know my college times when I
Speaker 1: was to tech Um we played there against the cow
Speaker 1: not a Cowboys, I'm sorry, uh the Bears, uh for
Speaker 1: for three years and yeah, man, we had a good time.
Speaker 1: We had a good time. So what did your family
Speaker 1: members do? I mean, here they are at Twine, they're
Speaker 1: they're cowboy fans by your own admittance, and they're cowboy fans.
Speaker 1: So what did they do? They put on a cardinal
Speaker 1: jersey or I had for a day. Oh yeah, they
Speaker 1: had to. They know better than they had it. They
Speaker 1: walk in with a cowboy. They've never gotten no more tickets. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: just just so everyone knows, that's not an automatic because
Speaker 1: both remember Bertrand Barry, the longtime host of The Big
Speaker 1: Red Ray. Hey, Houston guy, his dad, his own father
Speaker 1: would not give up is Houston gear. When the Cardinals
Speaker 1: played the Texans. He just he still was a Houston
Speaker 1: Texans fan. That was hilarious. He used to go at
Speaker 1: it about that. What was your phone like after the game?
Speaker 1: I mean it must have blowed up? Huh oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: they blew up a lot, a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of family members came out the will works. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just stay strong and you know, pray to God
Speaker 1: and you know everything everything was good. I'll just you know,
Speaker 1: more excited that I had the opportunity that God let me,
Speaker 1: you know, be able to do the stuff that I
Speaker 1: did out there for my teammates. And you know I
Speaker 1: would just you know, being a kid in the candy
Speaker 1: store just having a blast. That's the way to do it,
Speaker 1: right there, Antoine, no doubt A bought it. But I
Speaker 1: have to ask you this too. How many tickets? All right?
Speaker 1: I know what it was like to actually have to
Speaker 1: buy tickets for your family members. So how many? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I had about I had about twelve twelve tickets? Man.
Speaker 1: It was like Christmas, I'll ay it's you know, Christmas
Speaker 1: is your your birthday? Is everything? Yo? All right? So Wolf,
Speaker 1: ask him your question. We heard the two touchdown catches,
Speaker 1: ask him your question. Okay, so here it is Antoine
Speaker 1: right now. You had two touchdown catches. Which one did
Speaker 1: you prefer? Which one was better than the other? Oh Man,
Speaker 1: to be honest, I loved I loved the fourth down
Speaker 1: fourth down one on the goal line. Oh I didn't
Speaker 1: think you want to say that? Why? Man? Okay? So
Speaker 1: so and in my you know, that was really a
Speaker 1: good jump start for you know, not only our offense
Speaker 1: but our defense. You know, our defense you know saw
Speaker 1: that that we drove the ball all the way down
Speaker 1: and that we actually finished. So it was more of
Speaker 1: a you know, all week in practice that we were
Speaker 1: working on was you know, finishing finishing play, finishing the
Speaker 1: drives and and make sure we get that touchdown. So
Speaker 1: I'll definitely, you know, more focused on the fourth down.
Speaker 1: And I was, yeah, I was definitely my best one.
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, you're right, fifteen plays, ninety one
Speaker 1: yards on that on that drive you capped it from
Speaker 1: Kyler and yeah, the defense loves to get an extra
Speaker 1: cup of gatorade right when you guys are going fifteen
Speaker 1: plays and taking eight a half minutes off the clock.
Speaker 1: But I tell you on the second one, take us
Speaker 1: through that a little bit and and at what point
Speaker 1: and do you start thinking, Okay, I gotta time this,
Speaker 1: but I also have to body the defender. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's your mindset? Is that ball leaves Kyler's hand? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, um, you know high school I did a
Speaker 1: lot of jumping events in track, so you know, it
Speaker 1: definitely felt like, you know, my my timing was perfect. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, pay one through a perfect ball to me
Speaker 1: where only I can go get it. And you know
Speaker 1: we've been working a lot on that in practice, one
Speaker 1: on ones um, and you know, you know, had a release,
Speaker 1: had a good release off the line. Um, he tried
Speaker 1: to jam me, made him miss. And you know after that,
Speaker 1: like if I can get you, you know, side by side,
Speaker 1: and that's I like that game. I love that game.
Speaker 1: I tell you. On the sideline, Buddha Baker was going nuts,
Speaker 1: not only just about playing the touchdown, but he was on,
Speaker 1: man he can get up. Anybody who listen. Buddha was
Speaker 1: just saying, man, he can get up. So so you're
Speaker 1: you're pretty confident when it comes to high pointing the ball. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is mine. That is my thing. You know, I
Speaker 1: try to do as much as I can. I try
Speaker 1: to find what's best what I can do, and you know,
Speaker 1: I trying to look at the things that I'm not
Speaker 1: good at, you know, And I definitely worked on you know,
Speaker 1: high pointing the ball a lot, and I take take real,
Speaker 1: real hard work to that for sure, you know. Honestly, Antoine,
Speaker 1: I gotta give you an awful lot of credit, man,
Speaker 1: because you have earned my respect. I know what it's
Speaker 1: like to go out there and and fail. I know
Speaker 1: what it's like to go out there and make a mistake.
Speaker 1: I know what it's like to go out there and
Speaker 1: not allow my team or give my team an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win a game. I've cost, in my opinion, as
Speaker 1: a personal protector, my team, the opportunity to win a
Speaker 1: game because I made the wrong balls. You dropped the
Speaker 1: ball earlier. You dropped the ball went right through your
Speaker 1: hands on that one. I've got so much respect for
Speaker 1: you because you came back. You wanted the ball again,
Speaker 1: did you not? You told Kyler you wanted the ball again, correct? Correct? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's my that's my dog. He knows, he knows,
Speaker 1: you know, when my mind said it and you know,
Speaker 1: we practiced more than enough times to where you know,
Speaker 1: one ball is you know, I forget about those things,
Speaker 1: but you know I need to when when that balls
Speaker 1: done to me again, I gotta wipe everything out of
Speaker 1: my memory and catch that ball. He was holding guys
Speaker 1: pretty accountable against the Cowboys during that game. He was
Speaker 1: especially vocal. From what I saw. I can't hear what's
Speaker 1: being said, but can you share with us when you
Speaker 1: guys had a conversation? Didn't you after that drop back
Speaker 1: on the bench. Yeah? Yeah, he pretty much saying, you know,
Speaker 1: he needs me, and you know I told him, you
Speaker 1: know I got you. You know, just throw the ball again,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, put it where I need to
Speaker 1: and you know I was a great ball to him.
Speaker 1: It was a great ball. So excuse me, h Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I just pretty much, you know, just went
Speaker 1: back to the basics, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: talked to my coach, my receiver coach on the sideline
Speaker 1: and I felt like I widen too much close to
Speaker 1: the sideline and you know, how to fight fight back more.
Speaker 1: But you know, a ball ball touched my hands, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's mine, that's that would definitely on me. Have
Speaker 1: you okay, go ahead, I just say real quick, you
Speaker 1: and Kyler go way back, right, and so you have
Speaker 1: that relationship where you guys can keep it real I presume, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So sometimes we don't even have to say anything. You know,
Speaker 1: we got that look where you know it's it's already,
Speaker 1: it's already go. You know it, it's good. Have you
Speaker 1: always been that way? Antoine? Have you? Have you always
Speaker 1: been tough? Because there's a lot of guys that are
Speaker 1: front runners when everything is going well, give me the
Speaker 1: baton and I'll laid the parade and everything. But what
Speaker 1: happens when you face a little adversity? Have you always
Speaker 1: been that tough? Oh? Yeah, you know, I got I
Speaker 1: got a chip on my shoulder everywhere I go. You know,
Speaker 1: I've I've worked my butt off, you know. Uh, like
Speaker 1: I said, you know I have. I only had two
Speaker 1: offers coming out of high school, and Clip with my
Speaker 1: first offering and I committed right on spot. So after that,
Speaker 1: you know, I just felt like, you know, if he's
Speaker 1: given me, given me this opportunity, you know, then and
Speaker 1: I could do it. So you know, I'm proving everybody wrong.
Speaker 1: You know, the people that didn't draft me. You know,
Speaker 1: you know they're they're they're gonna get it. Well, your
Speaker 1: teammates saw it. AJ Green was our guest right after
Speaker 1: the game and I had a chance to interview him
Speaker 1: and I asked him about your two touchdown performance at Dallas.
Speaker 1: Here's AJ Green Man. They're just unbelievable. I'm so happy
Speaker 1: for that kid, Tweezy Man. The way he works, you know,
Speaker 1: coming in and training camp, we know Tweezies. He was different,
Speaker 1: the way he went about his business on and off
Speaker 1: the field. Man, that guy just works his butt off.
Speaker 1: I'm so so happy that people can see and it's
Speaker 1: how it workspan off for him. Take us back to
Speaker 1: training camp, because you definitely played with an edge in
Speaker 1: August in those practices, and you tell us what was
Speaker 1: your mindset in there, because you were pretty much a
Speaker 1: complete unknown except to your head coach, Right, Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I was, you know I went in there, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: mindset was was. You know, I gotta I gotta be
Speaker 1: everybody out you know. Um. You know, every every day
Speaker 1: I try to make myself make a play, you know,
Speaker 1: I to force it, you know, because that's that's what
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do to make it in this league.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta show out training camp and then
Speaker 1: you know that's not where it stops. You know, you
Speaker 1: keep going. So you know, my focus was just making
Speaker 1: the play every day, and you know, getting my my
Speaker 1: teammates used to me making them crazy, you know, d
Speaker 1: hop catches or something, you know what I mean, or
Speaker 1: making them third down in fives and we need it
Speaker 1: and you know we get the first down, like I
Speaker 1: want them to trust me. Like that was my main
Speaker 1: goal on you know, training camp. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: awesome hearing you know A j speak very very highly
Speaker 1: of me, you know, because I also speak very highly
Speaker 1: of him. You know, that's my guy. You know I
Speaker 1: looked up to him. I told him today, you know
Speaker 1: it was it was a blessing to be on the
Speaker 1: same you know, practice to it as you because you know,
Speaker 1: in college, you know I looked up to them, and
Speaker 1: you know I watched a lot of film on them,
Speaker 1: him Hop, you know, Calvin Johnson and you know those
Speaker 1: those guys. You know, I feel my body type was
Speaker 1: you know, similar, So it was awesome. Antoine, where do
Speaker 1: you think you need to get better? Uh? Definitely say
Speaker 1: being more patient you know, um, not rushing uh everything
Speaker 1: on routes, you know, and just being able to to
Speaker 1: see the field more. I want to say, I tell you, um,
Speaker 1: I think was Christian Kirk who said you would sit
Speaker 1: behind d Hop and all the meetings from day one.
Speaker 1: That was by design, wasn't it. Oh No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Man Um. I kind of like, like I said, like
Speaker 1: I looked up to them, to them guys, you know,
Speaker 1: I try to say, I try to sit next to A. J.
Speaker 1: Green also, so it's like I'm in the middle of them,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's just it's just great conversations anytime
Speaker 1: we have, you know, some route that that someone like
Speaker 1: doesn't like, you know, I take any feedback from both
Speaker 1: of them. That's smart. That's great stuff. You know, you're
Speaker 1: around those kind of guys. You learn and and as
Speaker 1: AJ said, look how it's paying off here at a
Speaker 1: critical time for the Cardinals. They make the postseason. Bush
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Speaker 1: We continue with an Swan Wesley on the Big Red
Speaker 1: Rage presented by Santan Ford and Gilbert we are satan Ford.
Speaker 1: They take it though. It's a direct snap and now
Speaker 1: a throw down field and inside the forty five yard line.
Speaker 1: It's caught. Caught at the forty yard line, there's a
Speaker 1: flag down trying to see who caught the ball. It
Speaker 1: was Jonathan Ward. Chris Banjo threw it. He was the
Speaker 1: up man. Completed the past downfield on fourth and two
Speaker 1: on a fake hunt. Cliff Kingsberry and Jeff Rogers just
Speaker 1: rolled the dice. Oh my goodness, did you see the catch? Wolf?
Speaker 1: He basically caught it on the back of the defender
Speaker 1: Nashan Wright, who committed the penalty. He pinned it to
Speaker 1: the helmet of Wright and then pulled it in as
Speaker 1: he went to the ground, So it's a catch. So
Speaker 1: they declined the penalty because he actually caught the ball
Speaker 1: and getting caught it on the helmet and the back
Speaker 1: of Nashan Wright. I don't want to exaggerate, but I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen that in this league, in
Speaker 1: this game before. That is not hyperbole, Wolf, I mean
Speaker 1: catch of the year in the NFL. Gotta be That
Speaker 1: was a no comprendo graph by Jonathan What it was
Speaker 1: like David Tyree and the Super Bowl, except instead of
Speaker 1: pinning it off his own helmet, he pinned it against
Speaker 1: the defender's helmet. Paul, that is difficulty wise, that is impossible.
Speaker 1: It's impossible to do what Jonathan ward did. And he
Speaker 1: controlled the ball the way down off the other guy's helmet.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, fault. I've never seen anything like it. Man.
Speaker 1: And after that winning Dallas post game, I'll say the
Speaker 1: same thing now to our Antoine Wesley, who joins us
Speaker 1: in the Big Red Rage presented by Santan Ford and
Speaker 1: Gilbert that I said to aj Green, Antoine, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: you guys had a great game the receiver room, but
Speaker 1: you did not have the best catch of the game.
Speaker 1: That belonged to Jonathan Warden. You agree with that, right, true, true, true,
Speaker 1: totally agree. I told him, I said, oh man, you
Speaker 1: inspired me. Oh man, that that right there? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to try that in practice. Now, before we get
Speaker 1: into some heavy stuff here, Antoine, I have to ask
Speaker 1: you this right here, where did the nickname Tweezy come?
Speaker 1: How long have they been calling you tweezy? Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's been uh since, like it's like a
Speaker 1: childhood name. Man, I got it because my dance a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, And yeah, I used to used to love
Speaker 1: Chris brown Man, and you know his name was ce Breezy,
Speaker 1: so you know, I just you know, it's tweezy. So
Speaker 1: everything it stuck, you know, and it's you know, once
Speaker 1: you get to know me, you understand because because we're
Speaker 1: doing something no one in the locker room does. And
Speaker 1: that's nobody calls you antoine do they Nah? Not really.
Speaker 1: So in fact, Cliff Kingsbury mentioned it. He said something
Speaker 1: to us on his TV show. He said, yeah, did
Speaker 1: you see the dance move? Was he talking about your
Speaker 1: touchdown catch against the Colts? Yeah? The Colts? Yep? Okay,
Speaker 1: So what was that move all about? It? And you
Speaker 1: know what, because you got the video guys. I asked
Speaker 1: our video guys about it. Who shot it? They said, oh, no,
Speaker 1: it was good. But did you get some some stuff
Speaker 1: from the fellas in the locker room? Did you get
Speaker 1: a thumbs up or thumbs down for the most part
Speaker 1: in that dance move? Oh, it definitely thumbs up. Everybody
Speaker 1: kept coming up to me, Hey, can you teach me
Speaker 1: how to do it? Can you teach me? I said?
Speaker 1: All right, I'll try, but you know it's it's funny
Speaker 1: when they try and they yeah, it's real funny. So
Speaker 1: by the way, real quick Wolf. On that touchdown against
Speaker 1: the Colts, I wanted to ask you. You gave that
Speaker 1: football to your head coach, didn't you your first NFL
Speaker 1: touchdown catch? And you gave the ball to Cliff Kingsbury. Yep,
Speaker 1: so it didn't Why was it? What was behind that?
Speaker 1: Why was that meaningful to you to do that? Man? So? Um,
Speaker 1: you know, first, like I said, you know, Clip was
Speaker 1: wash my first offer, you know, and I committed right
Speaker 1: on the spot. And you know when I got to
Speaker 1: the league, you know, I when I drafted and you know,
Speaker 1: I went to Baltimore and felt like, you know, it
Speaker 1: could have gave me a better, better opportunity to to
Speaker 1: you know, be who I am. But um, you know
Speaker 1: they end up releasing me my second year in the league.
Speaker 1: And you know, um, I was, I was at home,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting for a call, you know, waiting for
Speaker 1: somebody to call me, and you know, uh, clipping up
Speaker 1: end up giving my aging that call. And you know
Speaker 1: after that, you know I saw him again and you
Speaker 1: know I told him I got your back, you know,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate this opportunity. So you know, in my
Speaker 1: eye it was it was more of a you know,
Speaker 1: thank you for believing in me and you know, never
Speaker 1: giving up on me, you know. So you know, like
Speaker 1: I said, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: that manage there. So I definitely sat very very high
Speaker 1: in them. That's very very cool, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: An Antoine, right there? Okay, Tweezy, I'm gonna ask you this.
Speaker 1: Does being a good dancer translate into being a good
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the NFL? Oh yeah, man, like like
Speaker 1: like a like a dance it would say, hips don't lie.
Speaker 1: So so it is in the hips, right, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all in the hips. See, I was a fullback. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you knew that, Antoine, I was a
Speaker 1: wedge busting fullback. That's what it was. And that tells
Speaker 1: you immediately I had no hips. Yeah yeah, Wolf will
Speaker 1: take your word for it. But that way, who gives
Speaker 1: you a run for your money? You know? I honestly,
Speaker 1: if there was like a Dancing with the Stars, who
Speaker 1: would be your best competition? Oh, dancing star? You know,
Speaker 1: like in that room team yeah in that locker room. Uh,
Speaker 1: I definitely have to you know, we already did a
Speaker 1: little a little battle, but it would definitely have to
Speaker 1: be close uh byan Murphy for sure. Murh Yeah, mursh
Speaker 1: had had to battle. Mean, um, yeah, the whole thing
Speaker 1: win this. Has anybody battled you and it's been an
Speaker 1: epic fail? Has anyone you know, I mean, anyone stepped
Speaker 1: up who shouldn't have? Oh no, no like for as
Speaker 1: for them, like you know, like winning or losing bad?
Speaker 1: No losing bad thinking they can dance when they can?
Speaker 1: Oh man, No, no, no one, No one's really you know,
Speaker 1: push that yet. You know. I usually, um, you know,
Speaker 1: can tell like just you know, when we're just joking
Speaker 1: around or something and you know, but other than that, noah,
Speaker 1: no one's really like it's bad bad to where you know,
Speaker 1: just stopped dancing. Come on, man, you're telling me Home
Speaker 1: hasn't tried to impress you with his dance moves. I
Speaker 1: just yeah, I don't know that. Chandler would be I
Speaker 1: put money on Chandler. That's that's the guy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I practice h channel. Chann would definitely like try
Speaker 1: to how you do that? How you do this? How
Speaker 1: you do that here, but you know it's more of
Speaker 1: like just a teaching moment for them guys. You know,
Speaker 1: it's never a battle battle, I guess. You know. So
Speaker 1: Tweezy did, what did your time on the practice squad
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Ravens. What did that time teach you? Oh? Definitely,
Speaker 1: you know it humbled me a lot, you know, coming
Speaker 1: off from my junior year. You know, I had a great,
Speaker 1: great year, you know, thinking I was going to get drafted,
Speaker 1: and when I went undrafted and any um, I got
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. You know, it definitely humbled me
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, I prayed a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: just being patient, you know, mentally physically, you know, I
Speaker 1: was working working out, you know, a lot more um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it just being patient. You know, I was
Speaker 1: waiting for my turn. You know, I didn't know if
Speaker 1: it was going to happen the next day, you know,
Speaker 1: three years, two years later. But you know, I was
Speaker 1: just being patient, waiting because I knew, I knew I
Speaker 1: had something special, you know, for football for sure. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm looking at your numbers right now, and our
Speaker 1: guest is Antoine Wesley, Cardinals receiver. He's still only twenty
Speaker 1: four years of age. You were first team All Big Twelve.
Speaker 1: Your junior year, you led Cliff Kingsbury's team with eighty
Speaker 1: eight catches for over fourteen hundred yards receiving. You had
Speaker 1: nine touch downs. You're six four. What did they miss?
Speaker 1: What did those guys miss on you? Coming out in
Speaker 1: the draft? Oh? Man, it was my forty. I definitely
Speaker 1: ran a slower forty than you know, usual, But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess that was it. Because you know, the film
Speaker 1: speaks for itself, you know, you know it will tell
Speaker 1: you right now. I had my NFL moment when I
Speaker 1: had my first fight in training camp. Okay, I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you, tweezy, It's just the truth. That's what a
Speaker 1: full bat does have. Have you had your NFL moment yet?
Speaker 1: And if so, which which was it? And where was it?
Speaker 1: I guess? Oh? Yeah, to be honest, it was actually
Speaker 1: my first year in the league, my rookie year. And
Speaker 1: you know it was actually when I was with Baltimore
Speaker 1: and we're doing one on ones and I was going
Speaker 1: against Earl Thomas one on ones and you know, I
Speaker 1: had a good fatball jumped over them, and you know,
Speaker 1: it was awesome and that moment right there. I was
Speaker 1: watching film like wow, like I'm I'm really in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, I can really run with these guys. So
Speaker 1: and that after that all th oh man, this is
Speaker 1: this is awesome. That's important, isn't it? Atwine, it is
Speaker 1: important to have that moment and say, oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I belong here. You like right now, watching you develop
Speaker 1: over these seven games that you have played for the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, you can see the confidence in you growing.
Speaker 1: It's important to have that starting point, correct, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: that is that is true. You know, like I said, um,
Speaker 1: my teammates definitely helped me a lot with my confidence.
Speaker 1: You know, it starts in practice, you know when like
Speaker 1: you know, today I had a good you know, go
Speaker 1: ball and caught it and the old linemen are more
Speaker 1: excited than you know, Kyler Murray. So you know, I
Speaker 1: just love to have that, um, that trust, that that
Speaker 1: that connection with my teammates. It's it's awesome. Well that
Speaker 1: is a great segue to what we're gonna hear right now,
Speaker 1: because here's Kyler relationship and trust with you, Antoine Westling.
Speaker 1: Off the field, we're friends as well, so you know
Speaker 1: we're kind of just a natural Uh you know, click
Speaker 1: feel that you know, confidence that I have in him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we met each other before the draft.
Speaker 1: We got the same agent, so I've I've worked out
Speaker 1: with Tweezy before he was even with the Cardinals. So um,
Speaker 1: now that one on the same team. You know, I
Speaker 1: could already had that confidence in him. I know what
Speaker 1: type of player he is. I know, you know, he's accountable,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be where he's supposed to be. He's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna make those players if I give
Speaker 1: him the opportunities. That's man, I can't imagine how I'm
Speaker 1: pooring that is. I mean, your quarterback first and foremost,
Speaker 1: better trust you as a receiver before anything else. I'm guessing, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. That's true. You guys hang out off the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, did I hear right before? Like you're a
Speaker 1: big gamer. We know Kyler likes the game obviously, right
Speaker 1: is do you guys connect on that level? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we definitely connect a lot on a game, And um,
Speaker 1: I definitely am. I am better than him at call
Speaker 1: of duty for sure, But come on, get you where
Speaker 1: does he beat you? Come on? Madden? Oh? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he got me. Man, I don't play. I don't play no, No,
Speaker 1: I don't I do not play no Madden, no two K.
Speaker 1: I don't play no sports games because I get irritated
Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, I would not do that, and
Speaker 1: you know I can't control that. I love it, man. Okay,
Speaker 1: talk to yeah, talk to me about playing the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks when you watch him on tape. What have you
Speaker 1: seen from them? Tweezy. Yeah, They're they're very very good
Speaker 1: dominant team. You know. Um, I definitely played with Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 1: You know, he was my roommate in college. Um, so
Speaker 1: I know him very well. UM, very very very aggressive
Speaker 1: to the ball. You know, he he makes big, big plays. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, even though their their whole defense is they're
Speaker 1: very fast. So you know, it's got to make sure
Speaker 1: we we stay composed and the work at the team
Speaker 1: and make sure we do the little things right. What
Speaker 1: kind of coverages are they gonna throw at you? What
Speaker 1: kind of coverages do you anticipate? We're most likely seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of couple four like we did last game.
Speaker 1: Couple three quarters four deep yep, quarters four, yep too,
Speaker 1: a little bit of two um, depending on how everything goes.
Speaker 1: You know, um, it might see a little bit of
Speaker 1: three um techniques, but it you know, whatever we see whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, Cliff dollars up, we just gotta be ready
Speaker 1: for it. Jordan Brooks has had a heck of a season.
Speaker 1: He had fifteen tackles in the first game up again
Speaker 1: Seattle against the Cardinals. He's been balling this year, hasn't he? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has been born. We had the same agent. You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's really like my brother, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's definitely been doing his thing lately. How important
Speaker 1: is this game from what you're gathering in regard to
Speaker 1: your teammates and their approach to this game coming up?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it a situation where you think some
Speaker 1: guys are looking at this as an opportunity to rest
Speaker 1: and relax a little, or do you think this is
Speaker 1: a precursor of the playoff game? Oh? Yeah, no, this
Speaker 1: is this is definitely a you know even from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys that that was our or we need to stay
Speaker 1: that stay that level. You know, we don't need to
Speaker 1: be going down, you know, we just stay going up
Speaker 1: on a roller coast and not you know, not Plateau
Speaker 1: and not going down. We just need to make sure
Speaker 1: that we stay consistent, and you know it starts with Seattle.
Speaker 1: By the way, you caught that pass from Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: There seems to be a quarterback controversy over QB four
Speaker 1: right now, Christian Kirk or Banjo. So I mean, which
Speaker 1: way are you signing right now, Antoine? In that battle
Speaker 1: for QB four? Man? Uh, I don't know. Banjol definitely
Speaker 1: got a lot of help from day War, you know,
Speaker 1: Jay War made him look real, real good. So um,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna have to go with oh with Kirk though,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely that's my guy. Yeah, yeah, that's why I
Speaker 1: love your perseverance, man. And keep your head down man,
Speaker 1: and your eyes off, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And thank you so much for coming out on tonight.
Speaker 1: Thanks Antoine, Yeah, thank you, thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. There you go, Antoine. Wesley Wholf maybe
Speaker 1: instead it's tweezy. We'll call him a dup the new adup.
Speaker 1: But Adrian Wilson would probably pound me the first time
Speaker 1: he saw. Maybe I shouldn't do that choke you. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about the Seahawks next on the big red rage
Speaker 1: a Seattle. We gotta do. Go Hawks, Go Hawks. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see y'all in the morning to do you can
Speaker 1: go to Sweet Sea the morning. Russell Wilson, what kind
Speaker 1: of show you running here? We got a family program
Speaker 1: here and we got Russell Wilson with smoke stacks of
Speaker 1: sacks as the music in the background. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 1: might have been like Russ can I can I talk
Speaker 1: to you the first second place? Yeah, the snort and
Speaker 1: everything in there, Okay, I mean seriously, Yeah, Well he's
Speaker 1: got two years left on his contract. Yeah, at thirty
Speaker 1: million plus, he has a no trade clause. But will
Speaker 1: Russ be there next season? Will the Arizona Cardinals and
Speaker 1: the az proved to be bookends to a Seahawks career
Speaker 1: because we all know it started, that's right, Paula. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: this is the end. It feels like the end, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: It feels it feels like the end of a dynasty
Speaker 1: up there in Seattle. It feels like the end. The
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks have played a certain way. I've been a fan,
Speaker 1: you know this, paul of how the Seattle Seahawks have
Speaker 1: played over the years. They were built on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Everyone. Yes, you hear about the legion of
Speaker 1: Boom all the time, but they were really really good
Speaker 1: in the box. They were really really good at running
Speaker 1: the ball. They were great up front. They've had great
Speaker 1: talent at the skilled positions. There's no denying that. Great corners,
Speaker 1: Isn't that right, Richard Sherman. They had great safeties over
Speaker 1: the years. I loved how they played the game of football.
Speaker 1: But man, it just doesn't feel like this is Seattle.
Speaker 1: Seahawks football hasn't really felt that way for the last
Speaker 1: few years. Think about it. This is gonna be the
Speaker 1: first time they've ended up in last place since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six, Matt when they were in the AFC West. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's why I was saying a month ago. When
Speaker 1: they are firmly entrenched in last place, I mean, it
Speaker 1: soaked this in Cardinals fans. Okay, you know the holiday
Speaker 1: blessings that is Seattle firmly entrenched in last place. Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: coach Double Rainbow, has never won fewer than seven games
Speaker 1: in a season in his twelve year tenure. So you
Speaker 1: got a team that a year ago had won twelve
Speaker 1: and they were the NFC West champions. Right now there's
Speaker 1: six and ten. What do you expect at of them
Speaker 1: on Sunday Wolf, because Russell Wilson has never been swept. Now,
Speaker 1: they've Cardinals, have won a game, and they've tied a
Speaker 1: game against, but they have ever won this season series,
Speaker 1: both games against Russell Wilson in his decade as their
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. Yeah, Polly. You know. The one thing I
Speaker 1: want to say, though, Polly, is the fact that I
Speaker 1: know they won twelve games last year. I understand that,
Speaker 1: but they were doing it a lot different than what
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks have done for the most part over
Speaker 1: the years in terms of building their offense around running
Speaker 1: the ball and being balanced offensively. They really were heavy
Speaker 1: in terms of throwing the ball last year for the
Speaker 1: most part. And honestly, right now this game coming up, Polly,
Speaker 1: do you want to say something? No, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you're right, and in fact, Russell Wilson, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: been the hand injury, the thumb injury, but think about it,
Speaker 1: in his career, he's led thirty five game winning comebacks
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter over time, but none this season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the magic has not been there this season. There you go, Polly,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of things I'm going to be
Speaker 1: looking at in this game for the Arizona Cardinals. Number
Speaker 1: one would be balanced offensively. I really want to see
Speaker 1: a balanced offense. Cliff Kingsbury's been talking about the fact
Speaker 1: that man, every time they run, they rush for over
Speaker 1: thirty attempts in a game. They're nine to O. Of
Speaker 1: course on the season, ding they've done very very well, Polly.
Speaker 1: Now that means, of course that you're in a game.
Speaker 1: That means that you're in a game. And that's the
Speaker 1: reason why I can flip it over on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball and say, where are those safeties?
Speaker 1: Where is Jalen Thompson, Where is Buddha Baker? Where are
Speaker 1: those safeties going to be? How often will we be
Speaker 1: able to keep two safeties high? Because again, the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: the area they've improved the most, I would say over
Speaker 1: the last four games, in particular, is running the ball. Polly. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny, their former first round pick who has been
Speaker 1: injured much of his career. He actually over the last
Speaker 1: four games has one hundred more rushing yards than Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 1: He's run for one thirty five or more and three
Speaker 1: of the last four games. If you remember the game
Speaker 1: at Seattle where the Cardinals won with Colet McCoy on
Speaker 1: their first possession, he ripped off a chunk run, heard
Speaker 1: of himself and never came back into the game. So
Speaker 1: if the Cardinals complete the season, sweep up Seattle and
Speaker 1: the Rams lose to the Niners, the Cardinals win the
Speaker 1: division for the first time since twenty fifteen. Here's Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray on that to be able to win the division
Speaker 1: will be obviously a huge milestone, a huge accomplishment for us.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it doesn't It's
Speaker 1: just something that you can say you did. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter un once you get in the playoffs. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to Sunday, and that's that's my focus.
Speaker 1: For example, if James Connor and Chase Edmonds aren't quite
Speaker 1: able to go and you're holding them out, are you not? Wolf?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you know what. I again, Polly, I
Speaker 1: want to see James Connor get some reps. I want
Speaker 1: to see that if he's healthy. Here's the one thing
Speaker 1: I'm not doing, Paul. If he's healthy. I'm not holding
Speaker 1: him out saying it's only one game. It's only one game,
Speaker 1: and you know what, we're going into the postseason next week.
Speaker 1: If he's one hundred percent, I'm playing him because I'm
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. I am Bill Belijick. You know what football players,
Speaker 1: that's what they do. And if they're healthy, run him
Speaker 1: out there and blame if he's hurt it all nicked up. No,
Speaker 1: you don't have to force him out there. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: you know it's interesting, do you disagree with that, Paul?
Speaker 1: You know, look, it's been you're telling me if James
Speaker 1: Connor's one hundred, if he's healthy, you're going to run
Speaker 1: him out that. You're not going to run him out
Speaker 1: there if he's one hundred percent. But there's no way
Speaker 1: he's gonna be one hundred Okay, Okay, So I just think,
Speaker 1: p Yeah, that's for anybody at this point of the season.
Speaker 1: I'll just put it to you this way. And I
Speaker 1: and and and and I had a coach say this
Speaker 1: to me this week, Um, can your name who won
Speaker 1: the NFC South last year? Yeah, yeah, I know exactly
Speaker 1: the coach that said that. Yes, I know exactly what
Speaker 1: you mean. Paulli and that is correct, There's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. But once again, I love BA speaking of
Speaker 1: that team that won the or didn't win the NFC South. Um,
Speaker 1: you see what BA said, Oh, we are not resting players.
Speaker 1: There's no way we are not resting players. And I've
Speaker 1: think it's because of their own experience where they had
Speaker 1: to win to get in and win to actually go
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and do it on the road.
Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll see what the Cardinals approaches on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And you know, for example, Marco Wilson practice today for
Speaker 1: the first time in several weeks. Okay, that would be
Speaker 1: a big get obviously, so is he tracking Do you
Speaker 1: risk it with that shoulder? Some decisions there, and exactly
Speaker 1: because think about it, you can host a playoff game
Speaker 1: if the Niners make it sixth straight against the Rams,
Speaker 1: which I think we both believe is much more realistic
Speaker 1: and feasible than a lot of people think. It's not
Speaker 1: a fore gone conclusion. The Cardinals is going to be
Speaker 1: the fifth seed and automatically go to Dallas. Heck no.
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland of the NFL Right and NFL dot Com said,
Speaker 1: no way, man, She's got the Cardinals as the number
Speaker 1: three seed all our computer projection and they could be
Speaker 1: as high as the number two seeds. Special thanks Jim Alanro,
Speaker 1: Cody Fincher, An Suan Wesley for Ron Wolfley on Paul KLBC.
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